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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1899)
Eugene City Guard. I. L. r am in r i i rrarUar. EPOKNE CITY. . .JLLllli:i:9naW Tax dodging on the part nf rlCB BBIfl also mean Hint physically they are apt to stoop pretty low. In Krain;e yellow Journalism hM at tained Its highest degree of success. And Just look al r ranee! The people of the C lilted States rnn Ullie 1Ki,IKKI,IH pound of plug lolmc- co every year- most of It lion-owed. IYrhaps Hie MM why women nre Hut photographed In Chlnn l that IM can't look pleasant with pinched feet. Ttiey nii the ladlaa Poor LO, bag he iiolil over a million dollar' worth of In ml to the government the other tiny. "YA'hnt In l'raiice without a crisis?" wotilil innkc a suitable sWrlnrlon for an up to-dnte wall motto over lu I'arl. It 1 claimed that the Sultan of Sulu treats hi wlvea well. The main trou ble seems to be that It'l tuch a whole sale treat. The great deuiand for lalior In the Weal sharply define the tramp' lals.r policy, lie In wIIIIiik to work a farmer, but not work hi tlehl. Suggesting that the camera be used on molm ami lynching pnrtlcs U not a bail one. It eolllcl not well help hav ing at leat a negative effect. Those people who bring grcnt wealth back fruiii t In- Klondike nearly always manage to get lot) an loon iim they ar rive ut Han Francisco or Seattle. If the golf shoulder find the allk aklrt waUt Ud the bicycle knee, baek ami fan- should ever hohl an awful r n rturoill In OM human frame, what a carnival they eouM have. The eucalyptus tree, whlrh crown ten feet In a year, make valuable wood, gives the Ith honey that him Import' 'ant meillclnal properties I prevent mahirla, should he phi tiled In IMS other placed than Culm If It la all thai It In said to lie. We may elBOel to hour of the uuculyptUH IriiMt MMHMf or Inter. A clergyman him lieen try Ins an ex periment tllllHtr to that trtod by Wal ter Wyckoff, nnlhor of "'riie Work era." The clergyman's hlea was to f I ml out why the lalHirliiK mini docs mil go to ciiurch n a rule. He soys he fouml out on the firs! prayer mooting Bight afler he iK'Kan to work In a factory, for he tumbled lulo bed and to Bleep and forgot what day It waa. Probably the moat colossal tulatake lu recent criminal annals win made by a New York burglar the other day. lie went Into a dressmaking establish nielit In broad daylight, where twenty women were working and tried to plunder the premises. Ah n simple matter of course and n natural 00010 QOOnce the women fell upon Mm vvlth hut plus, JiiI'ImiI bin Ml he el l rcHftnhlcd a porOBI planter and handed him over to a policeman. The NCOfdl In even a city like I III. ago teem Willi capture of foolish burglar b)f women Hlugle handed. What fate could I pitad for the man who deliberately lnvaded a house llllcd with twenty women, every one of the twenty hav ing her hat pin ha inly T A girl In a New llnglnnd factory wrote her name BOVeral month ago OB a boll of cotton. Itec. ntly she received a letter from a woman lu Atixona say Ing that the doth had I I bought by the Government, and wan being cut up for garment In an Apache Indian achoot. It la but a few yearn ago that the Apache thought more of taking scalp thiiu of schools In which ihlrt luaklng In done. While the mill girl's act elicited thU Htrlklng comparison. It waa an act to be unhesitatingly con demned. A girl mime so roprescn tu herself that to have It lightly bandied about lu writing, or In public convoy BBtOB, or In the months Of strangers, reflect meretriciously upon her char actor. Had the bolt of cotton fallen Into unsoruplous tin ii.Ih. the letter sent from Arkona might have Ihoii any thing but pleasing to the thoughtless recipient Woman In steadily making her way In the hunlucas and professional world, and ha a become mi large a factor that many sociologist are alarmed at the sit nation. The young woman I crowd Ing out the young man lu many ave nues of nctlv Ity. The QoVerBtnOBt ser vice la no exception. The bureau of ethnology at Wushlngtou has two woin en ethuologUta. The lobster and crab expert of the Smithsonian Institution la a woman; the moat NSpeCMd author Ity oil mammals In the National MlH uni Is a woman; no In the most Nkllle.1 entomologist, ami the chief HbratUin of public document!. The Hureiiu of American ltepubllca, not long aliicc, wnutisl ttauslatoiN and liwtltutnd cx nmlniitlotiN lu order to get the best. Two nIIm of glrli won the prlrc ami arc now getting 8,40fl a year. BetMea theae, many clerical DOtltlonl