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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1887)
THE Froofb GOOD OLD DAYS. That They Were Not Whll Thrf Are Bald to llft Hiwiii. Men ninety year old remember when there wore no steamboats, but nil trnvd on tlio water was Aunts by the slow uncurtain means of sailing vessels, when if ono started for New York it was doubtful if ho would reach there In n day or a week. Now wo know how ninny hour and minutes it requires to mako tlio triii. Men now sixty your old remember when there were no railroads, but nil travel on bind was dona by stages, by wagons, by ox teams, on horsclm nnd on foot. Now a network of rail roads covers the whole country, and several lines run from the Atlautio to tho I'aeilie Ocean. Now it require only six or seven days to cross (ho con tlnent. Formerly that trip required tlirro months. Men fifty yearn old remember when there were no photograph, but only paintings And drawing, made at great prices, of objects now dolio better in nn instant at trilling cost. Men of that ago also reini'inber wlinn no steamboat crossed tho ocean, nnd it was believed that they never could but now hundreds of steamships urn plowing every ocean, reducing tlio time of crossing tlio Atlantic from weeks to days. Men forty-live years old remember when thcro was no electric-plating, but every thing in that lino was donu in the old-fashioned, slow way. Men of that age also remember when there were no telegraphs, but all mes sages had to be sent by the slow-going mails. Men t went v-flvn years old remember when there were no telephones, but all the messages now spoken throu them hail to be sent by nolo or special messenger. All these grand and useful inventions have been made within the memory of men now living. J he younger gene ration can never appreciate (hem as those do who remember the want of them and therefore tho great convent ence they are to the world. We i.fien hear of "tlio good old days of ore. nhy deprivo our children of the enjoyment of those old days? Why not pass a law forbidding steam- boats from plowing tho waters, rail roads from running on land, telegraphs from sending messages, telephones Iroin being used, all furnaces, steam heaters, etc., to be taken out of the houses and other buildings, nil grates lor hurning coal to ho taken out, all stoves to bo melted for old iron, all water-works in cities to bo left empty, the use of all gas and other Illuminator-!, except dipped tallow candles, to lie discontinued, and really to go back to the "good old times," say for livo year. Then, if at midnight on aj cold, stormy night a doctor Is wanted, he must lie sent for instead of telephoning for lilui. If one wishes to send a mes sage to a distance, instead of telegraph, ing he must write a letter and send it by stages to a distant place and wait patiently for da) s or weeks for tho answer. When one goes home on a freezing night be can sit by a wood lire, roast ing on ono side while freezing on the other, and reading by the dim light of a tallow dip instead of the Maze of a gaslight or the more agreeable light of kerosene. If he undertakes a journey, Instead of getting iio cars and going where ho wishes, the best tiling ho can do Is to take a sin ;o at four times tho cost and ten tiiu.s the discomfort of the ears, Lettuce and other modern Improvements bo forbidden and tho "good old days" be brought back, how long would it be before an extra sos moii of the Legislature would bo tie inanded to knock the "good old days" into splinters, and to restore tho much better modern days which we now en joy, and for which wo ought to be most devoutly thankful? Uridjeiort Standard. VALUABLE EXPERIMENTS. Why Calve Should Not be Itaaroned Evan If Not Kd a Drop of Milk, Profs. Henry and Armsby, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, have been making a careful and elaborate series of experiments In stock feeding. Among others was one in raising 1(1 common calves picked up in the dairy districts, that would have been deaconed If thev had not been reserved for a bet ter purpose, and a butter making farmer, by examining tho facts in the case, can seo how lie can mako most money from his calves by raising them, without interfering with his regular dairy business. Prof. Henry gives us the facts covering four periods In the year and 1.I10 weight of tho growth in each and the cost of livo meat during each. The first period, embracing 14 weeks, prided with tho calves .weighing 4,41)1 pounds. Wt will suppose they cost each, or $.12. They wero fed (iS.SO worth of ground oats, com, wheat