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ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON: AUGUST 3, 1883.
NO. 52.
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-FROM CANNES."
Wnencd3 the lovtly strangaw coma
To dszz'e la tbe northern home?
O'er leagues of tair foreign iaatis
And to-klng waves and tuck; strands;
Uaiherei where sister blo'autns khlne
And rotes bend with J-fsaratue.
Aud lemon grove psrfumc the breeze
The brilhaui red anemone!
Witbont, the clouds stoop fray and low,
Where, over drifts of suUted snow.
. The torts wind sweeps n bitter wiug
Where violets crouch shuddering:
v And the pale primrose carce dare peep,
. Though wearied of her winter deep.
' What khould tney da in scenes like theta,
, "-The glorious red anemone?
": Within, by warmth and tendance wooed,
'To their sweet fearless charm renewed.
- Like scarlet flame the Itavn uuclose.
And lrom i ur apr ng of wind aud snows.
' i 1 heir msglc bear the fancy back
' .-'O'er memory's fair unbroken track.
'. -Toauaay walus and WLisperln eas,
And wealth of red anemones.
Where in the glowing routhern I.'ctt.
Tbe tideles waves lie blue aud bright.
And tbe warm winds all scented sweep.
And in tbe tbade tbe louutains leap,
And tbe gray greeu of oilves bliows '
And like wrojgtu gold tbe orange glow..'
Wbile from dim mountain siea.atne breea?
That titles tne auemouir.
Ob! dream of holiday and rest.
Wben Ufa. by love aud calm caressed,
'Mid beantv, cbarm and novelty.
Laugned through a golden nvmth for me!
Though it and ail it give Is e'er,
I live its bappint-ss once more.
Drain memory's nectar to its lees
And tnank my red anemones.
All tbe Year Round.
AN AUSTRIAN COURT ROMANCE.
The archduchess was charming. , Her
beauty was not of classical stylo,' but
was very modest, most beaming, most
captivating. In her favorite dresses,
made i f dark cloth, with her low, round
hat on her golden hair, a thin gauze
veiling her large eyes, she wore the arch
expression of a school girl playing tru
ant; but at state balls she became dig
nified as a court portrait painted by an
official painter. Nobody dressed as well
as she did. Her friends and cousins
asked her to let them copy her clothes.
No. fool was hidden under the brocade
ef her court trains. No empty head was
encircled by her diamond diadem. The
broad ribbon of woman's noblest order
in her empire did not rest on a heartless
heart. f
Brimming with life, devoted to art,
full of enthusiasm for literature, eager
in all charitable works, she was the wo
man most thoroughly womanish in all
ber empire. Foil of passion, tender of
heart, very delicate, and at the same
time, most ingenious, fond of laughing,
averse to wounding any human being,
her greatest fault was she could not
cure herself of it she idolized her hus
band. She idolized him not in crowned
heads' usual way, not in fine ladies'
usual way; but she idolized him an a
novel's heroine idolizes her lover. He,
his love was everything to her; crown,
title, palaces, were as nothing to her
compared with that man and that man's
love. Were she to lose it, she would
lose everything on earth dear to her; it
lost "rien ne m'est plus, plus ne m'est
vien," had been her soul's only thought.
The world, which never lacks sharp
eyes, in "the fierce light that beats on a
throne," confessed that the husband was
worthy of the wife; he had no love but
her; in most unguarded moments, in
hours of greatest temptation, heart never
quickened pulse save at thought of her.
Thee! Thee! only ihee!' j
Romantic particulars of their marriage
were told. The families had arranged
for bis marriage with her eldest sister.
The latter for yerrs had looked on him as
her future husband. He went to claim
her band. He then for the first time
saw her sister and at once fell over head
and ears in love with her; still she said
nothing, but drank in through eyes and
ears all her witchery. The next day
after his arrival was Sunday. Time to go
to church came. He went up to i the
second sister and offered his arm. She
blushed cherry red, her eyes shone like
diamonds that offer discovered love and
crowned her empress of Austria. Happy
hour 8 followed that lock-arms. A me
mento sealed and gave permanence to
each of those hours, all fleeting as they
were; this faded flower was given there,
a bit of ribbon, order of honor, plucked
from imperial button-hole nearest heart,
all her own; half cf a plain gold ing
given in exchange for half of another
ring which she had worn, and other
tokens of love still tender and true with
jealous care kept in golden casket
adorned with rarest opals gems which
ia orient are thought to keep love true
and by changing color to reveal ohanging
heart. This casket never quitted her.
One June morning Aigues Vives knew
that emperor and empress were come
there- to stay for some time. Aigues
Vives is a small town at the foot of the
Savoy Alps, and sheltered from rude
winds on all sides by those mountains.
