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WITH CROOKED LEGS. WHAT MAKES MEN BANDY LEGGED AND KNOCK KNEED. Hot Mar Than On Han In Thr Who la Straight LI in bd-What, a Nurgson ay About Crooked LB Correcting tha Cnrvatur. ' Comparatively few men hare really ati alght leg. In a walk from Fourteenth treet to 4b Battery rejiorter made a rough estimate nd found (hnt not mora than on in three of tba men who paused him were straight Simbed. Mont of tliom were bow or bandy Hogged, tome of them were knock kneed, and iln few liiktaiiora both leg bout the tarn "way. It wm noticed that aa a rule the itout, Sieary men hail parenthesis legs, while thoaa of slighter build In many case carried their ibodle on a figure resembling an X. Tbli rule, however, doe not always bold, Jlany men of no Inconsiderable aroirdupol wtrlke Uiulr knee together when they walk. It li not uiicoinmon to ana a long, lanky man whose leg! aro ao bent that be is phyirally Incapacitated from (topping the traditional pig in an alley way. Frequently bowlegged nes I associated witb strength. It If usually seen In abort, sturdy men. Those who are knock kneed hare no such recompense unless the excuse for renewing trousers, which are constantly being worn out at the knees by cbaflng one against the other, be considered as such. WHAT A BUnOKON BAYS. A well known surgeon who bos had long experience in a city hospital was asked to ex plain the prevalency of crooked legs. He aid: "It is a fact that very few persons have atraight legs. My attention Is often called to it It is hard to say just why it is. Many ay that it Is because children are mode to walk when they are too young. Mothers like to bav their little ones on their foot at a arly an age as pnattble, and so sometimes force them to stand before their legs are able to bear the weight of their bodies. Nurses, too, when they take children out for an air ing, often moke them walk without their parents' knowledge. Undoubtedly this Is aometlmes the came or the deformity. Prob ably many a man owes bis curved legs to a careless nurse, who got tired of carrying him when be was a baby and put him down when way from his mother. Others say, witb good reason also, that it Is due to baby car riages. The child is wheeled about until it Is jultol(L Its body Is thus developed while its legs are doing nothing, and when Anally It Is mad to use them, they being still soft, bend under the weight of the body. I believe that this treatment of children is responsible for more bowleggedheas, or cnemoscoliosls, as w call it, than anything else, "Every one know that the bones of the human body are mado up of cartilaginous or sinewy fiber and mineral matter, and that when young the former predominates. The bone at that stage bave, therefore, little rigidity, and-are very easily bent Unfor tunately they bave little elasticity, either, and readily take a set. The proportion of cartilage and mineral matter varies in differ ant children, to that It is impossible to give any fixed age at which ttey should be nuulu to walk. Many can walk well when 13 months old, while Other cannot do to until they are 9 years old "In some children there is an umisol pro portion of sinew in the bone, and in these asee the legs are almost certain to become crooked. In these instances brace can be 'Used with advantage until the bone harden. This simple remedy Is rarely used, however, sometime from the apiitlry of the parents, but chiefly because the tendency it not notleeiliutll it It too late. Tho legs bend one way or the other very gradually, and when the curve Is perceptible it is usually past the cur of brace. This condition,, of the bones Is often due to insufficient food and general neglect Unless the blood is kept rich and healthy the bone are apt to b retarded in development, and to, remaining i sof t, ar readily twisted. - STRAIQuTE.MNO UtOB. "Sometime bow legged children become straight when they grow older. My mothor told in that when I was a child my legs .formed an almost perfect ellipse. Now, I reuture M assert, they are stralghter than moat men's. In my own experience I bave teen this occur, but It Is iniiossible to foretell if the curve in a child's leg will straighten out in after year or not." "I there any means of straightening legs when one they are set crooked" asked the re porter, Ye, and by a very simple process. The curvature in bow legged persons is usually Just below the knee. To remove it we take a piece out of the ouUldo of the bone-that is, the convex cidcVnnd thon break the bone on the other side. This enable us to make the leg projierly straight by using stiff splints, and It Isn't long before the legs ar all right again and as straight a can be desired, lu knock kneed persons the curvature it above the kuoe, and tho same process can be tried. It It not so often done, however, a few peo ple care to havo the thigh bono broken merely to Increase their personal beauty. Then you often cure bow legged men In this way I" Oh, yea. Of course when the curv is to marked that it actually iulerferea with the walking torn such operation It necessary, but we