Corvallis gazette., September 26, 1902, Page 4, Image 4

ALONG THE WAY TO MEETIN.
I wondered if the world so wide had'
heard my heart a-beatin',
With Sally walkin' at my side along the
way to nieetin'?
It seemed to time my every step jest
keepin' time accordin'.
An sayin': "There's no rest fer you 'eept
t'other side of Jordan!"
I'd tried an 'tried to say "the word,"
with patieotest endeavor
The word that might, or mightn't, make
her heart my own forever;
But somehow, when it reached my lips,
it seemed too much to utter.
With my poor heart a-keepin up that
everlastin' flutter!
'Twuz shore my tribulation day close by
my side to view her
To pull the wild flowers by the way, an'
then not give 'em to her!
But, sudden come this word from her
'twuz like a benediction:
"I'm thinkin', John, this meetin' day
you're under deep conviction!"
An' then, I up an' told her all my heart,
so sore afflicted;
I loved her more than all the world
that's how I stood convicted!
An' then, as close she come to me," with
sweeter looks an' fonder,
I read my shinin' titles clear to earth
an' over yonder!
Atlanta Constitution.
FARMER DALE'S MISTAKE 1
: , ,,..,,t
nWAS on a wheeling tour and stop
ped for supper and all night at a
forlorn looking farmhouse. I was
surprised to see no woman about, all
the work being done by the owner of.
the place, Ezra Dale. After supper 1
lighted a pipe and sat on the porch
smoking. Dale came and sat beside
i ue.
"You have finished your evening
chores early," I said. "When my wife
is without a servant she never gets
the dishes washed before 9 o'clock."
"Waal, ye see, I don't do it that
a-way. I wasjj dishes oncet a week.
Then I put 'em all on ter the wagon,
drive 'em inter the creek, take a mop,
an' when I get through they shine like
pewter."
"Don't you think a wife would be
handy? She could do your mending."
"Don't need no wife. I got needles
an' thread an buttons. There's my
kit." And he handed me a case con
taining the articles mentioned and no
more.
"Where's your thimble?" I asked.
"Don't need no thimble. I tried one
oncet an' couldn't use It It's handier
to git the head of the needle ag'ln the
wall and drive it through that a-way."
"Did you never have a love affair?"
"Yes, oncet. It was when I was a
young feller very young an very
green. I used to look on a gal as a
heathen would look on a sacred Im
age. There was a little one llvln'
across the creek. Farmer Owens'
daughter Daisy. Purty? Ye bet, an'
gentle as a kitten. She took a shine to
me. I was a falr-lookln' young feller
then, straight an' slim an' light on my
feet. One evenin' I was a-passln
Farmer Owens', and Daisy come run
nlu' out with her finger a-bleedln' an
asked me ter tie It up fur her. I had
ter git her arm under mine somehow,
an hold on ter her hand an wrap the
linen strip an' wind the string an' a lot
of things all at the same time. While
I was a-doin' of It her hair got ag'ln
my cheek, an' waal, I .lost my head
an', turnin', put an arm around her an'
kissed her.
"Do ye know, stranger, I've since
made up my mind she done it all a-pur-pose.
I b'lleve she cut her finger on
tentionally. I tell ye, women folks is
tricky."
"I think that was a very nice femi
nine way of catching your attention,"
I remarked. "Go on."
"That's Jist what I did do. I went on
from day ter day, week ter week, till It
seemed ter me If anything happened be
tween me an' that gal I'd collapse.
Somethiu' did happen. Farmer Owens
tuk it farm ban' fur the hayin', an'
what did Daisy do but take him out In
her buggy that her father bought fur
her at Christmas an' drive right by that
house a-purpose ter show him off ter
me. I tell ye, stranger, she had the
wickedest eye in her ye ever see."
"Another feminine trait," I observed.
"Miss Daisy was evidently a woman."
"She was a woman, stranger, an' the
worst kind of a one," Dale went on
lugubriously. "She broke me all up. I
jist rented this farm an' went away. I
didn't come back fur ten years. Then
I made up my mind that women folks
wasn't wuth worryin' about, an' I tuk
my farm ag'ln an' began ter work It.
