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EUGENE'CITT GUARD. I, 1 VAMrU&U, , Freprlet. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. TWO KINDS OF PAWNBROKERS. A Meraber of Dm fraternity Pernende Vpon th W'jrl (! fledging I'ublie. "There are two distinct claaaet of pawnbroker in New York," uid aa ibist Broadway member of the frater nity who clearly did not belong1 to the better class, aa be aat behind hi closed doon t few night ago and fumigated the old clothe lie hod taken in aa col lateral with the smoke of a bod litre tent cigar. "They aupply the ncedi of two dia metrically dint-rent clusse of custo mer. One class may 1m called the 'old ikirt and pelticout army,' and the iher the 'watch and ulster brigade Una deals with persona who, for the most part, hypothecate their goods to obtain money to have fun with, and the other with the musses who pawn clothes to buy food. Of course each class outers occasionally upon the do main of the oilu r, but thine axe the broad distinctions. "All pawnbroker, whatever their status, find their busiost lima ou the day before a holiday, but while we in the more squalid jortioiiof the city are taking in every conceivable kind of rubbish until our shelve are loaded our brethren in other localities are dragging valuable securities into the light of duy and exchanging them for cash. The reason for this may be summed us in a few words: on festival occasions persons of aristocratic ten dencies want to look well, while plain, struggling people are content to feed well. If the necessity arisen, tho gen tleman about town will draw upon his dinner for his ring or sealskin coat, and the toiler will hypothecate his own Hunday suit of clothe or his wife's best gown for the holiday meal. Two days Inter, when the merrymaking is over, tho valuables are likely to go back into retirement, but the rubbish, unfortunutely, is pretty sure to remain on our bunds for some time. "1 do not include Sunday in this category of holidays. We Jo quite a different kind of traiio on Halurduy night, whan we keep the ollice open tinlil 11 o'clock. Sunday garment are interchangeable property between us and our customer, and we do not value them in the usual way, but largely in proportion to the punctu ality with which their owners take them out at the end of each week. Thus if we have once lent a woman $2 on a cloak we do not waul to decrease the aiuountof any subsequent loan for a long time, though the garment may greatly full otf in vuluo, if she is regu lar in redeeming it on Katurduy night and putting it up uguin ou Monday morning. l'oor people are gen erally good church goer, and if the head of a family is earning any thing at all, tho ghost is apt to walk on buiidny, and so our shelves are usually cleaned of Sunday goods be fore 11 o'clock. "There are a good many people who deal with the more exclusivo class of pawnbrokers, who adopt the reverse of this rulo. They put up their goods on Saturday night, and take them out, if they can be if or borrow sulllcient money, ou Monday, sending Sunday at home hilariously with some guest. These are mil Ood fearing persons, and 1 am glud to have nothing to do with them. "Oh, yes j I have to charge my poor customers a liltlo more than 1 would if 1 were lending lurger amounts ou better security. Tho law allows such small interest that 1 increase my in come by putting llfty-six cent on a tickol for a shawl when I have only lent the owner half a dollar. If she does not like it she can leave it, you know. There are very sad scone, of course, in tho ollice sometimes, but the tears must all be shed before the counter: wo have no time for thorn be bind it," Now York Sun. TU Uuuan Family, The human family living on earth today amount to about l,4"0,OO0,0O0 souls, not less, but probably mora. They are distributed all over the earth's surfueo, there being no consid erable sNit where man has uot found a foothold. : In "Asia, the supposed cradle of tho human ' ruco, there are now about 81)0,1)00,000 of people, densely crowded, on an average of 120 to every square mile. In Europe there are 320,000,000, averaging 100 to each square milo, and not so crowded, but everywhere dense and in muny places overpopululed. In Africa there are approximately, JW.OOO.OUO, and in the Amoricas, North, Central and Bouth, 110,000.000, and. of course, relatively thinly scattered. In the isl ands, largo and snmll, there are Prob ably 10,000,000. Tho extremes of the whites and block are a live to three; the remaining 700,000,000 intermediate brown and tawny color. Of the en tire race 51)0,000,000 are well clothed lliut is, they wear garment of some kind to cover nakedness; 250,000,000 hubituully go nuked, and 700,000,000 ouly cover the middle parts of the body j 000,000.000 live in house, 700, 000,000 in huts and caves, and 250, 000,000 virtually have no place to lay their heads. St. Louis Hepublie, Ovurtlulng lb A prominent fault to be found with New York drawing rooms is the too great profusion of furniture and brio a brao crowded into them. It trips you on the floors, drops down at you from the chandelier and cornices, make it dangerous to stretch your leg or move your elbows when you sit, and rea ders it itiiossiblo to tlnd a bit of un occupied wall big enough to lean against. It is a great pleasure, of course, to have lot of pretty thing, but they ueed not ull be ou exhibition It, once. One fashionuble woman in this city, who can afford to buy al most anything that strike her fancy, ho a store room in her house tilled with brie -a-brac and furniture. Every week a dozen or