The Oregon Scout.
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VOL.II.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1886.
NO, 44.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
An Independent weekly Journal, Issued ovo y
Saturday by
JONES & CHANCEY,
Publishers and Proprietors.
A. K. Jo.ves, 1
Editor, J
J II. Chancet,
I Foreman,
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nnd A. M, Meets on tho second and fourth
Saturdays of each month.
O. F. llfii.L, W.M
C. E. Davis, Secretary.
Union I.ohok, No. yn, I. O. O. F. Hejrular
meetings on Friday evenings of each week at
their hall In Union. All brethren in good
standing are invited to attend. Ily order of
tlio lodge. c. vt . i.u.nu, ix. u.
G. A. Thompson, Secy.
Clmrcli Directory.
M. E. Ciioiicii Dlvino service every Sunday
nt 11 n m ntiilT ii. tti. Sumlnv school at it I).
m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
atUitSU. llt.v. n awoj, I'lisiur.
I'liEsiiVTEiiiAN CiiciiCH ltegular church
services every Sauuatli morning and evening,
Vrnvnr mnetlnir each week on Wednesday
evening. Sabbath school every Sabbath at
iu a. m. uov. ii. kiikon kick, rasior.
St. John's Ei-iscoi-.m. Ciiuiich Sorvlco
overy Sunday nt 11 o clock a. in.
Kev. W. H. Powell, Hector.
County Ofllecr.
Judco A. C. Craig
Sheriff A. Ii. Saunders
Clerk 11. F. Wilson
Trensurer A. F. Itenson
School Superintendent J. L. Hlndinan
Surveyor K. Simonis
Coroner E. H. Lewis
COMMlSSIONEltS.
Geo. Acklos Jno. Stanley
Stnto Senator L. II. Itinehart
F. T. Dick E. E. Taylor
iikiri:si:ntativks.
City OHIcerw.
Mayor I), n. Itees
COUNCII.MEy.
S. A.Pursol W. D. lloidloman
J.S. Elliott J. u. Tliomiison
Jno. Kenned v A. Low
Recorder M. F. Davis
Marshal E. E. atcs
Treasurer J. D. Carroll
StreotCominissioncr L. Eaton
Departure of Traiiid.
ltegular east bound trains leavo at 0:30a.
m. West bound trains leave at 4:20 p. m.
I'KOI'USSIONAIi.
J. It. CHITES,
ATTOKIVKV AT I,A1V.
Collecting and probato practice specialties
Olllce, two doors south of Postolllce, Union,
Oregon.
K. EAKIN,
Attorney at Law aad Notary Public.
Odlco, ono door south of J. D. Eaton's storo
Union, Oregon.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. U.,
Physician and Surgeon
Office, ono door south ot J. II. Eaton's storo,
Union, Oregon.
A. E. SCOTT, M. D.,
iiivsiiai ami sa;it;i:,
Has permanently located at North Powdor,
where no will answer all calls.
T. II. CRAWFORD,
ATTOICIVKY AT liAW,
Union, ... - Oregon.
M. Bakek. J. F. Bakkk.
BAKER & BAKER,
Attorneys aoi Counsellors at Law,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
La Ghande, - - Oieegon.
I). IS. REES,
Notary Public
AND-
Conveyancer.
OFFICE State Land Oflice building,
Union, Union County, Oregon.
II. F. BURLEIGH,
Attorney at I.mv, It nil INtatc
unci CollectlnKT A(;ciil,
Land Oflico Business a Specialty.
Office at Alder, Union Co., Oregon.
JC6SE HAKDKSTV,
J. W. 6IIELTOM
SHELTON & HARDESTY,
AI'TOICVKYS AT LAW.
Will practice in Union, Uaker, Grant,
Umatilla anil Morrow Counties, also in the
Supreme Court of Oregon, tho District,
Circuit and Supreme Courts of the United
States.
Mining and Corporation business a spo
Olllce in Union, Oregon.
EASY-GOING SLAVERY.
Fcnturcs of Crndunl Ei-iniu'l-mtioii
In ttra.II.
A Rio le Janeiro correspondent of
The New York Tribune writes: One of
the most gratifying evidences of the
self-control of the Brazilians and their
ability to work out their own political
salvation is the manner in which they
are gradually freeing tho slaves. Those
who most earnestly deirc the extinction
of slavery arc the intelligent slave own
ers themselves. It is true, also, on tho
other hand, that tho most active oppo
sition to abolition comes from slave
owners, from those who have a large
share of negro blood in their own veins.
