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TELEGRAP111CJUJBIA11Y.
Epitome of (he Principal brents a
Allnctine Public Interest
David Gogclin, who in Oetotar
killed Mrs. Whcrenthal for refusing, to
pay rent or vacate a house, was hanged
in Ontario.
During a panic caused by a fire at a
circus in Nesclnn, Russia, many per
sons were burned to death and about
3,000 injured.
At Altnnnn. Pa., eight men were in-
sfjinth- killed and six badly injured by
a premature explosion of dynamitoin
' . Cmim nf tll( in-
the stone quarries
UtllV. V .w
jured will die.
Alf. Canfield, James Cullen and
Norman Bell were killed in a quarry
at Binnewater, X. Y., by a premature
blast. Several others were injured, one
or more fatally.
The collector of the port at Boston
imposed a line of $1,000 upon the Cu
nard Steamship Company for permit
ting an insane woman to land from
one of their vessels.
Initial fteps have been taken for the
construction of a Russian iron mill
near Pittsburg. This will be the first
Russian iron mill ever built outside of
Siberia.
A special from Des
Moines says:
"News is just, received
Reid, who left Manswn
that. Rev. Dr.
last winter to
become a missionary
Africa, has been killed
in ceturai
and eaten by
cannibals."
An explosion of fire-damp occurred
in a coal pit at Gelsenkirken in West
Aphalia. The bodies of forty-one per-
ons, killed by the explosion, have been
recovered. Twelve more miners are
relieved to be dead.
Cnntain L. W. Colo took a party of
friends out for a sail on Terrace bay,
Michigan. The yacht was struck by a
squalhmd capsized, throwing the party
into the bay. Captain Cole and four
friends were drowned.
The town marshal of Moreland,
Kentucky, attempted to arrest Jack
nnd William Logan at their house,
As he entered the house he was shot
bv them fatally. The lire was returned,
bv two men with the marshal. Botl
of tho Logan boys were killed.
lie refused to permit a collection to be
taken un. savins the jump was merely
in honor of the Queen's jubilee. Ho
attempted to jump oil" the Clinton sus
pension bridge at Bristol, tho highest
bridge in England, but was arrested.
An experiment of fish culture is
about to be tried in stocking Salt Lake,
Utah, with shad from the breeding sta
tion at Point Lookout on the Chesa
peake. One of the full commission s
cars reached Salt Lake with 1,100,000
young shad to be placed in the lake.
It is an experiment, but the fish com-,
mission officials believe that the phys
ical conditions of the water there will
make it a complete success.
S. S. Ncilson, a former commissoncr
of Huron county, Dakota, shot and
killed Mrs. Flora E. Shaw and her son,
George, Addie Liman, her sister, and
Mr. Kelly, a neighbor. Ncilson then
suicided by shooting himself through
the head. The tragedy was the result
of a land controversy between Neilson
and Mrs. Shaw. The murdered people
were all working 111 the field when
Neilson approached and shot them
down one after another.
At Maquoketa, la., five boys, three
of whom were sons of John Bock and
two of them sons of Basil llindel,
whoso ages ranged from 0 to 1(5, were
drowned in tho Mamiokcta river.
Three of them, while in bathing,
plunged off 11 sand bar into water be
yond their depth, when another boy,
seeing that they were drowning,
plunged in to rescue them. Another
boy, who had his clothes on, noticing
the failure of tho first boy, also
plunged in, and all were drowned to
gether. None of the bodies were re
covered. Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury
Mnynard has written to tho collector
at San Francisco as follows : "I trans
mit herewith an extract from a dis
patch dated April 5, from our vice
consular agent at Noume, New Cale
donia, a French penal colony, ad
dressed to tho Department of Stateand
referred to this Department, in regard
to a proposed deputation of convicts
from that city to your poit. You will
take especial caro that tho immigrant
laws arc enforced so as to prevent tho
landing of any such persons so ship
ped to this country. If found to bo
convicts, as alleged, or any of tho
classes of aliens whoso lauding is pro
hibited, please communicate this in
formation to tho Commissioners of Im
migration at your port."
At tho annual exhibition given by
the Academy at Kcrrville, Tenn., a
most distressing accident occurred :
In tho second scene ten young ladies
dressed in white were to appear. As
the curtain was rising a coal oil lamp
on the tablo close bv where the young
ladies were standing in somo way was
upset, setting fire to the draperies of
tho stage. The dress of Maggio Long,
a pretty girl of thirteen, caught lire
and sho was soon enveloped in Homos.
