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BLINDNESS. gljl I be ready hen the shadow fslli? When up my heaven's blue valla jbe fatal darkness creep, and I must so Bo atill. so alow. S The smallest child could anon onutrlp my pacer When each dear hiring face Kutt veil from me ila hourly smiles or tears, Its Joya or fearsf When wayside plumes of golden roil slioJl flame Kor other eyes the same? Xnea autumn's burning bough tholl flaunting hold Their red and gold? Wt,. i. pitying hands shall take from mluo the tusk I'nflnished-and I ask If It he uc'ht. tliat threads ran so untrue? When I am through. With sunshine and the llcht of solemn stars? When through my dunp-oii tors I reach . guiltless captive's hands, and grope, Without a hope? Bball I be ready for that silent blnwf This truth I feW and know: That 1 must Ml while yet the pulse of day lleataou my way, Tost I must weave while still the threads run truo if many threads or few: That I must strive, till on my darkening walla Tbo blackness fallal -Helen T. Clark. WHY DO YOU EAT t jk Pertinent Question Violation of Na ture's Law The IVimlty. Why do you entf This query, if ro MOdcd to Of tin majority of people on thf MMVOf the luomeul, would, noilouht, result in MMrWMI an vitriol ox the indi vidualit to whom it is pfopMaded. Why dn you eat? Truly a pertUMBI mwtion, and one which should be considered ;mof suflicii'iit inix)rtance for careful rellec tion. A query of this character is the source of tiininentary surprise tossibly to an intelligent erson, for the reason it is lireciel ton daily habit or exercise which hat become so strongly automatic that our attention U not lixisl in its consider ation. We arise in the morn, early or late as the case may be, ami eat; goto labor f'r five hours or so, eat ngain; seek recreation for the eve anil possibly at again, and finally retire to obtain the benefits of nature's sweet restorer sleep. In and through all this the healthy in dividual IMM BO force in thought or at tention, but is the automaton. This is b it should 1, if nature and things natural were natural. Are things in na ture natural? The reply to this we think can lie found, to a largo extent, for the purpose of our paer, in the replies our ouerv would bring forth. Why do you catf The dyspeptic says. "From necessity." The epicure says, "From a ruling desire on the put of my sense of taste." The glutton says, "To get enough." The laboring man says, "To work." The natural man says, "To enjoy life; to live." The dyspep tic' reply is a sad contrast to that of ihe natural "man. Ask the dyxiieptic what he would door give for the privilege or abililv to sit down at the table hungry, Actuated only by the principle that Ctuatel the natural man, namely: "To enjoy life, to live." Why, meiliinks, if he is not too fV along in his distemper, that expression of di.-gust and despair would change into a broad grin of happy anticipation; the dull, listless eye bright en with a gleam of its pristine intelli gence, and there would burst from his lips the exclamation: "Door give? any thing! everything I" Poor victim! In tin.-, exclamation is found the explanation for his dyspepsia. It is just because he was at one time able and did do "any thing" and everything" that today ho baa dyspepsia. If "we ask the epicure or glutton the same question as the dyspeptic, we will lin.l that they are perfectly content. They have not violated law and order long enough as yet; have not done 'any thing" and "everything" a suflicient number of times to reach that miserable existence allotted to the dyspeptic. Their desires and wishes aro fully satis fied. , There comes a time finally for nil of these classes when the "dead line," so to speak, is met. To halt and put a stop to the reckless violation which has leii go ing on menus salvation. To keep on and cross this dead line means everlasting ruisi rv. The salvation that is estaUislird for those who meet this dead lino is, like other salvations we have heard of, estab lished for violated law and order, not easy of attainment, but entails for many days upon the retiontnnt victim a rigidity of rule and orsistence of purpose that deprives life of most of its pleasures and leads the poor victim in resionso to our querv to say, "I eat from necessity." He is still a dyspeptic, notwithstanding