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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1893)
EUGENE CITY GUARD. LkMiruu rrwarteta. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. A4lag larall la Isjarf. "Talk abont a 1 ling insult to Injnry," aid Luvrnnt. a with ll aid of l avy ran b bubble.1 to kit fvorit seat la tb Rounders rlnt Ilia other aftenus, "something bspprnrd to in last night tltal capped tha clliua In Ibat direction lufir M mjr experience gut. 1 dined torn friend of mln from out of town taat evening. Tbey Were old College rbuma, yoa know, ami a we had but met for year we lingered long over th table, Uil loving cup M passed steadily around until iny friends ba4 to leava fur a midnight train. H waa a very hot night 1 waa vary much t. fuddled, and, aa la tny co.t-.ui on tuch far occasions, I turned my feet Turkish balbward. 1 went down Into tba hot room. A strong dir cam upon ma to jump Into tba big cold plunge there without waiting for tba tuual ecrobbing by tba attendant. 'It baa been my babit to forego tba ih uf Uia aUira Irading down Into tba ;:g. sci to ssrcply get op on tba marble railing ami fall off backward Into tba cuihng waters. So np on tb Diarbla railing t stepped and threw niy alf off. There waa not a aolitary drop of water In tbat plunge. Tbeattendanta bad eutlrtlrd It fur tba pnrt" of clean lug It. Down I went full ais feet, and landed squarely on uiy back on tba mar bla bottom. No, 1 did not break my back and fracture my akull, though it la wonder Hint I did not "Ho much for tho injury. Now let ma tell yon about the insult At 1 lay there on my back partially stunned an attend ant came, and shaking m roughly by tba abonlder aaid. 'Say, If yon do Unit again you will b put out! If I did it aualn I would ba put out! Wonder if ba thought 1 did it for f un ?"-. York Time. Walla Taaer Net HuImL "There ia no ancb thing aa wast paper," aaid tba Junk dealer to a re porter. "Hardly arrap of whit pl"r ia waated. Kvery Bit of it that ii thrown away la carefully gatuerrd up and find ita way eventually to tba mill again to ba made over. Tha notebook In your band may f uniUh material for the paif on which yon will write letter all monthi hence, and s-rhap year later yon will unknowingly mid It Incorpo rate! in anminer novel with yellow Cover. Thua the itock of paper that uppllee tha world la uaed over and over again Indefinitely through the medium of tha aravetigera, the dealer In junk and tba factoriea, which are continually engaged in transforming tha discarded material Into fresh and clean sheet, "llrown twper, however, ia different Because it U coiupoaeil of nothing mora Valuable than straw it ia mostly thrown way aud never urd again. I w-uld not pay yon tweuty flvaccnt for a ton of it A few year ago old newspapers wera worth four cent a pound, being mad of rags. Now they ara manu factured, oat of wood pulp aud atraw, and their uiarket value ia only a quarter of a cent a pnutd. Ofllce per, such M old bill and such scrsps, are worth tha Mm price aa newspaper, whila what we call "ofllce sweepingi," coin pueed largely of enveloe, are quoted at fifteen rent a hundredweight Washington Mar. Tbe I.ISsrarjr Vera! la traaa rinlaret Chaste relate In hi Ul inoira bow on afternoon, m ha waa at work in bi news.r ofllce, a young man with a military air, looking m IkiI.1 m if b were going loth war, knocked iuiperiouidy at tba do., walked 111, at down and said, without further pre amble: "Momdeur, 1 am Hugo." Then, after handing to Chasle tb fauioua yellow covered book with tit pwawnrd "Hicrro" on the title page, be aked bin.' if he m t hi aide or not ud continued! "Monaieur, not only are w going to change poetry, which Dmli a funda mental revolution', but grammar lU What do you think alwut our proaodjf French proaody luuat be completely over-UulHt- ho it tain France, where neither cetitn riie nor year count, but only minute and aeconda, th ahock of contrane and the violence of reaction. The Freuch mutt alwavi be flghting elmut aouie ttiing even for Iloileaa agaiimt Hon Mr. I, and for Nonott againat Voltaire, i'nnter' ink must eiuell of powder, Othertae Uf eeetua ibil and thought without any Mvor. Victor llugo'a viwt toC'haalea ia typical -Theodore Clald ia Uarj-r'a. Kreatr W II U. Eccentricity, and nothing ale, diatla- ruudMa the wUl (irovrd in 'H t? Heorr Trtgg. of rUage, of the county of liertfurd. frucrr, wbo directed r.at kkt Udy abold be cuciuiitted to the weet end of tit novel, to be decently laid Ua apt a fl erected by hi eiern tnr; and oe'y aiity yean aro, it la aaid, t- Ue of Mr. Tngg m'A mu-iiel CLbexted U the rafter at the weat end of Lie hovel aJoevaju-L A provufcA, oita m taaarre, wm nvU in the will of the p-Uoaoj-huf Jereny Dectham, who eejtbe4 kia ex-cuuc to etabaJm h cvrpae n4 dreae it la the clothe wbwh be wm efirustot-ed to wear ia hi hfe ttme, ta order that be might f rto IL toit of a letinr to be delivered aaaa lly at a literary inatitote bead at a erhiaj tf a-aWKay la Wuut-uU alreet, llarmaxket Ou the ocraaiAa of tu of the lectmrea eC Jeremy IVathajs'i auumniy the vee eraUe bii. nWi head fU and cane to Itt rmiuble grief, whereupon aa artful h4 wm modrled la was by Margaret UUlea, the di hn- gniabe4 mmuture punter, but the mummy wita the waiea head U leg ainre faded out of the piUic ken. Loo don Tle;raia. HI raihae lut. Lord Chart wm often rronUed by Importn-aU arqaaiMMMwe. who beggwd t w team of his father1 (the Duke of Wal'.ingtoti) hair, tm rarh orrMioca he aaid to aa old eerraut. whte hair waa bke the dck'a,.t down. Jun; I rcua cutoff another Vxkr-Fort!hUj Re new. rearisa's Plf I twt "X tu;-i voo're gvMiig tu I. Man't foneral. grsn.li." "Oh." snorlrd the Ufina old bioa. "Jot talk to me al- ot other taanJs fur.Tala, It sm turn AM I shall be sU to do to gt to my wa."