THE COLUMBIAN.
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Published Evket Thursday
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ST. HELENS,
Colombia County, Oregon,
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E. G. AD AIIS,
A. B. ADAMS,
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Associate Editor
E. G. AD A1IS,
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Associate Editor
VOL- VI.
ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1885.
NO. 2.
A. E ADAMS,
THE COLUMBIAN.
BIAN.
GIVING IN MARRIAGE.
Cocio, let us It together for a space,
la thin tit i'uo;u remote I rum friendly
mirth.
Afar from lilit ami music, face to face,
hac-li unio eiu-li the dearest ihtng on earth.
Love, tliy have ieit u, our two bonny
brl-U's.
0'ir tiiii. gruvc girl, our winsome laughing
let:
Ah m-: How wide tl.ec-hnsui that divides
Our lire lio.ii iheiis; Iiow far their feet are
4 net
From the i aim path thev trod with is so
loan.
How we shall luissthcin, we who love them
On u nir-i-niidita when winds are blowing
itl;tii!.
On suihii.a.- mornings, wiien the roses
bi w.
Itui nappy but- w" a'.lll iap hand In hand,
Kye still meets eye, ami true hearts under-sUm-l.
l-ov, they have left us emptied of the mirth
1 hat cheered our liom.-stead while they
unjoin n-d here:
Vea. they have left r.s lonely on the earth,
i.one. Mit together, solitude most dear;
Ab. God, no with them to tlie stranper-nests
That love l a built for them and theirs to
come! '
Urn! keep all warm and living In their
breasrs ,
Love's holy flame the altnr fire of home!
Ier, tl.ey have left ns; we no loiifrer hold
The first, best place, however leal each
heart;
et have we r -asure left, refined sold,
lxe'n sreillnj ore, without it- baser part.
The wide d 1 house has lost Its nestling
birds:
Dut w ? are left. Ah, love, what need of
words!
AU the Year Rouni.
AN INDIAN'S SLAVE.
Adventures of M. de Belle-Isle in
an Indian Nation.
A Startl njf and Interesting Story
That Occupies a Place In the His
tory of I...ulslan A Itrave
Young KiiHlgn.
I) stant from the country of the Nat
ehitoehes Indians ono hundred and fifty
leagues to the northwest, some 160
years ago, lay the land of the Attaka
pas Nat on, of whom the old" French
historians f Louisiana relate that they
were anthropophagi, or man-eaters. It
was among these jieople that M. do
Belle-Isle, chevalier of the royal and
mil tary order of &t. Ioui3. and subse
quently Major-lieneral of the troops of
the Mar'ne in Louisana and Major of
New Orleans, an officer who served for
forty-iivc years in the eolony with the
hhest merit and d sanction, dweltfor
two years a captive, and the slave of a
widow of the naton.
The story of M. de Bel'e-Isle occupies
a special place in the chronicles and
records of the early annals of Louisiana."
It even formed the theme for two or
three sentimental romances and idyls.
Its currency in France may have been
due to the contrast it presented to the
ordinary phases of life fam.liar to the
courtiers of Iouis XV., who, cloyed
perhaps w th the monotony of the dis
sipations of a sumptuous civ lization
an.1 the artific'al atmosphere of life at
Versailles, saw in the narrative of a
youthful French officer of noble family
dwell ng an enforced guest for two
years :tmong cann.bals (real or so de
clared) in the primitive simplicity of
the golden age the slave ol an eiueriy
widow a piquant change from their
own vapid existence.
In one of the s- vcral versions of the
chevalier's adventure, a copper-plate
engrav ng represents h':m as parting
from the widow a fearful scene, in
deed, with a foreground of human
arms and 1-gs lying aDout, mute wit
nesses to the anthropophagic tast 's of
the Attakapsa. The Nouveaux Voy
ages aux Indes Occ dentales." written
by Cheval er IIossu, Captain of troops
of the marine in Louisiana, has pre
served this pictorial remin'scence of M.
de I'e I e-Isle's experiences.
It was in the ear 17l'J thatthechev
a'l er's fort ore led h m. an ambitious
en-ifn ii t.io s rv i-o of the India
eom7any, to the then almost untrod
den wild untrodden by the foot of
the European of Louisiana. New
Orl.ans, at that time a mere collect on
of huts, barracks ami officers' quarters,
with an occasional house offer, ng
some pretensions io areli tectum! sy tu
rnery, had been founded only the pre
vious year, and the . e.it of government
was still at lUoxi, on the Mi sissippi
Soui:d. where Bienville resided and ex
ile scd duties of Governor of the
colonv. M. de lielle-Islj had sailed
from the port of L'Orient, in Fiance, n
an expedi tion composed of a thousand
p opl-; . old er-, civ lians. ete. sent
out by the company to people the col
onv. The expedition was hound for
tin" M ss ssipp: ai;d New Orleans; but
even as; many ears prev ously. La
Salle had mi.-s d the mouth of the
great river, so was the ship on which
the chevalier sailed driven by currents
and eon Tary win Is far to the west
ward. It was at the Bay of St. Ber
nard (now Matagorda ifay, in Texas),
finally, that th-! Captain of the bark,
llie drink. ng water having given out,
Ciini: to anchor and sent the ship's
vt'Wl ashore to obtain water.