On tho plantations of the interior slave
laboris tho only kind of labor tobe had
to any extent, and the great problem
witli the codec growers is what to do for
laborers when slavery is iinally abolish
ed. 1 was talking the other day with
a planter of Minas, who has three hun
dred slaves on his plantation, and would
be ruined if slavery were suddenly
abolished. Ho was angry with the em
peror for signing a decree prolonging
slavery for ten years. Every possible
law to circumscribe and diminish the
evils of slavery lias been passed until
the master seems to have no rights
which the slave is bound to respect.
There is no way in which an owner can
make a slave work for him if tho slave
objects. The result is that in tho cities
the slave takes care of himself, works
when he wants to, and gets what he
can, the oy sign of his bondage being
that he pays to his owner a small
weekly tribute out of his earnings. On
the plantations, where tho operation of
new laws is not soon felt, and custom
and tradition are every tiling, the owner
can indeed get a fair amount of work
out of his slaves. But even on the
plantations tho slaves are more like the
vassals of a feudal baron than the slaves
of tho south before the war. It often
costs more to take a slave from one pro
vince to another than the slave is worth,
a large sum being forfeited to the gov
ernment for every slave so removed.
Notwithstanding this, such is the
scarcity of labor that it costs a great
deal to buy a slave. A slave can pur
chase his freedom, however, or some
ono can purchase it for him, at an ex
tremely low figure set by law.
There is a largo and active abolition
society in Rio and branches all over tho
country. This society is constantly
buying the freedom of slaves, and in the
cities slaves are constantly buying their
own libert, so that when tho ten years
which tiio emperor lias set as the
bounds of slavery shall have expired
few slaves will be left to bo liberated.
Already ono province, Ceara, is denud
ed of slaves, and tho inhabitants of that
place take great credit to themselves
therefor and arc never tired of boast
ing about it. They have boasted so
much and held such jubilees of thanks
giving, singing To Deums in their
churches, and all that sort of thing,
that they liavo excited .the jealousy of
other Brazilians, who darkly hint that
in tiio interior of this self-righteous
provinco some slaves yet remain. Ev
ery child born of slave parents in Bra
zil is free, and, of course, no slaves aro
allowed to be brought into tho country.
A child born of slave parents has to bo
taken caro of by the owner of its par
ents until it is old enough to take caro
of itself.
Boyond the abolition of slavery
looms up in Brazil tho question of labor.
Thero can bo but ono solution of tho
problem, and that is immigration. How
to attract this is what is now absorbing
the minds of the statesinon. Tiio labor
of tho liberated slaves and their de
scendants will never bo sufllcient for
tho needs of tho country. They aro by
nature tho most lazy and worthless la
borers in the world and havo a disposi
tion to leave tho plantations and lioek
to tho cities of the seacoast. There
they work just enough to keep them
selves alive, and as long as they can got
raw farina and casasch aro happy.
Ono great drawback to immigration
to Brazil is the bad reputation for health
which tho country has in Europe. Tho
northern seaport towns aro undoubted
ly unhealthy, but in tho south of tho
empire and in tho interior tho climate is
as healthful as could bo wished. Still,
tho horror with which yellow fever is re
garded and the difliculty of making im
migrants understand tho vast sizo of
tho cmpiro and its consequent variety
of climates render tho work 6f attract
ing them here difficult. The Argen
tines owe their great prosperity to tho
constant tide of immigration which is
flowing to their shores, and tho Brazil
ians claim that Argentine agents abroad
omit no opportunity or scruplo at no
means to divert immigrants from Rio to
Buenos Ayrcs.
A "grand lottery" was held hero in
December in aid of tho emancipation
fund. A largo amount of money was
realized, and tho capital prize of $150,-
000 was drawi by a poor mechanic in
Santos. The emancipation fund is a
government affair, and is augmented
by certain lines and taxes accruing be
cause of slavery and by authorized lot
teries. It is devoted to purchasing the
liberties of slaves. As in all South
American countries tho negroes of
Brazil have a strong disposition to re
turn to savagery. Civilization seems
to havo taken but a slight hold on
them. In a thousand little ways they
preserve tiio habits and traditions
of their ancestors. The strange wild
songs anil dances which their fathers
indulged in in Africa and which they
still preserve aro only outward signs of
an innate savagery over which civiliza
tion lias not been able to obtain a mas
tery. I have seen often in tho coast
towns negroes whose faces were mere
masses of scars from wounds which had
been systematically self-indicted in
order that the negro might show in his
face what his tribe and station was after
the manner of his ancestors. A friend
told me that once walking in Para lie
saw an aged negro of gigantic stature
and majestic bearing coming down tho
street. The street was full of negroes,
and, as tho old man came alone, they
all fell on their foreheads to the dust.
