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sJSLSS THE OREGON SCOUT. S A CHANCEY, Publisher UNION OREGON. RIGHT-HANDEDNESS. rheMataral Wffy of Protecting tlieVnlo- able rrt of Our llodle. Primitive man, being by nature a lighting animal, fought for tho most part at first with his great canine tooth, his nnils and his fists; till in proccsB of timo he added to those early and natural weapons tho further per suasions of a club or 6hillalah. Ho also foil ght, as Darwin has conclusively shown, in tho main for tho possession of tho Indies of his kind against other members of his own sect and species And if you fight you soon learn to pro tect tho most exposed and vulnorablo portion of your body. Or, if you don't, natural selection manages it for you by killing you off as un immediato con sequence. To tho boxer, wrestler, or hand-to- liand combatant the most vulnerablo portion is undoubtedly the heart. A hard blow, woll delivered on tho left breast, will easily kill, or at any rate, stun even a strong man. Henco from an early period, mon havo used tho right hand to fight with and havo em ployed tho left arm chlofly to cover tho heart and parry a blow aimed at that specially vulnerable region. And when weapons of offenso nnd defense supcrsedo more fists and teeth it is tho right hand that grasps tho spear or sword, whllo tho loft holds over tho heart for defense tho shield or buckler. From this simple origin, then, tho wholo vast difference of right and loft in civllizod lifo takes its beginning. At first, no doubt, tho superiority ol tho right hand was only folt in tho manner of fighting. Hut that alone gave it a distinct pull, and paved the way, at last, for tho supremacy else where. For when weapons carao into ubo, tho habitual employment of the Tight hand to grasp tho spear, sword or knifo made tho norvo9 or muscles of tho right side far more obedient to tho control of tho will than those of the loft. Tho doxtority thus acquired by tho right sco how tho word "dex terity" Implies this fact mado it more natural for tho early huntor and artill cor to employ tho same hand preferen tially in tho manufacture of flint hatchets, bows and arrows, and nil the other manifold activities of savage lifo. It was tho hand with which ho grasped his weapon; it was thorcforc tho hand with which ho chipped it. To tho end, liowover, tho right hand remains especially "tho hand in which you hold your knifo"; and that is exactly how our own childron to this day decido tho question which is which, when thoy begin to know their Tight hand from their loft for practical purposos. Cornhill Magazine EASTERN ITEMS. AN ENORMOU WELL. OF NATURAL 9 AS DISCOVERED. It Goete a Quarter to Hear Him Amer ican Ladles Imprisoned Henry Georgo Given a Dinner An Entrance to Toronto. MR A1V1 VAM. 1 A DREAM OF GOLD. How a Quwrter With Whole in It Wai Found After Mnny Yearn. ' In 18C8 Lizzlo M. Trask, of Vlonnn, was dressmaking in Lowlston. Sho eanio into possossion of a gold twenty five-cent picco with a hole in it; this she showed as a curiosity to hor friends. At that timo sho had a llttlo nloco two yoara old, daughtor of Jonathan P. Trask, now tho wlfo of Loman Butlor, trader In Mount Vornon. Tho llttlo coin Lizzlo onco showed to hor nioco when sho was a vory small girl, tolling hor that sho would glvo It to hor whon sho was old enough to tako caro of It Lizzlo died twelve years ago. In hor possession was a good ladies' wnllot with sovoral compnrtmonts. This wallet hor mother used until hor doath seven years ago. Thou Jamos, a brothor of Lizzio's had it, nnd it has boon in constant uso almost dally over slnco, olthor by him or his wlfo. Tho llttlo gold coin was novcr soon after Lizzio's death or boforo for sovoral years by hor friends, and its whoro ubouts wore not known nnd In fact its oxlstonoo had passed from their mem ory. A fow days ago Mrs. llutlor mado hor parents a visit, stopping with thorn sovoral nights. Whllo thoro sho dreamed that bIio saw hor Aunt Lizzie's wallet and that it was faced with groon and in a cer tain compartment sho found tho llttlo gold coin which sho saw so mnny years ugo. On tolling hor mother hor dream uho was Informed that Lizzlo did have a wallot which answered hor descrip tion and that her Unolo Jamos had it. Tho wallet Addlo had novor soon. Sho then visited hor unelo and told hor dream to hor aunt, who laughed at tho idea of any thing being in it other than what sho and hor husband had placed thoro. Hut at Addlo's earnest bolicltation sho produced It and as soon as Addlo saw it sho oxclalmed: That 1h tho sntuo wallet that I saw In my droam," and polutod out