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EUGENE CITY GUARD. i. u unriia, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE ROTE ALONG THE SHORE. rr off along the bar IrokMiu-d cart. Where bwulland after liwllnnl tlrrtchinf tea, Hark the dim etui liu. Minis, till elmoat It blende with cloud t the lioritim bar Blow cniinf eborewanl, inwuiiiK erernwr, tii fiiilw of oc.-an bra la Ud Urn ahm-. A murmur dr. balf sis-nce ami half aooj, roin aiiiikrn lli;m l"v'"a-' aa, , Artaca, homo hj Imuhliiu aim along. Till til the world abe Ilia pulsing bay la full erf oic-e lilaia-rint to wo The awertljr aolrnm aeereU of the ar. The orer eoul wllh liurnlnr aoula below HoldaconvrrwlDtlin viarenf noiny wTa Tbnt moan along- iba shore lira wild wuwJe Mei ' from rwlrni of ailtiHtcrrr oexu ea The toflnil Ibiia iealn to you and me A BweaaKe, tlila drop mimic of the ere. -Julian & Culler In Boats Tranacrlpt llrazlllea toffW. Tb bulk of the entire coffee prod net come from Brazil, which ha a necullaritT of its own. These coffeee arebarsh and rank, at compared with the mildor kind. It wat estimated that Brazil once furnished 00 per cent of the entire coffee product of the world. There hum been of lute years one or two partial failure of the crop in Brazil, which accounts for the high price of cof fee here. Yon will probably remember that coffee waa rery low from w to b In fact the prices were o very low that Brazilian planters did not have to ber ries picked, it bringing them in debt. In consequence, they allowed their planta tions to run down, which in part ac counts for the present shortage, Chica go Herald. A Laay lof. There is dog in Chester, Pa., which will never walk when there is a chance to jump on a street car and ride. lie is a black Newfoundland. Moth of his time is Scut at the stables. Although his borne is only two square away he never walks to it, but waits for a car fr. ins that way, on which he Jump. often goes off on a pleasure trip, riding to the different sections of the city on different cars, always sitting on the curbstone until the car he want conies along, showing remarkable intelligence in allowing to pa him those car which branch off in directions contrary to the one he wishes to take. PitUburg Dis patch. An Elaborate Light. A novel arrangement for securing an abundance of soft light together with perfect ventilation bus been iustulled in an opera house in Chicago. The dvvice is, in form, similar to a large parasol, eighteen feet in diumeter, the perforu tions in the cover permitting the eseie of the vitiated atmosphere. The rod and handle are fornxll to permit tb nse of gas jets if new-unary, while from the tips of each rib incandescent bulbs hang, giving a i rf(H't and powerful circle of light Another feature is (lie use ol in candescent bulbs, arranged in a wire net, to indicate the mime of the company playing. Cl:ic:;,(0 Letter. A Woman'a Way. A woman wage earner who works from I lu the momlng until 0 at night and occasionally llnd herself too weary to sleep, takua down her hair at IU o'clock, bniKhea it vigorously, waahc her face, neck and arms with lukewarm water, take a crash towol bath and goes to lied, with a hot water bag at her feet The light in her room it so ar ranged that she can, after reading for a few momenta tome light, pleasant work, extingunih it without rising, and she Usually drifts into dreamland in lent than half an hour. Chicago Tribune. The Oermana In I'arta. Frenchmen are waking op to the fact that the (ionium colony in beloved Pai is is rapidly iiu.-rea.iing. There are nearly 88,000 of them in other words, twelve persons out of every thousand of the population are Oermana. The total has doubled iu the last ten or eleven years, audit is more than double that of the British, who are just under 13,000 strong. The English have their own quarters, but the Ueriuaiia distribute themselves over every aiTondissenient Pari Let ter. A Cootl Dig. A colored man named Joseph Saun ders waa employed to dig a well for a farmer near Augusta, Me. The farmer beat him down to half wages, bnt after going ten feet dowu the digger struck a Jug with f;.)0 in gold in it and took a skip. The farmer then dug twenty-two lect more, ut-arly broke his back, and didn't hit anything but stones. Detroit Free Pre . The scoring of the bores of modern cannon by the new powder in nse is claimed to be due to the fact that upon ignition all of the powder it not turned to gas, some of it reuiaiuing in a fluid state. It is this hitter which does the coring by being thrown with such force against the nit'lal of the gun that the re sulting action is very similar to that of a and blast for cutting glass. J. Bryan Crimes, of Pitt county, N. C, had planted thirty-five acre in Irian po tatoes, aud one night when he thought there waa going to be frost to kill hi potatoes, which were twelve inches high, he built lg heaps aJsjiit bit Quid and kept them burning during the night, and eit morning his potatoes were untouch ed by the frost It is wld the law regulating child labor in the lactone of .New iork it generally utervea J lie law p rout bit th em ploy men t of children under 13 year of tge, ami limits th labor of all minor to suty hour each week. The measure was not intended as a hardaliip npon employers. It was claimed In the meeting attend kg th celebration of