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The Oregon Scout. vol. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 19, 1885. NO, 12. THE OREGON SCOUT, An Independent wreklv journal, lssuod every Saturday by JONES & CHANOEY. Publishers and Proprietors A. K. Jones, 1 Editor. ( J D. ClIANCKY, hates op suhschution: Odo copy, ono year $1 60 " Six months 1 (X) " " Three months 75 Invariably cash In advance. Itatos of advertising' uiado known on appll- Correspondence from all parts of the county Address nil communications to A. K.Jones, 1 .1 1 . A-l . , i.unui urtjfuii ccoui, union, ur. Lodge Illrector)'. GlUND rtONDK Valt.ky I.onoK. No. ffl. A. V. and A. M. Meets on the second and fourth fcaturdays or each month. O. P. Hkm W. M 0. E. Davib, Secretary. Union Lodge. No. I. O. O. P. Keiruln meeting on Friday evenings of each week at their hall In Union. AU brethren In good standing are invited to uttond. Ily order of uo lodge. s. w. long, n. a. Q. A. Tiioiirsos, Secy. Church Directory. M. K. Chuhcii Illvino soivlco every Sunday at 11 a, m and" p. m. Sunday scuooi at .i i m. Prayer meeting every Tinirsuay evenin atd:S0. Kkv. ANUKlthON, Pastor. 1'itKRiiYTKiiiAN Cnuncii Hcirulur churc Rervloes c-verv Sabbath morning and evening, Prayer meeting oacn week on Wednesday evoning. Bnmmui scnooi every siuioaniui iu a. m. Hov. it. vkunon iciee, castor, St. John's Episcopal Ciiur.cn Service every Sunday at 11 o clock a. in. ltav. W. It. Powell, Hector, County Olllcer. Judgo A. C. Crnlg Sheriff a. n. Hammer Clork 11. K. Wilson Treasurer A. P. Ilensou School Superintendent J. Ii. Hlndmau Surveyor E. Sln.onls Coroner E. H. I.owls COMMIKHIONKUS. Geo. Acklos Jno. Stnnloy State Senator Ij. 11. HInehart nitPHEKHNTATIVEH. F.T. DIok E. K. Taylor City Oltlcer. Mayor D. B. ltoes OOUNCII.MUM. S. A. Pursol W. D. Ilefdloman J. 8. Elliott Willis Skilf J. 11. Eaton U. A. Thompson Recorder J.IJ. Thomson Marshal I. A.Dennoy Treasurer J. I). Carroll Street Commissioner I- Eaton Ilepnrtiiro of Train. Regular east bound trains leavo at 9:00a, iu. West bound trains leavo at 4:20 p. in. ntoifussioNAL. J. R. CRITES, ATXOKNIJY AT LAW. Collecting find probate practlco specialties Oflloo, two doors south of Postodlce, Union urogon. R. EAKIN, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Olllcc, one door south of J. II. Eaton's Btore, union, urotfou. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D Physician and Surgeon Ofllco, one door south ot J. II. Eaton's store, A. E. SCOTT, M. D mivriciaiv anh) ;.sun;i:o:v, lias permanently located at North Powder, woero no win answer un cans T. H. CRAWFORD, ATTORNEY AT E.AW, Union, Oregon. D. Y. K. DEERING, Iliynlcian nntl Surgeon, Union, Oregon. Office, Main street, next door to Jones tiros.' variety store Residence, Main street, second bouse south of court house. Chronic dlseucoi a specialty. O. F. HULL JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Notary Publlo and Conveyancer. Ortlce. II itreot, two doors east of Joues Dros.' variety store, Union, Oregon. a. F. BURLEIGH, Attorney at Iirir, Real Stotate iwd ColIectlusT Agent. Land Ofllco Business a Specialty. Office at Alder, Union Co., Orogon. JEMB HAlUltETT, W. SIIKI.TOK THOMAS FITCH. FITCH, SHELTOM & HARDESTY, ATTUUKUVS AT JLAW. Will prnctlce in Union, Baker, Grant, Uinuiuiu and Morrow Uouiuich, hiho hi uii Supreme Court of Oregon, the Ditrict, 1 Circuit nnu bupreme Couru or iuo uiiitt-u Stated. Mining and Corporation bunlntt u up icalty. Otilce in Unlou, Orison. Honest Henry Ilornmn. from the Chicago Shoe and Leather Re view. For some thm prior to IS7-1 Henry Horman hud a boot ami shoe store in Chicago, nml he was one of the mnny who succumbed to the business di pression of that period. Ilis fnilur was for about $75,000, and his cred itors, nemly all of whom lived in the cast.readily agreed to a proposed com promise ot fifty cents on the dollar The- composition was ratified by the courts. Iloassured hiscrvditors, how ever, that ho would pay them all