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THi QUARTETTE ANTHF.M. . I fceerd tbe aotbam sung by thtt big hurcb quartette; - Jfcsbe rared lut butI k(fP' r owa aonf ," "' "to ,unI bT ny .i,luT aa' bwd ber talk, m' Dew raised " rP- oetoT idea wus drowned Id pleuteoua I" of TOO. urtct economy of words, an' extmraganee Dotae! .her 'W word ' enerou , Vers spendthrift! of their lungs an' M iiersof their brains. tiry call this mighty amnio; 'taint fer ma to tf t It's not; j fctot oualc'a bettor w'ea Ifa slightly mixed iihliii jef lun ' ' to men a mora la njlrln' train if iber W b,re mnie c"DnecUon wittl tba Inglna of jrer brain. r- Maria rocked our boy to sleep, ao' sung ber ui oulct Babbath evenln', with the aliadowa t muui- - ' .1, hMta rer quartotta anthem out, an' knocka -8. V. Foaa Ai Omaha World Herald. TODS' AMENDMENT. Vnw Tods' mamma was a singularly diarmlDg woman, and every one Id Simla kMw Toils. Aiosi men uaa sovea mm from death on occasions. He was beyond hiia.vah's control altogether, and perilled hii life daily to find out what would kmnen if you pulled a Mountain battery mule's tail. He was an utterly fearless Tount; pagan, auuui, u jrara uiu, ami inc only baby who ever broke t he holy culm of the supreme legisiame luuucu. It bappened this way: Tods' pet kid got loose and fled up the hill, off the Uolleau gunge road. Tods after It, until it burst intn the Viceregal lodge lawn, then at tached to "Peterhoff." The council were lilting at the time, and the windows were open because It was warm. The Red Lancer in the porch told Tods to go away; but Tods knew the Red Lancer and most of th members of the council personally. Moreover, be bad firm bold of the kid's (ollar, and was being dragged all across the Bower beds. "Give my salaam to the long councillor labib, and ask bim to belp me take Moti tack!" gasped Tods. The council beard the noise thtSigh the open windows, and. titer an interval, was seen the shocking ipectacle of a legal member and a lieuten ant eovcrnor helping, under the direct patronage of a commander-in-chief and a viceroy, one small and very dirty boy in a tailor's suit ind a tangle of brown bair, to eoerces lively and rebellious kid. They beaded it off down the path to the Mall, md Tods went home in triumph and told bis mamma that all the councillor sahibs bad been helping bim to catch MoL Whereat his mamma smacked Tods for in terfering with the administration of the empire; but Tods met the legal member the next day, and told him in confidence that if the legal member ever wanted to catch a goat, be, Tods, would give him i " the help in bis power. "Thank you, Tods, aid the legal member. Tods was the idol of some eighty jham panis and half as many anises. He saluted them all as "0 Brother." It never entered bis head that any living human being could disobey his orders; and he was the buffer between tbe servants and his mam ma's wrath. Tbe working of that house bold turned on Tods, who was adored by erery one from tbe dhoby to the dog boy. Even Futteh Khan, the villainous loafer kbit from Mussoorie, shirked risking Tods' displeasure for fear his co-mates should look down on him. So Tods had honor iu the land from Boileaugunge to Chota Simla, and ruled Justly according to his lights. Of course bespoke Urdu, but be had also mastered many queer side speeches like tbe chotee bolee of the women, and held grave con verse with shopkeepers and Hill coolies alike. He was precocious for his age, and his mixing with natives had taught him nmeof the more bitter truths of life; the meanness and the sordidness of it. He used, over his bread and milk, to deliver solemn and serious aphorisms, translated from the vernacular into the English, that made his mamma jump and vow that Tods must go home next hot weather. Just when Tods was In the bloom of his power the supreme legislature were hack lag out a bill for the Sub-Montane tracts, a revision of the then act, smaller than the Punjab land bill, but affecting few hun dred thousand people none the less. The fsl member had built and bolstered and embroidered and amended that bill till it looked beautiful on paper. Then the coun cil began to settle whnt they called the "minor details." As if any Englishman legislating for natives knows enough to know which are the minor and which are mnjor points, from the native point of Hew, of any measure! That bill was a tri mph of "safe guarding the interests of the tenant." One clause provided that land should not be leased on longer terms than five years t stretch; because, if the landlord had a tenant bound down for, say, twenty years, w would squeeze the very life out of him. Jh notion was to keep up a stream of In Mpendentcultivatorsinthe Sub-Moirtant Jjjcta, and etbuologically and politically notion was correct. The only draw wkwaa that it was altogether wrong. A Mire's life in India implies the life of his on. Wherefore you cannot legislate for f generation at a time. You must con r the next from the native point of Curiously enough, the native now then, and in Northern India more par jdarly, hates being over protected against '"m"1- There was a N'aga village once they lived on dead and buried com ariat mules. But that is another story. tu' any re8011 to be explained later, People concerned objected to the bill. " DatiVA mamluM la Annnnll knau - "ochtbout Punjabis as he knew about ngCroM. He bad said in Calcutta w the bill was entirely in accord with "desires of that large and important r'Jlle cultivators," and so on, and so The legal member's knowledge of na- j"? was limited to English speaking Dur v1 nd his own red chaprassis, the Sub montane tm. , i . i . jr, tbe deputy commissioners were a deal too driven to make represent rj" Md the measure was one which Jrth small landholders only. Never the legal member prayed that it he correct, for he was a nervously "cwitious man. He did not know that "Han can tell what natives think unless 7ca with them with the varnish off. J? always