EUGENE CITY GUARD.
i. L.CAMFBHLU lrrttr.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
FROM AN' UNPUBLISHED SONNET-fl
Ttwrtars three HiIuk beneath lli blessed skies
for which I llv bliu.-k tym aud browa ana
blue;
Ikold Uiem ill moat dear: but 0 black eyel
1 Ur aud die and oo'r die fur you I
Tennyson,
THE HUMANITARIAN STANDPOINT.
The KlfliU of frillilrrn O.ir lbts t the
Uttls Ones A Seeded -e"0""
In undertaking this work, let u not feel
too complacent, Un virtuous, too generou.
To pay our debt U not to be generous.
Children, all children, come Into the world
our creditors, and they reiimlu our creditor
aa long ai they reniiiln children. The tank of
living leventy year In thin world of oun li
thrust Uon them. That alone make them
aur creditor. What we owe, what society
owe to the children, to all children, ii gentle
turn, tenderness, ooniiaBlon, protection, nur
ture. Every child bom in thi world, in my
view of the matter, has a right to food, cloth
ing, shelter, education, kind word, gentle
eoartnim, careful protection.
But what wor paymasters we are. Instead
Of what U due them', how often do they get
blown, cruel word" ami cruel inflect. 1 have
aunn in New York J children from 8 to 10
year old crowded into an unwholesome ga
lighted, poor ventilated rsim, and kept at
work twelvo hours a day corking and labeling
bottles-twelve hour u day, nix day
week, and llfty-two week in
, .r Hut I believe the world's
yea are opening. U e are coming to see that
we owe more to the children tlian they to us.
Our ambition to get glory and honor from
our desceudnnt rather lliau our auoustors, in
growing. We are appre. iatinjr our debt to
the children more clearly. If children are
111 treated they Iweoine cruel. And why
should we be so .hoi ked at this or that crime
committed! Is it not natural tliat they should
pay In kind; that they should say we owe
Society nothing but Jiutt thlxl
111 treatment of children is something hid
eous. The brute world is not cruel in the
seuM In which na n are. We need another
word for many of thine buiuau wsloiu cow
Biouly called brutal. When we dmiguate
them as brutal we are unfair to the brute
world. Cruelty, like the other sellUu pas
sions, Is binding. The more we practice It
the less we are aware of it; or if we are
dimly aware of it, it no longer seems hid
eous. Cruelty Is a universal pawiiou. We
are all subject to it at times, for we are all
cowards. It Is in the air of the world we
live In. The selfish struggles of life blind our
eyes, deadeu our sensibilities, benumb us. A
strouger striki us ami we strike a weaker.
Our hearts grow lis easily touched. We
harden aud 'trify. The tlnu, dirty, de
praved face of rugged and neglected chil
dren, which we we to-day, do not startle and
haunt us as they once did. And may it not
be that we need a new Iikhoii even more than
dumb bruUisI Willis Uleed in Toieka thtaa)
Capital.
Huw It Feels To Frees.
Early In January, 1H.M, I left Ked Wing In
oomany with H. J. Willard, John Day, and
Albert Olson for a place fourteen miles dis
tant, uear where Vasa (.'hiirrb now stands,
forth purpose of cutting and hauliug logs
preparatory for our settlement at that
point the following spring. It was a clear,
beautiful day, with the thermometer 'J)
degs. above aero We had a span of good
horses, a sleigh artly liwdiil with lumber,
forage, and provisions fur a few days.
We arrived at the spot Jut before dark,
and camped in a ravine well sheltered with
timber. After muting oiii-selves comfort
able with a g'Hid Ui'r, uud a buuing log
Ore, all four laid down U sleep on a bed
made on Hi- snow, Willi a thin layer of hay
on top of mi IxmriU, mid were well wrapped
up lu blankets, lim ing the uight tlie tent
peraluiv changed to a turn We cold, the
thermometer tailing to 4S degs. below aero,
as we learned nticrward. Had we known
this aud kept our tire burning, there would,
of course, have beeu uo daugiT. But being
very oomforlable we all fell asleep early iu
the night, aud were unseoueloiis of the dan
ger we were in until awakened by the pain
of luteins) cold, and theu w were already so
overcome with the cold that we lucked
power or energy to get up or even to move.
Comparing nob afterward we found that
all had eiierleiieed a like sensation,
namely Unit, au acute aiii, like the point
of a ueedle in every xiro, but free from all
mental anxiety, except a dull conception of
something wrong and a desire to get up, but
without sufficient energy to do so. This feel
ing, however, did not last long, and sub
tided gradually into one of quiet rest and
satisfaction until consciousness ceased al
together, aud without any struggle or aiu,
either bodily or mental. We had all reached
that stage when, by an accident, the arm
and bare baud of Mr. Day, who lay on t lie out
side, fell in the snow. This started the cir
culation in his Ixxly, and gave him such in
tense pain that he quickly aroused himself
and got on his luet, and of course we were
all saved.. It took a long time before we
could use our limlo sultlrieiitly to rebuild the
Are, and during tliat time we suffered much
more pain than we had More, I am satisfied
from that eierieiice that a person perishing
In that way has a very easy death, because
he sinks gradually into a stuior, which
blunts his sensibility both to physical in
and mental agony long before life become
extinct Minneapolis Tribune,
Hahles on Ihe lf.
. Mr Feruandet, of New York, Is the prin
cipal agent to whom mnnagei's look for their
supply of stage children. Hhe lately ex
pressed the opinion taut a baby Is the must
important factor iu stage belongings. It Is
absolutely uecessury to have a good baby one
that will not cry, and good babies are ex
tremely rare; therefore they bring a good
price, A welt behaved laby in long clothes
commands 1 10 a week if only lo bee in led
across the stage. Of this cliuts it is ditllcult
to keep up the supply, for the reaou that a
baby doesn't long remain a baby.
