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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. L. CAMPBELL, Proprietor. EUGENE CITY OREQOS Tho recent sharp advance In co.il prcsse upon (lie public attention it'll another burning Unite. In (lie riiHh and burr; of tho national convention Chicago entirely overlooked the opportunity to Hike a return. If C'n Hilda take aiK'h a lively Interest In American politic why doesn't alio come In and take a hand In the game herself? You aro not here to vegetate or to dream; you were horn to act. Every man coming Into the world I furnish ed with a commission of service, i . i Thought and sympathy are often more valuable than anything money can procure. Both need contluiial cir culation to keep theiu wholesome and strong. The New York Kun complimenta .1 policeman who "caught the runaway horse and aaved their oconpauU." Well, well! What were their occupant doing? If It la true, ai John U. Ilockefeller asserts, that the Iord gave Mr. Rocke feller all bla money, the Standard 0!t Company must have aome unsuspected atockboldera. I ! The Boston lieruld haa a cablegram announcing that "Mis Netheraole'a Carmen kiss ha been eliminated." I'robably got the wire crosaud and burned Itaelf out ; - - i We can Imagine the horror with which Mr. Leslie Carter regard the thatrlral free advertUlug which hat been forced upon ber by an enterprla 'ing manager lately lu largo wad. I 1 j , . - iJ - mi A Brooklyn girl beard that a doia of arsenic would relieve ber of complex Ion trouble. Rlie tried the plan and It worked Ilk a charm; abe never will be bothered by complexion trouble again. Rpaln I srudingback the erratic aud Irresponsible "Journallats" who are In vading Cuba from th I'nlted Rtatua. ,W hops Hpaln understand tliat tills will be regarded a an unfriendly act. I'leasant recollecttona generally pro mote cboerfulnese and hopefulness, and painful ouo despondency aud loom. Thu tho bnpplnes that flow from the right regulation of the feel ing tenda to purpetuato Itaelf. mi l J . P in "Who galna wladom? IIo who In willing to receive Instruction from all aource. Who I the mighty man ? IIo who iuhdueth hi temper. Who U rich ? He who U contended with hi lot. Who U deserving of honor? IIo who hon ored! mankind. I Th time to be decent to people I when you have them with you. Say ing nice thing when they are gone, aud remorsefully thinking over what one might have dono I better than nothing, but not utile It make one more eon etderate of thou who are left. Hpeak kindly of and to the living. The deal ran take rare of themselves. II- -- - -U ' The mob I the child of aristocratic eoctetle. Perched on a atep of the long ladder, be respect the man on tho round above him, and despise th man on the (top below, without Inquiring what they are worth, solely on account of their position; In bla Innermost heart be And It natural to kUa the boot of the fint, and to kick tho seooud. I " ! ' No rigid limit of conversion need keep any two people asunder who are formed for ench other' society aud friendship. Where there U aympathy of heart and mind, adaptability of dis position and character, and congenial ity of feeling, It I treasonable to all nobl manhood and womanhood to talk or to think of difference lu di'c or faiililon, lu stylos of living or nature of employment, In Income or expenditure, aa offering any obstacle to Intimate and pleasurable companionship. I - J . .! I It I good that we have sometime some trouble and croe; for they iften make a man enter Into himself, and consider that be I bore In batilsh tueut, and ought not to place hi trust In any worldly thing. It la good that w be sometimes contradicted, aud that thore be an evil or a lessening conceit had of us; aud this, although iWi do and Intend well. Those thing help often to the attaining of humility, and defend us from vainglory; tor then w chiefly seek tlod for our In ,ward witness, when outwardly we be coudeuiuod by men, aud wheu there 1 no credit given unto lis. 8hepmen haveu't a great deal to complain of thl year, says th Drover'a Journal. Trice for good sheep and lambs have held up better thau any thing else. The best cattle are f 1.20 pr hundred lower than a year ago. Uogs are f 1.802 lower, w hile the best fat sheep are uo lower and lamb are nO?oc higher. Thl cannot be ex plained on the ground that the supply of sheep has been lighter, for ou the other hand there has been a steady galu all the year. The only explana tion 1 that there ha been a better de mand for mutton than other meat prod ucts. Thl shows that the consumption of mutton la growing rapidly In this country, for the export of sheep bar not been very heavy, the application of science to th In dustrie. There la every reason to hope and believe that the royal