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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1899)
t KoFWASTEPAPEK LSH WASTE BASKET GETS B 3,600 TONS A Tcrt. t. Done with the Knormon. of Correspondence thai DUO ,n the Hrltlen uovernineui L-1en to Twenty Tone VJi. i, waste-paper department elloU IIU IM DniW viovcru- IUI I.... ,. l. ......... I offices ' i.U!liral!oli uerewnu win uuuru ' uj enormous umoiiui or cor , nuu ciciicui wuia nil MCnC .1 . . irlutm otllccs of her HUM' .luilul""011 hKf 1 dtl UU year wo iuc wumtm efts Government office! ni an jjiiid i-rquislte of offlce-keep- ufpieffcogeri, with Uia natural t no small quantity of good barf was thrown away, uuJ In hi rue amounts of public ,riy were systematically mleappro i v.,i mdv was this the case, but H1I. " " - - irt of an important and confidential .... i'.. iiml tin. r wnv into m i of outsiders, sometimes with unpleasant consequences. one occasion a pound of butter f mill tin' grocer's wrupis-d .... ...,t which revealed to the . ....ullnir on ins uart of armony of the home. au. e...,.,. miration between i.usua.... H m another caw a man round a . .. i I, ...I , v. .11'. . I of a data tuat ue ,.. years before forming the head of hi Id's drum. .pelted Instances of the evils of the it Ins system lor me uiihsui in .... u.r lad to a Treasury minute $53, directing that all surplus and ,. stationery snouiii ih- bouocibu dellreftd to the controller of her Mty'l stntlonery offlce. Arrange . '..!.. ili.-ii made to reduce the Li i.. tuilii In the t'nlled Klugdoni. fctlie unfortunate result that some t,. ,1... mucins of much importance .-b bail lieou So:il io ucaiera m lmd to 1m bronchi back at L ml. After this the MOW was ., ,,, r., Ml, nth I'lelds nrlson. where ni lofted and torn up small In-fore L. ulil to dealers. Hut It was soou mail that there were grave objections laiMnv the nrlsoners have the han- ;;i.g of state papers, and In 1S83 the U Anallv iilmdoned. rrcmlses me then secured In Karl street. West- ilnsicr. a large staff or sorters emptor , and the wnoie oi me uviti uu"". win t.niM.p dealt with under the eye If offlciall from the stationery otllce. A writer In the linrmsworiu .nnu- W has been compiling some hiiiiisik- the Q tan title of waste paper with ilch these otllclals have to ucai. ami they are disposed or. Mirrounil a large yard, to which a succession TWO TVPES OP SADDLE I10R5ES. DEFECTS AMONG MEN. 5V VERY FEW SHOW PERFECT PHYS ICAL DEVELOPMENT. Cneven Arm, xh.iul.lere, II In ami Lena Are I'r.ihably Moat Niinri.ui, lull..,.. In Mahlnej Clothing, ' 1 ... . 1 r to Cover t'p Theae Utruilvus-. hltn M.-h ttm too hot to he held. (W lug that the creature was likely to cape. I set my foot upon him again aud made a tlutah of him. The Missouri stallluu Thornton Htar, winner of the first prlic at the Et. 1 ale horse show lu 13118. 1 The Kentucky gelding Frenchman, winner of the cup given by the National Snddlo-Horu Breeders' Association for the champion saddler, at Islington, In 181)9. to Cairo, thus renllxlug -though not In a very practical manner Mr. Cecil Miotics' magnificent plan for a trans African telegraph Une. nt.T oyr. pay's wastk. tnus bring loods of waste material rv imiir. are to be seen spacious lahouscs and sorting-rooms, where ir-e stall' of workers nre busily em- At one corner stands n UlsusiHi Let, which on the occasion of our it ara found crammed to tlie ceiling K BftJT tons of waste paper. Hither Lc 8JS00 tons every year, the average reeelnts varying from ten to rniv ions. The contents of the waste her haaket for one year would out- Ligh forty-thri'e eighty-one-ton guns. ilnv's uccumulatlou is no tnuui Santlty! as may le fw-eu from tie lllus- ktlon. especially when It is borne in id that the tinner Is packed as tlght- is (Hisslble Into the sucks. Mutt as nreepnt nuantltv Is. it Is steadily hreaamg at the rate of eighty ton ery year. iniin-r root I veil Is of the most m!s- tneoni cbarMtor, consisting of old its. Slate iliwnineiits. iirinted mat- old Iceoont-bOOktt and the like, by the larcer nuantltv coming from ie intMl ndatafflM. On receipt It to I once bended over to the sorters, who TIIK WASTK OK ON It WKRK. nines "f waste t..ptrniih Mcrse tnntrn- Bi.-til papur are cunt.uu.