The fust time I went by FarmerOwens'
Daisy come out she had grown ter be
a fine-lookin' young woman of 26 an
what do ye suppose she did?"
"I can't Imagine."
"Asked me if 1 wouln't tie up a cut
finger. She had the same wicked look
in her eye she had when she drove that
lopsided farm han' by my house ten
years afore. Women Is the perslstenest
critters I ever see. I Jist squared off an'
said: 'Ye don't git me that a-way ag'in.
Ye done it oncet. an that's enough.'
But. do ye know, stranger, she was so
slick about it that in five minutes I had
my arm about her an' she was a-restln
her head on my shoulder. She was
a-cryin", too oryin' crockerdile tears,
no doubt.
"Waal, we was engaged, but It didn't
las' long. The question come up as ter
whether we'd be married by a Justice
or a parson. I don't like parsons my
self, an' I wanted a Justice. Daisy
wanted a parson, an' she was so blame
set about it that I reckoned If she was
as obstinate about a small matter like
that she'd be wantin' ter run the farm,
so I called the thing off, an' I've been
llvln' alone her ever since."
"Mr. Dale," I said, "you have mis
taken natural feminine traits for gen
eral cussedness."
"That's what they Is, I tell ye, stran
ger. Ye don't understand."
"You have declined to give up that
which to a woman is a great deal, while
to you it Is nothing. Miss Owens was
right to Insist on being married by a
parson, and you were ungenerous to re
fuse her. Now, let uie give you a bit
of advice. Miss Owens Is still single?
Yea. Well, go to her and tell her that
when you first met her you were a
blundering idiot and that later you
! THF GRFAT I AKFS
I ARE OF
r44M -
rjHE conditions which surround,
jfthe laws that gqyern, and the
markets which deal with fishing
on inland bodies of water, are con
stantly the subject of many changes.
Many legislatures grapple with fish
and game problems during each win
ter, and in the spring both pleasure
seekers and those who follow fishing
as an industry must acquaint them
selves with the new legislation if they
are to avoid the clutches of the law.
The Great Lakes furnish the world
with the greatest amount of fresh
water fish.
Last season there was no patrol boat
on that most important fishing ground,
A LIFT OF TROUT AND WH1TEFISH WEIGHING A TON.
Lake Erie. In fact it is not very long
since there was considerable opposition
to the plan to build and operate one
on account of the expense in connec
tion therewith. The spring found the
new patrol boat built by the State of
Ohio ready for service, and the Cana
dian fishermen who have been' tres
passing on the United States side of
the line had to look out. Fishermen
believe that they have at last received
Justice In this matter. It, will be re-
MICHIGAN STATE FISH 'HATCHERY.
membered that while in the past the
Canadian government constantly oper
ated the tug Petrel In Lake Erie cap
turing the fishermen from across the
water and confiscating .their property
when found slightly over in Canadian
waters, the Canadian fishermen could
not he thus watched. It will also be
recalled that American fishermen could
not accurately determine when they
were over the middle line, they having
were an obstinate brute. Say that if
she will overlook your past errors you
will spend your life in doing penance.",
"Why, stranger, if I was ter do that
I'd never have my own way about any
thing afterward."
"It is the only way to have your own
way about everything with a woman.
Toss It all Into her hands, and she'll
toss it right back to you. More than
that, she'll expect you to lead, and if
you don't lead she'll not respect you."
"Ye don't mean it! Say, stranger,
what sort of a makeup do ye call that
anyway?"
The next summer I rode past Farmer
Dale's place. It was the trimmest-looking
farm In the country. After supper
the farmer told me how much better
contented he was vbile Mrs.' Dale was
washing the dishes. Indianapolis Sun.
AN ODD ANT BEAR.
German naturalists are now studying
with much interest an animal which
was recently placed in the Zoological
Garden at Berlin. It is an ant bear,
but not an ordinary one, being a speci
men of an exceedingly rare variety.
