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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY -Drugs and other agents acting chemically, if used in amounts which are commonly safe, do not sterilize water. During tho last ten years an oclu list of Cronstadt is said to have treated thirty cases of photo-olcotrio ophthal mia, a new disoaso duo to tho action ol tho electric light on tho eyes. A now lacquer named "ardenhrito" ha.Vjust boon brought out in London hngland. It is said to bo proof against water, steam smoke, sea air, and sea water. Carriage manufacturers are pre dieting that in the not distant future wooden wheels will bo done away with. and stool wheels substituted on account of tho increasing scarcity of lumber lor wheels. The yellow cedar of Alaska is said to furnish timber of great value, hav ing a close, lino grain, and being re markable for its strength and dura bilily. It is also very fragrant, and, taking readily a lino polish, becomes a most desirable cabinet wood. Where filtering is really necessary it is in general beat for tho community that it bo dono carefully on a largo scale through sandbeds upon which a line layer of organic and inorganic mat tor is expressly produced by sediment ation, because of its valuable action in holding back tho great majority of the bacteria. Dr. Peyrand. a consulting physi cian at Vichy, claims to havo dis covered an olliciont method of treating rabies. By injecting into rabbits th- essence of tho familiar horb called "tansy, ' he produced what he calls hydrophobic intoxication, or something very similar, and witli virus thus ob taiued ho mingled ten per cent, of chloral. He lnjeotel sovoral animals which had rabies with this prophylac tic. and lie professes to have cured four out of six. Another unbreakable substitute for glass, a French invention, consists it immersing wire in a heated state, in n thin paste formed of soluble glass, gel atine, and glycerine, or glucose, in pro portions varying according to tho usi for which tho material is designed. When nearly dry, the sheets are dipped in a concentrated solution of chrome alum or bichromate of potash. Any de sired coloring matter may bo incorpo rated with tiio gelatine, and copal or other protective varnish applied to the surface. - A scientist has discovered the ad vantage of a dark skin as a veil against tho heat in hot climates. The carbon layer in tho skin of tho negro, being opaque, like other forms of carbon, .must form an eHeotuiil veil, and thus protect that most important organ be low tho true skin, a bodily envelopoor tissue presenting a vast surface of cir culating blood, which is certainly sub ject to brilliant illumination when only protected from sunlight by tho thin translucent cuticle. The riveting of stovepipe is a new departure. Formerly each of the six or nine rivets in a pieco of pipe was drawn and driven separately, but by the use of a newly contrived riveting .machine all the rivets are drawn by -one drop of the hammer, and all ol them i.re set in tho same manner, one operative with a machine turning out from fiOO to 1.000 joints of pipe per day. The pipe is formed on a cylinder con nected with tho riveting machine, an .arrangement which makes it uniform in size and leaves tho lap smooth and free from buckles. Kasy of operation, tho apparatus is said to do tho work perfectly. So indestructible by wear or decay is the African teakwood that vessels built of it havo lasted fully 100 years, to le then broken up only on account of their poor sailing qualities on ac count of faulty models. The wood, in fact, is one of the most remarkable em ployed in human industries on the score of its great weight, hardness and durability, its weight varying from .some forty-two to lifty-two pounds per cubic foot. It works ensily, but be cause of the largo quantity of silex con tained in it the tools employed in it? manipulation are in a short time worn away. It. however, possesses tho ad vantage 01 containing an on winch provents the spikes and othor iron work with which it may come in con tact from rusting. A Substitute for Glass. Wo