-u ,u iw Laalfi it under twelve heads, and tek it separately In large sacks. String kd miscellaneous debris arc turowu cuuuters covered with coarse wire ret, by which means the dirt is got I of. nntl.l..,.,inl .Wnni..nts rwelve care- k and effectual treatment. They are ten Of the nfflcleu to the cutting ma- BW, where they are thoroughly sliced When imiM-ra of au eepecUUU fte- pt ChUactef are dealt w ith the mid- 4'i'i'nii ,.f unch nlle is taken out and id lu a separate receptacle from r,Kt. Tin. cut fragments are men peed In swiled sacks, aud are con- evel in eii,irA ..f nn i.rtli-er to a iiai.-r W" - . ill. Hu. L.enliir of which Is kelit le- et. and are there reduced to pulp un- mrr bis eye. lu the cnae of ledirers and other ac- punt books, It la deemed sufficient to tiee off the tops of the pages. The rest lids lis way to the butter-factors, and in even In Ita last stage la made to pen? a uaeful purpose. .o less man r. r...,.lvwl at the waste-nnrier orhr very week. Amither s-ction of the waste-payer , .. .,r , M.nfnlTil fhA lltyl Hhl.kn nm M telegraphic Inetrumenta. ins pours in at ine raie oi nneen nun- r.d weight -r we-k, IIUMBI III ap- - . -.. r a ounntltv reodvul Is sufficient to in a cuutinuoua une trom ine uepe BOY OF QUEER SIGHT. Mleaouri L.ad Who Can See Only When In Utter Darkneae. rtiyslclntiB In Columbln, Mo., are much luterested in the case of Stanley Shaefer. 8 years old. who lives w lib his pareuts, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Shaefer, In Columbia. The child Is allllcted with a most remnrkuble iptlcu! deformity, lie can see as well In total darkness as a person with natural sight can sec lu (he light of day. Ho cuu walk Into a dark room nud And In n moment a pin or only other tiny object. Night la day for him, and day Is night, for In the hour of daylight be Is blind. Ills dis position and desires are largely Inllu enced by his optical deformity. At ulglit he Is restless and full of life. In the day tluiu he is more Inclined (0 sleep. Ills parents hnve some difficulty 111 restraining Ids desire to play and romp about during the hours of darkness. It Is difficult for them to find safe amuse ment for him at mliliilulit. All his little playmates are In bed. and the Isiy can derive hot small pleasure In his loneli ness. But at times he evades tils par ents and takes a lonely midnight ram ble. He has been heard ramping nliout the neighborhood of his home in the middle of the dnrkest nights with only a dog for a companion. Little Shaefer is ft faithful studcut, and well ad vanced In his books. Ills teacher, how ever, Is obliged to resort to unusual measures In Instructing htm. During the daytime the child Is often seen In the vlclulty of his home, usual ly with n companion to guide him. At such times the eyes of the Chllid are usuniiy half closed. He gropee bout like a blind person, and stumbles over the rough places unless guided by a faithful hand. When bis friends greet him he knows them only by their voices. When ho concludes to rend a while In the daytime, his proceeding! are peculiar. After securing his book, the boy goes to a closet and takes from a hook a most remarkable contrivance, It is almost as large as the child him self long, black, and In the shape of a funnel. Little Schaefer carries the with unfavorable results. The fact that the eyes of the patient since birth have been In their present coiidltlou makes the case all the more difficult. He was simply bom with the sense of sight, so far as light and darkness nre concert' -d, completely reversed. If a cure Is effected nud his sleht brought luto normal condition, It will lie one of the most remarkable scientific achieve incuts of recent yeura. NOAH AND THE FLOOD. tTASIEV MlAEraB The Delnue Keacrllied aa Nereaaart to I'revent I verpnpulatlon. The building of the ark proves that the family of Noah must have pos sessed nud transmitted a large Inherit ance of knowledge and skill lu arts that v re common to meu before the flood. The magnitude and seaworthi ness of tbnt great aiHHimcn of nnte dlluvinn mar ue architecture not leM than feet lu length and 100 lu breadth, nud with Its three decks, nt least sixty feet lu depth -Is a conclus ive testimony to a protlcleucy In the arts such aa we should e.Hct from the Immense advantage at which men Worked who had hundreds of years lu which to accumulate skill, eipefiei nnd methods, Instead of dropping