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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. I CAHFBBU EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Uhirt II V iiolaj. A southern clertrvinuii liavine "roving commission" ami who ertr.it fort" whs hi Lim ability to nil di-ena tho children at Kunduv Hclnxds commenced his remark in Brooklyi liv ahitinc Unit mi his wav north ward Lo bad on previous Hunduy addressed children at uaititnoro. Tlion inwitit to Philadelphia, thonco to New York, and from Brooklyn lie mould go 10 uosion. After irivimr his hearers most ex olh-nt advice as to how they were to conduct themselves in thin world in order to . obtain an entrance into Leaven, ho addiMl: "But if-hut if-mv dear little Imivh and mv dear littlo irirls. vou neglect the opportunities you now nave you win go v neu. Then, wishiinr to ascertain how at tentive hi audience had been, ho Hftrtixi tneir memories wiiu me iui lowinir nticKtioiis: "Where did I Bay I first commenced addressing Bunduy school children?" A dozen voices answered, "in uui timore." "Wherfl did I on next?" "To Philadelphia," wag the re- KJXlllHe. "And thou?" "To New York." "And where did I nay I was going rrom jirookiynr "To hell !" wan the unexiectod and unsatisfactory answer and anything but complimentary to our modern Athens. Boston Times. Color and Inutility. The influence of the various colors on the minds of human beings (esje- cially in caw-st of mental diseases) has long been a subject of curious in ijuiry. In Italy, Germany and Aus tria tho iiiKiuiity experts have had some pmiliar experience in this hue. In the hoHiiital for the insane at Al eswindna, in the first of the above named countries, two sjxicial rooms liave toeu arranged, one fitted up with windows of red glims and red jiniiit on the walls, the other in blue throughout. A violent patient is first taken to the "blue room" and left to see wliat effect that color will have on his nerves. One maniac was cured in less than an hour; another, raving and furious, was at icrfect iHace aft er uiMhing a day in the calming hades of his cerulean surrounding. The "red room" is used for tho commonest forum of dementia, espe cially melancholia and refiisiil to take food. The first patient was one who had fasted seven days. After only a tbreo hours' stay iu the ml room ho became quite cheerful and asked for foof. The iiniHtitance of a few gen eral facts like these is obvious to ' all thinkers and should not 1st light ly overlooked, even though such treatment is of tho "fad" class and "smacks of the marvelous." St. Louis ltepublic. A Cool rhjralrln. Dr. Schweninger, tho trusted phy sician of Prince Bismarck, is a doctor who is unaffected by the rank of his jiatient. His sixciulty is olesity, which ho treats with such success that his putieiits (lin k to Berlin from ull parts of Europe. Tho chancellor triixl mineral springs and other rem edies to reduce his flesh, and having found them useless scut for Dr. Hchweninger, then a young man of 34. The doctor, indifferent to his jHitient's rank and prestige, coolly put him through an exhaustive pro fessional examination. Bismarck is fond of asking ques tions, but does not like to answer them. Ho became impatieiit, then irritable, and finally declared he would not answer another question. "Very well," calmly replied tho cool physician, "but if you do not want to lie questioned you had better send for a veterinary." Tho audacity of tho young doctor caused tho chancel lor to remain dumb for a moment', then ho grimly said, "If you are as skillful as you aro impertinent, young man, you must bo a great physician." London Million. I.lnea of tli HauU Ctiauc. Walter Besanl, in tho "Voieeof tho Flying Day," says: "From tho mini lcr of Tho Palmist and Chirologloul Iteview toforo nib 1 learn twoor three tilings of interest. The tirst is that tho lines of tho hand alter. I had al ways thought them unchangeable as tho fato which they represent. No; it seems that they alter from time to time. Iu one hand "the lino when first seen four years ago was not bro ken at all. Hinco then it has broken three times, twice closed, and some time afterward formed an island." Should not the consideration that hues alter lead us to hope that fato May change her mind and give us UucxiK-cted good things They iT In. At an assizes iu the south of Eng land the jury could not ugrvo and worw locked up. After a long dis cussiou a division was taken. Ten weiv found to bo for conviction and two for acquittal. Another long ilebuto followed, and eventually a big, burly farmer, who was lending tho majority, went over to the di minutive individual, who, with a companion, formed the minority, and assuming his most aggressive atti tude said, "Now, then, aro you two going to give iul" "No !" defiantly replied tho 6inall man. "Very well," was tho answer, "then us 10 will 1" And they did. Essex