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THE HONEST MAN. ! tll, mi who brook no Til art, fl "L no smrittrfi.it. whose soul U purs ;S"!TJ fair without, who humbly stand , Z III sean-binf u "f earth Slid heawa ' hl lw wn" "' B rd and wait I"", ., to th fUi.m lio calm win fara 'iTVful tr"ut '' d,'u"' but not bru,k luhtJ t?,'u '" truIu aye. honor him '"Vf im nnobitf thuw own stniittflltig oul. .uk"''"1"" -X. W. Hand. 0HKU ADVISEMENT. i Wav out west a wan was about to li;iup (1. U will it do to be very ex "a as to names or localities because the ,oe;tiuii is imt yet Bottled. Tho tunu'l ''.... inav nass as Peter Williams, whiih Bltgethcr uuliko what it really in. t to tli" ,,!t " tita"'1 nt 8a" To" in Orcfornia. Tlmt tbo man do- Jrtvwl hanging there In no valid doubt, .Itliough hi excuso for tho criiuu kept be juT "' 0 wuo' Hummer's after uoun. Ho had mado quito a little pilo from tliu sale of an improved smelting uruceKs to the Pythou copper mine, get ting about 1 I"'r ct'"t "f wunt the illVt'" tiou w worth, and turning from the nri s oliloo lino in" ouvcr raiace, SU- loOU. WMCll wan vuiivi-uiuuii.y ueui, iiu aiked everybody to drink. All but one mail stepped forward. That man wok ibg victim. "I asked lil in to drink like a pontic Bii," said Williams in hi defense, "ami win n be wouldn't even take a ci ga 1 said he should take something Jurwny and flung tho whisky bottle at him." Unfortunately the whisky bottle was , decanter weighing something Josh than tea pounds, and it cracked the man's tkull liU.0 a last season ' butternut What puzzled tho jury was whether i refusal to drink with a man celebrat ing his luck could bo construed into suffi cient provocation until one juryman hiniMiK'il to recollect that the offending . , I.....1- I. tliat in, tho refusing party was deaf jnd blind. That settled it, and tho ver ilict uf murder in tho first degree was brought in two minutes after. Wi ll, tho man was about to be hanged, tcry quietly, too, for with excellent tallies tact tho Python copper uiino had wado tliis its pay day. Padre tiombrillo was in the murderer's cell saying a few praters in Spanish Latin, the other clergyman of San Topaz, a Methodist, twill!? a timekoeporiu tho smelting ofilce ou weekday, Williams was tugging at i ui'W pair of red topped boots, and Sheriff Stephen Wiuslow was leaving ku oft'ico for tho scalTold, when the post master's little daughter brought a letter iiMresscd to the prisoner, in caro of the pstoftlco. Winslow weighed tho letter in bis hand for a few moments, ponder ing whether there wbb any uso bother ing Williams with correspondcuco when hit address would soon be the dead let ter uflieo. Being a man of much origi nality of action, he opened tho letter, mil ho read it bis rod face grow redder, ami when ho bad finished it ho smoto tho otlico table until tho old crack in it ran an inch. "Well. I'm jinn nwizzlod," he criod. And well ho might bo, for tho letter was from a firm of lawyers in Troy b.my, N. Y., informing Williams of the death of his uncle, J. Cannon Pieoe; also of tho existence of a will, by the terms of which ho was left the old man's property, valued at something near ftiuo.Olio, tho property to go to his chil drou born in wedlock, if bo had any, ami to his brother Matthew if he died without legitimate issuo. Winslow '8 face grew positively pur pie with the blood forced into his bead by hard thinking. Williams a millionaire and to be banged insido of au hour I Should he oomfort his last few moments by informing him that be would step from goldbags here on to the golden stairs up there? Or would the news com fort him at all, especially as it was cou pled with a proviso that the money in an equally few minutes would belong to his brother Matthew, whom the sheriff remembered to have heard Williams cursing with most fraternal fervor. Then the sheriff thought harder than ever until his temporal veins seemed likely to burst, and then, with a sudden glance at his watch, he hurried out of tho office and up to the condemned nun's cull. "Excuse mo, pndro," lie said, "but I wanter speak to Williams a minuit on a private mutter." The little priest bowed, took a piece of chocolate from under his soutane and went outsido munching it "Williams," said tho sheriff, grab bing him by tho arm and drawing him into the farther corner of the cell, "D'ye wanter live?" "Say, Stevo,"said Williams, pulling off his boot to bunt for a loose pig, "what's the matter with you?" "Look here," said the sheriff. "Did you ever have on uncle in Troybany?" "Yes," Williams replied, "my moth er's brother, old Cannon Piece, Ho is a river scraper or something of that sort and crankier than a stomps spindle." "Well, he's dead," said tho sheriff , "and bo's left you bis money. " "How much?" asked Williams calm ly, having found the peg. "Over half a million." "Ilully gee!" cried Williams. "Why didn't the oilman diesix mouths ago?" "Moreover, upou your decease with out legitimate issue," pursued the sheriff, with a fine recollection of the lawyer's letter, "tho property reverses to your brother Matthew. " "To that measly skunk," said Wil liams, with many omitted parts or speech. ", but that's tough. Say, slicrifT, can't 1 get a reprievo for a few weeks and kinder waste tho