EUGENE CITY GUARD.
L I CAM FBEL1 Proprietor.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Chinese Granted Permission to
Remove Their Dead.
The Harvest of Oregon and Washington
Cereals Said to be the Largest
Ever Known.
The Northwestern Exposition at Taco
ma will be opened not later than next
yew.
L. H. Bartlett, an aliscondinir mW
' tier and bank caHliier from Fort Morgan,
Col., has been captured at Seattle.
The water supply at Spokane Falls is
inadequate, and three houses were burned
there, principally owing to that fact.
F. Stevenson a Canadian PaclBc ticket
axent at Victoria, B. C, has gone down
the Hound a defaulter to the ex ton t of
$200.
L. D. Smith of Rculen Creek, Joseph
ine county, Or., went prosjectinf recent
ly and came home with a nugget worth
$82.60.
In consideration of the location of an
academy at Milton, Or , by the Adventiste
the people of that town raised $3,000 as
a starter.
Census Supervisor Mosher computes
the population of Los Angeles county at
101,4(10. The population of Orange coun
ty is 13,000.
It is commonly lielleved in Alaska that
the Diluting Lord Boyle, one of those
who went up the Yukon in search of
gold, is still alive.
Mayor Ounn wants the enumeration
at Han Dieno to be taken over. The pres
ent returns show a population of 15,700.
The Mayor claims 24,000.
Postmasters huve been appointed:
Montana J. O. Sherman, Flat Willow,
Feruuscounty. Washington J. D. Dean,
Ilnquiam, Chehalis county.
The wrecked steamer Sardonyx will he
turned over to the underwriters. The
crew of the visual, who have lieen living
In huts at Hkidegate, have returned to
ictoria.
The following postofflces have been es
tahlinhed: Washinuton At Rangaii,
Lewis county, T. J. Long, postmaster ; at
Chester, Spokane county, Alvln 1.
Church, postmaster.
The Sftiita Clara County Board of Su
pervisors has made a report charging the
Bheritr with appropriating to his own us
half the money allowed by ttie county
lor the support ot prisoners
The Southern California Editorial As
sociation, which has been in session at
Hsiita Barbara for four days phmI, ad
journed yesterday. Madame Modjevka
delivered an address to the association.
The A. O U. V. Grand Lmlue of Ore
gon and Washington, which has been in
session at AMoris, Or., has adjourned
tint 1 the third Wednesday In July, IMtl,
when it will convene at Victoria, B C.
Thre hoodlums tt Jefferson, Or., en
tered a Chinese house and held the Mon
ffolisns outside the building while they
robbed It of $1 0, and with coal oil
started a blase that destroyed the build
tog-
A. Hunt sank an artesian well 180 feet
to miles from Sun Bernardino recently
The water rises thirty inches alve the
top oi me casing, anil siones oi cwnieen
pounds' weight are occasionally thrown
out.
The land suit of the State of Washing
ton against John O. McBride for lane's
DearTacoma is develop ng a bold scheme
ot land grabbing, although mining ex
perls testified directly opposite to each
other.
The harvest of cereals In Oregon and
Washington will be the heaviest ever
known, especially In the Inland Empire,
where crops were short last year. There
will be magnificent crops of apples, pears
and peaches.
A Wire acreage of timber land in Ber
nalillo and Valencia counties, N. M., has
been purchased by Michigan lumber
merchants, and a system of saw mills is
to be established. The property. is on
the Atlantic and 1'aciflc road.
Work will be commenced this we k on
thirty milt s ot new ro d for the South
ern 1'ai'illc railroad through Cow Crtek
canyon. Or., that is to replace the road
daman? d and destroyed by the big land
slide ol last February, and including two
short tunnels about !io0 feet long.
Chief Knglneer Kendrick of the North
era Pacific railroad at Tacoma says thai
the road will be extended from Qraud
Coulee, the present western terminus of
the Washington Central line, to the Co
lumhia river at a p 4 nt near the mouth
of the Okanogan river before the snow
flies.
Judge Kibhey at Phwnls, A. T , holds
tint the twenty-lour Chinese lu arrest
there csnnot claim the privilege of ha
beas corpus, they being aliens and beinx
in the country illegally and in direct vio
lation of a Congressional enactment
The Chinese will be sent to San Fran
cisco for shipment to China.
It Is reported that not a case of Co-Ininbia-river
salmon has been so'd in
England this year, and that Fraser-river
Dsh is given the preference. All the can
neries in operation have done consider
ably more than they expected.
Sacramento has Toted to Issue bond
for INM.OuO st 6 per ceut. for twenty
years for street work, but $.1,000 of the
prin I pl to he redeemed each year, and
only so much ot the loan made each ye ir
as is necessary to pay one-quarter of the
cost of the street work.
It is seml-ofhVially announced Ilia' the
assessment of Los Angeles county will
show about $07,000,000 north of pniprty.
This is a decrease of $17,000,000 over the
assessed valuation of two years ago. This
decrease is due to the fail that Orange
county has Imn detached from Loa An
geles since the last assessment.
Major Blakeney, Superintendent of the
lite-saving service, bss receive-1 instruc
tions to have three new life-saving sta
tions established oa the northern coast
one to be located at the mouth of the
Umpqua river, one on Coos bay and the
third at the mouth of the Cuqmile river.
