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ST. HELENSJ COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 20, 1884.
NO. 46.
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Gould Wrote.
oit Free Press.
tory of Delaware
- of the cariosities
;e reason why it is
Gould has bought
ould find and put
. . way. ,iy ne has done so, no
one seems to know. The work is no
discredit to him in any sense ; it cer
tainly is great deal more otherwise
than some of his railroad work. The
Murphy copy goes to the Pennsylvania
state library at $24. When Gould
wrote it, nearly thirty years ago, he
probably had no idea that a copy would
ever go into a state library at all. The
time was 1856, and his occupation was
that of a country school teacher, out in
the woods. Delaware is his native
county, and the school was near Rox
bury, his native town. He took hold of
teaching only to nil up some idle time
and he dropped it when he could do
better. The history was written be
tween lessons, so to speak.
He had been all over Delaware
county as helper to a surveyor, who
came to grief financially and left young
Gould to shift for himself. He always
knew pretty well how to do that, so he
contrived to get back to the paternal
roof at Roxbury all right, and with his
head well tilled with knowledge of the
county that had had the honor of giv
ing him birth. A good deal of it re
lated to the anti-rent insurrection of ten
or twelve years before, whereof Dela
ware county had contributed a full
share. The full title of the book he
wrote is, "History of Delaware County
and Border Wars of New York, Con
taining a Sketch of the Early Settle
ments, and a History of the Late Anti
Rent Ditfc'culties in Delaware." It con
tains a portrait of the now eminent
financier as a youth of about 20, and a
very di ferent looking person from the
Jay Gould of to-day. A long about the time
that Gould was tramping about as sur
veyor and embryo historian, Vanderbilt
was trying to scratch out a living on a
farm on btaten island, and the old com
modore was saying ha would never be
of any account. Gould never made any
monp y by his history and did not dream
of a copy ever selling at $2i.
Lotta and the School Children.
Lncy Hooper in Inter Ocean.
I am glad to learn of the continued
success of dear little Lotta in London.
What a sweet, pure nature the charm
ing little actress possesses, despite the
peculiar nature of her talent and her
lii'e long familiarity with the world
behind the scenes, a white lily that has
sprung into existence and ripened into
blaom amid the glare and heat of the
theatrical gas jet. A pretty anecdote
is told of her during her recent sojourn
in Paris. She went one evening with
her mother to the opera, and, between
the acts, they went out to take a look
at the world-renowned foyer.
While admiring the paintings and the
gilded ornaments, and the fine propor
tions of the room, Lotta became aware
of the presence of a group of school
girls, evidently Americans, under the
charge of a governess, who were re
garding her with admiring eyes and ex
changing audible whispers of "That is
Lotta," "Is that Lotta?" "How I
should like to speak to her!" "Oh, me,
we must not," eta, etc. Finally Lotta
smilingly advanced and said: "Young
lad.es, 1 am Lotta, and if you would
like to make my acquaintance I am
sure I should be charmed to make
yours." Instantly she was surrounded
by her blooming, laughing, delighted
young country women, and received such
an ovation as outweighed, I am Bure, in
her opinion, a doen of her triumphs
upon the stage.
Momerville and Cambridge Girls.
fSomerville JoarnaL
"No," said a Somerville girl, who was
on a vLsit to a friend in Cambridge; "I
cannot conscientiously remain in Som
erville all the time, I feel that it would
btj inconsistent with my view of the
duties that an implicit faith in Chris
tianity entails. There are no tempta
tions to resist, no outrages on good
manners to condone, no self-denial nec
essary in Somerville. There the
rhythm of one's environment is un
marred by a single discord. When I
feel that I am too happy, that the
stream of existence flows too smoothly,
I have to go elsewhere ; to some local
ity where I can see that there is still a
good deal of human nature in thu
world."
"And where do you go, dear?" asked
the Cambridge girl ?
"I at once take the horse-cars for
Cambridge."
' To Tame a Bat.
New York Sun.
Take the most ferocious rat, throw it
into a pail of water, and leave it there
until it becomes exhausted and is about
to drown. Then take it out, roll it in
wadding, and put it in a warm place.
When the rat comes to it will evince
the deepest gratitude. It will lick your
hands and follow you about the house
like a dog, and can be taught a number
of tricks.
) II lt the Xall.
The Cincincinnati Commercial Ga
zatte hits the nail on the head when it
declares that too many young men want
to begin where their fathers left off,
and they consequently leave off where
their fathers have begun.