tho com partment that hold hor treasure. Sho then took a needle, and, running it to tho bottom, sho drow forth a small pioco of newspnpor and in it was In deed a gold quarter with a hole in it, wrupped, no doubt, by tho hands of hor aunt at least twolvo years boforo, whero it had lain all this timo, and no ono knows how much longer, without tho knowledge of any ono until Addlo's droam cuimed it to bo brought forth. Augusta (Me.) Now Ago. A superintendent of a Now York school was socking to dovolop tho idea of bipod and quadruped among tho scholars, for which purpose ho had two pictures, ono representing a horse, tho other u rooster. Holding thorn aloft, In full vluw of tho scholars, ho mild In eucouraging tones, "Now, which ono am IP" "Tho rooHtor, sir," was tho -SHianimous reuly. Chinese aro pouring into Mexico. Yellow fever is making tomblo pro gress in Mexico. Seven hundred men are ntwork on tho Nicaragua Canal. Tho Bennington Battle Monument now 100 feet high. Tho Now York Central has secured on entrance to Toronto. Hon. Samuel J. Randall has been again prostrated by illness. The Standard Oil Company is grabbing all the gas lands loose. August 15th is set for the trial of the new cruiser Baltimore. An air-line railroad from Tampa, Fla to Chicago is projected. It has cost Now York about $200,000 to conduct the hoodie trials. A rabid dor bit four persons at lioboken, ri. J., last week. Porpoise-shooting with tho rifle is Bport for Capo May visitors. The longest row of corn in tho world is in Waubunseo county, Kan. Two of Ukiahama's now counties are named Harrison and Cleveland. The natural gas companies of Ohio and Indiana are talking consolidation. AtMalono. N. Y., 300 New York child ren aro Having a two week's outing. Tho court-martial to try ex-Command ant Fletcher at Umaha is now in session The barbers of Philadelphia have de cided to keep their shops closed on Sun day. Tho number of prominent Americans now m London and Pans is unprece dented. Thirty-four Philadelphia school build mgs havo developed deiectivo drainage all at onco. May 1. 1890. has been fixed for eight hour demonstrations throughout Europe and America. It is represented that tho rearrange ment of tho Ottawa Cabinet IB giving much trouble. Chicago claims tho Exposition of 1891 on tho ground that Bho lias moro room for it than New York. Soven hundred operatives at tho Fish Hack Kouing Mills at l'ottsviiio, l'enu struck for an increaso of pay. To mako tho battlefield of Gettysburg a complete memorial it is proposed that tho rebel lines also shall bo marked. Out of tho 773 delegates elected to tho Now Jersey Prohibition Convention last week, hut 370, or less than half, attended It is now estimated that 23,000,000 bushels of wheat will be sent to market from tho country tdong tho Manitoba railroad. Three editors wero arrested at "Wil liamsport, l'onn., charged with Bonding obscene and lewd literature through the mails. About the only thing that tho resub mission Hurry in Kansas has accom plished is to revive tho State Temperance Union. Twolvo acres in Princo Georgo county, Va.. havo Bunk alout sixty loot, and a lake two acres wido has formed upon its surface. Tho assessment of tho city of Nashville for tins year shows an increaso ol $ 1,000 -000 in property value over last year's assessment. Tho now electric road to Bay Ridgo, near Baltimore, just opened, is running satisfactorily and carrying crowds of passengers. Henry Georgo was given a dinner at Brighton Beach last week, at which ho predicted tho ultimato success of his land-tax system. Deaths are numerous in tho Couemaugh Valley, Penn., largely tho result of tho sovero mental and physical sutfering tho people havo endured. Thoro has recently boon a wild boom at Ashland, is., which has just col lapsed and loft a number of bankrupts and interesting stories as reminders. An KHxnlicth. N. J., man holm: pur sued by the police, leaped from the third story of his homo to tho ground and ran oil'. Ho wasn't injured in tho slightest. All Kentucky is stirred by tho nows Hint an enormous well of natural gas has lust boon discovered at Clovorport, in Breekinridgo county, on tho Ohio river Tho latest Mormon iiarty to arrive from Europe numbered 132. Ono thous and in all aro expected this summer. Tho missionaries complaiu of their lack of success. Tho wealth of tho 300 citizens Mayor Grant called together to consider tho holding of a great Exposition in Now York in 1892, foots up, it la said, fully (1, 600,000. Trials of tho now Wall Btreot nnd Main street electrical railways in Cincinnati demonstrated their entire satisfactory working, and regular