lady will live. In full possession of her health anil all her faculties, to celebrate the sixtieth year of ber prosperous reign. That this will bo the rase all Ameri cans hope. Mr. Harriet Heecher Hiowc'a death at the age of M was not, of course, un expected, but It will be not the lews re gretted IniIIi by her Immediate friend and relatives and by thousand who had never seen ber. Although she wan best known by her "I'ncle Tom's Cab Ill," Mrs. Ktowe was a very prolific writer, and lu point of literary merit her most popular book wbh by mo mean her best one. It success ww duo Largely to Ita appearance at a tlmo when the slavery question wa becom ing the dominant borne aud It probably somewhat hastened the Hnal settlement of that question by the arbitrament of arms. It was, however, as a writer of domestic talea and religious stories that Mr. Ktowe wa at her best. Her strong domestic Instinct aud her family aso elation directed her effort In Hint direction and In ber chosen field she waa unexcelled. A a woman not less than as a writer Mrs. Ktowe enjoyed the etiteem and affection of her asso ciate. 8lio wa a high type of tho Amerlcau woman and with her death It will be felt that a mother In Israel haa passed away. ..-1 Called to Account. We do not often read of General Jacksou being worsted In auy persousl encounter, but a contributor to the American Hlatortcal Register tell the following story In a paper on den. John Adair, of Kentucky. Adair bad commanded the Kentucky forcea In the battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1813. HI command bad been complimented by Jacksou aud by the Legislature of bla Htare. Strangely enough after thl. when "gentle peace returning" had restored btm to bl Kentucky borne, new came that (leneral Jsckson bad thrown some slur upon the Kentucky troop. The next day, after the arrival of the new, the atately figure of General Adair wa seen riding calmly through the street of Harrodsburg, bearing southward. He conferred with nobody, but omo how H took breath that General Adair Imd gone to call Oeneral Jackson to ac count for hi aspersion of the Keu turky troop. There were 110 railroad, uo tele graph then, and but fw mall. Pub lic curiosity and fueling rose to fever heat which waa not appeased, for Ueu eral Adair, after not many day, rode back through the village a silently aud grandly aa he had gone out. Whether at tongue Hilut or pistol point the de maud was made Is not known, Jeu eral Jackson made the amende honor able, and public enthusiasm lu Ken tucky knew no bound. Once a chatty granddaughter of Ills, telling me tills Incident, inld: "I asked grandpa, 'H oppose (.leneral Jackmn bad not backed down?' Then I would have backed blin Into the Cumberland River!' he answered. THE SCORCHER'S FAREWELL. (With apologies to McOaffey's Third Reader.) My beautiful, my beautiful! thou stand- est meekly by, With proudly arched sod glossy frame, and sprocket geared so high. Fret not to rosm within th psrk with all tby winged speed; 1 may not scorch on the agsin tbou'rt pinched, my silent steed. Fret not with thy Impatient tire, sound not the warning gong; They'll check you In a basemtut damp because I scorched along. The bike cop hath thy handle bar mv tear will not avail; Fleet-wheeled and beautiful, farewell! for tbou'rt held for bail. Farewell! those fat pneumatic wheels full many a mile hare spun, To bask beside the Cliff House bur or do a century run; Home other hand less skilled than mine must pump lliee up with air; The pstent lamp that won't stay lit must be another's esre. Only In sleep shall I behold myself with bended back Only in sleep shall thee and I avoid the trolley track; And when 1 chura the pedsls down to check or cheer thy speed. Then 1 must starting wake to learn tbou'rt pinched, my sileut steed. Ah, rudely, then, unseen by me, some clumsy chump bestride May wabble Into rough brick walls and dish a wheel beside; And compressed wind that's In thee 'scape In shrill, indignant pain Till cruel man that on thee rides will fill thee up again. With slow, dejected foot I rosm, not knowing where or when I'll nietrt a good Ssiusrltsu wno'll kind. loan me ten. And sometimes to the park I go, drawn In my hopeless quest; 'Twa here 1 struck a record clip the copier did the rest. Who ssid thst I hsd given thee up? Who said that tbou wert lost Tis false, 'tis false, my sileut steed! 