WHEN LOVE WENT BY.
When Love went by I scarcely bent
My eyes to see which way he went.
Life had so many Joys to show,
- What time had I to watch him go,
Or bid him in, whom folly sent?
But when the day was well nigh spent,
From out the casement long I leant. ;
Ah, would I had been watching so
When Love went by I ,
Gray days with dismal nights are blent,
Lonely and sad and discontent;
I would his feet had been more slow.
Oh, heart of mine, how could we know
Or realize what passing meant
When Love went by?
Woman's Home Companion.
r T was the yellow kitten who did it,'
11 Miss Priscllla Price said at the
church social In her most positive
manner, and no one, not even Mrs,
'Lias Miller, pretended to contradict
her.
"It's the truth, Indeed,',' Mrs. Sarah
Crump agreed, with her fat, comfort
able chuckle, and the society in a body
responded, "That's so."
Yes,' the yellow kitten was responsi
ble for the wedding that was to come
oil to-morrow and that would thus
unite forever not only two very attract
ive young people, but also the well
known families of Price and Campbell.
But we have begun at the wrong end
of the story, for Miss Priscllla ought to
have made, and In fact did make the
remark about the yellow kitten at the
end of the narrative, and not at the
beginning. " And thus, to get things
straight, we will start over again in the
old-fashioned orthodox way.
Once upon a time (not so very long
ago, either) the little village of Plne
ville flourished like a green bay tree.
It is true it had not arrived at trolley
cars or electric lights, but it was a very
charming place to visit nevertheless.
Bicycling was not entirely unheard of,
though those who rode were scarce a
few visitors at the summer boarding
. house In the little hills Just outside the
village had Introduced the wheel, but
the most conservative Plnevillians,
Miss Prtscilla Price at the head, quite
frowned down upon the sport, and Miss
Rebecca Slow has said, in season and
out of season, that "if any niece of hers
so dpmeaned herself as to be guilty of
such an unladylike, worldly amuse
ment she would be sorry, that's all,"
and then an expression of having al
ready made a will would pass over her
austere countenance.
But to the story! There were two
prominent families in the village who
had lived there since the very existence
of the settlement, and with whom all
the best people craved to be connected
In some way. They were the Campbells
and the Prices, and Miss Priscllla, who
insists upon getting Into print Just as
If she were a heroine, was one of the
most respected members of the latter
tribe. As it has been hinted before,
this Is an old-fashioned story, and has
a genuine heroine, to wit, Mabel Camp
bell. Of course, there is a hero, too,
whom the girls said "was just too
weet to live," and their mothers de
clared that he was a perfectly safe
young man, while the fathers and
brothers, though not going quite so far,
had only good words to say of Charlie
Price, at your service.
Now the "gentle reader" or, as some
writers prefer to say, the "fair reader,"
has doubtless guessed the sequel.
Charlie was in love with Mabel, and
the wedding, though properly opposed
by the powers that were, was a natural
consequence. But where or when did
the yellow kitten come In? All in good
time, my friends.
The Campbells and the Prices had a
feud of long standing, originating In
the years gone by over the fence
boundary, each head of the family
claiming twelve feet more of ground
than the other considered his due. For
tunately this feud was conducted In a
quiet and perfectly lawful manner, and
poison, bowie knives and pistols did not
figure In it But the feud was a posi
tive one, notwithstanding. No Camp
bell or Price had ever been known to
shake hands, not even at a church so
cial, which Mrs. 'Lias Miller and Miss
Rebecca Slow denounced far and wide
as "onObristlanlike." But In spite of
the disapproval of many of their com
mon friends, there was apparently no
chance of any of the members making
up until well. Just before this story
was written.
The places adjoined, as the disputed
boundary line suggested; In fact the
whole village had grown up around
them, and what was once an old coun
try lane where their gates stood, was
now a smart village street.
