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CIIAS. F. & ADA K. SOULE, Fob.
TOLEDO ; OREGON
It costs much more to avenge a wrong
than to suffer It.
Love's grand sweet song sounds best
arranged as a duet.
The woman with a sour face ought to
apply for a position in a pickle factory.
The Empress Dowager of China still
hangs out the sign, "Hease shut the
door."
A misplaced switch A man found
his fiancee's false hair on a table and
broke off the eugagement.
As nn Asiatic nation China Is not
alone on the down grade. Corea also
appears to be losing ground.
A transportation company spent $2 In
collecting 13 cents. There was certain
ly more money than sense In tills.
Curfews for children also have a
moral for grown folks. It may be
more or less serious if the law tinds
them out.
There should be nn official spanker to
look arter 15-year-old boys who have
a desire to reduce the world's supply
of princes.
cal colleges or the empire is limited to
a fixed number. The University of
.Moscow Is limited to 2r0. Kieff to 200,
Kharkov to 17.". Dorpnt to l."o, War
saw to 100, Tomsk to 120. and Kasau
to 100. This limits the number of stu
dents allowed to take up the study of
medicine to about a thousand a year.
The number seems small for so great
an empire, especially in view Oi' the
unlimited output of American medical
colleges, but it is by no means certain
that the autocratic Russian Idea Is an
unmixed evil. A multiplicity of medi
cal graduates eager to begin experi
menting with their knives and boluses
upon the defenseless public is not the
greatest blessing of a land of liberty.
THE MOUNTAINEERS.
When a boy begins to be particular
about the crease In his trousers It Is n
pretty sure sign of an attack of the
first symptoms of love.
With regard to that boy's attempt
on the life of the Prince of Wales, If
the schoolmaster Is abroad he's allow
ing the young Idea to shoot the wrong
way.
Even thf order of official precedence
recently settled at Washington 'shows
the common American longing on one
man's part to somehow get ahead of
another.
Andrew Cnrucgl? Is only 5 feet 0
Inches long. If everybody who has
tried to pull his leg had succeeded,
however, he would be more than 10
feet tall.
The name I'.orchgrevlnk hns been
made forever famous by the discovery
of the south magnetic pole. Details of
the achievement will be awaited with
the liveliest Interest.
If Professor Sheldon Is correct In his
assertion that three-fourths of the min
isters are heretical, they may some day
make it exceedingly uncomfortable for
the remaining fourth.
President Harper of Chicago Univer
sity sees Mr. Rockefeller's $2.000,01 10,
foes him .fll.OOO.OOO better, and takes
.he $:.,Ooo,oo0. Evidently President
Harper knows all the Intricacies of the
game.
"Discussions on the war and the
twentieth century," reads a notice on
the wall of a hotel In Glasgow. Scot
land, "will not be allowed until the
close of both." So far as tills genera
tion Is concerned that seems to be a
prohibition until "the day after never."
The Chickasaw Indians have passed
a law requiring any white man who de
sires to many a dusky heiress to pay
a license lee of ifl.ooo. There are ninny
Caucasian parents who would be glad
to protect their daughters from the
pursuit of fortune-hunters in the same
way
There Is one redeeming prospect fol
lowing the recent attempt of a crazy
youth to puncture the anatomy of his
royal highness Albert Edward with a
a2-calllier bullet. It may uow become
the fad for the "chappies" and Anglo
maniacs to hire young and Inexperi
enced marksmen to stand off at forty
paces or so and discharge murderous
looking weapons at them. Ami If a
few of the Imitators should accidental
ly be hit In a vital spot the public
would be immeasurably the gainer.
During the year 18!! American rail
roads were more active In building
thnn In any year since 1S0O. A total of
4,500 miles of new track was laid.
In the meantime there was a great de
crease In the number of roads going
Into receivership. The long, dark era
of railroad bankruptcies, which cul
minated In 1S!3, when seventy-four
companies, with nearly 30,000 miles of
lines, were handed over to receivers,
lias ended, and the new era starts with
the railways of the United States In a
solvent and hopeful condition. The
receiverships for ISO!) cover ouly 1,010
miles, or a little over one-half of 1 per
cent, of the present mileage.