so of those precious treasures are brought out and ar ranged about the rooms, and as many other as have been on duty for a time are packed away agaiu. Thus her parlor has always a certain expres sion about it, so to speak, widely dif ferent from the look of abaxar. high ly fashionuble, but exceedingly un restful, that a too well filled room has. -New York Letter. When to Bujr Skee. A customer with tender feet should be fitted with shoes late In th afternoon. Th feet are then at their utmost six, for activity eulaxgea tham. Shoe and Leather Reporter. . -A MtrmOPOUTAN WILDCAT. . A City lUmarkabU riparian . with a Strang Plies. A New York woman bad an experi ence a few nlgbt ago which she will not soon forget vne which, considering bar environment, was very surprising. Bar bout is a gronnd apartment, occu pying two floors, however, In one of th high class apartment bouses in Fifty ninth street overlooking the park. Th library la on the second floor, and is this room she was seated one night when a peculiar noise from the family parrot, who was In hi cage in an oppo site room, attracted bor attention. Thinking the bird was merely rest less and wanted his cage covered, she picked np a soft woolen couch cover and started across the hall. At the threshold of the second room she saw crouching on the top of the parrot's cage a gray cat, which had succeeded by bis weight and clawing in inclining the cage almost to the tipping angle, poor Toll meanwhile traveling np and down the upper side in a frenzy of fright The unequal trngule could not have lasted many seconds longer, and, nrged by the crisis, though really alarmed at tho nnusnnl rize and fierce appearance of the cat, Poll's mistress advanced into the room shaking the couch cover and 'attempting, after the tnaunorof women, to "shoo" the cat away. 8he had half crossed the apartment when the animal mado a spring at her, and but for her qnick movement In covering her head with the couch cover which she held her face would have re ceived the brunt of the attack. Aa it was, the cat clawed violently fur an in stant at the mass of woolly material in which be was enmeshed; then, aided by the desperate push which the now ter rified woman gave him, leaped to tho floor and dashed into the library. Mrs. recovered her senses and closed the door between herself and the cat, then violently rang the bell for as sistance. The maids responded and, after carrying Poll to a place of safety in a remote room, an attempt was made to dislodge the cat from tho library. At sight of her pursuers the creature began to rush about, jumping through a brass screen with force enough to break it, knocking over bric-a-brao and loose books, and ending by scaling the win dow casing a if it wero a tree and run ning out on the bare curtain pole. From this high perch he gftred down at throe beneath him nntll Mr. ' arrival shortly afterward. lie wa then prod ded down and leapod through a window opened for him to the pavement below, darting off to the park aa soon as he reached the ground. Policemen and other familiar with Central park say that stray city cats often find homes in its sequestered nooks, growing wild and raising prog' any mat necuine almost a iierce ami . Vou t(x) ,,, f(,r an p,. , terrible as a genuine wildcat In this ym,.d Ut lhe ,vltVi emulate," ald Mr. instance the animal wa doubtless drivon Camp, looking ut tho brawny arms. Ile froin it haunt by hunger, and, getting tides, I know your cotiutrymeu la.y fvl in on tho ground floor, was attracted up low who never do their best. No; I've stair to the parrot' cage by the scent been taken In by Irish hands before, and I of the bird and it food.-IIor Point of . won't have another." ., . , , . ,, View in New York Times. Cnrloiltlea of Saperatltlon. When Egypt was in the height of her power, when she was most highly civi lized and delighted in being called the ilutivaca r9 4lin It ml ami aiiin tSftF iwuw lUWM vaa iw eiue, ai-v . i.. .. o v. i patra, "star eyed goddess, glorious sor- , ceres of the Nile," such animals were shod with gold and hud their horns tipped with the same motul. Herodotus . tell of a man who died with grief be- cause he sold a cow that oou after be-! cam the mother of a black bull calf , niarkod with the sacred white circle In hi forehead. St. Loul Republic. Preliminary to the) Ilaptlim. When Dlshon Ooe. of Melbourne, waa . rti m t,1 ..V 1va.ll Tl.a,M ... 1 llrlllff WlluII UVPrf HntwtMl SUV, vamp, pie worshiped a black bull. There wa ,rreirtcu8by the Bpeecu M Ue turui!j some discrimination, however, even ln'y thl form of worship. In order to be an , jHt Noraond Jamesy." objoct of mad adoration it was. nope- "Who are they " sarythat the bull calf tie born with a I "The wan's me wife, the other me child," circular white spot in the exact center said the num. "Oh, sir, JUt thry me. of hi forehead, and the advent of such How'll I bring 'cm over to me If no one creature In any herd was the signal of will tfve me a JobP I want to be aiming, wild demonstrations from theMcdlter- and the whole big city swms aglt.st It, and . i .i. .t. i .,i i ' me with arm like thim." He bared hi ranean to the border o the Lyblan de- j to h bo k nm, Mr curate a famou pugilist In the parish, vry penny, and wore the same shabby Who went by the namo of Jim the Blog-: clotue ln which he had made his first an ger and who had never darkened a nt , Bpcu,,,.. hatlM one UaVi churuh door, called at the parsonage .. o(T tll brlllKlni Nl)rtt and JamJ asking htm to baptizo the baby. Ac-1,,,, Ikjtter no coat to me back than no cordinglythe bishop ri'palred