Bids will be advertised for, to be sent in
on August &.
Henry Bueey, President of the Tacnma
and Seattle Air Line railroad, says that
the construction of the line will fx gin as
soon as Congress passes the bill giving
the company the rght ol way through
the Indian reservation. He is in receipt
of a letter from Senator Dolph of Oregon,
in which the latter says that In bis opin
ion the bill will pass without opposition.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Indiana White Caps Whip a Poor
House Superintendent, v
Wlman Declines to Return to Canada
and Become the Leader of the
Liberal Party.
The estlmsted Increase of the popula
tion of New Hampshire is 30,000.
It has been decided In Philadelphia
that Sunday shaving Is not a necessity.
The Vermont Assessor's annual report
will show a mark) d depreciation in the
value of forming lands.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has begun an Inquiry to uncover the ma
nipulation in grain rates.
Florida Intends to ask for the same
amount of space at the World's Fair as
that desired by California. ,
The price of Ice lias been advanced in
St. Louis to $1 per 100 pounds, and noth
ing l"ss than tun pounds is sold.
The latest estimate or rough count
gives St. Louis a population of 448,124,
Baltimore 433,000 and Chicago 1,100,000.
New York Is breaking np the clock
stock game. The principal runners of
the concern were arrested for selling
stock in a mythical mine.
The Georgia Melon Exchange, which
was formed by the leading growers with
a view to regulating the output and mak
ing the sales direct to retailers, has gone
nnder.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
vetoed the bill authorising the consolida
tion of gas and electric-light companies.
The Senate refused to pass the bill over
the veto.
The President has returned to the
House without his approval the bill ex
tending the time of payment to purchas
er of land of the Omaha tribe of Indians
us. Nebraska.
The bill to send a commission to Ore
gon to negotiate for the purchase of the
surplus acreage of the Puyallup Indians
has been favorably reported to tne Lower
House of Congress.
A huge tower, eleven stories high, Is
to be erected at South Kingston, K. I.,
and dedicated to the advent of modern
eplritualism by Joseph P. Haxard, a
wealthy spiritualist of that pla- e.
The National Starch Manufacturing
Company, the $10,600,000 capital stock
of which has been listed by the Stock
Hxchange, has bought outright all the
principal starch works in the country.
British Minister Panncefote denies that
negotiations with .Mr. Blaine over the
Behring sea controversy have lieen broken
i ft. A report to that effect having been
published called forth this public denial.
' White Caps in Harrison county, Ind.,
took the Superintendent of the county
ponrhoiiHe, John H. Denhne. from his
bed and gave him twenty-five lashes. He
was charged with maltreating his charges.
A pneumatic gun, which easily throws
an eight-inch shell a distance of 3,200
yards. Intended for dynamite and to be
used for coast defense in England, was
successfully tried at Cold Springs, N. Y.
The United Slates Book Company has
teen formed at New York, with a capital
of $3.2 )0,000, sud all the business In low
priced publications which have been car
ried on by twenty-one concerns has been
absorbed.
The Chicago Railway Association has
djclded to make a reduction of '8.75 lo
i he passenger rate from Chicago to He
cna and Montana points alter Angust 1,
liAcaice the Northern Pacific cut the rate
f ora St. Paul.
Notice Is given that on or about August
1, 1890, a fixed white light of the fifth
order will tie exhibited from the struct
ure recently erected on the northeastern
ixtremity of Ballast Point The light
will illuminate tne entire uoriion.
A hl'l has been reported favorably to
the House granting $12 per month to all
women who served as army nurses In
the the late war for a period of six
months or more, and who rendered serv
I. b to the sick on the batile-field.
By a decision of the Supreme Court of
Ohio property to the taxable value of $1,'
0l4,i 00 ia restored to the tax duplicate of
Hamilton county, having been omitted
for four year. The taxes on this to be
I aid to the city are about $150,000.
Erastus iman declines to return to
Canada and enter olitlcs as the leader
i f the Liberal party. He is convinced
ti at lie can serve the IXmiluioo most !
f ctually by remaining in New York and
p ishlng bis agitation for commercial
uiiioc.
An Inspector ot customs at New York
s lied from Adolph Nordman of Callfor-
la, who arrived on the steamship U
Bretairne, a gold watch valued at $250,
w inch ne had concealed on his person.
Nordman says the watch was for his own
personal use.
Ilelirv Root of San Francisco hoahemin
uit against the Third-avenue Cable Com
pany at .New lork to restrain the com
pany from using a grin apparatus on the
cable road which he claims to own. He
says he purchased the grip from the pat
entee, Henry Casebolt.
An appendix to the sentence of the
Pope in the Burtsell cam de lares that
hcncelorth it is established tint the Bish-
ivs of the United States have full power.
w ithout having recourse to the Prowa-
g nds, to transfer from one pirish to an-
iner miliars oi posts not essentially Ir-
n movable.
At the Cheyenne Agency the Iudiani
have been without meat rations tor four
days, owing to the cattle not being driven
io from the rang. Twelve died of con
sumption and lung fever, and the physi
cian noa many more serious esses on his
hands. Sickness prevails almost entire
ly among the semi-civilised.
