EUGENE CITY GUARD.
LL.rAMrHK.LU . lrpritr.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
run pacific coast.
The Cruiser Chailcston Ordered
' to Honolulu.
An American Captain Tells of the Horrible
Atrocities Committed Upon the
Russian h'xlles.
The I'etiitcntiurv CoiiimiaHioners of
Washington have decided to order a 'iff
loom plant for limiting Jute bug In ac
cordance w ith an uctiou of the tant lx-g-inlnture.
The right of way for the Union I'ncillc
between Like Citviiud Tiicoinii linn lawn
nearly all wsmvil. (.'. A. K. NmilH-rt if
H-cimng the right of way on thin jnirtion
of the line. The r.,ml will enter on the
lido Hum near the rexemilluii i-chool.
Free traiiHortHlioii of oil paintings
for the SiMikune Full .urlhw intern In
dustrial KxiKisition from points In Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho and half
rate on exhibits shipped from points
farther east have lieen obtained from the
railroads.
OHcar Nalluu In of Providence, U.
I., la at the Oregon State ayluiii miller
ingfrom hydrophobia. He la rational
at times, bill culls the attention of hi
attendant whan lie feels the milium
coming on. Ilia sufferings are Haul to
lie so terrible tliat lie prays lor an eim
to life.
The steamer Mabel struck fl liirgOBimg
in the Hiiohomiali river the oilier night,
and sank where the water reaches her
onioki'Htiu'k at high tide. The tliauater
waa entirely due to the cnrelcHHiicHa of
loggers, who a few day ago cut oir a
"aawver" sung a few inches la-low the
water without either hanging a buoy or
informing the boata.
Several late arrival of vessel from
Alaska bring reeent intelligence from
Chignik bay. Four cuniieries, managed
liv ilillerent companies, effected a i-oin-
bi nation and worked tn common, nan
were ao ulenliful that hundreds of thou
an lid a were throw n away on account of a
ocai-cily of packing materials, l no loiai
pack at L'hignik bay waa 4:i,,iHL'.
1 The TruMteea of the Senile, Lake Shore
and KuHtern railway met at Seattle hint
week. A. 8. Dunham, the Managing
Trustee, elated that the solo object of
the meeting waa to ratify hoi no ngiu-oi-way
agreement on thu' net extension.
It ia unitci-Mood. however, that the meet
ing had relation to the placing of bonds
to the amount of aluiut tl.UtXJ.OUUin New
York, the proceeds to la? ured in paying
lor new conmruciimi.
The United Slates cruder Charleston
haa sailed lor the llawuiiun Islands in
obedience to telegraphic oniera received
by Hear-Admiral Brown from Secretary
of the Navy Tracy, ordering the veaael
to proceed immediately to Honolulu.
The occasion of the return of the Charles-
ton to Hawaii creates anticipation of an
other revolution in the inlands' king
dom. 'I he Charleston haa a large stock
of fuel and provisions for a one-year
cruise.
The case of the Southern Pacific Colli'
any against the Hecorder of Fresno
county, Cal., has been decided in favor
of the company. The case at issue was
the definition of "course" In collecting
fee on recorded pajicrs. The Hecorder
Ins usually construed the word to mean
the shortest unbroken line between two
points; that a course begins and ends
with the streets and alleys of a block.
The Court decides a "course" to be a
Htraight line M ween two points, whether
broken or not.
The steamship Australia arrived al
Pun Francisco from Honolulu last week,
bringing advices to August 111. Since
the last advices the Legislature has lieen
principally occupied w ith the considera
tion of the Ouhii railway bill. The
J louse panned an amendment giving (lie
company a subsidy of $700 per mile.
King Kalakaua visited the lccr settle
ment August i!7, and addressed the sm-
ido. Orders have been issued by t ho
ilinlstcr of Foreign Atl'iiirs honorably
dislNindlng the First ltuttiillon of Ha
waiian volunteers, known as the Hono
lulu Killus.
It is stilled at Pan Francisco that there
is a probability that the brewers' trust
w ill come to grief, lieiioaita were ) mid
by the syndicate on all concerns pur
chased, lint in most cases the remainder
of the contract baa not been fulfilled.
This is particularly the caso in regard to
the l'hiladelphia brewery. A delimit of
1.0,UJ0 was paid to it to bind the con
tract. Then 500,000 was to have been
paid on the 1st of July last, 1ft iO.iHJJ on
the 1st of August and the balance on the
1st instant. These payments have nut
lieen made, and the whole contract is
about to be declared oil'. The syndicate,
however, has beuii given until the Uth
instant iu which to pay the whole of the
jiurchase money. Should it fail, the
property will revert to Mrs. Wicland,
and the 1150,000 delimit will lie forfeited.
The hnrkentine Catherine I.iedden lias
arrived at Port Townsend from Silieria.
Jler commander, Captain John Thomas,
gives a description of the Kussian exile
system as witnessed by him. He de
scribes a brutal scene, which lie wit
nessed on Saghalien island, the famous
Kussian exile prison. A large party of
exiles of all ages, heavilv manacled,
were being taken to the island. A few
old men, whose strength gave out, fell
from exhaustion. A brutal driver, act
ing under orders from his superior, shot
tiie unfortunate men, and removed their
chains. No mercy or discrimination was
chow n. Wives saw husbands killed he
fore their eyes; mothers saw t heir daugh
ters outragi-d and insulted. The exiles
were driven liku cattle, a heavy whip
being used to urgo them on. The prison
cells were tilthy and the treatment bar
Iwrous. A new bridge hiu just been completed
across the main UniMua river at I'mp
jua ferry. The driving of the last spike
was the 'means of great rejoicing by the
people in that neighbor))!!, and the
exercises were witnessed by M) iieople.
