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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1898)
nniiral "It." Trv as I would. 1 J could Ond no pmtrOD salut In the calendar who answered to Unit p and ;bore was really no tXCUM J ! 't" hut the negligence of the John- n family t0 christen " children, fbey bestirred themselves early only to (he case of my elder sister, who was Mined Maori i:v, n ! thc youngest of a bntcli of live never knew the second cblld, a boy( y my other DaiM than "Brother." Then came "Sis," the third, wd "Hahe," another loy, and llnally , Ac last of the Johnson brood. "It" jug In my baby pnrs long ticforo I lMW what was mennt. I suppose that king tbe real baby It would hnve jus! confusion In tbe household, jiiere there wns nlrendy a "Babe," Hid so they substituted "It," for that uiny title by right of succession. I never knew my mother. She died mod after I opened my blue eyes to the torld. Perhaps If she had lived my Bmenclnturc would not have been so Ebtinfly treated. Mngglc, the eldest, I quiet, faithful girl, took charge of us il mother's dentil. Father was a tenni iter and away all day from the little family, for whom he provided gener ously out of his splendor earnings. He, too, called me "It" when he took me In bis lap and rubbed his hnrsh, Stubble btard ever my baby cheeks or pinched my little lists with his big, horny fin gers. Higgle gave me a mother's care, issnedld the other children, and I hud rrally no trouble about my Incomplete name until I went to school for the first time. 'Tour name Is what?" nskod the ta when my turn enme lu a long IJIll. HI I " iiiiik ouiii i . i . i 1 " ' i ui mi desk to the last bench In the room. "If Johnson," I answered promptly, "'It' Johnson?" she repeated, with a doubting shake of the head. "Little girl, you must have forgotten your name." "No," I gasped, for a lump In my throat almost choked me. To be the first In the whole room who had any gtfflculty about her name was mortify ing even to n little tVyear-old. "Have you any brothers or sisters lu this school?" Tee, my big brother Is In No. 3." "Go upstairs and bring him down to mo." I trundled off, perplexed, to find "Brother." I'p to the top floor I climbed and soon espied him In a front cat of Room No. the door of which tood wide open. He answered the uuimnns of my vigorously beckoning finger and I confided to him thc di lemma I was In about my name. "Will, 'It,' " be said, "you are In n TOVn SAME IS WHAT ?" ASKF.O THE TEACHEK. bad Hi. Yuu never bud uny other nauie." "Hut Isn't your name 'Brother' and nothing else?" "No, I've been christened .Initios be sides.' "James?" I queried. "I thought that was father's name?" "And It's my unme, too Jnmes John ion." Then fnr the first time I learned that Brother's" nnmc wns Jnmes, that "Sis" had been christened Cordelia, and that "Babe, the Infringer," was An drew In the baptismal record. Only Poor, little, slighted me was "It" and nothing more. "Brother" ninde matters elenr to the teacher, and she lnughlngly Inscribed the name of "It" Johnson ukiu the big Mil book of the school. I passed through my school dnys ns Then, tired of liook learning, I Went to work In n shoe fnctory. "Brother" was a teamster now, like father. "Sis" was married and llvtil In the country. "Babe" had run away to enlist I,, tlf, nrlIiy, and there was no nod)' home hut father nnd Maggie and nie. for Jnmes was boarding In an other part of the city, where most of nl hnullng had to lie done. I hadn't been In the fnctory long hen tbe old phrne "you're It" wns revived go ti),, vaudeville stage, and. eonrse, the young men about the Place tensed me by applying It to me, a W "It," and "It" from her birth to sixteenth yenr. "Vou're It," they shouted as they up with me In the street "You're " said their mischievous eyes ns I 'atered the shop und passed the foro "n to go to my table. The foreman Strict nnd permitted no noisy con o Inside the factory. He was a sorl-us-looklng man, with a young face nut the mien of one beyond his yenrs. He called each girl by name as he par oled out the work and told her what J? do. "Mollle! Roslna! Gertie! Skyl Annie! You!" he said when tty turn came. "Her name Is It' " said a saucy miss ho mood close by. The foreman shot a forbidden glance t her, then looked rather pityingly Pon mo, "You," he replied, "measure these vamps and make sure thut they II tally with tbe sample." And "you" 1 remained to Joe I'arklnson, the fore man. for weeksmonths. The factory hands all called me "It" I Was "If at home to father and Mag But somehow, there was nothing Jailing In it an more so long aa Mr. l arklnson refrained from