Eugluud) bluudard. lib tint Hiuok. "Truth," wild Mr. MKiuek, "Ol fink tliia cigar that me uum glva me I Ui vlr ry bUt wan UI lvr vlnuokod. It' called a Kay WUL Now, r'oency, fUat la Ui tint elgar y Iver hmukedt" "Huru," repllnd Fwuey, "th Mat clgur UI her alnaukod wui plpa." Llfo. WOMAN'S WOULD. THE MODERN WOMAN IN HER RELA TIONS WITH MAN. Wma Wh KrniT-Florrac Nlglilla (I -Tim NovM llrruln Tod AuielU lllvr banlrr Wuid' AdTanml To- ltlon--Thi Noonday Club. Tim Now York Pros i decidedly of the opinion tliut a lot of nonsense ho been promulgated in tlie publio prints on the. subject of lho"up to.luto" worn an. Wo have been told in manifold measures thut tliu intellectual woiuuii in taking tho pi urn of tlio loving woman; that women urn devising a kingdom which exclude mnii from the system of civilization. Nothing in more untrue, Man in very much more humble than he dhimI to bo, but ho is still in evidence Ho has toon forced o admit that ho in not the unlimited lord of tho universe, hut ho still recognizes the fact that women cannot get along without him. This hoi rcHiilted, however, iu checking bis propensity to boost and in chasten lug his Hpirit to a point where ho admit thut a worthy woman must bo worthily won. The man who wants to be loved must first qualify himself to to loved. Unco it was enough to bo a man. Now he mast bo a deserving mun. But aro women Isms lovablo becauHe they dis criminate? The ago is full of novelties, and per haps the uiost significant is tho emanci patod woman, Klip was born a woman without her own consent, but thut (lot's not prevent her from taking rutionul view of life, blio Iwm lust as much on ergy, ambition and intelligence as her brother, and alie propose to Iw quito as independent. Unless she given him a full eiuivaleiit as a wife and a mother ho will owe her living to no man. bhe can think and feel and tx?ak and act for herself. Sim doe. Hapcrfiniul obserrcrs, comineutlngup on her manifestations, profess to toliovo her unlovublo and uuscxed because she is uiitrummclcd by traditions of docll ity, humility and obedience. Kuril crit ies complain that thn "emancipated" woman cannot lovo as sincerely and un voted! v us her grandmntlier because the grandmother loved blindly whether the object of her alTection dicrvcu or did not deserve to 1st loved. Tho modern woman puuses, weigh, meditate and reasons. But dix-a all that imply heart Iokhiiosh? Is not an intelligent and a dis- criminating regard better, higher and more duruhlo than a Kuddeii, unreason ing and nuhmiMKive fancy? The mndern woman is better worth loving limn her grandmother. The mun who wins her love' has reason to bo proud of hiuiKclf. Ho is HciiNiblo of tho fact that ho muHt tie a pretty good sort of a man, or she wouldn't lovo him. Hid character has been Mrengthcncd by his PiTorU to justify her CNteem. IIuv ingwou her lovo, ho will be assiduous to koep it. Tho reciprocal obligation of gixxl behuvior will be establirthed. Hu tu un nature is weak, but an alTection bcicd UKiti genuine knowledge aud mu tual rexi)eot is not lightly lout The mod eru woiiisn knows enough to forgive, and the modern man cau nppreciato all that is involved in thn overlooking by such a woman of his deliiKiucncieit. No, the modern woman is not unlovable, and she is letter worth loving than ever woman was before. Wonira Wage Karnrra. 'Women have taken ixitwi-wion of some occupations nnd are Ixdug paid, as a rule, in accordance with tho skill, tal ent or genius required iroM'rly to fill tho positions. If men should ik rform tho sumo work iu thesamu tK-cupations, they would probably bo paid, if not tho same rate of wages, very nearly tho same rates thut are paid to women. In many cases whero compensation is by tho piece tho rates aro tho sumo whether men or women perform tho work, tlie earnings being in uccordunre with the skill and application of the worker. As women huvo occupied tho positions of bookkeepers, telegraphers and many of what might bo culled seiuiprofessiou at callings, men huvo entered engineer ing, clectricul, mochuiiieul and other spheres of life that were not known wheu women first stepped into tho in dustrial field. As they have progressed from entire want of employment to em ployment which pays a few dollars per week, men, too, have progressed in their employment and occupied new fields not kuowu Ix'foro. It is not quite true, therefore, tosny thut iu such occupations women aro not paid equal wages with men for tho same work eimally welt done. Notwithstanding these statements, the very low pay of womeu in very many directions excites hvmpatliy and discus sion, and I thoroughly Join in the sym pathy ami tho effort to bring womau's wages up to a higher level. The chief causes or logical reasons why women aro employed tit so low a rate are such as cannot bo overcome by any present considerations, cither social orecotiomio or