his efToris toward tv.lvntion, ami will bo until that salvation is fully attained. But this phj sical salvation accomplL-hed.is our dyspeptic become the natural man? Can he. oscan the natural man. exclaim innc cento glad and joyous, "I eat to enjoy life; to live?'' Let us see. Wo livo to learn, and, as truly, learn to live. Ex jerieuce is apt to determine man's ac tions. License is only permitted when it is safe. The dyspeptic has truly lived to learn, if he has" not lost all reason, and we have no doubt but that the redeemed dyspeptic will testify that he has learned to live. But his experience has taught h.:tn a lesson which will, during his re maining life, be ever in mind. He knows bevond all doubt that there is no license for him. and that as surely as he er mits unv license, just so surely will there come back to him the forerunners of those monstrous miseries which led him to exclaim: ' I eat from necessity." Globe- Doiuix-rat. New York and Fo el,-n Cities. There is no palpable New York in the BUM i which there is a I'aris, a Vienna, ;i Milan. You can touch it at no point. It is not even ocular. There is in-t.-ad a Fifth avenue, a Broadway, a Central park, a Chatham square. How they have dwindled, by the way. Fifth ave nue might Is? any one of a dozen London tre U in the first impn-ssion it makes on the retina and leaves on the mind. The opposite side of Madison square is but a step awav. The spacious hall of the Filth Avenue hotel lias shrunk to stifling proportions. Thirty-fourth street is a lane; the city hall a bandbox; the Cen tral park a narrow strip of elegant land era;, whose lateral limitations are con stantly forced upon the sense by the IVnox library on one aide and the mon NaT apartment house on the other. Princeton Review. HUNTING IN ALASKA. Killing a tlear Indian Superstition A Deer Hunt A Night i After tracking two days my companion and myself secured two natives as Midst and. having the river, set oil for the mountains. At the end of the first day's tramp we sighted a black bear feeding pan berries alsmt a nolo distant. We were both so exhausted from our tiresome walk across the tundra that we concluded to send one of the guides after the U-ar. The Indian first seated himself ami ex amined his rifle, selecting three cartridges and placing them in the gun. lie then pullida few ha;rsfrm his clothing, which he threw in the air to ascertain the direc tion of the wind, and then started so as to come up to let-ward of the bear. We kept careful watch through a glass, and saw hiiiiou hands and knees work slowly toward the animal. When wilhin 150 yards he Iliad two shots. The lniir jumicd and fell almost in his tracks. There ale probably no more sutier stitious people in the world than the northern Alaska Indians. Every action of their daily lile is governed by some belief handed down from father to son. or originated by the shaman, the Indian doctor, who holds great sway over them. The oerstuonies) attending the killing of the hew will illustrate. Bruin was first placed upon bis Uick with the head toward the moun'ains. The head was Chefl skinutd, severed Irom ihe body and taken by one of the natives, who, plac ing himself astride of the dead animal, mined and lowered the head three times, touching the bear just over the heart each tune and muttering some incanta tion. The third time he threw it from him. uttering a I I shout in which the other natives joined. This was done to drive the lear's spirit to the mountains mi thai it would cause them no future trouble. A part ot the dead animal had to be left on the spot where he was killed, or the hunters would get no deer that season. A camp was made at the plaos, and after the head had been lUMted and picked clean it was placed in the top of a high OTS, but for what pur sise they would not tell. The skin was stretched Hat ukii the tundra fur side down. The portion of the bear not outv sumcd was placed in a tree and a rude seanvrow made to keep away birds, The following winter the skin and meat were sledged for and found in good con dition, A deer hunt which we witnessed was so different from our previous concep tions that I think it worthy a description. Upon this oooasion, while sleighing with a party of Indians, a herd of deer w:is lighted. The natives tisik their rilles and Started, some going