the forty-eeoond anniversary of modern Spiritualism re cently that them are 80,000 Spiritualist in Uuston alone, many of wham art scat tered among the various church Th magistrate of the court of Ghent, Belgium, recently demanded In creased remuneration, and backed their claim with a strike. The workingmea of th town enioyed the occasion. Acting Governor Bulkeley of Connect icut bioke down a door 'ol the State House ttt lUitfold iiKa,i it inW.IWr. with his communication with the letris Istive halls, and now the Stale Controller he will eject Iiulkelev il he do not oi.ier the repair ol the door and here after rear it nnharmed. noil TBI PIAJtT OF A UWTII AKD Tilt roti book or a iuwobtm. Br BASOLAT gQBTH. (OoprrUhted, IMS, kyO. M. Dunham, Publlaha by spatial arraagenMol tbraufb The America fnm Aaaociatloa.) ' 'No,'' laid Tom, hoi heeding the chief. 'You did not kill Fountain, but you did Templetoti. But how can you have con tinued to believe that it was Fountain you killed," said Tom, much confuaed "when the papers announced the death of Templeton?" The young man had recovered turn ciently from the fright and consterna lion into which lie had been thrown on seeing Fountain, and began to realize what he had lieen saying tho court-union lie had uiado and so would not reply. Tom repeated the question, but re ceived no answer. The chief. Uanford, saidi "All rlghl, my man, but you've confessed, and si lence won't save you now," "Well, said the murderer doggedly. I thought Templeton was his right Maine and Fountain a false one he used among the girls." "Bv Jovel said Torn,"! never thought of It before. Do you know, Mr. Fountain there i a strong resemblance between vou and Templetonr I have beard It noted before, said Fountain. "It is not strange; the same blood ran in our veins. The old man Parker had been Strug gling and making unintelligible sounds in the other room. Tom ordered the removal of the gag. He struggled to his son. "Unhappy boy I What mode you com niitthat crimer "I don't know that your hands are so white that you can afford to throw dirt" 'Oh, he reproache me me." 'Reproaches you, yes. Shut up. W played a big game for a big stake, and we've lost Well, stand game to the lout" "But this murder, boy, this murder; that was not in the game." "No, it wasn't," replied the son with bitter laugh. "It wa a side issue of my oh n. That man Fouutain, curse him siolo uiy girl from nie Muriau and 1 had it in for him. That's all. Now that I'm done for, I'd give every day I yet have to live to get at him once. "Marian. What Marian? The Marian who lives in Hudson street now?" "The same," said the son. "What tangle is this:-" moaned the old man. "She has the girl Annie's motlie; in her keeping now, and she herself is a daughter of James Trenton. "The number in Hudson street, pleaaeT said loin. "There's little use in concealing any thing now. Its No. "Let me handle that part of the case, please?" asked Fountain. "I'll guarantee to return Mrs. Templt'ttm safely." "As you will,"tnld Tom. "You will tlo well to take some of the chiefs men with you. We can siiare two." Fountain departed with them at once, "Now, chief," said Tom, "1 think it would be well to take our bag of game to the Central office. The play is over and the lights ar out" "The three prisoner would bt tar more welcome if tome one else than ourselves were to bring them." sardon icallv remarked the chief. "Undoubtedly. But let us go. Hand cuff them all together Come, let us set out. Shallow aud one man in front. You, I. and unother man behind." As they moved out in this order, a dis appointed voice commented: "I ley only hit him onc-t At the Central ollice the three prison era were arraigned, and Tom said hrielly I charge this man hirker with hav ing murdered Henry llolroyd Templi-lon mi the morning of the ltUh of last Au gust, by his own confession. 1 charge this inuii, Ueorge Parker, with Imvlrj been the aider, abettor and Instigator of the abduction of Annie Templeton and her mother, this day, bv his own confession. "I charge this man, Scar Top Johnnv, other name to me unknown, as being the aider and abettor of the abduction of Annie Templeton, and of having kept her in coiillnemeiit contrary to her will." "And I," said Chief Hanford, "charge him with being th abductor of a child iu Hartford, and claim th reward ol 2,500 offered for him." Hut," said theolllecr. "what are th details?" UK-k them up. Inspector, and read The Sol to-morrow morning," said Tom 1 can t wait; It s after II now, and I've a long story to write." loin enjoyed hi "beat" Inigelv, and was for several davs th hero of hit oiuce, tne wonder ol In competitors, ana Hie envied or the detective force. One thing, on the morning of public Hon. marred Toai full enjoyment 11 had announced the rescue of Mr. Tem pleton without knowing It to b an al solute fact Accordingly h early ought Uolbrook to learn th result, and was told that Fountain's expedition had been crowneti with success. He had also recovered bin papers, tii girl Marian having delivered titem over as the price of her liberty. lorn, said Uolbrook, "the reeului police had the true theory after all lenipleton wa killed under the belie) he wa mint on else," s "True," replied Tom; "but we cauuhl the murderer and they didn't; they had no conception of the great story behind it all. et Holhrook, your