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VOL. IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1884.
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UUUUGUJ W
J. JASECULEK,
PRACTICAL
Watctaater, Jeweler ani Optician,
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer tn Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
Spectacles and Eyeglasaes.
AMD A. rULL LINK OF
Cigais, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Th only reliable Optotner in town for the proper adjust
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postofflce,
ROSEUUItU. OREbOW
LANGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
ROSEBl'RG, OREUOX,
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and Ban Francisco Boots and
Hhoes, 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
a specialty.
LOUIS LAXGEXBEItU.
DR. HI. W. DAVIS,
(S? DENTIST,
AOS 12 BURG, OREGON,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co.'s New Store.
MAHONET'S SALOON,
Nearest the Bailroad Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MAIIOXEY. ... Proprietor
The Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Uouglas 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 Oakland Depot. Give me a call.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
W1LBIJB, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I hare the Rest
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 elsewhere.
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 ACCOMMODATIONS
AND TIIE
Table supplied with the Beet the Market affbrda
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, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS.
Such as required by the Publle County Schools.
All kinds ef Stationery. Toys and
Fancy Articles,
TO SUIT BOTH TOVNO AND OLD.
Buys and Sells Legal Tenders, furnishes
uneoss on i'oruana, ana procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
I
SEEDS!
ALL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
with care.
Address.
iiachkxy a bexo.
Portland. Oregon.
Handsome Marquise coats, medium
iu lennbt and made of black velvet, are
atremfv shown, which are designed for
cold weather over-skirts of muslin, or
gandie veiling:, and the like, and later.
over under-dresses and tunics of cash
mere and other seasonable materials.
Some of the handsomest of these are
embroidered in black on she vest front.
deep collar and sleeves. Others show a
supreme garniture of applique work in
jet and silk cord, with ornaments to
match.
A FIREMAN'S LUCK.
Engineer Crockett Draws $15,000
the Louisiana Lottery.
In
"I don't believe it," was the reply of
engineer Frank Crockett of steamer 12 of
the fire department of this city, when he
was aroused from his sleeD the other night
by a brother fireman, who breathlessly
informed him that he had won f lo,000 in
the Louisiana State Lottery in the draw
ing of the 11th mst. ; "what's morel
won't believe it until I have had positive
proof."
" Supposing I should advance you $100
on the strength of your chances, would
you believe it then?'' asked his eomrade.
" Yes, I might."
The fireman went out and procured the
$100 and handed it to Crockett, who for
the first time began to realize his great
good luck. Then, in the language of a
friend, "he got up, dressed himself and
tried to stand on his bead in the corner."
" Crockett never had $300 at one time
before this lucky strike," said another
fireman to the reporter, " lo be sure he
gets $140 a month as engineer, but he
isn't much of a hand at saving. The
ticket that won the money was No. 68,-
980, and it captured one-fifth of the first
capital prize.of 5,000.
" lias Crockett received his money
yet"
"Yes; but, strange to say, he still
sticks to his job. We all thought it
would paralyze him when he heard the
news, but it didn't. He isn't a man who
drinks or gambles to any great extent.
He is about 35 years of age and married.
I heard that he intends to go back to New
Jersey, where he came from, and buy a
farm and settle down."
Crockett was interviewed, hut no
amount of questioning could make him
sav anything further than that he
"didn't care for notoriety," and that he
"didn't want anything published about
the matter."
No. 68,980 was the first ticket Crockett
ever bought in any lottery and his for
tunate experience adds another scrap to
the history of lucky lottery players in
this city. San Francisco (Cal.) Chron
icle, Nov. 26.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Milk sells at Waco, Tex., at four
cents a gallon.
California ostrich
$1,200 a dozen.
aro only
There are 11,000090 people within
- 1 . n sr . t 111 . IT
a ramus oi ouo mues oi juouisviue, ivy.
The births in Spain during 1883
numbered 458,000, and the deaths 418.
000. . It is estimated that the vield of an
pies in Western New Fork will be 4,000,-
000 barrels.
Canada exported lat year $1,706.-
817 worth of butter and $6,451,870
worth of cheese.
The thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads off
with 151, and Georgia follows with 137.'
Afilty-one pound watermelon and a
one pound tomato are what .iiemanao
County, Florida, has done thi season.
bteei rails are now groin: on in
largo lots at $30 per ton, the lowest
price ever known for thorn. Chicago,
Journal.