A week ago, at the Instance of Die Brit
ish Uoverumeiit, Uie Canadian Govern
ment carried into effect an act, passed
last session, making it punishable w ith
Imprisonment lor lite lor an ottlfer or of
ficial of the Canadian Government to
furnish any Information regarding the
defenses of the country to foreign
State
A suit has been enter d at New York
in which the complaint charges that the
Westers Union Telegraph Company and
the Bell Telephone Company bare en
ured into a flagrant and deliberate con
spiracy to defy the law and to prevent
Uie bnrying of wires in New York city.
A revolution is threatened In the wine
traiie Some one baa discovered a method
of making wine from raisins, which, it is
said, gives better results than wines
ma le from grapee. However that may
be. ths French Government have been
so mnch influenced by the proposal as to
impose a heavy excise duty on raisins.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cholera in Spain More Serious
Than at First Reported.
Six of the Paris Nihilists Convicted and
Sentenced Russia Enrolling
More Recruits.
Serious rioting is reported at Iqulque,
Peru, growing out ol a strike.
Portugal hoi made a general increase
of 6 per cent In the taxation.
The arbitration of the Delagoa Bay
railway matter has been settled.
The family of President Menendes of
San Salvador declare that he died of apo
plexy.
Prince Bismarck Is expe. ted to visit
London after Emperor William returns
to Berlin.
The Montevideo Bourse has been
closed. The crisis there has caused great
excitement.
China Intends to borrow 30,000,000
taels of American silver for building
strategic railways in Manchuria.
It la believed that Balfour will succeed
William II. Smith as government leader
in the British House ol Commons.
Firework exhibitions at the London
Crystal Palace are unusnaUy grand this
summer, and attract greater crowus man
ever.
Six of the Parisian Nihilists hae lieen
convicted and sentenced each to three
years' imprisonment and a One ot 200
francs.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has sub
scribed 1.000 marks toward the Bismarck
memorial, which it is proposed to erect
in Berlin.
Further French interference with the
fishermen on the Newfoundland coast
has occurred, and the usual indignation
is reported.
The cholera epidemic in Valencia,
Soain. Is more serious than has been be
lieved. The authorities have hidden the
true state of affairs.
The largest contingent of recruits ever
demanded bv the hussian war omc
270,000 was fixed for the next enroll
ment by the latest ukase.
The papers at Munich are praising
Henry Vdlard, and admiringly comment
on his donation oi i.w.ooj to inentva
rian Society of the Ked Cross.
Bines the snow was melted and the
passage from Turkey opened the border
lands of the district of Ksrs are troubled
with bands of Turkish robbers.
Russia has ordered to be manufactured
In France a uuantitv of new infantry ri
lies, modified from the French standard
ritle and without the mayatiue feature
The London Chronicle's Rome corre
spondent says : The Pope has become
very feeble, and Is preparing written in
structions for the guidance of his succes
sor. ,
An electric brake has been devised In
Eng'and. by means of which a train go
ing at the rate of thirty miles an hour
can be brought to a standstill iu a space
of 2 .0 feet.
The British foreign office has issued
the text of the Anglo-German agreement
and omvial correspondence on the sub'
loct. There is nothing new in regard to
East Africa
It is reported at Berlin that Minister
of Public Works May bach and Minister
of Public Worship and Education Von
Uosler win resign on the return oi r.m
peror William.
London, jealous of Paris with its Eiffel
tower, resolved to hav a similar con
trivance, and prizes were awarded for i
device which is a deliberate imitation of
Eiffel's structure.
Madame Rosa Klrschbaum, the first
lady admitted to medical practice in Aus
tria, has Inst been authorised by special
Imperial decree to conduct a hospital for
eye diseases at Salzburg.
The Prince of Wales continues to grow
stout and gray. It is said of him that he
is disinclined to make any exertion, and
the only place to which he does not drive
is to meals and to ben.
i
Stanley's new book, " Darkest Africa,"
has had a sale exceeding the most san
guine expectations In London The first
edition has been exhausted, and a second
one is about to be issued.
The Minister ot Russian Imperial
Property hss given notice to the War Im
pertinent to send out troops ot so'diers
to the Caticasisn districts to destroy the
locusts which Infoct that regl in.
The grievances ot the London postmen
are still unattended to, and the men
threaten to leave work. Should they do
so, the whole postal machinery of Eng
land would be thrown out ol gear.
According to a recent ukase of the Czar
no person w'o Is not oi the t'hns tan
faith will be allowed to serve on a jury,
unless by the specUl appro alof the Mi n
isterof the Interior and of the MinisUr
of Justice.
Since about the middle of May the
city of Tomsk In Milwria has been under
water. A dispatch dated June II reports
that in several straets ot the inundated
place the people are still rowing In boats
among the ruins.
It is stated that Prince Bismarck has
begged the Emperor to diseouutenan e
the project to erect a Bismarck monu
ment during the Prince's lifetime. The
Prince asks that the funds tor that pur
pose be devoted to erecting a church in
memory ot Emperor William I.
Signor Arrigo, the It ilian banker jus'
ransomed from Sicilian b.mditti for the
round sum of $l'5,0W in gold, says that
his captors kept him in the bottom of s
dry well, where they furnished him reg-
u any witn lood. At tne end oi a certain
time, nnless ransomed, he was to b
killed.