I heir life work as soon ns well begun, like the artisans nnd engineers of the pre cut day. With lives ten times as long and vig orous as ours, how long would It have taken the antediluvian to till up the eastern hemisphere, or both hemis pheres? Allowing them the L6C6 year of Moses' chronology for a maximum, we shall stand aghast at our owu flg ures If we tnke the smallest conjee turable ratio of Increase lu computing the population engulfed by the deluge. At ouly three times the postdiluvian ratio, or 4.f t century, the popula tion would have passed the present number of mankind In a little more than twelve ceiilurl.; and when that great day of destruction rnmc, the Mood would hnve found as Its Incur eel Table prey a population four hun dred rimes aa large as the earth now sustains! Although the antediluvian patri archs, with their average lifetime of nine centuries, tie nssumed to corre siiond to our pr. ttrt "oldest Inhabit ants," who may average at most nine decades, we must still Infer that the general average of human life was, lu like manner, ten times as long by na ture baton the flood as now. Of Itself, this lengthened term must have sev eral times multiplied the present ratio oi Increase In populating. The much grenter projHirtlou of persons who lived to become parents, with the lengthen ed term of parentage Id the Individual, must have still further multiplied tb ratio of Increase. After making nil possible allownnci-s, or even supposing no grenter ratio of In. T.-ase In the worst of the nntedllu vlan centuries than has prevailed since we an comcllcd to accept the Mosaic chronology as the longest that the llm Its of prolralriilty nnd of the rapacity of the eastern hemisphere will In-ar. vnd not only so, but the deluge Itself becomes another logical necessity That titter destruction of all the fami lies of the earth save one was the only alternative to an overcrowding of the ..nrfh Sjilvntiou. organ of the con verted Jews. A man can N measured to .t advautage, tailor say, away from a glass. Standing before a mirror he Is almost certaiu to throw out hi chest. If be doe uot habitually carry It IO, aud lake au attitude that he would like to have rather than the one he coiiimoal holds; whereas the tailor waul lit in. n the portrait painter wants hi ulr Ject. lu hi nam nil DOM nnd manner. With the man In that attitude the tailor can bring his art to bear If that I re- qiilrisl lu i be overcoming of any phys ical defect, and produce clothe thai will give the lct attainable effect Dpoa the llgure a they will be actually worn. The physical defect most common lu man I uin-vcnuc of the shouldei. due shoulder I higher tluiu the other. and tbl I a defect ofteu encountered, though the difference In the height may Hot lie mi great as lo la' noticeable, ex cept by une accustomed to taking note In such thing. This le n defect that Is easily overcome by the tailor, when It exists In a comparatively moderate degree. It Is done sometimes simply by cutting the coat to tit oil Cadi shoulder, the perfect lilting coat carry ing with It the Idea mid the appear mice of symmetry. Soin, times, and this Is commonly done In cases of more pronounced difference, symmetry is at tallied by the familiar method of build lug up or pudding the lower shoulder The Influence of the lower shoulder extends down on thai side of the body, so that sometimes It Is necessary 1- low the arm to cut that side of the coal hotter. Next to nneTenneea of n shoulders round shoulder nre porhap the couiuiouest defect. A very common thing Is unevenness of the hip. A difference of half an Inch here would not Is- at nil remark able; It Is sometimes much more. II a man finds one leg of his trousers the legs as he knows being alike In length touching the ground while the OtbOf clears It, he may reasonably con slder that there I a difference some where lu his legs. It may Ik- that one leg Is longer than the other, but It Is more probable that one hip Is higher than the other, or one leg fuller, so that It takes up the trousers more and gmd naH rises the bottom more. It wool. I Is. a common thing If men were seen with their waistcoats off to llud sua p. n.lers set at uneven heights. The variation 111 the suspenders might i' required, to Ire sure, by a difference In the shoulders, nnd not In the