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OREGON SCOUT.
JOKES & CHANCEY, Publishers.
UNION. OIIKGON.
f SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Anion? recent uchlovomonts in
photography is a portrait copy taken
by tha light of a Cuban iiro-beotlo in
thirty seconds, nnd a photograph ol
tho aurora boroalis. To obtain tho hit
tsr had boon declared an uttor impost
bility.
Milk is altorod both in tasto and
appbainco by tho character of the
food supplied to thacows. It is colored
by madder and tialTron, scented by
plants of tho onion tribo, and changed
In taste by such articles as turnips.
Certain food may give modecinal
properties, and milk thus medicated is
proposed as a mothod of treating dis
ease. A 8 Illustrating tho part that lnbor
plays in enhancing tho valuo. of raw
materials, it is estimated that from
Bovonty-fivo cents1 worth of iron oro
may bo dovoloped $5.60 worth of bar
iron, $10 worth of liorso shoes, 180
worth of tnblo knives, $0,800 worth of
flno needles, $2!M70 worth of shirt but
tons, $209,000 worth of watch springs,
r $2,.r00,000 worth of pallet arbor
(used in watches.)
It wqI probably surprlso most poo
plo to learn that both cossation of ro
eplration and of movomont of tho heart
aro rojooted as signs of doath by a
Fronch lecturer, in considering the pro
clso moment when lifo ceases. Heart
beats have boon known to contlnuo for
an hou after tho bodv was bohcaded,
while, on tho othor f?and, they may
temporarily coaso in fainting.
A now alio? discovered by Horr
Koith, of Brookonholm, can bo used
-very advantageously In tho laboratory
Ha roplneo vcssols or fittings of obonlto,
vulcnuilo or poroolatn, as it practically
resists tho attack of almost all acids
nnd nlkallno solutions. This alloy Is
a bronzo, with tho addition of lead and
and antimony, its composition bolng
xw follows: Flftoon parts coppiir, 2.31
parts tin, 1.82 parts lead, and 1 part
anftmony.
Any o?d j)tocos of silver mny bo
utllli&d, if for plating motallio arti
cles, by placing thorn in an ounco of
nitric acid, boiling them for an Instant
Tho acid having dissolved tho silver,
throw in a good handful of common
unit to kill tho acid, then mako into n
pasto with common whiting. Tho pasta
Is tc bo applied with wash leather
damponed In wator. Tho silvor sur
faeo will ho maintained for years.
American Stationer.
SPONGES AT DINNER.
r rlmltlvu Cr'iitur h Tlmt Am All Mouth
mill How Thoy Food.
Tho sponge has an advantago cft'or
tho coral polyp in its mothod of feed
ing. , Tho coral has a largd giouti In
fact, lllco a frog, Its head is all mouth.
Vhllo some fish aro groatly gifted In
tho Biattor of mouti, tho spongo heats
thorn all in tools?) Botbli,' but mouth.
Hlgldy fll-gauized sponges have hun
gFcflBi of jooutlis, ovporos, which draw
in tko wntorj'atid Wins food tho plant
on &o orflaol.od ttsit&n-, each hole an
fAVt'lng fit- tho purpose of a mouth,
vjloRj io BpoBgos if low organ l.itlisn
Info so llxod pif-os, but possess the
oiflHus property of bolng ahlo to open
a njuith or poro at any point whore a
ptt'tiolo of food appears and attracts
tho animal. Thero Is no indication of
yrUU. Wi.o.UM.u,Un ..uui.fc m,
lor Aha creature Is all mouth, and,
whonovor Its appotlto Is oxelted at any
point, It simply opens Itself and takosq)
it tho food that happons to bo handy;
thon shuts up Its temporary mouth
again until another occasion odors, a
Bif to of bolng which undoubtedly, to
tho spongo, has Its advantages.
