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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1891)
n WHERE? There wia this worn aadtrra ijut retting ploeu bet Ticulh tho luliiui of the totithf Where Uju liadcua tpraul freer WiHUuolatuedeaeit, Knumilaxl hjr Minn hands, Oroolbono'cuot, a Uio tnoil, yielding usdar Jio uulUT Ood heaven AIj ine will iHTad: Bis rtarm ai ileal taiera. Will light Hi low bed. -Laura CarUod Our. MY F1UST LOVE. TVhat (in old, worn out titlo!" I fancy r bear ohipIkkIt saying, at be or she jrl the li-uf and reads the heading of ,, ill VI. "Ji". Kr J"". ir or madam, but worn out never! Do you it as y" mcrt ,ne l",n,'rci)tu face 'n trbwd, "What nn old. worn out pat Hem!" No: fr though the faces possess ii'iKji "same features, lliose features indi vidually and their arrangement are ever rariud. even to the millionth face. So it 'u wiili the Htory of "y Love:" nliere are features in it w hich you will ulouhthfs recognize as having formed Vart of your da? dream, gentle reader, lut as you turn the last leaf of the nar Vitive 1 believe J01' ''" fe'' '''' u,e Ijiiat none save thin old, pure, sweet Vhrase has any right to head these lines. 1 1 am an Englishman, brought up iu 11 the traditions of an old Tory family it a dear mother Cod rest her soul of fwiioin her friends used to say: "Ah! hut 'he is of the old schonl." Very still and Srercmoniou. very punctilious and very L,jte, hut every action fraught with an i.lil world purity and courtesy that made ,ne think of the pictures of Sir (Jodfrey 'nd of the perfumes of dried lavender. Jinn, snvs llerliert Spencer, is formed by Siis environment, and my environment Hvas my mother, a womun of the world, niark you, mix bouts des ongles. You must not imagine that I was brought un jo man's estate iu ignorance of the foul Vases of the valley and marsh while Xrcalhing thp pure air of the mountain 5,ip. The onlyeirect visible of the len der inlluences which guarded my life iill was four-nnd-twenty was a certain It-serve of manner and a more than ordi nary "English" horror of anything ap Woaehing to "bad form." 1 tell you all ill.:., ul.iff vfut nrw-A morn how love ii illgns at prejuuicuo uuu vuiujij inuiia Wei'oneeived ideas. 5 My mother died with the tulips of SMI. and some of the fellows at the chili furthermore, with n view to a thorough ilistraetion I i.:.. tl.oiights, prevailed li pun me to give a series of readings iu lie States of mv own and other verses, have coquetted a little with the muse, and, as would be tho cuse with most Coung poets or rather rhymesters the flmught of presenting my work viva We to the eople of tho United States taused a strange thrill of delight. 1 lonununieated, therefore, with Maj. l ond, and in the early autumn of 1 I sailed for the States, and commenced a jour which. 1 am happy to say, was not (nsucccssful. The following Juno found me In Don er, Colo., and 1 put up at the Grand anon hotel for u week, during which time 1 gave a couplu of readings and jested oniid the gorgeous 6cenery of tho fctate. The third day after my arrival I bad come down us usual to take my biatutinal coiree In the public dining tooiu, and was hardly seated when a kulv, whom cundor compels mo to do tribe as "an old lady," came into the rom, accompanied by a young girl, jiiey took their seats exactly opposite to tie. A young girl, did 1 say? Nay, she W as hardly more tjmn a child 17 or 18, niavbe aiid her face traced itself upon niy'soul in a manner which is inefface able. It was a round face, with just that slight squareness of jaw which promised to give to it a wonderful strength of personality as years went on. tier coloring was perfect, faintly flushed with the dawn of womanhood, with white temples and throat, und ft high, pale forehead, the whole framed lii a careless torrent of hair like to liquid fold. A pair of great wandering, but withal fearless, blue eyes, a tinely Sbdeled nose, just tho least bit tip tilted, and a mouth like those of the cherubs in Raphaels "Madonna" in tbeSistine chapel. She was a little girl, and her figure was just taking unto itself the sweet sinuous curves of womanhood, which showed themselves as she moved to her seat with all the untaught, un conscious grace of erfect and healthy development. Our eyes met as she sat down. She looked at mo with a full, frank gaze in which there was an unde fined (something of half recognition she hud evidently known some one who resembled mo and then, having satislied herself of my non-identity, she turned her attention to the older hidy and their respective breakfasts. A moment after wards 1 rose and left the room. i During the next two or three days we met periodically, in the dining room, in the corridors, in the elevator or on the streets of Denver, and. we always threw one another in passing that glance which, though apiarenlly absolutely ex pressionless, seems to say: "If we knew one another we should be friends. ' Have you never seen people in tho streets, in theatres, in ball rooms, con cerning whom, us your eyes meet for a fractional part of a second, you have taid this to yourself almost uncon sciously? 1 have, and 1 always regret these unknown friends of mine, but ! never felt it more strongly than 1 did with regard to this golden haired child whom I met 'way out in Denver, Colo, i The last morning of my stay in the city arrived, and 1 was sitting alone in my room up stairs, jotting down on a scrap of music paper the chords of nn ac companiment to a little song that 1 had written for a friend in Baltimore. My task finished, I went down stairs to the Irlor, where there was a piano, to try their effect, and, finding tho room i !rcntly empty, 1 sealed myself on the music stool. As 1 opened the pi::tn 1 heard a rustle, and turning round I saw my little unknown friend sitting in a low arm chair in the embrasure of & window, her great blue eyes Uxed up: me in fearless curiosity. 