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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1886)
A WISH. Alone with tho evening brcczs, I listen In the bird Whose melodies In lent crnwn'd trees At twilight's hour uro heard. On every floating, fleecy cloud, Mv fntiuy seems to truce Thii' outline of one noble form The beauty of one face. .And In mv dear, deep drennn tonlcht The en endor of two eves AVlll t-hliio on me in fadeless light, Like stum In loiltliern skies 1 I'll heir Ills mild, melodious voice lis dulcet wooititr toll Tor 1 liold Its echoes In mv heart, IJ..0 the feu In n roso-llpp'd shell t 0 Love of mine I so far nway Full manv n weary mllel Mv thoughts of thee hy night and day The dreary ho irs beguile. 1 wlsli, mv Sweet, that wings had II I'll fly away through space, And ere an hour of life passed by I'd gaze upon thy face. .Ami as within the rose's heart The mil's warm kls-cs rest, I'd cling mi close, we could not part, In rapture to thy breast. "TIs we 1, perhaps. Kclovcd, the power Cannot to me bo given For ere lb flight ot thntbr'ef hour This world bad turned to heaven I Aelly Marshall JcAjh; in the Current. TIIE BINSTEAD FARM Vu all know when sister Clarissa Jrtanod llio thousand dollars wit ch was tlio accumulation of her six years of leaching, to Sam Uiiistoad, that it was tin good as sunk in tho sea. And wo told her so. but it was of no uso, for 3011 see, Clissy is ono of those visionary pcoplo who sec tho "angel in tho human heart" most clearly when it Isn't there: and Sam, cousin by a good many removes, hud borrowed out jvery other relative before ho thought t us. Al hadn t a dollar to snare JSho wouldn't liavo if Judge Hilton had liv !ed Ji s legacy with her, and I wouldn't have given him a nickel of my threo hundred if ho had gone on Inn knees lor it; not I butClissy tit nk of it, will you, actually and positively Landed over her thousand dollars as if sho'd been a princess, and said: "I'm very glad to nccommoditto you, Sam. You needn't mind a mortgage, your note s quite sulllcient. 1 know that you will jav it all back." Did he? Well, I think not. You never knew him or you wouldn't ask. To bo Mtro ho died; but ho wouldn't 'Jiave paid it if ho had l.ved, for he was ono ot those easy-going men who wear Hack coats with tho pockets sagging lown, and who always complain of their bad luck-, and never pay their debls. That was tho way that Clis happened to o West. Ho did givo her a mortgage on a farm out in Missouri, and when ho lied, it fell to her. 1 don't suppose tnat she'd have taken it if there'll been anybody to givo it (o; but thoro wasn't, '.mil no btranger would have accepted jt for a present, so she had to keep it. She couldn't sell it, and ohu couldn't rent it for enough to pay tho taxes, sind her tenant)) burnt the fences be cause they woro too lazy to cut wood. JLut the barn tumble down and the Jiouso go to ruin, until ono evening Oissy looked up and said: "I'm going out to my farm." Al almost screamed with surprlso and I was speechless. It was no uso to say anything, for (Jlksy is very decided. J30. tho day that her school closed, she went down to tho depot and bought n ticket to St. Lotus, and took the eve ning tram out as coolly as if sho ex pected to return next day. Al and I went home and had a good cry, and decided that wo should start as soon as our fchools closed, and spend thosum Jiier with her. We taught in town, and had a ten-months year whilo G'l.ssy -was out in tho east-end, where the txhools elosj the last of May. No length of years will ever make auo forget the night that we reached Sparta-lhat is her town and saw dear old C'l ssy 011 the rickety plnttorm, whip in hand, waiting for us. Mess her Hioart, how she hugged us, although she I'nuln'l been nwn live weeks 1 Then slio took us around, behind tho station, to her red, spring-wagon, hitched to tho uiost killing little gray nuilu y on ever jiaw, and wo elainbored in. Sho was mortally afraid of tho little beast, and ho knew It. You'd have died to seo her uutlo him from the post, standing at jinn's length from him. It was two an ili-s to tho farm, and we all threo talked as hard as wo could, anil yet wo Jiadn't begun to toll our news when wo reached that forlorn, unpaiuted old wooden house, with tho chicken-coop right in front. Wo were starving after our threo days' rido, and Clissy had a good supper, and then our life in tho West began. It would tako a book lo tell about tho events of that summer, so I must just j ok out