to Jim' wife and boy by me fl reside, and anyhow, bouse, but wa surprised ou being ad- It's slow work saving." niitted to see Jiui lock the door and It waa slow work, but he kept at Ik pocket the key. "Bo you the parson Ot"r ""n thoughtless and full of fun, come to sprinkle my kidr he asked. On trM nittke ,,lm urluk' axedhlmto the bishop assenting, he continued. "Yer sccompany them to place of amusement i 1 11 11 1 1 1 .:n .. . j ortoshare n their Sunday frolics. A 1 In can t sprinkle that kid till you and me R(tQMJ ked ,kw, COHmnion. bus had a fight, parson. ! hlpi but h, wouj not (lell,y thllt ,ong The unfortunate parson protosted, but looked for bringing of Nora over, and he finding protest useless "stood up" to j was not "mane enough" to accept favor Jim. The battle went for the bishop, of other which he would not repay. He and Jim, pulling himself from the floor, kept on his way, a martyr to his one great muttered, "He1 the parson for me." , wIh, living on little, working at night on The baptism wa proceeded with and. any extra job by which he could earn a as the story goes.Jlin took to church " V,)' nT.naVv!! 2 , . .tii n 11 f 111 listen of his one great nope and of Nora going from that duy.-Pall MaU Oaiotte, 1 nA litUe jamMy, At a FeaiU There is a new shape for the dinner table a triangle. The host Is seated in the middle of the shortest side and tho hostesa at the meeting of the two longer one. This arrangement bring the en tertainer and the entertained nearer together than at the ordinary square or round table. A (ingle cloth I not used on these triangular tables, but rather narrow scarfs of heavy open work. Be tween the scarf and the center piece tho space is filled with bonbon and salted almond dishes. Food. A Oaa Hunting Crate. In a bonne stove introduced in Eng land the grate is swung on trunnions and can be reversed. After fresh coal ha been added at the top the reversal 1 made, and the green coal is thus brought to the bottom in an easy manner. By thit mean the gaset from the coal, pass- Ing upward through the red portion of the fire, previously t the bottom, are almost entirely consumed before reacu- . lag the chimney. Xw York Journal Work for the Hummer. A yonng woman who ha a dressmak ing establishment in Cost TUirty ttrst street, New York, makes her reut by storing fur, wrap and winter dresses for her customer during the warm weather. The garment i cleaned, reno vated and packed away, and when called for is freshened with new linings, rib bons, button or frills, and a sufhYUnt sum charged to cover th bill, including lnguranc.Eichatur. Several women have been permitted to practice dentistry ln Denmark after saving paaaad the regular aramlnattoua, A DISGUISED HERO. Be Muster along with laggard tupt In bis (so o pride or paaatoo- Eii dothee are out of the lataat cut Bis bst 1 quit out at fasiiloo. Be (topi M drink at th bom trough there, Of UM water cool anJ dripping, To geperous draught of s thirsty mas, Ko meager, half way sipping. A tramp, perhaps, or won; who knowsr At lb roadside bow ba'a alwplng But, bark I What iBirible sound la that? Loud terra ma and mad flames leaping. A bouse on Ore, with lu dire reeult! Weak women and babes in danger. With watvr acaroe and absent men Cut where la the sleeping etrunxerf A man stand there In the very place Of the careleaa footaore creature; But thla one has oourage to do and dare Marked out In erery feature. Yt be Is the tame, this hero brare. The sbirtlem eeemlng stranger; He caret b not for leaping Same, lie caretb nut for the danger. , e e e e a a e The habee sre safe In their mother's arms, And bushed are the soba and alehlug, Bui down on the greennward, orur there, The hero bold la dying. On lifting the cape of his seedy coat (Put there by lorln? faror) They found three medal, on each Inscribed, "To the Huro, Our Brave Life Kaver." New York Ledger. A MODERN HERO. To the Memory of Michael Itooney, thla simple atone was erected by bis Fellow Workmen. Those words you may read any day upon a plain whitoslab in a cemetery In one of our large cities. But you might read them a hundred times without u-urxHlng at the little tragedy they Indicate, without know Inn the bumble romance which ended with the placing of that stone aliove the dust of one poor and humble man. In Ills shnlihy jacket and mud laden bro gan lie wa scarcely an attractive ohji-cl as he walked into Mr. Camp's (treat tin and hardware shop una day and presented himself nt the counter with: "I've been tould ye advertised for haw's, yer honor." "Fully supplied, my mnn," said Mr. Camp, not lifting his head from his ac count book. "I'd work faithful, sir, and take low wris till I could do Letter, and I'd leurn -I would that." It was an Irish brogue, and Mr. Camp had declared that he never would employ an Incompetent band. Yet the tone at tracted him. lie turned briskly, and with bis pen behind bis eur he addressed the man who was ouly one of fifty who bud answered his advertisement that nmrnliiu, for four workmen. "What makes you expect to learn faster than other folks! Are yon any smarter?" "I'll not say that," said the man, "but I'd be wishing to; that 'ud make it easier." "Are you used to the workf" "I've done a bit of It." "Muchr" No, yer honor, I'll tell no Ho; but I Know nun umiub nun. I 1.1. ..I .!