are tilled by women to the satisfaction of the chief of their d. p.i tmenta. iet a iiioT.. on you, young man. or your sister will distance JftOU In the race of life. lettBM seems ,lelenulncd to atnillsh the lime honored lgu of uu vntetite cordlale lietwecn lovers. Al IM pr. s cut rate the kKs will soon sun he Mil In novels. Marion Crawford'i IntMl aerial tells how the hero kissed I he heroine on her mouth, eves and hair, but leifMa distinctly dlnapprovca of each Individual kiss. Having forbid Ien the ordinary form of oneulatory aalute it BOW rai-os the danger Nlgttal as to klaalng on the eyes. A 0UB niarrhsl woman of Itrcslatt who went to a hospital for treatment of Intlam liuitlon of the eves has bOOfl Inf.inned that her ight baa booa noraananUi Impaired by bacteria frvtnt the lips of her banband, arno was Moonacloualy barlMirlng lu his sy stein the mleiobes that cause Intl immatlon of the lut.gs. Thus la affection robbed of one more point of attack. Pretty young women allll appeal to be wilting martyr. In cuirlng the danger without a murmur, bnt arlenre erliently think tt ha a aUatkM In aavlng them from the ruv age of the oscillatory akfOba. The eopIe have auiaU ayinpathy with rpffimi hence the comparative fl dlffereuce with which they huve eecii the practlc-f grow up among pollOtMMni of freely using their revolver wh. n seeking to bring to" an escaping nii pect. Hut n great many ltinisa.nl paO pie, when threatened with arrest, i-a-paoMDy when found In what they know to la- (hi in prom I sing, though DM bar easily explainable. sltunlloiiN OM their self KO.oNslon and run. To s.-ml a bullet lu pursuit may sometime cost the life Of a valuable cltlxell. Kveli If none hut rogue run away, however, It Is not for the s;irenian to put life In peril by the use of his rerolrer. The only circumstances where Its use Is Justified are those where the police man's own life or that of another In In Immediate part from a rulllau whose arrest la Bought. The peril must DO) be merely fancied or constructive, but actual and deadly. Otherwise the oltl Off Is amenable us much a a prlvut cltlxcn for any loss of life which may follow tbe use of his weapon. Tht sooner these facts shall DO brought borne to the understanding of police men everywhere the better It will be. If the unemployed rich and the un employed poor would only unite and form a trust, what wonderful result for good would follow. Mr. (iladstoti. la ijuoted us saying: "The lulsirer ban hi legitimate, hi nccossury, his bOB arable Md bOOOnd place In OotTo ere itfOsll but In nil Cod s crentlou there in no DlMO IDnOflted for the Idle wealthy man." of nil nationalities' it I hardest for the American to be id e. Ills a. tlu brain and his native em-rgy force DUB to activity, aud w Idle the wealthy class of BliropOBM hnve learned how to en joy a life of plenaure w ithout ennui, the American lias not yet acquired this art. Troin sheer uieninl restl. NNiiess.he goes ou heaping up riches, never asking who shall gather them. To he sure, there nrcHcorcs of exceptions to this rule, as the most costly and complete universi ties, schools, colleges, hospitals, I lea ti-N nud nrt museums of this country amply hear witness; yet In many case even these generous doiion still hav. a surplus greater than they or their heirs can ever use. What Ul wealth? A few hundreds of thotiHiind can aupply every human desire for comfort and luxury. Then why devote life, heart ami soul to the accumulation of for tunes which will never be put to prac tical use? Is such a course In any w ay different from that pursued by tin in ner whose chief occupation and dear est pleasure lies In counting his hoard' Frodetio Harrison, u few years ago culled nit. nth. n to the public service of the rich men of Athens lu Its golden days, by providing games ami feasts rearing temples, baths and BQUOdnotl and furnishing to its people, social, III entry mid ootbotlo enjoyment, thui crowning their city with the light of nil undying glory. It In Niild that inutilcl palltles Seldom succeed In ll movement for public adornment. To be elTectual the work must be undertaken ami car rled ou by private Iml. vhlual. Let IDS Unemployed rich, Who have clear heads to plan, unite with the unemployed pOOf) who have willing hands to exe cute, inn! what a perfect combination we shall have for rearing enduring w orks of beiiellcence. I'm vtiii a Debt, Rome years ago an nrTruy nmotig tin miners of the West resulted In murder and Senator Thurston, believing tin licensed to have hcctl llllUMS tit In Inten tion, tiNik