Miss Maud Shatnhnsik drove the Lint
pike. H peer lief were made by several
jiroiniiieiit men of iMtiglas county, and
at night a dance was given by the young
4-eopk-. The structure is a combination
I'ratt trust, and is liKt feel in total length
with one span of A) feet, probably the
longest span in the State at present ; an
other iaii of (ortv-twu feet and the rest
in approaches. The height aliove low
water to the Boor Is tilty-one feet, an. 1
the piers are fort v feet in length. The
bridge is seven feet above high water,
and the total height from low water to
the top of the truss work ia 106 feet. The
cost iu $23,000.
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Little Missouri Range Swept
by a Prairie Fire.
The President Extends the Time for the
Cattle Kings to Remove Their
Stock from the Territory.
Ex-Senator T. C. Piatt of New York
has declined the proll'ered Spanish Mis
sion. The jHipulatlon of Khodo Island Is
given as ;h.i,;h;i. in lwaunc population
was 27tl,5.'II.
A syndicate of American capital
ists is to spend $10,000,000 in railway
building in Jamacia.
One of the largest worsted mills in
Providence has k-en recapitalized in
Knglund and the stock sold.
A vast syndicate of physicians and
others have a project of establishing a
health resort and sanitarium in Florida.
. It In ls-lieved at Washington that He
nicia, (Jal., will be selected by the gov
eminent at which to establish an ord
nance foundry.
Mayor Frank I'. HchiiTbaiicr of Kan
sas (iitv, Kan., has Is-en arrested and
charged with embezzling about 110,000
of the city funds.
Ofllclul dispatches from Honolulu do
not show anything calculated to cause
alarm. The rert that revolution is
rife is discredited. .
(iuests at St. Louis hotels help them
selves since the waiters' strike, and the
Is-st of it is they are not so long about
it and they have no waiters to tip.
Statistic show that the cotton crop
this year is the greatest ever produced,
and that the growers are less in debt
than at any time for twenty-live years.
The (irant Memorial Association has
already raised $150,000, and needs to
raise $:I50,000 more in order to erect the
promised monument in honor ofdenerul
(irant,
A suggestion for n second Iloston me
morial to John Hoy lit O'Heilly calls for a
charity farm of 100 acres near Boston
for that city's homeless Kotnan Catholic
children.
It is retrted in Boston that a note of
the oreester Steel Works lias IK-en pro
tested. The capital of the company is
ffiOO.OiK), but the Commercial Agency
givi-j it no rating.
The committee having in charge the
adjustment of the Virginia debt an
nounces that It has on dctKisit a large
majority of all classes of the securities
under the agreement. . .
The freight brakeuien on the Pittshurir
Shenandoah and Lake Krie railroad at
Mercer, Pa., have gone on a strike for an
advance in wages, and ail freight triune
is ausMuded iu consequence.
It is understood in Wall street at New
York that Norvin (Jroen is about to re
sign as President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. He it to
be succeeded by George Gould.
The Treasury Department lias received
a dispatch from the Collector of Customs
at San rrancisco stating that six ciuna
men had been arrested at Nogalos, A.T.,
for illegally entering the United States.
Mr. Morrow is not a candidate for the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of First Assistant Postmaster-General
Clarkson. Mr. Morrow says he will
start for home as soon as Congress ad
journs. The first week's engagement of Miss
17. a I....I. ttruiu.ul i l,M IIIAtft Hlll-lfiHrifll I
r.liilun w in ! i'iw.vu ... ...-. .......
ever known in the history of Denver.
The gross receipts, which far exceeded
that of the Patti company, amounted
to nearly $:),000.
T..I.H T k'unv oT.ITnitoil Stutes fVin-
troller, who arrived in New York from
France, said that tho American silver
l.iiriuliitlini u'hii'h Iiiim eniisml an advance
in the price of silver, was looked upon
...i.i. r ... . t
Willi luvur i u r.uionr.
Tho President lias agreed, upon the
receint of a written suarantee that half
of the rattle of Indian Territory will be
removed bv NovemlHr 1. that ne will
extend the time for the removal of the
remainder to Ieceniber 1.
The city of Chlcanois endeavoring to
secure the benefits from deposits of city
funds in the banks, lliu Interest nas
for vears lieen alsivo $50,000 annually,
and' the City Treasurer has claimed and
appropriated the sum as penpjiaitea.
A New York evening paper says a jm
tltion is being circulated among the
stockholder of the Illinois Central, org-
ins- them to rise in rebellion against the
present management. The petition says
the company is practically on the verge
of ruin.
Two St. Louts iihvsii ians have filed
complaints in the Prolmte Court for in
quiry us to the sanity of Mrs. Wood-
worm, the evangelist and leaner oi i lie
Oakland (Cat.) doom-sealers, who has
lias been holding meeting at St. Louis
for several months.
AIhiiiI a dozen scientists, arclucologiatM,
botaulsta and simlogist are about to ex
plore Arizona ami New Mexico to exam
ine the remains of ancient eiviluation,
antedating, it Is said, that of the Axtcc
and existmg principally In the Gila val
ev. in the northwest 'iNirt of Arixona.