Tho kinds of sponges of commorco
aro numerous. There aro the rough
jrrass spongo, tho coarsest variety
known to commorco; tho Key West
tsponpo; tho hedge-hog spongo, found
covered with prickly points, whence
its name; tho wlno-oolorod spongo, tho
bouquet spongo, so-enllod probably be
cause its odor when brought up from
tho bottom is not that of n bouquet; tho
flngor spongo, tho smallost spongo, and
last and most costly of all, tho delicate
cup Bpongo; all of whloh may bo booh
for sale, some in stores whoro tho
epongo Is a specialty and others
only in tho curiosity shops. In tho
West Indies tho method of spongo-flsh-lng
is uniform, a water glass or a largo
tube with a piece of glass In tho bot
tom, locating tho sponges, then a
polo armed with a hook being employed
to detach and bring thorn to tho sur
face. In some parts of tho world
divers llud sponge llshlug a profitable
Industry, and descend to considerable
distances, bringing up tho sponges in
their hands and under their arms, but
In general tho method already de
scribed Is that omployod both in tlio
Wont and foist Indies.
Tho spongo is notyot cultivated,
only because tho natural supply is as
yot great, and probably will always
contlnuo so; because tho ipongo Is of
very quick growth, nnd tu tropical
ona found o vory whoro on tho bottom,
-Over 6,000,000 sponges of all sizes and
uil varieties uro ovory year shipped
from tho Bahama Islands, bringing In
mi annual Income to tho islandon of
over $.100,000. Should tho natural
nupply of sponges diminish, there is
no reason why they should not Ik
ralbiHl uitiudnlly,y oyster are, and.
perhaps In future, should tho demand
Increase or mipply fall olY, sponge
rtttorvaUona Will bo employed, fur lh
uon of the spongo uro manifold, ami
thu iloriiiind 1h ooiiMtanth uiiUtb'l"C- -
M4, J.WM UlQtoltelHOCM,
A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.
Crime In Montana. Jtolibcra or In
tllmiM Arrcntctl. ArrcHteil fur
blunter.
DEATH BENEATH A HEAVY TRUCK.
A llulifjcrnu I.uuiitlc.
GJinrles A. Centner, of Olympia, W.
T., was adjudged insano and sent to
tho liOBpital for the insano at Stula
coom. Ho bclipvcB that certain par
ties aro trying to do him an injury,
and that ho has to defend himself
even at tho risk of killing them.
Heretofore ho has been a quid, peace
able man.
JtohhcrN of liiiliun. Arrested.
J. Williams and M. Burns were ar
reeted at Seattle, W. T., for grand lar
cony, and bound over to appear be
fore tho grand jury. They are charged
with having stolen two trunks from a
Siwaeh camp fen the beach, opening
tho same and stealing $70 therefrom.
Tho Indians had just returned from
tho hop fields, where they had earned
tho monov Btolon from them.
A Horrible 'J'ruircily.
For about a year pnbt a middle-aged
man has boon living tho lifo of a her
mit in a canyon a few miles from
Crcsonta Conyado, Cal. Little was
known of him, und ho went by tho
nanio of "John." For a few days
noth ug had been heard from him,
and a party, alarmed at his continued
nbsi nco, searched through tho canyon.
Just ub they were giving up tho search
they camo upon John's body, horribly
mutilated. Tho head was nearly sev
ered from tho body, and the body was
cut open across tho abdomen and tho
entrails woro strewn over tho ground.
It is not known whether it was suicide
or murder.
'I'liirtuon If ii 1 1 1 1 it Humeri.
A firo broko out in J. G. Ackerman's
storo at Oataraugub, N. Y., which de
stroyed tliirteon buildings. The loss
is largo.
Crime in IHoiitiiini.
A colored man named Wheeler, a
member of tho Twenty-fifth rogiiinSit
band at Fort Missoula, Mont., was
shot and killed by Charley Fishor, an
other colored man, who keeps a saloon.
A loaded shotgun was kept in tho
dive, and theso men, who were con
stantly playing practical jokes on each
othor, were in tho habit 61 pointing it
at each other and threatening to shoot.