Taking advantage of th s temporary
stoppage. M. de Belle-Isle, M. de
Charley lie, a Canadian and an experi
enced explorer, the Sieur Silvester, a
seryea it of the m 1 ta y detachment,
and another officer d seiubai ked, with
a view of passing th ; intervening
hours, before the vessel's departure, in
I he chase. The sh p was to sa 1 the
next day, and the -Captain informed
th m that in the evening h-j would dis
charge several niti kei-shots, so that
they m ght know the r b arings, and
on the follow ng day he would lire the
canon as a signal for t he bark's depart
ure two hours later.
M. de Belle-Isle, and two of his
companions, contrary to the at! vice of
the fourih man of the party, M. de
Charleville, who, however, accom
panied them, plunged into the depths
of the forest in pursuit of a deer.
Sund iwn found them lost in the in
tr cac es of the woods. They heard,
it is true, the firing of the muskets,
as the Captain had promised, but
these discharges, like will-o'-the-wisps
of sound, only served to lure them to
their ruin. for. as the reports seemed
to come from an opposite direction.
they were led by the delusive sound
still deeper into the gloomy forest. Aj
they went onward they listened, but in
vain, for the beating of the waves on
the shore. Finally night overtook
them, and they slept where the shadows
found them.
At daybreak the rears were greeted
by a remote, mu tiled report. It was
the discharge of the can .on the .sig
nal that in two hours the ship would
sail. The report of the cannon, like
the musket-shots of the proceeding
evening, onlv caused the belated men
to wander stiil farther from the shore.
The virgin forest, as if glad of the companion-hip
of these men of a raeo
strange to it, opened its arms before
them. They entered its embraces, and
were lost.
Meanwh'le, the Capta:n, although
impat ent at the delay, waited for them
until the afternoon; and at last, when
the rays of the evening sun fell aslant,
like arrows of light, through the trees
nearest to the lieach, the ship's sa Is
were spread and her prow turned to sea.
St 11 wandering to and fro. Hell '-Lie
and h s companions by some chance,
perhaps that same n ghr, perhaps the
next day. found themselves again on
the beach. But no ship was ther to
receive th'-m. "I will leave you t
imagine ourdespa r" (to translate trom
M. de Belle-Isle's own words, as pre
served b.- o-e of the French chron"clrs
of that day.) ' when we found our.-elves
in an unknown country, on a desert
coast, inhab ted. perhaps, by cannbaR
We passed several days in th's situa
tion, living o i on'y insects and d s
tasteful roots. We had with us ayoung
hunting dog which was very much at
tached to me; we were devoured w th
hunger; my compan ons desired to kill
him, so as to have food for a few days.
I offered him as a sacrifice to our rteees
sit es. One of my comrades seized the
an'mal. but so weak was he that, in
endeavoring to ti rut a knife into the
dog. the latter slipped from his grasp
and ran off into the wood'. The three
officers perished with hunger, one after
the other, and it was only owing to the
vigor of my constitution that I survived
them. Worn out with fatigue and pri
vat on, I wandered into the fores, feed
ing on insects wh'ch I found on decayed
wood.
A few davs after the death of my
companions I saw in the distance mv
dg. lie held a wood-rat in hisnio-ith.
and. running to meet me with great
demonstrations of delight, he laid hi
prey at my feet. These rats, which are
about the'sie of a sucking-pig, furnish
a sufficiently good quality of food.'
After having regaled myself on the an
imal. "I constructed a small intrench
ment at the foot of a tree, so as to pro
tect myself from the a' tacks of beasts
of prey during the ni:;ht an I. with my
dog keeping watch at my s de, I went
to sleep. '
While go?ng to and fro in the forest
I not;ced foot-prin s of men . I' fol
lowed them unt.l I reached the shore of
a river, and find ng there a canoe I
crossed the stream in it. In my wan
derings I finally came to the country of
the Attakapas, a savage and barbarou
nation, who-e name indicates their
customs, for it means-'eaters of men.'
