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EUGENE CITY GUARD. A. L. t'AJM'IIKLL, Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Thekb are 6,000,000 miles of fences I in the United States, coating ever! $2,000,000,000 There are in the United States over 45,000,000 head of swine, vlued at I more tlian 1226,000,000. Tub Qukk.v fa von the bestowal of I medals upon the Canadian soldiers who suppressed the Riel rebellion. Two tons of gold, worth l,400,0O0, are lost every year from the wear and ear of commerce and personal use. Accokdino to reliable estimates the risible supply of wheat in this country is over 42,120,000 bushels, and of corn bout 7,700,000 bushels. Tub largest artificial tree plantation in the world is located in Scotland. It I is known as the Scotland Tree Flanta- Uom and comprises 310,000 acres. Thekb are three sugar factories in Kansas (and tliey produced last year 002,000 lbs. of sugar. This product was manufactured from 19,300 tons of sorghum cane. It 18 estimated that tliero are 100 000,000 acres of land on this coast that are especially adapted to wheat culture. Of this amount California lias 25,000,000, or one-fourth of the whole; Oregon has 18,000,000; Wash ington Territory has 16,000,000 acres; Colorado and Idaho, 10,000,000 each ; Montana, Utah and Wyoming, 7,000, 000 each, and the bulkof all this wheat land lies yet untouched. In an article on the industries of the United States, the Commercial Lint gives tho following figures: In 1800 the wood industries employed 130,000 persons; today they employ 340,000, while tho value of their annual prod uct has trebled. Tho woolen industry employed (!0,000 persons then,ad now employs 160,000, while tho mills which produced goods of tho value of $80,' 000,000 in I860 now turn out an an nual product wortli $270,000,000. The icon protjuct amounted to 900,000 tons of ore ; now it foots up over 8,000,000 tons a year, almost a uine-fold in crease. Tho silk industry employed 5,000 persons ; now it employs 35,000, seven times as many. - i- . i The steamer Git eat Eastern will soon oo oiiercd lor sale under a mortgngo. Sho cost $(5,000,000, and lias already been sold three times to satisfy mortgages, the sales realizing $980,000. ' Tho Grout Kustcrn had hard luck from tho very start. Her launching cost fifteen men their lives, while over twenty wero wounded. She is the largest ship ever built. Length, f29 feet, or nearly 300 feet longer than tho largest steamboat ever seen on the Hudson river; depth, 53 feet; breadth, 83 feet; burden, 25,000 tons; will carry 10,000 troops ; has four docks, ten boilers, 112 furnaces, five engines (capacity 10,000 horse-power) and ten anchors; draught of water when light, twenty feet ; loaded, thirty feet ; spreads 6000 yards of canvas; gas in all parts f tho vessel, with electric lights at the mast head. To walk around a deck of tho (Ireot Eastern exceeds one-fourth of a mile. One of the most wonderful pieces of engineering in tho world is tho rail road stretching from Lima and Callao to tho crest of tho continent, where the famous mines of the Corro del IWo are tho source of tho ancient riches of tho country, from which tons upon tons of silver havo been taken, and which still hold, if tho testimony of the mineralogists cnu be relied upon, tho richest deposits on tho surface of of the clolnj. Tho railroad was never completed. Mr. Meiggs carried it from Lima to the summit of the Andes at a cost of $27,000,000 and 7000 lives, and gained for himself a reputation fur energy and ability surpassing any man that ever came to this continent, but ho died with fifty miles of track yet to be laid. No ono had been found with the courago to finish tho work, until a few weeks ago Michael Grace, of New York, w hoso brother and part ner in that enterprise is the Mayor of that city, made a contract with the Government under the terms that he is to Ih) given the road as it stands, with all its equipments, if he will com plete the remaining fifty miles of rail road and pump out of tho mines of Cerro del Pasco the water that has been accumulating in them for a half century.. In consideration for which tho Government gives