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EUGEliE CITY GUARD. I. U CAHfUKLL, . . rrearleter. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. ON THE ROAD. To BeUs art all iwnrt wltb hr, The brake ar all With with aoa(, Oa U hedit wae arlnl sway, Coof olvuliu cltntwi lljronf, A boele, and laHerrtL anil f rimy, aad fray 11 diufltea aloe. A skylark sloe hlb abora. A thruab from oa banjclnf bo, far away Id Mi wood a dun; Hut ha mm with ooliu brow. TUelf ineiodiee w woot II bate them now. BaM all; saw tun abellerln; Bight, When ondr a bank b oreej Aad Squalor la out of alxlit, iA iiunmludtataoc keeps, Ad nnmocned by Ui Unla and tba meadow brlfM, liktmlawj ilepa -Maw York Trlbuoa Aa Affeetlaf Incldaal. Tha eouflairration of tba scaffolds in tended for fireworks for the celebration of tb marriage of Louis AVI u gener n known. Amidst tbe distracted mniutnla orMmino; on every tide, tram plod under the horses feet, precipitated into the ditches of tba Boa Royals and tba square, was a young man, with irirl with whom be waa in love. Bhe waa beautiful; their attachment bad lasted several yean; pecuniary causes had delayed their anion; bat the follow' Ing day they were to be married. For a Jong time the lover, protecting his be trothed, keeping her beliind him, cover ing her with his own person, sustained her strength and courage. But tha tu- mult, tha cries, tha terror and peril every moment Increased. "I am sink ing," aha said; "my strength fulls. I can go no farther." "There is yet way!" cried the lover in despair; "get on my shoulders." He feels that his advice baa been followed, and the hope of saving her whom ba loves redoubles his ardor and strength. Ha resists tba most violent concussions; with bis arms firmly extended before his breast he with difficulty forces his way through the crowd; at length ba clears it Arrived at one of the extremities of tba place, having set down bis precious bunion, faltering, exhausted, fatigued to death, but Intoxicated with joy, be tarns round. It was a different person I An other, mora active, had taken advantage of his recommendation. Ilia beloved was no morel New York Ledger. last mm Ordinary Woodehnek Log. When I was a boy my father had a fine field of clover, and be discovered that woodchucks were making sad bavoo with it On the field was a log, and new tba log tha destruction was tha greatest My father told me I must kill those woodchucks. I went to the fiold a number of times, bat could not got a shot at them. I came to tha conclusion that I must urn a little strategy; so one morning I went to the field before light With my gun both barrels loaded with heavy charge of DD shot, I got In a position whera I could take a range of tha log lengthwise. As it began to grow light the wood el neks began to gather for their morn ing frolic They mounUid the log, suit op and looked around to sea there was nothing to disturb them. When I thought the log was nearly covered with them I polled both barrels at once. Tba gun kicked me over. When I got np there were no woodchucks to be aeon. 1 vent to the log and picked up fourteen dead woodchucks, and it wasn't any great log for woodchucks, either. Bos ton Record. Uul one Cata Ara Vary Useful We have elltl newspaper for sev eral years, and in that time wa bava re ceived propositions to advertise goods on shares, to advertim and take the pay in pills, in trees, in flowers, in free tickets, have even bad opera house managers demand advertisements as a matter of news, and then demund pay for admis sion or no go; but it remained for an enterprising merchant of Temple to cup the climax with his proposition. He bna a lot of strayed animals, and after hinting around and suggesting "news" items thut would contain some reference to the lost animals, ha finally proposed to advertise for thorn if we would take tha pay in cats. Temple Times. Har Befard fur Propriety. A gentleman on a 'cycling tour staid night at a prim old lady's cottage, the inns being full He was very deaf, and took care to impress tha fact on bis host ess, with instructions that soma ona must enter bia room to wake him at a particular time in the morning. Wak ing of himself soma time later he found tUt tha old lady, with creditable regard for propriety, had slipped nuder his door note inscribed: "Sir, it is half-past 71"-London Tit Bid. llaipU Safetimrd aa Klaalrla Hallways, M. 0. Sullivan suggest in Tba Elec trical Engineer that a very wise and sim ple precaution will ba the supplying to each car oiierated by electricity of a pair of rubber (lores, insulated pliers and nippers, and suitable inscriptions to indicate their use. Those may possibly bathe means of preventing delay and inconvenience, and of obviating serious results in case of accidouts. The greatest measure of variability in ilia matter of lopped ears ia to ba found among dogs. SjutnieU, setters, pointers, bloodhounds, boagtea and foxhounds all have long, pendulous ears; bulldogs, ter riers, collies and greyhounds droop only tha tipa of their ears; the spits baa erect ears, while mastiffs and many other breeds have short pendulous or aeini pendulous ears. Tha elephant probably came of an an cestral stock that had erect ears, but for ages past there baa been no creature powerful enough to causa it alarm, and for want of exercise tha muscles