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Eugene City Guard. I. I CAMPBELL. rr.lil.,. KUOKNK CITY OtEOON Neither will the cbalr Irutt be aat on. Tbe formation of a buuaua truat ped ou a peeling. It la not aurprlslng that I'aty de Clam a!.. .hi. I Uud bis way Into tin- soup. Betwixt the motor anil the iniuiitiT there'a a right aiuart a doing those times. The koliHT haa simply picked up a Job lot of lalauda fioiu the remnant counter. Emperor William of Germany ad roOBtSO the use of soap, ami may now expect the anarehlata to Indulge lu open boatlllty to lilm. That ant eat the pae r money In the Philippine la only a rorroborutloii of lb Bad that It a the little thluga thut make the money go. For that matter It may be hoped there never wlH be anything worae be tween thla country aud Canada Uiau uuaettled bouudarlea. It would wem that the uumeroua In stance of poisoned coiifisfloii might leail to the adoption of ham and egg as m. l refreshment. There la fame lu atore for the man who will produce a bigger, more glorl oua rose thau the American Heauty, ud uume It the "Admiral Dewey." bOBdM haa not yet beet eleclrlllcil to the extent of building a dingle trol ley Hue In thl fHpiCt tlM city of IVkl n can give l.ouduu a I n In civil isation. 1 1 spectacle calculated to make a a thinking mau pauae when he as the great Chrlittlnn power! of atoTOpa ' iilin ly dlacuaalng the partition of China aa a matter of courae. N'lcola Tcslu, the obeli hlun, la innk lug ao many wonderful Invention claims people are lieglunlng to notice that hla laat name haa Junt aa many letter lu It aa Keely. It ioaka viilumea for the country' Interest lu that New York kidnapping, that while the national heart can ktaud big trouble at ttmea, how the lit lie ouea move It at other. The Aniu'kc Jam helra recently held their annual convention aud adopted resolutions. One of theae duya the Auueke .lain vote la likely to be u fac tor lu American politics. DfWf fume I w secure beyond a doubt. Plrat he won a great imval vlctury without loalng a man; next a IV cent cigar was named after hlui. and imw the 1 cwcy nut meg grater ha- bet n pin. cil upon the market. It I glorious to be grate. The wlreleaa telephone follow hard HpOB wlreleaa telegraphy. There I KXMi fur ImiIIi and also for the wire telegraph and wire telephone. The bit ter two may be a bit old fBlhlonad. but the age iiii to be uiaterlallNtlc and aoinehow to mot people the vIhIIiIc wire make electricity n hade los nn canny when one atop to think about It American bridge bulhlera recently secured a contract to build the bridge over the Atbara, aud the Phoenix llrldge Company haa Im'cii given a con tract to build a nteel bridge oUaeveii spun for the Imperial Hallway of Japan. The bridge will be one of the tine! of the kind ever built. The MUM company I building bridges for Hum ala lu mi.,., in In the llrt four month of thla year, In the Mingle State of New Jeracy, there wen Incorporated couipsnlc with an aggregate capital eiiial In amount to the entire inns of money of all klnda In circulation lu the Culled Ntntea. Much of that capital may properly Ih lu the form of laud, building, inn chlncry, etc., but making all allow ance for that fact, It la dltllcult to cs ttpi the liellcf that a large pi. .portion of the called capital haa no cxlt ence other than on paper; thut It la. Ill Wall Ktreet parlance, nothing but "watered stock." And water I a poor foundation for proicnins tnduatry. Th record of comparative meteor ology allow that lu the l ulled State there are 111 a year live hundred hour more of auuahlue than lu fair ikied Italy, and that Spain geta more Hum we. Hut audi general statement hide many particular, aluce hardly any two localltle are alike, the atiuoplier Ic condition being affected b every mountain, valley, lake or plain, ami count cllmatea are modllled liy u,,. ocean and It current, lu Southern California the annual rainfall rarely BSC 1 twelve In. he; nl Sun Fran clco it reaches twenty five; further north It Increase till lu Oregon and Washington It amounta to aeveuty or eighty, and the Inhahltant are Joking ly aald to le web footed. At the age of 'JO Queen Victoria wan married to l'rluce Albert, aud at i." was left a widow. Now, at SO, ahe ha BOVOted what he regard aa her lat olttclal visit to the capital of her cm plrc to the tak of dedicating to the Prince Oeuaorl'a Bsaaaory the tiuui ami crowning building of that South Ken tagtoa Bttataai which he founded, and which aa ahe dec ret . la henceforth to h.