him all the sil ver ho c&n get out of the mines during the next ninety-nine years, ho paying tho nominal rental of $25,000 a year for the use of the property. I ir -- t ill i n ' -nm r) 'lit A WARNING. They met benlde the nee boat shore lo doir-daya apullietlc; He wan a learned pedagogue, And ahe a maid poetic; Tliey met, tliey loved, within a tog. The maiden and the pedagogue. She doted on the picturesque, And he on natural hlHtory, And while he muted above the (hell Which made the clem a myatery, Rho aweetly chanted poetry On summer by the dark (due sea. Or tinkling of her IlKht miltar I'pon the wavelet flowing, He In purmilt of Jelly flah And her came lightly rowing. The moon blinked loitly through the fc Upon the maid and pedagogue. They wedded ere they went to tawn; Hut oh, the iad confusion I They found In clearer atmosphere Their love It wan delusion . That dreaini and iintural history Would not by any means agree. And now they lift a warning voice, Fraught with Interna emotion, - To all the Hummer men and maids Who titrry by the ocean. "Deceit." they cry. "la In a Ion," The (ad wife and the pedagogue. butan Iartltf tiwtlt, in llarptr'i tftekly. TOUGH ST03IACIIS. The "Dainty" Things That Some People Swallow. A Man Who L.vnd on a Peek of Stone a ly Foreign llodlea That Kilter the Mouth and, Apparently, Dia appear Odd Article of Diet. There have been of lato an unusual number of cases of people of all ages and sexes who have shown a disposi tion to swallow all sorts of foreign bod' ics, that in tho words of the old ladv. Go the wrong way," or are unfit to receive proper treatment if they go tbo right An adventurous sixteen-year-old boy, Alexander Uibbunl, of Milwaukee, tossed up a dollar, and, catching it in his mouth, pretended to swallow it, much to tho amusement of his auditors. Tho dollar probably got tired of this treatment and decided to go on an ex ploring exped tion. In fact, tho youth turned pale, and said : "My God, I've swallowed it" This was a scene not exactly on the b its, so doctors wvro sent for to mako exploring expeditions. Tliey forecpod and ptobed and sounded, out no tlollur. lho boy Is only allowed a in lk d ot, and if the coin of our fath ers doesn't go to tho stomach, w hero a surgical operation will bo necessary, ho Will go to Unit bourne whence none re turn. A St Louis follow, not to beoutdono, bet he could put a billiard-ball in his mouth. Ho did, but ho did not get it out. Ho was not aware that tho teeth bend inward, and that a large body can frequently got in, but not como out , burgeons made a slit in the check, however, and pr ed tho ivory out Tho youth won't try that experi ment again. 'Oh, doctor," exclaimod a hidv. rtihing into a physician's otllcu, "eoniu to my house uuick ! Mv littlo Freddie has swallowed a mouse." HJIi, well, that's nothing. You go back and lot him swallow u cat.'' Tliey tell an amusing story of tho great Dr. Abornethy, tho famous Lon- uon physic an, whom a lady sent for in great distress, saying her Intle sou had (.wallowed some blue. The doctor had ret .red, and, not wishing to be d s- turbod for so trivial a matter, ho asked how much the blue was worth. "Five pence," was the .reply. "Oh! Well, sho doesn't want to pay five pounds to get live pennies, uoos slier lliu late Mr. 1 urner, lather of Mr. Jack Turner, tho well-known United Status Marshal of this District, came to his death bv swallowing, while asleep. a portion of a set of false teeth that he hud neglected to remove before retir ing. An actress somo years since wh'lo stopping at tho Palace Hotel swallowed a pieeo ol chicken-bone. She neglected for a timn to havo it attended to. and shortly after died in New York. roursortsof lore gn bodes are apt to intercede themselves into tlifc air passages vegetable, animal, mineral and mixed, in the country bovs and girls tako to grains of corn, beans, melon-seeds, pebbles and cherry-stones. Hits ot meat, bono and gristle are fro fluently intruders. Ono person swal lowed a cockle-burr, and Dr. Footo, of Indiana, relates a case where a eh Id between three and four years of age had swallowed a brass pen-holder about thrco-aud-a-hull Inches in length