EUGENE CITY GUARD.
I. L. OAMfBr-I-L, rrrllor.
EUGENE CITY..
,.ORE0I
' Id the oplutoo ot me world, mar
riage ends all, as It dors In a comedy.
Tbe truth la precisely the reverie; It
begin til.
Music, Id the best aetiso, does not re
quire novelty; nay, the older It I and
the more we are accustomed to It the
greater In effect.
We put things In order; God does tho
rent. Lay an Iron bar eaHt and west
It la not magnetised. I-at It north and
anuth, and It Is.
Yonder be drlvet; avoid that furious
beoat If be may have bin Jest, he
never rare at whole expense; nor
friend nor patron spore.
Perhapa Millionaire Fair knew how
many women would claim hlni aa bus-
band. If be did he allowed Kxd Judg
ment In dying just when be did.
If raderewskl aaya thla country la
rotten to the core we are ready to bet :
that It la; Paddy bni taken everything 1
but the core and he ought to know, i
There are aome mlnda like either ,
convex or concave mirrors, which rep- j
resent objects such aa they receive
theui, but they never receive them us
they are.
The Injuries of life. If rightly Im
proved, will be to us the strokes of the
statuary on bis marble, forming us to
more beautiful shape, and making us
fitter to adorn the heavenly temple. ,
This Roentgen ray bualnesa hns gone
far euough. A New York physician so) s
that by using the new ray he has "found
the streptoooceua erysipelatous prolif
erating In the Intenipaces of the con
necting tissue." Thluk of that!
i - - I
It la to be observed that Queen Vic
toria, although she welcomed the an
cient and liouoralile artillerymen of
Boston cordially, did not Invite them
to atay to tea. Her majesty probably
remembered that tea party In ItoMton
some years ago, which was followed by
the most unpleasant results for on of
her distinguished progenitors. j
If the Weather Htireau at Washing
ton accepts the challenge of W. T.
Foster, of Kt. Joseph, Mo., the relative
merits of the stars and science as an aid
to prophets should be determined def
initely. Mr. Foster remarks that the
people have contributed fin.fum.oon in
twenty-six years to pay for the weath
er reports, and yet be thluka he can
diagnose the symptom's of the elements
with more truthfulness than these (iov
ernment seers. lie la willing to back
bis opinion with cash and even eon
code h! opponents odds, he making his
predictions thlrty-llvo dnjs In advance
and the Weather Ilurenu seven days
In advance. This seems a rash offer
ou the part of Mr. Foster. The Weath
er Department has shown an ability
aevernl time to forecast "exactly
wrong." and with this singular freedom
from wahlile would prove Invincible If
It should linppcn ou the right tack.
Now St. Tatd claims the center of the
stage with a suit which Is quite sim
ilar, though differently imiinigcd. lu
order to avoid constitutional objec
tions. Miss Kittle F. Smith bus brought
suit agulnst the estute of the late Alfred
J. Hill, who died lust June. Kittle wants
$2,500 because Alfred died without
changing her name, as ho promised to
do. It certainly was a mighty menu
trick to die and leave Kittle handicap
ped by the name of Smith, and we pre
sume she will have no dilllculty In con
vincing a Jury of the JiiHtlce of her
claim. Kittle has modestly put It) a bill
for $100 for "resigning her position In
order to get married," and also oslis for
f'.'OO for her "trouble lu getting ready j
to bo married." Khc thinks 12.000 will
about heal her wounded heart for AI-
f rod's otwttinncy In dying Jtntt at the
wrong time. Whither are wo drifting,
brethren? Is the new woman to pursue
us even on the other side of tho river of
death?
E1U Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess of
passion, and therefore regarded by tho !
unsophisticated maidens of the land as '
su authority in all matters of the heart.
Is of oplnlou that flirtation Is a tine art,
developed from a woman's Inborn
mating Instinct. "It Is tho natural
weapon of defense of tho uniososscd,"
she declares; and she goea ou to nay:
"I wish I might write of flirtations as
the deadliest of dangers, aud warn nil
womeu whose eyes fall upon my words
to avoid Its pitfalls. Hut when I am
asked to discuss a subject, I must
speak the truth of It as I see It. nud I
am sorry to record the fact that the
girl who la utterly devoid of coquetry
seldom marries either so early or so
well as her tllrtlshly Inclined sister.
Men admire aud neglect the thorough
ly prudent woman. They disapprove
of and court the wily coquette." Which
Is Immoral balderdash-Immoral be
cause. If followed, such advice would
lead more women to misery than to
hnpplneM. and balderdash because It Is
not true. Men enjoy flirting, as women
do, for the pleasure to be derived from
a trial of wits and for the posalhle ele
ment of danger In It. But a uion. If he
Is a man worth marrying, never flirts
with a f Irl for whom be has a sufficient
ly high regard to think of her as bis
possible wife.
Since the accession of Balllugton
Booth, of the Salvation Army, the
financial question baa been the first
to take the form of a real "problem."
V'p to the preseut time the army bos had
a comparatively easy time lu raising
the wlud. The country bad come to
regard the army as In Its way a neces
sity of our clvlliiatlon, and conse
quently the pecuniary support of It has
been aa well assured as that of any
others of the religious facts of our day.