Rev. Brook Herford : After building
philosophical and moral "castles in the
air," one becomes impatient of coming
down to the level of the work-a-day
world, and setting to work to patch up
the little brick and frame houses in
which the world actually Urea.
GOTHAM'S FRENCH FLATS.
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Cnpleassnt Xelghborn.
MH. H. H." in Chicago Times.
In 1865 Rutherford Stuyvesant, hav
ing lived for many vears in Paris, built
the first real apartment or French flat
house. One thousand dol'ars a year
were asked for eight good rooms, a
moderate price, but -people turned up
their noses at Stuyvesant s tenements,
and for several vears no more flats went
up. In 1S08, wh n home rent went up
to exorbitant figures, and no hoase,
no matter how small, could te Had in
a respectable' neighborhood for less
than $2.0J0 a year, some nice people
were led to apply for Stuyvesant's
flats, and after the first plunge the
building became actually fashionable,
Stuyvesant then built another apart
ment house at Eighteenth street, and
introduced a liveried Janjtov:.3he
building paid for itself in ten years.
Then cheaper imitations began to go
up all over the town, especially along
'the avenues where the shops on the
cround floor could be well rented. The
notion of living over a shop was on
other prejudice to be overcome, but
now nothing is thought of it, even by
verv pretentious people, who pay rents
of "from $1,200 to $2,500 a year for
apartments over stores. Along Sixth
avenue the flats above the shops were
fair in size and convenience.
For people who did not want to live
above shops the t.r st of the downright
abominations in the way of flats cwere
erected. Scores of houses were put up
six or seven stories hiarh on lotSA of
twenty-five feet by 100, with two apart
ments on each floor, so that if the
building was eighty feet deep, the
space occupied by each family was
abont twelve feet by seventy-eight, out
of which must be taken space for stairs,
light-shafts, etc. It followed, of course,
that many of the rooms got all their
light and" ventilation from inside wells,
oiten roo'ed over at the top. The
whole building was usually cheap and
nasty. An arrangement of bells and
letter-boxes was placed in the vestibule,
and by ringing the bell of any apart
ment the girl in that apartment could
pull a string and open the street
door for the visitor. Apartments in
such houses rented at from $00 to
$80 a month. After a few years, if the
house had not the care of an intelligent
janitor, it ran down, dirty children
played around its entrance, and as the
place went from bad to worse, the best
people moved away, leaving those to
whom dirt was a matter of indifference.
This has been the history of nine out of
ten of the apartment-houes which be
gan well and sank in the social scale.
It may be taken for granted that an
apartment which is cheap is also pretty
ceitain to be nasty.
When the first apartment-houses ap
peared, social philosophers found com
fort in them because they promised re
lief from the high rents that were driv
ing people out of town, or preventing
marriages altogether. With the erec
tion of hundreds of houses in which
decency, health, and comfort are sacri
ficed to show, the philosopher
has become less certain of the ad
vantages of flats, especially when it is
considered that the multiplicity and
cheapness of flats may tend to keep in
the city thousands who would be better
off in "the country. Within the last
three years, however, another class of
flats has come into being which prom
ises better than anything of the kind
heretofore attempted. Some wise men
noticed that one reason why people
were willing to pay enormous rents in
flats was that they paid not merely for
the use of their rooms, bnt also to keep
out unpleasant neighbors. People
with incomes of $10,000 a year are apt
to be better bred, more cultivated, in
fact, pleasanter neighbors, than people
with incomes of $500 a year. It is not
always so, but the rule holds good in
New" York city, and it is so unvarying
that people pay for exclusiveness in
flats more than for anything else.
In an apartment-house where
rent is $2,500 for each family the
pie are likely to be pleasant
the
cleanly neighbors; in an apaitment
liouse, which might be exactly similar
in size, convenience, and finish, where
the rents are ' $250 a year, the people
would not be likely to be over-pleasant,
over-cleanly neighbors they may be
noisy, they may drink, and they are
sure to allow children to monopolize
the halls and stairs. Money, then, is
used to keep off unpleasant neighbors
-and this singular phenomenon has
been known, people have threatened to
move away if taeir rents were reduced.
The wise person mentioned, said to hini
Belf that the tenants of an apartment
must find some means other than actual
weight of money to keep off unpleasant
neighbors, and then the problem of
pleasant or orderly apartments at
reasonable prices would be solved.