trips aro now being made. Tho Association of Centenary Firms of Philadelphia has been crguniml. Tho association consists of firms that have carried on buBiuesa in Unit city for 100 years or more. Tho State Department Is engaged In earnestly invohUgatlng tho caso of tho three American ladies who wero impris oned at Mentono, France, for non-settle- ment ol a uullluer's mil. Trusts cost their founders something. Tho SaltTniHt had to pay $13,760 tax to tho Stato of Now York on tho charter, or certificate of organization. That will como out of the people who buy salt. Sam Jones la preaching at tho High Bridge camp grounda in Kentucky. whero ho is said to bo making moro moiiev than over before. It coats a quarter to hear him, and ho lias crowds of auditors. A Pointer for Wheat Growers Fertilize the Orchard Roes Inseote Rice Frit to re Remedy for Pcours. Running roses may be tied to trellises now, or thoy may bo Injured. The final touch which makes a dish perfect is always an inspiration. Eight cents per pound is the cost of sending seeds by mail. The paefcag must not exceed lour pounds. Do not try to cultivate onions deep ; an inch of the surface is kept mellow and' no weeds allowed to grow, it is all iho cultivation that wiu be needed Black Cake. Ono pound each of flour, v ..u . ' a a . a uuuer, sugar una citron, cut nne , iwi pounds each of raisins and currants twelve eggs, ono tablespoonful each of nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Bake nearly four hours in a moderately heated oven. Berry baskets stored in crates in th samo manner as when filled with fruit are almost certain to bo damaged by tho gnawing of mice if the mice have access If the boxes are nestled together and packed in they crates the are seldom attacked. Rico Fritters. Four eggs beaten very light, one pint of milk, ono cup of boiled rice, three teaspoons of baking powder in ono quart of flour ; make into batter and drop into boiling lard. Sauce Ono pound of BUgar, one and ono-half cups of water, Buck ot cinnamon, boil till clear Apple Ginger. Mako a Byrup of four pounds ol granulated sugar and a pint of water in which cook very slowly four podnds of finely chopped tart apples peeled and cored, and two ounces Add tho grated rind of Take it off tho stove when green ginger, four lemons, it looks clear. Coiieo Cake. Une cup ot sugar, one cup ol melted butter, ono cup New Orleans molasses, one cup of Btrong coffee, one egg, one teaspoonful of baking powder, ono teaspooniul ot ground cloves one tablcspoonlul of ground cinnamon one-half pound each of raisins and cur rants, and four cups of sifted Hour. Eggless Ico Cream. Scald two nuarts ot milk, wet lour tablespoontulB of corn starch with cold milk, put into the scald ing milk with tour cuphils ot sugar, and boil until tho taste ol tho cornstarch is gone ; when quite cold add one quart of thick cream beaten stiff. Flavor with vanilla, rose or chocalate and freeze Raw meat chopped fine and fed once a day, will produce more eggs than anv other food that can bo given the hen Ono pound of rough meat to fifteen hens is Biilhcient. iho meat should bo lean and if preferred, may be cooked, but it gives better results when given raw. It is not expensive when tho increased number of eggs is considered How to Mako Clover Silage. This biiBinesa is now, or soon will bo, in order, and hero is a point from a practical man worth deeding. A farmer with consider able experience, who has siloed clover for ooveral years, says if it should bo left to wilt on tho ground for two lioura alter cutting, and each (lav's filling of the silo bo allowed to heat before tho lresh clover is added, and tho sides not tho center, ept thoroughly tramped, tho clover will como out moist and green, and the cattle will relish it as thoroughly as summer pasture. Utilizing Dropped Manure. An Ohio Iiirmer Bays that a good way to utilize dropped manure in lanes leading from barnyard to tlelds is to plough and scrape them whero tho surface is such that this can bo done. Many lanes of this kind contain an undisturbed accumulation of years. Build one permanent fence in tho middle of a strip wide enough for two lanes, Bay sixty feet, then build a port able fenco out on either side of the lane. When it becomes desirable to plough, re movo tho poi tablo fenco over to tho other side for a lano there. Rose Insects. Tho insects most harm ful to rosoB aro tho green fly, red spider, roso hopper or thrips, and tho roso bug and tho black slug. Mow, though com bating thcBO insects involves some little troubles, yet success will attend all per sistent etforlB. The green lly, tho thrips ml tho