two or three things, that led directly to tho grand linalo: Sho had things started pretty well Avhen wo came. It was to bo a stoek furm, and sho had bought sheep and calves, and avow, and chickens, am a ferocious ohl mother pig w.th a lot of dottio dumpling little p ggies ; but the old cannibal atoup four of thotn-iiow 1 liatod her for it and a hoe, and a big shovel, and lots of other things. Tho lirt morning Al and 1 thought we'd tako a ramble and see how we liked it. Hut ho wanted to go down to tho stream and 1 wanted to go up to tho knob," as Clissy called it, and sco tho landscape. I hadn't got there when a cow looked menacingly at me, and 1 run as 1 never dreamed I could run. Tho man was milking in tho barnyard, mid ho looked up with a grunt when I came Wo hud to call him ' ornrod bo cuiiso ho wondn't answer to Conrad. At d dn't appear to breakfast; but sho 'in such an Irresponsible creature any way, (hat wo supposed sho was sketch ing somu stump, so wo kept her chops Mvurni, and washed the dishes so as to f.luirn before it lieeamo too hot. About Ion o'clock I went out to hunt oggs, and was sure that I heard im mune, in accents wild. I called "Clis eyj" and Corurod!" and wo followed t!ui Bound until wo could seo tho poor gal perched in tr little, shaking thorn tree, about four feet from the irround, wlillo a murderous old nun stood guard ImIow. Sho had boon theio three uleesed hours. Conrad threw a pluco of earth at him, and lie walked nway, Mid (ho poor child limped homo with us. Her hands were all blistered with olinir nfr to lic tree, and sho had scie.Mineil for us till her throat was sore. "I have a fine llock of sheep there rcmaikcd tho proud owner, as wc climbed awkardly over the bars. They arc moro profitable than cat tle, because they increase so rapidl and mature so qu ckly. Tho Increase is finite wonderful. The gentleman ol whom I bought these savs " "Yaw, vaw he sav von lie," inter rupted tho stolid Conrad. "Ho sell you forty rani, ho keep do owe. Increase! Neinl" , CI ssy was silent for two minutes. Then sho said: "A beautiful, scnsitivo plant grows wild hero; it s a briar; perhaps we can nnu one here. "I shall bo delighted," I replied, f ninth. When wo readied the vurd- fence, Al cried in amazement, " hero's tho barn?" And sure as I am telling it, that vicious little mule had kicked it down. It was what they call a "Kansas barn," made of poles, with a straw roof, tied down, to keep it from blow ing oil", and tho beast was cat'ng the roof. When Conrad went up to see about it, ho was sent Hying heels over head, and 1 laughed; ho never forgave me, either. It raned that afternoon, and wo holped Clissy cut carpet-rags for a kitclu-n carpet. Wo were afraid to go down cellar on account of tho enor mous rats, so wo stood in tho stairway and passed m Ik and meat to and from the inviue ble Conrad. He set the three gaping steel train, and we retired the second night in the blissful fancy that the rats would soon Ikj vnnuuislictl. .to ward morning wo were awakened by an odor that would have made those stenches of the plague-stricken Egyp tians seem as pcrfuiuo by contrast. Poor Clissy sat up and gasped. Al be gan lo cry, as usual, and 1 wished that I were a man long enough to swear. It would bo two hours before Conrad camu to investigate, and wo should all die in that timoT knew. What could it b.j? Several thinira were suggested, but the solution was. not satisfactory until Al sprang up from her cot (wo only had ono bed) and screamed. "Oh, I know; its natural gas-. Your bored well has struck it. We shall light tho town and make our fortunes. Hurrah for old Clssy! Now you must do the handsome by us. I will tako a diamond necklace for my wedding-present, and you can build a I101t.su in town and we'll live with you." it seemed so probable that oven Clissy forgot her usual caution and planned a substantial barn on the pos sibility. Wo woro suro that wo hoard rat dragging the trap down collar. and wo ventured to the head of the stairs in the gray dawn and peeped down. Tho natural gas, the supply of which was apparently unlimited, seemed to emanate from the cellar, and was so stilll ng that wo could not investigate long al a time. '( rls," said Al, ",t's not a rat, but tho dearest little black and white crea ture that you ever saw. It's caught by the foot. Where's your book ot natur- history. May bo 1 can tell what it is. "I tako him in von bag und gill hhn." said the manlv tones of Conrad, coming up just then. 