then. But be did tbe best them' tne nieasure came up to k 3Erme council for the final touches, aiie Tod. patroled the Burra Simla Barar fcmJ Bonun8 rides, and plaved with the belonging to Ditta Mull, the bun ""tad listened, aa a child listens, to all U fi.taUt bout tbio new free- of tbe SahiVa. j" there was a dinner party at the r of Tods' mamma, and the legal 7" came. Tods was in bed, but be ake till he beard the bursts of ?Mr fmm ... iV MdJed out in his little red flan took?OR own "d nl nlKht nit "nd mi hj "dof ni ftttb'r' kD0W" 5 would not be sent back. "Se ' hrils' family! said lather, giving Tods three prunes, t" in a gUus that bad been used ltlcLr"a1 telling him to ait still. Toils o-Ild K P0 "lowly, knowing that be " "v to go when they were finished, Ub1 U nlak water liisaifiaaof tbe world. k. ii . . . .. snorj to the head of adenartmnt n,n men .'tT' H,',mW.ari e i V. , 's"1llt thf n native word and hfting up hi. small vol,. ' Uh, I know all about that! Has It lw mnrramutted yet. councillor salX" l ow much?" said the leg.a Mmhft know-male nice to please Ditta Mull!" The legal member left his place and moved up next to Tods. "What do you know about Ryotwarl little man?" he snld. "yotwsri, "I'm not a little man, I'm Tods, and I uS,r.nnnHUaAJ0U,Utv Uui,UMu11 M(ici when I talk to them." snyTods?" d' d W,'M do lh" To.1, tucked bis feet under his red Ann- nnl dressing gown and suid: "I must fiul; " The legal meml)er waited patiently. Vi v j '""ne compassion: 1 ou don't speak my talk, do you. coun cillor snhib?" "No; I am sorry to say I do not," said the legal member. "Very well," said Tods. "I must fink in English." He six-nt a minute putting his ide.-s In order and began very slowly, trauslai 'ng In his mind from the vernacular to j)n glish, as many Anglo-Iudian children o. You must remember that the legal mem ber bel)ed him on by questions when be baited, for Tods was not equal to the sus tained flight of oratory that follows. "Ditta Mull says: 'This thing is the talk of a child, and was made up by fools.' But I don't think you are a fool, councillor sahib," said Tods hastily. "You caught my goat. This is what Ditta Mull cays: 'I am not a fool, and why should the Sir!:ar say I am a child? I can see if the land Is good and If the landlord Is good. If I nin a fool the sin is upon my own head. For five years I take my ground for which 1 have saved money, and a wife I take t.jo, and a little son is born. Ditta Mull has one daughter now, but be says he will have a son soon. And ho says: 'At the end of five years, by this new bundobust, I must go. If 1 do not go I must get fresh seals and takkus stamps on the papers, perhaps in the middle of the harvest, and to go to tbe law courts once is wisdom, but to go twice is Jchannuin.' That la quite true," explaiued Tods gravely. "All my friends say so. And Ditta Mull says: 'Always fresh takkus end paying money to vakils and chaprassis and law courts every five years, orelse the laud lord makes me go. Why do I want to ijo? Am I a fool? If I am a fool and do "ot know after forty yeurs good land when 1 see It letmediel But if thenew bundob'ist says for fifteen years, that it is good and wise. My little son is a man, and 1 am burnt, and be takes tbe ground or another ground, paying only once for the takkus stamps on the papers, nnd his little son is born, and nt the end of fifteen years is a man too. But what profits Is there in five years and fresh papers? Nothing but dikn, trouble, dikb. We are not young men who take these lands, but old' ones not jats, but tradcsir.cn with a little money anil for fifteen years we shall have peace. Nor are we children that the slrkar should treat us so.'" Here Tods stopped short, for the whole table were listening. The legal member said to Tods: "Is that all?" "All I can remember," said Tods. "But you should see Ditta Mull's big monkey. It's just like a councillor sahib." "Tods! Go to bed," said his father. Tods gathered up bis dressing gown tail and departed. The legal member brought his band down on the table witli a crash "By Jove!" said the legal member, "I lielieve the boy is right. The short tenure is the weak point." He left early, thinking over what Tods had said. Now it was obviously impossi ble for tbe legal member to play with a bunnia's monkey, by way of getting un derstanding; but be did better. He made inquiries, always bearing in miud the fact that the rcul native not the hybrid, uni versity trained mule is as timid as a colt, and, little by little, be coaxed some of tbe men whom the measure concerned most in timately to give in their views, which squared very closely with Tods' evidence. So tbe bill was amended in that clause, and the legal member was tilled with an uneasy suspicion that native members rep resent very little except the orders they carry in their bosoms. But he put the thought from him as Illiberal, lie was a liberal man. After a time the news spread through the bazars that Tods hud got the bill re cast in the tenure clause, ami if Tods' mamma had not interfered Tods would have made himself sick on the baskets of fruit and pistachio nuts and Cabuli grauea and almonds that crowded the verandah. Till he went home Tods ranked some few degrees before the viceroy In popular esti mation. But for tbe little lite oi mm loos could not understand why. In the legal member's private paper box still lies tbe rough draft of the Sub-Mon tane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment; and opposite the twenty-second clarse, penciled in blue chalk and signed ny tne legal member, are the words "Tods' Amendment." Rudyard Kippling. Why Hlue Kia l Inipoulble. A florist makes the assertion that a nine rose ia auions: the impossibilities, but, while an explanation of this curi ous fact may be equally impossible, he fails to meution a very interesting law which governs the coloring of all flowers. A knowledge of this Inw wonld onvp nmnv (lower irrowers hours of un availing and foolish hope. The law is simply this: The three colors red. nine and yellow never all appear in the same species of flowers; any two may exist, .i . mi U... tha but never tne tnird. inus we uc u i unH rillnw roses, but no blue; red and blue verbenas, but no yellow; yel low and blue in the various members of the viola family (as paiisies. for in stance), but no red; red and yellow gladolii. bnt no blue, and so on.