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EUGENE CITY GUARD. rraartata EUGENE C1TT. OREGON. AN ABRUPT COURTSHIP. Bo an ro.-ll!i MalhndUt Prahrr M i nmd fcaul Wm Aeeaptad. "A good ft oi ,y is (old of au English minister wbollvedllKiut 70 year ago," aid Uiicle Dave. "We ruay cull him Smith, and ho wat a bachelor. Ho re- tinted many persuasions to marry, which bit friends wore constantly making, tin til be had reachod a tolorubly ripe ago, aud be himself began to fool the need of or at loast boson to have new Idea of the comfort of being tiurited with wo man's goutle care. Shortly after entor ing one of the circuit a maiden lady, also of ripe yean, was ttrongly recom mended to him, and hit frienda again urged that be woo Id better get married, representing that the lady named would not refuse to accept bim, notwithstand ing bit eccentricities. " 'Do yon think tho?" aaid the domi nie, for he bad a very perceptible Hep. 'Then I'll go and thoe her.' "lie wai at good a bit word. Hit ring at the doorbell wai answered by the serving maid. 'Ith Mith P. within?' brink ly but calmly asked the lover. 'Yet, air. Will you kindly walk in?' 'No, I thank you. Bo kind enough to thay to Mith P. that I with to thpeak to her u moment. ' Miss P. appeared aud repeated the invitation to walk in. "'No, thank yon. I'll thoon explain my bithuoth. I'm the now Mothodist preacher. I'm unmarried. My frieudt think I'd bettor marry. They recom mend yon for a wifa Have you any ob jections?' '"Why, really, Mr. 8m" " 'There, don't anther now. Will call thith day week for yonr reply. Good day.' "On that day he appeared at the door of Mini P.'t residence. It was promptly opened by the lady horself. '"Walk in, Mr. Smith.' "Can't Indoed, ma'am. P loath anther mo. Yeth or no?" " 'Well, Mr. Smith, it it a very sori out matter. I should not like to gut out of the way of Providence' " 'I perfectly understand yon, Mith P. We will he married thith day week. I will call at thith bonr. Plcutb be ready, uin'nm. ' "Ho called on that day week at that hour. She was roady. They wero mnr ried and lived huppily tevoral years." WA3 PARADISE AT THE NORTH POLE I Many OaolngUta Contaud That tha Garden of Kilan Waa la tha Aretlo Hrglona, In an interesting and highly instruct ive article Kdwurd 8. Martin, iu the Ladles' Home Journal, reviews the uu morons theories advanced by scientists in the endeavor to solve the perplexing problem as tothe exact location of the site of tho garden of Eden. After sifting the theories the writer concludes that the question is no nearer answered tliun it was 2,000 years ago, nud that there are no present indications that the matter will ever be definitely settled by auy man. To one of the latost and most in genious theories Mr. Murtiu thus re fers: The north polo will seem at first thought of the avurnge investigator the most unlikely silo ou earth for paradise to have occupied Nevertheless several inter and thoughtful books and pam phlets have beeu written in support of the north pole's pretensions. The north pole nowadays is bitter cold, but it 1ms not always Wen nix Geologists tell us that the eurtb wua excessively but when it ilntt began its course much too hot to admit of tho presence of auy liv ing creatures, except, perhaps, a solu mnodor. Aa it grew cooler vegetation began ou it, and then it bcga.u to Le peopled, first with fishes, and then with birds aud beasts, finally with man. Tbo first spot ou earth to get cool enough to use was the north polo. Iu tho process of timo it got too cold, but there must have been a loug period whon the polar rrgiou was the must comfortable part of the world. During thit period, many eminent goologists be lieve, tliuro existed around tho north pole aooutlueut bow submerged, aud that ou that continent our progenitors were oor-fortablo in thoir first home. It it known with entire certainty that the polar region was ouco worm enough for tropical vegctutiou to grow there. There was light enough also for such vegnta tion abundant light, indeed, for all cies and plenty for piimoval man. Geology tells ut that man might have lived at the north pole. PERSONAL GOSSIP. John Roberts hot been the champion of English billiards for over 25 years. It is snld that Dr. John Hal), (he Prerbyteriun minister of Now York, is the wealihiitt clergyman in the world. The first military order issued by General Grant is in the possession of Colonel Davson, late quartermaster of the Twenty-first Illinois. Canovat lol Costollo, the Spanish premier, it OS years old. Ho entered journalism vhen he became of age and politics three years later. Ex-Seuatnr Jones of Iowa, who it 00 yean old, has just undergone a success ful operation for the removal of a cata ract from one of hit eyes. Joseph Nesbitt, once a mining king worth 11,000,000, died the other day in a Chicago lodging house. Hit ruin wat due to gambling aud morphine. William A. Coffin, a well known lundsenpe painter and art writer, has been appointed one of the Judges in the Fine Arta department of the Atlanta exposition. Stephen Hoyt of Lyudonville, Vt., bat