The peculiar habits of the Zuui and
Navajo Indians will also be investigated.
A prairie lire ravaged thousands of
acres along the Little Missouri river ten
(lays ago. and the great cattle range was
swept clear. The lire was put out bv
means of horses, which were killed and
used as drags to extinguish the tlumes.
The horses were simt ut the back and
their carcasses drugged over the country
by long roH-s. twelve hundred head ol
horses w ere used.
The South Park Commissioners have
decided not to tender the Washington
parkas a site for the World's t air as
requested bv the Exposition Directors.
thev add that thev have alrady made a
tender of the unimproved isirtiou of
Jackson park and will now add thereto
the improved area of that park, making
a total acreage so tendered of 070 acres.
A mile and a half of the frontage on the
lake shore is included in the tender.
The Senate Committee on Private Land
Claims throiik'ti Mr. Colquitt has made
an elaborate rert on the bill to reim
burse the grantees, their legal represent
atives and the assigns of the Pnnta de
Lnguna Mexican land grant in California
for lands of which they were deprived
by an erroneous survey 'made by the of
ficer of III United Mutes. The com
mittee recommended that they lie al
lowed to select lands In the State of Cal
ifornia, not mineral and not reserved, iu
quantities eiiial to the amount of w hich
they were deprived by the erroneous
survey.
The sale of the Silver Itell mines to an
Kuglish syndicate has been consummat
ed by the payment of $100,000. The
niluei are located thirty miles west of
Tucson.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Lord Seville Vents His Spleen in
a Pusillanimous Manner.
The President of Colombia Speaks Well
of Present Meets of the Pan
American Conference.
UuMsIa is increasing her garrisons in
Poland.
Osman IHgma has arrived at Tokar
with 3,000 followers.
Tin Prince of Wales is leading an in
nocent and enjoyable existence at Ham
burg. The grain trade between Piiakini and
the interior has lieen stopiied to prevent
the spread of cholera.
Non-union men are being pnt to work
on the docks at Melbourne, and the shin
ning trade has slightly improved.
Despite Catholic clerical condemnat ion
the sv-Htem of boycott is slill employed
largely as a political weapon in Ireland.
It ia retried that armed Armenians
have croHsed the frontier from Persia to
assist their persecuted brethren in Tur
key. A private hill has lieen introduced into
the Argentine Congress to authorize the
leasing of '.'50,000,001) acres of the na
tional lands.
It is Htated that there are 4.000 cases
of siniilliox in the Province of Pernam
buco. liruzil, and an average of twenty
deaths dnily. ,
The Hritish naval maneuvers just con
cluded have cost aliout 2.K).000, and the
taxpayerx are complaining that the show
was very dear at the price.
The snloonkeceni of St. Petersburg
have been w arned not to sell liquor to
factory operatives on credit or entice
them to drink in any other way.
Advices from Lamus state that the
German agitator, Tonpen, has lieen con
verted to Mohammedanism ami is alamt
stinting on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
The largest sailing vessel afloat has
lust been launched at Glasgow. She is
a llve-niunted ship of 3,050 tons burden,
and is intended for the nitrate trade.
Armoiits and Montenegrins continue
their sanguinary warfare on tlicTurco-
Montenegro frontier, the turkisn i oin
missioiier being unable to preserve order.
Alexandre Chatrian, the well-known
French novelist, who wrote in collaliora
tionwith KmileKn-kmiinn over the noin
de plum of Krckmanii Chatrian, is dead.
Hiirnor Ikirsina. member of the Italian
Chaudier of IVputica, has secured a con
cession from his government tor tnc es
tablishment of a steamship line between
Italy and Mexico.
l.lver)KX)l seamen and firemen have
decided to commit the organized snip
owners' fiHicratlon. and a trial of strength
with tho gigantic tinion of capitalists
may soon be looked for.
A dispatch from San Salvador says
General Kzeta is engaged in- forming' a
legal government lor the Salvador He
public, preparatory to demanding recog
nition from foreign iowers.
The Kmpress Frederick's chronicle of
the ninety-nine nays' reign oi tier Hus
band will' Ixi a most curious book. It is
said that it will explain many circum
stances hitherto thought obscure.
A lie rl in dispatch states that Emperor
William is annoyed by the non-arrival
of the phonograph promised by Mr. h'd
ison. and haa been trying to purchnse
machines elsewhere, out without suc
cess. The prostMH'ts of the Panama canal are
definitely brightening, and in the best
informed circles ut Puniima the matter
is regarded as practically concluded. The
draft of a bill Is lieing "prepared at l!o-
!;ota to authorize the President of Co
ombia to tH'cure terms with M. Wyse,
No French licet will be present at
Spezziu at the launching of the new
Italian war ship at that Kirt. The order
for sending a squadron to Spezzin to do
honor to King Humbert has been coun
termanded in consequence of a dispute
regarding formalities to be observed on
the occasion.
Chinese supremacy in the tea trade
bids fair to find a rival in a few vears in
Asiatic KtiHtsia. Already large shipments
from the tea plantations in Kussian Cen
tral Asia are made to England annually,
and a considerable proKirtion of the
product finds its way to the United
SUites.
Lord Sackville, as Iord of the Manor,
has through his agent made a claim uhiii
the Stratford-on-Avon Town Council for
encroachment of rent in resH.vt to the
American tonntiiin ami clock tow er w lin-li
was nresentcd to the town bv Goorire W.