1 niug them fine and cost I Thus-thus 1 leap upon thy back and bit the asphalt trail! Away! my bright and beautiful; I pawn ed my watch for ball. Sua Frauciaco Examiner. A MEDICAL MYSTERY. Nerved a t.oixl Purpose. Among the seven trades which a stu dent lu uiecluiulcnl engineering must learn at Cornell la that of the black smith. Occasionally there Is a protest, but It Is never heeded. One dude, ten 1 year ago, was unusually averse to soil Ing his liniiibt. Rut he had to work at the forge Just tho aiimo. Last fall lie went to Prof. Morris aud thanked lilm for being compelled to learn black amtthlng. "Why?" asked the Professor. "Why, you ace," replied the former dude, "I am now auperlutpndeut of a mine away back In Colorado. Last summer our nmlu shaft broke anil there wa no 0110 lu tliu mluo but myself could weld It. I didn't like the Job, but I took off my coat and welded the shaft, It wasn't 11 pretty Job, but she's running now. If I couldn't have done It I'd have bad to pink that shaft 011 mule back and scud It UimJ miles over the moun tains to be fixed, and tho mine would have abut down till It got buck. Mv ability to mend that shaft raised 111c In 1 the ejea of every mini lu the mine, and the boss raised my salary." Legal Ad viser. Georgia's Greatest Marvel. Clydo Brook baa never eaten n wa termelon. ' Ho' 14 years old and he's a negro. And he'a from Athena. Mease. J. J. and J. H. Maddux discov ered and captured hi 111. A day or two ago there waa a watermelon rutting lu progress at their store, aud the dusky young Athenian happened along. Jim Maddox Invited to have some of the fruit so dour to every other negro' heart. The Im.v declined, and Mr. Maddox grahlicd hi to. Mr. Maddox knew that tlie wild man of Horneo wa a drug on the market as compare! with a freak of thl kind, which fortune bad throw u Into bla bands. While Clyde says he's only 11, be ap pear fully 17. Whether It's Athens or no watermelon Hint's responsible be say he doesn't know. He say he haa only made one attempt to eat the fruit, and he found that It "dldu't agree with bl appetite." He took a mouthful of melou 011 one occasion, but declare be couldn't awallow It. He la very fond of cantaloupe, how ever. Atlauta Journal. Victoria of England began to relgu Juut 2", 1ST.7. She ha therefor com pleted ber fifty ninth year on the ' throne. Bhotild sli llv three month ' more, a there Is every prospect she will, she will have relgued longer thau any other British sovereign, louger eveu than poor old George III., who was In an for ten yeart before hi death In 1831). George III. reigned, counting Id also tbe year when bl mlud wa clouded, Dfty-nlns year, three months and four day. Rut Victoria's Intellect la as clear aud strong a It ever waa and gives good promise of remaining ' o. Her rolgn will be a memorable ' a that of any In English history, niein- J rabl for the victories of peace tad Cremation ta Part. A special service of sanitary police looks after th health of the city. A series of disinfecting statlou I main tained, wltb modern oveus and other appliance for treating artlclea brought from Infected homes. Parisian de maud that their remeterlc be within walking distance of the city. Aa the city la very old. millions of people have died within Ita narrow limits. This la the most dlttlcult problem that the health authorities have to deal with. They are trying to do away with the obstinate, Ignoraut prejudice against trematlou. About 8.tHH cremations a year take place now. The muiilcljallty encourages tbla' tunvatlou a much as possible. Average of Mcknesa. Teu daya per anuum la the average amount of alcktiesa lu human life. Bankrupt: Iyor What I your bust ..... .... . 1 ..Li n..i.k lama gentleman, sir. That' my btiil- j uea. Dyer Ah, you have failed, t i e.-Trutn, I had reached my office one morning In November, a year or two ago, when, to my sort 1 rise, I found a young fellow waiting for me outside the door. "Mr. Bonier," he began, Impettioualy, "can you give me your services for the day?" "Is tbe matter very prcaslng?" I re plied. "Tell me what It la." "My name la Kincald." he aald quick ly. "You did some family bualnea for ua a few year ago. I want you to come with me at once. We can Just catch a train from Waterloo to Raslng atoke at 9:10. It runs down In an hour. I'll explain In the tmlu. Ten guineas for the day, and expense. Make your own terms If auccessful. Will that do?" Very well," I aald; "go and get a cab -I II Join you directly." I unlocked my ofhYe, picked up n portmanteau which I keep ready pack ed for emergencies, scribbled a uote to my clerk, and In lee than ten minutes ws by his side In a hansom, on tbe way to the station. We secured a car riage to ourselves, and aa noon as the train bad fairly started he unfolded bla tale. "My uncle, Clavell Kincald, died very suddenly last night, under curious clr cumstuuees, ami 1 expect foul play," he begun. "Tell me exactly what happened." "We had a kind of family dinner party to make a fresh arrangement alsmt the proprety In which my uncle bad left a life Interest." "Nolsidy present but relation?" "No." "What la the property worth?" "About 10,iKHj or l2.tHK) a