Mrs. Fenuuidex is one of the most
motherly and lovable of women, and her
family of a hundred or more children cling
to her With beautiful affection. Bus said to
an inquirer last week that peruns not In
thebusluM cau have little or no idea bow
good and tractable the children of the stage
are. They are far easier to teach than men
and women; they do not complain, aud they
create no disagreeable scenes. Their kind
ness and avmiwthy is noteworthy. "When
one is sick," said Mix Feniaudes, "the sister
or brother will come and bike the place of
the invalid, or thev w ill double up tlieparta,
or do any poaslble thing to keep the place
open for the absent. The snuirica uf children
fur mobs range from 1 to A a week, and for
parts from $10 lo (JO a week. Hundreds of
children are employed in the theatres of the
country. They are totally free from the
jealousies aud beart burning wuiclt disturb
their older assiciale iu art, aud they think
when ouce they take rt in a play tliey
themselves are the pivot on which the whole
affair turus. Detroit Free I'n.
A pan of sliced raw onions, placed In a
room where there is diphtheria, will absorb
the poison and prevent the disease from
spreatkug. The ooiuns should be buried
every morning aud fresh oues cut up.
The American record for ten mile was
broken in the annual road race of the
Illinois Cycling Club. Konisely made
the distance in S0;0.with Gray, an
other contestant, lee than two feet be
hind tilin. The liest on record hereto
fore has been 90:11 lor the sain dis
tance. Both uieu rode gaieties.
OLD MAN GILBEKl
By ELIZABETH V. BELLAMY,
("KAMHA THOKPB,")
Author of "Four Oakt," "Littlt Joan
na," Kte.
lOoprrlihted. All rihls reserved. Published by
ipicW arrsngvineul Oompsiir
w York. , .
A yellow cur, with cropd ears and
barely three inches of tail, jumped upon
a log on the other side of the fence, ut
tering a short, sharp Inn k.
Old Gilbert -eie over the fence to
right nd left of him, along the bridle
path tlnil skirted the Held.
"Whey you come film, you ondcmaiid
fd beas' critter?" lie said, scornfully ey
lug the cur. m lii li he rerogiiiised a the
proerivif "dim r'urnivals."
The dog answered u ilh a yelp, jumped
off the log and ran across the hrldle l,Htl'
into the wou.1. but presently returned at
the heels of a lank, sandy haired, sallow
youth, dud in faded jeans.
Old (filbert's lieurt knoc ked at his ribs
a he thought of his ticusiire in the hol
low of the wood; hut "manners" de
uiuiiiIhI that some grilling should lie
given, and oli y dictated a certuin ob-seijiiiousiM-Ni
of tone, but the old negro
bade the youth "(lood morning" with a
bow very many degrees removed from
the respect lie would have accorded to
"quality."
The lad reHKHided with sullen reluc-
Uni'. . .
"Whicherway la you coiuiii fuuu old
Gillwrt ahked, insimiutiiigly.
"I dunlin vt hit's any o' jo' buhiness,
a.H tlni siirlv uiiHwcr. "I ain't no furer
from homo then you, en' I uin't u nigger.
I'm a-huiitin' of a hawg, en' ef you uin I
tolled hit tcr yo' pen, you ole prowler,
uiuylx) you're fur gittiu' outer hid
trucks."
Old GilU-i t a heurt waxed hot. That
he should be utciised by this 'hj' white
trash" of tolling away n lean and scrubby
old hog!
'Id) Lor'-a-miglityf he exclaimed,
with a sort of p-rsiiasive indignation.
"Uoaii vou en' yo' fidks know whut I
have got hawg ev'y bhused year fat
fi.iiin' cawiitinualr 1 cuoies uiy own
bacon, en' is been doin' dat same, year
lu, yeur out, gwan on fo' you wuz liuwn.
1's s'prised ut ye!"
"Wall," drawled the boy, nieaaurahly
suIkIii.mI by this reminder of a fact with
which he was well acquainted, "1
s'picioiied aa ye're aller roun' these
woimIs"
"Mcr" interrupted old OilU-rt, with un
uneasy thought of his buried treasure;
then, recovering himself, "1 ain't ollen
ow lull'." he said, with signillcance.
"Lisik a-licre!" shouted the boy, ad
vancing meiiucingly ,w liile the cur growl
ed and showed his teeth.
' En' I b'loiig ler Kernel Jaier
Thome," continued old Gilbert, w itU in
Haled stiiN-riority. "l'se a geuimun's
nigger, 1 is."
"1 doan know ei that's anythiii to
me," said Jest r'urnivul, with sullen
ubulemcnt of his wrath, "but, come,
now uin't you seen notion' of ow ole
while niw in yo' cumin's en' goin's? 1
ain't inqtiii in' hat ye air up toe."
Old GilU rt had dropped on his knees
uguin and was lugging at the saasafras
nails. "I'se coinin en guuig on my own
proper urranls," he grumbled. "My own
ers ileselves iloall Hot mi) wr counv uoui
dat. Ilowaoinedever, I did see u lean ulu
white now i t. I come uloug."
"Whicherway?"
The eagerucsi of the inquiry was us
fuel to the Ihime of old Gilbert's suspi-
cioiih. "Nuie ol ile uriuiu putu, ionow iu
du woods," he said, avoiding ull refer
ence to the route by w hich lie hud come.
"'Spccl she wus gwuu U't de brunch.
Whyn't you keep her jx-nned? Do aiu'
liolhin' In de woods dis time o' year ler
feed her."
"You 'leu' tcr yo' busincsa e' I'll 'ten'
ter mine," retorted Jesse Furuival.
"I'rowlin' rouu' these vool lak a free
nigger. Kf the kernel uin't got nolhin'
better'n nail diggln' fur you ter do,
why u't he send you ler keep track o' Unit
racketing son o his'n? Nick Thorite have
been in a tlx. I kin tell you, over ynnder
ter Eden."
"Wha'datT'old Oilbert asked, in quick
alurin.
"Ain't the kernel liearn how Nick
Thorno wuz nigh en'uUnil cut ter pieces
in a row with Muivus White? Over a
game o' poker."
Tlii.H was alsuit nil that Jesse Furuival
knew of the affair, but he hoped to learn
more from old Gilbert.
"Do grct inawster!" exclaimed the
old num. "When wua datT
"Oh, over en' ulsjre two mouths ago.