read in our Kngllsh exchanges that a new translucent substance in tended as a substitute for glass hut l)eon satisfactorily adopted in some of the public buildings of London. It possesses such a degreo of pUnncy that it may bo bent backward and for ward like leather anil bo subjected to very considerablo stensllo stralu vith impunity; it is also almost as transient glass and gf a pleiiiing amber color, varying in shade from a very light golden to a palo brown. Tho busis ol i the material is a web of lino ini'i wire Vvith warp and weft threads abo it one twelfth iin ii apart, this being inclosed like a lly in amber in a sheet of trans lucent varnish of which tho uao in linseed oil. There is no resir or gum in tho varnish, and onco having bo come dry it i capable of standing heal and dump without undergoing any change, neither hardening nor becom ing sticky. Brielly, tho manufacture is ccomplishcd by dipping tho sheott edgewise into deep tanks of vaminh and then allowing tho coating which they thus receive to dr In a warm atmosphere. It requires somewhat raoro than n dozen of those dips tc bring thehcot to tho required degree .-of thickness, and when this has been accomplished tho material Is stored for Vovoral weeks to thoroughly Science. REFORM OF CRIMINALS. The Subject l)lsctil tjr the District At torney for Kin County, N. Y. From my oxperienco I should say that many criminals havo been re formed, and for this reason: If you convict a thousand people in a year, in ten years tho convictions would aggre gate ten thousand; you will not have ten per cent, of those people corao back to you, so that they either cease to commit crimes or they go to some other part of the country. I think a great many people who aro arrested, and justly convicted of crime feel, af ter they get to prison, that they have done wrong, that there is something else to live for and to work for, and they become better men when they come out. Society does not always treat tho criminal right. When a man comes out of prison and shows a disposition to do right, if society would take hold of him. try and do something for him, encourage him and not constantly show that it is suspicious of him because he once went wrong, there would be more criminals reformed than thero are at present. When a man comes from prison and is constantly reminded of tho fact that ho was once convicted of a crime and served a term in prison, he becomes discouraged and thero is noth ing left for him to do but to find consti tution in tho society of tho law-breaking classes. 1 approve of long tonus of imprison ment for incorrigible offenders; I do not think long sentences reform tho men, but society can only protect itself tgninstsuch offenders by locking them up. Many criminals can bo reformed; but the reformation depends on the man himself. A great many people can not make any distinction between right uid wrong: when they do wrong they lo not feel that they aro breaking a moral law; they feel that there is some punishment, but they (to not think that they have dono wrong. You can never lo any tiling toward reforming such a person. Take a man whoso early .cachings and surroundings havo been Tjood; ho yields to temptation and does wrong; any punishment, no matter how small, is severe to him and the lisgraco he feels is poignant. Such a man, I think, can bo reformed. I do not believe very much in the "conversions" made inprison. When in otTonder leaves prison after having jxperieuced religion in prison, gets a moll of the fresh air, takes a few Irinks and meets some of his old ironies, tho reaction is too much for him. The efforts of religious and philanthropic persons in and out of prison certainly do uo harm, and they may do some good. Tho question as to how tho criminal :iki bo reformed is a very difficult one to answer. A man may come out of prison who might, by acts of kindness md the assistance of honest people be kept straight. But tho troublo is. so ciety doesn't like to take hold of crimi nals; a man doesn't want to invite them to his residence, and a merchant doesn't feel like employing an ex-convict in his counting-house, because the lerks thero would not fcol like asso ciating with him. 1 believe that so ciety ought to be more lenient and liberal toward the criminal; that is the only way of accomplishing any thing for him. James W. Hidgeway, in N. Y. Independent. mi 1 1 THE GREAT PROCESSION. Mow the I. one 1. 