year." "Go ou." "Aa filings stand uow, my cousin Harry takes everything under the en tail. The object of the meeting waa to buy out ills Interest, so that It could l more evenly divided among the family. Everybody directly Interested waa p resell t." "You couldn't buy up your cousin's Interest without bla consent," I Inter rupted. "Certainly not," answered the young fellow. "Rut Harry Is a black aheep. In fact he'a a thoroughly bad lot. He'a been knocking about South America, aud I don't know where else, for aome years, aud Ills record Is about as black a one aa a man can have." "Very well," I aald. "Now tell me about your uncle's death." "We had finished dinner and sat chat ting and smoking. I'ncle Clavell waa talking to my father; smld-nly he said: Dear me, 1 feel so sleepy, I really think I ' then he stopped suddenly. Ills bead fell forward and sonietsxly rush ed for brandy, thluklng he waa 111. Aa a matter of fact he waa dead. It all hi ppetied lu r minute." "And you suspect your coiwln of hav ing killed blmr "Ye." "On what ground?" The young fellow looked blank. "I hardly know," he stammered, "ex cept that Harry's bad enough to do any thing, and my uncle was In perfectly jxhhI health." "Waa Clavell Kincald drinking any thing at the time?" "No, he waa Just smoking a cigar and chatting." "Waa your cousin near htm?" "No, he waa talking to blm several yard away." "How do you think, then, be killed your under" "I I don't know. That' why I've come for you." "You must excuse me, Mr. Kincald, but I'm afraid this la a wild gooae chaae. It wa to your cousin' Interest that your uncle should die. Your cousin Is n 'outsider. Your uncle dice suddenly, ami you Jump to the comiuMton he haa been murdered, but It doesn't follow by ny mean." t)f course not, but I believe he waa," be persisted. "Has doctor aeen Mr. Klncaid? What doc he say?" "The doctor won't say anything def initely until he has madeaproer exam ination. He thinks It Is a total paraly I of th brain, aud b can't account lor It In any way." "What kind of a man waa your nnclet" "Very healthy and very temperate. I have nerer known blm to eat too much or drink too much In my life. Never bad a daya Illness." b "Well, It') a very atrang case. I said, "and a very sad one. But. frank ly, I believe your uncle died from nat ural cause. You are prejudiced In the matter; I am not." We reached Basingstoke at a few minute pat 10, and then separated. Young Edward Kincald waa to go straight home and explain to bis father what bo had done, and get him to help. When I arrived I was received by fath er and son, and taken privately to the dinlug rooin. where the death occurred. "You must quite understand, Mr. Komera," said the old man, "that I am not prepared to Indorse my sou's opin ion that my brother was murdered. His death was shockingly sudden, aud my nephew. Unrry, Is, '. aai wrr.v to say. a thorough rogue, but 1 should be sorry to tMnk he was guilty of this." "I ciiU't see any reason to suspect lilm of It," I said, dryly. "This I tbe cigar which he wnt smoking," said the young fellow. "I took it out of bla hand, aud placed It 011 the mantelpiece. Ho you think." hu went oil quickly, "a man roilld be pois oned by a cigar, bi cause, now I come to think of It, this one came out of my cousin's case." "I don't thluk a cigar could be made so as to kill a man ou the spot," I re plied. "It might make hliu very sick, or solid blm to sleep, but not kill him." Resides," wild Edward Kincald Sr.. "several of us smoked cigar out of Harry case. 1 think you did for otie. You see," he continued, turning to me, "wheu we were lighting up my brother had rlgurs liauded round, but my nephew produced bla owu case aud offered It to those preseut. My brother wa a connoisseur of cigar, aud, knowing lliut Hurry alway had aome Ihlng especially good, aud winning, per haps to please blm, be said, from the other end of the room, "Hurry, I thluk I'll have one of your." "Yes. If you remember," said the young man, "Hurry walked up to blm and picked a cigar out of his case and aid, Tiy this one, uncle." 1 felt rather perplexed, but to be on the safe side put the lmlf-smoked clgur m my pocket for further examination. "I'm afraid this doesu't prove any thing," 1 said. "It lau't even suspicious. You see, Mr. Clavell wtked for It." ' "Yea, but perlmpa Hjrry calculated he would do o, because Cud Clavell often said that hi cigars were the best part of btm, and be always liked to smoke them." "Could you manage for me to see your couslu?" 1 asked. A luck would hare It the person In question eauutered Into the room. He was a woru-out damlltlod-looklng mini of alwiut Ave aud thirty, very sallow and bony, with a rather unpleasantly easy bearing. I was Introduced as representing tlie solicitors, aud we began to discuss the death. I watched him narrowly. He talked a Unit It with horrible compos ure, aud dldu't pretend to be (sorrow stricken. "Welt, I suppose you three are talk ing business," be said at last, lazily, "so I'll dear jut. 1 hale that sort of thing. 