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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1891)
u LOVE'S SEASONS. well flowers to the frolic wind . IM dance their golden ait,-uleu, frod elf uiaide atml Uie huwiborn beads To Mr for fulry aniult-ts. he apriug la here, the apt lug I here-. . be hive time of the year, my dear! ' B heavy hang theapple houghs. Weighed down by bulla of yellow gold; Tie poiiy buda. no fiery hrth'bl, Heaeeina would burn the hearts they hold. auminer's here, the ailiiiiner'a ber . at kiss tiiii of tlie yew, uiy dear: The birds are w Inging for the anuth. The elf maid haute them to their bower, ol dandelion bells do flout Like ssver ghosts of gulden flowers, be autuum a here, the autumn' here '. a wife time of trie year, niy dear! ;'ow are the heaven not more fray Than are the eye of her I love; ore dainty white than ber aweet breast The mow lice not the earth above, he winter's here, the winter'! hem ut love time lasts the year, m il or! Anielie ltivea iu Harper ' Uagailne. ;IY MOUNTAIN OF GOLD. '.fbile I wa In Europe, nearly twenty yean t, teaching the world that there was aome lg else than grizzly boa and centipede in iornla, and inducing English travelers cake the circuit of the globe by way of r line instead of going to and from Au. :i direct I lay while engaged in this uo t task, and with what niccess let the land ify, tome enterprising newspapers discov r 1 that the secret of my lif0 on Mount jta among the savages wo not for the ; y purpose of writing poetry from na- ; s, but lor the purpose of robbery and ; ider. I ad I did not deny it. 80 far from that I t s the facta, a furnished me by the new. I T of the time, and wrote out a full and t .orate confession. But I itopped ihort of t i secret source of my wealth; the Tart t 1 1th which paved my way to the flint step or in m rones 01 Europe. Ana now again t ame enterprising historian! of my i . I are pushing their inquiries a to the 1 nro of my present great fourtune. For t indeed can a nun build a castle and be t s lord of so many acre in the suburb of a f-' city wnnoui a mountain or gold, or at t canyons of buried treasure, at hi back! Jos that another delegation of old miner. 1 mountaineers, who got all their facta m the same source, have come down from tr snowy height to gaze on the secret of '..,Lost Cabin," "The Buried Treasure," "'. e Mountain of Gold." V. ell, I am growing old; and remembering I time ana money mm has been qient in t Thing for the lost t;v...j:o of Capt Kldd 1 i his com)anioiui, 1 have resolved at lost to tok up the narrative where I left off In r y book, and give The Golden Era the story tl the discovery of my mountain of gold and every incident connected therewith up to the I t moment I beheld it And in return for : s secret I only ask that you who under 9 the perusal of this narrative will read it to tha end. For all the point, all the pur- I ail ine real secret ana solid truth and t oral of the matter lies in the last para- i if not in the last line. In fact I feel 1; :ite certain that if we could only get at the t. ad deathbed confessions of some of our greatest men as the world estimates great uam to-day we would find something not very widely different from this I have here tut down. But I know you are eager to bear of the gold, and I proceed at once. In my narra tive heretofore published, after the escape from the old adobe prison, I record the fact !' it we rode and rode night and day and day 1 1 night, and were now near to the borders f the river in the dear old mountains. The I 'Urn girl had brought the best men of ber t: iU), also ber father and her three brothers, to aid in the escue and flight. Be patient. I pass hurriedly on over the bloody event tliat left mo entirely alone. I must, I see, come at once to the mountain of gold. We met the soldiers who had been set to watch for us at the steep and wooded cross ing of a deep, wide river. We did not at tempt to turn bark on our weary and half dead bones; but, dashing to one side, we leaped, desperate and reckless, down the pre cipitous bank and struck out bravely for the steep basaltio precipice that frowned to the very clouds on the other side. And eh, the rain of deadly lead that fol lowed and that fell from the soldiers as they stood on the high bluff above and fired down upon our beads. Weary, to weary I Blow, so slow I The deep and the dark and the cold blue waters, from th eternal mountain of waters before us were so cheerless and so chilli The rain of lead from above, the steep and inaccessi ble bluff before, the deep, dark waters below, were a tomb to many now. A shot would strike a horse in the spine, the back of the bead, anywhere, and be would then drift silently down, the hot blood bursting from th nostrils and reddening the blue waters far around. A shot would strike an Indian in the Utck, on the head. He would slip from the saddle silently, and down, down and away; Uie great boughs of the mighty pines and Hit and cedar and tamarack leaning darkly over. And down, down, down, one after another, under that rain of deadly lead, till only 1 and the Indian girl, as if we bad been too small for death to find there in the dark, deep waters we alone survived as we nearod the tteep and snow crowned bluff before us. Another, a last farewell, shot from the soldiers on the bank behind us, and I climbed out on the reedy, grassy, desolate and lonely bank alone I How I wanted to diet To die and float away in the great watery tomb with those who bad silently died for me. I arose at last and went to the water, and there saw two little bands clinging to the grass roots, two brown bare arm reaching up from out the Water, too weak to climb up, too weak to tliug longer, just letting go, the warm blood baking the waters red around her I I caught ber up and with all my strength bore her back and up against the steep bluff tliat was warm with sunshine gone away I I implored ber to