1 rose instinc tively and said: "Shall 1 be disturbing you, mademoi selle, if I plav over a few chords?" i"Oh, no," she said. "Please go on. As I turned to the keyboard she added: "Will my presence disturb you? Shall 1 go away?" "By no means," I hastened to reply: "on the contrary. Indeed, 1 shall tuLe ?ue liberty, if you w ill ullow me, of asu ing your opinion on a Utile melody that I want to run over." She looked out of the window for a moment, and then turning her eyes full upon me once more, 6hc remarked: "I came down here because I was so lonesome up stairs. Auntie has gone rat on business, and some frienis I ex ictcd to call and take me for a dnvt i-aven't arrived." . . , . ,-Is it possible?" was my rejoinder, and !l ten minutes we were the greatest friends in tho world. We sat in the drawing room of the Gran! Canon hotel for nearly an hour, chatting gayly of America and England and of our hobbies and of ourselves. At the end of that time she rose and said: "Well, it s a humiliating necessity, but I must eat to keep alive, and if you will Kcuse me, I'll go down to luncheon. I rose bIso and answered: "ou are : .1 . : . uu . nn nrotT Slue ...H.'iiii mi inn in riniiH eii iiiim ii-ii. nun 'iO!lV jiiiiit u mciw - , i to life, we should nol appreciate the poetry of it"-and then, after a moment i liesitntion, ailJcl: "I Rm a foreigner, and do not understand your rule of conduct, but would it be very casual of me to suggest that, as 1 also must live, and with that object iu view must also lunch, we should lunch together, a you aro aluiie?" "Why, of course why shouldn't we?" and then kIiu added, a look of perplexed inquiry coming over her brows, "I don't know rpiite who is going to introduce us to ono unolher, Mr. 1" "N'eal," said I; "Honal Seal, at the service of Mademoiselle V "Tressahar Pauline Tressahor," said she. "Let me givo you a card." She fumbled for 'her card case and 1 for mine, and standing in the doorwav of the hotel parlor we gravely exchanged cards and bowed foruiully to one an other, "I live in Nashvillo, Tenn.," she said, "nnd if you ever come there it will give pna Col. Kuclid Tressahar very great pleasure if you will come and see us you will come, won't you':" 1 assured her that 1 would, and we went down to lunch. The head waiter gave me a menu and a check, and 1 or dered - a tiny little meul with some care, during which operation she w-atched me with a nervous, per plexed look which 1 perfectly well understood, but whieh for the life of me I couldn't see any way of soften ingunless I told the head waiter togive me two cheeks and tilled up one for her nnd one for myself, which would have licen foolish to "my ICnglish ideas. As we finished our microscopic rejiast, how ever, she said in the most matter-of-fact tone to the waiter: "The check, please." Tho obsequious Italian brought It to me naturally and she looked up und said: "And mine, too, waiter. "They nre both together, madamo." "Oh I but no 1 want" she began. "lleully," said 1, feeling very uncom fortable, "it is such an absolute nothing that it would be simpler, and would give uio a pleasure into the bargain, if you would allow mo to sign this, Miss Tres sahar." "Certainly not," she replied, blushing, though her tone was quite decided; "will you hand it to me for a moment?" I did so and she gravely calculated what her share of our lunch had been, and then producing her purse she counted out tho exact amount in silver and handed it over to mo with the check. "Now," said she, "if you will sign it it will be all right." 1 did so without a word, fascinated, but withal feeling a little "mean," and then the child, laying a quarter down be side her plate for tho waiter, said: "Now, let's go back to the parlor for a few minutes ami then I must go out." We went up stairs again and sat for half an hour or so, talking of quite seri ous matters, and then we bade one another farewell, mutually expressing a hope that in truth it might be not "good by," but "au revoir." Sho was leaving Denver in nn hour's time; I also was leaving the same evening. And thus we parted. Up stairs in my room I had a some what battered copy of my last volume of poems. I put a pen through my name on tho fly leaf nnd wrote thereon a little inscription in verse expressive of the pleasure 1 took in transferring to her the possession of tho volume, and so 1 sent it down to her by a servant and betook my self to my packing. I was thus cm- Eloyed, talking the while to a friend who ad dropped in to say "good-by," when a bell Ikiv brought up a crimson rose upon a salver from the office. "Miss Tressahar has just left, sir, and sends this, with her compliments; she has received the book and is much obliged, and says she will write to thank you from Nashville." i i t I laid the rose reverently between the leaves of my liiblo and put it into my valise. A week later I was on a ranch at Los Angeles, Cal., and the post brought me ono day a letter of four pages in a pretty Italian handwriting it was from Pauline. She had received my book just before sho left Denver aud hoped 1 had received her rose. She had read my verses and was pleased to say that she liked them that they touched her. Some of them, written in a cynical, despairing strain, she criticised and regretted. She