frequently are called upon to do it limply to improve a man appearance. Bom time ago a young man wroto to me from the west, begging mo to suggest some meant of making bis lugs straight. H could walk well uougb.but he wasn't satisfied with hi ap pearance, 1 told him .what be would bave to .undergo, and although he hesitated at first, he finally consented and weut through it manfully. He is very proud of bit rtralght legs now, although be never tells how he got them, Brace can aomeUmea be used to straighten the leg of young boys, but when the bone has become really hardened they are not of much use." New York Bun. Why They Oo East. Omaha Man-Going to New York to lire, eh I Inbuslues there I Kaunas Man No; I've retired from bust Ma, and bar bought pdao on Fifth venue, New York, Now, I d like to know why man who hat tuads & fortune lu Kansas should buy mi dence In New York, instead of settling down In his own state I" Well, yon see, I had choice between a New York brown (tone front and Boom City dugout, and 1 took the brown stone front because it was cheaper," Omaha World, A Good Iteawa. Bay, Tom, that fellow Btuppta teem to appreciate a story." "Ye, teem to." "Laugh at all your Joke," Don't yoo know why p No," Why, 1 let him hare 3 the other day." Arkansaw Traveler. ' A Long Han. Tb longest continuous run on any raDwty in the world b that made by the new Saratoga limited train oo the road from New York to Troy, which run th taUre dMaac liS bikewithout a stop. LOVE'S LESSON. 0 tore, which fornet to ah f ur..' 1 In manyaqualutdlsiruis ; ' From childhood up, hovr rapturous fu every fresh surprise By which we learn, from day to day, And till our years ara don, Tim tender secret, lautfht alway, That tiod and goo are one! , , Mary B. Doage. LANDING AT CASTLE GARDEN.' The Two Hirers of Humanity Th Prob abilities of Cltlsenshlp. It would be a pleasant use of the power of clairvoyance, if one possessed It, to go down to Castle Garden and pick out the future Carnegie and Woods among the throng of steerage passenger when they huve just been transferred from the steamers to the garden. Even without the exercise of divination the sight 1 an interesting one. A the imml grant land, chutteriug in their various tongues, they are huddled together like a gieat drove of sheep in a grove during thunder storm, men the big doors are thrown open and the procession more into the amphitheatre. Generally more than one steamer at a time empties it living freight from the steerage Into the garden, and all the type of Eurojie are represented lu the motley throng. There are stout boy from Ireland, men, women and children from France and the lower German provinces, Scandinavians and Italian from Leghorn and Mediterranean ports. Upon entering the castle proper the proces sion divides, one line twinging out to tbe left and one to the right, and these two rivers of humanity are again divided into four smaller streams, which flow into narrow passageways. Tbe center of tbe garden is fenced in, and by pofwaguway, railing and wicket gate tbe immi grants are finally resolved into their various nationalities and quickly registered by the clerk. Take the Italian for example. They were lined off and brought up to a desk, where each person was asked a few questions. First the name U given, then the place from which be came, his destination, and whether or not he bad money. This ilnisbed, the new arrivals were turned loose in the rotunda and permitted to do as they pleased. Breaking up into nationalities, they sat down on their biHi or prepared to camp out on the floor. (Scandinavians took one corner and tut there without comment, looking II .e inhubit antsof a silent city; Italians had possession of tbo next, but they were anything but silent, keeping up an endless chatter; Irish and German groups made themselves as com fortable as possible while they waited for friends or prered their beds to remain all night in the garden. 7 Among tjiem railroad agents were going about, pasting addresses on the caps of the men and attaching placards to the children, and toward night boats came up from tbe railroad comixmles and carried off loads to the stations. Money changers also plied their vocation, and rival telegraph companies shouted in their bidding for customers. It was a curious and bewildering scene; it wot intensely Interesting, moreover, to one who could sympathize with tho emotions of the new arrivals or ponder over the probabilities of citizenship. Willis Bteele in Chicugo Times. , An Amateur Lion Tamer's Etoape. Mr. Cross, the naturalist, wat good enough to recount the following incident which took place in bis establishment a short time since: I received from a young Frenchman of good family several letters in which he re quested to enter the lions' den at niy receiv ing bouse In Earle street. He assured me that his vocation was that of a lion tamer, and one fine day he paid me a visit, In com pany with three of hit compatriots, whom be had brought with him lu order that thoy might be wituesHct of hi Intrepidity. He asked mo if I could give him a situation, and, pointing to a cago in which there were three fine African lions, ho entreated me to allow him to put them through a performance. 