Its habits are those of the common ant
bear, but In color and formation is dif
ferent from it in many respects: It is
said that there Is no other specimen
of this variety In Europe, and it is not
thought likely that any other speci
men will be found very soon, for the
one at Berlin was only trapped by
chance, and although several men have
searched closely through the district
where it was caught, they have not as
yet discovered the slightest trace of
any other specimen.
VALUE OF SLEEP.
Ability to Rest One of Napoleon's
Sources of Power.
One great secret of Napoleon's pow
er was his ability to sleep. If he had
but an hour for sleep he slept an hour,
even though the fate of an army or
of an empire hung In the balance while
he slept Gen. Grant was another
great example of this ability to lay
aside work at quitting time. Even in
the Wilderness campaign, when the re
sponsibility of the movements of the
nation's armies, stretched out in bat
' tie line a thousand miles long, lay on
FISHFRIFS I
VAST IMPORTANCE
- i"t",I,,ll,t"t'll'lt,lI 't,,,,'l till V
to be guided by an estimation of the
miles they were from shore, based on
the number of miles per hour which
their fish tugs made.
Among the legislative measures ef
fecting the fishing interests of Lake
Erie during the last session of the Ohio
Legislature, was the Guerin bill. Ac
cording to this bill the tonnage tax on
fish was reduced from 75 cents to 50
cents. The same bill contained many
provisions looking toward a .more strin
gent protection of Lake Erie fish, and
it seems to have met with general ap-.
probation from the leading fishermen,
the Fish Culture Commission having
indorsed It.
In general more is probably known
of lower lake fisheries than those about
Lake Huron, Lake Superior, St Marys
River and the Immediate vicinity of
the American and Canadian Soos. The
upper lake regions comprise a new
country, and will be more to the fu
ture than they have been to the past.
As a fishing ground, St Marys Uiver
annually yields some "handsome lifts.
Whitefish and trout, when caught by
net, have been known to yield a ton
at a haul. Michigan Is. taking a de
cided interest In her fisheries. The
Michigan hatchery is one of the finest
in the country, and is situated so near
the great canals as to be an object oi
considerable Interest -to tourists in that
section. This hatchery. It is said,
places in Michigan waters, annually
30,000,000 white fish, 1,500,000 lake
trout, and 1,000,000 brook trout.
Of the five Great Lakes, Lake Erie
furnishes the world with more fresh
water fish than any other body ot wa
ter." The Lake Erie fisheries employ
in the neighborhood of 4,000 men. Fish
ing companies often operate fifteen to
twenty tugs. These tugs or boats each
set many nets with a capacity of 400
to 500 pounds each. The nets are set
from five to 25 or 30 miles out in the
lake. The value of each net Is ?5. At
the wharfs, fish are. removed from the
tug decks to the packing houses In
boxes. Here they are prepared for
shipment to distant points, they often
going even to the ocean ports.
his shoulders; when his good-night
commands involved all-night marching
and fighting of his army of the Poto
mac, and his waking orders might
mean victory or defeat, the killing or
i the saving of a thousand men under
! it all he lay down and dropped to
sound sleep as quickly as you- or I
i when we read ourselves sleepy over an
1 old story book. Grant had what a
great writer has called a "frictionless
mind." He saved for'the wear of work
what others throw away on the tear
of worry.
Here Is a sample of the other ex
treme. Said a Minneapolis .lawyer
to me to-day: "When I began the prac
tice of law I always lost two nights
before I had a case in court, tossing
about and combating every thinkable
standpoint of my opponent. And I lost
as much sleep afterward upbraiding
myself for not having thought of cer
tain points at certain pat occasions
in the progress of the case." Of what
; value were these night thoughts to this
young attorney? About as much value
as night sweats to a consumptive! I
venture to say that all the business
planning a man does In life while ly
ing on his back at night Isn't worth
an hour's good thinking on his feet on
one June morning. As compared with
the sleep it displaces, such night think
ing isn't worth forty winks after din
ner. Burning the candle at both ends
sometimes makes a fine bonfire. But
It always makes a bad grease spot of
a good candle. Commercial West
A Palatial Log Cabin. .