- know n a the Victoria and Albert Mueum. Her career, thua outlined, presents an example of wifely con stancy and devotion which would ho admirable In any walk of life, sod which haa been by no in, am common among royal folk. It la her upreiuc distinction that ahe haa never let the wife, ihe mother and the wotuau be lost In Ihe mere ipiecu. Just one hundred years ago the Man hattau company of New York City wus in. ..ipoi.it, .1 by Anion linn Ita ostensible pm pose was to aupply the City with water. Ita real purpuras was U open a bauk. The reason for the concealment was because there waa at - i . ......... ' K.II1UI plejoillce llliliiuai WIUM, a tank w n built, hollow log hild for pipes, and water waa distributed until 1840. In order to keep Ita charter thla great banking company, which atlll exist. I to day obliged to pump water from It ancient tank. A pltcheiful la alwu)a lu evidence at It annual meet ing, aud a committee solemnly re ports that no application for wutei have ban refuaed. The atory ha Its buiuoroua aide, but It illustrate the legacy of pretence and uee effort which roiiudu ImiiiI BM tbodl always en full. Aaron Hurr'a mode of IMkJD on.- obje. t iinib-r eovat of anotbat ha ninny follow ei. but In politics or so olety or In ludlvldual relation It can never be commemled uud aeldoui ex-fUSed. The youtha who have lately bade farewell to school and college bava, .1.. ill. lies, high aspirations, but tba can only realize them by going the right way alut It. Tbe country la strewn with tin- arraeka of umbitiou men who preferred to liegln with khl gtovsa laatead of with sooty baud. Kven In the crowded profehiti there I always room at the top for the high ly proficient, but the summit cannot ba reached except by effort of unuatllll vigor. From the drone and the lucom-M-tent we often hear thut they nre unable to aucceed bee iiuae nobody help them and they have no luck. As a matter of fact ipMrtunlllc Of more or Icm advantage come to everybody, but It taata with the Individual himself to grap them. If the way to IUCC001 lead Ihrniigh the cur ahopa or along the atony level and rough height of the rial man, he la too often dlapoaed to Ignore the bent oprtunlty that he will ever have. Life la real and ear liest. It Is not :il l rose and awan'a down. The graduate of 1HIHI should bear thla In mind. There I no shame In 1)00 aal toll; the greuteat rewurda that the world can la-stow are reupod by those who are sensible enough to Blarl by way of the cur ahopa or along the roud of the rial or chain bearer mil I earn the kid glove that they can wear with pride w hen they huvc shown themselves entitled to wear them. New Jersey haa lieeii for some year Investigating the quaatlon Of ailluted milk from tulH-reulou COW! with n view of deterinllilng whether audi milk was the came of consumption uiuoug the people who llsisl It. The subject was luuile one of those which the very excellent Stale experimental station attempted to iIIhhc of. For several years the stallou has had In It herd of cows those which were iimUct!omihly affected with IiiImtciiIosIs, but they were separated from the other iiuluuil and kept solely for tbe purpoaa of making axparlDMBta BpOfl the milk they gave. An editorial itrreaa)iideut of the Iturul New Yorker, a high an thorlty upon agricultural subjects. BU glvell the result of these Invcstlga Hons, whh li are reassuring even If they are not accepted as aclentlllcally correct. The raport any that "the milk from these cow ha been tested and analyzed again and nguln, but thua fur no germ have baM found In It. Ho fur u science can determine these cows have produced cloiiu and healthful milk." lu dleiiMslug the subject editorially the Joiirnul DMO II. .ne. I say that altbottajb no germ haie been found III the milk "It I llot afe to tay thut the milk has never contained any. The germ might he found lu one