which move tba ear have lost tone and wasted away, leaving tha ear to lop or hang pendulous. Directly ona enters a room there ia a sense either of cheer or tha reverse. After leaving the apartment ona may not ba able to tell how it waa furnished. The Duke ol Westminster, the wealth st of the F.nxlifh noblemen, is engaged in a sqnabbl in the courts with a sur fron named Hiirrll over the emt nf em Ulming the Duke's son. lord Robert Uroavenor, a ho died at Constantinople. THE DIAMOND BDTTON rwou mi dut or uwni aitd thi HOTI BOOK OF A MFOKTIII. By BARCLAY KOBTH. (Ooprrljrhted, lSHt, by 0. SL Dunlum. Published by special arranKwoaot Ifarouc Tba Amarteae Press Aasociatloa.) "That $200,000 be given Mrs. Fountain If alive at my death, and if not then to her son Harry Fountain if ha be alive, but if not of age to then be held in trust for hfin by Judge Ilurkncr. If ba ba dead, then the sum to be divided equally among Mrs. Templvton's children. "That $330,000 ba given to Mrs. Simp son under the same circumstances and conditions as tha gift to tba Fountain woman. "I desire also that Mrs. Templeton shall pay weekly to my scamp and jail bird of a brother, James Preston, $50, In the hope that ba will soon drink himself todeatu, "I am quite conscious that this ia not a will, but if Mrs. Temploton is aa good a woman as her mother was aha will obey these Instructions. "Chablu Piersom. "New York. April 10, 1874." Uolbrook laid tba paper down, over whelmed, CHAPTER XXVIL TOM IXTIRIKNCKS A SENBATIOH AK TO A BBOCX. v fT WAS In no en viable frame of mind that Tom turned out of bed on the morning following the night be bad en deavored to find Fountain. lie bad boon unsuccess ful, and his Shad- !JI ow had been tin- II able to assist him 11 through Foun tains man. Tom was in fact discouraged, and h. made no his mind that if Uolbrook hod not succeeded in eliciting anything of value from Flora, ha would give up tba whole matter and confess nimseu beaten. The first ten minutes after a tired man wakes in the morning and fucea tba fresh difficulties of the day are the bluest of tha twenty-four hours, and on this Dorticu ar niornina Tom answerea win emphasis the old Gorman philosopher's famous question, life waa not worth living. Ilo broke a hair brush In endeav oring to give the answer additional em phasis. But by the time that ba bad disposed of bis matutinal cup of coffee and 111 bia cigar the mental horizon cleared somewhat and tha vapors began to dis appear. By the time ba had wulkod a has down blocks and felt the joy of exer cise, he began to pluck up soma hope and to manifest a curiosity as to what Uolbrook might have to tell him. Ua by no means anticipated such a sensation as he was to experience. When Tom entered Uolbrook'a ofllor tha lawyer waa staring out of the win dow. The only return he made to Tom's salu tation was to hand him the document which had overwhelmed him without a word. Tom took it turned the paper over and read the signature and date. "The deuce!" be exclaimed, and de voured It rapidly.' "Uoly jumping Jehosaphat!" he cried. "What an old scampi Uow unblushing ly he writes of his villainy!" "And yet trios to make amende at tha close of a long and evil life," commented Uolbrook. "Well," said Tom, hardly recovered from his astonishment, "the motive ly ing at tha bottom of the murder ia clear enough." "But who Is the murdererr "There lies tha information," replied Tom, striking the paper he had laid upon Uolbrook'a desk. "But which? It was not Templeton, for he didn't kill himself for his own benefit It was not Fountain, for wa know ha didn't do It It la either Weaslng, tha woman Simpson or Pres ton." "Preston. What Prestonr "Why, James Preston the old drunk ard." "Yes, but where ia be? Who aver beard of him?" "Whoever heard why hold hard I say, dldu't I? why, bless my soul! but I did tell you, didn't If" "You are particularly lucid and In telligent this morning, not to say ejacu uitory." "But I say, didn't I aver tell your "In tha course of oua aomewhat ex tended and frequent Intimacy you have told ma many things and left untold many others, I suppose. But which particular piece of information you ara referring to In your usual perspicuous manner, I am unable to ascertain with out a little more light" "Oh, stow that gibing! you ara never so uninteresting as when you think you ara sarcastic. But I say, didn't I aver toll you what the Shadow reported to me about an old man Preston and Parker?" "Never, my royal youth." Tom, who was too seriously Intent over the discovery of the papor to fall Into the vein of Uolbrook, told with brevity the sceue in the old house in Verick street The recital soon won Uolbrook'a close attention. "If you had told me this," he said at its conclusion, "wa would bava been well along In tha quest without tha aid of this document" "I cannot for the life of me tell bow I came to neglect it but you see, on my side I never knew, for you never told me, that the name of Mrs. Templeton'a father was Carroll lrrton." "Uowevcr, we have tha connecting link now, and the question aa to who ia tha person is narrowed to a very few." "True. It mutt ba either Weaning, tha woman Simpson, or Pretton." "Or Parker." "Ah, by George, ha cornea into tba game, too, doesn't he?" "Yes, by reason of his connection and conspiracy with Preston," "Uolbrook," said