to the last cent if it should ever be in his power. Similar promises seem to be customary m such cases, so that, al though Mr. Ilorman had a reputation for strict integrity, no creditor had any idea oi over getting another dot lar. After the compromise was com plotod Mr. Ilorman moved into a small storo. Ho was almost penniless, but ,. nf i. i nis reputation was Bumcient 10 pro euro him a new stock of goods on credit Ho worked hard, and was largely Helped uv ins sons nnu sons-m-lnw His business progressed satisfactorily and every year he laid by a sum with which to pay of! the old bankruptcy debts to ins creditors m the east After nearly eleven years' waiting the time at last arrived when he was in a position to liquidate the old claims and a few weeks ngo he started east, for the purpose of hunting up th old creditors and paying them off, During these eleven years many changes navo taKcnpiaco. oomocreaitors una died, and their widows or heirs had to be discovered. Some had dissolved partnership with former partners, and tho outgoing partners or their heirs had to bo found and paid their proper snare. .Naturally, Mr. Jloiinan was enthusiastically received wherever ho went, and ho had plenty of volunteers to assist him in tho work of locating his creditors. Tho last of tho money about 38,000 in all, was paid less than a week ago. Most of tho cred itors oxnress tho utmost surnriso. and accept tho money as a present, and a tew say that it camo at a timo when their circumstances made it badly wanted. One creditor had died and left a widow and family in a rather desti tuto condition, and tho unexpected check seomed to them as a heaven-sent legacy. An Amusing Marriage Ceremony Performed by a Negro. From the Woodford (Ky.) Sun. Thomas M. Field has written out from memory a description of a color ed wedding, under the old regime, which io said, used to bo related with gusto by Major Herman Bowmar: A tall, dignified and clerical-dressed-looking negro ('lorn Aicuzlcs), olliciatmg, said, m pompous tones: "Silenco in dis 'sembly. Hero is couple who havo walked out to-night, wishing to bo lined in and thro' love, and wishing all dem dat havo anything twix dem como forward and speak now; it not, let dem hold dcr peace now and forever more. I wants every ear to near and overy heart to cnioy. "jlr. Irvm Johnson, whomsoever stands fastly by your left side, do you take her ior your beloved wile, to wait on her through sickness and through health safo and bo sale, Iovmg and bo loving, holy and bo holy; do you lovo her mother, and do you love her lather. do you lovo her sister, do you lovelier brothers, and, above all, do you love uod do best? Answer, I do. "Miss Marv .Tnnnx. whomsoever stands so fastjy by your right side, do you tako for your loving husband, to wait on him through health and through confliction, through alllietion and conviction, safo and be safe, holy and be holy; do you lovo his mother, do you lovo his father, do you lovohis master, do you lovo his mistress; but, above all, do you love God tho best? Answer, 1 do. I command you, Mr. Irvm, to hold Miss Mary so fastly by do right hand, and bv authority nronounco vouboth to bo man and wile by tho command ments of God. What God jinestogeth er let no man 'sunder. "Wo shall bono and trusting through God and his'postles that you maylivo right, and that vou may die right, now and forever. Sow, Mr. Irvin, s'luto your bride. Lict us smg a hymn i'lunged in a gull of dark denpalr." The heaviest locomotive of which there is any record is a passenger tank engine of tho Pennsylvania road; its weight is stated to be 120,000 pounds, but the driving wheel is only 00 inches in diameter,. The fast express en gines on the samo road havo driving wheels 78 inches in diameter. The ex perimental Fontaine cngino had two driving wheels on each side, placed ono above tho other in such a way thatJ the top oi tho upper was 12 feet from tho ground, although tho wheels them selves were only 72 inches in diameter. This