milking ami not In an other, or III one single quarter of the udder. It la dltllcult to discover them, for the testing apparatus Is not yet parfactad, snll Is may Ih said that the germs In such milk nre very scarce If they exist at all." The statement seems to explain one very well cstah llaaad fact, which I that, w hile tuber ciiIohI lu cow I very rapidly Increii Ing, coiiNumpllou In the human family la constantly decreasing It Is believed to be a truth that there are few herds of mil. h cows that do not contain dls eased nnltuala, and If the milk from them scries to spread tuberculosis among the human family the wonder I that such result should not be more apparent. However, the people do not want milk from diseased cow a, ami even If there Is great doubt na to the extent of the danger lu the use of such product It I they and not the dlstem peie.l animal that should bnvo the benefit of the doubt. Mrs. Howe aa a Patriot. Mra. Julia Ward Howe was one of the pioneers III the struggle for Kuban Independence. She visited Cuba lu IS.7, and while there scierely crltl etsed the Spanish authorities for their methods. After her return she do aerlbad her axparianea la a iok aa tlthtl "A Trip to Cuba," which was promptly prohibited from circulation lu Spanish ctmutrlc by the Spanish nariaor So strong was the official feeling agajaat the work that alsmt two hundretl Cuban who were found with the book in their Doaaaaaloa wara severtdy punished. HBCa the lute war thla Isaik baa received a dtKtluct OOOID, uud the few Cpplaa In existence have baootna so popular that a Culxin pub Usher la considering the advisability of bringing out n new edition lu Spanish. Saturday Fvculug Font. Ntcvsnson and the n . j; ,i All Vlncrhilll who visited the Steven son at Samoa relate that the Saiuo aus have a practice of Is-gglug. They Is. Idly aak for whatever they may covet wherever It uuiv Is' found. The novelist 1st nine llretl of this practice, uud therefore wild one day to a Nn moan friend w ho had acquired from hi ixi a necktie, handkerchief, and some other trinket, "la there any thing else )ou waiitr" The Sutuoan made a hasty survey of the room. "There I the piano." auggCKtcd Mr. Slev elisoll, It'otlh ally. "Yc." replletl the native. "I know, lull." he added. asiogetlcally. "I don't know how to play It." Saturday Kveu lug I Vat. BUMaaa in UaM, American englmt is estimate that the ore lu sight lu the South Afrlcaugold dUtrlct called the Kami coutulus als. lit 14,000,000,000 worth of the prvvlous metal. Hut unless nkOrl rapid BMtBWda of production are einployisl, It will re lull.- flfty years to put thla gold Into circulation aud ua. Some men have a way of bclug mcsu that cauuta double. THE DOCTOR'S RUSE. I... r 1 6 6 T? ' MllM, (Jultnb' off du,Jr ,0" II night, Mra. I'rcttoD?" hurriedly questioned Dt. Attwood of the bead matron, aa he paused at tbe foot of the corridor. "Yea. after fl." "I ahall need her to-night, then. I am sorry, but It can't be helped; It la so sickly that a good uurae can not he eaally secured. Tell her to be at the main office dowuslalra at 7, and I will call for her," and without further worda he hurried down tbe atolra, out through the great green awluglug doora of the lio-pltnl onto the street. "Miss Qulmby," aald the matron a few momenta later, to a full, alemler, dark eyed girl In nil rues' garb, aa ahe came from one of the ward with a bunch of towels orer her arm and u cup In her hand, "Or. Attwood haa Just told me that he will need you tonight. He wants you to be at the main tilllce downstairs at 7, and he will call." "Very well." Isabel Qulmby wna the daughter of parents that had once been wealthy, but her father, like ao many men. III endeavoring to gain by speculation, lost everything their beautiful home aud their place lu society nmong the rest. Her father, to whom the humilia tion wna far worse than the mere v erty, did not survive the fearful strain laid DpOO him, and In leas than two mouths died, leaving Isabel and bar mother nearly penniless. Then the young girl, putting pride and all Its accompanying scnaltlvcuesiv In her pocket, entered the HL Alhuns Hospital, an Institution lu her native city, as nurse. The