1 bail just time to tell him that be might enter at bis own risk when I was called into the office. AfU-r the lapse of a quarter of an hour a man rushed up to the des where 1 was writ ing and exclaimed excitedly: "Mr. Cross, one of the lions is out!" "Whereri asked, to which he rootled. "Loose in thn On hurrying to the spot I found the door of the den opou, and the Frenchman inside with his back against tbe wooden partition, and two of tbe lionsstarlng him in the fuoe, while th escaped lion bad made for the end of the narrow pawsage, where it was meditating mischief to the other Frenchmen, who had taken refuge on tbe top of a pile of boxes, their faces as white as a sheet,' The first thing I did was to close the door loading to the yard, and next to get the amateur lion tinuur out of the den. It was well for him that one of the Hon bail gone out of the cage, because the other twe were so amazed at the fact that they remained for a minute or two (terfectly still. We bad great didlculty in making the third Hon re-enter the den, but at Inst we succeeded, not, however, without tome danger. After this had boendone I myself weut into the cage with no weapon and simply tmok big a cigar. My entrance was the signal for tremendous bounding 1 It ward and forward on the part of the beasts, sUdch were evi dently not a little terrified atone of their cominlon having escaped, Aa I stood calmly within tho den with my eye Axed ou the excited animal, I said: "You see there is no art In Hon taming, but it requires nerve." I think the result of that afternoon's ad venture qaite cured the young Freachmnn of hla mania for being a lion tamer. Fall Moll Osteite, What "rr Annum" Means Boss, Izo a bit confused 'bout suthlu'," said one of the negro whitowasher at the market to Dotective Webb the other day. "Well, what is itf What doe per annum mean I" "Per year, of course," A hull y'orr Yea." Can't bo uo mistakel" No, sir." If I borry 3 of Ab.-ahaui Johnson an' sgree to pay twenty per cent, per annum dut means tweuty cents y'ar, does itf It does." "Hul Par's gwine to be de biggest row in Kalmuck to-night you eber hearn tell of I" "About whatl" About dut per annum. I borryed 13 of de jusson menshuned at twenty per cent per annum, an' fur de las' fo'teeu months has bin cullectiu' twenty cents week as rigular as clock. Btuck right to it, he did, dat per an num meant ebery Saturday night Lawdl but when I gtt dese yen) paw on film won't per annum take a flop " Detroit Free Freest A Funeral la raaama. It li the custom among the poorer close tn Panama to hire coffin to transport their dead to the grave, after w hioh the body I deposited in th earth, and the coffin brought back with the mourners, Th following is th form of Panama undertaker" advertisement: From this date bearer will be hired from our staWUtnwnt at the following rates: lis asdtu Conine will be auld at lowest possible rate. CVmn hind out for ONK DOLLaK, in cluding beach oa which to carry the deceased 'to the grar,"-Frank LetUYs, THE BOYS OF LONDON. LITTLE CHAPS WITH POT HATS" AND OTHERS WITH NONE AT ALU tad Who Never liar Any Heal Child hood The Jolly Youngster of Chrtet Church Bootblacks In UnlforuiLou don Newsboys Telegraph Messengers. Next to the number of uniforms and liveries seen on the streets and iu tbo byways of London life, nothing strikes an American visitor more than tbe sight of tall silk bats, "pot bats," worn by the small London school boys. After a son of parents lu any respect able grade of life is old enough to attend any good school be is made to dress In as digni fied a way as if be were a member of parlia ment Dress counts for so much in England. It is the general and correct guide to one's station in life. The poor English boys who are condemned to wear pot bats from early infancy of course can never bave any real childhood. Imagine a full blooded boy start In I out for a good time wearing a stiffly starched shirt collar and a high silk hat These pot hatted boys early acquire a stiff dignity of manner which harmonizes with their hats. They never relax except when they aro actually in the country. Then the poor lads go wild and decline to wear any hats at all. They are like tbeir grown up brothers. They pass from one extreme to tbe other. Tbe Englishman in town is a model of stillness and angularity. In the country be is ready for any rough bout of roiucKing tuat any one may propose, I have seen these silk batted boys every where in London, A person familiar with tbe London schools can tell exactly where A boy belongs by his dress. In tbo preparing- schools for the University small roundabout jackets are worn until the boys aro promoted to a certain class, and then they wear swal low tail coats until they graduate. Some times a tall lanky boy, who is behind tn his studies, will be seen wearing a roundabout In company with a little bit of a fellow who wears the sign of scholastic superiority in the shape of a long tailod coat The other morn ing I saw an elderly gentleman walking with a boy