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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1887)
A PRACTICAL SYSTEM. THE BON MARCHE'S PLAN OF PRO FIT SHARING WITH EMPLOYE3.. Co-Oieratlon I'ractlcetl I'urlw (ireut Millinery mill Dry (iooiln rraille A lJuma for 111 IIomeleM" Division of the TrollU. Few Americans leave Parli without visiting tho Mngasiii Bon Alurchc. If liny nre not themselves uddielcd to I ho pleasures of hhop I iIiik tney are burdened willi commissions fifiin friends at Inline, ami it 1b mora llii.n ' likely that they will snatch ut least a half duy front tho attractions of gnllerii mi l churches to dovoto to thut great purudinu of millinery anil dry good. 'J ho Bon Mnrcho in one of the most distinguished of tho lift y French Ilium which share their tirollt with all who am employed In the business. Its founder, M, Douclcant, made it hi lilnliont aim to nssis'luto in his financial success all the work iwopla who hail united with him to ob tain it, "i)HH'ially those whoso caMiclties were not adequate for thu atliiiiinieiit of lucrative punts." Hi moo bis death in lt77 bin willow La dovelojiod with wisdom and gener unity ud Ln iilaiiH. All who uro interested In such effort, unda grout luimy who aro prompted only by an iille.curiosity, join the party of visitors, who, at 3 o cloc k Midi uf ternoon, aro led through tho grout buildings vt the Molson Uoucieant Following their courteous guide they enter thu (lacking department, a business in itself, from which got! are dispatched to every jart of the civilixol world; they examine the lieavy curtain and the illuminating appar atu of the room, where, by electric light, shade and colors can be exactly harmonized, and they visit the stable, shining with lieat mus, whom score of magnificent home are lodged like prince. A IIOHE rull THE HOMF.I.KhX. Far more distinctly interesting in tho home for tho homeletui girl ainuug tho employe which occupies a part of tho private Imi ding of Mine. Bouclcunt Walking through the lingo hull one cutcm Kli"lMW ' plousnnt, niry rooms, each with polished Moor, cur tained window uiid pretty furniture. Every ' room In arranged for onn occupant, niul Is'iirs thelniprem of her 'rsiinul tastes In photo graph, ornament or Honor. .Ail attractive parlor in provided with a piano, null fillet) book ease and gniueii. Hero these young women rccoivothcirfrloudsuud timet together for MX'iul evenings, rtieciul consideration for working women is Indicated again by tho arrangement of the dining room, which occupy ulinost un entire floor of the miiiu building, in providing lunch ami dinner for lt employes tho lion Mm'clie follows a 1'iiiisinn custom, mora or lts general, In reference to which wngi-s are adjusted; but it ran wifely be mid that no other iwlublishnient provided such delicate and nourishing food, while wage nro, ut hunt, ui high an In similar business houses, There are live dining rooms, largo, sunny and airy. One of these In not nurt to tho use of I lit) working girl, ami Ik more tasteful in It furnlHhlug. They are all comfortable unit scrupulously neat ami entirely frac from any odor of rooking. Tho appointments of the kitchen aro on un Immense wale : tiullons of soup ure simmering In brightly polished kettle on the enormous stoves, which daily roast 2,000 pouiidii of meat. Dozen of bus kola are already tilled with biiul, which un Ingenious little iimchiuo is slicing thin for the mlagt. Tho refrlgernloi-s aro well filled provision Htorin in themselves. Lunch con sist of meat with vegetables, followed by a dessert with a half liter of wino. At dinner, In udillliou to theMi courses, soup and Kiilud are oirered, 'l'heiv Ih ulwayH a elioico of liienU; on the duy of my visit I lie menu in cludetl roant Inff ami U'WihI hare. The Matsoii llniicicant tuakeM provision to Ratlhly mental craving un well an pujHical lliteds. A large rooirl In net apart to tho Use of the evening cIiihkc.1 Hero, on diuVrent even ingN of tho week, nro coui-wn In bookkeep ing, tho tnndet'ii InnguagcH, orchestral music ami clioriiH singing. t'oucerU lira given by thtue mush' I'liiKoeH, null tho ttitoistanco of well known urtLstn. KXKCUTIVg AX1 I.KII1H1.ATIVK. ' rioso to the elms i mm In tho renter of ex ecutive and leglklatito Kiwer, thoolllco wheiv Mmo. lloucicaiil incelntlio headHof tlcn1 menu ami tUicri.r employed nhoio hIio ban ftKinH'liited wlth her.self in actual purlnemhip. Each one of tlieiu mui a j(),IH)iiliiiit of I lie eapital. No one h is t out riltiiUtl mora than fJiMliki, and in soin iiistnnivH a single nlinie bvltiiigx to mveral ki-mous, though entered Uiitlei ouo name, mi iliut the lienellUof ixirt liei-shlp are exteudl to mora than IIK). Tliine working partueni in tho meiitiugM, nt which Mine, ilouclciuit presi.lrn, present their ro Htrt8 mill consult together for tho advantage of tho gli nt busincKii nhlch they diixs't. AUiut I.OiiDoinyloyeii, all those who lme wrved live yiain, U'long to the provident aoclety, through which prollt sharing U prac ticed. Tho exact onvntagii of tho prollt alloUed annually to thiswu icty Isun.letenniii ctl and caHilile of variulion from year to year. At the end of the commercial year of about fJl.lHW nan aid into it