The Eugene City guard., October 31, 1891, Image 3

SOMETIME
V -d, etthsr JOB Of I,
After wtialavsr la to aajr I aM,
t. ii.-j are the other die,
or bow, through uuianca, of the other
Hometime.
And you or I must hide
1-u.ir empty eyas an J face wu and wat
With Life a great rtff, brsida
'I Uc otber'e coflln, atwled with alienee, jet
gofiHtlate.
Ami jrHi or I mint look
Into to other 'a (rare, or far or near,
A tid read, as la a book,
YV ril is the dual, wonts we niao bitter here,
' bolllt-tlUie.
I'.r both must lone the way
W Ii.tbU we walk together, very sooa:
'-' in Uw dust atiail stay,
" ba otber first aball aee Uir rising moot
bouietiwe.
( 'li ! fast fast friend of mine!
I.irt up tlia Toloa I lure ao much, and warn
To nriug faint band and pin.-,
M oat I may ba left furloru, furlura
Bunwdioa,
tuy I may klaa through tram,
Forever falliu- and forever cosj,
Ci i ibbou truiu aweet yean,
Ondeank-aa fe&f, one nrwioua ring of gold
HoraeUrae.
you may think with pain
i i some alight grace, auuie timid wiah to please,
:J .hip eager look, half rain,
l:.lo your heart aume broken aula like the
Uumelime.
-Sarah M. R PiaU.
A NEWSPAPER.
Yes, sir; I give it to you straight, or
I'm a Chinamun. Foolin? No, no; I'm
int. Fin not one to fool; I drove a bob
t;ii! - car too long for that! What with
the greenles that put their fares into the
I, , -ne lamp box and the crooks that
try to get oil without paying at all,
iini the old gents with principles
th:it nuke the driver come in and
collect "fr their own good," and
tho young ladies that will stop to
kivt each other on the platform, and
the old ladies that are afraid to got
oil, and tfio boys that hitch on behind.
aiul the old gents that are going to write
to tho papers, and the folks thaj want
twonty-dollur bills chunged, and the
folks you run over, and tha wagons that
rim into you, I tell you aMob tail car
driver gets savage after awhile and don't
feel like foolin'.
I was savage that day. There were
two folks in the i;ir-a nan and a wo
manand only one fare iu the box, I'd
rung and I'd shouted, but neither of
them attended to me. I laid the missing
fare to the man because of his looks. He
was about as poverty stricken as I ever
saw. Not your laboring man's poverty.
A laborer out of work never looked like
that. It was trump's rngs this fellow
wore, and he had the hands of a tramp
too. Under their dirt a tramp's hands
are like the hands of a line gentleman
same reason, he don't work. This mail's
hands were clean, and his face wasn't
bad; but it was more likely he was try
ing to beat me outof five cents than that
the lady was. And if he was a tramp lie
had money enough alwut him they al
ways have and after I'd done my best
from outside, I stoped the car and went
to attend to him. The minute I got in I
saw what it seemed to me sort of queer
I hadn't noticed before the lady was a
Sister of Charity. She wore a black bon
net and veil, and a white thing under it
around her forehead and under herchin.
Her hands were crossed in her lap. She
was as holy and pure to look at as if
she'd been an angel. I looked at her, and
then I said to the man:
"I want your fare."
lie looked at me hungry eyes he had
and says he:
"I paid five cents into your box isn't
that right, driver?"
"All right, if you did it," said I.
Then I went down toward the lady. It
was my duly, but I found it hard to do.
I stood before her feeling as queer as
ever I did in all my life, and all I could
say was:'-.
"Madam, shall I take your fare?"
She did not answer me, but pointed to
a pajier somebody had left upon the seat
a common newspaper.
"Give it to him," I seemed to see her
say with her lips and by "him" I saw
she meant the tramp.
Now, a, paper left in the car belonged
to me, and I'm a man with a temper,
and at my wages the price of a paper
was something; so, what do you thiuk,
then, of my going and handing that
paper over to that tramp, as meek as
Moses? ,.
"Hers," says I, poking it toward him.
"It Isn't mine," says he.
But my eyes were on the sister all the
while.
"The lady says you must take it,"
aays I.
Now, she hadn't said anything; she
had only lifted her hand.
"Whut lady?" said the man, taking
be-WC the paper.'
i Hi "Tho sister there," said L
. ' Then all of a sudden, while I looked
at ,ltr tm 8081 tll ,aJy ,iaJ len 8'ttin8
" on was empty I She hadn't got up on
I her feet or moved. She just wasn't there
,ibiiy "y mora, and 1 got out to my horses
again as quick as I could. Men do go
jneljl' out of their heads from overwork, I'm
nPi; told, and I began to thiuk I was going
- 5 out of mine. I did not dure to look buck
im. into the car until the man inside pulled
I ta f. back the slide and spoke.
udiSP? "Driver," he said, "give me your
iflj name and residence."
""Lai "What for?" I asked.
P' "No harm," said he.
m" "I)o vou mean t0 try to gct me iut0
1 " trouble?" I asked, knowing that there
L I were "spotters" about and making up
niy mind that this was one in disguise.
"I tried my best to gct that lady's fare,
but I couldn t be rough to a sister.
"I saw no lady. 'What do I care about
.1 - I am . -t - ..T
f iue iaresr said toe man. n juu
. fit me your name vou'U not be sorry for it,
; I think." -
.'"t1 Hi-' spoki
clothes. ,
' I "Oh, w,
-'r.ame-it's
He spoke like a gentleman, for all hi
rel. Fin not ashamed of my
Jim Brown. This car is No.
J' 6,111 d Ju
want me you can find
IWJ "All right," he said; and I saw that he
k,fiilttd folded the paper square and was
aKt..mng H up U his coat, pinning it
with bUck beaded pin.
ikk ) At the next corner he got off.