The army of young physicians now
waiting for a bald spot on their heads
and for the practice that Is supposed
to come with It will doubtless hear
with Interest of Russia's summary
plan for preventing a surplus of doc
tors. By a recent decree of the litis
lan Minister of Education the admis
sion of 11 .rear ttudeuta to the uiedl-
The announcement of the death ol
Dr. Gruby, of Paris, recalls many in
teresting features of his long practice
among the eminent folk who were his
patients. The list includes Heine,
George Sand, Marshal MacMahon. the
elder Dumas, Daudet, Ambrolse Thom
as, Chopin and Liszt. Although It
cured many of them of various real or
fancied maladies, he seldom adminis
tered or prescribed a dose of drugs.
Exercise, abstinence and occupation
were his therapeutic agents; but know
ing that orders to take these siniplt!
remedies were seldom obeyed, he re
sorted to various little tricks to attain
the end. To one patient w ho needed ex
ercise, he gave a little sugar and wa
ter, with orders to walk from the Bas
tille to the CliUiih of the Miuiii:iiK
every morning before sunrise, and ai
every sixty-eighth step to crack n
grape-seed between his teeth. Anothei
nervous idler was ordered to move into
four rooms on the fifth story of a house
with no elevator, to have each room
papered a different pattern and shade
of green, and to select, himself, tiie
rooms and the paper, and to superin
tend all the work. By such devices, he
lured his pntients Into doing what they
otherwise would not have done, and
thus was enabled to effect many cures.
It was a shrewd use of mental foibles
for the cure of physical ills.
KENTUCKIANS WHO LIVE AS IN
COLONIAL TIMES.
Somebody who has access to the
quasi-private correspondence of a New
York concern, and who is unable to
keep a good thing to himself, makes
public the following extract from ft
letter written to the house by a friend
ly firm In an Interior town:
Upon our recommendation, Mr. and
Mrs. , of our city, will shortly
visit your New York house, with it view
to milking extensive purchases. If suited,
they may prove to he valuable patrons.
15c sure to pay particular attention to the
tastes of Mrs. (second wife).
Kindly consider this comiiiunieutiou con
fidential. It Is hardly necessary to direct at
tention to the implication contained in
this friendly hint from one business
firm to another. The point which the
out-of-town concern wished particular
ly to emphasize was that no amount
of attention bestowed upon Mrs.
would be thrown away, for the simple
reason that she was Mr. 's second
wife. Long and careful study of the
relations that exist between a husband
and his second wife seems to have con
vinced the intelligent mercantile class
es that the latter Is very apt to exer
cise greater iullueiice over the former
than any first wife possibly could. We
are left in doubt as to why this should
be M. but people who are engaged In
vocations which demand the exercise
of more than ordinary good Judgment
In dealing with humanity in general,
and whose aim Is always to please, are
not likely to err greatly when they as
sume that, while a husband may oc
casionally disagree with his first wife,
he seldom or never finds It pleasant to
differ from his second, particularly on
a shopping tour. There is in the letter
quoted above a suggestion for that
large and worthy element of our popu
lation which Is striving constantly to
explain the vagaries and Idiosyncra
sies of human character. It cannot be,
of course, that a husband Is so entire
ly chastened or cowed by his llrst wife
that he submits gracefully or slavishly
to the domination of his second; nor
Is 't to be presumed that one who has
passed safely through his llrst matri
monial venture has beeu so well
trained that he Invariably makes a
better husband for the second than he
did for the first woman of his choice.
No amount of theorizing over this mat
ter will result In a satisfactory con
clusion. It Is probable that in the
present Instance there were special
reasons why the New York linn should
be particularly pleasing to the second
wife. The out-of-town concern could
not safely enter Into theo reasons. A
hint was thought to be sutlleleut. and,
without knowing anything to the con
trary, we must Imagine that the New
York firm acted on and prollted by It.
Class of People Who Have Little Am
bition and Practically No Enlighten
ment Fully 2,000,000 Americana
Who Are Absolutely Benighted.