in one direction and some in nnother, but all keeping to leeward of the deer. Those who went directly toward the herd waited until the others had got partly around In-fore start ing. The first shot was the signal. Whereupon all hands rushed toward the frightened animals, who separated and plunged blindly in every direction. Thf Indians shouted, nuking all the noise possible, the fleeing animals in tin ir fear mistaking Indians ', r deer and rushing on until a shot showed them their error, when they would turn and llee as blindly as before". Even after the first fright they circled around the danger, trying to ggH together, and in this way many more were killed. As much meat as could be carried was loaded upon the lied, while the remainder was cached in the snow, Ik- sledged for at some future time. After a hard day's march, a camp was established, it U-ing then too dark to travel. The dogs are first unharnessid. and chained seiarately to bushes to pre vent lighting. After an hour's rest they are fid iiH)ti driid Bah, this being the only meal they receive in twenty-four hours. They are given all they can eat. unless the supply is short, and in such cases their endurance is wondirful, a small piece of fish once a day sufficing a dog and enabling liiiu lo work for a couple of weeks. A great many interesting facts could he given illustrating the sa gacity and endurance of these animals. As a rule they have no affection. They recognize the person who feeds them as their master, but they obey only through fear. They are more than half wolf, as all young wolves caught aro raised and used as dogs. In every team there is generally one dog who constitutes him self master. He is naturally ono of the most powerful of the number, and the others seem to recognize bis supremacy. This dog. ujKin seeing any one of the others habitually shirking while the rest are pulling, will attempt to reach and punish him, and if it is imiosible to do so while in harness, will deliberately go to him when the day's sledging is fin ished and administer me deserved chas tisement. In establishing a night camp when in a wooded country, Ihe most sheltered spot is selected and a pit is dug in the snow ehuttt fifteen feet in diameter and a foot deep. The bottom is then stamped down to make a hard floor. Around this pit is built a wall alsnit four feet high, by laving young spruce trees on top of one another and cutting i IT their inside branches. This wall has two 0K-nings or breaks diametrically opposed, dividing the pits into halves with a through paaesgewsv separating them. Along this way. which must always lace the wind, dried wood is piled and fired. On either side nine boughs are laid on the snow, and on top of ihem the sleep ing bags Such night camis are easily made, and the coldest bights' can be comfortably turnst-d in them. The only drawback is the difficulty in getting the In conclusion, the Indians of Alaska liavc been reined as savage and treach erous. In my experience 1 found the natives of interior northern Ala-ka the most kind and hospitable ieople in the world. -W. L Howard in l'opulax Sci ence Monthly. Character of Dreams. Any marked increase in tlie numlr or cliange in the character of dreams should 1 seriously considered. They are some rimes the precursors of a general ner vous and mental prostration. In such cases tiabits of diet and exercise, work and rest, should be examined. If dreams which det rrss the nervous energies and reuder sleep unrefresbing occur fre quently medical counsel should Is; taken. He habit of reniernljerinu and narrating dreams is pernicious: to act upon them is to surrender rational self control. J M. Buckley in The Century. Mormon Colony In Chihuahua. The Mormons have within the past three years seen the advantage of ch--;:p grazing and farming lands in this coun try and the oprtunity to escape perse cution in the I'nited States. The results are seen in the flourishing colonies of Juarez and Diaz, the former adjoining us, the latter about seventy-five miles to the north. Each colony comprises from 200 to 300 souls. They are recognized for their fair dealing, honesty and thriftincss The country owes ihem a debt of grati tude for intndui'ing high grade live si-s-k of all descriptions, farming imple ments, seeds, trees, saw ami Hour mills ) and industries hitherto unknown to the , Mexican but in its most primitive form. Though polygamy is against the law in ibis country, the Mormons are tolerated and encouraged, and up to the present time have lieen of immense benefit to the country in educating the natives to a more advanced class of work. Some proselyting has been dime by their mis sionaries in (he southern nrt of the re public, mostly in and about the City of Mexico. They attempted to induce a number of the converts to lorm part of the Juarez1 colony, but after bringing alsnit thirty families they were obliged lo return them to their homes. The Mexican cnvcrt.