tromf ury, Tlumlinre of ivich purl irliaiit, nearly pivHirtioimt to tho amount of his wages, is not paid over annually, but capitalized to bis account, mi l drawn yearly interest lit the rate of 4 ier (vnt, IVsli payment imniide of the nun thin accumulated when tho owneii attain the (loth year of their age or the twentieth of their work for the house, u the ra.se of win i, the limit nro M yearn of ago or llfuvn of work. Tho luternvtation of theno eoiidilionn is very gencinus. llluesMaud iiuthoi ied nliue of tluiv mouths n iv not considered luiu terruptiou of work, In i xccptionul easeniif long McWiesn or disabling accident, un im mediate isivnient is ofU'ii made, ami when virticisiut illeN tho amount to his credit is given al outv to the surviving relative. A eciiil rule piovii'.in that u woman who marries and le.ivm the busincoii shall re ivive the whole aintiimt tlue to her, however ltmg she may have been employisl. The eiitliv capital of tho provident society niiioiinU at present to mora than l.tino.oiiij francx nearly f:ini,im. Jiuring the last year, however, Mine. Houcieant, ilKsatislltsl with the income which it yields to workmrn who hove giMwn old in service, has founded, by a s--omil gift of idsiut f l,H.a.i,(Hl, a stviety of ret nut, nlii, li provides for the same imlividu ol, ini.lcr equivalent isn.lition, but mltlsto the little capital thus secured ait animal pen ion of Irom CI'"1 to fcliM. lloston Uenild. Y mi ii if Wuinru la College. A writer In The I'opulur Science Monthly nys college work is by no means injurious to femulo students. Young women in college ara lu far better heulth than young wometi in n-iety.aiv healthier as sciiiortlMntliey were as fi-w-hiuen. und averaga fewer cuses of ill liewi than are sliown iu tm n'sisill.-isj, while etatistics show that they enjoy a sum Utal of twenty -r ivut. Utt. r" health, than the aver age woman. Vitiligo 1 uiies. An Kurllenl frr,l futtcr. A Hu -Is eoimt v farmer, who sent 1 10 to a riiil-iil.'.piiia a ldivs in aiiiwrr to an adver. t ni. i:l of the tluest font cutter ill America, levvjvcd iu return a set of false teeth. LOVE'S DESERTED PALACE. Iteftard It well, tli yet a lordly plane, J 1'slatss of lore, onra wanned with saored fires. And loud from entl to taA with Joy of lyres, Fracnuit with lacriiso, with Rrmt Htchissbliija. Tlic lues are dead aun ili-al the fi-slal rays; !o more the music marries keen tlcttlres, No more tlie Incense of the sliriun aspires. And of love's godhead there Is now uo trace. Yet If mie walked at night through those d'm halls Mlcht It. not chance tliat ghostly slinpes woul J rise, Auil glitMtly lights glide glimmering down tho nails, That there mlcjit lie a stir, a sound of sighs, Anil gentle volct-s nnsivering gentle calls. Aud gentle minderhig wrnltlis of melodies; Philip Ilourke Murston. TRAINING HANDS AND HEAD. n'hat is He lug Accomplished Among tho Youths of Hampton Institute, These negro and Indian youths rome with no good background to exercise Ita uncon scions but most potent Influence iu shnfiing their lives rolher the reverse Is true. This whole life must Iss reformatory, an uplifting out nf dark and undesirable conditions mid tendencies. There must lie reform, not for conscious misdoing, but for circumstanciiig, of misfortune, and not of fault. Gen. Arm strong's pupils are up at :')) In the morning, put iu ten solid bourn of work, manual and with liooks, and go to bed at Q;'M. Each hour tins IU duty, its occupation, or it responsi bility and the vast machine i distinctly a gucci.'ss. As the negroes and Indians work side by side on the farm and iu the shops their natural .trnits aro conspicuously illustrated. The Indian Is the quicker, tho more agile on a spurt; but his black brother ha vastly mora staying power. The Indian has tho moro able and nimble legs, but the negro Is tatter develojs?d iu the rhet and arms all lsrauo of very obvious reasons. Oen. Armstrong says his liest student nro thoso who work all dny and have only two hours for study nt night. The same thing made manhood more robust iu Ihn line tyie of men who worked their way through collego and are to-day rather impatient that all boys are not put to the school of adversity which they remember with pride. Work and an atmosphere of moral rellno- ment nre dofitg much for these picked reprtv seutntlves of the rod ami black, and it U in teresting to discover that tho duy scholars those who live outside the institution do not urn out so well. One sldo of their life let them down loo much. The home farm employs thirteen students all day, with a retail of forty-live who aver age one and a half days a week; it product are ten acres of early ieas, ten of Irish nnta. ttan, ninety of sweet potables, flftocn of oats, two of cabbage and onions, two of spinach ami kale; forty-four acres nro seeded to clover, Pill to corn fodder, forty-six to rye, aud 110 acres nro tinder cultivation in garden ami orchard. Tho Hemenway farm, nliout five in ii n distant, has acres lu corn, forty three In wheat, NX! iu oats, eighty In clover and 200 in pasture. Tho Huntington Industrial works sawmill and woihI working shop whore Ifi.OOO.OtX) feet of pine, poplar and oak, brought iu rafts through the canal