up his cnao and greatly mill gated the lad's punishment, six month afterward u mini, armed to the teeth appeared In Thurston's olllce, "He you Sipalrc ThurstuuT" "Yes." "He you the man that defended .lack Bailey nt court?" Tbe Senator, thinking his last hold wiin come, again atiNwercd, "Yes." "Well, I'm Jack llullcy's par.lner and I've come to pay yon, 1 hnveu'l got any money, but I'm u man of bOB or. Anybody In town you don't like?' An the Senator smilingly disclaimed nny thirst for booty or blood, the callei Insisted Incredulously, "I'nt on youi hat, squire, nud Just walk down th street. Sis' anylM.dy you don't like throw up your thumb and I'll pop him." CRIME OF THE AGES. DREYFUS CASE DRAMA IN THE DARKEST HISTORY. Itcvtcv'a I out, Oon, I', v. Greene tells too follow ing story of Admiral Dawey, which w have not seen In print. When he tt rived tfl Manila with re enforcement; he went on board the Olympla to paj Ilia respect n to the Admiral. After th two men had exchanged compllmcuti Do WSJ nii Id: "t'oine Into my cabin, lictteral. want to show you my family," In one corner of the cabin wiin . great pile of photographs, dozens upot doxeiiN, and each was the picture of a baby boy. There were fat babies ami lean babies, pretty babies and ugly bublcs, Nad babies and smiling babies "What In the world are these?" ssk ed QenOftl QfOOBOi somewhat b :1 dared, "Why," said Pewey. "It's Just tin family of my namesakes. They an Joneses, Smiths nud Jenkinses, but every one's a tieorge Hewcy, ami thclt parents want tne to know It." f .loke t'osl Tbom . Hide. A freight train pulled Into n statloi on the lloston ami Maine recently and a ftBtriaOQVlet on the platform tbOQghl he would have some sport, so he threw his voice under the car, saying: "Let me out; let BM out!" The station agent w as culled and he hastened to unfasten the door of I ear. Afler working tot tl time he got the door open mid out walked four trumps, nil of whom ills claimed having asked to lie let out. The ventriloquist hud budded battel than he knew nud had steppod iiu the ride of the four bobM who WW1 left behind. A Utorr of Tragic Incident, Font In- ii Vile Treachery, eulfrrlnu Innocence nl Trluinphunl Vll I. .no. The story of Alfred Dreyfus, a cap tain In the French artillery, who wu reconvicted on the charge of selling state secrets to the German Govern ment, Is one of the most remarkable In the history of the world. It I a story full of dramatic und tragic Incidents, of foul Intrigue and vllo treachery, of forgery, assassination, suicide and al most every special of crime nnd wicked ness know n to desperate nnd degener ate men. That dreadful drama that has so dishonorably affected a nation has overthrown live I-'reiich cabinets, has driven three men to suicide, others to exile and many to undying shame and Infamy. Nor Is the end yet. Truth. Justice, the sympathy nnd moral sup Krt of the unprejudiced In every land ure on the side of Dreyfus, and the day will eventually come when the French nation will declare the hjBOOOBCO Of tbe man whom It has twice condemned. Drryfu' farcer, Alfred Dreyfus Is an Alsatian Jew. He received a military training at the Fcole I'olytechiihiuc, I'urls. und In 1S7S was apOOlBtod to a suh-llcutcnuucy. lie made a ipOdalty of the artillery serv ice aud his rise wns rapid. In ISWl he was a captain In the army; In isn.'l he was attached to the general staff the first Ilebn-w to hold that position. He was married, the father of two chil dren, and the future seemed roseate. Hut DreyfUl wns n Jew - a crime In nance. Hounding Jews In that oimtii bouffe of a republic Is a pastime nnd W bOOiS of Leather. Hallw ay WhPOll Bktdo of leather lii beeu experimented with lu France. The first live inltuitcs after uu accl dent, u man Is grateful that he SO capc.l with his life; after that, he bO gins to complain because his puuti wen- torn. The world owes every mau Hie rlghi to' earn a living. Tbe sou dial is oue of tbe old timers wrong and Injustice and bnt. Friends rallied around her, and in Ibe press and legislative hulls the case of Dreyfus Wus kept ever 10 the front. InJline.lSbo.Col. George Plc(tinrt becalm- lo ad of the secret Intelligence of the war olllce. Document came Into his hands that convinced him that Katerbaay bad written the bordereau and that Dreyfus was lnuoccut. He communicated this belief to Generals ISolsdeffre and Goiisc Hot Ksterhazy stood high lu their regard, and I'lcquurt wns sent on a perilous mission to Afri ca In the BOBB that he would never re turn. This was lu the f.ill f Ids