Those members of the nation whom I
encountered I found engaged in bar
becuing human flesh, but my leanness
happily saved my life. They contented
themselves with despoiling me of my
clothes, which they divided among their
number. Then they conducted me to
their v II age. where a widow, who had
passed the heyday of her youth. too
me for her slave. I hey wished me to
share with them in the detestable d.slie
of which they partook at their meals,
but I preferred fish, which I ate with
avid.ty. Little by l.ttle I began to re
cover my strength; but I fell into an
extreme melancholy, always fearing
that mv ho-ts would sacrifice me to
their idols and would then fea-t on mv
fle-h. My imaginat on was excited by
the terr.ble spectacle of these bar
barians who made banquets of thejr
prisoners. They held a council, and the.
result was that they decided that it
would be cowardly to take the life of a
man who had not come among them to
inflict injury upon t .em. but on the
contrary to seek their hospitality.
I was young ami vigorous. I per
formed my duties as a slave satisfac
torily, and I succeeded in winning the
good graces of my mistress, who
adopted me as her son, gave me my
liberty, and thus conferred on me the
reeogu tion of a member of the nation.
On the war-path I earned the e-teemof
the Ind ans by my skill and courage.
"Two years after my arrival among
the Attakapas we rece.ved a vis t from
envovs from a neighboring naton.
Among them were some who had seen
Frenchmen. They spoke of tLem to
the Attakapas, and I overheard their
conversation. By chance. 1 had pre
served in a box my t onim ssion a offi
cer. I made a pen of a crow's quill,
and with ink which I manufactured
from soot. 1 wute the follow ng words
on the reverse of the commission: 1
am "M. de Belle-Isle, who was aban
doned at the Bay of St. Bernard. My
companions died, in my presence, of
gr ef and hunger. I am a captive among
the Attakapas.'
handed th's paper to one of the
envoys,, assuring him that it was a
talking-paper,' and that if he would
take it to one of the French chiefs he
would be well received and rewarded.
The Ind an star ed off. His compan
ions tried to take the paper from him.
but he eseaped them by swimming a
river, holding the letter aloft out of the
water so as not to wet it. After a jour
ney of ISO leagues he reached the near
est French post and delivered the pa
p :r to the officer in command, who re
co ved him very kindly. After the"
perusal of the message, the Fieneh
who heard t lead began to cry a id la
ment af er the manner of the Indians.
The Indians present asked them what
troubled them; the French replied that
thev were grieving for their brother,
who had been for two 3 ears a prisoner
among the Attakapas. The Indians
offered to come in search of me, and
the one who had brought ray letter
promised to gu'de them. They left at
onee to the number of ten, mounted on
good ho: s s and armed with muskets.
On their arrival at our village they
made the r presence known by d s
charging their muskets several times.
The Attakapas mistook the reports of
the guns for thunder. They gave me a
letter, in which 1 was told to fear noth
ing from the Indians who had brought
it.'r.nd to surrender myself to their
gu'danee with all confidence. The At
takapas. terrified by ihe reports of the
gnus, did not dare to oppose my ab
duct on. and I mounted a hor.e with
out any resistance on their part.
"The woman who had adopted me
urst into tears and it was w.th the
gr atest difficulty that I could tear my
elf away trom her arms. The In
dians who brought mo back to my peo
ple were rewarded. The Attakapas
received a present from M. de Bien
ville, who was then the Governor of
Louisiana, and they sent to him a
peace deputation, among whom I was
as charmed as surprised to find mv old
adopted mother. They came to thank
the Governor and to form an alliance
with the French. The chief of the em
bassy addre.-sed M. de Bienville, polnt
ng to me as he .spoke: 'The white man
whom you see here, mv father, is your
flesh and blood. He had been joined
to us by adoption. His brothers died of
hunger, but had they been met by my
nat on they would be still alive and in
the enjoyment of the same privileges.'
"Since that period these people have
always treated us with human. t;, and
we have induced them to abandon the
barbarous custom of eat ng human
flesh. When they come to New Or
leans they are well received, in recog
nition of the good treatment which I
rece ved at their hands while in their
couu ry; for, but for them. I should
have suffered, perhaps, the unforuin.tte
fate that befell my companions. "
Mag uine of American History.
ABOUT BOOKS.
The Literature of 1884 and Deduction
Therefrom.
We find in the PublMiers' Weekly
the following very interesting tabu
lated statement of the publications of
1834, as compared with the books is
sued in 1.S33: ,
IS!. 1SS4.
Fiction 670 1U5
Law 397 4.Vi
Theoiogy ami Religion 375 3M
Juvenile Hooka 311 35fl
Education. Language 137 ti
l'oetry and DmniA 1st
Medical Science, Hyxlrne 211 -0
Lltr rj History autl Miscellany.. 15S ls.