As children, our hero and heroine had
several times displayed much contempt
for the family fuss, and had been seen
playing together, though often forcibly
separated by Indignant parents with
threats of being sent supperless to bed
If the offense was repeated. Evidently
they bad inherited none of the ill feel
ing of their ancestors, which wag
mighty unnatural, Miss Priscllla
thought, though, as she always said,
he blamed the mothers on both sides
who certainly had not inculcated tne
proper spirit of righteous resentment
and unappeased wrath In their off
spring. But when childhood was over, Mabel
Campbell was estranged by circum
stance from Charlie Price as complete
ly as If an ocean had been between
them Instead of a paling fence. When
he was 18 she came back from board
ing school and was pronounced old
enough for picnics and socials, and
was. Indeed, the acknowledged belle of
the Toung People's Pleasure Club, and
the favorite even of matrons and spin
sters at sewing bees and Dorcas socle
ties, and a perfect Idol at home. She
was an only child, and the love that
seemed to overflow from father and
mother was expended upon innumer
able pets. She had two fat Yorkshlle
puppies, a pug dog, a parrot, and a cat
who recently had added to the proces
lon a. yellow kitten, qf the story. This
mall animal was up to mischief of all
kinds, and had the most exploring turn
of mind, for she was forever getting
lost and 'being returned to her mistress
by little boys of the village, who thus
tamed many an honest penny.
SENATOR STEWART HAS
Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is the proud possessor of th most luxuriant
growth of whiskers in the Senate, has never been shaved iu his life. His beard
began to sprout when he was about 16, and he is now 75. "Oh, yes," said he the
other day, "I have often thought of shaving. Kind-hearted friends have given
me razors and advised me to go to work on my beard, but 1 never took their
advice. You see, when I was a young man I never owned a razor, and 1 had to
let my whiskers run wild. Now it is too late. My constituents would rage and
my political career would be wrecked."
One afternoon Mabel had been out In
the woods with her young friends hunt
ing for chestnuts, and on her return
was greted with the sad tidings that
the yellow kitten had again strayed
from home. A search throughout .the
place was at once begun. Evening
came on, however, and no yellow kitten
put in an appearance. Mabel became
much distressed, as she was sure that
an evil fate had at last overtaken her
pet. She begged to be allowed to send
over to the Prices, and see If the wan
derer, scorning old opinions, had found
her way there, but her parents would
not consider such a proposition, so for
that night the household was minus the
kitten. .
The next day was spent in looking for
the loved-though lost, and many of the
village boys joined In the hunt, but
with no result
Toward sunset Mabel decided to walk
through the woods that skirted the vil
lage, thinking possibly her little prodi
gal might be somewhere about, and
down a shady path she went. She fan
cied. ere long that she heard a moan a
very sad, klttenly moan it was and
soon discovered up In a tree, tangled
most promiscuously In creeping vines,
the yellow kitten, unable to free her
self. In vain Mabel called and tried to
entice her from her perilous position;
only piteous little meows were the re
sult. If she only had a long stick, or,
still better, if she could climb the tree,
something might be done, but the years
spent at boarding school had robbed
her of all her childish accomplishments.
In the mldlst of her dilemma, help
was forthcoming she little dreamed of.
Through the bushes she heard the
sound of approaching footsteps and a
cheerful whistle. Soon the author of
these pleasant noises was in view. It
was Charlie Price, the family enemy,
and, to boot, a splendid young athlete!
Mabel forgot the traditions of three
generations of bitterness and called out
to her playmate of former days:
"Charlie Mr. Price, I mean can you
help me? See my poor yellow kitten;
she cannot get down," pointing, as she
spoke, to the tree which contained her
treasure.
"With pleasure, Miss Mabel! Beg
pardon, Miss Campbell. Poor little
beastie she is caught In the vine."
And with that he sprung up the tree
with the agility of a squirrel or a circus
rider, and at some peril of broken limbs
rescued the kitten and placed her in the
outstretched arms of her young mis
tress, i.