Tho audience -and thoso who wore on
tho stago woro panic-stricken and
rushed pell-moll in overv direction.
"Women scroamed and fainted, and
men seemed powerlo&s to act. Ono
young man, Haywood Fowler, in at
tempting to eavo Miss Long, was fa-
tauy uurneu. tho young lady's suf
feriug was gront and sho died 60011 af
icr. 11 13 lonreu me injurios 01 somo
of thoso trampled upon in tho au-
dtenco will result fatally.
Lawrence Donovan, who jumped oil u, in01,t ihoroia two or thrco
Brooklyn bridge, and also oil &i"l"; vinee.uml afterward press the soil
sion bridge at ; Niagara I' alls, jumped llroum them Som0 euitiViltors 0f
from London bridge into the lhanies. L- 0,
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to
the
and
Interests of
Stockmen,
Farmers
Cultivation or Crnnlicrrloft.
The requisites for cranberry culture
are a soil of muck or peat that can be
drained for twelve or eighteen inches
below the surface, a supply of water
at hand sufficient to allow the meadow
to be Hooded at will and an abund
ance of pure sand. You want water
for the purpose of protecting your
vines so that you can How your bog
and protect it from freezing, and after
ward, in the spring time, for the pur-
,)0S
of kukng the ermin that infest
,ti10 vines
...1.
You need to protect the
crops when very severe frosts come on
suddenly, by flowing the bog rapidly,
tnd covering the berries, thus saving
hum.
The surface of the marsh should be
(rst pared off, with a machine or other
vise, removing all sod, stumps and
loots. Then cover to a depth of three
eight inches with sand or fine gravel
tho deeper the sand the longer the
:g will fast. Loam will notilo because
brings in weeds and grasses and is
Has warm as sand. I he sand as-
-ts in protecting the berries from
stand injurv. It keeps out weeds
d serves as a mulch in warm wen-
It also keeps the bogs from run-
lihg to vines, because cranberry vines,
ilVou put them in the mud, will run
smutch to vine thatthev will not
nflce the uprightu on which tho ber
ril grow. The sand has to bo wheeled
inlheelbarrows on planks and spread
byt hand. Before sanding make
ditlies about three rods apart, run-
niil into a main ditch, and witli such
diretion and fall as will speedily eon-
du4 the water from the dam over the
1,.1.. i . .. in.. : u- ...
deps of at least eighteen inches.
i'rtilizers are seldom applied, as
the;eauso too much wood growth at
the jpenteof tho fiuit. Gioundbonc
in nfderato quantities is probably the
safeiferlilizer to use. Bogs run out
aften, time, but may be renewed by
mowig and burning the vines and
resailing. There are bogs on Cape
Cod hat are yielding profitably for
theirhirty-second year. The vine is
very ardy and may be set at any
timeout spring is best. Tho usual
coursis to punch holes in the ground
go trier:
low fujows and cover them, leaving
xut thi ends of the vines. It is ini
lortanto put them down below the
tie sail, so that they may take root
uie .in. ureat care snouiu uc iai:cn
soledng tho plants. Those which
live to greatest and most bushv
ftiago re the poorest plants for bear
it, buihe most fruitful vines may be
klown y their greenish-brown leaves
all tin; wiry texture of tho wood.
Ctting-jnav be used instead of vines.
ail if lentifully sown they cover the
grand ompletely. Wo have known
ofiistaces where the vines were cut
inniecs with a hay-cutter, sown
bnltlcasand then harrowed in. Keep
thclln.nj well cleaned of weeds for
t,wil ears; and by the end of that time
thet neswill have full possession of
theWujl. Tho yield the third year
willij ah)ut fifty bushels to the acre,
theilowtng year it will be 100 bush
els, kl aler that possibly I!00 or even
'100 bshds to the acre, but the aver
age Jinny number of seasons is 100 to
150 l',he.s. When plants arc set out
in Mbh,if the bog is kept covered
untilKno 1st, or until danger of frost
is pallmost of tie vino insects will be
killeii'xccpt the firewonn, which is
killedlr sprinkliig the vines with a
str,onJ olution of tobacco. It is nec-
essary
dso to fbod tho bog when
early
ts thrcatta, and so turn on
the w;
before th berries rot. All
insect
its can be. destroyed by fre
oding. quent
C
Jranl
;rnes npci 111 this latitude
about
Ivcmber 1st The vines should
then b
nicked clen of fruit. The
oranberr rake, mao of bent sheet'
iron, wila row of shaped teeth on
its loweijsdge, can (ten bo used to
advantaje. Tho leaing varieties of
tho cranWry aro thcUell, tho Bugle
and tho cherry. ThiGarlyBell is the
standard Uily cranbeiy, of good size
and darkicolor and ry productive.