Tom, after a mo ment's thought "I do not believe that either Preston or Parker ara in this part of tha job." "Why-equolly so with tba others." "Listen to ma a moment. In this pa per, Pierson is at pains to state that Par ker bad no knowledge of bis previoua Ufa that La never knew, that ha bora I Jil U . "vr U f tvW av' AO ism another name previoua to that of Her son." "Yea, I remember; I see what your line of reasoning will be." WelL Now he did know snout ma Fountain and Simpson marriages. In my interview with him ba waa only dis turbed when I talked of Fountain. Us was lawyer enough to know that if there nn nrlor niiurbiire. the Fountain ceremony, whether mock or not would ba binding If tha supposed fountain could be identified with tha dead Pier son. Uence bia disturbance at my knowledge of tha matter a knowledge which at that tima 1 did not bava, but most recklessly assumed to have." "Well, but you forget Preston, the drunkard." "No, I don't Tills paper Is dated 184. ten years ago, and In It -distinctly stated that old Preston, the drunkard, turned up five years previously. The old sol you will remember, wanted to argu with Parker that ha certainly was a brother, because for fifteen yeare Pierson had paid him money, and you must give full wnlirht to the answer of Parker, thai it made little difference whether money waa paid him because he was a brother or whether It was because he possessed a secret which Induced old Pierson to give hush money he was brother enough for their purposes. Now this argues that Parker was not fully acquainted with this relution, and that lie really enter tained double of the verity of the brothershlp between the two that the relation, if not the acquaintanceship, be tween Preston and Parker had sprung up since Pierson's death." "I see, I see. Yes, your reasoning It close." "Now." continued Tom, "whatever else we may think of Parker, it won't do to take him for a fool And fool lie would have been to open up this prop ertyshlp question, by his own motion right on the heels of the murder. If he had lieeii guilty f it or Implicated in It The fact that he and Ids client would hove been benefited by it would hove been too patent, and if ha knew the rela tion Templeton bore to the proNrty, lie had every reason to believe others would know it; and with a guilty conscience would think Unit that foot would be the first to be pitched on." "I am diKsed to believe with you Tom." "You will, the more vou turn over in your mind thut scene in Varick street and my conversation witn raracr. i u ml for tlm Shadow, and toirether we'll poorer the conversation again, und I'll writedown both for you to btudy at your lidHiira. It is ouite as imoortant to eel those out of the case who did not do it, as to get those In who possibly could have nono it. "That is shrewdly put, Tom," replied ilulhrook. "But you do not forget Park er's call on me?" "No, I do not That call. In ray judg ment, was to find if puesibln whether or not Pieraon had been engaged In mock niutriinonial scrapes prior to the Foun tain episode, and of which he had no iiow ledge. Now, take fust hold of this met: Fountain could only he a disturb ing claimant in the event of theie hav ng lieeii no previous marriage. If I'urket had known of the marriage of Carroll IVoHlon. the IsHue of which was Mrs I'eiuiiletou, he would not have been at ill ilihiurhed by my preuipiiiition of the Fountain mime. He wus visibly dis lurlx'd when I falsely utmumed to know whiil I didn't then know, llmt Pierson Imd oncu passed as Fountain. As for llie driveling old idiot of a brother, he is loo far gone in rum to have ever con oeived or execMed the uiimler." "I think you have iimdo out a case, foul At all events, if the other lines of inquiry fail, we have the precious pair to Call tuck on." 'Now, if you ugrue with me. as you seem to. then it follows that there are only two It-It -the Simpson woman and Wessiug. "Well, then, let's consider these two About Simpson wa know no mora than this document tells us." "As to that I'll have to send the Shadow to New Itochelle to make in quliies ,iut 1 want to note a fuel I here are only left uow under our process Simpson and Wetting" 'And Wesslng was at the place ot murder when the deed was done." 'Precisely There's our lirwl line ot work." Uolbrook did not reply. He was in tent on las thoughts, and was nervously tearing paMr into long shreds, a hubit when he was profoundly thinking H nullv he said: 'Tutu, some very singular things in the way of omissions prosulil themselves Vou never told me of that Varick street Interview, and I never told you that Mrs Templeton 's family name was Preston Here were two broken links that we might have joined without the aid of this taKr Now, here is another omis sion." What?" said Tom. with un air of an ooyunce. "Are you going to make us out n pair of blunderers?" es, apparently. W e never attempted to Und out whether Wessing knew any thing atknil the diamond button?" "You always scouted the idea of Wesa- iug being connected with the affair." "I admit thut and I am going also to admit that 1 came near forgetting to toll you thut I know who has worn a pair precisely like them." "Who? For grucious sake!" snid Tom Irritably You increase rather than de crease the possibilities." "Kendrick Noble. Do you know