Then it was the most natural thing'in
the world for our hero to walk home
with our heroine, and still more natural
the next day when they by chance met
In the same woods, to stop and speak pt
the lost one. Thus, In spite of the fam
ily feud, the intimacy ripened between
the young branches.
It was useless for Mabel's parents to
protest; Indeed, nothing short of a com
mand would have stopped this new and
delightful friendship, and Charlie bold
ly announced to his paternal that he
was tired of keeping up such an anti
quated fuss; let the grandfathers tight
out their own battles in whatever
world they were now residing, but he,
for bis part would no longer encourage
hatred, malice and all uncnarltable
ness. Ere the winter bad advanced Charlie
Price was known throughout Pineville
to be Mabel Campbell's "steady com
pany," and although Miss Priscllla, at
the head of the Price family, and old
Mr. Jonas Campbell, Mabel's great un
cle, the chief of the Campbell tribe, de
clared in unmeasured language their
opinion of the doings of -their young rel
atives, It was useless, and, in fact hur
ried up matters. Then the two moth
ers, who secretly bore no malice, ex
changed calls, and actually Mrs. Camp
bell was overheard to say that Mrs.
Price's sausage receipt was the best in
the village, while Mrs. Price made no
denial of having borrowed Mrs. Camp
bell's knit quilt as a guide for the one
she was making to exhibit at the coun
ty fair in the spring.
From that the fathers of the two
peacemakers met and discussed poll
tics, and not boundary lines over the
disputed fence. By this time, as may
well be Imagined, the wedding prep
aratlons were well uniier way. At thg
suggestion of Charlie his new house
was to be built directly over 'the part of
the ground that both Campbells and
Prices claimed, and this was universal
ly regarded as the most amicable set
NEVER BEEN SHAVED
tlement of the trouble, and lo and be
hold! the marriage was announced to
take place on the. following Easter
Tuesday. . '.
And just then did Miss Priscllla Price
make her statement that the yellow
kitten did it, and the entire village
agreed with ber.
"BONA-FIDE AMERICAN."
Dr. William Mason Telia an Anecdote
of the Violinist Remenyi.
"I have already had something to say
of Eduard Remenyi, the Hungarian
violinist who accompanied Brahms to
Weimar in 1853, says a writer in the
Century. He was a talented mnn and
was esteemed by Liszt as being, in- his
way, a good violinist. He belonged to
the class' typified by Ole Bull, but did
not achieve so great a reputation. He
remained at Weimar after Brahms left
there, and I became Intimately ac
quainted with him. He was very en
tertaining and so full of fun that he
would have made a tip-top Irishman.
He was at home in the gypsy music of
his own country and this was the main
characteristics of his playing. He had
also a fad for playing Schubert melo
dies on the violin with the most atten
uated pianissimo effects and occasion
ally :his hearers would listen Intently
after the tone had ceased, imagining
that they still heard a trace of it
Not long before leaving Weimar I had
some fun with him by asking if he had
ever heard "any bona-fide American
spoken." He replied that be did not
know there was such a language.
"Well," said I, "listen to this for a spec
imen: 'Ching-a-Iing-a-dardee, Chebung
cum Susan.'" I did -not meet him
again until 1878, twenty-four years
after leaving Weimar. I was- going
upstairs to my studio in the Steinway
Bullding when some one told me that
Remenyi had arrived and was rehears
ing for his concert in one of the rooms
above. So. going up, I followed the
sounds of the violin, gave a quick
knock, opened the door and went In.
Remenyi looked at me for a moment
rushed forward and seized my hand,
and as he wrung it cried out: "Ching-a-ling-a-dardee,
Chebung cum Susan!"
He bad remembered it all those years.
A Plant tbat Coughs.
The vine Eutada tussiens is called
the coughing bean. It Is a native of
moist tropical regions, and there Is one
thing which it cannot and moreover
will not, stand, and that is dust When
the breathing pores of this plant become
choked by dust the gases accumulate
within the leaf for a time' and are then
forcibly, expelled in an audible par
oxysm of coughing and sneezing which
makes the leaf tremble violently. At
the same time the whole plant turns
red in the face, so to speak, through the
sinking in of the green chlorophyll
grains and the appearance of particles
of red coloring matter on the surface.