-iUitoE- (TAR TIMS ANO 6UN TIML Tk War Aalreaeawe rie Oat trmm (he aiar Wkaa II la Tb time for eending out the noun aigual from WMlilugton l th lntiit tl aun rrMea th Mveuty-flfih men dutn. Thu, however, i not tb aun which give na light and heat, but an inviaiM. imaginary oue; because, f4 certain reawmn, th true tun doe not cru th meridian at the Mm moment every day, but during oue part of th ear b get over ik little more ahead of tun each day, and during th other trt be ia rorreepondingly behind time: and so tbia Gctitiou tun it used, be 4UM ittai'lianltt path around the earth bring it riT.j over tho Mm line at tit Mine moment every day. Now at Jiutwhat iu.tant tin tun croaae the meridian is determined by mean of the ttart, for time at the obaervatury is not reckoned by the tun but by the stars. Every clear night an Mtronomerat the ol-ervatory looks through a large Ulo arie for certain ttart which he kuowt mat croM a certain line at certain time, and by the ue of an electrical machine he make a record of th tim each star paaae, M shown by a clock which keei sidereal or star lime. II then coniult a printed table, which shows him at jut what tun each star munt bav paael, and by m much aa thia time ffers from that recorded by the clock the Utter is wrong, and in that way the sidereal dock is regulated. This star time is then reduced to sun time, which requires sotne calculation, as there is a difference be tween the two of about four minute each day. TlteM two clocks th one keeping star time and the other sun time are of very fine quality, and are M near perfection m pailde. Although they cannot help being affected by changes of tempera ture aud different conditions of the at moephere, they very rarely are more than a fractional part of a aecond out of the way. No attempt is ever mad to correct tuch errors, but they are care folly noted and allowed for In making calculations. For the purpine of distributing time a third clock, known m a transmitter, is Used. This is set to keep time by the seventy-fifth meridian and is regulated by the standard dock before raeiitiotieL It is in all reect similar to the othrr clocks, eirept that it Iim attached to it an ingeuiona device by which an electric circuit may be alternately opened and closed wrh each beat of the pendulum. Clifford Howard in Ladies' Home Jour nal. A Carlaas Cave. The cave temple of Karll, India, it rightly considered one of the greatest wonder of the world. This gigniitio receM in the mountain ledge baa Iwen chiseled by human hands from Kirphyry m hard aa the hardest flint The nave is 121 feet long, 43 fi t broad and 49 feet from floor to ceiling. Ilefore the entrance to the temple stands a monster atone elephant, Uhm wboae !ck 1 seat ed a Colosaitl goddess, all hewed from one solid block of stone. Like the temple walls and the outside ornaments, every article of adorning sculpture on the iu side is hewed from the native rock. rThere are aiidea on each side sep arated from the nave by octagonal pil lars of stone. The capital of each pillar is crowned with two kneeling elephants, on whoae hecks are seated two figures, represent ing the divinities to whom the temple is dedicated. These figures are perfect and of beautiful features, m in deed are all the representation of deities and divimtii in this peculiar temple. The repuUivrneu so characteristic of modern Hindoo and Chinese pagodas is here wholly wanting. Each iigute it true to life, or rather to art, there be ing uo mythical half horse, half man or beast birds depicted in this underground wonder of Karli. Tim wondrous under ground agoda or rave temple hM been a standing pmile for the learned ar rlueologUts of both Europe ami Asia for th lit 9..VW years, and is m much of an euiguia today m it wm in the lime of Cifuctus. l'hiladelphia Tress, A lllbllHlille lade. A lady left tome very precious first editions of a book in three volumes In a bsitsom while she went into a shop a ri-ky thing in itself to do. Wlicn she rsme cut of the shop she couldn't Dud the lieitsoiii, which had been made to move on by a polic eman, aud in divjvir took another, and jut saved the train which she hod to catch at Charing Cross. After waiting for an hour aud a half the cabman thought there wm something queer going ou and endeav ored to find his fare, without success of course. I ben be looked inside the cab. w the books and some twrcels, anil conveyed Ibeia all to Sot laud Yard. And here cornea the pith of the storr. The lady applied the following Jay f i- ber pin-ton books and gt them. It, wm suggested that the should y a certain quite adequate sum m recom pense to the