The mnrin.lit.v nf the wbnlA trlnhn'
has been computed by a continental,
publication at the following figures:
Sixty-seven per minute, 97,790 per diem
and do, 639, 835 per annom; whereas tlm
births are 3(5,792,000 per annum, 100,
000 per diem and 70 per minute.
A New York dealer says he last
year sold 10 000 oanary birds, most of
which came from the Hartz mountains.
in Germany. A good canary is sold fori
$3; choice specimens sometimes bring
$10. Mocking-birds sell for $25 and
upward. Parrots are worth from $50.
to $100. N. Y. Sun.
Germany now produces from beets
alone nearly twice as much st
the island of Cuba does from its cane-
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ficld3. Last year the product was 925, -j
000 tons: this year it will probably ex
ceed 1,000,000 tons. After supply ing
the home demand 546,600 tons were ex
ported. Ar. Y. Examiner.
The daily product of paper at
Holyoke, Mass., is closely estimated at
the enormous amount of 177 tons. A
large part of the product is fine writing
and book papeis. More than $ 5,000,000
is invested in the business, which gives
employment to between four thousand
and five thousand hands. Boston Her
ald.
The total number of negroes in the
United States is estimated at 6,000,000,
or one-eighth of the entire population.
Only seven ISorthcrn Estates nave a
higher colored population than 20,000,'
and of these the highest is Pennsyl
vania, with 65,000. Tne census indi
cated the fact that the white population
doubles itself in every twenty-five
years, while the negro does so in every'
twenty years, rroin these figures a
writer in the North American Review,
making allowance for foreign and
Northern immigration, concludes that
in one hundred years the negroes m
every Southern State will be double the
number of whites.
Another Warning to Young Ladles.
The following incident took place re
cently on a Massachusetts railroad not
many miles from Boston. Several ladies
entered the car at one of the manv stop
ping places and all obtained seats ex
cept one. A middle-aged, well-dressed
gentleman, who looked as if he might
be a bank President, (not in an iuvid-
uous sense), arose and politelv offered
the latter his seat The lady (?)
dropped into it without so much as an
inclination of the head or a simple
"thank you. lhe gentleman was evi
dently indignant lie gazed at the lady
a moment, and then, stepping up to her,
said: "I beg your pardon," pointing
at the same time to the back of the seat
as if be had left something in it The
lady arose and the gentleman coolly
dropped into the seat, took out his pa
per and commenced to read. A titter
ran around the car. and it was the
unanimous pinion of the lookers-on
that the lady had been treated no worse
than she deserved. She remained
standing for sometime m evident em
barrassment, but nobody offered her a
seat and at the next station she moved
into another car. Boston Herald.
An ocelot or puma cat an animal
that has never been known to be tamed
bv man. will soon "be added to the
zoolodcal collection at Falrmount Park,
Philadelphia.
Yon Can Tell Em In a Minnte. When
They're New.
The young man wore a high silk hat
when he came into the car. When he
sat down he got up again to put his high
silk hat in the rack. Then he sat down.
Then he got up and took his hat out of
the rack and brushed it Then he set
it on the seat beside him. Then he got
up and put it in the rack. Then he sat
down. Then ho got up and put his
nw, high, smooth silk hat on his head.
Then he arose and put ha new. tall.
slick silk ht in the rack, end on, top
toward the engine. Then he sat down.
Then ho got up and turned his new
shiny high silk hat over, as though it
was done on the other side. Then he
sat down. Then his new, high, smooth
silk hat bounced out on the tioor. Then
he picked it up and brushed it with his
handkerchief: the wrong way at first,
of course. Then he spread a newspa
per on the f. oor and stood the new high
hat thereon. Then the new stiff, high,
shiny, smooth silk hat wa3 settled for
the trip.
Then t.hn conductor i!im nlnncr nnd
the new high glosHV silk hat had 3riven
from the young man's mind all knowl
edge of the location of his ticket He
knew where his new shiny high silk hat
was, but his ticket ? " He turned all
his pockets inside out and then began
to take oft" his things until the conduc
tor had to t"ll him this wasn't a sleep
ing car. Then the conductor said:
Oh pshaw." as some very wicked con
ductors will say, and refilling his hand
into the young man s pocket, he drew
forth the ticket in one time and two
motions.