-.. tl 1 lie V lift I II TV ill lint c HJ ijc ni viirr ih in Ing'em over In her two arms, thin," said the man despairingly, "for I've tramped all day for the last fortnight, and uiver a tob ran I j!ct, and that's the last penny I lave, yer honor, and It's but a half one." As bespoke bespread his palm open and displayed an hngliuli liulf'H-nny. - - - - q,,, lookeil at them and then at bis race, n ,re ,0 for a week." he said; "and now as It's noon go down Into tho kitchen and ask the girl to give you your dinner a hungry man ean'l work." And with an Irish blessing the new hand wbU" Mr CllI"P went uI)stnlr 10 bl w"' . ,. fast. At the end of the week he was en gaged permanently, and soon was the best workman lu the shop, lie wa a great talker, but not fond of drink nor of wast- Ina money. As his wages grow he hoarded At first the men, who prided themselves on being all Americans, and on turning out the best work In the city, made a sort of butt of Rooney and his Irish ways. But he won their heart at last, and when one day, mounting on a workbench, he shook his little bundle.wrapped In a red handker chief, before their eye and (aouted: lXK)k, boys, I ve got the whole at last; I n to bring Nor and Jamesy overat last!" all foil a sympathy In his joy, and each grasped bis .brawny haud in cordial congratulations. They parted In a merry mood, most of the men going to comfortable homes. But Kooney's resting place was a poor lodging house, where he shared a garret with four other men, and In the joy of his heart the poor fellow exhibited hi handkerchief with his bard earned savings tied up In a hard wad in the middle, before he put it under hit pillow and fell asleep. When he awakened In the morning he found his treasure gone. Some villain had robbed him. At first Rooney would not bellev It lost. Fie searched every corner of the room, shook hi quilt and blanket, and begged those about blm to "quit joking and glv It back." But at last be realised th truio. "I any man that bad that' thaved trom rnerh asked. "Boy,! auymau that And aome one answered, "Xo doubt of It, Rooney; It stole." Then Rooney put hi bead down on bis bands and wept. It seemed more than he could bear to have Nora and th child put mouth away from him again. But when be went to work that day It teemed to all who saw blm that he had picked up a new determination; hi band were never Ml. At dooq be scratched out a letter, blotted and vary strangely scrawled, telling Nora what had happened, and t he men noticed that he bad no meat with his dinner. Indeed trom that moment n lived on bread, patatoea and ooii wtar, Ud vrortsd a few men ever worked Defer, ft grew to be the talk of th shop, and everyone wanted to help Rooney. Job were thrown In hi way, kind word nd friendly wlbe helped bim mightily, but no power could mat bun share the food or drink of any other workman. That seemed a ort of charity to him. Still h wa helped along. A present from Mr. Camp at pay day set Nor, as be said, "a. week nearer." Th little board grew faster than the first. At last, before he hoped It, be wa able to say, "I'm going to bring them over," and to bow bl handkerchief, In which, a be fore, be tied up bl earning thl tlm, however, ouly to hi friend. Cautlou among strangers, b bid bl treasure, and kept hi vest buttoned over It night and day until the ticket wer bought nd tent. Then every man, woman and child capable of hearing or understanding knew that Nora and the baby were coming. Th day flew by and brought at last letter from his wife, "She would start aa he desired, and she was well and so was the boy, and might the Lord bring them safe to each other's arms and blest those who had been so kind to hlra." Thatwa the substance of the epistle that Rooney proudly assured the men that Nora wrote herself. She had lived at service a a girl with a certain good old lady who had given her an education, the Item of which Rooney told upon his finger, "The radin', thnt'a one; and the writln', that' three; and moreover she know all a woman can." Then he looked at the men and asked, "Do ye wondther the time seems long between me an' her, boysf" So it was Nora at the dawn of day, Nora at noon and Nora nt night, until the new came that the Kathleen had come to port It hnppcncd on a holiday afternoon, and half a dozen men were ready to go with Rooney to the steamer and giv his wife a welcome. Her little home was ready. Mr. Camp's own servant had put It in order. "She hadn't the lolke of that in the ould connthry," said Uooney, when all wa ar ranged, "but she'll know how to kape it tidy." At lost the dock was reached. A crowd of vehicle blockaded the atrect; a troop of emigrant came thronging up; fine cabin passengers werestepplng Intocnlm; drivers and porters were shouting In the nsual manner. Nora would wait on board for her husband he knew that. The llttlo group made their way Into the vessel, and Uooney searched for the two so dear to him, patiently at first, but by and by growing anxious and excited. "Why don't you ask the captalnf" sug gested one, and Rooney jumped at the thought. In a few moments he stood be fore a portly, rubicund man, who nodded to him kindly. "I'm looking for me wife, yer honor," said Rooney, "and I can't find her. I bade her wait for me." "Women do.i't always do as they are bid, you know," said the captain. "Nora would," said Rooney; "but maybe she didn't come,' At the name of Nora the captain started. In a moment be asked, "What la your namef" "Mike Rooney, air." "And your wife was Nora?" "That's her name, and the boy with her Is Jamesy, your honor." The captain looked at Rooney and then aid, "Sit down, my man; I've got some thing to tell yon." "She's left behind?" asked Rooney. "She sailed with us," said the captain. "My man, we all have our trials; God sends them. Yes, Nora started with is." Rooney said nothing. He was looking at