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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1898)
m i 4' J in DOVE : ROCK : DAY. . . ,..i 1. 1. I n,.i.,,p l.nnn in I tiL'n I George before, ami u was nanny JL lirr fault Unit she Irretrievably In ,j ,it Hoi-lal standing before she Ll been at Horlcon Ferry two hour. . ' Wright wan an actress who hid ' ,'(,ri.,l the theatrical profession n a 'horns Si''- slie ,1I,J "ow ,,ncl"?,, tl10 rank of a" l"fi'uc 'D 0,10 of tl,e P"I'U lur theaters. Kverybmly at Horlcon Ferry goes to the landluK to Inquire fur mall ami to what manner of people are going up the lake. The morning and eveu'ng steamer arrival are the two Incidents of ilieilay, anil John Trend well wan a iiirloii a's the rest of the little colony niiltli dwelt on the point of land which juu out Into the upper lake. He was holding a flaring red parasol over the ln-ad of hi richest aunt, when he haw Urate Wright hastening over the gang jiljnk. Ileforc he could heat a retreat the girl had nodded to him, and he was MiuiiH'lled to acknowledge her snlu'u- Ki.in wlih a perfunctory dip of hi hat. Iyiie tiext moiueut the girl had glvci r baggage to n Iorter, thereby pro-'-lulaiiiig her Inleutlou of becoming a irumi of llorleou Terry" one boiel. "1 did not know," en Id Minn Jemima h IVItlnpll. sister of John Tread well' moilier. recently deceased, "that you Lad any acquaintances among the ho tel people." Well," replied the young man, ner vously twisting hi mustache, "a Mlow who I a reporter on a New York news paper, 4 I am, l bound to meet a few persons who are not eligible to the ham let net at llorleou Ferry." 1 trust, nephew," said Miss Pet tin- pill ."that you will reineinber that It u iteclileilly Improper to mingle your bus- lues and social ncipialutance. Sue I rather handsome, too. Huh her moth er with her. Evidently makes soma pretense to respectability." "Aunt Jeremiah," said the young man, "the young woman Is a member of Mr. Payson's company. She In a 'girl of sterling character. She bus lieen tun the stage almost from childhood." I From that day John Tread well had f liilml nl f.ntfft i:,it.trik IT., iwas at Horlcon landing principally he- iiuse his aunt had told him to come, ml Incidentally because the family of ;s llaneee, A Riles Shelton, had a cot- age there, lie thought rather guiltily f the evenings wl.eu be had called on Irace Wright, and of the talk they iud had u)iiii literature and the uplift. :ig of the stae from It present sor- lowful plight. They had read the siune wok, and had spent mauy an nfternoou it the picture galleries. That was In lie day when he wps struggling for tare existence upon a piier whoso (riuclpal stock in trade consisted of i ggardly pay to Its reporters. He was iad lu those days when the weekly wyday arrived, and brought with It he blessed assurance that he might uve breast of real, with green peas, 't ut least one dinner of the week. Then somebody discovered that bo mild write, and he found himself upon I paper win s his weekly space bill ran above the three figure mark, nnd be was hailed by that proudest of Pnrk Row titles, "a good iimn." Then he fell Into the good graces of his Hunt Jetnl fciali. That meant receptions and af ternoon teas, mid an Introduction lino tie of the "smart" Bets of New Voik. That Is how he met Agnes Shelton. She thought that his life was "so Inter stlng," and so fascinating." nnd he, Who had almost forgotten the days Wheu he was a drudge and a p.vk: lorse, never told her anything to the eontrary. She ,.i monPy enough for two. He saw his opportunity nnd ivalled himself of It. They were en gaged. Grace Wright saw him once or t.vlce fter his rise In fortune. It was very fcasy for hi in to tell her that he could find tio time to call upon her, for men ho are under the beck and call of a ,lty editor have little time that they kiay call .jelrown. She saw lilm for Ihe first time In mouths ut the landing t Horlcon Ferry. I The principal occupation of the so called "society" element at Horlcon landlug consisted In making life imen Jurahie to the majority of those who Same there. There were threp distinct tstates-the hotel set, the Justin set, i.m uie iiaiutet set. Anybody who had junior owued or rented u cottage fori jlhree yCar gll(.cl.S8on wn8 rnttlMl ' VY tliA ...... I. ..tt t . ...... i. ion ui iianiieieer. lie had right to sniic nnrlin.lv n-h,. mi I iitliln sight of the little cluster of cut- ' Re at the end of the point. There love Hock, a gleam or ngni snoue 'as also an overgrown countrr farm 1 beneath the shelter of n cap; then use, not far from the Hamlet kept 1 ,lie flame froln n torvh flan'J 1,1 y the venerable Mrs. Justin A few ' nlr- Jolia Treadwell. his face II U only o few, of those who stopped lumlned by the Jet of lire nlwve his 't Justlu's were r .