of the Dismal swamp from tlw forests of North Cnroliua and Virginia, have lieen wot ked up in the year; the depart menff of household work, the caring for this great family of 000, which offers a field for training that housewives will appreciate; the Iressnmking nnd tailoring departments, where uniforms, dresses nnd shirts are made; tho printing olllce ami bindery, which has cn-ntcd a demand for colored printers that cannot ls supplied ami where four years nre required for mastering the art of bookmnking; the knitting room with its I.s.mh knitters, that afford menus of self upiort, and (stimulate tho quickness Hint pleco work al ways begets; the engineer's denrtmpiit, the Indian train ing shops, eight iu nil, giving instructions in as mnny trades wood working, carving, caricntering, hnrness making, sliocmaking, tin-initliuiK, painting ami blncksmitiiing, the greenhouse nnd the garden thesu all nttrnet arid instruct tho visitor. Cor. Springlleld Republican. f Anglomania In I HO J. Tho aiigloinaniiic of tho present day can turn to the curious pages of last century's nowspnsr and learn that the mania which has seized him is nf venerable origin and flourished in New York several generations n;;o. "Tommy t'lod," In a New York lie wo paper of ISO'.', contributes a receipt for milk ing young bucks, from which we give a few excerpts: "When you ai f fatigued with walk ing you may slip into Hrvden's, or Evan's, and every genteel poi-sou you may meet may aceoht you with 'damme, sir, tho weather's hot,' etc. 'A gentleman can got no accom modation In this town. London is the place, siri'tuirl if you should get over a bottle of wine, you can talk aliout places which you never saw ami circumstances t lint never luii onril; and if ynu tell a few lies it is not of much consequence, aud will only tend to convince the person that you have a very rertilo Imagination. It will bo tiivessnrv. U'forayon tall; nliout Innuloii, Paris or other populous cities to get acquainted with the principal streets, which you can easily do by going to any of the stores ami jierusiiig for live minute the necessary books. You must learn tho mast fashionable oaths, ami every now and then, whenever you can llml an opportunity, blend them with your con versation, for nothing adds so much to a man of constspiencensafewof these pronounced with a proper emphasis." Tho Argonaut. Will Hooks IMsiippciir? "Will the coming man read books!" is the startling question that Henry Holt, one of tho Icatling book publishers uf tho land, pro- ixmuiis in i ho nter. Ho is led to it by re flection on the fact that there has been a re. narliiiblo falling oh ju the sales of bound volumes in the Inst ten years, "In novels, xmih, travels, ikiivs, histories, hioirm- phies," he says, "tho publisher llntl that they can, as u rule, place but aUmt ontv third as many copies of a new bound book ns they could ten veal's ago." The query conies, if the snlo diminishes one-third in ten years, how long nill It take for extinction Surely hero is f,md for moot serious rellectiim. Was thereover such a soeiologlo revolution in tho history of tho civilized world as this w ill lie if it culminates in the di.sapHarautv of the Issik I For the book has Ihvii the chief factor luthe history of the world's mind, tho library has Ikvii the most xitent element for gotsl in the life of the home, nnd the Imok writer tho nm-t revered and most influential of man kind. If, ns Mr Holt .believes, the change is largely due to the grcot development of liews paiviN and isriislicals, then, iudwl, is the revolution essential and comnlete. "Will the ivaiiing man rend looks!" l'ubltc Opinion. Trarhlng a Horse to Walk 1-nnt. A lazy horse can Iwiaught to walk fast by driving linn alone and continually urging him to move ns dtired. Any particular word, promptly utteml every time the whip Is applied, mil soon give him to uuderst'iud what is reqtiiivd. A systematic course tf lcs vnal khort intervals must ls given iu oih r to kuiwisl. --Chicago Timtsi. The s-iflo perm fivm which whooping rough is develod U UlleTed to exist iu tue Uiutusrxjiectolttted. EASILY INTERVIEWED. STRATEGY USED BY A REPORTER TO APPROACH CONKLING. Hen nutler Said to He the Most Satis factory Interviewed la the Country. Henry Ward Hee'cuer's Klniloesi to the Ileportcr. There aro tome men in public life who have the reputation of being non interview ablo. Iloscoe Conkling used to be so classi fied when he won in tho senate. Knowing that to be the case, I thought I would try my luck with him. It was on a train going west from Harrisburg, Fa., to tho great Chicago convention of '80, which was to, but did not, nominate Grant for a third term. Conkling bail a special car all to. himself. It wits guarded at each end by stout colored porters, with orders to let no one in. Mr. Arthur (afterward president) and Mr. James (after ward postmaster general) were the only men In tho car with the great man. To one of the colored sentinels on the car platform I went and said: "Can I see Mr. Conkling?" "No, nu," said the tiortcr, "ho gave petlcklor or ders to let nobody in." "Ah," mid I, "but he didn't know 1 was on tho train just give him this card, please." This and a quarter no colored