At the last sitting of the Academy of
Medicine M. Lttarde of the Paris faculty
announced his discovery of a new aim-s
thetic, which he calls crys'allized nar
oein. A solution of this subeisnce semis
the patient into a sound sleep tree fr-in
vomiting or digestive derangement sn
without su'wquent torpor. So far ex
periments have been confined to rabbits
RAPID BEATING OP THE HEART.
Whenever yon feel an nnasiness In
the region oi the heart, a slight pain In
the shoulder, arm, or und- r Ihe shoulder
blade, or when you find yourself short of
breath when exercising, or your heart
hss pertoda ol Dealing last, yon rave
heart disease, and should take la.
Fust's Rxxidy. Descriptive treatise
with each bottle; or address Mack lrug
Co., New York.
PORTLAND MARKET.
WHaAT-Tbers li a Una feellDi In tbs local
ms set, but trsdlni lacks actlrlty. Tbsihlpplnt
demand li light, and millers art pulr purcbs
loisparinilr- QtwUlloni rang from ll.BH'1-25
tor Valley and 11.20 nominal lor Walls Walla Tta
wratber throughout England conlluues anfavor
We, and foreign market an strong, wlln the
prospect of a Hill farther sdrancs In values.
rLOUR-Themarketremsiiiitheiame. Quote:
ttsndtrd, 3.76; ouUlde brsudi, 11 M per barrel.
OATff-Tbe market Is Una. Quote: UXiUle per
bmliel.
M 1 1 .LsTU KFH The market is (Inn. Quote:
Bran, H&1; aborts, I17(l; Qronnd Barley,
2Wg; Chop Feed.ltf; Middlings, ra.6025.00
per ton.
HAY-Ths msrket Is steady. Quote:
per ton.
VE0KTABLK8 The market Is Arm. Orefnn
sod California Potatoes, California Tomatoes
and California Wax Beans bare fallen. Oregon
Turnlptbsve advanced. Quote: CallforulaCsb
bag", 12.10 per cental; O egon, 75Tt0c per doien;
California Cauliflower 11.25 per dozen; Oregon
Ureeu Peas, &c per pouud; young Onloni and
Lettuce, lte per doicu bunches; new California
Onion-, 2c per pound; Oregon Wring Beam, 41,"
per pouud; California Cucumbers, 1Sc; Oretou,
ttc per dost-n; California Carrots, 11.25; Oregon,
11.15 per sack; California Anparagui, $2.25 per
box; Oregon, In ba'k, lOe per pouud; Oregon
Oreeo Beets, 15c perdoien; California Turnips,
11.50; Oregon, i per sack; California Tomatoes.
Il.60fitl.76 per box; California Wax Beans, (c per
pound; California Coro,2 per box; new fill
ornla Potatoes, ll.6asl.75; new Oregon, 11.61X3
L76 per cental.
mUITS-raucy Hlclly Lemons bsve advanced
II per box. California Peaches and Plums hare
also advanced. Pineapples have fallen. There
are some Oregon Apples and Peaches and a few
Oregon Blackberries In ths market. Oregon
Plums are exp.cted to strive dally. Quote: Cal
Ifornla Lemons, 14.60; fancy nlclly, Is per box
California Apricots, 1 per box; California
Plums, 0tf4ll.6O; California Pears, 1.2tf42 per
box: Pineapples, 4.6f(i5 per doien; Bananas,
Ingle buueues, 111.75; douMe,6; California aud
Oregon Apples, 11.75 per 60 pound box; Csllfor
ula Peaches, fl.2n91.40 per box; Oregon, 1 25
per box; Oregon Cneirlea,6.Y$5c per box; Ore
gon CurrsnK 6c per pound; Oregon Raspberries,
red, 7c; Msck, 10c per pound; Oregon Blackber
ries, 7r$Hc per pouud.
CIIKKHE Quote: Oregon, U12o; Callfof
nla, y10c; Young America, liKstllc per pound
BUrTSK-Ths market Is firm. Quota: Ore
gon fancy dairy, 25c: fancy creamery, 27c;
good to fair, 20(4220; common, 1517c; choice
California, WUo per pound.
EUUs-Tue market Is Arm. Quote: 20c per
doien for Oregon.
POUI.TKY-Tue market Is firm. Quote: Old
Chickens, a; large spring, 84; small spring, 2
(92.50; old Ducks, H&05; young, tf; oll
Oeew,6; young, pvt per dosen; Turkeys, Uc
par pound.
The Merchandise Market.
8UOAR9-The market Is a little weaker, and
prices bsv - fallen !o. Quo'e: Golden C, 44c;
extia C, 6'4c; dry grauulatod, t i cube crushed
and powdered, (e per pound.
BBANd The market li Heady. Quote: Small
Whites, 3; Pink, 14; Bayos, $4.50; Butter, l;
Llmsi, 15.60 per e ntal.
PRIED FRUITS The market Is ste dy. Quote
Plnuimer dried Pears, 10llc; andrlrd aud fac
tory Plums, 6'V8c; Peaches, sun-dried, lO'e
evsorsUd Peaches, 1617c; Smyrna Figs, 143
16c; California Flos, tc per pound.