hoped that some day 1 should meet some ono who would make me think better of life and cure me of my love of solitude. She commended my body to happiness, and my soul to uml, anil reiuameu ever, very siucerclv my friend, Pauline Tressahar. P. S. She ho)cd I would not forget iny promise nnd come to Nashville. Yesterday onlv yesterday ft friend sent mo a Nashville paper containing an article concerning myself; almost along side of the criticism on my poems, in a column headed "Personal Intelligence," there npiieared as an item of local inter est the announcement of the engage ment of "tho beautiful daughter of our esteemed fellow citizen, CoL Euclid Tressahar," to the son of some equally esteemed inhabitant of Nashvillo, 1'enu. 1 cut out the article on myself and my oeins with the paragraph attached to its sido and, folding it up small, opened my Bible to place it w ith Pau line's gift. The leaves of the took wero perfumed bv the sweet dry petals tho soul that still lived of her crimson rose. And on the page where it had lain there was a little crimson stain 1 had pressed it upon the verse of St. Paul's Epistle to tho brethren at Philippi: "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatso ever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, think on these things." Edward Lleron Allen in Philadelphia. Times. t tout' Schema. Brown Jones is not so mLierly aa 1 thought he w as. Green No? B. No; 1 see he has gone to the ex pense of moving out of one of his houses into another. G. Ay. but do you know the reason? B.-NO. 0. The house he has gone into baa an ilectric light Itfforo the door. He moved to save gas bills. Boston Courier. A Common Want. Brown See here, teamster, I don't want you to bring gravel and clay and huu biers to fill up this lawn with. Tea tnstcr- What th' dickens doeayer wuni. then? Bmwn Oh, nothing, only the earth. Vankee Blade. A Healthy Ton. "Where have you paused your vac, tionr asked one clerk of another. At the lxautiful little village of Z." "Is it a healthy locality?" "Healthy! It's so healthy that in or der to start their new cemetery they were obliged to assassinate an inhab itant" Amerirfc T fcrparata Mam pa. r - .,f tirntintr atanins which have stuck together a to put them . . ... : . nl.s fif valor for a lew minuu-a m t" --"i when they can readily t detached from each other without injury to tne stamps. The Writer A tnald of honor In Qaeen Victoria's bonsehold receives salary of tl.KOa yaar, and her presence Is required only twelve weeks Acually. AFT Kit MEXICAN LION'S. 5CARINQ FOUR OF THEM OUT WITH AN IMPROVISED BOMB. BuuUra Iu Ilia Uint Star Stat Got Tlrad f Kllllug lMr, Turkeja aoi Squirrels Ail fined lor larger C.araa Darilcll Dob Harper' Pi-opowlt Ion Along in the '60s W. II. Stephens, an old and well known Texas frontiersman, established a cattle runch on the Medina river, twelve miles above the town of Bandera, aud as his slock w as large and rapidly increasing he built several small cabina in dilTereut parts of his range for the convenience of his hands. In 1879 the writer, with some half a dozen companions, was up in the moun tains above Bandera on ft camp hunt, and ono night camped at one of Mr, Ste phens' "sub-ranches," aa we called it, which that night happened to be the camping ground of Stephens himself aud some of his cowboys. Stephen, or Uncle Billy, as he was called, was enraged over the depreda tions of some varmint on his stock. He had that day found a line colt aqd a fine Jersey bull culf dead and partially de voured, and. from the tracks, he was satisfied that either ft Mexican lion or a "painter." as ho called it, had killed his animals. He said the country around abounded in both, lie and his men had killed a number of each, and he knew tho differ ence between the two animals very well. LOCATING TU "CRITTERS." Killing deer, turkeys and squirrels had grown rather monotonous to our party, and we determined to have a try for larger game and more exciting sport We had several good hounds, and had already enjoyed several night hunts for wild cats and the like, of which we had killed several. One of Uncle Billy's hands said he wo satisfied lie knew where a pair of lions had their den, from the fact that ft few evenings before, about sundown, he had seen two cubs frolicking on a large rock on a small hill densely covered with brush, about five miles from camp, and he knew the old ones could not be far cu He had no dog or gun with him. but had determined to beat up their quar ters the first convenient opportunity, and he now offered to guide us to the place. His offer was gladly accepted, and the next morning our party set out for the varmints' lair, accompanied by Uncle Billy and the guide. John Jarvia A short chase brought us to what look- ed like a cave in a ledge of rocks, or , rather tieneath the ledge, and the beaten I trail leading into it plainly showed that ! it was occupied by some wild animals. The dogs ran to the opening and stopped. They sniffed around, whining and giving an occasional yelp, but de clined to enter. We approached cau tiously und peered in, but could see nothing. At intervals, however, our ears were greeted with a low growL We knew we had run something to iu lair, but whether it was a lion, panther or bear, we could not tell. The next question was how to induce whatever it was to come out and be killed. Leaving four of the coolest men and best shots to watch the entrance, the bal ance of the party began a search to see if there was any other entrance to the den or cave. A short time satisfied us there was not. and we