cabman. Hut the lotly wm indignoiit TLat uu. she averred, did a ta any degree represent the percent age due oa Uie rtHuQ'OU value of th tuaie. Tbey were worth something stupecdou. She mentioned what tjuar lu h valued them at Aud quite cheer fully she paid a sum that made a cout fortable nest egg fvr the cabman, hue also mode the Scotland Yard official nnderstatid something alut books that be nodu't a notioa of brfir. Lot Ion Vaiuty Fair. Tl ta awear OaT. Th Rev. Dr. Primrose Tin glad to bear your buslatnd has given np tuvloa stealing. It is sm comfort for m to fel that prrhs;) my poor wonl have hod something to do with hts reform. Mrs. JohnQ Dat sun t d reosua. Mb. Tfo' see ob 1st de po man wui gitin kotched ebery time. New York Evening Sun. Ea(tua aa Aasertraa) Caasae, A rsrefol lamination of the cata tngneaof Eiigluh dealer ta gsmee show that the p. polar games ia Eng land are la every way ideutlcal with thta ia the CniteJ Natea, and not a amgle game could l fouad in any of them that ia not well known and cur rent in tUs country. i'hiladrlphia Led- trr o AawrtMa Tie Ta Lara. Frenchmaa-Yat yon gtf tat watairrf Ametvon-1 gv ih waiter half a 4uar. p F rent h man -Mv dteal Zat eea net v te,p; tat e vo bnb.-Nw York Weekly. There is a moa la M.nU-sumo. Oa. who hM bad his arm dislocated al tha J"' thirty-ebt Ume aaj hia leg j -ioiauJ at th h:p rht Umsa. A LEADER OF SLAVES. HOMANTIC BIS6 AND FALL Of TOU&SAINT L'OUVERTURE, A CkoneM la MlUory Wklek Has Fsr alah4 a Tkesas far reels sa OrMaea, Haas Traasael af tks ttrsal OeaaraJ His lellaislr Ka4. Tliirty ion ago TotisMint L'Onver ture wm a name to conjure with. I'oet and orators deocribed bit virtue and hit genius and cited him aa an illustrious tiauipl uf the capabilities of bit race. A romantic interest will always attach to bis name. The fact that for fifty-four years he lived in depet oWurity M a tlaveona Haytian plantation and the epic character of bis sulequrnt achieve ment give a tinge uf autique heroism to his history. Tb French colony in Hayti wm long on of th greatest alav maris in th world. At th time of the French revo lution there were in the colouy 80.000 white. 20.UOO free mulattos and 300.0UO alavea. The tuuluttots, many of whom bail been educated In France, took ad vantage of the revolution and obtained a recognition of their political rights from the French assembly; the white of llsyti refuted to recogniz th decision and a war brok out which wm toon complicated by an uprising of tb who! alav population. On a memorable night in August. Kill, the plantation were fired and many of the white were mur dered. Totisaaiut had not at thia tim ac-c-iired th name of L'Ouverture. This word, meaning "the oening." wm ap plied to him afterward because be opened a way for the freedom of bi rao through the t-haotio conditions of tha following years. In the dreadf ill wart of the year fol lowing the uprrnal of the slave bit ex traordinary influence over hi race aud hit military geniut gave him pre-eminence over a.l other chiefs. A design of freeing his race, which could only be accomplished by making it the ruling race of Hayti. gradually took shape in bit mind and forms the key not of bit career. France, 8in aud England each bid high for his alliance, but France de clared for the freedom of the slave and h finally ranged himself under the Freuch flag. It wm evidently bi desire to maintain a desirable connection with a European power which would yet leave him at liberty to develop bis plans for bis own race, but the realisation of hit idea required a dimtiterested co-operation of which no European govern ment wu capable. In a few year he bad been recognised by France a commander in chief of the army of Hayti aud wm practically dic tator of the bdand. Aa a ruler of Hayti he turrounded himself with the pomp of a prince, al though ieronally he retained habits uf severe simplicity. He ate. sparingly and slept little, being poawnnod of extraor dinary powers of endurance. In dignity of maimer he wm entirely equal to hit pioution. He endeavored to reconcile conflicting races, and bit rule wm im partial and able. Hut Napoleon wm not the man to al low a dictator under hiinw. He sent an army of iSU.Oou men to Hayti to re store slavery aud reduce the colony to subjection. Hnnpectiiig the true pnrp 'e of the ex pedition. Toiissaliit resisted the landing of tho army, but dually laid down hit artua after he had lieen assured that there wm uo intention of restoring tlavery aud that he injured th cause of his race by resistance. He wm still too powerful to be opeuly seised, but he wm decoyed into the Freuch quarter aud wm then hurried on board a vessel and cigried to Fram !. He hoied to meet Napoleon and dufond hi conduct, but on landing he wm se cretly hurried to a lo.iely fortress in the Alps, where he shortly afterward died. Many wild stone attributing his death to murder found credence at the time. Neglect and the change from a tropic to an Alpine climate doubtless battened hit end. Uy hit removal the progress of bit race wm Incalculably retarded. While Toussaint's fate and place of im prisonment were still unknown. Wails worth wrote th? beautiful sonnet, "To TousMint L'Ouverture. " His history Is the subject