him?" "Yes, He is In the same act as the Ash grove girl and Fountain. But what ks sible connection can ha have with Ves ing?" "NjI any that I know of. But we must lind out what he lias to say about It" "Well. I'll take that In hand myself aid Tom "But Uolbrook, old man there is one thing you ought to do and at once you ought to go to the Temple Ions With all the knowledge you uow IHMMf you may bring out soma startling (ruths. Your clients ara now Unit claim aula to a large property." "True That has been In my mind to ay for some time. Why not go up with uie? In this case two minds will be bet ter than one." "Agreed." cried Tom. springing from hi seat "Wa have plenty to Jo uow. so I t us be on tha move." After safely locking up tha precious l KUtnent they set forth to call upon the Templeton s. CHAPTER XIVIIL IIOURCOK MAKES A STUUJNO DISCOV KIT AS TO BUtSKLT. i BS. TEMPLETON was alone when Bolbrook and Tom were usher ed Into her apart ments. Uolbrook looked eagerly for Annl but aha was not present and and there waa a void In tha room and disappointment In bis heart. After Tom bad been presented to Mrs. Templeton, for up to this tima ba bad never met ber, Uolbrook opened the conversation by saying: "Wa came upon some rather etartling Information thia morning, Mra. Temple ton, which closely concerns yourself and your daughter. 1 regret aha ia not bare to listen to tba story." "Why. waa aba to meet you here?" asked Mrs. Templeton. Uolbrook stared at tha old lady. "I do not understand you, ba said. "But where did aha go to after aha left youT "Left meT said Bolbrook, much pus tied. "1 have not seen ber today." , "Then tha missed you. Sha went out to aea yon." -' "To tea meT replied Bolbrook, still mora puzzled. "Why, yea," said tha old lady, much, alarmed by bis manner. "In response' to ttils note from you." Sha rose from her seat and, crossing ( to the table, took from it an open letter, . which abe handed to Uolbrook. ' Tom, who had quickly perceived aome-j ihlnir waa wron?. did not hesitate tolean ver Uolbrook'a shoulder and read witbi himi t Mt Die ib Miss Temple T05 I desire to meet you at tha surrogate's office,' ahere wa were day oerore yesteraay, at, 10 this morning. Your signature to soma papers Is necessary. Tba preeenot) at your mother ia not necessary. "Yours respectfully, "Bkkbt HOtBROOt" "What horrible thing is this?" crtea Uolbrook. "This note ia a forgery. I never wrote It" Mra. Templeton buret into moans and lamentations. "Soma ona bat abducted her!" cried Uolbrook, 'Til turn the city upside down; I'll go to the police at once." "Stop." said Tom. "Bolbrook, be quiet moment" "Quiet, man?" turned Uolbrook on him fiercely; "she'a in danger. Can I ba quiet when perhapa her life hangs in tha balance? Come, let'a go. Wa'U alarm the city." Tom seized Uolbrook by the arm and said sternly; "Stop, man alive, and make aura wnat you are about to da" "Let me loose!" demanded Uolbrook. beside himself. "I'm dangerous. Do you know I love that girl love her. heaven only knows now mueni i must. I will find her." Tom bold blm firmly. "Granted," he said, "you love ber, and I believe you. But to go bellowing like a wild bull about town in this man ner ia not the way to find ber. Be man. Look at thia thing coolly. I'll go any where with you, but you must not lose self control AU of your faculties are needed In thia work. If you are to help the girl or thia poor old mother heavens, she has fainted!" They both hastened to take ber from the floor, to which she had fallen, and to bear ber Into tha adjoining room, the door of which waa open, and lay ber upon the bed. The diversion this created helped Uol brook to resume control of himself. While he sought for water, Tom hastened Into the hall to aummon assistance, but as be opened the door a lady stood be fore him, probably attracted thither by Bolbrook a outcries. Tom hastily told ber what bad oo curred, and begged that aha would go to Mra. Templeton, Be then went back to Uolbrook, and took him aside. He said sternly to hunt "Uolbrook, you must summon all your self control, all your manhood. There's work to be done that can be done only by men, not boys br whimpering fools. Let me see you steady yourself. Let me say something to you, Tha aearch will not be long. The man who knifed James Templeton is the person who en ticed Annie Templeton away." "You are right, Tom," said Uolbrook, grasping his hand and wringing it "In tha first sharp agony of fear for her I waa unnerved. You shall not complain of my want of manhood again. But where can aha be? Who can have done this? What shall we do? Where shall wo go? Think for me, Tom; act only dont let ua atop here, I shall lose my mind if we don't do aometbing." "One moment Let us see to Mrs. Templeton first" At this moment the lady who bad gone to Mrs. Templeton'a assistance en tered tha room, and said that the old lady had revived and desired to see tha gentlemen. They entered her room. "My daughter," aha feebly moaned. "Have no fear," said Tom promptly. "She will soon ba restored to your em brace." "Yea," said Uolbrook, "I shall neither sleep nor eat until I can clasp ber in my arms." "Ood speed and bless your said tha old lady faintly. They hurried out "Now," said Tom, aa aooxt aa they were well out In the street "tb first thing to do Is to see that you are cooled down and steadied. You and I want to ait down for a careful examination of this thing, before we take a step or make a move." "The first thing to do is to go to the police," replied Uolbrook, "I don't agree with you atop, apeak low, we ara followed. Dont show that you ara aware of It" "Let me get at the scoundrel." de manded Uolbrook, Tom seized him so tightly that ba gave Bolbrook pain. "Would you ruin everything? Ob. If the Shadow were only here to follow the spyl Rut let ua take a cab here at tba corner." ro aa conrcaso,) X H I T A -v V Bl. 