CANNED GOOD-The market It steady, with
the following quotations: Table Fruits,
Fetches, 2; Bartl-jtt Pears, 1.V0; Plums, 11.05;
Strawberries, 2.25; Cherries, 12; Blackberries,
(1.86(31.96: Raspberries, 2.22.60. Pie Fruit
Anorted, 18.50 per doien; Peacnei, 1.25l.90;
Plums 11.25; Hlackberrles, 11.15; Tomatoes, 11.10
$3.50; Sugar Pest, ll.40l.0; String Besus,l
RICE-Quote: 6'j'c per pouud.
IIOP8-Tbe msrket Is steady, with nominal
prices. Quote: 10c per pound.
HIDBd The msrket continues the same.
Quote: Dry Hi les, selected prime, &9c, Vfi leu
(or culls; greeu, selected, over 56 pounds, 4c;
under 66 pounds, Sc; Sheep Pelts, short wool,
30450c; medium, dOutsoc; long, McJ1.25: Shear
lings, lu.'Oc; Tallow, good to choice, 3'lc.
WOOL-Market Is uucbauged. Quote: East'
em Oreg-in, 1016c; Valley, WgtlSc per pound.
NA1I.S Base quotations: Iron, 3.20; Steel,
1130; Wire, 13.90 per keg.
The Meat Market.
The market Is Arm. Quotations:
Beef Live, 3l($c: dressed, 7c.
Mutton Live, ViWie; drossod,7c.
Hogt Live, 6c; dressed; 6c.
Veal 67c per pouud.
Spring Lamba-2 each.
SMOXKO MIATS AND LASD.
The market Is Arm. Quotations: Eastern
Hams. 12Vtl3'p; Breakfast Bacon, 12',(i:i!io;
Sides, SSdtc; Urd, 9',(10Sc per pound.
Fartnnes In Beat Estatow
Many men of very moderate means.
some with no capital save a fair sal
arv. have founded fortunes on real es
tate speculations bv beirinninir in a
small way. There are always oppor
tuniues for the investment oi a few
hundred dollars where the returns
bring a modest profit, with little il
any dancer of loss, and it la bv watch
Ing for these opportunities to invest
that the wide awake poor man makes
a start as a real estate speculator.
Agents often reap the benefit of such
deals, but as a rule they look first at
the commissions and are keen to sell
and resell and lot the purchaser reap
what profit he can. I have known
agents to sell property where a profit
was almost a certainty and advance
the purchase money to their customci
to consummate the deal St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Why.
It b a pity that some people are not
so quick with their hands as they on
witn their tongues, A farmer onct
had a Terr lazy helper. One day hi
returned from market and found hi
man sound asleep under a tree.
"Whatr exclaimed the farmer,
"asleep when you should be at work!
You are an idle wretch, and not worth
that the sun should shine upon youf
"I know it; I know it, said the
man, sitting up and yawning, "and
that's the reason I lay down here Ui
the shade I" Youth's Companion.
m Be
"Goodlivor. I am told that tout
wife is a moat excellent cook I" "Well,
yes, she is. I was paving her $3 o
week for it when 1 marnod her. "1
tee ; to you married your cook to make
sure of a good tablef "Just so; but
sine our marriage we hire a woman
who doesn't know a steak from a
squash, to give us both the dyspeiKiu.
Bay, what would become of us all if it
was the custom for a man to abandon
his business and give up his professiot:
when he got marriedl" Bob Burdctte
At the recent conference at Mamooth.
Ireland, the Roman Catholic prelates re
solved thai the time has arrived when
very decided action should be la.en to
enforce their claims rpon the govern met. t
on the subject of education.
Hvnnolism has reached that mint thsl
the r'ren h authorities think of creating
a superior council of medical jurispru
dence at the Ministry of Justice, to be
composed of medical men and ni-gjt-traU-s,
who will be reuirei to give opin
ions as to the responsibility of criminals
in connection with the questions of sne-
gestion and hypnotism and heredity.
THE TAILOR'8 COMMENT.
E Has to Crdlt Bis Customers to K9
tha Trade. Which Is Bard to Oat.
"Fine custom tailoring is not what
It used to be," said a Brooklyn man in
the business to an Eagle reporter, "and
the big houses are just driving us to
the wall I suppose it is the same in
everything else, but, of course, you
know our trade is the first to suffer
from competition of that kind."
"How is that?"
"I am surprised that you ask me
such a question," replied the tailor,
slightly elevating his eyebrows,
"when you should know, if you do
not, that we must get a large profit on
a custom made suit of clothes to make
any money. Why! Because there
has been an unwritten law from time
immemorial which allows a man to
pay his tailor's bill last of alL Now,
a person can't get credit to any amou nt
In one of the nig establishment. If
he orders a suit at such a place he must
leave a deposit, and the balance is de
manded when the clothes aredeliv
ered. On the other hand, a tailor who
has a small shop must cater to his cus
tomers by allowing credit. Now, in
these times of sharp competition, high
rents and heavy expenses for skilled
labor, you will see that it takes the
profit upon a great many suits of
clothes to pay running expenses and
lay up something for dull times.