the captain, now white to the lips. "It had been a sickly season; we had Ill ness on board the cholera," aald the cap tain. "Many died many children. When we were half wbv here your boy was taken Irk" "Jamesy!" gasped Rooney. "Ills mother watched him night and day," the captain went on, "and we did all we could; but at last he died, only one of many. There wero five burled that day." Rooney groaned. "Keep up If you can, my man," snld the captain. "That night Nora was taken ill also, very suddenly; she grew worse fast. In the morning she called me to her and said, Tell Rooney I died thinking of him; tell him to meet me.' And, my man, she never said anything more; in an hour she was gone." Rooney bail risen; he stood up trying to steady himself, looking at the captain with dry eyes; then, turning to his friends, he said: "Hoys, I've got me death," and dropped to t he deck like a log. They raised him and bore hlra away. They carried him to the little bed which had been mado ready for Nora, wearied with her long journey. There at lost he opened his eyes. Mr. Camp bentover him, and the room was full of Kooney's fellow workmen. "Better, Rooney?" asked Mr. Camp. "A dale betthcr," said Rooney; "It's easy now. I'll be with her soon. And look ye, niasther, I've learnt oue thing God's good. He wouldu't let me bring Nora over, but he's taking me over to her anil Jamesy over the river. Don't you see It, and her a-standin' on the other aider" And with these wonts Rooney stretched out his arms. Perhaps he did see Nora heaven only knows and so he died. Eve lena J. Fryer In Independent, A Born Infidel. A little sprite of a girl about 4 year old wa very cross one day and her mother, reproving her, said: "Nellie, you must not get Into such tempers; you must try hard not to." "I do try." whimpered Nellie, "hut something Inside 0' me Is wrong, and I feel cross, cross, cross." "You must pray to God and ask bim to take away the cross feeling." "I did ask God and be paid no 'tention." "You must ask harder," said the mother; "there is another one who la trying to get you away from God." Nellie wits very much Interested In this "other one" and wanted to know all about him. So her mother told her as simply as she could the old version of the rise and fall of Satan, and that little girls must be good so Satan couldn't gut them. Nellie listened, folded ber little hands compla .eutly, shook her wee head In a comforting way and made her mother weep by saying: "If God made an angel that lived right in hcaveu right 'fore his eyes, and the angel acted that way, God can't 'spect much ot me." New York Tribune. Newspaper Women la London. London is said to have no less than 18.000 newspajier women, and the La die' School if Journalism, like our Nor mal college, turns ont fresh material at the rate of 200 a term. There are no less than twenty-two pros clubs, whore the fair scribblers meet to lunch, read, gabble and exchange notes. The suc cesses are few and the salaries lament ably small. Mrs. E. L. Lowe edit The Queen, which is the leading women' paper in England. The English Wom an' Review is under the management of Mif Helen Blackburn, and Mis Becker is responsible for The Manchester Jour nal of Woman' Suffrage. London Let ter. A Friend of Browwlng. Mrs. Ellen Mitchell, who ha been a member of the Chicago board of educa tion for the past two years, was a friend of the Brownings, and corresjvmled with the poet np to the time of his death. Some of the letters she received are in th Fortnightly club, a society com posed of a few brilliant women and a lot of purse proud women who are not so literary. But thry pay the bill and th blue stocking do the edifying and mrstifrlnT, Chicago Letter. NOT A BAIT FOA R0EEER8. Ad Old Rallniad Jlan 'Tall Why I lvalue Are Naver "Held tP "THiy i it that train robber never plunder a pay train i" , , , "Decuuw they know their reward would be too inignillcant.,, That U the way an ex-railroad man put it recently. , -Less money," lie added, "is carried on a pay train thau any other kind of train. Some folk imagine that tlie payi.f tlieemplovcof the two great svstems terminating here, oggreguting hundred of thousand monthly, u piled away in the cur, Olid is haulod over tho road." Isn't that the case?" "No. The train would be robbed before they got well out of Savannah. Resides, who would be able to keep up with a cor loud of money f It ilur ly silver, and the ten cent pieces and .r , 1 1.1 u.tiiM run tlie nicKeisuiiu iuocuij;i .--awav with things." "ilow is the business conducted, tljon ?" "fcisily enough. In fact there is but oneway to properly carry it on. That wuv is to araw ou the bunks ut each city for enough to pay off until the next city is readied. For instance, iu leaving Savannah over the Savan nah, Florida and Western railroad or the Central railroad just enough money is taken to pay employes, in cluding agent, track hands, operators and others ut each of the stations. This amount is not very large. Tho largest amounts aio puid out in the cities; for iiistunce, in Macon the en- Eineers, Dreinen, conductors and yard unds, and other of the Savannah and Western railroud, ore paid otT; in Augusta the employe of the South Curolina division of the Central are paid oil': the same is true with the Suvannnii, Florida and Western rail way. By this means tho largest sums paid outumount to a little more thun a transfer of money procured from the bunks, through the paymaster of tho railroad, to tlie employes. The sums puid out on the lino between the head quarters of euch division are small compared to the amounts