-St Louis Republic. The Pimpernel. oti . ruir-.i .ii ',uvtr man's inecouiuiwu puiiy"'.. i k.. tl.a ilimul vantage weatner giw, u. - of being a native plant and has been al most completely expelled from our , : atntifl WMl-fl nower garuens iu ui i ... i i. ,.,n..h nf hfini? as are rarer uui uc pretty. Tbe pimpernel is a charming !.... .lji. nhnnl H in the little nower, wnicu vi -. morning and closes late iu the afternoon, but has the remarkable peculiarity of l.v shnttintf indicating cuuimg n..v.. w ----- up ito petals For this reason, if for no other, it deserves encouragement, and would appropriately take the place of some of tbe ngly tulips and other im ported flowers now so popular. -bt UOU1S IJIHIWUCINIH-'I"- ltenllo oi Toward the clore of the Seventeenth in Prnnf. HPTT . . I' I r..ln. pentnrv M- UUlWTMici m In German? and Mr. Kewsham . . 1 mnl. Leupold in uermany u -r -. in England introduced almost annul-1 toneously fire engines having an air. chamber, which rendered the stream , water continuons and uniform- in ad-, dition to this 'these engin ,wm eouii-ped with flexible leather hose in 31 7 Jan Van der Heide and h. botherand which was first put into practical use in Aflisterdam in tbe year lfl73.-Detroit Free Preaa- LACKS TIUTiril ONLY. COLD FC19 DCSTfJOY AN ENTER TAKING GHOST STORY. rrmliilMTiiira nl l...r. l.uhin whlrh Are Mm. tiiliiiiltla lu ItrUtlini Than la Triilliriilnr.a - Ao Alleged tUuntad Kin. in Willi h Hid Nu r.il-l. K'Himiitii! Lord Lyttnn wus. but nut ni'iNtitupiis. His dfutti. however, bus revived the story of the yellow boy's i''iu. tne gnoxi cimiulur said to exist at Miebwortli luiuse. the U-uutiful ances tral home of the Lyttons for more than W years. At Mr. W. l Friths door must the cliur'o lie laid of having put the interesting bile in circulation, for we hud it first in his winging volume of "KoiniiiiKci'iurs." After relating West- wotsi s exiK ru nces with tho weird worn an of the .Maison Ulub. the painter sup plements the story by another anecdote or more tragical significance. "At Kiivtiworth," he says, "the seat of Lord Lytton. there is a tiedchamU'r called the yellow boy's room." He then proceeds to relate that during a visit to Knebworth, Lord t'uatlureiigh, while the guest of tlie gnindfather of the lute British emliussudor to I'uris. wus as signed without a word of warning to the mysterious and haunted room. Fueling very tired lie soon dropped into sleet), but bis uneasy slumber were troubled and it was not long before he awoke. W hat it wus which startled him his lord ship never knew, but the sight which met lus eyes as he gazed at the still burn ing lire in his room wus startling enough. The ligure of a boy. with long, yellowish hair streaming down, sat in front of the fireplace with Ins buck toward the Irish nobleman. As the latter looked, the lad arose, turtiej toward him, and drawing back the curtain at the bottom of tbe bed with one hand, with the other be drew Ins fingcrstwoorthree times ucross his throat. Of course the impression produced on Custlereugh wus decidedly disturbing. Bulwer insisted that be must have been dreuiiiing. but his lord ship declared with emphusis that he saw the figure as distinctly us be saw his host at that moment, and that, fur from being asleep, ne wus wide awake. A TKHHIUI.K KXmtlKNCE. Mr. Frith then adds that Mr. Bulwer did not tell Lord Cast loreugh Byron's "viimtid cutting Custlereagh" that the yellow boy always uppenrud to anyone who wus destined to die a violent death and always indicated the uiunucr of it to his victim. A mora niiiusing nnd less unpleasant incident is told or the same chamber at Knebworth by our artist author, the subject being a timid, nervous brother painter whostx'iit a night at the poet's lovely and stately retrrut in Hertford shire. The father of the author of "Lu etic," Mr. Frith says, confided the de tails or the Custlereugh story to bis guest on allotting the yellow boy's room to him. remnrkitig on bidding him good nigbt, "You will not bo frightened, will yon?' "No o o," said the painter, with an ashy face. "Well, it is getting luto; wnat do you any to retiring? Yes, thut is your candle. Too wann for a fire iu yonr room. on don t mind.' Uood night. "The rust of the story shall be told," says Frith, "in my old friend's words us nearly us I can rcmemlMr them. I bad shcii." he went on, "the infernal room before dinner, and I thought it looked a ghostly sort of place, and when I reached it that night what would I not have given to be back in my own room at home! I looked under the lied, up the great, wide chimney, and hud a shock from the sight of my own face in the looking glass. No ghost could be whiter than I wus. 1 don't believe in ghosts, you know, but still it was really too bad of Lytton to tell mo such things just as 1 was going to ImhI. and then to put me in the very place! There was au awful old cabinet. I mnnagud to pnll ojien the door und wus tugging at thoother, when my candle went out how, 1 don't know somebody seemed to blow it out 1 ran t tell yon what became of it; all 1 know is I jumped into bed with my boots on. and lay trembling there for hours, Frith-literally for hours till sleep took me at lust; and never was 1 iiiorethankrul than when I awoke and saw the sun shining into the yellow boy's room." SO TKl'TH IN TUB STORY. Tbe circumstantiality with which Mr. Frith tells these short titles must con vince his readers thut he ia thoroughly satisfied in his own mind thut the inci dents which he carefully describes all bupiened at Knebworth. And yet. in that respect, he is altogether out in his reckoning. There is no yellow boy's room in that grand old house of the Lyt tons at Knebworth. Lord Castlereagh never spent a night there, noria it known that he ever visited the place in his life. In the autumn of 18f4 I Rieut two or three very agreeable days ut Knebworth, thegnestol Lord Lytton.who very kindly showed me everything of interest about his home and it charming surroundings. I tlumght it strange that the yellow boy s nsmi-if there really was such a room hud not been open to me, and that the very story associated with it in tho Frith reminiscences hud been kept back. So sent off a hurried note to Owen Meredith, then performing his embassy doriHl functions in the gnyest capital in Europe, and an early mail brought ma these lines: Paris. 