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8ATUICDAY NOVEMBER 27. O P Hod of Irving, U lo the city. Kola Nsls, of Albany, U lo the olty. Charles Urlffln; returned from Al bsny today. fit ID Driver was an arrival oo to day's 2:04 local. Herbert Condon of Ilia Register, bai returned from California. Mrs A J Johnson arrived bom." from Crwwell on today's 10) local. Mrs RS Bean cam up on today's 2.-04 local from bcr Salem borne. Mlat Anna Ogleeby of Junction, 1 tbe guests of Mends lo Eugene. Attorney A C Woodcock arrived borne from Balem and Corvallls today. A Wheeler returned borne today from a trip to Linn and Marlon eoan tie. Mr and Mra W L'Brlstow of Pleas ant Hill spent Thanksgiving In tbe city. P D Qllbert, tbe commercial tourist Is In the city to spend Bunday with bis family. R A Copple of the Divinity school, went to CottsM Grove to;eonduct ser vices tomorrow. Father V A Daly went to Monroe this morning and will conduct ser vice tbere tomorrow. Miss Dell Brumley earns up from Ir ving today and will spend Bunday with relstivss bsre. Miss Lulu Morris, who Is teaeblag In Junction City, Is spending Thanks giving holidays at boms. Pocretary of Btate Klneald Is up from Balem to attend the luneral of bis atep father, M 8 Riddel. Mrs Wesley Bhsnnon leaves on ths nvarlanil tonleht for Atbland whsre she will visit tor a month. Mrs EJ Fnwlsr and child Isave on tonight's 1158 ovsrland for Woodland, Calif, to visit with relatives. Arthur Gardiner, of the Eugene TH.lnltv school wsnt to Corvallls to day, and will preach there tomorrow. President P L Campbell, of the Monmouth normal school, was In Eu- gsnelast night, returning borne dsy. to Mies Nettle Whitney, teaobsr In tbe Albany publlo schools, Is spending tbs Thanksgiving vacation wltn In Eugene. rslatlvrs MUs Flora Bettlemlerof Woodburn who has been vUltlnz at the bome of Mrs Wesley Shannon, in this eity, re turned home todsy. Fred Klnsey, an old time Eugenelte, Maw enslneer at the Btate Reform school. Balem, Is la the city vIsltlDg relatives sod friend. nwk Rrvion.Ed MoClanahan and Rlir Younn returned today from Ur ..in., where thev witnessed tbs Tuauksgtvlng football game. Hon R M Vestoh, reglsUr of the U B land office atRoseburg, Oregon, was In the city today on a buelnsss visit. Hs was kept busy during bis stay bare shaking bands with bis host of friends. TUv and Mrs P O Bonebrake arrived t...m T.na Anirele Cal. on ths 4:10 overland this morning. He will at once enter upon his dutiss as pastor of the Unltsd Brethren church. Horace Mann, editor of tbe lively and enterprising Cottage Grove Mes senxer. gave us a plsasant call todsy, He is publishing an excellent paper, roi isi Grove Leader: Miss Ml nerva Hemenway was taken with ssvere spell of sickness, Thursdsy avenlneaud consldsrabls anxlsty was t tint rlt over her but we are glad to state shs Is recovering. Three families, relatives of Mr and Mrs M Bvarvsrud will Isave Valley Cltv. North Dakota, for Eugene Nov 80tb, to make it their permanent home. A oar load of their belong ings wss shipped from that place to Eugene today. Imter Items. Nor. 14 The river has been too high to fsrry a portion of the lime during the past week, but Is passabls now. We learn that a comedy is being ar ranged for presentation about Christ mas thus. Howard Vlucent rsturnsd Saturday fromJouee' mill, bslug oompsllsd to lav ofl for some time on account of having his foot cut. Ths (Jnnsr Lost valley sohool has closed for tbe winter. The Hcrlvner, Mooney and Howard hunting party returned from the neighborhood of KlUon's Bprlngs Tuesday. They killed about 20 deer, Henry Tllton went to Eugeue Mou day and brought the irons for the new bridge which is to be erected near D (J Mathews'. A loolal party and oyster supper was glvsn by Ferd Parker last Friday even lng. Fletoher CofTman Is again abroad 1 the land and may be expected to visit friends hers lo the near future. Bidders havs oeased to rustls bondsmen and now the question who will be awarded the oontraot for for carrying tbe mall on the several routes In thissndof tba county? Time will tall. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2fl. - Rev O A Wooleyjvlsited In Eugene today. Postmaster Rooey, of Goshen was here today. J A Gwlnn returned to Corvallls this forenoon. A Wbeeler went to Linn county this forenoon. Postmaster J O'Brien of Leaburg, was In Eugene yesterday. Sol Abraham, the pioneer Roseburg merchant, Is In tbe city, Today's Oregonian bas two wbols pages devoted to football. Attorney A C Woodcock went (o Ba lem on this forenoon's local train. Hsnry E Ankeny expects to return to bis mine In Jackson county tonight. Miss Carrls Lausr went to Portland this forenoon te visit lor a couple of weeks. W L Houston and Mayor Oglesbv of Juno loo came up on this afternoon's train. Albert E Raleigh, a pioneer sod of Portland, died at bis bome la that city yesterday. J Vin Cook, the Portland capitalist In tbe city tbe gueet of Henry Ankeny and family. Mastln Taylor left lor bis home at Meacbam this forenoon altar a very pleasant visit In Eugsne and Lane county. Wm Cummlngs bas bought of E B Bmltb tbe second band store on Ninth street and will hereafter conduot tbe busloaos. Geo W Plokett, who is spending a couple of months in San Franclaco orders tbe Daily Guard sent to blm at Hotsl Langbam, 145 Ellis street. J AGwIaaand wife of Balem, spent Thanksgiving lo Eugene visiting frlsndsaod relative. Mr Gwlnn I engineer oo tbe U 8 snag boat Math loma. Tbs Portland Lslly Tilbune sevs John Edmundson's work In the loot ball same In that eltv yesterday "was de ervlng of special comment," and but "be frequently broke tbrougn '.De ne ana enen tackiea me runner." Portland Commercial Review: "The Eugene, Or flour mills is one of ths fsw mills that can say the; are very busy and shipping large quantities of flour dally to all points on the South ern Paoiflo railroad." . A Chicago minister baa outdone all competitors by Introducing a full brass band Into bis church to take the place of the paid choir, and bo also per mits "appiaus from the congrega- tlou," as another attractive feature. C0XTICTED OF MaNBLAUttHTEU. II A Harrington, VTho Shot A C Mc Kay Hear Wilbur. Davenpobt, Wash., Nov 25. R A Harrington was convloted of man slaughter In tbe Lincoln county supsrlor court today. Ho was one ot a narty of four men traveling oo tbs Wilbur road In buggies at night. They bad been drlnkintr. Harrington shot ai tbe bucirv ahead of bis and one of tbe bullets allied A U uervay. xney were frlsnds and had started out In tbe same buggy. The case will be ap Desled to the euDreme eourt. Mr Harrington, at one time, it is said, resided la Eugene. Died. James Moore, aged 89 years, died near Boyd, Wasco county, last week. He as born in Wabash coun ty, III. and came to this coast in 12 locating ln;Lane county, where he re sldsd till about eight years ago, wbsu be went to Wasoo county and took up his residence with bis sou-in-law, J R Hanna, where ho died. Deceased leaves three sons, Henry and George of Rock Creek, Gilliam county, and William, of Camas Bwail, Lans coun ty, and twodaugbttrs, MraJB Hsn na of Boyd, and Mrs Bryant of Colfax, Wash. DiKD.-MrandMrs HH Shacklett, ot this olty, learned yesterday of the death of their niece, Mrs Maggie Dot bins, nse Uayden, or Los Aalmos, Colorado, twhlih occurred Nev 20, Mrs Hayden resided two years In Eu gene, wltn tier auni, ana nas many friends herewho will be pained to lsarn of her death. She leaves a bus band and babe one year old. A genius in tb Stats of Nevada has invented a road wagon which is to be operate! bj elecrio trolley wires and the Soientifio American seems to think it will be an entirely practicable soheme. The elevated wires are strung somewhat differ ently from what they would be for a street railroad, sinae there are two of them side by side. It is not necessary that they should over hang the middle of the street. In stead of a trolley pole, the motor wagon or carriage is connected with the wires by flexible cables working on an antomatio reel on the wagon, or to wind up a short length, thus allowing tbe wagon to follow the road or permitting it to turn out or do anything else that may be required to avoid obstruo tloni la the road, SECRET LOVE. IL To HaUuoe's vale I eotne ly night, My lore, to Pk lib the. Though tha snow lay auft on tbe mountain s Tha pnmauita cry In the woodlands lone. And the cock crows on ine inuur. Might fleas apaca; It t now ball gone UasU, lore, and open the door. ana To BaUtuo'i vale you Hit oome by night. Through the rnln and mow to woo. Bat my mother It ".Imping at my rig" And elon hue my father too. Should I mora oa my couch at ono wwy would wau. Tlwty would hrr If t opened to thee. Bo