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EUGENE CITY GUARD. frarltr, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Beautiful end Eipeaalva I'M Tlie lata Mr. John Jacob Astor Lad probably tho finest collection of fans in the country. There were among the number many charming pecluieii of that famous Vcnils Martin, wljleh time Lai not robbed of IU soft luster. The inounts are of paper, (ilk and relluiu, exquisitely painted, one representing the 'Toilet of Venus." Tlie sticks, In Ivory, are overspread with tlie Venils Martin, showing surface of great brill iancy. Another dainty one In Mr Astors collection represent a chain petre group of youths and maidens upon a crag overhanging a bit of sum mer sea. J'erhai one of the choicest fans is one belonging to Mrs. Newbold Morris. It Is of crepo lisse, delicately painted, edged with point d'Alcncon and mounted on sticks of mothcr-of-pearL Of other fans belonging to New York ladies one is a regency fan, with a scriptural subject painted upon the mount, the sticks being decorated with Chinese enamel faces in cartouches. Mrs. Jesse Beliguian has ninny costly funs. One of the Ixul Qulnze period Las depicted upon It a scene from Larcia life, and is decorated with gilt and sil ver niedallions upon kid. A regal fun made over a hundred years ago for some almond eyed empress of the Flow- err Kingdom Is now at the Metrnpoll tan Museum of Art, where this "thing of beauty and Joy forever" has a large case dovoted exclusively to its own royal use. This fan is an airy, miry combl nation of gauze, Ivory, Jade and many other precious metals of exquisite work manship. New York World. A Meilran Hello. Among the many articles of Interest In the now Natural History museum at Vicuna perhaps nothing has been more discussed than an old Mexican rello which Is preserved with great care un dcr glass. This relic, which Is now known as the Held budgo of King Montezuma, hud lain for 300 years la tho Ambrase collection, where it win at first cat logued as a Moorish hat of long, heavy, glistening green and gold feathers. One Investigator held that It was an Indian hut, another an Indian apron; but In 1820 It was at last known to ba a Mexican badge of high rank, and through Ferdinand Iloehstetter it was proved to be the genuine field decora tion of King Montezuma, captured by Cortcz In 1520 after the battle of dumbo. This battle was followed by tho wild flight of tho Mexicans and tho robbing of the land by Cortcz, who sent the standard and wardrobe of the king, with much gold, to the Kuiieror Charles V, of Bpain. The latter gave the standard to Poie Clement VII, who sent it to Grand Duke Ferdinand, of Tyrol, for tho Ambrose collection, It is shaxd like a fan, and Is made from tall feutlicrs of the bird of Para dlso, which havo a glitter like gold ovor their red, green and blue colors. The moths had partly destroyed It, but of the five hundred original feathers only forty -oia were much injured, and those hava been replaced by now ones, and the former beauty Is fully restored. Youth's Companion. Tha Patient fur Conductor. "There was a thuo not long ago when I used to kick off every boy who 'caught on behind' my car," said a Third aveuuo conductor. "I was more green then than I am now," he con tinued, "and I considered that It was uiy duty to do so. Hut I don't do it any more. I havo been cured of such cruelty. Tho lesson was so Impressive that I shall never forget It It occurred late one night. A little chap ran after my car and hung on the platform. I rushed back and stepped on his lingers. , He let go and fell upon the track. He was seriously hurt. I picked him up and found blood upon his heaL I left the car in the cure of the driver and carried him home. "Two days later my car was stopped by a funeral procession, and I learned that it was tho funeral of the boy who Lad sat on my ear two evenings before. Yes, sir, every boy In Park row cwi rido on my ear now. 1 wouldn't put one of them off If I lt my job the next day. There Is such a thing, you know, sir, as being too strict." Krnest Jarrold hi New York Journal. Itarotlierutotelenieler. The invention of an Instrument to which the name barothermotclouieto Las lieeu given is announced. Its pur pose Is to enable observers to take read ings a often as desired, and by a sin gle wire, from barometers and ther luoiueUir placed at great heights or distances without the necessity of the observer being resident where the In struments are placed, thereby saving much expense and enabling observa tions to be taken nt (mints where resi dence might be Impossible. New York Commercial Advertiser. A Kind Hearted Official. Guard (New York elevated railroad) The doctor says I 'm gitting dyspepsia. Superintendent (kindlyl-l'm sorry to hear that What coum- it f "Why, sir, under the rules I've got ter take uiy meals while on duty ou tlie train, and the doctor says eatlu' to fast will kill ine," "I sea. You have to swallow your mauls at the rat of tweuty miles ao bour. Well, I U order the eugiuwi to reduo the siieed to nineteen miles ao bour at meal time." iood News. Dr. Bwllee says; "1 never studied the art of composition. I read a multi tude of tlie bmt books, and from that I learned to compose." Tlie itih.ii 4 the Krt-u C iininiKsii m to the New York Legislature n thr pn tuned Adirondack Mate Park provide tr tract of 2,.107,7'J a. rv. ol whic h the Mate st present ons alut one quarter. This lull errtamlv I one o( the most nisgnitiifut psrlti in riii-tince. raoM TH DIABT OF A UWTT.B AKD TBI ROTS SOOI Of A UP0KTEI. By BABOLAY EOBTH. (OopyriKhtfd, IM, bj 0. H Dunham. PubllabaS b TspeuUI amuiftiMoi Uiroub Tb America praea UaocUUloa.) xes, i ll go witn you. and would Da glad to." "But haven't we already ground enough to begin a judicial inquiry?" "No: wait until I have established tb Identification of Fountain with the man who purchased tlie clothes. "I'll go about it now and then meet you." "But I say, Tom, if Fountain don't own the gold button, who does.' 