returned, when a council of war was held. Bob Harper proposed that two or three of us crawl in and Bee what we could find We scouted the idea, and Bob admitted that he was not in earnest. He was just enough of a daredevil to have tried it, though. We tried to smoke them out, but either the smoke did not cnetrai6 the cave or there were crevices enough in the rocks for it to escape. Anyhow, it didn't have the de sired effect. UNCLE BIIXT'S BRIGHT IDEA. A bright idea struck Uncie Billy. He sent Jarvis hack to our temporary camp for a small canteen he had in his saddle aud a blanket. Jarvis soon returned, accompanied by our two companions who had been left to keep camp. Uncle Billy took the canteen and poured nearly a pint of powder into it from the horn he carried. He next cut several strips from the blanket, which be damped slightly and tiien smeared with a small bottle of bear oil he had in bis pouch, rubbing them thoroughly with powder, making a very respectable fuse. He then tied a small rope to the can teen, und sticking the end of the fuse into the mouth of tho canteen he bade us look to our guns while he lowered the Improvised bomb into our den. We formed a sort of semicircle in front of the den and breathlessly await ed the result As soon as Uncle Billy felt the canteen lodge he tied the rope, and striking a match he carefully light ed the fuse and then fell back in good order, calling out: "Ixxjk out, boys! If that darned thing works he'll come!" Th "darned thing" worked. We heard ft dull report in about three minutes, and not only "he." but she and the little ones came; and the old ones came "like the wave come when navies are stranded." They didn't wait ft second, und charged at once on the party nearest to them. But what chance had two brutes, no matter how large and fierce, against even or eight men armed with Win chesters, each with sixteen cartridges io the magazine? Both the old ones were badly wounded at the first volley, but it took several liots each to liniali them. The whelps were supposed to have been about two months old. Some of the boys shot one of them, but Bob Uar per and Jarvia captured the other, re ceiving several severe scratches. The lion measured 7 feet and 3 Inches from tip to tip. the lioness 7 feet inches. Cor ftt Louia Ololie-Democrat TIm Ortcla of Doga. The question of the origin of the dog has recently been discussed by Professor Nehring, who believes that it hat de scended from various still surviving spe cies of wolves and jackals. The latter animals can be lamed, and many at tempts to domesticate wolvea have been successfully made ia recent time. Hen Konge has so completely tamed young wolf that it follow him exactly aa dog might da Public Opinion. The Baltimore American calls attention to a great danger of woman suffrage Tlx., that the women may want the men to bet them 'jO bonnets against 8 aata on the reaul' 0DD3 AND ENDS. The Hungarian novelist Jokal U said 'to be a millionaire. Our spare hours are well named; they seem the fthortest of the day. The longest name In the Bible is Marhar idiuhtl lmd Unz. It occurs in Isuiah viii, 3. The thinker mint write so that he that runs limy read. In order to become "ft light and a power." Farm lands in the United State, taking the country a a whole, occupy only SSl item in every l.(HH). The New York World paid out f 181. 000 for one mouth's collection of news and publication of the paper. Historian Bancroft rated the Amor lean poets in this order: Kineixm, Bryant, Longfellow and Whlttier. The organs of smell In the turkey vulture and carrion crow are so deli cate that they can went their food for ft distance of forty iuile. Linen that hits become yellow from being laid away may be whitened if soaked in buttermilk two or three days. The largest boekeexr iu the world is Mr. Harbison, of California, who luut 6,000 hives, producing 20,000 pounds of honey yearly. Mrs. K. D. E. N. Soufhworth's full name is Emma Dorothy EliJi Nenetto Southworth. She Is over seventy live years of ago and very feeble. Tennyson was fifty whmi his Idyls "Elaine," "Vivien." "Guinevere" were published, and was about sixty two when he completed the series with "Uareth and Lynette." Mr. Talmage prides himself upon being able to turn out un excellent ser mon more rapidly than most men can wpite a letter. Spurgeon is an equally quick composer. Water which is drank Is not the only ouree of danger. Many a widespread and fatal epidemic has been traced to milk from dairies where the pans had been washed in impure water, or the milk itself adulterated with it I'niqua Way of Suicide. The shocking testimony at the state house which went to show that we are poisoning ourse-lves to death with our wall paper, our paper boxes and a dozen other articles of daily uso which contain arsenic, has been talked about a great deal lately, even at 5 o'clock teas, when people generally balance their cups in tho air and talk about nothing at all. There is a broad sug gestion for fiction writers in this matter. For Instance, the testimony at the state house showed that a lady had been dangerously poisoned by a green paper box that she kept on a shelf in her sleeping room. Now if one wants to commit suicide quietly, what better way than to have paper of undoubted ly arsenic colors pasted upon one's walls, and leave some green paper boxes lying carelessly about one's rooms and wear clothes that are dyed with arsenic? Or if any lady wants to murder an other, for instance, let her send her a present of a handsome new bonnet In ft green pupcr box which is heavily charged with arsenio and so