Others, however, followed along the lines of PI eq Baft In his Investigation. Kcheurer-Ki-stUer asserted the Inuo nance of Dreyfus, und Mnthlcu Drey fus, brother of the prisoner, openly ac Cttasd Ksterhnry as the author of tin bordorOBO, The BgttatlOB was so strong that In Jtinnary. MM the war utile, ordered a whitewash court-martial for Baterhaay, Ploajnart vva recaBed tr testify. Ksterhazy wai aiiiltted ac cording to program, nnd thou l'icipiarl was arrested on a trumped-up chnrg. nf forgery and sent to prison. The wat olllce was still In the ascendant, whlli the lonely prisoner on Devil's Island wns eating out his heart In suffering and shame. The Z-ila Rplande. Then came the novelist. EmUO Zolu who lu an oja-n letter charged BatOT hazy, Henry uud the chiefs of the wai otllce with couslprai y to ruin Dreyfus ThlS brought up,m his head the WfSsfa of the army chiefs and he wus tried for slander and fouml guilty. He npicnleil, was ngoln cot. vlct. d nnd tied from Frunce. M. I.nU.rl wns his BOBBBtL France at this time wns In n state of the utmost disorder. There were fre quent riots. The cabinet of U MoBno fell, to be lucceeded by that of M. llrlsson. nnd the general political fab rie seemed on the verge of breaking up. At this Juncture- July. MBS-Wnr Minister CavalgnBC assorted his belief U18TOBIOAL CONFRONTATION OF HENRY AND PICQUART. a passion. Schemers curry favor by It In the estimation of the baser elements, and France bus n superabundance of the former. Then Dreyfus was brill iant anil studious. These qualities gen erated envy, nnd so, lu lXH. when cer tnlu high born nud accomplished ras cals wanted a victim upon whom to cast the odium of their malodorous lives, what more natural than to Select the despised and envied Jew- Dreyfus? kOlllnst Male secrets. Ill that year 1MH spies of the French MCTSt service department re covered n letter from the otllce of the German einlmssy In I'tirls which ai'eiu ed to Indicate that some Frenchman was carrying scen t Information to that olllce. The letter contained the sen tence: "This dog of a D Is really getting too greedy." Ill September. MMt the spies brought to light another document known as the bordereau. It was lu the nature of a memorandum naming live military secrets which the writer pffercd to convey to the un named person he was addressing. It was turned over to the miserable Mer cler, French Minister of War, and he summoned exports who pronounced it to bt the work of Dreyfus. Major du Paty de l latn. one of the most exe crable scoundrels who have figured m the whole national drama, was given the Imrdercau for further Investigation, lie Summoned DreyfUS before him. The Investigation WSJ secret, and the Infa mous Pat) de t'lain pronounced Drey fus guilty, aud added that the latter hud made a full confession. Dreyfus was arrested und Incarcerated lu the Chcrche Midi military prison. The First 1'onv.cto.n. In December. MM, Dreyfus was put on trial before a court-martial. The trial wns a farce. It Is DOW known Unit not a particle of credible proof was adduced against him. I'aslinlr-l'erler. ihsn President of France, left It ou rec ord that only one Incriminating docu ment was laid befoN the Judges, nnd tlmt document was n forgery. The prin cipal witnesses against the prisoner were Celoucls Henry. Ksterhazy and I'atj de Cbtm, Dreyfus was convicted, ills conviction was necessary to shield others Just ns his second conviction wus decreed BBOfl for reasons of state. Jan. o. MOO, Dreyfus was publicly de graded, his sword lielng broken ami his uniform defaced. Too Parisian mob shouted "Down with the Jews!" and "Live the army!" and a little Inter the prisoner wns taken to Devil's Island, ad the coast of French Guiana, to suf fer imprisonment for life. Worstnu for Hie lr soner. The ease of Dreyfus apparently was riosed. The conspirator who had con demn tits! him were strottg nud power ful. It was Unpopular and unsafe to spcuk a word lu favor of the prisoner or of the pronetibod root, to which he belonged. Hut the esse was not clos,-d. The heroic wife of the prisoner. Mine. Luc Drcyfii. rem.ilmsl. to tight for the honor of her husband. In whom she believed, and well and kiyally did she rage her battle aga.uet vitrvncttcd In Dreyfus' guilt, nud his speech to this effect in the Chamber of Deputies waa ordered pouted throughout France. lie produced a document at the time that lie said had convinced him of Dreylus' guilt It was retorted that the document was a forgery and was committed by Col Henry, The latter soon afterward admitted Ills guilt