8th Feb'y. 1888. 'My Dkar Mr. Stkwart-I answer your letter of the K'th nlto. In desperate and unavoidable haste. Mr. Fnth's sntobiography is all wrong about tbe story of the 'Yellow Boy.- That story was told by Sir Walter Scott of Lord Castlereagh. who is said to have seen tbe Yellow Hoy" in some house ia Ire land at the time when he was secretary for Ireland, just before the nnion, and the story went that the apparition then predicted to him the mode of his death. lint the incident certainly did not occur at Knebworth, nor do I think Lord l aatlereagb was ever there. Yours very f.titnfnlly, Lytton." Tbe Castlereagh story is quite familiar to tbe readers of Scott and Loclchart's noble biography. - liidejwndent Ail I rum Cuufuclua. Tbat thf nuMiif tea was universal Terr early in Chinese history U borne out by j oue or the maxtms oi ixmruciua, mo wisest man of China, when he said: "Be good and courteous to all, even to the stranger from other lands. If he say unto thee that he thirsteth give nnto him a cup of warm tea without money and without price." Philadelphia Times. The amonnt of temperance drinks consumed in England or exported an nually reaches the enormous total of SAO.000.000 dozens. DIDN'T MISS MUCH. Intcrcttlng C'inumnt nn tha Sews of a lajr by a Wmnan vllh o CUihi, The man on the seat aheud of her was reading a newspaper, ami after getting settled in the midst of her lmrcels and bundles and regaling herself with a pinch of Scotch snuff, she leaned for ward and said: "1 don't git much time to read the pa pers nowadays, but 1 alius like to hear what s goin on. Is thero any news in perticklcrr "Nothing very exciting," lie replied, as he sized her up out of the corner of his eye. "Here's an item about a wife killing her husband." "Shoo! How'd she do itT "With an ax." "Law tne! Wall, she probably stood it mid stood it until she couldn't stand it no more. It's awful how some hus bands do curry on. Anything else?" "Here's an item about a woman iu this state who drove her husband to suicide by nagging bim." "Shoo! Jest kept juwiu and complain in from moniin till night, 1 supose, and ho finally got so tired that he took pizen? "No, ho hung himself." "Wull, 1 don't blame her a mite, no was probably shiftless and lazy, and it spilt her temper to see things goin down hill. She'll have a chance now to git married to a better man. "And hero's a case," be continued, as be protended to read, "of a wife and mother who run away from home with a tin peddler, leaving a husband and sev eral children behind." "Shoo! Does it give the purticklersT "It suys she is supposod to be a little flighty in her head. "Wall, she ain't a bit flighty. She done jest right. 1 know purty nigh how it was. She hud all her housework to do and them young 'uns to take keerof, and the husband was probably liiulin fault all the time on top o' that. Slio just slaved and slaved till she couldn't slave no more. Some folks think a woman cun bear everything, but they cuu't I 'spose the youngest child was purty stnull? "Only Beven months old." "Wall, she probably hated to leave it, but it would have been weaned in a couplo of months anyhow, and the futher kiu bring it up on a bottle. It'll serve him right if it squalls half the timo. Anything else?' "Why, 1 notice that a woman has just married her fifth husband, and isu't fifty years old yet Her neighbors are so indignant thut they talk of driving her away." "Lai Got her fifth, eh? Wall, if 1 was that woman the nayburs might talk and blow and be hanged to 'em. 1 ain't fifty yeurs old, uither, and I'm a-livin with my fourth, and don't keer how soon ho goes. 1 was powerfully doceived in bim." "Do you say that you'd marry again if he should die?' "Surtin, und I wouldn't wait over six months, either. Some folks think a wo man has no rights, but she has, and she's a fool if she don't assert 'em." "This may interest you," said the man, as he turned tho paper over. "A St Louis doctor declares that the feet of women are gradually but surely grow ing lurger, and that in the next fifty years to como every one of thorn will want a No. 7 shoe. "Shoo! He says thut, does bo?" "Yes'm." "And he's a doctor?" "Yes'm." "Wall, ho hain't told no startlin news. I've been weuriu No. 7's ever since 1 wus a gal sixteen yeurs old, and I've got the smallest foot of any woman in our town as it is. I did feci kindor sorry whon 1 diskivered that I'd left my spectacles on the kitchen clock shelf at home, but if that's all the news the papers kin rake np I guess I lintn t missed nothing! New Yoi k World. Car for Muilral Inatruments. Neither a piano nor an organ should be left ojien at night, or habitually when not in use. The changes of temperature are very hurtful to the tone of any in strument, and especially the gathering of dampness, which not only interferes with the tone and quality of tho strings and reeds, but is very likely seriously to affect tbe works. Pianos in particular should be kept in as even a temperature as possible, since they are much affected by alternations of beat and cold, dryness and moisture; if thus exposed they re quire very frequeut tuning, and are not satisfactory in action or tone. Care is