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.
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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