Iu bia possession a collection of old coins, among them being an English guinea of 1 70S aud a shilling of 1358, also a crown of 1726. The interests of the Rothschilds are represented in tha goldflolds of Johan nesburg, South Africa, by Hamilton Smith, a Keutuckian. He receives an annual salary of (40,000. A. B. Clingman of Cornwallia, Or., died the other day at the ago of 98. At hit fuueral wat a ton 71, another 00, a daughter 08 and a great number of grandchildren and greot-grandchildreu. Herbert Spencer is described as a plain, old fashioned Englishman of me dium stature, drooping shoulders, a largo bead (now bald), light complex ion, toft gray eyes and curly gray i( ud throat wh inker a AN OPAL A roM of flr shut In a vrll of mow, Aa April (loom athwart a ulatad sky. A Jawal suoll liau dwptf too would know Tba omnia wrought pell of Its pale wltcbarv. And now each treinalmM buaatr ll ravMiM, And now the drifted snow doth basal? shield. So my shy lora, ancatb her kerchief arhlta, Holdi lb tha glamour of tha awt In fea; Warm Puritan, who fxars brrowa dallKlit, Who tratntluth over that shs rtnldntb ma. And now bar lipa her baart's rich Baine bar told, And now thay pals that they hava baan so bold. Ednab f routor Clark in salary. OUlt FIRST CASE. We were sitting in our little room looking at each other. A week or two go we had set up independently We had come bora to moke our fortunes, but private; nurses did not teem to be in moch request in thlt benighted place. All the doctors knew of us, aud had wol oomod ua cordially. With one consent they bad aaid that we wera jnst what waa wanted here. "Do yon think we can afford tottty another week?" asked Kathleen. 'Perhaps, one more," I an vcrod. 'It 'a a most interesting experience," the said. "And will eud in quite an exciting finale," I added. "The worst of it ia the return home amid the joers of our frienda, who are expecting ut any day. " Kathloen thnddered. "We may get a case in the noxt fow days," I said "Such things occasional ly happen." , "Give me another cupof tea, Agnes," ortod Kathleen. "It it ruinoua tothe nerves, but I most have It If any of my patients drank half aa much aa I do, I should read thorn a lecture they would not forget, but" Our landlady flung open the door, and Dr. Puckle burst in upon us. Ah I I wot so afraid I should find von out, he cried. Ho wat Irish. "Wo happen to have a holiday," said Kathleen. "At least we have no very urgent case ou this moruiug. "Allow me to give you a cup of tea, laid I 'Tea? Tea at this tiro of day I" ne hook hia head at ua "I should have thought yon know better, nnina Never drink tea at 1 1 o'clock. No sugar, thank you." He settled himself comfortably before the fire, and eipped his tea, wliilo doliv ering himself of a long aud strong dis sertation ou thocvil of this habit hath locti and 1 corroborated evory word he aid. "Woll, now to business," cried Dr. Puck la " I camo to ask you to undertake a cose, a very painful case. It a old Jo- liah Hurt hind Ever heard of him?" "No," 1 answorcd "That man would h ve been dead a year ago if bo hadn't happened to ah live. This time he'll go. Meanwhile 1 must get a couple of nurses for him, by hook or by crook. Will you undertake bit case?" "Tell us tome more about bim, doc tor." "He Uvea in Hartlond't Hollow. I tuppoee yon know that part?" "No," aaid Kathleen, and Dr. Pucklo looked rolicved. "It's a triflo lonely, but I suppose you don't mind that?" "Not in tho least, " said L "We are neither of ut troubled with nerves in spite of the tea. " "You'll find no one there but the coachman and hii wlfo, an old coup la You'll have to doeverythiugyoursolvos, I'm afraid When can you be ready? The case ia urgent We promised to go that afternoon and when Dr. Puckle loft us, Kathleen and I hold a littlooolobration in honor of our first case. We found ourselves before a low, mm bling building nt 4 o'clock that after noon. Tho walls wore thickly covered with ivy and creepers; tall trees sur rounded it, which lent an uirof mystery to the place. A solemn bush was on it, aud the chilly afternoon fog was rising. "I hope thero a a good fire, whisper ed Kathleen, shivering. The sound of the boll was muffled and seemed to oome from underground re gioiis We hud to ring three timet be fore any one thought of answering our luminous, alien tho door was opened uspluionsly, and au old woman peered at ua out of her spectacles. "Oh, bo you tho uusses?" she mum bled " You may coino iu. " "(low kindl said Kathleen In my ear Don t yon fool gratified, Agues, by thlt gracious permission?" She waited till our traps were depos ited In the ball, thou shut aud locked the door. "One ncvor knows what may hap pen," the murmured, speaking to her self. Her candle cast suspiolousshudows round the low, dark hall We could iiuoll the dust of ages as we followed the housekeeper up stairs. Sho told ui In passing the diOTorout rooms and in formed ut that tome of them were baautod, but the didn't rightly know which. "What a delightful house I" aaid Kathleen aloud, and her voice echoed far away and disturbed tha