'I seluuell him half-milo avay. JWoIu (lott. how over 1 dukes him out vou dot!"' 'Girls," said Cllssv, from the other end of tho porch, 'its the most boun tiful sunrise I ever saw. Only seo tho crimson I Perhaps you won't believe 1110, but wo (Hun t get that odor out of tho house for three months, or out of our clothes either, although wo almost bought out tho Labia's extracts from the .Sparta drugstore J ho day that followed was the most heart-rending of all. We couldn't eat. mil were so faint that wo could scarce- , work. We resolved that no chance isitor should be admitted to tho house upon pain of death to tho oll'cnder. I was learning to make a shortcake when a scream from A I made mo look: up. 'Somebody is coming. bat shall wo doP Co and meet him, ('lis, and keen him from tho house." "Uo s only a tramp, and I think ho is drunk, too. I'd better call Conrad, I'm afraid of a drunken man." Sho walked timidh to the end of the poroh and met the intruder. 1 beg vout pardon, but as 1 was crossing your field in my walk, ono of your rams assaulted me, and made mo so unpresentable, that 1 must ask lor sonio soap and water, and a needle and thread. 1 am a clergyman from tho Village, iiiadaino." Certa uly, said Clissy," "I am very sorry that anything so ser ous should have happoned to you upon my place," and sho showed him into tho sitting room aud.gavo h in the necessary articles. Ho staggered as ho walkoif, and 1 saw that the blood was dripping from Ids hair. Ho was hurt more seriously than ho would conless. Vlin ho had been there an hour wo thought we had better peek, and we did. Ho had got to tho lounge and fallen upon it. Tho blood from his head was dropping upon the lloor, and his face was as pale as death. We forgot all about our mortification at our pi ght, and Hew about in great distress. Clis sy is so motherly and knows so much about over.Uhlng that sho soon brought li.ni around; bandaged his cut and rub bed arnica upon his bruises, He was so modest and pleasant and so patient 1 knew ho was suU'oring dreadfully that we couldn't help udnnr.ng him; and it was such a surprlso to him to find threo ladies in that dosolnto little house, and it was such a surprise to us to find a gentleman in one who looked so like a tramp. And Clissy cleaned his coat it had absorbed a great deal of sticky mud from the rain of the day before and took him homo in I ho evening 111 the horrid spring-wagon, drawn by the mule. W-oll, nothing would do, when ho called the next week, but that wo should come to church and lake class es in tho Sunday school and attend tho socials. And wo found that tho people were pleasant and the country beautiful, and Mr. lluvou oh. well, "l shall not say ono word about him or you will guess but then, who oaros If you do?" Lixtie llyer Xojfl in The ' urrent. COAL CONSPIRATORS. Tlio T.nAv llrnnds Them ns Public Offenders mid C rlinftinls An Out raisrolis Monopoly. Whether tho great anthracite co.v combination is beond the reach of al law is now an jsuie of v.tal importance not only to tho commonwealth of Perm sylvania, but to the entire coai-consum ing community. Gov. Pattison has taken the stand that the law is violated and must bo enforced. Tho coal poo! defies the slate and the courts. It in sists that the authorities are powerlesi to prevent tho combination from regit- lat ng tho sale anil lixmg tho price of coal to sti t its self. The Pennsylvania supremo court has already deciifi.'d th s question, and de cided it adversely to the combinal on. i he decision, tiiotigii rendered nil en years ago, still stands as an expression of the law of the commonwealth as 111 terpreted by its highest court. '1 he facts 111 tho case then decided and the legal principles involved present a re niarkable likeness to those now in issue, A combination of live eonipan es was formed to control the sale and fix the price of tho bituminous coal product on of northern Pennsvlvaii a. The com panies forming the combination repro sontcd almost the cut 10 b tttniiuom coal reg 011 in that part of the state. Thoy had the power to control the maiket 111 the slate 01 rsow lorx and to eilect the market elsewhere. A d s- puto arose between two members of tho pool as to their respective schares of sales and prolits. 1 bo pool ing agreement was made in New Yorl and was lo be c.irried out 111 this slate, the chief market being hero. 