-i could not amalgamate with the Ameri cans. The Mexican, though converted in lielief, could not lie converted to the i manners and customs of the American. Besides, they are a great people for I forming attachments to the land of their birth. They rarely leave the home they were lsrn in. Thia is decidedly so among the lower, half Indian class that com prised the inn ioriiv of the converts. To I this fact the Litter Day Saints, as they prefer to be called, attribute their fail- j ure. The colony of Juarez is laid out in rectiuigular form, divided into streets and lots. In the latter their little WOOdN houses aie ereetid, the only wooden houses in this portion of the country, surrounded by gardens and trees. In case of "plural wives," two or more houses are seen in the sanio lot. Liuis ROM in New York World. Value of Ihe r'.in-nl.vptiis Tree. The eucalyptus belong! to the myrtle tribe. It is'said that there are as many ns 150 varieties of tho tree. They are native to Australia, hut havo already been introduced into most of the tropical and tenirate countries of Ihe world. Two kinds have been chiefly cultivated, tho red gum (resinifera). and the blue gum (globulus), which is the battel known. It is famous for its rapid growth, as it often makes an increase in height of from six to nine fee) a year. The tree continues growing at this rate until it has reached mi enormous size. The products of this tree are numerous anil varied. The wis si is said to be val uable for tho carpenter's and builder's uses. The gum. or rosin, is employed in the manufacture of "soaps, perfumes, lozenges, court plaster, liniments, syrups, Kiuindes, toilet vim-gal's, as well as many preparations used for artistic porpoaot, such as varnishing oils, vei I and trac ing paior." There has been for some years established in I'aris n store for the sale of eucalyptus perfumery, Hut by far the most valuable and iin xrtant property of ibis tree is its (siwer of correcting malaria. This quality is, perhaps, due to the aromatic oil which the tree contains, or more probably to tho drainage effected by its roots. It has been proved in many countries in which the tree has been planted. In Algeria tho Cultivation of the tree has rendered many low lying or marshy districts in habitable, where, in tho early years of French oceuiuition. foreigners could not live on account of deadly fevers. Youth's Companion. The World's Highest Mountains. Every once in a while wo discover that some mountain K-ak mst give up the undeserved distinction conferred iiiHin it of holding its head higher than all other summits. For a long time Mount Chim l'i a.'.o was snpioseil lo Is- the highest mountain in the world until in the prog ress of the Himalayan surveys Mount Everest was found to overtop it. Four years ago W. W. Graham, who has been higher alsivo the sea than any other mountain climlier, asserted that Everest must yield the palm of supremacy to an unnamed ieak aisut seventy miles from it. We long supsisid that Mount St. Elias was the loftiest mountain of North America, but we now know that that honor belongs to Mount Wrangel, which is about 500 feet higher than St. Elias. It was also supposed that Mount Kilima njaro. 