brooding si leuee. I wanted to hush her, for I kept foulingoaif I were at church. "Sochoor full" raug out her voice." "That 'a your room, " said our guide, stopping a.t tha top of the stairs to breathe, "and thot s the master's." With that the turned and went into tho dark regions wo had left behind, aud we found ourselves standing in a passage lighted by a ainglo small lamp, with jut bags in onr bands and our hearts beating rather rapidly. "I thought there must be something queer about it," said Kathleen. "Dr Puckle woa so very reserved " "It it charming." I affirmed. "Now, shall we introduce ourselves to our pa tlent or to our room?" "Our room first, " aaid Kathleen "Let ut keep the host treat till the eud " It wat not an ideal room which bad been prepared for ns, nor overelean ; but, aa Kathleen laid, we nvre both aula tu terub a door alter our liiNpital training. She threw open the window, lighted both the caudles on the dressing table and then declared that it was fit for the queen. "But horribly cold, " I supplemented "Well, my deur, wait till it'a aired before you Bhnt the wiudow. When that old hag's lighted our fire, it won't be half bad" "It strikes me," aaid I, "that we may at well light it ourselves if we want one at alL" "There seemi a superabundance of in sects and crawling things," mid Kath leen, examining the corners of tha room. "I'm rather food of spiders. Are you?" "On tha whole," I answered, "I pre fer uiy bedroom free of them. " "That it a pity." aaid Kathleen. "Let nt now go and roaka tha ac quaintance of our patient, " I auggosted. Our gentle knock wot not answered bo we went iu unbidden. Joaiuh Unrthiud waa lying in bed broathlug heavily. He wat an old man. Hi akin waa at yellow at a London fog, his eyea were to tunkon under ihoggy browa that at first sight he seemed to have uoue. The room was comfortless lu the extreme The fire waa nearly out, and an untriumicd lamp smoked upon the table by his bed Ho turned and tared at ua "Two of youl" burst out a sharp, thin voice, startling ua "Two! I don't want two One's quite enough. I'm not going to pay two to do tho work for one. " "Hut one of nt hot to tit up with you at night, " aaid I in a cheerful, soothing tone. "What do yon want with sloop?" be growled "A great, strapping girl like you ought to be able to do without it Has James come in?" "Who it James?" "James, he's my coachman, of course. Who elao did you think bo wai? Ring the belL can't you? I tell you I want J am oa to come up. He a been collecting my rente. I want to aee bim about them. " "It'a rather late in the day to be do ing buainess," said Kathleen. Ho tnmed and stored at ber. "Who's that?" he asked, pointing at ber with a bony finger. "She la your nurse," said L "8cnd her away, then. One's quit enough. I'm not going to pay two nursos, I tell you. I engaged yon, but I never engaged her. Send her away I" J nt now," I answered, "Iamgoin away, and your second nurse will stay with you. I shall sit up with you to night, bo I am going to rest now. " Ka t h locn followed me to the door, look ing slightly scared I wish you Joy, dear," aaid L "We have a delightful ease for our first I When 1 awoke from my nap, I found Kathloen by the fire in our room and nfre littlo meal wn'tiii,? f'ir me. Don't thank Mrs. Jones for that,' said she, "or expect to find such things growing in this house. If yon are linn gry, yon n:r.ht go and forage abont in the l.in'.cr for something to eat If you havi-u't got the genius which diet in gulshos everything I do, probably you won t find anything. At all events, par take freely now, for you have a long night before yon. " She waa very tired, and I loft her to sleep as beet she could in our spider haunted room. I wan simply astonished at the change Kathleen had wrought in the sickroom. Tho only thing which seemed the same was our patient, and ho looked cleaner. Kathleen afterward told methatslio had nover found it so difficult to pertmado any ono to let her wash him. "Has sho gone? asked Josiuh. "Yea; she's gone to bed," said L "Gone to bed! Whoso bed? I won't have her sleeping in ono of my beds. " "Yes, it's all right," I said, "and now you must let me acttlo for the night" "Yon aren t going to wash mol" ho cried "Tho other one has just done it " "No, no, it's all right I won't wash yon again tonight " Vt how he hod token his mcdicluo and wot settled comfortably, I sat by the fire in the darkened room, and strange thoughts came to ma How wtis it that my ltfo hod drifted Into this? Fivo years ago I woa a thoughtless girl, with scarce ly a care beyond dress aud pleasure and friendship. My friends thought it eocen trio to "waste" my youth like this. They were amused, and could not see through my desire to do something use ful lu tho world However it was, here I fonnd myself, a girl who hod been shielded from all the roughness and trouble of life, iu the very presence of infTering aud death, playing an impor tant part iu the tragedy which I felt sure would cud toon, for 1 ki:ew tho look of death to well that sometimes I sow it with acarcoly a shudder. Our