Tb "American movemeut," however,
la scarcely three months old, and the
question cornea In tbe way which was
sooner or later lnerltahle aa to the
necessity of two salvation armies In
stead of one. Nobody seems to have '
thought of thla at drat, not even Bal-
Ungton himself. At tb outbreak of tbe
war, li was merely a question of toler
ation. If Balllngton wanted to upllt
the army, It was nobody's business but
bis own, and nobody dreamed that In
a few weeks, when the hat went round.
It was going to be everybody's busi
ness. This alters the complexion of
the case. The argument against the
"American movement" has come up
which has been used with such force In
the case of the Influitealuiol sectarian
Ism of our country churches. Chris
tianity has suffered not more from
Adam's full than from the Inability of
small communities who could support
one church handsomely to support a
half doiteti of them preaching dlverao
Isms. Everybody haa a right to pro
test wheu the financial phase of these
matters Is reached In the salvation
iirmy or any where else.
The verdict In regard to the railroad
accidents near Omaha and near Chi
cago will undoubtedly be tliat some
body blundered. When the verdicts
are rendered, tin parties who were
Kiill'y of blundering at a time when
they should have had their wits fully
In their possession should bo arrested
and held to answer for their eareli
nem. Nobody Is Infallible, and the best
of us, In our brightest momenta, are
liable to err; but there U ample room
for Judgment as between error that Is
Incxpllmliln and neglect of a common
duty, 'the Omaha wreck la said to
have been caused by forgctfulncsa ou
the part of the engineer aa to bis orders
to wait ou a Milling for two trains. Ilo
waited for one of the trains, and when
Hint had passed, pulled his train with
It precious freight upon a track over
which a flying mail train was suppose!
to have the right of way. The Chicago
accident was due to a neglect In switch
ing which sent an excursion train going
at the rate of ten miles an hour onto a
siding that wus occupied by a freight
train. The fatal wrecks will Increase
the prejudice against excursions ou tho
rait and on the water which exists to
some extent In the popular mind, as a
result of accidents which have been
traced to neglect on the part of tlnwe
upon whom rested the responsibility
of safely trnnsHrtlng the Ill-fated ex
cursionists, lu some liistnncc wrecks)
have been traced to lapses on the part
of engineers and pilots following over
indulgence lu the refreshments which
are generally plentiful ou such occa
sions; and fear that the general hilarity
Incident to excursions mny Infect those
who should carefully mnlutaln their
mental coinpurc Is one of the reasons
why some peojde cannot be Induced to
travel with excurslou parties. Of
course, those who are thus moved by
fear comprise a very small minority
of the public, but that small minority
gnius In number every time an excur
slou wreck In reported.
I 'or Young Palsies.
Tho question of healthful food for
the little ones during the summer
weather Is all Important one, and one
that every mother ought to study.
Home will thluk It necessary to avoid
tho use of all cereals at this season,
because they have understood that oat
meal and such foods are beating, but
a good selection of various cc renin, and
careful preparation will be found more
nourishing aud less heating than men is,
and they may be most acceptably
formed Into puddings, etc., for the little
ones who soon tire of the various fresh
vegetables.
hut still a not tier Important point lu
the summer food question Is the use
of civn in, rather thau butter.
The numerous heullhftd "grits" and
course i-e reals that Mood our market:
to-day, were unknown In my grand
mother's time, but she was never known
to be without her rye, cvrn or graham
bread; barley-cakes, busty-puddings,
samp, hulled corn, and n home-made
kind of crncke.1 wheat.
Aud how delicious were all these
things when served with a generous
pitcher of cream, which was ever a
complement of grandmother's table, at
breakfast, dinner or ten. She wan
sometimes without butter, but the
cream was never missing, nod It more
limit mad, up for this lack.
Too Cool.
An Instance of unusual and perhaps
unwisely exercised "nerve" lx related
by l V.. It.von lu hi experiences with
the wounded lu the Franco-Prussian
war.
A young man. hardly more than a
boy, had been shot through the wrist,
iitid an amputation was considered ne
cessary. He wiih a vivacious, charm
ing young fellow, with n beaming coun
tenance and n twinkle lu his eye, and
when they went lu to tell him the ver
dict and take him to the operation
ward he was smoking a cigar.
Not a whit dismayed, lie got out of
bed, partially dressed himself, and trli
ped briskly up the passage, smoking his
cigar all the while until he mounted
the operation table. His arm was am
putated, but wheu he recovered from
too chloroform state he refused to go
back to bed until he had neon his com
rade's leg cut off.
"I want to see how It Is done," sold
he, coolly.
Then he quietly smoked another ci
gar nud attentively watched every step
of the operation, and when It was over
he and his companion returned to their
ward together.
KiplMlnlng lu
"Say, Maine," said Maud, os she
bit off a tiny piece of chewing gum.
"I've been Improving my mind again."
"t!o 'way! You haven't!"
"Yea, 1 have. I have been reading all
about the conveutlon. Ifa perfectly
fascinating, too."
"Can you understand It?"
"Most of It I used to think a conven
tion was stupid, but It Isn't a bit. It's
Just like a gymnasium or riding a goat
at an Initiation, or something of that
kind, you know."
"How do they dor
"Why, they bring out a plauk."
"Yes."