black slug can all be kept under by syringing tho plants with a solution of w halo oil Boap. Ono pound of soap is BUlHcient for eight gallons of water. Throw tho water in a lino spray on the under as woll as the upper sides of tho leaves. A syringe with a bent nozzle i& tho best instrument with which to apply tho liquid to tho lower sides of the leaves. Tho red Bpidor can bo held in check by syringing tho leaves with clear water; in Irv times this should be done overv day. If tho roso bug (Mololontha subspinosa) makes its appearance, which is not vorv often, it can bo destroyed by the insect exterminator. Fertilize tho Orchard. In advocating tho maintenance of the fertility of tho orchard, Dr. Hawkins, of Vermont says ho has never yet seen an orchard too rich for profit, nor one mon which the last loads of manure did not pay the most profit. He adds that the most profitable orchard of tho William's Favorito applo in tho vicinity oi isoston is kept 'as rich as a barnyard." Tho fruit is doublo what might bo called tho normal sizo of tho variety ; every applo is handled liko an egg, and marketed at its xint of per fection. This orchard is very profitable, though small. An orchard that would rival this is in tho city of Montreal, con taining thirty-six Fameuso tiees, tho fruit from which waa sold, ungathorcd, ono season, for $800. Tho trees wero very largo and perfectly healthy, and had all to themselves, almost an aero of rich land. THE PACIFIC COAST. I rORElUN FLAMHKB. TO CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH THE PACIFIC OOA8T. Adludged Insane-Claims to be His Wire To Defeat High License Portland Postmaster's ReportEarthquake. Drytown, Amador county, is having a boom. The Puebla on her last trip north took ooo tons oi trait lrom san a raneisco A cork tree in Visalia is now eighteen 1 1! , . I . l 1 incnes in diameter anu mriy ieet nign A stingaree that weighed 1,000 pounds 1 a Ti 1 1 r, l , 7 I was Kiueu at. jieuonua ue&cn iaai weeK. EarthquaKes are still shaking Susan ville. Five shocks occurred on the 26th. A lire on uie old Crocker ranch, near Mprced recently, destroyed considerable grain. The old and well-known Cucamongo hotel, eighteen miles east of Pomona, has been burned. Frank Lankrey's house at Mist, Or., was burned for revenge by Borne enemy a few days ago. A lamp explosion caused the loss of the residence of W. H. Soule. at Wood land on the 29th. A strike in the Gover mine at Dry- town. Amador county, shows rock held together with gold. Two Harney Valley. Or., settlers are under arrest for resisting eviction by United States Marshals. The peach crop of Pomona Valley will amount to 380 tons. Canneries get the fruit at 1 cent per pound. The work of rebuilding the Bmelters for tho Eureka, Consolidated mine at Eureka, New, haa begun. Jack Murnhv. known aB "Jack tho Ripper," killed James Clooney at Sack ville, Yolo county, on the 29th. Joso Sauza of Pomona attempted sui cide on tho 28th because his daughter had eloped with a married man. George Cornwall, a iockev. waa killed at San Diego on the 29th. While jump ing a fence his horso fell upon him. John D. Spreckels is said to have pur chased a one-third interest in tho Coro- nado Beach Company, coating him 511 ,000. Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra mento, charged witli attempting to destroy by lire the Western Hotel in mat, city. A whole family of Flathead Indiana has been murdered and burned by rol- bers in tho Sun River country in Montana. Sutter county saloonkeepers have com bined to tWeat high license. Three have been arrested and warrants are out for seven others. Tho taking of testimony in tho case of 11. Li. Uorton lor tho Clipper Gap robberv last December began at Auburn. Placer county, on tho nyth. Tho fruit cannery at Marvsvillo ii fill ing a apecial order for peaches in half pound cans to bo 6old on tho railroad trains to passengers. A man named Hayes was given ono hour to leave Potaluma or five days in tho chain gang for disturbing the Salva tion Army meeting. E. L. Cartenon, traveling agent ior a San Francisco house, has been adjudged insane at Redding. He is s jbject during hbt weather to mental tiouola. L.B.Allen and a companion, fiora San Diego, who left for Oceansido to Bail a small yachtdown tho coast, aro missing and it is feared they aro drowned. Tom Thompson and eix other men who tarred and feathered Gus Brannan at San Pedro a few montha ago, have been found guilty of simplo assault. Tho salmon canneries on tho Fraser lver are each securing lrom 8.000 to 15,000 salmon daily, and the largest pack in the history of the industry is assured. mbroso