I'll Jtut lie (till, fur our dear lor a sane, For our lore most secret be. -From the Jspanese. DOLLY'S GRIT. When young Jack Btuart threw up his government Job and left Washington hurt spring without telling where ho was go ing, everybody naturally concluded that he had "gone to the dovlL" People are always eager to say that any wan, espe clallr If ha is youns and handsome and hasn't a penny in the world, has gone to the devil. In fuct, It Is the one way peo ple have for accounting for a fellow who turns op missing, and then regarding each other In a greedily curious way they ln- nnlra. "Who's tbe woman? The fact that a fellow can go "to the devil" withcut the help of some woman hwf onfar the human mind, although be It noticed that when a man reaches a high degree of prosperity, when he makes fame and naino, people never turn upon nn. .nothnrand auk. "Who'ethewonianf" Now, as nobody could prove by which route Jack Btuart bad gone, there the matter rested, and If a newspaper reporter bad followed his career where It li now he wnnlil throw down his TienoU with a "Pshaw I" or something etrongor, adding In tones of disappointment: "It was a woman, but ahe didn't send him to the dovlL The atory's no good. " The result would he that the newspapers wouldn't lTa It a Diinurranh. whereas, had ahe caused him to kill her, himself or the oth er man, we would have tad an mustrawa paKe, The story as It stands has, however, nmnthlnir Ixwldos virtue to recommend it, and maybe It la worth tho telling even If the several people concerned will not like tn m It In nrlnt. It log!in, or at least the winter of its rtiurvintunt culminated, one evening iusi Mnpiti In the cozv little llvlntt room of mL lmtinuive house on Dupont circle. Jock Stuart was sitting in one of those corners which invoke flirtation at the be ginning and more sorloua Intentions alter close intimacy. His hands were stuffed deep down In his pockets, and his hand amna brow bore a deep, dismal frown, Tha drl slttlnir on the little stool to rront of him and resting an elbow familiarly on his knee looked upon him with tender, anxious sympathy In her eyes. They had avldontlv bean discussing some grave sub joct, and the youth broke forth after hi moody silence: "Hang 16 all, little girl, I can't much Mama tout mother for not liking me around." "Bhe wouldn't like vou around U you had oord and cords of money, Jock. You know mamma, bho s determined I shall marry a foreign title, and I'm Just as de termined I shan't" The alrl closed her pretty Hps In a way that showed that she had not had a father who hod plowed through poverty and oD' acurltv and dreadful hardships to a for tune for nothing. That fortune intact he had foolishly loft to bis foolish widow. She was a "chaructcr" a term whloh means one of two things, either that woman has none ot any sort or that she haa too much of an objectionable descrlp tlon. This particular woman belonged to the latter class. "Well, I tell you, Dolly, I do get low in spirits. You sco, my prospects aren' Hood." Jack took her hand nnd caressed It, smiling that hopeless, bitter smllo that means so little and looks so much on tno face of a boy of 88. The name of btuart," ho went on. "can't carry a chap through life. It can'i make him rich or famous. It can't give him the girl he wonts, and he's not going to stool her when she's a rich girl that would look like highway robbery, grand larceny or something of the sort. Of course that's what your mother would soy. 'Oh. mamma" 'And it' what tho rost of the world would say too. Hero I have been on a gov ernmont salary of less than $100 a month for two years. I came here and found lots of old friends and I went into society. tell you I'm slot of it. It's a sawdust life, this thing of a fellow taking a room and living on sandwiches at afternoon teas and counting on the dinners he's asked to for his square meals. I wanted to stop, and then I mot you and I couldn t, and here am, worse off than ever. If I go away, will lose you. If I stay hero and try to study a profession, it will take years and years, and I couldn't auk you to wait for tuo." Bhe patted his hand tenderly. "Oh Jack," she said, "it would bo dreadful for you to go awful for you to leave me with mamma and the count. Think of it I Why, it would be brutal!" Tears wellod in her eyos. "I could be true. I wouldn forget, and