theory wa not to far wrong arter all. "F.xecpt in the essential thing,' laughed Uolbrook. "The motive of the murder had nothing to do with Plerton'i property." "What a queer case It was!" com memeu ic-m. "ij moae two women I... I.. l uatin i wt-n conveniently abducted, we ouldn t have hit on the murderer after all. To tell th truth, it wat a lucky Mumble, a most great discm-erie aro. I Hen to think that Fountain's chere amle, Marian, should bare turned out to be his cousin. The sins of the father hall be rim ted,' eta Do you node that not a clew proved worth a anapT "I say, Tom, what about th diamond button?" "Ah, what? How much w expected from It, aud how little cam of It! Ken Noblo, th owner, tayt that on th night of th murder h waa piMjUg from Fourth avrnu to Broadwy, through Twenty-ixth etreet. and when niidwa of tii Madiaon Squara Garden a man rushed acros th street grasped him by th arm and pulled him to th light and then dropped it, aaying, 'You'r not th AfterwardLwbep h found hi button gone, lie thought It was r hpre ." l una rniniff Parker wnti'hllig foi Fountain. Tho lillllOII was probably lie lached ill the struggle, to be curried uway unintentionally in hi clothes, to 1 lost in ttiion wjunre. "Probablv." Fur veiirs have passed since the event occurred recorded in our niirru live. Mrs. Templeton I dead. She licei recovered from the exstiire and the nervous shock received on tho day ol (he Blsiuciion of herself and Annie, fol lowing so closelv iin Ihe murder tit lie i eon. Hut she did not die until she had faithfully carried out every expressed wish of her fai her. Jaunt I'ri-stoiisiM'cdily realized tho be nigu Iiosj nt hi brother, and drank himself to deal h in six months. Young Parker was never brought to trial. Five days after his arrest lie was found dead in' his cell dead by poison tupped to have been supplied bv one f hia brother members or the U. 8. T s. of which he waa a ixipulnr member. Hi father and Scar Top Johnny are erring long sentences in tin-state prison. Winning is still living in Philadelphia, prosperous and respected, and doe not dream that he wa ever suspected by Uolbrook and Tom of having committed murder P" hat he waa in danger or Street. The origin of the birth of Fountain ha never been made public. lie and Flora Ashgrove wero married two years ago, and his friends and acquaintance! have ceased wondering over his mysteri ous accession to a fortune. They count Mr. and Mrs. nolbrook as their dearest friends. So Mr. Uolbrook is married? To An nie? Of course. Could there have been any other result after the scene at the rescue in Mott street? Married, too, be fore Mr. Templeton died. Two children, a boy and a girl, make musio in the houso. The name of tho boy is Thomas Bryan Uolbrook. There is another bor in the house whose name is Maurice McNuIty, whom Mrs. Holhrook loves with all the wealth of her affectionate nature. There has been some difficulty in civ ilizing the boy, but ho begin to show the result of the humanizing and refin ing inlluences he is surrounded by. In deed, the only time he shows any of his old savagery is when a rollicking, rat tling young man with a cheery smile and bright bluo eyes, and who is wel comed with great shout and warm kisses, and who is greeted as "Uncle Tom." makes his apjieorance, which is nearly daily, and want Maurice to tell whether he has that day "wholiopcd any one right up and down and gin him black eves, I golly I" And 'Tom? Oh, Tom is (till the old Tom of uierhuiuan energy and intense enthusiasm; still the keenest newspaper man in ew iork as when he led tne search for the owner of "The Diamond Button." TUK END. Mlfliinilei-Ntuoft The Young Rector (in evident em borrafismeiit) My dear Mis Clara, 1 (trying to leave his cliiiir) I believe I have formed au -attachment und - MissClnrn (blushing furiously) Oh! Arthur I mean Mr. (ireenothis Is so unexpected. 1 must The Young Rector (frantically) -Beg pardon, Miss Clurn, but I was about to say that 1 have formed no attachment (or this chair, due to the presence of a bit of shoemaker wnx, planed here by that uuregenerute younger brother of yours. (Intense delight of tho small boy in ambush.) Pittsburg Bulletin. riiotiifroplilng (he Aiimm Itoreall. Or. Kayser has succeeded in obtaining a photograph of the aurora borcalis from tho summit of Mount Kigi in Switzerland. Tills is nn iiitcrcHiliig fact, it having hitherto been regarded as impossible to photograph the aurora for want of a plate sufficiently sensitive to Ih impressed by its ray. Uunthcr, in his well known physi cal geography, declare it to be utterly impossible to photograph the aurora, the most carefully prepared plate remaining neutral when exitosod to the aurora' rays. Dr. Kayser resorted to special precautions and employed a colored dry plate tht azalin trocken-plutte. New- Orleans Picayune. Two Slrliiii to Ilia Uuw. "No, Williitm," she said coldly, with a tide long glance to note the effect of her words, "I cannot be your wife. You smoke and you souietluiesdrink. 1 have registered a vow not to marry a man who has either of these vices." "All right, Maria," was the humble reply "And now will you please ask your younger sister Lulu to come down stair a moment? She said, when she kissed me good-hy lust night, that site would gladly have me if you refused." Philadelphia Inquirer. Eipvtulre Remlr. The famous cathedral ut Cologne hat been under reuir for a long time and a large amount of money has been expend ed thereon Tim fur tho irovermnent hii contributed 0.8 lo, '.'