also equally desirable in regard to other stringed instruments the violin family, banjos, guitars and like. In all of these the strings are much affected by expo sure to dampness and great changes of temperature. All fine instruments should be habitually kept in cases lined with baize or flannel. Uood Housekeeping. A Murder Explained. " Jule," remarked Brutus as he strolled into the great Co?sur's tent, "did 1 ever tell yon of the fight I once had among the Allobroges?' Oofs off a long, windy tiila involving the single handed slaugh ter of eleven ferocious barbarians. "Brute, my boy," remarked Cresar solemnly when ho had finished, "1 ad mire Oaul, especially Transalpine Oaul, but still 1 must say that you remind me of a harp shattered by the lightning of great Jove." "How so?" inquired Brutus, unwarily. "Because you're a blasted lyre." an swered Ca3sur. And from that day forth Brutus began to moditate on the Ides of March. Yale Rocprd. Boars of Sleep for Children and Adnlta. A German specialist Dr. Cold, pleads for giving young people more sleep. A healthy infant sleeps most of the time during the first weeks, and in the early years people an disposed to let children sleep as much as they will But from six or seven, when school beglna, there la a complete change. At the age of ten or eleven tbe child sleeps only eight or nine hours, when ha ueeds at least ten or eleven, and as be grows older the time of rest is shortened. Br. Cold be lieves that up to twenty a youth needs nine hours' sleep and an adult should bavs eight or nine. With Insufficient sleep tbe nervous system, and brain rwjirciHll, not routing enough and ceasing to work nor nially, ws find exhaustion, excitability ami intellectual disorders gradually taking the 'place of love of work, general well beiug and tbe spirit of initiative. l-ondoo Tit Bit Atbeetna Cloth. Asbestos rolled cloth packing Is made both with and without India rubber core. Asbestos block packing consist of an In dia rubber back upon which there are bnllt up edgewise a number of layers of asbestos cloth. Sufficient elasticity is thus Imparted by the rubber back, while great durability and protection to tbs robber Is Insured by Ue use of asbestos. India Rubbtr World. i FLORENCE JUMjIIJ THE MEDICVAL CITY OF ROMANTIC ITALY MODERNIZED. Tha "Hume r I he Arts" Onre Ismoua for lie Artletle Htilliliiiirt, In lll.lnrlo falaeea. Its Hrturriiie Towers and Hough (Mil Willi, la HeMrnjrri. 1-ooked at from an artistic point of view iKlorenceis untliing If not uieillairnl, and ker recent atieiupls to modernize herself Lire ua only pilialily coniiiionplace, but ,TilttrrlydisHixiintiiiglo lovers of romance. l)uring the last three years a great part of old Florence, iiicluillng the tibelto and the tall. dark, mysterious houses with laby rinthine cellar hi that net work of alleys which once (ortne.l the old market, ha hwu lorn down, ami meilheval Florence, or that part of it where theiiiarresoniu Flor entine lived and loved ami 'ought their UelKhliors. hii Urn destroyed. A the iliy-ii mI him I moral health of pres ent and fill lire Florentine is of far greater iiiiHrtutice than Hiiylhimj artistic, and as fresh air and Iklit should lie shared by all men HIlKe, we would not. even if we could, olwiruet the work of demolition, lint one cannot help asking why Florence rebuilt should Is so niediiKra. The new tiiare of Victor Knimanue cood out of the very heart of the old market, is siiiare as itqiuirvcan lw. lirnad street are cut from it at right angles In the most Improved Nineteenth century lUNhlou. I hey drew red Hues up and dowu and across the old ipinrter and cut plumb through the lilies, barkinu olT the face of one house, the rear of another and the cor tier ciiplswrd of a third They cut through massive walls, which had withstood the storms of centuries, lopping olf heraldic Is-arlng and mural decorations, which we should Is glad of an excuse to put up some Where, anil demolishing historic land marks, plctnresiiue arches, quaint lull come, winding stairs, dim recesses and hallowed association with the ruthless baud of modern utility. miKAliV sgt'Al:s. Flat faced, expressionless houses rise on all sides of the dusty I'la.r.a and just In the center stands the equestrian statue of let or Kmnisnuel. This statue may be good, I am too Igno rant on such mutters toexpressun opinion. The horse Is very, very big and carries his tall rampant. Victor's mustache is very, very fierce and evidently lust waxed. If the short, clumsy man looks too small for the big. clumsy horse you are reminded that the soldier king always rode a big Horse. The hronr.r of the entire structure Is pol lulled slid shining quite unlike the bronse of Cellini's Perseus, though perhaps that, too, shone defiantly when it was fresh from the mold. But the stiiiarel Surely we inartistic. blundering. sctiiihurlNiroua Americans might have peretraled nothing worse In a mushroom city. People say there is nothing (risjcctionahle alsmt it," and to any tbat of a public square is quite as bad as to say of an acquaintance that he is well meaning." I here Is, indeed, nothing objectionable alraut It except its unob jectinnability. r rom the old walls of historic rlorence rose frequent towers of stone, rough but picturesque, built for purposes of defense In times when it was a part of each day's routine for men to kill each other. Kven now, reaching kigh alove the surrounding roofs and commanding wide views over the outlying country, they lend a rugged air of protection to the fair flower city. Well, into our brand new square has been built a new tower, massive and rugged, grim and warlike at least it was meant to look so, Is-iug hii exact copy of tbe ancient ones. It was built to gratify the hearts of the antiquarians, who only laugh when they look at it Ah, but thry laugh sadlyl HOIIKItN VANDALISM. With all their artistic and architectural past, with imperishable monuments slur ring their city; with the grand gothlo of the