Black Hull is hardy, ood size, dark
coior anutjieius wen. ucnmomi Jieu
is large, ilir, very prollc, but rather
late, ltuale is large, hg, not early,
fruit ap'i tfcW coaree aiuhaded green ;
good oi well sanded Igs, not cold.
Creeper is chcrry-shapC extra largo,
light c(loi,very proliliirather late,
tAt il ftrAtt lmniri it I tl V-kil in 1 rt nil.
useless sck. The Cherry.ninberry is
of two Un tit, largo and urdl. It is
very JuuJ, dark, crims, medium
early, an a most popr market
berry. 11L darker the cjr tho bet
ter the heroes will sell.
AhU'tt an ii Fertillr.
A correspondent writes t ho can
get wood ashes from a eawil for tho
hauling, and lias to haul teo miles
to his farm. Ho wishes to jonf if it
will pay to laid ashes so fa mil what
is tho manuri.il valuo of asl?4
To tho first question wo airer, Yes,
even though you havo to hrn team
and put tho ashes on lnnd'nt you
rent. The reasons for this aor will
appear in our attempt to ai'er tho
'second question. ,-,
We aio not Win whether onehos
aro made from hard woodi wood.
We will seo tbat tho ash T!r2hard
wood is richer in potash aiyihos
phoric acid than that from siwood
or bark.
By roferonce t$ tables in Jogon's
"How Crops gro'," ono can lol tho
valuejof ashes ol tho several Mb of
wood and bark iW aro nowt to
consider the pcrfpnts of Eoda, ljne-
1111 vuuiivii-v i:ut liiu uuuo in
sin. lime, silica and chlorine found in
wood ashes, since any of our soils have
inotigh of these, and we will consider
the potash and phosphoric acid. John
gon's tables give tho values from
strictly pure ashes. It is evident the
ashes from a sawmill are not pure, but
have admixtures of sand ami soil,
which need not be considered in this
cafe. Dr. Kedzie, of tho Michigan Ag
ricultural College, once made an anal
ysis of ashes from stove, furnaco and
ashery in the condition wo would find
them usually if we were to buy them.
Hardwood ashes taken from his
kitchen stove, where beech and hard
maple were used, showed 12i per cent
of potash and (5 per cent of phosphoric
acid.
Leached ashes, taken from a tan
nery, showed l.G per cent potash and
G.b "per cent of phosphoric acid.
Soft wood ahes, from the pit of a
planing mill, where pine, fir and bass
wood were burned with .-oine soft coal,
showed 12 per cent potash and 4 per
cent phosphoric acid.
Tannery ash, made from spent tan
bark, mixed with some soft coal,
showed 2.5 per cent potash and 1.2 per
cent phosphoric acid.
Now, it is probable the sawmill fur
nishing the ashes to our correspond
ent used mostly hard wood. Then, a
ton ton of hard ashes fresh from the
furnace, unleaehed, would be worth
$11) 10, while potash sells at 5 cents a
pound, and insoluble phosphoric at 0
cents since 12?, per cent, or 215
pounds, is potash, and 0 per cent, or
120 pounds, is phosphoric acid.
As our correspondent can easily haul
to his farm three tons of ashes in a day
from the sawmill, he had better lose
no time in securing all available at
that rate.
Leached ashes are not worth so
much, hence it will be well to haul the
ashes away as fast as made, ami apply
it to the land or store it in a dry place.
Thirty to forty bushels of fresh
ashes will be an ample dressing, and
on light soils there is no better fer
tilizer. Fruit tiees and berries are
specially benefitted by a dressing of
wood ashes.
Farm 1'rolltN.