I would be brave, but think of mamma and tho count! , . ' "Yes," said Jack, touching the soft love locks about her forehead, "but think of the holo I'm in. You sue, that plantation of mine" "Oh, Jack, do you own a plantation? Why, of course you do. All southerners have plantations " - ' "Yes, mid mine is the worst ot the lot, and that s saying a great deal. I never told you about it because I get hot When' ever I think of It I want to light I want to fight a woman, and that's ungallant" The scarlet mounted to his brow and his voice was low and tense with hatred. "well, I will toll you," no went on, "It's a fine Virginia plantation, and it all I have in tho world. It was my moth er's property, and when she died my father married again an old maid, bla house keeperand when be died my stepmother, being a shrewd woman and as mean as the mischief, employed some tricky law yers, who got her a widow's dower out of the rent of my mother's plantation a widow's dower of 12,000 a year out ot my mother's property. That's all the income the plantation afforda . You wouldn't think I'd stay there and work It, would your "I should think not." "It's my property, and every cent of ths Inoome goes to that old harpy.' "But, dear, shs will die sons day." nDUI"wlthblttstl&oreduUty. "Never! . . . i..t nf nnrnslUS nvnr Tne Knunj .. . Dire mistletoe ! lMtajutol, 'Amino V.U nnvu """" . - full" wild the Kin. full ' solU ine ,. M, n "I'm a big coward to toll you oil Ms, he went on"" but I felt so down in my ck ?hat I had totals. Now. . I rnlgh have made money out of the ptatoUnn I bXtold and worked it tostead of leav InVtt to the tenant I might hav. , made 1500, perhaps s 11,000. extre for myself out oA but I .couldn't do it, Dol y, , I lust couldn't stay tnn .. i ' .. .i... mm .mnnn with my own hands. Bhe lives in the bouse, and-oh, weU yo dear, i nat iuu. "Yes, but yourniothor is excuse mo, Dolly, but your mother is fat plump, I i. -a ,rtl women must be enduraire'hln one. with claw. nd beaks." "Jack!" "Yes." , "I'm thinking of that plantation. I m so glad you've got It " 'Well, I'm not.- .-.. .., ..... .rill ho. Yon seo I uldn t know you hod property, and that wo. mak ing it hard for me. I thought of thot col lection of old fomlly miniatures of yours you showed me, and I thought that might do." ' , "Do , Do for what'" ne cjaoumw. ii v. .in,i it n-ollr wouldn't any - . l ma nntf la way. What 1 warn you w - a mortgago a genuine mortgage lor ao, 000 on that Virginia property. "Whatf" .., iitt. n.nnh la tho iironerty wortnr urn. si.vooo I should say. But what on earth" .... , , . VU. UWIHI ", ku'..ii if. nut this." saia me Kin cltodly. "Inmtoglveyoufo.wu. ..- i anvnd from some proper " - 7' - ....r. T. I. ty left ma I am to give you $5,000, and you are to borrow It from me by fixing up mortgage on your amount Jly lawyer win aiwnu i regular form. Papa didn't leave me m. business bead lor noumiK, "And what am I to aowunuiemouei n .A-,ul kn vmith fuhast. 'Now, I've been tninaing ou ui m tr ,nil, I thoucbt It out wncn i wae dancing, and I bnd long, restful, delicious hint, nvnr it whilo men were iwuuih their nonsense at ma l'apa made his pile mining, you know, and what have you studied mining and engineering for if you miTt mnke vours taut woy wur iu m..mh.r tulklnir to me atwut gom possiuu itles in Alaskaf Well, I want you to take tMii mniiov and try your luck there. And oh, Jack, don't bo so rudo and don't kiss me whllo I'm talking, and don't jfwk at mo as u you d cry wim icuiiuk juu upmn't 6 feet in Tour stockings your socks. I nieaa. You are to go to Alaska nr. mnko A fortune a great, big fortune, Jm'k. bin enough to make momma quail before you and to convert the count into a poor llttlo, hluck, trickling grease spot at your mighty feet " Dolly Kodnor was a llttlo body, and she was almost breathless and decidedly tum bled and out of order when sho emerged from his eiithuslnstlo recognition of hor devotion. The big fellow stood up and held her at arm's length and looked at hor oh. I can't begin to toll you bow he looked at her and then ho gathered her up In his arms again, and presently they both snt down and no said, ' un, iouj, in a voice hushed with tender emotion, "Oh. Dolly. I con't accept" And then she put bcr little, soil, wduo hnnd ncros his llis and said in the deci sive way belonging to small women: "You are