Tears fell from the eyes of the object
of their devotion as, with an air worthy
of Francis at Pavia or Napoleon taking
leave of the Old guard, ho passed on
and disappeared. It was ascertained
that the old man was once a great war
rior king in Africa, and was, moreover,
a "fetich man" of wondrous power.
In his slavery and in Ids old age tho
people of his tribe did not forget beside
the Amazon tho devotion they onco
showed him on the Congo.
There is a great ditVercncc in Brazil
between a negro and a man with negro
blood in his veins. In tho States a man
with tho least bit of negro blood in his
veins is regarded as a black man, but in
Brazil a man with very little white
blood in his veins is regarded as a
white man. The people of mixed
blood aro intelligent, ambitious, and
occupy all sorts of prominent positions
in business and in public life. It is not,
of course, considered tho "swell thing"
to have negro blood in one's veins, but
the od'ense is easily forgiven by all ex
cept the most exclusivo and aristocrat
ic of the Brazilians.
An April Day.
Oh, we went picking daffodils
My little love audit
A blue-bird sang upon the fence;
White clouds were riding high,
On a sunny April morning,
With soft winds blowing by.
Oil, wc went out to count the stars,
My little love and 1 1
"O Mamma, see the daffodils
Arc blowing In the sky!"
On a cool, sweet April evening,
When shadows hovered nigh.
Sara Jf. CialJlelil, in St. Mcholas.
After Treatment of Scarlet Fever.
The last stages of scarlet fever, that
of desquamation or tho time of the shed
ding of the cuticle, is attended with dan
ger both for t ho patient ami attendants;
tho patient is peculiarly liablo to com
plications arising from taking cold
easily, aud tho desquamative scales are
a frequent and most certain source of
contagion to tlioso about tho patient.
A writer in a British Medical Journal
says:
"Now to obviate this danger, I have
for several years been in tho habit of
having my patients sponged over tho
whole surface of tho body twico a day
commencing as a rule, about a week
from tho appearanco of tho eruption,
and continuing tho process until the
desquamation is complete with a mix
ture of ono ounce of oatmeal to ono
pint of boiling water; tho solution to be
mado frcsli overy day and used tepid,
or at such temperaturo as may bo com
fortably borne by the back of tho finger.
My reason for using this is that tho
gluten in it sticks tiio scales to each
other and to the surface of tho body,
thus allowing of their being removed
from ono sponging to another, without
the ordinary risk of infecting either at
mosphere or clothes, and greatly lessen
ing tho risk of spreading tho disease.
Secondly, tho gluten fills up the cracks
of the new skin, and protects it from
tho cold, as, patch by patch it becomes
bare, and thus, to say the least, greatly
lessens tho risk of dropsy which so often
follows upon this disease. "jD. Footc's
Health Monthly.
The Mind Cure.
Sister Stowo strolled into tho oflico
and tackled Mr. Fonder-son to subscribo
for a magazine in .tho interest of the
mind cure.
"Aro you a firm believer in the
mind euro ?" asked Mr. Fendcrson,
politty.
"I am," sho replied, decisively.
"Vory well, I havo mado up my
mind not to subscribe for your maga
zine. Now seo if you can cure mo of
it." Anomcnt more nud ho was alone.
California Maverick.
I
I LONDON'S "KISSING GAMES."
Accusation Asjntnnt Knullult Sunday
Srliools of Imiuornl l'rnctlces.