Diiomoand the lily bloom of the bell tower; with the stately magnificence of scores of palaces, with the spring of arch, the point of spire, the infinite delicacy of Handiwork lu wood and iron and stone; In short, with the profusenessof the beautiful which lies all alsmt them, florcntines ought to know better. The vandalism of f lorence Is but a copy Of the vandalism of Home, which baa gone ou until now old Koine is dismantled and t rapidly becoming the most modern city of Italy Here are commonplace, dreary squares, rows and streets of blank, hideous houses; tndows and doors cut off by the yard, and such interiors! Here In Italy, borne of tbe Arts! Verily, the Arts are slumbering. Out of It all I have evolved for myself a comforting reflection. From the shadows of her misty bygone yeans having shaken off tbe shackles of oppression and super atltlcu, young Italy la reaching out eagerly toward all that is fresh and clean and mod- u. Iet ns have patleuce; ws art modern ourselves. But just as we discriminate between Rood got hie and bad gothlc, the genera tion to come wilt discriminate between good modern and bad modern. Hitherto have asked myself why should America be siieered st ami despised for crudities of art or mauiiersf She has bad mightier work to do than erect campaniles, round cupolas, chip out statues or polish her speech. These things are tbe flower of a healthy, deep rooted civilisation, and our America is planted so deep that the flower must one day bloom. Jeanle P. Kudel in Kate Fields' Washington. A Uuiy for ttverjr City Woman. The physician who attended the re cent fatal outbreak of diphtheria in prominent New York family in his pub lished interview opens up serious possi bilities. He is a stwciulist in the dis ease, and be is quoted as saying that he Often sees a siphon of seltzer standing in s room where he is visiting a patient prostrated with tbe malady. Such si phon, he declares in substance, nnloss most carefully and antiscptically cleansed, will convey infection to sub sequent users. And everybody knows What the cleansing of public bottles is apt to be. The same objection has been nrged against our present system of traveling milk vessels. So accepted is this tbat. when typhoid fever specially prevails, physicians frequently urge persons to boil all milk used as well as water. It would be a wise thing if the women of our cities should co-operate to at tempt to reduce the evil. If inspectors visited bottle washing places it is sus pected some valuably unpleasant infor mation might be gained. In the mean time, every houMkuetx.'r can make it her conscientious duty to see thut the bot tles which daily leave hor domain are untainted and wholly clean. This rill need inspection, as tbe best of maids get careless in a duty oft performed. If there is Illness in the bouse redouble your vigilance and be rewarded with tbe reflection tbat in this respect at least tbe sin of contributing to your neigh bor's menace does not heat yonr door. Her Point of View In New York Times. Kip and Tack. Cierarton Do voa trereiDect to bacons engaged to Miaa Summit? Daahaway (doubtfully) If my dress suit olds out. Clothier and romiabar. QUARRELED TO THE LAST. A llrilnr' I'l-iid Tlisl Ws Continued Inr Vein- will) Never a Truro. " Ymi ill l.ikelliH nun I to the right, over the hill, nl Hiiithers' Feud," said the llv- i-i-y iniiii The hrlilne on the lower road Ha wii-hed away in the storm." IliotliciV I'ciidr" said I "Where Is that'" "Aren't you iii iiiiiiiiieil In this country? No Well, ymi cau l be I'.very one within a hiimliisl miles, siiiiikim-, know nlxuit Urol hers' Feud. The wav nl It was, when old man I'llacol died he gave hi farm un divided to his two sons. They had no other relative llviiii; Hut they couldn't gel along together, and one of them brought auit for partition The place I very hilly and isn t worth much in the first iilacu. And the lawyer fees didn't make it any more valuable. But Ihey finally got the mutter through court and the surveyor came out In survey the place. They asked him w ho wa in pay him, mnl he said they would each pay half the exK'iie of parll lion. They agreed and he went ahead. "One of llieni paid and the other didn't. That was nobody's loss but the surveyor's. but it made I he paying brother so mad to think his brother had done less than hi ill self that he look up the dividing line stakes ami set them over two nl in h ia brother's land. That made hi brother mad and he took up the slake ami set them two rods beyond I he line. So they liegun quarreling over that four roil of hill laud that wasn't worth ten dollar an acre. Hut thetlmls-r wa fine, and w hen the buyer came along and offered twenty dollars a thousand for stave timlH-r.Iiin and Joe iH'gau quarreling lu earnest. "Ivu h one hired a gang of choppers, nnd tbe choppers took up the light, tor It did seem the likeliest timlier grew In the (II puled strip. Why. those chopMrs hud regular battles there, nnd the sheriff had to go oiA with a hmku. Three men were killed Just cliopKsl to death with axes. We have had more criminal case from that four rods of sand ami gravel than from all the rest of thecounty. We finally bad togel out a company of mitilia, when the buyers run up the price to twenty-two dollars a thousand It was worth something then. But each fellow spent all he mada from his trees defending his suits, mid when the timlHT was finally gone and the price fell there stood alsmt the only goml walnut In tbe county. That is worth a good deal of money now. All the rest of the walnut was sold years ago, and it is worth near Its weight in silver. "Well, If you go by there today you will most likely see two gray haired old men, sitting one ou each side of that strip of timls-r, each one with a rille Is-side him. and wailing to kill the oilier If he steps on the strip. They Isith swear they will slay night then' till they die. I suppose they will, but if either of tliem gets reckless and ventures on the strip hi brother will shoot him sure. You sis- the ground is worth a gtxxl deal now The men were so busy lighting in the timls-r time that they didn't have time to cut. (loodby. 