Hierco has a detective work ing on the Chico tragedy. It is behoved by some that the bullet wound through tho temple of young Biorce was not in fiicted by himself. J. R. Griffith, from Fresno, haa been on a protracted spreo at Travor. and rather than go to jail cut an artery in his arm with a pocket kmle. I'romnt sunn cal aid saved nim. ino mata used to form tho lettv in process of construction at Eureka Har- or, Humboldt county, are sixtv-lour feet long, forty feet wido and four feet thick. Each weighs sixty tons when ready for launching. In Committee of the Wholo of the Montana Convention on the 27th, Ana- onda received 32 votes against 24 for tho location of tho capital. Great excite monl resulted in Helena. Denmark's Foreign Trade Threatens to Run the Telephone Tried Her Engines With Succeea. A Point for Wheat Growers. A grati fying effect ol strowing Btmw thinly over tho wheat plants on a vory poor Bpot ol land after tho ground had frozen Iuib been reported by Mr. Terry, of Ohio. Tho wheat waa benefitted, but tho ro- maikablo advantage lay in tho good catch and good growth of clover sown in tho spring, which extended exactly to the limit ot tho straw mul;h ono load to tho aero. So sayB a writer in tho Weekly Tribune, ho adds that ho onco owned two tlelds in which thcro wero Bpota of the finest and cleanest of loam, on which clover seed always failed because of tho surface running together into a compact glare after tho spring frosts, and ho could think of no remedy. Tho straw seoms to havo prevented tno raiua irom so packing tho Burfaco iu Mr. Terry's valuable ex perience, and clover, if it can Irs mado to grov with certainty, will soon amend tho tcxturt oi tho soil. Farmers who have poor ppotB lu their wheat field would do well to try too bimw cure, not oniy to lHinellt tho crop eown.0hut aa a prepara tion for clover. Two cases of death from lighting fires with coal oil wero reiiortett on tho 27th Ono at Seattle, Mra Julia Calder, and tho other near Clay fatatian, in Sacramento county, Mrs. Arthur Ralphs. Attorney H. G. Thompson has just re turned to l'ortianu trom IsntiBh Colum bia, whero ho closed a deal with tho new Westminster Southern Railway Com pany to connect untish Columbia with tho Pacific Northwest. Tho Portland Postmaster's report for tho fiscal year ended Juno 30th shows tho receipts and payments of tho monoy order and Kstal funds to havo been 5,427,tll3 12, as compared with $4,403, 074 30 last year, an increaso of $1,000,000. C. H. Crocker has offered to bear tho oxjenBo of an expedition from the Lick Observatory to Cayenne, South America, next December, and It is expected at that timo to confirm and extend some of tho discoveries made at tho laat eclipso. Hon. Joseph A. Donohoo of Menlo Park haaollered tho Astronomical Society of tho Pacific to establish a medal to bo given to tho first discoverer of ovoiy un expected comet, nnd to tho first person making a preciBO observation of a tele scopic periodic comet at any ono of its exjiected returns. The woman claiming to Ih tho wife of Colonel Ayreu of tho Loa Angeles Herald, referred to in an Eastern telegram pub lished in tho Bulletin on tho 27th, is not his wife. Sho formerly resided in San Francisco, and nearly a quarter of decn tury ago sho labored under tho delusion that sho waa married to Colonel Ayers, and was a source of great annoynnco to him. Siam has begun the issue of pape money. Railroad management in Bavaria is in bad snape. Mlllais is painting his third picture of Mr. Gladstone. A new life of Bruno is to be prepared by the Vatican. The Crofters Commission is reducing rents and arrearages. Efforts at phonetic writing are active both in France and Germany. Buffalo Bill gave a dinner to Russell Harrison at Pans on the 27th. The infantry branch of the Austrian army has been increased by 9,000. Peru observed its sixty-eighth anni versary of Independence on tho 29th. Extensive thefts of arms have been carried on for years in Bombay arsenal. An epidemic of typhoid fever is Baid to be rnging in the Ternes district of Paris. Denmork'a foreign trade haa grown to tremendous aize, mainly with England. Shares in the proposed American Salt Trust are already selling in London at a premium. A German peasant has been detected in tapping a telephono wire to cure his rheumatism. The silver jubilee testimonial to Cardi nal Manning now amounts to a total of over 0,000. August 4th is the date fixed for re- burying the French Revolution heroes in the Pantheon. A German firm has made a contract to reconstruct the port of Odessa at a cost of over ?o,ooo,oou. The Portuguese who fired atDom Pedro