legislative, and they must Is consid ered in relation to t lis cause or cuut.es of her long subjection in the past. She is now stepping out of industrial subjec tion and comes into the industrial sys tem of tho present ss an entirety new eoouomlo factor. If there were no oth er reason, this alone would tx xulucteut to keep her wages low and prevent their very rapid increase. Hon. Carroll I). Wright, I.alxir Commissioner, on the "Industrial Kninnoipatiou of Woman. " Klorrnea MtMlnga.1, Florence Nightingale, who is now 74 years of age, is iu very pxir health. She lives in a quiet pot in t lie west of Lon don, but even herueighlxirsdonot know her. To nn Ameriouu who recently vis itod her she expressed her thanks f jr tin many kind letters thut she lcoiistautl receiving from America, and die men tinned especially tho testimonial pa tented to tier by tho American govrro aieut in Mum for her advico with '.-- gant to improving our hospital service at the time of the civil war. blie has a similar testiuioiilal from Kramv and has tributes from individuals all over the world. Her room are fatrly tilled with pio tures. brxks, medals and bit of brlo-a-brao that have Uin prtuutol to her from time lo time. "I um ouistantly being rememU retl by kind friends who aro personally unknown to im but whose kiiiilii-s touches mo more than I can say. I wish you would thank my American friends for their kind wonts that are constantly coining to me. If I have done good in tuy life, I aut beluj fully rewarded now. What gratifle me above all is that all my hope have been fulfilltsL But it still horrifies me when I think of how oar men were treated when they were ill or wounded at tin- time of tho Crimean war. Today, what with Improved hospital servh', with traiuml nurses, with such organizations a the Red Cross and others, our system is well nigh perfect. "New VorkTrib nno. Tli Notrl Ilrrulu Totlay. Thero hero is no greater indication of tho advancement of tho day than the women onu meets in tlie novels ho reads. To be sure, one meets with many worn en in novels who are coarse lx-yond do hcription and undoubtedly belong to a class to which ho would not introduce his mother or sister, and from contact with whom ho would decidedly prefer to keep his wife; but, then, one uufor tunutely meets them everywhere. Be side these aro nut the true heroines. They aro merely creutuns who huvo been ruised to a flctitiou value for tho mo meut by reason of some prevailing fail and have managel to foist themselves upon riwpcctuhlo society, just as it not uncommonly happens Iu real life. But tho woman wo mean is strong and true and good. Kho is by no means the namby piimby creature of half acentury ago. Kho does not sit and fold her hands, disdaining to lift so much as her hand kerchief, nor does she faint at the sight of blood like "a broken lily on tho stem," nor huvo to bo helped over every stone thut is more thuu two inches iu diameter. Aud her appetite! If bhe liwl no other virtue, her upx-tite would bo her saving grace, Kho cuts three gixxl square meuls a day and enjoys them, and if necessary hIio devours a fourth without a tinge of shumo rising to her check. A fow year ago our heroines were all slender aud languid, pule aud etlie reul, didieato and helpless. A spider would throw them into a fit, a cut fin gcr cause them to faint. And tin so aro tho women we were Mipposcd to admire. with their "long yellow curls" aud KWcct, "amiable faces. All this iudi cute most clearly u decided change iu tho opinions of man. Men may deny it, aud women may flout the bleu, but the fact remains that men form tho clutrar tors of the women around them far more thun tho reverse. Philadelphia Cull. Aairll Itlvn Imnlrr. Mrs. Amelio Hive ('hauler, who is stuyiug iu Loudon, naturally gets more or less mention iu tho various hnglish prints. Uuo writer asserts that this dreumy eyed southerner still holds tho palm for "extreme, not to say sublime, unconveiitionality" in authorship over tho mimt audacious of tho Knglish wom en novelists "Not even," gixs on this critic, "tho bold 'Iota,' thn original Sarah Oriind, tho redoubtable John I diver Hobls-s, tho severe Lynn Linton, tho keen Kara Jcunctto Duncan or tho during Hep worth Dixon has yet given ns a hero whose heart gives 'a hot leap along his breast to Lis throat, leaving a fl ry truck bchil it, us of sparks,' and whose eyes go 'so hrp' into those of tho heroine that 'he almost felt tho uioNturo of that divine gaze.' "Neither, too, has tho pluckiest of our novelists created a heroine who can 'cat' h a fidd of her inner lip between her teeth, ' although others than Bar bara I'omfret may bo said to possess an elastic' check. "But let us hope that one detail at least in Mrs. Hives ('hauler's creat ion is poculiur to American widows namely, a wuy of speculating iu regard to their dead husbands us to whether 'if ho was a skeleton now one