Aigues-Vives put on its best holiday ap
pearance. The train came; band played;
a Blight, tall lady leaped on the station's
platform. The empress was immediately
recognized, not by her elegance (she
wore plain green cloth) , but by her deli
cate beauty. The emperor walked by
her side. A better assorted imperial
couple were never seen. His martial
faoe, his tall stature, his knightly man
ners readily explained the ardent love
borne him by his wife.
Aigues-Vives reminded her of her
native home iu Bavaria, and her spirit?
were most buoyant, uot only because
landscape seemed long familiar, but be
cause ia that quiet village he and she
were going to live again that life free of
court etiquette and pageantry, such as he
and she led in days after betrothal. So
when a girl presented a nosegay, her
majesty accepted the iioral offering with
one of her most bewitching smiles, a
smile which took all hearts captive.
Among the girls of the deputation stood
one wearing a charming dress of dark
bine linen trimmed with thread Jace;
other attractions were added by her
auburn hair, which fell in torrents, fo
thick were its tresses of fretted gold all
round under the sailor's hat which served
as bonnet. She was so lovely the em
press could not help saying to her: "The
girls of this neighborhood are beautiful
indeed!" The girl deeply blushed and
couitesied with embarrassment. One of
the emperor's aides-de-camp bent over to
the lady in waiting and whispered. '"She
does not belong here. She is Rosine
Lux." As this name was introduced at
the breakfast table, her majesty asked,
Pray who is Rosine Lux?'' "Sue is not
pae of the deputation. She doss not lire
here. She is an operatta songstress from
a minor Paris theater, belter known off
than on the stage; one of the favori ties
of the fast men. She appeared here last
night as la Grande Duchesse." The em
press laughed and said: "I do not regret
having spoken of her. Is she not a
crowned head?"
When night came Aigues-Vives Casino
appeared to great advantage with its pro
fuse gilding and lights innumerable. It
was filled with people, the women in red,
white, blue, purple, trimmed with lace,
heads crowned with flowers were ranged
in a semi circle around the door by which
the emperor and empress were to enter.
Her majesty appeared wearing a dress o
white gauze with a broad belt of watered
silk aud skirt trimmed with large clusters
of jassamine; she wore no jewels save a
necklace of one row of pearls round her
neck and a golden arrow in her luxuriant
blonde tresses. Quadrilles were instant
ly formed. Emperor took Princess de
San Jannario.a beautiful brunette. The
manager of the Casino was very particu
lar in letting people enter the Casino.
Nobodv, especially no women, who was
out of Mrs. Grundy's favor, could cross
that threshold. Nevertheless Marquis
de Beauval, lieutenant in au infantry
company garrisoned in! Aigues-Vives,
had given Rosine Lux his arm, and had
forced their way in. The empress' fa
vor had increased the malignant eyes on
Rosine Lux. When the second quad
rille was formed Marquis de Beauval,
with Rosine Lux on his arm, could find
no vis-a-vis. He in vain sought his
brother officers to eome to his help. A
secret understanding had leagued all the
ladies together against the songstress;
their partners were obliged to obey
them. The marquis, with flushed face,
burning eyes and yet a smile on his lips,
went from partners to partners. All re
fused on some curious pretext. Rosine
Lux was almost crazy. Seeing all eyes
staring at her with oruel raillery, the in
solence made her bow down her head to
hide the tears which stood in her lids.
She gasped : "Let us leave the ball
room!" Marquis de Beauval was furi
ous and replied: "Never!" "I insist
on going If you will not go with me I
shall go alone." She made toward the
door; but she had not taken a step when
a musical voice stopped her, saying:
"We will be your vis-avis." The speak
er was the empress, who. pitying the
poor mortified girl, lifted her for the
dance up to tbe throne. ' Tears trickled
down Rosine Lux' cheeks. The latter
nevertheless were dimpled with smiles
which avouobed gratitude, respect, ad
miration and radiant emotion. The next
day the empress received a nosegay of
edelweiss.
Wbite idyll !
Soft bloom of Mstterhorn !
Love's kiss on breast of uow 1
Bpirit of Alpine snow !
This note came with the poetical nose
gay: "I beseech her imperial majesty to
accept these flowers. Kneeling on my
knees in dew I gathered, and as I pluck
ed them, I felt that I ought, kneeling on
my knees, to express my gratitude to tbe
empress. The humble, obscure, poor
little songstress will probably never
again meet her imperial majesty, but as
long as heart beats'the empress' peerless
kindness will not be forgotten by her
majesty's humble servant, Rosine Lux."
Three years flew away; "with wings as
swift as meditation." The curtain rose
on the first appearance in Vienna of the
famous songstress from the Paris Grand
Opera. The house was crowded. All
aristocratic Vienna waa there. The
famous songstress was Rosine Lux. La
bor and experience had made the pretty
operetta songstress a great artist. She
appeared in Gounod's "Romeo and Jul
iette," Her impassioned accents thrilled
the house. The empress was in the im
perial box. She warmly applauded the
songstress. She took interest in her,
and, as the curtain fell; she threw her
nosegay to Rosine Lux. ; None of us ever
forget a good deed done. Tbe emperor
was more reserved; he applauded, but it
evidently was for mere form's sake. He
escorted the empress to her carriage,
kissed her hand and said: "Go home,
love. I will soon rejoin you; but I need
air and prefer walking bck."