car porter can resist a quarter car ried ury card to the great man. On the card I had written: "Grant dele gate to Chicago" which was a bit of strate gic fiction. It did the business. I was called In, shaken by the band, nnd invited to eat fruit, while the Imperial senator from tho imcrlal state posted me all up on tho prosjiecteof Grant, a ho viewed them. ben he got thi-ough I said: "Our friends in Boston would lie de lighted to know how confident you feel, Mr. Renntor have you any objection to Ve quoted in a newspaper dispatch?" "Not the In.vst," he replied, for by this time be was off his dignity and almost as human as Mr. Clovelnnd. And so I succeeded in standing up the haughty nmu for an interview, which was sent on to Boston as fast ns a badly jolt lug train would permit mo to scratch it off. In this raso it is certain that the sight of a note book nt tho outset, or even an admission that. I ditsired an interview for a pajier, would liavo prevented my talking with him at all. (.ev. linXJAMItt F. Bt;TI.EIU Gen. Benjamin F. Butler I regard ns, on tho whole, tho most satisfactory interviewee in the country. Ho, too, has tho reputation of being tlifllfttlt of access. It is not true in tho sense of his lieing lofty or inqieisious, a la Conkling. Undo Ben is one of tho most gonial gentlemen In the United States to newspaper men who "use him squnro" nnd don't abuse his confidence. But woe lietide tho Interviewer who undertakes to publish a confidential talk, which ho has agreed not to tiso, and then go near Uncle Ben for another favor. IIo will not get It, but ho may get a largo piece of Uncle Ben's mind. First and Inst tho general has given me probably a dozen or more interviews, and they were very easily taken. TI.e general does all the work for you himself. IIo frames the questions and answers both, dons It nt an easy juice, so that it mn 1hj taken down without straining your stenographic powers, nnd never f nils to give you a readable, entertaining column or two columns, or whatever length he maf talk to. I have beard It said that Undo Ben draws tho line at interviewers connected with pniers opposed to him, but I don't Itclieve It. In my own case 1 liegun reporting oii a Dem ocratic piiT when ho was a Republican and passed to the staff of a Republican paior when be lscnnio a Democrat, but always found a warm welcome ut his house or his olllce, aud an interview if bo felt liko giving one. IlKNltV WAUn tlEECHKH. The only other man who ever conducted an Interview afU.r Butler's method, in my ex jierience, was the late Henry Ward Beecher At tho time of his controversy over ths doo trims of overhtsting punishment, somewhere nlsiut tho fall of 1HT7, my friend Mnj. Pond gave me an introduction to Mr. Beecher for the piirpoM of trying to get an interview out of him in answer to tho attacks of Dr. Storrs aud others. Itwusnt Music hall, one even ing after a lecture. "Come round to the Evans bouse in tho morning and go with me toward Dover, N. H., where I lecture to-nior-row night, and I'll talk for you," said the famous preacher. Depend tiKiu it I was thoro. Working on a sixth rate daily at a slim salary, a talk with Beecher that would sell readily for f 50, or even f 100, was not to be sneezed at. Well, I went and met the great mnn, ami together we boarded tho train for Dover. As soon as we started, Mr. Beecher said: "Now, sir, if you nro ready." I thought ho meant mo to flro away with a nuostion. But hn slopjied me right off. "You write bbort bandf" "Yes," said I. "All right; then please put this qnintlon" and Mr. Beecher proceeded, exoctly as Gen. Butler docs, to put his own questions and answer them, until he hail reeled off two columns and a half of The Now York Herald, to which great piqior I sent the interview. I remember the During headline was "Beecher on Hell," but I remem ber with still moro joy tho two handsome figures in tho left hand corner of The Her ald's check. James W. Clarke lu Tho Writer. Saved the Notes. A doctor named Francois earned a hundred francs the other day and had a good deal of fun into the bnrgaiu. A lady's pet dog swal lowed it bank noto of the value of 1,000 francs It was such nn accident as has bapiH-ned lie fore in the world's history, und it has usually resulted, when the amount lost was largo, in the immediate death of tho dog. lu this enso tho lady would have sacrilltvd tho luink note rather than the innocent pdp, so she set out nt once for tho ofllce of her family physician, Dr. Francois. The doctor was ut ilrst amused ami then puzzled. The lady was sure the dog hail not chewed the note nil to pieces, ami she offered the physician 10 per cenif he should save it Ho would have done bis liest to please a client ami so he tried the only remedy that soonied to olTor hope. Doggy was placed iu a chair and a pun was put in front of binu Then the physician administered an emetic. The dog took a whole glassful without protest and without effect, while his mistress slots! by anxiously. After that the dog seemed dis inclined to swallow more, but a litllo was forced down his throat uutl then tho smell of the dose lioriime so disngiwableihat what had Uvn taken iefdi!y appeared and, happy to relnte, the thousand