The eutada Is sometimes cultivated as
a house plant Sweeping the room Is
apt to set the plant coughing to the in
tense.astoulBuruent of persons who are
not familiar, with Its peculiarities. The
respiration of plants is carried on
through the leaves. On the underside
of : leaves,' are millions of micro
scopic mouths, each of which is opened
and closed by two movable lips. These
openings are the termination of pass
ages -which are. filled with water
vapor, air, and other gases, produced
by the chemical changes which accom
pany growth.
Odd Furniture.
Perhaps the oldest suit of furniture
in the world is owned by a certain hotel
keeper. For many years he has made
it his business to collect match' boxes,
of which he has now a collection of 4.
000. He ordered a skilled cabinet
maker to equip a room with furniture
made of these boxes. . The outfit con
sists of a writing table with smoking
apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet a
chair and other smaller articles.
Perfidious Man.
Mrs. Linguist I want to get a di
vorce. My husband talks in his sleep.
Lawyer Soozem But, my dear mad
am, that is no ground . for divorce.
There is no cruelty in
Mrs. Linguist But he talks In Lathi,
and I don't understand that language
at all. Baltimore American.
A man who neglects his own business
can't be trusted to look after other peo
ple's affairs.
Women who live In flats In London
are finding it almost impossible to em
ploy servants, because they are So com
pletely Isolated from the outside world.
At a dinner given by Count Bonl de
Castellane In Paris recently, dwarf
cherry trees loaded with, fruit were
used for ornament and the cherries for
dessert The cherries, it is said, cost
$4 each. The trees bad been forced in
hothouses.
One of the most frequent uses to
which the telephone Is put by French
country subscribers is that of an alarm
to wake them In the morning. Those
who wish to be aroused at a given hour
have only to advise the telephone ad
ministration the night before of an
hour at which they wish to be rung
up-
The Land That Swings Like a Ham
mock is the name given by Indians to
the territory about San Salvador, Cen
tral America. Tbat city was entirely
destroyed by an earthquake on March
19, 1873, but the people had grown
alarmed and had deserted it so only
five hundred were killed. It flourishes
to-day.
A recent careful count by a com
petent person places the whole number
of buffaloes living to-day at only 1,024.
Dr. William T. Hornaday says it would
have been as easy to count the leaves
in the forest as to calculate the num
ber of buffaloes living at a given time
during the history of the species pre
vious to 1870.
The "towers of silence" are two tall
towers In Persia, so called by the Par
sees. They never bury the dead, but
leave the body exposed on the top of
one of these towers until the sun and
the rain and the fowls of the air have
cleaned the bones of all flesh. Then
the bones are collected and placed In
the other towers.
There Is no doubt the first Idea of a
suspension bridge was suggested to
primitive man by the interlacing of
tree branches and parasitical plants
across rivers. Probably monkeys used
them before men did. In very moun
tainous countries, such as Thibet and
Peru, they have apparently been used
since the dawn of history, possibly
earlier.
Hoboken, N. J., Is the most densely
populated city In the country, having
sixty-one inhabitants to the acre. At
the opposite extreme. New Orleans has
but two to the acre. Los Angeles, Cat,
and Lynn, Mass., are oddly bracketed
as having the most park space, an acre
to every twenty-eight inhabitants. Jer
sey City has but an acre to every 11,
488 inhabitants.
Boston Is the richest per capita city
in the country and spends the most per
capita. If her wealth was evenly
distributed every inhabitant would
have $1,942 worth of property. Of
course, in aggregates New York is far
ahead of all the rest having a valua
tion on a one hundred per cent basis
of $4,735,114,370, or enough to pay the
national debt four times over, with a
comfortable balance of $300,000,000.