1st of Humanity I Kvrl ShkIMiii; mill Swelling. These life insurance tables that show the expectation, tho average, tho prob ability of life aro very curious and in teresting. In a million births the males outnumber the females L'2.000, but the girls don't dio so fast, and by tho time they reach oO years the females begin to outnumber tho mon and outlive them. Nino thousand moro womon live to see 70 years than men, taking a million as tho basis. Two thousand more women than men live to see 'JO. At 100 years there aro 7'J men to 141 womon. The male start out most nu merous, and this is right, for it gives every girl a fair chance for a lover and husband and it certainly was in tended bv a kind Providence that she should havo one. Sho is entitled to one, and if I had my way I would make every old bachelor marry or support one. If he wouldn't marry according to nature, I would make him work for one. In youth and middle age the males outnumber tho females, because it takes a good number to dofeud the country and do tho lighting. But tho ild women outlive tho old men because they aro needed to nurse us and raise the grandchildren. Thoy havo no bad habits that shorten life. Thoy do not drink nor chow tobacco, nor smoke, nor expose themselves, nor eat in a hurry. Thoy take lifo calm and se rene. One hundred and twenty-live thousand children aro born ovory dny. What a squalling and rejoicing if wo '.'ould hear It all at once! Just think .if it 15,000,0 K) oi brand new human baings in a year. But tliay don't stay long not many of them. One-fourth of them die before they aro six years oil. While 'Jt,0W aro born in a day, there uro 100.000 funerals going on at tho same time. What weeping and walling, what grief and sorrow, if wo could hear and ico it all! Verily tho incroaso of tho human family is mixed with great trib ulations. Births and deaths, birth and deaths with tho births only a little ahead, and sometimes when war and pestllonco and famine come, tho death rate is ahead. Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. Tho scissors grinder is tho only man who invariably finds things dull. Burlington Free Pro. ABOUT FINGER NAILS. Some Useful Information Concerning Thell Trenttuent and Nisturr. Tho average rate of growth of tho finger nails has been ostimated at ono millimetre, or two-llfths of a lino per week; a rate quadruple that of tho toe nails, which require four weeks to grow tho same length. This groVth continue with littlo variation, oven during dis ease, but the portion of the nail then formed is thinner, and deficient in strength. In sudden and acute diseases, and in those accompanied with extreme debility, this attenuation is sufficient to mark the nails with deep transverse grooves, the upper surface of which ii abrupt nnd clearly marked. In scrofu lous subjects, theso marks, together with peculiar variegations, aro very commonly observable. Extreme anxl ty and mental depression have the same effect on the nails as physical dis ease. It is interesting to watch the history of a case of disease as recorded upon tho finger-nails. When wo look at tho patient's nails wo see on each of thorn a distinct ridge, showing that tho por tion of the nail which has grown since tho acute attack is much thinned out. Take, for instance, a man in whom an ncuto double pneumonia occurred a few weeks ago. You will see on his finger nails the ridgo showing the acutenoss of tho attack. This is quite distinct, and is seen on all of tho nails. Theso marks aro very interesting, and toll us ; a perfectly straight story. Thoy will j remain for at least two years. I If a person tells you that ho has broken his arm within eighteen months, you will see the ridges on the nails o! tho hand of the affected side, while they will be absent on those of tho other side. If you aro