leg, it Is common to Bad men's arms of differ .nt lengths. The difference may le so slight as to require no sieclal at tentlou lu the making of their clothes. but It Is frequently necessary to make the coat sleeves of dlffcreut lengths. The fact appears to tie that there are not many i-rfect men, that Is, men of Dawfeet symmetry of proportions which respect man Is like all things else lu nature, like horses, for instance 0...1 ... I.ut lii the greater iiiiiiiImt of men these defects nre within such ii...i Mint thev might te descrllM il as variations rather than as substantial defects. some OaetaeWea of ur raim.iar. A writer lu the Krench eeletitiilc Journal, La Helen, .- ixiur I recall e.-i t. nn curiosities of the i.rcgorluu cal endar. Me write: "Sluce the reform of the calendar by Pope (iregory Xlll. lu l.VC, uo century can iN'glu with a Wednesday, a I'rlday. or u Sunday. Also the same calendar can lie used every Iweuty years. January and Oc tober of the same year always begin with the same day. So do April and July, also September and December, February, March, and NoveinU'r also liegln with the same day. New Year's day and St. Wealor day also fall on the same day. except of course In leap year. Each day of the week has HI' I ad a a day ..f rest somewhere? Sunday among Christian. Monday with the Creeks. Tuesday with the Persian. Wednesday with the Assyr ians. Thursday with the Egyptian, Friday With the Turks, ami Saturday with the Jew. Finally, the error of the QregorUU calendar, compared with the actual course of the sun, doe not elfOOd one day In four thousand years A It Is quite probable that neither toil nor 1 shall ever verify this, we shall not risk very much by believing the stutelueuL" tew tram-,, device to the place desired, puts It down with siiiit upward, crawls under It. and rends. The d.-slgn aud purpose of the unl juc .otitrivnnce a. of course, to exclude the light. The child hns been treat.sl by many physicians and skilled oculists, but to no avail. Many kind of glasses and spectacle have been tried, but always Says a physician: "One cause of baldness Is great Intellectuality." Thle wouW Indicate that baldness Is for the purpose of allowing the Intellect to shine. There la nothing like tight shots to get people home early at night. I'OIN FOR UNIVERSE. GAMBLED ON A NUQOET. Netted I'irvrr tlureework Which Man e'J.IMMt. DtMAND FOR MONEY THAT WILL I "Ind you ever have a IH pwoe oi Bt THt SAME EVERYWHEHt. pore luck when y.m really imssI.hi it I badly?" said one who Is at proscut a lalk of a ..... i . -1 . t . i (.on I. nt New II. w it Would Trove a lloou to Traveler ami Traders In All CeMtrlooi ENCOUNTER WITH Vnd A WEASEL. It Verr Fierce Kmounter Trnvod to I t. John Burroughs has some trouble In nrotcctliig his chickens from the weas els that lurk In the woods around his Blalraliled cabin nitir West lark, on the Hudson. In the (Vntury he thus deaerlUs an encounter with an esja cutUy iK-rtlnnclous roblx-r of his roost: I was standing In my lorei wun my dog, talking with my neighbor and his wife. who. With their dog, were siiiiki Lug lu the road a few yards in front of me. A chicken suddenly screamed in the bushes up liehlnd the ris ks Just Ik youd my friends. Then It came rush lng down over the rocks past them, flying and screaming, closely piir-u.d by a long, slim red animal, thai m l to slide over the rocks like a scrjN in. Ita legs were so short that one saw ouly the swift, gliding motion of lis Issly. Across the road Into the garden, within a yard of my friends, went the pursued and the pursuer, and Into tin garden rushed I and my !"(.' The weasel selaed the chicken by the WtBg, and was being dragged along by the latter In Ita effort to Miape, when I ar rived um the scene. With a savage glee thut 1 had not felt for many a day I planted my foot upon the eoaeoi The soft neck underneath yielded, and 1 held him without hurting him, He let go his hold uiKin the chicken nnd aclied the sole of my shea- !n his t.sth. Then I readied down nnd gripped him with my thumb and foreflOgef Just linck of the ears, and lifted him up. and looked his Impotent rage In the face. Wliat gleaming eyes, what an nrray of threaten.:); teeth, erhal reaching of vicious cluus. what a wriggling and cuuvulaed body! Hut I had hJa tlrmly. He could onl) scratch my