of a drama by Lainartine, and of a novel, "The Hour aud the Man," by Harriet Martineau. ihiring the auUelevery agitattou in the I'nited State he wm cited m a moat illustrious eistnpleof the real capabilities of his roc. A poem by hittier aud an ora tion by Wi'lell riiilli commemorate bis virtues and hi genius. troit Free I Tea. Aa Asraaaafa Fiptrlrarat "I mw a Iwlloon aw-eniion and para chute drop down in Texas not st, long Sk-o." said Ed Keeder, a well known ball plsyer now with one of the Suthwet- ern league clul, "that wm very inter esting. The hallRuiit Leroy iTJb aerial trip from a small town near Aus tin one day and wm to make a parachute leap. When at an i.ltitude of about S.tVO feet be suddenly recollected that his parachnt wm a brand new one aud bod never been tested. Not raring to tik the thing be alt tied a fifty pound Mck of sand ibaUast) to the parachute aud rut it ke. At he feared, the thing failed to work right aud did not oten at all. "The und aud parachute dropped like a streak to the earth, gaining momentum nth every foot of their descent until they struck the wooden rmf cf aboUM below, crashing through it like through so much paper. The Iwlloon soared aloft. and in dn time, m the hot air graduallv escaped, sank slowly to earth in th midst of a farm several utiles from the town. The farm hands had observed it coming, and when it alighted tritni upon the airship, which wm a valuable oiled silk affair, and claimed it m th property of the owner of the land be csue it bad lauded there. Tie rights of lnfeiir Lerov, who hsplK-ned to ave landed right with hi proprrtv. were entirely ignored. Out the rapUct were otl urate and finally the professor deportrd. "He obtained a writ of replevin fui ni balloon from the nearest squire, and aG cvnstable shortly after restored the cap. tured airship to its rightful owner. The hole lOb ri f of the building esne4 by the profesCr's sand' g and thydam- Ot,-e consequent thereto had to t re- li red and settled fur at his eipenos. Hod he taken the place of his sandbag at th parachute's handle the funeral eipense would have far exceeded the damage to th roof. " v - - HLfl fOSES WERE UNBECOMING HuilnriluM Itrlaeee a Caalertlao) aa aa Alillaile r AriaraltM. Tlio natitrul ninwatof ber fiu li il u inntcnuliy eofurH-4 by Uie hum .f nrt when she neutcd herself carefully in the phitKTllier a iluur o:il ttirtie.1 her eye in the direction of tin iiiinera. Yet the mt can-ful olM-rver could not l JitT.ved Into tlmikiiiir her beautiful. "Mailatll. if J U J.leuae, look" The artist wua iuterrujiUJ by (l"tire-atry wave of the baud. "No direction. leai;. I know jimt how 1 want tu ait I Lave atudied inBclf in umny different iea, and I know what 1 am tulking about" Sho leuti-l forward in a carelem way, rttittsl licr elbow on the table by her aide, tiresiaed oue fingT aioiiust her theck. rolled her eyee until her glanco nBUd ujxm the ceil LufC and kik'IkL niere;," alio murmured in a aoft ecatiicy, "like that An attituda of adoration, dmi't you know." "Hut, iiuuun" "Not a word. I know wnntl want" The ihotoKniiher men-ly wished to cull attention to tho distinction be tween a contortion and an attitudo of adoratioii.' Uo ooucluded, bow ever, to rciuuin ailent "Tliere Is only one thinp," the ait ter cxjiluined, '"uiton which I wiaU to have your opinion." The artiht bowed. "I -an't really make up my mind whether a Htnilu or a iieiusive look ia the more becoming to mo." The artwt would not willingly un dertake to decide ao delicate and in tricate a problem without ample uttldy. Ho cwtayed to look reIect fully intcn-Htcd, but nuid nothing. "Do I look better thum" She awiutiied an exiiretwion np proxnnating iu severity Uiat of the Uorgon Miiluna. Or thtwr" Slie stretched her face with a str. ilo that would have c-atwed the stouttt heurt to quuil. 'Which do you aayl" The artbit thought of the delicate uiechnuiNtu of hia camera and groan ed in nirit 'My dear madam" ho waa lUteiiiug enp'rly. '"If you could manage" "Oli, yea; certainly." "Er U'tween tho two exprwwiona it ia difficult to decide" Quito right" "They are equally becoming." Mio Himticrcd a weak aimulation of dinxetlt "And if you could take littlo of each a very little" She nturtcd tu horror. "And try mum-thing euo" Klio .vim gone. She hud m-rambled into her wraM in a twinkling, niuile a fer difjuintol oliNTVatioim nlniut being itiMiltcd and Jl'tted away. "A very littlo of each, to bo mirr ," were tho word which rang in the earn of tho artiht, aud it aevmed to him they came aa in a dream. Uoa ton (Jazctte. Joha Vrblr's enlas. There in hottietliing iu Welwtcr that reininiU mo f Victor Hugo. Tliero w tho hunio (ipiifiihioti at tinnn of whut in big with what ia great, tho name fotidncMi for tho merely nieo tactilar, tho niiiio iiiNetiKibility to n juiImvo detaiU, tho tiuiiie indifference to tho prolublo or even to the nat ural, the Kiuno leaning toward tho gnitemjuo, tho same love of effect at whatever cct. and thero ia alw tho Mime itiircMnivctit-K!of reHult What ever other effect W'elnter may iro duee iijioti tn. ho never leaven us in different We may bhune, wo may crtticiiie, aa much aa we will; we may tuty that all this haxtliuetM U only a trick of theatrical blue