told that a patient has had typhoid fevor. look at his nails, and if tho statement is correct, you will find tho ridges. Tho more acute tho Illness the sharper will be the ridge. When tho illness comes on, tho nutri tion of tho body, including that of tho nail, ceases. Wo all know about tho hair falling out after a diseaso like ty phoid fever. It only begins to fall after tho growth lias recommenced and tho hair is coming out of tho follicle. Tho nail is much moro enduring evi dence of disease. If there has been an acute rheumatism coming on within a few hours, with a temperature of 101 or lOo , tho nail will bo cut down sharply. The nail looks as though they had been cut across. In typhoid fevor, where the diseaso comes on grad ually, thero is not such a sharp cutting out of the nail. Thero will rather bo an area of thinning, which will not bo seen until the nail grows boyond tho white mark at its baso. Biting the nails should bo avoided as a dirty and disagreeable habit, and ono utterly destructive to their beauty, strength and usefulness. This habit is indicative of an irritable or nervous tomperament, of mental anxiety, de spondency, thoughtfulness, audi know not what else. At all events, it is eas ily acquired, rapidly grows on ono, and is extremely difficult to leavo off. Nothing but it strong will and perso veranco will enable those addicted to it to do tho last, ltubbing tho tips of the fingers with aloes, extract of quas sia, assafu'tida. or somo other disa greeable substance. is commonly i adopted to remove tho habit in chil dren. The finger nails of Americans aro likely to bo dry, and to break easily. Vnseline rubbed on the nail after wash ing tho hands will do a world of good to dry nails Manicures first bathe the hand a loug time in hot water, thon with scissors end knives clean and cut tho nails, and remove tho superfluous skin about Uia onyx, next thoy polish the nails with buckskin and fine pow der, and linally wash tho hand again in hot waUir with soap. After drying, tho .".ails are polished with a lino brush, nnd aro rubbed with a rosy unguont to give to them a sholl pink. Medical Classics. Laughter as a Health Promoter. In his "Problem of Health." Dr. Greono says that thoro is not tho ro inotost corner or littlo inlet of tho mi nute blood vessels of tho human body that does not feel somo wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by good J hearty laughter. The lifo principle or, thocentrnl man, is shaken to its innor- most depths, sending new tides of life and strongth to tho surface, thus mate-' rially tending to insure good health to tho persons who indulgo thoreln. Tho blood moves moro rapidly and conveys a different impression to all tho organs of tho body, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey when the j man is laughing, from what it does ut other times. For thisj. reason ovory I good hearty laugh in which a person indulges tends to lengthen hislifo. con- j voying. as it does, now and distinct stimulus to tho vital forces. London ' Standard. ' He Strung the Doughnuts. j A waiter at tho Metropolitan Hotel on Washington street says thero Isaj rat of unusual Intelligence which haunts tho hotel kitchen, and, when occasion offers, steals food from tho conk. He ! says this rat ought to bo caught and exhibited as a marvel at the dime mu seums. Several storios of precocity aro told about this rodont, of which the i following is ono: "A fow evenings! ago," hiuu tno waiter, "I had occasion to go down into tho kitchen. It wua dusky when I arrived, and as soon no my eyes would permit mo to got used to tho light 1 saw u largo rat walk de liberately up to a dish of doughnuts and begin to tijjfo thorn out ono by one I unu siring litem on 10 ins inn, us you ; would string beads. When ho had put on five and loaded his tail all up, he turned around, took tho end of hU tail ' between his teeth and walked off a i( ! ho were going to muster. Boston U lobe- WOMAN'S WORK. With manv a turn my stops I take. In mnny n crook and crevice; And many a biscuit must I bako Tor Maud and mo and Lev s. I sweep, I dust, I cook, I riso Up In