property from Mat a little? I'd blow in tho whole town dny und night for a mouth." "Can't be did," said the sheriff sen tentious ly. "See hero, Steve Winslow, what's jour game?" asked Williams, with a sort of yelp in bis voice. The sheriff stepped quickly to the cell d'Kir. looked down tho gallery at the l'euor so fellows squatted in the shade f the south wall und came back with his fare shortened a full' inch by the compression of his mouth and eye. "Just this. Williams," he said in the prisoner's ear. "Sw'ar to di wy with me share and share alike in your for tune; sw'ar that you hope you'll burn for ever if von break your word, and I'll fi the ropo so that it don't kill, nod after ward we'll toto together to Troybany and claim the property. D'yo sw'ar?' "Why, of courso I do," said Wil liams. "Well, sw'ar it then." And William r peated the scorching words. ".Now," said the sheriff, "I'll bo ana got tho rope and fix the cbrouor. lie's pretty nigh drunk anyhow, and has been for a week, and another horn or two with a little red pepper into them will knock him so be won't know your foot fW.t.l .,.... ........ A I ... . r. . . juui num.-. Aim inai vet'Kiy Roundno feller has tint to kien nntyiila tho railing. " In I.Mltf tll'ltt n n . ... I - .,! m it-r in nil liuur Ilia sheriff was back with the rope. "Doo's all right, " ho said, "although he'd like to have choked ou that last drink, and I told Bill Hepburn, who's BMuxuiig mo, mat you a initio a last (ly ing request that the noose ami cap wa put on in hero, together with the straps. Now, then, off with your coat lively. I sorter promised the boys I'd bold this thing off till ufter the noon bell, but I guess uoi now. Tl.u .lut.iild 1.a .,1.. i : v u,,,,n ... me rillllll m lllt'IlIUUS plan had better bo omitted, except to i.m I ....1 .. .1.. I .. - :. . , ' on; inut iiirjr iiiciuticii u running loop under tho prisoner's shoulders, ami a 1 turn of the ropo from the net k down ! ami under this and up again to tbo 1 noose. Then the knot, as big as your , fist, was slipped back of the ear, the 1 Coat renlileed. thn run nnlliil trpll ilmvti . everywhere save in front, and the straps ! t ... i liui hieii on. "Now, Williams," said the sheriff, I "I've got to hear that oath once more." j "You will not, then," said Williams fMi'lftv frimi ntnlir lilil rim "It litin. I tered my tongue too badly when I said , it. I 11 stand to It, though, ami I never broke my word, fair nor foul." I "All right," said tho sheriff, "I'll 1 trust you. Now, Pete, I dou't say that the fall won't jar you some, mid jar you pretty bad, but it won't break nothing, and all you've got to do is to play dead. Now I'll get tho padre and Jim." "natsof, gentlemen," said the sheriff, when the shuffling figure bad been moved on to tho chalk cross that mark ed tho center of the trapdoor. Every bat came off, although, owing to the presence of a few Aroquipus, there were not ns many hats as persons. Tim Tiriitrn tnrniwl nsiilo mid drooned bis stick of chocolate into tho looseness of his sleeve. Tho sheriff moved bis baud, his deputy drow his knife n'iross tho bolt string, and the five feet of slack rope tautened and hummed like a steam er's last dock hawser. "Nock broken, I guess, doc," said the sheriff. "Complete fraxr of shekond sherr'l breoBhekond sherr'l vert'bree, Mr. Shor'fbreo Mr. Sher'f," said tho coro ner, turning Williams' wobbly head with spOMiioOio uugers. So it was recorded "Shay, sher'f," said the coroner, with a gravely confidential air, "if "sh no claim for sh body hend round to nie. Mos' strouery case of 'uenrism the aorta ever met with. K'u feel it all 'cross's chest, right through sh closh." "All right, doc," said tho aLei.ff. "I'll do so." But utvxt morning bo told tho coroner that lute at night he had thought better of his promise, as he bad taken kindly to tho boy during his imprisonment, and so had qujetly removed tho body out to the cemetery and buried it, with his Indian constable's assistance, iu tho grave that hud been dug for it The execution took place on July 10th, and ou the 81st the sheriff put his deputy in charge, announcing that his nephew had come iu from Postilence Valo, "torriblo sick with tbo chills," and that, be was "going to take him down to tidewater." And iu truth that very evening be drove over to tho Pa cific and Atlnntio railroad with his nephew by bis Bide, all huddled up in blankets, although tho day had been hot enough to cook eggs in tho open. It took tho sheriff und Williams ten days to reach Troybany, whilo tbo schedule time for tho trip is only five davs. But they bad been obliged to travel by easy stages, for, despito tho sheriff's antiexecution device, Williams had been well nigh wrenched in two by tbo drop und still suffered horribly at times. On reaching Troybany the sheriff saw Williams comfortably be stowed nt a hotel und then went out to view tho towu. Almost the first man he met was Lawyer Belford of San To paz, tho counsel y'bc- bad defended Wil liams. "So you got my telegram?" cried tho lawyer joyously. "What telegram?" asked tho sheriff, with a presentiment that there was a snag somewhero in the stream. "Why, tho telegram telling you to come right along here. " "I got no telegram, " said the sheriff. "Well, that's too