Ain't Ileum iinthiu' 'bout hit?"
"Look-u-here, lioy," haul old Gilbert,
"dere aiu' dat knife made what kin cut
Muwso Nicholas ter pieces. Doan you
gotolo no aecli lie aroiiu'. Who done
iiit auvliowf"
"Much you know!" sneered Jesjw Fur
nival. "I done tol' you hit wus Marcus
While done hit, whut ii sorter kin ter us
ull, la-iu' he is second cousin ter Uncle
Job's wife." And rwclliug with pride in
the prowess of this family connection,
the joutli spread his feet wide apart.
stuck Ins thumbs into his "galluses,
and eyed old Gillwrt dcllanlly.
IK) law gwnn hoi mm countable,
said old Gillwrt.
Ef the law kin git lilm!" retorted the
boy, with rxaaperuling laughter. "Mar
cus White is done put all Tex is 'twixt
It i lit en the law. Then reverting sud
denly to the object of his search, "I
doan see no tracks," lie said, inspecting
the ground.
"No; she win t ravelin' the aidge of de
wood," said old Gilbert; "in amongst
do leaves."
The boy glanced towards the woods.
Dulled lo his dog, and walked on.
"IV while trash aiu' got no manners,
nohow; sassvin' of a gemiimu's nigger,"
Muttered old Gilbert, glowering after
him. "tjiiitlity d.wu ntiver talk to nig-
gers dat-a-way. S'kmm t is prow liu "bout
dene, woods? Hits ow woods! IjiWii!
Lawd! 1 wou'er is ever lie seed me down
in de holler? i'se tol' a iiioiiki'ous lie; 1
ain't seed nniie old sow. Lint 1 wus j s
'blecdged ter aesso. Unit her! I piutly
doan bullieve she's got ne at luio" outer
her lames ter feed de bur.nnls, dut ole
Furuival sow, but I'm inighlly skeered
she'll have the stren'lh ter go mniii'
roun' dut ehiil bn-h heap. En' I'm
'stuibed in uiy lain' 'bout Mawae Nick,
list bov ain't stiddy e he inoiight be,
bless Gawd!"
The thoughts of ull hearts at Thome
Hill were revolving around Nicholas
Thome at this time. On account of some
irregularities at college he had been ban
ished to "Sunrise," hi father's tuiut dis
tant iUutaliuU, oaitly by way of jiuu-
udiiiient. nartlv by war of keeping mm
out of teinptalhili. The friends of the
fumily did uol think this the wisest
course to pursue with a young man nf
Nicholas Thome's temperament, but the
colonel was not a man to be advised,
and Nichola hud been at Sunrise planta
tion lnce early In January. No hint of
the quarrel with Marcu White had
reached Thorne Hill as yet, but the col
onel was secretly fretted that his sou, in
ull this lime, had never once sued to be
reculli-d, and Miss Elvira's deepest anx
iety had been aroused by a note received
a few days la-fore, which had been mail
ed at Eden, Ihe nearest pottlolllce to Hun
rise, and was worded as follows:
"Miss Thome.
"KBbTK(TKi Madam: I am aOod fear
In woman, and 1 feel it on my konscunce
lo waru the famly of Mr. Nick Thome
that Sunrise I'luiitation is a lonesome
pluc for a young man of sperrits and ift
lie are not sjieedily removed out of harms
way great trouble is in wuitin and so no
lore from yours respectful,
"Kuxa.nn'a White."
Miss Elvira, not daring to show this
note to her brother, lest it might widen
the breach la-tween him and his sou, had
gone up to town to consult her cousin,
Mrs. Herry, in whose judgment she
plHced unbounded fuith. I hough she hail
not always the courage to follow her ad
vice. But Mrs. Herry was on a visit to
her plantation in Jefferson, and Miss El
vira had returned still burdened with the
aniicting note, which she was always
poring over w henever her brother was
out of the way. She begun reuding it
furtively at the tea table us soon as the
r, .Ion. -I 'retired to his musings on the
front piazza. Missy, why had come in
lute to her siipier, was eating waffles
and honey with a leisurely gusto thut had
driven Grillin Jim to a stool in the
kitchen, with the remark, "Fo' legs is
la-Hern two legs ler wait on Miss Wini
fred's delays." and thus Miss Elvira and
her little niece were alone together.
Winifred improved the occasion.
"Aunt Elvira, said she, "don t you
think it's time Urer Nicholas was let lo
come home? He's been gone ever since
befo' corn droppin'. Missy s calendar
was of the plantation.
"Oh, Winifred, I'm afraid Nicholas
biu't ulways well conducted," Miss
Elvira stammered, not knowing what lo
renlv,
"It ain't no difference to me if he is
bad or Kd," said Missy sturdily! "he is
Brer Nicholas. Only I don't believe he
ain't Just as good as can be.
"But heougjit not to disappoint his
father as he does," sighed Miss Elvira.
"Well, I reckon father disappoints
him some," Missy replied, with preco
cious shrewdness.
"You don't understand, dear," said
Miss Elvira,' wondering a little at her
self that she should speuk so freely lo
this child. "I fear Nicholas is wild."
And Miss Elvira sighed deeply. In her
vocabulary "wild" wus a word of the
strongest condemnation.
"l-t him come home, then, aud gel
tamed," said Missy, promptly.
This was Mrs. Herry s advice ulso
Mrs. Herry, who reasoned from a sound
judgment, and her own deep experience
in a like cuse. But to advocate Cousin
Myi lilla's opinion ojienly was more than
this student of Bishop Ken could venlurt
ukiii. I ler strongest Iion was thut Nicho
las might be lamed by a luarnuge with
his pretty cousin Flora Thorne, who hud
the mt'i il of pleasing the colonel. That the
olouel should be pleased was the all uu-
Kriaui 'iiii, In view or wiiicii .nis
Elvira ignored the fact that she herself
had not found Flora (lawless. But this
was not a subject lo I discussed with
Missy, and she felt relieved when Glory-
Ann interrupted with the announcement:
"Missle-virey. here's ole man Gilbert.