The political conditions in Kentucky,
culminating In the assassination of
Senator Goebel, the Democratic con
testant for Gover
nor, brought the
mountaineers of
that common
wealth into consid
e r a b 1 e notoriety.
T liese mountain
eers are of a type
common to a large
and rugged region,
extending from the
mountain giul. Ohio River to Bir
mingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The
extent of the region has been concealed
from the fact that it is parceled out
among nine different commonwealths,
writes William Goodell Frost, Presi
dent of Berea College, In the Atlantic
Monthly. It has no coastline, no navi
gable stream and no Inland lakes. The
lack of waterways, or other means of
communication, has barred all prog
ress. In this region are 2,000,000 people,
who are living practically in condi
tions of colonial times. The difference
Is that the colonial people were con
sciously In motion and felt themselves
to be In the front of the progress of
their time, while the mountain people
have a depressing sense of being be
hind. Yet the people are not to blame,
The conditions affecting them are the
result of environment.
These people are more destitute of
nil the opportunities that go with edu
cation than any other people of our
race In the world. There may be twen
ty counties in one group which do not
contain a printing press. The average
ward Taris, around which he was the
first civilian to ride before its complete
environment. He was able to enter
Metz before the capitulation; he was
the first uoncombatant to enter Paris
after the siege; he saw the overthrow
of the Commune, was in the midst of
the fighting, i.nd was almost torn to
pieces by the mob. He saw some fight
ing in Spain after the abdication of j
King Amadeus.
In his capacity of correspondent he
accompanied the Prince of Wales on
his tour through India in 187.V70. He
was witness to the plucky attempt at
Servia to throw off the yoke of Tur
key. He followed the Russo-Turklsh
campaign in the summer and autumn
of 1877, and, attached to the Russian
army, was present at the battle of
TIIE LATE AHCH1HALD FORBES.
PrlTAtn Cable Tor the CJuora.
The (Juoeii, when at Oslonie, has her
own private submarine cable, which Is
laid from the Isle of Wight to Hurst
Casfle on the mainland, where Charles
I. was kept for a few days before his
trial and execution. Her majesty uses
this cable to communicate with her
ministers.
What has become of the old-fashioned
girl who used to accept Invitations
as follows: "Miss Smith's compliments
to Mr. Jones, and she would be pleased
to accept his kind luvltath'u?"
A TYPICAL MOUNTAIN HOME.
preacher of the mountains is Inclined
to be suspicious of the "book larnin' "
which he has failed to acquire. Re
ligion Itself Is a melancholy affair
chiefly connected with funerals and
sectarian squabbles.
The fighting propensities of the
mountaineers are to be classed with
other survivals of old-world temper
ami ideals. It Is well to remember that
the whole South Is far nearer than the
other parts of the country to the age
of chivalry, when all gentlemen wore
side arms and felt that the govern
ment was simply to defend them from
foreign foes, while they were to rely
upon their own prowess to protect
their households and their honor. So
far, then, as the backwoodsmen are af
fected by the example of those who
have enjoyed superior advantages
they have been continuously taught to
avenge their own wrongs rather than
appeal to law. And quite naturally
they have shown less restraint anil
good taste In such matters. It is to be
added that the administration of jus
tice In the mouutaln counties Is attend
ed with even more delays and. uncer
tainties than elsewhere. Add to this
the fact that the mountaineer has the
Independent spirit born of solitude.
constant practice In the use of fire
arms, and that the civil wnr. In which
the mountains were plundered by both
armies, rekindled the belligerent spirit
of their ancient blood. It gives us hope
for their future that the frequent
homicides are not committed wantonly
nor for purposes of robbery, but In the
spirit of au Homeric chieftain on some
"point of honor."
FAMOUS WAR WRITER.
Archibald Forbe,Who Recently Fanned
Away In London.
Archibald Forbes, who died recently
In London, was one of the most famous
war correspondents in the world. He
was a Scotchmau by birth and for ten
years was a soldier In the British army
an experience that was of great ad
vantage to him when he became a war
correspondent.