rich for utterance. What brought you here then?" "Why, d n it, I came ou business business of my own." "Of course, of course," said the law yer soothingly. "I know. The Williams business Funny, ain't it? Thut's what I'm here for too. Two days lifter you left I got a letter from Wolfe & Fox, a law firm of this place, asking if we could tell them anything of Peter Wil liams, last heard of at San Topaz, ond giving tho terms of his uncle'i will. They said they bad written to him at San Topaz, but had received no answer. " "Ho got a letter on the day of the ex ecution," said tho sheriff. "Did he now? Well, well I Fancy that I And what has become of it, I wonder?" "He's got it with him, I guess," said the sheriff, with a rumbling IuukIi. "Ah, I guess so, too," said the law yer, with a discreet and mild echo of the sheriff's mirth. "At any rate, I telegraphed that Williams had died sud denly ou July 10 and got a dispatch in reply to come ou immediately ana bring all tho proofs of his death. I went at once to your office, but found you gune, as I've aid. Got a copy of your official return of Williams' execution, a copy of Tho Roundup's account of the bung ing and a copy of the coroner's certifi' cate all properly sworn to. But on tho traiu I happened to think that I had omitted to get a certificate of the bur ial ond as I remembered to have beard that you attended to that I thought ! considering the enormous ino-re. ' stake 'twas best to telegraph you to roino on. AU expenses paid, of course, i So naturally when I saw you here I ' jumped ut once to the conclusion that ' you had cone iu answer to that call." i "No, sir," said the sheriff. "Well, never mind. You're here, and I'll see that you dou't get li ft." said the lawyer ch.-erily. "I'm retaiu ed for Matthew Williams, tho present heir, you know. Funny, aiu't it, that I defended Peter Wilams when living and am now on the oth.r side when he's dead? Small world, eh? The case ., in ihn nrobato court tomor- row at 10. Old of course you 11 be there. I'll bethar for sure," said the sher iff griuilr. Ho was, and with him came Peter Williams, wrapped iu a big storm coat of the sheriff's, with the collar turned up to his ears. Mr. Wolfe of the local law firm made a statement of the decease of J. Can nun Pk cai, of the drawing up and tiling of his will, read it aloud it was a very short document and then asked that the status of Mali hew Williams, here piesent, bo duly recorded as residuary legatee owing to the detv.iso without legitimate issue or any other so far as known of Peter Williams, tho original heir. "You urei prepared to present the projir p.m'ls of the din-ease of Peter Williams 1 suppose?" asked the judge. "l'i rtainly, " was the reply. Iu do ing so, Mr. Wolfe regretted to say, they would to obliged to introduce a very delicate and ilistn s-ing story. Tho young man, Pcti r Williams, it appear ed, had been bis uncle's favorite neph ew, but bad quarreled with him, bad gone out west, and there, passing from one excess to another, had filially, in a drunken passion, takeu the life of a fel low being in the town of San Topaz, in the state of Oreforuia, for which crime he had suffered the extreme cnalty of tliu law. Documentary evidence iu the shape of a transcript of the trial and all of the requisite official attestations of the execution would lie presented by an attorncy-at-lawof San Topaz, lit ad dition to which by wliut they could only rcgurd us a providential coinci dence the sheriff of Sau Topaz was in court at that very moment. Thou Lawyer Belford was introduced and read from the transcript of the trial the personal statement under examina tion of the younger Williams as to his uume, uge, place of birth, etc., and read also the sheriff's return for the execu tion, tho coroner's certificate of death and the "dull thud" paragraph of The Wei kly liouudup. "We place these In evidence, " con cluded the lawyer, "ulthough they me almost suiH-rogatory in view of the presenco here of tho sheriff of San To paz, whom I shall now ask to take the stand." Tho w itness chuir creukod as Sheriff Wiuslow settled bis huge bulk between its arms. "Your name is Stephen Douglaa Wiuslow, and you are slier itf of San To paz, Orcfomia, I believe?" said Law yer Belford, smiling pleasantly ut hU fellow townsman. "I am to both questions," "You were officially present at tho cxecutiou of Peter Williams on the 10th day of July of this year?" "I was." "This certified copy of your return of tho execution is correct iu every partic ular, is it not?" "It's a k'rect copy." "You took quite an interest in tho unfortunate young man, I understand, Mr. Sheriff, and personally attended to tho disposal of tho remains?" "Waal," said tho sheriff, slowly spreading himself over the back of the chair, "there's a young man here who can answer that questiou better than me." Lawyer Belford evidently did not ex pect this answer, for he hesitated a mo ment "Put tho young man ou the stand by all means," said Mr. Wolfe. Then the sheriff led the muffled young man to tho chair und stood beside biiu whilo ho wos sworn. "What is your name?" asked Bel ford, glancing curiously at the witness. Before replying the witness slowly turned dowu bis coat collar, and then, wheeling around in