.V,' murks toward the repairs, while enough has besm raised by lotteries und otherwise to nring the total exH-ndcd between I84J und I860 up to the enormous umoiinl of 18,400,000 murks. -San Fmucisco ihrimiclu. A llearj family. A family which claims the honor of being tho heaviest in Kennebec county 1 Unit of illitint Jleirill, of uardiuer Mr. Merrill himself weigh SOU, Mrs. II Ol .,.1 . .1 ll . . . .... meimi, sui, me eniest uuilgliler, iiUO; a younger daughter, 800, and the only suit vio a ioiui (ortune tl I,;il8 pounds to aay nothing of shilling and peuco. Lucky Miriilli-U-wUtou (Me.) Journul It Is a curious reflection on the In telligvuce of mankind that while aul u.ut eusuy learn our language, we make no advance at all in learning their. One cannot help hoping that tune future generation of men may b sufficiently kind and patient and large hearted to believe that what these do- peiHieut creatures nave to tay to ut may sometimes be tut Important a what w have to say to them, and to t accordingly. In China a girl who ia partaking of the lost meal she is to eat in her father' house previous to marriage tit at the table with her father and brother only, but site must not eat over one half of the bowl of rice set before her, other wise her departure will b followed by continued seitrvity in the domicile she I reaving. The Geographical Institute in Wei- war estimates that Gorman Africa cou- toiut 935.000 tounre kilometer. All European Germany contain approxi mately M0.0O0 quare kilometer. DRAGONS. PrMf BI Vrrje A beat 1-lr MMaLara 1 hat Omt Kalated. The dragon U frequently mentioned by ancient naturalist a well a by scriptural writer and dreamer. Aris totle tell u that dragon 70 cublU In lungth were often met with In the vicin ity of the Gauge. Ifcslueing the cubit to feet, according to our modo of reck oning length, we find that these Im mense serpent were 33 yards In length. Alexander the Oreut and hi army en- countered one In a cave that measured 105 feet in length. An ancient work on ' serpents says: Three kinds of dragons were former W mviffiiized iu India. First, those of the IiIIIh and mountain! eooiid, those of the valleys und caves; third, thre of the marshes and fens. The first is the lureest and I covered with scale as resplendent a burnished gold. They have a kind of bcurd hanging irom their lower Juw. their aspect U fright ful and their cry terrible, being a loud. hUriing wail. They have crest ol bright yellow, and protuberanoe on their head which are the color or a burning coal. Those of the flat coun try are of the color of silver; they fre quent tlia rivers, to which the former never como. Those of thomitntlie are block, slow of motion and have no crests. Stnibo says the pnlnting oi ser pent with wings is contrary to truth, but Other nutunilixt and traveler affirm that some specie aro winged. There is much, confusion on tins point. Some have mistaken the hood of the nuju for wings; others have con founded tho Innocent dragon lirard with living serpent and report, a Pliny does, that their bite 1 venomous, which 1 not true. At Butavia, Java, a serpent was once killed and tho whoJo body of a negro woman and tho careass of a large stag found iu its stomach. LegmU sa: "There ure many serpent on the island of Java that measure more than fifty feet in length. At Butavia they still keep tho skin of one which, though but tweuty feet iu length, is said to have swallowed a young woman whole." St. Jerome say that all immense ser pents ore called boas, because they can swallow whole buves (beeves), and lay utter waste to whole province. Bos nian says that three entire negroes were found in the gullet of an immense ser pent killed on the gold coast of Africa. But Pliny cup the climax when he tells of the sereiit which opposed the Ro man unity, under Regal us, at the river of Hiigruda, Africa. It devoured ev ent of tho soldiers; it scales were so hard that they turned spears and dart. At length it wa besieged by all the military engines that would be employ ed In attacking a fortified city. When killed tho skin of tho monster was sent to Rome as a trophy to be preserved in one of the temples. After drying sev erid days in the hot climate of Africa it wo sent to the Imperial City and wo even then found to be over 120 feet In length. St. Louis Republic Tour Own Price on the Clg-ar. Stranger (to a Bowery vender of cig arette, tobacco and cigars, whose whole stock in trade of cigar consisted of two partially tilled boxes) Have you any ten cent cigars? Vender readies toward box number one. "Er, have you any five ccntersr Vender reaches toward box number two. "Oh, I aay, have you any two for fives V Vender reaches toward box number one. "Never mind ; I guess I will go down here to a friend of mine and get some three for fives." Vender detains him with one hand, readies toward box number two with tho other, and exclaims, "Here art some." New York Tribune. A New Use for Tripe. That most succulent and refreshing viand, tripe, so little known on the tablo of the tipper ten thousand that more than ono young lady of fashion ha been known to confess that she always supposed it