Perhaps a safe way to increase farm
profits from lands that have value
based on production, rather than ex
traneous conditions, would be to limit
areas of cultivation. This would per
mit equal expenditure of labor, if re
quired, but it would be concentrated
and would necessarily tend to larger
production, relatively, thereby a Hord
ing more liberal margin for gain. To
illustrate the idea, suppose a farmer
plants ten acres to potatoes and gathers
in autumn a thousand bushels, the
land worth ono hundred dollars an
acre. Count cost plowing, harrow
ing, marking, seed, planting, digging
and interest on land, say twenty-five
dollars an acre. The potatoes cost
twenty-five cents a bushel. Now sup
pose inst-ead of ten acres he plants
five and by superior cultivation gets
two hundred bushels to the acre a
thousand bushels. He saves interest
on live acres, one-half tho seed and one
half the labor of marking, planting
and digging, all amomiting to ten dol
lars an acre after allowing extra work
in cultivation to the amount of two
and a half dollars an acre. He has on
tho smaller area a crop equal to that
from tho greater area produced at fifty
dollars less cost after allowing for ex
tra cost of cultivation. That makes
the potatoes cost twenty cents a bushel
instead of twenty-five, the difference
being fifty dollars for tho five acres be
sides leaving the remaining five for
somo oth'er crop with perhaps oven
profit. It is true this is but a paper
estimate, but its counterpart may
bo found easily in practical farming.
Then itservesonly to illustrate a point,
yet ovory farmer knows that he can
work out the problem in his fields with
absolute certainty of favorable results.
The whole matter goes back to the
starting point. Farming does not give
the profits that ought to be realized,
mainly because farmers do not employ
means wisely. They misapply forces
when they kiiow how to do better.
Portions of Klickitat (W. T.) county
are developing as a corn growing re
gion. Four farmers havo over 358
of this grain in cultivation.
Tho acreago of hops in Oregon and
Washington is fully twenty per cent
greater than last year, ami tho pros
pects for a good crop are qui to prom
ising.
For the codlin moth there seems to
bo as yet no remedy found as effectual
as spraying tho trees with a solution
of Paris green, in tho proportion of
an ounco and a half of the green to
fivo gallons of water.
Tho planting of forest trees has for
a number of years been encouraged in
Nebraska. Gov. Morton, of that State,
was tho first official to issue a procla
mation designating an Arbor Day, to bo
observed in tho schools ami for econ
omic tree planting. Over (105,000,000
of trees aro now growing where none
could bo seen fifteen years ago.
A small black beetle, unnamed in
tho catalogue of fruit pests, is com
mitting fearful ravages among tho
grapevines about Davisvillo. California,
Thousands of vines in tho Briggs vino
yard aro almost completely ruined.
No remedy has yet been found. Sul
phur and Paris green only sharpen his
appetite
The local hop market at Tacoma,
W. T., has lately been stimulated by
reports from tho East concerning tho
condition of tho coming crop. Twenty
and twenty-two cents aro now being
ofl"Cd, but farmers, anticipating bet
tor figures still, aro making but few
contracts. Thoaoroagc in thoPuyallup
valley lias been inoieased about 25 per
cent.
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.
Peter Donnelly was killed by a train
near Petaluma, Cal.
Robert Hrock was diowned in the
river at Sacramento.
Robert Keichart shot himself in the
left breast and died, at San Francisco.
The town of Biekleton. W. T., re
cently destroyed by fire, is being rap
idly tebuilt.
Stockton is rejoicing over the exten
sion of the free postal delivery to be
gin July 1st.
Earl Potts, a newsboy, fell beneath
a train at Pasadena, Cal., and was fa
tally injured.
Progress at tho Siskiyou' railroad
tunnel is slow, only about eight feet
being bored daily.
Willard Carter a conductor on tho
Oregon Short line was discovered dead
in his room at Pocatcllo.
There are twenty-eight truss bridges
within an aggregate length of U,-1S2
feet on the Cascade branch.
Mike Grace, a brother of ex-Mayor
Grace, of New York, was killed by
Apaches at Crittenden, Aiizona.
There is a new station on the North
ern Pacific between Martin ami Wes
ton that has been christened Stam
pede. Mr. Abo Wood, aged 05, was killed
by the accidental discharge of a gun
while hunting deer in Clarke couutv,
W. T.
The Oregon Pacific is to be pushed
eastward by the Minto Pass to meet
the C. it N. W., which is rapidly ap
proaching Boise City.
An accident occurred at the C hollar
mine, Virginia City, Nov., whereby
Richard Pasco was killed ami three
men seriously injured.
About five miles of snowsheds will
be required on the Cascade branch to
protect the mountain sections from
blockade during heavy snowstorms.