"And It's very wide; and the candi
dates try to straddle It, and other peo
ple try to keep them from doing so; and
the aide that wlua gets tbe nomluatlou.
I don't know what It means, but that's
the way It's done, for I saw It In tbe
paper."- Washington Star.
"Brown Is a good shot, Isn't her
"Very good. We were practicing with
our guns at my country place the other
day, and he bit tbe bull's eye the first
time." "Very clever." "Yes; but be
had to pay for the bull." Harper's
Weekly.
SIGNS OF THE TRADES
Origin of lra ftr Rostles. Mirb-r
I sole aad Oolden Italia.
i The last survivors of the old trade
algna are few, but they cling to life so
tenaciously that the probability Is .he
! will atay for good. The old style
swinging algna that protruded from
the sides of the bouses, and on windy
days hud an unpleasant habit ot crash
ing down on the heads of any cltlxens
who happened to be struggling home,
have happily keen awept away by the
j march of progress. Hut we still have
I with ua the barlier'a pole, the pawn-
i broker'a golden globular triplets, the
tobacconist's woodeu Indian, and the
'goldbeater's gilded arm. with shirt
' sleeve rolled up to the shoulder, dis
closing a massive muscle, with sinewy
fingers grasplug a goldlien tor's ham
mer. The origin of those signs ore mut
ters of great Interest to the people who
pass them dally and kuw nothing of
' the significance of their construction.
An Interesting story Is told lu con
nection with the familiar red, yellow
aud greeen vases that brighten the
windows of drug stores. The custom
of puiclng them there originated with
an apothecary who found himself one
night minus the red light with which
tradesmen of his class were accus
tomed to ornament their store fronts.
To make up the deficiency he got a bot
tle of red liquid and placed a candle
behind It. The effwl pleased him ao
well that he decided to Improve It by
placing a eccoud red light In the win
dow with the Old of another bottle of
red mixture and an additional candle.
This sign made such a brave allowing
that an envious rival cast obout for
means of Improving on the sign. He
bit upon the scheme of placing a Isitlle
colored with yellow fluid beside tho
red one, and then aurpossed hla previ
ous effort and carried all lefore him
by placing a green Imh1o beside the
yellow. The three mode a sign that
caught the town, and all tho druggists
quickly fell Into line. The bottles were
lu time replaced with the handsome
, vases at pn-sent lu use, and the drug
gist's sign wna here to atay to brighten
i the dingy atreeta of town and village.
Few among the many unfortunates
who puss iM-tieath the three gilt balls
Into the sorrowful Interior of a pawn-
; broker'a shop stop to consider the
meaning of the yellow sign; and they
, would find little comfort In the Investi
gation If they did. They pawnbroker's
symtxfl eamo from the sign used by the
Lombard bankers, who took It from the
inn iKu.ri t.r tho Mitlel fmnllr of Flor.
ence. The founder of the house had"
been a medicos or physician; his de
scendants became bankers and brokers,
and the sign they adopted waa baaed
on tho pills that were dispensed by
their ancestor. Aa they und Im-coiiic
rich lu their colling It was necessary
that the pills should express something
more than the mere decoctions of a
physician, so they were done In gold
end in that shape the three '"pills" can
be seen swlnglug over the premises of
overy pawn-broker to-lny. The golden
, pills were used as a coot of arms for
tho descendants of the Medici family,
who became nobles, but It Is not proba
ble that any family of noble birth aud
up-to-date Ideas has continued the use
of three balls as Its heraldic device.
Among the armies of tiashorn Indi
viduals who dally seek the familiar red
nud white sign of the burlier, few
know the meaning of the partl-colors
on the pide. Probably not one Iwirlior
lu a hundred could tell you hluisel'
what tho colors signify. The origin
of the sign dates back to the days
when bleeding was the favorite reme
dy of physicians for most of the Ills
that flesh Is heir to. Wheu a little
blood-letting wna prescribed, the bar
. her was tho man to do It, as he eoin
' bined the business of tonsorinl artist
with that of surgeon.
The barber's sign v. as adopted, as It
Is In existence to-day, ticcause the red
symbolized the blood that the borlior
drew from his patients In the Interest
of the public health, while the white on
the poles stood for the white bandages
with which the wound was Isiund up
1 nfter the clumsy operator bad drown
' the prescribed quantity of red fluid.
flats Kat liFad Pipe.
A rot has gained publicity In France
by eating lend pipe, and that apparent
ly without experiencing any 111 effects,
lints have long been known as rapa
cious feeders, so far as all things ani
mal and vegetable are concerned, but
lend pipe Is something new as a diet.
The present Ituttance of pipe eating Is
reported to Iji Nature by a gcntlcm-m
named lenolly. M. Itennlly Is em
ployed lu the glass works at (Jrande
Vallee In the department of the lower
Seine, France,
He sent to I -a Nature pieces of the
pipe and an explanatory uote, which
translated reads this way:
"I send you by mall a bit of lend pipe
gnawed by rats. This pipe, which car
ried water lu my laboratory, has beeu
gun wed through In several places. Hu Se
ller tubes have suffered In the same
way.
I bcleve this Is a pretty rare occur
rence, and I thought I ought to let you
know alsnit It."
l.Aad Is general)- considered poisonous
wheu taken internally, and pipes made
of It are generally safe on that account.