The carriage wai no soon er off home
wards than the emperor went to a French
friend, Duke D'Avray, who waited at
some distance, and together they went
up the actors' staircaso of the opera. In
the very largest capital j can no more be
kept than iu the smallest village. The
reason is evident. No matter how pop
ulous a capital may be, i everybody goes
round with all his acquaintances in the
same circle, meeting the same people in
the same drawing rooms and exchanging
the same talk every day from one year's
end to another's. Four weeks had not
come and gone before everybody in
Vienna knew that the emperor attended
the ojera every night Rosine Lux sang;
that he had made Dowager Countess Von
Apranoff invite Rosine Lux to supper,
that she had sung there bewitchinKly
and that to thank her he had given her a
costly bracelet, which bore the double
headed eagle of Austrian diamonds. The
empress alone was ignorant .of all this
tittle-tattle. She had resolved to give a
concert and especially in honor of Ro
sine Lux. Tickets of invitation were
sent out. There was but one exclama
tion among the good souls in petticoats
in Vienna: "Good gracious! to invite
her husband's mistress to sing in her
drawing room; that did really exceed all
bounds of decency." A countess raised
her voice to heaven and whined: "Ah!
had your majesty seen Rosine Lux's
dress t'other night at Countess Von j
Apranoffs concert. Twas an attire splen
did enough to damn a saint; velvet, the
color of crushed strawberries, trimmed
with knots and ruches of old lace trans
fixed by diamond arrows. It made that
old ninny de St. Jasmin exclaim: 'Now-a-days
'tis Venus who bears Cupid's
quiver!' " i
That night the empress found this fol
lowing in the emperor's writing, in his
secretary:
"To-night, Rosine, I will call at your
lodgings after the performance. Say
what you may, I will not quit you. Do
not refuse entrance to your paradise to
one who lives only for you, for you."
Unused to anguish, the empress bore
its agony with the lofty energy of noble
spirits. After the opera, when her hus
band told her he would walk home, she
made no objection. As the curtain fell
she ordered a ohamberlain to carry to
Rosine Lux the letter he had previous
ly written by her majesty's command,
and which was as follows:
"The empress commands Mile. Rosine
Lux's attendance up at the imperial
palace at once and without seeing or
speaking to anybody.
'Fast as horses could go her majesty
hastened home. She had taken off dia
mond diadem, but nothing else, and
waited in full evening dress the visit of
the songstress. She awaited feverishly;
a blonde curl had fallei as she took off
the diadem, anil the curl as it rose and
fell with heaving1 breast revealed the
storm which raged. Carpet was covered
with petals of flowers she had in nerv
ous impatience and excitement plucked
from her nosegay and unconsciously
scattered at her feet. She had no tears,
but the black semi-circle under her eyes
told something of her heart's anguish.
Rosine Lux was announced. She had
instantly obeyed the royal comnand.
She had not stayed even to change her
dress. She still wore the gray costume
of the last act of "Les Huguenots" She
paused on the drawing-room's thresh
hold. She bad seen that lovely face
only radiant with happiness. It was now
dark with grief, so clouded the song
stress paused thunderstruck. What
meant that sorrow? Neither spoke. One
was dumb with grief, the other with
astonishment.
At last the terrible silence was broken
by her majesty, who said: "I have sent
for you (her heart had risen to her
throat and choked her) I have sent for
you to to ask the amount of penalty
stipulated in your engagement with our
opera, if you failed to carry it out. I
have something else to say a matter of
confidence between ourselves. I will
take care it goes no further. I have al
ways been adverse from inflicting pain,
but I must tell you that I did once be
lieve that one of our sex ""alight be on the
stage and none the les3 nave a Heart un
der her footlight finery. I must confess
I made sure that you would never forget
a night in a ball room where I showed
that one of our sex might wear a crown
and still have heart in breast. My trust
was built on a letter addressed to me.
But all these things you have forgotten,
I dare say. You songstresses have so
many things to remember, words, scores,
flattering speeches. 1 can excuse you if
you sometimes orget things, not in the
way of business. So let that pass.
Nevertheless, I feel I have a right to ask
you to quit Vienna, especially after I tell
you that refusaf will lead to my depart
ure. If you stay, I go."
Rosine was most embarrassed and
faintly stammered: "Her majesty is mis
taken; has been deceived by false re
ports." "By false reports! Is that dia
mond double headed eagle on that brace
let a false report?" "Her majesty knows
that nothing is more common than for
sovereigns to . give trinkets to sonstress.
And I pledge my word of honor, his
majesty has never gone even so far as
mere caprice, mere whim, mere handker
chief thrown."
