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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1900)
MARGERY. fair Margery I chanced td view Within her garden's gay-decked space, Clad in a gown of purple hue, A F.vlph with all a flower's grace. I'ou left upon my heart so true An image time can ne'er erase Maid in violet! A love-light in her eyes, whose blue Of heaven's a.ure seemed a trace; What wonder I began to woo! rw obstacle they needs must face: The other lovers who would sue A promise without days of grace, Made inviolate. Woman's Home Companion. HER BIGGEST PUPIL. Scene: The little parlor tn the modest cottage in which Miss Mary Brewster boards. Mr. Jim Thrasher nervously await ing her, his stalwart form perched on the edge of an easy chair. As she enters his eye brightens, he 'smiles, and dropping his broad brim med hat on the floor he rises. Mary You wished to see me? Jim Yes, Miss Mary. (He eagerly puts out his hand. She takes it in a hesitating manner.) You don't know me. I was afraid you wouldn't. Fif teen years, and a beard, and any num ber of hard knocks do change a man. liul you why, you've scarcely altered a particle. Can't you guess who it is? Mary You remind me something In your voice in your smile reminds me of of a boy I once knew. Jim, delightedly I'm the boy. Mary Not not Jim Thrasher? ' Jim The very Identical. ( Mary I'm so glad to see you. (She takes his band Impulsively.) Sit down, please. It Is so kind of you to hunt me up. I've thought about you many times and tried to wonder what you were doing and what you had become. Jim That's very good of you, Miss Mary- I hardly supposed you'd cher ish such pleasant remembrances for your biggest, pupil. What a gawk I was! I can't Imagine how you had any patience with me. Let me see. I was just 20 that last winter In the old red school house and a head taller than you and two years older, wasn't I? What an awkward problem I must have been for you! Too old to learn and too big to whfp. Mary Ah, but you never needed whipping. You were my right hand man, my prop, my encouragement. I y don't know what I would have done wuu tnose nig boys trom down the creek If It hadn't been for your strong muscles. Jim Do you remember how you talk ed to me the first day I came to school? I had come with those very creek boys to make trouble. My mother died when I was very young, and no other woman had ever talked kindly to me. When you nppealed to my honor, and putting jour hand on my shoulder begged me not to bury the good that was In me, something seemed to swell In my breast, and from that moment I re solved to be a man a man whom you would one day be proud to say you knew. Mary You make me very happy. It Is a wonderful pleasure to feel that my poor efforts were not all wasted. It makes life worth living. Jim Life, then, hasn't always but tell me something nbout yourself. Mary There is very little to tell. My mother died the summer after you went West, nnd I liadito return home and keep house for father. In a year or two his health failed, nnd after a long, long sickness be died. My brother nnd I were'alone, and after he found a sit uation on the railroad we moved here. When the war broke out brother en listed, and died at Tampa of a fever. Jim, after a pause And so you have. no ties to keep you here? Mary None. Jim And mny 1 ask Mary How I support myself? I have five little pupils whom I nin teaching the rudiments, and I do some fine sew ing. I get nlong very well only there Is always the fear of sickness. Now tell me nbout yourself. Jim One moment. I want to say to you, Miss Mary, that I've been trying to find you out for n long time. I wrote to the old neighborhood, asking for you, but they answered that nobody knew where you bad gone. I wouldn't have traced you down here If It hadn't been for Joe Slater. You remember little red-headed Joe, the scamp of the school? Well, he came out to Montana, looking for work, nnd I gave him a job, nnd, one day, In recalling old times, he said be was sure he saw you In this town. That's bow I came to be here. About myself? Well, whatever I am, It is you that gave me the start I fancy I've done pretty well. I'm something of a mine owner nud something of n capitalist, and I've served n term In Congress and could have gone bnck. I've got a nice bouse In Helena, nnd thore'H enough Idle cash lying around to enable me to travel as much and ns far ns I please. You understand I'm Hot blowing my trumpet for the per sonal gratification there Is In it nnd Jet It Is a personal gratification to blow V .,"t before you. . I'm accounting, ns It were, for the use I've made of those talents you cnlled my attention to fif teen years ngo. Mary Pin very glad to hear of your success. I knew you had it In you.' You have made the day very bright for me. , Jim-I nm not yet quite sure whether It will be a bright day for me or not 1 Hie fact Is. I-i waut to ask you a iu.vui-, miss aiary. Mary A favor, Jim? Jim Yes, a great favor. I-I want to bo your biggest pupil again! Mary I I don't understand. Jim Andlwanttobeyour only pupil. I need your help. They're talking of making me governor next fnii nnri ru require lots of polishing up. Oh, it will be hard work, but you'll