On Warren's Island, off the coast of
Maine, is being erected what Is prop
erly described as "a palatial log cab
in." It is composed of spruce logs, and
cost the tidy little sum of $75,000. The
entire Island on which this summer
palace is erected 'was purchased by the
late William H. Folwell, of Philadel
phia. Mr. Folwell died before the com
pletion of the house. The work is
now superintended by his son, Wil
liam H. Folwell, Jr. Some idea of the
size of the "cabin" may be gained
from consideration of the fact that
there are twenty-two sleeping rooms
on the second floor.
Good Country for Sauerkraut.
In Cuba cabbages -frequently weigh
as much as twenty pounds. All vege
tables do well. Radishes may be eaten
from fourteen to eighteen days after
sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sow
ing, while corn produces three crops
per year. Sweet potatoes are perpetu
al. The natives dig up the tubers, cut
them off and plant the old vines, which
produce a new crop In three months.
All sorts of fruits, horticultural and
greenhouse plants and bulbous stock
are also grown.
Valuable to Hi ma
Towne Scribbler picked up for a
few pennies at a second-hand book
store an old book of platitudes which
has since proved to be very valuable.
Browne A rare edition, eh?
Towne Oh. no. but he's been makin?
the platitudes over into quatrains for
' At.. T"1, Tl ,3 1 . : n
I ut; uiugaziuea. i uuauciiuia rress.
NEBRASKA RELIGIOUS FANATICS.
The "Figeites" an Addition to the
Various "Holiness" Societies.
Nebraska has added another to the
various "holiness" societies with which j
the land is already overrun. The "Figg
ites," as they call
themselves, from
the name of their
leader, Louis Figg,
are a lot of relig
ions enthusiasts
who have banded
themselves togeth
er and live in a
swamn near Gret-
na, not so very far
from omana. peo
ple In their neigb
"tons figg, ." borhood have' tap
red and feathered- the "leaders, have
threatened, worse things, and have
hauled them 'into' eourt time and
again with little result except di
vorces. The Figgites say the Holy
Ghost watches over them and tells
them what to do and assert that the
whole world is not able to turn them
from what they regard as their plain
duty. They consider themselves to be
the chosen of the Lord, and condemn
all other persons and sects to everlast
ing damnation. In spite of the fact
that the law Is continually after thorn,
the society Is growing and may soon be
compelled to seek larger quarters. They
do absolutely nothing unless directed
by the "voice,",and consider themselves
as being the very acme of perfection.
The Figgs lived at Gretna some years
ago, and had money and a good home.
What started them on this fanatically
religious turn Is not exactly known, but
it is a fact that suddenly both Flgg and
his wife, showed signs of the "spirit"
and their house became the rendezvous
of many impressionable women who
developed into enthusiasts as great as
the Figgs themselves. There were peo
ple in Gretna,: however, who did not
think much of their doings, and booted
them out A couple of years ago there
was considerable whitecapping and af
ter a dose of tar and feathers Figg
gathered up his female adherents and
fled to a swamp, where he built a rough
shack, in which the crowd Btlll lives.
Strange to say, there are still found
women enough to keep the colony in a
state of healthy growth. They leave
good honres tor go with Figg to his mis
erable shanty, which contains but four
rooms, two below and two upstairs,
where they sing andhout and conduct
their- fanatical ceremonies with less
regard for the proprieties than Is called
for in a strici interpretation of the
rules of law aiid order. These four
rooms are crowded always, no men be-
ing among the enthusiasts except Figg
and his two grown sons. '
The first principle of the Flgg relig
ion is regeneration by the Holy Ghost.
When that is accomplished, the whole
life of the devotee hangs on the "voice."
The "voice,' .which Is supposed to come
from the HolyL. Spirit, directs every
move of their daily lives, and whatever
the "voice" directs them to do, -Is done
without question. : ,-
The Figgites believe that all creeds
and forms of worship are wrong, as
well as jmy ggt way of meeting. They, j
nave a. way'oCwoFKlng themselves into
a high state of excitement, when the
"voice" will command one of their
number to go and stir up a meeting be
ing held in some church near by. There
Is usually something doing of very
warm character when the fanatic
shows up and beglnsto denounce the
congregation.