Yrm didn't o5va m i cheek." the
young man saiiC as the busy conductor
passed on.
"lou're right 1 didn t, ' replica the
cruel man. "I nvght want to see it
again some time. I'll remember you.1'
Then the young man said to the pass
ing brakeman:
"How far are wo from Ames?"
"Ninety-eight miles."
"When do we get there?"
"Four forty-five."
Then fhe young iran sighed. He
opened his valise and took out a roll of
manuscript and tried to read. J hen he
took out ajbook and tried to read that.
Then he took out a tablet and pencil
and tried to write, but he hadn't got
mere yet. men tne new, tan, sniny
silk hat caught his eye; he picked it up,
looked at the rack and set it down again,
on
the other end this time. Then we
aid to the conductor, who was
coming
back:
"How far is it to Ames?"
"About ninety-five miles."
"When o we get there?"
"Four forty-live."
The young man went down in his
boots and fetched up a sigh they might
have heard all along the line of the Chi
cago or JN orth western, lie opened, up
his case of manuscript again and took a
mil at eight or ten pages of it but he
lidn't seem to like it He tried the
book awhile and then with a sudden
start turned to his new high slick silk
hat. There was about a pint of cinders
in it. He closed the window, emptied
his hat and put it clown on tne paper
again, "ielt in front .
So the miles flew away. Every time
the whistle blew he asked somebody if
that was Amos. Kverv hiteen minutes
he asked how far it was to Ames and
when we got there. When we were
only about an hour and twenty-five
miles away he be ;an to pac
back into his valise, tie made a critical
examination of a lot of white ties and
some of the Dewest collars and cuffs
ver saw in all mv life. He finally
locked the valise and sat still. Sudden
ly he started, as though he had been
shot, and went into that valise and
hauled out hs manuscript found
certain paes and read them over,
Thon he brushed his new high slick silk
hat and put it on, tail gate forward.
J hen he turned it around and put on
his gloves. He looked at his watch
tie sighed several times. Aoout seven
or eight times a minute, 1 think. Whem
at last, the long whistle blew for Ames,
he gathered his valise and stood up, half
a mile from the narrow gauge crossing.
ihen 1 said to him:
For what association do you lecture
in Ames to-night?''
He looked so proud and happy, blush
ing to his ears, that I was pleased with
mvself.
"For the T. M. C. A.," he said
"How did you know It P Who told you
I was a lecturer?"
"You did," I said. "You told me al
about it"
And he wa so ama-ied he forgot
where he was and would have been
enrried by if the committee hadn't come
aboard to look for him. Burdette, in
Brook' yn Eagle.
He Tas Up On Horses.
"I keep mv eyes and ears open al
the while when I am traveling, I do,'
remarked a garrulous passenger by way
of explanation of the great fund of in
formation which he had occupied
solid hour in giving up to his not over
patient companions. "And your
mouth, too, observed a tired listener.
so to voce. "'Nothing escapes me,
continued the talkfit ve man, not hear
ing the other's remark; "I never had
the advantage of schooling. I don
take much stock in education, nohow.
believe in a man keeping his eyo9 open
learniner for himself bv observation
Now there's a horse I know all about
a horse, from tooth to tail, an' I never
studied none o'yer gographies nor natur
al histories, either, lknow " "So you
know all about a horse, do you? m
cuired another listener, with a demure
a'r which gave promise of a "catch.'
"ies. in teed: know all about em
There air t no question about a hoss
can t answer. I ve handled em and
studied 'em for tweuty years, an' that
wuth morc'n all the books in creation
I" 'Am clad to meet vou, -ir," in
temipted the demure one. "There's
point I'm in doubt about And perhap,
you can settle it hv is it when
horse goes away from home he goes
along 'tending to his bus.ness, annoy
ing no one and attract 'ng no attention,
while just as soon as a jackass gets
away from home he goes to wagging
his e.irs. braving and giving himself
away?"
ILe know-it-all man suddenly re
membered that his wife was waiting
for him in the nest car. Chicago Iter
aid
File Making.
The bar or rod of steel is first placed
in the shearing machine. This machine
arranged with a straight cogwheel
catching into a cogbar, which in turn
moves an eccentric in the plunger con
nected with the knife, and gives the
Bteel a powerful, smooth cut In this
shearing machine steel of one and a half
inches width and three-eighth inch
thickness is cut as smoothly as if it wore
a thin piece of tin. For heavier fcteel a
machine is used that will cut a half-
nch thickness of steel, two and a half
inches wide.