'I'll be hanged If I can tell tlial is one of the puzzles in this most puzzling of oil cases." Tom hurried oil to his friend, the leader writer, who had undertaken to ohtJiin a surreptitious portrait of Fouri Win. ' Well, how did you make out' asked Tom. "('irst rate I (Ml two vlew of hlni prollle and full face." lie look them from bis desk. Tom Inajiected them closely "Capl lal," he said, "porfect pictures." "What are you going to do with them?" asked the leader writer "Pardon me." said Tom, "I am In a desperate hurry, and if I do not wail Ui explain and thank you for them you will excuse me, I know.'' Then he went to tlie clothing store and found the clerk. "What kind of time did you have on your clninhako?" "Hang up." said Tom "See here, you recollect my asking you If you could Identify the mail who bought that suit ijiht outside of U 8 T. V ' i e. ' "Well, here's the man I suspect l)o you recognize him?" The clerk took the photographs and examined them carefully Tom waited In an agony of Impa tience, his heart beating with such throb that lie thought the clerk must surely hear It Finally th clerk said: "I am certain positive, that Is thr man." "Good," said Tom "He'll llnd lilt little Joketurned upon him Thank you I'll tell you all about It shortly I'll come here to tell you for your kindness " He hurried out of the store "The coil Is dually wound about him Fountain, my boy, there is a surprise In store for you. In two days' tinm, my gentle lad, your name will he the best known in New York town." He hurried off to meet llolbrook Oil A ITER XXI. TOM MKKTS WITH CHUHIIRR HE satisfaction with which Tom reviewed hit work was mixed with w o n d e l that Koiiiituin should have been so easily anil rap idly tniiMil II e marveled that the hiIIc auihoritleg had not seen that thr obvious thing tc do was to discover at once where thr clothes worn by the murderer were pur chased It was trim, he admitted, that he had had an advantugo in determining who the purchaser was, through llnlhrnok's acquaintance with Flora Ashgrove, tail why had not the detectives of the regu lar force found out, us he had done where the clothes had been bought)1 He was in high gleeover his discovery and much pleased with himself Thr facts were indisputable., and were to bt recognized in a glance. riiere ;w the conversation between Flora and Fountain on the veramlu al Newport, ami there was the identillcu tion of Fountain with the man who had purchased the one suit which had not been bought by the U. S. I s While these were not conclusive, still they were sojllcicul to justify the Immediate arrest of Fountain, when the facts necessary for proofs Is'fore tho jury could be easily brought out liy Judicious inquiry ro construct the chain of evidence which would convict hountuin In court was work for Ihe authorities, not foi him He had detected tliecrimiiml, and that was all that could lie demumled ol him, and all that ho hud set out to do It was thus tilled with triumph that he sought llulhrook to consult w ith him us to the next step tho placing of all the fads la-fore thedistrict attorney To hi surprise no less limn lo Ills indigna lion, ue ioiiiiu tue lawyer Ion in to go further in the matter Ho long as there was a question ol doubt Involved in the investigation. Ilol brook hud U-en earnest and energetic, hut now, when ull question of doubt had vanished-when tho Identilieatlon was complete, he hesitated, "baulked." as Tom said, "right at the finish." The fact that Flora Ashgrove would be inevitably drawn Into the matter dis turned llolbrook greatly While all the tenderness with which lie had formerly regarded her was wholly dissipated, still it seemed horrible lliinij to him, that lm should Is drained lo the witness stand and compelled lo give the evidence which would send to the callow the man she h.iil shown she so deeply, and even wituiy. loved lie shrank from the idea that In-should Ik- Instrumental in pulling her in such a Hkit ion N ith these sentiments Tom could not or at least would not, svmimthite. It oiighl Is- hard for her. but it was hard also fur Annie Templetun that her brother should lie struck down and killed, and it was one of the inevitable conseuuence of crime that the innocent siilfertsl no less than ihe guilty, and while it was un fortunule that Mis Ashgrove was iu the position in which she was. yet justice must In dona To all of this argument llolbrook hud no reply, hiiJ he realize J he could make none In the end lioneter. he gav reluet.uu consent ihai everything should be laid Iwtorr the dintricl attorney hut he poMtivrly refused to go Willi Tom to that official If he apH-ared al all In ihe matter, tt should only b a an unwilling witnrna to u ll how hi suspicion of Fountain had been aroused, and be sin cerely hop! that even that much would not b r-nuirrd of him Ho Turn was compellrd hi ko aloiw tm hi way he dismi Hollrook'impla fannful to the last drgrt. and busied hlmsell with in order of th narralir hk-h he was to tulHiiit to tj pruaw-utmg otti.r On ejurip the otlic l,s Mw the doot tJ tha nrtvata room wo closed, and he was about to send In his card, when voioe called out from an ail joining room "Hullo. Toidf Com In Where hare von le-en this month of Mundays?