engine attracted much attention in 1881, but seems to have since sunk out of notice. Glass drinking cups, having round bottoms, have recently been found in Anglo-Saxon graves. Such cups could not bo made to stand upright, and it has been supposed they were designed to caube the drinker to empty them at onco. Tills feature Is said to haveiriv- en rise to the word tumbler, which 1ms been applied to our drinking vessels, though t lies a do not possess the curl ous aliapd of the ancient cups. Tern peranco Jiunner, v General Condensations. Tho increase in the value oi property in the business section of Boston dur ing the past fifty years is shown in the recent sale of tlie United States Court House, at the corner of Tremont and Temple place. The Masons puivhiiM'd tho land in 1830 for $13,000, and in 1832 the Masonic Templo was com pleted, making a total cost of land and building of $.10,000. In 1 S"8 tho Uni ted States Government bought it for $105,000, and in 18S5 sold it for $255,000. Trainmen on the Chicago, Vmccnnes and Cairo Railroad tell a wonderful 3tory concerning the falling of a gigan tic meteor in a field near tho railroad nfc New Burnside, Johnson county, 111. Tho weight of tho meteor is estimated at about a ton and a half, and it was imbedded in the ground fiovcrnl feet. The phenomenon excited tho denizens of the village to a high degree, and created a great sensation. Hundreds of peoplo visited tho spot. Recently workmen on tho Northern Pacific Railroad, near South Prairie, Washington Territory, camo upon a fir log eight feet in diameter fifty-six feet below tho surface of the ground. It was in a soft state, but after being exposed to tho air for a short timo be cauio nearly as hard as a stone. Tho groin of tho fir-wood remains plainly to bo seen, but in color it might easily bo taken for walnut. While tho wood was yet soft some mndo pipes of it, which after hardening becamo very handsome. It is reported from London that valuablo pictures by Sir Frederick Leighton, Tadema, Millais, John and Thomas Faeds and other celebrated artists, now onexhibitionattheRoyal Academy, have been cut, scratched and othcrwiso mutilated. Tho outrages aro supposed to havo been prompted by malice, but no cluo to tho perpetra tors has been found. Mr. Edwards Pierrepont in a letter lately published acknowledges that the social lifo of tho upper classes of England is "vcrycharming";theirplan of leaving nil land to the eldest son has built up vast estates, adorned and dignified by castles and halls filled with art and luxury and refined taste, but with a sense of justice that does him credit ho recognizes that "all this is at tho sacrifice of many human rights." Ho maintains that nothing like such a system is possible in America; and prophecies that "It will not always last m England." The idea that "fortunes are nn.de in Florida without sweat of the brow," is justly charactized by tho New York Journal of Commerce as "A Fiction of the Speculators;" and tho writer be lieves it could bo demonstrated that a good applo orchard pays a larger in terest than tho best orange grovo. Tho latter produces fruit only at the end of "years of hard work, much money and much impatient waiting." And after all may como a killing frost. Professor Newton, of Yalo College, computes that 450,000 meteors fall on tho surfaco of tho earth each hour. Professor Alex Herschel has shown that tho average weight of a meteor may bo taken as five grams, whence it follows that the earth receives hourly not. less than 2,250 kilograms, or l, 050 pounds of foreign material depos ited upon it from tho celestial spaces. How Frcneli Women Dress. Tho chief point to noto about the dress of a Parisian woman, no matter what her station in lifo may bo, is its appropriateness. She does not wear a3 costly garments usually as the American of the same social class, but they ore always thoroughly suitable to her position and to tho ocensionon which they aro to bo worn. A French elegante, for