the morning early; I wash tho breakfast dishes, and I churn, then dress tho baby, t make tho dust and dry loaves fly Against my new broom fairly; I chatter, chatter us I gox Hecause I rest o rarely; "For men may coma and mon may goy Hut ( go on forever, over, . I go on forevir. I move about unit in and out. While here tho chickens feeding. And here nnd thero at hawk to shout. Hut little they aro heeding. I walk, t run, I skip. 1 hop From ono thing to another; I stop to dress a bruise cvr cut. For the children run to mother. Then to the gurden I must go To see what work Is needed, For plants must be set out, you know, And then thoy must bo weeded. For men can't stop, for they must gc Hut we work on forever, ever, Wo work on forever. I clear tho trny and "put to r.'ghts" Tho dining-room and kitchen; I then go In my room to sew, And try and do some stitching. I wonder If thoro is on oarth No respite from our labors. No time to go and gossip some With pleasant, friendly neighbors? Hoforo I end this piece of work And try to thin , a little, I throw it down nnd run and mako A tiro and place the kottle. Tor men must cut nnd go, you know, Hut women can go nevor. Yes, men w 11 come and men will go, Hut wo work on forever, over, Wo work on forever. Mrs. T. O. Holt, In Tho Freeman. ifron V i mi i xt irnrm rn Sho Makoa a Succosa of Minding Hor Own Euslnosa "Mo and Squire Bagshot, wo'ro goin' into partnership together," said Miss Naomi Nutting. "Kb? What?" cried the Widow Scars by, hastily adjusting her eur truinpot. "You n-thinkin' o' gottin' untried at this time o' day?" Miss Naomi gave a sniff of exceed ing groat derision. "Who's talkin' o' gottin' married?" said she. "Not I. Nor, I guess, the squire. e'ro outen our llrst child hood, atiu wo ain't got to our second. I calculate. Not yet." Tho Widow Seipsby looked disap pointed. "Then," said she, "what do yen mean?" "Why," explained Miss Naomi, "tho squlro ho's leased tho old farm. I'd got to lot it to somobody. What between tho taxes and tho interosl and the repairs and all. it was too much for a woman to look after. But tho cows and the poultry and all is to remain, and I'm to run tho dairy and tho egg business. Ton per cent, com mission I'm to have, and tho uso ol tho old houso. And I'vo sot out a lot of now strawberry roots, and some ol tho offshoots of Hester Brine's sweot smollin' F.nglish violets, and I'm go in' to earn my own livin', if 1 bo u woman." "Vi-lots!" repeated Mrs. Scarsby, "and strawberries! John hain't no faitli in that sort of thing." "It don't matter to mo whothor ho has or not," curtly obsorved Miss Nutting. "A womun never yet mado farmin' pay." "Anyhow." said Miss Nutting, "1 mean to havo a try at it. My ex penses won't bo much, that's onoj comfort. " Better glvo up the slowly notion," said ! shaking her' Mrs. head Scarsby, "Not if I know it," said Naomi. "I'm protty cortaln I can mako good butter, and I always took natural to hens and chickens. And I know I can market them strawberries at tho Bum mor hotels on Cherry brook, and Kn gllsh violots bring lifty cents a dozen at tho Now York fh.rists in January and February." "You're runnin' a groat risk!" sighed Mrs. Scarsby, in genuine Job's comforter accents. "There's alway tho poor-houso loft If I don't succeed," sarcastically re marked Naomi. And Mrs. Scarsby wont away to toll her news throughout tho whole neigh borhood. "Upon my word," said Mrs. Dr. Plumb, "tho woman has pluck! But of course sho won't sfcewoed; women nevor do." "I never was so flat in all my lifo," said Mrs. Scarsby. "as when 1 heard Naomi say shb was goin' into purtnur ship with Squlro Bagshot. I w'ptsod, of course, who was goin' ta Barry him."' "Well, I don't know why sho shouldn't," said Mrs. Plumb. "The squiro ain't young, but ho's a likely man enough. 