Linni'e M. Palmer has recovered
$10,700 from the Utah Northern rail
road for injuries sustained by tho kill
ing of her husband on defendant's
road.
The actual cost of handling the
snow along the Cascade branch at tho
front ami on the switchback this last
winter, fooled up between $75,000 anil
$100,000.
John Chappell, a well known resi
dent of llwaco, W. T., dropped dead
at the latter place. The coroner's ver
dict was that death was caused by par
alysis of the heart.
Christian Hittocher, for several
years commander of tho barkentino
Worcester at San Francisco, com
mittte suicido by shooting himself
in the head with a revolver.
In addition to the twenty-two relig
gious denominations now represented
at Tacoma, tho Second Day Adventists
have found lodgment, and hold nightly
meetings in a huge tent on E street.
The Crown Point, one of the Ward
nor group of mines, has been sold to
John Sevcnoaks, and Mr. Knowles,
superintendent of the La Trinidad of
Mexico. I he consideration is $85,000.
A carpenter named Abram Urch fell
from a scaffolding on a new building
on Tacoma avenue, Tacoma, to the
ground, a distance of fifteen foot, strik
ing on his head and sustaining severe
contusion of the brain.
Tho Stampede tunnol, on tho Cas
cade division, is 0,850 feet. Seven
other tunnels, two east and five west of
Stampede tunnolpaggregato 11,220 feet,
making a total length of tunneling
upon tho branch 111,070 feet.
A woman traveling on tho train
bound west, fell off near Glendive,
Montana, and sustained injuries which
were believed to be fatal. Tho train
picked up tho unfortunato woman and
backed to Glendive, whoro sho was left
Tho carthquako shock at Genoa,
Nov., was so severe as to throw bricks
from chimneys, while plastering fell
from the walls of houses and a mini
her of brick buildings were thattcred
A second shock of like force would
havo destroyed every brick building
in town.
A temporary bridgo is in course of
erection across tho Columbia river at
Kenncwick, which will bo completed
by September, in time to move this
year's crop of grain across it. A per
manenl Lruige will uo erected upon
the temporary structure, anil bo com
pleted by December 1.
Frank Read and Charles Gilsca,
aged 1!) and 10 respectively, were
drowned in the river near Stockton,
Cal. J hoy wero attomptmg to row in
tho wako of tho steamer Mary Garratt,
when the steamer reversed lior engine
and thoy wero carried by Iho current
under her wheel.
Corporal Eberhnrd Woiderhold, of
the Second Calvary, stationed at Walla
Walla, is a German baron in his own
right, with a monthly income of $000,
This has been established beyond
doubt. Woiderhold is in tho garrison
hospital, tho result of an attempt at
suicide by poisoning.
At Paeco, W. T., Johnny Ireland, a
boy of 11, picked up what ho toolc to
bo an empty cartridge, and while try.
ing to drive it into n log.it exploded,
being a giant powder cap." Two of the
boy's fingers wero blown off and driven
into his log, from which thoy woro ex
tricated by a physician.
With only a fow counties heard
from Montana has, within tho past two
months, paid out ovor $10,000 for tho
scalps of ground squirrels. Tho law
was first regarded as a joke, but has
now become a i-crious matter and an
extra -session of tho Legislature is
talked of to prevent a depletion of tho
territorial treasury.
OREGON NEWS.
i
Everything' of General Interest ii
Condensed Form.
The postoHieo at Hilgard has been
discontinued.
A rich vein of coal has been found
on the John Day.
China pheasants are getting to be
thick about Silverton.
Glanders is prevailing among tho
horses in the vicinity of Milton. "
Over a million pounds of wool will
be shipped from Echo this season.
Bee culture is beginning to receivo
some attention in the vicinity of Echo.
A new bank with $100,000 capital
has recently been organized in Lake
view. Sfcek stealing is much complained
of in tho southern part of Gilliam
county.
The wheat output of Wasco county
this year is estimated at over 2,000,000
bushels.
Blackleg is doing some damage
among tho young stock of Upper
Burnt river.
Four thousand men and 2.000 boats
aio busy at the mouth of the Coluyibia
catcning nsn.
An old man named Vincent was
struck and probably fatally injured
by a train near Salem.
Tho size of the new Hennnor flour
ing mill is to be :!0x-l(5 feet. The new
plant will cost $10,000.
A new nostoflice has been estab
lished at Oak Creek, Douglas county,
with James A. Cox as postmaster.