Ultimo 'in what he want. Ho mek gret
parade o' secrecy 'bout what he got
w rapiied in a ph'ce o' cloth; but nose kin
smell sasHvfac anywheres."
Fiiinine!" shouted Missy, and darted
from the room.
Jcs' hear dat!" grumbled Glory-Ann,
in jealous resentment, as she followed
her to the hack piazza. "Hukkom she
g(M-s lifter ole mun Gilbert, stidder re-
uiin'ln nie bout sassyfuc.
"Howd've, Missel-viiey; huh you do?"
said old Gilbert, rising to bow and scrape,
is she crime out on the piar.za.
"Thank you; patty well, Gilliert How
do vou do?"
I'm ter say tollable, bless Gawd;
Missle-virey, I 'lo-ved ter bring a dozen
uiggs fur a 'membrance, but de ain't all
laid j it; an I knowed Missy wuz gwan
be glad o' some sassy fac, so 1 jcs come
'long so."
I've plenty of eggs just now, 1 in
much obliged, Gilliert. "
Tuhbe sho!" said the old man, and
paused and scratched his head. Then,
with a desperate abruptness, "Missel
vircy," said he. "when you hear fum
Muwse Nicholas?"
About a week ago," said Miss Elvira,
hesitatingly.
"She uin't heerd bout dat cuttin scrape:
'bh-edged ter let on ef she had," old Gil
lwrt argued to himself; then aloud, "Hit
do 'ear lak Mawse Nicholas orter b'long
ter Thorne Hill, Jhssle-virey.
"Yes, he orter!" Missy declared.
"Ilea gwan on 81, Mawse Nick is.
come some dav de las' o' dis month. He
orter Is gitteu' married."
"No, he orien t! Missy objected with
violence.
Old Gilliert was doubled up with silent
laughter when Ihe colonel came out ou
the piuza. The colonel was a handsome
mail, though past fifty, tall, erect, with
clear rut features of a somewhat stem
aud melancholy cast. He was formal
and precise in twiiring. perhaps even a
ti itte pompous, but ho could unbend oc
casionally, and with this favorite old
slave he was alwars disposed to be jocu
lar. "Hello, Gilliert!" he (aid. "Any bas
kets lo sell? You must Iw getting rich?"
"Imllaw, mawster! Dis po' ole no
'count nigger gittiu' rich? I ain't selliu'
liaire baxkit ter-night, suh; I come ter
'quire 'Unit Mawse Nick. Eu' 1 been
a-studyiu', mawster, det beiu'a how dere
ain't no odd jobs in 'tickler je' now
spoHin I w in ter go down ter Sunrise,
en' look aller Mawse Nick a littler"
You call him an odd job, do vou?"
said the colonel, not without bitterness.
"Now, maw ster, you i comical, tubbe
shot Hit's gwan ou nigh two years seuce
Mawse Nick been home ter stay, en' I'm
gittiu' ole. I hanker ter see dat boy
w hat I mos'ly raised."
" La w-massy! Hear dat, nowl" ejac
ulated Glory-Ann in the background.
"How kxig do you mean to stay?" the
colonel asked, not unwilling to make in
direct overture to hi ton.
"Hit a matter of thutty mile en bet
ter." said old Gilbert, nindiUllvelT rub
bing hi forehead with hi horny fore
finger. "A day ter go aud a day to
come"
. II. 4M f-ol
"RomwHu. vou co bl-inorrowr
ouel .uggesled, with secret trong a
provsl. "You cau take the ox cart.
P "Ye. uh." replied old Gilliert with
a hesitnting thought of the hollow in the
wood where hi treasure wa buriea. i
ha' ter start 'fo' sun-up."
"Very well. Ill write you a pas.
Nicholas can write you another to return
with." , .
This meant unlimited leave of
"Thankee. uh." said Gilliert. with his
Glorv-An'n Immediately .ought Daph
ne. Mii Elvira' maid, for the satisfac
tion of expressing her wind.
'Jes' you orter hear dat uccuiustan
tial ole nigger cluiiniu' dt '?- rtt1lH7
Mawse Nicholas!" said she, in high
dudgeon. "Wheywur. me. I d lak ter
know? En' while- I n; .'ru",i"rf'.
mindin' of Missy, here he is cavortm of
hissef 'bout de kentry in J0. ,.iv.a
h i. i. ..if ironed h none hell ne
iini I.U.7 i,.." m- - ,
lay in cluim ter tier
privulliges 'cordin'.
ruisin en' exactin
CHAITEK HI.
AMBASSADOR EXTKAOltHINARY.
"UowdTye, Mnwnr Sicholan! hnh yon dor
old Gilliert set forth
on his journev In'the jolting little cart,
drawn by a small black ox that went a
plodding gait.
The old man, with a view to doing
Muwse Nicholas honor, was attired in his
Sunday In-st a blue broadcloth coat with
brass buttons, aud a black satin vest, once
the property of Col. Thome's father, a mir
of nankeen pantaloons, and a white hut,
stiff and tall, discarded by the colonel.
He sat upon a plank across the front of
the cart, with his feet dangling outside.
The plank was cushioned by a blauketin
which was folded his every day suit of
homespun. A box that held a contribu
tion to Nicholas' larder, from Miss Elvira,
was safelv la-stowed in one corner, at the
bottom of the cart, where a wallet con
taining his mam refreshment lay beside
a dingy umbrella, the cheriahed posses
sion of twenty years.
Late in the afternoon, he came to an
expanse of pine barren; vast, soletnu,
sombre, it stretched in every direction,
the ray s of the siiikingsun shining faintly
athwart the multitudinous, tall dark
trees, whose boughs, swaying in the up
per air, maintained a continuous susurrus
thut emphasized the silence. Himself and
his ox were the only living creatures vis
ible iu this solitude, save an occasional
bird that darted ulxjve his head, as if in
haute lo escape to a more genial wood;
and old Gillwrt, to keep himself in heart,
began to sing his hymns. Lifting up Ins
voice, he mude the solitude resound to a
weird strain, in harmony with the sigh
ing of the pines:
Oil. livln' humble, tuimble, buiubls.