'I r DESERTS OF AMERICA. . Hie Mod I'lalBS af tha Weat la HMan Mr-tlueo-lortable Bart Talenma. A desert 1 generally considered as a barren waste of sand; probably on ac count of oar familiarity with Ascriptions of the sandy deHrU of Egypt. The American deserts, however, ara flat mud plains, tha beds of ancient lakes, and are but seldom covered with drifting sand. During the dry season, when not a drop of rain fulls on their surfaces for four, five or even six months at a time, they be come dry aud bard, and broken In every direction by Intersecting shrinkage cracks. At such times they bear a striking resem blance to some of the old Roman pave ments niude of small blocks of cream colored marble- When In this condition one may ride over them without leaving more than a faint impression of the horse'a hoofs on their smooth, glossy surfaces. In the stillness of night and no one can appre ciate the stillness of a desort until he bss slept slone with only the boundless plain about him the hoof bcata of a galloping horse ring out as on the pavementa of a city. As the aummer'a sun dries tha desert anal, the ealte that the waters bring to the surface in solution are loft behind, and gradually accumulate until they are several inches thick, snd maks the deserts appear as If covered with snow. This illusion la especially marked when one traverse the deserts by moon light. During the long, bot days of sum mer, when the dome of blue la above the deserts without a cloud, the strange delusive mirage transforms the land scape beyond all recognition, and makes it appear tenfold more atrange and weird than it Is lu reality. At such times bright clear lakes, with rippling surfaces and willow fringed banks, allure the un wary traveler, and would lead blm to de struction Bhould be believe them real. The mountains around the desert are also deformed by the mirage aud made to as sume the most extravagant and fantastic shapes. During hot summer days the monotony of the desert is varied by dust columns, formed by small whirlwinds, which some times reach such magnitudes ss to be decidedly uncomfortable to the traveler who chances to be In their path. Many times these columns are 2,000 or 8,000 feet In height, ' and have an approximate diameter of from thirty to fifty feet. The fact that they are hollow, whirling colums of dust to Indicated, even from a distance, by their spiral appearance aad by a light line in the center of each. These bending and swaying columns mov ing here and there across the desort land scape, impart a novel feature to the plain, and call to mind the genii of Arabian tales. Such In brief are the deserts of the far west during the arid season. In winter they change and become Impassable mud plains. Israel C Bussoll in Overland Monthly Emma Abbot oa "Artlntlo Sense." "Can you defiue the artlstlo aenseto which you referred?" "Ah, there hi the thing. That is what no opera singer can get on without. To define it would be to define art itself. It includes taste and a thousand other things which are Indefinable. You know the best of everything is Indefinable. But what to the aso of defining it? The person who has the artistic sense knows what It Is without a definition and the person who has it not can not understand any defini tion of it. The person who boa it in the greatest degree becomes the greatest artist, the roundest and most symmet rical. Michael Angelo had it, and there fore he was a great painter, a great poet, a great sculptor and a great architect. If be bad a voice he would have been a great singer. Adelaide Nellson had It, and therefore was a great actress. Nature gave her about the ugliest pah: of bands I ever saw on a woman, but It gave to ber also the artistic sense to learn so to use those hands as to make them seem to look perfectly beautiful. If I were to attempt a brief definition of this sense I should say It Is that in us which prompts us to make beautiful everything with which we have to do. The opera singer must have a beautiful voice, beautiful manners, beau tiful costumes, beautiful stage settings, and she must have the artlstio sense to know what constitutes these." Chicago Times Interview. Buying; Historical Clialrs. An incident of Qen. Sheridan's visit to Europe duringlho Franco-Prussian war to omitted from his article in the Novem ber Scribner's, perhaps, through ignor ance of the facts. When the general reached Berlin he asked the American minister to recommend to him some young American, who could speak Ger man fluently, to act as an interpreter. The minister recommended Mr. Charles F. Mac Lean, better known to Jtew Yorkers as a police commissioner than as an interpreter, and he followed Uen. Sheridan through the campaign. The general relates in Scribner's now Bis marck the