patient did not seem conscious of his condition. ne lay there iu hia large and lonely bouso without oue friend or relative bo lido him. It was a Bud caso f r our first It grew more and more silent Au ash foil out of the grate, nud it sounded aa if a thunderbolt had burst I jumped iu my chair and felt a thrill nil dowu my back. Then I begnu to think of the lonely situation of tho house and the distaiico between the two old caretakers and me if anything should happen. Aft or awhilo tho silence teemed with count less noises, i heard a long swish, a queer wailing more liko a human cry than the wiud a pitter patter, a buzz ing, a fuint topping, a sigh. And thoro waa a loug creeping thud every uow and thou. I am not superstitious. I firmly be lieve that itipei-Htitiou ia the result of Iguorance, aud that educated people ought to despiso it But I began to feel as if perhaps there was more than I had thought in some of those superstitions. Surely they could not have lived through centuries if there bad been no truth in them I "Go and fetch me my rent book. " I nearly screamed His voice had oome so suddenly upon my thoughts. "D'ye hear?" cried .the thin, high voice. I tried to persuade him to lie down and go to sleep, but he grew so exoitod that to quiet bira 1 was obliged to yield Where Is it?" I asked It wiw dowu stairs in one of those horriblo deserted rooms. "Wouldn't you rather wait till the morniiiR?" I asked 'No, fetch it now, now I Besides, thou you cau look rouud and see that there are no burglars about They kuow I iu ill, mid that I've got a great sum of money here. I'm only waiting till I get bettor to take it mvsclf to tho bunk. " His voice grew wilder and wilder. He urged me ou, and I went, for nothing else ecu Id quiet him. I took a lighted candle with me, nud aa I found my way down tho creaking stair my heart thumped agniust my aide. I am sure I beard a low growl at the foot of the stair. As the flickering light of my candle moved onward in the dark ness it seemed to disperse count less shad owl that had dim shape I thought 1 saw the outline of a grinuing head Mr. Jonea had said some of these rooms were haunted anpposing this oue was! Something scuttled away. I set my cau die down, afraid I should drop it, my hand waa trembling so, Something fel. with a thud on the table, aud that was too much for me. Suotchlng up my cau die, I turned and. fled The candle went out, but It feeble flicker of the lamp up atain guided me, and I Humbled on, not daring to take a breath till I found myself once more in the aickroom. I have alnoe found out that the library waa awanning with oockroachea and mice. - Old Joslah bad fortunately fallen into a doze, to I aettled myself in my chair again, having gently made up the fire. Would thit awfol night never pas? It waa now S o'clock, and it aoemed like the beginning of eternity. Tick, tick, tick I What waa that? Tick, tick, tick I I knew it wat the death spider. I had beard of the horrid thing before, and had not believed in it existence. But I had never before spent a night with a dying man in a haunted house. I stole , softly to tho bedsldo, but be waa sleep ing nicely. He bad several daya to live mil. "Well, how did you got on? What tort of a night bod you?" Kathloen waa like a breeze. Her voice wept off tho vapors of the night "Beautifully," aaid L "I have bad a delightful night " "When shall I get better?" asked our patient "What's the good of paying a couple of nurse and a doctor if they can't cure me quicker than this? Why can t you speak, doctor? Answer me. "ILtrtland, it ia time to prepare your self for another world You cannot got better." "I must I must I've a great sum of money iu the house that ought to be banked Aud Jame hasn't got iu all the rente. He 'a a fool at it Send him up to me at once. Dr. Puckle told us that this perpetual worrying about hia business was hasten ing the end He said it could not be far distant now, and Kathloen aud I deter mined to try to get the poor man to think of other things more appropriate at thia solemn tuna "You cannot take your money with you," I said, "bo why worry about it now? You are dying, Mr. Hart land Surely you can leave your money mat ters aloua What importance con they possibly be Just now?" "Much you know about business," sneered tho old man. "Business ia busl nees, whotber a man ia dying or not" Then he burst out crying like a child "All my life," he wailed, "all my life I've spent in getting it, and now I've got to leave it It isn't fair. Send James up to mo at once. I wont to know wheth er he's made that villain Richards pay up. Why, tho fellow owes two quarters It t infamous. I looked ut Kathleen in despair. It was always like tlint Sometimes he cried and sobbed, sometimes he rail ed against the Justice of life. His one and only idea was still his money, that mouey which ho bad made himself, aud which he loved with a concentrated pas sion. Uo looked at the cold, useless thing, aud never missed tho warm, bu man faces that onght to have been round him now. Ho had no relations, uo friends. His money bad come between