could see his tailor's name iu gilt through his spinal column. ' But, iu justice to tho fair Amelio, I must own that her expressions aro often as beautiful as they are bizarre and as suggestive as they ure original. Wo can forgive much to a writer who cuu give us such exquisite phrases ns tho 'gold bailed hileuco' of a lonely wixsl, 'tho gruy thoughts,' 'rugged, uneven breaths' ami wiuer woods 'full of lean shad ows. '" Woman' Advanced INMltlon. The now position of woman iu tho in dustrial world, her entrance iuto fields of work and spheres of duty hitherto ap propriated by man and her claim to tho right of tho ballot, a claim which grows stronger from year to year us her out look broadens aud her athliations with varied sociul activities increase this is one of tho most siguitlcunt aud encour aging symptoms of the evolution of that industrial regime which shall substitute the mcthixls of peace for the roll call of war. But must we wait for tho full con summation of this regime before wom an' claim to equality of political rights can bo conceded! That is a very illog ical and unphilosopliio condition to im pose. U; anted that the present is a period of transition from a militant to uu in dustrial regime und grunted that one of tho indications of this change is the new position of woman iu industrial life, it follows that this larger activity of woman, with its consequent claim to all tho rights and privileges that go therewith, is itself one of the productive factors in the evolution of the industrial regime. Aud it may txi said that the further evolution of this higher social state is conditional upon the granting to woman that civic equality which shall enable her to iucorxrato therein tho distinctive quality of womanhood the very conception ef the industrial regime implying an equal alliance of the masculine and tho feminine nature. very phase and taint of servitude being expunged. Now York Home Journal. Th Noonday ( tub. In Cleveland tliore is a rlub' which is doing worlds of gixxl among tho setf supporting young women of that city. It is appropriately called the Noonday club. It has two cool, shady room in one ef Cleveland' business Mock. The.-o room uro the rendezvous daily between the hours of 1 1 and 3 of some .VI young women who oomo there to rot and refresh themselves from the strain of tho morning and prepare for the fa tigue of the afteriHxin. The club is composed both of young women who are self supporting and of others who have more leisure, I'poii the latter tho work of the club chiefly devolves. Ouo of the two rooms is fitted up with small tables covered with white cloths, and upon them are served nimplo but appeti.ing lunches iu pretty dishes and at price that are just high enough to ctner tho expense of the original cost and of serving. Tea, coffee and milk are served for 3 cents, meats, cuke and pie for 5 cent aud the other things at correspondingly low price. The room adjoiuiuii U titled uocuiilj with divan, ( la .ies, a'v.riting desk, bookshelves and a piano. It is known as the library and is us much prized by the girls as tho lunchroom. Thn privileges of tho club co t 10 cent a mouth in addition to the voluntary expenses. Though only mem Uts nr.) permitted tho habitual use of the rixuns, visitors are mado cordially Welcome, und are, moro than thut, es pecially invited. New York Evening iiau. Tli Vandrrbllt Women. Mrs. Maria Yamlerbilt, widow of William 1L Yamlerbilt, i a quiet, re tiring woman, who allows her sou to attind to her financial affairs. Her daughters ure more self assertive. These wnmi u aro 'each worth ut least $15, 000,001). Mrs. Elliott F. Khepurd, Mrs. Sloan, Mrs. Seward Webb und Mrs. McK. Twombly each received $10,000, 000 from their father' und have grown steudily richer. Each i possessed of strength of character and marked indi viduality. They muimgo their own money und spend it in their own wuy. Mrs. Khepurd has built several houses and has endowed Ix'ds iu hospitals and scholarships in women's colleges. Sincu her husband's di uth she has taken iu hand the fitting of her son for business life, and this will lx done thoroughly. Mrs. Khepard's sit ters ure like her. All aro liberal, but all uso their great wealth with the skill and discrimination that havo characterized tho Yuudurbilt nidi and women. Womi-n a rallbrurrn. Tho custom of having women pal! bearers at funeral will probably sikiu to permanently established here. There have la-en suvcral funerals of that kind in tho past year. Thn pallls-arers who bore tho remains of Miss Hulx-r to tint grave wero eight young girls, dressed from head to foot in white. Miss Hubcr liveil at Preston and Broadway and died last Wednesday. The funeral txk place Friday aftermxm from the residence. The young ludies wore while caps, gloviw, dresses Hiidshix s, thn emblems of purity. Naturally tiny attracted a good deal of attention, it being so unusual for females to aut iu tho capacity of pall - bearers, but many wero heard to com- mend it in a beautiful departure from tho old custom, particularly iu tho caso of tho death of young womeu. Louis - villo Courier-Journal. Women a Trlrfraiihrr. It may hrvo been noticed that not so imiuy young women uro engaged as tel egraph oix-rators as iu former years. While women have shown their abil ity in this field of work, it bus been found that they do not stand tho strain mid uru not equal to emergencies as well as men. ITolcssorl'.wald of licrlm claims that nervous diseases aro increasing among female telegraph oix-rators. ond ho d.