who was at least 5 feet lu inches in height. This boy was eridontly rcryniucb behind In bis studies, because be was accom panied by two small fellows six or seven yean of age whose dress indicated that they were as for along in their studies as he. THE CHRIST CHUBCH BOY3. The jollimt looking boys seen about town are tbe picturesquely dressed students known as tbe Christ church boys, or as blue coat scholars. This Is free London school, es tablished for the education of orphans or tbe children of parents whose incoaie does not ex ceed three hundred pounds a year. They wear long, blue gowns, caught at the waist with a leather belt At tbe neck is a small ttand up collar and an English clergyman's white tio coming down in a little square piece lu front They wear knee breeches under the hang, blue skirts, and dark yellow stockings and low shoes with buckles. This school is nearly three hundred years old. They are not permitted to wear any hats summer or win ter. They wear exactly the 'same uniform prescribed for tbe students of this school when it was first established. The best scholars wear silrer badges on their shoulders to indi cate their rank. These boys are great favor ites witb the London people. Thoy ore very jolly, tough-looking youngsters, who ramble all over the town during their play hours. Thackeray, and not a few other prominent fcilgllshmen wero (Jurist church boys. It is not the schoolboys alone who wear a uniform or particular dress to mark their calling. The bootblacks wear uniforms and are regularly licensed. The charge of tha street bootblacks for shining your shoes is one penny. These boys wear red coats and a red cap with a black band about, it They are also numbered and evidently have to pay a license for the number. The newsboy of London make up the only class of street bovs engaged iir service of auy kind who do not wearsome distinguishing dress. The news boys here wear the ragged street dress of New York newsboys. I think they are more vociferous and uoisy perhaps than even their Now York confreres. They stand about the stations and at a few particular places near the newspaper offices of publication and shout "special," without attempting to give any thing concerning the contents of the papers mey nave to sell beyond holding in their bauds a huge placard, upon which are bul letined the principal items of tho papers they hare for sale, TSLEORAPH MESSENGERS. The telegraph boys wear uniforms noS un like those worn by telegraph boys in the United States. Their caps are different Their cap resembles the fatigue cap of the United States regular army service. They wear knee breeches and carry, attached to their belts, huge leather pouches which they can lock. This insures tho safety of the de spatches which they carry back and forth. Few of them are on duty after 10 o'clock at night They are solemn little machines and are as uulike American boys in similar posi tions as can bo Imagined. I have had a num ber of them come to mu every night for do lwtches and I have found them all alike. They do not understand the slightest remark which is made to them outside of their busi ness. Tho idea that any one could be inter ested in them or would want to show them any kindness is utterly beyond their compre hension. They are paid on an average about live shillings a week. They aro strong, hearty looking little fellows and do not appear to have any moro intellectuality thou good, faithful house dog. Those boys, when they grow up, become porters or messengers. They are to be seen around the hotels; strong, sturdy fellows, graduates of some outdoor occupation, They wear a livery with as much pride as an army officer with us wears bis uniform. The livery to them is a mark of a rise in life, Going to the English hotels yon meet with grave func tionaries in livery, who are as proud and dig nified as if they were members of tbe diplo matic corps. From tbe porter at the door to the buttons who carries iu your small lug gage, tho chief porter who bandies your bag gngo and the coiumtsslonnaire who runs your errands, there is but one feeling that they all occupy very superior positions and that they rather regard with pity the wild foreign ert who come from the distant shore of tbe United States. T. C. Crawford in New York World. Ralph Waldo Emerson' Son. Ralph Waldo Emerson' sou is man of niany tastes, lie was ouce physician in Concord, but aliandoued the profession of medicine for that of art Hi painting show hi hereditary love of nature, and hisland tcapes are exceedingly well done. H is now lecturing on anatomy in th art school of th Boston museum. He also ha fancy for military matters, and used to ride respondent as an artillery sergeant at the hood of one of the platoons of the Concord Uttery.