to be a variety ol fish raten chiefly by the poor, has been put to a new use. Some ingenious per son, during tho period when it was pro posed to put a duty on hides, expert mented with tripe as raw material, and succeeded in producing a very unique article of leather, in which the honey comb effect I admirably though unob trusively preserved. Tripe thus tanned is soft and yielding, yet strong and durable, and especially fitted for the manufacture of slippers and other light footwear. Boston Post Curloua Effecta ot Foleona. The animal body can be played upon as if it were a machine. The stroke of the central pump, the heart, can be slowed or quickened; the vital heat lowered or increased; the pupil of the eye eipmnV 1 or contracted ; the limb paralyzed or convulsed; the blood tent to the surface or withdrawn to the in terior; even the natural hue and color of the body con be changed by the subtle action of various poisons token lato the system. Hall Journal Prodi In HI fit Priced Dlaaer. The Hoffman house chef in a moment of professional inadvertanoe admitted to an acquaintance that it la well nigh impossible to expend more than (4 a plate upon the food of a publio dinner; so that the usual ill served $10 dinner, with wine, must be highly profitable to the caterer, while Delmonico 5 din ner, without wine, undoubtedly yields a high percentage of profit New York Sun. A plague of frogs it reported from Northampton. The frog and their tpawn choked np th water pipes, acta ally cutting off the tupply to ome house. People had been drinking th water nnfiltered, and the reservoir will bav to be emptied to remov th frees and cleanse the pipe. A hower of worms, it is reported, fell Dear San Andrea station, in Santa Crnt county, Cal., but week. The worm re sembled th grub, wer whit ia color and had red eyes. They wer a new pei-it to the resident. FARM AND GARDEN. WASTE OF IMFLBMKNTS. There are many farmer who attribute t least part of the depression in agri culture to excessive cost in modern farm ing of agricultural Implement. They are wholly right if by this they mean the needles exjienditure of money for im proved implements, to be destroyed by mat and exposure to the weather, or in localities where only a few days' use can iu. i.u.i for tiiwm in anvone vear in anvone year. ve ,U not helieve in farmer doing without j,proved implement, says the Amtricun fuliii'ilur. They are necewary in the i . , t.nt n.iur itntvti a In 1 t lose IJIIIIN.11UUH um " --- farming. But it obviously will not pay to buy mowers and reaper to cut oniv half a dozen acres of grain or grass each year. Nor does it pay on tho Iargeet farms to purchase expensive machinery to be left out ol doors through the win ter and cost more for repair after the first year than would bo needed to do the work by the expensive old-time method. There is a natural deterioration In value of all machinery both by time and use. Some system of co-operation in using expensive implements i needed in the older parts of the country, where mall farm make it practically impossi ble to conduct a diversified agriculture by each farmer buying all the expensive implements that such methods in funn ing imply. We believe small farms are most profitable; we believe also that each farmer should grow a diversity of crops and use tiie best labor-saving implements that can be obtained. Obviously the corollary of these proposition is that farmers should manage In some way to either own expensive implements In common, or each relv on men who do own such implements, and who make a business ol working tiiem. The natural waste from weather and nan nf manv itnnroved implements is greatly aggravated by lack of knowledge of agricultural machinery in those who operate them. Perhaps in these days every farmer ought to be a skilled me chanic; but the solemn fact is that very uiany men neitner oo nor can acouire a knowledge of agricultural machinery that will enable them to operate mowers or reapers without destroying more of these expensive implements man wouiu nay twice over for the services of a capa ble man in operating them. These men may often be good farmer in other re spects, but their inability to run intri cate machinery put them at a great dis advantage. On the other hand, there are many men, natural mechanics, who like nothing so well as to run a reaper, mower or threshing-machine engine. Whv not have in such eases such divi sion of labor as is found in other kinds of business, and which has produced re sult which in almost every avocation are the wonder of the world. There has been much said and written about the advantage of large capital in conducting extensive farming operations. This policy has commonlv failed because the holder of large capital has conducted himself a large and widely diversified business, too large for any one man to fully understand or manage. The ad vantage of improved machinery which the large capitalist was thus enabled to purchnse has been more than offset by the incapacity of those employed to run it. A far better policy Is to place tne large capital in a large number of hands, each managing an independent business, but uniting where necessary in the pur - chase of implements so expensive, and used so infrequently, that i... one could afford to own and manage them unless .... . . ... he made this his entire