Wheeler wont through tho not in tho
forenoon. Ho wift patng by tho sa
loon in tho afternoon, and Fisher
called him in. As ho entered the door
the latter leveled tho gun at him. It
went off, the charge of shot diking ef
lect in Wlieelor b neiui. no (lieu in a
few hours. Fisher claims it was r.jci
dental. Ho was arrested.
o
A tSgglftr'N luy ItgcovereS.
Tho body of James W. A. Grango,
tho soldier who was drowned oil' the
Presidio, in San Francisuo, on the 15th
of Una niontli, was recovered by an
other soldior. It had been washed
ashoro half a mile below where tho ac-
iililiini iiiiiMtiml "3 turn iir.ia sitxltutiul
pjlBa mU8ioiau 5n btlU(iry A h-nAi
United Statos Artillory.
native of Jamaica.
Ho was a
, . .
Tlirci) lUurCuirer.
Tho jury in tho cases of J. H.
Myors, John Olson and Wm, Drager,
on trial for tho murder of Lowell near
Sacramonto, Cal., last winter, returned
a verdict of finding all threo guilty of
minder in tho first deereo. All tho
prisoners bowed their heads. Olson
for a short time .was nllocUd to tears.
Drager took it the most philosophi
cally. After their roturn to prison
Myers's cries and sobs could bo hoard
on tho Btreot. Myers stated to the
officers (hat ho intended the crime
when lie loft Sacramento, and he got
Olson and Drager to accompany him
on a hunting expedition, not letting
them know his puipose, until ho him
soU committed the crime.
found Ilrowui'tt.
Tho body of a middle aged man was
found floating in the bay near San
Francisco, and convoyed to the
morgue, where it awaits identification.
It had not been in the water more
than a few hours, and is plainly
dressed in a suit of drab color. Hair
and moustache black. There was
nothing found in the pookets to give
any duo to tho identity of the de
ceased except cards containing the
addresses of Abel Swanson, StattU',
and Mrs. Ohri&titui Otlbton, Comptuho,
Mundiciuo county, Cal.
shot iiiuikcir.
Henry Oroner, 150 years of ago,
committed suicide at his homo in San
Francisco. Ho took a pistol, placed
it in his mouth, and blew his brains
out. Ill health is tho oaut-o assigned
for tho not. Until a year ago ho
worked in tho mint, but had to resign
through a severe attack of abthma,
which developed other diseases, and
for some time past ho has bcon nimble
to sleep. His wife gave him his din
nor about 1 o'clock, and went out.
When hho returned she (omul thenmn
lying iload on tho tloor, with a pistol
in his right baud.
,u Olil hi liiiiiiii'r rt'ilti'iti
Js'owa wim ruiH'ivoil at Hun Francis
txi Hint thu mhmmvi Scio i'igt went
athore on the rocks near Point lleys,
but that her crew biicceeded in mak
ing their escape by going aBliore
through tho breakers. Tho Page was
a vory old vessel, and was several
times condemned and refitted. At the
time of her loss the was engaged in
thftlumber trade. Her valuo was
probably about $3,000.
An Auriitcloii Young Thief.
The cleikj in the Quebec bank at
Montreal got a surprise, when a youth
walked in with a soap box under his
arm, put the box down on tho flor,
fctepped upon it, reached over, grasped
a parcel of bills valued at .f 1,000, and
went out of the door before the clerks
Qalized what had been done. All of
the employes got to the door as quickly
as possible, but the thief was nowhere
to be seen, and no one can givo any
description of him.
Dentil IfuiLcuth n Heavy 1'riick.
A boy about 12 years old, attempted
to cross Mission street in San Fran
citco, in front of a four-horso truck,
driven by P. J. Horan. Ho slipped
and fell, the hind whtels passing over
his head, and killing him iiibtantly.
Jjs name was unknown to persons
living in the vicinity.
ICllillC llltClll'll.
Thero was a terious accident on tho
Lake Valley railroad nei Itowlunde,
Cal., canted by malicious persons tun
ing a switch. An engino was ditcued
and badly wrecked, the engineer and
fireman receivinir soveral bad cuts
9 and bruises.