tight; we nhtiddcr and admin uevertheletui. Wo may nay he in melodramatic, that hia figure are magic lantern picture that waver and thang hhuio with the cttrtaiu on which they are thrown; it matter not, he stint u with an emotion deeper than any mere artifice could stir. Jauie kuiwell Lowell in Harp J; a. Aarleal KHirt .tmuag th Hebrews, Ihgeona aa letter carriem tradition tell u were employed at Uie time when Jnehuii in vail. il Tideetino aa meliuttm of cotnniunication between beiahpuirtcr aud cam si iu land far off on tho other side of tho Jordan. At the tune i. f tho Talmud they were UM-d in amuMng game. The Talmud tell us that U'tting wan indulged it at tho I'i.Koti play. The owner It the pig'u which reached first the sunt dcMiiniated waa the winner. Another play connected with let ting wu the "kubya." Kuby mean a sumll ixt (Arabic kubeia. s null glawo. Tlio kubya waa a little pot w herein dice weniaken and thrown ujsin the tablo. 'The di-e were uumls-nl sa our modern on a. AgaiUHt tliewe two game the Talmud ! wan in arnw, and their player were tint allowed to appear a witneteiea U fore tho lir Ikton Transcript A ilakt at tha Matha4. When a sailing matcr wiidiea to buy oyster in the port of th Che- atieuke he ntti un to the manthead an oyster liki t. and pnovently haa plenty oHetvi at the vesda aide. Ikiwn at fLinciiteHgiiei bdand the luket at the inanthead U aometinu a.Hiijnnxl by a flag of concentric suture, in il.ffereT.t ciilore, llinng Uie clisel aeaia flr ontera the and bket indicate that the matT wtne to tay tlama. New York A Ma la a Haeaaa Nwt n IV. ). .1 . . I ,. , :.. m ; . titr el a - ertan I'bjrvcions, U-ll a remarkatUest.irr c a rut Ler a pla was found nrwity Int Ixlded la a human beart, aber It bod ev ident!? loin fi aa to.U(!o:t perW. The point i4 tb p o a live millimrtcrs from Wie utrroal r(re U tba bean. aeeiMd ewllCa.d aa brv4ra It uJ srussew tt ' dititc. vitbout, howerrr. be cxioiin Ji. Tbrntu MttKlfSr of M"ut bal luflammotuej. bat the enda rariutnta Ita c.Uvhal uf U pro trod c brad as svilj ll.KLelwd. anow wbita larul. and firmly adherent ta te head of lbs p.a.-lailyt iv O HISTORY OF SHAVING ONCe UPON A TIME ALL MEN EVERYWHERE WORE BEARDS. Alasaaasr ml tire la al le Have Itaea Ibe Barber Bearda Have rioee Ceasssaa Uarlag tba H I.I err el r.arllMl Ba-"ie Keaisrbs. To tu Koitos-Csb to uil when li- Ins rsme tula faaklun. sl si.aietblnt of lb bt.irTuf banl Hnow ssu Josrs. Thia miration Is enrol". At till pemsl when the NineteentU rrntnry it coining tollie end uf tba divuion, tb fire ba leen put out in tb bot and old father tim ba reversed the wheels and pat on tli brake, it Is twrticularly tit Wng tbat aomebody, either Urown or Jones or both, should arie and put this miration. It is a fin de sleclo iiie.tion. The find iitstanceof shaving oritfiniited from the tircrssitira of war. In the late autumn of the year H"i0 U. C. lb Mnce douinus (tot tbt-ir crot In early, and after the celebration of the harvest home tiling got pretty niiitttereetiiiK in Mace donia. It waa too cold to hMi and too warm totkate. and the prosect for tb Macedonian on pleasure bent when be fired np the baseburner and rcflrt t'il tbat tkute hadn't been invented yet was not a happy one. Thing cotitiuoed to dm? on until Thaiiksiring time, 80 U. C, when tlie Macedonian got toKether, suited down on the Urecks nnd did tbetn battle. Tlie Greek got the worst of it, and for tin other reason than tltat they sported Ioiik, Bowing beard. The marauding Mace donians grubbed the) Ureciuti orna mentt and yanked the poor (Jreek forty way for hunday, leaving him a howl ing mas on the ground. It wa tliit incident tbat probably gar ris to the couplet: Wlii-o lirKk niseis Marsdnolaa TLrn comes tbs lua uf brsni. An old veteran by the iiuine of Alex ander saw at once the weak punt of the Grecian force and he called in a loud voice. "Off with every beardr Tliut settled It The next day a committee calltil on tba army with a riww and m bucket of salve and amputated every beard tn lilit. This is an account of the first shave known to history. The rec ord of the first barbering is a frontlet of rnrls made for a princess iu the east J.uoo yours aio, now in the British mu seum. Homer bus the first reference to the razor in the Eighth century, Ii. C. lie tays, with soino feeling: Uealb or Ufa slaail on a raxor nltfs. After the nip of the beards of the Grecian army shaving Ut-ai popular with some, but Lot until a much luti r day. and wlit utirrece had started down th toboggan slide of adversity, did it become gt-uerul. In fact it la a well ktiowu fact among liiHtoriitiit tliut the fashion of smooth faces among the men haa marked the ru itiiiiacy, weakness and finul dowiifu!! of all nations. The Kouiaiit were ulway artial to bettrds until tlie Komnii empire Ix-cume too big for itt clothes and acuirvd a swagcer, wIiaii Hudnun M't the example uf a smooth chin iu 101 A. D. and guve the Koinun barbert a boom. The tiit men tion of barbert it by Pliny. Somewhere along about '".Kl U. C. St iplo Africanut tKk a jaunt to hicily and there saw tome barbers. They .Vuix.'d biin, and be bmu(lit L1K back to Home and hod his Wurd taken otT. JScipio was a good deal of a Ward Mc Allister lu bis