The usual course of an apartment
house is that a i emulative builder puts
it up and sells it at a prof t. Then the
investor, in order to get a reasonable
rate of interest, has to dharge rents
h:gh enough to cover occasional losses
by tenants who piovebad eggs and
from unrented apartments. The tenant
who pays his rent pays for the empty
flats and bad debts. A study of these
problems brought about the co-operative
home o'ub aj artment-houses, of
wh"ch we have 1 eard so much of lato.
A number of gentlemen, say te i, asso
ciate to build an apartment-house of ten
apaitmeiits. TLe building is put up.
and each man takes his apartment
and pays one-tenth of the total
cost, owning his apartments just as
he would a house, and being responsi
ble for one tauth of the taxes, the cost
of heating, cleaning, etc. A clause in
the agreement provides that no associate
can sell or rent his apartment except to
a person approved of by a majority of
the associates. So that, beside securing
pleasant neighbors, an associate In such
a building company pays for only just
his si are of the erpense of erecting the
building and the running expenses. He
pays ne ther the first profit of the spec
ulative builder, nor the profit of the
subsequent landlord, nor the rent of
the tenant who fails to pay, nor of the
apirtment which remains empty. This
system has been found to work so well
that these home-club co-operative apartment-houses
are to be found all over
the city. There are several of thorn
facing on the Central park, and one
enormous pile will contain'no less than
200 apartments, of -which the ordinary
rents would be from $3,000 to $6,000 a
year. . . .-- -
The Great Mexican Cathedral.
'Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The cathedral, rising conspicuously
above all the buildings of the city, is of
great bize and possesses considerable
architectural elegance, .the facade, in
particular, being elaborately decorated
with stucco-work. The design is Moor
ish, and the bell-toners, from which
come a constant clanging of old Span
ish brass, command an extended view of
the city, the lake3 and tho distant
mountains. The interior of the spacious
house, which was erected by the Span
iards, contains many rare ornaments,
and 'the nave is surmounted by a
vaulted roof, supported by hand-carved
beams and pillars, among hli hover
somber shadows. At one time, that
during the reign of the Spaniards, the
altar was laden with solid objects of
gold und tilverand precious stones, but
to-day it has lojt all, or nearly all, of
these, and is covered with tawdry
images and imitation ornaments, while
there is everywhere apparent the ex
treme age of the building.
Lntering the nave at almost any
hour of the day I have never faikd to
find odd groups of Mexicans and
Indians telling their beads aud lisping
their prayers, while at regular mass the
cold stone floor is covered with devout
worshipers and the place is filled with
the whisperings of those who pray.
And what a heterogeneous crowd one
tees. The poor and the rich, the
hungry and the well-fed, tho half
naked and those clothed in silks are all
togetLer. Here an Indian, kneeling by
his tattered sombrero, and with his
heavy load near by, prays with his soul
upon his lips ; there a dimpled senorita,
demure bnt conscious, reads from her
gilt-edged book. Incense odors fill the
air, the monotonous chantings of the
priests are heard, and silvery-toned
bells ring out the holy commands of
the church and send the worshipers to
crossing themselves and bowing in holy
penitence.
Set into one of the outer walls of the
cathedral is the sacrificial or calendar
stone of the Aztecs, hewn out of black
porou3 lava and covered with hiero
glyphics, reminding, so it always seems
to me, the ignorant Indians who sell
their bits o pottery near by of their
forefathers, who had their palaces and
temples in the square which is now the
busy center of a great city. Juarez
was an Indian, but he became the Lin
coln of Mexico, and in good time the
other descendants of Montezuma may
yet regain their old-time power.
Dnrlne the II I eh Water.
Arkansaw Traveler.
During the high water a man "was
seen going down the Arkansaw on a log.
As he was passing Little Hot k several
men sprang into a skiff, rowed out to
the lone navigator and said: "Climb
in." "Climb in whar?" "In the skiff;
hurry up." "Wall, strangers, I'm
pretty well fixed. Don't take no work
to move along." "Where are you go
ing?" "Down the river." "We know
that. Where are you from?" "From
up the river." "Of course you are, but
" "What made you x, then?"
"What are you doing on that log!"
"Travelin'." "What do you want to
fool us for ? Don't you know you'll
drown if you keep on this way?"
"Won't drown if I keep on thiser way.
Ef I wuster git off in the water I niout
drown." "How far have you cone this
way?" Tve come this way all er long."
"But w ere were you when you got on
the log . " "On the log. " " Of course ;
but where was the log9" "In the
river." "Certainly; but how far from
here?" "Ain't made no calc'lation."
"Where do vou live wher you are
home?" "At "home." "Of course; but
where is your home ?" "Whar I live."