sseak. But she could only look at me, ber lips quiverinz, her little trown bands clutching, her life blood trick ing down on the grasses. Be patient; I come to the gold scene soon) At length the curious moon came out from the lofty tree tops on the other side, and looked down at this child of the wood in pitying wonder. And then the stars, large! than tiger lilies, they too came down to see. For the girl was dead. I laid her down on the dry reeds, pine cones and drift wood, and stood there, alone, so alonel And my desolate life widened and widened there, widened away till it touched and took In Uie shore of death, and I was even then as an old man. Patience; I come to the gold son But where nowl What next J We bad drifted down, down, after having been forced . to take to the river, far below the erosing. I and here I stood face front to a ateep and precipice, where no human fe j ha4 Ter tT " Oiilv a little spot of aand and stone, with . If drift oVwaed and whitenedood, th. I piM coc-a, the kelp, the weeda, the thousand iuriou. Uufbarkand leafand cast awa, uusassriuuw lfCTn tbl river when full and ragtag. But iiy enough cricket, were here. And they came out to aing; came clad in black, 1 tfl-t op close on the rocks and on the edge of "t aroand her, as if singing on soma searthatnne. And they knew they were safe, little crickets clad in black. Ber bttle krown hand had never harmed anything. J:"l now! Tbey were still and cold now. r ience; I pas. oa soon to the gold I j I Tb moon dowly sinking. The moon was ay. 8be was going to leav to w:U Bj dd. The very stars seesned tecusa and uncertain, and kept wheeling Vut aid around th crown and commit of rnal snow before ma. I caught np two tin ta ra the rocky litUe sandbar, and eagerly, wjr!.:y -truck a fir. It was a fneodly SlgM, Th fUllM bailed tin In m ' . ?gsle"P P toIlck Tour 1U hi red tomju when you bar been long abmit, Oh, the kindly, friendly, familiar Orel It wa as if I bad known it a thousand year-, tbu friendly flr leaping in my face. The red man's fire ami th white man' fir, th northerner' fire and th nutherner's Are, aratbeaame. l't!fne; th Bold auonl And now the IJr spread aad ran to th did I dupair ven now of life. In fact I re dead. It reached out it arms to ber whera member perfectly well bow precise and how th lay pallid and alone on th whit and careful I wai in my calculation. I est! rounded drift wood. j mated tbt distanc, the depth of the cold I understood. 1 beajied np the whit and aark waten below, where I should strike in light and abundant wood. Tb fir took her my fall, bow deep I would sink, bow soon I In it pur embrace; and aha mounted 00 should rise, bow far I ahould hav to iwim, stain of fir to th start. and all tb terrible detail. We think very Th sudden and iuijietuoua flame that had ft at aucb time, leaped far up agaiut the mighty granita ! I bad laid bold of the two strongest and wall before me bad shown a narrow, almost longest ban of gold hlch blocked my precipitous path leading cruaawis up tb progreaa. I felt certain that tbev could not perilous pas to the world above. ( be Tery firmly fixed in th narrow vein of And when I bad luid a circle of white rotten quarts. I shook at them as 1 bad atone about tb aahea of my dead I went up shaken at my prison ban when In a terrible ujioi narrow mil path and examined it closely. It was smooth to the touch. 1 wa thrilled with delight. May be it was smooth from the touch of human feet. At least it was a path of some wild animal; some sort of lire was surely In the habit of passing from this awful depth and narrow snot to the light and life above; and surely I could climb where either bear or mountain lion could climb. The moon was cettinir far around. But I felt that if I could climb up for a few hun dred feet I could then get her light full on the steep rocks before me, and then know whether or not to proceed. One thing cer tain: I could not remain where I was. Bear with me; we now como to the gold. lightening my belt, tying my moccasin strings to that my feet might be certain at the feet of the wild beast of the forest about me, I sprang desperately up the ledge. One hundred feet I 00 feet I And then my breath began to foil a little, and, hanging on to the rocks in the narrow little pass. I beiran to look out and above and over the great, deep waten below. ota sound; not even a tingle object In light below. Death had come and death had taken my friends and fled. The fire bad come and gone. The fire bad come out of the rocks below and taken my life, my love, the beautiful Indian girl, and gone away. How alone I was nowl Listen I Wa come to the gold now But the moon was with me, lin gered witn me a little still. I had overtaken ber in ber flight. And the staii were close about me now. I wa.1 com)auioned with worlds 1 shall tee boreal ter. I was set apart, as it seemea to me, and belonged to tjiace. f otiencc; one moment more, then the gold! i he narrow path bad not been quite per pendicular. It ran up t lie river, a it were. but steep, soatoepl Another struggle for ward; but now my narrow little iiath, which I could ace by the moonlight, was made in the track of an old and decayed quart! vein. It was smooth as oil to the touch, this precip itous, overhanging path of mine; and I won dered what beast could Dud pleasure or profit in passing up or down this b-igbtf ul route. I began to think of returning. Thea I shuddered at the thought. It was so dark, so desolate, to deadly there. Then I felt of the smooth rock under my feet, and I knew that there was less peril in going ahead than in attempting to descend. l)eath was before me, behind me. 1 tightened my belt again with my left band a I held on bard with my right to a jutting crag on the edge of my steep, smooth path, and then again, with clenched teeth and set lii, I struggled up and on. The path wound out and still further over the dark abyss below. But the moon was there, close about me, closer