Tacoma has the largest per capita debt
in the country, $J.i5.74.
It is a well-known fact that the en
tire Atlantic seaboard is sinking at the
rate of two feet a ,century from Cape
Cod to Cape Hatteras. If it can sink
that fast, it certainly has no very solid
underpinning, and some day the props
may let go all at once,, and where will
New York be? Vast tracts of Holland
are already far below the surface of
the sea, and the waves are kept out
(vith the great dikes, aud science says
that Holland, Belgium, Denmark and
ill the southern coast of the Baltic Sea
ire sinking steadily. The entire conti
uent of Atalanta has gone down under
he waves. Why should not other con
tinents follow?
Finding Days of the Week.
The prematurely aged young man
whose duty It Is to get up the Record's
"Answers to correspondents" column
says that queries of the same nature
always come In bunches. They seem
o be epidemic. Just at present a great
many people seem eager to know what
day of the week they were born on,
and It keeps him busy figuring the
dates out. He has a system which he
nses, and for the benefit of others who
may be in search of like information it
Is herewith given. For instance, take
Jan. 15, 18G8. A man born on that date
writes to know what day of the week
it fell on. In order to ascertain this
divide the figures representing the
year by 4, rejecting the remainder, if
any. To this dividend and quotient
add the number of days in the year to
the given date, Inclusive, always reck
oi'i' g twenty-eight days In February.
Divide the sum by 7, and the remain
der will be the number of the day of
the week, 0 signifying Saturday. Here
Is the illustration, taking Jan. 15, 1869:
4)1868.
467
15
Number of days to Jan. 15,
7)2350
335-5
Thus, by this calculation, which Is In
fallible, it will be seen that Jan. 15,
1868, fell on the fifth day of the week,
which is Thursday. Philadelphia
Record.
He Knew.
One cold, gusty December evening a
man was struggling along against the
wind, his overcoat buttoned to the
neck. He was rather anxious to know
what time it was, but he was too lazy
to unbutton his coat in order to get at
his watch.
Just then he saw a gentleman In the
distance. When he came up the man
who wanted to know the time raised
his bat politely and inquired: "Sir, do
you know what time it Is?"
The stranger paused, removed his
right glove, unbuttoned his overcoat
and finally pulled out bis watch, while
the cold wind beat against his unpro
tected breast. Holding up the watch
so that the light of an adjacent lamp
would shine on it he scrutinized It for
an instant and said "Yes," and then
passed on without another word. Tit
Bits.., -, '-' ;' ' - -' . -
A pert schoolgirl recently Informed
ber mother that she didn't propose to
wear abort dresses any longer.
SLAVERY IN LONDON.
DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF EN
GLISH SHOP WORKERS
Infinite Horror St the "Livlng-In"
System Enforced by Rich Proprie
tor Both Men and Women Are Poor
ly Paid and Heavily FlueJ.
Thousands of the working girls a;t
men of London, with the assistance or
Influential members of Parliament are
making a determined effort to alleviate
the deplorable conditions under which
they are now compelled to labor. The
poor shop workers are Imposed upon i'l
many ways by the rich proprietors of
some of the metropolis' biggest depart
ment houses and the condition of many
Is described as little better than sla
very, from which up to the present
there has been no hope -of escaping, as
the majority of the shop workers have
no other means of obtaining a liveli
hood. One of the systems enforced by some
of the proprietors is known as the "llv-
ing-ln" system. By this plan the em
ployes are lodged and fed together at
the employer's expense and are under
his Jurisdiction night as well as day.
The system has many advantages in
theory, but in practice they are found
to be remarkably few. The grievances
of the shop assistants who have to
"live in" begin with their sleeping
rooms. Of all the big London shops
there are not more than 'one or two
where every assistant has a bed to him
self or herself. The general rule, is two,
and sometimes three, In one bed and
HEART OF LONDON'S
eight or nine in every room. The rooms,
too, are about as bare and unattractive
as It Is possible to make them. Iron
bedsteads constitute the furniture.