using the family slight I had always been a frail young thing, though not 111, and the foreman gave me the lightest tusks. Otherwise he showed me no favor!. ism. I paid my line when late, the same as the rest, and If I made u blunder 1 paid for the damage. Withal, I felt sure that Mr. Parkinson liked me the U-st of all, and my little heart, craving affection and only too ready to give It, wont out to him In the first flush of awukeulng womanhood. lie must have rend It In my eyes, for his glances grow warm when he spoke to me, and his hands often lingered around mine as he placed the work In my Outstretched nrms. The girls nt my -fife AS HE l'LACEn THE WOIIK IS MY OVT STHKTC1IR1) An.MH. table were all friendly but one. Some how n silent antagonism had sprung up from the first between Itoslna Fnull and me. Hoslna was of Italian descent, a buxon, crimson -cheeked girl, with n voluptuous figure, and a woll-polsed, vain little bead. She was of a cjunrrcl some nnd Jealous disposition, feared by the girls nnd relentlessly panned by the young men with admiring glnuees, Impudent Innuendoes lu com pliment to her beauty and Invitations to all thc parties In the cheap dancing hulls of the town. To till of those Hoslna went, und often more than once I week she was fined for being tardy tbe morning after, she stood her pun ishment with a saucy smile, for she knew her bean of the evening would make good her financial loss. Aware of Mr. Parkinson's hobby for promptness, I had licen Invnrlably on time. One night Maggie was taken 111. I nursul her till daybreak. Then 1 fell Into a sound sleep nt the foot of the bed, nnd wns awakened only by my sister's anxious cry thnt It was long past rising time, I hurried away with out n morsel of bronkfnst and rendu d tie' factory Just three minutes lute. Mr. Parkinson stood nt the desk, noting my time. "My sister wns 111 nil night," I stam mered, blushing to the roots of my hulr. lie must hnve rend In my eyes the penitence expressed for liming crossed him In his efforts to promote prompt ness. "All right, little girl," he said, with a kindly gluuce from his handsome brown eyes. "I'll forgive you this time!" As I turned to go to my plnce I snw Itoslna nt my elbow. She hnd heard the toranan'i remark. An evil expres sion spread over her darkly teauttful countenance. All day she pursued me with her Jealous, grudging eyes. At noon she held a confab with three of her stancheet admirers and their sneer ing faces, bout upon me, boded me no good. "You'd Is-tter go home early," nd vised ltecky, my particular chum. "Tell him that your sister Is too sick to get supper, and hurry away from here before dosing time. They mean mischief, sure!" I dared not offend a second time by losing a quarter of an hour at the busiest season of the year, so I stayed until the gong announced the close of the day. ltecky and I were not more than half n block from the shop when Roslnn and her noisy escorts came toward us from the middle of the si feet. "There goes 'It!' Joe Parkinson's it!' I'll pny de Hue! There It goes!" And the rudest of the quartet picked up a handful of mud nnd plastered my back with It I turned to run hack to the factory, when out of the darkness the arm of a man shot squnrely Into my assailant's face. "The foreman knocked him down!" whlsiiered the excited ltecky. "I'm glad of It!" And we took to our heels and made good time In getting home. As I crept Into my bed that night the tweet thought that he had defended me TUE FQIlEMAiT K.VQCKEI) HIM POW. kept me awake many hours. Wben I slipped Into drenmland at lust It was with his face bending over me, bis lips whispering that he loved me, me poor, nameless, Insignificant "It" Next morning I hurried to the fac tory long before the opening hour to thank him for his gallant defense To mv utter dismay a stranger wns at his desk I gave him my number end passed on. Soon the other girls arrived S groups of two and three. Their faces were grave and they seemed to discus, with sulidued voices a calamity. "What has hapiuod?' I gasped, fllled with anxloua forebodlnga. "Mr. PnrktUHou'n beeu arrested," until Becky. The Mow he dealt tin- cnio grueo who Insulted uie wus muri- ef fectlvc than lie bad meant Tht Mlou wan I) lux nWOMCtoW at Ids home It wan oven fenred Unit his Injuries would result lii death. Ills two companions hud sworn out a wartatit against the foreman. Neither they nor Ilosltia Bade their appeariDce at the abop thai day. Kven now I cannot beat to dwell on the miserable days that followed. Joe Parkinson languished In prison, while the victim of hla gallantry slowly re covered. I went to him with a break lug heart He