-anf; That idght I went to Dr. . s kind
irotf'.a man as ever lived. I knew he wouldn't
iW,.'.charge ue for an opinion. I told him
fit1, O'y story.
"Now, doctor," I said, "if I'm koney,
If' Jt-ut with iU"
I "No. no, Jim," said be; "fery sane
" Wn Un optical ill unions now and
"I d -,'t want any more of 'em."
l1'! I- n t - .J tirl illusiooJ
IV.10.1UII ' " " I
don't ty j
"1 should say not," said the doctor.
"But my opinion is that you turned
your back a minute and that the woman
got off without paying her fare. I'rob
ably slle wai not , r) Bil4fr , charitr.
me city is full of frauds. She made
you take the paper to the man to give
herself a chance. See now?"
I didn't see; but what can you do
nen ioiks are so sensible they can t be
lieve anything?
"Twasn't like that there she was
and there she wasn't," said I "That's
how it was. t . ! ;
"If it huDOeill aalunnruna tn nu ami
I'll write you a prescription and make
you a present of it." said the doctor.
So I thanked him kindly and went
away, and It didn't hapen again. And
weeks went along, and it was winter,
and as cold as Greenland, and passen
gers more bothersome than I ever knew
'em, when one day, standing in the
stubles, talking to Mike Gallagher, tlte
old fellow that watered the horses and
always had a joke for everybody, I
heard my name called.
"You're wanted Jim," said some one,
and I went out Into the street, and the
man that had called me pointed to a
gentleman aloiit as fine a looking one
as ever 1 knew and he, the gentleman,
walked up to me.
"It's your dinner time, Isn't it?" said
he.
"Yes, sir," said L "I've got a few
minutes left.
"Come along, then," said he. lie
walked me into a restaurant close by the
stables, and said: "Call for what you
want, and I named it. Then said he
"You don't remember me, Jim Brownf"
"No, sir," said L
"You gave me a paper about six
montlis ago, said he. "A newspaper.
I asked your name."
"Oh, oh!" said I. "No. sir, I didn't
know you. I begin to see the likeness,
but you you .
"I know," said he. '"I was pretty
well down on my luck, then. See here
he unbuttoned his coat, a seal skin,
bless you, and took out of the breast
ocket a newspaper "read tliat,"' he
said, pointuig to where it was folded.
I read it. This is what it said:
"If Ferdinand Melrose will return
hoiue all will be forgiven by his dying
father," and after that where he was to
inquire for "further particulars."
"Well, I am Ferdinand Melrose," says
the gentleman, "The black sheep of my
family. Long ngo my stepmother made
mischief between my father and myself,
He forbade me his house, and I rather
went to the bad. No matter for my
story. Besides the fare you inquired
about I hud only a bottle of laudanum iu
my pocket. I was going to the Central
park to take it. I should have, slept my
self out of life into eternity, and the city
would have seen to my funeral if you
had not given me that paper. I went to
the place mentioned, and found, as I ex
lected, that money hud been left in a
lawyer's hands to take me home. When
I got there I found that my stepmother
had lieen dead three years, and that my
father had been attacked by a disease
that must be fatal. We were reconciled,
and when he died I found myself a rich
man. I had kept Jim Brown's address,
and I feel that I owe him something."
"Nothing at all," says I, "The lady
the sister told me to give it to you."
"What lady?" said he.,' !
"I'd like to know myself," said I, and
then I told him my story.
"It is strange," says he. "I could
swear that I was the only passenger
at the time. I felt so miserable and
so shabby that I purposely waited for
an empty car. . And another thing is
strange, Jim Brown," said he. '.'We
have a ghost in our family. A nun
is said to apear now and then, always
to do good. And my father declared that
while he was ill she appeared to him
three times, always pointing to my por
trait, which hung in his bedroouiand
always conveying to him ill some way
that it was his duty to search' for me.
In fact, she was the cause of our recon
ciliation." I couldn't say anything. Neither of
us spoke about the thing again; but
when he insisted on starting me in the
eating bouse line I wasn't fool enough to
refuse, and, as you see, I m not a bobtail
car driver any longer. . ... ,
No, I haven't seen anything -queer
since that time, and I can't say I'm anx
ious; but whether the lady was a ghost,
or what the doctor called an optical de
lusion, it's certain that she only did good
to all concerned. ' Bless her for coming!
Mary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Com
panion. v
, The I'aual Tip.
An amusing' story is- being told that
concerns the lute emperor of Brazil.
When the novelist Anthony Trollope
was an otliciul at the general postoffiee
Doiu Pedro desired to inHpect the build
ing, and Trolloe was deputed to shovr
him over. lie did so, and plumed him
self upon tho fact that he had carried
out his task with remarkable tact and
discretion. Dom Pedro apparently was
of the same opinion, for, after taking
Ids seat in his carriage, he sent ao
equerry at top r.eed back to Trollope,
The latter, thinking it was some one de
siring to say farewell, held out his hand
for a cordial ahake, and then found to
his horror that two half crowns had
been dropped into his palm. Toronto
Globe. . . ..
gt. Peterabarg'a Flra Twwan.
Conspicuous about the city are peculiar
Inking towers, rising far above the roofs
f tlie houses, and crowned with flag
at.'.il's, to which tackle is attached. These
arc the fire towers, ancient institutions
still retained as lookouts for watchmen,
who. when a fire alarm is given, run up
o red I Kill in daylight, a red lantern at
nt'ht, with a system of signals by which
it inav be known where the danger exists.
Jt is a clumsy and inefficient way of
operating a tire department, and is almut
the oi.lv feature of tha administratis
system in which the Russian hae not
introduce! modem improvements. They
liave electric light and telephonas, but
their svstemtif lire alarm ha been used
since the time of Peter the Great Will
iam Eleroy Curtis in Chicago News,
Hurled Allva by Mlataka.
