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w v4i- -set -r.. Si f tF , THE INDEPENDENT THE INDEPENDENT x HAS THE - FINEST JOD OFFICS' ISf DC!; LA8 COUNTY. " CARDS, HILL URiDS, LEGAL BLANKS And other printing-, including Urge and Heavy Posters and Showy . Hand-Bills. - " . Neatly and expeditiously executed AT PORTL. T 1110X2. IS ISSUED Saturday Mornlnars, BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Alit .0 f. .it ai On Tenr, .$ so .. o 1 oo Ms llonllis TbrM HontlM.. These are tbe terms for those paying in advance, -t The Independent offers fiae Inducements to ad i TertlBCr. Terms reasonable. vol. vin. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1883. NO. 27. m PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, OPTICIAN. AND ALL WORK WARRANTED. Dealer Is Watches. Clocks, Jewelry, Sjctaeies and Kjegiasss, And ft Full Line of Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods. . 'The only reliable Optometer In town for tbe proper adjustment of Spectacles ; always on hand. Depot of tbe Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. OFFICE Firet door south of post office, Bose burg. Oregon. IaiUIGEIirSEnG'S r . Boot and Shoe Store, BOSEBURGi OON.r ' On Jackson Street, opposite the Postoflioe. Seers on band the largest and best assortment of Kaalera and San Francisco Boot and Shei, Gaiters, Hllppera "And every thing in the Boot and Shoe Line and SEIXS OHE&.P for CASH. Roots and Shoes Made to Order Fit Guaranteed. -Perfect I use the Best of Leather and Warrant all my work. llEl'AIItllVO Neatly Done On Short Notice. I keep always on band TOYS AND NOTIONS MTMnsioal Instruments and Violin Strings a 8po cialty. . LOVItt LAACiKHRUKU. DR. M. W. DAVIS, DENTIST, BOSEBURG, OREGON. OFFICE-ON JACKSOK STREET, Up Btairs, over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store. nAHOrJEY'3 SALOON Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland j Jas. Mahonoy, A?ropr.; The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dowfr las county, and the beat BIXXjIA.1YX Tja.lJL.X3 la the Stat kept la proper repair Parties traveling on the railroad will find tUs place very handy to Y&tduring the stop ping of the train at the Oak land Depot Give me a call. Jab. ii" A HONEY. a , i . . JOHN FRASER, Home Made Furniture. WILBUR, OREGON. Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc., Constantly on hand. FURNITURE. J, have the best stock, of lu'rnlture south of Portland And all of my own manufacture. No two Prices to Customers Residents of Douglas county are requested to give me a call before purchasing elsewhere. ALL WORK WARRANTED.- DEPOT HOTEL. OAKLAND, - - OREtiOH. Richard Thomas, PropV. nPHIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED for a number of years, and has become rerj popular wtth the traveling public, r irst-class SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS. And the table su with the best the market ' affords, ilote nt the drpot of the Kailroad. H. C. STAKTON, Dealer in Staple Dry Coods! Keeps constantly on hand ment of a general assort- EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,- 1T00D, WILLOW ASD GLASSWARF, ALSO Crockery and Cordage A full stock of HCHOOL Uoo its Buch as required by the Tublic County Schools, All kinds of STATION KRY, TOYS and FANCY ARTICLES, To suit both Young and Old. B UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS, furnishes Checks on Portland, and nrocuree ALL KINDS OF llifoT QUALITY V Xa iv ait DERS Promptly attended to and Goods shipped wiin care. Address, llachency & Bpiio, Portland. Oregon. A fllortnou missionary wuo is at pre ent in wasmngion city claims to nave recently made sixty converts, mostly girls between the ages of 15 and 25. He is an associate of the Mormons who were recently tarred and feathered in Indiana. Congressmen wno are nere express 'themselves very earnestly about the Mormon question and say tnat it is evi dent that something more stringent than the Edmunds law will have to be devised if polygamy is to be abolished One plan is to legislate the present govern ment out of existence and to have a pro visional government created, ofltcer8 of which would be appointed by the presi dent and confirmed by tho senate. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY, 'UY TtXKOBAPU TO BaTK The Philadelphia Press has reduced its price from three to two cents. Bancroft, the historian, celebrated his 83d birthday at Newport. R. I.. Oct. 3d. At Pittsburg, Oct. 4th, James McStein was banged in the yard of the county jail. Galveston, Texas, on the 6th inst., was visited with the largest fire that ever oc curred in that place. The loss is esti mated at a million dollars. The direotor of the mint authorizes the purchase of 410,000 ounces of fine silver for use by the Philadelphia. New Or leans and San Francisco mints. " r- Rear : Ad miral 'Pierce Crosby, com manding the naval forces at Asiatic sta tions, telegraphs to the navy department asking to be relieved and placed on the retired list. Exports of specie from New York for tbe week ending Oct. 6th. were $339,900, making a total since January 1st of $17, 010,275, against $13,215,646 for the same time last year. Business failures for the week ending Oct. 5th throughout the United States and Canada were 188, as against 180 last week. In New York city failures were insignificant in numbers and amounts. Hon. Charles Ereighton Haswell, for a quarter or a oentury connected witn the editorial staff of the Boston Travel ler and a writer of a review of the week, which became a feature of that paper, died October 6th, aged 69. A Minneapolis dispatch of October 6th says: The special train bearing 450 members of the Oregon Pioneer associa tion is expected to reach this city to morrow night on the Northern Pacific. The excursionists will go to Chicago Monday and thence east, returning via Chicago and Minneapolis within ninety days. The national bank has brought suit against the postmaster general for $100, 000 for directing that money orders a 1 dressed to the bank, but intended for the lottery company, shall not be delivered. The plaintiff considers that the order was intended to charge the bank with fraudulent practices and illegal action, and that it has seriously damaged its business. At Northboro, Mass., recently, a man named Taylor, from Brockton, but on a visit with his wife to the home of Rich ard Eyleward, shot his wife and then blew out his brains. The woman was induced to go into a field, and while there the shots were fired. The woman is expected to recover, the ball having entered the throat, coming out through the roof of the mouth. The man died instantly. At New York, October 6th, the North ern Pacific directors re-elected the old board of officers, and authorized the is sue of sw.vuu.vw second mortgage bonds, subject to the approval of the preferred stockholders. It will require the oonsent of three-fourths of these shareholders, and it is thought no seri ous objection will be made to the issue. The proceeds will wipe out the floating debt and will also be applied to the com pletion and equipment of the line. An Austin, Tex., dispatch of October 7th says: A German alderman, Henry Pfaunckei'f, and a French brick mason named Jette, near neighbors, raked up an old grudge this afternoon in a saloon, and in an encounter sutside, the alder man drew a self-cocking revolver and fixed a shot through Jef te's bowel?, the ball passing into the leg of a carpenter named Helly. The alderman succeeded in putting another bullet into the body of Jette, but the latter in falling, seized the weapon and shot the alderman run self in the bowels. Both will die. A recent dispatch from Calesville, Texas, says that near there, some time ago, a son-in-law of Mrs. Shaw lost his wife, and turned over hs little two-year old child to its grandmother, to care for. He married again, and was desirous of regaining possession of the child. Mrs. Shaw being unwilling to surrender the child, it was then taken by force. An grieved by the loss she committed suicide by lashing herself in a most ingenious manner to a stone fence, having first sat ura'.ed her head and clothes with kero sene, bhe then struok a matoh and ap plied it. When found, she was dead. The body was horribly burned. A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 7th says: This afternoon at 3 o clock tbelarsre building on Main .street, occupied by u. ljowenstem fc Uros., retail dry goods. was discovered to be on rjre. The en tire building and contents were totally destroyed. Lowenstein & Bros.' loss on stock and fixtures is $156,000: insrred for $106,000. Loss on building, $40,000: insured for $21,000. H. Movstov. pho- togrupner, occupied a portion o the third floor. His loss is $5000. The building to the south, ocoupied by S. Halle, retail clothing, was damaged $27,- 000; insured. Other losses are about $4500. Director of the mint Burchard has prepared a statement showing the amount of silver coinage into silver dollars un der the act of 1878, with the disposition made of the same, and showing also the profits on the coinage of silver dollars from the beginning of the fiscal year in which he became director of the mint, 1S73, up to tho 30th of June, 1883. From this statement it appears that silver on nana July l, laio, and purchased since then amounts to 123.447.480 ounces, of whioh 119.206,224 ounces have been used in the coinage of silver dollars and some suDsiaiary silver com; ounces have been wasted bv the operative officers of the mint and sold in sweep ings, leaving a balance on hand July 1, lrcw. oi 3.U36.881 ounces. This remain der has been weighed and verified by the omcers oi tne treasury department. The profits on the coinage of silver, including payments by Adams' Express company, amount to $17,342,113, of which sum $15,581,713 have been deposited in the treasury of the United States, and $358, 399 have been paid for shipping silver dollars, $Di,ud for loss on sweepings ! sold, $71,429 for wastages .and $48 for loss for reooinage, leaving a balance in t average is not np to that of last.year, be coinage since June 30. 