baud a i,d dart fire from bis electric, bead-llko eyi-. In ii''' iiH-HJiMiiiL- oij bounding p, begging to tie allowed to have bis way with the weasel. Ilut I knew what be did not; I knew that In anything like a fair encounter the weasel would p-t the first hold, would draw the tlrt blood, and hence prob ably effect hie escae. Bo I carried him, writhing and scratching, to place In the road re moved from any Deaf cover, and threw him violently DPOO the ground, hoping thereby so to sum and Is-wlhter him that Uie terrk r OOUld rush lu ami crush him before be recovered his wits. Hut I had miscalculated; tin- blow did In deed stun and coafnae Mm, hod he was till too qui' k for the dog, and had hltn by the lip Use an electric trap. Nip lifted up hi head aud swung the weasel violently about hi the air, try ing to aliake hltn off. uttering a cry of rage and lln. but did not succeed In loosening the animal's hold for some momenta When If- had done so. and attempted At an assemblage of noted m.-n a y.-ar two ago a lnw y.-r w ho conducts the legal buslines of a great railway system tried lo "guy the parson" In the la-rson of the late lllshop William of roimecllcut by mullclou quizzing. At last be said "Why won't you get these railway managers to give you a pas over their roads. Itlshop? You can pay for It by giving them entrance tlckels luto heaven." "Oh. no," gently replied the bishop; " would not part them so far from their counsel lu the otlsT world." Perhaps the worst recorded attempt at an eOCnpc from a conversational dlf- Ib idly was made by a UOOdOB Kast End curat! whoapedamy cui Irated ine friendship of the artisans. One day a carpenter arrived in his room, and, pro ducing a photograph, said: "I ve brought you my la.y's HfconOQBi as you said you'd like to have It." furate (re turoiislyi How awfully good of you to remember! what a capital likeness! How I he? Oerpenter- Why, sir, don't you remember 1 lie's dead. 0 orate oh. yes, of course, I know that. 1 mean how's the man who took the photo graph? Judge Waddy. q. C. of Eng'.aud, while on a circuit would sometime ocupy u local Wesh-yan pulpit, on MM occasion the late Sir l-'rank Lockwissl liming..! with a few kindred souls to attend a local ehapol where "friend Waddy" was to lead the service. They entered mui occupied a trout teat uu dor the very nose of the law yer-preach er, who, eying t belli askance, solemnly gave out a hymn and concluded by au iiouiuing. "after which llrulher Iu-k wisul will offer prayer." iMirlng the singing, however, the learned Junior recollected that he had an Important engagement eleewbere which doubUeee MTed tth the congregation and him self a trying quarter of nil hour. Hoy Beta, at one time Justice of the peace In I.angtry, Texas, administered tin- law aci-ordlng to bis own lights. He held OOUrt In his saloon, and It was his euHtom in minor cases to line the de fendant "drinks for the crowd" and ad journ court till the tine had Iss-n col lected. One day he acted as coroner In the case of an unkuowu man found dead on the outskirts of the town. Nothing was brought out by examina tion la-youd the fact thai a revolver and two twenty dollar pieces were fouud on the corps,-, whereupon Bean pocketed Isilh weapon ami money, declaring that "the licensed came to his death through some unknown means, and, Inasmuch as It was guilty of carrying concealed wcnHins, against the H-av and dignity of the Slale of Texas and Ibis commu nity, the court lines It llfty dollars." Justice Hawkins was on one occasion presiding over a case In which the plaintiff was giving evidence against a man who had stolen a isilr of trousers from his Chop, "How much were thi trousers?" iiierbsl Hawkins. "Well," replied the plaintiff, "It depends who wants to buy them. I sell them to one. man for thirty shillings, to another for twenty live, but you can have ths-ln for twenty three and six." "Sir!" crUsl Hawkins, angrily; "I wnnt you to tell me bow much those trousers are worth." "Well," replied the plaintiff, "sluill we say twenty-two shillings for you?" "Nsik here," Ihiindeivd Haw kins, "If you do not Instantiy tell ine what those trousers ure worth, I'll send you to Jail for fourti-eti days for con tempt of court." "Well, well," replied the frightened plaintiff, ooncUtetlngly, "you may have I hem for a guinea. I'm