his chair, said, with difficulty, tho catch iu his voice running through all that he said: "Peter Williams." "What!" cried Lawyer Belford and fell back iu his chair, clutching at his uecktio as though bo were going to have a fit "Oh, you know mo well enough, I guess, Mr. Belford," said Williams, "though you didn't save me from swing ing. And Mat knows mo woll enough, tors I see, although I guess I'm consid erably moru changed than he seems to bo. Howdy, Mai? Sony for you, old man, but I've got to knock you out this time. By tho way, too, if thero'B any doubting anywhere uround this court room at to my identity, wliy, just look at this neck." Upon which he pulled off a big silk scarf and showed tho lingering shaduw of tho black imprint of the hanginaim's rope, whose close hug even the sheriff's life saving coutrivanco had not quite overcome. Lawyer Belford still sat grasping his necktie and staring speechlessly at tho witness, while Mat Williams' gray fuce grew livid as he crept into the shadow of his attorney's back. Ouly the old lawyer, Wolfe, retained his self posses sion. "Your honor," ho cried, "wo object. This is most irregular, most unheard of, and we object." "It is most irregular, as you say, " said the judge suavely, "und under tho cir cumstances I shall myself ask the wit ness to tell bis story." "We object" "Certainly," said tho judg-". Then turning to the witness, Peter Williams, ho said, "If that be your name, how comes it that you oro hero alive?" Then Williams told tho story that he bad been taught; that tho sheriff, tak ing compassion on bis youth and near grasp of fortune, believing in bis sol emn promise to reform aud not looking forward to any bucIi complication as had arisen, had consented to urrango the rope so that resuscitation might bo possible. Thojodgo listened with closa atten tion, and then turning t. Wiuslow said, "Of course there was a monetary con sideration iu this, Mr. Sheriff':" "Wual, nat'rcl, your honor," said Winslow in a surprised tone of voice. "So I supposed. Now, sir" to Law yer Wolfe "I will hear tho grounds of your objection." "They are viry simple," said that old practitioner. " V. o object not ouiy because of the utter irrelevancy of tho testimony, but liecause of the ut r im materiality of the witness himself. Wo are quite w illing to admit that during the lifetime of this young munbis umno was Pi ter Williams, but, your honor, Peter Williams is dead. He was hangl by tho neck till dead in Han Topaz on the 10th day of July of this year of our Lord, 1HU4, and you yourself, your honor, have adniitb-l the evid-noe that prove it The testimony of this man Winslow which ho will be only too willing to give that he, a sworn offi cer of the law, did cheat the law aud did actively participate iu an evasion of the law and made a lying return, cannot possibly have the faintest weight iu this court It would bo the testimony of a self confessed perjurer Indulging in cumulative perjury. Wo are even willing to admit that such a plot was concocted and that it was car ried to a succesi ful issue, but that docs not iu the very slightest degree affect the legal fact of the demise of the late Peter Williams n sworu to iu every re quisite formality. It comes 1 1 just this, your honor: Physically Piter Williams may be alive, but h gaily ho is dead, and legally, ton, Matthew Williams is therefore the only heir." "Humph!" said tho judge, with a faintly marked twist ut the corner of hismoiith. "Your statement, Mr. Wolfe, puts a very cutious asjiect ou affairs. I will take the matter under advisement." Aud he bis it uudir advisement yet. Thomas J. Vivian iu Short Stories. Tlis .Iory of Trr. The national pride of America in its giant trees H Well founded. If tliu giants of our own woods upieat t us ns an embodiment of magni licence, what nuist bo the impression created by this hall of columns, in which each equals iu height the spire of a cathedral and has stood through ages of whose dura tion the years of tho oak are an incon siderable fraction? These California giants lack one element of iinpressivo ness. Thev have no associations other than those which their sizccenjuivs up. Human fancy has nevi-r played with their mighty forms. So far as is known no human eyes liavo watched the ages of their growth. They hnvo no place in tho story of nations. They have built no temples and furnished no navies. They have no place in story. Thry wero found alone in the wilderness, as the Siberian fur huuter found tlxi ice cased mammoth, iu a world of their own. To the mind of the educated west the groves of the cedars of Ijcbanou Would nppcal more strongly than the groves of the Sierra Nevada. The bulk of the on i) could not outweigh tho associations of tho other. But to the primitive no tions of eastern peoples the giant tree makes a direct apjieal not only for re spect, but for worship. Whatever de parts from tho ordinary courso of na ture strikes them as the immeili ate work ofttodnud one which necessarily pre strves something of the divine. Lou don Spectator. Two I'smaua Old Appl Trovs, The decayed stump is all that remains of tho famous "mother tree," the oldest known specimen of the Rhode Island (ireeniug. A few rods southwest of tho old limekiln on the northern verge "f rruit tiill. on rrein ricic . vt nisor s farm, stands a youngi r tree. Mrs. Win- , s ir's great great-grandfather. Nehemiah j Smith, planted the mother tree, of which tho other is a limb wrenched while load ed with fruit from the parent stock, dur ing Kingtieorge H's reign, in 174S, and was therefore 111 years old when it was cut down in lHS'J UO, and its life from the seed must bo nearly 150 years. Tho present tree, "the daughter treo, " so culled, is a limb of the mother trunk and was broken off iu tho September gale of 1815, nnd which, from an elbow thrust into tho moist, rich soil, took root and became independent F. M. Perry of Caiiaudaiguo, N. Y., a famous nurseryman und pomologist, pronouno fd the fruit of these trees the finest of tho (ireening family and procured hun dreds of scions from tho stock to intro duce into Now York und tho middle states. Proviilonco Journal. I i i The lUittouilru 111 A wonderful natural cavern was dis covered in Lafayette county, tio., in lH'.ll. It has the usual complement of "rooms," "galleries," "domes," "pits," etc., but its solo title to being somewhat out of the ordinary iu the cavern lino is a well-like abyss in one rf the ro ins, which, us far ns uny one knows, may once have served as tho chimney of hades. It is known locally as "the bottomless pit " Stem's of largo size have been thrown into it with a hoie that they would be heard to strike bottom after awhile; but, according to repirts, "there wero uo reverberating nouiids borne back to tho ear by which its enormous depth could bo guuged. " St Louis Republic Nrw Terror For th llotr. A new teiror is iu storo for the host ess. She will bo obliged to indulge in Egyptian tens this season, for London society, through the lady who has gained evujn)( party. The hostess bides pea much notoriety us the original of nuts in nil sorts of queer places about "Dodo," Mrs. Asquith, has set the seal te ro,,mi sometimes putting two or of her approval npou them. The neces- three nuts in the same phico. Theu sho sary accompaniments of an Egyptian tea providii each of her little guests with a ore walls covered with gray canvas to produce a stone effect, palm leaves, grasses, Egyptian pottery, oriental lamps and a hostess gowned a la Cleopatra. The rhina of tho teatuble must be dtsro rated with lotus flowers, the table stand ing in a secluded corner, fitted with a1 low, wide seat CliKiputra house gowns I muy lie very (incnied, or iney may modernized according to the ideas of tho modern charmer. The characteristic fea tures aro hanging sleeves, clinging dra peries, gold embroidered crapes and jew eled girdles, with scurabu'us corsage or naments. Wmnau la lh Kastrrn War. Frances Willard says: "In tho gTcat war now convulsing the east, which na-1 tiou is it that is lit its last gasp; ine one that binds its women's feet in or der that they muy bo keepers ut home, tho nation where you si notices posted liatlon Wlierw 1 IIU IWJ lliillivn injrii lid,, the beautiful sheets of water up in the pleasure grounds of its mundo rins, 'No girl habii-e allowed to bo drowned hero. ' That nation is now on the keen Jump to get away from its ene my, ami the wife of tho victorious gen eral is a graduate of Wellesley college. " Mill tllrU' Altln, A new effort at woman's dress reform is Is-iug niacin by the managers of cot ton mills ut Saon, Me. Because of the accidents that have occurred through the hair or dross of operatives being caught in the machinery it bus been or dered that the girls shall not wear their SrJ'of their .in must be ce fitting, the latter, of course. Is log op- posed to anything prevent stylish. and everything at a woid'. iMKry. Mrs. Lea Merrill, who has decorated the Blackheath church, England, is said by Mr. Hubert Austen, the chemist to lf ,u hnm discovered a BTOund lor Ircsoo n,Kk. it rfnrabm. If . ll .Ml in England and possibly iu America, TOR LITTLE FOLKS. Thr Aut Katrr. A strange looking creature is the ant eater. His name describes bis habits, aud nature seems to have designed him for exactly the work which he performs. He open ant hills and kills, by making bis dinner of them, all of their inhabit ants. He is certainly a useful animal, although a most unpleasant and peculiar bhiking one. He resides in Brazil. Perhaps he lives there because auts and ant hills ure there in plenty, or perhaps the ants and aut hills are put there because he lives there to exterminate them, foriuitsare terrible pests iu that hot country. They fwarm through the houses and eat every thing which comes in their way. Clothes, book and furniture, wool, paper or wood, even to the beams of the houses, ure not safe from destruction by these terrors. And so, of course, the annual who lives but by destroying them is con sidered a most necessary friend. He has curious long, sharp claws, with which he tears open the ants' Iioiues. Ho has u very long nose, half as long as bis body, and he can poke it far into the nuthouses in his search for foist. And ho has a very long, slender and sticky tongue, which he darts in aud out very rapidly, calcning-up Willi u dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ants ut every mo tion. Another odd thing about him is his tail. It is a busby one, covered with long gray hair. It looks