find me ' a wunng pupil. I Mary I don't know what you mean. Jim (rising and coming closer) I'D explain. They say, you know, that a well-ordered boy usually falls In love with his teacher. That's bis very first love. And most well ordered boys get over It. But this boy is different. He doesn't get over It. That teacher has been to him the one ideal of sweet est womanhood through all his fifteen years of hard knocks and growing success. Do you understand now'i Teacher, guide, friend, will you be thai grateful boy's wife? Mary (covering her face with hi hands) Oh, Jim, Jim, I'm so old! Jim (taking her hands) Nonsens! And you are growing younger every minute. Besides, don't forget for a moment that I am two years - your senior! Coiuo, Mary; I need you. There Is a home waiting for you In the West, and comfort, and love. I don't ask you to love me yet. Perhapi I can teach you that. There, there; don't cry. Surely there's nothing yon leave behind worth these tears. Mary (rising) They are tears of hap. piness, Jim. . Her head drops on his shoulder. Cleveland Plain Dealer. A NIECE OF KRUGER. She Is Now In This Country and la a Re markably Well-Bred Girl. Miss Sannie Kruger, a grandniece of President Paul Kruger and of his wife as well, Is now a resident of Phifadel phia. She came from South Africa several years ago In company with her brother, who Is Interested in mines In Arizona. Miss Krucer's svmnnthles are strongly with the brave men who are uerenuing uer native land., but she can see that they have no chance for ' ultimate success. Miss Kruger was educated In Europe and Is proflelenl both ns a musician and artist. She says the popular Idea of the Boers In this country does them Injustice. The burghers are not, ns a class, she de clares, coarse, uneducated and brutal. On the farms no more attention Is paid to dress than by the agricultural por tion of any community. In the cities . ,i j i. .-J I .-. I uress as wen aim as uiucu uurauuii ia paid to the amenities of life as In other countries. Miss Kruger expects to re turn before long to South Africa and will spend the remainder of her life there. Uumistaltable Evidence. Agulnaldo: "Why do you suspect he Is an Americnn spy?" Filipino: "Hist! He has on a 'Ua- Ion' suit!" SlHm"se Supcrntltlon. The Siamese have so strong a super stition against even numbers that they will have none of them. The number of rooms In a house, of windows or doors in a room, even of rungs on a ladder, must always be odd. Fan. It Is no unasunl thing for a vessel plying between Japnu and London to carry 1,000,000 ins as a Blngle Item of MISS 8 ANNIE K RUG EH. Its cargo. PATHETIC CHINESE INCIDENT. A Mother's Attempt to Dispel the Blind ness of Her Child. This Is what the Fair Samaritan saw after she had climbed the dark stairs behind the store and peeped into a room that was in semi-darkness, while she repressed Lee Chung with a warning finger that enforced silence. It .was a room of considerable dimensions, with a low celling. The windows were so ill-placed, besides being barricaded, that the. room was in twilight gloom, althougn the day was bright without. Its furniture was curiously disposed close against the walls, thus leaving a wide space In its midst. And In the room the woman Suey Yep was taking part with the little Lee Moy in what was evidently a dally occurrence. With palms folded suppliautly before her, she regarded Lee Moy with a look of Inexpressible love tinged with sad ness. He was hitting wildly about him with a toy whip, and shouting angrily, his language being punctuated by strong Anglo-Saxon expletives. "D n you, mother! Why eoineth not the sun?" She submitted with the patience of an Oriental to the Imperious language of my lord, her Man-Child. "Oh, son of mine," she replied, with infinite tenderness; "the sun Is still at Pekin, drying his hair for he hath but now risen from his ocean bed. When he hath had his morning meal, and washed his face with dew and decked himself with marigolds, he will mount clouds of purple and gold and amber and come to San Francisco." "Do they of Peklu see more of him than we do?" "Yes, son oh, would we were there!" she sobbed; "for the sun always shines there, but here it is mostly dark." "We will go there, mother, at once!" He held up his hand for his mother to take. "But it is a long and stony road from here to Pekin, and we must eat and drink before we start." She led him to a little table, and set cakes before him, and a cup of tea which she fortified with a generous draught of sam shu. When he had satisfied his appetite she prepared him another cup similarly Sophisticated and set it before him. "Drink once more." she said, "for when we have left San Francisco we shall have no more tchah (tea) till we reach Pekin." And the little man drank as he was directed, and prepared for his daily flight across the world. Lippincott's Magazine. LAW AS INTERPRETED. Riding on the front platform of an electric street car is held. In Watson vs. Portland & Cape Elizabeth Rail road Company (Me.), 44 L. R. A. 157, not to constitute negligence as matter of law. Mortgages made by deposit of title deeds without writing are held, in Bloomfleld State bank vs. Miller (Neb.), 44 L. R. A. 387, to be contrary to the policy of the recording acts which are In force In this country. Liability for assault committed In a joke Is Involved In State vs. Monroe (N. C), 43 L. R. A. 801, where a drug gist who dropped croton oil on candy for a customer, to be given to a third person, la held liable for the damages caused. A drawee bank which pays the good faith holder of a forged check on which an Indorsement Is forged Is heid, In First Nntlonal Bank vs. Marshalltown State bank (Iowa), 44 L. R. A. 131, to have no right to recover ' back the money paid. On the vexed question of the right of one person to bring an action on a con tract made by other persons for the benefit of the former the case of Bu chanan vs. Tllden (N. Y.). 