'Jin; parties were w thm the jurisdiction ol tho courts of Pennsylvania, whore the coal was in nod, and tho suit was brought there. On one side t was contended that the lonibmaton was against public policy and therefore il legal. On the other it was claimed that its purpose was to lessen expenses, to advance tho qunlitt of the coal, and and to market it in tho best order to tho consumer. Tho supreme court of Pennsylvania decided that tho agreement to combine was a contract against public policy. md therefore illegal, void, and not to bo enforced. Tho court went further. and held that the combination was a criminal conspiracy under tho law of New York, which makes it a 111 s demeanor for two or more persons to conspire "to commit any act in jurious to trade or commerce," and also a criminal conspiracy by tho com mon law in Pennsylvania. Hen: is what the court said of tho character, and nature of the combination: Tho Important fact that these com panies control this immense cod-Held; that it is the great source of supply of bituminous coal to tho state of New York and largo territories westward: that by th s contract the control tho price of coal in this extensive market, and make it bring sums it. would not command if left to the natural laws ol trade; that it concerns an art clo ol prime nei essity for many uses; that its operation is general in "this largo re gion, and allects all who use coal as a fuel, and this is acconiplished by a com bination of all the companies engaged in th s branch of business in the largo region where they operate. Tho com b. nation is wide in scope, general in its inlluenco, and injur 011s in effects. These being its features the contract is against publ e poliej, illegal, and there fore void. The court then cited numerous authorities to show that a comb nation to create a "corner" m a neeessan ol life and to advance its price to the con sumer is a conspiracy pun shable by tlie criminal law, and proceeded as fol lows: The restrictions laid upon tho pro duction and price of coal can not be sanctioned as reasonable in view of their intimate relat on to the public in terests. Tho field of operation is too wide and the inlluenco too gmeral. S.ngly each member of the combina tion might have suspended deliveries and sales of coal to suit his own inter ests and 111 ght have raised the pr ce, oven hough t It is might have been d t rnnental to the public interest. Thoro is a certain freedom which must be al lowed to everv one in the management of his own nlfairsi When compel 011 is loft free, individual error or folly w II generally Hint a coi ruction in tho con duct of others. 15ut here is a combination of all tho companies operat ng in the Hlossburg and Harciay mining regions and con trolling their entire pro luctions. They have combined together to govern the supply and tho price of coal in al1 the markets from the Hudson to the Miss issippi river, and from Pennsylvania to tho lakes. 'I his comb nation has a pow er in its confederated form wh eh no individual net on can confer. The pub lie interest must succumb to it. for it has lott no competitor free to correct its baneful intluenee. lieu the Mtpplv of coal is suspend ed tho demand for it becomes impor tunate, and prices must rise. Or it' tho supply goes forward the price Iked by the confederates must ac. oinpany it. Tho domestic hearth, tho furnaces of tho iron muster, and the Hies of the manufacturer all feel the restraint, while the many dependent hands am paralyz. d. anil hungry mouths are stinted. The inlluenco of a lack of supply or a rise In the prieo of an article of such prime necessity can not bo measured. It permeates the entire mass of the community, and leaves few of its members untouch d by its withering blight. Such a combination is more than a contract. It is an ulfense. Tho direct force and npplicab'ltv of this language to tho ease of the anthracite coal combination are ap parent. The attorney general of Penn sylvania can make oifuetivo use of this deels on which Is dead against the tool. .Voitf Vork llernhl. Several years ago gold badges, at a cost of $10 oauh, were presented to tho Youkers, N. Y., elty council for some remarkably good ordiuanou that the had passed. Tho gold loaf hav 11 worn off the honest uhleruiuu (h d themselves in posie&s.ou of leaden cues. WHAT IS DRANK? A Snniplo of tlio Decoctions Served, nt Flrst-Clnss Un.ru" llrnndy, Item, (iln, and ISourbon, from tlio Snmn I'aucct Intcrejt llii: Jievelat Ioiim for Gtizzlors. A trade c'rcnlar, issued by Mr. John I). Ilounihan, of IJtilfalo, N. Y., lately came into The Cincinnati Jlnqnircr's hands. It is not exactly adapted for general