-ni.,i i,n .i, head, turned to the crescent of boats ilumleteers. Those who stopped nt the ' lotel were considered lm-iitli socinl were considered Iwncntli social ' eognitoni They belonged to n class aat never came to Horlcon Ferrv for ,lore than one year. Arter the strictest sect of Hamleteers .Miss .l...nl,,., i, r .in .. .. ager. It was tier lo-l,l., Hint In nil tl,.. 'u 3'ears she bad been coming to Lake ' 'I'orge no hotel Kiiest bad ever dark- 'fd her threshold. By right of senior-1 'J'. she was tV social law giver of Hor-' -on Ferry, ami Grace Wrlirht had not " at the hotel more than three davs 'fure sh.i-UilH obliged to assert her lUtlioritr. flllu tl.A IIn,l,.iU.ffl u-lin ' ad once seen the yoiiiig woman In a flames. A pine log rolled from the side niuor Sluikspeanau role, Insisted tip- 1 of the volcano of wood and fell, snnp i Inviting the girl to give an open-air ' ping and snarling within six Inches if adlng. There wns a brief, sli; p Treadwell' feet. '"uggie. and the project was abau- "Why doesn't someltody pull out to lolled. Grace Wright nnd her mother were rniltted to go their own way. They 'd not spptn ereu to be aware of the act that ther had been noct.-illr ostr.i- ' ''"ed. They cared not for Hamleteers. I 'he Justin set, nor the guests of the "Wei. A young dry goods clerk, who spending a week's vacation at the wry, .miij Ul)0 llle j.0UDg womatli - .1 rc-rr.- ' but received a look which whs a Silu rian winter. Grace Wright speut her days In rowing her mother about among the Islands of the lake. There Is an amiable tradition thnt In this body of water there are .'hio Islands, one for every day lu tho year. In leap year, so the story goes, an additional Island appears, which Is again lost to view r i the last day of Iieceinber. There were Islands enough for everybody, and the mother nnd daughter managed to steer clear of the aristocracy of llorleou Ferry. John Tread well saw the two occa sionally and greeted them by touching the rim of his lint. It Is the unwritten law, nt Horlcon Ferry, that a Ham leteer must be greeted by removing the bat and describing with It a considera ble arc; one of the Justin set may be greeted by raising the hat; nnd a guest of the hotel Is to be Ignored and snubbed. Trendwcll's salute was a fee ble compromise. "You needn't trouble yourself to speak to me any longer," said the girl to him one day. "I think that 1 cun adapt myself to the present situation. I sup pose that If I had gone to Justin's you might have treated me with ordinary civility." In her heart she said: "I can hardly blame him. Ho has u cureer before "DRAGGED THE ritOSTUATK FOUM INTO THE BOAT." Mm. If I loved til in less I would have clues Intended for use Internally to be married him when he asked me two put up In round bottles. All drugs nud years ago. chemicals which are not used Internal- There wns one day In the calendar j ly as medicine must be placed in hex when all differences of social standing ngonal Isittles. Thus It Is Impossible were forgotten. That was Dove Buck for any man who Is in bis right mind Pay. On that day the great rock, which rose from the middle of the bay, near Horlcon Ferry, was piled high with driftwood; It wns the funeral pyre of the season which was gone. The material for the conflagration was gathered from the Islands and from the wooded shore. The Hamleteers, the boarders nt Justin's, nnd the guests nt the hotel all Joined In transporting the supplies for the last spectacle of the declining year. John Treadwell thnt year was master nt ceremonies, directing the move ments of the nnvy of transports, which all day long was busy conveying logs nnd pncklng boxes to the rock. In the center of the pile were truuks of glnnt trees, placed on end and held In place ly smaller logs. In the center was a locket tilled with light kindling wood, covered with pitch nnd tnr. This was the mine from which was to ascend a tongue of llanie. Hamlet and hotel viewed Dove Hock w ith pride when Hie work of the Isuillre builders was done. The night was fulling when from the point a flotilla of Ixmts swept towards the rock. There was n clanking of row- lo k chains, nnd the oars rattled against ccdar-shenthed hulls. Craft which for weeks had been dodging each other, wero moored sine vy wue. um io beating of the oars kept the half moon a flrlftlntr trtti-npil (lift rock. " mmm r - A single lioat shot out from the swing- 1'iR Jtroiip nud grated uim.u the edge of nllJ bowed." He huihsl the torch Into the center of the giant tiuderbox and turned to go. But his root cnugut upon a root and he lurched forward. In try ing to save