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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1902)
SLEEPY MANILA ORE than four years hare elapied since the invasion of the Philippines by i - v ........ i t i t.i acine writes a correspondent, that L7.r ViiBtonm and habits of their American has infused no fresher blood into ,hade ot tree.ana 5?"' ?hrsta made in cellars of Chicago and Uenver saioons nave, in a measure, uuuw ic is the same old sleepy, indolent, care-free town that it was ten years ago and will Perhaps when peace is permanently i ernaps V p ., , mnttpr of fact little American capnai is urius luicsu. .7 ... . , , ti Zk nL for places to put in some cash. But in nearly every instance they have returned home with al they had when they ' ft exoeot of course that which they spent for passage and food. The price of all foodstuffs has risen correspondingly with th r;Po-ted Advances in America No one in ordinary circumstances can afford to patronize the better class of t.nr.nu Md for beefsteak such as one could get in the cheaper restairants in Chicago they are not here at all Ka Si" almost unknown, stuff that is called veal tastes like boiled shoestrings, and a. tor lamb and mutton the meat smells Hke a dog pound and has a flavor that is a cross between dogwood blossoms and a bunch of jimson weeds He one engaged in business usually reaches his office about 8 o'clock; at noon he has lunch, after which he takes a ShuV 12 4 ,ciock m-Later 0011189 dinner partit' th,at vrng the rich The hour is 8 o'clockf Calls are s ldom If ever made except among the closest friends after that time, but are con fined to the earlier hours of the evening, when chocolate is served by the lady of the house. THE CONCEITED COINS. "I'm just as good as silver!" The Nickel proudly cried; "The head of Madam Liberty Is stamped upon my side. I am as white and shining As any dime can be lie needn't put on any airs, I'm twice as thick as he!" "I'm every bit as good as gold! The Penny blustered loud; "That tiny, thin, gold dollar- He needn't feel so proud, For all his airs and graces I do not give a fig; I'm burnished just as bright as he. And half again as big!" But when the Cent and Nickel Went out upon their way, Alas, the world still held them cheap, Whatever they might say. The Double Eagle smiled. "You'll find, He said, "that par is par; It doesn't matter how you boast, But what you really are." The Outlook. I DEMON DANDY I .fr.H.-fr-ii.-3"S--"i"r-3"t' I 1 1 1 I 1 i ! URING his visit to the Hunting I dons he bad fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful and Im perious sister of his host. It was the night before the sale that the subject of the Otringtou horse sale was broached by Huntingdon. I see they are going to put up that brute Demon Dandy," he began inqo cently. : "Why brute?" queried Diana. ' Belluirs, for her benefit, recounted the history of Demon Dandy's ex ploits. When he had finished the harrowing recital with a thrilling account of how Demon had beseiged a stableman In the loft for a space of twelve hours, nnd how he had kicked two loose boxes Into, matchwood in the same space ot time, Diana Huntingdon lifted her glo rious dark eyes to his. 1 think I should like to buy that horse." she said. Mv dear Diana," expostulated her brother. -Don't think of it," said Mr. Bellairs Diana had a will of her own. This slight but ill-timed opposition called it into life. "I'm Sure I should like to buy that i,nr,." she reiterated, with a rising color. More opposition followed from the men. Her brother grew angry at the Idea, ii.ll:iirs. who would himsell mount and ride anything between s buck-Jumper and a zebra, grew alarm ed and almost angry with her, whom he worshiped In private as almost a divinity. "I am going to buy that horse," said Diana Huntingdon at last, with an an crv flash iu her eyes. Then out of his love and fear for her Bellairs forgot his manners, which, as n general rule, were perfect. Worse still, he also forgot diplomacy. "1 don't think you will succeed," he said, coolly. Then a hot flush came up from his boots, till he blushed In agony to th crown of his head. "Indeed?" replied the girl, with note of scornful, interrogation In her voice that caused his heart to sink within him. -I am thinking of buying him my self." said Bellairs. desperately. "Indeed?" replied Diana, with an al most imperceptible lift of her eye brows. "To shoot " exclaimed Bellairs. An angry flush crept across her face ns she swept from the room, gazing angrily before her. "You're quite