than before; and the stan I I shall never nave them so close about me again on earth. But the iath was so narrow nowl So ateep and so very narrow that my body could hardly be drawn between the smooth hard rocks. And at the last this steep and narrow groove began to grow shallow I What if it should come entirely to the surface) What it it should end entirely hero! I bad now made at least SOU feet. At an angle of i degs. you can calculate with pre cision how far above the dark waten I waa hanging. I did not dare look below. I did not dare dream of turning back now. I hardly dared breathe. Onl onl oul Slowly, steadily, upl up I upl My lingers were benumbed. ' My feet also bad almost failed met At last! suddenly my outstretched band struck a level spot, and I drew myself up and into a little resting place. And with such thankfulness as few can ever know I The moon was full in my back now, and looking straight into the rounded narrow little level resting place before me. There was a pool of water here in the heart of this niche in the awful overhanging precipice. And around this little pool of water, with all tbo order of naturo undisturbed, there wai growing a little garden of yellow flowers. At if this fissure of the earth was tome aiigelt own perfect little garden. I gathered these nowera. They were only a few, and, oh, so frail I Then reaching my right band out and over the dark waters below I threw them with all my might down and away toward where a heap of ashes lay, Be patient; the gold nowl The moon was going Demna me steep wail Tery suddenly new. Boon it would be dark. Would wild beasts come down the pathway thea? It was not wide enough for two of us to meet anywhere except at this one narrow little resting place where these nowera wera. Would they come! Suddenly I began to wonder Vhy those frail little flowers bad grown In such un troubled perfection. How could these flowers grow there under the passing feet of the wild beasts! I looked up. The path wai nearly preclpl tout now; and it literally hung above tb waters. To my horror I now saw trickling down the deepest trench and groove of the cleft in the overhanging rock a feeble stream ol water I Ah, then I knew why the flowers had not been broken. No foot mark bad ever been made on this smooth rock by either man 01 beast I No living thing had ever passed this way before. This seam of old and decaying quartz bad been fashioned out by th raini of heaven and the melting mow. When did thi little water course come froml Would it end suddenly and leave me baugiug on the face of the precipice and in mid air! I grew desperate at the thought of it ) spranj up and on, aeterminea w snow uit worL It was bard work getting on and up, but I was refreshed by my rert. I wa also made d.virrato by my surroundings. I bad l:iiwn from the first that this old de cayed n-oiii of quarts was a gold bearing vein: hut there was nothing new or of special interest iu th.it; for I had galloped my bone manyatiine over mountaiu of gold, and never bad once cared to get down and pick it "P- Gold wa. abnndant here aU up and down this precip.toai vein. I could lit in .earns wherever 1 turn! my ey ea leouU fadtt with bands as I climbed. It ha a ofter touch than atone, and seem. moothand oily "J "Vl"' bo,, wben almost ready to let r my bold and fan to the dark deep water, under me, I found another Uttle resting place. I bad not ( last effort Yet I wai entirely eIhausted. And how far to the summit nowl j wm m ntur despair. The place where I rested waa alrnoat precipitous, and I could long ter. Beside being to very (terp wu vary slippery from the smooth olj made more smooth and oily by th ttie nruit that trickled down under toy (wl f faoal4 certainly slip and fall if I re- agi. But could I goon! I attempted it, and a few feet further on I found my way jjterally barred with bar of gold that the groov! The quarts had ds- ajtd and fallen away, and the waten had valhed and rounded and amoothed tb 1, 44 while they deefnoed tb narrow littU a',n whara Iba il.-avt n..l K.,1 ln The dreadful ion ban of gold had only tern washed smooth and beautiful and bright to abut me from the upper world for- ever. Toeae ban and cord of gold wort stretched acroas like the golden cor. la and strings of mum mighty mouutam harp of fold. I And now I knew that I must falL Nor prtsoa 1 lelt them surely tnlu to yield I Cool, calm and deliberate, I decided not to attempt to leap, but to bold on fast to the bare of gold which I felt wera gradually giv ing way. My feet were .lipping from under me. This would throw my w hole weight on the ban of gold. Tbey wera turuly, cer tainly, fast giving war. Wben tbey no longer held me I ahould drop; down, down, downl I had decided to bold my bands straight and hard and fast and ilruily above my head, as 1 was holding tliem at that momrut. This would keep my body stiff aud straight in the descent I should pierce th water be low like an arrow. When once deep and far down In the waten I should let go the gold, dart up like a cork to the surface and be saved. I did not have j long to wait 1 did not have to wait ten aco lond. The ban of gold gave way I I could not save myself I Down! downl down I The tun looked' me in the face, full and tranquil, as I fell! I struck th water straight as a (hot I felt the cool, sweet waves in my face. I beard the waten crash above my bead as I went down, down, down, with my gold. I retained my unset. I am perfectly cer tain of that I did all thing! just a I had decided to da Nay, I did all thing as I bad Intended to do, except just one thing. And that was my fatal mistake. I did not like to let go of my gold. I would not, I could not let go of my gold. And so I was drowned. Joaquin MU ler In Tb Golden Era. A Drammar fcqoelchad. It was in the old days, when traveling by stage coach was more corn mow than it is at present, that the then archbUhop of Pari, Monwignenr Affre, voyaging to a nearby purixh, took