A London correspondent of Tic Xctv
York World write: London religious
society lias been much exercised during
tiio last few days by tho charges that
have been made in relation to tho pre
valence of "kissing games" at Sunday
school soirees. The Daily Telegraph is
responsible for bringing the matter to
public notice, though the original
charge lirst appear in a religious week
ly paper. According to this authority,
Sunday schools and temperance
societies aro developing "kissing
Sanies" in an astonishing and alarming
degree. Tho writer asserts that lie
knew of a Sunday school where such
games goon from 6 in the evening till
midnight, lie tells of a Sunday-school
orgie which lie witnessed which began
with a can-can "to an idiotic song and
time," and he thus describes it:
"First tho upper and then the lower
members of tho body were raised and
swung about. After this an hour was
spent in 'kissing and hissing.' Then
eanic tho great treat called 'The Army.'
Marching round in pairs llicso Sunday
school teachers went through a drill in
which 'present arms' and 'lire a volley'
meant embracing and kissing between
the sexes. When we stato that the
malo 'teachers' knelt down before
their partners to embrace them, and
that six 'volleys' were ordered at once,
or that kissing in that posture was
ordered to continue until tho word 'halt'
from tho fugleman, the reason of our
departure and strong indignant pro
test will be evident."
On this letter The Daily Telegraph
based ono of its most readable edito
rials, in which tho history of tho "kiss
ng game" was gone into with a certain
amount of relish. Tho letter and the
editorial caused, as may well bo imag
ined, a sensation, and during tiio last
two days the columns of the enterpris
ing Fleet street journal have contained
very spicy reading, in the shape of
letters to the editor upholding and
denying the truth of the sad charges.
The first batcli contains some most
stiriouR revelations. Somo of them aro
'oubtlcssly written by wags, but tlicro
remains after perusing the lot a strong
conviction that there is somo truth in
tho charges made. One person calling
himself a "Sunday-school teacher,"
asks saucily, "I should liko to know
what possible harm thero is in tho
amusement referred to?" Another per
son, who gives his address and signs his
name as "John Samuel Gilbcrtson,"
says ho is a teacher at a Sunday school
on Hackney road, and "can unfortunate
ly vouch for tho accuracy of the state
ments, for I havo witnessed what aro in
my opinion most disgtaccful and indeli
cato proceedings between tho younger
teachers and elder scholars of botli
sexes."
In justice to tho Sunday school in
question, it must bo said that Mr.
Matthew R. Richards, chairman of tho
East London Auxiliary Sunday-School
union, denies Mr. Gilbcrtson's state
ment in tolo, and says that tho accused
Sunday school never had a teacher of
his name. Then follows: "An Old
Sunday-School Teacher," whoso letter
may bo worth quoting. Ho says:
"I have been a Sunday-school teacher
and superintendent for upward of thirty
years, and truth compels mo to confess
that, tho evil is very wide-spread. A
short time ago I was invited to give an
address at a meeting in connection with
a certain Sunday school. When I got
thero I found tho teachers and scholars
excitedly engaged in a 'kissing gamo.'
The gentleman who invited mo came to
mo, saying: 'louscowo aro Having a
little social enjoyment! ' j cs, I see, I
replied. 'Como and join in,1 ho added.
'No, thank you; that's nothing in my
line,' I said. I waited somo time, wit
nessing the 'Old Jolly Miller,' 'Kiss in
tho Ring,' etc., expecting that those
would soon give place to something bet
ter. But I was mistaken, for they con
tinued, monopolizing the whole evening
to tho exclusion of addresses, solos, and
recitations. On another occasion nt a
Sunday school of which I was then
kupcrintendent, I had to leavo our own
meeting for a short timo to givo an ad
dress at another meeting. When I re
turned I found our own meeting in full
swing at 'kissing games.' Being much
opposed to theso tilings, I felt it my duty
to cxerciso what authority I possessed,
and therefore put a stop to them at
onco. But tho consequence was that wo
lost a considerable number of teachers
aud scholars, who said in leaving: 'If
wo can not havo theso "social games"
at this school wo can havo them at an
other.' I know of a poor minister who
lost his pastorate for attacking ono of
their cherished institutions. If you
wcrotc insert tho names of all tho Sun
day sell ols in which these kissing games
havo 1 1 on witnessed you would bo ono
huge '.aloguo of them. I could my
self fi.i Nh u largo list"
"II. G.," who gives his address as
"No. .17 Medhurst road, Grovo road,
bow E.," further says: . "I havo seen
theso games practiced at the Sunday
school soirees. I have seen the youths
and girls arrange themselves into dif
ferent couples, and an order is given
from the 'fugclman' to 'prepare,' 'pre
sent arms,' 'lire a volley,' at which the
couples kiss until a fresh order is given
'to seloct other partner.' " A "School
master," of Birmingham, who was in
clined to look upon tho original charge
as a huge joke, says he was surprised
to hear from his own muid-sorvant that
at tho Sunday-school site attended
"Wo often play thoso games." But
sho denied that she had ever seen tho
men kneel to "firo the volleys." On
tho other side, a great many Sunday
school teachers aud superintendents
deny that the practices aro carried on
at all, and so the light goes on.
