The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899, May 28, 1892, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextV EUGENE CITY GUARD. I, I CAHPBELU rroprleter. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. A LE830N OF LIFE. A lon( day's Journey tbor lay before; I rrtiMfd the meulnw kl breaking moral J i llit road lad by bill and moor Beyond lb bills uiy duiaot bourn. I thotuut of lb irreetlnif I ahould wlo WLtl It mucncd t my fuel meanwhile) A poor old terrier. Iumnd Iblnt I (looped and helped blio aver lb (til. Tbn wonld bare cronM-d; but dreary yelp Arrantod me, and I turned, to vlw A Hmplnc poodle, wbo need of blip Wu ouulfwl; nd 1 helped btm, too. Of Try nitloB nd trlh are tbey. And Mcb liu frwli, reille wlli Each lo til own peculiar way, Jiut belp a lain dug over lb lllel" They're greyhound. Sky. Pomeranian) Tbey limp along in an end low (lie; They're auooib or curly, tbey'r black and tan. Tbey all are lam and would crou the lUl. The nbtdnwt deepen o'er hill and glen, Ulia U my pathway of many a mil Yet will I renew my Juuruoy when The but lame dug l over tk ellle. May Kendall lu Umifiuau'i Maputo. The llonce Knew tlie Tun. A relution of inlno, who has spent many year iu IiiJiu, remembers well bow, when living In Lueknow and en Joying the evening drive with other English residents in the Indian city, the carriage horaea would toss their beads and paw the ground impatiently when the tint note of "God Save the Queen" were played by the military band evory evening. It was the last tune played, the signal for dispersion. A skeptio or, perhaps, more than one having instated that the horses only knew the tune because it was always played but, and they were ublo to calcu late time, the exierlmont was tried of playing "Qod Have tlio Queen" in the middle, insteud of at the end of the evening. Instantly there was the same excitement in the horses standing round "tho course." The same impatient toss ing of the bead and prancing of the feet, the same general stampede and eagor noss to start homeward. No one could any longer doubt that they knew and rocognizod the air; in fact, that they could tall one tune from another. London Spectator. A Triumph of Clrllliatloo. Tbore is a large farmer near me, a clover and successful man in bis way, who married (as men soinetimos do) a foolish wife. His duughters are placed at an expensive school in Brighton, and are carefully debarred by their mother from all acquaintance not only with farm work and housework, but with such elementary feminine knowledge as the simplest servantmaid can onjoy. They may not make or mend their own clothes) they may not ne the ncodlo. "I am hnppy to suy," their prou mothor said lately to a lady; "1 am' happy to say, nm'am, that my daughters cannot even sew." Dut they can play the piano after a fashion they have a smattering of French, they could and would (if they were asked) go to garden parties in evening dress. Bo greatly has civilization triumphed in their case. Notvs and Queries. . A llunlini Woman' Leuon. A business woman often takes letters and package to the general postofllue to be weighed. As often aa she has done that she has been Impressed anew with the weak and trivial curiosity of the tnalo mind, for every time she handed in something to be weighed the busy tnon In charge stoppod to tarn it over and read the address. "It certainly beats anything," she said to horself, "to think of anything being as curious as that." A few days ago she repeated this ex perience up to a certain point. The variation began when the examining magnate said cheerfully: "Be a good idea, wouldn't it, for you to put on hore the state these here papers is goin' toT Yes, certainly, I'll write it for you. Uucss I've saved 000 bundles from being lost in the lust three weeks, look in to see if they was directed all right. 1 don't bother about the men: don't caro so much about their bundles, and then they've got more head for looking to such things; but 1 always look at the ladles' bundle. Ton cents." And the crushed business womun walked away with all the sad dignity she could mas ter. New York Sun. . A Big Coanecllttut flow 1,1 er The approximate maximum dimensions of the "Sheegan" bowlder in Montvllle, Conn., are: Length, 73 feet; width, M feet; height, CO feet; contents, 70,000 cublo feet; weight, (1,000 tons. If allow ance be made for an immense fragment which has fallen from its northeast side, the dimensions und cubio contents of "8heegan" would approximate closely to 90,000 cubio feet. One point that goes far toward substantiating tho claim on behalf of the "Sheegan" rock is that it it- a true boulder, is tho iiuiiiIht of un doubted bewlders of an immense sixe and of the same granite which exist in comparative proximity. David A. Wells In Popular Science Monthly. Ireloue II air. When the Crusaders returned from the Holy Land in I'M) they were loaded with relics of holy personages who had previously been unknown in the went Bohemond, one of their leaders, divided between Anselm and certain churches a dozen hairs which the patriarch of An tioch had given him with tho assurance that tho lllesMHl Virgin plucked them from her bead as she stood Muter Do lorosa by the cro. All the Year Round. JSpa Like lb Americana, A traveler in Japan says that the Jap anese dislike tho Russians and the Chi nese, but like the Americans and the English. Tbey are foarful of the ag gressions of the Russians in Core and of the Chinese in the Islands that lie south of Japan; but they do not look for any act of aggression by the United Btates or by England. Philadelphia Ledger. W. D. Howell in "The Shadow of a Dream" makes this opt remark: "Our miseries dou't einbelliah our persons very much, whatever tbey may do for our souls." An apparatus for purifying lubricat ing oils coming from machinery has boon patented in Norway whereby the same oil can be used many Urns) at a trifling expensa. 