Childs three years ago. and which was
publicly opened ly Henry Irving. '
The exhibition of prison labor In St.
Petersburg on the occasion of the Inter
national Prison Conference, which was
recently heUl there, was so successful
that measures are tielng taken now to
establish a permanent "Museum of
Prison Work." Greece, the Kepuhhcof
the A rehiiH'Ingo, France and Italy have
already ilcclarttd their willingness to
contribute to that enterprise.
The rioting at Valparaiso, Chili, dur
ing the lute strike was of a very serious
nature. There was considerable pillage.
and the police charged the crowd with
sabers in hand. Some twenty persons
were killed. At one time the crowd was
fully 10.000 Htrong. The arrival of the
ciivulrvand artillery quieted thu tumult,
but pillaging outside of guarded points
was carried on and many outrages were
reported.
A new "cure " has been Invented in
Germany, which may le adopted us a
greater novelty than the mind cure or
the faith cure.' Its Imsis is the harden
ing of the human organism, which has
been disastrously enfeebled by civiliza
tion. The patients imitate the noble
savage and the gypsy, and the system
includes going latrefiait as one part of
the cure. One German parish contains
1, 400 patients.
The IVesidcnt of Colombia in his
message to Congress says : " The results
of this historical conference, (the Pan
American) are already being felt, and in
no distant epoch we shall see our Amer
ica giving to the world an example of
the suppression of international war
and of the development of com mere
iqion the foundations of confidence, of
mutual rexpoct and on harmony of all
legitimate interests," r
fKKNirioi h ErrBcrs or tobacco
11m Vi tvt'n HrMl-nvia tiim Anl. anil.
dote against the influence of tobacco
which the smoker or chewer of the weed
has. and it should he taken rcimlivrl t
prevent the heart from itecoming dl
ased. iK-scriptive treatis with each
bottle, or addrvs Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
PORTLAND MARKET.
VHi-Forelgn advice, are of qalet
markets, without any improvement! In
the demand for cargoes. Spot quoUtJoM
it Liverpool are rather better, and the
option market closed higher throughout.
The feeling in local circle! ihowa little
change, but trading ia more active.
Oia-n quotation continue: $1.27H,foi'
Valley and $1.20 1.22 for Walla UI a.
Fuiua-iuot : Bundard, $3.90 ; Walla
Walla, $3.ll0(i3.80 per barrel. .
. ()Ars-uote: 4Hc per bushel.
MiLiaTiirre The market if steady.
Quote: Kran, $17(819; Shorts, $23(tf26:
Ground liarley, $32.60; Chop teed, $25;
Middlings. $25 per ton.
Hay-The market is steady. Quote:
$10(317 per ton.
VBOkTABLks The market Is steady.
Quote: Cabliage, 1.75(i2 per cental;
Cauliflower, $1.25 perdoxun ; Peas, 3c per
pound ; Onionsaml Lettuce, IScperdoxen
bunches; String lieatis, 3c per pound;
California Onions, 2''(i2S,c; Oregon,
2'4cper pound ; Com, 8t 10c per dozen ;
Cucumbers, 10c per doien ; Carrota, 10
15c per bunch; Beets, $1.50 per sack;
Turnips, $1.25 per sack; California To
matoes, tiftc. ; Oregon, COc per box ; Pota
toes, 76:o85c per cental ; Sweet Potatoes,
3(S3lj,c per pound.
Fai'iTs Quote: Tahiti Oranges, $4.25
per box; Sicily, $((J0 per case; Egg
und Columbia 'Plums, l'nc per pound;
Hradshaw Prunes, 2c per pound; Italian
Prunes, 1,'ic per pound; Seckel Pears,
2c per iiund ; .Itartlett Pears, l.'fc per
pound; GraH-s, $I.25(S1.50 per box;
Pineapples, $:l.50(oi- perdoxen; Hananas,
$.'1.75 -r bunch: double, $0; Oregon
Gravenstein Apples, U5'tf75c per box;
Ctawford Peaches, WcM$1.26; other va
rieties. $1. 15ft 1.25 per box; Oregon, 90c
f$1.25 pir box, $1 per basket; Nectar
ines, $lrtel.25 per box : Oregon Water
melons, $2 per doxen ; Cairtalouiei,, $1.60
ft2 per dozen; C'rabapples, 50c per box.
Chkbsk Quote: Oregon, lUdl-'Sjc;
California, 9(?10c; Young America, 14
(3 15c per pound.
Buttkk The market Is firm. Quote:
Oregon lancy dairy, 30c; fancy creamery,
32'c; good to fair. 25(t27,4c; common,
20(a22'ic; choice California, 2728c per
pound.
Loos Quote: 30c per dozen (or Ore
gon. I'oci.TBY The market is firm. Quote:
Old Chickens, $4.50(.o4.75; young, $2.50
ia A; old !uck, 4.5ot5; young, $5(3(1
per doxen; Turkeys, 15c per pound.
Nuts Quote: Walnuts, 13c Peanuts,
irreen, 12c: Almonds, 17c; Fillierta, 14
15c; Brazils, 1314c per pound; Cocoa-
Hokky Fancy White, 1-pound car
toons, 18c.
N.iiARanA nnotaiioni Iron. 13.20:
Bteel, $3.30; Wire, $3.90 per keg.
Th HerobandU Marks.
Suoaks The market ii firm. Quote:
Golden C, 4c ; extra C, 6,c : dry granu
lated, 6jc ; cube crushed and powdered,
6JiC per pound.