great and Napoleon the little sat on rudo wooden chairs in front of a cottigo near Sedan, discussing the situ ation, and there is a picture showing the two men, one triumphant the other downcast, In the peasant's garden. A few days later Gen. Sheridan dined with Bismarck, who began to talk of the sur render. "That meeting," said the Prus sian chancellor, "will be historical. I sent over yesterday and bought those two chairs from the peasant for ten francs apiece;, now I have them as mementoes; and I suppose," be added, with a laugh, "the English will go on buying those chairs for years to come." There was a general laugh at this re mark, but one ollicer had more to laugh at than the others, and gave his reasons to Mr. MacLean afterward. "Yon see," he said, "1 knew as well as Bismarck that the meeting would be lustorical, so the very next-duv I rode over myself and got the chairs for five franca for the pair." San Francisco Argonact Bow Collef Mas Tnra Cat, Tho "ten year book" of Cornell uni versity shows tliat during the last twenty years the total number of degrees con ferred to 1.437 and the total number of graduates to 1,351 Of this number 43 are engaged in agriculture, SI in archi tecture and building, 5 in art, S3 in bank ing, 11 in chemistry and assaying, 150 in civil engineering, 246 in education, 80 in electrical engineering, 61 in newspaper work, 2J5 in law, 8i in manufacturing, 43 in mechanical engineering, 63 in med icine and surgery, 113 in mercantile pur suits, SO in the ministry, 6 in publishing, 13 in scientitio investigation, 63 in study. One hundred and twenty-one are with out occupation or are unreported. New York Tribune. "I declare. Robert," said the old man Irascibly, "you are the most stupid boy I ever saw. 1 wonder at your ignorance. It seems to me I'U never be able to learn you anything." "Do you mean teach me anything, PaT asked Bobby calmly, picking a toothpick. . . -Jam PrableM, IBM - , . Too many young mothers. In tneir effort touuft their J go to great extremes in noticing every Zsultand Invlngtoo great stress upon gov ernment Thtotodonebefore.veryone even the pain& ' er 1 K tho tendency to har; en WMj " expostulation loses its effect It is pro verbial that children alwaye act their worst when there to company In the boL I had one child who seemed to take advantnge every time any one wiled. I grew perfectly couragea and felt as If there was no remedy for it lie would slide down the tonbters, go whooping through the house, i . am dot r. and do the most unexpected things, till 1 was mortified beyond expression I finally made it a point to ) take i bun by the hand, and ask my caller to ex cuse us a moment-take him to another part of the house, art him in a chair and lay that I would send for him when he waa wanted. Ilo would remui n there quietly waiting. When the caller was ioue 1 would go and release him. It & the only way to lo The more be was punished and admonished before people the worse he became, bo 1 tr led hiding his faults and praising him for the good he did. It had a much better elicct. and to still as etfoctive. To some children's natures it to even humiliotme to be reproved before other children. 1 do not think humiliation the proper way to reform. . , . .. . Self reaixft to a much better trait to j i ... fliit.l heirin to foci uevuioi. j ..- , . early that you expect only the best things ot it, ami )u " - -much better wav. Do not iHow It to argue with you from the beg wg, ana never laugh at cute things it may do or say. and reiieut thciu to your friends in the presence of tho child. If it to a wide awako child it will do and say man) tilings that will bt intensely amusing, snd, if you wish, keep a book and put them down for future enjoyment hut never lot the child know it Plulodel- phiaC'ali : Games' Imrentlon of tha Telegropu. "I don't remember," writes Gauss to Olbors on tho SUth of November of the year l&M. "my having made any pre vious mention to you of on astonishing piece of mechanism thut we have do vitied. It consists of a gnlvonic circuit conducted through wires stretched through tho air over the houses up to the steeple of St. John and down again, and connecting the olwservatory with the physicul laboratory, which Is under tlm direction of Wolicr. The entire length of wire may bo computed ut about tt.OOO feet. Both endsof the wire are connected witli a inultiplicntor, tho one at my end consisting of 170, that In Weber's labo ratory of R0 coils of wire, each wound around a one pound magnet suspended according to a method which I have de vised. By a simple contrivance which I have humed a commutator I can re verso tho current instantaneously. Care fully operating my voltaic pile, I can cause so violent a motion of the needle in tho laboratory to tako place that it strikes a bell, the sound of which to audi bio in the adjoining room. This serves merely as on amusement. Our aim is to display the movements with the utmost accuracy. We liave already made use of tliis apparatus for telegraphic experi ments, which have resulted successfully in tho transmission of entire words and small phrases. Thia method of telegraph ing has the advantage of ling quite in dependent of either daytime or weather; tho ono who gives the signal and the one who receives it remain in their rooms, with, if they desire