Oh. Hiu bumble, do bell dune toll.'
Oil, livln bumble, billable, humble.
Ob. IK In' bumble, yo' time gwan coins'
The sun was down, and the moon not
vet risen, when he came out on the other
side of the barren, where he ceased his
singing, being now near his journey's
end; for at the foot of the slope was the
large red gate that gave entrance to bun
rise plantation.
Old Gilbert dismounted, with some
rheumatic grunts, to os-u this gate. A
whipiioorwill was calling in Ihe grove
through which he had to drive to the
house; and as he climbed had: upon the
cart, a screech owl uttered its uncanny
cry.
Drat dat cnttur! the old negro mut
tered, in fear and anger, as lie stooped
with haste to pull oil his left shoe. "Hit's
sich a Isid sign ter hear a screech nwl:
but de do say.ef you put off yo left shoe,
yo' put off de bad luck. Lawd, sen' no
bail luck ain' gwan fall ter Mawse Nick,
'long o' dat 'sturbance what dat Jesse
Furuival named ter me. Leiumegitouten
dishyer grove quick ez ole Brandy kin
tote "me."
But old Gilliert had to endure the sere
nade of the screech owl vet some minutes
longer, before he came to the second
gate in front of the house of hewed logs.
which was neither a crumped nor a com
fortless dwelling, though it moved the
acorn of the old negro fresh from the
grandeur of Thome Hill. "Sich A place
fur Mawse Nick!" he ejaculated con
temptuously, as lie halted his ox.
A vociferous chorus from the dogs
greeted his arrival, and Gilbert prudently
kept his perch on the cart, shouting
lustily, "Hello!"
"Hello, yourselfl answered a voice
through the dusk.
"Dai's him, bless Glory!" the old man
chuckled, as he clambered down from
the cart, while the same voice was heard
silencing the dogs.
Nicholas was standing on the piazza
dimly outlined in the uucertaiu light of
the new risen uiimhi; a goodly young fel
low, tall, broad shouldered and straight
a an arrow; his great brown eyes, his
curling dark hair, hi straight nose and
rounded cheeks, his broad forehead, and
his mouth and chin with the silky, red
brow u beard of eurlr manhood, old Gil
bert knew by heart.
"How d'ye, Maws Nicholas! huh you
do; he shouted, w ith a chuckle of ex
uberant delight, as he stumbled up the
steps of saw n blocks.
" by, where in thunder did you come
from?" cried Nicholas. "Anything the
waller at home?"
" No, Mawse Nick, doan you be un
easv. un is all pearL UU jes me.
come fur change."
"Aha! come a-courtiu'l" Nicholas
returned with a laugh. " Can't fool me
you're gotten up to kill."
" Now, Muwse Nick I Pokin' fun at
(lis ole nigger ! I come a-puppose to see
you. 'Fears lak hit's so lonesome ter de
Hill, douten you; en' Missle-virey, she
soul you a lsx o gisxlies. 1 11 Jes step
buck eu fetch em ouleu de cyai t.
But Nicholas forbade. "Here, YirJI
go bring in those thing," lie commanded
a negro boy who wa banging about Ihe
piazxa. "Hungry aud tired, 1 reckon
you are, old man?"
to at coNTmrD.
FREAKS OF IXSAXITV.
A DISEASE MORE PREVALENT AMONG
MEN THAN WOMEN.
Sot leelvl by lh. !"
.!, uf Their K.ll-w l'a'""-A Ku"'
Mperle... Menial Ills Alinrt V
k..n Aiumii av Nations.
nsaulty l a peculiar "
prevalent among men than women. As a
l,e cniiihe of a lew years, and of the lor
paralysis It I the result either ol o
Worker bodily excesses, and generally at
tack man between the ages of dO a I
4U An ii.teresti.ig fart lu -"' "'
tith the insane is the greal age U .which
o many female lunatics live A mad
wonmn . U really a rlr.1 class Insurance
risk In almost every lunatic asylum the
women great Iv outnumber the men. not
o7lX".a they are so long lived but
also because they are so seldom cured.
It commonly surprises visitors to a
lunatic asylum to find that insane people
i notforai..oi..entdWeivedby the de
lusions of their fellow patieuta Ka.li
will think himself H-rfectly m nd
bealthv. while knowing that all the others
an hoisdessly mad Although a lunatic s
mental freedom may be destroyed. It does
not follow that his consciousness is abol
Ihhed. A minister who was culled upon
once to preach lo a congregu. -
tics treated them to s sermon ne
.i.... for children Much to his
had
sur
prise he received ail indignant letter from
one nf his listeners afterward, reminding
him that while they might be Insane, they
were not idiots, and that many of them
were fully his equals iu education and In
telligence. It is a novel exierience to attend a re
ligions service at an insane asylum. Im
agine a congregation of liinutlcs and Im
beciles, men on one side, women on the
other. In all stages of physical decay and
all degrees of madness Helpless, old.
grav haired fellows, with staring sunken
eve's and hollow checks, mumbling and
groaning to themselves. In utter uncon
sciousness of their surroundings. Guuut
looking, wild eed women, wiiii noiniug
human about ' them but their vanity
Wellington and iNapolcnli. r.lizawtn ana
Murv Queen of Scots. Catherine deMedicis
and Diana of I'oitiers, In lull cosiuiiih.
facing each other; Ciixl and tlie uevu, sine
bv side, restless girls, who niaue ineir
handkerchiefs into dolls and rabbits and
talk babv talk to them, occasionally beat
ing them and tossing them in the air
Intersiiersed throughout tins mm pv
crowd are bright, kwn. young fuces, with ; peculiar line of trade. Ihe state of Ne
uo apparent truce of I heir terrible curse ; Vluja harbors fen or fifteen, while the
to any but an exM-rt obs-rver; n-linefi and j proffressof Utah is marked by having
cultivated women, who in their lucid ii , f ....
tervalsare as pure ami spiritual mm. led
14 Hltiri'ls. and vet are like the devil in
rarnate when the tiuiuiu seizes them; fine,
manly looking gentlemen, devout, digni
tied and scholarly today, to morrow like
the herd of swine into whom the evil
spirit enters (Ml either slile of tlie ci.as)i i
sit the keepers, alert and watchful In case
nf an eiuerirencv racing tlieui is tlie i
chaplain, a stupid listless looking nmn.