day, aud the Itotuun swells rapidly followed suit. After that it got to be a common siht in Koine for a row of men to sit until 1 3 o clock Sat urday night and listen for "NextT But this was only among the Four Hundred. The bone and sinew of the Uomuu re public twore by their beards. All through the orient short hair ami tieard less china have alwuy uteuiit a condi tion of mourning and servitude. A long beard was priceless, and the Moham medans still sweur by their beards. The prophet Uiekiel, as early as 5Vt U. C, was directed to t.ike a barber's razor upon bis bcud and upon bis beard iu tign uf Ibe rum to come upou Urael. The nun were act fee, but were ashamed to go to David with any uf their beard gone. He found them, how ever, and sent them ou a vocation to let their beards glow out An old Greek, known among bis friends as Zoilius, who lived iu to0 U. C, aud was dropped off a precipice for criticising Homer, bad a very loug beard, and so solicitous waa be that long hair ou his bead might detract from the strength of the beard that he kept Ins no Idle clean shaven. After Thomas More bad taken leave uf bis duughter at the foot of tue scaffold, in 1U3, bis chief anxiety was that the beadsuiau might injure his beard. The finet leurd on record belonged to Uillaume the pm-M, bishop of Clermont, who founded the college for Jesuits at Pari late iu the eighteenth century. Thia beard was long, wavy and toft as silk. But bit beard waa his downfall. Uia brother bishop becaui jealous of it, and decided that it uiut come off. This was decreed at a secret council, and the next morning when the priest entered the chajxl three men met hnn with soap, hot water, a razor and ihears and laid bold uf htm. He bloke away, tkedaddlrd and took refuge in a castle, where be died uf vexation. Tba only exception where beard bar not been considered as advanta geous appurtenance were among the German, the Egyptians and in the early colonial dayt among the Puntaua. The ancient German youth waa not allowed to shsTe until be bad slain an rnemv ta battle, and amon the New England Puritans long l-srd Were sometime fercibly reaped, Iwraa th Idea pre vailed that pride lurked la-hind a vener able beard. It was not until the begin ning uf the present century that the long beard weut tirely unt uf fjidiiou. Since then simth face have been on the increase, and any person who will take tue trouble to notice tlie men who pose a given int fr an hour on any uf th boy streets of I'liitugo will see but a very few ,., urar.is. it u not Im prwlial'le that in another crntii"-,. if the beard la continually cropped, n long beard wul no l.-nger g;row and will law Lute a tiling of history and story booka. Chicago luter CK-ean. rm I bollix Mrs. Tuiinhutwml, like every Toting wile, waa very ppixtd ot bee txprrimrnu ta tb art of etsAino'. tne evening C'bolli waa arkrd lo siajr lusa;(irr. and it waa one ci lb proadrat niotneuta In ber life whra ilr. VouiibulMiHl Landed bim Ibe plate el p'.p.otc lotra Ihh-uiI. "Vtai iv..ir;iT t,n n what yoa thick at I bent. sb saui. -t.sr I mad tbetn sav- r.lf "Ibrr Irtdfll, u," r.i,:ilrv.'!.. t a vain aiui to st the proprr IbiLg. "la fart, IhrT are sorltrllrct thl ,nr ... saulJ ar )ou mast bat ad tb r:L) iroaj, tbt baSrr."-Nw ca fcTrn.cg So. 9 aT MAKCi THC SWELL Inlet ''"" AU""i T"" lr ftimt'f Vtsll lirr 4 1. 1 was sti.idniK in the lobby of tha A lams Hoi,... in li-Mn. A New V.rk club m-n ".n. iu and st.sl lalkiiiB v .tli soma one iu the b-b'.-y for several minutes. Atier be bul -"" "' ""' "",u " , I. , n t tlKlli,' w.f.l came over to Uie- I as a friend of wine-and put t.ns tpi.-s-tion: "ilow tb-s Hick Vsrdly .Ires w. ll? H k.i only fM y.-ar. and v. t he manic-is to dre.s liitiis. If s.i to f.s.k much b iter (.arll than any Bo t. n in..ti I ki.ow. ritruiige. isn't xi f Not at all. The lbwton eia" dree. on a rnsh ac count and un eve to color. The N w v..ri-r-. .ir... viit not oiilr an art, but a science an art because lie had an eye to harmony; a science iM-un-m be hud a compreheiirive knowle.!tfe of means to ends. Any one know enough nt to wear a red cravat and a l'ttl" green out; but Imla ttlPtttV lllt'll know how to have tin ir coat cit or their sin shasil? They leave it t J their tiilior. Iill'l laiiors cut a ctt the same for a stripling of twenty as tin y would for an ai.ienuun. Hi. Ynilr would have informed the Uxtou mun that his hat wa t.i broad brimmed, hi char was t. high in fn'iit nti! t. low til the back; that bis cravat was blue and bis viol- pur ,.1m I Hi linsror . ,f horrors: that his cut away hal t .'ie t'i many buttons on it; that bis wal-tcat Ining down line an invertfl V, whereas it should hind about him like a belt; that his troiistm were tight to the knee and ! from then down, whereas they should have lieen the reverse; that bis slxs-s turiitMl up at the t- the sole of the English made shoe touches the ground from tip to Iim.iI' tliut trlnvt u-..rr rtisst. whereat they should have ls-en brick color; that lu hair was short on top an I loiig l" hind, whereat it should lot long on top and short behind; that his mustache should Hot be waxed; that hi topcoat wash shu. In foitt and tight tilting in the hack, whereas ti e reverse should 1 the case; that bis stick was a buckhorn, in tlie face of the well known fact that no true man of the world would carry nowadays any other than an all v.ssl cane. Mr. Ilicks Yurdly would then pause for want of breath and leivu the lobby, while tlie Iloetoiiite drew out his Brown ing and turned to "Home Thoughts from Over the Hen." Frederic Edward McKay in Kate Field' Washington. Ha l.lkrd I l.l.lng. In the irrforiiiitiice of my pleasant duties as editor I till! culled nism tu greet luember of the craft from every part uf the world where angling is fol lowed as a p:i-l Hue. I have yet to meet one who failed to respond to my eu'ir search for facts relative to tho fili in their home water with less eagerness and enthusiasm than evinced by myself. 