place in a dili gence with a number of gentlemen of different social stations. Among the group was a young drummer for a buM ness boose who, like Ills successors of later era, was ever on the lookout for a good story in his own wind and practi cal joke. The clerical standing of the ircubLshop did not exempt him even from attempts at banter or witticism, bnt with the consideration he thought due to the company present be passed the youngster's efforts over with merely an indulgent smile. Waxing bolder by this apparent immunity, the young traV' eler ut lust weut beyond all bounds of proper respect. "Can you tell me, yonr grace," he anked spiritedly, "the difference between the archbishop and an ass The reverend gentleman, with his cus tomary courtly manner jind without the least appearance of offense or resent ment, replied that he could not '"Because, replied this clown in his own little circus, "the one bears a cross on his breast mid the other on his back. The sally, such as it was, was met by the most frigid silence by all the pas sengers save the archbishop, who smil ingly inquired: 'Now, in tuy turn, rd like yon to tell ns the difference between a commercial traveler and an ass?' Aa though it were a mystery as deep as the Sphinx the yonng wit pondered for some time aud then gave it up. "I don't see it, he confessed. "Neither do I," replied the archbishop; "there isn t liny." The smart drummer got off at the next changing of horses. Washington Star, The Conversational Circle, The circle must not be too large. say nothing of public banquets of strang ers. They are a contradiction in terms. Big dinner parties of ill assorted guests also are failures from a conversationist point of view. A fireside, or a table, round if possible, and. say, four or half a dozen guests, are sufficient More will break np into separate knots, and fewer mean a tete-a-tete. "I had, says Tho rean, "at Walden three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friend ship, three for society." The hermit Tboreaa in his hut at Walden was wiser than the man who looks for society in a crash. An unhappy husband, living in Port land place, whose wife inflicted huge parties upon him, was standing in a very forlorn condition leaning against the chimney piece. A gentleman came np to him and said: "Sir, as neither of ns is acquainted with any of the people here, I think we had best go borne." Social crowds must not expect the great men amongst them to talk welL She must have been a most unreasonable person who was disappointed with Na poleon because, when a lot of ladies were presented to him, be only remarked to each of them how hot it was. Gen tleman's Magazine, Polaon by Absorption. The slow absorption of many poisons changes in some more or less modified form the complexion, but arsemcand am monia show their effect about as quickly as any. 7 be popular belief that arsenic clears the complexion has led many silly women to kill themselves with it in small, continued doses. It produces,! waxy, ivorylike appear ance of the skin during a certain stage of the poisoning, bnt its terrible after effects have become too well known to make it of common nse a a cosmetic. The effects of ammonia upon the com plexion are directly opposite from that of arsenic. The first symptoms of am monia poisoning which appeara among those who work in ammonia factories it a discoloration of the tkin of the nose and forehead. This gradually extends over the face, nntil the complexion has a stained, blotched and nurigatly appear ance. With people who take ammonia into their systems in smaller doses, at with their water and food, these strik ing symptoms do not appear to toon. The only effect of the poison that is vis ible for a time is a general an wholesome Best and sullowneat of the complexion, St Paul Globe. Tks aerates Is Civil. Bunting In Japan tha servant! In variably treat their employer with def erential consideration. Lar kin Japan hat a civil aervioa law, I suppose. Mousey 'a Weekly. MUTILATION FOK CASH HANDS AND FEET GET ACCIDENT CUT OFF INSURANCE. TO KaUwordlnary Attempts at fraud ajr tea la fee ualary Itlilreaa or Toe Lasy U Work Th Left llaad I. the Meat Frequently Havered One Mao' Claim, Everybody baa read in the newspaper from time to time of the many alleged fraud attempted upon the life insurance companies., but few, probably, are aware tf the claim which it made by the acci dent companies that the fraudulent I'laiui against them, in pmjxirtion to the number of persons insured, outnumber those against the life companies: ten to one. Recently there was held a meeting of the representative of tome of the lead ing comiMtniea doing an accident busi ness for the purpotie of devising means of relief in the matter. Some insurance men advocated the strict enforcement of the law punishing self mutilation, while others sav that legislation could be enacted against the companies, who, iu their eagerness to get business, invite fraud by the large indemnities offered and the liberal time limit given. In 1S89 the accident com' panics issued policies giving $2,500 for the !M of a leg, arm, foot or baud. This has been worked, it is claimed, so extensively by persons who did not mind maiming themselves in order to secure the Insurance money that it has lwcome one of the greatest evils in the busiueaa. LOSS or UAND9 aND FF.KT. "We found," said A. N. Lock wood president of the Accident Insurance Provident Fund society, to a reporter, "that in every single claim received by nt the indemnity aidced for was for the maiming or loss of the left hand. This naturally excited our suspicion. . Tho claimants were all found to be persons pecuniarily embarrassed, such as men out of work, men who, rather than work, preferred losing their left baud for $2,500, and men who had seen better days and who had large families to provide for, We reduced the indemnity for a hand to $1,250, since which time we have not had one