bv three lines in diameter. It was found in tho left bronchial tube after death Him months, after the accident had happened, surrounded by thick matter, norms havo been known to creep into the windpipe; lieneo tho import anco ol the simple advieo, shut your mouth, especially when asleep a habit which the Indian '11101110111 teach their babes by closing tho mouth when asleep, even fasten ng it shut Tho hab t thus acquired becomes perma nent Gautier to. Is of a man who lost his life by the introduction of a leoch into the larynx ami death has ensuod from swallowing a small tish. Teeth have been often swallowed, connected with som i piece of metal. In one case the substance renin nt d thirteen years, and in tho post mortem was found in tho right thoracio cavity, where it had passed by ulceration. There are two roeorded instances cl men having swallowed bullets one in lad ana, and the other in Kentucky. In 1()7 a man in New York swallowed a eork. wh eh he inhaled while having a molar tooth extracted, being under the inliuenoeof nitrous oxide gas. The man d ed two hours after the accident The cork was found in tho lower ex- treiu tv of the trachea. hod f ire gn bodies enter the mouth thcro are a variety of places where they can h do themselves and thus defy medic tl sk II.' Tho body mar be stop ped in var us po tonsof tho windp pe. or it ma remain loose and move up and down during the expulsion and in- troduct on of air. Occasionally it ia stopped at tho very entrance of the tary nx. which is a cartilug nous cavity connected with the trachea and form ing Adam's apple, but generally it passes into tho interior o; the tune. and lodges in one of its ventricles or cavities, it is not apt to stay long n the trachea, which is a cartilag nous tube that separates into tho two bron- chial tubes, into one or the other of which the body generally enters. A needle or a bit of bone does how ever, sometimes eonoludo to stay in the trachea, at its extremities could bo im planted in its walls. On the other hand, a heavy body as a bullet, pebble. shot or grain of corn w.ll descend by the laws of gravity into one or other of the bronchial tubes. Here the tendency Is to lodge to the right School girls and children have fre nuently shown a preddect o 1 for swal lowing needles and pins, probably to verify tho old rhyme: Needles and nlns. needlea and dIiin. When a man marries hie trouble begins, These substances may remain in the body for a number of years without causing perhaps even annovance. A verv old man came under the notice of Cohen who in his youth hud swallowed two pins with tw sted lcuds. Thev could be distinctly felt under the skin over one of the man s shoulders, where they had remained for overth rty years but he refused lo nave them cut out, and they went to his colli n with him Another man swaiiowei a needle; in ten days it reached his stomach and worked its way through into tho left lung, where it produced bloody expeo loration. 1 hero Is a ca 0 of an insano woninn who swallowed a fork with sircidal in tent, expecting to d e under tho opera- t'on. Singular to relate, she recovered An abscess formed in the abdominal walls, from which the fork was re- movcd. Tellier Is authority for a case in which a fork workod its way from tho sto naeh to the thigh. A cur 011s case happened to a person who was eating a banana while walk ing along the street Asphyxia and death ensued. The d sso -tion showed that there was a deticionoy in the pal ate. which had been kept habitually stufled with rags of 1 nt. These hail got loose, became entangled in the morsel the man was about to swallow which stopped immediately over the ep glottis, and thus kept it closely shut down. lhus a piece nf banana with a rag wrapped around it may kill one man, while a fork which another swal lows may not What is 0110 man s food is auothcr s DO'sion is exemplified in tho case of rraucis Hattalia, who. it appears, was born, with two small stones in one hand and ono in the other. Dr. John liulliner in his rare book, "Man Trans formed." savs ha devoured about half a peek of pebbles a day, and when he jumped up you could hear the (-tones inwardly rattle, all ol