stretched out bis him. Is through the bars and drew tnc towards him until he hissed my forehead. I v;i-. a womuu nt last, and my cup of love and suffering was full. "I can boar It all, little one," he said, manfully. "It was all for you!" lie was acquitted at the trial. On the day of his release we were quietly married, and that night he left me to go to the far West and Commence life again. It did not take him long to get a start, and I soon Joined him lu the cozy little home he had prepared for moT "You!" he Cried, as In the days of old. Only now he clasped me In his arms nnd kissed me. "Little wife!" he odd- I'd. "Hear little wife!" And It was "It" no longer. WHO ARE "DE QUALITY?" social Mattawtlona of the iid Kruime Still Held by the Free-born Netro, Milan Bell give this characteristic dlalogiif lift ween two colon.! women In the oienlug chapter of "Yesstmi," a vivid story of Southern Ufa appearing in tlx- Woman's Home Oompankmi "on Saturday afternoon the 'wash' of the Northern delegates to the Bap tlst convention was ling bOMM through the streets of Memphis on the heads of two black, pendulous colored woinwn. " 'What you gwtue do, Slst" Rlehldy, if dem Northern Indies g!lis you ills isiut scorchln' dat skirt? " 'I ain't skifrod iiout whnt dem Northern ladles gwlne sny to me' liout uuthln', Slut' Oolden,' retorted the otb er. Ton't you know dey say dnt col ored folks Is Jen ns good as white folks Is, an' dnt up Norf If a colored lady got a silt dress she gits Invited to de white folks' pnhMis Jcs' like de quality? "OH out wld you. Slst" Uldildy. I aln' no sleh softy ns to bllevo yo' fool talk.' ""Tnln't no fofil talk, Slst' ('.olden. Hit's de Onwd's trufe. 'Cordln' to dal de ladles won't dare sny nuthln' to mc 'tiout dnt tCOTChed skirt, 'ense It would be lake dclr nassln' one nnurr. An' If dey did talk snssy to me,' she added, emboldened by the other's evident nd mlrntlon, 'I'd Jes' up an' sass 'em hack. 'Peed I would. If dey t'lnk I'm as giKMl as dev Is, I Jes' gwlne bIiow 'em uni i is. " 'For de Ihu's sake, Slst' Itlchldy. I never did see you so uppity befo'. But I reckon you wouldn't dan- talk so If it was ole Mis Beauchamp's ruffled pet ticoat you done burnt' " 'Lawd, Slst' Golden. I reekon not,' cried the woman. 'Mis Itcnuchnmp Is de quality, one of de sho' 'nuff high StepptO' Indies. I don't reckon de time will ever come when well hyiT huh n-clalmln' dnt Diggers Is huh equals. She bol" s dat hald up ns high as she ever done when de lteauchampi tU Bed de whole place. An' when she comes In town she llffs huh dress an' picks huh way lake she Jes" "splse to touch de dirt with dem It'll foots of hubs. Shc got a look In huh eyes, ole ns she Is, much as to say "you niggers, step roun hyer. You may be n.s good ns de North ern ladles, but ns for me, you has been my slaves, an' lu nilu' you Is still. Food Torn th Water. It has lieeti demonstrated that an acre of water mny lie made to yield more food, with less lalsw, than an acre of land. TVi clothe an old proverb with a new drees, M maybe said thai there are as 0Od fish In the sen ax ever came out of it nnd with n proper organisation of the apparatus of Bnh hatching the world would iKfome bdter ncquaint.il with a greater variety of food tlsh than It anOWS of now, nml even people who live fnr from the water would have a delightful variety added to their dally bills of fare, in Maryland much anx iety is being fell as to the probable ex Unction of the terrapin. The hitter baa its uses, but only a comparatively few would regret Its loss, while In tens of thousands of homes of tollers a plenti ful nab suply would be a benefit Phil adelphia Inquirer. Vcgrtarlnn Ostt. At the vegetarian Jubiiis in London recently some remarknble exlilblts were made. One was n vegetarian cat, n sic nnd handsome pussy, who, hav ing Wn brought up In n vegetarian family, bad not only learned to lore vegetable food, but hnd forgotten the feline taste for mouse flesh. Mice of the plumpest and most tempting ap pearance COUld run across the floor with perfect Impunity In the presence of this vegetarian tabby. She Just wiukisl sleepily at them nnd gave a contemptuous url of bar anti-carnlror- ous tall A new race of cuts Is thus brought Into slght-the reformed fdlne who will not eat meat nor kill mice But tin- now vegetarian br l of eats will never liocome popular with the In dies. A Hasty Conclusion. Attorney "Yon sny you hnd rnllnl to pee Miss Hillings and wns nt the house nt the time the burglary wns com mitted?" Witness "Yes. sir." 