"Where is your family?" "Scattered
erlong." "Did your house wash away ?"
"My wife's back yander on a cotton
wood log, an' my son Bill's comin' along
som'ers on a poplar." " Why don't you
come to the shore ? ' " 'Cause it don't cost
nuthin' ter ride." "You'd better come
out and get a drink of whisky."
"Dinged if I don't do it. Feller back
here wanted me to come out and hear
him preach, but he didn't have the
right kin' o" gospel. Now, fellers, pull
fur the shore as fas' as yer ken."
M aklng His Living Legitimately.
Wall Street News.
There is much in the present bull
market to remind one of the man down
in Indiana who was the only man in his
village having any loose cash capital.
He was one day explaining to an east
ern man :
"The only stock afloat in our neigh
borhood are five shares of an old saw
mill which hasn't paid these last ten
J'ears. On Monday mornings I circu
ate the report that a syndicate lias
bought the mill, and will at once put it
in repair. This send the shares up to
25, and I sell out."
"That's legitimate."
"On Wednesdays I let it be under
stood that the syndicate is busted, and
that nothing will be done to the mill.
This sends the stock bask to 10 and I
load up."
"And what do you do on Satur
days?" "Oh, those are my regular days for
working up a feeling in the county that
I ought to be paid a bonus for convert
ing the saw-mill into a distillery."
A Xew Industry.
Chicago Herald.
A "gentleman of education and ex
perience" advertises in a Des Moines
paper that he wishes employment in
writing speeches for membtrs of the
legislature. He will prepare at short
notice addresses for or against prohi
bition, woman suffrage, or any other
subject desired. His . terms are $5 for
a ten minutes' speech and $2 for each
additional five minutes, "satisfaction
guaranteed" and "confidence observed."
In the (tufen'a liehair.
The Current
The point is made, in Queen Vic
toria's behalf, that in showing her re
gard for the memory of her dead serv
ant s'e will "doubtless draw tears
from the eye of many a loving subject,
who will be overpowered at hearing
how much she is like other people."
CHINA'S SECRET SOCIETY.
An Order Whose tw Are Higher
Than Country or Religion.
Los Angeles Republican.
Col. J. Drew Gay, a correspondent of
The London Telegraph, now spending
a few days in Los Angeles, who has
recently spent more than a year in
China, Siam, Borneo, and other lands
occupied by the Chinese, furnishes
interesting information about the
Chinese secret society known as the
White Lily.
"The White Lily society exercises
omnipotent power wherever the Chinese
can be found. Its agents are every
where where its slaves are at work, and
there is" no escape whatever from its
vengeance when onended. No China
man can disobey its command i and
live, for its officers are continually pass
ing from place to place levying taxes
and punishing violations of its rule-t.
"What is the character of the White
Lily society, and what is retired to
constitute a member?"
" Your 'Six Companies as you call
them in California, are but branches of
the White Lily. It is a secret league
into whioh the Luropean or American
has never entered. It defies all laws ex
cept its own, and it disposes of life and
property with the same despotic soror
ity that the European himself may ex
ercise. There is one limit, and one
only, at whioh the "White Lily
is restrained. It has never been
known to take the life of an American
or Englishman. Its agents frequently
kill or destroy the property of other
nationalities, but, strange as it may
seem, this Chinese company of organ
ized thugs and fire-bugs respect tho
lives of the British and Americans."
"Are the foreigners in Siam and
China much annoyed by the White Lily
organization ?"
"Yes; they have to be very careful
lest they publicly offend one of its mem
bers. No matter how poor the laborer,
if he is a 'White Lily' his person must
be respected as sacred from abuse or
violence. I remember an instance in
Siam where the 'White Lily' holds drs
potio sway over the Siamese as well as
the Chineee. A French capitalist
named Bonneville had a sawmill near
Bang Kok, the Siamese capital, where
he was engaged in getting out teak for
ship-building. Bonneville once kicked
a Chinese laborer, a member of the
White Lily.' The Chinese laborers said
nothing.but at noon they all marched out
after announcing that they would not
return. Before leaving the mill they
destroyed all the saws and machin
ery, and notified Bonneville that hi
must leave within twelve hours or die.
He left at once and his mill was de
stroyed. Another instance of the same
character : A German struck a native
and his house was burned. I could re
late many instances illustrating the
power of this great Chinese secret
society.
"The British, since they sacked and
looted Peking, the Chinese capital and
the imperial summer palace, have al
ways been treated with respect, and as
the Americans are united with tho Eng
lish in the treaty ports, they are treated
as British subjects and as the same na
tion." How the Fog Affect Oysters.
