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VOL. IX.
ROSEBURGr, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1884.
NO. 14.
J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watctaater. Jeweler and Optician,
ALL WORK WAEEANTED.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Mpeetaeles and Eyeglasses.
AND A FULL LINK Or
Cigars, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tht only reliable Optomer in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacle! ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postofflce,
itosEBunu. oreuox.
LANGENBEEGS H
Boot and Shoe Store
ROSEDl'RG, OKEGOX,
On Jackson Street, ' Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and Han Francises Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
lloets and Shoes Made to Order, and
A-ericci ii uuaranieeu. f
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LAX(iEXBEKG.
DR. HI. W. DAVIS,
(32 DENTIST,
RONEBl'ltC, OBEGOX,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co. s New Store.
MAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Bailroad Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MA II OX EY, - - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this place
very handy to visit during the stopping of the train at
the Oauuaud Depot. Give me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN TEASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREUOX.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ef 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 elsewbere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop-
.l !lL 11 A. li 1 1
uiur wiiii me iraveiiug puuuc.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THE
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILL AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Such as required by the Public County Schools.
All kinds of Stationery. Tsys and
Fancy Articles,
TO SUIT BOTH TOUNO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
!
SEEDS !
ILL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address,
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j Portland, Oregon.
Inherited Xeatnes.
(Exchange.!
"Walter," said Mrs. Particular to her
little son, whom she found eating
grapes in the garden, you must not swal
low the skins of the grapes. It's bad
for you to eat them." "iut doesu t it
make the yard look neater?" said
Walter.
Edison says: "It requires as much
ingenuity to make money out of an in-
. venuon as to make the invention."
OUR KIND OF MAN.
James W. Riley.
The kind of a man for you and mel
He faces the world unflinchingly
And smites, is long a3 the wrong resists,
With a knuckled faith and force-l.ke fists;
He lives the life he is preaching of,
And loves where most is the need of love.
His voice is clear to the deaf man's ears,
And his face sublime through the blind man's
tears; j
The light shines out where the clouds were
dim,
And the widow's prayer goes up for him.
The latch is clicked at the hovel door,
And the sick man sees the sun on e more,
And out o'er the barren field he see3
Springing blossoms and waving trees,
FteJing, as only the dying may,
That God's own servant has come that way.
Smoothing the path as it still winds on
Through the golden gate where his loved
have gone.
The, kind of a man for me and you,
However little of worth we do
He credits full, and abides in trust
That time will teach us how more is just.
He walks abroai and meets all kinds
Of querulous and uneasy minds,
And, sympathizing, he shares the pain
Of the doubts that rack us, hear and brain,
And, knowing this, as we grasp his hand,
We are surely coming to understandl
He looks on sin with pitying eyes
E'en as the Lord, since Paradise
Else, should we read, though our sins should
clow .
As scarlet they should be white as snow !
And feeling still, with a grief half glad
t hat the bad are as good as the good are
bad. I
He strikes straight out for the Rteht and
he !
Is the kind of a man for you and me!
PAINTINGS "IN THE LUMP."
An Artist Who "Knocks Out" a Score
of Pictures Dally.
Djtroit Free Press.
The reporter followed his friend
around the corner and up two flights
of stairs to the top floor of a brick
building ne.ir the center of the city.
The apartment which they entered was
about twenty-five feet wide by sixty
feet in length, having two sky-lights
and six w.ndows on the street front.
Along the ; same side oi the room w. re
benches paint benches, with paint
grinding mills, bits of sandpaper, pound
brushes, fash too.s, kegs oi pamt, and
the like, just as one might expect to
find m the paint shops of a wagon
factory. j
Isn t this high art ? asked the art
ist, as he began pulling on a pair of
paint-stained overalls, at the same time
pointing to a panoramic nightmare
which developed itself on the opposite
wall. He invited his visitor to "look
the th'ng over."
The "thing" was perhaps twenty feet
in length by two feet in width, and was
tacked tightly on the board partition,
and above it was tacked an almost ex
act duplicate. There was almost every
style of land, water, and winter scape
on the strips of cloth. First came a
rough coast scene with a lighthouse and
a wreck, w hich then changed to a wood
land w-tbJ a lake in the middle
and the ruins of a castle and mountains
in the distance. Then came a pastoral
scene with a country road, a flock of
sheep, and a good foliage in the right
foreground; and so the strip changes
its aspect with a sort of kaleidoscopic
readiness every two or three feet.