and then committed suicide. Previous to this l.tuercler Plcard. who figured In the scandal, committed suicide, and Inst spring. Lorimler, OoL Heury- former clerk, followed suit. After the Henry OaSCO t'avalgnac re signed as Minister of War. Gen. Zur llnden succeeded him. nnd he soon re signed because he was opposed to a revision of the Dreyfus case. A month later still another War Minister. Geu. Cbanoloe, went down nnd out for the same reason, nud after him the whole cabinet, Francois de Ptvssvnse was expelled from the Legion of Honor le cattse he raised his voice for Dreyfus, nnd others suffered social ostracism and poUUdfl) death for like offenses. There were accusations nnd recrimina tions, threats of riot and rebellion, nud other resignations from high offices, all because of the exile away off on the const of Guiana. New i rial Ordered This was the situation at the opening of the present year. Then the tcstl BMBy of Dreyfus, taken on Devil's Isl and, was presented before the Court of Cassation, which was considering the grunting of a new trial to Dreyfus. Brents then crowded on one another. Paty de Clam was arrested lu Paris and Imprisoned. Ksterhazy, who had tied to London, confessed that he was the huthor of the bordereau. In June the OoBJrt f Caseation ordered a new trlnl for Dreyfus nnd referred the case to the Bonnos court-mart laL July l Oapt Dreyfus arrived at Itennes. and Aug. 7 the second court-martial began. The details of the trlnl, famous ami Infamous alike, and the outrageous COOT let Ion of the prisoner arc familiar to all. Tlte tight made for their client by M. Labor! and XL Domanga und tbe prejudiced and unfair rulings of tin Court martini's president. Col. Jminust. wttl live, the one a record of honor, the other n record of shame. It was not Dreyfus so much as Prance that was on trlnl at Rennet, and France convict ed herself of an Infamy ns deep, an in justice as black and a dishonor ns great ns ever stained the life of a nation. Hut one th,. tight can come to a ersn COB aiderlhgthopr, sent result of the drama: "A governi k nt that cannot do Justice to the humblest of Its cltlsens has no Justification to exist." Consumption l" Iteer. It Is estimated that the consumption of beer lu the cutltv world utuouuts to HjuBUOOO,000 per uuuiiiu. If a woman makes a second tulstak. at playing curds, other women lieglu to wonder how such a church member can be such a cheat A REMARKABLE KNOWLEDGE. It Is roeted bjr an Iowa Olrl of Only Two tears. Viola Olerlch Is the name of the most remarkable child In tin- State ..f Iowa. If not in the world. She I only two yenrs nnd one month old. yet she Is possessed of the gravity of u woliiuu, VIOLA OLBBim, aiiil. Indeed, her face Is the face of u mature, Intellectual womuu. Viola, by the wuy, is a very pretty child uud gives promise of developing Into u brantifnl young woman. She Is the daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry Ole rlch. Her fatbOT wns recently super intendent of the public schools of Lake t.'lty. but be give up the jios-t for the purpose of devoting himself to the work of writing n treutlse ou educa tion, When Viola was one your nnd eleven months nnd twetity-tlve days old she pasted nn examination before two com petent teachers. At thut time the child knew not less than 3,xxi substantives. It Is probnble thnt the vocabulary of this baby was al that time much larger than thut of the ordinary man. Her father suys that Viola knows more nouns thnu the nvernge ndttlt knows words. The unusual precocity of the child wns nurtured and developed by the parents, uud when she once began to learn she learned so rapidly that her natural guardians were scarce uble to keep puce with her. Becordl of the child's work were kept by her mrciits and are very Inlet siting. There Is tlrst n scrapliook lu which are pasted the pictures of 1,100 various objects. Viola can tell the name of any of these objects by look ug at the picture. In n separate book ,s kept tl record of the names of the jhjects the pictures of which are patt h lu the scrapliook. Viola calls the Krapbook the "picture book." She readily recognizes all the pictures lu the book, and cannot only do this hut Is ulso uble to lead a number of slmplc lentencea. Her education has been conducted on the "sentence method." or the syn thetic rather than the analytical sys tem of teaching, The results have beefl most marvelous. The child can Understand things which do not come into the mind ordinarily until the age Df Ilfteen or sixteen has been reached. Mr. Olerich'l