Philadelphia Time.
The report having been circulated
that the recent foggy weather had in
jured the oysters, a reporter asked a
dealer if it were true.
"The fog made them weaker, ol
course," was the answer. "There's fog
when the air is warmer than the water ;
so when the oysters come out of the
cold water into the warmer air it en
feebles them."
The man behind the counter leaned
his white apron against it and shook hia
oyster knife for emphasis as he said,
after his boss went out :
"It's all very well for him to talk;
he's interested ; but some o them oys
ters ain't got over coughin' and sneezin'
yet sinoe that muggy weather. Why,
the other night there came a party in
here to eat out a bet and that big show
oyster there, on top o' the pile, I thought
she'd cough her shell off. One of the
party said, 'It's Scotch snuff makes her
cough but all the other oysters began
coughin', too, and the party went out.
The little oysters have all got the
whoopin' cough and croup. They make
the worst noise. There's six old ones
died last night of pneumonia and "
"Give us less guff," said the proprie
tor, who had returned.
IIow to Bead a XoveU
Hartford Post
Open in the middle, glance at a page.
Catch the name of the characters.
Turn to the last page and see whether
he married her, or she died with angels
hovering around the headboard.
Turn to the beginning aud see what
the matter was with the old man and
why he didn't approve of the match.
You have thus acquainted yourself
with all the essential facts of the novel,
and can imagine the moonlight walks,
the sylvan dells, the afternoon teas, the
cusswords muttered between the teeth
of the male characters and all the other
stuff.
All Xot Oold That Glitters.
Paris Letter.
A few of the successful dresses that
have been made at Worth's are always on
exhibition; failure among its products
is never known. ! You can always pay
Worth's prices if you happen to bo
rich as most Americans are that come
here but you cannot always bay one
of Worth's masterpiece?. The trade
mark of his shop is all that he gives to
the majority of his customers.
Florida Perfumes.
Chicago Herald.
The manufacture of perfumes from
Florida-grown flowers bids fair to be
come an extensive industry in the state.
One firm at Jacksonville is already at
work. It is reported that a gentleman'
from south Florida has patented a pro
cess for the utilization of the bloom of
the mangrove and the sapodilla, and to
extract the sweet fragrance from the
cassava plant as well.
Capt. Mayne Reid, in a story nowap
peariag in St. Nicholas, relates that the
natives, of Terra del Fuego are the only
people in the world who regard a white
flag as a signal of hostility. j
Fans and Fan-Making.
I FPall Mall Gazette. 1
For more than a thousand years, fan
making has been a principal industry
of Japan. In this branch of manufac
ture about 100,000 persons are engaged
out of a population of 1,500,000 in the
three fan districts of Osaka, Kioto, and
Nagoya. Millions of fans are made
every year, of which there are many
varieties, differing in strength. Other
materials used for the fan-sticks are
bone, ivory, and wood. The ivory is
sometimes carved and inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, gold and silver. ! The
wood used for sticks is ebony, mahogany,
and chestnut, and is generally lac
quered. The tops of the Japanese fan
are inade of paper, parchment, cotton
and silk. The paper is the fibre obtained
from boiling down the bark of the paper
tree, to the cultivation of which whole
districts are devoted. Mulberry bark is
also used for the same purpose, though
it is much more expensive. Ihe Jap
anese so-called parchment comes from a
rare tree, and is favored because of its
strength. The prices vary largely with
the "tops," silks costing twice as much
as any other material. The Japan ese
palm-leaf, or, as it is sometimes called.
the "church fan," is still popular.
Most of the dress fans come from
France, though the Viennese dress fan
has of late found favor. The French
fans in the cheaper grades have sticks
usually of wood or bone, and the tops
of cretonne, silk or satin. The I1 rench
dress fans have their sticks made ol
shell, mother-of-pearl, or ivory; the
tops are either of silk, ostrich feathers,
or lace, sometimes satin and kid. The
shell-stick fans have usually no paint
ing on their tops. The lace fans
usuallv have sticks of mother-of-pearl
The ivory sticks are seldom combined
with lace tops, silk being preferred
In the decoration of the silk topped
fans Albert, of Paris, has won an
especial reputation. The mourning fan
most popular is a combination of black
silk with ebomzed wood or dark shell
i In the cheaper grades of Vienna fans
two peculiarities are noted namely,
leather sticks and the inlaying of the
figures in silk tors. This latter effect
is produced by having two layers of silk,
the lower one stamped with its figure,
just above which the upper layer will be
cut out. As yet, American fans are con
fined for tho most part to the cheaper
grades. The sticks in these fans are
made of wood only, the tops being mus
lin, cretonne, silk or satin. One kind of
American fan, however, is very popu
lar the "extension fan," with a stick of
plush or leather. Of this fan more are
sold than of any kind produced, a large
number being exported to Lngland.