"What i-i it, anyhow?" asked the vis
itor. I
"It's a lot of cheap oil paintings. We
paint 'em in the lump and cut 'em up
acc ording to needs. We make panels
and larp e and small .scenes by the rod,
and let the frame-makers say how large
each single section shall be."
"but you'll get bad habits."
"What, painting this kind of stuff?
Nod a bit of it. Now just watch me,"
at which the artist began putting in a
sky with a pound brush loaded, -with
blue. It was like painting the s'de of
a barn, and as he worked the artist ex
plained how most of the work was done
with large: brushes and how he could
"knock out" from fifteen to twenty oil
paintings a day.
'And what do they sell for and
where V" j
'They Eell in auct'on stores, cheap
furniture stores, and are sometimes sold
by canvassers. Thev bring from S2 to
5 each, framed."
"And you like the work?"
"I like to eat and have a good place
to sleep." j
Almost a New Craze.
Inter Ocean.
A funny thing occurred at a wedding
here this week, which caused the bridal
party great mortification. As the
groom got cut of the carriage to enter
the church he cave his hat to the foot
man, and that iaithiul individual, sup'
posing it was intended that he should
stay by his employer and ee him
through, followed closely behind the
bridal party as they marched up the
aisle. Luring the ceremony he stood
conspicuously by the groom's side with
two plug hats in his hands, and when
the benediction was pronounced fol
lowed the bridal party down the aisle
again close to his master's heel.-?. The
spectators thought it was some new
caper that had been introduced, and if
the fanvly had kept quiet about it the
idea would have been imitated, and no
wedding would have been complete
without a groom in livery with two
plug hats, but their mortitication was
io great that they felt called noon to
explain that the man was stupid and
did not understand that he was to re
main in the vestibule. .
A Little Curious.
I, n't it curious to think that the same
citizen who may be heard on club
nights bellowing fo th the bacchanalian
ditty, i antuora, nil ine cowing oowi,
can softly croon his youngest to sleep
with the seductive melody, riusn, my
babe, lie still and slumber?"
Kept Up the SuppTy.
One of Lord Beaconsfield's peacocks
died at the same time as did its ma ter,
and its carcass was given to al.a lger-on
about the place, who made a small
fortune by selling feathers from its tail.
It was marvelous how the poor peacock
kept up the supply.
Arkansaw Traveler: When er ole
man does wrong it is generally a wu3
wrong den er young maa would do. De
ole boss,: when he does kick, ki ks a
heap harder den de colt.
Paper: is now used
stead of wood in the
lead pencils.
in Germany in
mamifacture of
PAINTING THE FACES
Of tli
te
Amateur Actors and Actresses
-Modus Operandi.
"Manhattau" in Ch'cago Journal.
There are men in New York whose
livelihood is gained by painting the
faces of actors and actresses. Nearly
all of the professionals do this work for
themselves, and the result is that the
decorators, as the make-up artists are
generally called, confine themselves al
most entirely to amateurs. The most
popular of the lot i3 a little Swede, -who
has a studio on Broadway. He has a
pale and classical face, long hair, and is
of delicate physique. He dresses chiefly
in a Byronic collar, but also wears a
frock coat and patent-leather boots, and
is extremely dainty and neat. He is a
favorite with the army of amateurs, par
ticularly wiih the girls. He charges
$9 a night for his services at an even
ing entertainment, and has entire charge
of every face that gee on the stage.
For 20 a night he will pi o vide all
ne- essary wigs and wh'skers He goes
to the theatre at 7 o'clock, selects a
room, places a chair in frnt of a
mirror, and is ready for work.