'Then how did It happen thnt when the prisoner dashed Into the room and assaulted you, you leaped through the window nnd went home, milking no nt tempt to defend the lndy or give the alarm V "I thought It was her fnther." Life. World's Irget Crp-t. The lnrgest enrpet In the world Is In Windsor Castle. It Is forty feet m breadth and contain 58,840,000 stitch es. The weaving of It oeeupled twenty eight men fourteen months. Young men In soclerty pay a terrible price for the sake of sitting up late, eattng a dab of Vee cream and coke, and taking a girl homo afterward. There are tricks In sll trad.-s with the exception of the one you are en uged in. A PLOT FOR A NOVEL. , Oue Offered I'eudy Mutle fur I hi Dra Iirruti- 1. Iterator. A novelist In Norton do not laugh, there nrc novelists In Boston, yes, and actually living there- a Id to us tbe ther day, "If only 1 could tin. I a plot." Here U a plot for him free of charge, and ttK story Is a true one, nay the IIohUiu Journal: In 1180 a lady a tvul lady came Into ltlnnlnghnm, Knglntid, with a hand some equipage, ami deolnsl the land lord of the Inn to get her a hit -.baud, m lug determined to marry so:neUh or other U-fore she left the town. The man bowed, atxl kuksisI her ladyship to tie hi a facetious humor, but being made sensible how much she wns III earnent, he went out In search of a man that would marry n line lady with out asking imi-stloiiK. After ttunv in quiries from MKir fellows who were not desperate enough for such a venture, he met with an excise man. who said lie "could not In' In 0 worc condition thau he was" and accordingly went with the Innkeeper and made a tender of himself, which was all he hid to be stow on the lady. Who Immediately went with him to one who gave them a license and made the ID man and wife, on which tbe bride fare her "muse d00 and without more delay left the town und the bridegroom to find out who she wiul M unriddle th'H strange adventure. Soon after she was gone two gentlemen came !uto the town I" full pursuit of lo r; the) bad traced her so far tqion the road, Bad, finding B where she had put up. they cv aniltied Into all the particulars of her conduct, and on heeling she was mar rlod gave up their pursuit and turned back. Truly a noble datne. one worthy Of a full-length irtralt In the gallery con trnctod by Thomas Hardy. Why did this noble dame offer her self to the llrst eone r? And why were the respectable males of the town ho bnokwnrd? There was no hlnrof scan dal. Who were the pursuer? Old she wish by a sudden marriage to escape one deliberately contrtred and repng Bant? Was the excise man a pfetty fel low In spite of bis abject condition? Old she ever see him again? Old sho ever regret that she had not braved the world and llvisl with hlui? Per hai tin' memory of her apparition htitintisl him; (icr)mpN It raQsei him to doughty deeds. It's a pity that Mr. Hardy has not accounted for her notion and her fate with hts grim Irony. STATUE WITH A WARDROBE. Flaure of a Nurir Hoy In llriiuel llu Nine Hi lb i. hi Suit.. One of the most curious tblnps In Brussels, a thmg thnt must Is- charac teristic to SOUM extent of the temper of tbe people, Is the little manikin statue and fountain. It Is a statue of a naked lioy, :Ud to have beofl erected by a no- ! blcmati whose lost son wns found on this spot. But there Is not the least excuse for the tioy's nakedness, for ho Is well supplied with clothing of ninny sorts, nnd Is rich enough to buy more suits occasionally, i-onis xv orated the statue wtlh the Order of the Holy Ohost, possibly at a moment w hen an other sort of spirit had possosnlon of him, nud It Is the owner Of nine hand some CCStUmes belonging to different periods. On fete days the bo) Is gor geously clad; sometimes lu old French costumes, sometimes lu the uniform of the Ouard Olvlquc. All this Is funny enough, but not as curious as the rest. It Is the fnshlon for wealthy maiden Indira W Brussels to fall In love with the stntue, nnd remenilx-r It handsome ly In their wills. Through one such be quest tills Kited boy Is provided with a valot at a salary of $40, and a short time ago another un wedded admirer left !?"' for the completion and main tenance of his wardrobe. Ksnssi city Journal. A Story that still tits. If there Ib one story dourer than nn ather to the heart of the woman suf fragist, It Is the old yarn alsiut the man who, when his wife aski-d him for ISS, replied: "Well, what can a Woman possibly wnnt with $'j:l" Although worn threadbare years ago, the tale Is still to is- heard at suffrage meetings, tie- sole variation upon the original version In'liig the amount of money named, only in very conxervatlvs he calltics does It still stand nt KSB, In places where Interest In the cause runs higher It Is "What ran a woman iossl bly want with fJOf more radical neighbors desire It to lie "flo," yet more radical "ln," and so on down to the very strongholds of women - rights, where the phrnsc Is quoted nnd ae repted ns: "Whnt can a woman possi bly wnnt with o cents." However told, or by whom, though, the story Is not without foundation, nnd any w ho fancies thnt It nil belongs to a bygone, long since vanished stage of feminine existence, ought to hnve been within earshot of a certain pair at certain glove counter one day last week. The mnn wnsn't n bit n big. gruff voiced, ravage looking brUts w hom the suf fragists would have us belle VS all husbands are, and the woman wnsn't In tbe least the little, low-vol 1, tlmld- ooklng woman wbOUl the same authori ties declare the averngc wife to lie. They were n reasonably well dressed, well looking pair, to all sppearanoes no different from thou amis to lie seen at bopping times Nevertheless, this Is what the husband was saying: "Olovos, Indeed: And what do you want with n pair of gloves V" Thc woman's an wer was Inaudible. Not so the man's reply: "But you've got a pair on; I Sont ISS what yon want with another pnlr. Too shabby, eh ? Well, hut look here, Maria," (bow the suffragists would have chortled nt the accents) "w here an- those gloreS t gave you lust Christmas?"- New York Sun. Grafting Tomatoes on Potatoes. A remarkable experiment has Just been successfully tested nt Troves, Trance. Tomato plants grafted on po tato stalk- Juel aliow the ground have been proved to bettor than on their own roots, while the (lotatoes under the ground were not Impulred lu jual Ity. Both the above and In-low parts of the compound plant did tlidr full duty without regard to what the other end was doing. The kingnt-llved people have gen erally been those who mnke breakfast the prfcsetpal meal of the d . The tomucb Los more vigor la the . torulug than at any other time. "HtMfcMUER THE MAINE I ' Si(ii.il I li ter U hi, ii Xiiirriiuii ! m tin i . ii. ni ,,i Mantis. '(- A naval nie-sage that Is desilnisl to go tinging through the ngis it It that of NeUou's "Bngland expects thnt e I cry iicin this day w III I da his duty," is Hi 1 Bombef tbe Maine.'' I '' "u "dnmnl c-aaS5 I tlOfl that tloated In W Bisgl from tin i i bead of the illy in npOBJ I phln In Manila Hay ffl i in, i iMt, in! morn lug of May L 1808. To the landsman the string of bunting . ..... . -J n eoineyH uui nun- I mesnlng. To the (Jl JJ II naral man the small signal n n g as Shown In the pic ture read from top all nre the lo bottom, us naval hlgunls tend, represent following rombtna- of letters. It, N, Q 0, K, II; B. l, J. With the aid of the Code IhmiK tile Colli bllllltlou of letter spsUl out the na tion's slogan: "He member tbe Maine." Then is always battle cry of some sort displayed at the must of the Bagship f the commander of the Beet when a iquardron gs s into action, it has Dam the custom ever BtnCS the adoption of marine Hag signals for suddenly miii- nunJcatlni Lntelllgenca to distant ob-iH-iH nt sen. And signnls hnve been smpioyed for BMUy years, thell origin U ltig Indi-od limt In remote antiquity. During the dag Hags nri- used fori signals. The llrst code imil In the liilted States navy was almost precise ly similar to the code In use about the same time by the British. There wen twenty six lings, one for each letter, ami u number f pennants for special and dellnlng systems. There was no tlxi-d COde dictionary, and beyond a few general signals each commander made op his own com bins ttona About imi ii code dictionary was Issued. A new code wns udoptisl lu IHpl, known the lingers indo. In this nine Sqaars Hags and live Hnnants SPOTe i.-.d with a dictionary with 13,400 rombllintlons. Rogers' code was Rtodl tied In 111 to n system having twelve squnre Hags nnd nine poimniits, there ls-lng ten nuinlieresl flngs, thns- repeat- buj pennants nnd two square and si pennants ns defining signnls. The die tlounry wns n-dnetsl to contain ByBBO signals. In IniUI this system was still further elnUinited by the addition of eight dellnlng tings and pennants. At the same time the signal liook wns re modelod. Tactical signals wen- separ at. .1 from the general signal book, and the Intti-r divided Into slphabetical, Bom pass, woni. geographical and gen crnl clnssllli at Ions. Aside from the Hag signals then- nre two other codi-s, one for use during fogs and the other at night. I hiring a fog ttie signnls nre made by menus of the Steam whistles, the code consisting jf long and short blasts, arranged BOfflO what after the fashion of the dots and dashes In the Morse telegraphic alpha Int. CHARLES EMORY