business. It is in some such division of labor as this Hint farmers, in the older States, and pos sibly also in the West, will find their way out of present difficulties. ritl'IT GKOWINO IN THK NORTH. The culture of fruits in Oregon and Washington is one of the undeveloped promising uiusinesoi uiose wonueni i , , ! . ,1 1 .f States to the north of California writer in the Petaluma Couritr recently put the case in this graphic style : The pioneers who crossed the dreary plains into Oregon iu 1840 and 1844 carried with them the seeds oi fruit trees, and planted and fruited them there early. Some of the oldest orchards in Califor nia have trees still growing in them and bearing heavily that were brought from Oregou before the days of 184(1. Oregon has a magnificent climate and soils for all hardy and semi-hardy fruits. She has not progressed so rapidly as Cal ifornia in fruit culture for want of a mar ket. California attained transcontinental railroad connection more than a ccore of years earlier than Oregon. This gave the dry State a long start ahead in fruit culture; but now, as a matter of fact, Oregon is the better fixed of the two in having competing lines of railroad across the hills and prairies. The same may also be said of Washington. Therefore, those great States are beginning to " make a fuss " in fruit production, and they have that great Northern world swept by blizzards to supply with fruits. It is a country ot vast extent, which will soon be teeming with millions of people, living where traits cannot grow, but where "stuff" with which to exchange for fruits can be ; and besides they have a cool nortnern direct route Dy which they can ship East. Oregon apples and prunes and plums, and possibly grapes and peaches, will soon make a great showing in the world's markets, for no better or greater or surer crops can be grown anywhere, ALWAYS SOMETHING TO SELL. The expenses of the farm and family go on tnrongn an tne year, it is aimof t impossible to make profit unless there is equal continuity in selling. There may and should be special crops that furnish the bulk of the money received from the farm; but, if this is'drawn upon bv a couunuai uratn not reaevea ny any new . . 1 1 . ,. , - - suppiy, it win rje drawn aown to noth ing. For years Southern farmers have depended wholly on their sales of cotton, and though this is one of the most prof itable crops grown, it has been impossi ble for Southern planters to keen out of debt until they adopted the Northern plan oi growing a diversity of crops. TIME FOR BIDDING. Pear on pear stock are usually htuMed in July: on quince in the first half of September. Plums are in the best ahru for thi operation from the latter cart of July until the middle of Anguat, and apples from the first to the middle of August ; cherrieson mazzard stocks abnni the first of August, and on mabale about a montn later. A Father Sao Hi go tat War. A peculiar suit ia on trial in the cir cuit court It ia that of Sebastian Al. brecht against Sebastian Albrecht. Jr The plaintiff is the father of the defend ant the latter having taken the former to his house about four year ago for the purpose of relieving him of the necenitv of doing common labor, for which he wat unfitted by reasen of old age. Tb.it arrangement continued for thirty-two uiooiua, woen tne plaintiff left on ao count of come disagreement E now make claim for wage at tU of $10 per trr: C2f in aU.-ML viiee Sentinel, Vanue a ty-hll watching these graceful wind Injt of tlie planet w naturally Inquir a to it real condition. Reader ara fa miliar with the Idea that it U a world tike our own earth, traveling in a tmaller but otherwise almost similar orbltaround the sun. On more minuta Inquiry we find that the likeness between it and our earth I in ome point very great greater. In fact, than in the case of any othr planet In the fundamental ele ment of size they are almost alike, our earth being 7.900 mile in diameter, and Venu 7.500. Tho force of gravity on the urfaoe of tne latter ia very nearly nine-tenth of what it Is with ut. It density i almost the aame fraction a that of the eartli. These fact show that if transported to the surface of Venu we should feel more at home, so far a some essential features of experience are concerned, than on any other planet known to us. We should weigh just alout nine-tenths of our present weight and should find distance bearing much the ame ratio to our muscular power of walking that they do In thl world; while in all probability the urface rock and earth, if uch be formed there, would be compacted and constructed like those we daily see around us. This would not be the case on planets o much smaller than the earth, a Mcr curv or Mar, or so much larger, a Ju nitir. Saturn or Neptune. Again, the vear on Venu would be about 225 day in length, a good deal more like what we have on the earth than 1 the case on any other planet In the length of the dav we should find a still more home like experience, as the difference would be imperceptible except to careful ob servation. Venu rotate in twenty three hours, twenty-one minute, twenty' eight seconds, and the earth in twenty three hours, fifty-six minutes, four sec onds. The day, of course, depends little upon the motion of the sun in the sky. but the difference between this, as seen on our earth and