Went Afthnru JUirlii u I'o.
The schooner Grucio B. Itichardson
went ashore near Fisk' mill, Sonoma
county, Cal., during a heavy fog, and
became a total wreck. No lives wero
lost.
It 1 1 let l.r the Cur.
Tyson J. Wood, eon of lie v. Jesse
Wood, editor of the Chico Chronicle
Record, was killed on tho narrow gauge
road in Cluco, Cal. The young man
jumped from the train as it passed
Julian street, and in doing so fell to
the ground. His foot living up as ho
fell, caught in tho truss under tho car
anil ho was dragged along with the
train. He died shortly after.
Arrested for 3Iurricr.
Michaol Cunningham was arrested
at San Francisco, charged with the
murder of Joseph Fay, who was
picked up ou tho streets a few days
beforo. Cunningham says ho knocked
Fay down with his list, in self defense,
after ho and a friend had been set up
by roughs.
C'oUInIoii in Sun rruncisco Hay.
The ferryboat San ltafael collided
with tho tug Frolic in San Francisco
bay, off tho Washington street wharf.
Tho tug Wis towing a barge and was
struck on tho side by the prow of t&o
other boat. A largo hole was made
in the Frolic, but she managed to
ft'ach her landing.
uigTLil $ing.ell.
A marine named Fritz Oppinger,
who has been confined for drunken
noss at tho Marine barracks, near
Vallcjo, Cal., hanged himself with a
piece of his coat from tho grating in
his ihSll.
A 3furi er'N Crime.
Two butchers, Oscar Gabriol and
Charles Kline, quarreled while feed
ing cattle in a slaughter house at Spo
kane Falls. Gabriel accused Kline of
being lazy, at which the latter seized
a butchor-knifo and nearly disom
bowolod Gabriol. Kline is in jail, and
Gabriol lives, with small hopes of re
covery. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
q A Youthful lUunliTiir.
Frank Handall's 10-year-old boy, of
Fort lliploy, Minn., has been arrested
for tho murder of an innflensivo Gor-
ma
in, named Zieglor, who dis.ippoaig)'
.oral days auo. Htndnll's cousin
several days auo,
John Sumuei confessed that he and
Kandall woro out hunting, when the
latter, who had a grudge ag mist Zieg
lor, went to tho bank of the river and
called the German, who was on tho op
posite sido, to come across, as a man
wantod to eeo him. When Ziegk-r was
half way across, in a boat, Randall
shot him with a rille, killing him.
Tho body fell into tho river. Stunner
kept quiet until yesterday, as ho claims
Randall threatened to kill him if he
told, ilaudall will not talk.
Silrltliullui i:xiost'd.
Tho once celebrated Fox sister, who
ato patentees of thu medium spiritual
ists, appeared bofote a largo audience
at tho academy of music in Now York,
to oxpoi-o tho frauds of spiritualism.
Mrs, Margaretta l'ox Kane, read a
lectuio in a faltering voice, and pro
duced the famous rappings so they
wero plainly audible by a movement
of her big toe joint, She thanked
God she was ablo to expose spiritual
ism. liUi-gii I'lro III WUrmihlu.
Firo at Washburne, Wis., destroyed
tin? business portion of tho town. The
ttggregalo loss is $160,000, with Hindi
insurance. Thirty buildings burned.
Itfktillltioil ill llllkotll.
M.J. Harpman.of Minnoaivolis, who
lias boon investigating tho condition
of tho farmers in itanuoy county, who
woro ruportctl to bo starving to doath,
returned. Ho Miya that seventy fuui
iliiw nio abkolutoly destitute of food
rii'l fin I, ami bi'iih'tluug niiiKt le doui'
in)nu''ulfly The iomliuiii i.f tin
pei.ph ih li'iul ikv nptu'i' M ii
women mid ilnMrui mi in iab", uud
have not a cent of money in the world.
Their crops were totally destroyed by
frost in August, and their land, stock
and farm implements are mortgaged.