When there was less competition we
could get along, but now, beside the
big e8tablishmenU where they can get
up a suitof clothes for almost nothing,
there are innumerable shops where
they sell fashionable looking clothes
imitations of the clothes we keep, of
course for just about half the money
we can sell the real gooas lor. hi lor
mer years, the fine custom tailors and
the ready made stores monopolized the
business. Neither interfered with the
trade of the other, and consequently
we bad a certain hold on our custom
era, who, in order to get new clothes
of us, would pay their bills rather
than be forced into buying ready
made garments. Now they leave our
bills unpaid and go to one of the
cheap custom stores, pay cash for in
ferior goods, and then come bock and
tell us how exorbitant our prices are.
Why, it's enough to drive a man crazy
sometimes. Yes. the better class of
small tailoring shops are being driven
out of business, and it's too nod, for
the establishments that are driving
them out are doing a much inferior
kind of work. The great object with
them is to make up and sell fashion
able goods at a low figure. Now, I
will not say that the material they use
is all shoddy far from it It is sur
prising for what a small sum they can
soil really good clothes. How do they
do itf Well, in the first place, they
rely to a great degree upon transient
trade. Secondly, the credit system is
tabooed and they get cash for their
goods. Thirdly, they pay the lowest
wages possible to their help. Fourth-
Sr, they do not pretend to put the
nish on their goods that a first class
tailor docs. A man argues in this way
when he patronizes one of these shops:
He says to himself: 'I have been pay
ing $16 for trousers, while here is a
man who says he can get me up a
pair equally good for $8. I know that
he can t do it, but I also know that for
fit ana appearance his $8 trousers will
for a considerable time be as good as my
$16 pair, consequently I will buy the
$3 ones and when they are worn out I
can get another pair, paying for both
pairs what I would ordinarily pay for
one.' Now, you see, if his argument
is a good one he would be very fool
ish u he did not take advantage of the
cheaper man. After all," concluded
the tailor, sighing, "if i weren't that
we were expected to give such long
credit I don t know that we would be
any worse off than our neighbors.
That is what is killing us," Brooklyn
Eagle.
Queer Torch Bearers.
In some parts of northern Africa,
says Mr. C. V. Holder, it was the cus
tom years ago to employ large baboons
to hold torches at balls and other en
tertainments given at night. On one
occasion the owner of half a dozen of
these curious creatures ga ve a ball, and
had the eutire force seated upon a
bench, each holding a torch or flam
beau. Everything proceeded smooth
ly, until finally one of the baboons
probably dropped asleep, and allowed
its torch to strike its neighbor. In
stantly there arose a dreadful shriek,
and a horrible odor of burut hair.
The victim, intent upon retaliation,
struck the sleeper violently with its
torch, thus burning another, and soon
all the torch bearers were engaged iu
a sanguinary encounter. The howls
of rage and agony completely drowued
the music and broke up the entertain
mentPhiladelphia Times.
Tha British Empire.
The queen of Great Britain is now
sovereign over s continent, 100 peniii
aulas, 600 promonitories. 1,000 lakes.
2,000 rivers and 10.000 islands. Blie
waves her hand and 900,000 warriors
march to battle to conqueror die. She
bends her head and at the signal 1,000
hips of war and 100,000 sailors per
form her bidding on the ocean. She
walks upon the earth and 80,000,000
human beings feel the least pressure
of her foot. The Assyrian empire
was not so populous. The Persian
empire was not so powerful The
Carthaginian empire was not so much
dreaded. The Spanish empire was not
so widely diffused. The Roman power
was weak in comparison, and Greece
was as a small village. Detroit Free
Press.
Modjeska and Martlnot
Bevnnri hoinc tnnA rt ,Am i:r.
on her ranch in fiilifnrnin Xfivltncb I
has no well defined tastes for anything
in particular. She loves to ride a horse
or to drive a team over the country
roaoa round aooui ner. She is fond of
-I a.' I a
uauiug. siioouog, ana in tact every
thing that appertains to the glorious I
me vi a ruuuu owner. ) ,
There ia nnthino- krn;ni
- P .(lain
Invnaart wall ui ruipAf .nimil I
i ' . 1"-- v. Buiiimi nurses
and an nnen rirtnria in tha noi.b
-g .u ...w i vlI
a fine afternoon it is there she may
sjssjs ua aceo, ana usually in the
company of her manager, Mr. Am
berg, who recently presented her with
a handsome team. New York Journal
I
Xot Eatlrslx a Slav t taa Habit.
Visitor (ohilanthmnimll t
Auntie, donl VOU think nr.,.
njoy better health and live longer if
jvu cuuiu quit sniOKingl
Auntie (aged 8S1-1 dont smoke all
the time, mum. Sometimes I go half
a day Uout touchin' my pipe. Been
douV that away, off an' on, fur about
l great-great-grandson) you
George YVaah'ntonl give the lady a
vuoor ur u ui ess jtrg ifie lop rer
head ofTn ye l-fur about seventr fire
year, mum. land takes, I ain no 1
Ut to the habit-ChicaiTO Tribune. '
. a WICKED STUDENT'S TRICK.
Tha Goodly Polleemoa of Boston Chase a
Barber's Pola aud IU Owners.