K. this i lei.ivas no- lie d bV tl IS
,U..U v.. ...r. 0
t-,v i.irtl,.i...icv
All writers on disorders of the mind
have found it ditllcult to define Insaulty. !
In medical Jurisprudence. Illusions, aeiu
sions. hallucinations, incoherence and de
liriiun are all phases of insanity The
Christian Science" people say that all sin
aud all sickness are insanity Insane
people frequently reasou correctly, but
from erroneous premises A delusion Is
nothinir hut a false premise the conclu
sious drawn from it may be entirely logi
ul. There is no reason why a uiau who
thinks he has legs of glass, and iu other
respects is iu possession of all
his facul
., ul...,ilil ...( l.u .....iti lil,i . .f iu b imr ttn
r,'t .ml resoonsiblM for leiml acta I
which have no connection with Ihe sub
ect of his madness Such a sis-cies of
nsuuity seldom prevents a Dian from
managing his own affairs or undertaking
V l.ral relations for others.
Most people are prone to delusions or
illusions or some form or other Munv
people never see things exactly as they
are. u delusions ami Hallucinations m
a test of insanity, half the world would
be iu lunatic asvlums
It is an interesting fact, recorded by
Pritchard and others, that among savage
nations mental diseases are almost un
knowu. They come forward with the
dawning of civili.alioii, and keep pace
ith the advancement of mental culture.
The restraints imposed by social order,
the diversity of interests, the pressure of
universal compel it ion, overwork, griefs,
auxieties and disappointed hopes, the arti
ficial lite of cities, ure among the causes
uiost influential among civilized people in
the development of insanity Among
weak minded and half educated people
emotional religious revivals also ojierate
to a great extent lu Prance, however,
the opposite extreme is found, for while
Indifference to religion saves the people
from religious Insanity, great numbers
lose their reason through the vices for
which their low uioral stuudard is respon
sible.
It is a curious fact that roving maniacs
are never attacked by any contagious
disease. Even consumptive disorders,
dropsies and other chronic muludies have
disappeared ou the accession of violent
lusauity. New York Post.
Iuvpiitor uf His Dynamite dun.
"There is an untold storv connected
ith the Invent iou of the dynamite gun,
which is worthy a place In the story books
alongside the accounts of Robert button s
apple and i
Galileo's swayiug chandelier ' 1 bus said !
a Michigan congressman who was among
those wutcliing the recent launching of .
tue dynamite cruiser Vesuvius. "Ihe
dynamite gun, which Is now thought to
be sucu a wonder, he continued, "grew
from a piece of gas pipe uio&r.ted un a
saw buck. Some five or six years ago a
school teacher at Detroit conceived the
idea of using a dynamite projectile thrown
from an air gun. He got a long piece of
ordinary three-quarter inch gas pipe, about
twelve leet lu length, and myde a rough
air gun to put his idea into practice. This
wA mounted nn a mw hmli n.wl l,naa
who saw the odd thing Inughed at It as
the product of some crank's brain. It was
taken to Kntt Wayne, below Detroit,
where the oflirVrs tried It out of charitv
to the supposed crank It threw a sma(l
dynamite shell a short distance. Several
wealthy Detroitera were Impressed with
the value of the gun. and a company was
soon organized. 10 lane Hold of Its uialiu
fact ure.
i . r penecieu uynauiiie gun
til n hsi'lirM Im.,m.o .
cauie iroru mis ooscurn beginning of a
gas pipe mouuted on a saw buck. "
At this point some one asked wbat be
came of the schoolmaster
"Oh, he has been lost sight of." con
cluded the congressman "the same as
most other Inventors. "Washington Cor.
New York Tribune
As sand consist largely of silei, which
water at tlie onlinury tenieruture doefl
uot didHolve, the wattr of a tuuidy
. . .. ' ...
gionieoiiirat.velypure. llie"liard"
water of oilier regions is due to earth
matter held iu solution. This earthy
matter, however, is seldom harmful to
those who drink it.
An engineer on a Texas railroad found
a big flock of sheep huddled together
in a cut to get out of the storm, and in
driving through tlieiu killed seventy
eight Pieces of mutton were found ou
the platform of the Last car. 1
SYRIAN CHATTELS.
Orieatal eerfs Wh. Are
K.sllr u
... D..n.. Id Tbl Country.
The Syrian men, women aud children
wbo PMrTtheblio thoroughfare, of
aS di Men with religion, emblem.
thl? f!?w. .emi-barbarou. design
e. ; ith few exceptions, the vWimsof
l lUj condition which can be hardly de-
tiued from slavery.
They are the human chattels of a Uas
of Srters of foreign birth who have
th iriuti, and established headquar-U-r
in every city of prominence on the
Pacific coast as well a-in eastern ceu-
Thee human chattels, who claim to
be Turks to advance the novelty of their
personality in the eyes of the purchasing
public, are the scum of Syria. Armenia.
Greece and Italy.
There are several thousand of these
serf employed by their money making
fellow countrymen in the United bUites.
Hundreds are annually added to the
number already employed. Ignorant of
their legal rights and but jsiorly versed
in the language of the country they
tamely submit to their exacting master,
receiving only their fund, lodging and
scanty clothiug.
These serfs sell themselves to their
that iu a new country
they will better their condition and be
at least relieved of the pangs of hunger
which beset them iu their native lands.
Pledged to work either for life or for
years for those who provide tiiem wim
(mnarwirijiiion to the new land of prom
ise, they are sent on their arrival in the
ITnited States to the cities where their
labors will prove the most remunerative.