-Chicaco A Sweet Girl Graduate, n (at dinner) May I asrist yoo. to th shees, Mist V assart Mis Yasser (hut rr.lnf.ri ty,.l. ... I- ' UU, am very comfortable where I am. But yon "-J "nuocaecsewi!ie,uyoqwiui Fuck, INVENTORY C KI3 "HARNESS." Funny Story of a Husband and Wlfe-A Man Silenced. There Is a very funny story told of a Newark husband and wife. Tbe husband tuougnt- ii. ni. something rejecting on the feml .i...ju.nMhu nrwnt dar. "A woman is miiflww-' - i ., . .ii tel snrincs and wires and complicated harness nowadways," be saw, wasmg from the chair he wanted to srt uown in anu flinging a wire bustle into tbe corner. "Why don't you get a whole sait of steel armor and be done with itf Bhe said nothine-so the story runs-but waited until he went to sleep, and then began an Inventory of his "harness." Leaving out his eye glasses and chain, she began at his neckwear. Here she found two gold collar buttons to secure the collar, two patent spring catches to keep the necktie from slipping over the head and another to secure the end of tbe scarf to the shirt bosom. On the sleeves of bis shirt were two elastics with spring clips at each end, and his cuffs, besides being held together with link buttons, were provided with nickel plated holders, with which they were secured to the shirt sleeves. Three spiral studs decorated the front of tbe shirt and a pin was stuck in his scarf. She made entries of all these things and then be gan on his clothing. His patent shoulder brace, pulley action, snap jointed suspender were noted, and ber keen eyes observed that on of the suspender buttons was of the kind that is attached witb safety pin and is known as a bachelor's button. Bhe also found that he hod 54.75 in his pocket, and she di vided it as fairly as possible, taking out pay for her trouble in making the inventory. Examining tbe vest, she found that it bad a metallic compensating back strap composed of four spiral springs and two buckles. In one pocket she found a patent load pencil guard, in another a combined button book glove buttonerand ring. The back of his coat was provided with patent chain hanger, his stockings were equipped with supporters of elastic cord with metal snaps and his shoes were secured with buttons which were put on witb patent metal fasten ings. She studied bis bat for some time with out noticing that the brim was wired, but she did not fnil to see that bis gloves were fas tened with steel spring!), and when she added bis watch chain and linger rings to tbe list of hardware and hurness she retired to sleep witb considerable satisfaction. Ho read the list in the morning in silence, and when he came borne to dinner in the evening be gave ber a pair of earrings which she had been teasing him for. New York Graphic. Koman Letters for Germany. The Society for the Extension of Roman Script has recently 'addressed a petition to the Empress Augusta, requesting ber to use ber influence in having the Roman (or Latin) script employed in all public prints published by her order in behalf of ber household or In matters relating to her majesty's widespread charities, etc. The petitioners urge that the rising German generation are at present un duly burdened with the necessity of perfect ing themselves both in writing and reading Roman and German script; that prominent linguists, more especially Jacob Grimm, have pronounced the so-called German script to be an unsightly disflurement of the pure and noble forms of the Latin script, which may be considered the original and national Ger man script; that the society has been formed for the express purpose of abolishing the two fold system of characters, and at present counts 5,000 members, whose number is con stantly increasing; that the aim of the society has the sanction of the official school boards as well as the hearty approbation of a wide circle of prominent scientists; and finally that the fact of ber majestr having Inscribed cer tain verses in Latin characters in the album "In Storm and 8tress," leads the society to hope that her majesty will graciously incline towards the promotion of the object in view. Berlin Tagblatt , ,. . , Born Growing from a Till man Head, An Interesting addition has just been made to the museum of the Hospital St Louis, in Paris, in the shape of a strong and solid born, which has been surgically removed from the head of a woman residing at Hyeres, in tbe Riviera. This appendage grew from the scalp, was twenty-one centimeters (eight Inches) long, and in appearance and con sistence resembles the horn of a goat This deformity is rare, but not so much to as is generally imagined. Cloquet, the eminent anatomist, records a case, and Demarquay has collected fifty-nine cases. Tbe late Sir Erasmus Wilson gives a very complete ac count of the deformity in the twenty-seventh volume of the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society." Out of ninety toses mentioned therein, forty-four were in females, thirty-nine in males and the sex of seven Is unrecorded. In The New York Medical Repository of 1820 is described tho case of a man from whose forehead grew a horn which had three branches, and was fourteen inches in circumference. These growths have their origin in a diseased seba ceous gland, and their treatment is removal. It is necessary to destroy all remains of the offending sebaceous gland, or recurrence may nappen. medical Journal. Lingering Superstitions. I am not superstitious," said a prominent ot. rnul