instance, will neither go shopping in a velvet costumo nor to n wedding or official reception in a cloth jacket or cashmere gown. She never goes out on foot in superb and showy apparel, or appears at a ball inadark silk made high in tho neck and with long sleeves. Etiquette forbids her re ceiving oven the most intimate of hot gentlemen friends in hermorningdress, tnougn tins ruio nos ueen relaxed oi late m favor of tho very superb morn ing toiletn of brocade and satin and lace, which havo been concocted foi morning wear by the leading Parisian dressmakers. These, however, art simply reception toilets for morning instead of for afternoon wear. If sh desires to go out on foot she dons tin simplest of cvstumes in dark cloth or cashmere. Her purse or her desires may make it and tho samo may b said of tho dress in which she receives callers on herat"at-homo" day. Her theater bonnet much more showy and dressy than her visiting one. Foi street wear she dons a bonnet of very dark velvet or felt. In tho matter ol gloves and chaussure she is always ir reproachable. For evening dress the satin slippers and silk stockings pro- uinciy matcii uio lunei wiiuwmcniuej aro to bo worn. There was an attempt made at ono timo to introduce ttii wearing of scarlet hose and black slip pers with whito availing drosses, but it jirovod a total failure. Neither wen bluck slippers and stockings overworn in Paris with white or tiale tinted ball dresses. That fashion was not Freiieh; t was possibly Knuliuh. and uufortuu ately it wus American, TUK SfAIDliN'S surrous. BClTOtt NO. 1. Sweet maiden with the fart so fair And oyeH that like tho diamond shtur Uriqht maiden with the queenly air, Once more I ak, wilt thou ho mine? Oh, Rive consrnt and bo my wife, Some pity kindly show to me; 1 love theo bettor than my life, And cheerfully would die for thee. tiik MAinnv. Oh, do not tease mo now I prav; Talk lovo to me aiimo other day suitou no. 2. Tho reason why I've eatled to-day 1h this r well, upon my life, I scarcely know just what to say And or well, will you bo my wife You'll never know lifoV cares or ills, In silks and jewels you shall shine, I'll foot your millinery bills, And well, iu brier, will you bo mine? TUB MAIDEN. This U so sudden! Hut oh, la! 1 think you'd better speak to pa. BETTER LATE THAN SEVER. I wouldn't marry tho best man that ever lived!" And sho meant it, or, what answers the same purpose, she thought sho meant it. After all, how few of us over really know what wo mean? "I engaged myself once, when a girl, and the simpleton thought ho owned me. I soon took that conceit out of him, and sent him away about his business." Tho voice was now a little sharp. What wonder, with so galling a memory? "No man shall over ty ran- nizo over mo never! What the mis chief do you suppose is tho matter with this sewing niachino?" "Annoyod at you logic, most like ly," said my friend, a bright young matron as sho threaded her needlo. "My husband is not a tyrant, Miss Kent." It was quite ovident, by tho expres sion of tho dressmaker's face that bIio had formed her own opinion about my friend's husband, and was quite com petent to form and express an opinion on any subject. Miss Kent was a lit tle woman, fair as agirl, and plumx) as a robin. Sho wasn't ashamed to own that sho was forty years old and an old maid. Sho had earned her own living most of her lifo and was proud of it. Laziness was tho ono sin Miss Kent could not forgive. Sho was a good nurso, a faithful friend, and a jolly companion; but stroko her tho wrong way and you'd wish you hadn't in much shorter timo than it takes mo to write it. Her views on all sub jects were strikingly original, and not to be combatted. "What aro you going to do when you nro old?" persisted tho mistress of tho establishment. "What other folks do, I suppose." "But you can't work forover." "Can't say that I want to." "Now, Miss Kent, a husband with means, a kind, intelligent man "I don't want any man. I tell you, Miss Carlisle I wouldn't