bim and all the softer Joys of lifo, and in dying he cared for nothing except that he had to part with it Kathleen started at the little heap of salt she bad spilt "What's tho matter, Kathleen?" "Oh, nothing," she answered, start ing. "Of course I don't believe iu any such nouseuse, but I saw a crow this morning now I've spilt somo salt " "Throw a piuch over your left shoul dor," I suggestod, laughing at her. "Goose," she retorted, "do you think I'm bo silly? ' I stooped to pick up my r-rviotte, and she niado a rapid movement as though throwing something over her shoulder. "Kathleen 1" I cried sharply. "Put your kuifo and fork straight " "Why? What a wrong with them?" She looked at them, then suddenly snatched up tho folk ..lid laid it down beside the kuifa "I do not believe you wero frightened because they were crossed," she said Did you hear the screech owl last night?" I asked No, but I hoard a dog howling, and when I got up to aee the time I saw a shooting star. " Superstition la tuch nouseue," toidL "Yes, isn't it?" I waa sitting by him, and in the dark ened room I saw hia bony hands grop; : about aimlessly or picking at bis sheet when I had washed him, be had fret fully declared that we uursoa did noth ing iu the world but wash him, am 'the other one" had done it that ver morning. I tried to persuade him that the morning hud nothing to do with tho evening, but he didn't see it He was uow muttering to himself or lapsing in to unconsciousness. He did not know ma Hit mind seemed to be wondering into tho mouey getting past, for I con 13 bear snatches of calculation and some thing about the Stock Exchange which I did not understand Then all was silence, but for the beat ing of my heart There came a tapping at my wiudow. sat up straight, clutching the arms of the chair. Death himself might have beeu knocking for admittance 1 I knew, was sure, that it waa but a bird, but I had heard that when a sparrow taps at the wiudow it means death. A few minutes after there sounded a loud crash dowu stairs, and I sprang up and rushed into our room, having Just presence of mind left to toe thot our patieut had not been disturbed Kathleen waa sitting up in bed "Did you hear thot noise?" I gasped "Ye-es." said she, through chattering teetlu " Do you thiuk there ' a bnrslor here?" "Well, perhaps you'd better go and see," said L "I would, but I cannot leave Mr. Hart land " Oh," said Kathleen, "I would, but 'm uot dressed What's the matter, Ag nes?" I took her shoos, which she had left on the table by accident and threw tham down. She started I I tumbled up stairs yesterdav. Ague," she said, sciaing my arm. 1 here was anot her crash. Ihadknock- ed over a hand glass! Next monimg a largo picture of Jo- tiah Hart laud was found on its face iu the dining room. Mrs. Jouea said it hod fallen several times before, for the cord was rotten and kept breaking, but Mr. Hart land wouldn't buy a new ona We aaid it had better not be hung again, as we did not like going to see what was tha miitt.tr In tha nil. I. lis lnl. ...... i . . . . u ... v. vt .v. vj. int. uiKU. I ........... n iir, .u.. I told Kathleen that she looked Dale. ' miu nmuirvu mn sua iuukcu pnie, frj?" V00 dure another night of Tt, and ihe said the could cot, but if I liked I might Hit anil aha would fifive 100 ill the profits There was no need for ut to ttay. Mr. Hartland Insisted on looking at hia reutbook to see whether Jame had collected all the rente I brought it to him, and be groped about with bit handt to feel it "I can't ouite see," be moaned "My eyes they aren't so good at they used to be. Read it to me, you nurse. What are you here for, wasting my money, if yon can t read it to mer "Let me read aometning eme, i en treated, feeling tears rising in my eyes "Kathleon. bring me a Bibla" "Business is business," gasped the dying man. "Read the last page to ma I want to know whether that rilluiu what wo I saving?" Kathleen came nearer. We looked at each other. "What do you know about business?" He glared at ua and struggled with his breath. His hands wandered over the auilt They touched the reutbook. A grin crept over the wrinkled face and flxod thcra His eyea rolled and shut 'Agnes, now we can go home," whis pered Kathleen, creeping to my sida All the Year Round Tha rraaarvatlon of Fooda. The great advance in the preservation of foods ia perhaps most clearly shown in a recent article in a French mogozina The article discusses the preserving of provisions from the military standpoint It states that 40,000 rations of vegeta bles can be stored in a cubic space of 40 inches each way; that millions of ra tions of solid soups and preserved meats are continually stored in Paris, while the quantity of flour and biscuit is fubu lous. Milk during the lust siege of Paris was worth its weight in gold Now tho method of "pasteurizing" milk and putting it iu hermetically sealed cans is found to preserve milk indefinitely and insures against suffering those classes of the community that suffer most from scarcity of milk the feeble, aged and infanta. Compressed fodder and the