tall, beautiful girl In her dark drcsa, with white apron ami cap, and her rich, heavy bulr colled about her shapely head, and her Is anti fill face so earnest and tender, was al most a tonic to those she wus culled to nurse. Itefore her fother'a failure she wns engaged to Hale Attwood. a young, rising doctor, very successful uud DOD lilor, and connected with the St. Al bans Hospital. Hut It had been a hard atruggle with hlui, for he was poor that Is, In comparison with her father' wealth. After the crash was over and ahe found that he Intended her to keep h. r promise to hlui, she told him our night, as they stood In the parlor of the poor little suite of rooms she ami her mother had hired, that she could Uot marry hlui, for, In so doing, she " ix vvtv DIO UK PLBAD," "nn l.i IS NO 1'ATIRNT KM II XI V su.r." would be but putting one more obsta cle In hla path to fume, aluce the wealth she had intended should help him was gone. She felt It her duly to break the engagement, lu vnln did he pleud aud reuuinlrute. She wii Qrm, and nothing that he could say could lu anywise change her mind. There hud been one more such scene when she entered the hospltnl, with the same result. Then he hud grown cold, and they began to puss each other ou the steps or In the long corridor with merely a nod, and In time the niea ger civility wore away and he appear ed to recognize her no mure than one of the other nurses. It hud been very sickly, the wards were full, and doctors uud nurses were catching bits of sleep over their meals or at any convenient time. Isabel hud hud but one night off during the week, and all day she hud been looking for ward to d o'clock, when she would be free to go home for one night s raat, but uow thla summons had come, and from him. Promptly at 7 she opened the office door. He vv u waiting for her. Without a word otherwise than a civil saluta tion they panned out through the door aud down the steps. Silently he helped her Into the sleigh and took his sent by her side. Not until they were well out of the central poHlOB of the city and making their way toward the suburbs did he speak. Then It was of the cane Itself; what he wished to I? done, and about the medicines; after that he re taxed Into alienee again. It seemed to her that fate could uot have placed her In a harder position beside the man ahe loved with till her soul and Mug, ami vet la whom, by her own mandate, ahe could not -i uk one word of the love that was making her treuible BOW. She believed she had never sen him so cool and self Hiacscd before. Once aa they pa.d a street lamp she had glanced Into hla face, silhouetted against the light, aud It had batB deep tu thought. At last she ventured a re mark. "Where did you any this patient llvesr There was a long silence, mid she U fan to think he had not heard her, and wns atsvut to repeat the iueatlou. when Suddenly he turned an. I looked full at her. ao near that she could feel hla breath. She waa thankful for the darkness, for she felt a hot flush spreading over her fSce. "1 dUI not say." he said, slowly, turn ing hack to his horse; "I did not say I . Oh, Isabel, I bare brought you out here to night that I may plead with you Just aaoa more. Tbert la no pa tlent except myself, ajjul no medicine an this earth can cur me but you. my Bear." For a moment tbe young girl Was fairly carried away by tbe torrent of hla passion, aud at lb Uttla word he had l..-n ao In the habll of culling her abe felt beradf giving away, tor r solves slipping down, vet -he made one di perute attempt at ii rally. "How dare you bring BM out here Ofl iOCtl a pretenae. Or. Altwnod''" "laabel," be whispered, for his armi were around her; "tubal, I waut you to suy you love BO." Her pdor. tlr. d '. id sunk upon his shoulder, nnd their Hps. after long months of sepnrutlon, met. "Yes, I love jou, Hale," she murmur ed, and the sleepy old horse enjoyed It, too, for he hud a chuuee for u llttlo nap. sh, Fought In the Tr nches. Mr. Mury L Tourelte Slotsetiburg, w idow of Colonel John Stutseubiirg, of New Albany. Intl., bear the dlatlnc ttOBJ Of having la-en often under lire on the tiring line around Manila. Win 11 Colonel BtotBenbnrg went to tha Phil