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."
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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
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