The Eugene City guard., November 21, 1885, Image 2

LOVE AND CARDS.
The vonth and iiiNlilen sat alone
I'p'oti the peM.lixl eirund
Dcaiila tho cb, and In hi own
Jluheld liur lily liaud.
He razed Into lier eapptiire ryes
"l love you iwpet' ne ettl'1 ;
Tlie nuilduii anwi.T0i lilm will) sighs
And blualiliiK hung her head.
Hn pressed the hand 10 oft and white,
And klHtcd the dimpled chin,
And and : "If I plaved carda to night
I know tout I would win.
You ask me why, you ahull be told."
lie pri-nr-d the nnifore white;
"I know I'd win l.ei aue 1 hold
A lovely band to-nlglit."
Doiton Court.
WINTER IN THE AKCTICS.
Fall and Winter Sports In the Land
of the Esquimaux.
Tha Tarul ar Ari-liliectura of Fqiilnnm
Snow u l I, a llinc Tin loud and
liaiimnt of tlin Natlvo-Ilnir
Tbey Hear liarllilp,
Tlie winter life of tho Amer'can Arc
t'c native, or Esquimau, it much more
interest ng than his summer ex stence,
which pai takes so much , of tho gen
eral lifo ot savages with a few uirnter
esting changes, while iu the winter
time we linve a mo le of 1 fo so rad
lcully d fliT-'iit from that of any o'her
people, by thuii peculiar environment,
that the first travelers among them to
describe tlie-e strange detai's were
looked n; on ns Miinehrtucns of the
greatest breadth of imagination.
Houses of Ice and snow, the very Ja-t
thing iu tle world that a person would
tako to make a comfortable abode any
where, were reputed to be their winter
babitat'ons. They lived on raw frozen
meat in a t nrieraturo where it would
be agony to an ' ono else not to have
the r meal hut and t(,nm:ng; and so
on through till the socal economy,
leading a perfect life of polar para
doxes. By most ethnologists it has been
claimed that thin i-trango'mit'on found
itself in its frigid bind as a result of
national weakness, "crowded to the
wall" as it were by superior races, ami
that wall a wall of ceusele.-s ice. I am
a lit ru believer in tho opposite, or that
the Esquimau finds in the North his
most cong ni il clmio, and wo find to
corroborate this the perfect content
ment of tlie people with tho r country,
their heciia'lou in leuv ng it for how
over short a visit, their long ngs to re
turn when absent; many other reasons
show that they aro naturally natives of
the north land by their own choico and
not that of other. They aro no more
held to the rim of the cheerless Arctic
Sea by other races than are the musk
oxen by the bultalo, or tho polar bear
by the griz.lv. That they are more
than sutislieil with their cold country
and its phenomenal low temperatures
is amply showu, 1 think, in their pref
erence for the r winter life over that
of the summer, although their struggle
for an existence is much harder then,
as viewed from our point of h trdships,
in the toiriblo exposure and oft recur
ring famlnos, for which thy team to
care but littlo. Now lot us take a look
at that winter lite in the liht of one
who has lived as an Fs'pilmnu for over
two years among them for everv ono
will admit that some add tlonal 1 ght
is needed, so little do they have in the
winter sesson.
A few premouilory frosts commence
in the Arctic f.ilh goiier.illv followed
by a bluster ng northern storm of .-now
and sleet, and then with a idiarp uap
the thermometer si'iks to tho minus
twenties and thirtes and theAreto
winter il upon them, hiid as the school
boy d aleet would have it, "tor keeps,
too." This varied from earlv Septem
ber to late October in my t.avels. oc
curring on King William's Land tt the
former time nl H7U.mil in North Hud
son's Day at the latter in 178. This
sudden onslaught of the wintor doos
not drive thorn at onoe into their pe
culiar houses of snow, glad as they
would bo, however, to ava 1 themselves
of such an abode; for tho first snows
that fall are not of tho right texture
for this Arot c areh'tectiire. Fully forty
degrees below zero must have been
rettohed and a number of fierce gales
must have "packed" down the auiumn
snow before it Is vt the proper cnusat
onov. or xec'ttt'U'Uil-lo (heavy) as the
Esquimaux call it, to be cut into the
curious blocks or huge bricks of snow
With which they inake their snow
house, (i'.'oj of the Esquimaux) look
lug so much like the old f.ish oned
pictures of bee hives with their oblate
shape. Their skin tents are alto
gether too cold to live comfort
able in them long biforo that time
comos around, and the Arctic carpen
ter is diKon to another curious ma
terial for building to keep out the bitter
cold, and that Is the pure ice from thJ
many fresh water lakes andpon Is with
which their country abounds. When
about six inches thick they cut out
slabs about tho size of an ordinary
house door, put them upright on their
ends, Joining them edge to edge, mak
ing a iitt'e oueular pen of ice about ten
to liftoen feet In diameter, over which
they put the summer tent for a roof.