At the outbreak of the Fratico-Prus
slan wnr he attached himself to the
German forces and was present at the
first fight at Sanrbruck. How curious
ly his experiences were nfterward
woven In with the subsequent history
of the last Imperial Napoleonic fam
lly Is shown by the facts that he wit
nessed the defeat of the French at Se
dan, saw Louis Napoleon surrender,
afterward gazed upon his dead face at
Culselhurst, nud was with the party
which gathered up the remains of
Prince Papoloou In Zululand.
He was present at the battles of
Courcelles, Vionvtlle and Grnvelotte,
and advanced with the Germans to-
RE-FORMING THE RIVER NILE.
Shlpka Tass and under fire dining
Skobeloff's magnificent attempt to
take Plevna. He went through the
Afghan campaign of 1S78, and on one
of the expeditions he was mentioned In
the general's dispatches for saving a
wounded soldier's life under close and
heavy fire.
From Afghanistan he proceeded to
Mandalay, the capital of King Thee
baw, and had sonle' Interesting Inter
views with that potentate. Thence he
was ordered to Zululand, where he ar
rived in time to see plenty of fighting
and to carry the news of the battle of
Ulundl alone at night through the en
emy's country for 120 miles to the near
est telegraph wire at Durban.
Mr. Forbes' labors shattered his
health and in 1879 he abandoned the
duties of a correspondent. He after
ward lectured In Great Britain and
America and was the author of many
books. In 188(5 he was married to
Miss Louisa Meigs, daughter of the
late Gen. Meigs, of the United States
army.
Expert Tobacco Test ins.
The greater part, in fact, nearly all,
of the tobacco raised In Cuba and not
used by the Cuban cigar-makers is
shipped to the United States. At certain
seasons of the year the Havana hotels
are filled with tobacco buyers from the
States. Some of them deal through the
brokers in Havaun, but some who know
the country and the language go out
Into the tobacco district and deal di
rectly with the planters, often buying
a. promising crop before it Is picked.
The tobacco buyer has necessarily to
be a good judge of tobacco. He goes
down into the very center of the bale
of tobacco he Is examining, extracts
some samples and tests them in differ
ent ways.
The first test Is that of smell. The
Cuban tobacco has a strong nud pe
culiar odor. A little variation one way
or the other makes the tobacco good or
bad. After smelling It the buyer Is
likely to roll ft rudely constructed cigar
out of the leaf and smoke it. He will
inhale the smoke and endeavor to de
termine exactly the flavor. He will also
examine the ash carefully and test also
the combustion of the tobacco that Is,
try to And out how long It will hold
fire. It Is a great annoyance to a
smoker who is talking or writing or
otherwise engaged to put his cigar Into
his mouth and find that It ha's gone out.
No cigar ever tastes so good after It
has met such a catastrophe. So one
quality sought for Is that of holding
lire. If a sample smoked by the buyer
will keep lighted four minutes It Is con
sidered very good. Some will burn for
five minutes and even longer without
being puffed. Ohio State Journal.
Great Engineering Feat Designed to
Equalize Its Flow of Water.
One of the most ancient islands, and
one rich In historic associations, is
threatened with destruction. When
the Nile reservoirs planned by the
great Willcocks were first made known
to the world, and it was found that he,
although offering six or seven sites for
his cyclopean designs, really ouly high
ly recommended one, the construction
of which would wipe out the Island of
Philae, the loveliest spot on the Nile,
there was a universal howl of opposi
tion. This got to such a height that
Sir W. Garstiu and his engineers may
have felt a grim kind of relief when
they found that the French would al
low them no money from the Caisse to
realize their scheme for storing the
blessed water, and they had for a time
to abandon the whole affair. So when,
one fine morning, John AIrd, Sir Benja
min linker and their friends unexpect
edly called at the office of works in
Cairo and offered to make any amount
of dams, canals and locks wherever
they pleased, for no present cash pay
ment, in accepting their wonderful
offer the government cut down the lev
el of the great reservoir by nearly one
half. Willocks wanted to store up 120
feet of water. Sir Benjamin Baker
was told to content himself with twen
ty meters (about sixty-five feet) of Nile
storage.'