The steel having been cut to the req
uisite lengths, passes to the forging
room. In that room there are fourteen
coke fires. Alongside of these the
workmen sit before stoam-driven ham
mers, lifting the red hot pieces of steel
out of the fire and placing them under
the hammeis, the tables of which are
arranged with two surfa eS one upon
which the steel in hammered out flat
ng its whole length, and another
surface slightly depressed, on which the
ends or tangs of the file blank are ham
mered to the pointed shape, which
everybody remembers as, time out of
mind, the proper shape for a hie
handle. For the smaller files (saw
files) the hammer tables are grooved,
and in these grooves the ends of the
file blanks aro placed, and in a moment
are hammered to the proper shape. It
,ie an idea of the methodical work of
the men to notice that the workman as
b reacnej to ta'e a heated piece of
Bfe! out of the tiro, unfaingiy put a
frc one in to be heated. It was the
old-fashioned way, before the intro
duction of machinery, to have a forger
and striker for large hies, but the accu
racy of machinery, and its rapidity in
working, have made that method of
making tiles an obsolete thing.
rrom the forging department the hie
blanks as thev are called, until the
teeth are tut in them, are passed to the
aunealing room. Hence, in a furnace
are packed many dozens equaling a
ton in weight of file blanks of every
shape, and the furnace is heated until it
has been brought to a red heat At
that heat it is allowed to remain for an
hour. Then the furnace drafts are all
closed up, ..nd made as air-tight as pos
sible;' and, on an average, in three days'
time, the heated Wanks have cooied
sufficiently for further handling.
lhe lire has softened them for the
further processes of the manufacture,
and after they have been hammered
straight the file b'anks are turned over
to the grindmg-room workmem. 1 aere
they are placed in a frame in various
quautities according to size. The frame
is then placed in machinery attached
to a six-foot grind-stone, which receives
a horizontal and lateral motion, by
which the file blanks are ground per
fectly smooth and true. The average
life of these grind-stones is about three
weeks. For the larger round and half-
round files it is necessary to grind bv
handT ' V" '
But these are only the preliminaries
to the file making. Having been
A
ground, the next step is cuttinr the
teeth. This u done by improved and
ingenious machinery, which works with
marvelous celerity. The file blanks are
place t under the cutter, and with sur
prising rapidity, tooth after tooth is cut
into tne blank. The edges of the blanks
are cut first A few minutes suffices to
finish the edges, and that operation of
cutting teeth is repeated until edges and
both sides of the flat blanks and the
three sides of the three square blanks
are toothed.
The chisels used in cutting the teeth
in the file blanks having to be sharp
ened freeiy, grindstones and laps are
used for this purpose. The dulled chis
els are first taken and ground; after
they have been ground they are placed
on the laps (on which tine emery and
oil are used) and are given a fine edge.
After the cutting of the teeth has
been finished, the hies are forwarded to
an examining-room, where they are
carefully inspected to see that the file
blanks have been properly cut The
files are then passed to a i room on the
ground floor to be hardened a very in
teresting process. It this room are sev
eral, iron pots, containing lead, sur
rounded by a furnace and Kept hot so
as to melt the lead. The files are first
coated with a preparation to prevent
scaling; next thev are placed in the
leaden bath, and, lastly, after they are
sufficiently heated they are plunged
into large vats of water, the process
making them very hard.
, The hies are then scoured, next
washed iu lime water, dried, and, last
of all, the tings, or handles, aro placed
in a leaden bath, covering only the
tangs, to soften or withdraw the tern
per. Then the files arc oiled and aga'n
scoured, for the purpose of cleans
ing them of any extraneous mat
ter, after which thev are taken to the
second story, where each file i3 care
fully examined and tested with a tern
pered piece of steel, and any found with
the slightest imperfection are condemued
and thrown aside. Midland Industrial
Gazette.
The Young Man Left.
A young man from Boston, who has
been boarding in one of the Vermont
hillside towns since the first of June
threw his landlady's daughter into
terrible flutter the other day by inquir
ing:
"Ah Jennie, how would you like to
. Jennie was hulling field strawberries
at the time, and her cheeks turned red
der than her finger tips. Casting down
her sweet blue eyes, and nervously
clutching the corner of her apron, she
murmured:
" Oh, Mr. George! Surely you can
mean
"ies, x ao, Jennie, i Know you
would, just suit mother to a l; and then
vou are eo ladv-like, and you do bake
beans beautifully.'