Biography, Memoir lt'l 17s
Social and 1'oiitlcul Science lx; Iris
Useful Arts 1H 15
Description. Travel 155 13;
Physical an 1 Mathemat'l Science W) VM
HNtory ll'. 115
Fine Arts nnl Illustrated Books.. 75 si
Sports and Amusements T2 51
Domestic and Rural 43
Humor and Satire 47 "-
Mental and Moral Philosophy 15 U
Total 3,41 4.0SS
It is very remarkable that in a year
so bad for trade generally as the hist
was. there should have been an in
crease of nearly twenty jer cent, in
the number of new books published, as
compared with the year immediately
previous, which was one of much more
prosperity in other departments of in
dustry. But it must not be inferred
that because more books were pub
lished, was a more profitable year
for the book trade. "
It was instead a very unsatisfactory
year, and, although no publishing
houses of importance came to grief, it
showed decreased profits. The number
of new books published may be great
er, and yet the total of books sold may
be less. Beside, the trade was suffer
ing from a cause that has for several
years past tended to impair its pros
perity, which was before injuriously
fleeted by a custom of givingdiscounts
to retail dealers so great as to enable
them to sell books much below their
adverti.-ed prices.
The great cause of the trouble is the
publication of reprints and translations
of past and contemporary English,
French and German fict 0:1 at ten and
twenty cents each. Formerly such
books brought fifty cents and a dollar,
and the proiit on them was large, for
they supplied a large part of the de
mand for reading, three-fourths of
which is for novels. Now the profits
are intrgnificant at the prevalent prices
unless the editions sold are immense;
and houses which make a spec alty of
issuing such h'ap literature draw oft
business from the general trade. The
native novelists also suffer, for, as a
rule, publishers are afraid to touch
their work, no matter how good it may
be. when copyright stories must come
in competition with reprints selling for
a few cents each.
The works of fiction published were,
of course, chiefly foreign; and, proba
bly, of the native novels not a few were
issued at the expense and risk of their
authors, who could not get their books
before the public in any other way.
Those who knew most about the subject
as, for instance, the experts of our
great publishing houses, say that never
bofore was the number of manuscr.pt
novels of exceptional merit in their
hands so large as it is now But the
slate of the book market is such as to
de'er publishers from venturing to risk
money on them They find that the
public have grown so accustomed to
cheap literature that they hesitate
about glv ng more than twenty-five
cents for a novel, unless it comes from
some native author of extraord nary
popularity.
It is a bad, a very bad time, for the
American novelist who has not already
won his spurs; and were it not for the
magazines and the fore gn market, even
the men of great reputation would fare
pretty poorly. At the best, the aver
age yearly gains of even the most suc
cessful native novelist are much less
than they are commonly supposed to
be.
The table shows that works 'devoted
to specialties are publ shed with espec
ial confidence. If they are well select
ed, their sale is sure, though it may be
limited, and the prices can be made re
munerative. For instance, next to fic
t on the largest number of publications
in a single branch of literature were
those devoted to the law. Then fol
lowed theology and rel gion, books in
regard to which are issued in great
numbers by societies supported by
churches. Many Mich works are also
published at the expense of their au
thors, w'ao th nk that the world needs
to know what they have to teach con
cerning the duty and destiny of man.
These authors' books, as they are called
in the trade, are very numerous, and
doubtless the totals in the table above
are much increased because of them.
As it is now, neriod'cals excepted,
the most profitable and the surest bus
ness investments of the publisher are
those he malces in works of the more
serious and more expensive kind.
Novels and miscellaneous books are
do.ibtful things to touch. Ar. '. Sun.
FACE POWDER AND ROUGE.
llnw tv0 Ladles Enhance Their Natural
Charm Preparing for the Opera or
1UH A BeHe's Toilet Set Dudes Vuiag
Bandoline and Powder.
"There is scarcely one woman in a
hundred," said a well-known druggist
to a reporter's inquiry, "but uses face
powder. Some use it only on rare oc
casions, and very little of it; others are
powdered up every day as regularly as
they are dressed. It would be very
hard to find a woman who has never
applied the beautifying dust to her
face.
"Of course young women use more
than the older?"
"1 can not ruako any rule on that
subject. We have customers for face
povder old enough to be grandmothers.
It is not at all uncommon to site on the
streets highly powd ?red women who at
a distance seem to lie about thirty years
old. but, coming nearer, the wrinkles
of the three-score years are plainly
visible. Most of our business in this
commodity is done with the middle
aged women. The young generally do
not need anything to improve the com
plexion. Bi t when a woman gets to be
thirty years of age, if she hasj not
taken good care of herself, her charms
begin to fade, and powder and other
devices for enhancing their beauty are
resorted to."
"Are there many kinds of powder in
use among the ladies?"