Absolute distress prevailed everywhere.
l'mipcrw to lie Itcturiieri.
Among immigrant arrivals on the
steamship Spain at Now York was a
party of destitute men ami women,
sent over by tho Duke of Buckingham,
from England. They will be sent
back. Tho steamer Britannic brought
O.io Chinaman, the tiW. who has at
tempted tp land at this port in years.
He will be returned. Work was slack
ou the other eide and tho duke was
'Q'Pealed to with tho above result,
borne wero sick, and rone had money.
So the Whole party will be returned to
his grace in a few days, with Collector
Magone's compliments.
Uliirtlcrou Ieserteri.
Two soldiers at JellVrson barracks,
St. Louis, under arrest for dooertion,
escaped, after making a deadly assault
upon sentrios Welch and Kennedy.
The deserters were Thos. Lynch and a
recruit mimed tMeCurdy. Sentry
Kennedy was cut down .with an ax in
the hands of Lynch, while MoCuuly
beat Welch into insensibility with the
but (b a revolver ho had takrn away
from the sentry. The men will die.
Suicide of mi Arson ('lend.
John Nulz was arrested on Kiispio
ion of setting lire to tho Capitol hotel,
also to a livery stable, at Salinas, Cal.,
both of which wero put out, with but
Blight damage. After Nulz was lodged
in j.ul the ofliwra fcearched him and
took everything from his pockets with
thetxeeption of a two ounce vial, which
Nutz said was cough medicine. Later
it was discovered the medicine was
laudanumand the prisoner lVid taken
it. Ho died the nfxi morning.
Killed II In Wife uiul Children.
Near Columbus, Ind., James Fordj
a farmer, while suffering from deler
ium caused by fever, spuing from his
bed and made an attack upon his wife
and two children. Ho seized a chnir
and killed the youngest child, and fa
tally injured his wile, and his 10-year-old
son was so badly injured that he
will die.
Train "Wrecked.
The westbound special freight train
was wrecked seventeen miles west of
Tucson, Ariz., and seven cars and the
engine were badly wrecked.
Dropped lilit Hundred Feet.
J. 11. Berryman nnd John Flidell
were instantly killed at Luadvillo, Col.,
in a shaft of the Wolfe-one mine, the
cable parting and kiting them drop
800 feet.
Shot Hi Wife ami Himself.
Sam Sainton shot ins wife three
times and himself once, at Louisville,
Ky. Scanlon had been on a continu
ous spree since his brother, Jim Scan
lon, a race-courao sport, was killed at
St. Paul about a momh ago.
troiviiccl ut .Madura.
Two bodies were teen in the whirl
pool, Niagara Falls, which aro sup
posed to bo tho remains of William
ltobinson and Harry 11. WiLon. The
former's hat was found near the whirl
pool. A Jealous plan's Crifie.
Sylvester Grub, of Oukhufl City,
Ind., fired threo shots at Miss Gertie
Dowing, of Francisco, h-dieting fatal
wounds. 'Hie deeiDwas done in the
presence of thousands of people.
Jealousy was the catiec.
A I.are IlotelGtiirued.
The Occidental hotel, the largest in
Tombstone, A. T., burned, with its
contents. Loss, .$30,000; insurance,
$10,000. The Spanish opera troupe
lost all its wardrobe and a lot of valu
able jewelry.
l'atal Wreck on the Wabash.
A wreck of aCJv'abash freight train
occurred at St Louis. Gtorgo Hon
drieks, engineer, and George Cotlor,
fireman, wcrif-killcd. Chits. Williams,
conductor, and Rudolph Stenfai, n
shipper, woro badly injured.
A scientist asks: "How was man
distributed on tho earth?" Perhaps a
banana peel did It. X. 1. Morning
Journal.
Thoy call tho colobrated "fry In n
box" oysters a la bobtail car becauso
tho faro is dropped Into tho box. JIur
pcrV Jiurar. j
Husband "I want rooms for my
solf and wife." Hotel clork "Suito?"
Husband "Of coursosho is porfeotly
lovoly. Tho swootost girl in Amer
ica!" Time.