accepting nothing. I am making you a loan, sir. If a girl can't help a chap shs loves before she gets blm, she shouldn t ever have tho right to do it afterward, thnt's all. And well, if you don't lot me, I'll I'll marry tho count or that beastly old ofllcer with the wooden leg or a Chi nese attache or something like a Jack in the box from Korea." They both laughed, and there was much personal talk and argument and many carcHsva that ntsd not bo rocordod here. tiuflico It to say that two weeks after this conversation Jack Stuart threw up his Job and went to Alaska Instead of to tbe devil, oven-body thought bis companions during hU stay there being not tho devil's servants women, wlno, cigarettes and cards but Instead a miniature of a very beautiful girl smiling from a frame of tur quoise, a face all Washington society would recognize, and to keep its memory right in tho heart of Its owner there were letters long, delicious, crossed and rocrossed let tors scented with vlolots and ornamented with a modest monogram. Dolly Hadnor did not ue her mother's crest. Tho lust ono of thorn letters was a bit curt and impatient It read: Deaiikst Jack You have sot cold enough to startle even Murk Bunna with, much leu nullum, nnd the count. Mm Betty Qrwn would 1 started to say would be green with envy. I am miserable and you must come homo. I can t stand tlim any longar. Mam ma's bad grammar Increases with heunser. and the count's broken English and oriental perfume become more unendurable as his love intensities. I'm gutting low and vulvar You would not know me. I've tried everything to cure the count. I frequently come down when he calls mo with my hair done up In curling kids and I chew giun In his presence constant ly. Nothing seems to work with him, though. He Is "one grnndo loufcr" out here at our country place. lie counts all my eccentricities as "zc raprtco of ono petite fllle ohanuante gentile" all the French epithets of approval. Come home or I will run away with him Just for the pleaxuro of murdering htm neatly on our wedding Journey. Your own for eternity, DoiJ.r. Sho didn't add that she was wearing all of her last summer's frocks; that she hadn't a now gown or a new hat to her name; that everything had been cut off from tho first of tho year at least all tho spending money tier mother gni her on account of her disobedience about tho count And, as for her own income, she had taken the whole of that for a year in ad vance to lend to a certain young fellow who had recently dug a fortune out of an Alaska goltlileld. This young fellow has no idea of how mean even a fat mother can be when she is stupid and vatn and ambitious, nor will he ever know from Dolly s lips tho extent of her sacrifice, so I am determined he shall read it here. Ho came homo ten days ago, and there was the happiest girl in the world to greet him in a certain big country house near Washington. The count was not happy, and lira Radnor is as yet barely reconolled to the situation, for ahe folt that ha had enough money for tho count as well as for tne gin wno may be named as one woman who did not send a missing man to the uevu. Atlanta constitution. Autobiographical. The self mode man was speaking, He said: "My fathor was a raiser of hogs. There was a large family of us " And then his voice was drowned by the applause. Nugget Bad to Lie There, "Is he a truthful man" "Why, yesthat Is, outside of the or. oilng elub. "Chicago- Poet, ' HOW MANY PLANT8I What the HatunHUte Tell V About th. mhr of different kinds of plants that ers to bs found on the surface of ths .lobVbas long been a disputed question, lbs history of the efforts to determine it ? . u Those efforts begun In TJt V, i,h Thoonhraarus. who sou- Berated 600 kind, of plants. nMaumed to represent all that were then Tbs totanleal knowledge of King Solomon bad. then, com ratlvtly nnrrow 5mlU..v.n ths plants from a D 78 ths hyssop on ths wall. "j-A. V. 78 "oeasid ths numbsr to double that named by Tbeopnraama. MI7b. beglnnLg of tbe sev.ntoonth osn turytns numbe bad Increased OjOOO. Tb7seeondedltlon of Llnnaus' great book LVoluded no mors than B.800. VYllldenow, W to 1807, bad detected 17.457 n flowering plants. From this period the increase in ths number of known epeoles s vTrapld,... result of th. stimulus given to botany by Wnnaus and his sno- ."' .k t the hea nnlng of the