-' Turn passed into tha room and saw an assistant of th district attorney. In the oenter of group of his fellow deputies I tha chief eimaiied." asked 'loin after salutation "Yes." was the reply, "but only for ihort tim. Com In. I was just telling th boy somsof my ad ventures while racbtuia W wer out in leuuy ura- bud's yacht only a small party. Jock Hanshaw, Fred Cos. Harry Founuln tnd myself." Who? Fountain?" 'Yes, Harry Fountain Do you know him? A line fellow." "What Fountain?" asked Tom. some- -t,al Interested; "Fountain of the Union and the Lamb athletef" "The same, WhyT rih nmhlni Dartlcular hen was ihlr fih let me see. W were out the i .Ml, IRth. 17th and 18th of last month We went on board th 14th at night. and mlled earlv the next morning. "Of August," soid Tom. with sudden alarm. "Hold on; where were you on tha 17th?" "We ran Into Oreenport bay. about II o'clock at night, under the brightest moon" "Vnti nra sure of that date? .neried inin earnest IT "Whv. tps. Certalnlv. What' the matter with rou?" -Thla la linnortant You't made no mistake?" "Mistake, no. Here' my diary with the entry. See," and h held It up for Torn to read. "For hea Ten' akr cried Tom, "let us got this straight When did that murder In Union square occur?" "Ask Jim there; it's his case." 'You mean Temploton's?" asked the one referred to. "On the morning of the eighteenth, an hour after midnight" "Great heavens!" cried Tom. They all stared at him. He took tlie photograph out or ins pocket and handed thera to the llrst speaker, "Was this the maa-tlie Fountain who was with your "Tlie very same. These are good ph t lire of him?" "Was ho noTer away from you during the trip?" "Never, from the time he Joined us on the fourteenth." Tom stood like one rooted to the sxt. In the meantime the others looked upon him amazed. Finally Tom said: "1 do not think I want to see the dis trict attorney after all." He turned on his heel without a word and walked out, leaving them wonder ing al his strange manner and questions. "He's been drinking," he heard one say. "Ono would suppose he thought Foun tain had committed that murder." from another. He paid no heed, but passed on nr.d descended the stairs like one who hud met with a distressful blow of misfor tune He walked ulong the street dazed, un heedful of all about him. Without knowing just how he hod gotten there ho found himself in Broadway, opposite tho poslofllce. His emotions were difficult to analyze. Heartfelt gratitude and thunkfulm-ss that the story had been told him before he hud gone in to the district attornc possessed him, but dominating eve. other sentiment was his fueling of keen and bitter disnpKiintment His quest had ended in failure, his triumph had turned to ashes. Ho made his way hurriedly to llol brook. The lawyer was engaged with a client and Tom paced tlie outer ollice in a fever of disapiiointment, thankfulness. humiliation and even auger. How could he have been such an idiot a to have sups)sed Fountain could huve been guilty of such a crime? he asked himself, and then in tlie most Illogical war he found himself growing angry with Foun tain for going off on that yachting trip, and thus making it Impossible for him to have committed tlie deed. Unable to contain himself longer, he sent his card, on which was scribbled "Important All the fat's in the tire." to Holhrook. llolbrook came out Immediately. He looked wonderinirly at Tom, who bore the visible traces of his crushing de feat "What's the matter, man?" asked llol brook. "Harry Fountain didn't commit the murder." flollirook could not have suppressed his surprise if he had desired, nor his evident relief at the Information. That increased Tom's bitterness. "Why?" asked llolbrook. "Do they know who did IU' "No." "How do you know, then, that he didn't?" "He was not within a'huudred mile of Union square wheu the deed was done." llolbrook told him to wait a moment and he would dismiss his client at once. This ho did speedily, and calling Tom in made him tell all that had occurred. Then) was silence at the conclusion. After a moment Tom said: "Wo aro just where we were ten days ago. We've In-en on a false scent" "No," said llolbrook, "not quite. There is the motive we reasoned out this morning. We must now follow up the Picrson inquiry." "Until we get near the finish, when I suppose, you'll baulk agutu," replied Tom bitterly. llolbrook laughed. "He reasonable, Tom. You know It waa hard thing to bring Flora Ash grove into the matter, and 1 am sincerely glad she is out of It" "Unless," said Tom, "Fountain hired some one to do it" "Uh, dismiss that idea," replied llol brook. "Our suspicion of Fountain were caused wholly from our belief that Flora thought Fountain had himself done th deed. If her manner and word did not mean this, they meant nothing. No, th 'handsome Flora' herself ha been ou'a wrong cent" "But sh didut think o without there was a reason for