44 L. R. A. 170, holds that a woman mny sue on a contract for her benefit between her husband and a third person which pro vided for payment of money to her In case of success In contesting a will, for which the husband procured an ad vancement of funds, while there were strong moral and family reasons why she should be considered an heir, though not legally such. Fire In the United States. The average loss by fire In the United States has been reduced In ten years from $0,022 to $1,800. The insurance loss in the same period was reduced from $3,903 to $1,050. The prevailing use of electricity has brought nbout a large Increase In fires, owing to cnHsid wires. Ten years ngo there were only sixty-six such fires and last year there were 058. Defective flues are responsible for over 11 per cent of the fires and Incen diarism Is next ns a cause. Lnst year 0,891 Incendiary fires occured. Light ning caused 3,479, spontaneous combus tion 1,179, friction In machinery 295, natural gas 94, dust explosions 14 and five were caused by the sun's rays pass ing through wlndDW g'ass. Thcie was no assignable causes for 12,201 fires of last year. Some men have so many diamond! that they are made miserable in guard ing them. Many a woman who becomes Indig nant when called tough, glows when called a Bohemian. NINA VAN ZANDT. tVomuu Who Was Married by Proxy to August Spies, the Anarchist. Nina Van Zandt, the woman who was married by proxy to August Spies, the anarchist, almost upon the eve of his execution, is now Mrs. Stephen Malato, wife of a prominent Italian politician of Chicago, and has been liv ing quietly since her marriage, four years ago. She now dismisses the esca pade of her proxy marriage to Spies SIUA VAN ZANDT-MAIATO. by snylnjT "I was n foolish yountr elrl ' then." She Is the daughter of an ex pert chemist, who lived in a fine house on Huron street. When the Ilaymarket riots occurred she was only 17 years old, and fell in love with Spies when she saw him at the preliminary hearing. She became a constant visitor to the courtroom, al ways elegantly dressed. She made no secret of her Infatuation, sending flow ers and meals from expensive restau rants to the jail. Her parents made no effort to break off the attachment. When Spies asked her to marry him she consented, but the sheriff Inter fered. It was then decided to use a proxy, and Miss Van Zandt was mar ried to Chris Spies, acting for his brother. The girl continued her visits to the jail, and used every endeavor to save her proxy husband's life. For a long time nfter the anarchist's death Miss Van Zandt shut herself up In her home on Huron street, and denied her self to all callers. She had a marble bust of Spies made. A GOVERNMENT JOB. It Very Often 8aps the Energy of Its Holder. The narcotic effect of government employment is notorious, explains an Eastern newspaper writer, but, as In other eases, the victim of the sedative habit does not believe and cannot real ize Its power until It Is too late. There is a certain fascination to the old and hardened to watch the young struggle against their fata. The same sensations may be secured by observ ing the operations on a sheet of fly paper. The victim is' "foot loose" and is looking around for a favorable open ing. In the meantime it seems desir able to have some temporary lodgment standing-room, ns It were until the delayed opening appears. So the fly steps into the soft Government stick uni. At first it does not seem so bad, and It Is only when he feels his feet sinking that he decides to quit. But this he finds It not so easy. He pauses and begins to cast about for a little leverage or a way to wade out. In the operation he tangles up another mem ber or two. By this time he suspects that the danger Is serious and buzzes frantically. The result Is the same, and while be Is resting from the exer tion he tangles up one wing. The other waves for a while, the emblem of a disappointed and hopeless ambition, now and then buzzing about the time to come when be will quit the Gov ernment fly paper and enter business or a profession. Then he rents a larger house and his wife takes a few friends to board. Ills body Is submerged In the Government glue nnd he Is In the Government service for life. As Secretary of the Civil Service Commission Mr. Doyle has had oppor tunity to observe the number of Gov ernment employes who leave the ser vice for other occupations and then re turn to It. "A few years ago," said Mr. Doyle, "my attention was called