like a monstrous gray mat, and when belies down it cov ers him up completely, serving tho ex cellent purpose of keeping him warm and helping ti conceal him. He makes his home iu tho woods, and it is usually ut night that bo prowls about, devour ing a few million unts in the course of bis search for enough dinner. New York World. Th" American 41lrl Abrnait. There has lately come over the seas a little story about a little Washington girl and the Kaiser Wilhelm. Miss Ber tha Bnslt, the daughter of Mr. William Brodt of this city, was recently sent to (iermauy to complete her education iu the language of her parents' fatherland. She is not yet "sweet HI," but the ad jective goes just as well a year younger. The (ierman emperor was out with a hunting party and passed the schisil at NeiilreTenow, near Berlin, where Miss Brodt and the rest of the schiHilgirls wero drawn up to see tho royal party pass. All or tne girls nan nosegays oi flowers, ami when the emperor piissed ,iown the line tho little American girl n10 party stepped out, mid with a Bmji offered him her bunch of posies. The kaiser was probably us much sur prised as any one else ut such a greeting, but to his credit be it said that be did not lose his royal presence of mind, and returning Miss Brodt's greeting iu Lng lish took tho flowers and bowed down and kissed her, saying that he wits glad to have gained so sweet a subject, even for so short a time. And then ho rode away, leaving all the rest of tho girls wondering w hy it had not occurred to them to offer the emperor their nosegays. Washington Post Tim I'umjt Cl' A II C. Pwy est nHiu a Is m h, Hiiiilytnii from bonk. Culls tliu teiwlier "A H a I'UKsy cuts, nuw lookl" A " (' uiui tlu bonr,V, In the bonk a well. Oh, how hnni Ihiw pusny rut Aru It uriitiiK liuw to ss lll Tii h t' very firm ml strict. 1'iiw.y eats in, bright. Every tmu knows A H t Krv Iw lfuv UmlKlitl Wliitur MrIiI Sport. A ncanut bunt is lots of fun for at. jttu) tktikt tied with gay riblsms, and the "hunt" begins. After acertaiu limo tho finds aro compared. The one who bus tho largest numlior win tho first prize, while the "booby prizo" Is fit tingly uwarded to the one huvlng few est Some other triuls that are greut sport are often Introduced. One is to see who curry tl,H most peanuts iu ono baud from ono table to another. A boy ought to win this. Forty-two is a good num ber. Of course the winner is to bo re warded, while the "booby," too, must have a simple something. Another trial consists iu carrying po tatmis from one rqoui to another iu a teaspoon. Tho potatoes, which should bo round and big, are better put on a table with a polished top. The ono who can carry the greatest nuinlsjr of pofa toes from one table to tho other iu a , . ,, . . - 8"- ' " J" apart It is not easy to scisip up the po tato's, and once secured it is sun uiin cult to retaiu. Fall of dory. "Oh, mamma, " cried 6 y nr-old IXiro thy, "I'm just as full of glory as I can be!" "Wliut do you mean?" inquired ber mother, with natural surprise. "Why-iie," said Dorothy, "there was a suiiIm uiii right mi my spoon, aud I swallowed it with my oatmeal, mamma!"--Youth's Companion. A jlruu, w '""""" '"""' , J , t-m.-ui.iii - Ui underlying com. (lurk wuter. I One inav wulk for nub utxm such I ...111i.,v,. tl.,, Hmkiiiir into it . m,..i,,- M)0,JIM. aud deer frequently feed utsm tliegra ...i :.. ..i....: i .l ,i v in nii.bmmm.T tk isTituully C0..1 ' . 7 ,, ".. i Herald. DRAWBACKS OF A BLACK EYE. It lntlrrs lluimir anil llrlng Varied Mis riy I pun lis Owiirr. Unfortunate indeed is tho lot of tho young man w ith a black eye. In addi tion to the fact that it U black and will prevent bis appearance iu respectable society for a time ure the many expla nations which be lias to invent for the curious who want to know bow bo got it. Then be has to stand no cud of ban tering, insinuating smiles, liyisK-ritical sympathy und the stares of men, wom en and children wherever he giios. The young man iu this case got his black eye in tho maimer iu which the general public believes mm out of 1,000 black eyes are received that is, from the fist uf another young man delivered straight out from tho shoulder. At tho time bo received it there wan no means of relief at hand, aud be was iu no coii- , ditioti toisii'kit uftir receiving the blow that U gaii a new course in ustronomy for him. So he went home and content- himself with applying heated cloths to it for the rest of the night. He lived in a Isiardiug house, and win n he went down to breakfast iu the morning he wore a handkerchief bound tightly around his bead, so ns to conceal the black eye. This did not prevent tho boarders from inquiring iu unison: "Where did you get the black eye?" The young man flushed crimson, and as be lin ked around the grinning crowd ho saw that he would have to tell a pretty straight story. "1 dou't know whether it's black or not," ho stammered, "although it finds as if it was. You sen, I got iu late last night aud in the darkness stumbled against the batraek. 