declares ho was instigated by the Repub lican Association. Dr. Schmolzkopf. Surgeon-in-chief of Captain Wiaamann's African expedition, has been drowned. An Erzeroum diepatch states that Russian troops are rapidly massing near tho Turkish frontier. Brunn, the Austrian center of textile industry is suffering under a general strike ot 15,000 operatives. Ryan, a seaman on the Jabez Howes. waa drowned at sea on June 17th. Ryan waa a native ol fcan r raneisco. Much curiosity haa been excited by tho approaching production at Brussels of Salarabo, a new opera by Reyer. iNone ot the railroads in India are equipped with baggage cars and no traveler is allowed to carry a trunk. In a recent domestic riflo competition at AVimbledon Sir Henry Halford, shoot ing for Hmgland, mado 210 out of hia 23a. George S. Ladd of San Francisco, a prominent electrician, is iving danger ousiy in in a house in I'iccadilly, London London, excited by the success of Paris, appears to be very much in earnest in her endeavor to found a grand exhibi tion in lb)l. Bankera in London do not tare for tho naners of tho Prince of WhIph. The Pnnco has not much of a reputation aa a business man. The English Government threatens to run the telephone since the businesa haB been left to one company. France has already done so. On account of heavy and repeated falls oi snow among tno Aipa, the season for mountaineering promises to be late this year in Switzerland. A diepatch from Rome Bays the Vati can and Quirinal aro doubly guarded on receipt of information of a plot to blowup uuui witii uynumiie. The report that Mme. Neilson has lost I.. 1, :.... i : i.i in- ticujiiiK imu iiiciuury io tiuipu.iucatiy denied. She is suffering from her old trouble rheumatism. A "Guide to tho Churches of London shows that the number of metripolitan churches has increased between 1883 and 1889 from 928 to 1,010. It ia stated that at the rate tho popula tion is leaving Norway lor tho United States, in the next fifteen yeara not one win bo leit in that land. The "Heavenly Foot Society" haa been started in China by the women. 1-11? " . ' in reocuion againBtine venerated lasinon that compressea their feet. It haa been decided in Russia that women may be physicians: but they must confine their services to children ami adults of their own sex. British reports of the inland fisheries show that out of 7,870 salmon captured in seventeen districts ',ch were taken by tho rod. iho others were netted. It is Btated in London that Germany and Austria havo instructed ex-King Milan to restoro tho supreme power in fcervia in order to check Italian intrigues. A party of 800 Hungarians who left Vienna recently for tho Pans Exhibition proceeded, by way of Torino, to will on Louis Kossuth, tho great Hungarian patriot. Grave fears aro felt at Zanzibar for the safety of tho Upwapwa nnsaionariea. Tho Buahiri havo murdered an officer of tho Last African Company, named Nielsen. Tho Duko of Newcaatlo is expending ncariy xou.wu in oiinuing a church in tno grounna at clumber, Ihb place at Notts. It is a beautiful edifice in the Gothic stylo. KEEP AT I Occupation Moral Force and ldlnM ai a MUchlef-nreeder. Occupation and industry aro so often recommended merely for tho material gains they bring that their moral forc is not always recognized as it should be. Yet occupation that brings nc materitl reward, nnd Is, by comparison with work, the merest trifling, may be. if innocent in itself, a moral force simply because it keeps the individual out of temptations and gives employ ment to his energies. Idleness is a fruitful breoder of mischief. Tho mind, if not tho body, must bo at work during idle hours. It is difficult to conceive of a period of inaction for tho brain except during sleep or insensi bility. Thoughts como unbidden; thoy may be mischievous or merely idle, but occupation supplants them with other thoughts relating to tho work or play in which ono is engaged or stirs tho mind to speculation or planning. It is not possible, eron though it might appear to bo desirable, to keep men at work during all their waking hours. They must have rest and recreation, nnd it is during this period that they need some occupation, harmless in it self, to keep thom out of mischief. It is for these otherwise idle hours that good amusements should bo provided books or papers to bo road, eocioties, literary entertain ments, concerts and theatrical performances of an improving kind to bo attended. In a grent city many of these needs of humanity aro furnished by business men to meet a want as real as that for food and elothing. But there aro many who havo not the means