which in twenty' four hours were resolved in the usual way. Other food ho could not eat, Meat, bread, broth or milk made him sick, but he could go beer. Ho was short of stature, swarthy and black. and served as a soldier :n Flanders and Ireland, and made, such good uso of his extraordinary power that he acriu red a competency from charging to allow people to seo him eat In 1H04 the young son of Mr. Norton on Irs way to school, while jump ng a feneo w, tli the blade of a kmto in Ins mouth, swallowed it, and in a few lavs was well, and returned lo srhool. Hut the most remarkable of all the swallowing cases was that of John Cummings, sailor, who l.ved ten years after having swallowed a number of knife-blades. Dr. Alex. Mnrcct. hito physic' an to Grev's Hospital furnishes the case to tho Edinburgh Hhioso lut eal iluum'iL-In Juno, 17'JD, John (.'um mings, an American, aged twentv- tlnve, be.ng w.th his ship on the coast of J? ranee, went on shore with some friends two miles from Havre de Grace. Here they were attracted to a tout where a man was pretend. ng to swal low cheap knives. hen they returned to the boat they were talking the event over, when Cununings said that was nothing an d ho could do it as well as Frenchmen. They dared him. He took a glass of grog, and si pped his own clasp kn fodown into h s stomach. Thu spectators wero not satisfied w.th ono experiment and asked Jo in if h could swallow more. Horepl.cd: "All tho knives on "board ship." Upon which three wero produced and he swallowed thoiu. Tho next day he passed one of the kn ves. which was not the one he swallowed first, and the day afterward the other two. The other remajied in his stomach, but never gave him inconvenience In March, 1N05, bong in Hos ton, he boasted of his feat wh lo drinking. A small knifo was produced, and ho swallowed it with ease as well as five more. Tho news of Jiis exploit brought crowds of peo ple to see h m, and ho i-wallowed e ght more, making fourteen in all. lie pa d, however, dearly for his frolic. for ho was seized with violent and constant vomiting and pa n in his stomach, vet on tho 2Sth got rid ot thorn all. At Spitiicad, December 4th, ho was challenged to repeat In teat and, boing a man of his word, swallowed five. Next day he got nine down, but this was his last perform anco. Ho swallowed thirty-five knivos in all. On the bin he bee a mo indis posed, and in 1807 was in Guy's Hos pital. He lived miserably until li 9 when he died in a Mute of extreme emaciation. On his dis-ection forty- one, pieces of knives ana handles were found in his stomach ot var ous sizes and shapes, and in var.ous stages of decompos tion. iho first feeling after swallowing foreign bodies is a severe paroxysm of pa n and coughing, toiii' t mes kuIIo- cat on takes place and death at once ensues. Ag.m tho swal lower is seized rith a feeling of aun It 1 1 Uion. He asps for breath, looks w Idly around 111. coujihs and almost loses con- so ousnoss, lis countenanco bo comes livd, tho eyes protrud from me r so.-Kets, the bottv is con torted in every poss ble ntivincr, and froth, and sometimes even blood, issues 0111 tho mouth and nose. Somet, nic he grasps his throat and utters the most distressing cr.es. The heart's nc- t on is greatlv d sturbed. and it beats fast or slow, and not unirvqnently the ma viuual funs down n a state of in setisiiniitv, unatue to execute a s ngie voluntiry lunct on. In short bo is ike one wuo has been choked by the hand of the assass'n or ropo of the ex ecut oner. Sometimes a disposition to vomit or actual vomiting occurs imme diately after tho accident especially if it took pince soon after a hearty roeul. Dr. Grant relates the case of a street sworJ-swallower who forced a long round-headed sword down bis throat when he suddenly sprang into, the air ami ieu m a state 01 collapse, lie wa carried to tho University Hospital. when it was found the sword had ob liquely penetrated the throat and ba e of tho heart In March, 1802, a copper pe mv was removed from the oesopha gus of a boy, where it had been for three months. There was no ulcera tion, and tho bov recovered. Hut what the public want to know is what are the