and barley, bran, shorts, bay, corn fodder. grass nnd pasture, together with 20,C lo pounds of thoroughly skimmed milk, if they were then Worth five cents on foot their value was $224.70. Deduct the cost of them at t2 each, and the value of tho grain and forage, and we liud f 115.1.1)0 remaining to pay for the milk, which would show it to bo worth VJ cents per 100 pounds. Take another view, that of charging the calves 23 cnts per 100 pounds of milk; add that to other costs, and wo liud there was fT.01 net profit in feeding each calf. Compute tho meat at four cents, ex penses the same, and we find them was THE WOMEN OF TURKEY. a net profit of ft. 21 01 each calf if 23 CARELESS FARMERS. lilnrti.nl. Ic NrKllKfiici) Which Would llwnkriii( Any Other llimlupmi. Capital In tools with which success fully to work a farm is no insignificant sum, and If they be well cared for, well housed and Intelligently handled it Will prove a prolitableinvcst incut, a joy and a satisfaction. Hut to the discred it of many of us as fanners (honored Willi the name sit least) as the season approaches when the implements are needed they are found where used the year previous. Farm tools of nil des criptions can be thus seen in many por tions of the country. On a place of less than line hundred acres which 1 passed last winter, the tools mentioned below cro noticed exposed to the elements and will be brought into use the present season: lieapcr, mower, wheel drag (new), wheel rake, plow (new), roller, potato coveivr and liiller combined, potato digger, corn cultivator, forty-tooth square drag and hay rack. The extra time, lalair and expense involved In getting those tools in run ning order for use will detract from tho satisfaction of farm life. And this Is only one of the fruitful sources of los and unpleasantness, tho result of neglect and mismanagement; others might be named, but wo are all familiar with them. No other business fol lowed by man could long survive the methods of the prodigal and slipshod farmer- proving beyond question that n calling that abundantly afford tho necessities ,if Ufu u,or iU., ndverso circumManees to so largo a class of the human race must bo one of profit, and nl one of the best Hut let us mend our ways, increase effort against wicked waste, to the end that our farm may le a plcvure to ourselves, models of thrift and neatness to those around lis. and a blessing to those who follow u.-Jrvinti D. VooL m A'. Y. Tributu. cents per liM) pounds m e charged for the skim-milk, and it would make the milk worth .07.0 cents per 100 pounds if no sum is assigned as profit for calf. Calves thus fed, it would seem, could hardly fail to be worth as much as fom ents per pound nn where, and more than that in Eastern cities. Let us take the calves at the end of the second period after 12 more weeks and we find tliev weighed 0,1.11) pounds, which, at. four cents per ioiiikI, would be(2I.V.. Deduct the actual cost, including milk at 2o cents per 100 pounds, and there is a profit of (7.64, or fl.HI per calf, or 05 cents per 100 pounds for all tho skim-milk fed in 20 weeks if wo call for a profit on no other food. From that time on no milk was fed, and we find the calves weighed at tho end of 12 weeks more, 7.K1 pounds, and at four cents per pound they would bo worth $.'104.84. Cost up to that time (249.21; net gain, .). (1.1 or f'l. 47 per calf. This compu tation allows 23 cents per 100 pounds or nil tho skim-milk eaten. At tho cud of six weeks more, tho calves weighed 8,137 pounds; which, at our ecu tit would mako them worth t:J2.V18; and it had cost $ 13. 10 to feed them fortius period. Adding all the osts, wo find them ff2!)2.37, leavlntr (3.1.11 or 2.07 per calf, net gain for eding 50 weeks. The lesson in' this Is, that tho time to have sold tho calves was at the end f tho second period, endine December 1st, or probably a little earlier in the fall; for it seems that absence of milk. and presence of cold wonthor, made me growm 01 tlio last 1H weeks cost I I. I. i more than the rnin would sell Keeping them 18 weeks in winter gnawed that much Into tho profit of keeping them 20 weeks during tho first nnd second periods. Tlio butter- making farmers will seo that the timo make money at calf-feeding is when tho calves are young, when they have milk, ami when tho weather is warm. The warmth they can give in winter nt small cost, if they have the young calves nml the milk. Tho "boss" les son is, "Don't 'deacon' tho calves, even If (hey are not fed a drop of milk." 1 have no doubt that feeding sweet whey instead of the sweet skini milk, would