Bxans The market is firm. Quote:
Small Whites, $3.25; Pink, $3.75; Bayos,
$4.50: Butter, $3.50; Liinaa, $5.50 per
C0llt&l
Dkiko Fbi'its The market is Aim.
Quote: Raisins, 12.75 per box; Plum-mer-dried
Pears, 10llc; aun-dried and
factory Plums, 8(4 10c ; evaporated
Peaches, 24c; Smyrna Figs, 14 16c ; Cal
ifornia Figs, 9c per pound.
Cannkd Goons Market is firm. Quote:
Table fruits, $2.25, 28; Peaches, $2.50;
Bartlett Pears, $2.25; Plums, $l.(i5;
Strawlierries, $2.50; Cherries, $2; Black
berries, $2; Raspberries. $2.55. Pie fruit:
Assorted, $3.75 per dozen; Peaches,
$1.40; Pl'ims, $1.25; Blackberries, $1.06;
Tomatoes, $1.20(1(3.50; Sugar Peas, $1.40
(41. (10 String Beans, $1.
Hiiiks The market is weak. Quota
tions; Dry Hides, selected prime, Sta
tic, 3c less for culls; green, selected,
over 65 pounds, 4u ; under 65 pounds, 3e ;
Sheep Pelts, short wool, 30(i50c; me
dium, tiOftSOe; long, 90c(o$1.25: shear
lings, llldi 20c; Tallow, good to choice, 3
(aa'v.e. Receipts the past week were
9,2Htl poll nils.
Wool The market Is dull. Quota
tions: Kastern Oregon, 10ltle; Valley.
10ft IHc per pound. Receipts the past
week were 11,072 innds.
Hoi- Quote: 25;r30c per pound.
1'li-Ki.Ks Quote : 85c 3s ; l0c 5s.
Salt Quote: Liverpool, $17, $1H,$1'J;
stock, $ll(itl2 per ton in carload lots.
Coai. Oil Quote : $2.20 Htr case.
Kick Quote: 0.lc ier (Hiund.
Th Mr at Market.
The meat market is firm. Quote:
Beef Live, SvuSUe; dressed, H(it7c.
Mutton Live, 8'3.'4c; dressed, 7c.
Hogs Live, 5ft5'ac; dresseil, 7c.
Veal ! 8e per pound.
Spring Lamlie f2 euch.
SMOKKO MEATS AND I. A HI).
The market is firm. Quotations: Fast
em lbiins, 13ftl4e; Breakfast Ba
con, 11 (a He; Sides, fliolOc; Lard, H'ai
11c ja-r pound.
A C'aM W Im Wnr,
The worst case of "ice fever" that has
been experienced to date appears to be
that of a Peraaquid (Me.) citizen. He
had a big load of eighteen cakes, and got
about half way down to the wharf, when
his cart tongue came out. Not noticing
anything w rong he kept on driving his
oxen, and just before he reached the
wharf met a team In rather a bad place.
He told the driver of the team that he
didn't know as he could get by him with
bit big load, but on being told that he
would have no trouble naturally looked
back at his load to see what the fellow
meant. His surprise can be imagined.
Chicago Herald.
A a Erry Day Gim.
"Say, there is a feller playing a game
en Woodward avenue this afternoon,"
he said through the telephone, after call
ing up police headquarters.
"What sort of a gamer
"The sweat box."
"Where?"
"Ou car No, 840." " ""
"What sort of a looking man la beT
"lie's the conductor, and has just gone
gp with aeventy passengers on a car
made to carry thirty I" Detroit Free
Press. v
tUsalramnu ut lb Baatlaa I ic"K-
A gentleman who recently traveled on
the coutinent said he waa at dinner one
day in Paris, and while telling a story
was attacked with a sudden and contin
ued Bt of sneezing. When he ceased a
Russian gentleman at another table
named Plitcheeke turned about and
complimented him on hie excellent and
correct pronunciation of the Russian lan
guage. London Tit-Bite. -
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonog
raphy, ia a hoary haired man with a
scholarly stoop, and atill preaidee over
the Phonetic institute, Bath, England.
He it rising 78, yet he supervises a cor
respondence of 80,000 letter a year, be
tide editing The Phonetio Journal and
torn pi ling the numerous book which be
annually puMishee.
It ia eat Una ted that over eight tons of
diamond have been unearthed in the
South African Held durimr the but
eighteen year; Uii represent a total
value oi (z, ,uuu,uua
A WEALTHY IN0IAN.
Old Ipllthll lb Wyandotte Worth Blfl
flla of Money.
I have just returned from a trip
through Arkansas and Indian Territory,
and In the course of my travel I met
what I never expected to see In thi
world a millionaire Indian. I bad
beard of this unique personage, but was
not prepared to meet such a strange
combination of opulence and Ignorance,
lie 1 known a Matthias Splitlog, the
chief of tue Wyandotte tribe, and it a
powerfully built man ft feet 8 inches
tall, with a swarthy countenance, but
not the high cheek-bone usually found
In the Indian. This is accounted for from
the fact that Splitlog Is a bslf-breed,
having been born In Canada and after
wards adopted into the Wyandotte tribe
in 1843, before It removal from North
ern Ohio to the West Splitlog la now
eventy years old, and can not read or
write. He speaks English Imperfectly,
but Is a great money-getter, and is con
stantly growing richer by the advance
upon the thousands of acres of land
which be own in Southwestern Ml-
eouri and the Indian Territory.