chances and how safe is it to swallow foreign bod es and re- oover. Hence, a few statistics are per- m sslble. Of u9 cases in which spon taneous eject on took place, only right uieu. inversion of the Douy was oniy successful In live: six aied. Of 68 cases the operation of trache otomy saved 60. Of 17 upon whom laryngotomv was performed only 4 died. Thus, in !W cases where the wind-pipe was opened 83 went success ful and 15 fatal, or at the ratio of 5 1-2 to t. Of ,V)4 cases of foreign bodies in the a r passages, of 271 where no o- erat on was performed, 1 U, or 42.5 per cent., died. Spontaneous eiect'on took place in 164 and 15 died; 95 per shed without ejecting the body, 5 reeovered after taking emetics. In 28H cases opera tions were performed and 61 died. It would appear that an operation is. therefore, advisable. Seventeen per cent more recover where surgery is re sorted to than where treatment is withheld. Nearly seventy-live per cent recovered in cases where opera tions were performed. I he moral, therefore, is keep your mouth shut, spank babies when thov crawl round the floor aud swallow tacks, and on no account allow them to sleep with their mouths open, as thev w 11 surelv grow up to snore. Mechanics should keep theirs shut. as there are thousands of impurities alloat in the shops which enter their lungs and produce ill-health; painters would be freer from colic and not in hale so much white lead. lincinnati Enquirer. STRAIGHT SKIRTS. The Kind ot Outer Onrmenta at Treaenl In Vogue. While manv new dresses are made in tho old stylo of draped oversk rts, tab liers, hip draperies and pulls and bouf fant loopings in tho back, tho stra'ght skirts aro most in vogue, and are pop mar as much lor the relief thay give the wearer, the dressmaker, and the laundress as for their classic beautv. Hut such is the variety and latitud permitted in this as in other matter of dress it is still possible for every ladv to attire herself according to herind - vidual taste and in conform ty with the requ rements of fashion w.thout wear :ng what everybody else does. For straight 8k rts the style called t e coulisse is in high favor at the monvnt, The coulisse is a shirred skirt, the sh r- riUgbeing repeated several times w th n a space from two to three inches below the gathering thread at the top. whre the skirt is fastened on to the corsage All gathered or pleated stra ght sorts are now attached to the wa;t. whether it is pointed or round, belted or wt'i a short basipie. In these sh rrings the fullness of the skirt is not eneallv divid ed all around. The greater part is massed nt the bnck. Tho rest is sea -tered over the hips and sides to the front, where it is almost pla n or nn- gathered. The lighter the stuiF the more ample the skirt of course. le we ght and amplitude of the sk'rt it the back 'are sustained by a red protuberant bustle, wh ch is fur ther enlarged by a moderati pad of hair placed under tho skirt at the back, and somet mes ex tenti ng on tno -nips. inis style is very new, and not unsversnllv adopted. but it shows the tendency of fash on in the matter of dress skirts. All skirts of dresses not trained or dem - trained are now cut shorter. That is to say, the bottom of tho hem barely touches tho instep in front, and shows tho whole foot heel and all. just covering tho ankle. Girls with big feet Cincinnati grls espe cially, will seriously obie -t to this fashion, but thoso with such feet as tho Chicago g rls. and all tho girls along tho lakes to 13 u Halo will bo in ecstasies over th's short skirt To add to its capt'vating grace, but mak ing it more, emphatically the skirt of tho woman with a pretty foot the coul'sse skirt 's finished only with a flat trimming at the bottom. Jio pla;t ng or balaveuso is permitted. Nothing but a selvedge border woven in the material, or somo ornament of braid or embroidery, but more fre quently nothing but a hem. A small ruche or flat plaiting s Fometimes placed under the hem. but it must not proje: t more than a line, or a cuarter of an in h below it and must be xather suggestive of an undersk rt of the same color than a tr'mming or a balaveuso. This coulisse skirt ad m ts