1 didn't like to wake anybody up and just put somohot water ou it. "Why didn't you hit the batraek first?" usked one of the skeptics. "I tried to, but" "The scoundrel got the drop ou yon, " put in another Isiarder. "Well, he did. but" "I suppose bo's got n pair of em, eh?" "Well, thero's no uso denying it, fellows," whispered the young man. "I did have a ruu iu with a gang, but they wero tiro to one, nnd ufter 1 had kuocked three of them dowu the other two got at mo, and that ended it Say, whnt'a good to take it right away?" "Let's see it," demanded the board ers, and tho young man was forced to undo the bandage. Ho disclosed a swol leu mass of flesh on the right side of the face, which rivaled a Thanksgiving foot ball field for coloring. Iu tho center a guilty little pupil of au eye flashed, sur rounded by the crimson of Harvard. Shading off ou tho cheek was tho orange, surmounted by black, emblematic of Princeton, while thobluoof Yale was predominant "A symposium of collego colors," cried one of tho boarders. Suggestions for relief were then iu orilrr. "Try a piece of raw beef," was one. "Or a ruw oyster," was another. "Hot water ami extract of witoh ba wl." "Epsom salts and hot water will tuko tho bhsidshut out of the rye. " "Have it painted." "No, have it cut with a razor and let it bleed.". "Hot a leech." Tho young man carefully noted all the suggestions, and as a discussion arose about the most efficacious remedy decided to visit a black eye doctor. Aft er nil the boarders had gone he burning' ed up his eye and went iu search of one. "Now, if you had only come to uie 08 soon as you got it 1 could havo re moved it In uu hour and a half, " said tho black evo siNH'ialist, "or if you bad oomo within 21 hours afterward I mlgh havo hud a better chance of removing it As it is, it will tnko a week. " Tho young man hud bis eye washod and bathed for a couple of hours with hot water nnd other lotions nnd declared that he felt better. The swelling was roduocd somewhat, and be thought that with the help of a little fiesh paint and Chinese white ho could face his best itirl that evening. Surely, be thought sho would Isdieve uny story ho told about it Hut she was as skeptical as the rest, and after listening to his plain tivo story about his encounter with the hatrack said: "Now. really, Charles, who did it?' New York Hun. A lUil Hpsll. A certain congressman, no matte who he is, except that he is not a west eru man, was making up a list of towns in the iicighhorlHKKl of Philadelphia, where bo was to make some campaign siieeches. After ho hud it made out to his satisfaction ho handed tho lint to his secretary to copy. Tho secretary, who is a pretty shrewd politician him self, ran his eye dowu tho column. "Whut's tho matter with Trenton?' he asked in somo astonishment "Not h i ng, " repl led tho mem ber, some what astonished himself, "why?" "You've got it marked N. O." "I uuss not, " protested tho mom ber In doubt "Well, look at it for yourself," and tho secretary handed the list to blm. Ho looked at it, and there in plain letters be found. "Trenton, N. U." Then bo laughed confidently, almost derisively. "That's all right, my boy," he said, with commiserating consideration, "The N. U. you are thinking uboul I not the N. O. I've got there," " I s t h ii t so ?" su I d t h o d uze d secre t ury, "Of courso not," laughed tho con grcssmon. "Mine's Trenton, New tier scy ,' and the secretary suld, "Ob! and let the congressman go on thinking it wai all right. Detroit Free Press. Tbs t'ampalra of Dm Woman. St Louis women aro pointing with nrldu to the career of Miss hstelle Keel, a St Louis woman who has tiocu elect B.I atntii suiMTintelidelit of schools in Wyoming. Miss Heel's opponent was man. who opened his campaign by as sorting that a woman could not perform the duties of the office ot state superin tendeiit of schools, which, besides the duties Dertaining to school work, tu elude a moiiiliernhin oil tho state board of charities and reforms and on tho boaid of land commissions. Miss Reel promptly sent to every voter iu the state a printed statement of tho duties of the state superintendent, showing that any intelligent wouiun could perform them. She traveled, made speeches and nsually hail to wind up ber duy 's work by dano lug all the evening, for dam in ber honor were a feature of the campaign. By these means aud by seuding a half tone engraving of her photograph to all the voters she won the majority of theia to ber stoudard. Chicago Post AM Kit I CAN CITIZENS. THOSE WHO ARE NATURAL BORN AND THOSE MADE BY LAW. Urn tornirr Only Ar l.llcllila la lbs f- flr nf I'rKlitrnt-Opliilutis of Leading Aulhorltlrs I'pon Ilia Hubjwt Murw, Who DUh-iiIs It Short on Argamrut. Kindly Inform me whether a child bom of American parents under thefol- owing circumstances is recognized as nu American citizeu or not: Caso 1. The child Is boru upon high seas. Caso The child is boru in a foreign coun try. Au argumentative ilcclslou. Answer. Our correspondent, wo ap prehend, does not ask for all he wants. Wo will endeavor to eulighten blm, owover, on points which si-em to have ivited dispute, regarding eligibility of certain classes of citizens to tbo ufllco f president of the United Slutes. The child of a citizen lsiru ou tho high sens nder the American Hag is a citizen of the United Slates and eligible to thi presidency. The child of a citizen boru ii a foreign country is a citizen ot mo United States by law, but is uot eligiblo to tho