have made it show up ful ly half as valuable as tho milk. J. A. Smith, in llurul Sew Yorker. How Long Is a Woman Young? When does a woman cease to be young, or rather to be entitled to that epithet? This is tho delicate question which a French Prefect has undertaken to answer. Some years ngo a certain will left the sum of 10,(HK) francs, the interest of which was to be given annually to a young, unmarried woman of tho working clashes, who. by her capacity nnd good conduct, should be in a position to marry with the help of a little money, lu carrying out the will, it became necessary for tho Pre fect of the Seine to determine tho ex act significance of (ho words "young woman," and he has decided that they include the period between twenty-one and thirty. At thirty, then, an un married woman may bid adieu to youth and resign herself to be an old iuaid. This extremely ex-cathedra pronounce ment may win a feigned or forced as sent from the candidates for tho Har-bet-llatifol prize, as this kind of prix Monthyon is called, but it will meet with only contemptuous rejection from the sex at large, at least that portion of it which has passed tho fatal limit A woman is as young ns she looks, just as a man Is as young ns he feels and a really capable woman, is never thirty until she is forty- or married. Oregon Ant. Make all your hives and frames from one hive tit accurately Into an other, and j ou will thus be able, in future management, to get some benefit from the movable comb principle O'uii u Rule. "I say, my man, are those grapes fresh?" ()!,, j,,h; nefiuH picked." "Well, now, how about the chickens?" "Hem is scbust picked.too," 2Jarjxr'$ Uinuf, Tbef Art Neither Sentimental Nor Corrupt Itut Oterljr Fond of Sweats. The dress of tho women at home U not very elegant, nor docs it fit theni very well. It is usually a loose gar. inent mado of glossy calico in gaudy colors, tied around the waist with n cloth belt, and wadded and padded in winter like a mattress. Underneath they wear a kind of wido pantaloon fastened at the ankles. Un their feet they wear low shoes without heels or soles, made of yellow morocco. Their headgear consists of a kind of embroi dered calotte, around which is wound a atrip of very fine muslin, allowing one to see tho embroidery and the color of the cap. hen women belong to wealthy Turks, their ears, necks and lingers nre loaded with gold jewelry or precious stones. If their owners nre not very well off, their vanity does not give up its right, but it has to content itself with similar Jewelry mid paste diamonds. All of them stain their eye brows, powder their face with rice powder and coat their nails with a red dish substance, henne, makinr their li.'iiuls look like those of children that nave stuck their lingers into a can of preserves. Neither the rich nor the poor among Turkish women own watches; they do i.r-t know how to use them. Neverthe less, since commerce has been able to extend its influence to the harems even clockmaken have succeeded within re e-Mit years in irettini: their roods into tho haremliks of a few wealthy Pashas. ft is hardly necessary to say, however, dial tun lieaiitiiul inmates do not dsn them except as playthings. Tlio tires that the Turkish women wear when they go out is simple, uni lorm anil absolutely tree lrom caprices ;f fashion. Moreover, it is, with very little change, tho same to-day that it was a hundred years ago. It consists of a kind of simple cloak, without tucks, folds or ornaments, ami almost without any other seams than the hems. 1 Ins cloak, or fererfje, which is almost always of a light color, falls like a sack from the shoulders to the ankles, nnd conceals entirely the clothing under it. It is impossible to recognize a woman in this ungraceful sheath, which effaces every lino. Their veil, or yarhmtd; is mado of two muslin bauds more or less thick, one of which covers tho forehead, and the other the lower and upper part of tlio face as far ns tho eyes. Therefore, the only part of a Turkish woman's Tace that can bo seen is the pupils of 'he eyes, which roll between the two veils, nnd which, on this account, ex hibit a wonderful sweetness or a won derful brilliancy. It is noticeable that the young ami pretty inmates of harems usually wear veils much morn transparent than tho ugly and old. 1 have myself often nil in i red but very discreetly the marvelous beauty or' these terrestrial houris. The veil, floating like a thin vapor before their face, gave them a new charm, effacing aii the imperfections of feature nnd "lor. They smiled behind their while cloud, wi.ii n litilo