Tho most interesting result of the
discussion, however, is The Daily Tele
graph's own editorial, which defends
kissing as a peculiarly English tradi
tion, and which was held in high es
teem in tho days of Elizabeth. Gras
nnw, in one of his letters to Faustus,
tells him "that if he could realize some
of the pleasant customs of Britain lie
would hasten thither with tho speed of
Mercury to enjoy tho obliging kindness
of our English busses with heavenly
faces. Wherever you go thero is noth
ing but kisses, ami if you, Faustus, had
but lasted them, on my honor, you
would wisli to reside here not for ten
years only, but for your life." "It is,"
remarks The Daily Telegraph, "this
practice of our Kli.abethau ancestors
not to be imitated, at least not with im
punity, among the host of modern re
vivals which necessitated the uso of
'kissing comfits,' sugared and perfum
ed to add fragrance to the breath, and
as a matter of course, referred to by
Shakespeare, tho all-llccting mirfor of
his time."
AN ANCIENT RELIC.
The Klrst HcIIkIouh l'erlodlcnl Hver
I'ul-Ilaliod In tlio United States.
In view of the fact, says The Galves
ton News, that Dr. Incneus Prime has
lately mado a statement to tlio effect
that lie was tho publisher of ono of tlio
earliest religious papers in tlio country,
Mr. Francis D. Allan, a citizen who has
been associated with Galveston and her
people for more than thirty years,
brings forth a veritable ancient relic in
his possession in tlio shape of a worn
and yellow pamphlet, entitled The
Christian Monitor and Religious Intelli
gencer, and dated April 10, 181.1. Mr.
Allan's father personally conducted tho
publication of tho religious periodical
in Now York, and claims that it was
among tlio very earliest, if not the lirst,
publication of its kind launched fortli
in tlio United States. As its title de
notes, tho contents are devoted exclu
sively to religious topics, such as ser
mons, extracts, contributions from
subscribers, with hero and thero a bit
of poetry thrown in for variety. Tho
following aro a few extracts from "Se
lected Sentiments:"
"Evil is in tho world, and one is a
poor outcast, perishing in tho streets,
while another, no bettor than himself,
is reveling in luxury and refuses to re
lievo him. . . . All men are born equal,
and, as individuals, are endowed by
their Creator with certian inalienable
rights, among which are lilo, liberty,
the uso of property, the pursuit of hap
piness, with the privilege of privato
judgment. . . . The liberty of con
science claimed by man is not for tlio
service of himself, but of his God.
Toleration and intolerance aro therefore
both despotisms."
What a mighty revolution has litera
ture, especially newspapers and period
icals, undergono since tho birth of tills
little sheet. Liko tho famous gourd of
Jonah, newspapers of all classes look
root and multiplied by tlio hundreds
and thousands, with new and original
thoughts, bold and dnring assertions,
magnificent facilities for systematizing
all branches of current literature, anil
other wonderful improvements too
numerous to mention. The worm eat
en, stained, and dilapidated little pamph
let is certainly a curiosity, having
survived almost a century of time. The
first number was originally published in
Now York, in the month of July, 1812,
thus making it seventy-four years of
age. Mr. Francis D. Allan, tho son, is
now 72 yenrs of age, and is a veteran
printer, fifty-six years of his life being
spent in that occupation, Ho is still
setting typo aud publishes a paper
The Galveston Visitor for a fow sub
scribers, but mainly for his own pleas
ure. Ho has boon in this city constant
ly for thirty years, moro or less, except
a few years during the war. Ho is also
secretary of tho Gulf City Streot Rail
way company. He has long since cele
brated his silver and golden weddings,
and expects to bo able to celebrate his
diamond wedding, j
HERE AND THERE.
Philadelphia claims 22,000 moro wo
men than men.
Missouri corn sells nt Fresno, Cal.,
for -10 cents a bushel.