himself he half turned, then fell upon the rock. From the top of the pl.t. of timbers burst a blinding flood of light. Beneath Its glare those who sat In the half luue ol boats could see that a thin stream of blood was trickling down from the right temple of the man who lay stretcnea upou tne rock. The pile of timbers began to settle. A blistering heat compelled the swctn- tor trt null back from the nest of the rock? yeliou a voice lur uacs, iu iue scml-clrcle. "Why don't you do It yourself?" came the response In half a dozen keys. A light shallop snot oui irom uie landing m ar the hotel. Some one clo-e- ly wrapped In a cloak dragged the prostrate form Into the boat and slow- ly rowed out of the tone of blistering ue,t "t wrms strange to m," remrke1 the dramatic critic of the Dally liar b'nger to the night editor of the' Morn ing Itaiiibow, who h:id Jl,,ed him ot a bre supper III a restaurant, "that news- I'H'cr n have vn h a predilection for nnrrylng a. treves. suppose that w' s all he hearing or Tieadweir seeking divorce H'Miielime within the next six mouths. He was married tills evening to tiraee Wright, who used to be ut ),nyson's." "Well." said the night editor, "from what I know about It that divorce j won t come very soon. She saved his ! life at Lake Ceorge last suiiimer. He . trolt Free Press. Municipal Monopolies (irrinsnv Among the odd things alsmt ottlelul life In Germany are the monopolies that are grunted for all sorts of business. People have the exclusive privilege of doing tilings here that everybody else has the right to do without permission In other countries. For example, clilm ney sweeping Is n monopoly, nud the man who controls It has to be paid for sweeping your chimney twice a year whether he sweeps It or not. You may employ somebody else, or you may not have your chimney swept nt all. but he and be alone bus the legal right to do the business, and he will call upon you every spring nnd every autumn for'hls fees. He never does nny work him self. He Is an Important, nud usually n wealthy Individual, nnd lu Nurem berg Is said to enjoy a revenue of $7. ,pi(M) n year from his privilege, but out of this total he Is compelled to pay a gang of boys' who do the sweeping for him. The number of drug stores In every town Is limited by law one to every l.fHK) of population ii ml they bnve to pay n heavy license to the city. There fore they charge high prices for pre scriptions nud get rich. One of the restrictions upon the drug business nud It Is an excellent pro vision requires all drugs and medl- ert to poison himself by mistake. Berlin Letter to Chicago Hccord. DISEASES IN COURT BIBLES Microbes I'oUnn the Hooks Kissed by tbe TlioiiHiin.lM.tf ItncNMc, Queen Victoria's magistrates are re volving the (iiestlon whether or not the Bibles used In administering oaths can carry Infection and spread disease. The matter was llrst brought up by a physician summoned to testify lu a London court. When the clerk hand ed him the Bible he kept for the admin istration of oaths, he refused to take It. He explained that In his Judgment the cover of that Usik, long In use lu the court and having been kissed by thousands of lips, was pregnant with thousands of mlcroltcs and lius might be the means of conveying Infection. He asked permission to disinfect the cover and then expressed his entire willingness to take the oath lu the usu al manner. The magistrate was nt first startled at this novel proposition, but finally, seeing that the witness wns n sensible man of science, be consented. There upon the physician took from his satch el a small rial of phenlc add, opened It and poured some drops therefrom on the dingy leather cover of the Bible. He then spread the llipild over the en tire cover by means of his handker chief and, having rubbed It well lu, lie took the required outh. The Incident created widespread com ment and the physician wns tximliiird ed with letters and queries on the sui Ject. He made a public statement lu which he maintained that the time honored custom of administering an oath lu courts of law wus contrary to the elementary principles of hygiene, nnd that It wus, In fact, one of the most dangerous practices of modern times. "No one," he Insisted, "would consent to drink In a public house where only one glass Is used, and why, then, should anyone rotisent to kiss a lsk which thousands have kissed before him?" Naturally, many persons have fol lowed bis example. Almost dally some witness asks the Judge If he may dis infect the Bible in-fore he puts his lips to It, ami vials containing disinfect ants are becoming quite a common sight In English courts. Son. magis trates refuse to grant the desired per mission, claiming