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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1887)
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. A .Muttrr Which I)i-cri-s tlir- Thntichtrul CiinliliTiitliin or Agriculturists. Hoxv to get -rood roads may well he discussed hy farmers' clubs, ami should he thought about hy every fanner. How important this matter is, is shown "hy the following statement made hy 3Slr. Rudolph Hering, president of the .Enquirers' Cluh, of Philadelphia: A load whieh one horse can draw on level iron rails will require on smooth, level asphalt road, one and two-thirds horses; on had Belgian pavement, three and one-eighth horses; on good t-ohhle-stone road, seven horses; on had cobble-stone road, thirteen horses; on ordinary earth road, twenty horses; on and road, forty horses. Good roads not only save horse-llesh hut vehicles. Take what are ordinar ily called "good roads" and "had roads," and a vehicle used on the first only will last twice as long, at least: as one used on the latter only. No one can douht that country roads would he fifty per cent, hetter than they now are if the money and lahor put upon them were properly applied. How to have that work and money properly applied is the matter to ho discussed, that the host methods may he ready for adoption when the season for road-making comes. Whether or not the road-hod should he only surface-drained, or underdrained with tile, or hy putting in a corduroy foundation; whether or not gravel or plank should 1"' Used; how best to use gravel, or plank, or tile these are points to ho decided. The fanner's cluh should also discuss specifically the repair of each highway in the neigh borhood. T his will lead, among other things, loan understanding whether or not it will he proper to shorten a high way hy straightening it; whether a road that now goes around a hill should ho carried over it hy grading down the hill, or whether making a road longer hy ocrrx ing it around a hill will he compensated for hy the less grade; how to keep weeds from growing in the highways, to seed the adjacent land, and many other points which, thus be ing (settled, would greatly add to the improvement of the roads. American Agriculturist. FEEDING SWINE. Ilmr linen Can lie .Xli.tle to (iron- I'rollt uhly Dtirlni; ('old Wi lli her. It has heeu found advantageous to feed swine oft oner than twice daily, and during the winter the first food should ho given moderately early, and the evening feed should he given not at, four or live o'clock, as is the custom with many, hut at ahout G:'M. Four teen or lifteou hours between the even ing and morning foods are periods alto gether too long for comfort and profit, as the appetite is liable to become rav enous, tile animal gorging itself unduly. It : a great mistake to suppose that it is onlx required to rush the food into the hog's stomach, regardless of quan tity or intervals between. The stomach is of quite moderate capacity, and when crammed the process of digestion goes on like a horse laboring at a load he can not move, the work being done tardily and only partially completed. In eases of incomplete digestion a por tion of the food given is lost, passing oil' through the bowels and going to the 'manure pile. The art of feeding, there fore, does not merely consist in shovel ing out corn, without judgment or lim it, but in studying the natural capacity for digestion, and feeding to this ca pacity, or a little inside of it, that all the food given may be put in shape for assimilation. Under entirely can-less management hogs are not usually found to gain in weight during cold weather. Many farmers do not expect their hogs to grow to any considerable extent during winter. That they can be made to grow profitably has often enough been proved. Xulional J. ire-Stock Journal. .John M. AouT, of Martinshurg, V7. Va., died recently, aged ninety-one years. He not only was the oldest man in the town, but had boon a church member sixty years, had never used tobacco, and never-drank whisky or other intoxicants, and was never heard to utter tin oath N. 1 . Sun. To Regulate mFAVORlTK HOME KK.MKDV ! airar.icd not to contain a unfile par ticle of Mercury or .ny injurious suu unce, but In imrt'ly v.-Bi'tishli". It will Cure all Diseases caused by Derangement of the Liver, Kidneys and Stomach. If your Liver is out of order, then your wb ile system U deranged. The blood is nnpi.re, the breath offensive; you have headache, feel languid, dispirited and ncrvutis To prevent a more serious con. clilii n, take at once Simmons T TTTTITO REGULATOR. If you lead a I I U r K sedentary life, or suffer with Ui f JJJLL Kliln.'