18,700 feet high, was the greatest elevation in Africa, but now comes Count Teleki. the Hungarian traveler, with tho assertion that this mountain must play second fiddle to Mount Kenia, aliout 200 mill's north. He is the only man who has yet ascended Kenia. Now York Sun. The I'oison of Toliarro. It is very unusual to find in a great smoker a healthy ap"tite for plain food, and medical opinions may Is- had in any nun.! r as to dyspepsia caused by smok tag, To whatever degree the habit affects the nervous organization, it apis-ars to bo ncrtaia that the prooem which is regarded I as soothing is really destructive. Sir j Benjamin lircslie must have know n what be was writing alsnit when he declartd i tliat "the poison of tolucco acts by de- j stroving the function of the brain." In a Russian hospital in I M00 a Dr. Chad- i nowski took the liberty of examining by means of a pump the digestive jsiwers of six smoking and as many non-smoking j soldiers, and he recorded that "in tlie ; former the time required for digestion averaged seven hours, while in the case of the non-smokers the mean j-riod of digestion was only six hours." With the present etiorinousconsuinption of tolmcco I the social consisiuem-es. aimrt from iho-o concerning the Isxlily and mental powers of tlie consumers, are important. Pall Mall Uaz-tte. The Crystals of I : According to In. Pesetty Cevera, writing in a Snish journal, if blood be mixed with a little bile, small crystals are formed which are of different sh.q? in different species of animals. In man they are right anglid prisms, in tbo horse cubes, in pigs rhomboids, in sheep rhomboid.! plates, in dogs right angled prisms very similar to IIh seen in human blood, and in chkkens more or lesa regular cubes. Brook 1 n Eagle. Artist Versns Cattla Isealer. rtists can, in the course of a summer morning's walk in the country, find ma terial for their lit lanilseapc. and their training has lieen such tl)ut the knowl edge so found can be applied to the Ust advantage. With eye tint see every thing in nature, judgment that ro jtvt Ihe commonplace ami takes cog sJaanoe of all that wUOh is valuable, ami with tt memory lhat isns faithful to re nin eveiy elfect us is the sensitized plate in the camera, such artists repnueiU the liifhcat iyit of Nature's pupils. A few jioneil memoranda of subjects, taken hastily during tho walk, is idl that is needed to fix the scenes and locality, and erve in the reproduction of those in the studio. The opMite tyjie is found hi a worthy I'litsburger, a cattle dealer, who recently sat for his sirtrait. Ho had iuet returned from a trip that astendsd through the grandest and most impres sive scenery of the great west, ami the artist a devout lover of nature -hoped to extract from his patron some fresh ideas of the grandeur of the liockics and the canyons of Colorado, It was a 1iok--Ims longing. The cattle deider's mind was an absolute blank as to nature's handiwork. He was overflowing with knowledge of quite a different order. Ho Oiled tin artist with details of the cost of raisin; cattle in every state and territory of tht west, of the beat places and tho jioorest; of the cost that each marketable steer repmontid, and i f the cost of shipment of cattle from every western point lo the nearest market, the artist uas wearied vv nil a surfeit of cattle knowledge and was oonstralned to ask ahotrt the mmm tailll and the lakes and the scenic won ders of tho land of cattle and canyons. It was useless. Ills uitron, outside of his own narrow but practical field of obser vation, ha 1 etea. nothing and could only reply, "Mountains? Realty 1 did not notice them except to think that they -.s tned agisvi deal in tho way of the rail roads." nttsburg Bulletin. The City of Quito. If it were not for tbo climnte, Quito would 1h in the midst of a perpetual rttsrhlenoo) but notwithstanding the pre vailing IlllhlnOaS there is very little sick ness. and pulmonary diseases are un- j known. Mountain fever, produced hy odd and a torpid liver, is the commonest Itype-Of disease. The population of the I city, however, is gradually decreasing, I anil is said to Is- now alsnit lit), 000. There Were ,100,000 ooplo at Quito when the Spaniardacame, and a hundred yean ago tin- population was reckoned ! at double what il is now. Half the houses in the town are empty, and to see ( i new family mining in would U a sen 1 -alien. Most of the finest residences are looked ami barred, and havo remained ! o for years. The owners are usually ! political exiles who are living elsewhere, i and can neither sell nor rent their prop erty. PbUtical revolutions are soconi ; mon, and their results are always so dis-a.