1 shall run up to town to-morrow, aud call ou your people," ht added, lurnltig to me. "Good morning." "Wiiut do ytu propcre to do, Mr. Soiucrs'" aald Edward Kluc aid. "It's lmposs.ble to form an opinion until we have beard a proper medical report," I replied. "When does the post mortem take place';" "Thi afternoon'." "Very well. I can't do auy good here until that Is over. 1 shall go straight back to town now, mid have this cigar examined by an expert, and returu here to-tilght, wheu you eau tell me what tb doctor saya." My visit to town was not very suc cessful. The cigar expert pronounced the half-smoked specimen, which 1 ask ed him to examine, to be one of a very tine brand of Havana, and he mention ed the name, but there's no need to re peal It uow. On making a closer ex amination, however, he tuild he was mistaken. It was au Imitation, ami h pointed out a uiiiulier of trilling differ ences III the dolling and wrapping which nobody but au expert wool 1 ob serve. "You must be able to see," he said. "It's a beautiful cigar; quite as good as If It were a tlrst-olawt brand. Duly It's not auy brand at all. It was made privately; there's nothing exactly like it ou the market." The next point was to ascertain If It had been doctored In any way. With that obJiH't I called on a certain cele brated specialist to get his opinion, tl.i heaiil'g ilil outline of the case lit be came most Interested. "I don't believe It's possible," he said, "for a cigar to W so manipulated that a Itcrsoll smoking It would drop dead. Rut we'll make a careful examination and ss what we can tlml." Then we cut It open and every bit of it waa put under a strong glao. Rut after parts of It had I we 11 submitted to various tests 110 truce of poisonous mut ter could le dlsi-overed. I returned to Raslngstokc. arriving half an hour before dinner. Tlie feel ing lu my mlud was that, though there was some reason, perhaps, to suspect Harry Kincald of the crime, there was not a particle of evidence lu the true aenso of the word. 1 told Edward Kincald aud his father the result of my Journey and thou bad a consultation with the doctor, who had been asked to remain for dinner. His decision waa that Mr. Clavell had died from complete stoppage of the brain, but there w as literally not hint; to show what canned It and there had Wen nothing In Mr. t'lavcll's habit;; uud mode of life at all likely to produce mental paralysis. Further conversation was prevented by the necessity of dressing for dinner. A w went through the hull we met Mr. Harry. "Hurry, I'm taking care of the doc tor. Would you mlud Mr. Somers washing bis bauds lu your room?" said Edward. "Not at all." draw led hi cousin. "I hope you won't mind," Mid Ed ward to me. "Everything Is, of cours.. In a beastly muddle, and." be added when w were alone, "yon will have a chance of looking around." That was exactly what I wanted. 1 went hastily around the room, but fuuud to my dlsapolutuieut that evvry- .hinr a carefuly locked. Suddenly LT'y. "ugh. .'. of bU, dJnn.r J.o-. et which waa banging up behind the remembered being told that our Mend from Boutn America only Imoked cigar, after dinner In England ILTstS mehenilght have left hi. ease In his pocket. A c.reh In the pocket proved I M r-sht and the next moment I had In my hand an elegant little f"' uln'Df .even cigars. I tumbled them out ,m the toilet and aamlned them. A far as 1 could make out they were exactly like the one I had take, up to "own Suddenly a hand was on the door. . . Would vou mind my coming in, Mid a vol.'e. "I Just want to change "'ihsixike with hi. usual drawl, but I thought there wa. Just a shade of anxiety lu bis voice. Certainly." 1 aald. putting the clgura back aud keeping up a running Are of talk all the time. You are not going to dreaa, are you f -Oh, no; but I hate theae frock coat, -a dinner Jacket 1 much more comfort- "'i'wbs washing my bamla. and I atood In frout of the mirror, ao that I could watch blm. I noticed that a soon a be had changed hi coat lie opened bl cigar case aud a. well aa I could Judge irom the expression on bl face, count ed theiih 1 began to feel profoundly liitereated. unit determined to watch Mr. Harry aud hi. cigars closely. IMnnor wa. rather a dull affair. There were uo ladle present aud everybody waa nat urally depresaed by the awful occur- miK'st fir the nrevlous night. A. soon as the dessert wa. put on we began to a moke, aud I wa. on tue looaoui lor the appearance of the .liver case. It wa. soon produced and offered to his