frunc noto included. It was intact and only needed a patient dry ing. Doggy recovered iu half a hour. Puris Cor. Philadelphia Times. The Intelligent Compositor. Ah I what's thisT exclaimed the intelligent compositor. " "Sermons in stones, Uxika in Uw running brooks f That can't lie right. I have it! He menus 'Sermons in liooks. stones In the running brooks.' That's sense." And that is bow the writer found it. And yet be was not happy. Boston Transcript. The total number of railroad accidents In Germany last year was 2,l7i Tho number of pen-sons, killed or died within twenty-four hours after the accidout at 47tk THE OLD BOOKS. Deep to the past I peer and see A child upon the nursery floor, Holding a liook upon his knee. Who asks, like Oliver, for mora. The number of his years Is IV, A.nd yot in letters hath he skill. How deep he dived In fairy" lore! The hooka I loved, I love them atllL rin. irlft Die fairies eave me three They commonly bestowed of yore The love of books, the golden key That opens the enchanted door; " lichlnd It i;luelieard lurks, and o'er nd o'er doth Jock his plants kill, And there Is all Aladdin's store: The books i loved, I love them still. Tnlte all, hut leave my books to mo I Those lieavy creels of old wo lave Wo find not now, nor wander free, Nor wear the heart that once we wore. Not now eoch rivnr seems to poc" ;n ivnior from the Muse's hill: Thou,'li something's gone from stream and shore, The hooks I loved, I love them still. Andrew Lang. MILLIONS OF CORKSCREWS. Enough Made in 1880 to Upon Way Arounil the filobe Novelties. There Is one firm in Nowark that beats the world at making nnd selling corkscrews. In round numbers there wore 150,300,000 cork screws made by this one firm last year, or corkscrews enough for nearly every voter on the globe. If tho corkscrews, which average threo Inches in length, that were mndo during the year 180 could bavo been luiJ length to length, they would have reached from Now York to Hnn Francisco, and then spanned tho broad Pacific nnd touched the shores of Japan. That will give somo idea of the number. But this was only one firm, although the largest, It'is true. Could all the corkscrews matlo last year bo known, there must hnve beerl enough manufactured to supply nearly every man, woman and child on this mundano sphere with ono. To mtiko tho 150,000,000, required Boventy-five men, simply for tho twisting of the screws, to say nothing of tho making of the wooden nnd other stylo of handles. They worked steadily tbo year round nt it. Ono would hardly think that moro than threo or four varieties were required, but there nro about forty on tbo market. They include tho ring handle, steel wire screws for demijohns nnd large bottles; tho double ring, handily incased pocket screw; tbo folding screw and the broad wire handle screw. Sonio tinio ago nn icepick nnd a cigar box opener was inndo with a screw concealed in tlio steel tulie handle. Tho tulio can bo slipped off anil the ice pick forms the handle of tho screw. Another novelty bos a brush in tho handle, so that tho colored waiter is not obliged to run his fingers around tho in side of the neck of a wino liotl lo to remove the particles of cork und dust. For chum pague bottlcti n screw is inailo with a blade in nun end of tho bandlo to cut tho twine around tho cork. Another bnndlo con tains both tho knifo and brush on tho hnndle. Tho power corkscrew is nn ingenious nr raugement which saves the knees aud arms from n tusslo with on obstinate nnd fractious cork. A couo of steel lits over tho neck, ot the Initio, aud tho screw draws the cork while the cone presses on the bottle. In addition to his corkscrew patents, an inventive man amused himself by twisting up wire in almost every conceivalilo shaiie, thereby supplying tho five cent counters with novelties nnd himself with comfortab'e in come, in addition to that previously made by His ingenious faculties. The spiral thumb screw, which can bo pushed into a board nnd easily removed, after serving ns a teuqiorary bat nick, is one of bis inventions. It is only a piece of twisted wire. Spiral paper liooks, wall books, bat and coat racks, spiral picture nails, spiral carpet tacks nnd stair buttons, card susiienders ami holder, bill fill's, soap holders, pickle forks, tonst'iig nnd vegctablo s"orksard shoe button liooks lire his inven tions. Cor. Chicago Tribune. Wbn t it Mugnzlne Mini Says. "What, kind of literature is most likely to meet acceptance?" 'Short stories nnd poems. Women nro far moro successful in writing these than men. They are hotter equipped to meet tbo demands of thon;:e. Most, stories sent to the magazines by men embody some attempt nto plot. Now, almost every conceivable plot 1ms been in vented, and it is nlmost a miracle when anything strikingly original comes to us. Women, on tho other band, nre more npt to employ situations which admit of a portrayal of Rtibtlo shades of feeling. Theso are the successful story writers of the present day. In poems the same holds good. Men write poems of description and action, women of imssiou nnd feeling." 