from Venu, would not appreciably affect the similarity of the days in each. These likenesses to the length of our day and year and to our world density would cause a slim larity, in all probability, in the impor tant matters of mountain form and of veirctation. In fact ao far Venu nearly the twin sister of our world. Chambers Journal. Do Liquor Produce FatT Liquids make fat There is no doubt of this In my mind, though I am fully cognizant of the fact that a good many people will deny it Thecharacter of the liquids has a good deal to do with it, but the practice of drinking invariably leads to unwieldy bulk. In Spain, where men drink little, a fat man is unknown. In Paris, where men content themselves with sipping thimblesful of absinthe or small cups of black coffee, the French are thin to a remarkable degree. The worn' en, on the other hand, drink great quan tities of champagne, Burgundy and lat- . terry beer, and they are as a result prone to stoutness. In England men drink ale Bnd beer, and they are a thick necked, pudgy and heavy race as a rule. I had J observed all this many times, and when . j Germany, where I knew the , . consumption of beer was very great, I haJ prepared to find fat men in abund- .. t . . .1 : . . 1 rr-i uiice. t wus uot uisappomieu. mere would seem to be absolutely no end of big, corpulent and unwieldy men in Ger many. While hi the army they are slim and splendid looking warriors, but two months after they leave the ranks they become heavy, puffy and beefy to the last degree. This is even so in the ranks among the other soldiers, and the cav alry were men of such extraordinary , wei -ht that theT atwaT. excited A , e .. . th t , . i i ment from strangers. Philadelphia Times. The rjaytlana. In Ilayti the people are divided into three classes the blacks, the colored and the whites. The blacks aro, of course, the most numerous, and they are also the most Ignorant The colored are those who have mixed blood in them and form the intelligent portion of the inhabitants. They are largely in the minority, but they aro the only class competent to con duct the government The whites are those white men who go down there as merchants. Many of these marry the colored girls, and then, of course, be come more thoroughly identified with the best interests of the government The people generally, particularly the colored portion, have a curious mixture of traits. The negroes as a race are impressionable ana excitable. They have these quali ties, and in addition the mercurial tem perament of the French, for nearly all are sent to Paris to complete their educa tion. This combination makes ihem dif ficult to govern, for there is a natural jealousy between the blacks and the col ored, and so affairs are generally more or less unsettled. Washington Star. Don't Mention the Brier. It is not only a wise and happy thing to make the best of life, and always look on the bright side, for one' own sake, but it is a blessing to other. Fancy a man forever telling his family how much they cost him! A little sermon on this subject was unconsciously preached by a child one day last fall: A man met a little fellow on the road carrying a basket of blackberries, and taid;to him: "Sammy, where did you get uch nice berries?" "Over there, sir, in the briers," "Won't your mother be glad to see you come home with a basketful of such nice, ripe fruitT "Yes, sir," said Sammy, "she always seems mighty glad when I hold up the berries, and I don't tell her anvthW about the briers in my feet" ihe man rode on, resolving that hence forth he would hold up the berries and ay nothing about the briers. Atlanta Constitution. Dlaeaae Berealod by the Camera. The photographic camera nromiswi in be of even greater service In medicine than wa imagined. It teems to have literally a tuperhuman faculty of diag nosis. Some time ago a photographer had a a ubjett a child apparently in good health, with a clear skin and good "i"i. i nea ue negative waa examined, however, the picture howed the face to be covered with blotche. Within a week the child wa covered with tbe eruption of measles. Another case is recorded when a child' portrait showed spot a fortnight before it wa laid up with smallpox and before any trace of the dueaae had appeared. It would teem that the ensitive plate of th camera perceived and photographed the eruption before it wa risible to the naked ye.-The Hospital London-, Dlaable RsrH Mr. W. O. Rom, secretary to thnr ft Barber, horse laughterer tow Pall Mall Uazette reporter tht'otuj1 that they have seven slaughter Iwul!' the metropolitan area, the Urtt!li, that in the York road. CamA-Tr11 Tliev lautrhterod 25.000 h . ""a Wlian a Imnui brnka a lln,k '. - u on n - I 1 . ,, . .. .. - ...uU or tUtUiBJ other Irremediable Injury on tbelt the police at once conimunicattfi? their nearest depot The compan, , frequently been charged with crueltjj allowing maimed horse to lie about hour before sending men to end ii!j! sufferings. The truth wa they very particular in this respect tnd'tf tuch delay occurred it wa through fault of theirs.. Wa horseftai, ?? used for food? Yes, to a conidcW? extent, he should any. Their charter did not allow of tU, selling horseflesh for food purpotea, i. there were such establishment 0 city. He had himself eaten hortenZ! in Franco, and at the company'i dinner it