prepared as to transfer its deadly elements to tho atmosphere of the room at once. Of course the recipient of the bonnet would keep the box around for several days, and meantime the deadly work would be done. It is rather strange that this method of destruction has not been hit upon before. Murderers and novelists are slow to utilize the resour ces of civilization. Boston Transcript. The Uruuimer'a LI tile Ntorj. "I never felt myself floored but once In my life," said the drummer, with the air of a man who thinks he has some thing worth the telling. "It was down In Maine," ho continued, after waiting long enough to set curiosity on an edge. "I'd been living on railway sandwiches for a week, and I Just longed for a square meul. Well, we had to stop at a way station for a couple of hours on account of a hot box or something o' that sort, and one of the brakemen put me on to what he said was a first class restaurant. I looked It up aud ordered a steak. "The steak came, but it was a dis appointment. I sawed away on it till my arms "ached. It was out of the ques tion to chew the small bits I tore off from it, though I tried hard. I gave it up finally, and as I paid my score I said incidentally, 'That's about the toughest eating I ever experienced.' He took the money, swept it into the drawer, and without a quiver he coolly remarked, 'You don't seem to consider how much good it'll do you iu the way of exer cise!' "Boston Transcript Teacliere of Amerlcaa. Teachers of English are plentiful in this day and generation, but teachers of American are to be met with only at rare intervals. In this city, however, there are several of the latter who com mand good prices for their services, and who Bud ready employment at all times. Foreigners who have been taught English iu the schools of their native land find themselves completely at sea on their arrival here, and many of them who can afford it employ teach ers to instruct them In learning the pe culiar idioms employed by the Ameri cans. The localism especially they And most perplexing to master, antf the teacher must be well up on all the man nerisiiis and slang expression! of the day. The bishop of the Russian church in this city- has a young lady employed to teach him American, and he finds It a most necessary part of his education. San Francisco Call. Married at One Hundred aod Seven. On Dec. 21 George Uartan and Mr. Kate Woodson were united in marriage at Rowena, Tenn. The bridegroom is a hearty man of 107 years, while the bride Unshed ander the weight of tSJ summer. The groom rved iu the Mexican war and the rebellion. Mrs. Woodson is bis fifth wife. The last one he married in his 100th year. The groom is the fourth husband of the bride. It is also worthy of observation that the groom has con fined himself to a diet of buttermilk, bread and cheese for the past twenty rears. Pittsburg Dispatch. EARLY rilOTOGRAPllT. INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF THE ART IN ITS INFANT DAYS. rrof. K, f, II. Mora ll,a I'iuiieer In lla g uerreot) pa WorLI lie l'lrt Nuu Tie lure y.xrr Taken In .mrlr How II Done. There are mime iute nMing im-moim con. noeliil Willi early plintniiipliy In tlitx country uikI city. Photography dawned on the wui'M at iiIhhiI the same time n ti'lem apli v and at ulxint I ho same date in team iiiiiriiailiii'. Ami .Morn1, the li-ftiliu' mini In llio tehvi'iipli, anil Diik'iu rie, the le.-iihii' man In the plintoriiph (at Hist ealleil lhi'ilai.:iii rreiilp-, Im-ame x-rsoiial fiii'iiils, mid cm li cut InificMcd in I he ether's liiie it thiiiit which very aeldoin lliipiM'im tu lll.ll l l.i-x of HHplf. .Mursc, when ho wan in Paris tryln' to push his lluhtnln' mesMiije, wan Inlro-ilm-ed I y It.'ls-rt Wiil-li, of Philadelphia, tlie Amciiiiin consul at Paris, to Mon-t. llHKiicriv, who a t ry in to push his sun U ttuvs. The two ini-ii took u great fancy to each other, just like two brothers; plumed each other their Invent ions and tll cult other their phius. Kach proml-cd to help the other nfier he had tirst 1h-IhiI himself, wul each kept his promise, l.i-,'ucnv never cot a chance to lie of much real uiil to Morse in I'm in, hut ha did what lie could nil the same talked enthusiastically nUiiit the telegraph and klinincd his- shoulder enthusiastically, a only a Krciichiimii ran. Hut Morse, when Im got hack to New York, took hold ef hi chum Daitucrrc' hobby and Intro luceil it Into the lnetroslis. Tho llrst telegrapher may thus lie said to have been the llrst pholoKriiplier. There wan at this time In New York a tine instrument maker, almost a genius in his way, called Prosch, who had a shop In a basement on Nassau street, a very curious sort of a place; a den of scientillo odds and euils. haunted by odd and sclen tilie men. .Morse saw Prosch und gave him a full Idea of Daituerre's invention, nnd showed him a plan of the iipparatiix heeded to carry out Hague rre's Ideas, lit! ulsu gave Prosch an order to make till apparatus, l'ro-ch set to work and made a rado ul'ulr, which was tho llrst picture taMng apiuiraliiH ever made in this coun try, anil turned it over to .Morse. And then one morula', a really memorable morula', In its way, .Morse, with the aid of this rude Instrument, took the llrst sun picture or dagiit-rrcot)ie ever taken Iu America. Ho took it off of tho stops Icadiu' to rrosch'sden. lie placed the camera on the steps and got a pretty good picture of the old brick church (the ltev. Dr. Spring's church) opjKislto to tho city hall on the upot now occupied by tho Times news paMr and the Potter bulliliii'. In the foreground of tills picture