These houses of ice are as transparent
as triads, if clear ice has been formed,
and when linbhod or.e can look through
and see what h s or her ne ghbors are
itoiug without the trouble of getting
dowu ot h's hands and knees and
crawling in to find out. These gVs
lke hollies thus completely kill all in
centive 10 gossip, as an eent al ele
ment thereto, ignorance of the person
talked about, is wanting. I am pleased
to add however, that tue mal ootu va
riety of this trait is wholly unknown
among these distant people.
The bouse of ice, while warmer than
a skin tent, will not compare with one
of snow, and as soon as this material
is of proper texture, an igloo or snow
bouse is constructed. I will not dwell
on the construction of the igloo to' any
great extent, further than saying it ia
the shape ot a half egg out perpendic
ular to Us axis, and about W to eight
inches thick in tho blocks, which are
about thirty inches long by half as
wide. The most common errors re
garding the Esquimau snow-house are,
that these big blocks are laid flat, when
thoy are really on their lgnzer edga.
and that they form one course anovo
another, like wo build a br ck budding,
when, in fact there Is but one course,
spii ally twisting around frftra bottom
to top. While the blocks are but six
to eiirlit inches thick, the igloo is often
made four to fivo or even e ght to ten
times a) thick during very cold weath
er by a banking of loose snow thrown
over it.
Of course the temperature can not
get above freezing in these homes of
hard snow, or the structure w II com
mence melting and eventually tumble
in; hut it niu-t be remembered that a
person can soon get tied to a temper
ature just a few degrees below freez
ing, and oven be quite comfortable. I
must say that after a person has
8-oitnn thoroughly acclimated to the
out-door w nt r life of the Arctic, a
temperature of 'M deg. to 32 (leg.
Fahreuho t is every bit as com'ortablo
as one of 70 di g. to HO deg. to a
person coming into the house from a
temperature well below freezing. I
distinctly remember one curious er
feet on the, white men of my party
during the cold ot the I rst incoming
winter. Every one has probably felt
the less of managing power in the
lingers when numbed with cold, an
inaiflitv to write or mi tn or un
button a coat or other ganuent. or
anything requ ring considerable ma
nipulation ami piay oi mo lingers, anu
we, of course., wero no exceptions to
tho rulo nt first. Being constantly in
th a temperature, however, ana at
most as constantly exenis ng our
fingers under i theso" disadvantageous
ciiciimstauco I was grcatl? surpiicd
to seo how rapidly these functions of
the lingers were restored, until by
time the winter ,was over they were
actually as perfect as ever in any
tempo ature. however cold, and this,
too dc-niie the '.'act that there still
tenia nml, as before, tho disa greeable
sensation of cold ifi them at times. It
s eined as if tho motor and sensoYy
no.vcs tonld be niado absolute
ly imlopoudonl of each other; and th (
bonclit. wh'ch allowed me to thread a
needle and sew below freezing, to use a
sovtant for observations at minus forty
dej. Fahrenheit or clean a.id insert
caitr dires in a magazine inui at even
twenty degrees lower with ungloved
Hands. I believe 1 still, to a cen t n cx
tent, retain, altho-gh all others accni;
ing from Arctic ncciiiuntiation have
disappeared .n my live years awnyirora
that one.