right, Jack." said Huntingdon, sympathetically, as his friend returned disconsolately to the table. "But I'm afraid you've upset Di; she's a bit short-tempered, you know. Do you really mean to buy the brute?" "I do." replied Bellairs, "and to ride hiui, too.". I Little Improvement Since ; the Invasion by Amer ican Forces. in that time the natives wouia nave yn.Keu white-faced brethren from over the seas. the ways of business. He tried it for " . . ''A -,m.h,.. that mercantile establishments display their goods io onmm.inAr tlnn Snanisli coin: th.at rhies ndMK established with all the islands Americans will be more conspicuous but as . . tv, ,,-. , nrosnoetors and men with money to land here And he did. Diana did not appear at the sale the next day, neither did she put In an ap pearance at the dinner table. Where fore. In the evening, Mr. Bellalrs or dered the dogcart, bade his friend farewell, and returned to his home with a sorrowful heart. A year elapsed and found him still sorrowful. All his male friends declared him to have become a mysogynist, while all his acquaintances of the softer sex, who might have been his friends but for this painful peculiarity, declared that he was a heartless brute. The peculiarity was made all the more unbearable to the eligible dam sels of Burghminster society by the fact that Jack was considered a good "catch." "I AM GOING. TO UUY THAT HOUSE. Burghminster mammas, with mar riageable daughters, were of opinion that a woman hater had absolutely no right to own such a home as Bellairs did. and that a heavy tax should be instituted to discourage such flagrant examples of cast-Iron bachelorhood. He was decoyed away Into discreet woods, where dovelike eyes--, were flashed upon him; where tiny well- gloved hands grasped his with tender appeals for help at the slightest obsta cle In the shape of a stile or gurgling brook. But all in vain. Only one person sat on the stile, and the brook gurgled on, mocking the aspirations of matchmak ing humanity. The dovelike eyes of STRANGE. Old Hen (seeing her brood go in I am sure we never did anything American. . the American forces. One would im- a j xA wMMn rna man up uu c.uus But such is not the case lhe a while and tnen sat down unaer .u that some of the women who travel -. be twenty years hence, Burghminster beauty might have been the blackened optics of a borough ama zon, so small their attractions to the stony-hearted Bellairs. He now took long objectless rides alone on Demon Dandy, whose natural depravity of character had almost dis appeared under the Influence of a long snell of hard work. Sometimes, in the course of these rides, "he would pass Miss Huntingdon, who would greet him with a cold and distant bow, and ivho, when he was safely out of sight, would indulge in the feminine luxury of tears. Bellairs, having no tears, would, by touching Demon Dandy with the spur, incite him to rebellion. The fights that followed were of ben efit both to man and horse. Nevertheless, every time he met Diana Huntingdon she could not help noticing that he was growing thinner and paler. He, too, thought the same of her, till, one one occasion, the thought proved too much for liiin. She had just disappeared round a bend In the leafy lane, walking slowly and with drooping head. Bellairs, overcome by his feelings, clapped both spurs into Demon Dandy, a direct challenge for an equine strug gle of the most violent character. Demon Dandy answered the chal lenge by rearing wildly, then falling backwards with a heavy crash on to his master. Bellairs was conscious of a glimpse of Demon Dandy's nose against the sky. Then a flash passed before his eyes and he knew no more. . When he came to himself he found his lost divinity bending over him. He had a vague idea that she was calling him "Jack" and her "boy." A half hour elapsed. Bellairs said little. He just lay there happily, explaining matters and recov ering his breath. "It is just as well that I did not let you buy Demon Dandy," he said at htst. "Just as well, dearest, since you are not killed," said Diana. "But you will not ride him again?" "I won't," ejaculated Bellairs, fer vently. Chicago Tribune. An "Essential OH." Ernest Insersoll is as quick at rep artee as he is keen in his observation of nature, it nappenea some time ago that his daughter asked him a question concerning the difference between es- sential and fixed oils. He explained at . a. some icugtii. "Well," said she, "to, which class does skunk's oil belong?" "To both," was the prompt rejoinder, i . "It's essential to the skunk