"Oh, George! I I really don
Know wnat to say. l i am so young,
and and beside, you haven t realb
asked me yet."
" Haven't I why, what more could
I say? Oh, yes! you want to know the
other side of the bargain, of course.
"Yes, George, I -I reallv do."
" Well, I'll tell you, Jennie. I think
I am perfectly safe in offering you $3.50
a week and every other bunday out
The down stage stopped at the farm
Jbouse for the youngman th very next
morning. Boston Herald.
Cusking's F.ailroad.
"Joe Cushing," said a railroad man
to a Globe-Democrat reporter yesterday,
used to own a mill on a certain rail
way up in New Hampshire, and it was
an almighty big mill, too. Well, the
railroad got to sqricezing Joe prettv
hard. They told him he'd got to ship
over their line or shut up his mill, and
they proposed to charge .him any rate
they wanted to. At last Joe couldn t
stand it any longer. 1 here was another
railroad six milea away, and one day
he went to see the general manager of
the other line, and offered to build a
road 'cross lots from his mill if lie was
guaranteed certain reasonable charges
for all time to come. His offer was ac
cepted, and inside of twenty-four hours
Joe had five hundred men at work shov
eling down hills, filling up valleys.
bridging streams and laying rails a-id
ties. The officials of the road that had
been putting the blocks to him went to
see him; and offered to carry his stuff
tat the cost of transportation if he would
i i . i A. a r ' . ii
HDanuon.ms project, dui voe promptly
refused them. In a few months he had
his road completed, and he has been
using it ever since.
"Now, the fun of the thing is that as
soon as everything was in working or
der Joo went to Boston and had a lot of
printing done, and before many days
every railroad omcial in America re
ceived an elegantly engraved annual
pass, inclosed m a neatly printed circu-
ar. Ihv front of the pass read as fol
ows " 188L Job CcsHrsa's Road. 18S1. Pass
Mr. until lies. 31, 1881, unless other
wise ordered.
"No. . Joe Ccshixq, President
"Ou the back was printed this uuique
sentence: 'Ihis pass is not transferable.
The person accepting and using it
thereby assumes the right to travel and
transport baggage over this road when
ever he pleases, and at the risk of Joe
Cushing, who will be hnanc all r re-
sponsible.for all damage to person or
property incurred while so traveling.'
"lhe circular was headed bv a map
of the road showing the location of the
mill and the length of the line. It said
in substance: 4My road is only six
miles long, but it is perfectly solvent,
pays all its interest charges and taxes,
and is a first-class property in every re
spect I herewith send you rn annual
pass, and invito you to use my fine at
any and all times at my own risk. If
you should see'fit to extend to me in
return the courtesy of an annual pass
over your road I shall greatly appreci
ate it'
"Well, sir, the man's cheek was so
enormous that the officials of nearly
every road in America laugh over the
thing and send him a pass, and 1 hear
of him every now and then in different
places all over the country using h s
annuals." Si. Louis Globc-Dcmo int.
Plastering in Early Times.
The use of plaster, or "plaister." as
it was formerly called, is of early date,
even in the British islands, in connec
tion with domestic architecture. Long
before lime plaster came into general
use, a tenacious clay or st cky and
unctuous earth was employed when
procurable, and, in its absence, what
ever clay or mixture of mud and earth
produced the most binding material.
The rudest and coarsest form; of daub
ing or plastering in the British Isles
were those structures erected of wattles
and daubed over with clay to keep out
the cold. This kind of domestic build
ings was common in Ireland in the time
of Henry II. From necessity or in con
formity to the fashion of that country
the English monarch erected, accord
ing to Roger Hovenden, a Royal pal
ace with "uncommon elegance of
smoothed wattles in 1172, and in such
buildings his Majesty with the Kings
and Princes of Ireland solemni.ed the
festival of Christmas. - The Devonshire
"cob," a class of building not yet ex
tinct, is a fair illustration of the anc ent
fashion of daubing or plastering prac
ticed in this country for long centuries.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth cent
uries in this country' the plasterers
proper and the daubers formed two dis
tinct classes of building workmen, and
their wages, like the .wages of other
operatives, were subject to certain regu
lations summer and winter. The
daubers were simply the layers on of a
mixture of straw and mud to a frame
work of timber. The plasterers in Lon
don in the twenty-fourth i Edward 1IL
(1350) were bound to take no more for
their working day between the fe.wts
of Easter and St. Michael than fd.,
without victuals or drink, and for the
remainder of the year 5d. Upon feast
days, when they did not work, they
took noth'ng. London Builder
Whore the Line is Drawn.