If a comfortable hou-e made of ice
or snow seems siiirrtiliir during intense
cold, how absurd nn emovablo bed
made of tho same material must ap
pear; and yet their bedsteads are made
of snow, the mattresses of many layers
of musk ox and Polar bear ro' es and
undressed ro iideor skins, while the
shoots are dressed roindeor robes ftnd
the covers of the samo material, thoir
pillows being thoir reindeer clothing
rolled in a bundle nt tho head of tho
snow bod. Hero, stark naked, with
only ono reindeer skn over them, they
will sleep as soundly as a farmer in
more favored climes after a hard day's
work, and that w.th the temperature
out of doors so low that every breath
ins: thing is enveloped in a cloud of its
own making.
The amount of cold those northern
nomads can endure, however, borders
o i the phenomenal. I have seen tho
little bal ios. two and three years old,
perfeoiK naked, for hours at a time, on
the reindeer robes of the bed in the
iyloo, the temperature, as 1 have said,
be ng constantly below freezing; and
in the fall I have seen them naked,
playing and splash ng iu a pond of
water, long needles of ice form ng on
tli i quiet place. I once saw an Esqui
mau bab bov taken from its mother's
hood, ii ml nn'ki'd, mado t stand on the
snow unt 1 she found ts re ndeer skin
c'oth ngfroni the sledge, a-fa rly strong
wind, sullleient to ilr ft the loose snow
a oig with it, blowing at the tiiuo, the
thermometer minus thirtv-e ght do
greos. tlie only protection it had being
belli nl a sledge loaded about three
foot hlh. around and over which the
wind poured. Its exposure thus was a
(food minute, and to appreciate this
one must take a watch iu his hand, and
see that length of time drag by, a time
th at a not unconsc cnt'ous but sensa
tional wri er might readily jot down as
five or ten minutes. And I have known
a naked man, surprisod asleep in his
igloo by a polar bear, hastily grasp a
gun and pursue h a enemy two or three
hundred yards In tho snow, the ther
mometer lifteon to twenty below ze.o,
and slay h m. Theso Esqu niaux rub
slushy snow, dipped in water, on the
bottom of the runners of thoir pledges.,
with the open palms or trio bands until
it freezes into solid ice, the thermome
ter being from zero to seventy bolow.
wheu I have known it to be done. I
have seen an Esquimau throw him-elf
on the snow and rest comfortably for
half an hour, the therniometersoventy
ono degrees bolow zero or one hun
dred and three degrees bolow freezing;
and proiiably doing some 1 ght work
w th ungloved hands. Tho Kinne
pelo i Esqu uiuix. who seldom build
even the Ftiiall lires of the nat ve stone
lamp in thiur iglws during the very
coldot weather of winter, are probably
the ha d est of all these boreal tribes
in withstand ng lof temperatures,
a d s t around in their Cold, cheerless
snow-houses with only their un
dergarments on (the Esquimau has
two suits of reindeer sVins. tho ou'er
with the hair turned outward, and the
inner w.th the hair turned toward, and
resting against the body) their arms
withdrawn from their sleeves and rest
ing on their baro bodies across their
breast, chatting all the while pleasant
ly about various matters, the ther
mometer often being below zero; in
fact, the only warmth the snow-house
has is that given otf by their bod es. 1
have known one of these Kinnenetoos
to take an undressed raindeer hide that
had been soaked in water, to remove
the hair, which was frozen still' as a
plate- of boiler Iron, put the same
against his naked body, and not only
hold it there till it was thawed out, but
until it was perfectly dry. so as to use
it for a drumhead (Kee-tow-ttc) In their
peculiar savage rites. In fact. I might
say that I have been naked myself in
temperature ot minus sixty-eight de
grees, during the short timo it took to
undress, roll my reindeer covtluto a
bundle for a pillow, and crawl into my
sleoplng-bg; but my movements par
took more of the character ot a small
boy going to a base-ball match than
one sawing wood.
Their most ellicicnt method of keep
ing warm seems to be in the enormous
quantities of fat they devour, and es
pecially during the wlutcr season, and
of which so much has been written that
I will loave the subject for others not
so welt understood. Their clothing
made of reindeer skins throughout 1
have sulilciontly, though very briefly,
described above in brackets. Persons
looking at pictures of polar people
clad iu these swarthy furs, think from
their bulky appearance that they must
bo quit) heavy, but I think they are
lighter than our winter suits at home.