it" "You're right there, Tom. Now what was that reason?" "To And that out would put u on the right track again. By Jove, llolbrook. rv an idea." "Let u hav It, then." "See. The Ashgrov girl think Foun tain did the murder. Sh haant told him nt ber belief, nor won't rou remembet I tbeooorvrsation Now, h (till labor undo that belief. You can go to uer and earn ber undying gratitude by dis abusing ber mind of that error." "Well, what then?" "lo her Joy at finding that the object of her love is not a guilty man. sbe will tell you her reason for supposing he was. " You Lava an Idea. Two." -Yea, and beside, h'll tell you whs was th owner of th diamond button. "Surely, But h I (till in Newport. "No." said Tom, "I saw In tin morn Ing" paper that the Witherspoon have returned to tha city." "Then I'll go to ber thi very day. "Do. And while you are on that Una I'll aeek out Fountain, tell him my former us'plclona, and ask bi assistance in our effort" "He won't talk to you." "Well, I can try all the ame." Having agreed to thi plan, and ap pointed a plac of meeting, they parted. APTEIt, XaIJ rn a mnr.nnr in which Flora bad received him on tlie night he had met her at the Casino, llol brook had no rea on to suppose his visit would be met with much cordiality. Therefore.when the servant re turned after he had niwnfpd his card, with the Information that the lady was not at home, he was not surprised or disconcerted. "If that means," he told to the ser vant, "that Mis Ashgrove la denying herself to visitors this afternoon, please ay to the lady that Mr. Uolbrook calls upon business of the utmost importance and of unusual interest to her." The servant went away a second time, leaving him seated in the reception room, and returned to say that the lady would see him In a few moments. He did not wait long, for Flora, still In morning toilet followed the servant closely. She was cold and haughty in the extreme, but none the less wearied and anxious. She saluted Mr. llolbrook, and with out waiting for a return, she said to the aervant: "I am not at home to any other callers, no matter who they may be." .She closed the door after ber, and sat down In such a position that tlie light wo upon Uolhrooka face, while her own was in the shadow. She waited for llolbrook to speak, turning upon him with a polite look of inquiry. Her manner conveyed that the call was to be regarded, as one purely of business. llolbrook felt it, and was stung by her manner. Upon her part sue felt that tlie blow she dreaded so much was about to fall llolbrook accepted the situation, feel ing that in the end be must win. "I beg you will excuse my urgency. he began, "but necessity knows no law of etiquette or custom. The lost tune 1 bad the honor of calling upon you, the conversation was wholly, if my memory serves mo, upon the then recent mur der of Mr. Templeton. I desire to renew It" Flora visibly paled under this exor dium. She replied: "The subject Is not an agreeable one, but I suppose you have a purpose in re newing it" 1 have, and also a confession to make." "A confession!" she repeated in sur prise," "Yes, a confession. From your man ner and from your words at that time, and subsequently from your manner at the Casino, where I met you some days afterwards, I arrived at the conclusion that you suspected Mr. Fountain of hav ing committed the murder." "The dreaded blow ha fallen, she thouirht as she gasped out, her face ghostly white, "but you did not know him; he told me so." "I learned who he was that night at the Casino," he replied calmly. "I feared ao," she said, with a low moan. "And yet he went to you the next morning. Fool, fool, fool, that be waal" "That conclusion," continued Hoi brook, conscious he was torturing ber as a cat does a mouse, "was strengthened by the report of an interview between yourself and Mr. Fountain on the veran da of your uncle's house at Newport" She sprang to her feet, nerved by the trong tide of anger and contempt that wept over her. "And were you low enough, base enough, to spy upon us, or to place a py upon us?" Uolbrook; wu struck with her great beauty as she stood before hira, burning with tcorn, and he admixed her. "No, Miss Ashgrove," he replied, quiet ly, "you wrong me. You are mistaken In both conjectures, 1 neither spied on you nor placed one on you. The report came to me in my professional capacity, after it was all over, and without my knowledge that Mr. Fountain was being followed and watched. This, 1 say, con firmed the suspicions and strengthened my conclusions, but 1 desire to say to you now that both of u Lave beeu wrong. I hasten to inform you that Mr. Fountain did not commit the deed." "Did notr The revulsion of feeling was too great She sank back in ber choir, and for a moment llolbrook thought (he would swoon. He started up hastily to go to her as sistance, but site waved hun back, and after a supreme effort regained control of herself. "How h I tunocent?" "Yea, Innocent Ue was not within a hundred ruilea of Union square when th deed was done." "And why do you come to me with all thlsT Having repossessed herself, alia took refuge In haughtiness, while her manner was an assumption of extreme inditler ao. Nil made Uolbrook; angry, and it wu with difficulty h could control himself. "You will pardon me. Mis .Ashgrove, I hope. If I remark that your tone and manner ar particularly offensive to