There ww u youn? l.idy of Vnssar,
Ana In kuowli'tttro but tow coulil surpass tier;
Uut sho iiuulo tho mUttiliO
Of loanilMK to baku,
And now with thu stupid thoy elms nor,
Texas Siflings.
First Mormon missionary "How
did you leave Baxter County, Smith;
by rail?" Second Mormon missionary
"Yes, fouco rati. And I can smell the
tar yot," iturlington Free Press.
An embarrassed young man who
had just been married by a clergyman ,
of a city, not knowing how to express
Ills gratitude, In handing ovor a small 1
foo, said: "I hope to givo you inorol
next time."
Children, who had bcon cautioned
not to toiifto their llttlo brother Klnier,
as ho was cutting a tooth, waltod ex
pootuntly a fow minutes. Then Nod
spoke up: "1 say, tuiutlo, lias ho out it
yet?" tfarptr's VoHig i'tojiU.
My poor mini," wild a woman who
had given uuw biimkfinit to a tnimp,
"you eat UM ly and in evident imlu."
"Yen, minium," Mtdly rtMpoiiurtl tilt)
trim 1', ' 1 I. ui .ll the kM nllinj;
In in , it i 'i. ivv.k (or fi'4 vr
MARKET REPORT.
REMAnr.E Quotations Carefully Kk
vised Every Week.
WHEAT Valley, $1 40$1 42
Walla Walla, $1 IlHOl 35.
BAKLEY Whole, $0 851 00;
groumt. per ton, (J20 0021 50..
OATS Milling, 3231c. ; feed, 28
30c.
HAY Baled, .$l0ifl3.
SEED Blue Grass, 1215c; Tim
othy, 78o.; Bed Clover, ll12Jc.
FLOUll Patent Roller, $5 00;
Country Brand, H 50.
EGGS Per doz. 2.r)c.
BUTTER Fane v roll, per pound,
32c. ; picklg), 3'J32c. ; hrior
grade, 2730c.
CHEESE Eastern, 13Jc; Ore
gon, 1314c. ; California, 14c.
VEGETABLES Beets, per sack,
$1 00 ; cabbage, per lb., lc. ; carrot,
per ok., !? 75 ; lettuce, per doz. 10c;
onions, $ 85 ; potatoes, 2er 100 lbs.,
3010c. ; radishes, per doz., lo20o. ;
rhubarb, per lb., Gc.
HONEY In comb, $r lb., 18c;
strained, 5 gal. tins, per lb. 8c.
POULTRY Chickens, per doz.,
$2 503 50 ; ducks, per doz., ?fO00
0 00 ; geese, $6 008 00 ; turkeys,
per lb., 12 J c.
PROVISIONS Oregon hatPj, 12c
per lb.; Eastern, 15l(5c; Eastern
breakfast bacon. 13c per lb. ; Oregon
10llc. ; Eastern lard, 10lLc. pr
lb,; Oregon, lOc.
GREEN FRUITS Apples, $ 35
50c: Sicily lemons. !?6 00(5 50
California, $G 00G 50; Naval oranges
$G 00; Rivcrsido, $5 00; Mediterra
nean, $4 25.
DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap
ples, 4c. per lb. ; machine dried, 10
llc, pitless plums, 7c,; Italian
lyunes, 1012c. ; peaches, 10Jllc. ;
raisins, $2 402 50.
WOOL Valley, 1518c; Eastern
Oregon. 1015c
HIDES Dry beef hides, 1213c;
culls, G7c.;kipand calf, 1012c. ;
Murrain, 10 12c. ; tallow, 4ig4c.
LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00;
edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G.
sheathing, per M, $13 00 ; No. 2 floor
ing, per M, ijilS 00 ; No. 2 ceiling, per
M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00;
clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4
S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per
M, $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M,
$22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50;
stopping, por'M, $25 00; over 12
inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40
to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60,
extra, $4 00 ; 1 lath, per M, $2 25 ;
1. lath, per M, $2 50.