'Pake the right baud nee I w'i, ,i you come to the bill. The liride i- i..nio on the other one." 1 found the Brothers' Feud without any trouble, ami lisiked with great inter est for I he I wo insane lirot hers. They hud been so devoted to their quarrel that they had never married, anil they lived all alone, each lu a little ruhin their father bad given them. As I drove along I saw a group of neighlKirsabout one of the houses. At the door of the other sat a trembling, palsied old man, w ith a rifle across his un steady knees. I went up to tho crowd and found that .llm was dead. "Been dead two or three days when w found him," said the nelghlsir. "What more does his brother want f" I asked. "lie still seems to be on guard," "Well, he Is so deaf he can't hear when we boiler over nnd tell him, and he is so blind he couldn't sec when his brother fell down by the log nnd died Besides, he has lost bis season, lis will never know that the brothers' feud la ended." Chicago Herald. rixlllnn During Sleep. Man Is when standing erect the only aul mal that das the thigh in line with the axis of the vertebral column, ami among bis nennM congeners in the animal world the flexed stale of I he femoral articulation is natural and constant. As we go down the scale the angle Is'tween the thighs and trunk diminishes until it reaches the right angle characteristic of most quad mpeds. I speak here of the attitude adopted when the animal is at rest upon Its legs, for during sleep there is In many cases a curious reversion to the position occupied In embryonic lira. Thus we ee that a bird roosting with Its head "under Its wing" and the legs drawn unclose to the body offers a decided resemblance to the chick In the egg. I have noticed that young children, when old enough to shift their limits, very scl dom sleep lu any hut the curled up posl tion, and that as often as not, when un hampered by clothing or other artificial restraints, they sleep In the same attitude aado many (iiiailniiwds viz., with the ab domen downward and tha limbs flexed beneath them. I am told thut negro moth ers and nurses In tbe West Indies invari ably lay their charges down to sleep on their stomachs, and that this custom is also common In various parts of the world. -Nineteenth Century. Hardly Complimentary. A certain author, having explained the natnre of his occupation to an old Manx woman, was hardly prepared for the com ment, "Well, well, what does it matter so long as a body makes his llvln honestly V the words lielng evidently meant to put hlin on better terms with himself. But worse' still fared an Kngllsh clergyman, for some time vicar of a Manx parish, and from Ig norance of the people and their ways not a very popular one. Having received prefer ment elsewhere, be started on a round of farewell visits, but without hearing a sin gle regret. At last oue old woman told Llm she was "mortal sorry." In blsde light tlie vicar let curiosity outrun discre tion, and be asked for her reason. "Well," said she, with touching candor, "we've bad a lot o' pass'ns over here from England, and each one bas been worse than the lust, and after you're gone I'm afeard they'll be sen'in us the devil himself." The vicar left hurriedly. tondon Saturday Review. Showar Roquets. Tbs "shower boqucts" are still popular, though they seem to be relegated chiefly to brides. lxng stemmed flowers, flowing loops of ribbon, and drooping tendrils art tbe features of these poties. which cover a wide surface. One carried by a bride of tbe past week had to be held alsiut at cor sags level to let Its showering ends escape tbe floor. The notion Is an Kngllsh Im portation -New York Time They Ho u need Him. Tbe agent of an American soap company weut to Uruguay and began to extensively advertise bis goods, but In less than a week be was called in and advised to leave tbe country. He was giving away samples, aud such a course, he was told, waa calculated to make the people wasteful and extrava gant. Detroit Free Preaa. Meat Invoice, Perhaps. It was Horatio who, alluding to his (Hamlet's) father, first observed to Ham let, "Can you match this ahadef" Not invoice, certainly," replied tbe Dane uneasily, aa the ghost's hollowed tones came gurgling up through the sod It la not what a thins Is. bnt what we think It la, that frightens ns. A man walks within an Inch of death without knowing It anil therefor without tremhllnir. and then his hair Hands on rod at some empty noise as harmless as us nuaiiog ox a ny. CURIOUS SUICIDES. HISTORICAL DEATHS THAT HAVE BEEN SELF AFFLICTED. Rrimirknlde Ii IIiimI t inlo)r,l by Peo ple Seeking In KuIIiiiiii the Myiterlet ft Ihe t iikniiwit Uurld-Niagara Falls l I'lipiiliir I'hii'e fur DfajMniilrntt. Ill a liilk I had a few days ago with a :eiitlcinaii w ho I "well lip" on the subject of suicide, who ha miidt- it a life study al most, lie imparled lo me some facts that were slur! ling. There are many who say that none but couards commit suicide, while oi hers iusi-t that it ritiulrcs nerve and bravery lo suddenly terminate one's own existence and etiterlnto a future state that is paradovieal a to Its lieing, Some men u ho commit suicide lire brave, others arc conurd ami do not dare to face mis fortune I think they are alsiut evenly divided. It I a disease iu many instances. work devoted for the most part to statistii on suicide was at hand, and it showed niaiiy Interesting facts concerning the subject under consiilerat Ion. From it the fact wa gleaned that I lie United States I considered an Al country in which to shulllooff the mortal coil. Here the ratio i I to every l,.VKi inhabitants, while In gay ran It Is to each '.'.Tiio, and In smoky loudon and chilly St. Petersburg I to each 21,H0O or population. In till ltussia, how ever, the ralio Is a I toIH.'