silo system are the safeguards used by the govern ment to protect animals in cose of siege, wbilo an enormous cold storage ware house at La Vilctte insures fresh meats for a long period The application of science to tho food problem has reduced the perplexities of families living on small incomes, but it may force a com plote change in military maneuvers, starvation of the besieged being made almost impossibla Outlook. A Wondar la Mlnata Writing. A recent writer on the subject of wave lengths of light, in describing the ap paratus used for taking measurenieuts of such lengths, mentions the "Nobert test plates. " These plates are mado of gloss and hove the scale thereon so finely graduated that there are often as many as 160,000 lines to the inch. Such in finitesimal magnitudes are totally be yond our powers of conception, yet much more wonderful things in that line have been accomplished An artist of the name of Wobb, a regular manufacturer of these "Nobert test plates, "once tried his hand in microscopic writing on glass. The specimen turned out, which is now in the Army Medical museum at Wellington, is the whole of the Lord's Prayer on a piece of glass which is ouly 1-204 of an inch one way and 1-440 of an inch tho other. In the Lord's Prayer there are 227 letters, and, as shown above, they were put on piece of glass having an area of but 1-139,053 of an inch. Had an entire inch of space been used at the same rote, the engraver would have put no less than 29,431,458 lotters upon it The entire Bible, Old and New Testaments, could havo been written on that inch of space eight times over. St Louis Republic. t'ocoanuta Ia Florida. Quite a number of tropical nuts have recently been introduced into cultiva tion in this country. Already on the east coast of Florida are growing 250,000 cocoanut trees, 42,000 being: in one plantation. It is believed that the first trees of this kind in that state sprouted from nuts brought from Central Ameri ca and the West Indies by the gulf stream. At Key West and about some of the old forts cocoonnts were planted at an early duy, as certain ancieut trees now standing bear witness. In 1877 a bark freighted with cocoauuts was caught in a storm off the coast of Flori da aud beachod near Lake Worth. Sev eral thousands of the nuts were saved and planted, the satisfactory growth of the seedlings giving an impetus to cul tivation. New York World Tha Itomanoa Ended. Gilbert You led me on. aud then glv' me de marble heart. You bay' took Mendez Uouzola 'cause he's a forriner. deny it If you can. (Bitterly) Agues, why did you glv' me de frigid shook? Ague (haughtily) Go thy ways! Gilbert Fitzherbert, or I'll alok my dorg on you I Truth. Ar VUltlna Lltta Too Loner Mrs, do Fashion (averacre society lad v making her round of calls owina- to average society frieuds) Is Mrs. Wig gins Van Mortlaude at home? Sen-ant No, madam, she's Mrs. do Fashion Please hand her mv pard v 'icu she returns. Servant She won't return, madam. She was buried a month item. Vow York Weekly. Walah Band Waataa. Large tracts of saud wastes ar bain- reclaimed aloua the Welsh emwr si. of parallel feuces ore put up seawards, closely interwoven with wires aud furze, and spaces between those posts are filli-d with earth aud road scrapings. In these various trees, such as sycamore, willow, piue aud aider, are planftd, while the ridges are sown with corse aud bronn, teed and planted with brier. Canaollnar Bim. Bulliou It gall me to Old that thiuk Mint ....... , -- " Yontlff nnlli.inV , . . ,? " . . mna 8v- (.rnor it ,. , ' ,on8-Iu HE WENT TO A BALL. OVERCOME BY THE HOSPITALITY OF YOUNG LOUISVILLE MEN. Th Dauoa Waa at Famala Seminary, and II Waa Fall of larpri Th ktntofer Declared lie Would Kavar Attend Aa- othar "SwaU" Danoa la Kentucky, "Speaking of practical jokes," said a drummer at one of tho hotels the other nioht. "I was the victim of one of the tim or one or most embarrassing I have heard of for . ... i. .1 j.. ... n long wua iiwhuiuiui ut, u.m, Wiy south, and not being familiar with the people in this part of the country I urinD- bit first thought I noo iouuq a reauy iaoe l, uhnn thre vonnir 'swells' of the town with whom I had been talking the evening before asked me to go with them to a dance that was to be given at a lemaiB wiuinmijr icn city. I had been away from homo anma time, and not having had some time, ana not naviug naa ine pleasure of being in the company of vouna ladies I waa fairly delighted at the idea of spending a pleasant evening. "I told them I would be pleased to go, and after hurried preparation we started The young men laughed at the idea of my paying anything toward tho carriage hire, and I felt that I had never been in the company of a more hospita ble set of men. "Whon we arrived at the place, the dance had already begun, we lcrt the carriage in care of a negro man and en tered the ballroom. Of course I felt very strange at first among so many strangem, but my companions seemed to feel quite at borne and insisted that I should meet some or tho young women at onca une of tho young men took mo