marry tho'best man that over lived, if ho was rich as Crtesus, and would dio if I'd havo him. Now, if you havo exhausted tho mar riage question, I should liko to try on your dress." Thero was something behind all this. I know well. My friend's eyes danced with fun; and as Miss Kent fitted tho waist, she throw mo a letter from tho bureau. "Read that," sho said, with a knowinglook. "It may amusoyou." This is what tho letter said: Mr Deah Jk.vnii:. I whall bo delighted to spend a month with younndyourhusband. Thero must be, howover. ono stipulation about my visit you must say no more about marriage. I shall novcr bo foolish Again. Twonty ycarH ugo to-day I wrocked my wnoio nio. "Uettcr embark In a now ship, hadn't he?" put iu Jennie, sotto voce. So unsuitable wus this marriage, so utterly and entirely wretched havo been its conse quences, that I am forced to believe tho marriage institution a mistake. So, for the last time, let mo astfuro you that I wouldn't marry tho best woman that over lived. If by ho doing I could suvo her life. Your old cousin, MakkImnki.su." "Rich, isn't ho?" Haid Jennie, and then pointed to tho chubby little figuro whose back happened to bo turned. I shook my head and laughed. "You'll sco," said tho incorrigible. 'Soo what!" inquired Miss Kent, quite unaware of our pantomino, "That tho parties which aro chem ically attracted will unito. Of course an alkali and an acid. Don't you think this sleeve a little too long, Miss Kent?" "Not after the seam is off. But what wero you saying, Mrs. Carlisle? Tho other day ut Professor Boyntoo's, I saw some wonderful experiments.' D "Did thoysuccee9?" uuiuired Jennie. demurely. "JJcautifully." "So will mine. I never botched a Job in my life." I don t think I quite understand you," roplied Miss Kent, perplexed. "No? I always grow scientific whon talking about marriage, my dear." "Bother!" was all tho little woman said, but (ho tone was much better imturod than I expected . Tho noxi week cousin Mark urrlved, and I liked him at once. An unhappy marring would havo bteii tho last thing thought of in connection with that gentleman. He had accepted the situation like a man, .leniuo told me. and for fifteen years cnrr.ml a load of misery that few could have endured. Death camo to his relier at last, and now the poor fellow actually believed mmsell an alien Jroni domestic happi niws. .Singular as it may appear, Cousin Mark was the embodiment of gootl health and good nature; fifty. perhaps, though he didn t look it, and as ro tund and fresh in his way as tho littlt dressmaker was in hers. As I looked at him I defied anybody toseeoneand not be reminded "of tho other. True, ho had more of the polish which comes from travel and adaptation to differ ent classes and individuals, but he was not a whit more intelligent by human nature than the bright little woman whom Jennie determined ho should marry. "I was surprised you should think it necessary to caution mo about that. Cousin Mnrk," cooed tho plotter, as sho stood by his side, looking out of the window. "Tho idea of my bemgso ridiculous!" and in tho samo breath, with a wink at mo. "Como let usgo to my sitting room. Wo are at work there, but it won't make any diller euro to yon, will it?" Of course Cousin Mark answered 'No,' promptly, tin innocent nsa dovoabout, the trap being laid for him. "This is my cousin Mr. Lansing, Miss Kent," and Mr. Lansing bowed politely, and Miss Kent arose, dropped nor scissors, mushed, and Bat, down again. Cousin Mark picked up tho ro- metory implements, and then Mrs. Jennie proceeded with raro caution and tact, to her labor of lovo. Cousin Mark, at her request, read aloud an article from tho Popular Science Monthly, drawing Miss Kent into tho discussion as deftly as was ever fly drawn into tho web of tho spider. "Who was that lady, .lennio?" Cousin Mark inquired in tho evening "You moan Miss Kent?" said Jennie looking up from her paper. "Oh, sho is a lady I havo known Tor a long timo. She is making some