puid out in tho cities. None ol the engineers or firemen or conductor or brukeinen are puid oft ut point along tho line. They are tho employe that get tho largest pay." The railroad man related an inci dont which took place several years ago, which lie said put mutters in a bad light and made the nay train tempting to train robbers. A newspa per reporter on oue of tho dailies in a western town wrote a long article, aintiiiir limv miifh tiioncv it red ui red to pay olf the employes of the road, and concluded by saying it was singu lar that the robbers seldom held up the pay trains. Tho figure tho newspa per man gave were correct, and the article attracted widespread attention. Several olliciuls of the road went to tho general manager ubout the mutter, and began to suggest a remedy for what they considered a very bud prac tice. 1 The general manager explained to them that the amount of money car- 1 ried on puy trains was small compared to whut is carried on a regular mail and express train, but tho matter was not settled until the newspaper man published an interview with the gen- I eral manager, giving the fucts and ' stating the manner iu which the busi ness was conducted on pay trains. The railroader said, however, that the danger of pay train robbery is very ; slight Tho robbers have posted them selves about these mutters. Savannah News, I A Flnanelul Trammel Ion. A young man who is employed in the oilico of a leading local architect was greatly chagrined to discover, when he reached home the other night, that the conductor of an Indi ana avenue car had foisted upon him a half dollar in which there was a plug half as largo us tho coin it-sclf. Ho wus primarily disgusted at being nmdo the victim of such a palpable fraud, and he declared his intention of handing it bucK to the oll'eiidiug conductor, if possible. Accordingly he timed the man's car and boarded it on the fol lowing morning'. That night lie re- I turned homo and proudly boasted that I his ruse liud been successful and that he had handed back the spurious half whence it came. In proof of this he exhibited the change, and among it he was pained to discover a plugged nickel which could not have deceived a blind man. Ho resolved to give this back to the same conductor, and the next time lie boarded his car he so ar ranged the nickel in his lingers that the j plug would not bo conspicuous when lie landed it over. Just as the con- I ductor approached him, the man sit ting at his left said: "Excuse me, sir, but I see you have a nickel there; 1 have a dime, and if you will give me your nickel I will pay both fares." As there was 110 visible way out of it, the young man handed the plugged nickel 111 silence, but he went out on the frout platform and froze during the rest of tlte trip, lest the stranger should discover the plug. Chicago Herald. i A Maalirnnm Myth It is a popular error that mushrooms grow to their full size during a single night, and that they dissolve and van ish after the sun shines upon them. They are rapid in growth and rapid in decay; but tho sumo mushroom may be watched growing and expanding for two or three days, and tbeu gradu ally decaying away. Much depends on the dampness or dryness of the , season. In some seasons they are ex ceedingly plentiful, while at other times they are comparatively rare. This also y believed to depend on cli matic conuitious. It is not unusual for cultivated mushrooms to become attacked by a parasitic mold, which render them unlit for food. This misfortune rarely happens to the wild form until it is in process of decay. The catacombs of Paris are noted for their production of mushrooms in im mense quantities. From the Mery cave as muny as S.000 pound are aent to market daily. We have heard of a crop being grown in a hat box. Pall Mall Budget. Comlug Into Ih Again. Safety chains between passenger cars are largely in use, and although proba bly one-third of such cars in this conn try are not yet o equipped, the tendency U toward their general nse. Passenger cars will sometimes uncouple around curve and drawbars will sometime break or pull out; hence precaution against the result of occurrences i ad visable. The Car Builder' association ha properly undertaken to remedy the great difference of form and location of safety chain now existing by agreeing tpon a standard, prescribing alee tod kh of chain and book. Rail war Ag. A MACK OP COLD. ttob eatinl decked her form with charm aiata, Heratelwa. grand, ber fearum. cold, ber ml A high as that of any Jeweled queeo. . . T jMml m ai her gate. Where Uferled aerraut tuxi In humble wall Butbuabl Death cne, silent guert unaeeo. Ee stilled the scene where rrelry had uvea, And left the proud lu mourn In Icy ami 8b left her glory lo Ibe greedy world, Her glided balla. her treaaurte lnierkd; But wblU ber golden knell on earth aa tolleU, Her long nrglwled soul, with penury shod, OUgulaed no more In alilulng mask of gold, buud like beggar li-'liu '" f Oo- -t W. bliurtlrff In IUwb Traurlpt Munleruoa Science. The American Analyst tell of the fceurtles treutmeiit u young womun leceuJly underwent ut the hand of some o called 'Chrisliaii Scientists," in Boston, Mass., which resulted in lier cruel death, and say: In Brook lyn a tem)orary stop Ims been put lo this peculiar phase of fanaticism by the incarceration of several of its hom icidal adept in the penitentiary. No more flagrant case, however, has been brought to the public uttention than this one in Boston, and it is to be hoped, in the interest of reason and humanity, that the authorities in thul center of