1883 nf ftl 278 - . incr onlv 38 33-800 ner acre, or An ihtota- 599, all of which, since that date, has ueeu turner into tne treasury. Results, so far as heard from, show that the Republicans have carried a large majority of the towns in Connecticut, making gains apparently on the figures oi a year ago. , uenerai ueorge VV. tfetty, in com mand of artilery at Portess Monroe, was placed on the retired list. He will be succeeded by Colonel John C. Tidball, of General Sherman's staff. A Dayton, Ohio, dispatch of Oct. 4th says: A frightened horse plunged in iront oi a tram to-day, with a carriage, causing the death of Mrs. George Trim- back, and seriously injuring Miss New- SOCK. ' I . . At a campmeeting near Kingston, N, C., rechtly, a large number : of mocca sin snakes suddenly appeared among the congregation. Over fifty females fainted and several persons -were bitten, but not fatally. The men finally killed the snakes, but the meeting was completely broken up. A singular and most painful accident occurred at Lake Tahoe recently. A man named Stackhouse was engaged with others in wedging lumber, when a sharp splinter of the steel wedge in use flew off, cat tnrougu his left eyelid, penetrated entirely through the eyeball, and lodged underneath the facial bone. He was at once sent to Truckee for medical treat ment, but there is no hope of saving his sight, and the eye will have to be cut out. A special correspondent of the New York Post has crone over the corn dis trict of the west and northwest, from Chicago as far as St. Paul, in the last week, and gives it as an opinion of the farmers and merchpnts that the damage to the corn crop is largely overestimated that corn does not actually freeze be- ?A I . . . ... iore it cues oat; that there will be an abundant crop, even i the frosted dis tricts, and also that there is a very large supply of old corn in the countiy. Inquiries from many persons whether they could be compelled to pay for news papers sent to their address without authority, have called forth the follow ing ruling from the postofiice depart ment: The liability of a partv to pav for a newspaper must be determined by rules applicable to other contracts. When a publisher, without request from a party, either expressed or implied, sends a paper, the fact that the party ad dressed takes the paper from the post office does, of itself, create an implied agreement. AlVicksburg, Miss., dispatch of Oct. 3d says: In the interstate levee conven tion three states Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi only were represented. Resolutions were adopted declaring it to be the imperative duty of congress to improve the navigation of the Mis sissippi and its tributaries,' so as to facilitate commerce by cheapening trans portation for the great northwest, andi protect from destructive floods territory now subject to annual overflow. It was further resolved to continue the agitation until action was taken by congress. Application has been made to the war department by the survivors of a con federate brigade residing at Norfolk. va., lor permission to use their old bat tle flags, now in possession of that de partment, on ine occasion oi a reunion to take place in a few weeks. There are several, hundred confederate battle flat? stored in the war department. Adjutant Ueneral Drum said that the application would have to be rejected, as neither the secretary of war nor the president can give or lend those flags without the sanction of congress. A conference of representatives of va rious free trade organizations of the country was held at St. Louis, October 2d. Ex-Gov. Phelps soon appeared to open the convention with an address. He spoke of the necessity of thorough organization, and outlined the object of free trade. He said free trade was nec essary, and in giving a history of pro tection said that the political parties had always urged temporary measures. The whig party thought that it was ephem eral, but protection still existed; and still tne cry was, "In a few years longer its object will be accomplished. He deprecated the fact that tariff on tobec co be levied to the detriment of necessi ties. Speeches were, made by other ad vocates of the organization of a north western and Mississippi valley free trade league. The cigar manufacturers' association of New York city has issued an address to its members, relating to the new law which went into effect