dresses for me now. Why?" "Sho seemed uncommonly well post ed for a woman." Under any othercirctinistances.Mrs Carlisle would havo resented this, but now sho only queried, "Do you think sor" and that ended it. Two or threo invitations to tho sew ing room wero quiet sufficient to make Cousin Mark perfectly at homo there and after a week, ho becamo as famil iar as this: "If you aro not too busy, I should hko to read you this article;" and this is what Miss Kent would say: "Oh, I am never too busy to bo read to. Sit down by tho window in this comfortablo chair and let's hear it." After a couplo of weeks, when the gentleman enmo in, hoarse with a sud den cold, Miss Kent bustled about, her voice full of sympathy, and brewed him a doso which hodeclaredhoshould novcr forget to his dying day; but ono doso cured. After this, Miss Kent was a really wonderful woman. Ah, what an arch-plotter. Sho lot them skirmish about, but notoncodid sho givo them a chanco to bo nlono to gether her plans wero not to bo de stroyed by promaturo confidences until tho very evening preceding Cousin Mark's departure for California. Then Miss Kent was very demurely asked to remain and keep an oyo on Master Car lisle whom tho fond mother did notliko to leavo quite alono with his nurso. "Wo aro compelled to bogonoacounlo of hours but Cousin Mark will read to you, won't you cousin?" "Certainly, if Miss Kent would hko it," roplied tho gentloman. Tho infant Carlisle, thanks to good management, was novor awako in tho ovening, so tho victims of this matri monial speculation would havo plenty of timo. Tho back purlor was tho room most in uso during tho ovening, and out of this room was a largo closet with a largo blind ventilator, and out of this closot a door loading to tho back stoop and garden. Imagine my surprise wnen I was told that Mr. Car lisle was going to tho lodge, and that wo, after profuso warnings about tho baby, and promises not to begone too long, wero to proceed to this closet overlooking tho back parlor, via tho back gate and garden. In vain I pro tested. "Why, you little gooso," laughed Jennie, "thoro'll bo fun enough to last a lifetime. John wantod to como aw fully, but I knew he'd make an aw ful noiso and spoil everything, so 1 1 wouldn't lot him." The wily schemer took tho precau tion to lock tho closet door from tho outside, so thoro was no foar of detec tion. On a high bench, still as two mico, wo awaited results. Cousin Mark (oh if arousing from a protracted reverie): "Would you like to havo mo read!" Miss Kent: "Oh, I am not particu lar." Cousin Mark: "Hero is an excellent article on elcctivoalllnitfos. How would you liko that?" Jennie's elbow in my sido almost took away my breath. Miss Kent: "Who is it by?" Jennle(clear in my car): "Tl gain time; see if it ain't." That's to Cousin Mark: "It's by a prominent Miss Kent: "I don't think I caro for a translation to-night." Cousin Mark: "Nor I: nor reading ofnny kind. This is my last evening in New York, Miss Kent." Miss Kent: "J hope you havo enjoyed your visit." Juiuilo (into my very lioad this timo) t "8,Wu us tbyM atlireo-yeitf'Oltlcalt.'' Cousin Mnrk: "I didn't think I should feel so bad about leaving. Jennie: "Ho is the wreck, you re member." A loi; pause. Miss Kent: "I think i hear tho baby." Cousin Mark: "Oh, no. Yon are fond of babies are vou not, Miss Kent? No answer from Miss Kent. Cousin Mark: "I havo boon a very lonely man, Miss Kent, but I never realized how lonely tho rest of my lifu must be until 1 came to this house." Jennie: "Oh, how lonely!" Cousin Mark: "Now I must return to my business and my boarding-house-boarding-house for a man so fond of domestic life as I am, Miss Kent." .lust then wo very distinctly heard a. little kind of a purr, which Bounded very like a note of intense sympathy from Miss Kent. Cousin Mark: "I have friends in iSan Francisco of course, but no firesido Hko this, nobody to caro for mo if 1 am ill, nobody to feel very badly if I die." Jennie: "That'll fetch her." Miss