it. the shutters drawn, Tito employment of sufilciently stout wire3, I feel convinced, would en able us to telegraph with but a single tap from Gottingvn to Hanover, or from Hanover to Bremen." "Gauss and the Electric Telegraph" in Popular Science Monthly. Educated Uumca. Doubtlesn most of you think when you see the performances of trained horses in tho circuses of today that a great ad vance has liecn made In educating the animals over what was done in undent times. Cut you r.ro mistaken, for even tho most wonderful exploits of the horses of the present day are repetitions of what was done with them several hundred years ago. In those days horses not only danced upon their hind legs, but fought mock Latllcs, striding nt their enemies witli their foro feet, and showing what appeared to be remarkable intelligence. Perhaps the most surprising feat ever performed by a horse was in the olden time, A large three sided braided rope was stretched several feet from the ground, and upon this the horse walked, preserving its balance perfectly. In an old print a picture of the act to shown, whilo another cut represents a horse striking the sliield of a soldier with its hoofs. Even the elephant, generally considered the most ungainly of anitnals, was trained in those days to walk- tho tight rope, not only near the ground, but, if we may believe tho old writers, it traversed ropes swung above the heads of the audience, and not only preserved its balance, but bore a man upon its back. Philadelphia Times. Tha Waj to Wash Windows. There is a right aud wrong way to wash windows, und as this operation is usually dreaded, the following method will doubtless lio appreciated, as it saves both time and labor Choose a dull day, or at least a time when the sun to not shining on tho window, for when tho sun shines on the window it causes it to be dry streaked, no matter how much it to rubbed. Take a painter's brush and dust them inside and out, washing all tho wood work inside before touching the glass. The latter must be washed sim ply in worm water diluted with ammo niado not use Bonn. Use a small cloth with a pointed stick to get the dust out of the corners; wipe dry with a soft piece of cotton cloth do not use linen, as it makes the glass linty when dry. Polish with tissue paper or old news paper. Ycu wili find this con be done In half tho time taken where soap is used, and the result will be brighter windows. Pittsburg Reporter. Barbers In Olden Times. It is seldom in these davs that you hear of a person being leeched or cupped. It is rapidly becoming a lost art Not a great many years buck it was a very im portant business in connection with a tonsoriol establishment In fact it was almost a profession of its own. Cupping and leeching were very popular among the Germans, and, whether weak or strong,' they followed the use. Not a great many years ago an apprentice bar ber invariably had to become as profi cient in the application of the leech as he did in the shaving line. Barbers also did a good deal of tooth jerking, but that part of the business to also no more, since dentists are so numerous. St Louis Globe-Democrat XVhj It Went Ont. "Keep your seats, please, ladles and gentlemen," said a theatrical manager, "there ia no trouble whatever, but for some inexplicable reason the gaa went out" Then a boy Shouted from the gallery: "Perhaps h didn't like the play. New York Sun.. The writer of a book on dancing esti mates that eighteen waltzes are equal to about fourteen miles of straight work, Tho dog gnaws the bone because he sannot swallow it AT THE STAMP WINDOW. QUEER STUDIES IN HUMAN NATURE AT THE POSTOFFICE. Thoes Wuo Know What Thej Wnt Tboee Who pnu'l Inquiries Which tu. long Proiierly to Ilia Of put llutlier Ov tba Hpeolul Delivery Mauip. ' There to a hroud and fertile field u, tho postofiice for thof who nre given to muking uhurncter studii-s. A man has only to stand near ono of the stauiu windows for a few minutes to see more odd specimens of man K'rhaps than are to be found in any other one place in the city, and that means in the country. One has only to watch the hurrying, nervous, Sushing line of people rushing ui une oor and out another to realize what a peculiar world this is. There is tint dapper young lawyer's clerk. He knows whut ho wnnts and how to get It with the least trouble. Ilo fulls into line, iin1a. tiently tapping his foot until his turn comes. Then ne puts down a dollar, sayt shortly "Fifty twos;' snatches up iia stamps and darts through the crowi Behind him, peilinps, is an old, lient gray haired man. dressed in a junijier and a pair of overalls. He nsks for one stamp, and when thisjs laid down Mors him on the thick pane of glass, he goes down into his ixicket and pulls forth a greasy, dilapidated looking leather wal let lie hunts around in this for a couple of pennies, and finally, when he has found them, takes his stamp and goes off to the side carefully to paste it on the letter. FOOD FOB TUB WOMAN lUTER. The olllco boy comes in like a flanh, buys a grent roll of the little green, hid eous things, tears it rapidly into stri)s, and, skillfully mnning his tongue along tho under side of them, nlus them on to a pile of letters, tearing each one Trotn tho strip with a quick, ripping sound. Some girl hovers on the outskirts of the crowd