SM TH. I nrmrr Kriltor of thc Philadelphia I irw Now rotniimtt-r llencrol. The resignation of Postmaster tien eral .lames A. tiury from President Me Klnley's cabinet was shortly followed by tin- naming of Charles Bmory smith, CIIAIII.KS KMOIIV SMITH. of I'hlhidelplila, to suecinl to this Im portant Mistloii Charles Bmory Smith was born In Mansfield, Conn., Urtyslx years ago. When n child his family removed to Albany, when' he gradu ated from the Albany Academy nnd later from the lebenectady University. In ldl he wns active In organizing vol unteerH for the civil war under Gen. Hath bone, He became iiiitor of tbe Albany BxprSSS lu 180B and live yenis latst acted as president of the New York Slate lit is Association, lie serv ed as delegate to the Itepubllcall Stale convention for six BUCOSSetVO years, Is-- ing temporary ami permanent chairman In I87B. He "its a delegate to the Na tional Bepubllcan convention in Oincln uati in 1878 and drafted a large portion nf tin- platform. He removed to Phil adetpbts in iitt end tsik charge of the liilliidelphla I'ress. He has slim' been editor of the I'ress. Mr. Smith was up Minted minister to Itussla In 8M by (resident Harrison. He Is well known is an orator as well as a writer and has n large anpialntunecshlp among the public men of the country. "U'-memlH-r," said the SXCitad mnn. "money talks. I'll bet seventy the cent that I'm right, to Y 'nlks." Ami the mnn with a shaggy silk hat and a chronic expression of dlsguet tijgil swny fmm the i-rowd with the remark: "Yes, und It's Just like sumo mimic. The smnller It is the BJOtS Iioliio It tries to Evening Star. make." Washington "I can't afford to have s-oile think I don't know alsnit this Krtlculur question," sold the polltkinn, "tuid 1 haven't tin' time I nnd to rend up on It" "Well." ropllcxl his wife, "m that case I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd look wise and gi mine ; ; - r to unnouncu that you dniln.- to he Interviewed. " Washington Htar. mi i : i S3 MEN ALSO AFRAID OF MICE. Dm urtuiilurln Which Thrr " Tuka after" Their Mothers, A man neVOT admits he Is afraid of a rnt or n mouse, and w hen he BBSS a tint Id woman flee from one of these unde sirable rodents to a place of xaf.-ity on top of a piece of furniture, or other bandy elevation, he generally assumes in air of superiority, laughs at her tim idity, smITs at the Idea of one of IhSOS creatures Injuring any lly, and tlftSU times gets disgusted at what he terms "cowardice." But the man who Insists he Is not afraid of a tut or even a little mouse Is In reality foolish, and this mn Is- dem otistr.it. si should he ivuie In contact with one of them. You never snw any one v im desired to, or could OOOUy han dle even a dead rut. Human beings haven natural dislike for ruts. Yesterday afternoon a tlg, stalwart man. who looked as If he might face death Without flinching, was (Kissing along 4th stns-t. When near the cor ner of I'earl Street he emitted a siTvcoh that was terrifying hiu! brought the pedestrians along the thoroughfare to a standstill. The man was clasping his leg with his hands nnd hopping across the street like n bucking broncho. He shouted as If suffering cxerrunttng pain, and several icrsui8 weld to hts asUrtsnOO. The only thing the matter with him was n young nit had crawl- I od up his trousers leg. The rodent was extricated and exterminated. Then the 1 big. "brnve" mnn mopped the Mruptra tloti from his pale brow and stole 8hee- Islily away. The crowd which bad gathered laugh ed and fell to telling experiences with ruts. "While out hunting with n friend mime years ago," said one mnn, "I snw a similar case. We were crowing u wheat stubble when a little BI00M ran Up his trousers leg. lie seniinnsl and i thought he hnd been bitten by tier. He droppi-d his gun and ran ground In u frantic manner until I re moved tin- rodent," A number of other Interesting cxpe rleacee with rats wore told, nnd nearly all greed tbsg after what they had beard and leefl a man Is Just us much a rin I.I of ii rat as a woman. Wloux City Journal. Don't IMc That Way. There Is sotnetlnicN more wit In the application to the business In band of words already chosen for another pur- pose, than In the Rtvejntkm of an iirpri- printe phrase. Bishop Wnipple accord ing to the Church News loved to tell this story. a devout colored preacher, whose iM-art was aglow with missionary mill. gars notice to his congregation that in ti reulng an offertory srouk) is-taken for iiiI-hIoiis. ami asked for HU-ml gifts. A letfishi welltodo man In lu his mn (rogation snJd to him liefore the sr- vtcei "Yit gwine to kill dls church ef yer goea on snying give! give! No church Can stan' It. Yer gwine to kill It." After the sermon the COtOrCd minister said to the OSOplOi "Brother .loin toUl me 1 wns gwine to kill dls here church ef I keti' "ss ing yer to give, but my brethren, churches doesn't die dat way. Ri aaa bodj know- of a church dot died 'cause it's been slrln1 to much to de lord, I'D be very much ObHgSd ef my brother w 111 tell me w bur dnt church Is, for I'se gwine to visit It, unil I'll climb on de walls of dat ChUrOh, under do light of de moon, and cry . "Bl.