giving them away; still. yui may have them at that price " llv.n the stern eapect Of Justlis- Hawkins OOttM not stop the roar of laughter which broke out on bearing the reply, a roar In Which Hawkins Joined himself. A I'rolltabln Uroam. It may not be generally known that the Invention of the automatic lock brake for carriages was the result of a Wonderful dream. The Inventor, u man n. lined Springer, bad hOM puzillng over I menu wiu n-by the driver of u carriage need not get down to put on the brake, but might do so through the ectlon of the boraea, and was oonv pletely baflh-d Shortly afterward hu bad a dr. ain, In which he hliunelf used this lock-brake w heu driving down a hill. Ou awakening, he remembered perfectly how It bml been worked, and In, mediately applied for a patent Tbo flrt year of IU use brought him In no less than $75,000. PUT -.nnny year commercial men of alt nationalities have spoken and writ ten ou the subject of the Introduction of a yet em of coinage which should hare i u Diverse standard. The proposition has railed lo meet with ucce on ac count of the dllltculty In persuading the i pie of different countries to abandon their own avstem of coinage, which appear to them part and parcel of them- selves a much a their language- It-eir. The Une seem approaching,'' wild a financ'.er, "wheu It w II be l"s DM aim per ha pa sdvlaabta for the great nation of the earth to meet In convention aud adopt a coin which shall be onstuopol- lliin. the weight and Itucnes of w hlcll m gin is- determined the convention and the minting of which might Is- lu- trUBted 10 a body of experts made up of representative from all thu nation who care to enter Into the project. It may be some time before this comes alsiut. ret It would greatly facilitate International business, ei-clnlly sluce large International transaction have come to be quite common. Snob a coin would probably nerer supplant the coin , . al to the union countiicti lu which loo the coemopeUtan ooln became cur rent, yet wllh education Hiking such Hides as It seem lo ta dolug every where It ought not to Ik- dlllleult to In struct the children In schools lu the table Of the promised coin and Rive them practical Illustrations m Its use. Such a coin would not be welcomed en thuatattll nl.y by small trade: s In d ffer cut countries who are wont to profit by the nnfamlllarlty of traveler with the coin of the realm and their natural be WlMermenl IB attempting to tlx In their mind the coinparnt.ve value of article iisIiIomiI In lelatlon to the money Hi, y htre always handled, but It would be Imou to the great traveling world's nbllc, to our globe trotting commercial treveletn, to opulent tourists and to In- llgeiit emigrants. The current Is sure ly In the direction of a universal har monizing of commercial Interests and the elimination of all the little lucky cards ami a relcgntlou of all things aud people In trade to a sound basis of lu ti ll. sic merit." The subject of a eoamopolltaa coin is not a new one, snld a memner or a bunking linn. "In some of the nspecie of the case It nppears to be very desir able. It has been suggested that the various commercial nations agree upon a gold coin, of uniform weight and line- iiess, to be given a name which would be understood lu most of the countries agreeing to It coinage. Mach country I to coin It owu pieces nnd to be re sponalble for their accuracy. The coin Is to have on one side the stamp or Jegend of the country coining It and on the oilier Its universal name. It will readily be seen that with such a cola In universal use. both In practice nnd in, omits. commercial transaction would uo doubt be greatly facilitated I do not look, however, for Its early nc compllshiucnt. Ha desirability Is not Mifllelcnt to overcome the long estab lished customs of the various countries so as to bad them to relinquish the names aud styles of their various coins. Conservative ICngland, for Instance, with Ins cumbrous system, ts not likely to relinquish Its pounds, shillings nud pence ami adopt the decimal system of Prance, Qermanjt, Itnly and the United States. And It Is not likely that the lat ter would give up their quick and handy decimal system for that of Kngland. On the whole, the Idea Is a very good one, but, like many other good things like the proposed metrical system, for Instance ImposMlble of accomplish eat for various reasons at present." high railroad OfletUU "I did once, and never again. Il happened In Denver In 1 vcj. I was broke. 