A story will give an idea of the old
chief manner of transacting business.
About two year ago a syndicate of
Kansas City capitalists persuaded him
to part with 140 acre of land on the
Raw bottoms, between the two Kansas
Cltys, for J 140, 000. The trade was to be
completed at one of the banks on Min
nesota avenue, Kansas City, Kan., at
ten o'clock on a certain morning.
Promptly a few minutes bofore the t me
Splitlog walked into the bank and took
a seat ne kept his eye on the dock,
and as the bands pointed to the hour of
ten, and the other party had not yet
materialized, the chief put on bis hat
and started down the avenue. At a
short distance he met the capitalist on
their way to close the bargain. They
aid they wore ready for business.
"Not to-day." rep ied the ohlet
Knowing that persuasion would be
nselest they asked when he would meet
them.
"To-morrow, ten o'clock," was the
laconio response.
At ten o'clock all were present at the
bank.
"Can't 8"ll for 8140.000; must have
1180,000," said the Wyandotte chief
The surprised purchasers held a hasty
counoil and doo ded that they must
hustle up the SI (10. 000 or tho figures
would go still higher. They raised
$.10,000 more and counted out the money
In crisp greenbacks. As the chief Saw
the paper money he shook hi bead.
"Can't tu.e paper; must have gold,"
aid he.
Quickly half a dozen haoks were
cal ed, and the banks of KinsasClty
were ransacked for the required amount
of the ye low metal. After It was fixed
upon a table before the ch ef he pawed
It over like a m ser, and then said:
"Give 'era deed."
The money was deposited In the bank,
but Splitlog would have opened hi
eyes bad he seen the same haoks used
in collect ng the gold, rece ving it agnin
and being driven rapidly baok to Mis
souri. , That '.40 acres of land is now
selling at the rate of 83,000,000, and
proved one of th best speculations
ever entered into at the mouth of the
Kaw.
Splitlog la married and has seven
ohildren. He never stops at a hotel
when v. siting Kansas City, Kan., where
be own valuable property, but always
put up with a negro, who Is one of his
tenants. One of Splitlog'a daughter is
married to a negro. He is building a
railroad In Southwest Missouri. In re
ligion he is a Roman Catholic There
la rather a peculiar history given of the
origin of his name. At the t me of his
birth his mother was at work with other
Indian women In a field near a log that
bad been split As she gave birth to
htm near that log he was christened
"Splitlog." He is still robust and act
ive and b ds fair to live to a great age.
Denver (Col.) Newa.
REMARKABLE CAREER.
Aa Arab Foundling- Now a Colonel In tha
Prfinrh Army.
The publto has been reading lately a
great many dispatches from France and
Africa giving the yrogress of the war
which the French Government has been
waging in Dahomey. Lieutenant
Colonel Archinard was the officer men
tioned as being in command of the
French troops, who, although merely a
handful of some 400 or 500 cavalry, have
inflicted great slaughter on their oppo
nents, killing as many as 1,000 in a
ingle engagement,
There reoently arrived in this city a
young French officer who is an intimate
friend of Colonel Archinard and who
relates the following strange history of
the dashing young Colonel's life:
"About twenty-six year ago. at the
time France was engaged in a series of
petty wars against the nomad tribes in
Algeria, and after one of these engage
ments, a certain Gaston Archinard,
then a Captain in a cavalry regiment,
was attending to the removal or the
wounded, when one of his men discov
ered a little Arab child who had evi
dently been abandoned by its parents
tn their flight Being a bachelor, and,
liking the bright intelligent look tn
the little fellow's face, the Captain de
termined to adopt him and give blm
his name. He therefore tent bim to a
lycee or French school in Bordeaux,
where the lad was educated, and later,
In 1875, the Captain having risen to the
rank of Brigadier-General, he caused
him to be enlisted as a pri
vate in the Seventh Quasars, un
der hit own name of Archinard.
Gaining rapid- promotion he was soon
tent to the cavalry school at Saumar,
from whence he graduated in 1880, only
ten years ago, aa a sub-Lieutenant of
eavalry. He was then sent to Tunia
and foutrbt through the campaign of
1883, and the following year saw him
commanding a battalion in Tonquln.
In 1887 he was sent to Senegal
Major in the famous regiment of Spahl
Senegalala, which be commanded aa
Lieutenant-Colonel In bl late success
ful campaign In Dahomey. Although a
pure-blooded Arab, with a thorough
Frenoh military education. Colonel
Archinard. It la whispered is promt
eat Parisian military circles, is next
n the list for promotion to the coveted
rank of General of a division of the
French army. San Francisco Exami
ner. first detective '"Uiat niwnWw..
UrulltTof buvinv stolen o-ouda. niA
you notice mm turn white when I
looked at the watches?" Second de
tectlve "Yes. but what of thtr ni
detactlve "Why. when you catch a man
paling it 1 fair to suppose that be U a
tenca."-Tbe Jester. I
How music spreads am one the mina
can be Imagined from the Mtimot that
m enameia Ware are about too artieant
who play Um violin.
HOW' DOLLS ARE MADE.
A It ran -, Varleratad aad Most Inotral
History.