'How nro articles and Btories paid for by periodicals!" "Well, tho best of them have nn established rnte, generally $10 per 1,000 words. Of course this is not an inflexible rule. Some esjiecinlly good articles nre paid special prices. For ex ample, wo have paid as high as $1,000 for a live page poem. Stories generally run from $100 to $:.Vi). Tho prices flnctnnto a great ileal. Much doieiids upon the reputation of the author. A mnn liko Diet Harte or a, woman like Constance Fennimore Woolson can make demands which others timid not. Generally speaking young writers bavea poor chance to make a living from the magazines." New York Letter. Dead Indians' Debts. "The debts of dead Indians lira paid by their relatives," said nn ex-moivlmnt on Main street the other day. "When Anderson nnd Barn hart," he continued, "killed the Indian several years ago, ho owed mo f:;45. Since that time $:!o0 of this amount has lieen paid mo by bis relatives. Kentucky died the other day owing mo nlmut $50. Already his relatives iiive approached me on the subject nnd made arrangements to pay the amount. It is n law with them to pay the debts of their dead rel ntives, anil they never break it. I am sure of getting my money if an Indian dies owing inc, but when a white man dies leaving no property, no matter bow rich his relatives, I never expect to get a cent. There is a great deal ot good nhoutadend Indian anyhow," said the ex-merchant, as lie closed his interest ing conversation ami walked away. East Oivgonian. Tbo Chicago Ctrl' IVt Ouths. A Chicago girl would never make use of that maudlin expletive ".Mercy;" As we 'figure it "morcx" belongs strict !y to the list of Ynnfcee expletives, the same ns "sake alive," "g.isli all hemlock," "gowhillikeiis," ami "jiminy t'liris'mns." A Chicago girl would sooner think of swiaring - ls ct.kis Mode." or "be swete Kanet Anne,'" or "ls the sevven ttivelsof Col. iie." When a Chiin.ro girl indulges iu emphasis (and this is seldom) site explodes a "great Scott." or calls on heaven or earth to witness i:i the, inline ot "the Kind of the Great Sugar Cured Ham!" Chicago News. It Was it t'avnrlt. "We will ising'tlio three hundred and I r cut v-iiinth hymn," tsiid the minister at the ilo-s'of a pit hetic funeral sermon. "It wa f.ivorite mtb tho remains." Sioix City Call. "(loUnioiiehcs" is tin name given to scan dal kivt-i j iu Dig'nudj THE CITY DIRECTORY. HOW THE WORK OF. GATHERING NAMES IS ACCOMPLISHED. Instructions to Cunv.er Finished In ' Three Iton-nard Work and HmM Tay-Soroe of the Dlffleultles Encount ered The Compilation. "I have worked for the New York City Directory on four canvasses," said a man of middle sge to a reporter, "and have also done similar work in Boston, Philadelphia and Bal timore. About the third week of April of each year vou will for several days In succession see nn advertisement In the different newspuiiers to the effect that men aro wanted to canvass for the City Directory. The requirements are clear round jiemninsliip, a neat personal ap pearance, (jnd a good reference. This year nearly 600 replies were received to the adver tisement Some years, when more men nre Idle, the number runs up as high as 1,200. From these replies, about 300 of the liest penned are selected, and a Hisinl card is sent to each of their writers, making nn appoint ment with the applicant. "Well, after the SJO postal cards have been sent out nliout 2X5 men will respond in person. When they cull at the office they will learn the terms upon which they will lie employed. In this city these trms are as follows: Nine hours to constitute a day's work, with ono hour for dinner. The minimum amount of work that will be accepted for a day is 175 names. A man who cannot bring in that number Is not wanted at any price. The pay promised varies from 11.50 to f2 a duy, ac cording to the number of names returned and the correctness and neatness of the work done. Ten per cent is paid on all advertise ment orders procured, but this amounts to so little with a common canvasser that it is not to betaken into account when calculating what amount be will receive at the end of tbo week. If tho applicant accepts these terms ho signs his tianio to thorn, and ho then get! a card upon which a day nnd hour ure noted when bo must present himself at the ofllcofor instructions. "Theso instructions are of the simplest nothing but writing mimes just the same as you sco them in the printed directory and yet you would be surprised nt tho great num ber of.bluuders that aro made by the men at irst Tho instructions are finished lu three lessons, when experiments are made with tbo puraphcrnulia the cun vasser lias to carry w ith liiin. These consist of a small bottle of ink. with n sponge in it, a pen holder nnd pen, a book of slips about two inches and a half by six inches in measurement and 200 in number, a metal budge with a number on it and a card oir which the information desired nt houses for niiincs for the directory is printed in Ger man and Italian. In most cities Chinamen's names nro taken tho same as anybody else's, but iu New York tho Mongolian laundrymvn are utterly ignored by the directory. "Iustiiictions lieing concluded, the men are told to report for duty on the flint or second day, according to circumstances, after May 1. At 7:o0 o'clock on tho morning designated