wrts u hack, and It sleepy horse, with Us still more sleepy driver. This first dagiierrcotyiK) or photo graph was, of course, a primitive affair, worse than a tintype now, hut It was, nev ertheless, a great, wonderful thing under the circumstances. It demonstrated that picture of the earth and things and pco pie on it, could Ik taken by tho aid of the sun, Just as certainly and truthfully Idea could be transmitted by electricity, slid really one fact was almost as Import ant as the other. It was a truly memor able morula' In New York w hen Morse took the llrst daguerreotynoir of Prosch's basement step, all hough it then took him nearly an hour, all iu all, to complete the operation. Professor Prancr wns a great friend of Morse, ami he got Interested In this new thing, lie and Morse experimented to gether. Draper was great nn chemistry. Husoon Improved on the original dnguerro otyie, und one day he astonished Morse by takln' hi (.Morso't) picture with his eyes open, giving the natural expression of the eyes. This wa a big stop onward; for at first all tho pictures taken of human beings had to lie taken with the eyes closed, on account of the glare. Imagine a pretty woman Hittlu' for her picture, and bavin' not only to hold her tongue hut close, her ryes shut her ey e ns well ns shut up. It would Ihj ii hard that way to have your picture taken us your tooth taken. ),aMr and Morse used to take their in ly pictures from a window of tho old li iiverslty bulldln, where Morse lived. One of their successful pictures wan the tower of the Church of Messiah, about the sl7.e of a playln' card. The llrst pict ures were nil of 'em pictures of bulldln's, streets und so on. Hut at last Morso took a ixirtralt put tho human face and figure Into a sun picture. This was a step on wnrd and upward; for us Morso took his llrst object picture on tho steps Icudlu' to Prosch's cellar, so ho took his llrst face and figure picture on top of tho university bulldln', In a sort of a studio ho had erected there on tho roof, and which wus tho llrst photographic "81111110" ever Started In America. Tho llrst lady whose picture was ever taken by tho sunlight in this city was tho young daughter of Professor Morse. The next lady taken was his daughter's bosom friend, nud tho pictures taken of these two are still in existence among the ch.ilcest curiosities aud treasures of Yas sar college. The llrst mnn In New York who made a regular business of takln' pictures or photographs was the Instrument maker Prosch, whom I have already mentioned. Prosch saw a big thing In It, and opened what he called ii "dagiierrlng gallery" on the corner of I-MhtI v street und Ilroad way. Ills llrst sitter and customer was Professor West, of the old Hutgers female Institute, who was thus the very llrst man who ever paid to have his photograph taken, all the other pictures up to this time havili' been taken as an experiment, free. Hut the professor paid for Ids pictures like a man, and from that time on the business of tnkiu' pictures hits flourished In New York. It would inane a pho tographer sick nowadays to think how Prosch had to get his sunlight, for this first picture. IIu had to hang a big mir ror right outside his shop, on liroudway, So as to rellect the sunlight full on the professor's face. New York Mercury In terview. A Mlilxke Corrected. First Sweet Child Oh! Isn't it lovelyl IIow I wish I could have some real old lace, too. Second Sweet Child Mamma bought this yesterday. It's just common luce, like your. F. S. . Why, I thought It was the tame kind those llonanza children wear. H. H. C No, I just tumbled down in the mud. Tid liits. The Color of Trout. The color of a trout's back depends 00 the color of the liottotn of the river, but the trout which grow rapidly diffei greatly in Kind and color from tboes which grow slowly and thrive badly, and a middle agnl trout differs in coloi from an aged trout. Speaking general ly, the young, healthy, fast growing fish will have silvery sides, white belly and plenty of well defined spots. The poorly fed fish willl have few or no r pots. drab belly and muddy yellow sides. The old trout will be much the same In appear ance, only more so, and will be particu larly lank and large headed. This acconnti for those tront which have access to salt water being brighter and more beautiful than others which do not. The variety and abundance of their food make them so. American Angler. TALKING IN SLAMQ, n ine malil nf bl?h drjrree. Win, -I.. timi n- n lilt- lin-amlem-en! lights, Aiul ,u-i --mi h pooling llMa. worn lo nie l ite- LK ilivllce ! rH hi-i no IlieConunun craw? and, N..r w hi-rt-1 in- rmiuiain l.i.v in Mqnirt ire mood; eleaiil n-lli-clKo. anile a lua(ioaii in k'iiii het-hiats. -It iln-eiin- irmxl inws-li lliln iot." aa'd L "VWi'-n ni-iiiv ill I In-ell v'- Itillit jtmt buil" She ivi.sisl n.-r an tie fwsllino In rrply: Th. il anal It iloea " TJiHsili.in "" (hen nftly I nrrrred. 