"Hundreds. I would say. Generally
a woman does not care for uy powder
In particular and a druggist can sell just
what he recommends, home of course
have their preferences among powders
and will purchase no other. The man
ufacture of face powders is a large busi
ness and many firms have become
wealthy in it. It used to be profitable
for the retailer to handle these goods,
but now the large dry goods stores are
dealing in them and the trade ot the
drug stores is much reduced. But therp
are masy ladies who would not pur
chase powder in any other rlace than a
drug store because they think they are
more liable to get a better and purer
article there."
"What are face powders made of?"
"There are various components from
which they can be. made. Magnesia,
chalk and lead are the principal. Some
powders are almost entirely composed
of chalk, and are of the cheaper kind.
Quite a number of women, instead of
purchasing powder, use plain drop
chalk or pyramid cakes of magnesia
These come much cheaper than the
manufactured powders."
"Do you regard powders as inj uriou
to the face?"
"Many powders are chemically pure,
that Is, contain no ingredients that are
poisonous, while others contain lead,
which is harmful. Now if a lady comes
in to purchase powder and asks me if I
have any which is not injurious I. give
her a pure powder with very little- or no
lead in it. But all powders are injur
ious, whether they be chemically pure
or not. They close up the pores "of the
face and destroy the natural funct'ons
of the skin. After a woman has used
Eowder for any length of time, her face
ecomes hard and the skin scaly. Then
cream 'or glycerine must be applied
every night to soften the skin ami open
the pores. Thus the skin, which has its
functions just the same as any other
part of the bodv is made to do treble
work and finally becomes sore and
scabby. I've seen lots of such cases
from the use of large quantities of face
powder."
"Women use much else besides face
powder for the adornment of their
charms, do they not?"
"Well. I should say so. You'd be
surprised to set all the articles many a
belle uses to get herself up for a special
occasion, a ball or the opera for in
stance. She often starts the night be
fore to begin the preparations. She has
been in the habit of using powder and
her face, as I told you before, becomes
rough and scaly. The first thing to do,
then, is to apply something, to soften
the skin. Generally a woman uses
cream or glycerine and "many have a
sort of mask which they wear over night
on the inside of which the cream or
whatever it may be is rubbed. In the
morning the face is soft and smooth.
Then as the evening approaches the
hare's foot is used to put on the powder.
And how do you suppose she gets such
nice red lips! She uses rouge, of course.
And at the ball she looks perfectly
charming fair but false."
"Do they use anything else besides
powder and rougf?"
"Certainly. We have a large sale for
face washes, vaseline,' toilet water,
washes for the scalp, bandoline, cam
phor ice, eye brow pencils and a dark
liquid for the eye brow and lashes, not
to speak of the quant ty of cologne that
is d sposed of. Many la lies keep all
these articles in stock." Then the list of
toilet articles includes, of course, a
comb, a tooth brush, a set of manicure
instruments, a Turk sh towel, a llesh
brush, tooth paste, a hand glass and
other things too numerous to men
tion. O, yes. the ladies are often the
best and most profitable class of trade
that a druggist can have."
"Are not the ladies ashamed to come
to your store for these articles, especi
ally, the powder and rouge?"
"Most of them are not. They have
got used to it and think it no disgrace or
no one's business if they use powder or
rouge. But some of them, when they
come to purchase, always give the clerk
to understand that they want the arti
cles for some friend. "They never use
such things. (), no! And yet you can
often seethe powder on the face. and
the rouge on the lips while they are
trying to give you this taffy. Many
hdies send a messenger boy for all such
articles, and thus keep the fact that
they use powder somewhat secret. But
a man can't see well if he can't tell the
difference between a powdered face and
one without powder."
"Do men ever use face powder?"
"Men? No. certainly not. But 1
have sold both powder and rouge to
two or three young dudes. And-they
weren't a bit ashamed of buying them,
and acknowledged that they used them
'egularly. Some dudes also use bando
line for their hair in front, just as ladies
lo. Bangs seem to be going out of
fashion with the lad es. I don't wonder
it it. since the dude has caught on to
the style. Albany Argus.
HENS ON THE FARM.
They Do Their Itent When They Are Most
Contented. I
1
All kinds of gra'n may be fed to
fowls with benefit, variety seems to
be an advantage, and probably from
hab t. It is tni'i, a s ngle grain with
the necessary an'mal and vegetable ac
companiments will secure proiit, par
t cularly if that grain be wheat, least
so, probably, if co-n; but the almost
universal testimony is in favor of a va
riety of feed. j
It is in the nature of the hen. as of
the milch cow, to be best j when its
treatment and surroundings contribute
most to its contentment, making the
proverbial s'nging hen thatl w.lT lay.