that every article In the court Is clean and as it should be; others, on the contrary, grant permis sion, though they grumble a little at what they consider a wilful waste of time. Scientists approve of the phy sician's conduct, and the general pub lic Is so worked up over the matter thntJi league Is tx-lng formed with the ol.JeS-t of purifying all the court Bibles i"t1u tm f'h run Iris Some people who are only uialklour think they are w.ttj. A squad of cyclists Is now attached to every corps of cavalry lu the Ger man army. A famous English Iwauty has star tled old Loudon this season by 11 pi spr ing In public lu a coat of white sheep skin! Vegetable which havesiiffered physi cal injury are said to tie thrown Into a state of fever, showing a distinct rise 11 till fall of temperature. The British war otlice Is Inquiring In to the fact that the uniform of the Sal vation Army is very similar to thnt of the Coldstream and Grenadier guards. In the new Polychrone bible the name of the deity Is given as .llivh. this vowelless form being as near the origi nal Hebrew us the English alphabet can express It. Meteors rush through space nt the rate of twenty six miles a second. They are not usually larger than a pebble, and 011 striking the earth's atmosphere they Immediately dissolve Into gas. George Salting has Ion mil to the British museum a reliquary of gold containing, according to tradition, it thorn from the crown of thorns. It has been placed in the gold ornament room. Father, mother and children, lu one family of n dozen at Lincoln Centre, Kan., are nil iu school, the parents ami two elder children Mug In the same class. The father Is an ambitious min ister, 4." years old. An order has Wen given that the cur few law shall be rend ut least twice 11 week in every public school III Denver, Colo., nnd that Its provisions lie strict ly enforced hereafter, that lstys nnd girls may be kept off the streets lu the evening, "The Indulgent care with which the Lord watches over fools," In the words of u Western writer, was recently at tested iu Fort Scott, Kan., when a for getful man built a lire iu a stove on top of which he had left a can of kerosene and a package of powder, nnd neither exploded. - Chief IladdiH'k of the bureau of building Inspection, In Philadelphia, recommends that the height of build ings in that city be limited by law, ami that none, on tbe widest street, have 11 greater height than l.KI feet. Other wise, be says, the city's narrow streets may ltcconic gloomy canyons, unsani tary, with the light of day virtually shut out. Imprisonment for debt ngalnst which Whittler wrote one of bis most earnest lyrics seems to have been re vived In New York City by agents who sell on (lie "installment plau" nud In duce the Ignorant to bind themselves In such 11 way as to be excised to ur rest and Imprisonment. An effort Is to lie made iu the New York State Legis lature to abolish this uew form of au old evil. It Is said of the Alierdeeii Journal which has recently celebrated Its one hundred and fiftieth birthday, that. In one of Its curliest uumlicrs, now unhap pily lost from tbe Hies, it particlp iilt in the battle of Ciillodcu wus Interviewed two days after that historic combat. It was about the earliest licwspapc.' In terview on record, If so, and the loss of the iiiiiiiIht containing it Is much to i.e deplored. CraulMTiies nre not Injured by frett ing. They nre often scut as far as Man itoba In open 1hx cars. When they ar rive they nre frozen Into solid blocks of Ice. The sides of the cases nre knocked off and the berries nre exjsised lu .1 solid mass, like cakes of Ice. They nre chopped off, exactly like Ice, ami the citizen of Winnipeg Is so accustomed to buying his cranberries In blocks that he doesn't mind It lu the least. Another New Y'ork society woman whose husband Is down on his luck Is going into trade, and a peculiar trad" ut Hint. Instead of branching out In the millinery line, she will devote her talents to the dressing of the so-calle society drama In accordance with the canons that prevail In the world of fashion. As gowns nowadays count as much us the performance, this new de parture will lie sot down as one step toward the long talked uliout elevation of the stage. The simplest public railroad now op erated Is thought to Is.1 one between A tit ml and Oihiwnra, lu Japan. It Is a narrow gauge road nnd Is rim by man isiwer. Tbe cars have seals for four icrsons each, who sit back to back. A train consists of two or Hfce cars, ami is drawn up hill by hair n dozen coolies. At the top of the In cline the coolies Jump on the platforms and the train runs down to tint ter minus by gravity, with the speed of an express. It Is subl