Hut It Is possible that the rots did not
swallow the pieces they bit out and only
attacked the pipes to get at the water
which their Instinct told them was
flowing ou the tuside.
i I'nlque Way of Living.
Odd aud remuuerative aveuuea of
employment are constantly botug open
ed up lu Cincinnati. Here Is one of the
Utest:
I A competeut stenographer, who ar
rived from England a year ago, wos
, unable to find work. One day, while
reading the brief notices In the dally
papers of the obsequies of a distin
guished cltlxon, he was struck by the
scout mention of "the touching aud elo
quent tribute to the memory of the de
ceased" delivered by the ofllclatlug cler
gvnuin. , tie attended the next funeral at one
of the swell churches, getting well
down to tbe front of the church, where
he took a full stenographic reort of the
prayer and "eloquent tribute." A few
days later he appeared at the home of
the widow with a neatly typewritten
copy of both prayer and sermon. He
suggested that she would, no doubt,
l'.ke to preserve, as a souvenir of the
dear departed, tbe truthful and elo
quent review of bla life, so beautifully
I given on the occasion of bla obsequies.
. " ' nr ir n nn 'WfifTf 1 i ""
Th widow waa deeply Impressed,
and almost bent a willing ear to the
suggestion that a dozen or more copies
vor'. I be a suitable remembrance to
M-ud to absent relutlvcs or uear und
dear friends. The young man was will
ing to furnish twenty copies of the ser
mon and prayer for 1. The widow,
who was not supposed to know any
thing alout the cost of typewriting,
tl(oiiglit this a most reasonable offer.
This waa the commencement of a
prosperous business. The stenographer
has been so busy at times as to require
two assistants. lie recently attended a
well wedding and took down the re
marks of the olllelutlng divine at the
wedding breakfast. The parents of th
bride gave a liberal order for copies,
find private welding reports will now
Ih a regular feature of his business. To
l his end lu- hns employed a young man
of good social standing who can secure
cards of admission to swell social func
tions. C'lnclnnoil Tribune.
A SMOOTH SWINDLER.
He Boccitfd-d In Relieving Piimnel J.
Handnll of a Thousand.
One of the most daring operations of
Francis J. Alvany. the cx-convlet. who
has Just finished serving the legal part
of a nine years' sentence In the Mary
land penitentiary, was his swindling
of the late Hon. Samuel J. Itaudatl, the
great commoner of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Ilondal! was sitting In the room of the
Ways aud Menus C mlttee lu the Nil-
tloimlCnpliolonc mornliig-so the story
goes when a "Mr. Oeorge W. Chllds
I.rexel" was announced. Mr. ltaiuhill
told the attendant to show In the son of
bis old friend, the Philadelphia banker,
at once.
"Why, bow do you do, my Isiyr said
Mr. Itandall as a young man eutered
the room.
"How do you do, Mr. Randall? I'm
awfully glad to see you, but 1 don't 1h
lleve I'd hove had time to come to see
you had not wanted something. I
only stopped over In Washington to in
tend to some busliiemi ror father ou my
way south. I started to leave und I
found that I didn't have any money.
I've got a cheek, but 1 ne-d to Is? Identi
fied. Will you Identify me7'
"Why, certainly." wna the reply, "nut
I'm very busy here and I hate to leave.
Won't my check do as well? Yon can
get that cashed at my hotel. How much
do you wantr
"One thousand dollars will do," was
the answer. The great Pennsylvania!!
drew his check, gave It to the young
tnnn and the latter went out. Not until
the uext day did Mr. Itandall know that
he'd beeu swindled by "Hungry Joe.
Then the real tieorge W. Chllds Drexel ,
culled and waa promptly shown the
door. The mistake was finally explain-!
ed. ond Mr. Handnll sold that he was
not sure that It wasn't worth what It
ciwt to know how easily be could be
swindled. He said Alvany's make-up
was perfivt
O.nslder the glorious possibility of a
mnu with such attainments. Philadel
phia Times, ;
rteyond the Ksncqulho. !
Any study of (iuliina must be from
the delta of the Orinoco or along the
many streams that Interlace the coun
try. The reason Is obvious. The coun-'
try Is almost as unknown as ninny re
gions In the heart of Africa. There are
no means of communication except the
rivers, with here and there a few mule-,
'paths extending from the right bank of
the lower Orluoco to the milling camps
of the Interior. lu all this vast terii-'
tory I doubt If there nre more than
tweuty thousand Inhabitants. Nlne
teuths of these ure wandering tribes of
uncivilised Indians, who respect net
llier law nor government. One man I
met, who was faiulliar with the district,
said that not over six thousand people 1
live lu the delta north and east of the
Kssequlls) up as fur as Cludad Hull
var; but In the F.ngllsh statement of
the case, reference Is made to forty
thousand Brtlisn iihjecl. The vast
majority of the Inhabitants nre Indians '
ond half breeds, who never heard of
Kuglntid. A friend of mine met Ser-'
gen lit Barnes on Isniid n steamer, ami
Itaines told him that the one Kligllsh
family he iiersoiially knew of In his '
territory was an F.ngllshinan and bis i
native wife nud half breed children.