rlght-bund neighbor, who, however, declined It, preferring to smoke a cigar ette. A little satirical nille flickered across Harry Kincald' face. He se lected one for himself aud lighted It The conversation became general and a little brighter. The wine wa. paaaed around the table hospitably, aud all began to look a. If they were prepared to meet tbe troubles of tbe world wltb a cheerful resignation. Suddenly Harry Kincald gave a loud groan and staggered to bla feet. "Good heavens! I Help! Bran dy!" Before anyone could move lie snatch ed his cigar case out of hi pocket and burled It across the room toward the tire. It struck a glass epergne In thu ceuter of the table and broke IU Then be fell to the ground, struggling madly, with the moat horrible expression of fearand malice on bl. face I ever saw. In his fall he seized the tablecloth and dragged nearly everything off the table. We all sprang to our feet and the doc tor rushed to his side. But It wa. too late. He waa dead. I cannot describe tbe horror of the ecene. It dldu't 1ist more than a min ute, and we stared at one another aghast. The same thought waa In everyone's mind. He had died In Just the snme way that Mr. Clavell died the night before, ouly, being a younger man, the struggle had been more In tense. 1 at once picked up the cigar case, which was lying on the hearthrug, aud In the presence of everyone turned out Hip pnntontM. I noticed rhst nop of thp six claars waa about au eighth of an Inch shorter than the rest. I cut It open down the center. In the middle there waa a little blue substance about the slr.e of a pea. Then we opened the oth er five. They were ordinary cigars. 11 was ensy 10 see wuai oaa uappeneii. 1 11 mitt loir t ha ,1lu ra l.ui.l.' Into ttia on ua 1 must have rearranged them and the villain had Incautiously smoked one which he bad prepared for someone else. I took the lumti of blue doIsou to the specialist whom I had consulted In the morning. After some week I had this letter from lilm: My Hoar Mr. Somers: I have carefully examined the blue substance which you i-nhmitt.nl to me some little time 11 go, and hil v.. nihil ithnu-n It ... tli., .,..uft .....Ihah chemist of my acquaintance. We arc Isuiim to con reus we can tell you nothing shout It. It cnntniiis drugs which are quite unknown to modern science, and I en ilv think that Hurry Kinesid ha. I picked up some hcmlUh skill from the HOG GUESSING. Bow N.w Jer.. r,rmr. Amu. Themaelves at OambllnsT. Hog guessing la a specie of gam bling peculiar to Northern New Jer ley The culture of boga 1 a cleuce in the, parta, wrltea a correspondent from Deckertown. Tbe average Bua aex County farmer know, bow to grow the fattest, laxleat bog on the leaat fodder of any man In the world, lie pride, blmself on the large amount of pure leaf lard be can gut In tbe ahort ct posalble time and at tbe louat ex penae. Tbe breed were Imported, and the owner claim they have been va.t ly Improved by wallowing In the aanda of upper Jersey. It lan't a bad bual nesa. either, thl. buslneaa of raising champion swine. There U one farmer Peter Scott by name, who last year raised SO bog., averaging 380 pound, or a total of 21.280 pound. He got six cent, a pound for bla pork, which made a snug profit for a year of pan lea and failure. The sport of bog guessing la finely developed. There are buudreda of ex perta at the game. Moat of tbem are old farmer, who travel around with Horace Greeley whisker., and wear overallaand rubber boot that reach the knee. The young blood doesn't care ao much for the pastime. These pa trlarcha understand bow to run tape meaaure around tbe necka, loin, and atomach. of the porky victim, and guess within a few pound of their ex act weight. They ale up a hog lu mighty abort order, and they either bet their pile, on tbelr gueaa or have the guese recorded by the landlord of the hotel, In front of whlcb the bog guessing contest alwaya takea place. j jxpkbts ovasaiso noo'a weioht. otitli Americans which . vnr, hiin.illw quite unknown lu Kunis. It is a most fortunate thin, thst he tell into his own Irap. as I feel quite sure that otherwise it would have been iiiinsihle to bring liim lu justice. Relieve ine to lie roura faithfully, G I HR8 1 ALTON. -TiJ Rits. Sorry He Spoke. A train cur wis phs-cedlng down one of our busy thoroughfares the other Sunday and was already com fortably full, when It was bulled by u lalsirlng man considerably tbe worse for liquor, who presently staggered along the car, between two rows of well-dressed people, regardless alike of isillshetl shoes and tender feet. Murmurs and complaints arose on all sides, and demands were beard that the offender should lie summarily ejected. Rut niiild the storm of abuse one friendly voice was raised, aa a benevolent clergy ma u rose from bis seat, saying: "No. 110; let the man sit dowu and lie quiet," The discomfit tire of the party turned to mirth when the Inebriate one seized his lieuefn.