mated tns uwm - - Huuiboldt ail piau, flowering, at 44,000 Progressing still further In lb20 Do Candolle estlmsted that at least 68,000 w're known. It was found that the nu.n ber of species preserved In tbe herbarium t thsJardln des TlonU-s was est mated at tbs same figure, and that the oolleotlon of M. Delessert contained 88.000 sidles i In 1847. slthough Vr. liinuiey nau In 1886 that all tbe plants in ths world might be Inoluded in toot numuer. .i Ki.it jmtnnMt nnon a series of cal culations sliout tbls tlms to show that all these estimates fell snort oi mo tbst might be supposed to exist tauoh .M...Hnna " ha writes, "seem to vorlfy tbs anotent myth of the Zend-Avesta, that the oreetlng of primeval force called firth ISO.OOO vegetable forms from ths sacred blood of the buHJ M At . In 1846 B. B. Hinds estimated the pbe nn.min and crrntoBamlo plunts at 184,- 000 species. Ths next estimate we meet with Is in Henfrey In 1867, 818,00n.ous m 1866 De Candolle had by another process of reasoning come to the conclusion that the total could not be less than 876,000 for flowering plant At th. nmoent time the very lowest rati mate of authontlo species of cryotoguiula nnni h less than fjUO.OOO. and tboy prob ably exceed that number. Here, then, we have an epnroxlmate idea of r ' t may be regarded as a very low estlmute of the number of species of plants scattered over ths face of the earth. 11 ws leoi oonuunon in ..rHnir that there are not less than 600,000 distinct and different species of vegetable organisms, Including land snd water, It I. because It has been proved that the number is even inexoessof thot Philadelphia Time Fire boats and Burning Vessels. Mr. Charles T. Hill contributes sn artl nla on "Flnatina Firs Engines" to St KlohoUa The article describes New York's thraa flraboata. Mr. Hill Says: Thta boats serve a double purpose, for they are not only effective water throwing engines, but powerful tugs as wolL Whon a fire is discovered on a ship lying among other vessels, a line Is fastened to bor, ana shs is towed out into midstream, where she cannot spread destruction about her. A few dashes from the powerful monitor nozzle soon Dnt out any fire In tbo rigging and upper work It the fire has spread to the hold or baa eaten in among the cargo, she is towed down to the mud flats near Liberty Island or to the sand bars south of Governors island and beaobed. Then tbe bla longths of bose are passed aboard large metal connections arehistened to the ends, and these are thrust into the hold or Into snv oo in Dart men t where there is lire, and shs is soon pumped full of water nnd tbe fire drowned ont If a boat llko tne New Yorker bas oharge of this work, it is aulokly accomplished, This saves the hull of the vessel and less ens ths damage considerably, for the own era can have her pumped out nrterwani and, ths hull remaining intact, tbere nothing but tbe burned interior to repair. If she were scuttled in midstream, the hull would Interfere with navigation, and it would cost a large amount to raise tbe vessel, so It can be seen that theso boats can render other services than that of ei tlngulshtng fire In first on vessels loaded wltn cotton (they make ugly fires to handle) a lighter Is usually brought alongside, and after the worst of tbe fire has been subdued ths balos are hoisted out one by one and extln gulshcd as they are brought out By this means part of the cargo is saved, for only the surfaces of tbe bales are on fire, end they oan be plokod ovor and rcbaled and sold again, while to fill tho vessel full of water snd drown out the fire would de troy ths whole cargo, and a cotton fire might burn for months if fought In any other way. Tha Discoverer of tha Gladstone Collar. I believe I am gonorally supposed to have Invented Mr. Gladstone's oollurs, but as a matter of foot I merely discovered them. Many men wear oollurs quite n large as, and even larger than, his, but they are not so prominent in appearance lor tbs simple reason that when Mr. CUud stone sat down it was his custom to lit well forward. His body collapsed, so speak, and his head sank into bis coat The inevitable result was that his collar rose, snd, owing to this olrcumstanoo, havs frequently seen it looking qulto as oonspiouous as It is dcplotod In my carloa sure When Mr. Gladstone upon one occasion met the artist ot Punoh at dinner, I