a long ligwiil form outside, tho building and take Iheirtum at tbo desk, where they re ceivo two ImjoIis of slips 100 in all pens, ad vertisement blanks, ink and shields. These latter must bo worn conspicuously on the lnjiel of the coat, under penalty ot discharge for non-compliance; and during tho canvass, as far as the ofiico is concerned, tbo canvas ser loes bis identity by nnino as completely ns a convict, in Sing King does, and is known only by the number borne on his shield. Thus equlppsd and having been assigned to a district, tho men scatter to all parts of tho city. By this timo tho original number, through different causes, has dwindled down to about 225 men. When the district to lie canvassed is very distant from tbeollleo car faro is furnished, "Once on the ground the fun begins, nnd tho work, too, for I tell you it it tho hardest work, this directory cnavassing, n man ever undertook for tho small pay received. Not 15 per cent of tho whole number earn the higher, (3, and to go up nnd down stairs for nino hours on a stretch for $1.50 is what 1 call pretty bard lines, and a man must be hard pushed when ho accepts such work. Many fall by tho wayside after tho Mint day's experience. Why, then, do I try it year after year, do you ask? Well, I'm an old canvasser nnd I get better terms, not for the canvass for names which I am describing to you, but I stnrt in for 'ads' alone two months before the May canvass, and at this I inaku 3 and $10 a day; but I have to promise to stay by the directory peoplo through the wholo canvass. I stick at the work because I like it, and becauso it pays.. 'When I have dono the Business Directory and the City Directory of one city I go to another aud an other, and so on. In this way I mako n round or circuit each year, and Uoep busy ull tho timo. "The New York city canvass has just been completed this week that is, all tho names uroin;so lot's sco what are done with tho 210,000 names which will be In tho directory of this year. Each name is on a separate slip of paper. As soon as a man has completed a district, tho names be has brouirht in mn S comiiared with tho names obtained in the same district lr st year. Of course, grout many changes nre noted in this comiiarison. Where a name is found on last year's cauvass that does not appear on that of this year, the question is asked, 'Wbyf Such, names nre written on slips in tho olllce and marked D. Each such slip is given toa man, who is sent to the address given last year to ascertain why the name is not turned in this year. It may bo found that tho person it belonged to is dead or has moved away, in which case it is dropped; or it may be it was missed through the neg'ect of the canvasser to get it this year; or those at tho address given may for some renson have refused to furnLsh it to the canvasser. The.ro is a large floating popu lation, such as is to lie found on tho east side, in tho Bowery lodging bouses and in hotols, which it is imiKissible to keep track of. But such missing names must be 'hunted out of town,' as the expression is; in other words, they must bo accounted for absolutely in someway. This oivration or procedure is called 'dispatching,' and is of importance. "The next step is the compilation arrang ing the names in alphabetical order. I nm at work at this now. It is the most tedious work imaginable. It has to be done with the utmost enre, list a name get so far out of its proiier place as to be missed by one looking for it, a. ul so Weat the first principle of merit in a directoiy, jiositive accuracy; and yet it li:.s to be done with great rupidity. This phase of the work is curried on bv relief gangs of men, without intermission." night mid day, till completed. These 2W,0U0 slijis nre then pasted on stiff piper, and in sheeuj of fifteen or twenty noim-si, or slijis, go to the compositor. His work completed, the book binder puts his art at work, and when he is done the book is ready." New York Sun, No; Grttlns Well 1'altl 1 Hard est. Young Author (to editof,-Gtting a pub Usher, 1 nave hoard, is the most difficult thing in authorship. Editor I don't think o. Author Ah, you encourage me. then, U the most difficult! Editor Getting readers. WTiat, LESBOS. ' I think bow lone the held it with . (Uer jealous lyre complainto? I Dust thick on everything, Forgetting it and Phaon aoa thj J'S With thmiA BTA mvmm . To lose their tear. ktolllw, W,, Fl 0D ' Precious gmmCTi .N "" -'" sue murmur "Some Jewel that will mm Than withering leaves of lT?'