Newspaper men are sensitive. Not
concerning their dress, their piety or
their ability to pay a debt, but of their
circulation, i ou may say that an editor.
in woful frailly, leans on things that
ovi l, n rrrd 1 c Vmi inflr anv lhah h
ci v"jivv..j j j -
dresses like a tramp, and may cast in
sinuations at that sensitive organ, the
nose, and, smiling benignly, he will
forgive you; but let fall an muendo be
smirching the circulation of bis journal.
and all ties of friendship which may
have hitherto existed between you are
severed with one passionate swoop of
the knife which so well knows war in
the extreme. There is Colonel Har-
quies, for instance. He rather likes
personal abuse, and, upon his. private
life, severe criticism has no more effect
than an autumn drizzle, falling
on the back of a, hard-shell turtle; but
you must not hint that his paper does
not carry in hi9 hip-pocket a wad of
great influence. Several days ago the
Colonel was taken violently ill. He
raged in the delirium of high fever, and
his. wife, becoming alarmed, sent for
two prominent physicians. When the
medical gentleman arrived the editor
was almost wixa, wauowing in a tragic
doze. One of the physicians approach
ing, took hold of the colonel s arm,
and, .urning to his companion, said:
"Circulation very poor."
"What!" exclaimed: tne editor, spring
ing up, -'poor circulation? Why, con
found you, I work sixty quires. Get
away from here, you scoundrels,"' and
with loud imprecations and demonstra
tions of violence he dfove the medi al
gentlemen from the room. Arkansaw
Traveler.
The right side of a gopd caue may
beeome ett.-WfiiUheui nvies.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
' Biblical Jews" is the name of a new!
and growing sect in Russia. They have,
renounced the Talmud, and are dili
gently studying the Old Testament
Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman wants the
time to come when a clergyman will bo
able to go from one chuich to another
without being suspe.cted of having
changed his faith. Chicago Herald.
The Salvation Army has 749 corps
at home and 191 abroad; 444 corps of
children. In Great Britain and Ireland
it has 846 buildings with seating capac
ity for 560,000, and buildings abroad
with capacity for 190,000 sittings. Thir
teen languages are used in their meet
ings. N. TT Tribune.
Last year the women of the United
States gave $600,000 toward Christian
izing the heathen. Of this large sum
Presbyterian women gave nearly $200,-;
000; Baptist women, $166,000; Congre-
f atlonai . women, , $180,000; Northern
lethodist women, $108,000; Southern
Methodist women, ' $25,000. Chicago
Times.
During the last year the Catholio,
Total Abstinence Union of Philadelphia
attended the arrival of 79 steamers, re
lieved 705 destitute immigrants and gave,
advico and information to over 6,900
persons at the wharf, and procured em
ployment for 191 girls and 90 men, and
expended in relief $466.12. r Phila
delphia Press.
Why not make the school-houses
pleasant and comfortable places of
gathering for the children Has any
one of middle age forgotten the hard
back-seat experience of their youth,
and the bare, dirty, spit-bail-eovered
walls? Why not have a few tasty
flower-beds about ,the grounds contain
ing beautiful flowers, shade trees, etc.
Let the school building of the future be
beautiful, but not extravagant; attrac
tive, but not gaudy. Cleveland Leader.
"Nothing does so much harm to
boys," said an old public school-teacher
yesterday, as letting them run wild in
the city during summer vacation. The
very best boys are demoralized by it II
they could only spend a few hours each
day learning some industrial art it
would be much better in the end for
them and. for the community. Many
promising boys are ruined by one sum
mer vacation in the city. The same
may be said of girls, though, us a rule,
they are taken better care of." Phila
delphia Times.
An exchange discourses on the dis
comforts and diseases resulting from the
bad ventilation of churches, and makes
the following good suggestions: "First
Let the church be well aired before and
a'tcr each service, thus giving a supply
of fresh air to begin on. Second While
the churches in summer are closed oriei
or more months let ventilators be first
thought of when repairs are contem
plated. Third Let the physicians in;
our churches interest themselves in this'
matter, and pour a little wholesome in
formation into the sexton's bTains"
In British Guinea Forests.