theory of teaching Is what he calls the "natural method." It rests on three principles, which ho de icrihea as follows: I. To awaken n keen interest for ed ucational work by the use of attractive apparatus-playthings for the child. '2. To treat the child nt nil times with the greatest of kindness and equality, II. All the educational works of the child should he an interesting gain" of play--purely voluntary. No element of coercion or even undue solicitation should ever be retorted to. "The secret of such wonderful suc cess In the use of the natural method of Instruction." says Mr. Olerlch, "lies In the fact that great Interest means undivided attention, and dose inten tion means retention. Kind treatment and voluntary learning continually In crease the delight for further Inquiry, With all her precocity, Viola lias never studied' a lesson In her life. She has only 'played,' and she always wants to play longer." LADY YARDE-BULLER INSANE. l-'aniom rnllfnriiln lleuiitr Is I'lnced Lniler Care of a Onacdian, Lady Tarde-Buller, concerned in many remarkable episodes in Europe ami California, has been adjudged In sane, und a guardian appointed for her person and estate. She has run through a fortune In fifteen years and has gain ed notoriety by her eccentric behavior. Those who have been thrown Into con tact with her during the last few months testified that Lady Yarde-Bul-ler's addiction to alcohol had Increased so much that she Us incompetent to manage h -r nITalrs. She spent her money recklfssly and went so far as to J J i.aiiy y .utnr.-m i.i.Kii. actually throw It away on the si roots Wlitle her actual Income is only aboBt Sbm or ." n month she bad been spending 1900, i.ady Varde-ltulleFs ear.s:r bus been checkered. She was ss.lhsl by her tattler, who was very Wealthy, and wheu In her bvns tried to otope In Japan with young Majorl baakBi afterward Lord Twoedmouth. Then she wedded an Englishman it ncd Blair, who was killed in South Africa. Soon after his death "she mar rled Yarde-Huller. a Scotchman, who taught her how to drink. They iitiar relod and he sued for a divorce, alleging that she show ed too much partiality for the society of Valeutlue Gadsden, a mining promoter. PBUITS AND DISEASE. I wnnt to nlflrrn rnn - . . wf urr, nut th ly f "iy imnad la mi ri?T Tiling look serious, if .. .. , : a'. STRAWBERRIES ARE SAID TO CAUSE RHEUMATISM. Acid of ( herrlee Uellered to Be an Un i.. iii oi l ure for the Hanie Malady Unreasonable Fear of Appcadicltl In These Times. People suffering from that most dls tr. -s:ngof diseases, rheumatism, should he careful lu their diet Ut ull times There Is a general Impression Uiut all fruits are healthful ami may be ludulg ed lu freely by Invalids, but this Is not tbe case. A South Water street fruit reliant remarked the other day: There is an Impression very prevalent in the minds of many pereoni that there Is rheumatism In strawla-rrles. It may be only Imagination and due to IBS season, but there Is no doubt that jht- sons who nre subject ro rheumatic at tacks suffer from them very frequently during what Is known as the straw b Try season, whether tli. y eat straw berries or not. 1 am satisfied In my own case that the adds lu strawberries work up n nice nttnek of rheumatism for me every year, but 1 caiinot resist them, and do nut know as 1 want to. Hut there Is one satisfaction, and thut Is that, while Strawberries may have something to do with rheumatism, cher ries, which follow them, are an abso lute cure for rheumatism. I have never known a person to suffer from rheuma tism who ate freely of cherries, and I know of hundreds who have bOOB re lieved of attack! by eallng Uiem. I hnve often had cherries ordered two or thru- mouths before the season for them opened hcre.ilKuits. nnd to supply the orders have hud to send to Cuba and to California for them. The ordin ary cherry contains an add which re lieves If It din's not effectually cure. Of course. It may nil Ik- In the season, and thnt rheumatism would disappear any how, but It Is safe to sny there Is no rheumatism during the cherry season. I don't know of anything more health ful, though even the best tasting, thor SBgbly ripe nnd perfect cherries start up very line cases of colic nnd cholera morbus, which nre very annoying. She colored people of the South think. Mid It may be that the same belief exists elsewhere, and among others ns well, that nil the cramp or colic Is taken out of the cherry by eating It, swallowing stone nnd all. That unquestionably was the practice once, but In recent