They are certainly lighter than any
other clothing in the world called upon
to protect their owners from such in
tense cold.
A most peculiar fallacy of Esquimaux
winter life is that, whoD they are living
in thoe odd little snow houses, and
wrapped in furs and subsisting on fats,
that their lives are a sort of hibernation,
as near as human boings can be sup
posed to hibernate. On the contrary,
the very reverse so -ms to be the case,
and it is by far their liveliest season,
despite the fact that thoir days are
much shorter, and all condit'ons, as
we wou'd view them, much moro un
favorable for any great amount of ac
tive out-of-door-life. I do not believe
1 exaggerate when I say, that for every
mde thoy travel in summor, with their
kiak (little skin canoes), or on foot
over the land, they ran show from a
dozen to a score in the winter w th
thoir dogs and sledges. Thoy kill more
game in this season, and their long
evenings nro by far tho most 1 vcly in
their acrobatio and superst tons exor
cises. A book could be written without ex
haust ng the wintor life in Esquimaux
land, but I have tred, in my small
space, to give some of the most inter
esting themes thereon, and ab ive all
something new and beyond the hak'
neyed subjects of other polar travelers.
LienteHOit t ,Schwatka, in .'. i'.
Indei endetit.
PLAYING MEN'S PARTS.
Kolabte tratance XVhrrn Women Ilav
Achieved Distinction lly Unsexiiiff Theiu
Mt.vr. A woman entered a horse for a race
recently in l'clgium, but made it a con
dition tlfat she should rido it herself,
dressed as a jockey. This the proprie
tor of the track refused to permit, but
tho proposition producod a good deal
of nowspapor discission, in which a
number of facts were brought to light
showing how. many womon had as
sumed men's attire in order to follow
men's pursuits. Lady Franklin, tho
wife of an Eng ish baronet, rodo a fam
ous race once, at which nenrly lot), WO
persons wore present, but sho wa
beaten by a riilor named Flint, though
the odds were in her favor. She ran
another race, however, and with more
8ticce-s. for she beat a famous jocko v.,
named Frank Uuckles, in a two-mile
heat race; but the victory was account
ed for by the fact that the jockey
gave horhirtv-two pounds in weight,
i'bo competition of women with mo i
where horses were concerned dates
back to Homer's time, for he tells of
the defeat of a wo nan warrior, a de
fender of Troy, whom Achillos nulled
fiom a horse and k lied. It is during
modem limes, however, that women
have assumed the garb of men so as
to prolit bv the -employments of
the latter. Not a month passes but
the newspapers toll the story of some
woman in disguise arrested by the po
lice, the excuse in every case being that
mon were paid better than women
when following the anu pursuits. It
is stated also as a fa -t that after every
buttle among tho slain aro fo-md tho
bodies of women who have fought in
the ranks. Jn some cases this was to
be near men to whom they were at
taehoii. but iifiener fr the more pro
saic reason that thev joined the ranks
of the army to uia'e a livelihood, other
resources failing. Modern industry
discriminates less against women than
fo merly. for now many employments
are open from which in the past they
were debarred. Nor is this change
confined to employment iuvoK ing man
ual labor, or even technical skill.
Newnham College has recently sent up
two highly trainod mathematical stu
dents, Miss Kochett and Miss llowells.
to compete with the Oxford graduates
for the position of Senior Wrangler, a
dist'tiction heretofore confined to men.
VemomCi Mon'hly.
A SHIFTING ISLAND.
The Inrvlt ihli- Dratlny or An Interesting
Atlantic Watrr na Plara.
Old Manisces is bronzing more loiter
ers this summer than ever before.
There are 2.5W 'strangers" on the
island. Manisees is Indian, and means
"1 ittlo God's Island," and if Mr. Block
hadn't happeued along 200 years ago
the more romantic name would have
clung to it
For nine months in the rear the
Island is plastered over with drying,
salted cod fish. The remaiuder of the
season the naiives d-itoto to sailing
other pooplo'g mouoy. The.soil Is not
to be mentioned, lor there isn't an'.
For the present the island is contenting
itself with traveling to the uorthwest
at the t ale ot about a foot a year. The
gray old Atlantic is grind)- grinding
awnv tho st.itelv and nietuied clav
cliffs on the southern end of the island.