Ono of the oldest settlements in
Illinois is named Chestnut.
The United States havo 8,000 moro
miles of railway than all Europe.
"Snagging tlio buckwheat" is tho
latest inelcgaey for taking the cake.
Laborers on the sugar plantations of
Cuba receive $20 a month and their
board.
Vermont expects to produce ten mil
lion pounds of maple sweetness this
season.
Upward of live thousand people will
sail from New York for Europe between
April and July.
Strangers complain that they aro not
treated with ordinary civility at many
New York churches.
A Butler county, Neb., undertaker
advertises misfit coilins, warranted to
keep in any climate.
It is estimated that about two hun
dred passengers arrive at San Francis
co daily from tlte east.
Col. Battersby estimates tho trado
value of the bridle-bits of tlio country
at more than $0,500,000.
North Carolina, formerly called
South Virginia, was sold to tlio king's
agent for a house and '200.
"Nearly $600 has been subscribed for
establishing a Goetlio library nt the
University of Michigan.
Tlio grand jury of Champaign county,
111., has indicted a wealthy fanner for
stealing from a store a ten-cent husking
lcg.
Dogs in a single night killed and
maimed $500 worth of sheep belonging
to Alva II. James, near Farmer City,
Illinois.
Sugar cultivation has been initiated
in southern Florida. Over two hun
dred acres have b?en prepared for tho
planting of tho cauo near Kissimmco
City, where a large factory will be
erected.
Filial nfl'cction was never moro
strongly exemplified than in a recent
case in Germany, whore a young man
secured a life insurance payable to his
mother, who was very poor, and thon
took poison and died.
When, thrco years ago, two lakes in
Lyme, Conn., were stocked with black
bass they swarmed with porch and pick
orol. The bass have been protected by
law and have increased largely, but tho
porch and pickerel have entirely disap
peared. Tho largest authenticated snako ever
seen was an anaconda, which had
swallowed a horse. His length was
forty feet, and after his feat of lunch
taking lie was indisposed, and was cap
tured by a naturalist who was hunting
specimens in tho Amazon valley.
Two animals recently added to tho
Philadelphia zoo aro tlio harness anto
lopo from Australia and tho hog-nosed
deer from India. Tlio harness antelopo
is striped with white so as to oxactly
resemble an animal in harness, and tho
hog-nosed deer derives its name from
its peculiarity of making a grunting
noise through its nose like a hog.
A singular visitation of death hap
pened at Dlgby, N. S., lately. Peter
Milanson, 80 years of sige, died after a
fow hours' sickness. His wife Mary,
8t years old, for some timo had evinced
n strong desire that her husband should
bo the first to die, as sho did not want
to leave him alone in tho world. After
his death she expressed her willingness
to follow him, aud four hours after hor
husband's demise she too breathed hor
last.
Intelligence of a recent decision of a
United States court nt tlio west, that a
tax on drummers is unconstitutional,
docs not appear to havo reached Balti
more. The police mado a raid upon
theso gentlemen, who wore selling
goods by sample without licenses, and
made a number of arrests. In conse
quence there was a general scamporing
of tlio fraternity.
John Blair, who murdered his wife
nud family in Kansas nud was lynched
for it, was tho son of Rov, Downey
Blair, of Smyrna, Ky. On Sunday,
while ho was preaching, a boy walked
into tlio church and handed him a let
ter. Mr. Blair stopped, broko tho seal,
read a fow words, and then, with a
groan, threw up his hands ami fell to
tho floor. Tho letter had brought him
the first nows of his sou's crime and
death.
John Borrell was driving near tho
railroad track in North Reading, when
his hound that had been following him,
ran on tho track just in timo to bo
struck by a fast locomotive and hurled
fifteen feet in tho air. John thought
there wasn't enough left of tho
dog to mourn over, and drove on.
Looking back after awhile, ho saw tho
hound trotting behind tlio wagon, little
tho worse for his Interview with tha
cow-catcher.
In a church at Elizabeth, N. J., last
week, in tlio course of an altorcatioa
about communion nnd tho nrrnngomcnt
of the baptismal font, u young lad
slapped the rector's face. The actios
was nt considered so eccentric as it
might have scorned in another person,
the same ladv havinjr formerly acquired
n reputation for oddity by ordering aa
iron colllii and refusing to pay for it
This freak cost tho undertaker over
$200