was chagrined to find, when he walked Into the dining room, that he had discarded his usual large collar for one of the "masher" typ I felt that my reputation for ac curacy was blighted and sought consolu tlon from the editor ot a Gludstonlan or gan, who happened to be present "Yes," he said, "he is evidently dressed up to meet the Punoh artists. He Is the pink of fashion and neatness now, but lust night when I mot him at dinner, his shirt was frayed at the edgea and his oollnr was pinned down behind, but the pin gave way during the evening end ths collar nearly came over his bead." Harry Furniss in Century. Helgoland. Helgoland will continue to be the Gret na Green of Germany till 1018, whon the special priviloge of the Island expire Pas tor Schroder, tbe minister, however, re quires certificates of birth, of tbe consent of the parents if tbe parties are under age, an affidavit that neither la already mar ried nor divorced and a statement of the reasons for their coming so far to got mar ried. Then he charges a fee of f&g. It Is so dlffloult to got married In Germany un less everything Is in perfectly forinul order that 60 couples a year prefer to make ths Journey to Helgoland. San Francisco Argonaut M05EY AS0 ITS C(J8T. The Salem Statesman clinches th. ilvtr question by gravel, that In Autnlh enough "J mined to make a dollar fog J9Wn; Did it ever itrike the Sute. man that gold Is often mined t verj small per rentage of the doll., value? If the .metal is a dollar. h.ti- Rold or ilver.and must cent doll,, to produce it who would be so fooIUh ai to open and devolop mine. It would be ai potent an irtB, ment for tbe frhndi of si!.., ,. claim recognition for tha -u.. metal on account of mints bviM been developed and worktd for a abort timo where err. doll ire worth of silver .l - o JJa tained coet 15. Mining for th, precious rnetala it in tbe nttariof a gambling venture, and tbefailiir, or success of mine owners in retlii. ing from tbeir interests has lim, or no bearing on the correct deter. mination of tbe money question. THE FOKElGSEkS WOS. The result of tbe election in .bins county Kansas U tbe talk of that state. JLre thin. one nan oi tne voting Donali. w tion of that county is composed of uesian Mennonitee. In July last these people met in convention and nominated a full county ticket, They had discovered in preriou elections that they had the power to control the county, and tbey de- ided to take the reins of goverv ment into tbeir own hand. The Republicans, Democrats ind Populists joined forces, forgetting past fights, nominated a fuiion tioket, and started in to defeat tU Mennonites, The campaign sued warm and a thorough canvass til made, but the Rucsians had tLi numbers, and when the volet wen couuted on election night it wu found tint the so called foreign ticket had won the day by an aver age of 100 mflj'irity. THE RUSH FOU BOLD. Las; spring there wu a great rueh from all parts of Auttralii lo the new gold digging id British Guinea. Hundreds of men, with poor equipments, arrived at manby Island or set outontM long journey up Mambare nrerto the gold tbldn. Both places, How ever, have failed to justify to hopea of their discoverers, to yield Ims been insufficient to pJ the heavy expenses of lbs irof- pectora. Many of the adventurous min;! have lost their lives through feren or native treachery, and otuew waiting lor Government aid top out of the country, bo "w South-soa bubble has been pnew and found to be hollow. ALASKA GOVERSMST. President McKiuley wilM. congress to provide a more wittW system of of government for A W The rush of gold miners b WJJ the territory almo-t unpron J th laws suitable for handle - wi crowd of throng the gold seekers territory. Our eu . . J.J n to W lens can be uerenueu -care of themselves with laws, which mete out strict but that does not relww ' ernment from taking allp tion-to protect propwtjwj. those desolate regions of north. $90,000,000 Russia bought and onlf German goods $18,000,000 of last year, product French - .l: far or The alliance is a fine w -a . t ..pit and osculation, bull pan out heaviiy in trajtv tbi From graphic fun in tho Austria- K- . other day mun .'"'V a rush of the rivol teaun in ball contest. It is the only pirison we have handy .7rnrth.cub Tammany nalrio s ' , 2U,UUU " .... a cording to Tamtam-'" & be a fair distribution braves.