to avail themselves of such oc cupation as is thus provided for idlo hours, nnd for such as these charitable people estnblish free libraries, schools and other places for self improvement Some of tho workingmen's clubs and similar bodies go further than this and furnish gymasiums and rooms for var ious games, lecognizing that occupa tion for idlo hours is tho main thing, and that it must bo of a kind contrast ing with tho daily labor of tho indi vidual to bo benefited. Tho clerk may find amusement in manual labor or in violent exorcise: tho mechanic, who has had enough of both, is bettor sat isfied with a book or with a game that calls only for mental exertion. All theso different tastes and needs for an occupation that may fill in idlo hours aro fairly woll met in a largo city by tho variety of entertainments pro vided by businoss men and philan thropists the ono for gain, tho othor for tho good he may do humanity. But it is far different in tho smaller towns and villages, whero it does not pay to cator to such needs nnd whero there is seldom wealth enough to furnish from its abundanco free entertainment or educational ad vantages. For all such places, how over, thoro is opportunity to do a good work by co-operative enterprise at vory little cost. A literary society meeting in tho school house or church furnishes occupation for the thoughts of members not merely during the fow hours dovoted to tho meetings, but for many hours in preparation therofor. It may also furnish tho foundation for a small circulating library of books or papors that will provido reading mat ter, giving useful occupation for othor spare hours. From such beginnings in tho course of timo may be devel oped a lecture bureau bringing to town or village occasional speakers from abroad. All such enterprises, undertaken in tho right spirit, hnvo undoubted educational and moral value. In tho smaller corporative bodies work on the part of tho mem bers takes tho place of money capital. A lazy village may bo transformed by such an institution; tho young mon, instead of idling away their hours of rest in useless or mischievous gossip at tho country storo or tho whool wright's, may hnvo tlioir ambitions aroused, bo oncouraged to read and study, and thus bo given occupation that will keop thom out of mis chief nnd promote their mental and moral wolfaro. Many of tho great mon of tho country rocoived tlioir earliest impulses to study iu (so cieties of this kind. Tho educational value of tho exercises may havo been limited, but tho readings, tho debates and other literary endeavors stimu lated a desiro to learn and established habits of study and industry bearing good fruit in lator years. What form tho efforts to provide occupation for idlo hours should tuko depends very much upon tho community to bo reached. It should bo adapted tothoir wants as woll as to their needs. Aim ing at ton much good may defeat tho purpose if tho occupation provided should bo In the naturo of drudgory. For mon who work hard durinir tho lay, relaxation and amusement nro needed. Thoso may bo found in read ing, in literary exorcises adapted to their understanding, and games of various kinds. Hut ns tho main pur poso is to occupy thoir idio hours with Ono of Lcgitimo's Generals had agreed exercises not injuriougi enortg townrd to surrender a iortion of tho defensive works at Port-au-Princo to Hinpoivto. Tho plot waa discovered and un ambush killed thirty of liippolyto's men. Two hundred and thirtv-ono foreicmnrd wero expelled from Belgium between the tiUi oi February, 1888, and tho Cth of robniary, 1HSU. 'Ihree expulsions only wero ordered for political reasons. Tho largest shin in tho Hrhli fn.'l. i "t Jt utu ijiunifciix, inuuuiicii iwo yeara ago, has at last tried her engines with success. thoir improvement should bo limited to such things aa will surely enlist thoir interost nnd ongngo thoir atten tion, trusting to timo and tho influ ence of good habits for tho futuro de velopment of highor tastes and de mands. Baltimore Sun. According to a recent lettor from Mr. Henry M. Stnnloy, tho "arrow ioison" used with deadly effect 9 tho juji to .l "A Kiitr I - rt c v I'M i.ti ii 12,818 "ho o power & -o her 17 .'8 k;,oL , , V, , V Cn d,'tr,ot 19 Tt. . v I .t l','ahl'ow- mado of dried red nnts. ground into Pri ffSSk4. M ( P-r. and cooked in pafm oil. Th if ho succeeds in his latest project, which in iu urnuigu u meeting ueiween the Czar, J!il!oror. FSnh18 Jod('A and Emperor William In Berlin. irritant olloet of this preparation la producod by formic acid, which, In its puro stato, Is so corrosive that it :au3C8 blisters on tho skji.