there has never been 1111 accident on' tills road. For the lieiielU of a conductor who hud suffered an accident which etiilan- gernl his earning ability the Consoli dated Electric Ballway Company of Santa Barbara, Oil., gave the gross re ceipts of Its lines for one day while lie was In hospital. Ills ease ap)calcd to ids fellow-workmen and the public, as lie had Is-en a faithful employe nnd was the sole siipMirt of bis mother. The other employe of the company 011 the same day gave their day s earnlng-t to him, and jKitroiis of the road had conductors ring up sums ranging tti high as $L'li. The car receipts amount ed to .!i!7.05. A I.an l-Lo. ked Salmon. ";uny years ago," said Clarence Piillcn, traveler and lecturer, "an out-of-the-way hike In Maine was secretly stocked with land-locked salmon. At that time the nearest railway station was thirty-eight miles from the luke, which is ubout nine mile long by iir.-e wide. Not much fishing ha ever been don-' in that sheet of water, be cause it Is ntT from the regular line of travel, and there are no big hotels within scores of miles; besides, It Is practically unknow n. I was there fish ing one day, and, Is-conilng tlrol of struggling with six. eight and ten jioiind salmon, divided to stroll up the mountain side to obtain a glimpse of the snow-oapi'd i'nk of Mount Wash ington, over in New Hampshire. In ascending I followed a brook which had formed many deep xU as It leap ed In successive cascades down to Its cutlet Into the bike. It w Ut In th I fsnn and the brook was nesrly dry. , I noticed a commotion In one of tho iinrow pools near t lie summit, and. peering into It, dlscennsl a gig .1:1.. tl-!i. Wading In, I seized the monxtcr nud curried him struggling to the shore. It was n land locked salmon (hat weighed thirty-two pounds. It '.ad probably leaped up the ca'cades from pool to pool until It became Im pi'li-oncd In one of the uppermost a Ihe brook ran dry. If you doubt the story I'll take yon up there ome time and show you the pool."-Philadelphia Press. Tbe Itoliln an Actor. Many mouths ago a pair of robins built a licst In the branches of a small apple tree Just beyond the back fence of an dak Park home, says the Chicago Itis'ord. Mrs. Koliln laid the eggs and Mr. Hobln scratched for worms lu the garden, nnd the two Isiys who lived In the big bouse not far away watched the nest every day. They were much Interested in tlie liomekeepillg of the robins, ami they waited eagerly for the llrst appearance of the little birds. One morning before breakfast Harry stepped tint 011 the back porch and peer id through the limbs of the apple tnt. "Oh, George, come here," he called, excitedly. When George appeared Harry Kilnt fd out the nest, from which the heads of live open-mouthed little robins were lifted. While they were looking some thing stirred In the grass at the foot of ihe fence. A moment later a great, gray cat stepped cautiously out. Her eyes were oil lire, and her lull twitched exH'claiitly. Willi a single spring she reached the uper stringer of the fence mid llxetl her eyes on the nest. The two Isiys held their breath. Just as the great cat was ready to spring there came a single, sharp cry of distress from the leafy depths of the tree. A moment later Mrs. Hobln came tumbling down from 11 limb al most on the cat's head. She ran along the stringer, crying plteously and help lessly trailing one of her wings. "She's hurt," said Harry, sorrow fully. The cut Instantly turned and crept after her. One grow n robin was better tliuu a whole nestful of little birds. But the faster she crept the faster struggled Mrs. ltobln until she reached the end of the fence. There she Hut teriMl otT Just ns if she wus nlsuit to fall to the ground. But the moment the cat leaped after her. sure of the prey, she darted up Into the ulr with a shrill cry of triumph. And the cut, with crest fallen ulr, crept off down the alley. An Angry Artist. Turner, passing a print simp, not ice. 1 In the window n copy of one of the en graving from Ids famous "LIIht Studt niitim." The print wns In a very d'rty. rugged state, and Turner naturally felt aggrieved at seeing the work of his hands In this dilapidated condition. Entering Uie shop, be asked to see tbe muster, and when the man came forward. Tumor nt once proceiilotl to blame him, In no mcusuicd terms, for having allowed t lie valuable print to become so dlsllgiircd. The limit protested that It was no fault of bis, a be did but offer the en graving for wile In the same state In which he had twilight It from number dealer. This did not satisfy Turner, and nt last the print stdler lost all pa Hence. "Perhaps, sir," he said, "when you bare quite llulslied what you hare to say