- At least, I think, some lovidi,,''', "Than any woman wear u, ,'kH So, years ero that deep glass'.hi . With s:r lost look bad ZR Bo mused, I fancy, the most oven,ii? Of women who have over ..... . ono I -"" esiti -Borah M. ft s AT THE LIMEKILN CLUB. A List of Itule ItncomnieniUa u ber-.l IhiMtluiluB In view of the rocent disastrous and roiiflngrntions in different lecud country, Uie committee on pemui and non-Injury have recoinmend.7,1'" lowing rules to memliers of the cluh. -Doan' scratch a match on yw u prepared to jump ober tie nighwt feT1 "If you know dat a Idler am g. pus ie, m ap aown on de ground on' hZ mouf shut f! "Any pusson whomole8acIaynn.i, should kivcr de lowl wid a ph 0f Tu J? leg nn' hire somebody to keep himaw "There should lie no sinokiii'rlnii.T of tho club wood box. Wood boX(rr! to explode at any moment, an' h a,T do scene of ruin an' desolashun mW "Paradise hall am linblo to tal-.n- cavenln' when a meetin' ar in pnwnm T case a fire nr' diskivored do cuter m should notify do inner guanL n;. , gem'lnn should quietly notify de Keen ..... . ...... ,,..... u..iiyi KUIlnn, do fack to do Keeper of de Sacred JUi: ho in turn should enter do lodge f,, place de matter befo' do president, -ii o recommend nut selien two gallon e.ieli onn full nf wnlnp lu. I. , - v- -'- , w 1'itM.eu tn m room as a precaushuu. "Also, dat do insurance on de hall Ul creased to sich a flgger dat, in ease ilUa, up nn' Samuel Hhin, l'ickles Smith an' J', Chewso nr' consumed wid it, deir Imnj, our gain. "We would furder recommend dnt Ui. itor bo supplied wid some sort of blj. extinguisher. We donn menu anytliiu'cr, nn' elaborate, wid a picture of Be Sib 4 kiverin' de Mississippi river painted m t fide, but sunthin' combiniu' utility ctieapuess. On motion of Oiveadum Junes the tions were adopted, nnd he then offendi, following resolution: Resolved, Dnt (lis Lime Kiln club.belkij tint do present styles of hand fire cxtingut4 ei-s ar' too complex nil' hev too much lot nckshun, hereby announce its willinpie, incoitrnge the inventive genius of dekeotn by offerm' do sum of $50 to anypusnaia shall Invent n portable extinguisher lwvu', follcrin' merits: 1. Must wake up do folks when aurebnti out 2. Must lie self nctln' an' bev noeogwbi to git out o' order. S. Must net as a thermometer when dnri' 110 fire. 4. Must le cheap, strong an' simple, ri iiulllu' about it to mildew or throw ontlk germs of yuller fever. On motion of Col. I'ompeii Parker tben olution was accepted, anil the janitor wt deixtl to put all the matches in Famuli Hi into n pud of water every night before kti ing. Detroit Free Fress. A Itoj's During Kxperlment Some yenrs ago Professor Mason, of S I Hnven, Conn., was tho lecturer on divsiol-rj and toxicology nt that college, and it ub custom to illustrate his lectures witbeijui menus upon the lower animals. Ononeoe cusion, while telling tho students tlieefftrt I of various poisons, he remarked that 1Mb diansof South America were accustomed 1 uso poisoned arrows to kill their csuie The poison used was known aswonran,il it could lie taken into the stomach, beaut without injury; but if a singlednipof t stuff should bo injected into the blwxl falal results would nt onco follow. To prove la vxiieriment, he took n small quantity amis jeeted it into tho stomach of a dog, W seemed to cnuso the animal no incoavenienft Then ho injected a drop more into the 1 of a pigeon. Tho bird died instantly. Tho following day ono of the stodf asked what would be the effect if ones' them should eat the bird. Mason repM tint bo ditl not know. The boy wbo v helping him, now the United States i-siit district attorney, volunteered the intom tion 4 at the jiersnu eating the pigeon won ha fli cihhI meal, and that that w as lbs only result likely to follow. He said that hesto from experience, us bo hud eaten that klm cal bird. Tho professor was astoumW,liii hair fairly stood on end, as ho remarkei "Well, niv bov von Imva fur more faith my experiments than I bavo myself. I H not havo entcu that bird under any oousU ntion." Washington Cor. Indiuimiiolis lial. I'liltiue llecniiiinir a Tipple- A .. .. 1. ...... I. :.... A ! I,.a nllt theSe nil uiiLi-i (11 laill Allieiliull iiH" ,M .1, .... ... .. ...... HiKllOIW cm pulate nnd produce the effects so wl AilenrttSixl lv tlto Ameeientl tllillisteCS rV lelll. fln.1 mivitvQ evIrnnnlinarV W " 3reascr ropuldio. Who will now give ample of tho "rnreflod air'' that sbouM tompanyitto threw in the proiei' tonic ntltf A" friend of mine who owns. sons) " :ho largest maguey plantations in Mei1 rave 1110 the straight tip several years "iP the pulque business, and until he takes if, the julep of "old Virginny" is good '"""ij itirino. If he is to lie believed-awl be thousands of gallons of tho stulT it ann be kept long enough to lie exported, and""' lie consumed in n few days after it w nl But the head that it puts oil top 'f the n robust constitution when it gets in ltSD' work cannot Is? equaled this side of tlw l after. Farnlysis does not begin totlr". vn.tti.. !. ..nli.,,,1 If tilt" l York article is anything like the native duction, it will sum become the favoiiur pie of the numerous tanks you and "i! but won't mention just now. N'" Star. Tiillcyramr Uniln In a Sewer. The doctors have embalmed the corp order to do this thev, ofter the manner 01 u Is id ancient F.gvptians, removed the lir.-tlna TlOrl.,A nf,.,r l.nvtm-tniltsl .formed Friuce Talleyrand into a muiumy and li.i iiailed it up in a coffin, lined with ni:i,e,'rJ they went awny, leaving 011 the t;l1'" J brain that brain which bad thoi'S much, inspired so many men, constructed many ambitious edifices, managed tl" J, lutions, deceived twenty kings and I world in deck. The doct n gone, a v entered and saw what they hud left ' knowing that it was wanted, and 'v-'ri! it as a louthsome ohjeVt, be P3"'.'! Rether nnd threw it into the sewer in the house. From Hugo' 'Choses Vu A C0IN0F