Dr. L. Comeau, wlw published a work
ten years ago on the certain signs of
death, with the avowed purpose of pre
Tenting the inVimentA living persons,'
says that he can cita ninety-six well
authenticated cntn who wera buried alive
by mistake. Here la one: "A" French
srmv oflicer, on Aug. 30, 1838, was
buried at Saintes with military honors.
The parting smuie a oo mm i- j
parent d.-ath. lie knorxea upon me iia
of tl coffin. hex, set at liberty,
and marched bark to the bouse of mourn
ing at the liead of the detachment that
i.i h,n detailed to escort Lis body to
the grave." Boston Budget,
MISSIONARY WORK.
THOMAS 8TEVEN3 GIVES THE1 RE
SULTS OF HIS OBSERVATIONS.
Quit a rUAarawc Batwaaa the Idoal
and the Krai Mullihaeea of the Aver
aga Mohamwadan Stailatles Which
Prota a Vary Cald I'arb
Aj a boy at the Sabbath a hool the areragt
man baa beau taught to drop his nickels Into
Ui ooniributioa box for the eonraniou of
tbe bxatbau. Tti poor miatioiuiriea war out
in lh wild, benighted countries, riaking
their lives aud auffuriiig untold banUhioa fur
the purpoaa of gntberiug beatbena and idola
ter into the fold. For tueaa b bat fun
without chawing gum weeks at a time In or
der to cqiitributa money and baa done it with
scarcely a whiiiiwr. He has grown up with
an ideal mlwioiiary and au ideal miauiooary
life vividly pictured on hi fancy.
Iu tho course of bin bis ship comas over,
and ha decide to take a trip around ths
world. He visits Aala Minor, India, China
and Japan. Tbe first miaeiouary settlement
becomes to be Hilda it as different from bis
long cherithed ideal conception as cheese is
different from chalk. Tbs traveler is as
tounded, "Why, bleas my soul!" ha gasps, "these
missionaries are living in decent houses, sat
decent food and are at laft bars as if they
ware in New York."
a ausa cojcLcrsio.
Bo Unas that ba hat bean nursing de
lusion all these years., Aaa general thing
badossut stop to think that the delualon hat
bean all hit own, that ha hat permitted hit
ehildiah Coucepttona to remain unchanged.
Instead of this, ba Jumps to ths rath con
elualou that foreign missions are an Imposi
tion oil the credulous public at borne, and
wban be gets back be baa uo hesitation Id
saying to.
The first impressions of a man who has not
token ths trouble to correct infantile impraa
tioiu before starting out are very apt to ba
something like thit: but, at a matter of fact,
the missionaries do the very best tbey can.
The trouble lies, not with tbe men and women
wbo go forth in obedience to an honest
yearning to save efery body, but with the in
nutecusntfditeaa of the people whom tbey wiah
to save.
Tbe muliahneat of thearerags Mohamme
dan, for inatuticftwhen it comes to being
saved, it something apilllng to a person
who bat hit eternal welfare in view. The
Mohammedan li as stubborn, or ttubborner,
than the Christian even about forsaking bis
owa ruligiou (or another. Few Mohamme
dans can understand the perverseness of
Christians In refuaing tooouieovar bodily
to Ishuiiism and be saved.
HARD TO COHVIKT.
' On the other hand, It named to me that to
beard the Muaauhuau in bit own couutry aud
try to convince biin that any other religion
it better than bit own must be a good deal
hie trying to pull a SUO pound pig through a
knot hole. The Mohammedan regardt tbt
Chrittian missionary much at we should re
gard a Persian mollah who should come over
here and proselyte for tbe religion of tbt
Prophet As a matter of fact I think ths
mollah would have the advautage. A Per
tian mollah in his flowing robes and big
white turban, prostrating toward Mecca and
sighing away down into hit heels, It a pict
ure not devoid of a certain amount of fasci
nation. I have teen mollaht iu Persia who,
it tbey would only make themselves up and
come over to, say, Boston, and start up a re
vival, would convert lota of people by the
mere magnetism of their apiearaiiee and tbe
strange fervor of their devotions.
It Is a cold fact that among the teeming
millions of Asia I discovered twice at many
Christians who had embraced Mohammedan
Ism as 1 did Mussulmans who bad entered
Into the Chrittian fold twice at many I To
come dowa to actual statistics, compiled at
odd times at I went from country to country,
I figured up one Mohammedan who bad ex
perienced a change of religion and two
Christiana, There may be mora than thit in
the holt world, perhaps, but these are all I
obtained positive evidence of. All three were
very Interesting cases from the standpoint of
an outside party. Their experiences were
also interesting to themselves. Thomas 8 te
ens in New York Bun.
Mountain Railroad la Venesaala.
Shortly before we left La Ouayra, on tbs
day of which I am writing, the sky became
overcast and threatened rain, so that w
were in some doubt of beiug able to reach
Caracas until late at night Long before we
bad climbed one-quarter of the way from
the augar plantations ou tbe margin of tbe
tea to the alevatiou, all covered with coffee
and cocoa groves, the train ran into a dense
mist which rolled in from over the Carib
bean. At times we could not behold the
length of the train of only four cars, and,
therefore, gained but a faint and tantaiiting
lilea of tbe wonderful beauty of the scenery
along tbe line of our travel
Up and still upward the engine puffed and
spouted Ilka a panting monster, drawing
after it tbe train, which wound in and out,
twisting and turning, now describing the
letter V, now doubling Itself into an H,
slowly, cautiously ou and up, painfully glid
ing like a wounded snake; now running into
tunnelt, tbeu out along tbe verge of giddy
precipices, at one turn beading back toward
the seat, then around the face of a magnifi
cent promontory, again plunging back into
the narrower recesses of great gorges and
Canyons; passing over trestles, through deep
euttingt, along tbe narrow top of steep em
bankments; onward and upward up from
tbe sea tb cocoa palms, banana plantations
-above ths cocoa groves and coffee planta
tions, shaded by beautiful flowering tires
up to barren mountain steeps overgrown
with stunted buabes above the timber line,
through a desolate land of the cactus, mi
mosas, and bitter aloes, that stand stark and
leafless and storm stripped. Look ss w
might, straining our eyes in vain endeavor
ing to see tlirough tb fog, we could gain lit
tle notion of tba scenery or the country
through which we were passing. Caracas
Cor. New York Times.