Fred Schubert, of Albany, while us
ing a pair of tm-shears at the fruit
cannery there, clipped off two of his
digits.
I p wards of 150,000 head of sheep
have been sold from Baker county Ibis
spring and are now on their wav East
by rail.
Charlie Herring, a Baker county
boy, has been bound over iif the sum
of $200 for stealing a horso from his
niotticr.
i. n. iNoifon, an old, well known
ind popular stockman of Crook county,
accidentally shot himself at Dl'ewsey.
1 lie injury will prove fatal.
Will Appleton. son of Mis. W. II
Applolon, of Pendleton, wan struck on
the .stomach with a basoball, and sus
tained injuries that may prove fatal.
Mrs. Thomas Froman, of Albany,
while returning home from the funeral
of her brother at Salem, was soverely
struck with paralysis and died that
niglit.
The dwelling house of R. R. McGin
nis, of Evans Crook, Jackson county,
was totally destroyed liviiro with all its
contents. Tho origin of tho disaster
is unknown.
Lying on the Little Nestucca beach
is tho wreck of tho English ship Car
marthen Castle. Sho was one of tho
largest iron ships that ever sailed from
England. She can easily bo boarded
at low tide.
Nals Hansen was upsot in a boat in
the breakers boyond tho south chan
nel, at Astoria, and drifted twenty
miles to tea. Ho was picked up by
tho steamer McArthur and taken to
Shoalwater bay.
bays a Harney valloy paper: Wo
are informed that therois a largo tract
of high, dry land in this valley that
is habitable and well adapted for ag
ricultural purposes tltat appears upon
llio maps as "lakes."
A band of horso thieves drovo off a
band of twenty-two horsos belonging
to parties living on Burnt river. Tho
robbers were overtaken in Idaho by
the owners and most of tho animals
recovered, but failed to got their men
Charles Colwell, who was employci
at a sawmill near Waeco as an ox-
teamster, was almost instantly crushed
to death by a log rolling over his head
It seems that Colwell was in tho act of
unhitching his team of oxen from a
log, which lay on a slight incline, am
and was driving away, when in some
manner tho log started down tho in
clino with great force, knocking him
down and crushing him as above
stated.
Oscar Kclty shot and killed his wifo
near McCoy, and then shot himself,
Thoy had been living at Albany. Mrs
Kelty left her husband, for somo do
mestic reason, and went to her father's
whoro Kclty followed her. Keltv will
probably die.
Travel into tho Pino creek, Silver
creek and Granite creek mining sec
tions has commenced in earnest. Tho
present summer will note a greater ac
tivity in mining in Bakor and Union
counties than oyor before known, says
a Baker City paper.
T. P. Pago, tho half-breed son of
ono Page residing on tho Umatilla In
dian reservation, has gone East with
tho Government Commissioners to en
ter a law school. Tho reservation
chiefs havo voted $5,000 of tho money
arising from tho sale of their lands
to educate him in the law, with tho
understanding that ho practjeo fivo
years at Pendleton after ho graduates
and transact business for tho reserva
tion Indians without charge during
that time.
Mart Fraln, who lives on the Klam
ath, while out hunting a fow days
sinco, run across a brown bear with
two cubs. With very littlo trouble ho
succeeded in killing nor nnd captur
ing tho cubs, A Bout a milo further
on ho had tho good fortune to Hud m:
other bear, a bluck, also with two cubs.
Ho dispatched tho mother at tho first
shot, secured tho young ones, and now
ho has quite a menagerie at his placo.
Tho cubs havo already become quite
geutlo and nro as playful and con
tented as a litter of puppies.
KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS.
A Vow s'cnil!lo Comment on tho Ornco ol
ItolnS n Time.
The gross offenses committed againsi
tho acknowledged laws of good societj
by those who would resent with the
deepest indignation the implication ol
ever offending, simply proves that tho
gods wiydield one of the educating
forces when the gift "to see wescl'i
as ithors see us" was withheld.
A course of lectures is being de
livered Saturday mornings at an East
ern college. Through the kindness ol
the lecturers, professors and tutors ol
the college tho lectures are free. The
hour for the leetuiv, as prominently
announced as tho subject, 11:00.