There are no chairs, no tables, no cup
boards. Every assistant keeps his
or her clothes In a trunk under
the bed, and If Inadvertently any
article is left lying out it Is usually
confiscated. It is against the rules to
have any pictures, photographs or orna
ments on the walls or any flowers, eith
er In pots or vases. The girls are for
bidden to do any needlework In their
dormitories. Cold water and basins are
supplied by the generous house, but the
clerks have to get their soap and tow
els. If they break any article of furni
ture or crockery they have it to pay for.
No assistant is allowed to visit any
other assistant in his or her room; none
Is allowed to receive a friend from out
side anywhere In the building. But the
hardest rule of all is that the clerk
cannot choose his bedfellow or- bed
fellows, but is forced to "bunk In"
wherever he Is put and If his bedmates
THE LONDOK SHOPOIKL.
be of bibulous proclivities and come
home drunk, or happen to have any
disease, why, so much the worse for
him. This unbreakable rule Is the same
In the girl's department as in the men's.
There is a sitting-room for the girls and
a smoking-room for the men, but they
are both always crowded to suffocation,
and the assistant who would like to
read a book or write a letter, has no
chance at all. It Is one of the bitterest
cries of .what the victims have dubbed
"The white slavery" that there Is no
such thing as privacy that one is never
alone. . Again, every assistant half sus
pects every other of being one of the
Arm's staff of unknown spies, and they
distrust each other accordingly.
Everybody must be out of the living
rooms by 8 o'clock in the morning and
m again at 11 at night by 12 on Sun
days. The living rooms are generally
In a building in a side street near the
shop, and at the street door there is a
Cerberus who lets lri the young men
and young women as they arrive, up to
the forbidden hour, when the door .Is
shut and if a girl has been delayed in
getting back it's ten to one she will
have to walk the streets all night un
less she can find friends to "put her
up." -" ...... :, - ;.,', ,'
Just fifteen minutes after, the closing
hour the gas goes out everywhere, and
anyone who has a light later than that
time is discharged. Not even a candle
Is allowed. In most houses it is a rule
that all rooms shall be unoccupied on
Sunday, and roost of the assistants are
glad to live up to It, but sometimes,
when the seventh day happens to be
rainy. It comes hard.
No marriage is tolerated where "liv
ing In" obta'ns. If the firm gets wind
of an affection between a man and a
girl one of the two is promptly dis
charged. Such houses will not employ
a married man if they know It, but
sometimes they are outwitted by men
who see their better halves only from
Saturday to Monday. It Is another
bard and fast rule that none of the
male employes in these shops may vote.
The dining-room Is usually a dark
one In the cellar, not invariably free
from cockroaches, known in England
as black beetles. The meals are served
on long oilcloth-covered tables, bare of
anything beyond the essential imple
ments of gastronomic warfare. As a
rule the food Is indifferent, for the pro
prietor Is constantly dissatisfied with
the chefs efforts in the way of econ
omy, and the bill of fare hardly ever
consists of more than three staples. The
damp room is lighted with flaring gas
lights. The stale bread, rancid "butter
ine," a pallid chicory mixture that mas
querades as "coffee," stewed tea and
tainted meat, and having to bolt It In
fifteen or twenty minutes amid a clat
ter of dishes, combine to make a ghast
ly experience.
The clerks go to their meals In "par
ties" and are as liable as not to be called
back to the shop again before they can
eat two mouthfuls. If a clerk is busy
when his "party" Is ready to go he has
to wait an hour or more until all the
parties have finished, when there Is a
special table for stragglers, and if he is
busy when that time comes he has to
SHOPPING DISTRICT.
go hungry. It often happens that a man
or girl has to work on for eight or nine
hours In a busy time without a bite.
The proprietor does not have much
trouble with grumblers, however bad a
table he "sets." The reason is that he
fines his people two shillings sixpence,
or 62 cents, a grumble.