It Was pis Crash '. -
A New York gentleman recently gar a
dinner, and Informed hit guwts that be bad
a new set of porcelain just received from
Paris, and of which be promised them a
glance after the coffee. As soon as the table
was cleared the butler banded a collection of
auup plates, dinner and dessert plates to tba
waiting guest. II bad just completed tb
round when, as If by pracouosrted action, tba
entire table burst into roar of uncontrolled
laughter. The host was astonished, and
glanced from one to another In amazement,
until, wban some on of tb number pointed
to the crest emblazoned in rich colors beneath
tba glare, and under tb beautiful drawing
of the crest itself, there stood forth upon an
artistic scroll tb words: "This Is my crest."
An explanation, of course, wat tb only way
out of it, and It teems that when tb sketch
for tb bearing was Sent to Paris be wroM
this phrase beneath to Indicate Its use, and
tb conscientious Frenchman, Ignorant of
tba English meaning, transcribed lb lutUa
at a legend New York Troth.
ArtlArlal I'alralaam.
Frofcesnr Mendcleef has succeeded In
making .petroleum from, mineral sub-!
stance, which Cannot be, dutjnmuJicd
frma the natural art lit,. .! lbt-vrs all
petroleum is of mineral origin. Engm
eering. ' ' -
It is said that II3.00O.M3 worth of til
lias been laid in Illinois, ami that Use tile,
if jJaced in a ctntinuous line, would
reach around the glob three tun,
"(Over anxiously to fe-l fM thiuk what
one could have duo is tb wy worst
thing one can do, i ,
INSTINCTS THAT ARE LOST.
Or I Maa Itrally llalr of All the Facet,
lira of the Animal Klnftluin?
If the doctrine la true that man is real
ly the heir of nil tlw various specie and
genera of the animal kingdom, it seems
a little hard iim us that, even by way of
exception, we inherit none of the most
marvelous instincts of tin recif and
genera, and have to lj content with
thiwe gretiter but purely human faculties
by which even the mod wonderful of the
animal instincts have lieen somehow ex
tinguiiOied. Sir John Luhlark maintains
w-ilh a giasl deal of plausibility that (hero
are instvts, and very likely even higher
animals, which s-nvive colors of which
we have no gliiiie, and hear sounds
which to us are inaudible. Yet we never
hear of a human retina that include in
its vision those colors dejsMiding on vibra
tions of the ether which are too slow or
too rapid for our ordinury eyes, nor of a
human ear which is entranced with mu
sic that to the great majority of our
sHcies is alwolutcly inaudible. Again,
we never hear of a human being who
could s.-rform the feat of which we were
told only the other day in a bloodhound.
In a dark night it followed up for three
miles the trail of a thief with whom the
bloodhound could never have been in
contact (he hud just purloined some rolls
of tun from the lanyard in which the dog
wns chained up), and dually sat down
under the tree in which the man had
taken refuge.
Why, we wonder, are those finer pow
ers of discriminating and following the
tnick of a scent which so many of the
lower animals possess, entirely extin
guished in man, if man he the real heir
of all the various genera which show
jwwers Inferior to his own? We see no
trace in animals of that high enjoyment
of the tiner scents which make the blos
soming of tho spring flowers so great a
delight to human beings, and yet men
are entirely destitute of that almost un
erring Kwer of tracking tho path of an
odor which seems to be one of the princi-
1nl gifts of many quadriiwds and some
link It is the same with the power of
a dog or cat to find lis way back to a
home to which it is attached, but from
which it has lieen taken by a route that it
cannot possibly follow on its return, even
if it luid tho power of oluerving that
route, which usually it lias not had.
Nothing could he more convenient than
such a power to a lost child. But no one
ever heard of any child who possessed It.
Still more enviable is that instinct pos
aessed by so miiny birds of crossing great
tracts of laud and sea without apparently
any landmarks or seamarks to guide
them, and of reaching a quarter of the
gloU which many of them have never
visited l'fore, while those who have
visited it U-foro have not visited it often
enough to lenrn the way at least, by any
rule which, in like circumstances, would
be of any use to human Intelligence, The
migratory birds must certainly lie in pos
session of either senses or instincts en
tirely beyond the range it knnian imag
ination, and yet no one ever heard of the
survival of such a sense or instinct in any
member of our race. It may be said, In
deed, that men have either inherited or
reproduced the slave making instinct of
some of the military ants, though that
unfortunate and degrading instinct does
not apcar to have Urn inherited by any
of her higher animals which intervene
bet ween the instvts and our own race;
but this only enhances the irony of our
destiny, if we do, indeed, in any tenw
inherit from these insect aristocracies one
of the most disastrous instincts of the
audacious but indolent creatures which '
light so much better than they work. If
we have not inherited the architectural
instincts of bees or beavers, nor the spin
ning instincts of spiders, nor the power
of the dog to track out its home, St is a
little sad that we should have inherited
the one disastrous instinct of the aut by
which it makes itself dependent on a more
timid and industrious siecie of its own
race, and thereby loses the power to help
itself. .