culture will interpose their authority so as to, at least, prevent the likelihood of a repetition thereof such an enormity. A young lady from Chattanooga, Tenn., Buffering from consumption, wa induced to nlace herself in charge of an aunt, who is an enthusiastic disciple of the "Christian Science" faith, as expounded at the Eddy col lege in Boston. Tho so culled doctors told her that "nothing was really the mutter wjlh her; that Tier malady wus chiefly imagination, and that prayer and faith in Uod were sure panuccus." She bore up heroically ami followed the treatment to the letter. She helped in the work round the house, did part of the cooking, and got out of bed at daybreak, nil because her .doctor so recommended. The unhappy invalid used often to ask for something to eat between meals, but this was strictly forbidden. At lunch she frequently asked for a bit of meat and fowl, but this was also strictly forbidden. To wards the end she failed rapidly and often said: "In belief I'm dying, ln belief I have the mostdrcatlful pains." The day before tho doomed girl died j she prepared her own breakfast Ilei ! aunt was away all the afternoon and she slept alone lliut mgliL Tli a Tfurld'i Moat Powerful Tribunal The highest court of the United States holds a unique pluco in our form of government una one not found in any other governmental system. It weildsa power greater than isexercisod i by any other judiciul tribunal in thn I world. In no country of Europe or ! the east has any court authority to make or unmake the supremo luw of the land, to limit tho prerogatives of the sovereign, to control the powers of the legislature, to shape the form of government. I These functions are exercised by the supreme court of the United Slates. It holds a power above that of the chief magistrate of the tuition, sucrior lo thut of congress, higher than that of any state, and equaled onlv by that which made or can umeiid tl"1 consti tution. It can enlarge or limit the pre rogative of the president or th powers of congress. It can change the relations between the state and the nation. It can extend or restrict either the central Mwer or state sover eignty. In short, it van make or un make the constitutional law of the country. It can introduce radical I changes into our form of government. I Not ouly can the supreme court wield 1 these vast powers, it has long done so and may long continue to do so. Eaton S. Drone iu Forum. tJndemtood Electricity. . This department gets its share of queer patrons. A fashionably dressed and handsome woman sailed in here recently and wanted "a permit to prac tice electricity." She had been cured of a feminine weakness by the use of a small battery and she wanted to doc tor other people. I asked her what kind of a current she used, and she re ! plied, "I use both kinds sometimes j the positive and sometimes the nega 1 tive kind, according to the cose fin treating. "How long have you been studying electricity t" "About a year." "And you know all about it?" ""Yes; j this battery of mine has six cells, and it has both kinds of currents and" ! I interrupted apain to ask, "But do ' you employ un alternating or continu ous current?" "Say, mister, 1 guess you don't know much about electricity anyhow. Are you going to give me a permit to practice or not?" I referred her to Dr. Dudley, and he sent iher to the secretary of the state board, not knowing anv other iway to get rid of her. V'hen I asked her if she knew anything about medicine meaning, of course, the science she answered: "Oh, res. I know about a good many kinds, es pecially those that are good for wo men and little babies." She acknowl edged however, that she had never studied either medicine or midwifery. Secretary Board of Health in Globe Democrat The 8eventh Son. In Prance a seventh son in direct succession is called a niarcou. In Or leans, during the present century, the following was written concerning tlie marcou: "If a man is the seventh son of his father without any female in tervening he is a marcou. He has on some parts of his body the mark of the flcur de lis, and, like the kings of France, he has the power of curing the king's evil All that is necessary to effect a cure is that the niarcou should breathe upon tho part affected, or that the sufferer should touch the murk of tho lleur de lis. Of all the marcous of the Orlean uais he of Ormes is best known and most celebrated. Every year, from twenty, thirty and forty leagues around, crowds of pa tient come to visit him; but it is par ticularly in, Holy week that his power ismosteflicocious, and on the night of Good Friday, from midnight until sunrise, the cure is certain. " SU Louia Port DispuWk Senuuna by Telephone. The telephoue company of Glasgow ha completely fitted np au elaborate tele phonic srmngvinent in Woodxide church whereby the sulwciilicni are enabled to bear the entire service with the utmost distinction and ease. New York Journal It Is easy enough for bullheaded clown to soeer at nerves, but the highest nature re not necessarily those cooUiuing th greatest amount of moml hrm The man who never went to the thea ter in hi life ia usually the man who declare loudest against the immorality of thestag. flMLftOAD TICKETS, afef oard Adopt4 la Printing at paring the Faataboanla. MCU thin?" all, tr . Job printing establishment to a renoJ ' "Yes." wo the replv. Wh.. tilt. machine aoingr . T". 