8IZED UP AS A RUSTLER. Be Pruved Quit flarml, Hoetfer, notwithstanding III Appearance. Be h id on a cowboy's hat he had long hair and fierce block eye there was a claw from the foot of a grizzly bear dangling from bis watch chain. Von could size him up only in one way be had killed his man, or perhaps half a dozen of them, if be hadn't fought Indians and stood np to the bad, bod men of the fur west, then his looks be lied him. He was a quiet, unostenta tious man, as all nervy men are. He was reading a dime novel, as all game men do when they travel. Now and then he felt down the back of his neck to see if his bowie knife was cuddling up to bis spine in a proer manner, and now and then he reached down to bis boot legs to see that his cargo of re volvers hadn't shifted, Three or four of us. after taking plenty of time to size him up, decided to ask him bow and where he gut the wound which had left the star clear across his left cheek. It looked like the work of Hitting Bull's tomahawk, but we wanted the particulars. So it was agreed that I should work him np to tell his story, and after a quarter of an hour of di plomacy I bad shaped matters so I dared observe: "That is a bad scar yon have on yont check, and there is no doubt a story con nected with itr "Yes, sir, there is." he replied. "We should like to hear the particu lars, if you have no objection." "Oh, the story don't umount to ranch,'' be modestly remarked. "But you certainly had a clo-ecalL How many Indians wore around your "Indians? I didn't see no Indians." "Ohl Perhaps you were in a western stage when it whs held up, and you got that scar in fighting oft the rood agents'" "Never saw a road agent in my life," be answered, "Tockled by a bod man perhaps?" "Never saw a bad man." "But you hod a light," I persisted. "No, I didn't." "Well, pernor you'd be kind enough to explain how you got that scar?" "1 will. I went into a restaurant and ordered a pumpkin pio. The waiter brought me a squash pie Instead. 1 kicked. The owner of the place, who was a woman, got mad and slushed me with an old cose knife. 1 afterward settled with her for t lireo dollars in cimh. That's the story, sir." "But why why aro you wearing that bat and other things belonging to a western terror?" I aiiked. "Those things? Oh. I got 'em of an actor for four dollars. Ho had to sell out or walk home, und as the walking wasn't good he sold out" "And muy I ask who you are?" I in quired, as an awful silence fell upon our crowd. "Certainly you can. I've been work ing for a fanner near Monroe ull sum mer for leven dollars a mouth and found, but I quit the other day and am going to Toledo to get a stock of stomach bitters to sell on the road. Needn't no body be afraid of me. 1 ain't loaded, and if I was 1 ain't got tho sand to go off. Never tackled but one man, and 1 hain't got through running away from bim yet." Then we wont to the other end of the car und triod to call the convention to ordor and do some resolving, but it was a failure. Everybody seemed to want to sit and think. Detroit Tree Press. She Longed to lie a Ulsa, . There are times in my life when I long to bo a mun that 1 may sail in and do better with my fists! It is such a thwart ing, unsatisfactory thing to be a woll behaved and decorous woman when you long to be a son of thunder and take the trail! 1 was standing for shelter in the doorway of a Chicago depot It was raining in that easy, delightful way that reminds one of Impulsive people when they talk. There was no holding back, no reserve, uo attempt to be noncom mittal and conservative It rained a pint to evory square inch, and an um brella was of less use than a fork is in eating gravy. Well, as I stood in the shelter of the doorway a very queer specimen of re motely rural life stcpied into viow. He had just got out of some train and was at a loss what to do in the big city. His clothes were blue and new und ill fitting. His face was tunned and his smile was both deprecating and timid. Ho carried a little bundle, and his trouser legs were rolled up over a pair of laced shoes. No sooner had he appeared upon the scene than a bevy of depot hungers on bore down upon him. Some of them woro cabbies, aud more of them were loafers. They surrounded him as big bluebottle fill's get around a honey pot They bent the head and talked low; they winked furtively and laughed at each other be hind the poor boy's back. He took a Blip of paper from his pocket and showed it to them, nud (woof them, with a great show of friendliness, walked him away between them. 1 wanted to follow them np, but, as usual, didn't dure to! A