years fenrs of npncndlcltls may hnve changed It somewhat, though for the life of tne I cannot understand why It Is so dangerous uow to swnllow apple Seed, grajs" seed or cherry stones, when In old-fashioned times It was the rule to do so. rather than tbe exception." Chicago Chronicle. OLE OLESON AT THE RACES. lie Itelntc to u Friend HI F.experi ence In Tnrf Speculation. "Hello, Ole, var yu bnen to-dny?' said John Johnson, a sunny-natured son of Swedeu, as ho met his friend Oieson alighting from n race train. "Aye baen tu da races," replied Ole. "Aye hav fren on ha ask ma tu go tu da races on win sum inonay. Vnl, Aye go to has olllcv an he say ve vlll go nn get HalgreB, HalgreB ba kno dx-ry horse In da contry. Vol. va go an get Halgren and ra go to da train. On do train Aye bar a man sny da horse valked neu. an another ha say da horse ha no coin von two tra. an Aye tank hn baen queer races vnr da horse valked lien, an ha no com von two tra. "Vol, ven vay gnt to dn trak. vay go a. ii. an fonson, ha baen One plac. Dar baen vlmmes, an reldren; an Aye tank Aye var at da plkulk. Den vn go up In da bllden, HalgreB ha lay ba var gran stun. Den pnrty iuik Halgren ba lay, 'Dar baen da horses,' nn ha tak has glaiaei an ba look at ham, an ha say ha plk n r inner sure. An den ha say. 'Par baen da vlnner; nomlicr snx, ha VlB sure.' Vul, den va go an U't dn mon ey on Bomber sax. Party qulk Aye tank abberybody ha var krassy. Da vas yeir.n, 'Ia vas off.' nn da all ytniip on dn shalrs, .an da yell. Aye look to sny vot var da matter, nn Aye sny da horses com m In nn Aye yell, too. Aye look for Bomber sax to vln, an Halgren say hn no com von two trn, nn vn loose dn money. "Hen da horses dn com out again, nn Halgren ha say ba pik a rinner sure bob time, dat da yoekey ba bo giv nom- tier sax a good ride, lie tak his glass,'? an ha look again, an ba say nombei von hn could vln sure. Vnl, vn bet da money on nomber von. lien dn vas yell 'da vas off.' again an Aye look for nomber von an Aye no say ham. Aye ask HalgreB var nomber VOB baen, an ha say ba baen left at da post an va loose da money, "Halgren, ha say da uex race ha baen steeple dins, nud dat ha kno nil dn yumpers nu hu plk n Vlnner sure, an Aye till ham dat Aye go to Bleep an ven dn horess com out to vake inn up nn Aye vould bet da money on dn tlrst horse Aye saw. Vnl, putty qulk Hal gren hn soy. 'Ole. vake up,' an Aye vnko up, nn da Hist horse bean Bomber for. Aye go an tot on nomber for. lien da horses da go out In dn tlel an den da vas off. an den Bomber for ha yust run nn rnmp dn teasel an da ditches, nn ha vnr yust beaten dem all. an Aye say to Halgren, 'Aye pik a vlnner sure.' an Aye would vlu ma money. Nomber for, ha youst var vlniiiu In n volk, ven on dn las fenai ha fall nn break has tick, an Aye loose da money. Aye go dar no mor. Aye baen busted sure." Chicago Inter Ocean. gain, God Mom you " ulBae The broker fell on hi. t God. Custer." he cried ' r of this! I'll carry l..,,,,, Western t alon for Von Int.. .. . SI To agree with everybody Is as bud as not to agree with anybody. Custer's .loke on Inborn. The late Charles Olborn. the Vow- York broker, and Gen. Custer were lu- Umate friends, and Olborn annually visited the general at his camp en the plains, inning one of the IndlBB cam paigns he invited Olborn and a party of friends out to Kansas, and Bits giving them a buffalo hunt, arranged a novel expenonce in the way of an Indian scare. An Oshorn was lying n his tent one night firing was heard at (he ontpoetl and 'he rapid riding of the pickets. "Boots and saddles" was the order In the disturbed a m .sphere of the night, and Custer annennwl . rv born loaded with rifle, two revolvers, a : sabre ami a scalping knife. 'Charlie," he said, lu his quick, ner I votw way. "you must defend yourself. I Sitting Hull and Flea In-Your-Boots. I with Wlggle-Tall-JIm and Scalp-Uick Skowheean are on us In force. 1 didn't ltii , uion lor von i,i.. .. .. - ' get me home, ttuly save nta "' Hut Custer WM gone. Ulj by shrewd arrangement borsi blase, and shots, oaths und war i 1 were Intermixed, until sud.!,.,! painted object looim-d on u' . ' sight, nnd something wns tiun- i,,, ' fnce-n human sco p. n,. " 'i ..- , , .. "" 'I'.-d i ne groiino, aaiu ine laird's backward, forward im.t mi .... ''rJt - ..uvvt ,lh the links." died nway, and th, r ' ,,.., .-,i,,,,.r lani,. - i.tii ireillMll nil n t.,u..n. Osb irn's tr.