for a while, nnd then, watch lng for a clear tic-Id. pies up to tho win dow. "When does the next train leave for Farroington?" she nsks. "Don't know; this is a stamp window." She blushes and begins to stammer. "Couldn't you find out for me?" "Time table over on the wall," gruffly; 1 and she goes over to look at the sched ule, which no living man could figure out Meanwhile tho short man, in a silk hat. with large glasses across bis nose, lias been snorting and fussing about "women." Ilo makes his purchase, fol lows her over to the wall, and, costing a withering look at her, grunts out, "Hum!" Ho slams the door in a dis gusted manner behind him, still mutter ing nbout "women." In ten minutes tho girl comes back to the window and says timidly: "1 can't lind Farmington." "Well, that ain't my fault, is It?" says the mun sharply, peering over the glass at her. She flees in dismay. And sotliey come and go, men, women and children, not more than half of them knowing how to buy stamps, and one slow ono delaying a dozen more business like and energetic iieople. The reporter asked the stamp clerk to tell him some of tho more amusing experiences he went through in the course of a week. AS ODD LITTLE MAN. "A week," ho said giimly; "I couldn't tell you all that happened in n day. Did you notice that little shuilling man, whose head scarcely comes up to the window? He never conies here less than sis times a day and he never buys more than one stamp nt u time, I asked him once why he did not get twenty or thirty in a lot 'Oh,' he said, with a shrewd nir, 'people like to borrow them too much.' lie is the queerest one of all the queer ones who come here. His office is several blocks away from the post ofiice, and yet he will hobble down liere again and again in a day rather than take more than one stamp. I have tried to get him to buy more, but he won't think of such a thing. He always comes to my window. 1 have seen him go to the end of a line of ten or twenty before my window when there were not five at the next one. If 1 hapixui to bo away at dinner or off duty when ho wants a stamp, he goes out and comes in again every minute or two until I return. He is a queer one, he is. "Then," ho went on, "there is the special delivery stump. That makes a good deal of trouble. Only one man In ten can remember tho name of it I have had it called the 'hurry up', stamp, the 'get there' stamp, the 'quick,' 'rush,' 'special,' 'extra' stamp, and a dozen other mimes, but seldom tlie right ono. while about twenty times a day souio funny man comes in and asks with a big grin for a 'P. D. Q.' 6tamp. I ' have got so tired of that stale old joke that I always pretend not to know what he means. I can stand anything but that Oh, yes, this to a good place toseostrango people, but it isirt worth your while to listen to me. Just stand here and watch them for yourself. "New York Tribune. Returned for Their TulU. The following story illustrates how much mice love their tails: In Norwich, Conn., the other night a young lady set a mouse trap in her prior a trap that was like a diminutive railroad round house, with arched doorwavs, and with a delicate little loop of steel under each doorsill to fly up and catch a mouse by the muzzle. The steel nooses snapped busily all night, and next morning the lady found live mire clinging in five of the Inhospitable doorways, nnd, what was very mysterious to her, three long mouse tails hanging from the three other en trances. She puzzled her head long over the inscrutable problem. Why did three mice visit her trap over night nnd delib erately leave their tails behind them? But there was no answer to it A very bright idea, however, flashed Into her mind, nnd she set her trap again. Verily, the three tailless mice came back to re cover their tails, and in the gray dawn of the following day tho young lady found three tailless mice dangling from the trap. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Mountain la Hot loo, A tremendous snow slide recently came down the northern face of Castle Peak, sweeping everything before it Its track can be plainly seen from a point on Mount Scowden high enough to over look the intervening ridge. Judging from the furrow on the side of the mount am it must have been a terrific affair. Starting near the summit it multiplied in volume, taking rocks and earth to the depth of many feet At the timber line it cut a swath a hundred yards wide, and left not a tree standing for lialf a mile along the base of the peak. Where it finally stopped s young mountain of hugo bowlders, earth and shattered trunks of trees, many of them tliroe and four feet in diameter, blocks a deep ra tineTerritorial Enterprise. Earthquake Ternoa NVrrra, Many persons who experienced the earthquake in the Riviera have since suffered seriously from rfervous shock, although they did not at the time appear to be greatly disturbed. This Indicates that more injury may be done to the nerves by an undue excitement than to perceived at the time. The nerve centers maj, as an f.ngimn medical Journal sug gests, be likened to batteries, and re garded as apt to be discharged suddenly and sometimes unconsciously; and wben once their residual stock of energy Is con sumed it can be restored only after a long time and by the exercise of extreme oara. Public Opinion.