-troiis lo the uiiMKcessful, that there is a constant stream of fugitives leaving the state, funis in American Magazine. MeUsonh-r's Method of Study. Mi issonier, inonb riosiudy thoroughly the movements of tho men and horv-s in the storming squadron in tho picture "IHIrT," he pursued, as he told us, an on lirely original method. First of all, in the autumn of tho preceding year ho had a large piece of ground nenr the city sowed with rye. In May. when it shKxl in green stalks, by permission of the com mandant, he had a battery of artillery driven over it. Of the trampled stalks crushed by tho wheels Meissonier made largo and suflicient studies. Ha then procured rwmiOsinTJ from the military authorities to havo a battery in garrison at Poissy ride over it, and directed the i limit "Vivo rEinpereur." swinging their swords and trumpets. So, by repeated observations of these cuiras siers and horses, ho impressed tlsin his mind the whole scene, at tho same time making tho most conipleto studies of single horses and men, and of every part of their figures, in the uniforms of tho French CUiraatier regiments in the time -if NajKileou. Art Connoisseur. Ttie VfeaSSa af llnlcarla. At home tho Bulgarian woman Is a sturdy, honest housewife, helpmeet to her husband in all that the term applies. Beside attending to tho oare of the hou ehold. she performs not less of tho hard, grinding drudgery of the field than her husband diss, and often more. Nor dote she rebel at this or think it a hard ship. From early youth tho Bulgarian maiden is aOOnetOOaed to share with her (Others the labor and exiostiro of the fields, and at marriage her huslmnd is required to pay her father a sum of menev to recompense him for tho loss of . 1(,r services as a field hand. Sho is lit- rally purchased from I ho father by her husband, the consideration ranging from 100 npward, according to tho means of i n- wiss r. As a mere matter of course she then performs as much farm drudg ery for her husband as she did pre Houaly for her father. Thomas Stevens i a Woman. Arsenic mm a Cosruetle. The deleterious effect of arsenic upon the skin was recently datBttattd in the Pathological society of London, after a communication bad been read by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, Hie skin is the lissue on which arsenic has, perhaps, its mort marked influence. Thomson may spoil the oumpkadoa Imtoadof improv ing it. by making it muddy and unsightly. A twnilar action is exhibited in all parts . f ihe skin, and may had to the devel opment of so.'t eorna, Pot warts, on the ilnn of the hands and soles of the- fi-ct, where a rougle nml condition ulm glows up under its influence. Mr. liulcliinson i ' ., . cpresse-l the belief that arsenic can produce cpitaaUel cancer. Popular Sci i uce Moutlily. Kail Fata for th .. "No, ma'am." said tho tramp grate f.illv ns be hhoid.iei.d bis billldlo und i W'qaired to sLu-t an again, "I don't keer or ntitlnn more to eat, inanK jmi. nui I'll Is- obleeged if you'll give me two or ihree o' them time biscuits. I don't .-airy no wet-pins, and they've got a sav dog Bt thai next house." Chicago Mbame. One of the w on Vrs of I'aris u A well ,,;,VJ fen in drptfc. Hot w uirr ru-h- -tit of llii well in a -train I U feci Ufjisi ALL HANDS LIE DOWNI The I . .o 1 1. 1 Sea Fight Between the Albs marls and the Smsmimis. Now came the decisive moment, for j by this action, which was in reality a maneuver of our commander, we had acquired a distance from the ram of alsnit I 4Ml yards, mid lis- latter, to evade tbo ' MatialH-selt. had sheered olf a little and I lay broadside to us. The I'nion ships wore now on both sides of the ram, with ; engines lopcd. Commander Boo saw ! ihe opMirtunity, which an insutnt's de lav would forfeit, and boldly met tho crisis of the engagement. To tho engi neer he cried, "Crowd waste and oil in the tires and bark slowly I Hive her all Ihe steam she can carry!" To Acting Master Bon tells he said, "lay her course for the junction of the casemate and the ' hull!" Then came four bells, and, with full steam and on throttle, the ship sprang forward like a living thing. It was a moment of intense strain and anxiety. The guns ceased firing, the smoke lifted from the rain, and we saw lhat every effort was is'ing made to evade the slus'k. Straight as au arrow wo shot forward lo the dcaiguntcd ssit. Then came the order, "All hands he down !'' and, with a crash that shook the ship liko an earthquake, wo struck