by the arm and led mo across the room to where thero sat a young woman wno was ratner nrettvand had an extremely noat bd S - w a pearanca "After receiving an Introduction to her I sat down and started a conversa tion. Boon she was talking at an aston ishingly rapid rata I became rather iu forested iu the girl, but was very much surprised to learn that she was the twen tieth daughter of a wealthy farmor. At lost site begau to talk and lough so loud ly that I began to feel a little embar rassed aud asked her if she did not want to danca She was on her feet in an in stant, and wo had danced a fow steps when sho suddenly yelled out at tho top of her voice: 'Dou'tl Don't I Oh, don't hold me so tight I I am. full of dyuo mita ' And she uttered a yell that mado the cold chills run up and down my bock. "I turned her loose in an instant and stood simply horrified I felt like swear ing when the other people in the room only laughed and went on dancing. I did not know what to da I know I had done nothing I should not have done, intentionally at least, but I started up to her with an apology, when ono of my companions como up with a young worn an on his arm. He gave mean inrroduo tion to her and asked me if I would not dance the next set with her. I did not feel like dancing a bit, but there was no way of getting out of it, so I told him I would Wliilo we were sitting down waiting for tho next dunce she told mo she hod been married 14 times and had 1,000 children at homo. I thought she was just trying to joke me and asked her where she lived She said she lived in heaven. I know something was wrong with her, and I mado up my mind right thero that I would not dance with her. I asked her to excuse me a moment, and without waiting for a reply rushed across the room toward the door. I thought to myself that if I once got ou the outside I would never attend another 'swell dance' iu Kentucky. I had got within a few feet of the door when an old woman ran up aud threw her arms around my neck. She yelled out that I was her lost son, who ran away from home 400 years ago, when I was a more child I tried to tear myself away from the woman, and she fainted at my feet I made a dart for the door, and when I reached the thresh old I looked bock and saw several per sons carrying her off the floor. I was dazed I expected to be arrested every moment I saw a man outside and asked him if thore was not a train leaving that place soon. He said there would be one going to Louisville ip about an hour, and 1 concluded to wait around the lit tle station until it was ready to leava I do not remember to have evor heard a more welcome sound than the whistle of that tram, after spending an hour iu silent misery. I reached my hotel in this city shortly after midnight, but could not sleep. I had learned on the traiu thot I had been to an insane asylum nan, ana i was as mud as a hornet Tho next morning tho young men came around to the hotel and aDolosrized. and now they are tho best friends I hove in this city. "Louisville Courier-Journal. Tha Troth of th Matter. The Bookman tells a story of Mr. P. a-l WT ... . ope vtnitenonse, who recently spent five years in Europa He had been long in connici wun noth British and Egyp tian authorities on the question of irri gating a certain district and found them ouuuni tnjuHiiy conservativa Alter a timo he met Lord Cromer, lust arrived ut "ii renuy cannot go into these matters with you," said Lord Cromer, "because i near that you treated my predecessor with great discourtesy." uiscourtesy; Discourtesy of what nature?" "Oh, I am informed that him of er in fact, thot you insinuated he was untruthful. " 'I? Oh, dear me. nol Notnt nil Th truth of the motter was just this : I had to characterize his attitude in someway. Now, you see. I couldn't nAnb hi. simplicity, because It would not be ex actly complimentary. Of course 1 couldn't speak of his multiplicity, be cause that wMdn't be true, you know So naturally I had to call it duplicity, don t you see? It really was forced upon od m a Filter. T tat n .... the layer of flue sand in filtpri., tA. cannot be reduced bey ond a certain point ...iruir i, "Ker P" ,ne lnam7 of the BTV "J"" r. Kurth of Bremen has found in ...ni.i greatly increased, owing to the presence Tit1 microbe tl,at be found in the water before it entered the "io uu 11 wr rtnAa.i . mese microbes must therefore j bav, been developed by tbt passage ef water through it-Exchange. MB- Bnv!7rS XT' Kn"'h t., Du. ! Don With IhTrTt Wbydor, not .urbaso to pieces, aocordinii t ft .Tt k tur which hannii. of . ruptlcn and weak no, B,i" in tbeir train? There art Th, "U,m. Onei. the HWoltfcK peon powers, which hn. bJltv of preventing t wo ( " ing what remains of Turkish? Another it the fact t).V the tjormlotlon. .. a , fuuutlcallv 111 a.K. 1 !"". i. trin I n u ' .. ru 10 th. . . J tlani (who are the ,,. 7 ""W that it it not only wilii.,1 !! government to hold the Clfri, Wp but even dispc medtot olora,. . T aon . 1.1 u ,u'ert evil, .ij were UlRre no christian. Tia try. There is, however . 