What is still more curious is that even
where human beings have wholly excep
tional and unheard of powers they betray
uo traces of the exceptional and unheard
of powers of tlie races whose vital organi
sation we are said to inherit. Tho
occasional apiuranco of very rare math
ematical powers, for instance, so fur
from being in any senso explicable from
below, looks much more like inspiration
from above. The calculating boy who
could not even give any account of the
process whereby he arrived at correct
results which the educated mathematician
took some time to verify, certainly was
not reviving in himself any of the rare
powers of the lower tribes of animuls.
Nor do the prodigies in musio who shot
such marvelous wwcr In infancy recall
to us any instinct of the bird, the only
musical creature except ourselves. Bull
less, of course, does great moral genius,
the genius of a Howard or a Clarkton,
suggests any reminiscence of what bop
K'iis iu the world of animal life.
Spectator.
' The Moor on a Bona Top. J
As I was making my toilet ono morn
ing I chanced to see a Moor mount to the
flat roof of the opposite house. Placing
himself in a quiet corner, shielded by the
higher wall of an adjoining building, he
turned toward the morning tun or,
rather, toward the holy Mecca crossed
his arms upon his breast and reverently
bowed his head. After a moment or
two he knelt down and touched his fore 1
head to the floor three times. He then
sat bock ujMin his heels for a few min
utes, as if in meditation, tlien repeated
his prostrations, and rising crossed his
arms again over hit breast and remained
some time in this reverential attitude.
Finally he prostrated himself a third
time, and with that finished his morning
devotions and disappeared. Truly, he
went upon the house top to pray. Boa
ton Transcript.
Tba Baward of Hooaett'.
Tlie conductor of a New York Central
train found $400 in one of the cars.
Iiparnlng of it owner, he telegraphed
him to be on hand on tlie return trip for
his money. The owner was prompt, and,
after counting the bills, handed the con
ductor lialf a dollar. Instantly the lotbT
held up his hand to tlie engineer, ami,
shouting, "All aboard! Sorry I haven't
any change for that." stepped aboard the
train, leaving tlie half dollar in the liand
that bail tendered such a munificent re
ward for tho return of $100. Chicago
Herald. .-.
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A astral la's Blf Catarplllara.
Australia lias some giant caterpillars.
Mr. A. 8. Ollllf, of Sydney, mentions one
ninth larva, abundant during tlie past
k-aiion, as being seven inches long, and
lcimens of larva) of two otlier species
measure eight incites la length. Arkan
aaw Traveler.
A Mystery Holrtd.
The mystery regarding the white of
egg after tlie Ice cream farbsrie have
ud up their yelk is explained by a
Statement that they are used to make
albuminized paper for photography.
New York Hun.
MANY USEFUL BIRDS.
PEOPLE HAVE A WRONG IDEA OF
THE VALUE OF THE BIPEDS.
Tb realkered Craatara Wauld He Mar
riawtlral If tha Farmer and the Raaa
tar Visitor Knew Mora About Tham.
They Aid I ha Farmer Very Much.
No decent person who knows tb vain
f birds that sing, whether their song is
harsh or sweet, will ever UP. a tinging
bird. Thousands of birds that are of In
estimable value to the farmer, as well as to
th town dweller who grows fruit or keep
s garden, are slaughtered annually In the
"summer hoarder" district near New York
by city visitors, both young and old, sim
ply because these bird killers do not know
the value of the birds they put out of the
way. "
Farmers' hoys are also guilty of destroy
ing many of their feathered frleuds, with
out reproach from their parents, for the
same reason few farmers themselves
knowing, or at least recounting, the great
amount of benefit that certain birds are
not only willing but anxious to confer on
the country If they are only let alone.
The farmer aud fruit grower should
know mora about the birds that nest and
si n and Hit shout their premises, for then
tbey would be willing to defend and pro
tect them, and in time have them back Iu
something like their old time numbers
and variety. How often dot one see tb
saucy, sweet voiced, uervous little wren
nowadays? It a few years ago was seen
aud beard everywhere, but it muat te a
favored locality that it visit now. Yet
the Utile wreu wat a most ravenous de
vourer of the ietiferoua cutworm of lb
gardens, and did great work toward les
sening the damage done by that pest.
The bright little bluebird clears th air
and the it round of thousands of codling
motba and ranker worms during a season,
yet farmers' boys are permitted to rob Ha
not with impuulty and chase it from Held
to Held In effort to kill it. Tbe crow
blackbird has no peace, yet a flock of three
birds will clear In a short time a newly
filowed Held of all it host of destructive
Hrvs that the plow has turned up.
A PLKA roH Till CK0W. .
Tbe great American crow would do ths
tarn If It wasn't for tb Inevitable man
with a gun who want the crow to try It
once. Neither the blackbird nor the crow
care as much for corn as they do for grubs,
snd If the farmer would scatter corn about
his Held Instead of putting up scarecrows
aud the like those useful birds would never
pull up a hill of but planting. The chance
are, auyhow, that If the farmer will take
the trouble to examine a hill of young
corn that he charges the crow with pulling
up be will find that It was cut off by a
grub, and that the crow wat after the grub,
not the corn.
The robin, It cannot be denied, is a sore
trhd to the man who has fruit trees, but If
he will stop and think of the thousands
upon thousandi of ravaging Insects that
are especial enemies of his tree that the
robin destroys, both before the fruit has
riened and for weeks after it has gone, he
will not grudge the bird the few quarts of
cherries or berries It demands as partial
payment for il services. The same may
lie said of the thrushes, cherry birds, ori
oles, hluejays and many others of that
class. These birds never levy tribute In
the least on tbe grain farmeri but they do
him untold good.