and fixed on the man." New York Times. Opportunity is said to knock at every man's door, but it is the usual experi ence that he throws a poster over the gate and runs by. water for first time) Well, that's queer. like that when I was young. Chicago WEST INDIAN SUPERSTlf IQN Belief im the Vampire ut la the "Rolling Calf." The French islands have two super stitions which are not found in some others of the West Indies. These ate a belief in a sort of werewolf or vam pire, which lives on the blood of way farers, upon whom it leaps when they are abroad in the nighttime, or of sleepers whom it finds in lonely hats; and a second believe in what Is known as the British Islands as the "rolling calf," a monster with biasing ' eyes, which prowls at' night, clanking a chain which hangs about Its neck, and at whose touch men die. The follow ing description is given of the typical obeah-man:; "There is something so Indescribably sinister about an obeah-man's appear ance that he can always be picked out by anybody who has had much to do with negroes. Dirty, ragged, unkempt, diseased, deformed, there is yet about him an aiirof cunning authority. His small, cruel, piercing eyes peer vicious ly at the witnesses arrayea againsi him in court, for all the world like those of a cornered rat. Black men may be seen to turn as gray as ashes under the terror of that baleful gaze, and often it Is only with the greatest difficulty that incriminating evidence can be drajreed out of them, lae wiz ard's awesome presence, however, does not aDoal an unsentimental enusn ludee. He orders him "twelve months' hard" and a sound flogging. requeni ly the obeah-man appeals against his sentence to' the higher court, and in Jamaica It Is not at all unusual for him to get off on some technical point, owine to the defective drafting of the law. Of course, he tells the Ignorant negroes that he procured freedom by his magical powers, and thus their su perstition Is strengthened. British law punishes obeah with flogging and Imprisonment. Neverthe less, obeah Is practiced by the white planters almost as a matter of neces sity in order to frighten the negroes and prevent them from stealing the produce of the plantations. You may walk through your friend's "coco-piece" or banana plantation and notice a skull stuck on the top of a stick, a small bottle full of dead cock roaches tied to a branch, or a minia ture black coffin placed on a little mound. "Hullo, old man!" yon say; "working obeah eh? I'll come and see you flogged at the Jail." He tries to laugh it off shamefacedly, saying there Is really no other way to make "those wretched niggers" keep their thieving hands off the crops. That is true. It is needless, however, to go to the trouble of placing these things about the plantation. If some night prowler has stolen your best yams or bananas, all you need do Is to say next morning in the hearing of the negroes, "It's all right; I don't care. I've got the foot-print" You will see them whisper among themselves In an awe stricken way, and presently one will come up to you, nearly weeping with terror, and confess himself the thief, The superstition is that if you dig out the earth upon which the robber has impressed his foot and throw it Into the tire he will waste away ana me unless he gives himself up and takes his punlshtxent. New York Commer cial Advertiser. - The Golden. Fleece. The King of Spain has conferred the order of the Golden Fleece on the Prince of Wales. The boy King is de facto one of the grand masters of an order which was instituted, at uruges. by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, who was styled "the Good," as rar bacn as r eD ruary 10, 1429. The other grand mas ter of the order is, of course, the Em peror of Austria. The Fleece went to the Hapsburgs "by arrangement," af ter the death of Charles of Burgundy, the "fighting Temeraire," in 1477, by the marriage of Mary of Burgundy with the Archduke Maxmillan, after wards Emperor of Germany. So It got to Spain, When the line of the Span- ish Hapsburgs had become extinct,! Austria claimed the sole grand master- ship, and diplomacy had to intervene. In the result, the grand mastership be came a dual affair. To wear the Golden Fleece of Austria you must be a sover eign, a prince of a reigning house, or a most Illustrious noble. Presumably, you must also profess the old religion. On the latter point Spain is less exact ing. Ripening of Cheese, A hitherto unknown element In milk, a new ferment, has been discovered, called galactose, which is proving of . . ... t . x. . rr-l. n. value m tne nPexiiuK properties of this ferment are similar to the secretion of the pancreatic organ in the human body. Old cheese Is a l tA nrA thu fllmootlnn j pre-uigeaicu iuw, ' wrought by the galactose. It was found j that the galactose would go on working at very low temperatures, temperatures at which bacteria were practically inerx. uneese w V ZlAV w tors and kept frozen for months. Other cheese is cured at from 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit Practical cheese manufac- furS had maTntalned that 50 degree. waTthe lowest temperature at which . .... , v. jt rtty. h&. cneese couiu doubt the ability of human nature to ut1wiUa U 7sZaea Z eaTryoufthe projects of its more boast discovery will, it is believed, revoiu m-t 0 wnt heiow at the tionize cheese manufacture, doing away with all curing-rooms, the cheese being sentdirectly to the refrigerator. Scrib ner's. Substitute for Sleep. A London paper says that the health of people in fashionable society is be- pear In poetry or the newspapers, lng dangerously threatened by a new j As everyone knows the pilot house drug which Is popularly regarded as a and engine i-oom of a steamboat are substitute for sleep. Very discreetly ( connected, not only with bells for sig it declines to name this dangerous sub-1 naimg, but with a speaking tube, stance. When tea was first introduced through which the important f unction into Europe It was commended for the , who orierate above and below can same virtue, and it was believed that it wbuld no longer be necessary to waste seven or eight hours m sleep. But extended experience has shown the disastrous results of cutting short the neriod of natural rest ana Keeping awake by the help of tea, and there is no reason to suppose that chemists will ever be able to devise any substitute for sleep which will not in the long run bring nervous breakdown. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. Ham smeUs better when it is frying than it tastes when brought to the table. HOW TO FORETELL THE THUNDERSTORM CT$ HE weather man does not keep jn all his wisdom a secret, nor all the tricks of his maps. They are yours and all the world's for the read ing. The "weather man" has pointea out the atmospheric conditions, the fea tures of the sky and the clouds, and the time of day which must be taken Into consideration when attempting to fore cast the approach of a storm, and which, if rightfully interpreted, are certain signs. The leading conditions to be considered are the aspect of the western horizon, the presence or ab sence of the cirrus and cirrus stratus clouds, the temperature, with sultri ness and humidity, and the distance from the turning point In the day's tem perature. If these different conditions are correctly understood there should be no difficulty, he says, in foretelling a thunderstorm. There Is one feature of an uncertain ty, however, about the actual appear ance of a storm correctly predicted, and this is due to the fact that all thunder storms are distinctly local features, having to do, with extremely limited areas, and all of short duration. This renders it possible for one to see a storm coming and really on Its way, but to be disappointed of its arrival in one's own locality. Its energy has been spent before it has had time to come sufficiently far.- Thunderstorms rarely cover more .than thirty to forty miles In a stretch, generally no more than eight miles, while some are much shorter. A hailstorm, which always signifies the expenditure of tremendous force, seldom covers more than one eighth of a mile, Less severe storms are sometimes no longer. In looking for a storm the western sky is the only sky point of value. This is because storms always have been known to travel from west to east. If you see a storm due north or due south. It is more than probable that ic will not reach your locality, but if it is due west or west of north, or perhaps west of south, you may look for its arrival unless it should happen to expend its energies on the way before reaching you. Look Out for Mares' Tails." The clouds which foretell a storm are the cirrus clouds, "amers' tails" the country folk call them hair-like shreds threaded across-the heavens, later gath ering into the cirrus stratus, white and gray cloud sheets, which are the true rain clouds. The atmosphere Is always heated with a sultry humidity. It is warm and moist, thick, heavy, muggy. It sometimes almost feels wet. People ofen then speak of "feeling" the rain in the air. There is rarely any wind