.v AllV'otlniiK, avoid t. mutants and take Simmons Liver Regulator. Suie to relieve If you have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals or sleepless at night, take a dose ami jou v. ill feel relieved and sleep pleasantly. If yeu are a miserable sufferer with Constipation, lyhiei-lu and Ulliollsness, seek relief at once in Simmons Liver Regulator It does no. require continual dosing, and costs but a trine It will cure you. if you w ake up in the morning with a bitter, bad taste in yuur mouth, JYJ B T7Y1 Simmons Liver Regulator. It ear. I IX II C reels the lliliou Stomach, sweeten JL 12.1 2. JLJ the flrcath, andclcamcs lh Furred T ongu Children often need some safe Cathar tic a'id Tunic to avert approaching sickness imii.un liver Regulator will r.lieve Colis., Head, jche, Siik Stomach. Indige-tion, Dysentery, and the Complaint incident lo Childhood. At any time you feel your system needs cleansing, toning, regulating without vioU at purging, or stimulating without intoxi cating, take Simmons Livor Regulator. FREPARED DY J. II. ZEILIN & CO., Philadelphia Pa lMtlCK, t-1.00. NUi wo ON ETIQULI re. . TIow Yii'i Citit Mnlcp Voiirrfe'r ropul:ir with 1'rli'inU mill stnwisrr. When you are invited to dine at the house of a friend or acquaintance, it is not considered good form to reply that you would enjoy it above all things; hut, unfortunately, you are very hun gry anil do not see how you can possi bly accommodate him. At all events. never make matters worse hy adding that you will be pleased to come some I other time on Fast Hay, for instance. 1 On being asked to "take something," whatever that may mean, it is hardly j proper to inform the inviter that your stomach has some rights which vou are i hound to respect, and if it is all the same to him, you will take as an equiv alent the money which the "some thing" would cost. A the generality of mankind stands in pressing need of exercise, it is a duty you owe to society to furnish others with all the exercise you can possibly vouchsafe to them. Hence, when walk ing the streets, trail your cane or um brella, so that the man behind you shall be kept hopping ami skipping about like an insane kangaroo, in order to keep hiinelf from tripping over your oll'onsive weapon. It has been pointed out that the seats in a rail ear are death-traps which have a fashion of shutting up and holding the occupant until the tire in the over turned stove ,has time to cremate him or her; consequently it will he seen that you do a kindness to others, es pecially to women, by preventing them, it possible, from obtaining seats. If they are made to stand, of course they escape the dangers incillent to the per ilous seat. The knowledge of having performed a kind act always tills one with supreme pleasure, especially when lie can contemplate his good act in a comfortable position. As it is very trying to one's eye t to read print in the ears, it is proper for you to prevent your neighbor from in juring his eyesight by reading his news paper. Therefore put a stop to his read ing, either by talkingtohiin continually about something no niattiT what, so that it interests yourself or read to him detached sentences and "good things" from your own paper. He may not thank you: but what of that? l?ocause he is ungrateful, must you therefore forgot your duty to your follow man? When you are enjoying your cigar alone, and a friend drops in tell him Mill would ask him to smoke, but you fear that the smoke of two such cigars would sull'ocate both of you. Your friend will greatly enjoy your pleas- intry, and ho will also be happy because of the opportunity you have given him to inform all his acquaintances, and all yours, that vou smoke mighty poor jars. Besides, you save a cigar. When one is tolling you a long and dry story about the wav his housemaid joes on, put on a melancholy look and put a stop to his story at the earliest convenient moment by asking him some iiTovelant question, as, for example, what he thinks of the late strike, what his opinions are of a possible war in Europe, or what are his views on white mice or the eventual restoration of the Jews. Your doleful faee will show him that you sympathize deeply in his suf ferings, ami your clover turning of the subject of conversation will convince him, if he had any doubts before, that his story is too painful for you to listen to it. When the shopman has given you too much money in