Woman iu Chicago Herald. Why He Never Llek Stamp. One day after coming from the post office I put a dozen stums in my desk and closed the lid. Then I went away and returned again an hour or so after ward. Upon opening my desk I saw upon these stumps at lcu.it a dozen big, nasty looking roaches, or "water bugs," as they are sometime called. They seemed to be so intent upon some occu pation that they did not run away with the almost lightuiuKlike rapidity with which they usually disappeared when ever the desk was opened. At first 1 thought that they were stuck to the stamps, but upon observing a lit tle closer 1 saw that they moved about, and 1 was finally convinced that they were eating the gum from the backs of the stamps. By placing a large reading glass so as to magnify the roaches, 1 ob served that they secreted a saliva on the gum and then when it became soft they seemed to tuck it off. Little bare spots appeared on the stamps, and these spots gradually grew larger until the stamps had the api-urance of stumps from which 1 had imagined the gum had evaporated. Since that time you may be sure I never touch my tongue to a postage tamp, and it almost nauseates me to see any one else do it Interview in New York Tribune. A u m I ei r r. She I wonder why the hair of profee sional ninslcians ao often stands on end He Easily acconuted for. UisbairU trying to gvt away from the commotion 1 going on Odder the surface, Pittsburg tt oil tin, POINTS ABOUT TIME. VARIATIONS AND THE CAUSES WHICH PRODUCE THEM. Th Earth's Revolution oa It Ail, To tbe gather with It Journey Around on, Ars th DUturblnf faetor- 'a Watch I Perfectly Reliable. If there Is one single scientific problem npon which more than another people appear to get mixed that problem is time. Standard time, local time, snn time nre exceedingly difficult problems for the public to puzzle over, und when sidereal time enters the calculation the case is hopeless indeed. 1 have fre quently of late seen so many letters ad dressed this and other journals, all touching niK)0 one or tho other of these chronologicol questions, that 1 have con cluded a short note explaining the main point of difference would be, at any rate, timely. If it only suggests to the young men in the business offices the idea of going to work at 9 a. m., local mean time, and leaving off promptly at 4 p. m., Pacific standard timo, the ques tion will have been shown to possess a practical side. The application of it, however, is purely a mutter of taste. Well, to come to time, the great chro nometorond regulator in chief to the business, social and scientific world is the earth itself. Turning upon its axis in the period which we divide into twenty-four hours, the sun appears to cross the mo ridinn of each place on tho globe once in that interval. The moment at which it crosses the meridian of any place (Green wich), for exumplo, is termed "local ap parent noon" at that ploce. This would be all very well if the earth and sun re mained fixed in their relative positions; or if tho earth, completing, as it does, an annual revolution about tho sun, did so uniformly in a jiorfect circle and that circle wore in the sumo plane with the motion of duily rotation. Then tho suc cessive intervals between tho meridian pussuges of the sun at Oroenwich would all be equal, and a perfect chronomoter set at 12 hrs., 0 mm., 0 sec., when the sun transited today would indicate pre cisely the same instaut for "upparent noon" at every dute. MOTIONS OP THR EARTH. Dut the eurth's path around the sun is not a perfect circle; it is an ellipse, and tho motion in one portion of theellipso is more rapid than in another, and this causes a slight variation in tho intervals between the solar passages. Again, the nluno of tho earth s puth around the sun, or tho elliptic, is inclined 20Jf degs. to the plane of the equator iu which the duily rotation takes place, and conse quently twice a year the intervals of "apparent noon" are each about twenty seconds greater and twice a year about twenty seconds less than twenty-four hours. To explain just why this results would require more of an investigation Into astronomicul principles than is here contemplated; but it is so, nevertheless, and any text book will elucidute tho rea sons, A combination of the two effects causes the sun to bo apparently slow fourteen minutes in February und fast sixteen minutes in November. But in the course of a year the averuge comes out all right, and thereforo a "mean solur duy" of exactly twenty-four hours is adopted in tho almanacs and used for all puriwses. This accounts for the dir ferenco botween mean timo and sun time. A regulator keeps tho former; a sun diul indicates the latter. A few yours ago (or prior to IBS!) overy large city in the United States hud its own local time, and this was for each place the true mean solur timo, obtained as aiHJve indicated. ltKUl'LATINQ TIME. Consequently, a mun traveling west ward from Washington would rind his watch fust, as follows: At Chicago, 43 minutes ; at Omaha, 1 hour 10 minutes at Denver, 1 hour 83 minutes; at Salt Loko City, 2 hours 20 minutes, und final ly, nt Sun Francisco, 8 hours 2 minutes. It will readily bo recalled how much annoyance was occasioned by all theso various