The men are easily treated. As a
rule, all they nee I is a lfttle
rouge on their cheeks and chins,
shaded eyebrows and whitened fore
heads. If they play characters a little
advanced life, the decorator powders
their hair and whiskers, paints a line or
two about the eyes where the crow's
feet belong, and shades the under lip a
little, which gives the mouth a drawn
expression. For the villians, he usually
puts on a little blue and white stu.i,
which represents a bristling beard,
about the chin and neck, and gives the
wearer a more or less villainous appear
ance. The make-up of the women is
much more difficult. A man is usually
so astonished by his beautiful appear
ance after he has been painted that he
has little to do beyond admiring him
self in the glass. The exact re. erse,
however, is true of the society act
resses. They are never satisfied. The
little Swede darkens their eyebrows,
drops belladonna into their eyes, paints
a lme under the lower lid, shades the
face carefully with white, red and
whitens the nose and eyebrows, and tints
the lips. The woman then looks in the
glare of the foot-Lghts about 3,000 per
cent, better than she did as nature
made her, but her heart is filled with
dissatisfaction, and after every act bhe
goes down to his room.
"You've made my eyes too bright and
big," she snaps. "I look frightfully
sensational and glary.
.Not at all, miss, he says, in a de
precatory manner. it 1 made your
eyes less prominent, people would
notice vour nose, which 3 ou know is not
particularly big."
She thereupon assures him that she
didn't ask him for any criticism of her
nose, which, in all probability, is of the
snub variety, and still insists that her
eyes look unnatural. Thereupon she
flops down in the chair again, and he
agrees to heighten the color of her
cheeks, assuring her that that will re
duce the prominence of her eyes. This
he does, and she does not bother him
again until the end of the next act,
when she probably discovers that he
has painted her cheeks so brightly that
a tiny dimple goes unobserved. To all
these criticisms he submits with much
apparent humility, and he afterwards
frees his mind concerning this subject.
"Amateurs are the most dinuult peo
pie in the world to get along with," he
growls; "they ne.'er know what they
want, and are never by any means sat
isfied, no matter how well they are
made up. I refer of course to the
women. The men never paint, and
therefore have no opinions worth both
ering about. But almost every society
woman has practiced upon her face at
various times, and all of them think
they know more about making up their
faces than the best make-up artist in
the world. They cannot realize the dif
ference that gaslight makes on the
face on the stace. Then, too, they are
so nervous that they are glad to have
somebody to find fault with. They pay
me, and then thmk they can jump on
me. It is very fatiguing. It is mu-li
greater fun to be w th professional act
ors, for. they aie the iolliest men and
women in the world, and there is no
end of fun in making them up. They
know exactly what they want, and when
they get it they are pleased."
The
Technicality and the Court.
Chicago News.
A weary-looking, overworked Tech
nicality strolled into a court-room to
while away an afternoon.
A prisoner tt ok the witness-stand.
Prosecuting Attorney Now, sir, tell
the jury, did vou or did you not kill
that inoiiensive man?
Witness I did.
Prosecuting Attorney Let's under
stand each other clearly. Did you
commit this most foul murder, coolly,
and deliberately :
Witness I did.
Attorney l-our honor, we rest our
case.
"Mr. Sheriff, bring a rope," said the
judge.
"No you don't,"cried the Technicality ;
and, springing to its feet, it snatched
the prisoner in its strong arms and bore
him off to freedom amid the triumphant
shouts of the lawyer for the defense:
"Saved! Saved!"
KolIIns Easter Eggs.
Ch cago Herald.
In Lancashire, England, they keep
up the traditions of enturies on Easter
Monday. In 1 reston, for instance, the
whole population make a pilgrimage to
the park outside the town, each with a
hard boiled egg stained some color.
Everybody, young and old, makes for
the summit of a lull, down which the
aim is to roll the egg without getting
it smashed. To see crowds of well
dressed people rolling eggs against one
another is a moit amusing spectacle.
Tne Smallest Locomotive.
Hie smallest locomotive in America
has been built by a Peusacola firm.
The drive-wheels are only twelve
inches in diameter, and the whole ma
chine is only nine feet six inches long.
On one of our pastes to-day will be found
a striking and instructive illustration of
the comparative worth of the various
kinds of baking powers now in the market.
The Snperflons Itabblt.
fNew York Sun.
The rabbit is probably the most pro
ductive of the whole rodent genus ; a
single pair may be answerable for a
population of 500,000 within five years.