-clares his opinion that it is an em- ployment iu which women should not eugugc. Llilcago tribune. Titled I-adie In the llath Club. In different parts of London t hero uro tx'ing established bath chilis, whero girls havo certain days set apart for them and hundreds of women uru learning to FWini. It has become very fashionable, and such titled ladies as tho Duchess of Portland, Duchess of Sutherland, Mar chioness of Londonderry and tho Count ess of (Josford form tho ludies' coiuiuit-ti-o of tho new aud swell bath club iu Berkeley street. Miss Margaret Stokes, thodistinrruish- vd Irish lady antiquarian, is busily en gaged upon an illustrated work on the sculptured crosses of ancient Ireland. Miss Stokes is a well known authority on curly Irish art, and she is an hon orary mcmlHT of several learned socie ties. A new chapter of tho Daughters of the American Revolution lias just been formed in Los Angeles, with the pecul iar and Spanish or is it Polish? nume, i tho Esohsoholt.ia. The venerable Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is the president. ! Mis Florence Walker of Lo Rov, N. Y. , who has taken her degree of bachelor of literature this year at Chicago uni versity, lias been offered a fellowship iu tho university worth $000 annually. Signoru Teresina Labriola, a daugh ter of 1'iofessor 1 lemony me of Rome, has received thn degree of doctor of laws from tho University of Rome. Aftermxiu tea table covers aro now made with a valance about 11 indies deep. It is gathered moderately full and put on with a cord. A newly established ticket office on the New York Central's Harlem divi sion bus been put in charge of a young woman. There is now iu full running order hi Chicago an "exchange" whero wom en cau deal in stocks, eto. Au l'liirt-uirilllatrd Joke. Among tho sanitary regulations drawn up by the sclnxil board ut Tho Hague is the following: "Thorough ly clean the shell of each our und the outer earduct us far us you can look down iuto it." This is likely to cause a gotxl deal of useless twist ing and turning of people's heads. OicsNcucr Anzeiger. On one occasion a well to do cob bler, who -iu the course of his long wedded life had buried three wives, above whoso graves he hud erected a handsome headstone, ou resolving not to innrry a fourth, instructed the sculptor to engrave under the name of the third the brief but appropriate inscription, "A Shoemaker's Last." For many ytuis after his death Yictor Hugo's house in Paris wus kept just as it was when he lived in it, and visitors could go through it, ! or m. 000,000, will bonet profit. This even visiting the Is-drootn where he Vl,st sum won1'' he equal to a fi iiereent di.nl and the dcu m which he wrote ,'v"l,,'1 on a capital of 2.S20,000,000. some of his wonderful Ixs-ks. As I,m,!,T of f;,, t- '"'Wer, it cannot i to treated as net profit by many . f the A fanner, who thought he knew ! 'ds, but will have to to used in many the answer to everything, was asked i l'!,M,: t0 0fT-iOt llWMs sustained during one day by his little daughter, "Fa- ; the depression with which the country ther, wheu you have fmLshed milk- 1 has becii.ursed during the last twoor ing a cow, how do you turn it off " ; three yews, of course the corn crop He has not ausweivd yet. j earnings will largely help to lift some i roads out of a condition chwelv ap- The Roman legionary trxx.pa wore preaching bankruptcy, mid it wiil nn a sort of kti.H. breeches. Tho sigus ' doubt edly enable such thoroughfares of of tunic and breeches makers have been found iu IVnnpeii A railroad to Jerusalem aud an tie- vator to lift pilgrims to the top of Mount Calvary are peculiar bigns of the times. C0KX IX AMJXDAXCE. ENOUGH IN BUSHEL BASKETS TO CIR CLE THE EARTH 27 TIMES. Tbl. Knonnou. Vleld Will Act a a B JufrnatluK Torre Throulout th Land. Not Only th Farmer hat All Cla to l llrnrOlrd. -W' YERYBODY seems to be agreed that the corn I crop of IMia will lie the . biggest the United States has )x-eii"liiessed with for many yours, far exceeding anything since the crop of IH'Jl und outmeasuring even that by about "00,0(10,000 bushels. According to the sharps who iiiako rstiinutes of crops, It would renuire -,..i,uw",iem bushel baskets to hold tho enormous crop expected this