-tor by the hand, exclaim ing: "Thank ye. sir. thnnk ye. I see you know what It Is to be drunk!" Strange. The latest story of German "thrift" Is told at the expense of the proprietor of a circulating library, who charged for the wear and tear suffered by bl Ismks at the hands of his patrons. One volume came bark to bla scrutiny "See here." he exclaimed, "there Is a hole on page nineteen of my beautiful lsok. And see here," he ent on, turn- Ing over the leaf, "there Is another on page twenty." One Point of Dlfferrnce. One, at I.!tery Iia, c;,n. T made a statement that wa here and there punctuated with mJbl profHnl. ty. 1 timing to Alexander H. Stephens he concluded thus: "Don', you agr w.thme Mr Stephensr The old mouer piped uut shrilly; "All but the damn. titwral-i,,,, , lDe Name the baby u,,, y' . I!) girls Hannah. The port for tbla .eaaon la now In full blaat. A description of tbe game at one tavern la typical of tbem all. Tbla waa held at a regular back-number hotel a few mile, from tbla town a few day. ago. Nearly 8H0 participated. They csuie from all dlrectlona, aome of them from ten or twelve mllea away, and arrived In ancient vehicles. Moat of the contestants "hoofed It," a. they expressed It. Four bog were on band to lie guessed at. The difficult feature of a guessing contest la to get the hog. to stand erect and assume a military attitude. These over-fed creuturea could not atand erect loug enough for roll call, and It waa hard to Judge them at all. When one of the farmer prodded them with a cane they set up unearthly yells, and tbelr huge bodies trembled and shook like a delicate mold of wine Jel ly. A young man drifted In and aoon had them all on their feet by blowing clouds of obnoxious cigarette smoke In their faces. No sooner bad the four hogs fallen under the Influence of the cigarette smoke than a dozen experts In bog products leaped the bars and begau winding tape measures about them. They have a way of multiply ing the loin measurements by that of the neck and dividing It by the length from ears to tall. The result, they say, furnishes tbe weight. Before anyone was allowed to make any scientific re searches within the bars the hotel man saw to It that he wna properly regis tered on the loug list tied with a cigar ribbon, and that the sacred monosylla ble "paid" wa. recorded opposite bla name. The patriarch who guessed nearest to the weight waa to have the hog. After tbe four hogs bud beeu specu lated on the reul fun begun. A large pair of platform scales were rolled to the side of tho Incloaure, and a box 00 wheels, open at one end, wna placed InsUK'. Four stalwart men then began to try to urge hog No. 1 to enter the box, but be could no more be Induced to do ao than auy kind of bog could be Induced to cross a bridge. Fair uieaus having become exhausted, each man tried to persuade It to atand erect and walk gracefully by the urgent prodding of aharp sticks. Fulling In this, two pieces of stout planking were procured and placed beneath the bog, but when tbe men began to lift the planking bent, cracked and broke, and the hog gave a few grunts of approval. When no one could think of a acbeme by whlcb the Illustrious mammoth porker could be Inveigled Into the box, the boy lu possession of the cigarette habit came along aud aald he could perforin the Job. He tried to the ex tent of burning half a cigarette, and succeeded In moving the hog to the opposite aide of the Incloaure. Without wasting any more' time the landlord brought forth aome four-Inch timbers, a block aud tackle and nails In a abort time a derrick waa rigged' and when a noose waa placed around the hog's body eight men took hold and hol.ted him Into a box. while be waa making more noise than an average alxed pig under a gate. The box waa rolled upon the scales, the welubta ad Juated and the beam balanced. After deducting the weight of tho box the hog's weight waa found to be 408 pounda. No one guessed right, but the man coming neareat to It thought Sfi8 pounds and won the hog. The penalty for the good luck was that he bad to blow off the crowd, which coat over 118. HI. bog, ,,t ,x oontg h (1 waa worth J24.4S. and he really saved omethlng over $ by entering tho con test Instead of buying outright. Tbe other hog. weighed 363, 418 and 34ii. respectively, and went through tho nie proceaa of weighing, except that they were Inveigled Into the box with out the derrick or the boy with the cigarette. Borne of the guessera have reoonla they are proud of. One old farmer, who must certainly have passed the .Oth milestone of hla career, aald he had beet, "guessing on bog." for near- abouVr yHar. " h,l fUM"e1 un mZ ., 'k. th0,,R!,t' n" won more than half of them. I ,r"" Mon'y HI. Pur.e. thelimu ofa.oldler'.p., I. .bllUn, a day. Where TommTT" on aud keeps hi. 1 ".. there are a hundred ."r' ? T ..j u...u worll outsldahi. In fact, a very 7 may be realized by '.Z'k, Mde," or "taking o. S?t the operation la called. ". u u gurrison town. ,m , ' cert are often given i mkll, for which a rhSSMfff the popularity of nle ltt, him n wider connection lto In many thorn..,- ,' nana, soldiers oft,.,, SP. ' tk the orchestra; and shoj,' drama be ou the board. h vices are In Krellt r r, vvhere. martial am.