In numerous spots along the southern
bluns may be seen places where last
winter's storms have ground out huge
cores of earth and swept them around
to the northwestern sand spits of the
island, where treacherous bars are ever
forming toward the north. Footpaths
on the clitTs that were popular last vcar
now end abruptly on the brink of
chasms thus formed, and new ones have
to be made. Keeper Clark, at the big
lifi-ht-house on Southeast Foint says
the sea is surely eating away the blufl's
whereon the light is now perch 'a. X)
feet above the sea level, and H sim
ply a question of t uie whea tha tower
will have to be moved inlau ' Jv.
T. 'limes. -Journalist
to his wife "I feel very
bad this morning. I don't see that it
is worth while to go to work, for m
head aches so painfully that I can toot
think." Wife "Don't try to think any
to-day, dear. Stay at home and work
on your look." Arkansaw traveler.
BIQ MONKEYS.
A Good Story on Adam Forapaugh A Chip
of the Old Mock.
The boys tell a good many jokes on
Uncle Adam Forepaugh, the circus man.
Adam is an old Pennsylvania Dutch
man, rich, but a little "near," That
is, be looks after the dollars pretty well,
and wants ever dollar to go as far as it
can. His son, young Adam, or "Adify,"
as the boys call him, is a chip of the old
block, or in other words there is a good
deal of the old Adam in the young Adam.
The old man has great confidence in
"Addy," who is one of the greatest
trainers of wild animals in the world,
but the young man is full of jokes, and
the old man comes in for his share,
though he never believes that he is be
ing made gamo of until it is all over.
Last year Addy" was in Europe look
ing up curiosities, and one day his father
received a cablegram saying. "I have
bought two monkeys that weigh nine
hundred pounds each. Cable me twenty-five
hundred dollars." Adam read
thenessage and handed it t his maua
ger, saying:
"I told you dot boy find something in
Europe dot make you hair stand up
straight Dciu is the biggest monkeys
ever vos."
"But, Mr. Forepaugh." said the man
ager, "you are not gomg to send the
money, are you P Ihere are to such
monkeys, weighing as much as a horse.
There is some mistake."
"I send de money," said Adam.
"Dot boy has struck a lead of monkeys
and don t you forget it. You can't tell
vot kind of monkeys dey get from the
interior of Africa. Yen we get dere
small monkeys, ve get just in de edge of
Africa. Now dey iet clear in de inside
-if Africa dey get-monkeys do full size.
l uu woman i iH'iievu ii veu (lev goi
gorillas first, neider," and old Adam be
gan to arrange to cable the money to
Addv.
"Vell, if Addv has got a nine-hundred
pound monkey, I will eat him,"
said the manager. "It is unreasonable,
ami I wouldu't pay the money till.I saw
tho monkeys, if I was you."
"Veil, vat's de use my seeing 'em,"
said the old man a littlo vexed. "Addy.
he seen 'cm, and dat settles it. If dat
boy cable me he got a dwarf eighteen
feet high, he got him, dot's all. You
can't fool dot boy on monkeys. He
knows moro about monkeys dan all de
other showmen.' Vot do we know about
big monkeys tree four totisand miles
avay? Dere might bp monkeys big as
elephants for all we know, t send de
money to-night." and he did. The next
day the old man got a cable from
"Addy" as follows:
"Money received monkeys dead."
Old Adam wosondering over the
message when the managercamein. He
handed the message to tlie manager and
said:
"Vot vou link?"
The manager said he knew all the
time there was no such monkeys, and it
was his opinion Addy wanted some
money pretty bad, and took that way to
deceive his poor old trusting father, and
get this mouev. 1 he old man thought a
minute and then said.
"Veil, vot is it your business? Vot
you kicking about? Addv vant de
money, and he got it, ain't it. Dot vo
my boy" and he went out laughing aud
slapping his sides at the joke Addy had
played on him. iVcfc'i Sun.
Honesty Is the Best Policy.
Mr. Black, the eminent and wealthy
coal-dealer, called one of his oldest
drivers into tho office the other morning
aud tendered him quite a large sum of
money.
"What is this forP" asked the aston
ished driver.