change, say nothing, but put the money in your pocket. It is always mortifying to be told of one's errors, men it, snouiu no reinemnereu the opportunities of being paid for one's forbearance are too infrequent to be neglected. These are onlv a few of the many nice points of etiquette that might be men tioned; but they will suffice to show that one who knows nothing about eti quette can write as well upon that .sub ject as upon any other with which lie is equally unacquainted. Boston Trim- script. CIGAR STUMP SALES. The Iti-iiiiirkiililn Industry Currleil On hy l.iitiTirnuiLr 1-iiriiiniis. Among the curiosities of Paris is the market for cigar stuinos in the Place Mauln'rt. Me.got, by profession a col lector of those stumps, initiated me one line morning into the mysteries of his peculiar calling. Every day from eight to ten a. in. the market is full of life. A kilogramme (two and oue-lifth pounds) if stuinns from Londros cigars is worm JO cents to fiO cents, according to the length of the . stump. I lie ends ot cigars it 1 and emits each only bring from 15 '.outs to .1J cents a kilogramme. There .ire four or live wholesale dealers in ir:w stuinns. who have their head quarters in the wine shops of the vicinity, mil who there ileal Willi tne iuriiisuors, mostly poor old men and women and ragged hoys. Some oOO persons earn their living after this fashion. The .mount annually produced by the tratlio is said to reach "Sl.'iO.OOO. Much of the Hibaceo thus scraped together is sold to workmen, and much is also said to be axported under the title of "Tahae do Paris." There is one old fellow in the Maubort quarter who, some years ago, occame so rich at this humble business )f selling cigar stumps that he had an Mutual income of $3.0.W. But my frienu Megot turned out badly. Not satisfied, I suppose, with what he win able to ;lean by the public way, ho was recently aught "in the act of stealing in the shop f a tobacconist. Ho said, hy way of reusing himself, that he had never icard of a law which forbade taking ....if 'I'l.i. u utiii'li. mbrht HHkx fur ui excue; hut tlie Pari police are a ig-hoath-d lot, and wouldn't see the loke. They walked poor Mug ofl lo n .He place of durance which they Uuro . tUUllnWwrt A?t, in Ml muku Sentiiiil. RAILROAD HORRORS. Rrrisrit of the Morn N tublo DlmntcM of Thl Uricrlptliui. 18-12 May 8, oil passengers burned to death near Belleville, Krance. 1833 May 0, 4li persons killed. HO in jured, at open drawbridge, Xor walk, Conn. lSot October 21, -10 passengers killed on the Great Western in Canada. 185G tluly 17. G2 persons, mostly chil dren, burned and 100 injured on North Pennsylvania railroad. 1837 March 17, (50 persons killed on Ureal Western of Canada at Dcs Jardine Canal. 1857 dune 28. 11 killed and 100 in jured near I.owishan, England. 1859 June 27. HO persons killed and 10 wounded by a washout on Mich igan Southern, near South llend, lml. 1859 August 2, 13 persons killed on Albany, Vermont & Canada rail road in Tomhannock creek. 1859 December 31, 1 ' persons killed at a bridge near Columbus, (!a. 18G1 August 25. 23 persons killed. 100 injured at Croyden tunnel, near London, England. 1SG2 October 13, 15 persons killed, GO injured near Winchburg, Scot land. 1SG2 duly 15, 50 persons killed, GO in jured on the Erie road near Port darvis. 18G7 December 18, 19 persons burned to death near Angola, Lake Shore; December 11. 13 lives lost at Uanlan bridge, Vermont Cen tral railroad. ISr.S April It, 20 persons killed. GO in jured at Carrs Kock, near Port darvis. 1SGS August 20, 33 persons burned at Abergele. North Wales. 18G8 August 20. 21 persons killed, GO injured on Northwestern railway of Bohemia. 1869 July II, 10 persons burned a Mast Hope, N. Y., on Erie road. 1871 July 3, 15 persons killed, 20 in jured at Harpcth lliver. Tenn. 1871 August 2G, 30 persons killed, 5C injured by collision at Kevero, near Huston, Mass. 1871 February G, 22 lives lost by the burning of an oil train at New Hamburgh, N. Y. 1S72 December 21, 19 killed by a tram falling into a ravine at Norwich, England. 1S71 September 10. 21 killed, 10 wounded by collision at Shipton, England. 1ST 1 September 20. 13 drowned by a train plunging into the Cherwell r'ner, England. 1S7G January 21, 13 killed by collision on the Great Northern railway, England. 1S7G September 2G, 25 killed by acci dent at lilock Lick station, Penn. 1S7G December 28, over 100 live. were lost by the disaster at Ash tabula, O. 1879 December 23, 200 drowned by a train breaking through the Tay bridge. Scotland. 