BEANS Quoto email whites, $1 50 ;
pinks, $3; bayos, $3; butter, $4 50;
Limits, $4 50 por cental.
COFFEE Quoto Salvador, 17c;
Costa Rica, 1820c ; Rio, 1820c ;
Java, 27c; Arbuckle's's roasted, 22c.
MEAT Beef, wholesale, 2$3c;
dressed, Gc. ; sheep, 3c; drowsed, Gc. ;
hogs, dressed, 89c ; veal, 57c.
PICKLES Kegs auoted steady at
$1 35.
SALT Liverpool grades of fine
(quoted $18, $11) and $20 for the threo
sizes; stocK salt, $iu.
SUGAR Prices for barr$j; Golden
O.Gc. ; extra C, 6je. ; dry granuted,
7c. ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and
powdered, 7c. ; extra C, 6c. ; halves
and boxes, -Jo. highor.
With tho exception of tho compos
ing room Jennie Juno has worked Id
ovory department of a nowspapor
office.
Tho two sons of Jool Chandler
Harris, Julian and Luclon, nro called
"Brer Fox" and "Brer Rabbit" by
their friends.
Helon Mathors, tho English author
ess, wroto tho novel which mado her
reputation in tho hope of bringing
back her lovor, who had loft her in a
fit of anger.
Georgo W. Chllds, tho Philadel
phia, editor, keops threo houses always
in readiness, for occupancy. Ho can
sleep, thoroforo, in Philadelphia, at
Long Branch, or at Bryn Mawr, and
still bo at homo. Ho stops at any of
his homos just aa tho fnucy solzos
him.
A. W. Longfellow, brother of tho
Into poot, Is a prominent flguro in
Portland, Mo. Ho closely resomblos
his famous brother, both In manner
nnd person. Ho Is nearly sovonty
years of ago. Ho Is described as a
groat literary 6tudont, spending a
largo part of hlsilmo In his study.
Tho statement that no book has
bcon burnt publicly for ovor a hundred
years is contradicted by a contributor
to tho London Star, who says: "Not,
perhaps, by logal authority, but plen
ty of books havo been burnt in popular
forvor of ono kind or another. If I am
not mistaken, Mr. Froudo's 'NemosU
of Faith' was so burnt by High-Church
Btudelits at Oxford in ISIS."
Mrs. Julia I). Grant Is reported to
havo reeelved from tho General's book
nbout ft AO, OX), and has a pension ol
?5,000 from Uib Nation. She also hiu
the income from the $960,000 raiwd by
(iooi-ip Joium from Jay Gould, J nam
Gordon lWm.'lt und oltn-r h
al bf ii,,- ltnH.iiiH final $ltKi,iHiO
rai.',t i.k li. iru W. n.il.l Jn oili.-r
itii . im ttio Imw4o u ivl ur
MEN AS REFORM hrt3.
Why Youth nnd Old Aro May He Called
the Hope of Mankind.
In his rcranrkablo novel, "Diana of tho
Crossways," Mr. Meredith represents
his heroine as writing to a friend: "Tho
very young men and tho old aro our
hope. Tho middle-aged aro hard ,
nnd fast for existing facts. We pick
our loaders on tho slopes, tho incllno
and declino of tho mountain not on
tho upper table-land midway, whoro
all appears to men so solid, so tolerably
smooth, save for a fow excrescences,
roughnesses gradually to bo leveled at
their leisure; which induces one to pro
test that tho middle agoof men is their
time of delusion. It is no paradox.
Thoy may bo publicly useful In a small
way. 1 do not deny it at all. Theymus'o
bo near tho gates of lifo tho opening
or tho closing for their minds to bo
accessible to tho urgency of tho great
er question."