"Merely a token of appreciation for
services rendered," replied Mr. Black,
kindly.
"But, sir, you've always paid me well
for my services, and that was apprecia
tion enough."
"There is really more than that in it,
John," continued the gentleman, "I
really owe you the money."
"I don't understand."
"Let me tell you,'1 and he dropped
his voice to a whisper, "you have beeu
with me for twenty years, working three
hundred days every year, and averagi g
three loads a day; that makes eighteen
thousand loads. You weigh about 150
pounds, John, and we have never failed
to weigh you in with everv load of our
superior coal; that ma"kes 2.700.W0
pounds, or 1,350 tons. This at $8.50
per ton, John, represents $4,725. The
package yui hold in your hand contains
$472.50 or ten per cent, which we think
is yours by right. We are honest men,
John, and don't desire to defraud any
man out of what is justly his."
John bowed in humble submission,
and is now wailing for the next divi
dend. Merchant J'raveter.
A Cat's; Head.
The Connecticut cat is continually
doing queer things. A few nights ago
a Norwich (Conn.) young man dreamed
that he was struggling with burglars
and awoke In a cold perspiration. He
listened and thought he heard a stealthy
step coming along the veranda roof
under his window. The foot-fall sud
denly stopped, and was followed by a
sharp clinking sound, accompanied by
sneezing and splattering. Silently the
young man slipped out of bed, got his
revolver from the bureau, cocked it,
and went to tho window. Suddenly
throwing open the blinds he thrust his
weapon out, prepared to kill a burglar.
Instead of a midnight robber he saw a
black animal crouching on the roof, one
end terminating in a stiff, erect tail and
the other In something that looked like
a small stove-pipe. It was a cat with
an empty condensed meat can on her
bead. She had found It in the yard,
put it on, and she couldn't got ft off.
During the night she had awakened half
the families in the village thumping the
can against doors and windows and ve
randa roofs. Each family supposed
they had to do with burglars. A'o
wich Bulletin.
Weddings resulting from chance ac
auaintanccs made during summer va
cations may well be published under the
head of "casualties. '' CAica70 Tribune.
CWINE,
Bow They Hhould b Cared fr Daring
Spring and Summer.
'The pig Is provided with ono very po
tent means of protection against changes
in the temperature at all seasons, as well
as against the damaging effects of sleep
ing in a wet nest be this the bare grorfnd
or a worn-out bunch of hay or straw,
repeatedly soaked through and through
by the rain, and never entirely dried,
namely, an excellent non-conductor, a
thick layer of fat outside the vital or
gans. Instinct, as it is commonly
called but that to which we refer is far
above Instinct warns the hog against
lying in the wet. The hog, with avail
able means placed within reach, whether
in the wild or domesticated state, will,
at any and all seasons of the year, gather
drv material, carrying this from con
siderable distance to the place which he
has chosen as the best. The amount of
dry stuff thus carried is graduated by the
amount required to place the hog out of
reach of the sensation of cold aud wet
from beneath. The hog, moro correctly
than the human Is likely to do, takes in
the evidences of a coming storm; and
what does he straightway set about do
ing? Nothing less than to gather ma
terial for building his nest higher, that
accumulating wet may have room to
settle away beneath.