Oct. 2d. The law relates only to the city of New York, and makes it a misdemeanor, subject to fine for the first penalty, to manufacture cigars in living rooms of tenement houses. For many years millions of cigars have been made in the very rooms where workmen and their wives and children ate and slept. There are now 19,200 families living in tenement houses in New York, engaged in this business. These families number over 55,000 persons. The cigar manu'actur er's association notifies all landlords of tenement houses used for that purpc e that special rooms must be set apart in each building, free of rent, for the manufacture of cigars: that no tobacco will be delivered at rooms as heretofore. This is being forced by the action of a few energetic citizens, who have begun the war against keepers of tenement houses. The state statistician of Minnesota, in his crop report last issued, states that wheat has turned out better than antici pated. There was a shorter transfer of stocks from the field than last year, but on threshing it is reported that the yield i3 for the most part in excess of last year. The acreage in which, reported in June, was 2,716,370, and from returns received this month the average yield will be 14.83 bushels per acre, giving a crop of 38,305,400 bushels. As much as 3 per cent., however, was destroyed by the storm, which reduces the average per acre to 14.45 bushels per acre, or an aggregate of d7,lot,rJ(J bushels, lte- turns show a greater area in wheat. By the statement of the statiscian this differ ence was caused by late seeding. It is reported there are 922,813 acres m oats. t The crop is generally good, although the I gate of 34,486,090 bushels. This is due to j late seeding and arougut. Oh! what Is home? that tweet companionship The happy smile of welcome on the Un. . U Hit) U BBllM VUW upspriflgmu irwa me newt. It Is the eager clasp of kindly nandsf - Tbe lone-remembered one; The ready sympathy which understands All leeinig oy iw own. . - ; The rosy cheek of little children pressed roours in loving giee; I The presence ot our dearest and our best, no mailer waere we oe. And, fAilln? this, a prince may homeless lire. rnougn pause waus are nifrn; And, baring it, a desert shore may give i ne joy wemiia tannoi ouy. Far-reaching as earth's remotest span, Widespread as ocean roam. One thought is sacred in the breast of man it is tne thougnt oi nome.; That little word his human fate shall blndl With destinies aso,? . For there the home of iCt immortal soul ' Is in uoo a wider tore, i A SHOT IN THE DARE, It was a 25 calibre.and carried a leaden pellet no larger than a pea. It did not look very formidable, and, in fact, was not, but when Eva put it in what she was pleased to call her pistol-pocket, in the rear of her dress, she felt as safe as if she had the escort of a regiment. "What are you doing with that pop gun?" said Cousin Jack to her one morn ing as he; observed her I putting her armory in her pocket preparatory to going out. "That s my beau, if you please, sir; he sees me saiely along those four dark blocks when I come home at night." " J ust let me look at that gun. will you?" said Jack. "Pshaw 1 you couldn't hurt a mouse. Come, 1 11 let you shoot at me all day for a nickel a shot. Hurt me? Not a bit. But why in the name of the guardian angel of all young women do you want to carry a pistol?" "Well, Cousin Jack, you know that it is late when I leave the store, and I can not always have company. It's a dark walk from the cars over here, and I thought I saw a sneaking fellow follow me one night. I shall be ready for him the next time. I don't intend to be bothered or robbed if I can help it. Don't think I can't shoot. I have been practising a little, and shall make it very uncomfortable for the coming Band bagger as sure as my name is Eva." "But you couldn t hurt anybody with that thing, you know." "Couldn't I? Don't you get in front of it, that's all. Good-bye, I must hurry along. Jack looked after her as she tripped down the steps, and laughing, said: "She's a dandy, and no mistake." Then as he caught sight of a dainty boot with a little glint of white above it, as she crossed the street, he repeated: - "A dan dy, well, I should say she was, and as pretty as a picture. What shall we do with our girls? Eva Barton was twenty-three, and a saleswoman in the great establishment of Hersohell, Shield & Co. She was rather under than over the medium size, some what slight in figure, but compactly formed, every gesture and movement de noting energy and character. Her cheekB were like lilies, and her eyes of limpid blue, such as Solomon would have de scribed as being "like the fish pools of Heshbon by the gate of Rathrabbin; that divine blue, capable of expressing every passion of the soul. It was more in her expression than in her features that she