of more variety than might be supposed. Somet;mes it is slashed on one s do or the other, or d rectly in front or on both sides, opening half way up over a deep band of embroid ered stuff, or of plush or velvet, or anv substantial material preferred trimmed with rows of bra d or galloon of a contrasting color or of gold t n sel, and producing tho effect of a petti coat This idea is then carried out by opening the corsage in front over a wa stcoat of the same mater al as that of the "skirt under slashes, and trimmed also to match the same. Clara Belle, in Cincinnati Enuuircr. An interesting est mate of the amount in weight of one inch of rain fall on one acre of ground is thus given: Anaereof ground conta'ns 6.- 640 square inches. Kain one inch deep would give that man square indies; 1.728 cubic inches mako one cub c foot. Ka n one inch d-ep would g vo 8,fi;IO cub c feet A cubic foot of water we'ghs 6.' pounds; -'. 1. w make a ton. llns will g ve 22tj,N.) pounds, or 1 13 tons and 7.i pounds to the acre of rain one inch deep. Chicago Trib une. FAMILY BOXES. RnKotlfini to ThiMie Who lift ta IU- atrlrtrd Onarrsra. To those who are living in close quarters, whose closet room is not ex tensive, what a boon is found in the covered boxes that are at the same time a convenience as a seat and a useful re- ccntaclo ! What a comfortable look siitinc-room has If the windows are fur nished with broad window seats whose art'stic covers do not give the faintest suggestion of the motley contents of tovs and books in one, or the pile of garmonts waiting for the leisure mo ment in the other. The stool covered with carpet with tassels at the corners anil rollers that anow 01 easy move ment from one place to another, isMust the thing for fancy-work that is only picked up when the fr.ends make an evening visit Then tliero is the more homely and less artistic soap box, covered and lined, and standing ready in the bedroom for the shoes that per slst in tumbling out of the shoe-bag, or, with pocket in the cover for darning cotton and darner, is used to hold the damaged hosiery ready for the mender: for some people have the game repug nance t doing the family darning be fore the chance publio of the sitting- room that they have to doing the family washing. The Decorator a nd Furnisher has a suggestion for a paper-box that Is timely and will be welcome: "Kibbon-decked bamboo frames are nrettv and useful contrivances for hold ing the current literature of the day, but every woman knows that every man, through tome inborn perversity peculiar to his kind, Is always liable to demand the immediate production of some es pecial newspaper of a date more or less remote, and, unless afraid of setting small alive branches an example of pr& fanitv, is too apt to rend the air with eleurlv expressed adiectives not de signed to compliment the mistress of a house, etc., etc. A happy relief for a housekeeper who does not love to have three hundred and sixty-five newspapers upon her sitting-room tablo simultane ously, is a box to stand under desk or table, or, not inappropriately, in a cor ner by itself. Take a soap-box it would bo hard to lind a paper upon home-made furnishing tuat does not in troduce the inevitable soap-box nail the top on closelv, so that it is a com plete box, and have it sawed in two, di agonally (let an expert liandlo the saw or mutilation to box or sawyer may be the result). Lino both sections with thick pink satin paper, and cover the outside with dark felt, putting a row of furniture gimp with brass-headed nails all around the sawed edge. Put the two parts of tho box together with hinges, and by tho aid of screw-eyes fasten two slender metal chains on each side, like trunk braces to keep the lid from falling back. "In putting on the liinjres let the bot tom pieces of the-box bo the highest in the back, so that the opening is lowest in front A little experimenting with scissors and a paper match-box will make tho position clear. No fastening is necessary, but ahasp and padlock can easily bo added as a safeguard against the ravages of combustible-seeking house-maids and other foes to man's di vine rights." Christian Union. REST