To afford t comfortable quarters atid
a sufficient range, with a jarety ol
food and pure water, sat sfy it. and
dispose it to propagat on, which, iiml r
such circumstances. m a is the gr-atcd
amount of eggs. The ben is a donu-stii
fowl aed has domestic attachments
and unless made to feel at h m ) and
unmolested, it w 11 be loth 6 respond
to the demands of matern tyj. A hen
that is d sturbed, or frightehded. will
not lay any more than if al
lowed to suffer from neglect or
a sulllc'cncv of food, even among the
best lay ng breeds. Treatment is of
such importance that the pld. unim
pro. t d fowl - a poor layer can. with
proper care, be made to realize profit
on the cost, and in such case surpass
the-most noted egg-produc ng breeds
when neglected.
Among farm-rs, it is doubtful wheth
er much, if anv, profit on the whole is
obtained from eggs; rather t is a loss
from the damage done by the fowls
where a free mn s allowed. las is more
or less the case. All kinds of breed
have been tr ed here w.th pretty much
the same re-ult. They are ja damage
to the grain, to the garden, and are not
a benefit to the grass, to sayj nothing of
the'r foul ng the walks, the r uncertain
hatch ng. and bringing out broods in
the fall, when not wanted.
In the except onal cases where farm
ers keep up the r fowls and have them
properly attended to. it is quite differ
ent; and it is on the farm where they
can be better taken care iof usually
than elsewhere, on account of their
food. whTch, in its variety, is raised on
the farm, and the abidance of space
for a range which thi farm affords; be
s'des, there are usually members enough
of the fam ly to see to the fowls, which
lessens the cost of attenda,!c Not a
few farmers take advantage of this
wh ch more ought to do. since they are
bound to have the convenience of eggs
(fresh eggs at that), and fowls for the
table ami with their better means for
keep'ng hens, somet mes secure a
large income and larger profit than is
realized by the professional poultry
keeper. It is their superior advantages
that enable them to ! do this,
anl if they k -ep he-is at all let them
keep them well in undisturbed posses
sion of clean, comfortable quarters,
w.th a variety of food, wh'ch the farm
affords, and sufficient ground and grass
n summer for green feed and exerc se
and it s a plan that has proved to be
excellent as well as mor easy, to allow
the hens access to thc'ir grain feed a',
all times, so as to avoid oVer-feeding,
keeping it where they can not waste or
foul it, and let wheat or wheat screeu
ngs be not the leat port on of the
gra n. The exchange of grass and in
sects, which form part of I the food of
fowls during the summer, is more con
veniently made on the farm to vegeta
ble and animal food for jw nter. In
tlrs way poultry can be made a profita
ble annex to the farm. Cor. Country
(icntlcnaji.
ENGLAND'S ARMED
FORCES.
Some Figures Likely to Prove Interest lug
At the Prenent .1 uiic'tur.
Fortresses are of little use indeed,
of no use. unless there are troops of
sufficient numerical strength to hold
them. Unfortunately, the Britsh
Arm), although much improved of late
years, and although it now possesses a
reserve wh ch formerly wits non-existent,
is not numercally strong enough
for the duties re julred of U especially
when, as at the present I' mo. over 0,
00) men are locked up in the Valley of
the Nde and 24,000 in Ireland. The
army in England and Scotland at the
present time cons sts of about .VJ.000
regular troops not under orders for for
eign serv ce; of 24,0 m regular troops
in Ireland, who can hardly be removed
irora that island; of 21.1KX) m foreign
stations (eclns ve of Egypt, the
Soudan and India); of 22,O0
in Egypt and the Soudan,
or under order (of th se lo.O'H) are al
ready there a id 7.000 on the way); HO. -000
in Ind a. aud two West Tnd an
regiments of negroes, numb ring about
l.00 of all ranks. There are also
about 34.500 in the lirt-class reserve,
7.000 in other reserv es, .and a mil it a
reserve of 26,000. In case of a compli
cation, no troops coul I be called out
except those m England and boot
land and the reserve - a total of 126,
500. From this to al. however, must
bo deducted all sick men and recruits
about 25,000 leaving only 101,500
available for the greatest emergency.
With regard to the militia, its estab
lishment is 142,000. but the actual
strength is about 107,000. Of these,
26,000 belong to the m litia reserve, al
ready counted in the regular army; ab
sentees and deserters number 11,000;
recru ts. lx.OOti; so th tj only 52,000
is the total force of m l.tra that can be
depended upon in case of war. Thus
only 153,5 men can bt brought to
gether. Of these, garr 'sons, abroad
will require 40,000 to fill them up; the
ar-enals and m 1 tary poits, 18,000
regulars, even suppos ng that volun
teers form the ch.ef part of their de
fense, in add tion to 2S.OO0 pensioners
and 30,000 militia; the commerc al
ports would require, in add.t on to the
volunteers. 4,000 regulars and 8,000
m 1 fa. These, taken together, num
ber 128.000. Taking that number from
153,500. there rema ns ouly 25.500 for
the movable arm-, a force totally In
adequate to take the field w th any
prospect of success against an invading
force- wh ch would not certa nly
bo less than 120,000 men or with
which to conduct any offensive expedi
tion into an encmys countrv Vor
nightlv lieriem. j
HE TRIED HIS LUCK ONCE MORE,
And Won Fifteen Thousand Dollars
In the Louisiana Lottery.