-s.nil uiu de dead dat iie in de Lord." The (look of Job. A story told of Cnrlyle In nn lmgllsh review forcibly nnilks the dnys w hen In this land tellgloiis seniceB were long enough to tit the seal of the worship ers. Atvordlng to tlie story tlnrlyle hnd ban asknl to take the reading lit fami ly prayers during a short vWl paid to his friend, the Provost of Kirkcaldy. The Bible clinsced to 0lcn nt the llrst chapter of the liook of Job, nnd Cnrlyle ImtiKillately lsiume iilisoiisil lu his stibjii-t, and rend on and on to the end of the lust chapter, when, closing the Volume, he romurkiil: 'That Is u marvelous, lifelike dnitna, only to be appreciated when mid right through." It Is fair to Infer Hint It wns appro- c tiled for once. Ally one w no nan uiu BO a long, solitary nftornoon, und nt tempt. il to give the took of Job un op- portunity to is- appreciated by reading 11 honestly through at one sitting, can realise the eouaternaii"" of the provost. Such a one will not tie likely to wonder, with Cnrlyle, why he was not osked tigiilu to assist nt family prayers In thut household. City as a Pawnbroker. The Purls municipal puwnbroklng establishment (Mont de Plete) a few years ugo wns authorised to make loans not exceeding sum) on approved public leourtttos at ti ist cant, with n Hxnl charge of 5 cents on ench tmns BOtlOB, Ioans of this kind made hist year aggregated nearly X.i,ftrK),0(0. The establishment obtains funds by issu ing bills at IVj per cent, for three t ths to !fVi s-r seat for a yenr. The mail loans on OOl lateral! are of great larvtCS to workmen nnd sniull traders. Municipal Ileinl und Advertiser. A TOtVFoaad Niurgson. A birire crowd wus inlhi-tnl nt the AJder streel srharf ysstarday to vuw ' wimt many considered tis- largest sttir- BSjon ever brOUgbt to Oils city. It wus CBUfihl near Mi-gler's eainuTy at Bnsik Hehl by a Itusslan linn, wiio could not sM-ak r.iufllsh und wiio sent a young urn n up hen- with file tlsh to sell IL it was 11 fni ! liK-hcs In length DImI weighed nearly 7) pounds. It sold for about B was a mouwter, nml must, of oiursc. have bSSBJ very old, but It; was msHwlble to count the wrinkles on Its horns. Portland Oregonlan. The National ( -.pilot. UruiensliitiM of the nipltol at Wash ington: bSjSgJfa, 181 foot 4 tnehes; I breadSk, froui ItJ to :t24 feet; H cov- .as IS84II square feet. From bnse line of building to the tip of statue, 'js? fni 11 Inches. The height of the ikime ubove the buse line on the east front hi 2N7 IM B Inches. Iu every sirhr ym will find a man dolin which tiie hisHbuiiii qnarraled with the wife for getting, und which tin- daughter nvT pluys. The man who owns u (mylng oil well Uvea off the fat of tbe laud. HOLLOW MODERN BRICKS. Huwilut ! Konnd to lie a Very Ooml Killer. The use of pnMr In the manufacture Of high grades of bricks for Interior housework, trimmings, fa. -lags nnd for decorative putts'1' Is ovhlently much on the Increase, says the Philadelphia RsjOOftL Already miiiic very good sam ples of enameled paper brick have tm-n shown. In the latest process of making und enameling the pner bricks the bricks nre made on the hollow prin ciple The objii't of milking the brick hollow in prasrlcaUi the gagas us sought In thc making of hollow forged steel shafting. Not only Is u dSTOCflVe cen ter recaoved, but it is ui. to put s mandrel Into the hollow, nud by apply ing promure, the walls are oiM-rutnl UMn luth from the Inside und from the outside. Whim n solid tsuly rs heated, the torn psratUre of the Interior alwajrS varies from that of the outer portion at llrst, ofteu resulting hi an expansion of one or the other that Cannes, defivts. Kr them- reasons the plan of forming the bricks uiiiti the hollow principle, plug ging them afterward. Is recomtnendafii Sawdust Is found to lie n gol tiller. It Is tlrst Urcprooful. a Is the paiMr pulp DSed In the brick. Then it Is nilxnl with cetiiiiit ami pressul Into the Isillow of the bricks, smoothed and eiiamehil over, making n perfect Hhape. RMlai tree itir i. Bicycling In southern India Is attend ed by pSCUlkU dangers. A wheelman, WbOBS way led ti I m iicrosn the Alllill