The cllmblug birds are the different va
rieties of wuods9cker, and tbey are con
stantly befriending growing things. When
ever a woodpecker is beard tapping on a
tree it is the death knell of tha larva) of
tome destructive Insect. Yet It is not an
uncommon thing to see the very person
for whom this bird is Industriously at
work following with hi gun the flash of
tha bird's red bead from tree to tre until
th opportunity cornea for him to send a
load of shot Into the unsuspecting feath
ered philanthropist. It is the pet belief
among the farmers that the woodpecker
kills th he works on, and that he is
working for that purpose.
It Is a fact that the common little sup
sucker doe Injure trees, but the wood
pecker never. Quite the contrary. The
white breasted nuthatch and tb gray
creeper ao geuerally confounded with the
sapaucker liv excluaively on tree luaeota,
yet the nuthatch is In bad favor among
many farmers, as tbey believe It eat their
trees.
TUIT UK LP Till rallstgU.
Tb meadow lark Is another bird that la
given little peace on any one's land, tor
there Is a mistaken notlou abroad that this
bird is a gam bird. II Is gam In tbe
quality of being slert and bard to get a
shut at, but Is no nior eulltled to b so
classified than th flicker or thtbighholder
is. . Th meadow lark is a constant feeder
on underground larvu, and whenever he
Is disturbed he I simply driven away from
active work In ridding tb ground of th
wont kind of farm peats. Tb blue jay
may ba said to be Indirectly an enemy to
tb farmer as well a a friend, for it de
stroys largely tb eggs of bird that do
ouly good to th farmer.
If there hi on bird that th farmer love
to do all In hi power to exterminate more
than he doe tb crow, utiles it may b t b
bawk, that bird i tb owL And If the
city man ba gun h will not hesitate to
use It as many times during his vacation
s he can ou owls or hawk. Fortunately,
tb occasion tbat either one of these bird
present for the beueflt of the man with a
gun are few and far between.
The farmer can't be brought to believe
tbat If It were not for th owl and th
hawk hi field would ba overrun and
burrowed by Held mice to such an extent
tbat bla crop would be la perpetual dan
ger, that owls, while out mousing, feed on
myriad of night flying moth and beetle,
tbu preventing tbe laying of million
upon millions of tbe eggs of these Inascta,
and that tbey not only keep th Held mio
down, but lease n th number of doniestie
mice and rata about barns and outhouse
to an extent tbat a small army of cat
could not equal.
A to tb bawk, tb farmer remember
tbat on aom occasion a bawk carried off
one of hi chickeua, and therefore th fact
tbat th big bird daily kills many field
mice, grasshoppers, makes, lizard, beetle
and other vermin cannot ba set up In It
defense. Th proportion of bawk that kill
cbicken I no more In number, relatively,
than Is that of maneating tigers. New
York Keco.-er. ,
Kvll NplrlU tad liaalta.
Tb evil spirit which constantly bcsH
tb pathway of th Mongolian art charged
with being tha causa of all dioraae. Such
a thing a attributing physical trouble to
bad sewers, bring out too bit at night or
going to tbe lodge would But b given th
honor of consideration by any high minded
asd aonoraoi Chinese. If the god sad
Insects will out aid Mm, b close hi eye
lu streaky as bit rud approaches, and
calmly yield np hla spirit fate ha de
creed It San Francisco Chronicle.
Silver, generally a very desirable iro-tnl,
la a source of great annoyance in tlio
manufacture of white lead, for, if pres
ent In an aiipreciahle Quantity, It iil
tlie color of tlie finished product, owing
to tlie well known blackening effect of
light uim tlie salt of silver. Glol
Imocrat '.
Stranger Is the cashier in?
Janitor (emphatJcally Yes, slrl
Stranger Can I see him?
Janitor Yes, sir! Visiting hours at
the jail from I to 4 every afternoon.
Lowell Mall.
6ICHT3 IN BANGKOK.
Craphl llawrlplloii of What Ctileage'
r.i-Majror few la aa Oriental City.
Ilangkok is entirelv different from all
other eastern citiea have teen. Else
where the Iioiim-s are conicted together
so as to cover as little siice as possible.
ami the s.-oile inai.Mil as in hives. This
city, however, with its il.'iO.OOO people,
covers misre ground than Canton, with
its l.CUO.OOO. There lire but few streets,
ls.it they are quite bpmd. The canals run
in every direction, and are au numerous
that tlie Similes are. proud to call their
capital the Venice of the east. House
project over these canals, with open bal
conies, and Isith sides of the river for six
or more miles are lined with floating
lion, used not only for residences, but
tor llllhillt-NM,
I'eople do their shopping in boats, and
while a woman sells to her customer in
oh-ii view for all house have open
fronts her laxy luii-lund fishes, sitting
Usni a lux of goods, and his children
bathe mid swim around the house. In
rowing or being rowed aUnit there was
never a moment that I could not tee
somewhere a liathcr; and just at sun
down all the common world seemed am
phibious. The sinoong is retained on
when in the water, unci is then either
exchtingi-d for a dry one or left on to
dry. Hi vers and canals are nlways tilled
by freight Units, forty to sixty feet long:
by small eddlcr Uwts; by cams? of all
sizes, from ten feet, Imrely holding a
man, up to 100 or more feet," with fifty or
more iddlcrs moving in state with some
high ollicial. I saw one long canoe with
nearly 100 rowers. Each one would dip
his puddle and then lift it on high a
curious tight thus to see nearly 100 pad
dles in air at the same time. There are
quite a huge numlr of small steam
barges in the city. These dart about very
rapidly. In fact, all boats seem to do so,
for the tide runs very swiftly, and boats
going with Its current move in the chun-in-1,
while those going against it stick to
the eddies. This makes the river a very
lively one, especially toward tlie cool of
the (lay.