you will kindly tell me what you bare to do with tills engraving, and what business it Is of your whether this print is (dean or dirty." "This Is what I hare to do with It," answered the enragisl artist. "It wus I who drew the original of that print; my mime is Turner, nud I did every line of Mint engraving with my own hand Now do you wonder that I am uugry nt seeing my work lu so disgraceful n state:" "Indent, sir," replied the print seller, "so you nre the great artist himself? All my life It has been my wish Hint might some day have the good fart 11110 to see Mr. Turner. And now that I have seen him, I sincerely hope thut I may never see him tiny more." Protecting the Edelweiss, The destruction wrought by enthusl nxtic ami lemor-ndess collectors among tbe rarer kinds of birds and wild flow ers has been the subject of frequent comment of late In almost all parts of the civilized world. The latest illustra tion conies from Switzerland, where the contliiuisl ravages of the amateur mid comn.cMal botunlst have Is-en so extensive ns to provoke a special edict from the Prefect of the Haute Savoii It Is well known Hint such plants ns Die gelitlun, the edelweiss, the cyclamen, the arnica molilalia, and the aromatic gi-ncpl arv year by year becoming more scarce, owing to the high prices which are obtained for sieclmeiis In the mar kets of big continental titles the edel welss, so much prized ns a souvenir of a visit to the Swiss mountains, Isdng sold nt a price sulllHelitly high to In duce the Alpine peasants to run grint risks In gathering It. The new edict has been Issued with a view to simp- plug this destruction of Alpine plants and flowers within certain limit mid seasons, and there Is a general agree incut that It has not been Issue.) any too msin.-XtMV York Post. Necessity of Cover During Sleep, The object Is simply this: Nature takes the time when one Is lying down to give the heart rest, and that organ consequently makes ten strokes litis n minute than when one Is In nil upright xiNtiire. Multiply thut by sixty min utes and It is six hundred strokes. Therefore In right hours spent In lying down ..ii' heart Is saved nearly live thousand strokes, and as the heart pum six ounces of blood with each stroke. It lifts thirty thousand ounces less of bhxxl In a night of eight hours spent In Isvl than when one Is lu an up right Mill I Ion. As the blood flows so much more slowly through tho veins when one Is lying down, one must sup ply then with extra covering the warmth usually furnished by circula tion. A New llrnnl'lon. "This morning's papers say thnt Kuf fut, our representative iu the Legisla ture, Is tlnanclully emburrassed." "You don't tell me! I'm sorry that be has lost his money." "lie hasn't lost any. He was caught In the act of getting some." Cleveland Lender. 1 SAWDUST AS MERCHANDISE. Com 111 il tr tlist Is Not Common! H bur.lrilB of Mucli Account. Sawdust us 1111 article uf merchandise is not calculated to excite the commer cial cupidity of ambitious merchants, jet. prosaic and commonplace ns Is the ! commodity liself. It affords a distinc tive in unt il of 1 111 tit and ranks as a thriving, though limited, offshoot of the larger industries. In this city there are perhaps half 11 do.en tleiiicrs in sawdust, and yet they have ns much as they can do (Im year round to supply the demand. These dealers obtain their supply mainly from the lumber mills and pack lug box iiiaiiiiracturers of the city, but as these sources nre not always sollt cleiit. they Import quite a quantity of sawdust from ilie Southern lumber mills, niie tl r Di alone getting as much as three cat loads a month In this w ay. Sawdust reaches the consumer lu bugs, which contain three bushels and weigh forty-live to fifty pounds each. The dealer's wagon goes over a regu lar route every day. serving Its regu lar customers, nud nt the end of the week collecting the empty hags. The largest users of sawdust are the cold storage warehouses, each of them will take from llfty to sixty bags per week, and the large meat houses, which Use from fifteen to twenty bag a week. Next lu order ns ei tanners come ho tels, dry goods stores, oltlce buildings, butchers and grocery stores, llsh and oyster maikets. Icehouses and saloon. Ordinarily there are two grades of sawdust, fine and coarse. The former Is mostly used for smoking meats, such ns bams, shoulders and dried beef, nnd is obtained from w alnut, brier root, cot ton wood, red cedar, oak, hickory and pine. The coarse grade comes from yellow pine Hint poplar, and Is used for (leaning purposes nud packing. Sawdust Is sold at retail from fifteen to twenty cents per bag, according to weight, nnd the price Is the same for all kinds