"Enough! Do not pi ly false to truth
as well as to protestations of gratitude!
You know his majesty s hand-writing?
Here is his signature. Is not this jour
name on this envelope?" The empress
held wide open before songstress note
and envelope found in drawer. Song
stress turned ashy white. She gravely
answered: "I sought to spare her majes
ty's pangs which are causeless. Yes, that
note is for me. Would you know what
my answer had been? 'No, your majes
ty, those wishes can never, never be
gratified. Does her majesty doubt me?
Here is guarantee that I speak truly."
Songstress held stamped paper to em
press. Her majasty read it. It was
songstress' release from her engagement
with the Vienna Opera in consideration
of payment of the penaly stipulated in
the contract and receipt of this money
paid. Songstress added: "To-night I
shall quit Vienna. Have I not done
everything her majesty wishes, even ba
fore receiving the empress' commands?'
The empress was pale, spoke abruptly,
by jerks, her eyes flashed fire; gradually
her voice softened, aud when songstress
had ceased speaking, imperial eyes
quenched fire in tears. Her majesty
made no effort to keep them from stream
ing down her cheek. They were deli
cious tears. Suddenly with that enthus
iasm from a warm heart which made her
so wildly beloved, she in almost an affec
tionate tone said to the songstress: "I
beg your pardon. Forgive me." And
as she spoke she held out both hands,
took songstress' iu them, pressed them
warmly, then added: "You are a noble
woman, a trustworthy heart. I was
wrong but if you knew how I love him
do forgive me." Songstress fell on her
knees and kissed the empress' hands,
still trembling with emotion. The em
peror stood in the door. Empress said
to her: "Get up!" Emperor was stupe
fied by what he saw. Empress at onoe
recovered wonted calmness, and said to
her husband: "M'lle Rosine Lux has
come to pay me a farewell visit. She
quits Vienna. She cannot sing at my
concert." "Farewell, Mademoiselle!"
the emperor said: "Adieu, Sire." Em
press went toward door with her, and,
as she went, whispered: "Bear in mind
you have a friend here ever ready to do
you service. "Her majesty koows my
gratitude is eternal." So saying, she
went away.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
When traveling on a railroad it is said
that lying with the head toward the en
gine will sometimes remove a headache.
Perhaps the most popular department
of science in Spain at the present day is
geology, and the Mining exhibition at
Madrid is considered to be a grand suc
cess. It appesrs thut alum is sometimes
added to wines to give astringency and
to raise the color. For its detection,
evaporate to dryness, and then set fire to
tbe organic matter.
Edison says: "Electricity is a ten-acre
lot, with a very high, close fence around
it. All we know about it, so far, we
have gained by peeping through the
cracks in the boards."
Drs. Mitchell and Rdchert find that
the full grown lizard will bite and cause
a wound that may prove fatal. Unlike
that of other reptiles, its saliva is
alkaline, cot acide. A little injected
into a pigeon cause the death of the lird
(which was long, sat and plump) in less
than three minutes.
Ocean Voyages.
A gray-headed and grey bearded old
salt, who has been in the employ of the
Pacific Mail. Steamship company for
years, spun a rather interesting yarn fo a
number of visitors at the dock who were
inspecting one of the elegantly fitted
steamers yesterday. Said he: "Tbe
horror cf ah ocean voyage, of which al
fresh travelers . by sea seem to be
possessed, has always been a matter of
great surprise to me. From the time the
steamer leaves the dock until she reaches
her destination it is one grand excursion
of jovial, light-hearted, interesting peo
pie from ail parts of the world. Take,
for instance, the voyage to Sydney,
Australia. The sister, steamer City -of
New York and City of Sydney make the
trip in about four weeks, touching at
Honolulu-und Auckland, New Zealand,
sailing nearly all the time in bright.
pleasant weather. The timid passengers
as a rule thoroughly enjoy the trip after
the disagreeable effects of the first few
days have disappeared, and are the last
to leave the decks at night and the first
to appear in the morning.
The passenger who is making his first
voyage, but who at the same time desires
to appear perfectly at home among his
strange surroundings, usually comes
aboard with a superabundance of bag
gage and Useless traps, which he will
throw overboard or give to the steerage
passengers before he is two weeks out.
He drinks with his friends, and after
getting out of sight of the dock he ap
pears upon the upper deck, his overcoat
buttoned up, his hat crushed down upon
his head, and with the blackest, strongest
cigar between his teeth, he puffs away to
impress his fellow passengers with his
complete contempt of the little annoy
ances of ocean voyages. He has his day,
but his time comes and he gets to the
rail and becomes absorbed in the sea.