'V "Ho marry Naomi Nutting!" said Mrs. Scarsby. "A poverty-stricken old maid, with ono foot in tho poor house!" "Fools used to say your John was parthil to her," shrewdly observed Mis. Plumb. "That's all a mistake," said Mrs. Scarsby. And she took herself and hor car trumpet off to tho next house, while Klllo Price, Mrs. Plumb's bound girl, uho had been listening through the dumUwuitor, breathlessly scampered to tho grocery for tho ounco of pow dered cinnamon, which sho had been told half an hour ngu to bring, and thoro informed Mrs, Popporsauco us a profound secret thut Miss Naomi Nut. ting and Squire Bagshot were abot.t to bo married. "1 don't beliovo it," said Mrs. Pep. pcrsnuco. I hourd it with my own ,nrs!" Hald Kllle, glowing all over with the typoi Unco of bur now. 1 "An" old maid llko that!" said Mrs. , Popporsauco. scornfully, j "Sho ain't thirty yet," said Kllic, I "I heard missis toll Mrs. Scarsby so." 1 III nows, they say, spronds fast; so ( does good nous. Which of those l heads Squire Bagshot's engagement :nmo under is hard to spceily, but certain it is that the morsel of gossip ' spread like wildfire through Cherry , Hlluso, I "Mo engaged to Naomi Nutting," ! jaid tho squire. "Well, it's tho llrst ' I've heordof it," 1 "Naomi Nutting going to marry i that old widower!" said John Scarsby. "What nonsense! You told mo your- self, mother, that sho denied it up and i down." "Yes." said Mr?. Scarsby. a littlo 1 doubtfully, "but that's what they a! 1 ways do. It would be a groatthing for Naomi Nutting." "I'll never believe it," said John. The old love affair between him and Naomi Nutting was dead and gone t long ago, but something in tho pieva . lent atmosphere seemed to fan the i faint spark of its ashes into new life. 1 John Scarsby remembered how black I and bright her eyes onco wore, and I what a trim littlo figure sho had. i While tho squire, meditating on the ! perfect, dazzling cleanliness of Naomi's dairy, and the elllelency with which I sho had sot out tho violet roots and tho strawberrv creepers, said to him ! self: i "I don't know but that I might do worse. lo be sure, sho s a poor, soli tary, friendless oreotur, without any property, except that old mortgage ridden farm. But 1 can't get no hired girl short of eleven dollars a month, and It Is sort o' loncsoino sot tin' on tho stoop of ovonin's all alono. She's boon brought up economical, too, and won't want to spend any moro money than she can help. That's a great thing." And tho squiro brushed his lank hair more carefully than over ovor the glossy dome of his bald cranium, and consldored seriously tho propriety of dying his grizzy beard. "Mothor," said John Scarsby, that day, "it isn't right for you to do all tho housework by yourself. It's too much for you." "La, John, I do hopo you ain't thinkln' of liirin' a help!" oxclalmod Mrs. Scarsby, in dismay. "Of all tho shiftless, id'.e, wasteful things" "Wo'vo got to do something, moth er," said John. "I can't lot jvu work yoursolf out." It was all true. John Scarsby had said tho same tiling timo and again to his mothor; but ho said it now with gonuino earnestness, looking at bet as ho did so, and socrotly wondorlng how ho should break to hor tho tid ings of an impending daughter-in-law. And Naomi Nutting, of all persons, tl woman whom Mrs. Scarsby al ways designated as "that poor forloiv old maid." John wns a bravo man, but. thoro aro moro kinds of courage than ono. Mrs. Scnrsby cried over tho buttor beans sho was cutting up for dinner. "I won't havo a liolp in tho house," thought she. "If John really wants n woman around, why can't he got married? And 1 don't know, no smart er girl than Naomi Nutting. I'vo a groat mind to go ovor and soo if sho can't brouk that 'ero contract with Squiro Bngshot. I wish 1 dured to speak right out to John about It Ho used to liko Naomi, but men uro queer." Naomi lrtd just come in from weed ing her late-onion patch tho noxt even ing, when the squire arrived, all in his best. "Good ovcnlng. squiro," dnld Miss Nutting. "Sit down till I light the lamp." "Don't light it." said tho squiro, sheepishly. "I'm partial to tho twi light." "1 ain't," said Naomi. "I mostly liko to soo what I'm doing. You've conio about business, I Biipposo?" "Ahem yes," admitted tho squlro. Although ho had told hlmsolf all day long that Naomi Nutting would certainly jump at his offer, ho could not subdue a certain nervousness at tho last moment. "Very