year, while that of 1ND1, though tnnch morn bountiful than any thut hail been harvested for a long time nreviouslv, amounted to only 2,0ii0,l.)l,ono bushels. It may bo thut i tho reader fancies he understands what : these figures mean, but thn chances are against it. Kupposn that all the corn to to harvested in 1!." wero put into j bushel basket, and then stipposo tho ; biurets were ranged iu u straight row. ; Kach basket would take up about IS ; inches, so that 'JJi20 baskets could bo M.f ulong u line a mile iu length. It would then require a straight stretch of is)7,ili:j miles tqxni which to set all I these bushel baskets in line. Possibly . ,t hxks like u big story, but you cau ( jirovo it for yourself by dividing tho total number of bushels by tho number i f bushels that can be set in a inilo. j Assuming that yon have gone through j t,js ptths arithmetical calculation and j found my figures to bo correct, yon : might next consider with ino whero . straight lino could bo found. If 1 it wero started ut tho earth und run off into space it would reach n gixxl deal more thanwicn us far us from hero to the moon, which is but 210,000 miles away, uivordiug to tho astronomers. Of course tlm attempt to run the line into space would not work and obvi ously it could not bo laid out on the little ball which wo inhabit and on which ull this com has been raised, for its circumference i only 21,000 miles, perhaps a littlo less. To simplify the i (..lK.ulatjt)11 wo will iissnmo tho distance , h. ..., lf .. . ... ..,, set to work ranging the baskets in a row at thn equator, where tho earth's circumference is greatest, they would find, lifter they had so ranged 81,-lSO,-OllO of tho baskets, that they hud made a complete circuit of tlie globe. Then if they went on with tho work, they could repeat this circuit '.'(I times, mak ing "7 circles of bushels of corn in all, ami still have enough surplus basket to reach l'., til 3 miles on the twenty eighth circuit. As each row of baskets would bo IS inches wide, tho total width of tho belt of bushels thus creuted would extend over -IHtl inches or 40,4 feet, whero there wero only 27 rows. Along tho 1'.) til!! miles, whero there would bo 2H rows, tho Ix-lt would to 43 feet wide. It will readily occur to the ingenious lover of figures that still other calculations might be made by which tlie magnitude of this enormous corn crop could bo brought homo to tho mind of thn reader. They need not bo entered into hero, though if any reader is de sirous of exercising himself in this direction, tho writer would suggest that a bushel of corn bo shelled by hand, the time required noted and tho number of centuries it would takoouniuiin to shell this crop unaided by machinery. With out having entered into tho mutter at all it seems quito likely to tho writer that beforo tho luckless individual who had undertaken this task had (iuislied it, ho would bo of an ago compared with which that of Methuselah would bo youthful iu tho extreme. There urn a uumlx-r of other relations iu which to consider this crop which require less tedious calculations. For instance, if tho farmers receive ou an average, n'thcr for the corn or tho pork or lxH'f into which it is transformed, cash amounting t !10 cents a bushel, tlie total amount of money to bo turned over to them for this crop will yield the enormous sum of f 705,000,000 thut is, ulxiut $10 for each individual in the Uuitod States, reckoning the population INCI.K BAM AND A PART OF HIS IIIQ cons CHOP. at 70.000.000. If there uro five persons in each family, tho sum received for the I conl would amount to j0 a family. Vuito i wo minis as mucli money, or about 20 cents a bushel, will be spent for moving tho crop from the farmer to the market. This will amount to 170.- 000,000, of which perhaps SO per cent -commerce as have successfully with j stixxl the storm of hard times to add i materially to their cash siirolrw n.,.l ,n. vidend paying ability. This means trips to Europe aud seashore cottage for "nio moderate stockholders and steam yachts and marble palace for some big ai.s. It aUj mean wlvatiuu from utter ... .,.,, who holding nro not ,f much dui'sequeuce iu tho financial world But the moaning of this crop to the wage earner of the country is fur more interesting. It i assumed that 70 per mnt, or faUD.OOO.OOO, of the 170,000, 800 used iu moving the corn will to wallowed up in the actual cos t of trans portation. Reduced to tlie last analysis, mot of this enormous sum will to paid iu wages to trainbands, locomotive en gineers, trackmen, switchmen, section bosses, and so ou. A largo sum will also go for new cars, but most of the cost of curs even is finally puid out in wages, und the sumo is true of tho other largo sum which will be puid out for ...... i ... ,,m,La utnmn to mn tho engine. In other words, tho great corn crop of 1805 mean more work una better wages to