1881 March 3, -10 emigrants killed in collision at Macon, Mo. Wreck ing train proceeding to scene anil ditched and 9 persons killed. 18S2 January 13, collision on the Hud son river railroad near Spuyton Duyvil; 8 lives lost, including Senator Webster Wagner. 1883 March 30, loss of 33 lives by n railroad accident on the Cincin nati Southern railroad near Ma son's Station, Ohio. June 2G, If Chinamen killed by an aeciden' on the Northern Paeilie railroad in Montana. July 28, accident on the Koine, Watertown it Og densbiirgh road at Carlyon; 22 persons killed; over 10 injured. November 29, 18 persons kill ed at St. Meon, France. 1881 January 2, 25 persons killed by a ra lroad collision iiearToronto. May I, col ision near Councils ville, Pa., ,14 lives lost. Jun G, 1 I persons killed by an accident on the Missouri Pacific railroad near Muieola. Juno 17, 1 1 per sons killed by disaster at New Laredo, N. M. June 28, a train falls through a bridge near Cun ningham, Mo.; 20 persons killed or wounded. July 1(5, accident on the Manchester and Shelliehl railway, England; 25 lives lost. November 1 1, 13 persons perish in a collision at llanau, Austria. 18S5 January 30,railroad disaster near Sydney, N. S. W.; 10 persons killed. June 8, a train derailed by robbers near Kaslofl", Kussia; 70 persons killed and wounded. October 18, collision betweei three Pennsylvania railroad tniins near Jersey City; 12 poi sons killed. December 15, col lisiou near Austell, (la.; 12 lives lost. 188G January 13, train wrecked at Valdivia, lvu; 30 soldiers per ish. March 10, collision be tween Monte Carlo and Mciitono, Italy; 20 persons killed. Sep tember II, collision on the "Nickel Plato" road neitr lluf falo; 2tt lives lost. October 23, disater near llio, Wis.; 13 pas sengers burned to death. No vember 3, train wrecked near Nikolaiev and Odea, Kusia; 40 soldiers killed. December 18, collision at Charkow, Hiikaia; 13 persons perish. 17 January 4, collision uour Tiffin, Ohio; 20 lives lost. Fobruary It, over 90 patueugors burned and maimed by bridge disaster at WuiMUtock. i.-Trou (S. Y.) Time. m m i ii i At ft recent exhibiliou In England, whein iriizei were jfiveu for walking liotvea, tlw mI tttt.intid wwover ttvu miW u twur. .... SPOILING A GHOST. ITow n riitrkt- lVddlrr rrlRtiiriint Two "Sun'rnitunil Visit mi Is." Many a ghost story would have met with an untimely end, had a man of spirit arisen to hunt down the super natural visitants. Sonic .years ajo, a little town in Iowa became greatly ex cited over a succession of strange sight? and noises, which had occurred in Horse-thief (.rove, where two criminals had once been buried. The reports ran that at twelve o'clock every Friday night blue anil white lights were seen to rise from the graves anil disappear in the branches of the trees above. An enterprising peddler, spending a night in the town, determined to in vestigate the ghostly phenomena, and having provided himself with a pistol, slipped down to. the grove. An eager and expectant crowd stood on a hill at a coincident distance, waiting to set; the lights, and, says the invest gator, I made up my mind to give them an after piece that night, as I lay snugly con cealed under the bushes near the graves. I did not have long to wait before 1 heaid the sounds 1 had been expecting the trampling of feet near me. Look ing up cautiously, 1 beheld the sons ol my host, two very niischim ous lads, carrying a rope and a lantern withblui and white glass. Every thingwas plain to me now. The boys would creep a narrow and deep ditch to the graves. Hy the aid of a rope tunning oxer a iiullev fastened in the trees, thev could ; run the lantern up anddoxvn while con cealed in the brush some distance oil", rclxing on the superstitious fear of the others to prevent discovery. After they had every thing arranged and had run the lantern up once, I com menced saying something in a terrify ing voice. They dropped every thing and started through the bush Jike frightened slice). I fired a few shots, gave a blood-curdling yell, and quietly slipped back to the house. Next morn ing the excitement was terrible to xvit ness. My host's house, being the nearest, xvas crowded with men xvear ing an axved expression, as if they ex pected a dire calamity. After hearing the various conjectures and sugges. Hons, I arose and told my story. My statements were borne out by finding the rope and lantern. Nothing but their extreme youthfiilncss saved the perpetrators from something worse than the gentle caresses of a hiekorx switch. I left the next day. but I'll xvarran that xvas the hist of the ghost of "Horse-Thief (irox-e."