He loosens his clothing, throws away his
cigar, holds himself up with one hand
and his hat on with the other, or ties it
npon his head with his handkerchief,
and is the most perfect picture of misery
ever seen, while he waits and groans
aloud. The modest, diffident, good
natured passengers, who are traveling
with their eyes open to see the world
and profit by their experiences, as a rule
keep their staterooms for the first day or
two. The first meal served aboard the
steamer is generally dinner, and a gener
ous provider is the caterer of an ocean
steamer, though be sometimes seems to
take a grim delight in watching the un
easy, doubtful expression pass over the
faces of his guests when they first feel
tbe heavy hand of old Neptune and
hastily leave the dinner table.
"In less than three days -the passen
gers had become acquainted with each
other and with " the officers, and they
move about, chat and indulge in all sorts
of whims and fancies, more like mem
bers of one large family than persons in
any other imaginable relationship. Then
the . regular amusements of the voyage
commence. Good eating is to many the
greatest pleasure In life, and no man who
lives to eat can say he does not enjoy a
trip on one of these steamers. At 6
o'clock and until 7, coffee is served. A
walk on the dock, during which the
night's run is noted and commented up
on, is the next appetizer, or the steward
or one of his boys places before abund
ant quantities of the fruits of the sea
son, and soon you are called to break
fast. An unsurpassed bill of fare is pre
sented fish, fresh eggs, steaks, cutlets,
home-made sausages aud innumerable
little side dishes tempt the appetite, and
what an appetite! Nothing you can call
for will be denied you. The steward
smiles acknowledgment of the compli
ment to his work and you leave the table
reluctantly, yet more than satisfied, and
wait for dinner. A lunch is served at
noon and dinner at G o'clock. Again all
that a most fastidious gourmand or
gourmet could desire is at hand soups,
consommes, joints, roasts, game, fowl,
pastry, cream, etc., in profusion. The
wine liit is the most complete. Import
ed bseis, too, and milder liquids of all
grades the obliging storekeeper sends to
the table. Cigars and a healthful stroll
about the deck consume an hour or so
after dinner.
At 8 o'clo3k r. M. tea is served by the
Chinese cabin-boys, dressed in the rich
est Oriental indoor attire. Later ia the
evening there is a family gathering in the
social hall, a large, beautifully carpeted
and elegantly upholstered cabin on the
upper deck, plentifully supplied with
windows, hung with damask and lace;
the hall lighted with as brilliant a chan
delier as adorns any of the mansion pal
ages of the city. A piano is a part of the
furniture of the hall, and some one pas
sengers will always have a guitar, a banjo
or a violin, and until midnight "music
stealing o'er the waters" is the rule.
Musio is heard best on the sea." Vocal
music is always- one of the pleasantest
pastimes and some of the concerts, in so
cial hall will rank with any ever heard in
the most highly cultivated metropolitan
city. It not infrequently occurs that
among the passengers several members
of the musical profession will be found,
who, joining in the general sociability of
the place, will unbend jind contribute to
the enjoyment of all. As the evening
wears on, in couples or little parties the
assemblage gradually depart for some
quiet corner, whore low conversations
with agreeable acquaintances, or tete-a-tetes
with less than the 1 customary re
serve, are kept up often until long past
midnight, while the steamer glides calm
ly along over the phosphorescent, starlit
sea." S. F. ChroMcle.
Gambling for Women.
The latest and most successful attempt
to open a gambling hell at Long Branch
is now fairly under way. It is the first
elaborate attempt made in this country
'to imitate the sporting houses of Baden
and other European cities, and to entice
American women to imitate the practioes
of continental fashionables. It is situated
at the west end, opposite to the hotel of
that name. To the public it is known as
the Pennsylvania Club House, and a
large flag floats from the tall center staff
bearing the name. Soft velvet carpets
catch " the footfall everywhere, and the
restaurant, with its blaze of light and
sparkle of crystal, will rival Delmonico s
or the Brunswick. Immediately b?hind
the restaurant are the no less splendid
parlors where, on Turkey ruga and under
sparkling chandeliers, lies.couchant the
royal tiger. A door from the restaurant
leads to a corridor; a word to the attend
ant and you are in the first of the parlors,
of which there are three. There are four
ehandeJiers, one at each corner of the
room, making altogether sixty-four gas
j.-ts, and workmen, are prepar
ing electric lights in eddition.
These chandeliers are said to have
cost $1800. The octagonal shape of the
room affords a fine chance for fresco
work, and the walls and ceiling have
been loaded with highly ornate and artis
tic designs in allegorical art. The sofas,
easy chairs, ottomans and divans are of
oriental richness. Adjacent to the en
trance door is the sweat lay-out, ' at
which the visitors, when recovered from
the effect of the magnificence, can risk
their money on the dice. To the right
is a faro lay-out, and opposite it on the
left is a roulotto table. All the Ram
bling appurtenances are of the finest
make, and of tbe description used in the
best dens in New York. !
Color fresooes on the walls represent
impersonations of mirth, musio and of
dancing, and cost $6000. The rooms on
the second floor are smaller, and are
kept for the accommodation of parties
who wish to play a heavv game of draw
poker.