corrections, both to trainmen and travelers. About the year men tioned a great reform was inaugurated. Nowadays a traveler going westward finds his watch fust from time to timo, but only the hour haud is in error. All the clocks in tho country indicate the uiinuto and second of Greenwich mean time, but the hour is changed for each 15 degs. of longitude. Washington timo is S hours slow of Greenwich; Chicago, 6 hours; Denver, 7 hours. In San Fran cisco we are 8 hours slow of tho primo meridian. All the intermediate cities and towns aro run on one system or an other, according to their location in longitude, the standards being eustem, central, mountain and Pacific timo. Ail the time pieces ou the coast aro set by PucitiC' standard time, which is 8 hours slow of Greenwich mean tiiuo. There fore, a watch which is set at Sun Fran cisco solur time by means of a corrected sun diul is still 0 minutes 43 secouds slow of a Pacific standard time clock, because we are that much iu longitude west of the 130th meridun, which forms tho eastern boundary of northern Call foniia and on which only is the "Pacific tune coincident with "local mean Umo. San Francisco Examiner. The Art of Cutting Clothe. When we read and listen to discus sions of comparative value of long or shoulder measures with those that are short aud sectional, in which one or the other is denounced as unscientific or impracticable, our mind immediately dwells for a moment on a proverbially stupid animal with long ears. The fact is that many cutters are successful with th first, and just about as many with the others. Every man cannot become a good cut ter. Some do not seem to "catch on," s the saying is, and other who seem to do so are never able to produce any other results than such as "make old heads swim." Natural ability and educational ad vantages generally insure success, but year of work on the board, the ability even to make a good coat, is no guar antee of the poKMuion of that mental equipment which is necessary to make i good cotter. When it require hours of labor to fix in someone's mind the difference be tween one-third and one-quarter of a size, how can such a one expect to suc ceed as a cutter? When a student is able to think quick ly and clearly, we confidently expect him to become a skillful cotter, even though be cannot make a coat so well as many others. Th fact is that to be ucccimful in garment cutting, as in any other trad or profession, a man must j nave brains, know bow to ne them and use them a be should, Tailoring Joor-j A UTTLE FAMILY DIFFERENCE. fw Old Ladle Olir -" Hatter, but th Elder Woa. Co on the Delaware and Hudson rail road the other day two nervous old ladies climbed on board the south bound train at Crown Point Tluy were of the same height, looked much alike aud bom or tbein wore gosnam r rubber cloaks possibly under the vi,gne Impression that cinders melt Theyluttered into a scut Bear the door, evidoj' ly prepared for a long Journey. Wh the bird cage, two gutchels and three st e boxes of luncheon hud been properly stowed away, the two tidies sat down in unison, much as if pulled on one string. Beyond n vigorous attack on the Inncbeon an hour later, they quietly do voted their attention to the scenery un til Albany was reached In the late after noon. Thnt being the terminus of the road, the passengers started for the car door a the train stopped, but there seemed to be a blockade of some sort on the platform, It wasn't just exactly a blockade; it was the two old ladios from Crown Point Equippod with satchels, the bird cage and the luncheon (now reduced to one shoe box), they bad led the procession to the door, but biid succeeded in getting no farther, as the train had run into the station on a middle track, and they could not agree on which side of the car to got off. "1 tell you, Janet." said the old ludy with the bird cage, with much dignity, "that this is the proper side. It is nearer the depot, and no doubt our train is close by. Come, don't be obstinute, sister," she added persuasively. "1 will not leave the car on that side," declared the other, holding np the shoo box and both satchels as if for a barri cade, which the impatieut crowd within the car thought quite superfluous. "If you think I am going to career across three trucks," she continued emphatical ly, "in front of moving locomotives, Hnd risk ourselves and that precious bird, then 1 say, Hannah, you have lost your senses; that' all." "You seem to forget that 1 am older thun yon, Junet," rejoined the other with offended dignity. "Thut muy all be, but little good it's done. Yon wonld have scandalized the whole family at Cousin Mario Soper's funerul np ut the Corners if I hud not insisted" "Ileyl" "What's the matter?" "Shake it np!" "Get off!" came In a chorus from the impatient throng inside. "Sakes alivot" ejaculated the beliger ent Janet, for the first time observing the crowd in waiting. "Come this way. Do come," pleaded the other. "1 won't" "You must; 1 insist," cried the eldor sister, stepping hastily down to' decide the matter. There was no further chance for argument Already the othei pohsengers were pushing out. So, with an expression of annoyance and fright, tho second old ludy tourist joined the other und tho two rublter gossnmers bo gun their devious flight across the tracks and lio'ore waiting locomotives toward the station. They reuclied there at length, but it was apparent that some thing hod happened. "I told you so! 1 told you so!" almost creamed tho younger sister as soon as she could catch her breath. "You say you dropped it?" asked the other lu troublod tones. "Yes; thut horrid engine let off steam and I jumped. 