Not a great while ago a party pf
half dozen Harvard students were in
a barber's shop in this city, and after
having been beautified and adorned
tonsonally, one of the number was
struck with an idea. It was comn.u
nicated to his companions, and with
out a dissenting voice agreed to. Ihe
proposition was nothing less than lo
purchase the barber's pole, which was
Sone, and a receipt taken. Then the
young men sallied forth with their
striped and parti-colored acquisition.
They bad not gone far, however, when
they were overhauled by a policeman.
Tlello, therel what are you doing
with that pole?"
"That's our business.
"Your business, ehf Well, 111
make it mina Come along- with me I
They were marched straight to the
nearest station, and stood up In line
before the captain.
"What's the trouble, officer! asked
the captain.
"Stealing a barber's pole.
The officer felt quite proud of his
capture and related with particularity
all the circumstances of his arrest.
The captain looked upon the offenders
and was about to order them to be
locked up for the night, when one of
the students produced a paper and sug
gested that perhaps the captain might
hke to look at that. The captain
looked at it Then turning to the po
liceman he said: "Officer, you may
return to your beat" A moment lut
er the students might have been seen
filing out of the station with their tou
sorial standard held proudly aloft
They had not gone far, however,
before they were again brought to a
bait by another officer, who, like his
predecessor, wanted to know where
they were going with that pole. He
was informed that that was their busi
ness, and he in turn assured them that
he would make it his business, whir, h
he did by escorting them to the self
same station they had just quitted.
"What's the trouble, officer?"
"These fellows have stole a barber's
pole, and"
"Very well ; you may return to your
beat"
The captain smiled as he dismissed
the students. Hardly had he resumed
his wonted gravity of aspect before
the door opened and again entered a
policeman, six young men and a bar
ber's pole.
And so it went on. Six several
times were the students and their bar
berous property brought by as many
different policemen into that station,
and had not an officer been specially
sent out to warn all patrolmen under
no circumstances to interfere with six
young men and a barber's pole, it is
more than likely that that pole and its
bearers would have been brought into
that station as many times that night
as there were patrolmen in the dis
trict ' People who wondered what was the
cause of the hilarious laughter which
proceeded from the usually grave and
quiet station, on the night in question,
are now fully informed of the same.
Boston Transcript
Wonts aad Her Latch Key.
If you have never had the pleasure
of watching a woman open her front
door by means of a latch key it is
worth dawdling away the fifteen min
utes she requires for the operation to
be amused at the thorough femininity
of her actions. The oilier evening,
shortly before dusk, a bright faced,
quick stepping girl, buttoned up in an
English walking jacket, swinging a
long handled parasol and carrying
half a dozen small parcels, passed
briskly by, on Camp street to run up
a flight of stone steps and open siege
on the front entrance with the skele
ton instrument concealed somewhere
about her person. First she shifted
the responsibility of purse, packages,
umbrella and handkerchief on one
hand, while she used the other to feci
in both coat pockets for the key. They
failed to produce it, and by that time
one bundle and the tiresome parasol
lay half way down the stoop. With
slightly flushed cheeks the girl picked
up the awkward parachute, leaned it
up in one corner, took a firmer hold on
the slippery parcels and examined the
palms of her snugly fitting gloves.
This process gave her handkerchief
to the breeze, and mistaking the trifle
for a miniature sail, the zephyr play
fully caught it up and helped it flutter
a dozen paces down the street By this
time a tense expression had grown
about the young lady's lips; she paid
no heed to the results of an evening's
industrious shopping now lying scat
tered at her feet, but plunged Doldly
into the intricacies of tier smooth dra
peries and instituted instant search for
a secret pocket With nervous fingers
she pulled at one fold after another
until Anally a section gave way, and
with a lurch her hand disappeared in
the depths of some hidden recess. The
triumphant expression beginning to
dawn over the girl's features gave way
first to one of dismay, and then grow
ing mortification as memory seemed
to point to the exact snot on her dress
iug table from which she had not
taken her key that afternoon. Indig
nant and disgusted, this independent
young woman gave a vicious tug to
the bell, bowed numbly as a sympa
thetic man gathered up and re
stored her disordered belongings, and
with meek head passed out of sight
through the door held open by the
smiling iraid. New Orleans Pica
yune. Chlldrea Boasht and Bold.
Poor girls are of no account in
China and infanticide is still common.
You can buy a girl baby for from om
cent up to a dollar, and at the Jesuit
children's asylum, near Shanghai, one
of the sisters told me that they bought
hundreds of girls every year for less
than a dollar apiece.
At Foo Chow. Mr. Wingate. our
consul, told me of a poor woman who
strangled her own baby girl in order
that she might adopt the baby of a
iiciguuur io raise as a wue lor her
uo sun, aou a missionary there
me of a man who went around
told
pod
dling children. There is a found
lllllfr
asylum here which unnn iha norn.ni
of 25 cents by the mother, wifltake a
girl baby to raise, but these girls are
sold as soon as they grow much past
the weaning age, and they are bought
in large numbers by the brothel keep
era. The selling of girls for wives and
concubines is common and full grown
maidens bring from $23 upward. -Frank
G. Carpenter.
Some people wonder why the corporals
of police never find the patrolmen sitting
down on their beats. And then they
wonder why the corporala, in making
their rounds, pound on the sidewalks
witn clubs loud enough for the patrol
man to bear.