Thev have lately encroached upon
uioit 'to them is a viririn field the Pa-
.(it: coast and numbers are frequently
beitiK sent hither to thoroughly cover
every profitable point,
There have been us many as forty or
! fiftv of these human chattels men,
women and yontlis--ngn;,'eu in inaKing
street sales in this city, hut they have
.Wreaaed tititil onlv twelve or fifteen
- . , . ...
cover the trade of San Francisco. Seattle,
TiK-oma and Washington generally in
clude fifteen or twenty in their bound
i nes. Los Aligeies is luvorcu wnu inn
, - 1 - M J.I.
presence of ten or twelve, while Oregon
which, according to their gtutements,
is proving to be the more remunerative
field has from thirty to fifty of these
serfs catering to the demands of their
- -
' permanent, but, like the nomadio Arab
! of the desert, these slaves silently fold
' their tents and steal away ut the will of
th-ir masters, which varies with the va-
riutions of the trade. One of the places
in this city where nomadic serfs receive
: their supplies and render their accounts
IS 111 JIIUUU Birn-v.
It is a supply uejiot,
and is conducted unuer me uame oi
Joseph bbarbel Co. mere, in a room
crowded with Svrians of both sexes, of
ai 8izeg ftnj H)?,,s , a ttr,,e 8tock of
trinkets and religious articles stored in
pasteboard boxes of various sizes dis
played on shelves which run aliout the
room,
This apurtmeiit contains two beds and
a lounge, and the lack of other furnish
iii?s is made compulsory by the space
taken up by the immense stock which is
doled out to be sold by the street peddlers
in this citv and neighboring towns. Jo-
wim Sluirbel himself is a bronzed and
brawny Syrian, uiucn past tue years or
middle life. He 18 the padrone who direct1
the actions and labors of the dozen of
j COIUI0site nationalities of both sexes and
various uges who were gathered in the
I ,y .. ,: .i. ...
roum-. '"
questioned by a reporter, and while
j ciiiiuiuin iu uo uiub.iiiiii-u hu uunia
engaged in the same lino of business he
displayed a knowledge regarding the lo
cation of branch agencies and number
of his countrymen and women engaged
in the trade that was remarkable. Some
of the supply dejiots iu this city remit
regularly from $1,000 to f i.OOO a week to
tlie east and Enroe as payments for
shipments and invoices of goods. San
Fraucisco Chronicle.
Lawrence Ilttrrett's Head.
A review of Lawrence Barrett's career
is a lesson to all who basely betray
golden opportunities. Think of this
man as born of humble Irish parents a
seven mouths' child, so frail in physique
thut for the first five years of his life he
could not lift his head! When later he
went to school it was his fond mother
who carried him in her hard worked
arms. He undoubtedly inherited from
both parents the seeds of the disease
which has taken him nway in his prime;
and on top of a weak body nature placed
an enormous head, which made the but
tle for existence all the harder.
Lawrence Barrett, the man, could
wear no hat not made to order, though
on one occasion he succeeded in finding
a tolerable fit in John Fiske's wheu this
clever but absent minded philosopher
walked off from Ole Bull's house in Cam
bridge with Barrett's brand new beaver,
leaving a less enticing headgear in its
place. The tragedian remained housed
nntil his own hat was forthcoming.
Kate Field's Washington.
Apples Are Easily Digested.
Chemically the apple is composed of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gnm,
malic acid, chlorophyll, gallic acid, lime,
aud much water; yet, for all this rather
iniDosuin lot of insrredients. a good, ripe.
raw apple is one of the easiest of all
, ... .,i
the
'
vegetable substances with which the
too often abused stomach has to deal
for, after
it has been eaten the whole
of digestion is completed within
process
I, a t.i.f-A,lilil V olinrt knuM rf Alirhfv.flvn
minutes' time. Detroit Free Press.
In His Proper Place.
It was only a lark, sir." pleaded
j-i: 4 i.. ..j
youthful delinquent, in extenuation of
". . . ...
foolish tncic be baa played ou a connamg
friend.
. lo.l, ,v.v .i.i
yiia tai aa, . eu, nfuu luq iuiiugi ou
penilary magistrnte for the Manchester
division of Lancashire. "Well, we have
11 cage for larks, into which I shall put
-
you for seven d.irr.',-Lonrton Tit-Bita.
A , I ...... .. , . . ,
When the revenues of King Lonis
were at so low an ebb that eveu the serv
1 ants at conrt conlil not draur iliu pu-u,m.
at the Hlna
.
uuera suiL'urs
presentea a petition to the prune minister
a-sking for the payment of their arrears
cf ''"y- .
"fiun, n .M !....... .
Daiu lur uiiuwier, we
will first satisfy those who weep, it will
then be the turn of those who sing."
Tlie brownish discoloration of ceilings
where gas is used is caused by dust car
ried against them by the heated air cor-!
rents produced by the gas. I
the cniMSEliiif
its organization, equipment.,
GENERAL rnunn,... 9
ww,,wl ,ur(i
China's Eye ca Bussla-Tna...
"
frontier vmctn kail prlTj,
Celestial Armi Arms. R..i...
. "ts4
Those who believe that lutks
niote future the ChrfieHe tniiiisT
prove a thorn lu the side . H
iiud their view corroborated In ."
... i .... 7. sa inu.
in inecuriTui uuinoeroi luehilrn
ale Hevue uber dis tlesaniml a "
nnd Flotten. which treat of "l"
reforms Introduced into the Chine
Apart irom ine i uiuese mi uJ-
minims, eacu province now to(
regular army of enlisted InsipIZr!'
, rvnse.yt ,
ted t roop, UU(1
,wd U the JJi
itiiiuediate command of
these the best organized
Pe-chl-ll. which, Instructed bv Pa?'
..Ul .1 II , r'U1(ll
onii-crs, imi wen aruieu and clotM u
uniform, serves Its model fur t 0nV
What, however, concerns us n,,-.
country is the reorganization of th..
of Manchuria, which has recent ?
undertaken partly because (.'l.iM tiTJ
10 roiouiie mat reglou as a bul.,
against Itussla, and partly bectim. Ii
fears that power as a daiigoruu, rival
the Corea. This reorganisation 1.
two years ago. Manchuria bei. .VJ
into three districts, the united milil
strengt h of which is said to .mount Z
from 2.")t),(HH) to SWIO.OOO men. Ofthl,
we are toid, one-third are armed ?i
breech loaders, the remainder fit, 0iJ
fashioned lireurms, bows, irrowi 1
lances. Thirty thousand are cunntimi,
under arms, tl.o nucleus being ataaJi
of 15,000 troops from the l'eilii II iT
who have beeu disciplined after the Eur
peuu model.