ippine! hi w Ife accompanied hlui, and, arriving there. Insisted on being -r-mltted to accompany her husband In the subsequent campaign. She went us a nurse, with the consent of ticiicrul Otis, but ou many occasions she had to pettd hours lu the trenches with the troop. Letter from Manila to relatives, written months ago, tell of Instance In which the plucky woman Ml caught during d.fferent engagement uud was reread, with her escort, to drop in the Item In , where she lay, with the bul lets whistling over her head. On dif ferent occasion she could not restrain her cut bits asm. and, although she doe not make reference to it, reliable re port tell of her seizing a rltle from a dying soldier and doing very effective work. Cincinnati Commercial Qaaette, Style of Address. With regnrd to the style which should be adopted In addressing mar tied women, a controversy ha arisen lu tiermnuy. There are, lu the lan guage of the Fatherland, four name whereby that da may I- deatgnated - geiiiulillii (consort i. giittln (Bpouse), frau (lady), ami weib (wife), To Bare tho not Infrequent dlapntea and bean burnings which arise from Imperil uence and Ignorance In the use of any of these terms, It is now propoaed that one ahull be officially allotted to each of tha recognized gradations of the "scale social." In this manner, it gen crura wife ahull be known as his "con sort," she of nn official of the next lower grade ahull I- that happy per son's "ssiuse," the middle elan part ner becomes her buiband'l "lady," and the worklngman'M helpmate la simply hla "wife." referred for Reasons, A discussion whether "gotten" or "got" were the preferable participle, rccdved a practical solution, at bust for the telegraphic service, from the experience related of n college pro fessor who preferred "gotten." He bad telegraphed to hi wife, - c mile up town. "I have gotten ticket! for the oivora to-night; meel me there." The telegraph operator rendered this Into. "1 have got ten tickets." et cetera. Mrs. ProresBor was delighted with the opiMirtutilty of entertaining her friends, and accordingly m id, up a party of eight iH'slde herself, whose greeting to the ptOfMaoi at the rendezvous were perhaps in. .re cordial than hi riflings until thlngi were explained. lie now make one exception to his customary u.e of "gotten." Ants Kat Ihe Taper Money. Paper money cannot be used lu the I'hlllpplnes. The Islands are Infested with ants, which cut almost every thing, and are particularly fond of pa per. In a recent shipment of money for tbe trOOpa was 11,000,000 In paper money of small denominations, and preparations were being made to send more piiper In the next shipment, when a warning wns given that here after nothing but gold and silver coin must Ik scut to the Islands. The in. i - Ketone..- "Oh. Qeorglol Who opened the can ary's cage';" "I did You told me a little bird wns a whispering to you when I ami naughty, so I knew It must lie bin, n there was no other little bird a boot. So 1 opeoed the cage, ami the cat's eaten him Thul'a wot he's got for tell ing on me." TTuBBtmg Oays. If the desire to write continues to In eraaaa as at now Increasing, ihe ss pie of ihe future will earn a prectrtou IIvcIIIushI by selling their books oue to another. A Toliai co Hop -. If all the tobacco smoked lu the Hrlt sh em Ire lat year were rvdlod lute a rope an inch In diameter It Would form a suakelike roll, which, following the line of the equator, would go thirty times around the earth. A II..I-O..J Wl.h. I want no ! a.U at 'sleen per cent, 1 want no lands ot broad extent, Nor palsr grand nor rich pagoda. Hut I want ten barrels of tee cream soda -L. A. W. Hullelln. SOME QUEER TOWNS. ONK IS BUILT ON THE OCEAN ANOTHER ON THE ICE. Migratory Flshlag Vlllaes on Lake Huron -la Alho There la Sola Fs ale to Be Found -Mountain of lh Monks A Curious U. The marine village of Tupuselel, In New Guinea, would take a lot of beat lug ou the score of singularity. Here the bouses are ull supported on pllea, and stand right out lu the ocean, some considerable distance from the abore. The object of this strange poaltlou Is to protect the Inhubltunts ngnlust sud den attacks of the dreaded head-hunters, who