provoking air, as if to tlnyik me for my admiration. The head-dress that tho young in Hii 'sz of the harems wear when thev go 011: ,-:?;,;!; of a small light ami graceful cap. whicn l..,!.!s tho edge; of the veil, and varies but little in tonu and color. Here again fashion, which has not been abb) to givo a month's tispito Jo tho hats of our Christian compaiilcnsims been ns powerless as elsewhere. The only victory that it has g'dned over tho toilet of the Turkish women, pertains to footwear. There, nw but few women of the lower classes that wear yellow Turkish slip pers on the street. Most of them im prison their little feet in graceful ami piito civilized slippers, and even in high Parisian shoes with pointed toes and high heels. The Turkish woman is neither senti i.'.cn'al nor corrdpt, neither passionate nor cold, neither good nor wicked; but she is a gourmand. She is fond of sugar-plums, comlitures, sherbet nnd especially tobacco, which she rolls into siender cigarettes, and tho smoke of which siu sivallows with delight. She is inquisitive, indiscreet, greedy for things that glitter rings, necklaces. bracelets and beads.- She is vain, but not coquettish. Indeed, of what use would coquetry bo to her? From the age of thirteen or fourteen she belongs to a husband, who is her master, or rather her owner, whom she obeys passively, whom she fears but does m,l love Vtmtiotit(iH. BAPTISM OF A BELL ACurlooa Ceremony Jtarmtly rarformed In au Old French City. An imposing ceremony took place on a recent Siriday in the Church SL Ouen, of tho baptism of a bell. Wo went early to securo good seats, but were far too late, hvery placo in tne center of the building from entranco to choir was so closely packed that there was no room for "just one more. 1 had to find our way around by the side entrance, and yet there were 110 seats, As wo could not think of standing lor three hours, we went across the "Place" to the house of an acquaintance and asked tho loan of two chairs, Armed with those we once more made our way through the crowd to a po.si lion whero wo could hearqiiito well, and when the time came for seeing we followed tho example of our devout neighbors and stood up on our chairs. Tho church was elaborately decoratei with tall palms nml beautiful flowers. as well as with rich gold-embroidered silk banners. Tho tall caudles about thu altar were burning with a soft, pure light, while tlio glorious sunshine pouring 111 tlirougli tin stained glass windows diffused over all their bright, harmonious light. Nothing so expres. sive, so real, as these marvelous pages of glass in which the old painters have been able to rival in brilliancy, vigor and onginnlity tho canvas of the best masters, I he largo bell was suspended by vout ropes just without the en trance to the choir, and the top was concealed by a mass of choice exotics, mid around it was tied a broad pink ribbon with (lowing ends. The godpar ents wero Madame Lafontl and Father Laurent. Chairs were placed for them beside the Archbishop's throne. J ho Archbishop olhciated and the bell received tho name of Marcello Julie. The music was line, a strong band uid- ing the grand organ, which is 0110 of the finest in Houen. The ceremony ended with a lavish distribution of sweets. Kach box contained quite ono pound. These sweets.called "dragees," art! of divers colors and nro what we call burnt almonds, the nut in some of them being replaced by liqueur. Tlio boxes wero pretty pale roso color, tied with ribbon, and 011 thu cover was the bell in gold, underneath tho name, nnd above tho Archbishop'- hat. The Church of Saint Ouen is unques tionably the finest in ltouen as well ns one of the most ancient Its erection covered a period of five hundred years. It is impossible to view it without be ing improssed by the grandeur of its proportions, tho harmony in the de tails, the purity of its lines. You can admire it from nil sides and in full light It stands in the middle of a large garden, it has suffered many vicissitudes. During the revolntlon ft was successively transformed into a museum, a hay loft and a manufactory of arms. It is this that has discolored the stones, giving it a smoky tint. Tim tatues that stood In niches 111 liio mas sive stone columns were taken down at this time and have never been replaced but stand along the walls. Against one of the columns near the western loor is a large marble basin of holy water. Looking into it you see re llectcd the vault of tho church in its whole extent ltouen Cor. Albany Ar 'US. AUTHENTIC FIGURES. Value of the I-rnillnij I unii I'roiluctt of the I'nitt'd HlHten. Prof. Wiley, Chemist of tho Depart ment of Agriculture, in an address be fore tho American Association for the Advancement of Science, from furores obtained from tho statistician of the lepartmcnt, placed our leading farm products nt $4,011,500,000 annually. I'lio itemized statement given below will show quantities and values: Imlinncorn l,0iKil.0oObu., wheat 4S0,(X),nii0bu, Oftlry (Milk, llulter and Chi-eso) . , Hay 4B,mN,KJ0tons. Ueef.x caliilrcs'd) 4.