This population, however. Is n floating ;
one. A native house noes not menu
much work. When the iKUindnry line
Is drawn. If the "forty thousand Brit
ish subjects" do not lll;,i It. they can '
put themselves ond their gmxls Into a
few canoes and move. Century. ,
Ittlrs t.alore.
It appears that, of all the ruling sov
ereigns In Kurope, the F.mperor of Aus
tria can bonst the largest number of ti
tles of nobility and territorial rank.
Fronds Josepn, ticsldcs his Imperial
crown. Is in nine different ways entitled
to wear the regal tlnra, twice qualified
to be addressed os Grand Duke, once
as Grand Prince, four times as Mar
grave, twice os Prince, ond In a multi
tude of different rights as Count and
liord. On the whob It would prohobly
be no exaggeration to say that his ti
tles of sovereignty and nobility amount
In oil to considerably over o hundred.
He Waa Cool. j
A Massachusetts Congressman who I
was on board the train which was1
wrecked at Hyde Park, Miss., last fall, ,
says that wheu the shix-k came, one of i
the passengers was pitched over sev- '
erol soots Just lu time to receive the 1
conteuts of the water-cooler, which
tipped over and soaked bis clothlug
i,ti cq wHter. A highly excited pas
senger rushed up to hlni aud told blm to i
keep cool "Go away," said the wet
man, "I am the coolest man In the car.
I have Just hod two buckets of Ice-
water emptied down my bock.
Legal Items.
On one oeooalou, eoousel In a certain
draluog case submitted that the plain
tiffs, the Sewage Localltatlon Com
pany, had "no locus standi In this
court." "Heaven forbid." was the fer
vent ejaculation of the learned Judve.
Something skin to this w os the answer
, of the Judge when complaint was made
t that a luckless process-server had been
compelled to swallow the writ he hod
endeavored to serve. "I hope," sold
( bis lordship, gravely, "that the writ
was not made returnable In thla court."
I Rare White W Uri Geese.
A white wild goose waa receutly
shot at Mathews Island. Maine. It Is
sold that these species of geese are
I very rare and quit valuable.
SARGENT, THE ARTIST.
Oo. of the Most rroml-ent Flr..
in tbe Modern Art World.
The high reputation ' J'1'" sl"';r
jtni.ut. ti.. uf ,llU T"!,rh;'
work. mkc him one of II.- "
roinluen. figures lu the modern wor d
,f art. No American artist hns occu
. . v..n..,l oosiiiou as be has
l-letl sucn mi ,
i tallied before reaching I,: 4ml, year,
none is more celebrated In Paris
of Ku-
foil, nun me
... i... ...I ,.iiik of tl a best
... .i... ..ili. if uri ceim-i
mne. lie n"
ipe. lie u" " -
1 ..... (. .1 k!. ....... tlllil IJI
....Mi,iiM lu the I'lllled Stales,
Caru.eucltu." tl'" l'l''"'r" ,,,,,h I"''1 I
eu.a him in the famous Mi'...!"'"'
Cullery In Paris, was painted in .e
,. " i ,1.... ...o.iiciv shown at the
JS.VI, whither bla parents had gone to
live some years before. Ills father was
Dr. Fiu-lli'gh Kartell t, o Boston phy
sician, and hW mother, whose uuild.'ii
name was New hold, and who belonged
to a well-knowo family lu Philadelphia,
possessed the accomplish ut of paint
ing very cleverly lu water colors. KJ il
ea tod partly In Italy nud partly In ller
muny, joung Sargent entered the Acad
emy of Fine Arts ot Flou nce ot a eom-
coal, and one summer, when he was lu
cU.on not yet a peer and president
of 'fiT Lidcluy. bu, a fi us
Kugllsb artist notwithstanding, meet
ing them, commended the tioy s worn,
and counseled him to continue.
The serious and earnest side of Sir
geut's character always Impressed his
fellow-students lu those Ijitlu Quarter
days. He had no taste for dissipation,
though he was by no means puritanical.
Tbe lighter side of his temperament
found satisfaction In music, the th '(iter,
and literature, and In the keen oppre
t lotion of everything lu the tastes ond
amusements of the day that had a new
or orlglual flavor. Though nn eager
reader, he was not a bookman, but an
olwerver. "Alert" is the adjective
-.i.i,..,,,pi,nntieiei.ressesiheouali!y
exniniiion oi ui" ... - - ..uu-iit much light ng ana suiienim
Artists. Ills career ha- la-en a co . mne of 11M
..oDoll.an one .and his youth was pas.v ...Uht l o t ' j
. .. ... . . a u,i it v nil i;i i' u" p.
! cd among "'n'-'-Miug- very IT e - m, , 8(op a
I ,rom those .hat effect the " 1 , "ot conquest which we now per
bent of unrnt An.eWau Is.ys ho Ih a Ivan 1 'tuUc Tlie M Wun.
coino Inters and sculpto s , ' ,u 1870. when Sir
lit will iHiru in rifi'-u" i . irii.i n m.tk-P ni.wvr
panttlvely early W: '' ':" ; Htrlct drll and dls-
ikii'Sk::::: : svu, subdued
Me uaruiHi to pai i i , n,,.i:i1i)ori,. nd devastated vast
welIUStOUraWWllilloepeu.il.... ,
of bis predominating characteristic. He ' white man. these less warlike tribe
was quick to see, and ready to absorb, accepted the rule of thu Intruding et
cveryihltig that struck blin no novel.-' tiers with scarcely a murmur, and. In
Century.