gentleman the other day, "but I always pick up a pin when tho point is to ward me. It is an Infallible sign of good luck to me," It is surprising how many little superstitions of this kind are prevalent and how much intelligent people ar influenced by them. There is lady living on St An thony hill who would rather miss her monthly allowance of pin money than to tee the new moon over her left shoulder. It means four weeks of bad luck for her, and it never fails. In some of the southern towns tt Is a super stition that it means good luck to carry the bone of a negro's big toe in the rest pockot During the recent real estate boom in the northern part of this state young St Paul real estate dealer rushed around to theofflc of another real estate dealer who had come up from the tunny outh. "Lend me your nigger bone, quick," he gasped, as he entered the office of his southern friend. "What do yoa meanr wa tbe startled response. "I mean that I have just taken fly on some Ashland real estate, and I want to borrow the bone of a nigger' toe to brace me en." 8t Paul Globe. A Bade Awakening. They were on their way to th r hAtr she was tremulously happy. She felt that the words she so longed to hear would be spoken that night nd the idee, made her almost di try with delight -Jir. bampson," the said oftly. "why do you wear that bit of tring about your finger I" "Oh," repUed Mr. 8ampson, taking it off, "that wa to remind me of mv enraramnt with you to-night" It wasn t much, but it wa enouph to taka away the delightful dimness. New York Son. The Captive Balloosw There' is to b a mntin twii,. -t French centennial exhibition of 18S9 which will have Ue enormous capacity of 2,119,000 cubic feet It will ascend 8.2S0 feet and will carry 100 passenger at one. A PIIYSICIAFS FEES. wnw A FRONTIER DOCTOR RAN UP $11,000 IN TEN DAYS. A Strang Contagion Out In Montana A Form of th I'lague Thoocht te Have Coin from th Celestials A DI eovery. In th frontier town of Eagle, M. T., where 1 lire," remarked a traveler from the wt. Bwe hare Just had a strange contagion, Within a few days one-balf of the population found itself afflicted. The disease manifested Itself in the form of blue blotche on various ports of the body, tbe bonds, face and legs being most marked. Some said the discolora tion could he washed off, and other sold it couldn't There was but one doctor In town, and he soon bad almost everybody in the place under treatment You never in your life saw a doctor prosper as that man did. He charged enormous foes, which tbe people were glad enough to pay, for they were au very much frightened. The doctor pro nounced tbe outbreak blue mange, or a form of the plague, and said that unless it were skillfully bandied the most terrible result were sure to follow blood poisoning, decom- nosition. putrid tore and death. There wa no drug store in town, and he telegraphed to Helena for supply of the only medicine which, be said, had been found efficacious in such cases. Feuding tbe arrival of this tup ply he applied some tort of oil to the blue spots, and cautioned tbe patients against the use of water on the afflicted parts. Well, such excitement as we had in our town for a few days you never saw. Tbe doctor was tha one great man in the burg, Everybody wanted him, and the richest e cured bis services at great cost He was up fight and day. When the medicine came be said it was very expensive, and that be had been able to secure but a limited quantity. Consequently ho doled it out as sparingly as if I were gold, and charged at the rate of 10 bottle. "Nobody, however, experienced any evil ef fects from the scourge. Tlioro was uo pain, no itching, no discomfort of any sort Tbe doctor said that would all come quick enough if tbe people neglected to apply the proper treatment; that a peculiarity of tbe terrible scourge was that in its first Btagcs it was seem' iugly harmless. Some did have a burning sensation in the afflicted ports, but this did not appear in any case until sifter they bad been to the doctor for treatment And thus the days wore by, and it was only a question of week or so more when tbe doctor would have had all tbe money in tbe town. He bad been a poor devil without a patient, and li v ing from band to mouth, but now he fairly rolled in wealth. "Finally one of our citizens became o alarmed by the doctor's description of the ter rible results of the scourge that he posted off to Helena to seek further medical advice. During his absence the people rose in their might and drove all tbe Chinamen in town over the range, threatening their lives if they ever returned. This was done because the doctor bad expressed an opinion that tbe plague bad originally come from the celes tials, who must hare brought it from China, TOLD A 8THANOB 8 TORT. "In two or three days the stage came in from Helena and aboard was our citizen who hod gone to get medical advice. He imme diately called a meeting of the leading citi zens and told them a strange story. He said the so called scourge was no scourge at all; that we had all been duped; that the discol oration which had alarmed us so greatly