Trees nlxmnd throughout the town,
along the streets, along the canals ami
about the houses many of them of good
forest sixe. - Looking down from a high
pngisln one can scarcely realize oneself in
tlie heart of a great city. The ordinary
house is almost entirely hwt in the mass
of green. Here and there one peeps out,
looking cool and shaded. Hut tlie lofty,
snow whito ingodas, tlie tall, steep roofed
temples roofed in tiles of many colors,
many of them in gilt the beautiful kiosk
turrets of the palaces, the gilded royal
wat and cenotaph, and the white palaces
themselves, make tho city from an emi
nence bmk like a vast royal garden, with
princely palaces and oriental temple
nestled among ornamental tropical tree.
Tho wat is a sort of monastery, with
its temple and kiosk and lodging house
of the priest within a single inclosure.
There are a great many of these in the
city, and many of them of wonderful
richness. Home of the temple and pa
godas are made np entirely of gilt and
glass mosaic, in small pieces inluid in
cement walls and flashing in tlie sun
light like mountains of gold and dia
monds. The roynl wat make the looker
on feel that Aladdin's lump is close by,
revealing to him scenes of fuiry wonder
rather than scenes of actual reality. It
is within and without-ita several temple
buildings and lis live or six lofty, round
pointed imgodus made up of gold and
gems. Tho gold is of burned gilded pot
tery in iinull squures of an inch, bril
liantly glazed; tlie gems of gloss of dif
ferent colors and set like rose faced dia
monds, snpnliircs and rubies. Looking
Usjii tlie pile of these buildings, covering
several acres, just us the sun goes down,
with a gentle breeze causing tho thou,
sand tiny bells which hang to cornice,
frieze, and projecting point to tinkle, I
almost felt as if I had lieen carried off by
some flying genio and gently dropped
Usn a scene of oriental fable.
Uiifortimntely all of the templed, pngo.
das and knwks are of brick, stuccoed
with I'ortliind cement, and the gems and
gold planted Into it will lust only for a
short time. Many thousands of dollars
are required each year to koep the entire
fabrics of Uuuty from tumbling Into
decay, A change of dynasty will bring
quickly the glory of iSium's capitul iutu
a heap of debris. Carter Harrison in
Chicago MaiL i -
. Ilaaala't Permit to Live,
Every citizen must have a permit to
live In the country. These permits are
issued annually upon the payment of a
fee. ' If he wants to leave tlie country or
go from one to another he muat notify
the police, for that branch of the govern
ment must know where each Inhabitant
of the vast empire tlieiaj every night. In
the province the rigid turvellance is re
ined, but at St, Petersburg and Moscow
and other places visited by tourists there
is a constant contact between tlie sover
eign and the subject that Is disagreeable
to both. Tho police grant permission to
go and come readily. . There la no inter
ference with travel nor with trade. Sub
mission! submission! thatisalL No one
can get a ticket at a railway station nor
on a stcomliout without allowing a permit
to leave; no hotel will entertain a guest
till he sliows his passport. One cannot
go anywhere or do anything without tlie
oonscut of the authorities, but it is earily
obtained, and cost forty copecks for tho
stump that appears on the document-
about fifteen cents. --Cor. Chicago Time.
A Monkey with Ytllow Favar,
During the epidemic of yellow fever
tliat prevailed some time ago in Caracas,
the medical profession had an opportu
nity to see, in one of the public houses of
benevolence, a ' monkey afflicted with
that disease, The princlal symptom
were found to manifest themselves hi a
manner so marked that there remained
not the leust doubt on tlie irt of tho
physicians who olsterved them that it
was an undoubted case of yellow fever;
tliere was injection of the eyes, a certain
state of stupor, sharp thirst, nausea,
elevated temsrature and at last prostra
tion, anuria and black vomit. For three
days the poor animal remained In this
sud condition, each day growing worse,
until tlie fourth day, when tlie cane
terminated fatally. lullio Opinion.
A Maaalnglaa rhraa
Say, an Fjiglishman; 4,It strikes ao
Englishman a odd to hear evening drees
referred to In this country as 'full dress,'
Tlie phrase Is, of coune, meaningleas,
for any style of dress is full dress, unlet
you leave oil some garment that ordi
narily goes M'tl it-" New York Tri
btuie, Manilas Wild Tarhaya.
A rltisse of Blakaly, 0., ba a novel
pietbod of bunting wild turkey. Ha takes
S tanas gobbler along, tetber It to a tree,
lian lil'h and wait for th wild blrda to
aman ap and make il acquaintance. eld
ago Herald.
Australians, it is reported, bet fin ag
grogiteof IOO,000,OOOa year on horse
race, liettingsnd rabbit are the chief
evil of the country.
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
WHY DO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
STUDENTS LEAVE THE FARMf
They Study Law or Medial, or Eawf
la Mercantile Pursuits Rom of tb
lUaaona Why They Laara to Olallk
farming.
A gentleman who had been Invited to de
liver commencement address at an agri
rultiirnl college, In which b had one held
a profiwor chair, recently told th writer
of this article that he found It Impossible to
select a auhjci-t We auggvsted several topic
more or lew connected with farmers and
their railing, hut the ex profewor shook bit
bead. "It I iio-Ii-m to talk to tlie young
men about agriculture," be said, "tbe fact it,
when Uw atuduiits leave the college none of
them go to farming."
Seeing our liewllilered look, the ex-pmfe
tor went on to any that although theatudent
went from the farm to the college and took
an agricultural oourae, they all left tha insti
tution to study law or medicine, or to n
gatp in mercantile pursuit.
TIIKV (1ST IIIOH KoTiOSS.
"I dont know how It la," he said, "but
they all get hlh notions In their head, and
they think that farming Is too slow and un
profitable to suit them. During the whole
tiiisi I was at tlie college, I never knew on
out of the hundreds of atudentato return to
th farm."