But unfortunately for the domesti
cated hog, he is liable to be tu.ned to
pasture in the spring, shut away from
his winter quarters, and conlined upon
alow down, flat grazing ground, where
he has no access to material out of which
he can build a nest Hence, what do we
habitually see occur with pastured hogs
in spring and summer? A bunch of
them will gather in a fence corner at
nightfall; go through the motion, upon
the bare ground, of scraping together
material with which to elevate them
selves above the point liable to leave
them in the wet. In the early part ot the
night they lieapart.but as it turns cooler,
or if a cold rain comes on, they huddle
together, sometimes "piling,1 as it is
termed. Now.what is the natural result
of all this? Simply that when morning
conies, the hogs get out from their close
ly packed 6tate, coughing, shivering,
overheated on so much of the surface as
has been in contact with their mates,
and chilled on the surface in contact
with the outer air. Congestion of the
air passages has been at work, and when,
under the influence of exercise and sun-,
shine, the circulation is reasonably well
distributed throughout the body, the
bronchial tubes, or the hmg tissue
proper, as the case may be, or, itossibly,
both of these being implicated, get re
lief through the day, but are liable to
thesaniestateof things on each succeed
ing night. Yet, some otherwise very sensi
ble men say this sort of cough is a
"worm cough;" and others go on nndr
recite, as did one very plausible writeil
we now call to mind, how pigs anJ
stock hogs will, duringspring and apart
of summer, cough when aroused from
the nest; that how, later in the season,
as the feed gets frosted, a portion of the
stock will sicken and die; that an exam
ination by pott-nwrtem will, in some
cases, show disease of the heart and
lungs, and in other cases of the liver or
bowels, or of both. This writerreasons
falsely that the hog is kept afloat, so to
speak, and well during the spring,
through the agency of the grass, said
to be healthy and blood purifying while
green and fresh, but tending
to produce disease later in the sea
son. Dry corn is quoted by the same
writen as a prolific source of the ail
ments mentioned. Other causes are re
ferred to, but the real cause, the expos
ures referred to, causing, as they do, a
disturbance of the balance of the circu
lation, followed by congestion of the
respiratory or abdominal organs, or of
both; then inflammation, resulting in
thickened and disorganized tissues of
the parts, are not named. Hogs get
stiffness of muscles and joints, separate
and apart from the ailments named;
and there is no time of tho year, during
which it is proper or safe to permit
swine to pass a night without a shelter
that they can retreat to, and find a dry
place to sleep even though this be
only a plank floor. National Live Stock
Journal.
LARGE WAISTS.
Compreuure a Sin Agalnut Humanity
Ita Maker.
Women who have the livings to
must encounter severe competition, and
they will never receive consideration be
cause they are women. Tbey must ex
cel in order to bo successful. Excellence
implies strength not spasmodic, nerv
ous strength, which makes an effort
once in a while, under extraordinary
pressure, but the strength which can
turn off daily work without excessive
fatigue the strength which leaves the
eye still bright and the step elastic after
a" long day behind the counter, over the
sewing-machine, at the desk, at the
easel, in the kitchen, in the school-room.
Such strength as this does not go with
a small waist. From the nature of
things, it can never unless it has been
pointed out in exceptional cases be
found in women with small waists.
Strong back and abdominal muscles
muscles which can do their work with
out tho deadly props of steel and whale
bone now so universally worn a large
digestive capacity, a rapid and utterly
unobstructed flow of the blood in the
veins and the arteries these are some
of the requirements of health and
strength. And these things take up
room. ' In most women Gou has given
room for these organs and their pro
cesses, but it is reduced and contracted
in order to make the waist appear
small. In the name of honorable labor;
of healthy and happy infancy and child
hood; of intelligent high-minded wo
manhood; of everything that is beautiful
and worth having for women in this
world, we plead for the scorned, the
condemned large waist. Give your
body room. It is a sin against humani
ty and its Maker to compress your waist
rhiladfipha Prw.
The war of 1812 closed more than
seventy years ago, and yet there are, ac
cording to the last annual report of the
Commissioner of Pensions, 3,898 surviv
ing soldiers and 19,512 widows on the
pension rolls.
TAKEN OWN.
How the Old Gentleman Took the Starch
out or a Seir-Sufflcleot Youngetf r.
The youth had been patronizing the
young ladies by vouchsafing choice bits
of his superior wisdom. "You remem.
ber what Cicsar said when he was about
to cross the Rubicon?" said the old
gentleman. "Certainly," replied the
youth, with a careless glance of pity at
the young ladies, who of course could
not be expected to know everythiuo- that
a man knows. "And of course you are
equally familiar with the life of Peter
the Hermit?" continued the old gentle
man. "I should say that I was," re
plied the young man quickly, but not
without a slightly troubled look in his
face. . "And Semiramide," the old gen
tleman went on, "you recall his famous
saving?" "Yes," gasped the youth
wishing that the old gentleman might b
struck with apoplexy as, soon as con
venient "I'm glad you remember it,"
said the old gentleman, with animation
"for I've clean forgotten it. Now, ij
you'll be kjnd enough, and no doubt the
the ladies would be glad to hear it also."