preceding a storm for any length of time; the air is exceptionally still'. - As the tempest approaches nearer, how ever, a soft, thick, "wet" sort of "whirr," characteristic as a harbinger of the rainstorm at Its heels, is felt stirring abroad. This is most familiar ! to all those who have made a study of j weather conditions and as easy of rec ognition as tne awiui oracies of the weather prophet monstrosities on feet. The time of day when a rain is most likely to fall is about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, or again between 2 and 1 o'clock in the morning. Thesefare the two turning points in the day's tem- Derature. At 3 o'clock the maximum heat usually has been reached for af ternoon while at night the coolness has i Mlorml!rhlv set in. In case of a succes ' Bion 0f thunderstorms they usually oc- TWAIN WANTED TO BE A PILOT. Sad BndinR to Cherished Ambition of the Noted Humorist. An interesting yarn recently spun by an old St. Louis riverman seems to be a solution to the long-mooted question as to why iuark Twain never followed out his cherished ambition of becoming MississiDDi river pilot. Accoruins to the old man Mark Twain never became a full-fledged pilot and r at' or tnn,i n nierhr watch alone. In other words, while he had a pilot's li cense, his mastery of the great river craft on which he rode was always Urn ited by the understanding that an older and more experienced head was within easy call. This was no discredit to the young pilot On the occasion in ques tion, it matters not what the year or boat, the steamer to which young Clem ens was attached as cub pilot was bound up stream with a heavy cargo of cotton. At the officers' table tne nrsi day out from Nachez, Miss., the talk , - sudden emer- , eSoiy ln ease of fire , Kncies ana espec , ; T bear- " ings, each of those present giving his ideas upon the subject. Mark Twain like most of the others, held to the no tion that" it was the pilot's duty In such an emergency to emulate the now fa- mous Jim Bludso and "hold her nozzle " ,ointH Clemens wentto the pilot house to stand Lis watch. ! Among those at the table was lae as- sistant einr young ma n wh ose experience of life had taught him to He went below at the same time tnatMark'Tw-ain went aloft, but the two continued to think of the conversation just closed. The more the engineer thought about It the less credit he was disposed to give to the cub pn t, scheme, however nice it might ap- djscuss the weather and politics in their Bpare moment. The mouth of the tube at the UPper end is but little larger ' than the human mouth, but in the en- lne room it has shape of a funnel as big as a half -bushel measure. While ue assistant engineer was pondering the emergency question he was also wiping off a portion of the machinery with a bunch of cotton waste, and as he reached the mouth of the speaking tube it was the work of but a moment to touch a match to the inflammable material in his hand and thrust it far Into the tube. cur about twenty-fonr hours apart, that being apparently the time neces sary for them to accumulate sufficient moisture to break. So, if a storm series begins in the afternoon, the remainder of the series will likely take place in the afternoon, while If it begins at night the storms are likely to continue to be at night. It is considerably easier to foretell accurately the arrival of a thunder storm than to explain it after it has come. Wiser than any man now known would be he who could follow under standing the magical metamorphosis of the charming summer landscape, with Its lake like glass and air as mo tionless as marble, from the time the first misty sultriness arises as the threatening breezes begin to stir; as the sky darkens frowningly the winds break -boisterously from their fetters, the cloud streams pour out in cataracts, and the fires of heaven Illuminate the tempestuous night with their terrible play. And finally, -as the elements again calm themselves, the sun breaks out and revivified nature becomes doubly lovely. First Sign of Storm. The first clew to the mystery of a storm comes from water. If a glass of water is stood on a window sill on a hot day it gradually evaporates. The hot, dry air sucks it up. Similarly the hot, dry air above a large body of wa ter sucks up its water, transforming it into a fine vapor, which imparts a mis tiness to the atmosphere. The distant atmosphere now gradually screens it self In a veil of vapor, which becomes thicker and thicker. This leads to the next phenomenon In a thunder storm. Every