In the forests the monkeys are the
lords, the horrible snakes alone disput
ing with them the dominion of the
wooded world. For the most part they
live on the tops of the loftiest trees,
where they are tolerably safe, except
from tho hunter's gun and Indian's ar-
iow. As one glides along thj thickly
shrubbed banks among the streams in
noiseless canoes they chatt r and.
jump irom urno to limo, loiiow-
mg tor miles, there are mon
kej's of all sorts howling monkeysf
icptinintr mnnl-cra rvar1i?nor mnnVpva
sp'der, fox-tailed and squirrel monkeys,'
with all sorts of faces, beards and an
tics. There are vampires, or winged
bats, that suck the blood of the traveler,
and cool his fevered slumber with the
flapping of their wings. There aro wild
dogs tb: live on crabs, and skunks with
an odor so fetid that they drive off all
enemies. liger-cats climb the enor
mously large trees in the su'jurbs of the
city, and jaguars lie in wait over pools
and. spring to snatch up thirsty pigs
coming to drink, or eat up the baby
swinging in the hammock. There are
ant-eaters that are very ugly when pro
voked, and . in the waters the huge, ill
shapen sea-cow, and sharks twenty feet
long. The varieties of snakes are nu
merous. The boa-constrictors, called
the bush-masters, are of enormous size,
and their contests for supremacy with
the ferocious black alligators are terri
ble. Eels aro four feet long, and big
black beetles nibble the toes of the
sleeping maiden. In the rainy season
large crickets alight on the hands and
face and inflame the skin, while ants
enter your room and sometimes sting
venomously. Sand-fles, so small as to
escape detection, bother one, and mos
quitoes and flies are buzzing every
where. Oh, it's just the country for the
man who wants to study natural history.
Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
t
Mexican Policemen and Lanterns.!
One never tires of the street scenes of
this strange city. They combine the
commonplace, the pathetic and the lu
dicrous, while, in the eyes of strangers,
the novel overshadows everything else.
On my first evening, a friend besought
me to go to the "zocala," in the plaza,
to hear the band and see the crowd.
We started in company, and at the first
corner brought up before a lantern on
the ground, exactly in the center of the
intersecting streets. ' What is that
for?" was the natural inquiry. "That
lantern? Oh, that's a policeman's lan
tern. It shows that he is ir his place.
Yes." looking around, "there he is be
hind that lamppost If he stirs so much
as to walk up to the middle of the
block he must take the light with him.
Roundsmen are always on the watch,
and if lantern or man is gone there is
trouble." Further observation showed
that this explanation was correct Every
four corners had its lantern exactly in
the center, and every lantern its police
man. Standing in the middle of the
roadway,-a long line of lights appeared,
stretching away to the four quarters of
the compass. The streets of Mexico are
American, in that they cross each other
exact; v at right angles, though Euro
pean, in that each square had its indi
vidual name. The main thoroughfare,
from the plaza to the All eda, has as
many names as blocks in ti e third oi a
mile'between the ltuvbide Hotel and the
plaza, and doubtless as Hrge a number
off in the other airectton. Mexican
Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Taking the Chances.
Yes, my son, there are men who, in
the morning of their lives, the brightest,
strongest, bravest days they have to
live, go through various courses and
come out reformed and all right at last
There are some men who do this. Once
in awhile you will find one; and you ,
think you will do just as he did. But
the hundred, or the thousand men who
started in with him and never got
through? The swimmers who plunged
into that turbulent sea of dissipation
and recklessness with him and never
gained the shore again, but went down
in the combing billows and the yeasty
breakers? How about them? Aren't
you more than likely to be one of the
multitude, than you are to be the excep
tion? I tell -ou, my son, ten young fel
lows of your age may embark together
in the prodigal business, with good cap
ital and the "usual stock of red'paint for
municipal decorative purposes: their
their hearts are brave, and they are
ambitious and hopeful and earnest; they
only want to have their racket and see
the town before they settle down to
hard, steady work. " They re not going
to be drunkards.-- They're all right;
they don't believe ia this sort - of thing
at all, but they are young, and it's quiet
on the farm witir nobody but the old
folks and the older-, brother, and they
want to travel and see th$ wptld a little
before they become goodT citizens, props
of society and pillars of, the church.