presidency. Tbo urgumeut is in tho constitution of tho United States, which provides: No person, except a natural boru citi zen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of tins constitu tion, shall be eligible to the olllco of president Neither shall any person bo eligible to that ulllce who shall not have ottuined to the age of !10 years ami iss u 1 1 years a resident within '.he LlilUxl States. Tho dilferenco of opinion existing rests uH)ii tho meaning uf "a natural bom citizen." Ou this subject Paschal, regarded as one of the highest of legal authorities, says, "A natural boru clti inn (is one) not made by law or other wise, but boru." Bates on "Citizen ship" ( loop., 8N2) limits the "natural" members of tho body politic to "tne peo ple born In the country," and ho repeats this, routining tho meaning to "every person born in tliorountry. " Keutsuya, "Nativity furnishes tho rule." Story ou "The Constitution" says, "Consid ering the ages of all such L e., those who ure alien boru and citizens when t ho const it n t ion was adopted uo persi m of foreign birth can now ever be prd dent under thisconstitutiou." Morse, ou "Citizenship" (page 133, section UO) says: A natural norn ciu.eu uuo no. mudo by law or otherwise, uui uoru. Tho constitution (! uot make tlio citi zens. It only recognizes such of them as aro natural, home born, ami provideafor tho nationalization of such of them as aro alien, foreign born, making the lat ter, ns far as nature will allow, like the former. Tho expression 'natural born citizen' recognizes and reaffirms the universal principle common to all na tions and is us old as political society that the jMsiple boru in a country do constitute thu nation, and as Individ uals aro naturul members of tho body politic." Now, aoitizen Is, first, naturul bom. Children boru within tho alio glance of the United States aru natural boru citizen Second, made acitiseii by statute- Children, boru of A uioriciui par ents outsido of this jurisdiction aro mude citizens by statute (United btntea , Revised Statutes, section 8173) ami are uot citizens natural boru. If there wae no statute, they would uot be citizens. Tho Journal of Commerce, Nov. 18, 18H0, stated the case as follows: Thev argue that, as a child boru abroad of au American citizen is by act of oou gross invested with the full rights aud privileges of citizenship, therefore be ia a citizen by right of birth and is a uat- nral boru citizen and eligible to mo presidency of the United btutoa, But they overlook the fact that be is uot a citizeii by right of birth alouo, but is made a citizen ou account of bis Dirtn by act of congress. He is not therefore a natural boru citizen, but a citiieu ninuo by tho law. If bo was a naturul boru citizen, there would have been no neces sity fur an out of congress investing him with citizenship. A person born out or the allegiuuue of tbo United States ia therefore mude a citizeu by law, ia uot naturul boru aud cau uot be legally elected president without a change iu the constitution. There was an old feudal doctriue nnder which tho embassador of a country to another carried with him a box of aoll from his uuttve land, and in the event of uecessity he would put the box iu po sition, and standing upon it assume that he was on bis native heuth fur the time being. That, we believe, it uo lon ger iu practice. As to the officials repre senting the government of the United States in foreign oouiitriea, they are iu no way superior to other Anierloau citi sens, because Iu the United State there ia uo rank ubove citizen. In order thut the reader may clearly comprehend why children of American citizens born abroad are not eligible to the ofllce of president the following clause of the United Btutoa Revised Statutes is given: Tho children of persons who now are or have been citizens of the Uulted trtato shall, though boru out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens thereof (section 2171). The ditfereuoe between a citizen made under this provision of luw and a nut ural boru citizen is the difference of ono born out of tho limits and jurisdiction of the United Stutea and one who ia boru within such limits and jurisdiction. It Is the difference between an individual who uueds the luw to make blui a citi zen and one who is a citizen by the mere circuinstunces that he wae born and exists. The opinions of Pascbal, Story, Butcs aud Kent have been ad vaucod, aud Morse, although maintain ing thut a citizeu made by the law, as quoted, is eligible to the presidency, has not succeded iu stating his position so us to support his theory. His statement dourly sustains the popular Interpreta tion that of the highest and leading authorities iu law. Brooklyn Euglu. asaUad to Mlburla. A noblemau once eutered into a con spiracy against the Russian emperor and waa sentenced to Siberia, ilia eyes were bandaged, and he waa put iuto a dark rarringo, and for seven daya and nights they traveled on and on, only stopping to tuko foist. At lust he felt they must have reached Siberia, and iu the utmost anguish he perceived that the carriage hud atonned. and the band- 8Ke w ,ff his eyes, and he was w his own home) He had been driven twml and round St Petersburg the ! whole time, but the fright cured him.