me, and neither wise nor just. It U far from my purpose to descend ao low aa to threaten a lady, but p rudenca should suggest to you that it is I ot wise to show such contempt whatever you may feel, toward a man who I i 1 possession of such knowledge a you know I am." "And trav. what may. that be?" TO BE COXTrSVED.I C7I mi A Ball ot the War. The Listener witnessed recently an in teresting little ceremony-the removal ot three charges from an old revolver, which bad been borne, and evidently used, by anofliceron the field of Cedar Creek, on Oct. 19, im. On that day, Copt O. r. W of the Thirtieth Massachusetts, bad. as be chanted with his company the tone wall behind which the Confederates were entrenched, drawn thi old Ave .hooter, of the most approved an J tyiie, which looks about as much like the ordinary Colt or Smith & Wesson of this day as a revolutionary firelock does like the latest pattern of magazine rifle, a lie revolver was loaded, but the captain bad dlscborgeil two shots from It lueu lit was himself shot through the heart, and fell The men pushed on; the Confeder ates were driven from their position, and defeat turned Into victory; but when Oen. Sheridan rode before the reformed line, and complimented the troo upon their bravery, the gallant captain lay back upon the field, amoug the dead and wounded. ,.'., His revolver, with the remaining three charges in it, was sent home to his family, and from that day to this the charge re mained in It like a sheathed weapon ready for service. Occasion had arisen, how ever, to pass the old pistol on to a stiil younger band, and it was deemed best to draw the old chorees at last. So the three percussion caps, that looked as old fash ioned a a flint lock itself to this genera tion, 'were removed. The bullets, with their paper cartridges, were carefully drawn; and the powder fell out of them, some of it as bright and doubtless as energetic, If one were to test It, as when the captain loaded his revolver before the battle of Cedar Creek. To one who was there, the sight of those old cartridges must have brought back a grim and mov ing spectacle of as gallant a charge as the war had known. Boston Transcript "Listener." Light Depth of Arotlo Snows. The comparatively light depth of snow In the north frigid tone is tolerably easy of explanation, but the difference in con sistency between it and the same material further south is not so easy to understand. In the former case we really have but two seasons when the snow falls the spring and autumn the Intensely cold weather of winter being as unfavorable for a snow storm seemingly as the summer itself; iu fact, I have seen a snow storm every July and August I was In the Arctic, while there were a number ot months in each winter of which I could not say the same. The Eskimo plainly recognize these two seasons of snow storms, and have two different names for the spring and fall mows. During the winter there maybe high winds, which carry the loose snow in drifting packs, so that a person caught out in such a gale would think at first sight that he was in a first class snow storm; but, nevertheless, none bos fallen, and although drifts have formed deeper here and there, this has been picked np from the ridges and hilltops and the average depth is the same as before. For this, too, the nstives have a name, and will Inform you that at that temper ature and that time of the year no snow f ills. In Greenland ob servations have lieen carried on for ninny years by Danish meteorologists, and Dr. Kink, the best authority on that region, says that "in north Greenland the amount of snow annually falling is in ferior to that of south Greenland," and this law seems to be general. In short, the heaviest full of snow is not iu the frigid no more than iu the torrid zone, but somewhere between the two. Lieut Frederick Schwatka. . Crossing tha Muddy Street. I stood at a corner on Main street the other day and watched the people making their way across the muddy street Did you ever notice how differently this Is done by different people. There is the lady who pauses moment arily in dismay, then gathers her skirts with one hand aud daintily picks her way, striving to step where some man's big broean has left Its Imprint, but failing be cause the brogau took such long steps. Then comes the well dressed man who never deforms his shapely feet with over shoes. He glnnces down at his well pol ished boots, mutters an imprecation about the street commissioner, aud walks across on his heels, maintaining his balance with difficulty and losing his temper altogether. The old resident who Is used to this sort of thing, and who would not feel at home with a clean pavement in the spring time, does not permit the muddy crossing to delay him, but with a skill, born of long experience, takes advantage of every pro jecting dry spot that the pavement affords, and doesn't get very muddy after all. But the mau who produced the strong est impression upon me, the man whom you will at once recognize, was the man whose unpolished boots and insensibility to dirt enub.ed him to disregard the mml. This man Bets his foot down like a pile driver, or yanks it through the liquid mud like a snow plow and liberally bespatters everybody and everything within a radius of five yards. You have met him; every body has met him. He has splashed yon with mud; he has splashed