IN ACTION. Absolute Kent and Perpetual Activity KqiMlly Incompatible With Lire. Absolute perpetual rest and absolute perpetual activity are equally incom patible with life. Each, duly balanced, is the complement of the other. Sleep is simply rest in its complctest form- rest of muscle, rest of bruin and rest of all thO organs, save those necessary to existence. The tough heart rests be tween tho beats, nor cm it be much ac celerated by stimulants without imme diate or remote injury, lho harder working lungs rest between inspiration and expiration. Tim tiniin miiQt hfivn i-owf it foil 'Such a enso of unresting activity as that of Honry Kirko White and there have been thousands like it should show scholars that nature holds it an unpar donable sin to rob the brain of its right- iul rest, others, who toiled like Y lute, instead of paving the penalty in earlv death, have exchanged genius for mad ness or imbecility. lint a largo part of our needed rest may bo secured in connection with a high degree of activity. The clerk threatened with "writer's cramp" may escape, not so well by K ing for a month in a reciining-chair as by engaging in athletic games, chopping wood, or rambHng in the forests. Generally only a small part of the brain is unduly used, and that may be recuperated by calling into action some other part; that is, by change of mental application. Gladstone doubtless rests his brain from the cares of State as muoh by such studies as Homer as by the sturdy blows of his ax. The pas tor's calls at the homes of his flock not only double the good of his preaching, but . most effectually rest hit brain by the change. Tho mere money-getter tends to be come a monomaniac, lho miser dying in filth aud rags beside his hoarded gold, is the end of avarice. The power and the dispos tion to accumulate need to be balanced by the disposition and the power to uso acquisitions prdperly and wisely. If one has overworked both stomach and brain, let him beware howheyields to tho temptation to stimulate them artificially to their wonted activity. On the centrary, let him give each a long rest while he bestirs himself to a gen eral invigoration of his physical system. bo wnatever organ has been over- rseu, rest mat. And this can com monly best be done in connection with full, or a special, activity of other parts. 1 outh s Companion. "Yas, boss." said Uncle (Jerjhns. dom Jonsings am de highest toned colored people in do hull State. De pride ob dem young ladies is sumpin dat's past do onderstanding ob a com mon niggah. You see. dere crandfader he died ob somo kind ob a nigh-toned misery in de h.iel- wii-h Ha Wtr.,-a called de cebrum spinal men in jeters, an' upon dat fao' do fambly hab been foundereu No, boss. I doan know what kind ob men dem 'men in ietrs' is. but I spec dev is wav ur. ease Mis Libbie she dun 'lowed dat de fambly was a-goin to hab a cote ob a'ms." Vetroit t rte Press. "HOWS YOUR LIVER?i In tho comic opera of "Th. MikajJ his imperial highness yayi ; i "To make to ome extent, Each evil Liver ' A running river Of harnileaa merriment" A nobler task Uian making evil livers, rivers of harmless merriment no person, king or layman, could take upon himself. The liver among the ancients was considered the source of all a man's evil impulses, and the chances are ten to one to-day that if one's liver is in an ugly condition of discontent, someone's head will k niHsiieu ueiure nigiiii "How's your iivr?" is equivalent to the inquiry: Are angel to-day? Nine-tenths of you a bear or an the "pure cusmwi. ness," the actions for divorce, the cur tain lectures, the family rows, not to speak of murders, crimes and other calamities are prompted by the irri tating effect of the inactivity of the liver upon tho brain. Fothergill, the great specialist, says this and he knows. He also knows that to pre vent such oatastropliic8 nothing equals Warner's safe cure renowned through out the world as a maker of "Each evil Liver A running river Of harmless merriment" A POPULAR SUPERSTITION. " The lUppr Acrleulturhta of the Loa Star State. A popular superstition has prevailed in all ages, to the effect that the typical I turner harvests