And so the artists and the tourist
and the general opponents to the
drowning of Philae were appeased, or
at least silenced, and the greatest engi
neering work that the world lias ever
seen was quickly started and within a
year 20,000 men were employed at -Assouan
nud at the supplemental dam at
Asslout
When the dam Is completed and at Its
high level Philae will have its temple
pylons and a few of the higher ruins
standing out of the water just to mark
where its ancient beauties were, but all
Its loveliness, its verdure, its palms,
several of its temples, Its storied walls
nnd Its Nilonieter, its colonnades, its
Roman quays, will disappear beneath
the waters. An Island will be lost, hut
a continent Will be saved.
The Hero of Mafekins;.
Of the hero of Mafeking's school
days Dr. Halg Brown, the former head
, master of Charterhouse; has been tell
j Ing a correspondent: "I notice that the
name is Invariably mispronounced,"
jaid the doctor. "The 'a' In Bauen lsV,;
generally given the sound 'ah,' but It
should have the usual sound of 'a'
as In 'bathing towel,' which was his
nickname among the boys at school.
The boy was essentially the father of
the man; he was very active, lively,
full of fun and amusement, and ex
ceedingly popular with his schoolfel
lows. An extremely clever boy In ev
ery sort of way, his accomplishments
were numerous. He was fond of ath
letics of all kinds, and in all he under
took showed faculty of resource, cou
pled with a keen sense of humor." Col.
Baden-Powell, two days before he left
England for South Africa, paid a visit
to Dr. Halg Brown, and characteris
tically remarked: "I hope they will
give me a warm corner." He was
given his wish.
Dm t)i by Anarchists.
The Gerninn Emperor Is probably the
only European monarch who carries a
revolver. Firmly convinced that he Is
going to die by the bullet of nn anarch
ist this fate having been prophesied1
to Id in long ago he Is determined to
fight for his life If necessary, and ac
cordingly Is never without his revolver.
He is extremely skillful in the use of
the weapon, and his jaeger, or body
servant, who accompanies htm every
where, Inspects It every morning to
make sure that It Is In perfect order.
Napoleon anil the Pres.
"When I returned from Elba," Na
poleon is quoted ns saying, in the Cen
tury, "I found, among other papers of
the Bourbons, nn account of 0,000
francs paid monthly to the editors of
the Times, besides taking a hundred
numbers monthly, and I had au offer
from them to write for me for pay
ment. I had offers from the editors of
several English newspapers to write
for me, even during the time of war,
previous to my going to Elba, and to
Insert news and everything else I
wished, and that money would be taken
to send them to France. I did not do
It. I was wrong, however; I ought to
have accepted their offers, and then my
name would not have been held In such
odium In England ns It was. This they
said themselves to me. For In the end
these newspapers formed the public
opinion, and always will do. I waa
very wrong; I see It now."
Why She Refrains.
"It Is true. My wife never scolds,
never scowls, never frowns."
"Do you expect us to believe such,
nonsense ?"
"I do. Why not? I can explain.''
"Ihen explain."
"She doesn't scold because It twists
her mouth; she doesn't scowl becnuse It
, gives her crowsfeet, and she doesn't
Trown because It brings wrinkles."
"Good. But Inwardly?"
"Don't ask me. The question Is too
harrowing." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Whrre Tommy Heat Mm.
Mrs. Tltuller Why, Johnny, what Is
the matter with you? You've been
fighting. And I told you to count 10
when you were angry.
Johnny I did, but Tommy Tinker
played roots on me. He didn't count
his 10 until after he'd plunked me In
the eye.
Women are not of a warlike nature,
yet they frequently storm piano forte,
No Foremaa Printer in Stripes.
The prisoner printers on the Star of
Hope, published In Slug Sing prison,
objected so strongly to having a pris
oner for foreman of the office that he
has been removed and another man not
a prisoner put In his place.
Self-reliance nienns learning enrly
that If you are In trouble, no one Is go-'
Ing to get up In the night to help yon
ut
Time, patience and Industry conquer
III things.