When the word first goes forth, "let
l make dolls." it it not to potter'! clay
that the band ef the doll' maker i
tretcbed fortb, but to a large roll of
white calico, oold and smooth and a
dead a dead can be, Quaint pattern
are laid upon it close together, to that
there tball be no waste, and quickly
the tharp scissors cut round them. The
result 1 a number of article looking
exactly like those garment which In
fashion papers are known under the
name of combination. Humiliating
though it may appear to the owner of
a fine family of doll-children, It It nev
ertheless true that these coarse white
combinations are the beginning of doll
of all tort and condition. A yet they
are devoid of any life, even animal life,
but nimble finger eixe tbem, tew them
neatly together down the tides, round
the short arms and legs (for the calico
arras come only down to the elbowt and
the calico legs down to the kneea), and
feed the pale form todlllgently on dried
tea weed, or bay that presently the limb
begin to grow round and firm, the "myt
ter.ou part called inside" swells to fair
proportions, the last aperture through
which the intestine have been forced
into the body 1 sewn up, and behold! a
white torso, whloh if not exactly like
the perfect marble form of the Venus of
Mllo, has still good deal of "the human
form div.ne."
There they lie, doteni by dozen,
awaiting the touch of the hand which
thall "oreate a aoul under the rlbt of
death." It it already near, that life
giving hand, which now puts down be
tide the torso a tray full of arm
and legs and another tray full of beads.
Some of the arm and legs are of leather,
and destined, by a wise providence for
the working classes among dolls, for the
girl and women who will have china
heads with yellow hair, broad facet, fat
red obeeks, and frocks of cheap mate
rial These beada are made in Ger
many, and for their vulgarity and
coarse looks are cordially despised by
the more refined classes of the com
munity. And they are ugly, no doubt
rlth a cheerful kind of ugliness, those
broad-faced kitchea-malklns; but who,
having played with them and loved
tbem with a child' blind, eager love, a
generation ago, when the higher form
of doll waa as yet unknown, doet not,
with a sense of yearning affection, look
at the blue-eyed lass. and . in her heart
of hearts give preference to her? But
the present generation knows nought of
tuch tentimental preferences; it chooses
the fairest and costliest the doll with a
eurly wig of human hair, or that most
perfect of dolls which has every hair on
the head and in the eyelashes carefully
planted into its place, at If -owing out
of the rosy wax.
Then there are china arms and legs,
and pretty French china beads; wax
limbs, exquisitely molded of the best
East Indian wax, and beads with beam
ing eyes and blush-rose complexions of
the same material Dozens there are
of each, and sometime dozens of
dozens, and all in turn are taken
up and fitted on one of the white
bodies) the stumps of arms and legs are
beaten and kneaded into shape by a
kind of massage treatment and then
eomea the final painful process out of
which the complete doll emerge into
full life. A long sharp needle, spec. ally
made for the purpose, pierce through
the arms and legs and through the white
shoulders, sewing to them with stiff eat
and strongest of threads the shapely
limbs, the fair young heal It is fin
ished, the doll Is alive; for the first time
It look around; timidly, questioningly
at nrst and then with a joyful presenti
ment of all the pleasure to come:
Knjny thy youth. It will not stay,
For oh I it U not always May.
Now begins a series of days of perfeot
happiness. The boundless stories of a
ohild affection and admiration are lav
ished on the darling doll "Dorothy,"
she is called, and goes to balls and par
ties and teas and dinners every day of
ber life, and for each event she it
dressed in another frock from her dainty
trousseau. fne drives out In her own
private brougham (which Is only called
perambulator when "Dorothy" ia an in
fant), she goes shopping wrapped up in
furs and shawl and hercomplexlon pro
tected by a toft white veil. When the
long day is over; when tired with pleas
ure, she retires; it is into a bed covered
with sheets and pillows of cobweb text
ure, with lace trimmed tatln quilts and
curtains, to lie in which it happiness
itaeii. rail Mall Gazette.
Lad and Lanaa la Franca.
When I was a boy at school in France
I can well remember bow we boys felt
on the subject If we heard that
young girl the sister of tome school
fellow, wa with her mother in the
common parlor to see her brother,
why, it created a perfect commotion, a
perfect revolution in the whole estab
lishment It was no use trying to keep
at in order. We would climb on the
top of the seat or on the table to en
deavor to see totnethlng of her, even if
It were only the top of her hat or a bit
of her petticoat across the recreation
yard, at the very end of the school
It was an event Many of us would
even Immediately get inspired and com
pose verse addressed to the unknown
fair visitor. In these poetical effusion
we would imagine the young girl car
ried off by some miscreant and we
would fly to her rescue, save her and
throw ourselves at her feet to receive
her hand a our reward. Yea. wa wrmii
get suite poetical, or, in plain English,
quite amy. we could not imagine that
a woman was a reasoning being with
whom you can talk on topic of tha
day, or have an ordinary ennvAnuirmn
on any ordinary subject To u a wo
man wo a oemg witn whom you can
only talk of love, or fall
maybe for whom you may die of love.
juax.u tteu.
Or tho Barber Uad.
Barber I aruarantM thu M.u n.i.
neauinir. t nas never been known to
fatL
Jonea But my dear ir, I tried It and
It had no effect whatever.
Barber Then there was omethtng
the matter with jour bead, Texa
Sifting
-Traveler "What a plendid land
scape you have up here; the great noble
mountalna the peaceful lake in the
valleya" Mountain Maid-"Oh, Just
let me have your glass for a aecond."
Traveler "So you would like to admire
thi beautiful prospect nearer?" Mount
oia Maid "I only wanted to look down
M far aa our pasture, to be sure tb
eow were feeding aU right"-Fliegende
W I , - , . -
MEERSCHAUM IN CHUNKS.