1',. I.niI til inun Ms-urn aluioat in ili-flle." Hit 'ilmcaiii '. wis( am ho(-enf romllanj bint "Wi ll. I IkhiM mi He " TM' liilinf linvxc a IUAifiiittf ovi-rltea! Willi Mifh i-it'timiint! Milim-m kiaa lite bro! iBtolHuuf li,iil. mt'liniy bhemilil: " mrnv,hiiiitin' now!" "Ami hare vu n-nliisl. tub one. how each bird S.viii heiv lo choose Ila aeetisu roval Kinr" I daeit hi niiim oil her every word, 'i mi onto liieni." "And now (he lea i cm like inotinx emeraldi atvm, tthi-ii 111 rvsjUMt lo Urn laeet braeaa Uiey shale'" tier roiee en nie aoft a echo from a dream: "1 hej- lake Ihe cake." "Dmt a ainler often lo a tvlvan apot. The dn-uiiiy tense of quietinle to acei 1" Bofl imrleil her answer "Well, I lakoatrot 'Uoul once a aeek." lo eonverae awect I Unirrml by her tide. Ami fell I lull there forever I could dwell. And na I k-fl her arier nie the cried. -So long, old feL" I win uol cuKured by her eolisj ao rich. Nor ith her loreljr luce, eofreah aud young; Bill with I ho tweet drilcrlty Willi whk-b Her slang ahe eluuir. New York Clipper Si lling Cuttle by Weight. A writer in Mark Uino Express se verely deprecates tho custom hi vogue In Kngland with buyers and sellers in estimating cattle, or buying by tho head instead or by actual ascertaiuod weight. By this system ho lelieves farmers aro cheated and robUil of much of the profits in raining cattle, and advises them to supply themselves with weighing ma chines of their own, so long as butchers and salesmen remain averse to buying by weight. There can bo no doubt that In such cases tho farmer isnt a great disad vantage w ith buyers, whose opportuni ties for determining the dead weight of living animuls aro so much Utter, from tho nature of their occiimtioii, and the wonder is that I'.nglish farmers should have submitted to such a practico so long. Much of this business of buying by the head, says the agricultural editer of The World, has been dono In tills country, and, it is scarcely to be doubted, quite generally to tho farmer's disadvantage; but of Into years the system of selling at actual weight has been growing in favor, and cattle scales are now so cheap aa to have become common iu towns, as well as on stock farms, so that there is no longer any necessity for the element of chance In tho buying and sidling of slock as it Is picked up through the country by butchers or sliipicrs. No good reason can be given why a farmer should sell a bullock on an estimation of Its weight that would not apply with equal force to tho buyer after tho meat was dressed. It Is true that the percentage of dead weight varies considerably in different animals according lo breed and feeding. but an accurate knowledge of the live weight is an luiortant factor In deter mining tho value of the animal beforo it has been slaughtered. Suer After Ihe I'lay. The Sun Is asked "w hether It Is con lidered good form to take a young lady to supicr alter a performance at the theatre.' Authorities differ. If you think the young lady Is hungry, however, you might bo justified in doing so, even though you should lliiril your own lunch eons for a week afterward to make good thocx"'nse Incurred. Secondarily, it d"Mnds uion tho glrL Dump girls ore nol apt to order and eat as voraciously as thin girls. This is ac cording to Mm Mullcr and Professor Huxley. A judicious outlay for bon bons early In the evening, howover, will often check the feminine tendency to ward terrapin after the play. Moreover, you should be guided in some degree by details of time and place. If you have been at the German opera, the difference of en hour or two in getting home will not weigh with the home authorities. But, seriously, if you have been at the theatre until say II p. m., If there is a married lady in the party. It Is well enough to ask the crowd to eat, as they say In Lendvillo. Hut if you are escorting a young lady without a chaperon it is In better taste to say nothing about supper, since there Is a distinct prejudice against young ladies going into restaurants at that hour except in a party whereat least one married lady Is apt to be found. This Idea is sensible and good and most people see its fitness. Where young people are very old friends they may feel like taking a little latitude in such matters. There can be no possible harm In the act, but aa it is liable to provoke unkindly comment, the yofing gentleman, should consider that any sK-clal comment by strangers upon a lady is in itself most undesirable in every way, and he should reflect that other people have no means of knowing that he and his companion are more to each other than mere acquaintances in aoclet Now York Sua The Gimlet Man. "I should like to sell you gimlet,' said a careworn looking man, as he walked into the ofllcethe other day. We have no use for one," replied the cashier. "But you should always look Into the misty future, went on the fiend, de murely. "Next winter you will want to make holes in your boot heels so you can get your skates on." "1 use club skates no straps re quired." "You may want to screw some hoards together some tiiuo. Tho old fashioned method of driving screws in with a ham mer Is pernicious, as it deteriorates th. tenacity of the fangs of the screws, as It wero." 'Nothing today, sir." "The gimlet also acts as ft cork screw" "I don't want It." "It has an eraser, pen, an lnksland, a table for computing compound Interest and a lunch box attichment" "I can't help it; I don't want It.' "I know you don't. You're one of those mean men that won't buy gimlet unless it has a restaurant, a trip to Eu roj and an Italian opera company at tached. You're the kind of ft man who would live near an electric light to save a gas bill." And the pedler walked out with his mental plunge on the perpendicular. Texas Sifting. A I lieerlng Kurd for th Husband. Ono of these days things may work round n.'.'uiu to nn appreciation of the l'ri'.ieiit Man as distinguished from the Coming Woman, who makes so large ft figure hi literature, Take him all In all the Helpful Husband Ik about the finest character f hc day. There, has been a certain exhilaration for the woman In stepping outside her home, but for the man. ulint alienee, what subduing of pride, what building up of new Ideals I For in the character of the te.ien itivin to be reversed; tho bravery of adventure U tho woman'", the watch ing for results (lie mail's. Where can one (hid a finer develop ment of chivalry than iu men, and they are not few in number, who, against their desires, against their Instincts, iiv.