Promptly at that hour the lecturer
on a recent morning began. For
twenty minutes aftor that tinio tho
stragglers came in, singly or by twos
or threes. Tho hall is small, and after
the fir-it lato comers had filled tho fow
vacent seats camp chairs were carried
through tho aisles. Tho lecturer had
a strong voice, but even it was unequal
to tho tswOi of drowning tho footstops
of half a dozen people, the nistlo of
garments, and the necessary eonfu-don.
attending the seating of these people.
Courtesy demanded that these guests
should have been in their places at tho
time designated by their entertainers.
Certainly there caivlni no justification
of their tardiness. H?losed doors should
greet people who do not know tho valuo
of time; they certainly can not gain
enough to compensate those who give
time and talents to enrich their minds,
if thoy can not be on time to meet tho
lecturer's first words.
Punctuality is a grace of character
almost as far-reaching in its influence
as truth, lie who steals my purse,
steals trah, but he who steals my tinio
robs me of that which 1 can never re
gain, nor any human In-ing bo enriched
bjt its loss.
The laggards aro the impedimenta of
life. Too much stress can not lx laid
on the obligation of keeping engage
ments on time. And in public connec
tion but tho rarest occurrences would
excuse, the disturbing of an audience
by entering tho room after tho specified
hour. It is an evidence of thoughtless
ness that does not speak well for char
acter, or of ill-broeding that shows
lack in nature and training. vhrisiian
Union.
COMMON HONESTY.
Tills, Arrortltntr to n CIilcuco .Tittlcc, In
Mm (Militt' l.;iclc or Our Tlnu-s.
One of tho circuit judges of this city,
who has on many occasions pivsided
over the criminal court, and has had
amplo opportunity to "know what ho
is talking about, spoke the other,
day: J
Sineo I have been on tho bench I
havo seen go down to darkness and
doom hundreds of youth of tender
years, men just ripening into manhood,
and thoso who havo grown gray in
crime, and havo learned from tho lins
of many of thoni that in their youth
thoy wero thrown rudely upon tho
world and novor learned tho moaning
of tho words, common honesty.
In their peculiar world, tho ideal man
is tho cool and intrepid explorer who
lays tribute upon costly goods and
wares, who can unlock all known com
binations of safes and hank vaults, and
who can face death unmoved ; or ho is
tho polished &fttloinnu who has re
duced lying and irceoption to a fine art;
and these ir.on gloat over their skill anil
reputation. But those aro thieves,
llowhigh does tho standard of honesty
among mankind roach outsido tho court
ofjiislieo? Horo is the jail, and yon
der is tho State's prison tho ono is tho
gymnasium, tho other tho university of
crime. Lying and deception scorn
to lo recognized as legiti
mate in tho marts of com
merce, and fraud and misrepresenta
tion aro among tho most ordinary mat
tcrs for investigation in our courts.
The standard of public and privato in
tegrity -1111181 bo elevated, or all will
bo lost. I give it as my candid opin
ion that tho gro.itost evil with which
modern society' and modern govorn
nionts aro alllietod is want of common
honesty. One-half tho world has ua
Idea of economy, and extravagance is
but another term for dishouosty. Tho
words Conscientiousness and Common
Honesty ought to bo engraven on tho
dotnooi tho Capitol and on tho diadem
of "Liberty Enlightening the World."
Chicago Journal.
Sedan Chairs in Boston.
Tho demand for sedan chairs, which
has latoly caused several specimens of
thoso quaint old vehicles to bo sold foe
several hundred dollars hero in Boston,
is a result of thoso esthotrc revival
which, in cortnin circles, nro more ef
fective than rovivals in roligion. It is
notlcoahle, howover. that tlio sedan
chair has not boon restored to its old
placo in tho llfo of fashionablo
people; it is no longer U3ed to
bear tho gay gallants anil
lino ladles on their rounds
through tho streots and in tho parks,
hut it is placed in tho drawing-room as
tho repository of bric-a-brac I think
it would bo well if somo of our loaders
.of tho rav world should when tho
weather is warm onough to mako such
a diversion practicable tako an airing;
in their sedan chairs in order to ascer
tain how far thoy aro cnpablo of living
up to their osthotlo tastes, l-.von It
they should bo greeted with gibes by
tho Irroveroiit small boy, it would bo
worth while to seo how far their boar
ing would bo offectivo In overawing
him. Uos'.on I'ost.
A Connecticut ninn is suln? to-
havo his nauio. removed from tho toinu-
stouo of his (lecoascd wifo, from whom
ho was dlvol-ccd'yoaw tx&o.r-ClcvclaHil
L'4uler. . ..