everybody. He should be abated as a public nui sance. Kansas City Journal. Conserve Tour Force. ITamerton says; "It often happens that mere activity is a waste of time, that peo ple who have a morbid habit of being busy are often terrible time wasters; while, ou the contrary, those who are judiciously deliberate, and allow themselves Intervals of leisure, see the way before them In those intervals, and save time by the ac curacy of their calculations." Another writer, unknown, says; "Some men are In incessant action, early and late, and all through the day. They have no time for family or friends. As for holidays, the less for them the better. They have inherited a nervous tempera ment, and are doing just the wrong thing with it allowing it to hurry them to an untimely end. They wear themselves out. Their brain is ever in a state of morbid activity almost like that of an in sane man. A little careful planning, and a proper layinKout of work, and especially doing everything in the proper time, would avoia all such hnrry aud worry, make work much easier, seenre an abun dance ot lelsnre and greatly increase length of life." Scientific American. Tha Deaf Called by Dram. Who would think of calling deaf men by beating a drum? Yft this is exactly what is done in the Institute for the deaf ml dumb at Flint Mich. With the drum resting on the floor and beaten in the usual way, everylKxly in the building is awakened in the morning. It is also used to call the boys from the playgrounds. The teachers state that those who can not hear at all feel the vibrations and answer th ummous. Pituburg Dis patch. flora Sea v. Faahioa. McAllister I noticed you kept your front blinds open all the summer. Going out of society? Smith No; but we concluded that all the people we really cared to have think tu out of town were oat of uwu houi elves. Peck. There are now over eighty mile of electric railway in the I'nited States. Eighteen towns have plants in operation, varying from one to eleven mile in lengta. Contracts have been let tor roads In seventeen other to nt, ara ajrvv mo awr ar projected. Chicago Ttsnaa, SEEIXG HUMAN NATURE. ITS DEVELOPMENT A3 SEEN BY A, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE POOR. Th F.al. Sh,l.H-U-A Molhar-a to. , Her Afflleled " .I-Shlppl"- Pauper " B""H A Discharged 8allr. Mr. William Blake, jnperlntendent of autdoor poor, works from 8 a. m. until 5 v Z T every week day, and while he talks he Is llsteulng W complaints, appeals, arguments and inquiries, and his lunula are busy signing papers, making mem oranda, handing out bottles of cough mix ture, putting his name to vouchers, open Inir letters and various other occupations. Bv dint of doing three or four things at once when he Is most rushed, he mannas to Ket the average down to about nine things per minute that he gets through with all day long. " . While the reporter sat watching him and waiting to hear about .Lift observa tlons upon human nature, the dull brow n tatter festooned chain of misery that moved its human links along the front ot his desk was suddenly broken by a very Charming variation upon Its monotony. An exceedingly pretty young woman, with pouting red lips, Bpnrkllng eyes and rose leaf complexion; a young woman prettllv gloved, wearing rich furs and costly 'jewelry, and a marveloiisly hand some hat-altogether quite a patrician esqne young woman stopped before Mr. lilake and said: "We have a tenant; a widow with a child, who cannot pay her rent. We have dispossessed her. or at least served her with a notice, of dispossession, but we can't put her out because her child Is very sick. So I want you to send nu am bulance ond take the child away to some hospital." . , , , . "You want u to take the sick nnd per haps dying child away from Us mother, o that you can throw the mother Into the street and let your room to a better paying tenantl" "Yes, sir," replied the young woman, stiffly, but with a little flush on her checks, as If she wns just beginning to real ize tlmt her attitude might not be admired by people weak enough to be humane. Mr. lilake's eyes projected themselves, and he seemed making an effort to swal low some words that would not have sounded prettily. After a brief but im pressive silence he answered sternly: "No, I shall do nothing of the sort. If the poor mother brings her slek child nnd asks us to care for It, we will do the liesl we can, but we have no right to do what you ask. Wc never Interfere .between landlord and tenant." The handsome young woman reddened angrily, and exclaimed nivumentatively: "But. she cau't pay her rent !" "I have told you that I can do nothing for you," replied Mr. Blake, iu a tone of disgust; "we do not interfere between landlord and tenant." The pretty female Shy lock gave her heud an indignant toss, flushed u look of scoru upon the poor wretches surround ing her who were listening and view ing her with expressions of loathing und sur prise and quickly went out. A pale, thiu, weary looking youns wo man, still bearing traces of beauty, came up to the desk, aud said, with evident effort: "My little boy Is deaf and dumb, and paralyzed. I can no longer keep him. I have come to see If you will put him Iu some Institution where he will be warm and taken cure of." "Are you a widow?" "No, sir. I have a hnsbnnd, but he can get little work to do. We are very poor, aud have another