DMlly ll.ll-. was spinning along when suddenly he snw, lying directly In front of htm, a lurge cobra. The lively en counter Is thus descrllsil by the cyclist III the Madras Mall: It was lmMisslble to avoid tbe loath some reptile by swerving to either side; thc sloK' was tin steep, and 1 was go ing too fast 1 back pedaled with my whole weight, and put on the brake with nil the force thnt my tight hand could exert; but the moment tun was tisi gn at, nod the bicycle went on over the snake, which rose with u hiss to meet no, nml extended its hood. Quick ns lightning It struck nt the front wheel, nml as It struck 1 Instinct ively lifted both hands from the bun dle bar. the thought (lushing through my mind thnt shoes nnd hose gave my fiii and legs a chance, but that my hands were naked. The Instant my hand was oft the brake, the bicycle shot forward, for In my fright I hnd forgotten to OOattaM to buck pedaL With unutterable hor ror I saw that the snake was half through the front whevt, and thnt the Wheel wns drawing It through the fork with u horrid "swish." Then there was a thud ns the head of tlic snake w ii" drawn through Hie fork, and u SSCOUd later u Hap of the tall end of the snake ns It wns drawn through und hit the nmil on the light The one Idea that prcsmil mo was to accelernte this process. How the bi cycle did lly down that hill! The trees by the roadside OSISed DM like n rll bon. The level ground lit the foot of the soh- I siml across at raring sikhiL and 1 rtishul up the opposite slope us long ns I hnd uny breath left In me. Then I ventured to get off. The snake's head was gone ns fur as the spectacles on the bead, pounded into Jelly by the hnrd rond; on the right side of the whii'l the snake tapered off Into a few limbless vertebrae. Two herdlioys In the Held came to see what had happened, and with slicks holMil me to remove the car diss from my wheel. I think there can be nothing more frightful than to have a cobra In the front wheel of one's bi cycle, while one Is pulnltng for dear llfol Fighting Vegetarian!!. (1. B. Mmw, lu the London Vegetarl nn, says: "I regret to any tliat vegetari nulsm Is a Ughtlng dlcL Ninety nine peg cent, of the world's lighting has Imvii done on farinaceous food. lu Tra falgar -pi. ii' I found It tuqioettlhlc to run away tut fiurt ns the meat catcra did. Italic Is a carnivorous sixiiiilty. If the army were fed on a hardy, lleshkus diet we should hear no more of the disgust i.t' our isili.r.sl Iri.i.oH mid of I lie A fi-ldl WM, r,IMywllMll Ilt tlM. cowardice of I Tommy Atkins. I am myself congeal- toy tlm)(, , H v.K,.tftrn i can geiM-rnlly conceal my tremors; whe bm In my unregineriite days, wlum I ate my fellow-cnMitures, I wns as (intent u MWard tm Peter the (Iri-at. The ru'etit ipread Of llre-iiitlng fiction nml Jingo wur worship-a sort of thing that only Interests the pusillanimous Is due to the spniul of incut outing. Oimpnro the Tlppernry p. -a -a in of thc (lotatoes nUd bnittertnllk days with the modern gen tleman who gorgiK himself with mur dered cow. The Tlppernry tunn never rend bloody-minded novels or cheered patriotic music hall tableaus, but lie fought ni'kliKsly and wantonly. Your carnivorous gentleman Is afraid of everything- Including doctors, dogs, dis ease, death, nml truth idling." t May-Hoik Hutu. To tbe morn, when tbe gold nf the tnper Thnt mellow nl thc east for n space, Is ..st In the fold of the rspot Thnt trails n torn banner of luce To the grahVinlagled musk of the daytluif Its lilt and Its luiighter bstOBg, But In the wsnn dusk of the Muy-tlniu It Comes like a sigh und u song. ParfaBMd by the breath of the mimes if tiower Breeds, tangled nml tossed And sweet with tin- death of the daisies The unison has lavished nnd lout; In the el'Mid woven ilnwk of the ihiytltno Its mild mlnlstrutlon Is blest, But lu the OUN musk of the Mny time At twilight 'tis rupture and rest. As soft us tb Hp of the billow That touched the argentine Mind, And light ns the dip of the willow In wares thut ure hnnynnt nnd bland, And sweet a the heart of the liuy-tlme. And f"l nt as the wind In tlx- grain, la the dusk and the musk of the Mny t Inn Are the redolent teurs of the rain, Woman's Home Companion. Total Harknci Not Wanted. Mrs. Burleigh How Is It that your daughter never seems to have any stindy company? Iii-or me! I wish It wns that way with my Beatrice Mrs. Hhiirpson The mystery la easi ly' explained. We use electricity In our house. You know you can't turn that down without extinguishing It. Ilrltlali Landlords In America. British landlords nre Bold to own 20, OOO.unO acre of land In this country, an area larger than that of Ireland,