nre always on the lookout for vlctlma. Other villages In this happy land nre -rchcd up In all but Inaccessible treea. for tbo same weighty reaaon. Another curloua place Ii a town without a name on one of the arms of Lake Huron. Thla conalata of some BOO wooden huts. Daring the rammer these little dwellings nre hidden away In a clearing on shore, and the town contain not a single Inhabitant. Hut on the arrival of winter, when the lake la frosen over with a thick coating ot b-e. the owtiera of the huts arrive, nud proceed to move their houses out 09 to the surface of the lake. The floor of the huts Is taken up. and n hole cut through the Ice. Through these boles the resident fish, carrying ou their operation! until tba spring relaaeea the lake from Its Icy DOOdB, when this ex traordinary town la once more broken up, the shanties go buck to their rest ing place, and the tlshcrmoii scutter over the country, This place even boasts a curing factory and a church, not to mention several subsoils all on the Ice. Atbos, a town altuated on a promon tory on the coast of Macedonia, well deserves the title of tbe most curious town In the universe. The peninsula Is known ua "The Mouutulu of the Monks," from the fact thut a score or bo of monasteries are dotted about the mug. i bill sides or the valleys. In these establishments dwell a numerous Isnly of ascetic, kind and hospitable to wanderers, but full of lUpeMtltlon, aud baUerlng in tba doctrine of separ ation to a wonderful degree. The actual town, as distinct from Its) monastic environs, la culled Carye. and supplies the simple wants of the monk. Here nre to be found street of shops, crowded bazaars, HourUhlng trade and all the bustle nnd energy of a modern town. Hut one thing iu strikes the visitor n strange. There Is nut a female to lie seen anywhere, for the gentler sex Is rigorously bau lhed from the place. Kven the small Turkish garrison, from the command ant down to the privates, conalata of bachelors. Thla extraordinary law Is curried out even among the domestic uulmuls. Only the vvlbl birds evade It, uud then only when free, for no female birds la ever brought to table; the fowl one has for dinner Is sure to tie a cockerel. Pot this unparalleled state of affulrs, there la only a legend to account. Al though to our practical mind llltnsv to a degree, It Is Impllclty Kdlcved In by the InbablUOta. It appear that In one of the chief monasteries on the promonotory there I a miraculous Icon, which Is a picture or Image sa cred to members of the Ituso(ireek Church. This particular picture is a representation of the Virgin, nnd the legend snys that one day us the Ktu pres l'utcherio, who had liberally en dowed the church, as well as lienutl' fhsl ami restored it. was engaged lu her devotions, the Virgin simke, ask ing what she, a Woman, was doing lu the church. The pious lady, no doubt Bmaaad, did not reply, whereupon tba voice Commanded her ho leave, say ing that the foot of n woman should never again trend the floor. The Km- press, probably lurprlaed at tba seem ing Ingratitude of the speech, as Well a awe-e truck, left the place, which no female ha since entered. How the prohibition thus arbitrarily establish ed ca to comprehend the length am! breadth of the promontory Is not very Clear, As a residence for bashful bachelor!, we should Imagine, Atbos would be hard to surpass.-Household Words. War Weapons from a Surgical View TJie medical Journals abroad publish the results of some recent experiment! with the uevv automatic revolver. which is being adopted by marly all Biuropean Governments. The experi ments lu ijii stlon were made on pine wood, on plates of Iron, on a living h 'rse, and on portions of human rorpaea, at distance! varying from It to S30 yard, there being, however, lit tle difference let ween the effect! on living uud on dend material. The hole I from live to seven millimetres In size, and decreases with the Incrense In distance, the aperture of exit being, however, slightly larger thnn that of the entrance. It seems that the effect of this weapon on tha long, bollow bone was exnctiy slm lar to that of the Qernuui Infantry rifle at h.ih.m to 0,000 feet the Ihiiie wu