--0iiii Ike. DIDN'T KNOW DAKER. A Hunk Scene froni XVIili'h tli l.eiuli'r fun Ilia v u XX'holosoino l.i ssiiii. I Yesterday forenoon as two men who i had lived neighbor to each other on High street for a year and walked doxvn town together a hundred times, met on (Iriswohl street, one of them re marked: "Say, Croon, drop into the bank with me for a minute. 1 xvant to be ident ified." "Certainly, certainly," repli d Green, and they entered the bank and xvalked to the toller's xviudow. "You identify this man as linker, do yon?" "liakor? Baker? Yes. I believe that is his name." "Do you knoxv it to be?" "No -o, but I'x'e heard it xvas. He lives next door to me." "Hoxv much of a family has he?" "He's got a wife, anyhoxv, and 1 sec some children around." "What does he do?" "Lot's see. He's got an ollico of sonic sort doxvn town here, but I can't say what he does." "Will you positively identify him as Baker?" Why well no, I guess not, 1 think he is, but he may be Barker, or Hark urn, or he may not be. the one 1 think I knoxw Excuse me, Mr. Baker; I'd be glad to oblige, you knoxv, but I don't knoxv you, you know-." Detroit Free l'rtss. A Satisfactory Settlement. Gentleman I hoar, Uncle Kastus, that you and Dolphus have dissolved partnership in the xvhite-xvash business. Uncle Hastus Yes, sab; xve is dom quit. Gentleman Well, what kind of a .settlement did you make? Uncle Kastus (scratching his head) Well, yo' see, sab, de 'raiigcinent am dis. Deni what owes de lirni am to set tle xviv Dolphus, an' deni what tie linn oxvos am to settle xviv me. Dolphus Mowed dat war a fa'r 'rangeineut sbar' an' shar' nlUw'.Drukts's Trav elers' Muyuxinc. There is a folloxv making tho tour of the Western dime museums this winter advertised as A It Pasha, 'the Transparent Turk and Human Wiudoxx Pane," The itilvcrliscinenl has the in teresting information: "He xvas on the stall" of the Sultan of Turkey at the terrible battle of Plevu-i, when a huge cannon ball from the cruel Russian artillery, swift on its errand of death, passed completely throiiglr this brave ollicer's body. Admirable surgical skill saved his life, and a pane of French window glass xvas lilted in the gaping cavity with such admirable nicety that xve noxv have the greatest marvel of the age. Sun, moon and stars shluu through him; daylight and gas light shine through him; you can see through him; you can road through him." A'. J'. Sun. A juror at Oooiiou Court asked to Ihj excused from serving on the jury on account of having to go home to bury his dead mother in-law. Judtfu !Iittch!n 4id it xvas a legal e.eu, as any man ought to he unou! to bury his (lead niolhO-ln-luxv or hs sUtur-lu-luxv, Alkew (Uu.) JJunner. CRUEL REVENGE. trow Uoh Ittirilt'ttn (.ot t:ven tth n Mrs Jestlr lint er.v Impolite (irtitleiir.n. Once, in the dead heart of the piti less xvintcr 1 had drawn my good txvo handed Lecture xvilh the Terrible Name, and xvas smiting all the coasts of Penn sylvania with it, sparing neither (pro nounced nyther) young or old. and xvcaring at my belt the scalps of many a pale-face audience. One night I reached Erie the pleasant just as the clocks in the Lord Mayor's castle struck txvcnty-oiie. It xvas bitter bit ing, stinging cold, ami there was no ambulance at the station, while there xvas a good hotel there. 1 xvont in a d registered, and a man of commanding presence, tailor-built clothes and a broxvn beard of most refuted culture, followed me, and under my plebeian sera xv 1 made the register luminous xxitl. his patrician cognomen. 1 stood a lit tle in axvc of this majestic being, about as little as 1 usually stand in the pres ence of any majestic creature, and when in a deep has, commanding voice lie ordered a room 1 had a great mind--something that I alxiays carry with me when I travel to go out and get him one. The gentlemanly and urbane night clerk, who also seemed to be deeply impressed as is the habit of the nighfelerk xxith the gentleman's re-sponsiblo-to-any amount toot on, Sawinbel said he xvas sorry but he had but one vacant room and it contained but one bed, "Still," he said, as be came a man who xvas bound to stand for his' house if it hadn't a bed in it. "it xvas a very wide bed. very xvide and quite long. Two gentlemen coulu sleep in it quite comfortably, and if" But the Commanding Being at my side said that was quite altogether out of the question entirely. Quite! He xx-as sor ry for the-here he looked at inc. hesitat ed, but finally said gentleman, but He couldn't share His room xxith him. He xvas sorry for the gentleman and hop ed he might find comfortable lodgings, but He couldn't permit him to occupy oven a portion of His bed. Then the dork begged pardon, and xvas sorry, and all that, but this other gentleman had registered fuvt, and it was for him to say what dis position should be made of this lonely room and solitary bed. 1 hastened to assure the majestic being that it xvas all right; he xvas welcome to two-thirds of tho room, all the looking-glass and one-half of the bed. "No." he said, very abruptly, "1 will sit here by the stove and sloop in a chair. 