one knows that when steam comes in contact with cold objects it condenses, finally forming tiny drops and resuming its original form of wa ter. In the same way on a warm sum mer afternoon the upper layers of the atmosphere are cooler than those Im mediately above the earth. . Hence the higher vapors rising as they come In contact with the cool air . condense, thickening Into the form of clouds, which are nothing else than condensed steam. The particles of water forming the clouds are so minute and light that they float in the air. The movements of the vapor as it rises and the action of the cooler upper strata of air upon it generates currents of air, the wind. This at first is just strong enough to ripple the surface of the water and stir the foliage of the trees. In the mean time, another element is at work. Ev ery one presupposes an accumulation of electricity at a thunder storm. Elec tricity Is present in the atmosphere all the time, but, as has been observed, it is always more powerful when any strong perpendicular currents of air are in action, such as cyclones, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, -waterspouts, thun der storms. Electrical manifestations are always accompanied by the down pour of water. This means that the condensation of vapor is closely con nected with electricity. Why is it not an instance of electricity generated by friction? Rub two pieces of paper vig orously against each other and elec tricity is generated. Open the safety valve of a steam engine giving out va por and electricity is produced by the friction of the steam and valve. In a thunder storm electricity may thus be generated by the friction of individual particles of water which have been driven about by the wind. The two kinds of electricity, positive No one saw the act, but everybody on board heard from it in about a minute. Mark Twain, alone in the pilot house and still pondering the dire-things he had heard of burning steamboats, es pecially when they happened to be loaded with cotton, was horrified to see smoke pouring from his end of the speaking tube. There was but one thought in his mind. The boat was on fire. Dropping the wheel, which spun around and around as it left his hand, he grasped the rope by which the big bell was sounded and began pulling like a sex ton, at the same time raising his voice in a cry of "Fire! Fire! The boat's afire!" Here the officers of the boat and the passengers are said to have found him, after hurriedly ascertaining that the alarm was false, still valor ously determined to "save the ship." The boat, relieved of the rudder's guid ance, had in the meanwhile swung around ln the current and dashed full speed on a sand bar, from which it re quired half a day to drag her. And Mark Twain, having lost his nerve, left the river. WOMAN'S BIG GOAT RANCH. Her Flocks of Angoras Brine in $25,000 a Year. Mrs. Armour, in Sierra County, N. M., owns a herd of more than 25,000 An gora goats, from which she is making $25,000 profit a year. Her "Columbia Pascha" Is the most valuable Angora in America, and worth $1,500. In 1899 she was left a widow pennl less and with nine small children de pendent on her for support. The ranch men and miners took compassion on the destitute family and contributed a small sum for their immediate relief. Then she pl'ickily cast about for some MAKK TWAIW. and negative, always try to unite. The ascending portions of the air and the clouds generally are charged with neg ative electricity, while the surface of the earth over which they swim are charged with positive electricity. Each seeks to unite with the other. The ma jority of the particles are not strong enough in electricity to span the space of air lying between, and can do so only under high tension. As the fric tion increases, electricity accumulates on the brims of the clouds and the pro jections of the earth's surface, trees, houses and mountains. The currents of air become sturdier. They bend the boughs of the trees, scourge the waves, lash the ships. The last feeble sun rays breaks through the massy clouds, cast ing an unusual, threatening, and un canny light over the scene. The clouds gather more and more thickly, trans forming themselves from the light cumulus clouds to rain clouds. The struggle of the negative and positive poles of electricity become more sav age. If a metal ball is charged with electricity only the surface becomes magnetic. The interior Is not electri fied, similarly the microscopic drops of water forming the clouds are electrical only on their