1" 'k jutont disco,,,,,,., ' " r,,,,l of meuaus, aud but for the fti- for iHlam engenders, and whirl, i the ti.a n,,,uun. u.,i. ... . a 6 ttwU the musses listless and re1Ii11nLtt,,,, may doubt whether even Vi? the Christian, would sumcoto lV outbreaks. The third rea,,. i moua advantage which n.ulern wJZ give to a government whlrh ..r money to purchase them. TwoZ,?4 ago insurrection were far ,! . , more likely to succeed than Zt cause the insurcdUs wm ' eVel with regular troop, ,Z H m ' Jn ,heg0 doViof .J fl , uur op . rifles of long range. Thpr. ?. f04 littlo ground for hoping for.r extinction of the Turkish no... J?7 ural causes. ' m It, then, it is golna to la.t longer, cau nothing at all ha a. t! nt to fnrm u ... .t " Experience bos shown that thJl iu one woy of reforming an oriZ.1 ' -mnient. and Hint lu i.. " . - I in,ii 0.i. . -:.r 1 "ue K ittto leading strings by cither MwrJl the chiof officials and puttiuo r.Jz in their pluce or eke by givw. tu. European adjutants who shall vmu direct them. This niicht b A,- Z Turkey if the European powen m mum, uuii ii wuam he Dccevtri practically to supersede the sultan thit is to say, to pieveut him frou Interfs. ing either with administrate Iv or with appointments. AudititiBni. od which,-though capable of beii,D ciently worked by a directing M Ia.4Jm T- 1 . ' im-iiug jiumor, an r.ngiaua WcrU iti tbo minor protected states of India, cao not be well applied, at least en i scale, by three or four powers conjoint, ly, because each would suFpect tho ctbtr of obtaining some advautugo far ItttH Another expedient would be to de tach from the rest of the empire lb parts of the country where disorom were most frequent, placing tlicm ai der a speck lly constituted artminiitn tion. Thia was done iu the case cf tin Lebanon, and with very good rrsnltt h has been proposed for Armenia aad would probably succeed there. If u powers chiefly concerned were to com pel the sultan to erect Armenia into distinct province, with a Eoropcan jot ernor who should be irremovable exerpl with the consent of llioee pnwprt, bo should control the revenue of tbo prov ince aud maintain out of them i strong police and who should be free to intro duce administrative aud judicial re forms, the country might in ten-jrean' time be brought iuto the sumo perfect order and obtain a measure uf tbo him prosperity as has attended tho roltol Count Kalloy in Bosnia, which km de livered from the Turks iu 1878. Tim are no doubt as many Muwulintnt Christians in Armeuia, hut the Icraa have also much to caiu by tho erub- liehment of good administration ted would welcome it. Russia, howeter, it unwilling to set up ou her borderawbil she fears might become an Armenian principality, toward which her own Armenian population would gravitate. So it i to be feorcd that tbii conne, however promising, will not betaken. "The Armenian Question, "by Jama Bryoe, M. P., in Century. - Tha Peanut, According to the Atlanta Jonrnal Edward Atkinson, who is visiting tM exposition there, told the director! the other day that the peanut, indigenoni to the south, would some time in tbi future become as great a staple as cot ton seed; that tho oil of the peanut had been of great commercial value in the oriental nations, aud would be in tb United States. He reviewed the difficul ties attending the introduction of cot tonseed oil as a staple of food, and ill trated tho strange prejudice exsrai mlmi If ho tha fnllmvins ! "When NBjUIUDt V J J tiaiv w . . .. r, cottonseed oil was under tho bane a popular prejudice and thelawu a Chicago lard maker snip? - lard 'adulterated' with cottonseed to Europe. It was pronounced excelleni lard It was liked so well th" ceived a great order for 10,000 tiercet But at this Juncture he could getnooil, and was forced to ship the poreltm The consignee pronounced it 'off pie,' wouldn't have it, and ine - tunate Chicago man lost a large money." Valoabla Bello Trom a Mo"- W. K. Moorebead, who had charge" large section of the moundbmiaen exhibition in tho ethnological u- a wonoerini aiscovery ofu vr " a tonnrlnffn 1 I ! flnnVOrt II DO II mound in the Little Miami vaney, aj nuuuciiui movu'v - Milford, O., recently. It eoiisisteu -unprecedented number of human saw tons of ancient date, with flints, w nno ntanoiln VoliirinilR filllbleniB BHU 111.. 1 .. . aiat anH nf divers o U&C IU great fnuoij n tfilld terial. including some ornameu" ing" and silver and brona The find is regal ed as rich and wonderful as a mert w riosityaud also as a great n ,"T for ethnological science. -Chicago iw uue. The Cabla Cod . iman nf the cat" une oi uie tuiiwu"" - ..iAiiii code method of sending L shown in a recent message annoum . the loss by fire of a ship at ef. whole message wai conveyed in urnrH- nf Spntt's cable code : "Smo'ild"', ed; hurrah; hallelujah r;'rt lands for "the ship has Jjh. h "Imrrah" for "ere m0 ' ooata ana n'""" . ; laved inform wives ana s New York Tribune. In . volume or le' foiotr- known but turgia prea - tW ing lines were found wrm flyleaf : tftbaraahouMb another flood, ror rcfoga "ltberTVonid bt auto Thonsh all th. This book would atlU ba 017-