1 thank you, sir, but I would not sleep xvithiny own brother. 1 prefer a room to my self." I meekly told him that I didn't knoxv what kind of a man his brother was, but no doubt he did, and there fore I must conclude that he xvasn't a lit man to sleep xx ith. But his brother xvas out of the question, and if he wanted part of my couch, he might have it and xvelcomc, and I xvould agree not to think of his brother. "No sir," he said, "I will sleep in no man's bed." 1 said 1 xvoiildn'f either, if I wasn't sleepy, but when I xvas sleepy, 1 didn't care; I'd sleep xvith the King of Eng land or the President, and xvouldn't care a cent who knew it. Well, I xvont to bod, I curled up un der the warm, soft blankets, and heard the wind shriek and wail and whistle and yell hoxv like, all creation the wind can blow in Erie and as the night grew colder and colder every minute, I fell asleep and dreamed that heaven xvas just forty-eight miles west of Dun kirk. Ahout 2:30 or 3 o'clock there came a thundering rap at the door.and xvith a vague, half-xvaking impression in my dream that soinbody from the other place xvas trying to get in, I said: "What is it?" "It is I," ansxvered a splendid voice, which 1 recognized at once. "I am the gentleman who came on the train xvith you." "Yes," I said, "and what is the mat ter?" The splendid voice was a trille hum ble as it replied: "I have changed my mind about sleeping xvith another man." "So have I!" I hoxvlcd, so joyously that the very winds laughed in merry oho. "So have I! I xvouldn't get out if ibis warm bod to open that door for iny oxvn brother!" I will close this story here. If I should xvrite the language that went down that dim, cold hall outside my door you xvouldn't print it. And xvlien next morning 1 went skipping doxvn stair as fresh as a rose, and saxv that inajcstii! being knotted up in a hard arm chair, looking a hundred years old, I said: "Better Is a poor and xvise child than an old and foolish King, xvho knoxveth not hoxv to be admonished. For out of prison he conieth to reign, whereas, also ho that is born in his kingdom he coincih poor." This alo is vanity. llobcrt ., Jlurileltc, in Brooklyn luiylc. The report of President Battle, of the North Carolina State University, to the board of trustees, shoxvs that the university is of great benefit to poor voung men. There are noxv at the in dilution more than a hundred youths, Dr. Battle says, "xvilh hands brown with toil, some cooking for themselves, ithers hiring their own cooks, some m county appointments free of tuition, ithers going into debt for it, xvith threadbare clothes, in the coldest tvoathcr, without great-couts, hovering ivor scanty llres, but xvith thellamesof noble resolution burning in their ui'easts. ' Whon oayouiio pepper is higher diiin Scotch smill' tint siiuir is used to ululterato it. When the revurao la the Mtsv the pepper goes Into the snuff. It's u puor rule that won't work both BITTEN BY DOGS. Jinny AtnerlcHtu Who l'rlvutrly I'ntrontio l'itstrur'4 llyilropholilp Institute. I Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of tho United States Navv, has returned from Paris, xvhere he lookeil into the Pasteur system of lighting hydrophobia, xvith a viexv toils introduction into a Govern ment hospital in this country. He says that medical opinions in France differ as to the elllcacy of the inoculations, but that the records of cases seem to establish the value of Pasteur's work. The number of Americans who resort to Prof. Pasteur's institute is not sus pected by their countrymen. Many make the trip privately, especially if they belong to xvell-to-do families able to pay the expenses without, publicity. Besides, bitten persons are alxx'ays loth to admit their nerx'ousness, and there fore go to Paris ostensibly for pleasure, while their real errand is to get inoculated. Pasteur hu mors their desire for secrecy, and permits them to register under assuineil names, even xvlien he knoxvs