"Great Scott! is that so?" The
speaker, who was a clerk in a Mont
gomery street wine-house, leaned over
the counter and stared at the visitor,
his eyes bulging out so far that they
might easily have been knocked off
with a cane.
"Perhaps it is so and perhaps it is
not so. That is what I have come here
to ascertain, " was the reply. " Where
is Mr. Eckenrcth?"
" He'll be in in a moment, and hell
tell you if it's true ; but I think there
must be some mistake ; here he comes
now," added the clerk as a handsome
young man with dark side-wiskers, a
cheerful face and and a beaming eye
entered the office.
" Allow me to congratulate you, Mr.
Eckenroth," was the visitor's greeting.
" Dropped in to Bee if it was true, as I
hear it whispered that you've won the
big prize in the! Louisiana State Lot
tery." I; j
" Sh-h-h, I've been trying to keep it
quiet," said the lucky man with a
smile. " Have hardly breathed a word
about it. It is'nt the whole of the big
prize, you know, I only held one fifth.
That's $15,000." j
" Fifteen thousand dollars I sheuld
say that was enough for one haul."
" Yes, it's a good deal for a ioor man
to come ito possession of all of a sud
den. I tell you it paralyzed me when
I saw the report of the drawing. But
there it was No. j 8,990. Then I
thought it must be a misprint or error
of some kind. Ilad'nt any faith in my
luck, you know, but I telegraphed to
to New Orleans, without saying a word
to any one in the j office or on the
street, and when I received the reply
that the money was at my disposal, I
sent on word to have it collected
through the bank, jit arrived Satur
day, and if you'll take the trouble to
look at this, 'you'll see I am not giving
you any game." !
A brand-new deposit book of the
First National Bank, with the single
entry "14,947," was handed to the
visitor.
"Fifty dollars charges and $3 for
telegrams a reasonable discount,"
was the remark of the happy owner of
the bank book as he placed it in his
pocket.
Mr. Eckenroth is head bookkeeper
for Bach, Meese & Co., at 321 Moat
gomery street, in the Odd Fellows'
building. He takes his good fortune
very coolly. When asked if he did not
intend to resign his position as book
keeper, he replied : t
"Not at all. It's a good situation
and the money is all right where it is.
In -th-course ol. time 1 may make
some change and go into 'a different
business, but my present plan is to
remain here, if I am retained."
"By the way," he added, " the way I
came to buy that ticket was rather pe
culiar. I had boughtseveral times be
fore, without winning a dollar. It was
merely for amusement, because I look
at lotteries in a different light from that
in which the majority of people view
them. I never lay awake nights think
ing how much I was going to win and
how I was going to collect my money,
and what I would do with it after I won
it, and all that sort of nonsense. I
thought at first if I kept on buying
tickets I would win in time. But at
length I became rather disgusted and
liegan to think there was nothing in it.
I heard a great deal of talk about per
sons winning big prizes and had read
newspaper reports of men drawing
thousands of dollars on a single ticket;
but I began to take such statements
com grano salis. So when it came to
buying a ticket last month I thought
I wouldn't invest, j For several days I
refused to take a chance, and it was
just by a mere freak that I at last paid
over my dollar and took No. 8,999. I
regretted afterward that I had altered
my resolution, but now I thank my
lucky stars that I didn't let the chance
go by." . i
Mr. Eckenroth is a man of family
and has the reputation among his ac
quaintance of being sober, steady
and industrious, j With all the prizes
which Fortune has showered down up
on the lucky lottery players of this
city it is doubtful i if any have fallen
into better hands than that won by the
fortunate holder of ticket No. 8,999.
San Francisco (Cal.) Chronicle, August 4.
"Touring" Abroad.
The St. James' Gazette says: "The
habit of "touring"; abroad seems to be
growing in favor among English
sportsmen as well as among those of
other countries.. Although the coming
cricket season at home is not to be
s'gnal zed by the advent of any fore'gn
eleven, it appears that a couple of
British teams are intend ng to travel
in search of w'nter cricket. I5o?h will
visit America. Th's is probably due to
the extreme courtesy and 'good form
wh ch was so consistently shown by
the Philadelphra gentlemen who visit
ed us last year. Every club, we bc
1 eve. wh;ch ' met the I'hiladelphians
thoroughly enjoyed the friendly con
test; and in fact the latter fully justified
the r title to the r I name. A team of
south of England ! gentlemen will sa I
for America at the end of August, and
will include R. T. and K. J. Thornton,
Hine-Havcock, the old Dark Blue, T.