splintered lu every cne, nnd In no lustance did the projectile remain in the bnna, tha track of the bullet liivurlab y foimlng a smooth channel, without shattering 1? fore the lauie. nnd Without bony debris, while lu the event of bullet trlklng the skull It Invarlablv shattered the latter. As to penetrative power, the projectile at thirty to sixty feet pass,! through two human trunks uud only stuck la the th rd. went through pine wotsl sixteen luetics thick, aud three Iron plates each tWO millimetres thick. TWO HANDSOME INDOOR UOW NS. MR. KRUOER IS BRAVE. Plucky Mnn Who Controls the Repub lic of the Hoers. "Our Paul." or, In tbe Hoer vernacu lar, "Com I'uul." the I'resldeut Kruger f the Transvaal, la the oue man whom the Rrlllsh have not been uhle to beat iown. He stands like a stone wull In the way of their aggressions. Kruger iH-at the BrltJab once in urmed conflict, jut the conditions have chuuged great- V since ISSl The dispute bet VV cell tile British and the Boers Is a simple one. rha Boers have a rlcb country; the British wnnt It, aud are trying, as tbey nave been trying for years, to get pos session of It. All the Boers nsk Is to De let alone In the enjoyment of their )w ii. They make no hostile denionslrn :lons, stive when their homes and llber y uud property are threatened. Efforts juve las;.ii made to goad them Into lome overt act of hostility thut would iffortl uti excuse for crushing them, nit these have been unavailing. 'Ihe r Is slow and phlegmatic, but he la in fool. He lights only when It Is nee ssiiry to repel Invaders, and the Brlt sli have learned by aud experience hat he Is brave and cun shoot straight. President Kruger Is the soul of the Boer republic. This remarkable man was boru Oct. 10, 1823. Ills parents .vere Boer fanners, residing In Cape Jolony, too poor to provide I'nul with dioes. The future ruler of the South African republic hnd to trudge over he African veldt In hla bare feet. He was christened S. J. I'uul Kruger, but the two initial were anon disused, though President Kruger uses them In signing state papers. Pear wu unknown to Kruger from boyhood, When he was In hla seven teenth year his father asked him to take home his spun of oxen nnd nn posses! certain characteristic! a man with red uud spotted nalUt of a flery, hot-tempered while pale, lead-colored uulla jZ5 a melancholy temperament. AidWbZ and quarrelsome people were rjW gulsbed by narrow nulls. Uveri , knowledge uud liberal sentiment k round-shaped nulls. I'oncelt! J Minute nud narrow minded uoJ were possessed of a mall aslU; Itryt doleut Individual! of th siiy nail. those of a gcutle, timid natnn a broud natla. Dressing a Ka7ad. ' The author of "Wild Flown, rf 1 California" gives nn . ntertalnhi, count of bow the Indians preaw food n plant that Is cnimnonly ulg Indian lettuce. It will I, recalled formic add takes It. name from tw red ant, and that the arid wns firstoV talnad from the Insect. The Placer County Indians greedllj eat the succulent leaves and stems! their "lettuce." Their way of prep lug the plant for fi,d u novel. i;aa, erlng tha leave, they iny theae aboe the entrance to the nests of c-ertali large red nut. The ants, awaroj out, run nil over the plants. Aft,,, time the Indians shake the nntitf (j, leaves, satisfied that the letTKe Mr has a pleasant sour taste, wn. that which might be given It by TUst-gnr. I. on, ton Si.u.-n Startled London society Is stirred to lu tej depths by the performance, of , thought render, who Is the lion o( th hour. There Is no thought, not nn n mental reservation, hurled to dtn In one's meutnl recesses, but what tblt wonder pounces upon It with an iflUtj tbnt Is positively unennny, anil dnp It forth Into the light of publicity. Tu YOUNQ KBUGBR'S BTBUUGLB WITH A PANTHER. Mafne Tramp I,w. The Maine trump law la driving DttSty Rboade! and Weary Waggles out Of the PUM Tree State, judge Bose re ently n enced a. verul trumps to tall for ten month! at hard lalior. and their associates are tumbling across 0B h other In their anxiety to get BCNM the state Hue. empty wngou. lie was accompanied by his little sister. "Paul," aald his father, "take care of your sister." "i win," be aald, simply. In those