child, which is all we can take care of." 1 'I will send yonr child to Randall's Is land, where he will he very well cared for, If yon desire it. When -will you be ready to have the ambulance take him away?" . She seemed to hesitate, but uerving her self, replied: "Any time, sir." "Very well, the amhulnnce will call for him to morrow morning." She turned very pale, her lips quivered, and her eyes filled with tears as she ex claimed impulsively: "Oh I sir, make it Friday. Let me have him one more day." Mr. Blake kindly told her how well her little afflicted boy would be cared for, which was the best consolation she could have had, and when she went awuy re marked to the reporter: "There's more human nature for you. I wonder if that youug Shylock who was in here a while ago will ever have in her breast a mother's heart as tender as that of the woman who Just went out." The clanking of the human chain that drags Itself before Superintendent Blake's desk is almost wholly in a minor key. Now and then, however, there is a little relief to its monotony. . 1 A young German tood confidently up, and iu response to the question, asked in German, "How long have you beeu In this country?" replied placidly: "I arrived yesterday." "My God!" ejaculated Blnke. "And you've found this place already! Well, I've known of their being pretty soon before, but he Is the freshest thing I've seen yet" The recent arrival was sent back to Castle Garden. The state board of chari ties and our municipal commissioners of charities and correction have plenty of business In shipping off paupers, the burden of whose support properly belongs upon othercommuuities and even iu other countries. "The Swiss cantons," said Dr. Hoyt, "openly and boldly ship us their paupers, even claiming a right to do so, and com placently invite us to reciprocate by send ing our paupers to them, if we can. But we cannot Catch our paupers going to Switzerland! Not much. They know when they are well off.. We also get great nuiulters of the most undesirable class of Immigrants from tb Austro Polish, Italian and German lowest classes; the greater numbers and the worst the Austro PuuNh. They come here to live by begging aud crime, and If we do not succeed in catching them and turning them back they are a burden practically from the day they land." A tall, thin man, erect, bronzed by ex posure to the elements, and wearing a sailor's hat, wanted to be sent to Boston. "I have been discharged from the Trenton," he said, "and it seems pretty hard, for I've been in the service since IcHJl; but it was my own fault I want now to go back to where I have friends and'take a fresh start" Whatever his fault had been, the poor fellow looked as if he had repented of It, and hi manly way of accepting the situ ation disarmed criticism and moralizing, lie got his transportation. "There," said Mr. Blie, "I think you've got some sample of human Da tura as I see it every day, and if they ar not enough for you com again." New York Sua. Electric Oil Well Drills. A patent has been granted for an elec trical drill for oil wells. The device con ista of a series of motors in tandem, connected in inch a way as to make one motor. The design baa been to get t&e power within a six inch diameter, so that the entire mechanism, which much resembles a common boiler, can be low. ered in the well, and the power can be applied at tha bottom. Tha drill bits are firmly fastened on the rod, which is worked rapidly in and out of a cylinder, after the manner of a piston rod. New York Tdegraa. Th Croat Hnulan resnoflnn. The Russians determining a thing h, advance let nothing stop Ihein. Tak the case of a young law yer I met In east e rn Siberia. He had la-en arrested as on of the 200 propagandists, the men who weut about preaching lilierallty in gov ernment and literature. Tried, he was one of the 11)3 ocqtiitted. Some months afterward he was asked to come to dinner with the governor of hi province. Th two had taken coffee, when the offlciol aid: "I am very sorry, but I have a telegrsni telling me to order yon toeasteru Siberia." "But on what grounds?" "I don't know; these are my only lu. traction. " ' " Getting a three weeks' respite In which to settle up his business, he was put UU) M(cow prison, and Anally, traveling by stages, reached the place of hlsexile. peatedly on Ida route he pressed his cup. tor for the reason of his errest Finally lie was Informed. Tlie charge was not having abandoned his former criminal ac tivity. And he had Just been acquitted of having any previous activity. "One day after the young man's arr. val, as he told me," said Mr. Kennan, "he was discussing with some of his com panions the cause of their presence Iu eastern Siberia. One had been circulat ing a forbidden book, and so on. It came to the lawyer. He confessed he had been unable to find out any real canso for his punishment 'Yonr father bad t block aud white cow, didu't he?' laughed one. " 'Yes, I suppose so. " 'Oh, well, yon needn't look any fur ther for the reason of your exile. Th possession of a cow is sufficient."' George Kennun. . Dangerona Coaroetie In Franca. In a report submitted to the HygieDlo council of Paris by Drs. Dubrisay and Chnfln, the authors stute that the per fumery and toilet products now sold con tain so muny noxious substances that it is desirable the factories should be placid under special