Originally natives of bpain, the rabbits
once multiplied in that country, aswell
as S sfs
as in some oi tne lsianas oi cue
Mediterranean, in such an alarming
manner that the people appealed for
military aid to assist in their destruc
tion. And it was not until numbers of
ferrets and weasels were introduced
that the rabbit population began to
diminish. The quadrupeds of Australia
are chiefly of the "marsupial" order;
and from the great kangaroo down
to the wombat and kangaroo rat (both
burrowers) nearly all the tribe are her
bivorous. The dingo, or native dog is
destructive only to shee while, the
wildcat, though pretty common in some
parts, is not generally prevalent.
When, therefore, the rabbit was nrst
landed in Australia the land was all
before him where to choose. In the
official Sydney market rate for January,
18 1 6, the price of rabbits was quoted at
from 2s. Jd. to 4b. each, retail. Five
or six years later they were looked upon
as aggre sive and destructive vermin,
and had so rapidly overrun large tracts
of land as to become quite a scare to
the squatters. To-day every phase of
the Australian rabbit plague is not only
regarded as of vital interest by the
colonists, but is a subject of curiosity
and discussion throughout he civilized
world.
Illitdostan's Cars of Juggernaut.
Bo:iares Cor. Pioneer Preas.
Passing down the compound, we
come to the barracks where the ma-
harajah keeps his private native troops,
about 150 iu number. Looking over
a high wall, I saw the top of what I
took to be a chariot and asked the
guide what it might be. "Oh, tLat's
only a car of Juggernaut," was his
careless answer, just as though that
could not possibly be of interest to me.
L cleared h s mind of the illusion by the
agility with which I flounced through
the gate in order to inspect the
vehicle. It proved to be a framework
about twelve feet square and
ten feet high, set upon four wheels, de
void of ornamentation for the most part,
and altogether free from indecent carv
ings. On the top were three or four
Scats arranged in tiers, upon which it
is customary to put the chief Hindoo
god on certain festival days. Many of
the cars are so rotten that it is not safe
to have them hauled through the streets ;
but the British government makes it a
point never to interfere in any matter
affectinr religious belief ; and so these
festivals are in no wise restrained, al
though they may be attended with real
danger to many people. Of course,
there is a law prohibiting the old-time
system of voluntary immolation under
the car-wheels.
Novel Costumes In Algiers.
Foreign Letter.
The charm of Algiers is in the variety
and novelty of its costumes. We see
crowds of Arabs, some Iving under the
shade of the houses, others mounted ou
littla asses, or sipping their coffee as
they sit cross-lepged in the doors of
the cafes. We meet the kabyle with
his water-jug on his shoulder, the
magniticent negress under whose blue
naik we can see the yellow skirt and red
scarf, and who e imposing figure well
carries off this brilliancy of color; the
handsome lurk; the multitude of
Hebrews, their striking features sur
mounted by the triple turban; the
Jewesses, who, especially on Saturday,
appear in rich silks and cloth-of-gold
haiks and stomachers. Add to these
the gay zouaves, and the white-robed
forms of the Arab women, with their
full trousers, and sometimes only one
eye visible beneath their veils, and we
have before us a picture ever changing,
and of never failing entertainment
The Place du ( ' ouvemment is con
idered the center of Algiers; and
aroilnd this open square, under the
shade of palm-trees, moves this motley
throng.
Why Indianlans Are "Ilooslers."
Indianapolis Journal.
It was the custom among the early
pioneers in Indiana in traveling through
the country to hail a cabin by calling
out, "ho lives here?" and "Who's
here ? About the time of the treaty
of peace with the Indians, in 1818, and
when the stata was very sparsely settled,
travel was attended bv great dangers.
and no man ever rode away from home
without his rifle. As a common pre
caution of safety, when a traveler saw
in the distance the smoke from a camp
or cabin fire, he would call out upon
coming within hearing distance, " Who's
here?" and from the response he would
know if he was among friends, i rom
a eorruption of this form of salutation
the people of Indiana were called
Hcosiers. Doubtless, settlers, in writ
ing back to friends at their old homes,
would suy that they "were here among
the Hoosiers , and in a few years the
appellation sprang into general use.
Gen. W. II. H. Terrell, whose re
hear ches in the early history of Indiana
have been thorc ugh, and who may be
accepted as authority, says that this is
the true origin of the word.
A Double Bicycle.
Chicago Tribune.!