W. Welman. and W. Fowler, the old
Cambridge fast bowler- The other
team will be composed of Scotch gen
tlemen, who will also sail in August
Doubtless both elevens will have thor
oughly enjoyable trips among a people
so hospitable as the Americans."
-
We are glad to learn from a valued
contemporary that "pickled walnuts
are now introduced at dinner." If
there is anything we dislike it is to sit
opposite a pickled walnut at dinner
and not be on speaking terms with if
I'hiladelphia, iYejf.
Mr. Sweeney's Cat In yijr Time.
Bill Nye.
But I was going to speak more In particu
lar about Mr. Sweeney's cat. Ifr. Sweeney
had a largo cat named Dr. Mary Walker, of
which he vas very fond. ' Dr. Mary Walker
remained at the drag store all the time, and
was known all over St. Paul as a quiet and
reserved cat. If Dr. Mary Walker took In
the town after ofilce hours nobody seemed
to know anything about it. She would bo
around bright and cheerful the next morn
ing and attend to her duties at the store
Just as though nothing whatever had ever
happened. '
One day last summer Mr. Sweeney left a
large plate of fly-paper with water on it in
the window, hoping to gather in a few
quarts of flies in a deceased state. Dr. Mary
W alter used to go to this window during the
afternoon and look out on the busy street
wlule she called up pleasant memories of ber
past life. That afternoon she thought she
would call up some more memories, so fiha
went over on the counter and from there
jumped down on the window sill, landing
with all four feet in the plate of fly-paper.
AC nrst she regarded it as a joke and
treated the matter very lightly, but later on
she observed that the fly-paper stuck to her
feet with great tenacity of purpose. Sho
controlled herself and acted in the coolest
manner, though you could have seen that
mentally she suffered intensely. She eat
oown a moment to more fully outline a plan
for the future. In doing so she made a great
mistake. The gesture resulted in gluing tho
fly-paper to her person in such a way that the
edge turned up behind in the most abrupt
manner and caused ber great inconvenience.
The look of pain that Dr. Mary Walker
gate him.
Some one at that time laughed in a coarse
and heartless way, and I wish you could have
seen the look of pain that Dr. Mary Walker
gave him.
Then she went away. She did not go
around the prescription case as the rest of us
did, but strolled through the middle of it and
so on out through the glass door at the rear
of the store. We did not see her go through
the glass door, but we found pieces of fly. pa
per and fur on the ragged edges of a Jorge
aperture in the glass, and we kind of Jumped
at the conclusion that Dr. Mary Walker had
taken that direction in retiring from the
room.
Dr. Mary Walker never returned to St.
Paul, and her exact wbereaboata arcv not
known, though every effort waa fbade to find
her. Fragments of fly paper and brindle hair
were fouud as far west as the x ellowBtona
National park and as for north as the British
line, but the doctor herself was not found.
My own theory is that if she turned ber bow
to the west so aa to catch the strong easterly
gale on her quarter, with the sail she had sot
and her tail pointing toward the zenith, the
chances for Dr. Mary Walker's immediate
return are extremely slim.
Her Umbrella Was Left Behind.
Engraved from Harper's Weekly.
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"No, mum, yer didn't leave no umbrella
here. Yer must have drapped it some
where." Practical and Theoretical Chemistry.
Chicago Herald.
"Young gentlemen," said the lecturer in
chemistry, "coal exposed to the elements
loses 10 per cent of its weight and power.
This is due to the action of the alkali con
stituents of w
"But what if there is a dog sleeping near
the coal, professor V
"None of your levity, young man, this is a
serious matter."
"That's what dad thought when 72 per
cent, of his coal pile disappeared during three
nights of exposure. Then he asked my ad
vice as a student in chemistry, and I told him
to buy a dog. He bought a dog with bay
window teeth, and the spring halt in bis up
per lip, and now we don't lose one per cent c f
our coal a month. That's the kind of prac
tical chemist I am. Now go on with your
theory."
We Knew It Would Come to Tills.
I
The roller craze is breaking out in muslc-al
circles.
Why Ills Other Papa was Thankful.
Philadelphia Call
Bub "Are you going to be my new papaf"
Accepted Suitor "Yes, my dear child."
"Have you got your wig yetf"
"Wig! Why, no; I need no wig. Why do
you a&kr
"My other papa always said he was so
thankful hh hair wasnt fast to him."
Fall River Advance: The most concii-u.
tlous man in the world may have a plugwl
quarter in his pocket when ho goes to church,
but he never brings it away with him if then
has been a collection.
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