more solid joy and hup- pinn.ss to the acre than any other class of agriculturists who toil in the Lord'i moral vineyard. After mature deliberation we have como to the conclusion that the average Texas farmer, at least suffers as much from the canker-worm of care as does the hi an who "rastles his hash" in ths busy haunts of men. Some years ago, while engaged as a local reporter on the San Antonio Bugle, we knew a hardy agriculturist who tilled the soil on the Rosillo. Creek about ten miles from the Alamo city, the Thermopylae of Texas. ' His name, was Macbeth Simmons. Ho did not como to town often, but when he did the black pall of gloom settled down on the place worse than it did the day after the full of the Alamo. He canio to town on an old flea-bitten gray mare, so thin and gaunt and suggestive of an impending famino, that at the sight of Simmons on that pale horse, tho people whooped un all the grain in the country, expecting a rise. "hats the matter, Macbeth; has anybody died out on the Itosillo, and asked you to come to town to order a sarcophagus?" we asked. "Ihere is nobody dead yet but we might as well be. Vt e are going to have a lute frost and then it will be Good-bye John to the crops." "i'erhaps we will not have any late frost at all." " May be not If we don't have no late frost the eggs of the grasshoppers will hatch out and eat up the crops, anyhow. There's no silver linijg to the cloud. We poor farmers don't work for ourselves nohow. We toil and sweat, and sweat and toil, for the grass hoppers and the San Antonio mer chants. If we manage . to keep them filled up I suppose wo ought not ter grumble. Texas is no farming coun try nohow. " " I heer up old man, you will raise the biggest kind of a corn crop this year, if you don't stop it growing with your discouraging talk." "buppose we do raise a big corn crop what's the use anyhow," ho ex claimed, indignantly; "if we raise a big crop the price will go down to forty cents a bushel, and then it won't pay to haul it to town. I reckon I'll raise enough to keep the weevils busy all winter. If I do that I reckon I ought to be happy," and after he had mopped his moist eye with his elbow, he stirred up his crow-ba:t and started lor his ranch on the Hosillo. We did not have the pleasure of see ing Macbeth Simmons again for some time. In spite of all his groaning and sighing, the clouds let their garnered fullness down, and the crops were simply immense. Unce more Macbeth turned up with his old pale horse hitched to a wagon. He had sold his cotton at a good figure, and carried a bag of money in his hand, but he did not look as happy and contented as he did the last Urn- we saw him. "Got the toothache, Macbeth," we asked, pleasantly. 'Nn " ha ronlinrf Biirlilir "You probably haven't got any use for teeth this year. You haven't got anything to bite. No corn, no water melons, no nothing," we remarked, ironically. "les, we have got something to keep- ,our teeth goin' now. We are all gwine ter be down with chills. We wont donothin' this fall with our teeth except to chatter and gnash 'em. It will every cent of money I've got to get quinine. That's the way it is whenever it rains enough to mako crops." tmi with a sort of a "we-are-all-poor-worms- of-the-dust" expression, he climbed up into his wagon, whicii was loaded don with canned goods, de.uiiohns, smok ing tobacco, etc., and moved lowly out of town. Of course all Texas farmers aro not like Macbeth Simmons, but that the average farmer in any part of the Uni ted Slates is happier than the lawyer, the merchant er even the overworked journalist or the tired banker, we very much doubt Texas Sitings. The saltpetre beds of Nevada are far better situated for the development of the'r deposits than the nitre region of South America, which is a desert en tirely devo:d of water and all vegetable life. . Water for all purpdses is con densed from the ocean water, and car ried to the nitre fields, while fuel has to be procured from the mountains in tbe South of Chili. In Nevada the salt petre deposits are in the vicinity of rich farming country, with an abundant supply of water and wood close at hand. Chicago JjurnaL