was beautiful. She knew how to dress, and the art of be stowing the simplest ribbon or her neck or hair in such a way as to lend elegance and refinement to her toilet. If she had been French they would have' said she had chic. No English phrase can exact ly describe what a chic is, but we know it when we see it. It is style and soma thing more. It is the knack of doing or being in the best form. It is not fash ion, but it is to fashion what poetry is prose. It is entirely a feminine attribute, but all women do not possess it. When a woman has chio, age can not wither her, nor custom stale her infinite varie ty; other women oloy the appetite they feed : but she makes hungry whom she satisfies. Eva had chic. She had come to the great city to make her way in the wo -Id, not that she was obliged to, but because she wanted to. Her mother was dead. Her father s second wife was her schoolmate. Her home was pleasant enough after a fash ion, but a glimpse of the great world and business ways is good for a sensible girls. So Eva had come and took up quarters with Aunt liiscom. Having some knowledge of ribbons and dry goods she got a place in Hepschield, Shield & Co. s, cominancing at nve dol lars a week, bhe was now getting twen ty, and was considered the best saleswo man in the store. She had such an art of displaying goods, of throwing them over her arm or shoulders that the la dies were obliged to buy. The could not help it. Cousin Jack, or more properly, John Bascom. was teller in the Southwestern National. He was 25 and was perfectly loyal to one woman, and that was his mother. Whatever he did he did for her. "1 don t thinK l snail ever get mar ried," Jack would say to himself. "They come too high, and, besides, I don't 6ee any like my mother. Toward his cousin Eva he had alwavs felt in a paternal sort of sort of way, and he would deal out to her large chunks of fatherly advice, fit ted for almost any occasion. The pistol cspisoda amnsed Jack not a little, Every now and then he would mutter through the day,"She is a dandy, but i guess x snail nave to give uer a lesson of some kind;" and inward parox ysm of suppressed mirth would almost choke him. Jtte went to bed that night with his head fall of undefined practical iokes, but all having a sort of center piece in Eva and her pistol. It was only at the breakfast table that the family met, for Era took her lunch at the store and was always late to din ner. ' ' ! The next morning, Jack commenced on Eva: "Well, my Amazonian little saleslady, did you slay any sand-baggers last night?" "I am not a saleslady, I want you to know. Cousin Jack." " hat! been promoted again?" "No, I am not promoted and I am not a saleslady. I am a saleswoman. If there is one word I despise more than another it is saleslady. Do yon say sales gentle man? X I suppose you 4 are a teller gentleman in the Southwestern." . "No," said Jack. I am a crentlemanlv teller." V - "Yon may joke, but I tell you I abom inate saleslady. Why can't irirls and women have as much sense as men? Are we to say kitchenlady, cooklady?" "jcivery woman is a lady bv her risrht of sex," said Jack. "Doubtless that's true.but why should we American girls be so distrustful as to be constantly announcing ourselves as ladies? We are ladles if we act suitably to whatever place we are in. Others may call themselves salesladies, if thev choose, but ,for myself, I am A8ales woman, and when it is necessary to refer to me in that capacity, I prefer to be called so. Think of a man advertising for a place as salesgentleman! He would get it, I guess!" "Bravo! bravo! my belle cousin. An other new departure. Here is a sales woman, armed cap-a-pie. Well may the philosopher ask, whither are we tending? Are there any more young women in your store of your mind?" xes, a few; but the great majority are and prefer to be salesladies." "1 hope, coz, you don t consider your self a woman with a mission?" No, sir, I am not a woman with a mission. J he strongest points about my sex are their weaknesses, and one of their weaknesses is to be called salesladies. I don't believe I could reform that out of them if I tried. I like the name lady. It implies dignity, refinement and good breeding. Don't let us drag it in the mire. Every saleswoman can be a lady if she chooses, but she is not a lady be cause she stands behind a counter and sells goods to customers. Saleslady! fiddlestick!" and Eva started up and off with an energy that almost made Jack's head swim. "My opinion is that she is a dandy," soliloquized Jack. "But the pistol idea is not a good one. She must give that up. She'll hurt herself some time, and I should reproach myself. I can't argue her out of it, that's certain. but I shall find a way. Jack continued in a brown study nearly all day. In the evening he came home to dinner, but strolled out imme