claim for ihe lost of a hand. "This, however, did not end our troubles, for immediately claims for 'foot indemnities,' which had remained at $2,500, grew more numerous. Other companies have bad the same experi enco. A president of one of the accident companies told me yesterday that he was satisfied that not one claim bad been genuine in all the claims presented against his company in a year. As rule, the other companies pay $2,500 for the loss of either a hand or foot, and the number of people who aro willing to lose a hand or foot for that much money is astounding, and there are more fraudu lent insurance cripples in the United States today than war cripples. Why, you have uo idea of the business of self mutilation that is being carried on for the purpose of beating insurance com panics. "There is a case before the conrts which is exciting the interest of every accident compauy doiug business in this city. It is the case of a professional man who, it is believed, maimed himself deliberately te recover $112,500 insurance. HOKRlBUt NERVE. "He was insured in thirteen different companies. He intended making a trip west, taking his fowling piece with him, and on the day before he proposed start ing on the journey he lot his gun fall and thot off one of his great toes. The com ponies hearing of the accident, sent their best doctors to bis assistance. They think they have evidence to show that the man intended to have the foot ampu tated to avoid blood poisoning aud col lect the $32,500 indemnities. "Another case is that of a man who lives in Broome county, this state, who was known to have deliberately chopped off bis left hand with a hatchet, striking it two blows. The man's explanation was that he had been attacked by two thieves, and that while holding one of them in the grip of his left hand the other sev ered his hand with a hatchet The wood upon which the hand rested when chop ped off showed plainly the marks of the center of the blade only, proving that the batcbet had been brought down straight and deliberately. "Case like this are coming up right along. A man recently lost a foot on a railroad. He claimed that he bad fallen off the train and had gut his foot caught nnder the wheels. He was subsequently found sitting beside the track with hit hat on. There waa nothing to indicate that there had been an accident except the loss of the foot Hit clothing waa free from dirt or grease, and there was testimony to show that he bad walked np to the train and thrust his foot nnder the wheels." "There is no doubt," said Richard M. Johnson, agent of the Travelers' Acci dent Insurance company, "that since the accident companies offered an indem nity of $2,500 for the loss of a band or a foot, there has been a great increase in the number of accidents to the left hand, and it was found that people wera maiming themselves to get the insur ance, in the preferred class of risks, though, these cases are extremely rare. There have also been cases where people with shriveled feet and handy in which tliere was no life or feeling hava chopped them off to get the insurance." New York World. The Notices Ar All Bight. Visitors to the clerk's office of the su perior court who have occasion to use the writing table that stretches across the room have been startled recently by large placards tacked about two feet apart informing whom it may con cern that "these inkstands must not be taken away." Since "these ink stands" are about the size of the average bat, and are kept filled with ink, the warning teems quite as gratuitous as it would be to placard notices to people not to walk off with a red hot stove. A Ikwvw arhi tM .lr riffanaa. at theaui . ,. v,. !,... tn I UUMVw VUC IUS UIUV T.-vawsjaj IU I a corner the other day and asked him if be did not think inch a notice was car rying a joke perilously far. The veteran shook hit bead, and in saddened tones thus answered : U the mistakes of the past we ahould seek our guidance fur the future." New York Time. "A Tboagbt. Live np to the level of yonr beat thoughts; keep the line of your life tens and true; it U but a thread, but it be- longt to the great republican warp whera 1 Time ia weaving a nation, xou cannot ; alter its attachment yonder to the past I nor yonder to the unrolling year. Thomas Hugh , I What a Sportsman Saja. I once -eH) in ujion the meeting of a society for the protection of wild birds, or something of the sort, and noted that nearly every man present wore beaver or otter or fox fur ornament, and every woman bad on a aeaUkin. 1'oor little toft furred animals, why are they ao cruelly treated! I supMwe there is a difference of a radical sort betweeu fur and feathers. Up in the far north they beat sivils to death with clulm and dressy women everywhere are glad of it; down in Florida they shoot heroin with guilt, and tb bird cranks wail .Umt it from the depths of their luxurious fun. Ob, humanity, thou art a delicioua fraud! If M-aUkin were ugly it would not I fashionable; if plumes were not beautiful herou. would not la) killed. Ab, do you know my beautiful young lady, bow many murdered .ilk worms your re aplendaut gown represent! l'oor little creatures, they bad to lie killed in order to get their cocoons! Ifa get up a society for the protection of silk worms. Don't you feel rather mean when you reflect that each time you twang your guitar or scrape your violin you are torturing the bowels of a crucified iusectf What rruelty forthe mere luxury of music! Take that trantarent comb out of your hair this minute; if made of a heU ' wo11 t0 uo farmers houses, were gener torn from the back of a murdered tortoise! ! "y Inhabited by rats, and In dotens of By the wav, there is a heron plume in your I Jjat: Your pl.n .