to a man by the excellence of the exami nation which he passed. He secured the place, but after a year or so he re signed. He had saved money and was going to Yale College. After four years I heard be had graduated nnd was studying law. Then I heard he had been ndmltted nnd had gone to New York to practice. And just the other day," he continued, "the mnn came In and mnde nppllcatlon to take the ex amination for his old place In the de partment." Und r -round City. Epernay, In France, Is a vast subter ranean city, the streets for miles being hewn out of solid chalk, flanked with piles of champagne of all blends and qualities. The largest champagne manufacturers In Eiwrnay iwssess un derground cellars which cover no fewer than forty-five acres, and contain G.000,000 bottles of wine. It Is useless to acquire knowledge un less you have a little common sense with which to season It, MALADIES OF TELEGRAPHERS. Subject to Tuberculosis, Heart Trouble and Brain ConKestion. "Telegraph operators are kept In a constant Btute of cerebial tension," says Mr. Hull, President of the Railway and Telegraph Workers' Union. "They ure exposed to a great number of mala dies, and it can well be said that their work is dangerous. , A telegraph oper ator reads better with h.s ears tnao with his eyes. He carries out an es sentially mental opeiatiou by using the nerves of hearing. This faculty is consequently h guly developed in h.s case. In the ordinary work of reading twenty words a minute the telegraph operator must distinguish 150 alternate strokes or Intervals, and when theie is a rush of work this figure can go as high as 450. There is also the trans forming the sounds into vis.ble sym bols, or writing, which Implies another mental process. And whereas the nor mal amount of varied sensatory Im pulses per minute is 120, the telegraph operator has to accomplish 150 to 450. "Without taking extreme cases into consideration, it may be said that the sense of hearing in a telegraph oper ator Is two and a half times more pow erful than In an ordinary Individual. Again, in telegraphy the continuity of the nervous stimulation, the monotony of sounds and the fixity of attention ere further cau-es of exhaustion. It is found also that during forced work the telegraph operator's breathing Is affected, his heart's action precipitated and his brain congested. As a result of these phenomena it is noticeable that a general decline of the organism follows, ending In tuberculosis." According to Mr. Hull, the ordinary death rate for tuberculosis Is 13.8; that of telegraph operators is 40.0. And what Is true of tuberculosis applies to other affections of the respiratory or gans. The general death rate for the latter Is 3.5, but It rises to 18.4 among telegraph operators between 15 and 25 years of age, to 23.1 between 25 and 35 years of age, Instend of 4.9, and to 12, lustend of 5.3, between the ages of 35 and 45. From 45 years upward it de clines, being 4.3. Itisienil of 5 3, but this diminution Is very delusive, seeing thnt it is due to the elimination of the weak members who have died off in the preceding years. It becomes more marked with increasing age. Between 55 and 00 it stands at 0.5, instead of 5.4, and above (15 at 0.4. instead of 8.2. But these are not the only affections to which telegraph operators are liable. The nervous tension which they endure often gives rise to a state requiring Immediate withdrawal from their work. Arab Weapons. nere in Muscat I saw the pure bred Arab man, sinewy but not tall, a dom ineering, swaggering nobleness In his glance, nnd a brace of daggers In his waist. When I recognized a beautiful haft or noticed a slender Inlaid native gun or singular shield, I offered to buy. But nothing could Induce them to sell. "Snhib," said one man, "I killed my deadliest foe with this blade, right through his black heart! You see this dint In my shield? Ah! that dint was caused by a spear. The shield saved my life; shall I, then, sell It for money? My gun? No, sahib! I am an Arab, and my gun Is my other self. How could I be an Arab If I had no gun? This sword It belonged to my grand father. It has killed forty men. By Mohammed! It Is true. These marks, sahib you see these marks only one of these marks Is put there when a mnn Is killed." I offered three times the value. The answer always was "No, sahib, I will not; I cannot." Eve-ybody, from the frolicsome boy of 8 to the tottering Imbecile of SO, carried a weapon. The old men had rusty swords that reminded me of the unwleldly, double-bladed monsters that Richard Coeur de Lion and his knights swung In the face of the Saracens. These Muscat swords nre four feet six inches long, the blades three Inches wide, nnd the handles provide room for both fists to grasp. Law Is an un known quantity In eastern Arabia. Up-to-Date Hand Musio. Visitor: "Can your band play well, uncle?" Band Leader: "Play N well! I guess we does. We gits all our notes clar from Boston, wo does." Wisconsin ChrUtmaa Trees. As enrly ns Septomber orders were placed In Wisconsin for 50,000 Christ mas trees, to be shipped East. The mnn who slowly climbs the lad der to success remains there longer thnn the one who reaches It via the bal loon route.