lumbermen, who cut the trees und su w them up into boards and timbers for curs ; for meu of all trades, including curjx-nterx, painters, foundrynien, etc., who aro employed ill building curs, to miners of iron und miner of coul, to mtn who cut and get out ties to keep the railroad trucks in order and to many other sorts of workmen, not counting thoso who muko clothes und shoes and hats and furnish food and other none, suries and comforts of lifo to tho han dlers of tho crop. In short, a grout com crop means increased prosperity for al most every one of the inhabitants of that part of the United State located far enough north to to either in tho corn producing belt or the territory through which run the railroads over which the abundant stream of golden kernels i transported from tho west to tho oust. It would to difficult indeed to esti moto tho enormous benefit nno such fiood crop confers upon the inhabitant of tho United States. Jt means senooi ing for many a farmer's studions son und dunghier, eager to improve a bright intelligence, bnt tillable to do so unless there is money coming iu, iu coinpara- A TMOl'SAM) YEAR JOB. tive abundance, for tho crop which has been made during the summer. It mean comfortable clothing for thou sands and thousands who would other wise go about shabbily clad. It means other comforts for other thousands and luxuries and tho social amenities for many. In fact, it means uu enormous forward step for the wholo country and is therefore ouo of tho things for which tho entire nation should to do vontly thankful. Already the beneficent influence of this great growth of coru has begun to bo felt by ull concerned. True, its marketing has not yet begun, for it is yet some weeks boforo it will be har vested, but it is easy for tho farmer to get credit of all sorts when tho dealers know that by and by ho will have money in comparative plenty, and so, by the prix-es of discounting gixxl for tune in advance for which Americnus aro noted, the farmer has already begun to buy tho things ho needs. Iu order to bo prepared to haul the crop wheu it is ready for transportation tho railroad managers have begun to order curs and to put their roadbeds in better order. Warehouses and elevators uro being put iu shape, und as tho farm ers will by and by be baying largely of manufactured gixxls with tho money they receive for tho coru, factories and mills of various sorts are piling up stock of merchandise which will to moved west in return for tho coru and ttio pork and beef to to moved east. Wheels ure now turning in many manu facturing centers that would to idle were it not for this corn crop. Workmen are drawing waes who would other wise be wondering w hether times would ever improve again or not Commercial travelers are sturting out on their fall trips with brighter hopes for quick Rales aiid gixxl commissions than they have rr.ul for two or three years. Business men are gotting ready to advertise as sixin as tho fall season of buying shall begin. In short, tho lifobltxxl of pros perity, w hich has been quickened and oxygenized by tho phenomenal yield of corn, is beginning to pulsate every where. Oue feature which always attends the harvesting and transportation of u great crop is apt to escape the general ob server, und that is that, while tho pnis perity of the farmer in such cases de pends npou the price of tho corn, the prosperity of those who move und han dle it is about the sumo whether tho market is high or low This is because, regardless of the price at which the corn is sold, tho railroads charge a virtually uniform rate for transportation. Inter esting just hero may be tho prices at which corn has been held for the past four years on Doc. 1, by which time the now crop is well iu course of delivery: In 1M1 cash corn in New York was worth 75 cents on that date; iu 1802, 61 cents j iu 181)3, 45'.,' cents; iu 1S04, 58 '"outs. I. D. Marshall. On n-l and One a l'liantom. The young man in the dress suit had attended a festive social gather ing in tho Auditorium building aud was slowly wending his way home Ward. "Off'sher," he said, addressing a IKilicemuti at a street comer, "we-wherec'u I get acabf" "If you will go two bliKkswest and oue block south," replied tlie ofileer, sizing him up as he spoke, "you will bee two cabs. Climb into the first one. The other one won't be there." Chicago Tribune. Cabhjr's Srrm. Ujion one oocasiou two ludies paid a cabby a shilling for the distance tht y had ridden with one foui-penny bit, two threetvnuv uiec mm n,.n. uy and two halfpence. When cabby looked at the coins, he smiled drolly and asked : "Well, well, how long might you have been saving up for this htthj treat!" London Judy. mm tips CHEESE IIOXIAKKg AN EXTENSIVE INDUSTRY OF ' LITTLE IS KNOWN. Half a Million IMi.iy w Tnr.d Out IV.,,, , Kt C .hln.rjr-How ,l" -' r CJL Thra Cat Into I nhrok.. Mu' All idea of tho umi-ni.