1 . I .1 rnuuug nun namoenng r raOroat tickets, said tha gentleman. "Railroad ticketsT "Yes, sir." "Tell me how if done, scribe. aldtl, "Certainly. You must bear in ibjm however, that this class of priMbwi JJUiCijr B Bwiafcj , ui4 UIHJT BUOUt t ont of the various printing- establui menU ln this city ere prepared to a .1 . work. In fact the work cannot wtfi 1, done with the ordinary printing pJ: But let's see how it' done. "Very often special kind of cjh board is used in printing the ticketi tlinnch the ordinarv kind u ... ,r - 0 . - u.v serviceable. All color urn nu,i many time several impressions ar essary to turn out a complete ticV net reauy tor stamping buu selling, take an ordinary conpon ticket. It prnllv consists of several tmru th... Lett j , - uat iflji be detached. Well, the reading mutts OUT UCU BB Hie ain-tuu uirrviiuaa 10 Ihecd- ductor, agent or passenger, U nstui printed on an ordinary press, just other class of printing is done. It are several colors on a ticket to i impressions are necessary. That' there t in it. "Ilow ubout the numbers?" Oh. that' the difficult ti.irt rjt - g Wi n We'll explain later on. Excursion tick 11.. l 4l. . eis, usuuiiy jii mo iu vi cuution tj - . i ai ets, are pnniuu in mo same nay. aiw thiii? Here's the ueculiar n.irt f E-. work. Tho printing and nniubericj local, or whut are called 'car ticket.' 1 lila miicliiTiH ia a tlllillllH tinmxia cardboard is cut into pieces just the of the ticket desired, then they placed in one end of the machine nafs to the press automatically. I pose we ore priuting 'rouud trip' ticit-u ine mis or pasienoaru, wnen the lit mnchino betrins to work, nasi nn i one under the press, the 'form' has- 1 n ...! i ATI u Tn .... 1 1UUUO u y iu im Mviut uo lust UUpftJr Inn nrinta the number, tha fnrm' ; instantly, descending again and priatit; me iicKci. rtKiuu we lurui nse t dnivpiids. while tha ticket ia titkV. nlnn? Inst its length, when nnntW l pression of the 'form' stamps the numbc on tlie otuor ena or tue tic set, nVnn baa thA tirkfthl .rum!, lu nnnlu. ed consecutively, sometimes both the 'j ing' and 'returning' ends having tL same number, while quite as often th) two ends have different numbers, form sons best known to the railroad cod pany. Again, tho two ends of the t tickof may be in different colon, t noRsihl v each in two color, with iil ferent color running across the face i! the entire ticket. Iu such instances & process of printing becomes very it tricato, but still the little machine dos it. nt the, rate of 10.000 an hour, or K 000 if necessary. The numbering isdotr at each end of tue machine, tue Ton; being cylindrical in shape and pointi: consecutively from one upward until lnnre number is reached, when ne fnmiV urn nut in. Bits of Dasteboar go in at one end of the machine v.: come out nt tho other end complete 'a or locul tickets, gooa ootn going' enminff.' The mintin2 of tsinde tr. tickets is a more , simple matter. T& machine prints but oue size of ticket-, hence everything priuied by it is of same shape and size. "How about the printing of 'boob. commuters' and so on't" "Well, a special machine is nsel u nHntinir linnVq. the work beinzdone aiv-timi a thnt ia. the enarate 'leaveiV the 'books' are printed in one ite. which is afterward cut in smaller pieces. and the numbers are putonoy, arate machine. Take a 'thousand mil; ndvorMtdnir ticlrpt. for instance. Tl onnowntivn mil na must be numbered the little sections of the 'leaves' of t book. The number of the book, tl name or initials of the road and as ntlirn. na.accfirtr iWjlil hllVB tO be ed. All but the number of the book i generally printed at one impression, t hundreds of books may be printed tte the same 'form.' But eacn doo b. hear a different number. SO differe: tnrm lo vonninui Tho hi i? sheet ii f- IU1U1 . V.J ... ... U J np into pieces, and the book ntunbfl printed on a machine especuu wr; ... U ohnnts nrA Ctlt intO UIU- 14J III, ivuu lung - j er ones and the book bound as anyo'il book." , . "What does it cost to makna 1 "About ten cents when many ti some kind are made. To get ouia- gle book would cost from j" w ' Cincinnati Times-Star. Thackeray's KealUm. m...i,Mtoiriltriii crrcat ret- lUMiiioiu; o vv o au a imiit artist ran llfl. He pnaeS C- self on presenting life as it is, j ,i k.. i,,t nf artiiicul "1 mance. Nay, he employs deviceston trap the credulity of the reauer--; vice, for example, of making A" Pendennis, whom we know indeF ently, tell the story of his young it- xt . 11. o nollle. I"' hearted gentleman with whom M 1 seen the boy nt the cave oi u Yes, Thackeray is a great real ever there was one. His characw" no decorative figment to amu ti, hoi-o. Wnmesomew 1U4II.J, A 111 J uuv " men and women we know bestpc friends or foes of our own. nsfor living in these hit days oi formed parliament that we ha late enough to have known Colouei-; come. They were no tears or -sentiment that we wept over bu n j. .- n tramline ltcD"' to kick Barnes.-Black wood a JW- The Necessity of the Tim . . . . . i. -ill not inventive xacuny " - reached high tide until someon feet an envelope nap .u. -onti.rabledisf BUCK. UUO Ut l" a 1 fort of life take the form or j adhesive mucilage that aiio -velope upon which it is plww 11 open again and again as t" v down. until in a fine frenzy5! writer is driven hither and yon mucilage. And the finer the q-. the stationery the more trial w wake of the envelope. , f If they are trusted to the maiJ , ont an extra dab of mucilage, uw be depended upon to arrive at tinatioa invitingly open-or " to the sneakish individual, woo of our civilization doe exist, f pable of going against all ' nr.-tt.n lam and tampenn Hof seal A padlocked envelop iJ . f-i .V. liniea."" I'?' ue necssiue Cammos wealth. I $3 find Syi Hi Oft! that 4or I