day traveling In Cape Col Dny wns anything but a picnic, wild anltnala were plentiful nnd ninny a traveler became a prey to these beasts, everything went well until Paul wus within nbout tlve miles of home. Here a large panther made his npienrnnce. The oxen took fright and Imlted. The lostllng of the WBgon threw the little girl to the ground, where she wns at the mercy of the ferocious animal. Without a moment's hesitation young Kruger Jumped from the wagon uud ran to his sister's assistance. The pan ther stood with gleaming eyes over the prostrate child. Kruger was unarmed, but without n moment'! hesitation he engaged the panther in a hand-to-hand buttle. It wus a fierce battle. Time nnd again the angry bOBBl Clawed Kruger cruelly, nit his courage and strength Uever full. id him. I.Ike a bulldog he held his grip uiHin tiie panther'a throat until he strangled the beast to death. Kruger was badly lacerated. Blood Bowed from many wounds, but. notwlthltand lug his injuries, he carried his fulntlng sister home. This exploit made him the hero of the sturdy Boers In that section. It was the first Indication of the latent powers that dwelt In the coming ruler of the Transvaal This heroic Boer ruler Is almost de void of learning. What education he bus wns hard for him to secure. Yet he has batlled men of learning by hi sagacity. His knowledge of human na ture is wonderful. It la no wonder that the Old Boers love their president. Hla character Is pure; he Is gentle as a bnbe. but firm na a rock, and a very lion when his couutry la lu danger -Chicago Inter Ocean. When you beer fool! abused, take ! of It to yourself. I She had sent a telegram, and waa waltlug for an answer. Suddenly the peculiar halting tfleh of the reviving machine sounded lu the orMoe, and she aald to her companion: "That's from Oeorge, 1 kuow; I can tell bla stutter." - Modern Society. Pray for cake, but get out and hustle for the bread aud butter. possibilities nre something awfuL 1 deed, It Is related that soiuo of revelations have been nstoUDdl' yond worda, nnd one womat'"" tremc sensibility Is snld to buttl ed na the workings of her mint1 laid bare to herself nnd a toll Intimate friends. The CAPT. NICHOLS. . Wfcl lommanaer Monudnock'" Kiel lit ManiU. dipt. Henry Ezra Mcho'. " mender of the monitor Moniula who died of sunstroke at Manila. one of the W otllecrs in navy- HewBJ native of Nr York nnd the naval M cn.y m Thus, its be not gradutt I860, w 1 1 1 no part civil war. in ' 1 CArr. mciiols. jN, to V was attached to the Kuropcao He rose rapidly through the grades of office In tl.e service lug ensign In I860, master In 1 tenant lu 1860, lieutenant iniuW" In 1881, commander In the w"uf,.(! , ' i,. KroO 1W ami captain inn reccui,.- ,g to lNiaj be did service m llor" lsta, he waa given conn . Beuulugtou. When the M""a was seut to Manila Capt SlchoW along as her commander. Ivy Absorbs M",iul'hl, W There la n current opinion tn ( i... - Umm. rot the mm a, ie.-miv.-iiv j i" uf which It clings. the This Is true f I Ml Told by the Khmer Nails. Iu the days when fortune telling was more lu vogue than at present, the ahnpa and appearance of the anger nails were leaked ou as having refer ence to one s destiny. The nails were first ruhted over with a mixture of wax aud soot, and. after being thua proarvd, were held so that the sun light fell fully upon them, tin the horny, transiarent substance were supiHiacd to appear signs and charac ters from which the future could tie In terpreted. Persons, too. with certain descriptions of nails were lupposed to . . .1 .! W number of other climbing ' j not or ivy, ror n aman ,, almost every nouse io ,Bal entirely free from oamp, every particle of moisture fr" 1 brick or stone for It own iiwte of II I'm .. This It does by menus in . which cnu work their "J the hardest stone. When the w. . , well covered with Ivy the o. -vr leaves will conduct water raims jl them from iiolnt to point amstsh! la ivnched. without . 7. L . . .. ,isiure rl tne watt to racoavw tDi ever from tbe lieatlug nun ' f should be an exceptional AM covered walls showing sign" ness, that will l' roiiuu . - t . . .,hI on 1 uieir uni iuk i" " -- Improperly drained site.