! The Gallic Idra of Nport
TAmos Keier in San Francisco Chronicle.!
j In the pause w hich followed the
waltz the true French sjurit began to
show itself. Half a dozen or more of
the young men formed themselves into
a sort of skating club and went sliding
across the by no means smooth floor,
running into anybody and everybody
who came in their way. These collis
ions often resulted in a tumble and a
scramble on the floor, each sprawl call
ing forth an immense amount ; of ap
plause and laughter from audience and
participants. Others amused them
selves by playing a sort of "tag."
Bather a boisterous sort of game
it was, too; for all it consisted
in was for each young man to go sneak
ing about in the crowd, hiding behind
somebody or something, until he found
some unsuspecting player with his back
turned. Then the sneaker, would sud
denly spring out upon his victim and
give him a rousing slap in the face and
disappear. Each attack was greeted
with a good deal of laughter by those
standing around; while the victim,
hand to cheek and sickly smile on
face, turned hunter and sneaked about
until he could'find some one to slap.
Sometimes, however, just as one of
the players was about to spring out
and slap some one else, be; himself
was the recipient of a stinging
whack alongside of the face, which
turned his contemplated joy into sudden
dismay and chagrin. Such little epi
sodes as these gave the crowd great joy,
and every one was applauded to the
echo. Besides all these noises, there
were several young men who went run
ning round and round the hall, giving
vent now and then to a yell. What par
ticular kind of amusement there was in
this performance I don't know ; but there
must have been some amusement in it
or they would not have done it. What
ever their motives were, they kept
steadily at work during every pause,and
sometimes, even during the dancing.
Clumsy Farming in Fngland.
Cor. Boston Commercial Bulletin.
In New England, two young farmers
running a farm of eighty acres would do
about all the work themselves. I have
only time to hint at the clumsiness of
English farming methods and ma
chinery, as often, though of course not
always, exhibited. I have stopped by
the roadside and looked with astonish
ment and amusement at the sight of
three horses dragging a heavy iron
plow, one man driving, another man
holding plows moving at a snail's pace,
turning the furrows in a field where a
New England farmer would have done
the same work alone with a single stout
horse holding plow, and driving with
reins over his neck. So it was all
round two or three men to a single
man's work, and teams of horses out of
proportion to the labor required of
them.
The Itlght Mort of Education.
Boston Herald.
If labor is to be rightly honored, if
skilled labor is still to be possible, if
educated insight into the possibilities
of industry is to be maintained, the pub
lic schools must be industrial, side by
side, with intellectual education. The
intellectual may come first or second, it
matters little which, but it must have
its proper complement. The young
men brought up on farms and educated
in practical industries have again and
again outstripped those who had only
the book-trained brain ; and the work of
the kindergartens in teaching children,
especially young children, the use of the
hand, has been recognized as one of the
great factors in education. Depending
as we do upon the public schools for
nearly everything that shapes the lives
of our youth, too much attention can not
be given to their education in these
practical ways.
THE NEWSPAPER MAN.
A Lecture to Young Hen -Who Wish
to Ileeome Journalists.
Luke Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
And here comes my lecture to the
average young man who wants to be a
journalist. L. think he invariably, ap
plies to the wrong person in a news
paper office. There is one man on every
journal wrho just yearns for something
new, something odd, something spicy
or something interesting. That man is
the city editor. No pen pan tell the in
satiable appetite a city editor has for
news in almost any shape.
To show you how he, loves an odd
thing at all hazards, I will relate the
following bit of my own experience
with him. At one time, when small
pox threatened to become epidemic in
this city, it was rumored that the pest
house was not conducted as it ought to
have been. One evening, at the city
editor and reporters weie'busy at work
regular "Slaves of the Lamp" I
thought I would get up a stampede. I
went in with a roll of manuscript in my
hand and said : -
"Well, gentlemen, it's perfectly hor
rible. I don't want to pass another
such day."
"What's the matter?"
"Well, I thought I would do the pest
house to-day, and I've got a two column
article on it ; spent all day there."
"Good enough," cried the enthusiastio
city editor. "That's something that
will take."
"Well, it ought to. I have the state
ments of the patients here signed in
their own handwriting."