was nothing but tbe stains of Prussian blue, and that the doctors at Helena had told him that our doctor must have gone about town se cretly dropping little bits of tbe dye here and there on the rail of the one billiard table in the town, on chairs in the saloon, on the counters and every place where people would oe nicely to get it upon their clothing or per son. More than this, stain of tbe blue had been found ou his coat, and doubtless we could all find similar stains ou close examina tion of our clothing. Prussiun blue, tbe He lena doctors had saUJ, was a diffusive sub stance, and it would be an easy matter for any one starting out systemat ically to place bits of it in such manner that every man in town would soon become marked with it Again, the oil which our doctor has applied to the discolored parts was common castor oil, put on probably for the purpose of fixing the color so it could not be easily washed off, while the wonderful medi cine which be hail procured from Helena at such great expense proved on analysis to be a mixture, 01 Kerosene on, water and red pep per. "With a howl of rage the meeting broke up and started, erery man on the run and with his revolver drawn, for the office of tbe doctor. But bo could not be found. During the previous night he had jumped tbe town, and by this time was prolably many a mile on bis way to the railway. A party of citi zens mounted their horses and started in pur suit but returned the next day without valuing oigni ot me lugiuve. or ten days that cute doctor, tired of trying to earn his living by practicing medicine in so healthy a Xown as Eaglo, hail bagged about $11,000 profit ou his investment of a dollar in Prus sian blue. And he got away with every cent ui iu cmcago ueroiu. Bernhardt as a Tigress. As erery human being is believed to bear some outwaid and characteristic resemblance to an animal, It did not astonish me the other night to hear the clerer analogy between Sarah Bernhardt and a royal tiger very sen sibly accounted for by a scientific man who bos made tbe woman a profound study. He says the tragedienne's natural disposition is Indicated as clear as print by the curve of her back, the excessire hollow at the waist line and tbe narrowness of the supple hips. She carries hersiflf with ell the art of her stage training, but no Bengal tigress erer stepped with more itnnnm mira ti.on M. u O " -. JU'-llUlilCT nal creature. Her temper and her passions are mm taMna mm l - -1 . , . . -"" uiuugu sue iraveiea in a cage, and the peculiar sween of thn -taw vhAM - - r - j - -bh juuia tne ear and the shape of the mouth suggest to the close student of natural history an ar dent power that is more curious than pleas ing. These are only a raw nimimi nntnfo t semblance, but the brilliant Sarah' history uiuiautawany moral one wmcn are strik ingly borne out aa thn V.Al-a ffn An T- -. , j wm. mv mau ler little to art that (be can never be judged bj ny ordinary tandard of conventionality. She is woman, aha ia a nwhar mnA of these day who know but our posterity uuijiuiij auune museum to catch glimpse of a new tneciM of tiirra tv,. - , - uo bar of the show I A lissome beast it is; tieak of who smau, nat neaa, irom which shine two tolendidly cruel and thi will be) 6arahl Return t w native state from which h. evolved in tbe nineteenth century to become --" ma emoooied caprice. Twa Eva Th When lt dry yon doat need your umbrMla, And lt then alway. easy to pot It; But when the ram pours you will seek rsin- muuumm ineoa always got it .... -Waahinsfct Cr Uo. AN ENGLISH STAQ HUNT. A Correspondent' Description, af w. May 11 Considered Tam, Amu Now, for tb information of such rlL t may not know what a ttag hunt ul on in England, is, let m endearor to aW on. I assume that everybody out of pTf" ha an idee what an actual star huni " be, But unless they taw M EnS bunt, or heard on described, it wouklh. C possible for the mind of man toeoocsh. idt of what an English (tag hunt was. t "sport" an English stag hunt is stiW? On the morning named for the huntirfj ally two or three time a week) th xiaHl assemble on horseback at the plac ,?) for the meet There is always a go emblage of swells; for stag huntlBn swell sport, as well as a national one do it person than tbe queen herself ownlnt Jf of stag bounds, consisting of forty eoupleit? largest pack in England. Th "tnarj.! this pack 1 the Earl of Coventry, who rl fifteen hundred a year a well at tbe honor A covered cart drawn by a stout hom come into tbe field where the gentlenwa i3 women are assembled and draws np near tt, "master," the only man in "pink," the otk member wearing dark cloth coat. cart is the "stag." At tbe hour ppointedfc, the bunt to begin the master gives theordh "uncart" Thereupon tbe "whips" proceed!! open the doors at the back of the cart tok out the deer. A novice generally expects fe ee a fiery, untamed animal, with flashinrra and snorting nostril, spring forth and d2 away at full speed. He is disappointed. Ti "stag" is either an old band, who knows frcn experience how much better he is where he, or a shy and shrinking animal, natonlb averse to showing