full and square on the iron hull. Uur ship quivered for an Instant, but held fast, and the swift plash of the paddles showed that tho engines were UBbthimd. Mv own station was in the DOW, on tho main deck, on a lino with the enemy's guns. Through tho slar Ismrd shutter, which hail Iwcn partly jarred off by the concussion, 1 saw the sut of the ram not ten fi-et away. It opened, and like a flash of lightning I ww tho grim muzzle of a cannon, the straining gun's crew nuked U tho waist and blackened with powder; then a blaze, a roar and a rush of the shell as it crashed through, whirling mo round and dasluug mo to tho deck. Both shiis were under headway, and, as tho rain advanced, our shattered Isiws clinging to tho iron casement wore twietafl round and a solid shot from a Brooke gun almost touching our sido oiaahed through, followed ImrnefHatelj by a cloud of steam and Uiiling water that lillid the forward decks as our over charge! Iwilers, pierced by the shot, emptied their contents with a shrill screiun that drowned for au instant the roar of tho guns. The shouts of com mand and the cries of the scalded, WOUlldod and bthsded men mingled with tho rattle of small arms that told of a band to hand conflict alsivo. The ship surged heavily to Bart as the great weight of water in the Isiiler was expended, and over the cry, "The ship issinking!" SUM the shout, "All hands rape) hoarders on starboard bowl" The horrid tumult, always character istic of liattle, was intensified by the cries of agony from the scaldid and fran tic men, Wounds may rend, and hhsd may How, and grim heroism kis-p the li-cih set linn in silence; hut to bt Iwiled uljve to have tin- flesh drop from tho face and hands, to strip olf in simUIoii mass from the Ixsly as tho clothing is torn away in savago eagerness for relief, will bring screams from the stoutest lis. In the midst of all this, when every man had left the engine room, our chief en gineer, Mr. Hobby, although badly scalded, st.ssl with heroism at his poet; nor did he leave it till after (ho action, when he was brought up, blinded and helpless, to tho deck. I had often Is'fore beau in battle; had stcpcd over tho docks of a steamer in tho Merrimao light when a shell had oxpltslod cover ing tho deck with fragments of human bodies, literally tearing to pieces the men on tbo small vessel as she lay alongside the Minnesota, but never Is fore had I SXperienoed such a sicken ing sensation of horror as on this occasion, when the bow of tho Sasancus lay for thirteen minutes on the risif of tin- Albemarle, An offioer of the Wya- hlsing s.ivs that when tho dense sinoliii and steam enveloped us they thought wo had Mink, till tho flash of our guns burst through tho clouds, followed by flash after flash in quick succession, as our men recovered from tho shock of tho explosion. In Commander iVUger's report tho time of our contact was said to DO "some few minutes." To us, at least, there seemed time enough for the other ships to close In on the ram and sink her or sink btiido her, and it was thirteen min utes as timed by an officer, who told me, but the other shiM were silent, and with stopjieil engine lcked on as tho clouds closed over us in the grim an'1 final i movie.- How tt.g Hells Are Itung. The twelve bulla of St. Paul's cathedral in London am said, to bo the grandest ringing peal in tho world. It is a matter of pride with the Kurdish that they al ways HA'ing their liells instead of merely Hwinging the claps rs after the fashion prevailing in Itussia and other parts of continental Europe. Tho Ilriton awing oven his largest lielli in tho good, old fashioned way, and it is quite an under taking to swing tho sixteen ton "Great l'.uil," which, with iu five-ton brother, supplements! tho noble peal on tho grand est 1'iotestant cathedral in the world. On tho day Gen. Garfield's body was car ried to the grave, the writer itood in the square In front of Ht. Paul's, and heard loess chimes peal in honor of tho dead president. IX-nse crowds tilled tho neigh borlo ktrsetSi and the adjacent windows and IsOOaetopi were black with humanity. .Ml Loexlon w as thero U liaten to tho mournful requiem of the U-lls. It wasa -oleum ssiaelo when, as a stranger in a stran; land, one saw thtsK tens of thousands of Englishmen thus doing honor to the noble dead. It was an evi dence of international sympathy, affeo tioii ...