"First-rate. Let's have your copy.
Well put a six-line head on it."
The reporters looked sort of
chagrined, and seemed kind of sad that
they hadn't done this themselves.
There is nothing can equal the ap
petite of the average city editor for
something that .will "take." Now if I
were suddenly thrown on the mercies
of a cold world in any Amer
ican city, and wanted to get on
a paper, I wouldn't apply to any
body for a situation. I would knock
around town and try to pick up some
thing that would interest readers. I
would endeavor to write it up in an in
teresting manner, and would take the
manuscript up to the office and leave
it on the city editor's table without a
word. If it were good, he would be
just as anxious to print it next morning
as I would be to have it appear. If it
were used, I would apply for the cus
tomary 2 cents a line, and would live
around at the cheap restaurants and
try it again. If it were not used I
could conclude that I wasn't the style
of writer that that particular paper
wanted, and I would select another
journal as the next victim. If none of
them wanted the stuff I wrote, I would
by and by get it knocked into me that
chopping cordwood or some such oc
cupation was my forte and not news
paper work. If the work was always
up to the mark there would be little
difficulty in making a place for myself
on the sheet.
Newspaper men, like poets, are born,
not made. If nature has intended a
man for a journalist he will drift into
journalism in spite of all obstacles. He
may have been educated as a lawyer, a
clergyman, a doctor or a backwoods
man, Lut he will be certain to nibble at
journalism till he gets caught.
bo, young man, if the newspaper in
stinct is in you thero are a thousand
omnivorous iron monsters all over the
country that are murmuring their siren
song that will lure you to your fate,
and so around the cylinder you will go
till it takes from you all that is worth
having, when it will fling you remorse
lessly into the literary rubbish heap,
which might fitly be labeled as printers
label used-up type "Dead matter."
The Xew York Crank.
Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
New York is the greatest city in the
world for cranks. They thrive here.
In Taris they are snubbed, except
when they write for the papers, when
they are glorified ; in London they are
suspected by the police; in Ireland
they are shot ; in St. Petersburg they
are buried in Siberia, and in Boston
they become Concord philosophers
early in life, and devote them
selves to study until they become too
cultured for earth, when they die or
come to New Y'ork. The cranks who
are restrained in other cities of the world
flock here by common impulse. The
police do not interfere wth their
schemes, the public encourages them,
and the newspapers treat them as legiti
mate sensations. Only one thing is
positively known of the average New
York crank, and that is that he eventu
ally dies a violent death. The com
monplace cranks are not of so much
importance as men who just border
upon crankiness, or who have manias of
sufficient originality to entitle them to
distinction.
i xperts on Illocd Stains.
Bcferring to some recent expert tes
timony as to bloods stains, The Micro
scope says: "Human blood cannot be
told from dog's blood, except under
favorable conditions, and not invaria
bly then." Mr. Woodward, of Wash
ington, says: "The average of all the
measurements of human blood I have
made is rather larger than the average
of all the measurements of dog s blood.
But it is not rare to find specimens of
dog's blood in which the corpuscles
rango so large that their average size is
larger than that of many samples of
human blood." When it is remem
bered that the measurements of human
blood by so-called high authorities vary
from l-b050 to 1-4630 of an inch, expert
testimony on the subject takes on a
serious aspect, and juries should re
ceive it with great caution.
A Bigger Profit.
Texas Siftrngs.
"Schacob," said Mose Schaumburg
one dark rainy day, to his oldest son,
who is his chief clerk in the "hand-me-down"
department: "Schacob, once
more I dells you put oud dot gas, so
we saves a leedle dose hard times."
"Vader let burnin' dot gas. I
echarged dot next gustomer what
comes in, 10 per shent extra to make
good, dot loss mit der gas.
"Schacob, put dot gas oud, and
scharge dot 10 per sohent pesides, den
va makes shoost 2Q per shent."
NEW ORLEANS TO-DAY.
It Frame Buildings. Water Tanks,
Restaurants and Theatres.
Letter in New York Times.
I was told that the upper part of St
Charles street was the Fifth avenue of
New Orleans, and walked up to look at
it. It is a very prettystreet, but about
as much like Fifth avenue as Hoboken
is like New York. There are a number
of handsome residences, nearly all built
of wood, and elevated to keep them
out of the damp. They all stand in the
midst of large yards, in which are
orange, lemon, and magnolia trees and
great quantities of flowers. They have
a curious custom of keeping the front
gates locked, and a visitor has to ring
a bell at the gate before he can reach
the front door. . This part of the street
stretches out for several miles, and is
filled all the way with pretty dwellings.