When the house was throw open there
were scores of curious women present,
and it must be remembered the season
here ia not yet fairly opened. There
were quite a number of people bucking
the tiger in the first parlor, and one of
the attendants said in a few weeks they
expected to have the rooms crowded
every night. He was asked if they ex
pected to have L dies present, and he
said: "Oh, yes, they'll come to it sooner
or later; it's only a question of time.
We ve jot to get over the prejudice, and
do as they haye been doing for years in
Geimanv."
The Champion Condenser.
Judge Jere Black is a staunch Demo
crat, one of the ablest! of that political
taith in tact. His speeches and writings
are remerkable evidence of his power of
condensation. There is not a single
superfluous word in ! them. His son,
Chauncey Black, himself a writer Of no
mean ability, delights to tell his first ex
perience as a newspaper contributor.
Said he: "When I was quite a young
man I made' up my mind that I would
try my hand as a writer for a newsyaper.
1 told my father my intention and he
strongly encouraged me to proceed, tell
ing me, by the way, to bring my article
to him after I had completed it. After
great deal of thought I selected my
subject, and drew the outline of what I
intended to write. Then I went care
fully at work and in the course of a week
I had my article finished. I took it to
father and he lead it carefully over.
Said he: My son, this is a very credita
ble production, but I fear that it is too
long lor a newspaper.
Supposing that
you take it and cut it
down just about
course, that the
perfect, and I
one half. 1 knew, of
article could not be
had the
father's
greatest confidence in my
judgment, bo : I took the
manuscript to my room, and after three
days I again brought it to him. Then
said he: "Chauncey, you have no idea
how you have improved this article. It
is a thousand times better than it was
before. But still it is too long. Take
it too your room, my boy, and reduce it
too one-half." This was a sad blow to
me, for I didn't see where : I could Bpare
a single phrase; but I was determined
to satisfy him. and ia-the course of a
couple of days I brought the manuscript
to him for the third, and as I hoped, the
last time. father read it carefully
through, and then said in his peculiar.
slow aud deliberate manner: 'Your work
certainly shows great improvement, and
should think that the manucript is
ready for tho printer. There are some
things, however, which I wish you would
do. First, reduce it again to about a
quarter of a column, and then bring it
to me. It may not need further reduc
tion, and perhaps the editor would be
willing print to it. ' I made up my mind
that father intended to reduce me to the
bare head -line, and then argue me out of
that, so I stopped right there, but it was
the best practice that I ever had, for it
taught me carefulness and condensation
at tae same time.
The Basi Bee.
Utah appears to be a good country for
the production of honey, and bee hus
bandry is an industry deserving more
attention than has been given it in past
years, in conversation yesterday with
Dr. Ben Judson, who devotes his time
argely to honey production, a reporter
of the Tribune learned many facts of in
terest to the public. I The doctor has an
apiary on the East Bench, near Mcunt
Olivet cemetery, and besides his own
bees, numbering over 100 swarms, has
the management of j 500 swarms. In
Salt Lake City there are over 4,000 hives,
while in the country the number exceeds
9,000 swarms. These swarms produce
annually from sixty to one hundred
pounds of honey per season. All the
bees under the care of Dr. Judson must
exceed sixty pounds ; per swarm, or else
the swarm will be destroyed in October
by kiiling the queen and plaoing all. the
working bees in with other swarms. A
careful record is kept of every swarm.
that they may be brought up to their
full stendard in production.
Uees do well here and their honey
from sweet clover is of fine flavor and
excellent strength. The best results in
yield are obtained by using -manufactured
comb, and removing the honey
from the comb each week with a centri
fugal machine which throws out the
honey and leaves the comb in the frame
ready for refilling. Such honey sells at
wholesale from ten to thirteen cents per
pound. j
A swarm numbers from 20.000 to 30.-
000 bees and in summer tbe life of these
is thirteen weeks, but in winter they
sleep mo3t of the time, and the swarm
should be nearly as large in the spring
as at the commencement of their season
of rest in the fall, j The life of a queen
bee. if properly bred, is five years.
In Southern Utah the annnal product
of honey aggregates about fifty toas, and
mauy of the central and northern jun
ties produce largely, but we were unable
to prooure statistics.
Dr. Jndson has had over forty years'
experience in the management of bees
and is much of an enthusiast on the sub
ject, while he makes the business a
profitable one. In speaking of Wives, he
says he uses a very simple hive and finds
it to answer the purpose much better
than the complicated ones used by many
persons. He says honey produced here
is sweeter and of as fire flavor as that
produced in California, and the business
can be carried on to an almost unlimited
extent.
In various states the lee keepers have
organized into associations for mutual
interests, and such organizations have
been found to work good for those in
terested. There is no such organization
in Utah, and it would probably be well
if such an one ould be formed. Salt
Lake 'i rib une.
(Jirls iu the Breakers.