1 suppose I dropped it then. Why can't engines hold their stenin till they get out in the country, I'd like to know?" "Well, never mind, Janet, we can got along," said the other soothingly. "But I do mind. 1 suppose, Hannah, 1 ought to be thankful thut you and the bird are safe; but just to think," she added, with almost a sob, "the whole of Annt Lueindu's sponge cake gone, and we've only got to Albany." And sure enough, somo distance up the second truck, reposing peacefully on the off rail, lay the familiar green out line of the last shoe box. New York Tribune. Th Sailor ami HI I'M. Jack is fond of pots, and when at sea is allowed to cultivate that fondness to a certain extent The most hard hearted shipowner does not object to having one or two stray dogs or cats provided with homes on his vessel. And Jack is very grateful for this indulgence. It affords him deep pleasure to hold in his loving though rough embrace the innocent creuture who, either by a cheerful wag of the tail or a responsive purr, assure him thut his attentions are appreciated, and thut the fact of his being lacking in personal attractions is not taken into consideration. Jack loves the poor creature just as tenderly as if be were perfect The ship's cat may be lean and uninviting in uppearanco, but this does not prevent Jack from petting it Other pets are sometimes kept on board ship. It is not nnusnal for seamen on vessels returning from tropical ports to have pet monkeys or purrots. The captain's wife, who has her own way sometimes, turns her cabin into an aviary. Single captains have been known to keep pets on shipboard, although, as a role, they seem ashamed to display any weakness of this descrip tion. London Tit-Bits, A Quaint Hit of Pralw. To be eulogized when dead is more often the lot of a man than to be praised in life, but surely a quainter compliment was never paid a dead man than was received by Talleyrand, for when his demise wits announced to one of his acquaintances, the latter exclaimed, "He must have had some good reason for dying! I think 1 will be at least ill my self." and forthwith went to bed. Yet another compliment to a dead man was uttered by the Marchioness of , who, when told that the celebrated physician Borden had been fonnd dead in bed, exclaimed, "Ah! Death was so afraid of bim that be did not dare attack bim except when he was asleep." Lon don Standard. Faniln Carried UB ,A00,0O0 I'euple. The worst calamity from famine ever recorded took place in the years 1877 and 1878 in China, Complete crop failures took place in all the nortuerb province, and the number of those who perished from want of food was estimated at 9.300.000. As the internal communica tions of a conntry are unpruvvd the dan ger of wholesale starvation is uiuib les sened. Providence Journal Th Meet Vera. Method. Cnbbage I wonder why they are par ing this street Rubbage They probably intend to put a sewer down a soon a th paving it done. New York Epoch, HOW TO TUAIX MICE. 60MC SECRETS OF THE METHO0 EMPLOYED BY AN EXrtnT. lueihauMlble Putlenre I Require tlr of All-Juillrlou Ke.llng Mu.t HOb-eerwl-Tliea Ou Nutl Worry the Lit tle Creature. Ferdinand Senn knows more about raising while mice probably than any tther man In this country, and Thomas LMuudy knows more about training them. Before an explanation of bow they are trained. Mr. Senn took a cunning little mouse, white as suow, from bis euat lK ket and put it on bis shoulder. The mouse looked around for a moment, then ran acrosa Mr. Senn's back and sut down contentedly on the other shoulder. Before setting it at lit rty be beld the mouse loosely in bis left band and stroked its head and back with bis right -Do tbey never bite you?" Mr. Moody answered for him, for Mr. Moody does the training: "Never, if they are proerly handled. When a boy picks tip a white mouse be is very likely to squeeze him tight to keep him safe; then the mouse turns around and bite. But take them np ao gently without squeezing them at all. and they do not think of biting See here." He took the mouse from Mr. Senn's hand, held It toil between bis forefinger and thumb and held it above bis head. They do not mind that at all," be went ou. "They nre what we call pre hensile they can support their weight by the tail. When this fellow runs down a smooth stick you will see him coil his tail around it for a brake. But if I should squeeze his tail a little too bard, or accidentally press my sharp nails against It. he would twist around and bite me." HUNOKK AND WOIIRY. "What do you feed them on cheese?" : "Hardly!" he replied. "No food is so good for them as oats-just dry oats. Some breeders bring them up on bread and milk, but that is not us good as oats. On oats they keep cleaner aud do better The dry outs, of course, makes them thirsty, and then you can give them a little bread and milk, squeezeu out prettv