except one. The exception Is ooxwood sawdust, which is very hard to get. and brings as high as j'J.rsi a bug when selected for packing pur poses by Jewelers. Common sawdust Is used for pncklng some kinds of Isittle goods, such ns Ink, cologne, pickles, shoe blacking, bicy cle cements mid oils. If Is used for packing eggs and also for some pol ishing purposes, but the chief Use of large quantities or this material Is In sweeping tlisirs. Great quantities nre thus utilized, and much Is ulso spread upon floors, where It lie for everul days nt a time before It Is renewed. Sawdust for sweeping Is usually damp ened a little, and It Is not unusual to clean carpels In this way. Hotels ami large department store use great Humi lities for such purK)ses, and expend perhaps $ki a year on this commodity, -liilludclphhi Times. Wfity and Wise. Lord Howell, who died In 1804, was an English Judge whom his country will not soon forget; for be wns not only a Just aud learned man hut a bril liant one. Ills humorous and nitty sayings live In the memory of hi friends, ami though only a few of them have been chronicled, they are an earn est of nil Hie rest. One day some one In hi presence re ferred to Hie fact Hint a publisher wbo was noted for his hard bargains with authors, had built a church at bis own expense. "Ah," quoted Bowcn at once, "the old story! The blood of mnrytyrs Is the seed of the church!" Sometime bla wit had 11 delicate flaror of flattery, as when he assured some ladle who had climbed a perllou Alpine peak, that they had solved a problem which had vexed mediaeval schoolmen: How mauy nngel could stand on the point of a needle? Again It had a satiric touch. At Hum burg the Prince of Wales kept, or tried to keep, a faithless Utile dog, which iN'rslsted In running away. "That's the only creaturo here," said Bowen, "which does uot run after the Prince of Wales." Again his fellow Judges submitted to him the draft of an address to roynlty, which began with the expression, "Conscious as we arc of our shorteom lugs." Exception was takeu to the humility of this phrase, ns not at all represent lug the tenor of tho Judicial mind; aud Bowen demurely suggested, "Suppose, we substitute, 'Conscious a we are of one a uot her' s short comings.' " One .of the Judges complained that another member of the bench had slept peacefully through tho afternoon, and then, on waking nt half-past 3, Imme diately adjourned tho court. "It Is ns It should be," said Bowen. "Ho obeyed tho hymn: "Shnko off dull sloth nud curly rise." Catching Walrus, For dinner a fsdar bear like nothlug better than a good fat young walrus, But a walrus Is not the easiest thing to catch, especially If Its mother or father happebs to be lingering around In the nclghlMK'hood. An old walrus I more than twice the size of a bear, and a rery hard tighter when pressed. So Mr. Bear calls when the old walrus es are out of sight, and catches the young walrus ns best he can. Some time he crawls up on a high cliff and lies for a loux lime, peeping over the edges. Presently the young w Hints comes up out of the water to bnsk on a rock or a cake of Ice. This la Mr. Bear's chance. He rolls a heavy stone to the edge of the cliff and tumbles It over. If It strike Its mark, the bear has his dinner ready whenever be wants to eat It. Few animals bare found a shrewder way of killing their prey. Chicago Becord. Fragrant Fog. On the western coast of France there Is noted occasionally a atrange phe nomenon which Is described by the name given to It, "fragrant fog." When a woman finds that ber friends know that she baa holes In her stock ings, she explains them by saying that dariut" hurt her feet. This world will never be just right until the doctor have discovered that they can remove a man's backbone, and substitute an Iron brace. Lying has beoome ao common that people believe anything except what Is told them. Woman's Inhumanity to woman cause many men to live sod die In tbe bachelor das. Prejudice. A head full of prejudjes has 110 more risim lu It for the simplici ty of Christ. Hey. Frank Crane, Methodist, Chicago, III. Spiritual Training. A man can no I mote be a spiritual athlete without training than he can be a physical one. j - Ber. G. N. Baker, Presbyterluu, Phil 1 iidclphla. Pa. j .Molding Human Nature. The 110 ; blest lalsir that can 1h iorfornied Is for j a mail to take the rough materials of 1 human nature and mold them Into a niltiily soul.