COUNTESS IN MISFORTUNE.
Financial Reverses of Lady Dudley, a
Noted English Beauty.
Reckless extravagance, which an in
come of $500,000 a -year could not sat
isfy, has led to the financial ruin of
Georgiana, Countess of Dudley, who
for a score of years has been consid
ered one of England's most beautiful
women. Lady Dudley has sold her
magnificent home in London, which
cost nearly $200,000 to decorate, to J.
Pierpont Morgan, and only a short
time since was compelled, to dispose
of her famous jewels, they bringing
$450,000 at auction. Her husband, the
late Earl of Dudley, who was insane,
had a passion for beautiful Jewelry,
and at one time he had one of the finest
collections of precious stones in the
world. . He was immensely wealthy,
his Income being about $2,000,000 a
year. His son, the present earl, fell
heir to this vast estate, but squander
ed much of it in extravagant living.
Lady Dudley had been a leader In Lon
don's exclusive society for many years,
and there were many brilliant social
functions at her home. When her son
married, her income of $500,000 was
cut down to a tenth of that sum, not
nearly enough to maintain her in the
way she was accustomed to live. At
one time it was said that she 'was en
gaged to marry Dr. Jameson, and there
is no doubt that the late Cecil Rhodes
once was a suitor for her hand.
NEW LOGGING METHODS.
Steam and Electric Machines Used to
Haul Loea in Maine Forests.
A few years ago, when some one sug
gested an electric railway from Moose
head lake up the valley of the Alle
gash river. In the, very heart of " the
northern Maine woods, the project was
ridiculed on every hand as impossible
of execution In such a rough country,
even If there would be any business
Urn
urn
MR I i
GEORGIA!? A, COUNTESS OF DUDLEY.
for the road when It should have been
constructed. Now, however, a trolley
system Is In successful operation In the
Dead river region in the roughest part
of Somerset County and Is engaged In
hauling heavy loads of spruce logsr-a
greater burden than any ordinary elec
tric line has to carry, writes a Bangor
correspondent of the New York TrftV
une.
The electric log-hauler Is the Inven
tion of A. O. Lombard, of Watervflle,
who is a mechanical genius and has
made a fortune from various Inven
tions in the last ten years. Some years
ago Mr. Lombard conceived the idea of
building a steam log-hauler and made
a careful investigation of the subject
before he began work upon the machine
that he had In mind. He found that
more than fifty years ago a Maine man
had built a steam log-hauler, but that
It had stalled to work on account of
some manifest faults In Its construc
tion, This first steam log-hauler had
a boiler and engine mounted upon a set
of driving wheels five feet In diameter,
with spikes in the rims of the wheels
to prevent theinfrom slipping, but
when the machine was hitched to a
load of logs the bearing of weight was
on so small a portion of the rims that
the wheels whirred around like those
of a locomotive on a wet rail, while
the spikes would dig so deeply into the
snow that the machine would become
stalled in hollows of' its own making
and be unable to move its own weight,
not to speak of a load of logs.
To obviate this difficulty Mr. Lom
bard provided his machine with a sort
of self-laying rail a set of endless
lags, carried on ball bearings which,
while preventing the wheels from dig
ging into the snow, affords them a fric
tion hold, giving traction power suffi
cient to draw loads of logs aggregating
60,000 feet. The forward end of the
hauler .is carried by a sled, to which is
attached a pole. A pair of horses is
hitched to this pole and driven ahead to
guide the machine, but the horses do
no hauling.
STUDY OF SHRUBS AND TREES.
Learn Natural Fcience. at Arnold Ar
boretum in a Bosky Bower.
Unique among the various reserva
tions which go to make up Boston's
wonderful system of parks and park
ways, and beautiful, in its-way, beyond
all others, the Arnold arboretum is just
now coming into the full -bloom of its
surpassing loveliness.
At no other place in this country
probably nowhere else In the world is
there such a collection of "living trees
and shubbery, carefully disposed for
both study and enjoyment.