himself in the prceno3 concourse of inimical people and a pact of dripping jowled dogs. In eithor cast fom has to be used to eject him. He is shouted it bustled, poked with sticks, dragged by the feet, tail and horns and tbe walls of ha cure prison hammered on all sides. . At last be is coaxed or dragged out , Bt looks about him knowingly and timidly m tries to Kueak back ; but the door of tbe 04 is quickljf closed and he is favored with a few more hoots and shoves. He catches 1 glimpso of tbo bounds and sees there is notk ingfor him but to take to his heels. His allowed ten minutes' "law," and then Ua "hunt" start in pursuit As soon as hi k found, overtaken and "run into by tb hounds, the day's "sport" is over. Thehoaudi are whipped and beaten off him, but not h fore be has had some rough usage in sundry rents in bis "velvet coat," and he is then p back iu the cart and kept for another no, Of course there are times when a stag rut away in grand style and shows fight to Us bounds, but I will leave it to anyone k knows to say if the above is not a fair pict ure of at least some of the stag bunts whict take place in England. London Cor. Arg naut 1 A Presidential Jump, Capt L. W. Dayton relates the following in regard to a presidential jump: "On tbe 18th day of April, 18C1, the Filli Pennsylvania regiment arrived in Washing, ton. On the day after the Fifth Msjsacbv etts arrived, and the two regiments ww Im mediately sent into camp near Four Mile Ron, three miles from Alexandria, Va., one mo ment on the north side of the runtndtbi other on the south side. On the 21st I wm ordered to take part of the company of prat dent's mounted guards and escort Mr.Lincoli, Secretary of War Camoron and Salmon P. Chase to the camps of the two regimenti Tbe roads were very dry, and the distil. guished party was covered with dust oa est arrival. The Fifth Pennsylvania was th first regiment visited. After stay of cm hour or so we all started on foot to visit Us Fifth Massachusetts, which was camped ct the other side of the rua Mr. Chaso and Sec retary Cameron started down the run to lad a narrow crossing. Mr. Lincoln made for tit run, and witb a jump crossed it I undertook to follow him, but alosl I could not hap iu enough and landed in the mud. Mr. Lumh was convulsed with laughter. I scramtM out as soou as possible, being in tbe meantim greeted with a hearty pjid genial 'Ha, to.' from the president, who added, 'Captain, Jt will bare to learn to jump better than that it you want to jump in the president's steps, " Washingon Hatchet Incident of the Orange Blob Every window rained bricks. Through I all the Seventh's men stood like rocksblocb of granite. The captains called out: 'Nov, men, no firing without orders. Compsnj readyl" A lieutenant sprang to the frontal B company and walled up and down befon those loaded and full cocked pieces, quietly saying, "Steady, boys," and pressing don with his sword every piece which shows) 1 tendency to rise above the proper alignmsV Then came tbe first and oidy pistol tVt fired at this point It was followed altmst immediately by the only shot fired by 1 Seventh man that day. Only one shot but it was so deliberately put where it would do the most good that it quieted the mob si effectually as a volley would have done. Tb pistol bullet whistled by an officer's ear. Turning to tbe men behind him, he asked: "Did any one of you see who fired that!" "Yes, I did, captain," said one. "It that fellow in tbe red shirt getting in tin window there." "Sure of the manP "Yes, sir." "Then shoot him." The soldier obeyed Orders. He took deliber ate aim and shot his man dead. Every oo near saw the shot Every one saw its effect It was an execution. There was no need of any more shooting. The firing ceased to front Tbe fighting was over.-New Ya Commercial Advertiser. A Subject For Reflection. A rural rpntleman whn wns recently smT gled for a few minutes into the Author cld was snmrlsed tn find a in-moral absence of th long hair, wild eyes, ancient linen and verdi gris which have been handed down by tradi tion as the belongings of those who go down to deathless ages in books. He said: "tT you ci ibbUn' feller looks, Jess like broken gentlemen I" He was informed that an effe and ieouoclastio civilization had long relegated wild eyes to cranks, introduced P to poets and discovered that long hairwJ not necessary to warm the few brains wbk the average magazine writer is supposed possess. But the sight staggered him. at said, "Yoa can't tell me. I've saw Dic0 n Tback'ry 'n Bullyer, u they looked nat'ral 'n queer. Look at ther books! Whirt yours I No, sir. Jeenyus is keerless. JeenyoJ doesn't scratch hisself allers for thongl Jeenyus doesn't keer a ding fer colW n blockin'. Jeenyn is bornin', P0" God forsaken' misribble, free lnncber, but gita thar. Whor's yor books!" Ther Indeed deep subject for reflection net- New York World. Could Not Violate the Bole. Reporter, interviewing rich man: . Yoa began life barefooted and worW for tl week, I believer "No, ir, I didn't" , Well, that will ban tn manvwaT. 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