THE BORDERLAND,
Cpoa the bordi-rlsn l we wtJ,
Our labors quite ari o'er
We see brixnt glmuu from' 8old-
Uk-hl up Ihe sliver .burs.
Our ship lire moored upjn u,.
For wlnUt or hulil in He"
And night's black roum scrUuu.
Cost shadows dark and ilMp, '
We blde-ablde-Jiui till tl .
Dispels the shailvs or ulittiL
And wakes okoIu the wlnla ,od.
To ureas our suils for aik-Ll
Then wide wssnn-ad the whits b,j
And hasten to be free. WH
We welcome on the threstenlns r.u
That lashes whit the u.
How nigh o'er storm cloud sod On hu
That sweeps tlw angry w
Our spirit reaubeth, cllugetb fut
O Ood, In folia to thee.
Pretty Fine Wrltlnj,
Up In a book dealer's place In Brwi
way, not far from Eighth street, ronV
Ity seekers and men who can afford!
Indulge their love for queer maimjcriw!
ean find, perhaps, the strangest tit
writing known. On a piece of paJ"
ment like paper, five feet wide and l!
feet five inches high, are written all tb!
books of the Old Testament, formfngti,
design of a window in Kiug Solomon1,
temple. No lines are twed. Written
words form the whole design. The writ
Ing is very minute, but legible to thi
naked eye. Ink of three colors was turf
but principally black ink. It is svm
Intricate piece of work, marvelous hi iu
way, and must have taken considenlj
time and patience.
The work was executed by one D; U
Davidson, apparently in a mood of re
Ugions fervor. He was blind of an eye, and
his manner of writing was to lie at' frfl
length upon the floor, on his stomach
with his eye (he was near sighted) very
olose to the paper. lie died some twentr
years ago. Each chapter and verse y
numbered. The writing is not rannfoi
script, but each letter is separate; nor
are the letters much, if any, larger than
a thirty-second of an inch high.-Kew
York Press.
Blood In the Body.
The amount of blood in the body
sne-thirtieth the weight of the body, or
five or six quarts, or eleven or twe'fr,
pounds. The average mun dies when h
has lost one-fifth of his blood. The heart
with each contraction ejects six onm-ei
of blood from each ventricle, at a pre
ore in the left ventricle of one-fourth of
an atmosphere. The heart sends all tin
blood around the body of the arerat
man once every thirty seconds, or in
about thirty-five contractions of the
organ. A deadly poison injected into
the veins kills in fifteen seconds on tin
average; injected under the skin in about
foar minutes. A cubic millimeter of
blood contains 5,000,000 blood cells in
the average man, and about 4,500,000 in
the average woman. There are SIX) red
cells to every one white blood celL Tha
red cells huve an average diameter of
1-8,200 of an inch, the white cells of
1-25,000 of an inch. The specific gravity
of blood is 1.055. The frequency of the
pulse in the new born is 150; in infants
1 year old, 110; at 2 years, 95; from ? to
U, 85; in adult man, 75; woman, 80.
The respirations are one-fourth as rapid
as the pulse. tit. Louis Republic.
Ancient Feet.
A noticeable thing about the statues
found in om museums of art, supposed
to represent the perfect figurei of ancient
men and women, is the apparently dis
proportionate size of their feet We mod
erns are apt to pronounce them too large,
particularly those of the females. It will
be found, however, that for symmetrical
perfection these feet could not be better.
A Greek sculptor would not think of such
a thing as putting a nine inch foot on i
five and one-half foot woman. Their
types for these classical marble figures
were taken from the most perfect forme
of living persons. Shoe aud Leather Be-
DQiter.
Just Like Pork.
A friend of mine who used to have I
house in Paris under the empire, and
was well acquainted with all the artisti
of Imperial France, told me apropos of
the picture by Oerouie, exhibited u
the American calleries, a story that ii
worth repeating here. Every one who
loves art must know the picture (or tne
engraving from the picture) representing
"Moliore Breakfasting with Louis Qua-
torze." My friend happened to run into
(Jeromes studio just after the canvas
was completed. It was in its frame and
on the easel, and Uerome was chuckling
In his saturnine way as he entered.
"What do vou think?" said the paiDter,
"I have just received the visit of an
American richard, who has made w
what he considers a great oiler for mj
Moliore.' lie has offered rue a thousand
francs a head for it. I have refused, u
I would if there had been a hock of
courtiers. I cannot fancy selling a pic
tures one would pork." The picture
Was sold for 30.000 f rapes. Town Topia
"Yonr Grace."
It is told of the late Duke of Rutland
that he one day met the little daughter
of one of his (ramekeerjers. "Well, littto
one." he asked, "and what do yon call
yourself?" "For what we are about to
receive may the Lord make us truly
thankful; amen," was the Mtonishffll
reply. The child had simply been f
lowing home instructions to the effect
that if the duke should ever address h
she should be sure to say, "lour grow.
New York Tribune.
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PREPARED FROM
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FOR THE CURE or
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DISORDERED STATE of the STOMACH
OR AN
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