It Coma from Tnrknr and It Fri.-i
lined for Hp., "'""'If
The meerschaum comes from Turk
In boxes. A box hold hot
pounds, and Is worth f rom Sjo to :J
according to the size and quality 0f o?
pieces. It look like plaster of ,!!!
tmoothed oft and rounded. The tmbe
looks like beeswax or large PPCC, j
rosin. It comet in pieces, nd is or.L
from W to 50 a pound. Meerschaum u
make a 83 pipe costs about (N.5o. i-k
amber tips, raw, cost about oae-quarte!
r one-half as much.
When an ordor comet for pipe
proprietor goet through the ttock ol
meerschaum to get a piece out of which
the pipe can be cut with as little ,M
as possible. Four-fifths of the meer.
schaum is wasted, though the chips trt
often saved and made into lmltatioa
meerschaum pipe.
The meerschaum is first cut on dr.
cular saw Into a piece a little larger
than the pipe. If the cutting showi
hole or cracks the piece is cant aulas,
Then it Is soaked in water for flftee,
minute and out the rough shape with
a knife. Then a hole it drilled throurt
it and it la turnod with a half-motloa
After tbe turning the stem is Inserted.
It 1 mootbed off when dry, boiled 1
wax and polished; then It is ready toba
told.
The amber la worked with a chltal
and turning wheel. The chisel is sharp
and . razor-like. A clumsy operator
would cut bis fingers oft with it Aa
old operator takes the piece of amber in
hit band and rounds it with the chisel,
tbe forefinger of the loft hand serving
a a guide for the chisel to play. Whet
It i rounded it la bold against tbe fact
of a roughened wheel until it la turned
to approximately tbe required size.
Then it it put In the tame turning
wheel and a hole it bored through it
Thlt is for tbe more common and
cheaper amber stems, the kind that at
put in brlerwood pipes, which sell for
SO and 75 cento. It does not take mors
than a quarter or half hour to finish
ene of these stems. A stem for a mors
costly pipe will take a day. The short
est time in which a good meerschaum
pipe can be made is three days. Thai
is for a plain pipe. If tbe pipe Is to ba
carved that time baa to be added.
Workmen have spent month on carv
ing one pipe.
The dust and ehlps from the amber
and meerschaum are taved. The amber
dust 1 melted and made into amberine.
Tbe meerschaum dust is chopped up and
worked into a paste, from which imita
tion meerschaum pipes are made. It is
I common Idea that real meerschaum
can be told from imitation meerschaum
by the fact that real meerschaum float
en water, but imitation meerschaum
Boats also. Imitation meerschaum can
be made which will color better than
real meerschaum does, though It does
not last to long and the color it likely
tv come in streaks. It Is hard fur a
man who Is not in the business to toll
a real from an imitation meerschaum.
The beat quality of meerschaum fre
quently ba air-holes and oraoks in it
BI&MAKUK'S PIPE.
Aa American's Memento of tha Iron Chun
eellnr's reliool Days.
"This is all that I have left of a pipe
which Itlsraarck UBed in bis school
daya"'
The speaker waa Judge J. Gadsden
King, who leaned far back in his easy
office chair as be spoke and held up in
bit hand a plain cherry pipe stem about
a foot long.
"How did I come into possession of
it?" the judge said, repeating my ques
tion. "It was in thlt way. Tou see my
brother, Mitchell C King, went to
ohool with Bismarok when be was a
tudent at Dr. Becker' famous school
at Frank fort-on-the-Maln. They were
class-mates and room-mates altogether
very intimate friends. Now, when they
were about to leave college they ex
changed pipes for you know every
German student has his pipe. Well,
Mitchell brought the pipe which the
future Chancellor gave him in exchange
for hit own to Amerloa with bim, and it
fell into my hands, for I am a great
tmoker.
"Tbe pipe," Judge King continued,
"was quite a pretty one. Tbe bowl was
made of fine cblna and had a cameo like
nest of Bismarok on the front of it
The item was about twice at long as it
la now, for it bat been trimmed very
often.
"Mitchell and Bismarok were very
warm friends and corresponded with
each other for yeara; in faot, they do
ow, I think. Some time ago tomebody
wrote Bismarok a letter, asking htm if
he knew anybody on thlt tide of the
water. He replied that be knew and
corresponded with two men In the
United States-one was Mitchell C
King and tbe other Dr. Emory Coffin, of
Aiken, & C. Mitchell my brother, Is
ow seventy-six yeara old and it living
at Flat Rook, N. C
"How old is the stem?" I asked.
"Well it's hard to say," the judge re
plied. "Let me see. Mitchell brought
it over with bim in 1835; that makes it
fifty-five yeara old, and I don't know
bow old It was then. It is an interest
ing memento, and I prize it very high
ly," the judge concluded, as he laid it
carefully away In one of hi desk draw
era and turned to pick up bis every
day pipe, which he had laid aside while
holding the stem of Bismarck' school
lay pipe in hi band. Atlanta Journal
YEGETABLl?PANACEA
PRERMtED FROM
ROOTS ft HERBS,
ronTsieuatoF
AND ALL OTHER DISEASES
aRISIMD nnu a
DISORDERED STATE otthe STOMACH
OR AN
INACTIVE LIVER.
rr0 1ALC BTV all
ORUSCISTS & GENERAL DEALERS