Did you ever sit in ono of the "grand
stands" at Coney island and see tbe girls
ia fancy stockings wade in till the rranr
surf just about wet the tops of them
the stockings, please remember and
then hop up ami down, clineinsr to the
ropes and yelping? Well, that is what
you don't see at the unheard-of bathing
places I am telling you about. You
would be surprised at the number of
girls who are expert and daring swim
mers Murray Hill daughters of from
15 to 20 summers, who walk coolly down
to the breakers, follow out the receding
sweep of water till they meet an incom
ing "roller," then poise themselves on
tip toe, stretch their brown eyes above
their heads and plunge headlong into the
wall of water just as it is about to break
and dash down upon them. With a
seething sound the crest of tbe wave
shoots upward, combs over gracefully,
thunders down upon the beach and
goes back with a roar, and Miss Murray
Hill is seen floating at her ease out be
yond the line of breakers. saw her
when she had been venturesome enough
to do just that thing while the tide was
running out with unasual force, The
breaker had given her a hard tussle when
she went through it, and she had turned
to swim in; but the outward current was
too strong for her, aud, though doing
her best, she was being carried farther
and farther from land. Did she yell and
swallow salt water and strangle and sink?
Not a bit of it; she raised one hand .out
of the water to show that she needed as
sistance, flopped over on her back,
spread out her arms and lay still as a
mouse, with her precious sunburned
nose barely above the water, letting the
tide have its own way with her. In one
minute more a couple of stalwart swim
mers were at her side with a plank and
line. Then she rested her arms on the
plank and was hauled in smiling, for
which service she quietly said she was
much obliged.
A Bear in a Bar Kuoni.
While Watt's menagerie was being
transferred from the railroad station to
Oakland Garden yesterday morning, one
of the bears managed to unfasten the
door of his cage, aud, effecting an esoape
on Ruggles street, tumbled out of the
wagon in which he was being drawn, and
lumbered into a neighboring drinking
saloon. Several patrons of the establish
ment made a wild break for the door on
seeing the beast enter, thinking possibly
tbey had "got 'em again." but the bear
paid no attention to them, and made
straight for the bar. Tbe bar-keeper,
whose back was turned at the time, faced
around on hearing the noise, when he saw
the animal standing on his hind legs, his
forepaws resting on the edge of the bar,
his head bobbing uo and down, and his
month wide open, displaying a remark
ably fine set of white and glistening
teeth. The dispenser of the ardent doubt
less had served many hard oustomers in
his time, but never one like this; and he
dashed through an open window to the
sidewalk, shouting, as he alighted, "You
can have him. I don't want him!" For
some little time nobody dared enter the
place, thongh the bear stuck to his posi
tion, "mopping and mowing," and exe
cuting a sort of solemn dance on his hind
legs. Finally, the keeper of the animals
came back and tried to get the beast out;
but his efforts were in vain. Ursa Major
refused alike entreaties and commands.
Then a happy thought occurred to sever
al persons at once, and they shouted in
unison, "He wants a drink!" The keeper
immediately seized upon the idea and
put it in practice. Pouring out a bounti
ful libation of beer, he offered it. to the
bear, which lapped it up greedily, and
then, his thirst being assauged, the big
animal suffered himself to be quietly led
back to the wagon and his cage. Boston
Herald.
' Origin of the Word Restaurant.
In 17G3 a cook named Boulanger, who
kept a shop at the corner of the Rue des
Poulis, and the Rue Baillel, in Paris,
hung out a large white flag bearing the
inscription (imitated, of course, from
tbe passage in the New Testament) :
"Venite ad me, omne qui stomacho la
boratis, ts ego restaur-ibaVos." Beneath
these words was a list of bis prices.
And, as the good man did not look for
outrageous profits, his dining room was
quickly invaded by all the young bloods
of the capital, and every one began to
ask his neighbor, "Have you been to
Boulanger's?" The favorite dish at. the
house was nothing more appetizing than
sheep's trotters; but so exoellently was
this humble fare oooked that large
quantities were sent out daily to all the
great mansions in the neighborhood.
The restaurant was much resorted to by
the courtiers of the day; and even the
celebrated gourmet Moncriff, the acade
mician, went there regularly. Being
reader to the queen, he at last sounded ,
the praise of sheep's trotters to the ears
of royalty; and Boulanger, who had by
this time accumulated a fortune, was or
dered to supply the table of Louis XV.
Thenceforward the restaurant became
one of the peculiar features of Parisian
life; and within the next few years Very
opened that far famed establishment
which, after having been the resort of
S lint Just and Marat, ws removed in
1808 from tho Allee des Oranges to its
present quarters. Pall Mall Gizette.
It is possible, by tbe use of certain
surgical appliances, to modify consider
ably the shape of the nose.
ALL SORTS.
The most popular club in New York is
"The Locust." It is supported b
policemen at $1200 a year.
When a poor fellow begins going to
the dogs, it is only his dog who contin
ues to sympithi'e with him.