-aiii.-t their reason, are letting their ives support them selves In marriage, are even urging them and aiding them to walk hi direc tions which it pains them to see them walk, liecnuse they are farsighted enough or loving and loyal enough to leave even the woman who Is dearest to ' hem to work out her own salvation? Ti e mail who docs thin knows that he is luisuiiilersiiHid, knows that he is criticised, aii-1 his part tho silent part a. quite as plucky as many of the most applarded displays of feminine energy and enterprise. New York Re corder. Chinese Ideaa A hunt GoaV A yniing lady who teaches Sunday rhool lessons to two Chinese Imys in an Episcopal church on Fifth avenue, speak ing of her work, said: "My two sons of the Flowery Kingdom can speak but lit tle English, but I really think they have a good idea of Christ and his mission ou earth. They seem very apt at learning, and kneel and stand np at the proper time during church services. Both of them wear qiienea, though, and would not part from them for any considera tion. It took me a long time to make them understand that Christ was divine. They imagined I had reference merely to his goodness. At first they imagined he was an idol that had been found over eighteen hundred years ago at Bethle hem, in J mica, and had been buried, after lieing exixwed on the cross, and then stolen and hidden by those who worshipiHid the idol. It was hard to get them away from the Joss idea. "They svik Knglish so imperfectly I think that is a drawback to their rapid advancement. One of them asked me if God was buried in Juda, as well as his son. When I explained that they lived above the clouds nn incredulous look came Uhui the boys' faces, and one said, Melicaii man hah tings way np.' I could not deny that we worshipped a being far above us, but all around us. Uow long did it take mo to make them understand the divinity of Christ? Well, uejirly four years. They are bright boys." New York Herald. Ct Aguliiat Fox. One early morning, during a snow storm, I was starting for the hills. I noticed the footprints of a cat upon the fresh snow. I guessed tho cat was my own, a strong, lilnek torn. Curious to know how far his peregrinations might have extended, I made up my mind to find out, if possible. I hud not, how ever, followed the track more than ft few hundred yards when I came upon what appeared to have been a desper ate struggle, and which at llrst sight I took to be the marks of puss and au unfortunate hnro or rabbit, but upon closer examination I found tho antag onist must have been a fox. The combat, as long ns ii hinted, must have been a severe one, as it was quite clear from the marks on the snow that one or both of tho animals were down several times, I am Inclined to bvlievo that Heynard came oil second best iu tho affray, as it could be seen that lie retreated back the way he came, whereas puss continued on his wanderings until he entered a thick plantation, where I had to give up pur suit When I got home I found the cat laid got homo before mo, aud was apparently 110110 the worse for his morn ing's adventure. Land and Water. I'roiniilera of bxlatenca. Disease is a mean fellow; it always strikes a mun when ho's down. Two men come into a car together one over worked, depressed, won led and exhaust ed, the other interested in his work, which employs every faculty to the ut termost, comfortable and happy, with the conviction that his wife is the dear est womun in the world, his children at bright as any one's children, and that he isn't ft very Imd sort of a fellow himself. A druught blows through the car as usual, striking both men. They both take cold; one has pneumonia and dies, and the other a cold in his head, which ho sneezes away In two days. It Is easy to draw the Inference and with it to de duce the formula that comfort, cheer fulness and hoM'fulness are the best pro moters of existence. I)r. Klirady. Iloe Deferred. "Oo to bed. sir. In the closet there," said an enraged father to a son who bad given him just cause of offense; "were it not that these gentlemen are present I would give you a sound whipping, but you shall have It before breakfast to morrow, certain." The little rebel went to his crib with a heavy heart, and the enjoyments of the party continued until a Into hour. Just when the party was uliout to brenk up, the closet door was quietly pulled hack and the young of fender put out his head, requesting that the sentence might be put lii execution. "Father, would ye just gle me my hks this night, for 1 carina sleep without thorn?" London Telegraph. Hull la llarneaa. A peculiur working team seen fre quently in the south part of the city consists of a Jersey bull harnessed into the shufta of au ordinary side draught sled, with short yoke tugs and breeching quite ufter the style of harnessing a horse, with the exception of the yoke. The bull is driven with a pair of reins fastened to a ring or strap npon his noee. lie walks along much faster than the ordinary horse, and draws his load in a cheerf ul and easy manner. Keene (S. II.) Sentinel. Dr. Albert Shaw, whom Mr. Stead has apiHiinted American editor of The Re view of Reviews, is not yet 40, but he has already made an enviable name fur himself as a sociologist. lie is an au thority on the subj ect of municipal gov ernment. .