diately after. He had an idea and was going to work it out. Eva left the store as night was falling. She had a long ride in a street car, and by the time she reached her crossing it was pitch dark, and the scattered gas- lamps only tended to make the darkness more visible. She was not a timid girl, but she never did like that long walk alone at night. Quietly adjusting her dress, and putting her hand in her pistol pocket, she started forward. As she did so she saw a figure stealing along the opposite side of the Btreet and then cross ing toward the path she must take. She hurried along, and so did the figure, now in front of her. When she slack ened her pace so did the figure. The street was deserted, but Eva gave ner pistol a tighter grip and moved on cour ageously. Just as they got in the mid dle of the darkest block the figure turned nnd came toward her. It loomed up in. the darkness like a giant. She spoke quickly. "Out of my way, eir! ' No answer. Crack went the little pistol. The figure never heeded it. Crack again; "Great Scott, Eva, do you want to kill me?" howled Jack, as he felt a sharp pain rush through his upper arm. "Great Scott! Put up that gun. Don t you know me? Jerusha! Whew! You've blown my arm off. Don t you know me and Jack capered around on tho side walk holding his arm, while the warm blood commenced to tricklo out at his cuff. Era stood almost dazed. "Oh, John, why did you not speak? Why did you act so? Have I hurt you? Are you killed? Are you dying? What shall Ido? Come, hurry home: don t die here in the street; let me carry you; let me support you. It s only a short way home. Here, lean oh me. And Eva clasped him around the body and rushed him forward. Jack felt as if he was being wafted through the air by fairies. They hurried up the steps and into the house. Mrs. Bascom met them. "Why children, what is the matter? John is as pale as a ghost. What is it, Eva? Look at John's hand, all covered with blood! Where have you been, and what has happened? They jerked off Jack s coat and rolled up his sleeves. Sure enough there was a little bullet-hole in the fleshy part of the upper arm. It had gone through, but touched no bones, it was not very serious, and Mrs. Bascom soon dresied and bound it up. As Jack marched off to his room he looked at Eva humorously and said: "You are a dandy, and no mistake. But you can now see that pistol is of no account." "There were four more charges in it, Cousin Jack. "I believe I don't want any more of them to-night. I hope I can use my arm to-morrow. Jack lay awake a long time thinking over the matter. He had been very stnpid. He felt that. What would Eva think of him. And what a girl she was What intrepidity and character! That girl is a treasure, thought Jack, as he floated off into the land of dreams. As for Eva, she did not sleep a wink She could Hardly accuse herself o wrong, and yet she could not. excuse herself. To think that she had wound ed Jack was terrible. She might have killed him. Even now he might lose his arm. How dreadful. And on her sleep less pillow she upbraided herself the whole night through. One thing she determined to do. As soon as it ap peaied that Jack's arm was all right she would return home. Jack appeared at the breakfast table. his arm somewhat stiff and sore, but not mucn more painful than if it had been newly vaccinated. He tried a feeble joke or two, but both Eva and Mrs. Bascom felt too serious for much conversation. "Eva thinks she will go home," said Mrs. Bascom. "What?" said Jack, a sharp pain run ning quickly through his breast, sharper than tbe pain in his arm. , "Eva says she will return to Black water in a day or two." "I don't think , you ought to, Cousin Eva." : i "Yes, John, I think I must." A little later Jack and Eva were stand ing side by side in the parlor. . "I suppose, Eva, it may be best for you to return home for the present; but do you know I am wounded incurably?' "Don't say that! Oh, it can't be so!" "Not in my arm, dearest, but in my heart." "Oh 1 Jack." . "And if you go home now, may I come for you soon and make this your home?" Eva looked up into Jack's eyes, her own full of light and love, and gently whispered: - v "Yes, JohnV.;: .. '.. , v : 'Jl "Then," said Jack, as he clasped her in his arms, "'it was the luckiest shot in the dark I ever heard of." Some Causes of Headache. Derangements of the heart and diges tive apparatus are quite common causes of pain in the head. Headache is also provoked by changes in other organs, quite distant from the head. A char acteristic headache is that in which the pain is felt most severely upon the top of the head. Keflex headache is a very good name for this pain. The way in which heart troubles cause headache is purely mechanioal. An enlarged heart or one temporarily over-excited from some cause pumps an undue quantity of blood i into the cranial cavity, which is an unyielding space. Tho unusual amount of blood now present in this space pressing upon the sensitive parts of the Drain produces u pain in the head, which is oalled a oongestive headache. This pain is made worse by any excite ment, or by stooping, a fact that helps to indicate the nature of the case. The pain felt in the head after unusual ibations, and also after some undue mental effort, is probably of this nature. Headache from derangement of the digestive apparatus is probably the most requent of all. Atrooious headaches these are. They generally happen like his : The victim rises from bed in the jrning feeling a trifle off, with per- naps a sense of uneasiness in the stom ach and a slight pain in one temple. As the day : advances the pain in the head and general distress increase, and bv afternoon the individual reckons that his head is fit to burst and doesn't care very much if it would do so; presently an attack of vomiting and perhaps a slight diarrhea occurs, and then the pain grad ually disappears, to return again, how ever, when the necessary conditions are present for its existence. These aro the typical sick headaches, some of tho vic tims of which declare they have inherit ed the trouble. There "is considerable likeness I between the condition just de scribed and seasickness. The pain in the head very usually co incident with the onset of some febrile complaints is a very good example of headache from general systematic con ditions. In this case the circulation of vitiated blood probably provokes pain, neuralgic in character. Individuals who have inherited strongly marked nervous tendencies and who from any cause may be in poor general health ard very liable to have pains shooting up through the temples and back of the head. The pains are often followed with soreness of the scalp. They also are neuralgic in char acter, and are especially obstinate in the aged. (Coincident plumbic (lead) or malarial poisoning increases the suscep tibility of individuals to these pains. Philadelphia Times. Defrauding the Poor. "Many of tne money-lenders areas bad as ever." said the secretary of the society , for Organizing Charity in St. Louis, referring to the men who lend money i in small amounts on chattel securities. "Not long ago a poor woman on the west side fell sick and was unable to pay her rent. She went to a money' lender and borrowed $10 on her furni ture. The money-loaner drew up the note for $15, charging $5 for writing the premises and making out the papers. The poor woman toiled night and day, and managed to rake together $12, which sne paid on tne mortgage, leaving a balance of $3. Her child fell sick, and unable to pay the balance as soon as she expected. While she was struggling to keep her head above wattr. she reoeived from a man who had purchased the mortgage against her a letter, stating that unless she came for ward and paid a mortgage of $15, which he held on her furniture, he would be obliged to take the furniture on foreclo sure. The poor wlftnan had no receipt for the $12 paid on the mortgage and could not prove that she had paid it. She came to me well nigh distracted. I gave her $3 and a note to the holder of the mortgage, setting forth the facts.and telling him that unless he accepted the $3 in payment as full and .delivered the mortgage to the woman, I should have both him and the party of whom he pur chased the mortgage arrested. The wo man came back with the mortgage. Literary tileanugs. I One copy of Mr. Buskin's volume of "Poems" recently brought over $100 at a London sale, i It is gravely announced that Colonel Mike Sheridan will write a book on tht Yellowstone park excursion. Ubaries uudiey w arner will soon publish a record of his recent travels in Europe under tbe title "A Roundabout Journey," Mr. uross nas made little progress with the biography of his dead wife. Cieorge .biiot, Having been greatly inter rupted by illness. Miss Eleanor Arnold, the daughter of the poet, has shown her filial devotion m the preparation of "The Matthew Ar nold Birthday Book." Five additions of ' Bosworth Smith's "Life of Lord Lawrence" have already appeared, and a sixth a popular editiom in one valumo is on the way to publi cation, v. - . Praise never giyes us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in whioh we chiefly excel. ' WIT A3D TTISroX Woman is the idol thaf-man worships. And the more idle she i the more he worships her. Do not wear your troubles and misfor tunes all on the outside like an overcoat, but keep them hidden within, like a ragged-back vest. A woman, lately, looking at a printing press at work, turned to her companion, and in a most earnest manner inquired: "Well, Charley, an them's the things as writes the papers. Be's them what they call editors?" An Irish corporal, who now