The London shop man draws a salary
of from $150 to $225 a year in addition
to his board and lodging; the shop girl
$50 a year less. They have to be well
dressed, and their little Income Is
drained by all sorts of fines, to say
nothing of the small sums they often
have to spend to eke out their scrimped
meals. - Of course there is a fine for
every clerical- mistake, and the pro
prietor encourages those whose busi
ness it is to ferret out such slips by pay
ing them a small sum for every one
they can locate.
Most shops have all their rules and
the fines attached to them printed in a
little book, which they graciously sell
to their employes for sixpence and fine
them sixpence if they lose it. One well
known London shop has 198 rules, an
other 159. There is a fine for being
late, which Increases with every minute
of tardiness; one for taking a knife,
fork or spoon to one's room; a set
amount to 'be paid for . every box of
goods not properly dusted; for wearing
a bunch of flowers over three inches In
diameter; for leaving the counter be
fore the bell for meals has rung. Then
there are what are called "omnibus"
fines that is, the heads of departments
"have discretion" to exact a line for
practically any offense. When the clerk
has liquidated all the fines that he in
curs in the hurry of business and has
paid out small sums for the "doctor,"
the shoe black, the shop's system of ac
cident insurance, and so forth, what he
has left for himself must be no great
sum.
A Close Shave.
A Sand Hog in a red shirt and grimy
trousers sat down by me oneafternoon
on a heap of boards midway "between
the Sand Hogs' bouse and the "hos
pital." This pressurework'er, whose
knees showed traces of "the bends,",
evidently had a story to tell.
"It was only the other day," he' said.
"I seen it and how the man ever hap
pened to live, I dunno. It was one o'
these little caissons here we're putting
this big building on. He was one of the
superintendents, a young college feller
that knows his Job. Well, he .went
down with us. There wuz four In the
gang, and one o' them, Tim that
Harp yer .might see drlnkln' coffee
now. They wuz a rock there, and the
foreman told Tim to have a go at it.
He got his pick and swung it .for a
good crack. There was a tearln' an' a
rippln' an' Tim dropped his pick. As
he swung It the young feller had step
ped out and the pick had ripped off
every button from the blue jumper he
had on, without even scratchin' him."
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. -
Counting the Stars.
Today the stars visible from the first
to the thirteenth magnitude aggregate
to about 43,000,000 of which nearly
10,000,000 have been photographed. In
the most powerful telescopes, even the
fifteenth magnitude has been reveal
ed; of this magnitude perhaps 100,000,
000 stars are suspected, but knowledge
concerning them Is uncertain. In the
milky way alone there are some 10,000
stars, separate by vast distances. To
the eye at the telescope the sky seems
no longer dotted with constellations,
but powdered with gold dust
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who asked ber boy, when be
did not speak up promptly and ac
knowledge his fault "Has the cat got
your tongue?" -
A stiff upper Up is useless when pit
ted against a wagging lower Jaw.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Encouraging Reports Come From
the Western Centers.
Bradstreet's says: Trade reports
from the distributive centers at the
West continue encouraging, while
such measures of trade volume as
bank clearings and railway earnings
indicate a considerable gain In busi
ness over a year ago. Soft spots are,
of course, to be found, notably in
the manufacturing branches of the
cotton and the wool trade, but ad
vices from the dry goods and cloth
ing distributors are encouraging, and .
it is thought will help business. The
strength of iron and steel this week
recalls the boom of 1899. - It is prob-
able, too, that the broad and strong
consumptive demand and not the ope
rations of pools or cliques; is respon-
sible for the steady advances. Prac
tically all markets report iron and
steel higher, but special activity Is
noted at Pittsburg, Birmingham and
Chicago; St Louis alone reports
foundry iron consumers indifferent
The cereals are without notable
change, wheat and corn being frac
tionally lower in a dull, scalping mar
ket. Lumber is strong in price, pend
ing the resumption of general build
ing operations. Western advices are
especially bullish. Chicago has done
the heaviest business ever recorded
in yellow pine and white pine. Stocks
have been broken badly by the active
demand. Hard woods are rather
slower to respond, however, and are
still unsteady, not to say weak. Cop
per is less active for export, but
hold firm, while tin is again lower
on foreign advices. "
Wheat, including flower, shipments
for . the week aggregate 5,233,313
bushels against 3,424,302 bushels
last week. .