Washington's Knitmrrsssinriit.
"But Washington took pains to suc
ceed," says a writer In Harper's Magn
sine. In telling of George Washington's
life at home In Virginia. He had a
great xest for business. No details es
caped him when owe he was in the
awing of the work. He was not ninny
years lu leornlug how to make the best
tobucco lu Virginia, and to get It recog
nized as such In Fnglaud.
Six months beforo Washington's
marriage he had been chosen n member
of tbe House of Burgesses for Fred
erick County, tlia county which had
beeu bis scene of adventure In tbe old
days of surveying In the wilderness,
and In which ever since Braddock's
fatal rout bo bad maintained his
hendqunrters, striving to keep the bor
der against the savages.
The young soldier was unused to as
semblies, and Buffered n keen embar
rassment to And himself for a space
too conspicuous In the novel parlia
mentary scene. He had hardly taken
his sent when the gracious nud stately
lloblnson, Speaker of the House and
Treasurer of the Colony these twenty
years, rose, at the bidding of the Bur
gesses, to thank hlni for the services of
which nil were speaking.
This suddcii praise, spoken with gen
erous waruith there lu a public place,
was more than Washington knew how
to meet. He got to hla feet when Mr.
Speoker wos done, but he could utter
not o syllable. He stood there, Instead,
hot with blushes, stammering, oil a
tremble from head to foot.
"Sit down. Mr. Washington!" cried
the Speaker. "Your modesty Is equal
to your valor, and that surpasses the
power of any language that I possess."
To Assist Wa'cs.
Queen Victoria has come to the as
sistance of the Prince of Walci In con
nection with the approaching marriage
of his daughter, Maud, to Prince Carl,
of Denmark. She has not only defray
ed the entire cost of thu trousseau, but : up ,lmt lial)lt lf they kuew tn injury
ulso settled upon the Princess the sum ' ,0 ,lle ncry ot the fingers that might
of $otHi,tHK). which will give her au In- a0('n' therefrom,
dependent Income of $3),Ooo a year. T1' crnc1' ta caused by the temporary
The Queen has done the same for each lllsI,,(,atlu ot the Joint, and each time
of her own daughters. She would have ; tnls 0Qcnn the nerves lu that part are
done likewise for the Duchess of Fife ' offectel In 'uch a manner os to Increase
hud not the Duke Indicated hlo prefer i tnelr Irritability, or, In other words,
ince of toklug his royal wife without j tne,r HohUlty to be stimulated Into
ony dowry or settlements from her own actlon aul induce the muscles to act at
relatives, asking only In return that he tne Hfhtest cause,
fchould uot be compelled to follow the I If tne Practice Is continued, this Irrita
example of Lord Lome and keep up a to ccentuated as years go by,
royal household of equerries ami ladles an1 many 01(1 nen, who have loot In a
In waiting for his wife. Of course, the rent mwure the control of their fin
Trlnce of Wales was supposed to pro- gen which can often be seen trembling,
vide for his daughters wheu, a few : owe thal affllctlon In no small degree to
years ogo, a sum of IJOO.OHO was added ,hli pernicious hoblt of cracking the
to the allowance which be received 1 hnger Joints.
from the nation. But his financial em- j
barrassments are so great that he finds An Enterprising Woman.
It difficult even to pay the allowance of 1 Miss Millard, of Teddington, has been
the Duke of York out of this sum. much ln lle business of buying and seU'ng
less provide for his daughters. Aud so onythlng for which there Is a market
the Queen has to step In and furnish j for about fifteen years. She has dealt
the settlements which have beeu'd, ' In horses, oil paintings, Instruments of
manded by the parents of tho bride- clcnce and torture, playing card
groom.-Chlcogo ltecord. , pearl, old-fashioned firearms and fans'
n dials, carrloge gates, laces, books!
Valuable Greek Coins. j olographs, coins, medals, antlques-ln
Sir Edward Buubury's mairniflefln 1 fact, there Is no end tn tho iu.
f"Upf.,,Llf. GrH'k co"" for
ever H2.000 In an eight days' sale lately
In Loudon.
uiu uignest prices
were $l03 for a Rymcuse demaratelon
of 4o0 B. C. with o head of Nike.
crowned with olive, commemorating
the great victory at the Hlmera. tl..
rarest of Greek coins; f .inn for a deko-
drachm of Mmon. with a head of Peme-
phone; ftttts for a stater of Ells, havlui
on It an eagle with a hare In It claws !
A tetradrachm with a head of Arethusa '
brought H02; a gold stater of Taren- i
turn, with the bead of Demeter, J&Ve
a tetradrachm of Thurll. with h'e-td of
Athena, having ber helmet adorned
with the figure of Skylla. one of
Agrlgentum. with two eagles standi
ever a uplne hare, UM.
What a howl there would be If th
girl, had ,o work half hard for poor
wage a. they work to -ur. wo
Ws mul ria
Nenr1, All the lUrd Flthtlnr fl.s
Item with the Zulu lr.be.