1 have talked ami tticried with tint r i cuth and nukt-mpt and vt h the pb islicd ami cultivated angler uf the brook and the l-x.ks. and 1 have found thein. rncll l. lid all, to lie seuM-ssel uf valuable infortiiutiQ as to the bywayt if not the highways of the art rn-rca-tive. I have Is" , :ht by the cbslhopper of the stre..t ; I have gained invalu able piiiiis from the lm-hwh, irking Isiy who snatches Vm out; thecowlsiy lislier uf the gulch boles, the "wiiiii" bailers of the Missi-sippi sluices, the Canadian hi.If breeds of tho Laiireiitian strauit and the malaria sttturated dweller "away down on the Suwanne riv. r" have all drop'd angling (s-ails along my path way, and last, not least, have I gather.il consolation and enthusiasm from an in genuous n murk luiule by tin old but ii-' literate angling nxUt.T friend when he was lir-t told of Sam Johusiti's slur. Well." said he, "tell old Johnson for me that, rather than not go a-lisltiug at all, I'm willing to tie the worm." Could self nhtiegHtii.n go further in sac rifice or enthusiasm? American Angler. A Ml.rrs l!sllallljr. 8ir Harvey El wes, of Stoke, iu Suffolk, next to hoarding money, found hi prin cipal pleasure in netting part rid get. He aud his hotisrhoM. coti-isiiug of one man and two maids, hv.-d u jn tin s.-. In cold or wet weather Sir Harvey would walk up and down bis hall to save tire. Hi cloth.- c.-t him nothing, for he ran tacked old rln-st and wardrolx- and wore th.s-e of his ancestor. When he died the only tear shed wa by his serv ant, to whom he , ft the farm value, fifty ttotind s-r annum. Ty whole of h. property was 1. ft to his nephew, Jehu Maggott, who thus in herited real and '!soiul estate worth I'.'.iO.lHKl. on condition that he should as sume the name and anus of El we. t !f this man. who i Is it. r known at John Elwes, the mier, the following story is told: His nephew, Colonel Tiinms, vis ited him at Man li.iiu. and after retiring to rest f.mnd himself wet through. Find ing tbat the ruin was dripping through the ceiling, he moved the l-d. He had not lain long la-fore the ratue inconven ience again is-ciirrcd. Again he nand again the rain came down. After push ing the bed unite around the room, be found a corner where the ceiling wo better secured Slid slept tllltll Ulornlllg. When lie nit t hi uncle at breakfast he told him what had hap;ienel. "Ave, aye." said Mr. Elwes; "1 don't mind it myself, hnt to those who do. that's a nice comer in the rain." Cosn U's Journal Warrra'a l.lva ef It; lag. Warren. g-d four years, bad formed Lit ideas of angels and their form front the ttndy of certain tte, en .-ravings, and told bi mother if she scolded him again he would "d:e and go right to ! Laven." B-iiif t. Id that that was tCv.rr s.ti 1 Man don,., and a-ked how he wonld get t'.iere. he ao'-j-ore.! without hesitation: "Oh. I w.-nht pile np all tb ciusir and tables and box-s and laldert as f.tr aa they won'.d go. and then 1 "spect an ar.g. l would cme down and d.-t me. Ard anyway li a good deal ratVr g- that way 'than have thinst screwed i.it -j mer-Xew York Tnbnna. Hit l iruM. Pitietit Great Scutt, doctor, a frightful bitl voa've rresre.tr.1 that's Ductor (wi:h digui?y-Not so Urce, tir. when yon come to thit.k that it hi my first case and I had to study np on bo a library fid of autbontie.-De-trolt Free I Tea. I rally Aa. I Gentleman-!". Ung a bicycle cp tuch a steep h.V as thi.'u a Feat deal Harder Ii a walking. Why tWt yoa get off and tnh i'J I Jast got it Good Xwa. A SWING IN A WATCH AN IMPORTANT CIT Of STEEL THAT FREQUENTLY BREAKS. waubssabers iaf Tbat Bnddsa t k..H ,f Wealbar Are Dasisj.roas I. Tkr r ara rial a Place af Meehaalsss M,. prists la Ksaaaslve Watchsa. "Muinspriiurs are very much like po. fie," said a Broadwity watchmaker tb ether day. "They are aa tuttceptihle to extreme degree uf beat aud cold at (tiuiau being. When the thennoineter t hovering arantid the freezing point ut dancing away np in the uiiictitt the ht. tie iiiaiitspring v.ill give up in digu. and uncoil itself and die, just at uie tuccumh to freezing or sunstroke" This uncertain piece of mechanism It lUplKiscd to be adjusted to meet tU various degree uf teiniM-rature, but when the change la very great and come with short notice there is nothinj that call prevent them from snapping. Th.-y are made in Switzerland of th very lineal quality uf steel, absolutely flawl.