dry. But it is well to have them thirsty sometimes, when you are train ing them and hungry, too, for that mutter." "Do yon mean to any thut you starve them Into tricks or drive them to It oy thirst?" "Not so bad as that," he answered. "But if a mouse is hungry and he is to wulk over a string bridge and he sees some oats on the other side he will go quicker. There are two great secrets about making them do as you wish. The first is patience. A boy cn soon learn to train a white mouse nearly as well as I can if he bits the patience. But the boy generally tires of it in ten minute where I keep it up for two hours or half a day. if necessary. I worry them into it." "That's the other secret," he went on "Worry 'em! Suppose you want a mouse to climb a stick, pick up a little Hag thut yon buve put there and bring it down. Yon take the mouse when he' hungry to begin with; you tie a grain or two of oats to tho HugsUiff and you put the mouse ut the foot of the stick. He won t go up, of course. Well, whon he turns around to run uway yon set him baclt attain with his nose to the stick. If he runs away fifty times set him hack fifty' one times. Thut worries him. Boost him up u little; give him a start You may even have a little twig and switch him, but gently. He soon sees what you want and up he goes. When he Huds the outs he is satisfied and conies down to eat them. Next time he will do it without half the trouble, and after a while be will run up and get the flag whenever you put him at the foot of the tick. KKEP AT IT. Teach the mouse a principle, you un derstand, not merely a trick. The prin ciple In this case is taking something tip in his mouth. In a short time be will take up anything you wish, whether it is a flagstaff or u little toy pull any thing he can lift "Now, there's wnlking the tight rope," he coutinued. "That looks hard. but it is easv enough. You must have the string fastened to the floor at both ends, say four feet apart, und about a foot from each end you brace it np with a stick a foot or so long just long enough to tighten the string. Use big twine at first, for that is easier; gradiv ally you can make it smaller, till the mouse will wulk a druggist string. They have sharp claws und a grout grip in their feet. You take the mouse when he is hungry and thirsty aud rut some oats and bread and milk nt one end of the bridge. At the other end yon put the mouse. He will try to run across the floor to the food, but bring him buck Start him a little np the inclined plane. tie is smart und he soon learns thut the only way to get that food is to cross the bridge. Then he crosses, and it is no trouble to him. Worry him into it Yon must not let the mouse tire you out yon must tire the mouse out" New York Sun. Makea War on Ojtter. , Did you ever hear of a man who was a victim of the oyster habit? The writer was in an uptown cufe the other even' ing. when a gray haired, full chested. big framed mun came in and ordered Ulne Point oysters. He ate a dozen, or dered another dozen, then a third dozen herniated, as if in donbt, paid his check and went out Three dozen oysters 'right down made one's eyes open, but the waiter said: "Oh, that's nothing. He comes in here every night for raw 'oysters. Sometimes he eats three dozen, ometime four dozen. He's what I call an oyster eater. I don't believe he eat anything else." New York Tribuue. A Lord In a Ullrh. Lord Mulgrave was distinguished by a singularity of physical conformation, having two distinct voices, the one strong and hoarse, the other weak and querulous, of both of which he occa sionally availed himself. So extraordi nary a circuuistaneo probably gave rise to a story of his having fallen into a ditch on a dark night and calling for aid in his shrill voice. A countryman com ing up was about to help him, but Lord M nigra ve, addressing hira in a hoarse tone, the peasant immediately exclaimed, "Oh, if there are two of you in the ditch you may help each other out of it" London Tit-Bits. The most useful domestic pet of the natives of Greenland and other Arctic j m m .VWMM IWUU " '"ml. IV I which the nam of Eskimo dog baa j bcn given. PLENTY 0? BLANKETS F03 ALL lu Inrtliauotlbl upply of Red Cloth- Ing llelil ly Hiewaw. rnpectedly I found myself forced to run over to Doston," suiJ a mun the ,.ii.,., ,b,v -lr was so warm ana uis- t I determined to pro by i.l ,,ltli,,ii..b I knew thut I would be nimble to g' t a stateroom. I innciuu that I should enjoy sitting up until late, when I could gt a littlo nnp In . .. ...I one of the seuts in the cabins. Cut when the sun was down I found It eolU on the wutcr, and was driven Into tho rubin from tho deck. By 11 o'clock I was so sleepy that I could not bold my lieud up. The fresh wind outside, fol lowed by the wnnnth of the cabin, acted like nn oplnte on me. "I hunted up one of the under stew ards und asked 1dm If lie could not nr- n.nin f.r ma nno of those mattresses which I saw as he liad done for others. Oh, yes; they were there for nny one who wanted them. " 'But.' I said. 