WATCIIINO TUB rilOXTIKR,
Kirln, the military centerof Manrbnria.
possesses uu arsenal, uud watch, iu
Hussian frontier withdctiu,l.iiienis,l1j,i
scour the country continually to elm Ii
ofbunditti aud keep the roads o n (
postal communication. Tlie cirilri
formed into squadrons of '.'"0 men, tn
armed with Winchester uiiiazine rifjesar
Uemingtou repeaters; and their horvi
though small, are active and servient'
They are described as bold riden. tuk
the usual ugly Asiatic scut; and, itrun
to sny, they make uo use of steel nn,u
in some cases are not eveu pruriW
with them. Their formation Is iu
rank; their pace the walk or gallop, iu
trot being unknown. They attack it 1
swurin after fire, and to the sound of
trumpets, the officers being in rear sj
their men.
Target practice takes place In July tU
August, when 100 cartridges areejpeniW
by each mau. Bad shots are puuuM,
aud at the autumnal Inspection of tbt
general commanding the best markinwi
uro rewarded with square silver media;
but, as the general's dog is permitted it
wear the sauie adornment, the distinction
is not overflaitering. The soldiers in
well paid. Every cavalry soldier gets th
equivalent of twenty -one rouble! ptt
month aud his clothing; fifteen of u)
roubles go to pay for the keep of bimstlf
and horse, six remaining for shoe leather,
washing and underclothing. As food, bt
receives rice, millet and tea; fourtimni
week meat and a small quantity of spiriu.
while hay, straw and crushed beam m
served out to his steed. There is a rtrj
mental fund for providing remounts, but
the soldiers do not willingly borrow fiui
it because the bamboo is too frequently
employed to accelerate repayment.
Near the Russian Ussuri frontier in
8tatluned eight battalions of Chines in
fantry, each 500 strong, which are chiefly
employed in the construction uf fortifies
tions. These are rapidly springing up ill
over Manchuria, two of its towns, Kiria
and Ningati, being defended by 1 girds
of dltoched forts, which are built on tat
European pattern, and In part provided
with steel plates. The infantry rereitu
twelve roubles a month, with clothing,
and are armed with the Kemingtiiu if
poatlng rifle, which carries a bayonet liii
that of the French chassepot.
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES.
New drill regulations, similar to tU
French, are being Introduced. On ti
rade the officers look on, merelv Inter
vening when the application of the stick
seems necessary. The battalion Is di
vided into four companies, whose chief
bold the rank of major; nevertheless,!
major general Is not unfreijM itlj f
tent to assume command of one of tMav
The officers make good the deficiencrof
their pay by defrauding their men. v
-..1.IU,. lu nftnn forced to till ll'lS 0WD UM
.a . lahnKI f,.r tllB tirollt of l.iS OffllW
The officers are represented as wholly
uneducated, and dependent for promotid
on the caprice of some magnate, sforwto
they are ready to perform the moat mem
offices. They undergo an examlM'w
prior to appointment; which, howef.
chiefly consists in fencing (with one swort
or two), wrestling, etc. They spend tw
leisure on the divan, dicing, chattering
playing the guitar. Most of them are
dieted to smoking opium, although W
practice Is forbidden. Drunkenness
also common. The uon-eonimissioiieii
fleers are trained iu a school at Kinn; iw
they arc not better paid thau the pn
their sole privilege being to adorn tw
hats with a brass button; but the ew"
pack of meuials bclouging to a gencwj
establishment assume the distinction as
matter of course, wherefore It cannis
held in high estimation. The mmauii
consumed by the troops In Maucnuns.
brought by sea from Tien tsin, but it"
proposed to erect powder nulls in -province
itself at Kirin and Tsitsihar.
Articles in the Chinese press wnv
pear from time to time afford mplP
that the dangers of Russian igP"
are beginning to be PP'f.
Chinese have augmented heir taw
fleets, are setting their military
tions on an efficient footing md. L
quite as significant, have conuKtea re
lui, ii.,,. ti,a Wirnr Amoor BJ "
f telegraph. St. James" Oazet
The Weaker He No Lnsr-
8ocietv women nowadays tboW.T,
realize tlie importance of good
the matrimonial market, and S
women are today much stronger
healthier, as a rule, than the
,
,rin nf ,,.a .tre,t, 0f a Satuw
few minutes on uroaaway,
- - ill j,AH.tM.i th tnHB
this assertion. The women.
are fresh or lace, ereci 01 "J
heads are well poised and tneir
a rounded. Their figures are tnm 1 w
. -it .tnn with a strouir ann
A , along witn a svroua -"T
TV.. tlm Other Dailu.
uo . " jointed.
I tr.."e" "T, JJSTJ l.
stride. The men, on
! cuesiea auu uonu- -
Dill. 11LL1H L'ftU WWr"'
- 1 iu. 1 . 1 a nM'l ru
l-1.1t UovIa olna Aan
iat) houP8 wutiij kept by theffl v
idered ind it is remembered J0"
' dozens of cigarettes they saw . tJi(
; the dav and how many du'' ,
l.t.ll
HO 1U1UII
ilueu. -e sora
XV pre'
- In London
there are not
f0
t.trtw n,intifitnrinir ncriui
1T..-1 TTI"TI Tnver a ni
o o 1 , .
irivinir einniovment 10 - . i
bands. In Paris there are on"" (
' wublishiuents, which empty
i hnnuJ nle.
, r
rr,, , . Ltl 1 il
use
iue largew ueu m
Moscow, and is said to wcigD up f
Tl, Kll rJ Pekin. LIU"""
corded a weighing flfty-three w
that of the Cologne caUi""
ewer twenty five tuna. .