AU tint was east In a deliberate, matter of
fact way, ami we at once Juniied to tbe con-clu-liin
that if our agricultural arboola wer
simply used to turn young farmer into law
yers, din-tors and invrchauta, there wat some
thing wrong somewhere.
If theae facta have m lawn unconsciously
overstated, the advocat of agricultural ed
ucation will very naturally feel Inclined to
ask s few question, Are tlw teachers, aa a
rule, men wbo have a fancy for the learned
professions! Do the student in their delstte
discuss literary and imliticni subJecUl Ar
they allowed to devote much time to reading
novels, try, history and tlie uewsjiapersf
An atllnnatlve answer to these uutaitiuu
will rxplain much tliat is now mysterious,
THOI'OHTS WHICH LKAO AST HAT.
The young agricultural student who finds
bla professor always talking about great
lawyers, writers, and aueeessful business
nasi, will fall Into their way of thinking.
Political dotmtca will fire him with tlw anibl
tlou to distiniruisb himself at tbe bar or la
public life. Too miK-b time devoted to belle
k-tti-M will make him think of everything In
tlie world except diversified farming.
But it may t that none of th point men
tioned can Iw urged against the agricultural
K-hooliaiid their teacher. What, then, i
tb nmtterf Do our youngsters naturally
take a dislike to farm life! Do tbelr fathers
tell tin-in that there is no money In It and
that the farmers are growing poorer every
yearl
Then it something in thit way of putting
It' When farmers take a gloomy, hnpeleaa
view of tbelr occtiiatlon, they cannot ex
pect their sotia to look on tb bright aide of
thing. And yet, in spite of all that can b
said, the fact remain that the young and
Industrious farmer who gnu to work with
the advantage of a aeleutillo education, ba
It in his power so make himself happy, iu-de-ndent,
prosperous and distinguished
But, stUs? all, success dt not depend so
much Ukiii tlie education, or the land, aa It
dor Umui the man. Atlanta Constitution,
llotiae Intarlora In Alglara.
I took advai 'age of tb offer of the Arab
iu bis character of guide and followed him
up narrow streets ami through whitewashed
tunnelt to raiiwhocklu doort, hung in tlw
most primitive manner, with big round
bended and ornamental nails in various de
signs, and furnished with elaborate bra)
kma-kera. Tba last named invention of pre
tended usnfuliics must have been Intended
(or foreign callers. The Arab' way of
knocking at tiro door I In accordance with
tlie primitive binges; ha pounds away with
bis list until some one of the inmate an
swers. A mnn or boy may com to the door;
but a woman either emits decidedly audi
ble acrt-Hin from the Inner court, or the
(Hikes her head through a window just big
enough, or ni over a terrace wall (con
cealing her face, of course! U question the
caller aa to bla unme and object.
The outer door la vsry frequently left wld
oiieii, hut tlie houses, with few exceptions,
are constructed with tulllcieut ingenuity to
prevent passer by from seeing anything but
a blank wall and a little vestibule turning at
a right angle. Occasionally, however, one
curiosity is rewardd by a gllmpa of tlw
Inner court, neatly ved with little six tided .
red till, with hero and tbar a valuable
aqunre of ancient marble faience bit into tlw
door till or the "dado"; slender oleander
boughs or th tortuous brauche of a fig tret
throw aliaduwt Indelicate pattern across the
paremnit, and a thread of sunlight finds it
wsy Into stl inner rhml?r. In nocaas Is an
outsider X)s-ted to eutar without knocking.
Hhoukl an Arab walk Into a respsctahlt
neigldsir hou he would run th greatest
risk of being ttablwd, but h wisuld uo more
think of doing ao than we would reeognia
the propriety of a gentleman walking do-'
liberakily Into a Uulv'a liedruom, F. A.
Brldgman lit Harper Magsxlne,
A Old TeleTpher't Kara pa.
"I am a confirmed believer In the old dag
that on It never too old to learn," aalil a
prominent railroad man, "And I also be
llwve," b added, "that there are a good many
things learned early in Ufa which prove of
material value to a man wban b 1 creeping
along In years. When I waa. clerking (aw
year ago 1 learned telegraphy, and used it a
great deal. ClrcunisUnoe ao docraed my
future tliat I bar not used it during late
year. Hocently I went to the ujitown offlct
of a well known broker fur tbe purpose of
making torn luqliiric relative to certain
stocks, my idu bring to buy tome. A young
woman was Iu charge and tlw tat at a teleg
rapher desk. VYbeu I bad atated my busi
ness tlw fairly jumped on th button, and
then, to my surprise, I found that I could
read the questions and answers a easily as
though it waa but yesterday wban I waa
doing th taro wirk myaeK. My furiosity
was considerably smusml, and tweor three
times I wat on tb point of answering tlw
questions that came over tb ticker bufor
site bad time to repeat It Finally thit mea
tag cam ovr tb wires:
" 'Hat be got money t
" 'Yes, and I think he is a good pigeon.'
'I h dressed welir
u Kut, and be looks respectable.'
"This Inst was too much for me, and before
th astisilahwl woman could translate tbe
reply I fled from the utile." New Turk
Evening Sun.
Aleoholle rema
in cases of alcoholic poisoning the
cqpiabsje condition of intoxication the
promptest recovery of consciousness will
follow the subcutaneous injection of a
mixture of one part of ammonia with
two to six parts of water. Police sur
geon who have to deal with case of un- -eooaciousneaa
will Hud this a convenient
method of determining whether a given
case is due to whisky, compression of tho
brain or nervous disorder. Chicago
Hewn.
. f.-
garpaats of tha Kaai.
A Singapore missionary ay that the
deadly cobra of the Indian archipelago
never exceeds the length of rive feet.
The hanuvlryos, a snake often con
founded with the colira, attains the
length of fifteen feet and is very fierce.
Tbe python sometimes grows to be twenty
feet Lug. Chicago Herald,