For us the curiulu rises upna the
K illr peoplo when the Dutch settlers,
spreading slowly eastward from the
neighborhood of the Cape, came Into
(.im,act, and presently Into conflict,
.vltli them. Hostlll'c llrst broke out In
K7! and In the century thnt followed
there oro reckoned no fewer than Dlno
Katlr wars. The nnMves fought with
lieiveness coniirable to that of North
Ymerlcan Indians; nud though less
hkilled In the ""'" of 'l"'K" ,,r'
prise tiny were not less swift In their
movements, or less fenrl,a In meeting
deiiih. Had the policy of the colonial
I i r-.iiernni
ent lieen firmer ami mora
ii. i pile Frere a
more formidable thau any which bad
yet been ncouutetod by Brills!, trxqu
tl at of the Zulus.
The Zulu ore a brand! of tbe Bantu
ru" ciiilMout for I'lelr courage, th'.-ir
phvslcHl urcr.gth. ond their absolute,
submission to thel king. Tshakn. tbe
able and relentless chief who reigns
f.r about twenty years, and was mur
dered by hta brothers In bad by
I phew, Cetewsyo, when the wnr broke
- out In WW wos, the headof ananny
of 80.000 men, and Inflicted a serious
defeat upon the Britten force before be
waa finally overthrown aud bla country
brought under British away. After his
fall there remained ouly two strong
native kingdom south of tbe Zambezi.
One of these kingdoms, that of Loben
gula. king of the Matabele, waa con
quered lu 1803 by the British South
African Company; and the other, that
of Gungunhana, whose territory lay
northeast of tbe Tronsvoal Btate, has
within the lost six wontha (December,
1805, ond January, ISO'),) perished at
the bonds of the Portuguese. With
many tribes there baa boon no fighting
' ot all. Awed by the boldness of tbe
many coses, looseu on ineiu u iiiun.-te
ors. .Nearly ail tne uaru nguting in
South Africa has been with tbe Zulus,
to whom the Matabele belong ethno
loglcolly. ond with tbe Xosa clans on
tbe south coast, while the Bechuanas
aud Ba-Rolongt and tbe Tongas, and
the tribes of Mosbonaloud aa far aa the
Zambesi, have, as a rule, submitted
promptly and quietly. Century.
What a Bicycle havos.
The "literary bureou" feature of the
bicycle factories has come to be one of
the essential parts. The contributions
which tbey send out to the newspapers
ore sometimes among tbe mo-it beau
tifully pathetic that find their way to
tbe waste paper baskets. Ouio '.n a
while, however, one of tbe bureaus
sends out an "ortlclo" of true value -to
tbe factory at least Here Is one of
them:
"No Investment pays at:ch high In
terest os the money paid for a bicycle.
The overage rider eaves 20 cents a day
In corfore, soy five days a week for fifty
weeks In the year, or a saving of
aud if hu own a high-grade wheel he
will have bud to pay nothing for re
pairs, thus obtaining a return of SO per
cent, upon his orlglnnl Investment.
Should be wish to obtain a new mount
be can, If he has been careful of bis
wheel, sell It for half the price, which,
with the $50 It has earned In car fares
alone, will have given him bis year's
riding for nothing. This is exclusive
of nil doctor's bills, or tho various little
expenses that go out for medicines dur
ing the year, railroad fares usually ex
pended for short pleasure trips and like
expenditures."
It begins to look as If bicycles would
soon begin to rival tbe bank as a place
to save up money.
Don't Crack the Finger Joints,
Many people have the habit of bend
lug ond pressing down the fingers till
n sound something like a crack la emit
ted from the Joints; but they would lve
1 once flight a church, and also bought
!and sold the gates of Hampton court
: ' "n tne late Frank Marshall
! f,lltr of the Henry Irving Shaksoeiro'
; traded a sapphire ring for . sow
nd litter of nine pigs. She boa a eroit
1 funcy for curios, an.t w ,ii.,...
clud some very rare articles-London
' Globe. iou.m
Hi Kabttltnte.
Dobson-Goln1 to get my wife a png.
Hobson-What for?
Dobson-Why, .he .ay, she want. It
foi company while I am .way at busi
ness. What are you grlnulng at?
Comniercial Advertiser.
Where tbe Paper Go-e.
Pftner.niatrArai oii. .
i.i t.,r..., nt u- . tils military laienis,
tracts or counirv, uusm-' ."
.,,.i " . """an mat tbe con-
It, 1 51!" for book onl,
It. Ur. .L f ?" entlre ma"acture.
S 0.,0, w f the p,per
; Din n0 In the form of wrapping d-
Wr or paper for th Mw.paper pT
uou i ,.
historical romance Uhl T. .! a
in. village of Norton Fn
u. Ilcnth jl .
Co.
tbe rarloua
British
means
"una of a chart u,''
'-nt of England's fw Z?
rnt
sc
Paul n-'urget'sdlsnu,.
lisher has had tluM.a.,
on.. f I.- . ' of !..
.... . ,,., ii,..,...,
a bill compel!,,,,, ,,!,';" 'K.
ouo centime stiimn ,.n l "fa.
ery book they p,-,. at)i
Tbe inueh-iliNciivu,..i
nient Is not to bo erected it n
after all, but prulu.t.i.
I'reytng. library ,Lorl '
for 220.MIO marks, am P.
that some Ameiiem. i..... . nK
the purchnser.