-at:" Qbleagc i; JiajN Mb I r-si iraKTsi nm-- r Lord Kelvin In n lecture statues os a result of recent InvesUtaj-! was estimated thut the earth hsjLl! the nbode of life about tiirtJ yi'iirs. Krom recent stntlstlcs it nppp,,,, the nnnual death rate In Mj,, j. . states is eighteen per on awiS In Great Britain It Is IDA; lrUuw is.2; Kmnce. !Ofi; Oermaay, jt t- Vi trin. i-j.t; Hungary sn. i0 N- and Sweden It Is less tlian elghtwt out of one thousnnd deaths lo tte I tilted Suites during the year, !) w iii oe iu January. Acclimatization of Europeans In ttt tropics is regarded by ir. .,t. simply a matter of diet. Narnra h made food to conform to climatic dltJona, from the BBB-Oll isilar Mn through the iM.rk-fat temperate zosr' to the ollveoll und vegetable trot zone; nnd to preserve health in hot cli mates one must leave pork fat moat. ami alcohol behind with his furs sal beating stoves, in n trmilcnl ..vTB.ri. ence of several years Dr. Kocrfet bu met with no case of suusirokc. It has often . n suggested Hint Ik. brlUlance of the aoa'a disk i dUe t0 Incandescent particles of enrboa, tail within n few yenrs post the nn-acn.v of carbon lu the sun has Krn ,iemnB. strnted by the spectroscope. Latel? rofesKor nine, t Hnvtur ( the forkfl Observatory, has ktiWn tmt there Is a thin layer of ettbaa In th lower part of the sun's atmi)bhere. U surrounds the solar gloU- like alumin ous shell, nnd. under tmrmal coiiill- tions, Is probably not more than Sot miles iiImjvo the sun's surface. Bw when nu eruption takes place, fron beneath, the CBTbOB Utyer, like all tb other constituents of the solar attiii phcre. Is broken up and lex-ally dlt poned by the tremendous ngltatloa. Near the bead of tbe Copper Ulver In Alaska, lu u very rough and liruktu country, nbove which rises thecoma! tbe extinct volcano. Mount WranrA there exists, according to the report Captain Aliercromtdc of the United States Army, n nest of glgnntlc pjw which may even exceed those a fit Yellowstone Valley In power aolair iiltude. The captalu wus uunlile tio pronch near to the geysers, hut bf st many In eruption from a distance, si he thinks that the Steam from tte geysers has given rise to erroneots ports thnt the crater of Mount 11-: L'ell Is still active. The surround! country Is so savage, with Its rhaial glaciers nnd lavn-beds, that l'aiui' Abercromble thinks it would best moat Impossible for explorers to Md' the mountain. Beconl oboervatloni with thestbas graph ut Mauritius hnve led to tbe sup gestiou that not only the ocean tml the atmosphere, but even the land, tat; experience the effects of n dallj t running round and round the earth It revolves ou Its nxls. Hut while tides In the nlr nud the sen are ft more to the moon than to the sua supposed "hind tide" arises solely fna the suu's action. Moreover, It I ...... 1 I... ,1... ntf..,l.,n lt tit lilllM'll, UOl lj KUJ Ullltimvi, inn, but by its bent, a waviefe presslou Is supposed to follow um if east to west, caused by tit traction of moisture from the solL A' Mauritius It Is found that there relative upheaval of the lead Bl west of the place of observation from morning until evening, and a relatlvo depression on the snme side, or ' "P" hcuval to the east, durlof ttl fffht- Detall In II aril ware Bullae. "In no other business In the world, said n Chicago hardware merchant. "I there such a multlclpUty of detail there Is In this. It is not a thousand! oue objects you have to keep tm but ten thousand and ow.THC American Inveutor Is f"retrt st l In this line, nnd there Is i"'1'4" t we do not add some new items to o stock, and relegate some other W reaima Of the obsolete. It has a. business of "specialists' to a ft extent ns the profession of nla ,. has, ntul. although 1 have J" twenty venrs. 1 don't know It aU'tf) "It takes a man's memory. bA other business ever doea "r ( day a man came In here l.'k' s " . . ii IIM certain style of hanger W d.Hir. Xo other kind could bl his doors, and If he cotiMn t P' be would have to have l,'!:,or,Jp, at considerable eipenae. wns of an obsolete pattern, H 1 didn't have It. Hold blmlWOBM and get It. , ,toPf "1 went to my friend I- ,j nnd aaked the clerks there If t " J, any of them. Xo. not one. To ( lo L- hlmaelf. I told mm teen years ago I had bought -there, and asked him If he 1 j tne. B0 snld those must ha v is lart he sold, us they bad tee out date tlfteen years. bBt. after tbW few momenta, be took "0D5 and there, upon a high sh. If. t two hangers such as I , just happened to tb T, -that 1 stuck tbos. n vaj rmoBd yean .go.'"-C'hU'. Ocean. Baels of Holler. , Nicholas, are you an m H-sslmlst?" , jinn" Well, when I've had a w J g . ra au optlmllt; wh.n i aav- jiesslmUU"-Detroit tree 1