-ss. Very often the watchmaker run detect a lud spring before puttint it in the watch, titl. r by it color or the softtit ss of its spring. Thexj ban been to highly temja-retl in the making, ; and insteit.1 of la-iug subjected to merely . a rel lieu t the lire has II brought tu , white h'-at, thus weakening the strength j uf the metal. The liuest watches that uit i handled by reliable dealers are put ' through a "cts.kiiig and freezing" proc. r es l-fore they are told, for the purism ! uf testing their reliability In all temji- r attire. The watch is first placed in a litlU nietal box, which ia made airtight. Then a strong gas flame is turned un the under suiface uf the liox and ia kept there for two or three hours, ao that the watch is so hot at the end uf that time that it culd not be touched with tlw bare baud. From this it is immedi ately takeu and put into another me tallic box which is buried in ice. There the costly watch is allowed to freeze for ail equal length of tune, when it torture cease and the examination Iq Uiude. If during this excessive test the watch Hpisars to have ticked merrily on without deviating a fractional part uf a second it is placed back ill tiie case and marked "guaranteed for two years." The mainspring is the first piece, of Uicchaiiisiii that succtimb to the test If it survives llotl..ug else need be -feared. Mauii'priugs are, however, alsmt the only part uf a watch that the jeweler cannot successfully diugn.au.. Pney can guarantee any uf the nuiuU'rles little wheels or pivots ur balance that go to make np the anatomy of the watch, but the mainspring has us yet balllcd the most skilled maker of watches uf all countries. It is not o luiii h the severe extremes uf the weather that prove fatal to thu spring aa it is the process of changing from hot to cold, or vice versa Like the human frame, if the rihlsjiilike littlo coil uf sU el can with.'tand thetf fecta of this change it may be cjsidcrcd proof agaiust breaking when the change to normal weather conn-. Many ps ople who have been HMstiu.ort of new watches but n short time come into the denier' with blood in their eye, declaring tliut they have paid an enor mous price for thu timepiece and the U'uiiispring hat broken after only a Week's lire. "Tbat is nothing." remarked the jewel er. "We have thiVa snap lu our case before tho watch ha. ever been shown for sale." Oilier Imagine tliut they might have wound the watch too tight but this does Hot harm it It is rather the jerky, hurried winding tliut will even'uully tell oil tho tempt r uf the metal. Every good bteiu winder ha a 5i'P placed iu the stem, which prevents the w Hiding too tight Damp weather haa an ill effect oi Uiaiuspiiiigs, and iu England they do not us a rule last as long as iu this coun try. A severe thunder and lightning ttorin alto frequently prove disastrou to the durability uf the spring. A dealer who took in sev uty-uine watches un one day said that one summer on a day ini-uii-diatcly following a terrific electrical . ttortu there were twenty-one watches brought into his store within live hours for new mainsprings. The cost of a new mainspring is the small part uf making tuch repair. It it the putting them in, thu labor expetided, that costs. It costl from twelve to fifteen dollars to put a mainspring in the Jurgensen watch aud a little less iu a Putok I'hillippe, while iu a cheaper American make it may cost only fifty cent or a dollar. A man purchased a -!oo Jurgensen from a leading dealer several year ag."i aud shotCy after be left for a tour around the world. He wu gone a year, and when he returned he went back to the dealer with hi watch aud com plained: "Here' a watch I taid yoa !oi for a year ago, and while I was traveling abroad it loot two minut.-. You guaranteed it, aud I want you to make it good." The w atch was placed in the wiudow with thia card be tide it: "Thia watch lost only two minutes in a year in a trip around the world. True f'ks.1." It sold within an hour. It is said that un bar of iron costing 0 f-1 will produce fiM.wo worth of niaiu tpriiig. Some springs are maCe in thiirountrv by the manufacturers of cheap watcb.-i. These springs are several feet long and take nearly two miuutt-a to wiud up. New York World Wide CulaasBa aad the tonight. Ey expert Insist that people who wish to preserve their eyesight will do well to coutine their reading at far at p.sible to round, fat faced tyj, nd tu avoid that which U tall aud thin. It wa th slute uf the type of the tiny edition of Dante produced at the French exposition almost as much as iu minute ness which blinded some uf the person engaged in correcting the sheets. Another important point i to avoid too wide a column or the eye is strained. The only way to neutralize'the tendency to tnch strain Is to turn th bead from tide to tide, after the manner of short sighted people. The width of a column of reading matter ought cot to exceed at the ouuide two iucbe. because that it about the natural ranee of thery when the head la kept tuotioulesa. -Pittsburg Dispatch, Way Ha Waa Rrilml. A. Sir, when we were introduced t' a-;h other just now, why did yon so pr- tently deny that we were at-qnai'ed. 'A ehaveften nut br fore, only I can- tot jut mnrmWr where. I tut post yn are in butineto? B Yea a a pasrobr ker. Taulean! Exchaxwa. .