The youth by this time wished that the
old gentleman had died in infancy, and
as for the young ladies, he couldn t help
thinking' how much better it would have
been had they never been born. "By
the way," pursued the old gentleman,
seeing the youth hesitate, "who was
Semiramide? He had something to
do with the last Franco-Prussian war,
hadn't he?" "Yes, oh ves," replied the
youth, catching at the "bait with tager
ness, while something like a giggle
was passed around among the yoiibe
ladies, as if it were a paper of car
mels. "And Peter the Hermit was
instrumental in bringing about a peace
at the close of that struggle?" "Yes."
The youth said this very faintly. "But
Ciesar held out and marchea his shat
tered force into the Wallachian princi
pality?" "That's the way I remember
it," replied tho youth, with a despera
tion born of despair. Then the old gen
tleman looked at the young ladies, who
were engaged in stulling their mouths
full of pocket handkerchief, and then he
looked at the youth and exclaimed:
"Ah, sir, how I envy you vour stores of
knowledge! What a comfort you must
be to your parents!" Then the youth
got up aud wentout into the cheerless
night, and cussed the old gentleman be
hind his back. And the young ladies
laughed in unison, but the noise of their
laughter was overborne by the merry
peals of the old gentleman. Boston
1 unscritl.
Roman Remains in Bavaria.
The remains of a large Roman villa
fitted with extensive baths have been
recently discovered at Eiuing, near
Abens River, near the Danube. " "Tb
n phi. nor Hiinfirnnia una noon iniimi u
very perfect condition, together with
many curious and interesting architect
ural details. But what is perhaps of
more interest still, the skeleton of a wo
man has been found, having by ber side
a jug, a class urn, and tear-bottles the
last usual offering to the dead. In ad
dition to this, there was the apparatus
of her toilet, including hair-pins, pearl
necklace, and bracelets. Some sculp
ture was also brought to light, though
in a very broken state; but one piece,
a woman's head in marble, was very
well executed indeed. A "votive" stone
was also found with an inscription of
four lines, dedicated, as an offering, in
honor of "Dea Fortuna Augusta iaus
Una." A large number of Roman
weapons, coins, spoons, rings, and
fibula', and many other articles, with
Roman bricks, tiles, and stamps in con
siderable numbers, were also discovered
among the foundations of this interest
ing villa. N. Y. Evening PooL
Texas.
An Englishman, writing home from
Texas says: There are no game laws
except as to close seasons, which are
little regarded in that vast wild country.
For protection a six-shooter may be
carried, except in the towns, but should
never be shown unless for immediate
usewhen wore well 't were done
'"-etthe
U1UO,
ever
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boys "white," they will treat vou "nuut
I i A V- 1 J
square, you oei your sweet tue, auu
"will dearly love to make you comfort
able," a a Texan landlady reuf-kedt
us. They will share their ' tuick"
(food) and their last quid o! tobacco,
and they may accept ammunition or to
bacco or a shooter in return for services
rendered, but do not offer them money
unless you wish to have your hair parted;
and, above all, remember that in Texas,
as throughout America, Jack is as good
as his master. A person who cannot
help swaggering about British superi
ority had much better keep the broad
Atlantic between himself and Texas;
while another person with his mouth shut
and his eyes open will thoroughly enjoy
that country.
There are many novel ways of mak
ing a dime, but the last just inaugura
ted by the Mexican boys ot Yuma caps
the climax. It is the selling of smoke in
old tin cans from the burning of a weed
called "hediondia." They go from
house to house and offer to furnish
enough smoke to drive the mosquitoes
away for the small sum of ten cents.
San Francisco Alto.
A Boston statistician says'that $1
will buy as much of the necessaries of
to-day as $1.50 in 1875, $1.32 in 1855,
91 cents in 1845, and $1.19 in 1825. In
other words, the purchasing power of
$1 is 19 per cent greater than it was in
1855. A dollar will buy more to-day
than in most previous periods in the his
tory of the nation.
Lignum vita stands first among
our native woods in power to resist "in
dentation," which means in the census
tests compression in a line perpendicular
to the fiber.
Sometimes a man is able to carry
high head simply because there is noth
ing in it X i. tribune.