-. little Mieaklllir are ." Tint writer knowsT. compounder In the nm,, ft very handsome addition 7ob by dlrtiMMialug aud inaklna ! tlou. for a few hours JLppwn a chemist' shop in the to. III reirlmont .... eI0ii " , "'Hlioned. Tv. ft aomewbat unusual case ban garrlaon town, hotel prop'r,,. na possible, employ .1 id In, fame under ttTJ A very curious Instance ofwV a civilian'. Job" ramc UIV, lu tho evening, nmi H ' A triivvr inl " H(lf IPA n alw... H nimi 1 1 1 mia asa. pawing a bootmaker's wiiuv., Horn artillerymen stltcllnr . varlou pairs of boots J,!?'1 tbelr Uvea depended on & Jobaulckly.-L,,ndonAa,afl,, ALMOST A LOStTrt, Machlnerj IU. l)rveB 0rt, . Out of Market Tbe making of a grain craju. u ait in wmch very few l .1 icquues a tiegree of Blmr hiinirlnir nn.l l.ut .. 1 u by experience aud an lntltut(u; eige or me proper proportion, -a liiatrumeut, consequent tU,,, to make them by machinery km ed lu every rase. EdContli,,! t.tiltf ,,tia 1.. .1.1.. . . w i in uiispartoftiiettuj, who aeema possessed of the W skill to put together a cradle thatism with the approval of the Unma He la busy now In making i ., iu unmet! uemuna, in sntlclpm,, the coming harvest Coukllu aays the lst wood tt-i aiiatu ta maple or sugKafr ii the flngere white ash has been! tho very best material for the pop, although aecond growth cheitm; carcruiiy selected, will sometliWH awer Just as well. The braces tiafe are alwaya made of hickory. Tki eruge price for a cradle l 15.5a Tbe list of grain cradle maim abort one. Years ago Robert Join of Marksboro, furnished the k then the Albertson cradle, maoi aware, came Into general wt.ui popularity continued until Mr. tir son's death. Hla sons kept tip the b nesa for a while, but finally quit Ing tbem. Drake Mann, of Sr Corners, was also skilled in thb it and mude many of thone now in tbla vicinity, and It wmhetkp Mr. Conklin the Instruction: led lilm Into the business. Bit Hi general use of harvesting mi!? late years tins made theaauliit tbe cradles of our tlmldlee Vmu4' each year, and soon It wlllbttrVp'' to the wagon loft along with at jt nlng wheel Ulalralown Pre 111 Smock Frocl The old white smock fnxl ti Home English teiiant-fanueri sir: aeventy years ago. was elation; atltcbed over the shoulder and 4 to the waist. It was a useful pit' belnj cool In summer and warm I:; ter. At mealtimes, stretched tens knees, It served us a sort of tap lect crumlia. bits of cheese and tb dropped while eating, whlrbthrtr raugbt up In bis baud and thm tbe month. It wns tlila nt gives point to the story told by Fowlor, In Rerollectioni 01 Pituntrr I.lfp." When the allied sovereignly Isbed Natioleou to Elba, tMJ t i.-,,tn.1(i m,i visited, anwoi placee, Aahrldge, the aeatoftWt n.i.i....mi,r The Earl IU" Bhow them the class of mm w the koII of England, Invites nis- tena tit-farmers to meet tuno""' of HI n 11 at smock too countryned, Mat nw ntvW that It Should be to thoae who came to the dinner. broadcloth coat worn In iti Muster Mullens, the oldest aw respected tenant, was m J. by the order, and reluctantly t. -m...... tollnr's Bias"1! IO lilt? ,HUic - ....J,, . it ti,.. dinner the !' honor, near the top of the tai i.,.i t Muster Mullen. The old man pushed bH . 1.1., l,.ned forwlt . 1 when be ate a uearty ui. - ,.ma all w-as finished, a plate contaOTj a partridge, with brea d a.nic and j era tuba, waa put Is-fore aim. dividing the leg of the MJ niwet the tilute. which feu tween his leg to the "f-'j the consternation of the t 1 Master Mullens, tiirniiix v" the Earl, said: .u. w" "There, my Lord, dang M J If I'd had on my mo 1 cote'ued lt-- i- Bale. A ''". 1 tat ' . I....L- dear. 1 ww one jum n. . ,o..L-. for 3i) cents- Tela.u...nderdldTO. for? They are cheap en. are we ever to do witn ,a!7-.Bh-oh: Msyt"? fMir-. - i,ke will r1' somelwdy you don t nw cycle.-Iudlanapolls J'!l Phe M.r V'Rm.litttf' n.Ifow Is Mr- Edwlna-How Ung along?' Ha- '"i ' Edlth-No; buthe first night he ""', ,be In bla hands all evenln night he ;nu'oBbh loat night h, held J'UJ t an hour. I ',e Statesman Editor's n.Ud- with papa to-daj? humor. ,. dr Editor'. Wife-'- regular.fuuny man 0 M .ml your father Is m 1 department going