-Her. John Stevens, Meth ' otllst, Sail Frantisco, Oil. The Soul of Progress. The heart I I the soul of all progress. When our I hearts are In love with our highest I Ideals we can reach nnd actualize them In spite of many difficulties. Key. J. B. Thompson, I'nltnrlau, Chicago, 111. Moral Forces. Not even education and culture are sullhif ntly strong to ad ns moral forces. All attempts to found morals iqion expediency or upon external force, or even Umiu tsl neat Ion, must fall. Dr. Silverman, Hebrew, New York City. Life's Value Life Is worth just what our rows, under God, make It to lie. A man without rows is not a star, but meteor; not 11 mountain range, but a sn lid dune, drift lug now to the shore ami now to tho sea. Her. II. D. Jen kins, Presbyterian, Kansas City, Mo. Dreams of the Future. With the blessing of God the day Is dawning w hen none shall be able to become rich If nil lire not comfortable, nnd 110 man shall bifome nor without nil others becoming likewise Impoverished. Hey, 1'u 1 her Duccy, Itoman Catholic, New York CHy. Abuse Is Glory. It Is the grandest compliment to lie sskcn 111 of by soma kinds of men. Their abuse Is your glory mid their shame. It Is their uncon scious nud unwilling acknowledgment of your sincerity nnd courage. Dr. Jo seph Kruuskopf, Hebrew, Philadel phia, Pa. Christianity. -Christianity offers a God who fits Into the religious uaturo of man us a key Ills Into Its lin k, teeth Into cogs. The skeptic may assail our understanding, but cuunot storm the citadel of ronmiuusucM. Hey. J. D. Huiikln, Presbyterluu, Denver, Colo. Sympathy. Suffering humanizes us mid opens our sympathies to all our fellow-sufferers. It Is easy to single out In a crowd the men and women who have been humanized, who have been purged by the purifying lye of pain. Itcv. A. B. Curtis, Baptist, Sprlugtleld, Mass. Consideration.-It Is good In life to stop once In awhile to put our life's work away from us, hsdc ut It at arm's length, lisik nt It when we are not In a hurry, estimate the value of the quest when we nre not lu the excitement of the chase. Kev. Jelikln Lloyd Jones, lndeH'iidelit, Chicago, III. Temptation. The God who can save can keep; the power that can take a sinner out of the road to perdition can preserve him from fulling buck Into It; Ihe Almighty Is stronger than all the forces of evil. No temptation ever yet came to a man thut could not lie resisted.-Her. II. IL Barbour, Baptist, Co lumbus, Ohio. Inequality. Inualltle In men pro duce Inequalities in their circum stances. This Is not nn evil. It might ixls-t In heaven Itself, a one star dif fers from another In glory. We should uot call any mini ptsir so long as he can give fair play to his faculties, so long as he cnu live a truly human life. Key, C. IL Ames, Disciple, Boston, Muss, Bnllnrle of the Outcast. I sm one whom the ribuld town Makes a target for jest and sneer, Fate, like a liniid, hu drnggrd me down Low ns the mire that stretches near; I liuve neither of hope nor fear, Callous ever to jests or blows, What uiy dnys are from year to year Only Christ in His mercy knows. Wine or wassail tuny never drown Wraiths that pale from my past appear, I 11 111 spurt for the knurr and clown Idly staring with drunken leer, Vinous fiicc and eyes a-blenr And cruel mouths that the luuipUghl shows, Why I bend to this burden drear Only Christ lu His mercy knows. Fortune flings me her blackest frown, Creeds ku by with a languid sneer, Wiuiieii see me and lift the gown Lest my touch should a sister sear; None may give me a word of cheer. None, nor heed of my wants and woes, How I live In misery sheer Only Christ iu Ills mercy knows. Envoy Prince, when a daughter siiineth here Even a mother's door may close, Why to the child she once held dear, Only Christ in His mercy knows. - Woman's Hume Companion. Scale Insects. The Philadelphia Hecord recommends the following remedy: "Spray ths tns-s frequently with a solution made by dissolving two pouuds of whale oil soup lu a gallon of water. The scale la dormant lu winter, ami March I au ex cellent time to apply remedies, once a week Isdng suillcleiit, on dry days, con tinuing well Into spring and summer. Tbe first application should be a good rubbing of the limbs with a brush dlpis'd lu the solution. It Is laborious to tlo the work frequently, but It must be done if the trees are to be saved. The whale oil soap Is excellent, also, as a remedy for plant Ilco, which are east ly destroyed by Its use." The Reward of Persistence. She I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived. He I don't blnme you. Life would, for a girl of your lively disposition, bs Intolerably dull with him. Then he resumed whero she had In terrupted him ami Inside of three mia ul e she sweetly murmured "yes." Women In Agriculture. Agriculture In Italy employs 3,000,. IXK) women. It Is said that a Connecticut factory turns out 6,000 rolling plus dally, and yet om people wonder why our bachelors dou't marry. ,7