circulation, and belongs to that class of literature which the recipients are supposed to kcoji under lock and kov not because of any indelicate allusions to the anatomy of the human frame, but because Mr. Ilounihan as sumes that ho is addressing liquor deal cr.s alone, and hence makes no bones of mentioning the passwords, signs, grips, and secret work generally of the sample-room neighborhood. Ho says: "I have written a book on the process of making whisky, brandy, gin, ale, porter, lagar beer, and everything pertaining to tho business. The re cipes are so simple that a boy 10 years old can make in your cellar or back room twenty gallons of llourbon wh sky inside of an hour, and vou may place it side by side with the genuine, and you can not tell the difference by look or taste. "My directions' for imitatinir Bourbon whisky, Ir sh whisky, and French brandy are the best in" existence. You may put my imitations and the !ienu.ne side by side, and tho best judge will pronounce them tho same, lk-sidos, thoy can bo made to present tho ap pearance of being twenty years old. "It is a fact known to" a great many liquor dealers that half of the whisky now sold in this country never passed though a still, for it is nearly all adul terated more or less. "As reference I could mention manv of the first hotel bars of Maryland and Pennsylvania now using my book as a guide; but, considering the nature of tiie book, I will not mention names." J his precious book is not a bad-look ing little volume, and talks out in meet ing on the title page in this style: "l ho secret process of manufactur ing whisky, brandy, rum. gin, bitters, w nc, champagne, lager, ale, nop. cider, spruce beer, etc., in tho cheap est way, w thont tho uso of tho still. flow to doctor poor liquors: how to double your prolits by thinning down how to imitate, without discovery; etc. Among about ono hundred receipts. it g ves seven for making champagne, 0110 for making beer without apples, one for making beer without malt or hops, and one for making old barrels out of new ones. iVs old whisky-barrels aro moro valuable than those that come from the cooper's hands, some enterprising citizen may like to go into the business of instantly metamorphosing voting md lusty casks into hoary patriarchs. To do this dissolve in three gallons of water three pounds of sulphuric acid mil one pound of sulphate of iron. Wash your barrel with this mixture on the outside, and in a few hours they will be as rusty and venerable as though they h.id lain in a warehouse for forty vears. 15ut Mr. Ilounihan. of Hnllallo, by no means has a monopoly of th.s branch of instruction in the higher walks of the spirit business. Alexander rnes k Urother, ,os. -10, IS, and 50 Hast Second street, in this city, issue a book made up solely of re cipes and price-lists for manufacturing everything in the liquor line from chemicals and a barrel of proof-sp rits. In tho following guarded sentence they explain the value of this method of spirit manufacture: "Part -es not wishing to keep a largo stock of liquor on. hand will Hud it to their interest to lav in an assortment of the oils and essence, which will 011- iblo them to f til large orders at tho shortest notice." For instance an ordor comes over tho wires to the wide-awake merchant for fortv gallons of port wine, to bo ship ped by the G:20 P. M. express, lloing ono of those parties who do not desire to keep a largo stock of 1 quoron hand, tho merchant walks into his back room, closes the door, and manufactures tho port wine with neatness and dispatch. In case he follows tho rocipe given by Messrs. Fries & Hrother, his formula is as follows: Port Wine For ono barrel: 30 gal lons eider after tho samo has ferment ed, f gallons spirit, 4 gallons sirup, i pound powdered gum kino, J pound tartaric acid. 0 to b ounces port wine llavor. To produce a bettor quality, add either a few gallons Gorman cher ry juico or am kind of pure w.ne. uoior lor rort 1110 uno ounce az- uline, four ounces of sugar coloring lo the ban el. hut in case ho desires to mako a cheaper wine even than can bo manu factured from tho innocent ingred onts above, ho fills his barrel with a mixt ure made up of !5!J gallons prepared cider, ij gallons natural spirits. ! pounds refined sugar. J ounces tincture no, 1 ounce tartaric neid, b ounces rhatnny root, powdered; !J pounds rais ins, 1 quart alcoholic starch solut on. lake notice, please, that tho first article called for is thirty-throe gallons prepared eider. The