An Englishman has patented a device
by which the front wheels of two bicycles
may be so joined as to permit the ma
chines to be driven tandem by two
riders. One advantage of this form of
riding is, that falling forward over the
handles is rendered quite impossible,
and another is, that a greatly increased
pace is attainable. Ascents and de
scents can thus be made when pre
viously it va3 necessary to dismount.
Big Guns. .
Exchange.
The Italian government has ordered
the construction of ten sixteen-inch
Krupp guns, capable o! sending a pro
jectile weighing considerably more
than a ten through any arnior that a
ship can carry. They will co3t 8U4,C00
francs each. China has also ordered
guns of similar dimensions. !
A lump of Alabama
140,000 pounds, is on
Birmingham.
coal, weighing
exhibition at
THE MEXICAN LASSO.
What It Is Made Of The Skill In
Swinging It.
Cincinnati Eaquirer.
The lasso itself is a rope made of the
twisted fiber of the maguey, or aloe,
known in European markets as Sisal
hemp. There is great difference in the
quality. The best and strongest are
twisted so extremely tight that it is al
most impossible to untwist the strands.
One end is wo; ked into a small loop,
lined inside with leather, throush
which, when about to throw the lasso,
the other end is passed. The rope is
about thirty feet long, about one-third
of it formed into a noose, which is
grasped a little above the loop i. e.,
where the rope is double, the rest of it
is coiled round and held in the lert
hand, ready to let go, the extreme end
being kapt separate, and, of course, re
tained. The noose should hang well
clear of the ground when held level
with the shoulder, and, when open,
forms a circle of four or five feet in
diameter.
The lasso is swung over the head and
left shoulder, and back over the right
shoulder, a peculiar turn of the wrist
as it begins to return keeping the noose
open. It is thus made to circle round
and round his head by the thrower, un
til he is within distance of his object,
wnen it 13 launchel and hies oil at a
fangent, the noose assuming a circular
torm, and settling quietly round the
object aimel at. Before it settles the
thrower seizes the other end with his
right hand, and gives it two rapid turns
round the cabeza of his saddle, so as to
get a purchase. If he is not quick
enough at thus, and the bull tightens
the rope before good purchase has been
effected, the result is that the fingers
get caught between the rope and the
cabeza and very much injured. It is
no unfreuent thing to see a man who
has lost one or two fingers in learning
the art.
It is beautiful to see the exactitude
with which an adept will throw the
lasso from or to any point, over either
shoulder, behind or in front. There is
no credit in catching a bull by the
horns, for he cannot be thrown by
them; but considerable skill is required
to pitch the noose just m front of him
when he is at full gallop, bo that next
step he treads into it; then, on its being
tightened with a sudden jerk, rolls over
in the dust. The horse, too, has to
learn his part of the business, and bear
at the right moment in the opposite di
rection, or he might be thrown instead
ot the bun, to which, indeed, he is
oiten interior m weight, it is con
sidered disgraceful to have to loosen
the lasso, and to let the bull carry it
off with him. A good hand at it will
catch by either leg alone a bull gallop
ing past at anv angle.
The most difficult feat of all is to
lasso him round the quarters when at
full gallop at the moment when his
hind legs are doubled up under him.
Usually the noose slips off, and nothing
happens; but if it be thrown precisely
at the right instant his hind legs are
pinned tight up under his belly, and he
is brought to a standstill in the posi
tion of a sitting dog, looking inde
scribably silly in such an unwonted
position. These and other feats of
lassoing are seen at their best at a
hacienda, on the occasion of the annual
herradero, when the young bulls are
driven in from the plains, thrown down
and marked with a hot iron with the
initial -f of their proprietors' names.
Friends and neighbors come together
from afar aad vie with one another in
the display of dexterity and horseman
ship. Told to a Child.
Boston Courier.
It happened that one evening Ethel's
mamma lit the nursery instead, of
Minna, the German maid. "Wnat
makes the light come, mamma?"
queried the child with the air of one
who knew already, but wished to te it
her parent's knowledge. "Why," ex
plained mamma very vaguely, "it is a
sort of air that burns. It is shut up in
a pipe, and when we turn the knob it
rushes out and we light it with a
match." "I thought you didn't know,"
the little one remarked, "or yo would
be more afraid of it. I know all about
it. Minna told me. A dragon lives
in that pipe, and his tongue is made
out of burning fare. Me is a mend of
Minna's, and when she turns the knob,
he just sticks out the tip of his tongue
and makes us a nice little light; but he
hates children, anl if Bobby or I should
turn the knob he would rush right out
in this room and eat us all
up in a minute. This is true,
because Minna told me." The
small narrator relapsed into satisfied
silence, and" her truth-loving mamma
fell to wondering which was really bet
ter her own lame attempt at scientific
explanation or the highly colored fic
tion of German Minna, which, while
an absolute falsehood, appealed at
once to the vivid imagination of the
child, and effectually prevented her
mirsuincr any personal inve -tigatioh of
the gas. "
Against Patent Medicines.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A" good example is set by the Austrian
mip'strv of interior.- It has issued an
order which provides that all the so-
called beautifiers, hair dyes, patent
medicines, etc., containing poison, or of
which a large dose is prescribed, shall
only be sold by apothecaries on the
strength of a medical prescription, and
that no article of this description shall
be sold, the chemical composition of
which is either not known to the sani
tary authorities or is recognized by them
as injurious to health.
Bare Heads and Ventilation.
In a paper read before the Edinburgh
Health society. Dr. Almond referred
to the custom of having the head cov
ered out of doors and uncovered within
doors as very injurious on account of
its making people so sensitive to
draughts of air as to cause them to take
cold. Boys, he said, who went bare
headed out of doors could stand a
greater amount of ventilation in school
rooms and sleeping-rooms than those
who wore head coverings.
"Oath": Ferocity of persecution
almost invariably arises from an undis
covered dishonesty in the assailant.
Pilgrims at the Ganges.
fM. D. Conway in Philadelphia Times.
The long files of pilgrims coming in
from every quarter, and their proces
sions converging as they went to the
sacred water, reminded me of the
armies I saw gathering on the plain be
fore Gravelotte on the morning of its
memorable battle. As these people
were, to my eye, all alike and dressed
alike, 1 had to fix on a little touch o:
red in thehealdress of my guide in
order to follow him as he pressed
rapidly before me, elbowing and
sho.ing aside, in a way that distressed
me, people who must have felt them
selves more in their place than I was.
As we drew near to the sandy promon
tory between the sacred rivers, the ba
zaars multiplied, and many hundreds
of gay banners floated in the air, on
whijh were pictured all manner ol
totems, n ndescripts all the symbols
I had ever seen, with more that puzzled
me for the first time.
On one side was an acre of ground,
where a large population squatted on
the ground and were having their heads
shorn by barbers. That acre was fairly
carpeted with black hair, and I learned
that every hair sacrificed in that sacred
spot meant a considerable number of
years in paradise. JSo woman, however,
was sacrificing her glory in that way,
nor did the women imitate the zeal of
the man male pilgrims, who were
careful to cover themselves with mud
before they plunged into the waters in
many cases approaching the sacred
stream by a long series of prostrations,
the last of which buried their foreheads
in thick mud. I was told that a priest
beside each of these muddy pilgrims
besought the river deities to purge the
pilguin ol sins even as the waters
washed that mud from his body. The
rivers are very shadow at their junc
tion, and a contmuo is procession ol
pilgrims w as wading from bank to bank.
All the banks far and near were black
with the SAarm of people. There were
lines of barges also, and in the center
of the river an island made up of bam-
ooo boats, irom which Hindoos were
leaping every moment. I was soon on
one of the barges, moving about and
watching the ecstacies of these people
and l.s emng to their loud invocations
as they immersed themselves. None of
them were actually naked, though the
men rarely wore more than the regula
tion hg leaf insisted upon by the gov
ernment. The women seemed to think
themselves sufficiently clothed in their
transparent wrappers. ihere was
however, no sign of anv coascious or
reccgn zed indecorum in the scene. On
the other hand, there was no solemnity
whatever; all were merry, laughing,
noisy, as so many Ostend bathers on an
equally warm and sparkling da". 1 he
women changed their clothing" on the
bank, and the men, after bathing, were
dressing themselves with forehead ash-
marks, pat on carefully beiore oval
hand mirrors. There were very few
children. " .
How Preaching Differs from White
washing.
Albany Argus.
I met the Bev. William Henry
Augusta yesterday. His former dressy
hat was replaced by a demoralized
plush cap tf yellow, his sometime
I'nnce Albert coat by a blue army over-
sack, buttoned with a wire, and hie
face, which formerly wore a look oi
peace and calm resignation, was sicklied
o er with drops of dry w hitewash.
"Have you abandoned preachinsr for
the whitewash brush 1 inquired.
-N-to, Bah, not zackly. lo see:
sah, at dis season o' de y'ar dar er a
greater call fo' w'itewash dan fo'
speer'tooal labah. I do bof , sah bof."
" ell, Mr. Augusta, which pays the
better?"
"Oh, jis' now, w'itewashin' sah
witewashin' by a large plurality."
"it iS harder to whitewash than to
preach, I should assume?"
"By no means, sah by no means. 1
spose de majority o' people labah undab
de same error dat yo am strugglin
wu. larsa coxl deal o work in
han'lin' a witewash brush, ez it need
ter be dun, ef yoer c on ienshus ez te
de quality ob work yo' do, sah; but
preachm am far mo laborious, sah
faa mo .
"Why?"
"Well, sah, in w'itewashin' yo' kin re-
leeve yo' min' by t inkin' o' suth'n' ehe,
an yo body by restm now an den
But reachin, sah, er a nebbah-eudin',
rasslin -mat. fa, ketch ez ketch kin, wid
de debble.
Billings on the Paragraph.
Atlanta Constitution, t
Only the other day, Josh Billing!
told a newspaper reporter that the lead
ing princ.ple of his humor was conden
sat.on. ne Leiieved, he said, that b
paragraph was better than a page an.
nothing at all wa better than a dozen
pages. He never read a book through
in his life, as it was too exhausting to
hunt for two or three ideas in so many
pages. For his own part he never
wrote a page on any one subject in his
life. Now, this is the talk of a para
grapher who has a craze on the subjec.
of h.s own specialty. Some of the
greatest wts and sages of the world
could not wr.te paragraphs. Their con
tinuity of thought, wealth of illustra
tion and copious vocabularies made it
impossible for them to be brief. In
thiS instance Mr. Billings oversteps the
mark. -
An Opera Star's Talisman.
Chicago News.
"Do you know what makes me so suc
cessful ? 31me. anoni asked, after
pause. "It is this big railroad spike.
I found it on the track just outside oi
iew lork and nave carried it ever
since. Why, it has made me a regular
mascotte. 1 wouldn't take $10,000 for it.
Mr. Miles Barton is going to give me a
-s m j t
goimn nan lor it wnen tne season
closr s, but I am a little dubious about
making the trade. You see it is not a
good scheme to trifle with a talisman.
Madagascar's Minister.
A New lork Herald correspondent
recently called on the prime minister of
A'adi gasjar, and in accordance with
the regular form, asked him, "How is
her majesty, the queen ? How is the
prime minister ? how are the judges
and o icers of the kingdom?" The
i rime minister then asked, "How is the
grsat president? How are his twelve
wives? How is the republic? '
Ills Audacity and Coolness In ths
Presence of Ills Superiors.
Buscb's Life of Bismarck.
The following amusing account of th.8
manner in which the prince treated the
Austrian president at Frankfort, who
monopolized the privilege of smoking,
is from Bismarck himself.
I asked
about the famous cigar
incident.
"That in
Which one do you meanj"
which your excellency, finding liech
berg smoking, lit up a cigar too." "You
mean Than, les: that was a simple
matter enough. He asked me to wait a
minute. I did wait some time. -Whe
I began to feel bored, however, aa
he did not offer me a cigar, I took one
out of my pocket und asked him
for a light, which he gave me with as
tonishment depicted upon his counte
nance. But there is another story , of
the same sort. At the sitting of the
military committee, when Bochow rep
resented Prussia at the federal diet,
Austria smoked alone. Kochow, who
was an inveterate smoker, would have
gladly done the same, but did not dare
to.