Waro inclined to think that Diana
Morion was right. Tho impulso to re
form comes generally from tho
younger men, who aro taking their
first clear outlook upon tho field of
social institutions and established cus
toms. Habit is a lQrdonlng forco in
intellectual processes, and dulls tho
keenness of moral perceptions. Con
servative, and, therefore, preservative,
inlluenee, though it bo in society, it is
a dead weight to bo overcome in any
social reconstruction. But it is only
tho finer and rarer natures that, by
finiddle life, havo not suecumbol to tho
habits of their own ways of. thought
or tho strongor organized habit which
wo call social conventloiP Tho ad
vantago ofQaking tilings as they aro
commends itself to tho man in mid
life, who is bearing tho burden and
heat of tho day. Things may not be
as lnPwould wish them to be, but ho
knows, at least, tho conditions under
which ho must mako his battle, and
the reformer's purposo throws .condi
tions into a confusion from which ho
shrinks. Ho has corao to look with
toleranco, if not with complacency,
upon manifest evils on all sides of
him, and his stolid acceptance of thorn
springs partlyofrom such acceptance
by others, partly from mental inertia,
and partly from tho declino of hope
fulness. ' With somo mon, howovor, tho im
pulso of a reformatory principle car
ries thorn far into middlo life, and
perhaps through life, as reformers.
They may bo men of ono idea, social or
political "cranks," agitators and
propagandists, but they havo at least a
thoroughness of conviction and a
tenacity of purposo which tho world
badly needs to counterbalance the
dead weight of indifference and blind
conservatism. Indeed, it is to bo de
plored when a man does not start with
radicalism enough on at least ono sub
ject to last him through lifo, and so
preservo to him sonftj senso of sympa
thy with tho reforming spirit.
The army of young reformers fini
somo appreciation and encouragement
among tho old, among thosiOwho aro
"near tho closinggates of lifo." They
havo fought their way through, taking
practicalities as thoy found them, and
thoy havo como to a timo when they
can look backward without personal
anxiety, but with tho sympathy of ex
perience for thoso who aro at the
threshold. Tho veterans of lifoB.iow
that lifo can bo mado bettor for tho try
ing; tho victims of socioty know that
social and political conditions can bo
mado justor and moro honorable Tho
young are hopeful and anxious to work
reform for thomsolvos; tho old aro will
ing to help on tho young champions of
reform for tho sake of posterity. And
so it comes about that tho stimulating
influences of society aro strongest at
tho extremes of ago, strongest among
those who stand near tho opening or the
dosing gates of activity. In a senso it
is true that tho middlo ago of men is
their time of delusion. Boston Cour
ier. RIVERS AND VALLEYS.
Hum- Trees 1'oriii u Xiitural lioscrvoh- for
Ituln Witter.
The valleys of most rivers are
forest-chid. 'While theso forests havo
the gigantic growth characteristic of
fertile districts in the tropics and thoO
temperate zones, or take the shape
of btuntod woods, such as extend, far
toward tho poles, thoy in all caso-j
form beneath their branches, and
above tho soil, a thick, spongy coat
ing, which forms a natural reservoir
for tho rain wators. In most regions,
this forost-spongo has a depth of more
than a foot; it not infrequently attains
a thickness of two foot or more. It
can commonly tako into its intersticei
a rain-fall of threo or four inches in
depth, or from one-sixth to ono-tnth
tno orilinary annual supply.
This
wator is slowly yielded to the brooks;
It often requires weeks for a sim
torrential ain entirely to escano
into
the open channels which boar it to tho
sea. Moreover, tho fallen trunks nnd
branches of tho trees clog tho forest
shaded rlvulots, making littlo pools,
which servo still further to restrain
the outgoing of tho waters. Out
beavers, at one time tho most widely
distributed of our larger animals, at
first making avail of those natural
ponds formed by fallen timber, leanwd
In tlmo to construct moro artful dams
so as to retain oxtenslvo basln3 of
wator. Thus. In the natural condition
of the North Amorlean rivers, as well
as those of most other oountrlos before
man hgaa to dear away the forests,
the wood constituted greut syti in
of ruwi-Miii-H. in which thw ruin w-,.i
vu.'' , a mi., the j.e. ,( (1f inter veniii'
Ui-uiifc'hu.,NriMT, Muffuunt,
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