prepared cider is of his own preparation, and. as the bulk of it is pure water, it ought not to bo too expensive for uso in tho manu facture of port w nes slid champagne by tho most economical artist. The formula upon which it is mado is 4,;15 gallons soft watei, It5 pounds brown su gar, li pounds of tarlario acid, 1 quart yeast. Stir up well nnd stand iwontt four hours with tho bung out. Then add ft gallons neutral spirit and bung tight. Maud fortv-olght hours, and it s ready for use." In case his order chaticos to bo twelvo W. -n champaign, ho is unable to fill it in lose than ten days; but givo him that tim liin.t and he will at ts expiration ship tho llzx dulv wired down, tin -foiled and labeled with French labels. To loso he first places 35 gallons prepared eider, made as mtod above, in clean oask. following it w.th 4 gallons ueu- ral spirits, H ounces tartaric acid (crys d zed) pounds reliuod sugar, 4 rant xiuou ju ce, 3 pounds raia'ns, 1 pound honoy, J pint ve.ist. They aro to lm mixed, well and allowed to stand for ten days. If not sparkling I10 adds more acid until it is, and finally bottles the mixture, adding a picco of white sugar the size of a pea to each bottle, and then corking, wiring and labeling the liniilied product. The recipes given in those and other secret books ot the same ilk of which nt least a dozen are issued throw a Hood of light upon tho puzzling ques tions often asked by those who know ' tho capacity of French vinoxards as to how it is possible to sell French wines and brandies in America at lower rates than those for which thov can possibly ' be purchased at home. Taking tlio case of Chateau Yguem, tho entire vintage never exceeds 120 cask!, and the price of the new wine is SI. '200 a cask, or $20 a gallon say 4 a bottle. Yet ono can buy what is labeled Chateau Yguem at almost anv retail liquor house at from S2 to $5 "a bottle. Tho yield of the Chateau Lafitte is 180 casks a year, and the new mi retails in Paris for $4.50 a bottle. Like Chateau Marguax and Chateau Latour, Lafitte is almost a drug in our market, hut that there aro I adulterated wines and liquors in the market is a fact well known much more generally known than tho other fact that the cheering potations are eftcner manufactured outright from foreign substances than adulterated. It is not the province of til s article to establish these points; it is merly our inten tion to tell in as few words as possible how tho manufacturing is carried on, and lo-gtvo tho recipes as they are fur nished to dealers by the chemists. To make those heart-warming drops of distilled fire known as cordials, tho chemist furnishes the following direc tions: Kummel Take about one-fourth pound of cordial essence, cut in one half gallon alcohol, 3G gallons spirit, and 4 gallons sugar sirup. Peppemint Dissolve one-half pound of tho essence in 1 gallon of alcohol, and add to 35 gallons spirit, proof, 4 gallons sugar sirup, one-half pound of our peppermint coloring. llrnvdlcttne, 1 8 ounces efcncc rut In one- Cliartrcuac, I Imlf ksiIIuii nlcuhul, 2 r.i1- (,'uracoa, tona sirup lo 1 barrel nJ Maraschino, J color. Absinthe Twenty gallons cologno spirit, proof, 1 pound essence cut in al cohol, 1 pint sugar sirup. Color is made of 6 parts solution curcuma, 2 parts indigo carmine, mixed. Gin, rum, brandies, and punches may be manufactured severally from the samo barrel of proof spirits by adding to the spirits--for apple brand v, 4 ounces of apple essence to 40 gallons sp.rit: for cognac, 4 ounces cognac cs- sonce to 40 gallons spirit; for Holland gin, old Tom, rye, Sclinicdain schnapps and London dock gin, aifd 4 ounces in each case of the essence to 10 gallons of spirit and 1J pin's of sugar sirup; for Jamaica rum, use one-half pound Jamaica rum essence and one-half pint of sugar coloring to 40 gallons of proof spirit. In each of the above cases the mixture is to be reduced to the desired alcoholic strength by the addition of water in proper proportions. This can be readily done when it is known that the average alcoholic strength of the various liquors is about as follows: liliine wine. 11 percent.; slieruy, 20 percent.; claret, 10 per cent. ; port, 21; Marsala, 20; champagne. 11; brandy. 