Kent (voieo a little quivering:) "I wish 1 lived in San Francisco. You could always call upon mo if you need ed anything." (Jennie in convulsions). Cousin Mark (abruptly): "If you will go to California with me, Miss. Kent, I'll wait another week." Miss Kent: "Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you mean? What would folks say?lT Cousin Mark: "Wo don't care, for folks, Miss Kent. If you'll go, wo will have a houso as pleasant ns money can make it. You shall havo birds and llowers and horsca, and all tho scientific monthlies you want deuced if you shan't and you shall never sew another stitch for anybody but me. Will you bo my wife?" .lust then .lennio and I stepped up another peg, and thero was that little old maid, who wouldn't marry tho best, man that over lived, hugged doso to the man's breast, who "wouldn't marry tho best woman that overlived, not even to save her lifo. Wo camo away then, but it's my opinion that they remained in just that position till wo rang tho bell half an hour later. "How did you know?" I asked of Jennio. 'My dear," sho answered, "my whole reliance was upon human naturo; and let mo tell you goosie, whatever else may fail, that never does." "Why, Miss Kent, what makcfl votir faco so red?" inquired Jennio, upon en tering; "and Cousin Mark, how strangi'ly you look! your hair is all mussed up." "And I hope to havo it mussed often," said Cousin Mark boldly Mibb Kent and I aro to bo married this week." .lennio laughed till her faco was pur )lo, and when I went up stairs, Miss ICent wns pounding her back. Things Compressed. Turner Hill (111.) Labor Advocate: Since I commenced running this office very expedient has been resorted to run mo out sf this place, by redioule, defaming anrl every other way they could devise, but Monday morning na i camo to tho olhco Hound on thodoor tho infamous initials. K. K. K.. with a. skull and cross bones dopitched there on with tho word "warning" under neath and in another placo written "a, word to tho wise," which is going ono step too far, and I wish it distinctly understood that tho mob that waits on mo with any kuklux designs I will seo that subjects for six funerals aro prepared from out of tho mob. for thias editor don't scare worth a damn. Walter C. Whipplo, a son of Adiu- tant-Goneral Whipple, of General Han- cock's staff, aged 21 years, a student at tho Univorsity Medical College in Now York, fatally shot himself at his boarding houso, in East Twenty-third street. Ho was about firing a third shot when Mrs. Brengcmann, who keeps tho houso, rushed m and wrested tho weapon from his hand. Ho fell to tho floor, and his broken conversation showed him to bo insano. When asked why ho did it. ho said: "Ask ChriHt- Christ loves mo: it's ull right. ABk mo not in mournful numbers" Ha soon died. A great curiosity in the way of watches was recently exhibited in Go- nova. This wonder is nothing less man a watcn witn ono wheel, manu ii ji factured in Paris in tho last century. Tliis wheel which gives tho watch its namo occupies the bottom of tho case and tho centor ef tho plato; it has six ty teeth, and Is 83 mm. in diamoter. Its axis carries two pinions, ono of which recoives the motive forco from a barrel, and the othor carries the min ute work. Tho function of this great wheel is quadruple First, it acts on a lift, then on a lover operating on an other destined to lower tho axis of tho watch, and lastly on a third lover, the latter serving to return powor to th great wheel at the moment when tha action relents by tho risk of tho axis. Thoy had been to a swell party tha night before, whero champagne pre vailed. Sho"I am sick of this frivol. Ity sick to the utmost." Ho- "Why. what is the matter?" Sho-,,Oh, It is all vanity and thoughtlessness. Just to think of tho poonlo wo ihbL hiHt night hollow, hollow, hollow," Jfe . "Hollow? Not much hollow. I should Buy. Everybody 1 saw was full, and, from the way my head ftwlu, I don't think I ejof Uir!y,"--CoMmu. tiul Travulw,