(Km.(ieo,iy 0 ii)9.. Pork (dressed).. IMVil,iii;0,oeO lbs.. "Hon a.l-Jti.OtXi.OOO lbs, I'oultry Products (Estimated)., iits (iHD.nm.mio bu. t'otuuies SOiyxM.uoobu. rruttg. Ve;;i'tiililes. Wool Mutton robiu'co . . . . Hurley live. u.'iir LihlNKesniynili) lliieiiwlieut.... Iv'ico li'Hli'V. tUv.svvux 8D.fi o.kii lbs.... rum.imo.ino ihs. ... 4s.'i,aiiuii) lbs 0MK.i-.Vl bu i5.nui.iliK bu 2:i.ii.o1 lbs 4."..iKi.,mo k,iU... l.'M".il bu lis,iii ,no His.... uH.101.rwi lbii.... l.noo lbs.... Oilier soil products, iccds, wine, etc JaT.oon.noo . 4-10.000,0110 sni.ooii.oiii) stio,oon,(inri SOO.OXI.OOO Siio.ioi.iino '.ViO.OOO.OIIO ki.imo.ixio ltw.oiiii.ono llKUOMO) MO.IOI.UKI 51,OOl),0(K) ivme.iM) 4.VO.M01 43.1) lO.nno , 14.0iKI.IKII) KVuKumo It.ivi.oiio , T.isn.ioi l.fMl.CO) 4.SKUK0 t('S.U4."i.l)0 The Young Man Waited. A West Virginia farmer and father, who was asked for his daughter in mar-i-iago by a young man in Whecliii". thought it over for awhile before reply- ng: "Sfoi-go, you'd better wait a few lays." "For why?" "Wall, as it is now I kin only civo Sarah a cow and a feather bed. Some fellers from New York nro looking at my hill to seo if there's coal there- some chaps from Cincinnati nre goin' w oore 111 tlio medder for natural o-iis and a party from Pittsburgh nre explor ing 'totlier hill niter iron. Guess PU wait and seo if 1 can't also buy her a kaliker dress and a pair of "calfskin shoes." Wall Street Sews. A great marble deposit has Wn found in Inyo County, Cal. The mar- tile is of superior quality, hard, solid and fire from flint A recent test re sulted In crushing an inch cube of tho Inyo marble at 20,900 pounds pressure. while Vermont marble was crushed at six thousand pounds and Italian mar ine nt ten thousand pound. The varieties are of almost every color known in marble. X. Y. Sun. , Total l.',H,iKi,iOl The Indian corn and half the hay produced may safely be relegated to the production of butchers' meat and fowls, other grains eaten being fully Millicient to cover export corn and that ,iscd as human food. This would leave ;lie value of the products of the coun try, other than butchers' meats, ntover u2.10,000,000. Comparisons will show ome interesting data, llecf, pork, mutton, dairy products and fowls con itituto about one-third of the total ralne of all products, and far mora :hau all the cereal grains hay, cotton, lice and tobacco. Again, our meat product nre worth more than all other agricultural product, except those just enumerated. Farm, Field and Stoekman. AMERICAN GYfSIES. I- a ai.rtllnr Htatxiuxnt Made by a Wall Pouted r rlend of tha Kara. That there are from. 1.000.000 to 2.000.000 Gypsies in America to-day au assertion I confidently make, based upon a quarter-century'a earnest study of, and more than three years' actual coniimnionshin with, this people in their homes and tents and upon the road: from careful Inquiries in all parts of the country Involving much corre spondence; from actual lists of Gypsy finiilies and heads of families in mv possession, and from most moderate computations made with these uii after careful scrutiny by reliable Gypsy chiefs has been secured. This is a start linz statement to thoughtful men. The Gypsv has been merely regarded ns romancer's bugaboo, or as only exist ing among us as an occasional strag gler among tho pleasant countrysides, Hut their presence and marvelous growth in numbers, must bo recognized, They will shortly comprise an minor taut factor 111 social, economic, nnd ethic consideration. How tho shy fol lows have come is no special marvel when known, llcforo tlio revolution several thousand were here. Durin that period ninny thousands more came ns impressed British soldiers, deserted and remained, or at tho close of the war mustered themselves out nnd merged into tho largo nucleus already formed. J hose wero tho pioneers which swiftly sent secret word to every part of the babitablo globe that Amen ca was tlio Gvpsy's heaven, ami to come to it without delay. Meanwhile every imaginable effort toward their extermination was going on 111 Kurope. Personal investigations assure mo that during the ten years subsequent