And, by and by, when the " State, and
society, and the church, wants them
and needs them, we look for the ten,
and there are not found, returning to
give glory to God for mercy and
strength and cheering grace, save the
stranger, the Samaritan. And we ask,
"Wrhere are the nine?" My dear boy,
there is more hope for the stranger, for
the street waif, born in haunts of vice
and walking in its ways all his life, than
there is for the young man, who, born
in the light and taught in ; the ways of
uprightness, deliberately turns his "back
upon wisdom and virtue, and intelli
gently makes vice his choice. The "
stranger, charmed with a purity and
cleanliness so new and beautiful to him4
comes back, but the nine, my son?
Now, my boy, be sensible in this mat-,
ter. You say, "Oh, well, I'll take the
chances on it"; Well, .now, that's all
right Come,. you and I are men of the
world, we are reasonable men, we'll
"take the chances on it." That's all I
ask you to do. Just "take the chances
on it" as vou do on the horse rafe, the
turn of a card, on the election, on the
prize fight, the regatta, the walking
match. Just give your moral conduct,
your higher life, your good name, your
hopes and ambitions an even shoyv "with;
the horse race and draw poker and the',
slugging match. I won't even ask you
to do better than that Just give them
a fair field anil no favor, ana may the,
best one win. At the horse race dp you
deliberately buy one chance in ten, in
the pools? Da you put your money on
the horse that has a record of ten races,
nine of which he lost? True, you back
the favorite against the field sometimes,
but the favorite isn't the horse with the
losing record. You don't draw to a
SokeV hand that you know won't
11 once iu ten times; not if you can
just as well draw to something that is a
dead sure thing nine times out of ten.
You don't bet on the last man in the,
walking match! Of course, in all games
of chance - and athletic contests and
games of skill and they all go in the
same boat in these days the chances
are always against you, but you don't
select the worst ones, do you? Now be
honest and give yourself as good a
chance in life as you do at the horse
race.
And then getting tired? WelL iust
one word, and I'll let you go. In three
card monte, in the poker room, at the
faro bank, at the horse race, at the
walking match, in the grand lottery, in
the little bunco scheme, who "take the
chances?" Honest, now, who "take
the chances?" Yes, my son, the bet-,
ters every time; the pool buyers; the
people in the grand stand, the ticket
holders, the visitors from the country,
the fools. And who rake in the pile?
Who gather the stamps? You are cor
rect; the dealer; the bunco steerer, the
managers of the lottery, the poker
sharp. They don't "take the chances,"
my son. lhey are "children of this
world" who "are in their generation
wiser than the children of light." Thev
do not "take the chances and they
"take the pot" You may go, my son.
Have some sense. Not too much. You
needn't burden yourself with more than
vou can manage. A few grains of sense
ts as much as most men need, and more.
Oh, tons more than a great many men.
have. B. J. Burdette, in Burlinqton
Hawkeyc.
He Chuckled.
He was looking at a new house on
Cass avenue the other day and rubbing
his hands and chuckling so gleefully
that some one asked him if he saved five
hundred dollars under the architect's
estimates.
"Oh, that isn't my house, but I was
planning how I'd get even.!'
"With whom?"
"The owner. I've known him twenty
years. We used to be the best friends
In the world, but for the last seven years
I've thirsted for revenge on him. Now
I m going to have it."
"How?"
"He bought that lot not knowing that
I own the next one. He's building a
home. He's got it set back for a lawn,
and he's put on a bay window for a view
up the street Next week I begin build
ing a cheap house to rent I'll take the
line between us for the south wall, and
I'll bring my front out. ten feet nearer
the walk. Result: Shut in no air
no sunshine no view no redress re
venge! What's the use of shooting or
stabbing a man when you can hurt him
worse!' Detroit Free Press.
She looked just a bit anxious as she
appeared on the wharf and asked:
"Anybody jumped- in here to-day?"
"No, ma'am." "Will you please do
me a favor?" "Yes'm." "My hus
band has threatened to drown himself,
and I don't want him to. I can't stay
here and watch- I'm going on an ex
cursion. In case hemomes won't you
please discourage him? He's very
easily discouraged, and I can go on my
trip and feel liko enjoying myself'
The man promised ana she went away
In the best of spirits. T. Mail t