1 had Just come out of the hospital after a long tmwle with pneumonia and I was unable to do manual latsir. which was the only thing I could And. One afternoon, when thing were at their very worst, I was sitting In the old Chnrplot Hotel and overheard two men talking very secretly alsiut a big strike In some mine. I Inferred from their conversa tion that It wa somewhere lu the San Juan district, but they didn't mention the exact location or the name of the property. "When they went out 1 noticed a tiny pl.sv of ore lying on one of the chair. where II had evidently DOM dropped while they were examining some speci mens. It was brown quartz, literally full of gold. It wns ore that made a fellow's heart Jump Just to hmk nt It, and while I was turning It la-tween my lingers tt all of a sudden flashed Into my mind that It must have come from the "Lady Alice.' They had taken such stuff from It once, but the vein had 'pinched out." and the property was enppoeed to i. N. is. it Mock had dropped to nothing. "Of course It wns only a guess." con . .tilled the speaker, "and there were several hundred chances that It wasn't the Altec at all. I did some quick think ing. There was a banker up (ow n who owned a lot of Alhv stock, and In two minutes I was on my w ay to his oACO, I.sik here,' says 1. when I Anally got Into tils den. 'I have Information Worth n lot of money to rOQi what Is It worth to me?' "Not a cent down." says he, promptly, 'but lo per cent. If I get IL' I handed hltn the piece of ore; It wae alsuit as big ns the end of my thumb. They've struck that In the Iady Alice,' says I. To my surprise he turmsl as pale ni death and felled for a clerk. 'Kun after Smith!' he Iwwicd. 'and bring him back with that stock!' Smith. It turned out. was the messenger, and was then on his way to deliver a bundle of Alhv stock for which the banker had Just lieell offered a Couple of hundred dol lars. He had thought It a good trade until he saw my ore. Smith came back and the banker tried his ta-st to pump me, but I wouldn't tell him any more. If he had known I was only guessing he would have kicked me out, but the fnte were with me. The next dny the news of the discovery got to tne piiniic; It wns Alice, sure enough, and the stock went scooting skyward. Meanwhile the felkiws In ou the secret h.ul bought up ull they could. My hanker scis)ssl In a big pot of money ami 1 got 2,o00 for my share."-New OrlcauJ Tluies-Pemoerat. A Busman' fWOOaBlloa. Mrs Hharpe That wne a queer Idee of CuUitsteenre Wise to have bis sextant to seize him a second time, the weasel and all chrouom. tcr brougbl to ble .,, ant again, but quickly released 1 deathbed. bis bold and darted sls.i.t this way Mr. Sharpe He was 101 Ideally afraid and that, seeking .-over. Three or four to cro.s the Styx by dead . eckonlng. ajajaj u,,' dog was upon him, but found Jewelers' Weeklg. CHANQkO HER BRIDEGROOMS. While Kloplae- with On Sh Kounil the Otbr. There Is a Detroltcr who was a prin cipal In one of the queerest elopements ou record, deelures the Free Press of thut city. He was at a resort Ih the upper lake reglous. Among the guests was a beautiful girl from the South, educated lu a convent nnd unsophisti cated ns to the ways of the world. The I li t roller found her one dny vainly try ing to cast n tty and taught her the trick. It took time; he did uot believe lu crowding her education, and they be came very friendly. A nntural result followed, ami when he presented his ense to her father the old gentleman, metaphorically speaking, tore up the sod. Mis daughter wns engaged, this new lover knew It, and If hu didn't drop tin- matter Just where It was he would either b- thrown Into the lake or pumped full of lend. The maiden thought a good deal of the man she had left behind, but the new Infatuation was stronger, so an elop un nt was planned. When Uiey went stealthily to the boat house at tilglit every craft was securely locked iiii rii ept au Indian canoe. He wns not an artist In propelling such a boat, but they "sailed" away. They kept close to the shore, but ho grew ovurcuuUdctit leaned suddenly toward her to renew one of hi vow, and over they went. He managed to keep her afloat and shouted so lustily that the guide at a m ar by camp rowed to the rescue. She was soon stowed away beneath blankets, and he made- the acquaint ance of a lot of Houtbcrnere who had Just arrived for huutlng and Ashing. lie told his lory, all wer sympathetic and a messenger was hurried off luto the country for a parson, as It was thought ls?st lo put an lusuisVrablo bar rl.