Abstaining from food, it is said, will
cure rheumatism. If you have rheuma
tism go live in a bcirding house.
There i so much t.ind in the straw
berries that are brought to market now
that they seem quite fit for the de iert.
"Yes," said the gilded youth, "I hate
to make the sacrifice, bnt I will. - My
tailor must wait for the money a ad she
get the bouquets."
The city of Houston, Tex., offered to T
pay Ingersoll more to lecture ono eight
on infidelity than it pays a single one of
its ministers for a year's work..
Speaking of the avocation of the heav
enly bodies, there is no doubt but that
the sun is a tanner. Oil City Derrick.
"Why are these flats called Trench
flats?" "To distinguish them from
American flats." "What are Amerioan
flats?" "The people that live in French
flats."
The "gentle reader" is supposed to be
one that doesn't get on his ear and swear
whenever the newspaper man is lucky
enough to get a full page advertisement.
Wheeling Leader.
"Remember who you are talking to,
sir," said a father to his fractious boy.
"I am your father." "Weli, who's to
blame for that?" asked young imperti
nence; "it ain't,me.
The meanest man we have heard of
this season is the fellow who telegraphed
his sympathy to a friend who had just
lost everything in a speculation, and
made him pay for the message.
Commercial traveler "My name ia
Muller. I am agent for Schulz3, in Ber
lin." Merchant Schulze, in Berlin?
In that case I most beg you to shut the
door from the outside."
It is a very small village indeed that
doesn't contain a billiard champion of
the United States. There are more bil
liard champions in this country today
than there are billiard players by a long
chalk.
A negro baby was born In Georgia re
cently which weighed only a pound and
a quarter, and a "literary feller," hear
ing of the circumstance, remarked that it
was funny how anything so dark could
bo so light.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Leaves of turnips and the like are fre
quently used as green fodder but their
removal had a bad effect upon tbe
plants. Actual trial with the sugar beet
has shown that the denudation process
has reduced the quantity of sngar 3.7
per cent. The leaves are also lees nour
ishing than young grass. i
A specimen of preserved milk scaled
by Nagelli in 1872 was opened lately.
It had become brownish and had ac
quired a bitter taste. Tbe milk sugar
was converted into lactose and dextrose.
Sufficient proof was obtained that heat- .
ing to 120 degrees, under a pressure of
from two to four atmospheres, is inade
quate to destroy germs. (
An excellent stain for giving light
colored wood the appearance of blaak
walnut may be made and applied as fol
lows: Take Brunswick black, thin it
down with turpentino until it it about
the right tone and oolor, and then add
about one-twentieth of its bulk of var
nish. This mixture, it is said, will dry
hard and tako varnish well.
All are agreed, says the Lancet, that
bathing is a healthful practice. First,
because it is cleanly, and second because
it is a necessary precaution against
risks of drowning. We are fully pre
pared to indorse the proposition that '
boys should be allowt d to bathe as often
and as freely as may be practicable. It
is, however, neoessary to raise a protest
against the recklessness which too com
monly attends the recourse to bathing as
an exceptional, or at least a seasonable,
exercise by those who are eager enough
but not physically fit, to bathe. There
is prrctieally less danger in bathing all
the year round than doing so only at
certain periods. It has been asserted
by Professor H. Ranke that children dy
ing from wasting diarrhoea atropy of the
various organs will be found to nave oc
curred, just as in animals which have
died from starvation. Dr. Ohmlnllel
has attempted to verify this and the fol
lowing is his conclusion: "The several
organs do not decrease in weight in equal
ratios, but some more than others. The
mcst striking differences are exhibited
in the bones, the brain and the skin
The two former lose much more weight
than the other organs and consequently
form a larger proportion of the total
body weight, in tbe atropio than in the
normal patient. Tho skiu, on the other
hand, decreases considerably in weight,
owing to the complete disappearance of
the adipose tissue."
How Beds Should be Placed.
A German, Baron Reicheabaob, has
occupied my vears in studying tbe art
o( bed making, or bed placing, and
maintains that improperly placed beds
will shorten a man's life. If a mere
magnet exercises an inflaenoe oa sensi
tive persons, the earth's magnetism
must certainly make itself felt on thti
nervous life of a man. In whatever
hemisphere, you may always sleep with
your feet to the center of the equator
and let your body lie "true as a needle
to the pole." The proper direction of
the body is of the utmost importance, for
tbe proper circulation of the blood, and
many disturbances in the organism Lave
been cured by simply placing the bol
ster in a different point of the compass
from that it had occupied. Let suoh as
have hitherto been in tie habit of sleep
ing with their heads where their feet
ought to be to take to heart the example
of the late Dr. Elschwester of Magde
burg, who died recently at tho age of
109 years. The most unhealthy position,
we are toid, is wben the body lies due
east and west. Some observers assart
us that sleep in such a posture is tanta
mount to oommitting suicide, and that
diseases are often aggravated by davU
tioas from the proper postoxas.
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