51; rum, 74; gin, 50; whisky, GO; cider, u'; bitter ale, !); lager beer 0. As a great many customers judge of tho fineness and quality of a sample of liquor by the bead which it carr.es when newly poured into the glass the chemist has 'put the gray matter of h;s brain to work in devising an artificial bead for the manufactured product. What is meant by the "bead' is the appearance presented on the surfaco of tho spirit by a number of pearly, oilv-lookiig drops or beads hanging to tho sides of the glass, and it may De attained bv adding onlv half an ounce of "bead- oil" to each forty gallons of proof sp rits. "The beads will bo of a uni- lorm size, ' says t lie ciiomist s book", "and perfectly natural at any and all temperatures." Ono ounce of raisin-oil added to one barrel of Uourbon or rvo whisky will give tlie taslo of ago to tho same, and four onces of rats n-oil m a barrel of ISourbon whisky will make a most beau tiful brandy equal to the imported The Dimensions of Ileaveii. "And ho measured the city with the reed, 12,000 furlongs. Tho length and breadth and the height of it are equal." Hev. xxi. lb'. Twelve thousand furlongs, 7,920.000 feot, which being cubed. 19C.793.0-S8,-000,000,001.000 cubic feet. -Half of th s we will reserve for the Throne of God and the Court of Heaven, and half tho balance for streets, leaving a remainder of 124, 198,272,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Divide this by 4,09(3, the cubical feet in a room sixteen feet square, ami thoro will bo 30.321.843.750,000,000 rooms. Wo will now suppose the world alwavs did and always will contain 990,OOO.b()0 inhabitants, and that a generation lasts for 33J years, making 111 all 2.970.0i'0,. 000 every centurv, and that the world will stand lOO.OuO u-ars, or 1 000 cen turies, making in all 2.970,000,000.100 inhabitants, ulien suppose there were 100 worlds equal to this in number of inhabitants and duration of years, mak ing a total of 297,000.000.000,000 por sous. and there wool I be more than a hundred rooms sixto m feet sqtiaro for each person. Tan Ic of Knowledge. A Sham Story. Ono of the numerous commercial philanthrophists who go about on tho streets selling patented wares called at the residence of a well known cit zen on Henry street, and was confronted by the householder himself. "I am selling an improved sham holder " ho began and was curtly in terrupted: "l detest shams." "hut this puU thorn on, folds thorn up-" "I don't deal in shams!" "If you will try our patent sham " 1 don't deal with shams." Tho philanthropist looked at tho irate citizen who was getting ready to close the door. 'My dear sir," ho asked humbly, "are vou in real oarnest, or only shatn mingr"" Ho sold him one Detroit I'nc 1'rcss. TIIE COCAINE IIAIHT. Tlio "IVornt Klnverj Known Tiexr Ilevclntlons of Power. Ctnclnnatt Tlmei-Star. When Cocaine wns discovered tho mcdl icnl world exefaimed "thank hen von!" But useful as it Is, It is also dangerous, especially when its use is perverted from tliodeadenins of pnhi for surgical oper ations, to the stimulation nnd destruction of tho human body. Its first efforts nro Roothing and ca tivntins, but tho thral dom is tho most horrible slavery known to humnnity. J. L. Stephens, M. D., ot Lebanon, O., was interviewed by our reporter yesterday at tho Grand Hotel, and during tho con versation tho doctor said: "Tlio cocnino habit is a thousand times worso than tho morphine and opium habits, and you would be astonished," ho said, "if you knew how frightfully the habit is increasing." "What nro its vfrccts?" "It Is the worst constitution wrecker ever known. It ruins theliver a.id kidneys in half a year, nnd when this work is done, the strongest constitution noon miccunibs." "Do you know of Dr. Underbill's enso hero in Cincinnati?" "That lending physician nlu became n. victim of the cocnino habit? Yes. Ilia case was a very sad one, but tho hnoit can bo cured. I have rescued many a man from a worso condition." "What, worse than Dr. UnderliHI's?" "Indeed, sir, lar so. Justin M. Hall, A. jr., M. D., president of tlio ytnle Hoard ol Health of Iowa, and a famed practitioner, and Alexander Neil, M. D professor of surgery in the Columbus Medical College, nnd president of tlie Academy of Medicine, man widely known, liov. W. P. Clancoy. of Indianapolis, Ind., from personal ex perience in opium cnting, etc., can toll you of tho kind or success our form of treat ment wins, and so can II. C. Wilson, for merly of Cincinnati, who is now associated with mo." "Would you mind lotting or renders into tho secret of your methods?" "Well, young man, you surely have n good bit of assurance to ask a man to give his business away to tlio public; but I won't wholly disappoint you. I have treated over 20,000 patients. In common with many eminent