.MH; In Sweden, I to lr.Vi;.)-, In Saxony, I to 8, 4-10. lu the winter of our discontent" there are decidedly moro suicides than In the summer time, and a majority of them oc cur In the morning. omen appear to love lite more than men, tor four men com mit suicide where one woman takes her own life, and the ratio is much smaller in married life than In widowerliood. The early part nf the week claims more sui cides than the latter part, and the early part or the month more than tho waning. IIKATIIS AT MAGAItA. Ill any one particular part of the United States Niagara Falls bnstbecall, and there is no doubt that many "disappearances" Hud a last resting plaeo nt this suicide suggesting resort. Suicides are so com mon nowadays that the subject would not Is? worthy of extended comment were it not for the fact that tho means used to as sure the desired result have In a number of eases liccti so remarkable. The pistol, poison nnd tbe nine are gen erally used In solving the great problem, and these are ao frequently used by the man or woman tired of life that unless there is some romance connected with the suicide or unless he or she may have been a distinguished person very little space is vouchsafed the story in tbe daily newspa pers. Here area rew or the remarkable ones which have caused excitement during the past wore or years or so nnd which are remarkable for the exceptional reasons above referred to. TWO WKl.t IlEMKMnKIIKI) DEATnS. Twenty years ago there wus probably no mnn Is-tter known among "gentleman drivers" than Moil Tunlson, whose famed Bostlery wus on the old Coney island road. Mart was known from Coney Island to Canada as a jolly host nnd good fellow. Ills hotel was the stopping place, and Mort grew wealthy. Suddenly the park com missioners determined to construct a new 210 foot boulevard about a quarter of a mile west of Coney island road. Mort kicked. Tho commissioners urged him to move his hotel to a new sito on tbe pro posed lioulevard, but hewouldu't have it. lie said that his place would draw the crowds, Isiiiluvard or no boulc-vurtl. The new parkway soou became u tact, and new hotels sprang up all along its line. The old Coney Island road liccame deserted. One by one Moil's old customers left him, as the new road was a beauty and wus just built for trotters. Mort had plenty of opportunity to get In the swim, but be wascontrnry and wouldn't take advantage of IL One Hue morulng Mort didn t appear at breakfast as bad been his wont. Investigation proved tbat bo would never appear at breakfast In this world again. During the night or in the early morning hours ho biu committed sulcido. His old friends had left bim, bis fumed bostlery had become desolate and life had become a burden to him. The suicide of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt wus an exception to the rule Iwcuuseof the fact that his name was world known. He was a son of Commodore Vanderbilt. He had become a spendthrift and In March. 1883, be shot himself through the head In his room in the Gtenham hotel In this city. Financial troubles wero said to have been tbe cause of the deed. Several times Com modore Vanderbilt hail la-en called iix .i to pay his son's debts and he finally becuriie tiled of so doing. When the commodore died he left young Cornell the Interest of moo.OUO. Cornell also received a large sum to withdraw from the contest of the com modore's will These amounts be soon squandered and he died almost penniless. AN UNCASSY SUICIDE. Another case of Interest at the time ot Its occurrence waa that of Mine. Hestell, a malpractioner, who wus one of the wealthiest women in the country, hor wealth having been accumulated in her practice. She owned and occupied a pala tini mansion on Fifth avenue. One morn ing she was found dead in her bathtub, and few sorrowed, as she wus said to bold many secret concerning scandals in high life which died with her. Probably the most uncanny suicide that the newmM'rs were called upon to report the facts or waa that of Philip Truschel, which occurred In Claj'kson street. Flat bush, I I., In the summer of I WO. Truschel Was employed by hlsuncle, Ix)ulsScbmutz, who wus a florist in the village named. Truschel became despondent and frequent ly threatened to take his own life. One morning aa the other employees en tered the greenhouse they smelted an odor as if of something burning. Usin investi gating tbey found Truschel with his body wedged half way through thefurnacedoor way. His bead and part of his body wero completely burned away. He left a letter Inviting those of his friends who were as unhappy as he had been to do as ha had done. In 1880 Paul lllnes committed suicide In Lake Michigan in a novel way, which showed that be was a determined fellow. In order to guard against rescue he tied a life preserver to his feet so tbat he would be sure to float bead downward and thus drown before assistance could reach bim. He succeeded. New York Herald Draping for a Front Door. A new form of draping the glass panel In tbe front door ia a deviation from the simple muslin sash curtains. Presume tbat tbs glass panel is fifteen inches wide. Down the center, for a ace of about sit inches wide, is s silk network In a mesh aa big as a quarter of a dollar. On each aide of this Is a length of ailk drapery four or Are Inches wide. This schema is varied by arranging tbe network In other forms, In cross stripes or disgonala, Philadelphia Upholsterer. How Did Da Take It? A nobleman who was sitting on the hill side with his shepherd observed the sheep reposing in the coldest situation, and said to him, "John, if I were a sheep I wonld lie on the other side of tbr bill." "Aye, my lord," answered John, "but if ye had been a sheep, ye won Id hue had malrsense." Ban Francisco Argonaut. Somewhat Particular. City Niece (reprovingly) Why do you pnt your own knife In the butter, Uncle Waybackf Uncle Wayback-Why, Eldora, I doo'l wanter use that there publio knifs what everybody uses. -Good News.