Around Jackson square are a number
of comfortable, old-faiihioned houses,
in which furnished , rooms are kept for
rent, and my experience goes to show
that a visitor, intending to spend any
time here, can make himself moro com
fortable in some of these lodgings than
in any of the hotels.
I found a curious place immediately
opposite the square in one of the old
family mansions built when this was a
fashionable part or the city, on top
of the two-story front building the roof
runs up to a sharp point, and in the
rear is a long row oi smaller ouuaings,
in which in old times the slaves were
quartered. The room looks over a
small paved garden, in which are flour
ishing orange and lemon trees and a
few bananas. But the bananas 6how'
the effects of the late . frosts
and droop sadly. Like all the
houses in New Orleans, this
one of mine is supplied with an im
mense tank, filling a large part of the
yard, to catch the water from the roof,
for there are no wells, lhe water
tanks form a curious part of the New
Orleans establishments. They are im
mense wooden casks, like brewers' vats.
When a tank proves too small for the
necessity of the house they build another
one on top of it, like a second story,
and sometimes a third and fourth
story, till the cistern towers up in the
air as high as the house. Many of the
tanks are built in imitation oi ininese
pagodas, and look like summer-houses.
For all the comforts of life New Or
leans is far in advance of any other part
of the south; indeed, it is nearly the only
place south of Washington where a trav
eler can feel sure of getting a good din
ner, borne oi tne better restaurants,
althoncrh crenerallv ulain in their ap
pointments, are almost equal in their
fare to the best in New York. There
are' a number of comfortable little
French restaurants in the French quar
ter, and several excellent German ones
where pretzels and sauerkraut may be
washed down with foaming beer.
For the miserable slave to to
bacco New Orleans is a much bet
ter place than New York. In
nearly every one of the 10,000 little
tobacco shops a good cigar can be had
for a reasonable price, and in some of
the restaurants a good Havana cigar is
always served after dinner, whether it
is ordered or not. The restaurant can.
well afford to soothe their customers'
feelings with a good cigar, for I find it
impossible to get a reasonably good
dinner in any passable restaurant for
less thsn $2.00 or $2.50.
No city in the country is better sup
plied with means of transit than New
Orleans. Street-cars run in every
possible direction, and a stranger
has no difficulty in reaching any
of the points of interest. Tho theatres
are striking reminders of those in
Havana and Mexico. They are so mucli
like them that they even have tGe same
musty smell, though I have never been
able to make up my mind whether the
smell is must or garlic. Tho fashion
able part of the theatre is that which
in New York we call the balcony or
dress circle. No lady ever goes into
the parquet. This is given over en
tirely to gentlemen, who often do not
take the trouble to remove their hats
during the performance. But no
theatre in New Orleans is really fash
ionable; the only thing that draws out
society ladie3 is the opera.
The Congressional library.
Oath's Letter.
The library of congress was origin
ally collected for the use of that body,
and our old statesmen like Jefferson
and Madison, who made private libra
ries to resolve in their own minds the
correctness of their principles, some
times sold them to the government as a
last resort of indigence. The con
gressional library has two or
three times burnt up partly or
wholly. By the operation of
the copyright laws of this country
everything which the law protects is
obliged to send one or two copies to
Washington. Consequently this gain
alone is immense, and tho librarian has
no discretion about rejecting any thing.
Therefore almost every lithograph or
photograph, however ephemeral, is
kept, and very often for the purposes
of the artist or the literary man these
ephemeralties take a dignity and import
unofl that bier books do not nossftss. I was:
for instance, in the house of a promi
nent Confederate only yesterday, and
he said to me: "I was a pretty bad
rebel in the war, and, you see, I keep a
picture of the installation of the Con
federate government on my wall I" I
looked up and saw a picture I had
never before observed, printed in col
ors, representing the state house at
Montgomery, Ala., with Davis and
Stephens coming forward to make their
speeches. I suppose that photograph
to-day is worth $10, though probably
published originally for $2.
An Unfortunate Hand Bath.
Exchange.
A party of explorers were crossing a
sandy desert, carrying six of their
comrades ill of a disease peculiar to
the country. The. sand bath was pro-
?osed to them and their assent gained,
'hey were buried in the sand, their
heads alone being left above the
ground. In this position, chatting
with each other, their comrades left
them and retired to their tents for the
night. In the morning they were hor
rified to discover that wolves had
visited the camp anjtn off "each
iuk man's head level with, the ground.