-id brotherhood which one who mvi ii can never foriM. - IVstUm Herald. F, M. WILKINS. Practical DruisH Ctais! DRUGS. MEDICINES. Hrashea. I'alnta. .!.. nil-. Leads TOILET ARTICLE8, Etc Pbyalclaoa' Preaciiptlona Compounded. secirrm. LMIflRHK UMK.K NO. 11. A. f, AND A. Bt jLJtfeets first and third Weanesdajra In mak OPKNt'KIl IUTTK lHMiK SO. ft. I. 0. O. F. O Meats every Tuesdajr evening VTIalAWllALA KNCAalHMKST NO. ft, VI it. ess on the second and fourth Wedaee dars in each month. 17U0ESK bOIMIK NO. 15, A. O. U. W, Fj Meet at Xlasonic Hull Ihe second aai fourth Fridays in each month II. W. t at OjLutT PQarr mo. at, o, A,.a mkicts (Is at Masonic Hull Ihe first and llilrd Fri days of each month. II) order. Commsnudl Ht'TTK KDIHIK NO. ytt!, I O. 0. T. MKKTCj evii Halunlay i,iKht hi Odd Kellon Hall. W. C. T. KAUISO MTAItllANIHlKIIOI'K. MKKT8 Ij at tlieC. I '. Ch 11 isli every Hunday aftsr nnon si .v. Vlsltois msile welcome. 0. C. B B. TINB TABLE. Mall Train "orlh. tktf i M. Xlall train smith. Ui v. u. KuffMM Ism si LsSIVf north 9 00 a. M. KaeSM Iss'sl - Arrive :li n. m. OWICK HOUKS. EHOEHK CITY POITOrnOaV (leoeral Unlivery, from 7 a. m. to 7 p. at. Money Order, frein 7 a. M. loS r. M. fti-Klsler. from 7 s. m. to.v e. u. Malls lor north lose ai HUI I', M. Hails for south close at .1.110 v. if. Ssfl' hv Iss-al close al - :m a. m. alls for Krsukllu close at 7 A. M. UeaAsf and ThursilRv. " Mslls for Mahel rloae at 7 a. M. Moaday an Thursday. Eugene City Business Directory. alii if AN, 0, - llry Kooda, 1 Lulling, irrooertas and g. a. -ml uu-rchsiiilisi-, soiilhvMtst corner. Willamette and Klguth atresia ( TAIN UltOH. Healers In jewelry, watches, clock, a.i.l musical Instruments, VVtllaotatM street, between Seventh and Khjhth. FltlKNIILY. 8. II. Dealer In dry goodi. deta il. K and u. s. ,u! mcrcliamllse. Wlllamert street, between Kluhth and Ninth. HI UK J. I. - l'h v si. urn and aunn'on. Wlllaiav die si reel, U-i'n ecu Seventh and Kluhth. HOUKS, ('. Keeps on hsnd fine wines, honor 1 ik-ni and a pool and hllUanl tnlile. WrHaaa atte street, between Klithth nml Ninth. MOKN. ( HAS. M. Oiinsinltli. rifles and shot- Kuns. breech mnt miiule loaders, for salt v. Iti'innrlng ilonc ill the lleulesl s rallied. Shop 011 Ninth slrerL I t ' KKV J. H. Watchmaker and Jeweler, keeps a fine sl k nf kooiIs 111 Ills line, WlihUaV lie street, hi Kllsworlh sdriisT store. Mon.AHKS JAM KS - Choice wines. Ilqnora and eiu-ars, Willamcltuslrect, between Ktfkth and NTiith. IXIHT UFKK'K A new slock of slanriarS school hooks Just received at Ihe post oOloe. ltlllSKIIART, J. tt. Hoose slim and oairUtn painter. Wnrk Kiinrunieeil III si class Sleoa) sojdjttjbwmjjiueiuh DR. L. F. JONES, Physician and Surgeon W 11,1, ATT KN 11 TO I'HOFKHSIONAtV calls day or nlKhU OrrK'H Upstairs In Tims' brick; or can ba head al K. It. I.ucker k On drug store. Oflloa hours: lo 12 M 1 lo i H. H 0 to 8 P. M. DR. J. C. GRAY FFI(K OVKH (lltAN'OB 8TOKB. w work warraiileil. lAUghine; gru adinlnlsterad for palsies U-kcUou of teelli. GEO. W. KINSEY, Justice of the Peace. KKAL F.STATK FOIt HAI.IC -TOWN ITSJ and farms. Collections proniptlv aS- U-luleil U. SPORTSMAN'S EMPORIUM HORN & PAINE, Practical Gunsmith s OUN8, RIFLES, Fishing Tuck le and Malaria Sewim Hacbiiiesaiil Needlesor All IiDli ftr Sik Hcpali i njar done Ik Ilia neatest style and warranted. Qnni Loaned and Ammunition Fnrniahe4 Shop op Wlllaiiietje H treat Boot and Shoe Store. A. HUNT, Proprietor. WUl ssrrsftei kssp a ouniylsU itusa ot Ladies' Misses' and Children's Shoe,! BUTTON aeoTH, Slippers, White and Blank, Sandaia, FINK KID 8H0ES, MEN'S AND BOY'S BOOTS AND SHOES! And In fact everjrthlni In the Hoot and Riioe Hie-, to which 1 Intend lo devote) mjr especial atteutlou. MY COODS ARK FIRST-CLASH! And tfiiaranleed aa represented, and wIL be sold for the lowest prices that a good article can be afforded. A. Hunt. Central Market, BE atitalsW I'ishorWVniLiiiH PROPRIITOR8. Will keep oonslanll; on band a full BEEF, MUTTON. PORK AND VEAL Which tber will aell at the losreat market prions A fair share of the public patronage soil cited TO THR KAHSRaH: Wi will par the highest market price foa M cattle, nojts and shoep. Shop on Willamette Street KUCf K CITY. ORE CON. Meats uaattasaa. u. any part of tbdsStf frat of rlisrue.