wo served to the guetta. Jz. ...l,. ,t,,Ur.l 1. . ""St V wiiumwitti"! WUU1U Dot klTi known It from beef, had they not ben told. Fine fat horse were slaughter! every week, horse that were perfecu, ound. except for somo accidental injur and he saw no reason why thi, j5 should not be eaten. He had often km street gamins buy a slice of dried hor fit-nil, place it lietween two bits of breH and eat it a a sandwkht OfcourJ most of the prepured horseflesh pa under the name of catsmcat butk ocmcd incredible that the cats couk consume it all Every part of the horse wat put to Mine use flesh, hide, hair, hooft mi bones. Now that (and Mr. Ross held up a small vial of beautifully tramps oil) was horse oil. One would tcarwi, think such oil as that could be got frog the horse. Those other bottlet conui oils of inferior quality. They were used for lubricating purposes and for making. Most soaps nowadays conUiael horse grease. Armed with a cigar and an order froa the secretary of the company, our n porter made his way to the premise) a York road. The obliging manager aid they had bad only four horse in todij. But about 7,800 were slaughtered ben annually. Most of the animal wen cab, 'bus or tram horses. The establish, ment turned out about twenty torn of horseflesh every week. They had forty, six dead and twenty-one live horset a now. They contracted with the vario cab, 'bus and tram companies for injured horses at 80 shillings each, alive or deti, Most of the live horses they got In wen injured Internally by overwork or fatt ing. A few were gone with congejtic of the lungs. The work of slaugliteriot went on day and night, there being two gangs of men for that purpose. Uotm were killed at night by three "knack ers." Fifteen horses were considered good night's work. The sufferings of the poor brutes were soon at an end, a they were rendered Insensible by a bio from a heavy ax. Pall Mall Gazette. A Prephetlo Dream. Some days before the late disaster Samoa the wife of an officer at Man Island awoke from her first tleep, trembling and in tears, aud related t her husband a fearful dream experience. She thought she had been in her dream transported to the island of Samoa, mi from the shores of the harbor of Apu looked upon the American and Germn fleets. Suddenly a storm arose, and th harbor was swept by a fierce tornado. Ship after ship went ashore, and th spectators united In offering up praren for the preservation of the remainiiif vessels. Lastly the Vandulia and Tren ton dragged their anchors, and, at the former vessel was dashed upon the reef and almost immediately sank, Mrs. witnessed the death of Capt Schoon makcr, Lieut Sutton and Paymaster Armes, the three officers who were th victims of the actual disaster of March It The picture was so vivid and real that Mrs. for days was nervous and agi tated, thinking only of her dream, tod relating it to others, always insistini that the vessels and friends so recent); gone from Mare Island must certainly hi exposed to some fearful peril, and whei the fictitious story of the sinking of lb Nipsio reached us she concluded thi to be the interpretation of her dream. Th falsity of this story being proved, Ma was, of course, disposed to mate light of her vision; but now comes ttas of disaster infinitely more sad than thi fiction which agitated our country for many days an event corresponding mo closely with this apparently prophet dream. In this story capable of perfect i thentication we have a good record f the archives of the psychical seventr. Vallejo Times. Curloua Mental Phenomena. Under the above heading tbe curreni number of The Revue Rose publishetM Interesting summary of an account re cently communicated to theSocieteu Biologie by M. Fere, and in which w embodied some of his experiences of the effect of ether on persons at the point of death. It is a well known fact thai " dying are often able to see the principal facts of their li ves, which otherwise ha" been forgotten for many years, clearly and accurately before them. The reus for this clairvoyance Mr. Fere ascribes to a sudden modification of the cereom circulation, which can also be brought about by artificial means. Thus he te of a case of a patient who wa dying01 consumption. He had already lost sciousness, when, having been reri by two successive injections of " gramme of ether, the dying man tlo? raised his head and rapidly pronoun1 a string of words, which no one him was able to understand, as they " Flemish. After some movement Indicating1 patience he made a sign that he ww" to write. A paper and pencil were W handed to him. and ha wrote rapW three or four lines, also in Flemish- T man, who was a native of Antwerp. lived in Paris for many years and i wrote or spoke anything but French: W when dying he seemed to be unabk- recollect that language. Afterward" was found that his pencil note wasth a debt of fifteon franc, which M borrowed from somebody at Bnissel" 1863 and which had never been paid in another case the patient was d? of lung disease. He had fainted " time and no longer replied to any f tions put to him; hia pulse wa U but after an Injection of ether he turJ his head toward his wife, saying rr; ly: "You will not find that pin the floor ha been remade," which an allusion to an incident of year ago. After uttering thee ; breathing ceased. Pall Mail Uaxett j