'I can t sleep on one of those things as they are. Can't you get me a sheet and blanket ? " 'I don t know,' lie answerea aouot- fully. "But he did know when 1 slipped a dollar into his hand, for in a short time he came back and mado a uea lor me. I dropped off to sleep at onco, and was only awakened by feeling my blanket roughly jerked of! mo. Sitting up In my 1 in pro vised ueu 1 saw me rcimmiuj form of my steward carrying tho blan ket He went up to a man, maao up a bed for bim, took a dollar and started off. " 'See here,' I cried Indignantly, whnt do you mean by stealing my blanket T " 'Oh,' lie suid, 'did you want itf " 'Of course I wanted it; didn't I nnv fnr the use of it? " 'Well,' he answered coolly, it's so warm I didn't supnoso you cared about it.' " 'I do: It's cold now.' " 'Oh,' ho sold easily, 'there are plcn- ... . . ii ty moro or tiiem. l II get you anotner. "Ito wnllipil nn to a sleeDins man deftly pulled bis blanket from him and brought it to me. 'There.' lio suld. 'if you want an other I'll get it for you. There are nlontv of thpm.' "I tucked myself in carefully this time to save being robbed again, ana turning over went off for a second sleep. ew York Tribune. Bit Simple Sparrow Trr.p. The crusade against the English spur row is developing a marvelous amount of ingeuuity. A cheap, effective urid unerring method of killing the birds is the essential requisite to success in the uew Industry. One little fellow on the south side has solved the problem, and has already brought in over 100 heads. He explained his system and the comparative merits of it and other systems to Captuin Hay wood "Yon see," be said, "1 didnt have no gun nor no money to buy one, an if I had the p'liceman'd arrested mo for shootin. An me mother wouldn't let me poison 'em. She said it was cruel. Any way, you couldn't never tell whether yon got all the sparrers yon poisonea. So I just got up a scheme of my own me an another boy thut lives on' the street I do. "Wemudealot of paper funnels out of writin paper 'bout half as long as a lead pencil, the top of 'em just big enough for a snarrer to get Ins head in. We put birdseed in the bottom of 'em an set 'em up in the alley back of our bouse, where lots of the sparrers come. The sparrers come Dec kin around an find the birdseed in 'em, nn stick their heads in to get it Well, it's down at the bottom, yon know, an so they just push their heads right in, an then the funnels stick to their heads. J. hey can t fly, 'cause they cun't see, an b'sides it s'prises 'em, so they forget to fly. Then we come right up und catch 'em. it's lota of fun watchin em tluttenn round tryin to get the funnel off. The other boy bad his funnels marked with his name, an I had mine marked with mine, so we'd know which was mine and which was his." ('hicairo Npwh. Sowing on Stony Ground. Once in a while you hear a Sunday school story that is really good, even If it is rather w icked. In a "suburban village" Is an Episcopal church, which maintains a Sunday school, and one of the classes therein is taught by a laughter loving girl. There are ten lit tle girls in her class, nine of them of not remoto Irish aneestry raid one little negress. The other Sunday Virgin Marv Par sons that's the little darky's real mime; Virgin Mnry is the full nnmo of half the negresses who nre culled Mary came very late; the other nine chit dren were present, and looked up ns tho lute comer swept proudly up to her sent. Ignoring the teacher's salutation, the littlo darky concentrated into two words all the ill feeling that months of contempt had wrought in her, and toss ing her head indifferently threw at her clnssinutes tho singlo remark : "Morning, Piuldies!" The lesson that morning, the teacher is forced to explain, fell Into 'stony ground. Chatter. True Courage- There Is a vnst difference between brutality and courage. What the world needs to-day is not the courage of the prize fighter we huvo too much of that already but the courago of uon. (rnuit and uaribalJi, the courage which has led thousands, when there was need, to die, not only on battle fields but in yellow fever hospitals, at tho martyr s stake, and on the cross. Such courage has never been promoted by brutal sports which endanger either human or harmless animal life. Dumb Animals. The Queen of Spain Smoke. Christina, queen regent of Spain, la a great advocate of tobacco. She con sumes a large quantity of Egyptian cigarettes, and there is nothing that her little "Bubi," His Most Catholio Majesty King Alphonso XIII, enjoys more than when his mother penuiu him to strike a match and apply the flame to the end of her cigarette. When thus engaged the little fellow laughs merrily and indulge in all sorts of an t'ca, like a light hearted littl monarch that h is, Paris Letter. WORTHY OF HIS HIKE SALVATIONISTS' SALARIES BAREy ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. la Fact, th Saltation Array Officer a to Fracuca much sen uenial to Comfortably on Their eeltly StlpB4t The Head Oat Seven Dollar Wttk People who entertuin doubts concern. ing the financial administration of tin Salvation Army In America, and fancy thut the leaders of the movement, Marshal Bullington Booth and his rjfj, a.'t rather luxurious people, deriving handsome rmpporr, rrom oaivation Annj funds, would be somewhat surprised b? . , I-, . i. . ... a View OI ine uoom menage, wiine at investigation of the manner in hk; moneys are received, expended and tc counted for to the lost penny by the treasurer