Business failures in the United
States for the week number 167, as
against 231 last week.
Canadian failures for the week
lumber 28, as against 24 a week ago.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
j
Seattle Market
Onions, new yellow, $3 .50 4.25.
Lettuce, hot house, $1.60 per case. -Potatoes,
new. $18. ,
Beets, per sack, $1.25.
Turnips, per sack, 75o.
Squash 2c.
Carrots, per sack, 75c
Parsnips, por sack, $1.25 1.50.
Celery 60c doz.
Cabbage, native and California,
8c per pounds.
Butter Creamery, 25c; dairy i 15
18c; ranch, 15c 18c pound.
Cheese 14 c.
Eggs Ranch, 20c; Eastern 20c.
Poultry 13c; dressed, native ohick
ens, 14c; turkey, 15c.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $15.00;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$19.00.
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $24.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.40; v.
blended straights, $3.25; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; era
ham, per barrel, $3.25; whole wheat '
flour, $3.25; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $15.00;
shorts, per ton, $16.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $23; oil cake meal,
per ton, $29.00..
Fresh Aleuts Choice dressed beef
steerst price 8c; cows, 7 He; mutton
1; pork, 8c; trimmed, 10c; veal, 10c.
Hams Large, lljc; small, 11;
breakfast bacon, 13c; dry salt sides,
8c.
Portland Market
Wheat Walla Walla. 56c; Valley
nominal; Bluestem, 67.52 0 per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.40; graham,
$2.60.
' Oats Choice white, 45c: choice
gray, 43c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $16.50 brew
ing, $16.50 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $16.00 ton; mid
dlings, $21.50; shorts, $18.50; chop,
$16 per ton.
Hay Timothy,$12 12.50; clover,$7
9.50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 22 25c;
tore, 13c.
Eggs 14c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 18c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo
per pound. " -
Potatoes 4060o per sack; sweets,
$l,6o per 100 pounu.
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, c per pound; parsnips, 85c;
onions, $2.753.00; carrots, 75c.
Hops Sew 'crop, 12 14c per
pound.
Wool Valley, 13 14c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 10 12c; mohair, 25
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
$4.75; ewes, $4.50; dressed mutton. "
6j27c per pound.
HogR Gross, choice heavy, $5.25;
light and feeders, $5.00; dressed,
67o per pounds.
' Beef Gross, top steers, $4.504.75;
cows, $1.004.50; dressed beef, 6
7c per pound.
Veal Large, 77Kc; small, 8 H'
9c per pound.
San Francisco Market.
Wool spring Nevada, 11 13c per
pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 14c; Val
ley, 1517c; Northern, 9 10c.
Hops Crop, 1900, 15 20c.
Butter Fancy creamery 18c;
do seconds, 17c; fancy dairy, 15;
do seconds, 12c per pound.
Ega Store, 22c; fancy ranch,
26c.
Mil .-tuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; lran, $15.00 16.00.
Hay Wheat $913H; wheat aud
oat $9.00 12.50; best barley $9.50
alfalfa, $7.00 10.00 por ton; straw,
35 47 )c per bale. - -
1'oKitoee Oregon Burbauks, $1;
Salinas llnrbiuifcs, 76c $1.1 5; river
Bnrlianks, Softt iiOc: sweets. 50 $1. Oil.
Citrus Krnit Ontuges,' Valencia,
$2.15(3.25; Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 7oe $1.50;
do choice $1.75(22.00 per 1kx.
TropiiMil Frnite Bananas, $1.50
8.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; l'eisian dates, ;' GHio par
pound " - '. -," '- - "