to tho establish inent of the rural polico in Groat Britain, fully 0110 hundred thousand English. Scottish nnd Irish Gypsies fled from tlio "Move on, you Gypsy do"s!" of the mounted "bobbies to America. It is of the-disappearance of these that Borrow, sorely lamenting the down fall of tho Gypsyism he loved, but not realizing that its life and essence had been merely transferred from tho roads md lanes of Great Britain to inntimc- ubld welcoming country-side nooks of our own land, plaints in this wise: "alk from London to Carlisle, but neither road's side, nor on heath or common, will you seo a single Gypsy lent. No emigrant vessel has landed In our ports during tho bust hundred years without having brought ns bandsfam ines orindividualsof this trans-Atlantic hunted race. So that from Siberia to Ceylon, from Achil Head to Shanghai, tlieso tawny sons of tho Orient sly and cunning as foxes, secret and still as embodied silence, saturated to the soul s core with memories of persecu tion and dread, inconceivably different inn all other humans in motive. thought and life, rctainino- a s -i-t ongue as pure as when tho eighteen uraiies were mado by the myotic Vy asa liave quietly come among us, all unnoticed in the vast influx of foreign icoplos, until, ns Moorish and Arabian Charami, Traiisvlvatiiii.il Cvirnnis. lurkisli Jscliingenes, Hungarian Tzl- tnys, Italian Zingariu, German Zi- geuners, l rench Bohemians, Spanish iitanos, Portuguese Siganos. Holland- Dutch Hoydens, English, Scottish nnd Irish Gypsies, they now comprise a re united, rcblended people anion" us. hose remarkable fecundity and mate rial gainings must arrest serious atten tion along with other portentous phe nomena of our marvelous national de velopmentA'. L. Wakeman, in St. Louis Globe-Dcmoer id. The Dear Little Baby. "Ma." said tho baby at the supper table, "I know why this enko is called angel cake." -Do you?" replied the mother with out much interest. "Yes; it's because it's made bv nn angel. That's what pa told the cook." .v. r. Sutu A laborer in Vermont recently bought a lot of land which subsequent ly devclojed iuto a very rich marble quarry. His, was a hard lot. but it had iU couic:is;itlous National Weekly. COURT ETIQUETTE. TheQiiren'a Klclil Kt-irulHtlnns lu Regard 10 uivorred WomiMi, One of the papers recently announced that the Q iieen had sent a message to a lady who was divorced from her hus band a few years ago, but who was per- ny Dlanieless. and whoso position excited general sympathy, that her Maj- t was prepared to receive her at ourt. There is no truth in this state ment, fho rule that dn 'orced buliiw 111 not either attend or be presented at ourt is rigorously enforced. The Queen is exceedingly anxious to relax this regulation in cases where the bulv's onduet had been unexceptionable, but after the advice of the highest leal au- uirities had been taken (includiip' file late Lord Cairns and Lord Sclboruc), it as decided that it would be injudicious make any exceptions. A few rears ;o the most desneratu cfti iris vi!' ade in the highest quarters to pass a ell-known lady who had divorced her lirst husband under somewhat sensa tional circumstances, but they failed, to tne great discointitureof the lady, who, being badly instructed in such matters, had deemed herself so certain to re ceive the magical cards that she had not only ordered her dress, but had exhib ited it to many of her intimate friends. On the other hand, a lady who is judi cially separated from her husband is at liberty to go to court if the separation were brought about by his misconduct Lutulon Truth. . "vl. How Orlantal Nation. Mak n. I Known to ThHrSoS' The oldest way prbal)1 the ruler in a respectful wai! 10 crowd nnnears lw.f.,H .1. k J satrap on his day of ail( clothes, casts ashes nn t. . 7 " cries aloud ns ono man t. . i list co, specifying rtu, ticular cause of iu .ro.lt '.w sovereign who even when E 1 unless his own interests are u fueled, grants the pray,.r ,lf 'l1 tioners, more especially if tll "' r askingfor a life or two' t somebody in a public way, byut onco to strike terror and t Uto tho populace, is power which, to men who U i-.tensely willful and desir0Us 7 ducing great effects, is e .vlmw.ii.t tt'lw... rLe'Hl"? " " l" """HHltUlonl, , in its glory, a request for n,.V ' the Grand Vizier properly miuUTf great crowd was vimt ; fused. A city in petition iY usually obtains its ietition- 1 ins metiiou or ,iu might deserve praise but that ii or never applicable to a whole co0,, and that is of little uso if tho Boren--or his satrap is less than absolute '?i would not move