reveals so complete and simp! a system that the merest tyro in finan. cial affairs can readily understand id methods. The Booths used to live in a tiny "flnt in Now York until Master Willie, i blooming lad of four years, grew too biz for his surroundings. He needed mon sunshine and purer air than he could get in the small rooms and not too pleasant street, where he liad to take his daily ex. ercises. So the family moved across tin river to a modest little noose set high in a quiet, breezy place. Mrs. Booth crosses one oi the Jersey ferries every morning coming from her house to her littlo office at tho national headquarters of the Sulvution Army, m Rcade street. She says very frankly that it is cheaiv er living over there; takes no more tine to reach the office; w immeasurably bet ter und healthier for her son, and be sides uffords her un occasional opportun ity for tho rest which she needs from time to time and could rarely seenn when liviug in town. The desirable end wonld be defeated by publishing her address, so many peo pie wish to we the young woman whok fond of culling herself "the mother of the army in America," and who in spite of her evident youth really does "moth er" the forlorn of all ages, sorts and con ditions, who turn to her for counsel and comfort. MRS; BOOTH GETS $7 A WEEK. But it is only her presence which lends a charm to the small, spare abode. Iu plainness is only relieved by flowers and photographs. There is a piano, of course, Salvationists always make provision for music, and a good many books, not secu lar, but relating to the various branchei of the work sho is devoted to. Household sorvice is done by a "Salva. tion lassio," who also takes care of the child, His mother finds timo to fashion the little lad's garments and to do many t dainty bit of embroidery of Latin mot toes or Scripture texts, with which his costumes are embellished. The extreme frugality of the Booth establishment would mean penury elsewhere. In this case it translutcs self deniul, which is t part of the fuith ai d the duily habit o! these young people. In speaking of the grave misapprehen sions of their motives and methods which is so prevalent, Mrs. Booth said: "My father-in-law, General Booth, ii the founder and great head of the move ment He has never received one penny from the Salvation Army funds in any way whatsoever. "My husband and I are the leaders of the army in America. We do what is virtually the work of a bishop in a dio cese extending from ocean to ocean. "1 am told people think we are paid I great deal of money. Now, what will you say to the exact figures? Remem ber, we share the work between us. We receive exactly seven dollars a week apiece. Therefore fourteen dollars i week is our bishop's salary. How does that compare with the 'salaries of minis ters? This money is absolutely all w receive from the army. Moreover, my husband and 1 look npon it as a loan, which we hope one day to repay with in terest NO SOLDIERS PAID. "We do not desire, nor could we If w wished, touch a dollar of the army funds. Every cent contributed or de rived from any source whatever must pass through the hand3 of an account ant, whose books are regularly submit ted to a chartered auditor, Mr. J. Bliss, and attested before a notary pub lic, Mr. AJorris H. Smith." These gentlemen, by the way, are not Salvationists. Mrs. Booth also said: "1 do not know of a single soldier in our ranks in the United States who is paid a cent for being there. Self sup port is our great principle for individuals as well as for 'stations.' "Those who join ua are expected to h,.li ram nn tlia wnrk hv irivinj the money they formerly expended in world ly pleasures or needless luxuries. ! traHnnifa An tint tul?A vnwa of noverty, but they are pledged to a self deniul which often means the sume thing. "When a new 'station' is established help must be given of course until it able to stand alone. The traveling eJ- penses of officers who are to found it art paid. Officers are generally sent out in pairs to establish a mission, ineso penses are taken from the reserve fund. Next a hall is rented for the meeting. nnil unmutiinua a hanil in list be bir"- Often by the time this is doue there isn a cent left The slight fee for admit tance to the meeting and voluntary con tributions are relied on to defray all npTiapa. TIim aro nnid before the OB cers get anything. But 'tho laborer worthy of his hire,' and they are n afinoTi.l nf fnnr rfnllnr a Week Wltf"0 a hundred miles of New York and 1 three dollars and fifty cents outside oi ltmif "Any excess over and above their ox penses is turned into the general ran and credited as repayments. For stance, one year against an ontJ something like H.W0 stands llS-0W T t a.v: nmiT TO paymems. in hub vray uo is promoted iu new quartor France exports silk goods to the valnt of 10,000,000. two-thirds of wb'v'.rj taken by England and by the t States. Swiss and German bouses serious rivals in point of qnantity manuiacrumi gooua, um iu taste and skill of the French nl I maintain supremacy. The United s are rapidly increasing their silk w'ton Leisure Honr. Learning Rapidly- Watchmaker-What is the most esw : t m . , 1 n wnfi-h? uai leainrv oi a cuoaj m Bright Apprentice Its retembU 1 ccsjtij one. Eietuuyr.