-s once covered the delicate flesh of a kid; your shoes, too, once bleated I and kicked up aud played in the sunshine of France, a lively a goat as the one flint ran away from good M. Seguin In Itaudct'. charming story. Let those who resido in transparent house refrain from peeping through other eople' window. There' no tolling w here the peeping business is going to end. Maurice Thomjaiou iu Chicago Inter Ocean. An Old Mullet. Bob Lockhart dropped in to renew hit subscription. "1 have something' in my inside pocket which 1 want to show you," he said, and after searching for a few seconds Bob produced the half of a large round leaden ball. "I was sawing up a fat lightwood log, and you will see where the saw passed through the center of the bullet W ell, 1 got to thinking afterward how old this bullet must be. The log was fat heart pine two feet thick. Evidently the bullet was shot into the tree when small or else it could not have pierced to the center, and the tree was evidimtly 100 years old wheu it fell to the ground. It way have laid there 1 00 yean or more. You know fat pine never decay. I am satisfied that old man Ponce de Leon.ou his tour through this country, must have bred a fancy shot at a skulking savage, and plugged the tree instead of the In dian. You see it's a round ball, and as it is to large I judge it to be of Spanish make. Bob is quite an antiquarian, you know. Atlanta Jonrnal. Th Tableau. The palmiest day of the tableau enter tainment has rather gotie by. Sacred and profane history, aucieutaud modern customs have beeu faithfully worked for varieties in tableau representation and thuir freshness has pretty well departed, An entertainment of pretty and pictn resuue scenes, unvaried by action or movement, is a somewhat mild form of auiusuineut For obvious reasons this kind of eutertuiutneut has had a long run of favor. Tableaux, represented by good folks that they all know, are some thing that the strictest chucu people can look utKin without a feeling of hin and a great deal of money for gtiod causes has been realized iu this way, They floarub best iu home soil and l re sented by home talent and beauty, and not a little have they owed to the good natured puff's of amiable editors and the family pride wliiob. loves to see Sis on the stage iu a fancy costume, looking as pretty as a peachblow vase. bpringtluld Homestead. Haw reolarap Wa .Named. Everybody knows what "foolscap pa per is, but every body dx,s not know how it came to bear that nauie. In or der to increase his revenues Charles 1 granted certain privileges, amounting to monopolies, and among these was the manufacture of paper, the exclusive right of which was sold to certain par ties, who grew rich, and enriched the government at the expense of those who were obliged to use paper. At that time all English paper bore the royal arms in water marks. The parliament under Cromwell made stiort of this law in every possible man uer, and among other indignities to the memory of Charles it was ordered that the royal arms be removed from the pit- per, and that the fools enp and bells should be used as a substitute. When the rump parliament was prorogued these were also removed, but paper of the size of the parliamentary journals, which is tiHUully about 17 by 14 inches, still bears the name of "foolscap." Har per Young People. Proving Polarisation. The polarization of the human body can be proved by allowing a strong cur rent to flow through the body from one end to the other, the hands being placed in two basins connected with the poles. The hands are then dried and placed in two other basins of water, connected with the wire of a delicate galvanome ter. A current in the reverse direction to the origiual one is then found to flow from the body. Boston Transcript Settled at Last. It has finally been settled in Scotland that after a single man and woman have kept company fur fourteen years, and have not denied to outsiders that they contemplated matrimony, that the inau can be sued for breach of promise, and that no further proof shall lie needed by the pluintiff. Detroit r ree Pre, oaaewbnt Trying, ICersrtbaleas. Do not suppose that a young womna is necessarily in an nnamiable frame of mind when yon meet her bearing a muddy overshoe in hand. The relief tliat she experienced wben she gave np trying to keep the thing on more than balanced her vexation at spoiling a glove and boot; but oh! the thing that women think and dou't say when at every step a misfit overshoe drops down at the heel would make a volume for the govern t suppress.-Boston Common- wealth. It should be remembered that the deeper the well the larger the area from which the rain water finds its way into It No dischargee or other secretion from the room of a sick person should be thrown on the ground or buried in it within at least 100 feet of the welL Mrs. John Drew hat been on the a tags fortixtr-two yean. She it aeventy-one rears old. and when a child of nine she appeared in several playt in the Louis- villa theaters. Bhe wa born in Lionaon, and waa advertised in ber youthful dayt u an "infantile phenomenon." A PIANO TUNER TALKS. SOME OF THE 8TRANGE THINGS EN COUNTERED IN HIS TRADE. IUU Day Itavue with Ihs Fslts Chlldrsa I'oka Cane t'ndrr th String Finding a Ll rorketbook Iteaulls of a Man's I'areleaaneaa. "Look out for that rat!" was the excla mation of a piano tuner to a reporter, a few days ago, at be stood watching him take a piano to pieces. The word had barely been said w hen a large, lean rat jiimed out of the Instrument and sc. ill JN'red across the room and out of an open loor. Whllo he was dexterously remov ing the rat's nest from Inside the piano the reporter asked If rats were usually part and parcel of pianos. The tuner re marked that while probably two-thirds of tho Instruments in resldeuces were free from the rodents, the other third were in- "HteU wltu tm'm- 1,'"-',t t"1 " I ,lis experience durlug twenty years of bit I M'- 1'll0!, 1,1 ll" country, especially In , fH0 full.v '"",l11'1 "r ma11 mP of paper that bad been carried there by the pests bad been discovered. 