a Home SecnJ much more than a deputation tt5 (I....... I. ,1 .!! .... . .' M " Ul" cAj'euieiii, oi (piituW vit( linn V.U.l'MH- I'Ul.MUl IOP titt tifc. men is iiiginy imprcssi vo mli matic. One of tlio Muscovite GrJ Dukes was, if we remember n replaced in that way on his throne, tlio people of Tver, his rival, nionm. arily successful, bo ng overawej i, the silenco which suddenly MKt his throne. The deserted city, yrta day so full of life, strikes nive hvi, desolateness, and the ruler, bt feeling boycotted, is put to excee.ru. inconvenience. The tlomonstration course, can not bo mistaken, moreover, must bo sincere, Asiatics liking a "camp-out" quite decent Londoners would. Tlnr not, it is true, afraid of the east triii or likely to be wetted through; buttle can not c.iok. they get water wiii much difficulty, they are nxpesed k tlio midday sun, and they dislike ceodingly the contaminations insepmv bio from a enmned-out crowd. -. it 1 1 . , . nicinoii, nowevcr, wouiu m seriov emergencies bo admirablo but fori defect If the ruler is a patient roa, ho sits still, and nothing comes oit demonstration, i lie people must n-1 turn to their dwelling! by nnd br.ui when they return, they are just when they were, except, perhaps, a little 1 crestfallen. Finally, there is fire-ni. ing. In Constantinople or Teheran,, wo believe, Pokin, when oppression ot I neglect becomes unbearable, fires 11 gin. Ad07.cn buildings nre burned evm I night, the circle of fire closing in on tin palace, until the sovereign is at k', iiroused, and tho grievance, wliateve: I it be, is, if removable, removed. Tbii 1 is a very striking method, and u been known to sue.ceed perfectly; kl I it has the drawback of a certain npt ness. Nobody knows exactly why tht I tires are kindled, or what will put fa i out nnd unless tho dismissal of Vir ior stops them, or the hanging oil few bakers, there is no reason wbj they should ever stop. Still, an Ori- ental sovereign who honestly wiintslo know what is "up" in his eapitil wb the tires begin, usually has the meant of knowing; audits tho fires imply volt in the innnodiato future, heoltei thinks it wise to bo in tructedsnd obey tho public wish. London Sped tor. A Mighty Bright Joke. 'Kight dollars nnd seventy-fiva cents for gas." exclaimed Jenkins, angrily. "J 11st think of it, Mrs. J. Eight seventy five." 3 "Oh, well, I wouldn't raise a fus about it" "Not raise a fuss about it! yu Wt expect a man to make lihtofa gas bill like that, do you?" "You might as well. I have never yet met success in making light of the gas." Merehant Traveler. modern walti U mU.i ..i. fashionable shamble" by a disaffected -The shiona obietrver. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. The Old Way of Working RoaiU Snpw seilitd by the Contract System. The annual gathering of fanners to work out their road tax with pick ani shovel "as tho law directs," touseU old phr.iso, is fast giving way even 11 the YV est to better methods and imple ments, hven the plow and dump scraper nre now being largely super seded by machine labor. And the con tract system, by which township trus tees form roads through linns owning machines, is now not rare. According to an Kastern paper the old way is no less objectionable in tho East, nnd in relation to the better way there says: The prevailing arguments against the contract system are that persons not owning real estate or personal prop erty are, of course, exempt from ttx tiou, aud consequently from road-working; under the old system they am as sessed one day at least, and must work or commute. And taxpayers, already burdened, it may be, object to the pJ inent in cash for labor which they c1 perform themselves without great in convenience. Here the objection to the old system may b mentioned, vim.: that labor on tho .highway is one thing. the farm another. Every one kno that as a rule, the day's" work on the road is "rut short at both end9; that boy's labor often counts as nian'j labor; that the roads are worked onco in the spring for all the year, n" at a time when such work may not be most needed; that the day is fcn nothing more nor less than a holiday If perfect roads are the desideratum, the old rystem fails to furnish theiu, only ia exceptional cases. The con tract system is more expensive untu the road-beds are once more put in good crder, then less money need be expended upon them. And yet u man values his time and labor at the low price of one dollar per day, the pense objection is largely overco"16 Where the contract system is 'l'u and once fairly tried it is not (tcn r iecteJ. i arn. Field and Sffldtlli