surveillance. They give number of Instances in support of their statement. Tlie so-called "harmless and purely vegetable" hair dyes, they say, are all poisouous. "Progressive dyes" are ammoniocid solutions of nitrate of silver. The "Instantaneous dyes" are a solution of litharge in lime w ater. "Kau des Fees" is a solution of sul phate of lead in hyposulphite of soda . "Eau Figaro" consists of three solutions (1) ot nitrate of slrYcr and sulphate ot copper; (2) sulphide of sodium; (!)) cyanide of potassium (to remove the silver stains). "Kau des Fleurs" is composed of rose water, 05.6; flowers of sulphur, 2.7; acetate of lead, 2.8. Passing to cosmetics, they say "Lait antlpelllque" Is composed of corrosive sublimate, 1.7; oxide of lead, 422; sulphuric acid aud camphor. "Lait de manille" Is a mixture of borax, copper, tincture of benzoin, and essence of bitter almonds; "111 do Ninon," of bismuth and zinc; "Eau Mnglque," oxide of lead aud hyposulphite of elnc; "Eau de fienr do lys." protochloride of mercury; "Eau royul do Windsor," glyceriue and oxide of lead; "Eau de CastlUe," hyposulphite of soda and acetate of lead. The "Poudre Pilivore de Laforet" contains mercury If), 60 grains; sulphide of arsenic, !!0 grains; litharge, 30 grains, and starch, "0 grains. "Epetiene" is simply sulphite of calcium, and "Autiboldos" hyposulpuite of soda. Pomades against baldness all contain rniitharides and croton oiL- American Druggist ' - CHIr in the Wrong Place. Nevertheless, we must all regret that in the original foundation ot cities the pion eers are frequently so short sighted as tu choose spots which will give posterity no end of expense. I never could see much reason for putting tho city of Rome where it stood, and then having to bring water to it on high arched aqueducts from dis tant mouiitnins nnd to tlnd a port down iu the unhealthy marshes miles away from the city. Paris and Edinburgh and Cou- stantinople are well placed cities. New York could have been placed elsewhere tbnn on this island of gneiss, which is probably a series of rovk Islets with sand hills and quick sands between. Brooklyn has been growing prodigiously of lute, lie cause it was so much easier to form a city there than upon the site of New York. Newark has also grown with great rapid ity, because it has advantages on tlie con tinental mainland not enjoyed by New York. Westchester county, north of New York island, would have beeu the easiest of all places to put a great city, which would then have been fronted upon Long Isluud Sound and on the Hudson river, and also on the main continent, while the Harlem river In front of it would long ago have been made into a sort ot Thames. Still, the impediments put in man's way lead to his art aud civilization, and, as New York Is, enterprise will continue to figure aud scheme upon it so that the last complaint which can be made against its comfort and intercourse shall subside to peace. George Alfred Townsend in Boston Globe. Bona for Cavalry Service. The horses that were raised In the coun try districts of Kentucky and Missouri were splendid animals for all around use, but now there seems to be nothing be tween the weedy, delicate racer good for a mile dash, but who would break down In a three days' forced march, and the heavy animal that does excellently for wagon or light artillery use, but Is too slow and clumsy for the cavalry. Even when we get a horse that has at once bone and stamina It is nearly always the case that he has a long back, that curse of the cavalry horse, for weak kidneys are in evitably the result after one season's cam paign: Horse boards now have to go over the country with a line toothed comb to find the active, short coupled horses that are the best for service aud which used to be found on every large farm. Unless something is done by the breeders the splendid saddle horses for whlc'.i the Mis sissippi valley once was famous will en tirely disappear. St Louis Post-Dispatch. . The Pickle Indnttry. The pickle industry is a large one la some localities. At Fredericksburg, Vs., tlie supply reached 80,000,000 cucumbers. They are picked an inch and a half long, and bring eighty cents per 1,000. A boy can pick 3,000 per day. Picking them off when they are small increases the pro ductiveness of tlie vines, as others quickly grow as the first ones are picked off." Boston Budget A Luxury la Parte. Fires are considered a great luxury here. We have immense andirons, and the fire are built on the stone or tile floors. They generally burn a sort of Drick made of pressed coal, called a briquette, warranted to last five hours. A I tell sister, a common brick would last longer and give as much heat. The Frenoh people are so economical !they Jump up and pour water on the fire W keep it from burning up too quickly. Elisabeth Nourse in Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. A New Kind ot Oan. Oars are coming into use in which the blade is made from the best (beet steel, highly tempered, and is alleged to be much stronger than the ordinary wooden one, and cannot be broken without undue violence; the handle flu into the socket running nearly the whole length of th blade, and forming a backbon of great strength; and the oar, being much tbln ner In the blada than the wooden one, enters and leave th water cleaner. Th handle are made separately, of sprue r aaa. New York Sun.