1 he paper aud tho liests were not so bad, but rats very frequently did tho instrument much damage. Huts play havoo with the felts in the action, and be had repaired pianos where the felts had all been eaten away. Occasionally a hungry rat is discovered that shows light, aud the wielding of a broomstick, with the accompanying screaming by the women folk, is neces sary to get rid of the animal. Children oftentimes cause pianos to get out of order, but while the trouble caused by them Is usually quickly repaired there are times wheu they do more damage than rats. Left alone In the room with an open Instrument the spirit of mischief comes over them, and a cane or a book Is poked Iu under or among the strings. The owner returns to play on the piano, and then finds It at sixes and sevens. As everything was all right but a few min utes before tho cause of tho trouble can not be understood, and then there It bluster about the house. Khould the piano be a new one the maker Is blamed, tho instrument is condemned, and a sharp letter is forwarded to the seller. The re pairer with fear and trembling hastens to the scene, the troublo Is found, and after apoloeles, the whipping of the small boy who did the mischief, and the payment of t he bill for repairs, the piano la left to Its fate. WUERB Tng MONET OOF.. Picking up a five cent piece lying on th action, the tuner said: "llcre Is something, too, I find ts well as rats' uests aud the work of children. To be sure money Is not found frequently, especially In any considerable amount, but the finding of two fat pocket books and a ten dollar gold pleco 1 will never forget. The gold li.d been placed In the piano for safe keeping by a young lady, and its billing place for cotteu, and my finding It, of course, made the owner happy. The bringing to light of one of the pockotbooks made me $.i0 richer, that being a present from lta loser. It bad beeu missing for a year, and contained $000. Detectives had been limit inir for thieves who, it was supposed. bad stolen the money. The discovery of the pockctbook brought back tho recol lection that It had been laid 011 the top lid of .11 upright piano, and that It had no doubt fallen In the Inside, where I had found it "Instead of getting a reward I came near being arrested, and perhaps sen t cured to a term of Imprisonment for (hiding the purse. Its contents were over $200, and like the other one, having been carelessly left on top of the Instrument, It fell Inside. Being missed while 1 wst iu the house, and the owner of the money, a country justice, remembering where be had laid It, suspicion rested on me as the one who bad taken It. hen 1 remarked tho mysterious actions of the justice, hit wife and two daughters, lie told me of bla loss and what he suspected, and threatened niy arrest unless the money was Immedi ately produced. It was a bad predicament to be 111, and what to do puzzled me. The finding of the other pockctbook flashed across my mind. I suggested a search In the interior of the pluno, and there It was found to my joy. The old man took It without as much as saying 'Thank you,' and to thit day 1 think he holdt the opinion that I bid It away In the piano, Chicago Journal. niaruarek'a Weighing; Machine, Close by the side of Prince Bismarck' bath it a weighing chair, covered with red velvet, of the most modern construc tion, and the great German minister never fail to "try his weight" at least 01100 a day, or to record the result of bit trial in the small diary be keeps attached by a string to the arm 01 the welebms? chair for the purpose. There wst a time when th prince scaled the somewhat (larirantuan weight of 247 pounds: but much bas happened since then, as hit late friend Lord Ueaconsueld once 1 marked. And, among other things, the prince hat taken not to "Bunting," but to a more recent tystcm of dealing with one'a "too. too solid ilcHh. 1 hanks to deter mined perseverance In the system, the Herman chancellor was last r rluar ab a to announce at the breakfast table, In a tone of triumph, that be that morn 1 11 ir onl v welched IUU pounds, f.urope, which bat . . . . . . V . such a deep Interest in rrinre Hlsmarck continued life and good health, would do well, if possible, to secure for Informa tion a daily return of the welirbts re corded in the chancellor's little diary. ixiuuon 1 igaro. Coffee a a Disinfectant. Coffee Is a handy and harmless disinfec tant. Experiments have been made In Parit to prove this. A quautity of meat waa hung up In a closed room until de composed, and then a chafing dish wta Introduced and oUU grammes of coffee thrown on the fire. In a few mlnutea the room was completely disinfected. In an other room sulphuretted hydrogen and ammonia were developed, and ninety grammes of coffee destroyed the smell In about half a minute. It It also stated that coffee destroy the tmell of musk. riAtarum and asafcetida. At a proof that the noxious smells are really decom posed by the fume, of coffee and not merelv overnowered bv them, it ia stated that the first vapors of the coffee were not tmellcd at all, and are therefore cbem Ically absorbed, while the other tmellt gradually diminish as the fumigation con tinue.. Tb best way to effect thit fumi gation it to pound the coffee In a mortar, and then strew It on a hot iron plate. hlch, however, must not be red hot Globe-Demon at Owlnr. at it it mnDosed. to tha mtae natio robbery of their nettt, mocking birds are beard leu this year in Florida than ever before. The newspaper requires) the very brat f the brains and brawn of it followers. The newapaper man ia a soldier in a great army. Alwayt ready must be his motto. It it not for bim to reason why. It ia for bim to obey to door dia. And who ever knew him to hesitate? Lord Aberdeen is one of the most pop ular noblemen in Orrat Britain. He is a democrat by sympathy aa well a principle, and hat been known to ride down to hit club in a milk wagon when cab waa not bandy. Us ia much tongc after in Edinburgh