and then indulged, was thus accosted by his cap tain, while standing at ease: "Pat, what makes your noso so red? "Jfirse, yer honor, said Pat, "I always blush when Tspakea io aja officer ,!Li ... : . Old gentleman (looking at a very bob tailed horse): "Bless me! how short they have cut his tail. Attendant "His master is a member of the Society for the Protection of Animals, sir. In this fashion he will not annoy the poor flies." ' The liver pad agent asked a Missouri editor to give him $700 worth of adver tising and take his pav in liver pads, and the editor was very emphatic in his in quiry: "What sort of condition do you think my liver is in, sir?" Boston Post. A popular concert singer, advertised to participate in an entertainment in a Missouri village, excused her absence on the ground of having a cold in the head; the next day she received the following from an admirer: "Thiz iz gouse greze; melt it and rub it on the brige of yore neze until kured. I luv you: to di3 traxshun." "How do you feel with such a shock ing coat on?" said a young dandy to old Roger. "I feel," said old Roger, looking at him steadily with one eye half closod, as if taking aim at his victim. "I feel, young man, as if I had a coalon which I had paid for a luxury oi leenng which I think you have never ex perienced." A man will work twenty-five minutes trying to light the fuse of a sky-rocket, without frowning. Strange as it may seem, this is contrary to all human expe rience with kitchen fires. The average man will frown hard at the end of the first five minutes wrestle with the latter, and at the end of the second five the frown will be audible. Poor Penhecker, his joke "Why, my dear," said poor little Mr. Penhecker, with a ghastly smile, "why would the world without woman, lovely woman, be like a blank sheet of paper? Mrs. P., who had just been giving the little man la piece of her mind, smiled and "couldu't think." "Why, don't you seeK love," said the long-suffering one, "it wouldn t even be ruled." Golden Uems. Conscience is the most enlightened of all philosophers. A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin. Mme.' de Puisieux. He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs. Lava ter. Gravity is a stratagem invented to con ceal the poverty of the mind. La Boche- fouconld. Nothing impairs authority more than a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. Shenstone. " Satire lies about men of letters dat ing their life and eulogy after their death. Voltaire. Contentment swells a mite into a talent, and makes even the poor richer than the Indies. Addison. To speak, bnt say nothing, is for three people out of four to express all they think. Commiktant. Pride defeats its oxv a ends, by bring ing tho man who seeks esteem and rever ence into contempt. Bolingbroke. Gavety is not a proof that the heart is at ear e, for often in the midst of laughter the heart is sad. De Genelis. Clear writars, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid, looks most profound. Lander. Every man has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has and that which he thinks he has. We have three kinds of friends those who love us, those who are indiffersnt to us and those who hate us. Chamfort. The worthiest people are the most in jured by slander, as we usup lly find (hat to be the best fruit that the birds have been pecking at. Swift. Women dress less to be clothed than to be adorned. When alone before their mirrors they think more of men than of themselves. liochebum. He who thinks ha can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world cannot do without him is still more in error. La Roche foucauld. It is hard to act a part long, for where truth is not at thd bottom, nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. Tiilotson. New York has within eigut years in creased its area from 12 500 acres to 25, 000 acres, one-half of which lies north of the Harlem river. No additions haye been made to the public pleasure grounds, and a plea is now made for more parks. In support of the demand the following comparison is made: JNew York with a million and a half of in habitants has 1094 acres in park area. Philadelphia with 800,000 inhabitants has over 3000 acres, and its great pars, Fairmount, has nearly 2800 acres. Chicago and St. Louis each nave over 2000 acres. San Francisco has 100 acres more than New York. Each head of clover contains about sixty distinct flower tabes, each of which contains a portion of sugar not exceeding the five-hundredth part of a grain. The proboscis of the bee must therefore bo inserted into 500 clover tubas before one grain of sngar can be obtained. There are 7000 grains in a pound, and, as honey contains three-fourths of its weight of dry sugar, each pound of honey repressnts 2,500,000 clover tubes sucked by bees. Chicago Tribune.