Twenty-five years ago knowledge of
the characteristics, geographical dis
tribution and economic and horticult
ural value of the trees of North Amer
ica was vague and hardly within the
reach even of those anxious to acquire
such knowledge, but, as a result of
the work done at the Arnold arbore
tum, it may be fairly said that to-day
the trees of no other country have been
so carefully studied and are so well
known. -' ' - . :v. :"
'fhe arboretum is a department -of
Harvard University, and was originat
Ty Established with a" view to provide
opportunity for the scientific study of
tree life, yet so carefully has the work
been planned, and so artistically have
these carefully wrought out plans been
executed,- that the scientific rvalue of
the collection is almost lost sight of in
its picturesque beauty,
The tract of 225 acres which are in
cluded in this reservation was pur
chased by Harvard University with
funds bequeathed to that Institution by
James Arnold, of New Bedford, says
the Boston Herald. At that time it
was a piece of rough, uncultivated land,
overrun with a wild growth of native
shrubbery, and with little timber
growth, except scattering hardwood
and a remarkable growth of hemlocks.
which latter still remains the crowning
glory of the coilectUn.
THAT WORD "LOAFER."
Question as to the Derivation Becom
ing Acute in London.
The question as to the derivation of
that word "loafer," which Mr. Rhodes'
will Is likely to elevate from the slang
dictionary. Is already getting acute.
says the London Chronicle. Despite
"Notes and Queries," and the deriva
tion, through Hans Breitmann, from
"that lofer (lover) 0f yours always
hanging around here," the word is
Spanish, and, like galoot and others.
came from Mexico, through Texas to
the States. It is the Anglicized or
Americanized form of galloferro, "an
idle, lazy vagabond," passing, as any
student of Bartlett knows, through
glofero, and glofer, to lofer, and end
ing up with the pretense of having
something English or American about
it, as "loafer," a man who has no
casual connection with the loaf he
does not earn. Of the loafer, Josh
Billings has given in his "Alminax"
a description which would have gone
to Cecil Rhodes' heart, as of the type
of man who was not to Inherit Dal
ham, or any other property that was
his, if he could help It: "The loafer
is a thing who is willing to be de
spised for the privilege of abusing
others. .He occupies all grades in so
ciety, from the judge on the bench
clear down to the ragged creature
who leans against lamp posts and
fights files in August. He has no
pride that is worthy and no delicacy
that anybody could hurt During his
boyhood he kills cats and ' robs hens'
nests. During middle life he begs all
the tobacco he uses and drinks all the
cheap whisky he can get at somebody
else's expense, and does die at last"
The loafer hi America would seem to
be more pronounced than hi British
brother, if we take Henry W. Shaw
Josh Billings as authority.
, Needed No Defense.
Congressman Williams of Mississippi
has a new negro story.
"Are you the defendant?" asked a
man in the courtroom, speaking to an
old negro.
"No, boss," was the reply. "I ain't
done nothing to be called names like
that. I'se got a lawyer here who does
the defensing."
"Then who are you?"
"I'se the gentleman what stole the
chickens." Omaha Bee.
In nine cases out of ten, when you
feel tough, it's your liver.
THE PACIFIC GABLE
S a result of the decision of Con
gress to leave the building of
the new trans-Pacific cable to
private enterprise, the work will be
Immediately begun by the Commercial
Pacfic Cable Company, a new concern
formed on the basis of the Commercial
Cable Company, which will consum
mate a duplicate all-the-world-around
cable. -
It is specifically stated that while the
United States government does not In
cur any expense or responsibility, it
will have at its discretion command of
all facilities. This is particularly im
portant because the government has
already gone to the expense of laying
more than 700 miles of cable in the
Philippine Islands. These cables were
laid as a necessary strategic measure
during the recent trouble there and are
intended to . be a connecting link " in
the general system covering our posses
sions. ' s
Lensth of the Cable.
The new cable will ran. from San
Francisco, a distance of 2,413 miles, to
Honolulu, thence to the Midway Isl
ands and Guam, another 2,293 miles.
and then to Manila, another 1,360 miles,
enabling the company to connect with
a cable to Hong King and all points on
the Asiatic continent
From Hong Kong the connections of
the Commercial Pacific cable will run
north up the Chinese coast, finally pass
ing through Siberia to St Petersburg,
and thus completing the route through
Northern Asia and Europe. From the
same junction they will extend down
through Siam and the Straits Settle
ments, connecting with the Australian
and New Zealand cables, and passing
west through India to Aden, along the
Red Sea and Mediterranean to Gibral
tar and Lisbon, thence to the Azores,
where the Commercial Cable Com
pany's system has another headquar
ters, extending to New York. Both the
San Francisco and eastern ends of
these cables will be connected with the
land telegraph system of the Postal
Telegraph Company for all points in
LIFTING THE PACIFIC CABLE ASHORE.
the United States. : uniform ratef
$1' a Word will be charged7 for messages
from San " Francisco to Manila and
China. t
The first section of the cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu is being
manufactured by the India Rubber
Gutta.Percha Telegraph Works Com
pany, Ltd., London, Englajid. The
length is about 2,413 miles.
Layine the Cable.
The cattleship Silvertown, owned by
the manufacturers, will convey this
section of the cable from London to
the Pacific coast via Cape Horn, where
she will proceed with the laying opera
tions. It is7: expected to complete the
entire cable from San Francisco to .Ma
nila by January, 1905.
The laying of the new" cable will in
volve searching ocean depths to possi
bly as far as three miles. While the
government work was being carried
on in the Philippines the greatest depth
reached was one and an eighth miles.
The estimate is that a depth of at
least three miles will be reached in cov
ering the Pacific oCean.
The operation of laying so many
thousand miles of cable will necessar
ily involve a great deal of skill, but
the diificultles which - those who laid
the Atlantic cables encountered have
passed away, those having charge of
the present work being able to . carry
out all details. The delicate and par
ticular work, however, will be the land
ing of the cable at its objective point
at Manila. The shore end conveyed by
the Silvertown to this point will be
lifted gently from the ship toward the
land, where it will be placed in a deep
trench, through which it will be con
veyed to its final land communications,
thence connecting with the cable to
Hong Kong. ,
The death of John W. Mackay called
attention to cable-laying projects in
the Pacific. It is stated that the plans
contemplated by his company will be
pushed forward with all possible dis
patch. The project has been delayed
by the failure - of the government to
furnish the company with soundings
taken in the Pacfic. It is expected that
these soundings will soon be furnished
and that the work will then be pushed
to completion. Possession of the Philip
pines has made the necessity of a Pa
cific cable very, apparent.
GOATS WARD OFF DISEASE,
They Should Be Kept Wherever Horse
Are Resrularlj- Housed.
"Goats are good things to keen
around the stables where the hors
are housed," said an old dealer !
horses, "and the man who wants his
horse to remain healthy will make a
mistake if he does not keep a few goats
around. ' I do not propose to go Into
an analysis of the reasons, but I am
in a position to state the fact, and I
do it after many 'years of experience.
I have been handling horses for more
than a quarter of a century and I have
had occasion to observe very closely
those things which, tend to benefit the
horse. Occasionally I have been with
out goats and nearly every time I have
been called upon to doctor one or more
of my horses for some complaint pe
culiar to this kind of animaL When 1
had goats around the stables to rub
up against .the stalls and wallow
around generally sickness among my
horses was a rare thing.
It Will Complete an Elec-
trie Girdle About the T
Earth Our Government 5
Will Have Special Faclll-
ties tor Communicating &
with Island Possessions x
In the Pacific. j j
"My attention was called to the-fact
a good mahy years ago by a man who
had spent the greater part of his life,
in the horse business. I had just lost
a couple of fine horses and I was great
ly grieved over the loss. I had dealt
with them very carefully and, In fact,
had made pets out of them. I hap
pened to meet my old friend and was
telling about my loss. Do you keep
any goats around your stables Y he ask
ed. I told,him I did not There Is
where you make a big mistake,' he
said. 'Buy a few goats and turu them
in the lot with your horses and let
them run together. I have tried It
and It is a good plan.' I never thought
much of it at the time, but 1 con
cluded that I would try it Just for luck.
It could do no harm. I bought me
some goats.'
"Since that time I have always kept
goats with my -horses, and the health
of my horses has been a matter of note
among those who are familiar with
my business. I do not pretend to say
just what it is about the goat which
will benefit the horse. But there Is
something which acts as a great pro
tection to the horse In the matter of
health. I have often heard that the
odor of the goat, while offensive
enough to a great many persons, was
a very healthy thing even for menlbeTS
of the human family. I guess it-is
the, odor of the goat which benefits the
horse. I have often wanted to see a
chemical analysis of the goat odor, so
that I might understand just what the
active purifying principle was made
of. It is evidently a good disinfectant
of some kind. Goats are good horse
doctors, and the man who wants his
horses to remain healthy "and vigorous
should keep goats around the -stable."
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Books Named from the Bible.
A close acquaintance on the part of
authors with the terse and expressive
phrases In the Bible is plainly shown In
the titles of a host of books. Among
the titles taken directly from the Bible,
says'thePhiiadelphia Saturday Even-
." ing Post,, are the following:
"If Sinners Entice Thee," "The Day
of Temptation," "The Favor of
Princes," "Wayfaring Men," "Weighed
and Wanting," "The Wages of Sin,"
"Black but Comely," "Dross," "In
Kedar's Tents," "The Valley of Deci
sion," "The Unjust Steward," "Sons Of
the Morning," "Visiting the Sin," "The
Quick or the Dead," "The Prodigal,"
"The Bondwoman," "Tinkling - Cym
bals," "The Crown of Life," "Unleav
ened Bread,?' . "A Laodicean,". : j "The
Birthright," "The Garden of. Eden,"
"The Story of the Innumerable Com
pany i"; "The Wings of the .Morning,"
"Until the Day Break," "The Mantle
of Elijah," "They That Walked In
Darkness," "I Go a Fishing," "The
Tents of Shem," "The Snare of the
Fowler," "Give Me Thine Heart,"
"Mine Own People," "The Measure of
a Man," "Resurrection," "The Market
Place," "From My Youth Up," "His
Brother's Keeper," "The Hosts of the
Lord" and "On the Face of the Wa
ters." ;
Their First Ice-Cream.
Seven hundred immigrants were
spending on Ellis Island their first Sun
day in the New World, and through
somebody's kindness ice-cream had
been added to the bill of fare. This
was a. novelty to most of the immi
grantsso great a novelty, indeed, as
to amount to a puzzle. The New York
Times reports some of the comments
which It called forth. . .
"Sure, an' there's-frost in .th'. milk,"
said an Irish girl, when the : first cold
spoonful had surprised her throat,
"Milk, did ye say?" said ,a North..'of
Ireland lad. "Ah, but it's jnore .like
swatened snow, it is!" . . ... ",.
"An how did they kape it from, melt
in ?" inquired another. " ' "
Some Italian immigrants ' did not
take as kindly to it, and. tried to make
the attendant understand that they
would like to have it warmed.-
"Oh, what stuff this would be to
cruise with in 'ot weather!" exclaimed
an English fisherman, smacking . his
lips.
Standing on the Bias.
During the trial of a street railway
damage suit in one of the circuit
branches of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia a few days ago
an important eyewitness of the acci
dent took the stand in the person "of
an elderly colored man. The plaintiff
had been injured while the car was?at
a street crossing, and one of the attor
neys was endeavoring to elicit from- the
witness Just where the latter was
standing at the momeut the plaintiff
was struck by the car. . ;i ?
"As I understand you," remarked the
attorney, after a number of questions
had been asked, "you were standing. at
the street corner diagonally opposite
the point where the aclcdent occurred."
"No, sir, I wasn't," declared the wit
ness. "I guess I was standing kinder
sort er bias from the spot." Washing
ton Star.
Rats Chew Gum.
Rats, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,
have contracted "the gum-chewing hab
it at Hoboken. Rats!
We have ' often wondered which
comes first: the thought in the widow
er's mind of marrying again, or the
story on him.