society. V OHZ MUST WEEft To meet life's loo-ljr path along To part aul nwet ajraio no more, Yet, era the; runlli 'nilil tb throng; Perchance one heart may never more Itriraiu the pracs it knew lief, , re; If one must wren and one forget Twere better far tbey had Dot met, The fleeting hour an quickly fled One never will m ull SKoia, Cut one ahull mourn Ihe moment sped and ieace of heart no more regain' While one will never feel s pain; Slue 00s must weep anil one forget Twer better far tbey bad not met -W. E. Hunt NOBLESSE OBLIGE. If I were von and had pink shells fori Aud eyes like violets dipped to dewt Of having mr love's lot I'd bar no fear, If I were you. If 1 were you, with surh flower like face. And all a Dower's own grar to bold It toot I'd keep my heart as flower pur la 111 pbaoa, If I war you. If I wera ynu and looked to be a quean, I'd keep myaelf, aa though I knew. That what's beneath should equal what It aeen. If I were you. If I were yon. and God had mad ma fais. So fair that I eeenwd made to woof I'd tw as gracious as my graces were. If I were yon. If I were you -but no. alas! I sea I could not love you as 1 do; Nor tell you all I'd strive to be. If I were you. -Brooklyn Ufa. Th Oldest Family. In matter of antiquity Mohammed must yield precedence to the Chinese phil- asopher, Confucius, who died 479 year before the Christian era. There ia no known race that cau boast of an antiquity like his. On the occasion of the death of the Chinos statesman, known in Europe tud America as the Marquis Tsang, wa leamed that his title ot noblility wa due, not to any connection with Con fucius himself, but to his descent from Dtie of the four chief disciple of th great teacher. There are, however, very numerous living descendant of Confucius; and al though ho has been dead 2,370 years, uperior rank is conceded to them in China solely from their relationship to him. Moreover, when Confucln wa born, C50 B. C, hi family was already among the most ancient of the empire, and had a recorded history of more than three centurion. Tradition goe (till further back, extending the probable duration of the family to little less than 8,000 years. Chicago Time. Veepuclu.' Descendant. It is rather remarkable that so many men identified with the early history of thi continent should have living de scendants. Many of us remember th lady who visited Now York some year tgo who claimed descent from Anierlcu Vespncius, and had a conviction on ber mind that the Congress of the United State ought to bestow some kind of pecuniary recognition on the name. Congress was not in a ptsioning frame of miud and she returned home no richer than she came. Uer visit, however, led to a close in vestigation of the career of her ances tor, which resulted iu the discovery that the word America originated in a name given by the natives to a portion of th coast which he visited. Neverthelesa the lady is believed to have lieen liueally descended from Americtis Vespuciua, or rather the person whose name was Lat inized iuto that form. Chicago Time. Ths Pag of tlis Car. Little Kapioff had made a bet with hi fellow iwgna that he would pull the Em peror Paul's pigtail (which waa held in respect by the highest persona in th realm) like au ordinary bell rope at th next court banquet Accordingly, wben the cznr took his teat at the table, sur rounded by the member of the imperial family and the dignitaries of state, Kap ioff took hold of the queue and gar it a jerk as if be were pulling a belL The emperor uttered aery of pain and turned round in a desperate raga Everybody trembled; only the little page stood theiw oool and impassive. "Who did that?' inquired hit majesty In a passionate tone. "I did," said the yocth; "that queue it alwayt awry; 1 put it straight down the middle." "Why, yon scamp, couldn't you do it without pulling ao hard?" and ther tb matter ended. Le Petit Monitenr. How riles Multiply. From where do all the flio come? Tb Buestion is often asked, and seldom re- Dei vet so satisfactory an answer a ha been given by a contemporary. The common fly lay more than a hundred (ggs, and the time from egg laying to maturity is about two weeks. Most of ns have studied geometrical progression. Here we see it illustrated. Suppose on By commences "to multiply' and re plenish the earth" about June 1. June 13, if they all lived, would give 150. Sup pose seventy-five of these are female, July 1 would give us, supposing no cruel wasp or other untoward circumstance) to Interfere, 11,250. Suppose 5,023 of thee are females, we might hav July 13, 843,730 flies. Rarebits. A device is used by traveling men for the name strap on their valises. A card bearing their name and address is slipped Into the leather card pocket in the usual way, but now in addition a piece of mica ia slipped in on top of the card, keeping it neat and clean, and at the same time permitting it being read by reason of it transparency. A grim relio of the Maxwell murder, preserved at the Four Court in St Louis, ia the dilapidated trunk in which tha murderer stored the remain of hi mur dered friend Preller. The Interior of th trunk i covered with bloodstain. The first gun made for the Confeder acy it now in the possession of Mr. H. I lliiier, of Chattanooga, whoa father made it at Holly Springs, Miss., in 181. (t originally had a rifled barrel, and i till in good condition. The royal standard of Persia, it it laid. la an apron. Stout old Qao, the Persian blacksmith, raised a revolt that proved tncoessful, and bis leathern apron cov ered with jewel is still borne at th van of Persian armies. The best talking parrot is th gray bird with scarlet tail that come from the Conga A few of these hav a scar let breast as well at tail, and are known I king bird. Tbey are very rare. A grain of fin sand would cover on hundred of th minute scale of the bu K&n akin, and yet each of these scale in torn cover from 800 to 500 pores. .. ' . " '" -.- y ' -1 tj,'' .11: