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VOL. IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1884.
NO. 34.
J JUO O VJ JU AA LwJ 'rns VZ JIA JUJU JL JU S JU 1 1 1 I .
J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watctaater, Jeweler ani Optician
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
tf pectacles and Eyeglasses.
AND A FULL LINK OF
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tht only rcliaWe Optomer in town for the proper adjust-1
merit ol (Spectacles ; always on nana.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ItONKUURI. OREOX.
LANGENBERGS
Boot and Shoe Store
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
4
. Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and San Franelsco Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
. And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH. !
Hoots and Shoes Made to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
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
t a specialty.
LOl IS MXE!tBEK(i.
DR. ..M. W. DAVIS,
SI? DENTIST,
It OS EH U KG, O KEG OX,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over . Marks & Co. 8 New htore.
IiIAHONEY'S SALOON,
Nearest the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
JAS. XAHOXEY, - - - Proprietor
The Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
PartiM traveling on the railroad will find this place
-ery handy, to visit during the stopping of the train at
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN ERASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WIL1IUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have tho Ilest
STOCK OF FURNITURE
South ef Portland.
And all of my own manufacture.
Xo Two Prices to Customers.
ReMdeut of Douglas County are requested to give me a
call before purchasing elsewnere.
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
ular with the traveling public.
FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION!
AND THE
Tabl supplied with th Best th Markst aftrda
Hotel at the Depot of ths Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keep, constantly on hand a general assortment (
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Bucli as required by tha Public County Schools.
Alt kinds of Stationery, Ty and
Fancy Articles,
TO SUIT BOTH VOUNO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
cneoKs on jrortiana, ana procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEEDS!
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY,
A LI, ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
w'ltn care.
Address,
II AC1IEXY & llEXO,
Portland, Oregon.
Pullman, the sleeping car million
aire; Hill, the pioneer of smelting and
United States Senator; Teller, ex-Senator
and Secretary of the Interior;
Chaffe, ex-Senator and Chairman of
t he Executive Committee of the Nation
al Republican party, and Irving Hale,
who has won renown as the foremost of
all West Point students, were all resi
d?nts of the little Co orado town of Cen
tra', with a population of half a thou
sand, Ch'caqo Uerahl.
WITHIN THE SOUL.
o. st ri-jjra-llner heart ami clouded soul,
"SVhispiT to me tUe final goal
Of all thy hopes. Is it just to stand
On some Itijrli point of Fame's fair land?
To look, with the pride of self-content,
On the lu-.ver plane of lives still spent
In vain attempts to raise above
Their mmler lot? Full well we lore
The summit air of praise deserved.
Hut millions strive who aro not nerved
To lofty eourapre by loud applause.
Canst thou then see some righteous cause
Why thou shouldst bo exempt from ilia
That others suffer? Sorrow kills
Onlv the weak. The brave endure,
And tlnd for every woe a cure
In prayerful patience ana active raitn.
Be not dismayed ' No power but death
Can check the onward steps or those
Who strive for heights of calm repose
tv an in the soul a na we ao nope
That fur beyond our earthly scope
JAes hills of peace that kite conceals;
Transfigured mounts that Death reveals.
O. learn to know the Just decree
Of Nature and of Destiny;
And though they hold thee long in thrall,
Tbou'lt Heavenward climb in spite of all.
hlla A. Giles, in the Evening Wisconsin.
POLAR TICTURES.
Record of the Observations Made nj
Crecly and Ills Associates In the
Arctlc-The midnight Sun-The Bright
est Stars and the Awfully Oppressive
Silence Lieutenant LocUwood'a Jour
ner.
For tho purpose of obtaining some
idea of the general nature and probable
value cf the scientific observations
made by Greely at Lady Franklin Bay,
an Associated Press agent visited him
at Portsmouth, N. H. Greely first
stated the object of the Lady Franklin
.Bay expedition, viz: 10 establish a
Polar station one of the thirteen sag
gested by Lieutenant Weypracht, of
Austria, who discovered rranz Josef
Land simultaneous observations of all
physical phenomena were to be taken.
The complete programme which was to
be followed was arranged by an Inter
national Polar Congress, in which the
representatives of thirteen nations took
part. The observations in which tho
greatest possible accuracy was to be
had were those of the declination and
deviation of the magnetic needle, the
temperature of the air and sea, height
of the barometer, and mean and maxi
mum fall f the tides. All explora
tions were incidental to the main ob
jects of the expedition.
I he expedition was fitted out under
the authority of Congress; was com
posed of three officers of the army, one
acting surgeon, and nineteen enlisted
men from the army. Stores for twenty
seven months were put on the rrotcus,
which left St Johns, July 1, 1881, with
the party. She touched at Disco Island
and Upernavik to procure sledges,
dogs, skins and dog food. Two Esqui
maux were; added to the party at
Proven. Landing was made at Carey
Island in north water and the provisions
cached by Mares in 1875 in the Alert
were found in good condition. At
Littleton Island Greely personally re
covered the
( English arctic mail left by
Voting in the Pandora in
Sir Allan
1876. At Carl Hitter Bay, in Kennedy
Channel, cache of provisions for use on
retreat was made. It was the original
intention to establish the Polar station
at vv ater Course Bay, but heavy masses
of ice rendered ater Course Bav ex
ceeding'y dangerous anchorage. Mov-
ing to Discovery Harbor the station
was there established on the site occu
pied by the English expedition of 1875
lue erection oi a nouse was at once
commenced, and stores and equipments
landed. On the 2-th of August came
the parting between the Greely party
and the men of the l'roteus. Iho little
band gathered on the frozen shore
and watched the Protons as she
steamed slowly down Lady Franklin
liay. On the evening of the same day
the temperature sank below the freez
ing point, and an icy arctic winter was
on them in earnest Their house was
finished about a week after the Proteus
left It was named, in honor of Sen
ator Conger, Fort Conger. During the
first month the cold affected the m
more than at. any subsequent time at
Fort Conger. Later on in December the
temperature sank to from fifty to sixty-
five degrees below zero, and so remained
for days at a time. .Hut even in that
weather the cook's favorite amusement
wa dancing bare headed, bare-armed,
and with slippered feet on the top of a
snow-dii t During the day the men
dressed in ordinary outside clothing,
but their flannels were very heavy.
Five men were generally for a part of
the day engaged in scientilic work
under Greely's direction, and in the
duties of the camp. The remainder
were employed generally about one
hour a day, and devoted the rest of the
time to amusement. All slept in bunks
in the quarters, which were heated by
a large coal stove, the average heat
maintained being liftv degrees above
zero. Che kers, cards, chess and read
ing were the amusements of the even
ing. The life, Greely said, was far
trom a loneiy one. iuany or the men
said they had never passed two happier
years than those spent at Jbort Conger.
On the 15th of October the sun left
them for one hundred and thirty-live
days, and a twilight, varying from half
an hour to twenty-four hours, suc
ceeded. For two weeks it was so dim
that the dial of a watch could not be
read by it On April 1 1 the sun came
above the horizon and remained there
one hundred and thirty-live days, giving
the party a great sufficiency of the
midnight sun. During three months
the star3 were visible constantly, and
the constellations of Orion's Belt and
the Great Bear were the brightest The
North Star looked down from almost
overhead. Standing alone outside the
fort on one of these night scenes were
weirdly grand. To the north Earned
the aurora borealis, and bright constel
lations were set like jewels around the
Slowing moon. Over everything was a
ea,d sili-nee, so horribly oppressive that
a man alone is almost tempted to kill
himself, so lonely does he feel. The
astronomer of the party said that with
the naked eye a star of one degree
smaller magnitude than can be seen
here in the same wav might be dis
cerned. The moon would remain in
sight from eleven to twelve days at a
t!mc: The thermometer registered, on
June oO the highest temperature at
Ladv Franklin Bav which we knew
during our stav. It was fifty two de-
frees above zero. The lowest was in
ebruary, 1883 sixty-six degrees below-
zero, in this i ebruary our mercury
froe and remained solid for fifteen
days. The mercurv in the thermometer
invariably rose during storms or h'gh
winds. The highest barometer way
slightly above thirty-one inches, the
lowest slightly below twenty-nine
inches. The greatest variations were
in winter. The electrometer, an in
strument used to ascertain the presence
of electricity, was set up, but not the
slightest results were obtained. The
displays of aurora werjk very good, but
not compared with those seen at Disco
Island or Upernavik. So far as Greely
could observe, no crackling sound ac
companied the displays, and the gen
eral shape was that of a ribbon. The
southwesterly horizon was the quarter
in which the highest displays were seen.
Nares reporteain 1876 that no shadow
was cast by the aurora, but freely says
he distinctly observed his shadow ast
by it lhere were no electrical
disturbances ; save those manifested
by rumbling, distant thunder heard
twice in the far away north. In the
course of the tidal observations made,
a very interesting fact was discovered,
that the tides at Lady, Franklin Bay
came from the north, while those at
Melville Bay and Cape Sabine came
from the south. The temperature of
this north tide is two degrees warmer
than that of the south tide at Cape
Sabine. Why this was, Greely would
not venture to state. He used in meas
uring the ebb and flow of the tides a
fixed-gauge iron rod, planted in the
mud. The average rise of the springy
tides at Lady Franklin Bay was found
to be eight feet,
highest tide's
At Cape Sabine the
rise was twelve feet
Surf was only observed twice during
the two vears. At .Lady Lrankfin Jiay
the average temperature of the water
was twenty-nine degrees above zero.
Wolves weighing ninety pounds were
killed around Fort Conger. There are
foxe3 and other animals there. Fish is
wonderfully scarce. Perhaps the great
est surprise in all was the taking from
Lake Alexander, a fresh-water lake
fifteen feet above sea-level, a four-pound
salmon. From the bay or sea only two
very small hsh were taken during the
entire two years, and few are found
north of Cape Sabine. The vegetation
on Lady Franklin Bay is about the same
as at Cape babme, and comprises
mosses, lichens, willows and saxifrage
lhe highest velocity of the wind was
registered during a terrific snowstorm,
and was seventy miles per hour. Lock
wood's trips to the North in 1882 and
1883 were productive of the most val
uable results. Standing May 19, in
each year, where Dr. Hayes had for
merly stood, about the same time of
dav. Lockwood. from an elevation of
two thousand feet, and using his
strongest glass on Hall's Basin and
Kobeson s channets, could discern
nothing but ice packs. Here it was that
Dr. Hayes claimed to have seen his
open Polar Sea on the trip of 1853.
Lockwood reached tho highest latitude
ever attained, eighty-three degrees
twentv-five minutes north. This wa3
about five hundred miles directly north
of Lady i ranklin Bay, but to get there
he had to travel over one thousand
miles of open water and broken packs,
which frequently caused him to retrace
his steps fifty miles. Lockwood sounded
sea both vears between Cape Bryant
and Cape Bnttania, but could nt touch
bottom with one hundred and thirty
five fathoms of line. Markham, a few
vears before, about one hundred miles
to the west, found bottom at seventy
mm..
two fathoms. Lockwood found at his
farthest northern point about the same
vegetation as at Lady ranklin Hay,
but no signs of a polar current or open
polar sea. In 1883 he was stopped near
... - . . r I
Bryant, 12o miles from Lady
FranklinBay.byanopenchannelextend-
ing west
to the coast of Grinnell Land.
The width of this channel varried from
two hundred yards to five miles, but on
the north the ice packs extended as far
as could be seen with a glass. With
his supply of provisions, the failure of
which" had" caused his return the year
before, Lockwood was confident he
could have reached eighty-five degrees
north, if this open channel had not
barred his way. No fossil remains
were discovered on the trip, and the
only ones found were trunks of trees on
the southwest coast of Lmnnell Land.
The only sea animals seen by Lock-
wood at eighty-three degrees twenty-
nve minutes were walrus and seals,
and, strange to say, walrus is not to be
found at Lady Franklin Bay. At
eighty-three degrees twenty-five min
utes the detiection or the magnetic
needle was 101 degrees west, more than
one-fourth of the circle. The maps of
the new regions he discovered are in
the possession of Lieutenant Greely
and are very carefully made.
All through the two years at Lady
Franklin Bay the magnetic needle was
never quiet except during storms. In
February of 1883 preparations for a re
treat were made by establishing a depot
at Cane Baird, twelve miles to the
south. Dav after dav anxious men
looked off over Lady Franklin Bay, ex
pecting the ice to open so that they
might commence their journey toward
home.
At last, August 19, 1883, the welcome
news that the ice was open was brought
All had been made ready, and that very
day the party embarked in the little
steam launch Behind them they left
their dog?, as they could not be taken,
Four barrels of pork and some seal pil
were left for the animals. Lady 1 rank
lin uay was crossed to uape isaird, a
distance of thirteen miles, and then the
western coast of Grinnell Land was fol
lowed south as- far as Cape Hawkes.
Large quantities of heavy ice were met
Every moment they thought the little
launch would be crushed. - Several
times all Ahe boats were nearly lost
1 he suffering of the men w as great
They were now within fifty miles of
Cape Sabine. Striking from Cape
Hawkes for Bate's Island the party
was caught in an ice-pack and
frozen in, ten miles south of Cape
Hawkes. In thirteen davs thev drifted
south twenty-five miles on floes, suffer
ing terribly from the cold. So they
drifted to within eleven miles of Cape
Sabine, and were obliged to abandon
the steam launch September 10. The
packs now remained motionless for
three days, and several times the party
got within two or three miles of Cape
Sabine, only to be driven back by the
southwest gales, five seals were killed
and eaten while the party were drifting
about Lventuafly a heavy northwest
gale drove them past Cape Sabine
within a mile of Brevoort Island, but
thev could not land. September 22
there arose the most terrific gale they
hal vet experienced on the Arctic
Ocean. Their ice floe was driven
hither and thither by the tempest, and
waves washed over tnem again and
again, the sprav freezing to them and
causing them intense suffering,
D - m f '
I Night
and the
came on, one oi inky darkness.
wind threw heavy floes together, and
crash after cr vsh of ice breaking over
their own floe warned tho men death
was near to them. No man knew at
what minute the floe might break up
and the water engulf them.
The first faint light of dawn showed
that little remained of the floe on which
they were. The sea washed another
floe close to them. Closer it came, and
at last at the word the men succeeded
in getting upon it. The storm slowly
subsided and they again landed at
Esquimaux Point, near Baird's Inlet,
September 29. Here winter,, quarters
were built, and scouts were sent to cape
Isabella and Cape Sabine-: In a few
days they returned, but their report
sent a thrill of horror to every heart.
At Cape Isabella and Cape Sabine there
were found only eighteen hundred ra
tions, and from Garlington's records
they learned the fate of the Proteus.
Every one knew death must come to
nearly all of the party long before a
shio of rescue could force its wav into
Melville Bay. Efforts were made to
sustain the spirit of the men by lectures
and light reading. On October 15 the
party removed to Cape Sabine. Jan
uary 18 Cross died of scurvy. In April
the rations issued daily had dwindled
to four ounces of meat and six ounces of
bread. Man after man died, and all
hope had fled when, on May 3, the
blast of the whistle roused the survivors
from the lethargy of approaching
death.
The Younsr Farmer's Vacation.
A young man in the country, who is
apparently head over-heals in love with
a farmer's life (in a horn), writes as
follows:
"You know this is my birthday, and
I have been celebrating it: though 1 1
have not told any one but my mother
that it is my birthday. I have got my
work up square now and am tatting a
vacation After haying and
mowing
is all done with, you know, there is
quite a lull for the farmer. He can
compose himself to rest and have a
good time generally.
.Now, after getting my general
round of chores out of the way thi3
morning (which is but an anthem of
joy), I commenced my celebration. I
went and helped Mr. A. get in six
large loads of oats. I don't think, be
twixt the two, it is quite so dangerous
as base-ball playing, but it beats ten
pins all out and out There isnore life
m one forkful of oats than there is in
forty tenpins. Well, after getting in the
oats, I came home and thought 1 had
celebrated almost enough, and would
take the rest of the day in a quiet way
with my mother. In the meantime I
took my horse and went out and ran
the cultivator between all the rows of
my potato field, and tried t shoot a
woodchuck, but he was too quick for
me. Then I concluded to sit down and
talk with mother. So 1 took the milk
pail ( after I had cone and cut a wheel
barrow load of grass way down side of
the road next to Mr. A. s pasture bars,
for the horse) and went down to
the pasture and milked the cows, and
did the rest of the little chores, aud
then came back to talk with mother.
'I intend to continue my vacation for
a number of weeks, and enjoy myself
as I have to-day. When the harvest
comes, I shall be in good trim, bright
an a ..flit, i"! . 1 1 .1 . n it Jt ff nflA ivtf A
"a"" '.umc luacbuemw
me harness again, i am going visiting
to-morrow forenoon up to Mr. B.'s, to
help him get in his oats. IhelpidMr.
A. throw off a couple of loads early in
the morning.
"My goodness! how lovely it would
be to have a dear wife to enjoy my va
cation with me; but I have no one to
blame for that but myself, for we all
know that the farmer can have the ob
ject of his heart's adoration by asking."
jsosion iranscrvpt.
Washington
Irvincr Steals
Apples.
His Ovm
'Speaking of his liking to look at
workingmen, says an old friend of
Washington Irving, "reminds me of an
other good story which he used to tell
with great enjoyment no one can tell
this story as he used to. One dav when
he was building the extension to Sun-
nyside, as he strolled about watching
the carpenters, he happened to pick up
an apple that had been blown from a
tree. The next moment he felt his arm
tugged, and turning, saw a ragged lit
tle urchin one of half a dozen who had
come in to pick up the chips left by the
workmen fookmg up into his face.
Say, mister,' says the little chap.
iust you come with me and I'll show
vou where to get some good ap
pies; but mind you don t fet the ofd
man know,' meaning Mr. Irving him
self.
Vo11 ' ATr Trxnnr iiQArl tn sur foil.
ing the story, 'the little scamp brought
me to the very best tree m my orchard
and there we filled our pockets together
and ate our fill of my very best apples.
We got on very well together, and I
believe it's the only case I ever heard
of where a man participated in the
robbery of his own orchard.' " Chris
tian Union.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's last bon
net cost $150. This mav seem like a
larp:e price, but if half the wearers of
ten dollar bonnets were to buy m like
. . . . . ....
proportion to their wealth their bonnets
would not cost over niteen cents. js.
Y. Herald.
Solutions of chloral should be kept
in darK- glass potties, ounugut de
composes it into chloroform. The
change is not easily perceived, and has
caused a number of accidents in the
past five years. Indianapolis Journal.
More money can be made in one
days' strict attention to one's own busi
ness than by ten days' minding the
affairs of one's neighbor. Whitehall
Times.
Ten years ago there were only 150
newspapers published in Japan; now
there are 2,000. The wonderful prog
ress of Japan is no longer a mystery.
Ignorance of reading and writing
is so prevalent in Mexico that the let
m m
ter-writer is an established institution
of the country. Chicago Journal.
The Legend of Star Island.
During the troublesome times before
and subsequent to the revolution the
Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New
Hampshire, were the resort and hiding
places of the freebooters who haunted
the northern coast, and these silent
rocks, if they could speak, would tell
many a tale of bloody cruelty and
floomy wrong. I he pirates used to
come here to divide and hide their booty,
and melt up the siiverplate they cap
tured from the colonists along the coast
; "For a long time it was supposed that
bushels of doubloons were buried in the
gaping crevices of the rocks, or the
little caves that have been eaten out of the
ledges by the restless tide; but the place
was thoroughly searched by several
generations of fishermen, and nothing,
more valuable than a rusty cutlass or &
bust blunderbus was ever found.
The grandames tell how Captain Kydd
came here oiten "as he sailed as ne
sailed," and there are legends of other pi
rates quite as fierce aud free as he. The
Star Island used to be haunted by a
beautiful specter with long white robes
and golden tresses reachmgo her heels,
who used to come out of some undiscov
ered cavern at dawn and shadowing her
eyes with a hand that was as white and
beautiful as a liiy's bosom, gaze on
upon the sea' in hopeless expectancy
of the return of a clipper that sailed
away and never came back again.
The story goes that a bloody-hearted
old pirate, being pursued by a cruiser,
brought his beautiful mistress here and
left her while he went out to battle,
telling her that by dawn he would be
tack again, but he came not, not even
till now. She died of starvation, but
her faithful spirit still comes to the sum
mit of the island as the sun rises each
morning, to meet the corsair, who never
returned.
There are eight
of the islands, the
smallest being as
large, or rather as
small, as a city building lot, and the
largest containing onlv a couple of hun
dred acres nothing but bare, lifeless
rocks, carved by the incessant waves
into strange grotesqueness, and covered
by no vegetation except low clinging
vines and the .New Lngland blueberry.
Four of the islands are inhabited, the
largest the Appledore, bears a hotel
and a few cottages. Star Ishhd has
another hotel and a small settlement
of fishermen, a third has a few
fishermen's huts, and the fourth has a
bold, white lighthouse springing out of
its crest They were discovered by
Captain John Smith, the friend of Poca
hontas, who in 16J4 explored the .New
England coast in an open boat, and
spent some time hero making repairs
and resting.
On Star! sland stands the only monu
ment erected in America to Captain John
Smith it is a rude affair a prismatic-
shaped shaft of marble, upon a pedestal
of sandstone, inscribed at length with
the record of his valorous deeds, and
some evclopedias say he is buried here,
but that is a mistake, Detroit tree
Press.
They Drove Him In.
The owner of a place on Sibley street j
appeared in front of the house y ester-
day morning with a step-ladder and a
saw and began the work of trimming
up his shade trees. hue he was at
the first limb a pedestrian halted and
queried:
"Going to trim your trees, ehr
"Yes.'7
"Um. I see. First-rate time to trim
trees. Um. Exactly."
He hadn't got two blocks away be
fore number two came along and called
out:
"Going to trim your trees, eh?"
"Yes."
"Ah! I see. Ought to have waited a
month later."
The l'mb was off when No. 3 halted.
stood for a minute with his hands in his
pockets, and then asked:
"tioing to trim your trees, ehr'
"YesA
"Ought to have done that last
month.''
No. 4 said that April was the proper
month. No. b wouldn't trim a tree ex
cept in May. No. 6 thought Novem
ber the best time of year, and so it went
until every month in the year had been
named and there were five or six indi
viduals to spare. Before the last tree
was finished the seventeenth pedestrian
halted, threw away the stub of his cigar
and loudly demanded:
' Going to trim your trees, ehr
The man hung his saw to a limb, got
down off the ladder, and spitting on his
hands he walked close up to the inquirer
and said:
"Supposing 1 am! What are you
going to do about it?" ,
"Oh, nothing, answered the o her,
as he dodged around a pile of brick; "I
was simply going to ask you if you
used tar or porous plasters to cover up
the scars."
The citizen got his saw and ladder
and disappeared in the house, and the
remainder of the work will be done at
night. Detroit Free Press.
Hawaii n Houses.
The houses o Honolulu are always
open, day and night, as the temperature
is so warm that one has to sleep out c f
doors, as it were, to get enough fresh
air. They are built mostly of wood,
though many or the oldest and more
substantial houses are built of coral
stone, a few ot lava stone, and many
may vet be seen within the limits of
Honolulu made of grass and occupied
by the natives, lhese native huts or
houses are built by making a frame
work of bamboo poles covered with lay
ers of the banana tree, the trunk of
which can be removed in layers This
again is covered with grass jnd trimmed
on the corners and top by weaving the
grass into different patterns. One
opening or door usually admits enough
light and air for the average native.
though some huts are divided into sev
eral rcoms, with two and sometimes
three doors. A mat hung down on the
inside, covering the opening, is the
common door. Mats made of broad
grass interwoven or braided, and some
times flags form the carpets,-and a pile
of from two to ten, and sometimes even
more, make the bed on whu-h tho
natives and invited guest3 sleep.
Furniture there is none, the natives al
ways sitting on the ground with the
legs crossed beneath tl.em. Their
kitchen is outside, and is .composed of
a heap of stones and ordinarily an iron
pot Boston Transcript. .
r-achin a Calf to Drink.
Alany . reader, man as well as boy,
will recognize the truthfulness and ea
..." ....... . ,
joy the humor ot the ioiiowing descrip
tion of experience in giving the calf its
first lessons of how to drink properly.
W take it from the friati Farmers' Ga
zette: 'I hose who have had the mourn
ful experience know that there is noth-
lag more trying to tbe temper than
the operation of teaching a young calf
to drink. The process is familiar to
avery man who has brought up a calf
from infancy. You seize a pail of warm
milk so into the stable, catch the calf
by the ears, back him into a corner and
bestride his heck. Tho idiot rather
likes this, and whilo you
for the pail he employs
slobberincr the eorner of
are reaching
his time in
your jacket
You discover what the blockhead is
about, and box his ears. You can't
help it. You feel that way, and let him
have it But the calf can't tell for the
life of him why he has been struck, and
be gives a sudden and unexpected
"flounce." lie believes he will go and
stay on the other side of the stable, but
he doesu't announce this beforehand.
He starts on the impulse of the mo
ment, and you can't tell just when he
arrives there. You ride along with him
a little way. But the laws of gravita
tion are always about the same. Your
legs, one on each side of the critter,
keeps up with the calf for about a sec
ond, but your body doesn't You slide
over the calf, and your back kisses
the floor. Your head is soaking
in the pail of milk. When you get
up you are mad uncommonly so.
,Milk runs from your hair, and impreca
tions out of j'onr mouth, and you sol
emnly declare that you will teach that
calf to drink or break his neck. The
calf doesn't know of this resolve, and
he glares at you in a stupid fright across
the stable, lie was not aware that he
was the cause of your downfall, and
wonders ignorantly what is the matter.
You don't try to explain it to him, but
furiously catch him by the ears, look
back over your shoulder at the milk
pail, and back up toward it, dragging
the calf after you. The calf is out of
Svind, and you haven't a particle of
grace left in you r heart You are astride
the calf's neck, and jamming the fingers
bf one hand into his mouth, you place
the other on the back of his head and
shove his nose into the pail, fully re
solved to strangle bim if he don't drink.
The calf holds perfectly still ominously
po and there is silence for the space of
half a minute, at the end of which time
the blockhead, who hasn't drank a
drop, suddenly makes a splurge, knocks
the pail over; vou are again reduced to
a horizontal from a perpendicular, and
when you rise the excitement is intense.
You have been soaked with milk, "slob
bered" on, and hurt. Not a drop of
milk has gone down the brute's throat,
and there he stands glaring at jTou,
ready to furnish vou with another free
ride wherever you want to go. With an
anidavit you seize the pan, and hobDle
out of the pen, fully resolved to let the
four-footed fool starve; and thus endeth
the first lesson. J
History of the Barber's Pole.
In the earlier davs venesection was
the chief resource of the expert called
in to relieve the sick. So universal was
blood-letting that he who lived by prac
tising the arts of healing was called a
leech." Ihe barber s shop furnished
conveniences lor practising biooo-iet-ting
either by the lancet or the applica
tion of the leech, and the barber finally
added this to tie assumed duties of his
profession. The appliances were a staff
to support the arm, a cord to bind it,
and a bowl to catch the flow of blood.
These were usually displayed in front
of the shop; the bandage being wound
around the staff, the cord tied above it,
and the metal bowl inverted on the top.
After a while these were imitated by an
.artificial sitrn A nnl a waa nt first, fas
tened in the ground, wound with the
bandage, and capped with the bowl
Then a painted strip of white was put
on the pole in place of the linen, and a
wooden cap of a metal color sur
mounted the solid staff. It was natural
thnt the pole should be painted red not
only to show the white stripe more
plainly, but as suggestive of the use to
be made of the bandage. The bowl be
came a ball, and the brass or pewter
gave place to gold or silver-leaf. In
some parts of the world the barber still
retains his skill in venesection, but
bleeding is now the rare exception in
medical practice even in the heroic
school for treating the sick. But where
the barber is no longer a leech, the
sign shorn of its significance, is still re-
taineu, ana r.ne stripes ana giic cap win
mark the barber's pole wa suppose to
the end of time. Its use certainly ante
dates any complete historical record.
Journal of Commerce.
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Too Many Farm Implements.
In the great Northwest, as hitherto
in Kansas and Nebraska, the reckless
purchase of farm machinery, and the
failure to properly take care of it, is
frequently noted. The new comer, be
cause he can buy his reaper and other
machines on credit, purchases freely,
with the confidont expectation that good
crops will enable him to discharge his
obligations; but if the crops are not so
good, and be is unable to sell as much
as he expected, he frequently gets in a
close spot financially. Perhaps he has
no building beyond a stable for bis
horses. Boards are expensive. lie
leaves his machinery in an open lot,
with no cover, exposed to all the chang
ing weather. It often results that he
can not pay for his machinery, and,
furthermore, it is much damaged sooner
or later. Do not go to the Western
prairies to farm, unless you have enough
money Ui pay for some machinery, and
enough money to construct a proper
shelter for it, after the season is over.
It is an oft recurring and painful sight,
as one rides over the prairie, to see these
farm implements lying around loose in
every direction. American AgricuU
turid.
There was really nothing the mat
ter with the vpung orator but nervous
ness; nevertheless, when he opened his
speech by saying, "My cello fitizens,
rumthing is sotten in the Den of State
mark," his friends led him off the plat
form, and next morning published a
physician's certificate to the effect that
he was suffering from an acute attack
ot "malarial cerebration." Burdette.
The Boa Dines.
The seventeen-feet African boa con
strictor which J. W. Holmes, the pro
prietor of the Brooklyn . Standard '
Museum, bought from the stock left by
Showman Reilly, who was recently
killed by' a rattle snake bite, had one
of hi3 eventful days yesterday. He was
fed. Ordinary boa constrictors get
along comfortably and live a century
or more by eating a good sized animal
three or four times a year and lying
listless the rest of the time. Mr. Holmes
has been making this boa a high liver,
but he had eaten nothing for about
two weeks. Shortly after eating his
last meal he had an altercation with a
South American anaconda, twelve
feet long, who was kept in the case
with him, and the anaconda, after a
dangerous struggle by Holmes, was
taken out dead and without an un
broken bone in his body. The ana
conda had also been one of Keilly's
snakes, and was worth about $300.
The boa lav coiled up ia one corner
of his case yesterday wneri a fine seven-
ty-nve-cent rabbit was shoved in. 1 he
rabbit sat down quietly in one corner,
and the boa's tongue began to play in
and out with lightning rapidity. T hen
the muscles of the looped bodybegau to
move throughout its entire length and
the head was pushed slowly toward the
prey. The rabbit pat its nose out in
quisitively toward the boa's head, but
as the forked tongue glittered it drew
back and jumped to the other end of
the cagft. The snake moved slowly
along as before, its eyes fixed on the
rabbit.
"He's looking to get a good hold,"
said the proprietor.
The rabbit after , it3 momentary
fright, seemed unconscious of its dan
ger. It again put its nose out and
again jumped over the big coil to the
other side of the cage. The serpent
moved its head about for a quarter of
an hour, its eyes always fixed on the
rabbit, its red tongue darting constantly
in and out At last the rabbit sat mo
tionless in one corner, and the boa lay
still for a moment eying it
"He isn't very hungry, I guess. Ho
acts lazy," said the animal man.
Suddenly the boa's head darted for
ward There was a slight squeal from
the rabbit The boa had both the white
feet in its mouth, and a coil about the
body squeezing tighter and tighter.
The rabbit did not squeal again. It
couldn't. It kicked a few times, bnt
the reptile held it firmly, and in a min
ute's time it uncoiled, and the beautiful
rabbit lay deformed and dead. The
boa took the head in its mouth, and,
holding the body in its coils, stretched
it out, and then very slowly swallowed
it Afterward it darted its tongue in
and out, and moved its head toward the
outside of the cage.
"He wants more," said the keeper.
"We'll give him one more in an hour.
That will last him two weeks." K Y.
Sun. i
His Opposite.
Humiliation has come to the family
otProf. Gansing, the celebrated physi
ologist. Several days ago, John Gan
sing, a young man of promise, married
a Chinese woman. When the Professor
heard of the disgraceful affair, he swore
that never again should the worthless
fellow find shelter under the paternal
roof. Several days afterwards the spa
came home, bringing his wife with him.
Unobserved, they entered the parlor.
When the old gentleman entered, not
suspecting his son's return, he was
shocked by an avalanche of indigna
tion. "How dare jrou bring this woman to
my house?" he exclaimed.
The young man was astonished.
"Father, I do not understand you,"
said he. "I thought that you would
welcome my wife. She doesn't speak
very good English at present, but, un
der your teaching, she can overcome
the difficulties of our uneven tongue.
"Welcome your wife!" stormed the
Professor, "welcome such a thing as .
she is!"
"Don't be violent in manner. Ying
Voo is a gentle creature and your gest
ures might f nghten her."
"How on earth can you Jove such a
creature?" said the humiliated father.
"O, I don't love her."
"Then why in thunder, sir, did yon
marry her?"
"Old gentleman, there is no use in
cutting up. Respect for your teachings
caused me to marry her. In your lec
tures you say that a man should marry
his opposite. Sometime ago I began
reading accounts of Chinese customs,
and I found that they were our oppo
6ites in everything. I have followed
your advice."
"The Professor groaned.
"Besides that," continued the yoivag
man, "the parents of this girl died re
cently, leaving her the controlling stock
in the largest laundry of the country."
The Professor' sx face brightened.
"She has considerable money oa
hand. I have none. In this respect,
too, we are opposites."
The Professor laughed,
"She has generously consented to
pay off the mortgage on our place."
The Professor threw.his arms around
the young wife and kissed her musk
melon countenance. Releasing her, he
turned to his son and said: !
"I am pleased at your choice. The
Chinese are not nearly so ! yellow as
they have been painteoL 1 should have
married this sort of a girl not too op
posite but just opposite enough for all
practical purposes. Your mother, my
son, is my opposite. I married her be
cause she was my opposite, and blast
it, she has been opposite me ever since.
She is always opposed to me. You
have done well. The Chinese who
come to this country, I hear, are not
long-lived. This fair creature may die
soon. When she does, marry another
opposite." Arkansaw Traveler.
Queoi. a1& nearly forty years
ago, when staying at Ardvenkie, Sir
Jtthn Ramsden's beautiful place in Inverness-shire,
planted a pruce on one
of the islands in Loch Laggan. The
tree grew and flourished until quite re
cently, when it began to decay mysteri
ously, and in the course of time it
d'ed. A careful investigation by the
forester has revealed the fact that it
was killed by the tourists who now in
fest the district, and a large contingent
of whom had cut their initials deep into
the bark. The tree had been whittled
i death. London Truth.