physician, I, for yean made a closo study of tho effects of tho habits on the system and the organs which they most severely attack. Dr. Hall, Dr. Noil and Mr. Wilson, whom I havo men tioned, and hundreds of others, equally as expert, mado many similar experiments on their own bclinlf. We each found that these drugs worked most destructively in tho kidneys nnd liver; in tact, finally de stroyed them. It wns then apparent that no euro could bo effected until tlioso organs could bo restored to hcallh. Wo recently exhausted the entiro range of medical sci ence, experimenting with all known reme dies for these organs, nnd us the result of theso close investigations wo all substan tially agreed, though follow ing different; lines of inquiry, that the most reliable, sci entific preparation, wns Warner's nnfo cure. This was the second point in tho discovery. Tho third wns our own prlvato form of treatment, which, of course, wo do not di vulge to tlio public. Every easo that we have treated first with Warner's safe curi then with our own privnto treatment, and followed up nain with Warner's snfo cure for n few weeks, has been successful. Theso habits can't bo cured without using it, be cause the habit is nourished nnd sustained in tho liver and kidneys. The habit can bo kept up in moderation, how over, if freo use bo also made at the samo time, of that great remedy." "Yes, it is a world famed and justly cele brated specific! I.iko many other physi cians, I used lo derido tho claims made for it, but I know now for a fact that it is tho world's greatest blessing, having sovereign power over hitherto incurable diseases of tho kidneys and liver, and when, I havo said that, young man, I havo said nearly everything, formostdisenses originate in or nro aggravated by, a depraved condition o! tho kidneys." "People- do not realize thi, because, singular ns it may seem, tlio kidneys may bo in a very advanced stage of decomposi tion, nnd yet owing to tho fact that thero aro but few nerves of sensation in them tho subject will not oxpnrience much pain there in. On this nccounfc thousands ol people dio every yenr of kidney disease unknow ingly. They havo so called disorders of tho head, of tho henrt and lungs and stomach, nnd treat them in Tain, for tho real causa of their misery is deranged kidneys, nnd if they were restored to health tho other dis orders would soon disappear." Dr. Stephen's cxperienco, that enn ba confirmed by many thousands whom he lms treated, addB only more emphasis to tho experience ot lpany hundreds of thou sands all over tho world, that tho remedy ho relcrs to is without any doubt tho most beneficient discovery ever civea to hu manity. Tho Mexican Embas3y. During the Cutting1 controversy thcMciIesa minister here Interrupted tho jiro!;rcj3 of plana for a legation builulnjr. not knowing what might be the result of Mr. Baynrd's demand. Since then confidence has been restored audi the architect has completed his work. Tho design has been sent to Mexico for the ap proval of Mr. Marhcal. The site selected for the building is on the north side of I street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, anJ will occupy the ground now covered hy livn frame dwe'llluga. Mr. Foster, er minister to Mexico, lives on tho east and Chief Justice Walte on the west side ol the lot. 1 ho build ing Is to cost 50,000. and will In some respect be similar to the British legation building on Connecticut avenue. OfUccs for the clerks and attaches of the legation will be loeatedoQ the first floor. The remainder o the bulldlus will be fitted up In a handsome anner as tlie resldeuce of the Mexican n ulster. Tho British and German legations are the only ones at present occupying bu.ldlmjs owned by their governments. H'aihiiigton Cor, Aev Jo JlfU Moy Ah Kee, a laundryuian In Chicago, pro tented to the Cook county court a certificate or declaration to become a citizen, made in Nev YorK five years ago, and requested naturalisa tion paper. For some yeai he was tlk otll clal Interpreter of the circuit court at Sim Francisco, and speaks English like a native. Judge I'rcndergast Instructed the Ctiluainau to employ an attorney to argue tlie question oC his eligibility to citizenship under the law ot lbTS. A deputation of French protectionists rolled upon President Grcvy to demand speedy ac tion on the bill beXore the chambers raUlu;; the Imiort duty ou wheat from I! to 5 f raucs. Dr. Abbott, a dentist, the oldest member ol the American colony at Berlin, Is dead.