When I arrived, seeing no reason to
the contrary, I asked the presiding
power to oblige me with a l'ght. This
request was apparently regarded by
the chairman and the other gentleman
with amazement and displeasure. Ob
viously, it was an event. As
matters then stood, only Austria and
Prussia smoked. But the others
considered it a question of such im
portance that they reported upon it to
their respective governments. Some
body must have written to Berlin about
it, too ; for an inquiry reached me from
his late majesty, who was not a smoker,
and probably did not find the occur
rence to his txste. The incident called
for serious consideration at the smaller
courts, and six months elapsed, during
which only the two great powers
smoked. Then Schrenkh, the Bavarian,
began to vindicate the dignity of his
position, by smoking. Nostitz, the
baxon, had doubtless a great mind to
do as much, but had not received per
mission from his minister,
When, however, at the next sitting,
he saw the Hanoverian, Rothmer, light
np, he must have come to some arrange
ment with Bechberg (Nostitz was under
Austrian influence,having two sons in the
Imperial Army), for he took a cigar out
of his case and puffed away vigorously.
The only ones left were the Wurtem-
burger and the Darmstadter, neither
of whom smoked. But the honor and
importance of their states imperatively
required that they should smoke, and so
the next time the Wurtemberger (Yon
.Bernhardt) also produced a weed I
think I see it now, a long, thin, pa'e
yellow thing, the color of rye straw
and smoked it w ith sullen determination
half through, as a burnt sacrifice for
his Suabian fatherland. The only one
who altogether refrained from tobacco
was the representative of Hesse
Darmstadt.
Advice to a Boy.
M. Quad in Detroit Free. Press.
Don't I want a boy to have fun?
You bet I do ! and, by and by, I'm go
ing to put you up to a dozen umerent
things in that line. But this grabbing
your hat after supper and sneaking out
over the back fence is a mean piece of
busines i, when you come to figure it
down. Down on the corner you meet
Jim this or Tom that. You go "over
town" and are seen hanging around
this or that place. . You may sneak into
a saloon to see a game of billiards, but
you hate yourself for it. You may tit
in Hmitli'a rrrr erv nnil lieni a lrt. nf rirt
bald-headed liais spin their yarns and
abuse rebiglon, but you go out feeling
that you could kick any one of them
who dared bow to your mother.
You d go home and go to bed if it
wasn't for Jim or Tom. He wants a
little "fun" and he drags you into it.
What he calls fun is bringing a rope
across the sidewalk. It doesn't occur to
him that some person may break a limb
and be put to several hundred dollars
expense, or even to be Killed outrigntt
He thinks it a cute thing to roll on bar
rels of salt, barricade the bridge, eet
an old shed on lire, or stop up the chim
neys on a widow's house. When you
have plf.yed such tricks it comes very
easy to play others which the law won't
look at in the funny light.
Making Due Allowances. -
Middleton Transcript.
"Do you want a snake item?" asked
a man from Elk Neck at the sanctum
door of an Elkton newspaper.
"les, said the editor, come light in
and tell us all about it."
4 Well. I killed it to-day down on the
Northeast road. It was nineteen feet
from heid to tail. I took out my rule
and measured it."
"How many drinks of pear cider have
you taken to-day?" asked the editor.
"Uniy two, saia ine man irom xaic
Neck. "What has that to do with the
snake item?"
"Oh, a great deal," answered the
editor. " We always deduct nine feet
from the snake for each drink oi pear
cider taken by the man who brings in
the snake item. Making the usual de
ductions for Cecil county pear cider
your snake was twelve inches long. A
very good snake for the season. Come
in again when you nave a snake item.
And the editor held the sanctum door
wide open for the man from Elk Neck
to pass out.
Two Capitals.
Exchange.
"Do you use capital or little letters
when writing the name of a state ?"
asked a new reporter. "What state is
it?" "Rhode Island." "Use little let
ters, of course don't crowd the state."
"But there are two capitals in lihode
Island." "Oh, ah ahem yes, so there
are but we can't help it."
The Current: English law-makers
who are in favor of compulsory educa
tion, are embarrassed by the fact that
there are many poor children who have
j no time to be educated, their bread ab
solutely depending upon then labor.
Archibald Forbes in his recently pubv
lished biography of Chinese Gordon
conne.ts Jum, genealogically, wui
Enderby, the tea merchant, whose tea
was thrown into Boston harbor. '