Tho first volume of "Sod..
edited by II. D. TrallU .
poor In London. I.,h.
o dozen writers of Ul)le
Salisbury 'd Vmum
the period from thenp,i.i.
I. to the battle of Waterloo.
Clodey's Magazine begin,
voluino of the famous oil Z
that Interested the niothofV"'
vai generation under tli tltUT
ey's Ladles' Book. Itua,!
Its Individuality os a -hZ
tlioilgu It fins, wisely
widened Its field.
W tor,,
Tho third annual report of a, l,
Crernr legacy to the AoierlmjlS
School Union shows that la ivT
yeors 155 now Sunia, uloZ
been orgnnlzod nud 51)0 t-i.
5.228 pupils brought Into then
10 per cent, of the school, tutti
produced churches.
One more volume of tbe -Jowa!.
Edmund do Coiieourt" U IMrJ
covering the years from 1KQ ttitt
"Lea Gouoourt" have it Inm,
the distinction of being tbe most p,
ent and artistic gossip and ohronM,
of amnll beer In the contort. Tw
Jules died In 1S7U It hs.aUijiJ
"les (Joucouit" with tbe twu trot-'
aud always will be.
Gladstone lias written to tn.
West, the author of "Tlie Unmi
England,'' thus: "1 appredin ft
honor yon do 'the 00110117 to til
literary notice of the ciirlonmiv
of the lnureofeolilp. There k tie
history connected wltb It It iat
ways to have been a dliBcultj. U
cllned to advise filling It op. TUt
Salisbury has done otherwise
Dr. Stodnrt Wolkot bu wrlnec e
Introduction to the new Toluntif,
lected poems by hi uncle, ft
Blnckle, In w hich he tells id m
of a time wheu Blackle tlnlieluEi
Inblirg editor and mentioned tk 1
bad lectured the previous !s
Scottish home rule. "1 am turn
said the publisher, "at your to!
for making an exhibition of jra?
Prof. Blackle turned on bit M t j
slammed the door after blm. Vm
ly be come bock, thrust blstwdlia
sold: "Do you know, tbat'ijsrin
my wife tells me."
Andrew W. Tuer has flniilljtiK
ed bis exhaustive "History olikHfl
Book," which appears lntsfoip
volumes. Mr. Tuer'. ImM'tlp'.li
searches have succeeded ln trariJt 5
bom-books in place of tbe eight st f.
previously supposed to remain lis
Istence. The earliest record Mt.T
has found of a real horn book t.
wltb a sheet of Iron li wot m
though this torment of tbe British r.
wos not generally used until tbe rt
of tbe sixteenth century. Twoorti
veara aco an Imperfect simliatiiot -
specles of text-book waa tell tot-l
land for $325.
And now come even tbe h"
also and denose. s.iylns: Cawd1
blcvclo craze. As the book tr"
peuds upon sedentary rather thai :
... . , .l.A M..il'Pf
perauitiuiotory nanus, i" "
probably not Altogether of thelo..
Hon. But It Is Just as well to Me
tho l.Hirht lde ond to Mle
iilinti lha nrospllt fad bus pa"1
acute otnge It will have built BP"1
general Incrense of vigor
.1. .....,.i r.i- m.iru books Iban ev
fore. But they will not be booh"
the George Egerton or Oram w
brand.
fjoortrn Haven Putnam pwr0""
..-t... viJn nnilfin for
Ity of the paper used In reeem 1
peon books. Hesnyalttodwn
dec-Hue of Moslem fanatlrlf"
i,.,. f the MiMllterraB
W..-10.1.. e niiLPim. iixed to crof'"
dreary deserts on their WT ?
ni.,tt,...i In fine linen. il
sands died by the wayside, trt
... 1....... m strip 11
a prontnme ubhi - ji
Iwdies of their linen tot the
European paper mills. N l
lem Is losing faith and th P
are losing tnetr wv
grade of paper.
. r n.h.
The a'
time to tne qnrm.v.. - -
of life of AMb, ond he found tbjt
dlnary corp. If not
would live 500 years. I b w
.. .. ,.i 1,0 atnted that UK" .
OU tne buiijch - i.-inriuH" I
now living in tbe V-i"J,
Russia, several carp tnai "'"a,
be BOO years old. and he ba t,
. . ... that M'W I
in a numner 01 -- ,lfSli
. 0110 vpnrs old. er"
10 00 ui 1-1 j 1 1 iivh he ba.
In Baltimore boon gold M fc.
for sixty-three years, jnd
Unformed blm that ho had
. 1. da cave a lu
! rorty years
! ! i-.Hlrtfll.
i An American -- ,,,,
The BrltUsh med.col mist M
ducting a crusado again- 3
practitioners In ufi(
Bridgewaier, n.B -. .. py
:...:.n .ttifiillv ond in''' ,
mw.'""i' ... ,; , i- a dacwr r..
scntea nmi"- ,0i
cine." A.Pr.Brldgews'er
to be tbe possessor of d. gre
York and Phlla.lelr'""; ;1,,,
of international reputatl . w
not only lost ii - , nP.rlyH
cost to an aggregate of neny
Boston Herald.
' . .
v ... .hould ever ft "'
.tory to delude people, they .
It o that It ring. !r w P
Uvu.