xxho they really are, which is by no means al xvays. A note of introduction from tho American Minister is required, as a matter of form. No fee is charged, but voluntary contributions are accepted, ami those go into a fund for the main tenance of the hospital. Past "iir per sonally takes no pay. A young New York lady xvho xrent through the process assumed forthe oc casion the name "Marietta Byrne," Her pet dog had bitten her and then died in convulsions, so that she did not know for a certainty xvhelher or not she xvas in danger of the dreaded rabies. She rode to Pasteur's house, at 14 Hue Vaqiielin, xvhich is an insig nificant building in the midst of the various schools in the Latin Quarter. She xvas accompanied by her father, xvho presented her credentials andgavo all the particulars of her case to a clerk, xvho recorded them in a big book. Then she xvas shoxvn into an anteroom, and directed hoxv to prepare her self for the operation. This consisted simply in arranging her attire so that, xvithont delay, tho surgeon could inject the virus under the skin. Thou she xvas placed in a line xvilh seventeen other bitten persons, all xvoinen or children, for this day xvas set apart for them men having had the previous day. All marched into the room xvhere Pasteur and his assistants were in readiness. One surgeon stood beside a table on xvhich xvas a glass jar containing the protective fluid. Over the top of this vessel xvas stretched a it filtering paper. Beside it lax a hypo dermic syringe. The man thrust the sharp, delicate no.zle of this instru ment through the paper into the liquid and tilled it in that xvay, in order that by no possibility could it be vitiated by centai1, xxith the ah. Having thus charged the syringe, he hanihM it to the principal operator, xvho deftly in serted it obliquely through the skin of the patient and quickly injected its con tents. It xvas like the puncture, of a. neetll", and not very painful. Tho girl bore it. xvithont ilinching, but some of the children, as well as tho more ignorant adults, cried and struggled at it. She had to return for additional in jections during several weeks. N. Y. Sun. BY RAIL TO THE OXUS. (Inn or the Mont Itomuiitlo Chiipter In tho Situry nl Modern 1'roKrox. The poets of Asia have sung for cen turies of the beauty and fruitfultiess of the Zarafchau valley. The fact that, the environs of Samareand, liokhara and Khiva aro among tho most fertile in the world has counted for little in their development, for almost pathless deserts separate them from the lands that xvould gladly buy their produce. Steam cars, hoxvever, have come at last to supersede the costly camel cara vans that, since the Czar overpowered the Kanatcs, hax'e often been sent to the Russian frontier. When it xvas announced a short time ago that the Trans-Caspian railroad had reached the Aniu-Daria at Chanl jui, the telegraph from Khiva and Bok hara at once reported that a number ot caravans xvcre loading xvith silks, leath er, furs, carpets and wool, xvhich they xvould take to Chardjui en route for Europe. Mr. Lansdell told us two years ago that Central Asian cotton xvas. of line quality and could he raised in ou.irinous quantities. It now appears that as soon as it xvas positively known that the railroad xvould ho advanced to the Aniu-Daria. the planting of cotton in Bokhara xvas very sensibly augment ed. Thus the pulse-beats of Western commerce are beginning to bo felt in the remoter regions of the Moham medan world, revivifying countries long dormant that in the ago of Alex ander the Great xvcre the seat of an ad vanced and powerful civilization. The ruins still exist of those great canals that centuries ago led the waters of the Murghab throughout the Merv oa!s, fertilizing the soil ami fitting it to bo tho abiding place of a large and nourishing population. Since the rail road reached Merv the Turkomans there have begun the work of cleaning out and restoring these old works or irrigation, and tho day is rapidly com ing xvlien ancient Merv will lose the sad and arid aspect that noxv predom inates in all it- borders. The railroad that General Aniionkoir pushed forward through billows of sand and a treeless desert will be tho moans of restoring to Merv the verdure and fertility she once poseossed. Tho history of this railroad enter prlso, xvhioh h kindling the spirit of tho xvotftoru world amid tho ruins of u iIimmi civilization of tho far East, is dot!nd to make one of tho most Inter eating and romaiitlu chapters in tho story of modern progress.. -A'. Y. Sun, O