-r in the way of the wrathy father. When the bride stepped forth for the Ceremony one Of the Southerners, pale ami excltisl, rushed to her. She hesl tat.d but a moment before falling Into blM anus The parson did bis work. but her llrst love was the bridegroom The 1 let roller admits that hu mad up bis mind In n flash that be would rather lie a bachelor than food fur fishes. i -Honing ot .1... k I.arkln. More cruel treatment wns never ac corded to anylsidy than thai meted out by Miss Jennie Siulthklns to Jack I. ark Ins. Mr. I..iiklns Is the stenographer nnd corner-stone of a wholesale gro cery house and Miss Siulthklns Is ink ing a coursu lu oratory at the univer sity, lloth of them live on fiTth street. Miss Smlthklus ha blonde hair and Innocent blue eye. Icnou lu elocu tion and Oelsarte have laiikiit her to talk with her eye and smile with her reddish hair. Larklns was captivated as lie passisl the Mnlthkliis home ou his way to the llllnol Central station. They had never spoken except with their eyes, and I.arklns not being as well up In Oelsarte as Miss Smlthklus, may not have said all that he thought he did. When he Judgisl the acquaint ance was well establlslusl, he wrote Miss Siulthklns a note. He received no answer. Another note met the samo fnte. The third was found pinned to a lamp post next dny Juat In front of I.arklns' hoarding house. Seven icon people In the house had read It la-fore I.arklr.a suspected what the fun was alsiut There, on violet-blue note pa per, with Miss Smlthklus' name cut out, wss I. iit-kiiis' touching epistle. In which he compared his auburn -haired lady to "a star, declared that she "had broken his heart," and w anted to know when, If ever, she Intended to answer his note and fly with him from stern parental objections. "I get n salary of $18 and work for . Your Jnck I.arklns," wns the way the letter concluded. Larklns has changed his boarding place. Miss Hmlthklns Is still practic ing Oelsarte Chicago Inter Ocean. LAW AS INTERPRETED. "XUr Krea German Ithln." Mkolaus Parts. bo wrote the patrl otic song. "They Never Shall Have It tho Free German Ublne," la to be bon orrd by a monument at Uellenklrcben. A good many men carry the burden of silly won, folk. The light to read medical tmoks to the Jury for the purisjav of proving the symptom of disease Is denied lu illx by vs. Omaha A C. II. It. A Co. (Iowa), M I,. It. A. although they are ad mitted to Is- stnii. ! rd Isjoks, where they have not bn referred to by wt ncssee whose testimony Is to be contra dicted by them. The rule that freedom from contribu tory negligence must alllrmatlvrly ap pear and Is not presumed Is adhered to In McLean vs. Perkins (Me.), 43 I,. It. A. 487, In case of the drowning of employes while going to therr work In an old punt with a crack In one sldo ail,, d with waste and a part of one end spilt off, when th.-y were all drowned, and there la no evidence ae to tlve cause or manner of such acci dent. The acceptance by a defendant In n divorce suit, over whom no Jurisdiction was obtained, of the decree rendered aud his remarrying aru held In Hek kmg va. I'faff (C. C. A. let C), 43 h. It. A. BIS, luHUlflclent to slop him from disputing the validity of a subse quent ex parte proceeding in the dJ-von-e suit by which the Judgment Is Opened and a decree fur alimony ca tered against hlim I'arveatlne Potato Huaa. A light bushel basket Is the surest ami quickest way of getting rid of po tato bogs. In wet weather at least The bugs - u:i be shaken off the vines Into the has . t In about half the time It takes to parts grten them. Color Dae lo Ha. i. rla. A scientist of ltlo de Janeiro states, a a result of protracted and patient investigation, that the color and scent of flowers are due to bacteria and that these germs are often of a kind that must be harmful to human beings. Tbe practical man de votes but little ttiue to preaching.