surface. Through the ever greater condensation they come nearer and nearer, and finally many together form one large raindrop. This larger raindrop contains all the electricity of the many smaller drops, but as its sur face Is more limited than their com bined surfaces its electricity is of great er power. Storm in All Its Fury. The raindrops, too large and heavy tc hover In the air, fall to earth. As the clouds merge, raindrops form more and more rapidly and the rain falls more violently and copiously. The storm 's now fully developed, and unburdens Itself with fury. Brilliant flashes of light produced by powerful electric sparks illuminate the darkness, and the thunder growls in the sky. The tension between the surface of the earth and that of the clouds has become stronger. The tracts of air which at first were too vast to be traversed by electricity are now the pathway of lightning, not only between earth and clouds, but also between clotla and cloud, negative and positive poles meeting whenever strong enough to cross the necessary space The lightning comes in three forms. Zigzag lightning with its crooked, branch-like forks, is produced when electricity amassed in small proportion al points opposite each other wishes to meet. The electricity seeks to spring across by the shortest route in a straight line, but is hindered by the re sisting masses or air and clouds. Hencs It goes as best it can, leaping to those spots charged with electricity, whereby it assumes its characteristic aspect, L,ibtning Flashes 17,000 Yards. Flashes a thousand yards long are not rare, while those 10,000 and 17,000 yards in length have been seen. The vast force of these long flashes may be guessed at when It is known that a streak a yard and a half long is the largest that our stoutest apparatus per mits our eyes to inspect. Besides the familiar destruction of the bolt in houses, trees, beast, and. man, It has been known to charge iron fences with magnetism. A single flash, as a sci entific man has calculated, if utilized with customary illuminating appara tus, would yield enough power to light a city for a month. means of earning a living, so that she might not be a burden on the generos ity of her friends. By chance there drifted Into camp a ranchman with a herd of ninety Angora goats for sale,. Nobody cared to buy them, for it was thought there was more money in cat tle raising. With genuine Intuition Mrs. Armour looked a meir silken coats and knew that they would be valuable. But she hadn't any money and didn't want to borrow. So she made a propo-. sition to take a small flock of the goats, tend them and care for them and breed them, and at the end of the year divide the profits with the owner. The propo sition was accepted. She took her goats and her children and went up on the mountain side, 6,000 feet above the sea level, where the scrub oaks grow ln profusion. Thus she secured the nec essary fodder, and as for shelter the goats needed none. She located a claim, built herself a ranch, and set tled down to work. At the end of a year her success was such that she had money enough to buy a flock of her own and start out independently. Since that time each year has added to her prosperity. She now employs twenty goatherds to care for her flocks. The greatest precaution is required to protect the goats from the inroads of the mountain lions, or cougars, which are so numerous that the ranchmen have to organize hunts to get rid of them. Through her industry and persever ance and pluck, Mrs. Armour has made herself wealthy. She has sent her eld est son to college, where he Is now studying law, and her four other chil dren attend school in Kingston. Chicago Iron Workers Keep Gigs. W. Abraham, M. P. ("Mabon"), in a speech on his American experiences I says that on rubbish heaps of the Uni ted htates there are thousands of tons of machinery that In England and Wales would have been used for ten or even twenty years longer. In Chicago, in one large steel works, the men, after being paid on Sundays, stepped Into their gigs, which were there by the score, and drove home. Could they Imagine Rhondda colliers 1 driving home in their working clothes in their own gigs on pay days? Lon don Mail. Farmers in Alabama. The total number of farms in Ala bama is given at 223,220, of which 129, 137 are operated by white farmers and 94,083 by colored farmers. An old bachelor, when he feels blue and discouraged, always regrets that he has no wife to whine to. A man is usually doing the very best he can, or else the very worst he can.