-.i. . Iclu-esoindoHtryii, thiH the fact that tho bo.. , l'"?" cheese is shipped r.-prtW, nearly 300,ooo annually. uT many yours since cheese wM .i,,v . ! any kind of barrel or box ,vh h 7 huM from ..not., half n,wnl ; form, packed in straw to Unf."4 iirom Doing bruised or LnA i. handling. It wan o!v cheese that received sm), "7 mi, while dairy cheese was l'?.1- destitute of any covering owu roughly bandaged riial. most cuses proved invuhierab'a, r petition among manufacturer, i changed all this, und ut . manufacture of boxes Kiitnou,,,! to a largo number of hands tate the use of powerful il M, machinery. ' It was customary in tho early djrirf tho business to saw tl, , ' largo Ixsly of tho box is called' out the log in plunks utout cme-flfthrf inch in thickness.' Tho waste of Z al wus a most verion objection toft-' plan, fully GO per cent of th tiBu going in suwdnst. The invontionrfZ rotury cutting machine ha VTVXiZ this waste and ut tho same time duocd a totter hoop than the sawed & do. Tho chief timber used in Baku cheosebox hcxips is the common elm. No other timber seem, to p2 the same qualities of lightiieia, tocA ness and elasticity so requisite f cheosoboxes ns this once despised w. net of American forests. The m tfc er being cut in tho proper lengths, m. orally 5 feet for uu ordinary ch box of 15 or 11 indie, diameter, m thrown into long vats filled with wife, where they uro boiled from 12 to hours. Tho timo required to softc tht timber, or cook it, u the operatic, called, varies according to the tin tho timber and the season. Large lo require to bo cooked longer than mall ones, particularly when the lop OT frozen. It is not uncommon to find tht center of a log still froa n after 15 turn of boiling. KxKricnee is tho best guide in tlij part of lho business, and to knotlm tlio timber is t lion Highly ex iked and twt overdone is ouo of tho things aopii only by constant observation. tVb, sufllciently boiled the logs ure lifted is iron grapples from tho vat mid laida skids, wh.Te the bark is removed. H a log is lifted by a crane aud 6wnng in to place in tho machine, whero it is kH in a horizontal position by clinch a dogs that center it nt each end. Iu this position tho log revolve lib a roll of paper iu a printing pres. Tht knifo which din's the cutting it tot heavy and is bolted to a heavy bead called a carriage, which is fedfumrf by screws toward the revolving log. b tho most approved machine the ktiili has on end or oscillating an well mi forward motion. Thisrwlucestho stria on tho machino and permits the cuttiBf of soft, unsound aud shaky hearted lupi As the knifo comes in contact with tht timber, tho iuequalitii-s of the login first shorn off and gradually thelgfr comes perfectly round und yielihun un broken sheet of lumber, like the uwial iug of a roll of cloth. This shM d wood is broken off iu cnuveiiial lengths, which uro passed under divid ing kuives thut cut them into nnifona widths corresponding with tho reqtM depth of the box. If tho boxes aro to to niailenpatow the hoops ore bent nrouiidimu cylinder! to givo thein tho form of the box, f! which tho bottom is pressed in ml liiiiled in place. Comparatively fc boxes nro put together in the larpj mills. In most cases the product i dr' mid shipped to the cheese miuiufaiw iug centers, where the boxes arew" pleted Tho boxes in tho finished stiti nro too bulky for economical liaiidliu An ordinary freight car will nut cen tum moro thim fiOO complete toi while 0,000 cuu to carried if uliippod tho bale, Tho remnants w hich are uot w enough for lnxips uro used for thecorer baud and for tho narrow luml that go around tho bottom of tho bx. The lu es viu-v iu size both as rcganln d.pi" mid d'iiimotcr. Tho most common f will hold a cheese of from to i pounds. Such a box is 10 iiu-hea t and 15, inches iu diameter. Tha tho size of cheese most in demand W export Tho size for homo coiisumrtw is ns a mlo much smaller and reqW" a box from 5 to G inches deep, bat sumo diameter us tho other. Various kinds of timlx-r are n" form tho bonds of the box, bolM" tho accepted material for tlie Owing to peculiarities of tl"."1,,. timber in some localities is incliueaw bo shaky, tho chocks or shakw "" around tho log and following the P of tho timber. Such timber wsw n . when tho hoops were sawed, bnt w rotary process much of it ""' 1 , ta to g.xxl account. Tho bulk of tne timber used in this busiu.w is mm iu from Canada. . w Tho western peninsula of t,lltarl ing north of Lake Krio contained on. the largest tracts of elm tiiid" " continent It hns toon great ly d.'P recent years. Logs are taken out in tor wheu tho swamps are frozen w (kidded near tho railways omni'"- K shore. The bulk of them are t;U. the mills by water intowoflJ steam tugs. New York Mm- A Irohlriu. (Ckt CTicN Bitr.t L7." i9 try .c How can ,he vote when the t to wide and the voting bouthi rowt llustuu Clubs. PIMP