important buslnosfi!" Bat-tat-lat-t-t-t! camo a knock on the panels of the lilac-shaped front door. John Scarsby, arriving closo on tho heels of the squire, had porcoived tho necessity for immediate action. Ho was Hushed, and breathed hard with rapid walking, but he hit J 3crowed his courage up. "Naomi," said he, "can I speak to you for ono minute?" Naomi, holding tho lamp in ono hand, stared hard at him. "I'm engaged just now," said sho. "Engaged?" "Squiro Bagshot is hero." "I won't keep you long," said John. "I only want ono word." "Any thing happened?" questioned Naomi. "No, but" John drew a quick breath of vexation inent. "Will you and embarrass- hear mo out, Naomi?" Tho hqulro, in tho front room, cleared his throat loudly as Naomi conducted John into tho back kitchen "Now, thon," bald she, "What It, it?" Did ovor lover woo maiden before under such dlitcoumglngolrouiiiNtnncos us these? John fixed his eyes on tho copper boiler, and blurted out his tender confcuslon at once. ft was an awkward proceeding, but it was Inevitable. "Naomi." said ho, "I want a wife. (Y in you nave mor John," said Miss Nutting. John stared nt hor, and uttered a pas p. "What dtd you say?" stammered ho. "I said not" "I'm too late, am 1?" ho utbired, despairingly. "Well, yes, you aro." "Hadn't you bettor think it ovor?" "Well. It wouldn't bo no use." John went away complctoly dum founded, and Naomi wont back to tho squlro. "What business could that younf? man possible have with you, Naomi?" asked tho squire, a littlo fretfully. "It was private," said Naomi, com posedly. "Naomi," said Mr. Bagshot, plung ing headlong into tho subject, "I'm thinking of getting married." "Aro you?" said Naomi, somowhal amazed. "I'm tired of llvln' solitary and alone, and I don't know of nobody I liko better than you," added Squiro Bagshot. "Much obliged to you, I'm suro," said Naomi. "Do you think you could learn to lovo me?" said the squire, his hard features galvanized into unwonted tenderness. "I dunno whothor 1 could or not." said Naomi, "but 1 don't mean to try." "Kh?" jerked out tho squlro. "I'm engaged already," explained Naomi. "To that shiftless young Scarsby?" "Ho ain't particularly shiftless us I know of," observod Naomi. "But it ain't to him, as it happens." "If you're really engaged," said tho squire, of whoso character delicacy was by no means a prominent trait, "what on earth aro you running tho dairy business for?" "To earn money, to bo suro," said. Naomi. "I'm to marry a rich man, nnd I don't choose to go tohlmompty handed, or without adoccut wardrobo, such as othor women havo." "Who Is It?" still furthor demandod the squlro. "Well, I don't mind tolling you, slnco you ask mo up and down," said Naomi. "Him that owns tho now Mountain iron works, Joseph Aldon." Tho squlro mado n littlo gurgling sound, as If ho woro ineffectually trying to swallow something. Josoph Aldon, tho handsomo, middle-aged Englishman, tho best match in Chorry County, engaged to Naomi Nutting, whom ho Squlro Bagshot had montally characterized as "a poor, solitary, frlondloss crootur!" "Well," said ho. heavily rising, "I s'poso I'd bettor go." "1 don't know ns you'll gain any lilnrr In- utiivlncr ." Nnnml nnnllv 'rrw marked. y-,s Tho squlro was drlvon to hlro a stout Vormont woman at olovon dol lars a month. Mrs. Scarsby still con tinned to do hor own housowork, in splto of tho rotnonstrancos of hor son John. Naomi Nutting docs as she did boforo minds hor own buslnoss. And the vlolot and strawborry busi ness has proved a success, and tha wedding-day is flxod. Saturday Night. m CAROLINA'S FAT BOY. In the Niiniinnr He Is Skoloton, lit Win. tor a Monster. Thero woro several sido shows con nected with tho North Carolina Stnta fair, and I was much takon with a sign rogarding a fat boy. It was stated that ho was only fourteen years old, and weighed about four hundred pounds. I paid my nlckol to go In, and found a lud of that ago, but hla wolght was not over ono hundred pounds, lie was dressed in costume, and sat on a platform, whllo tho show, man delivered a Bhort lecturo at In tervals. "See horo." I said to him after look ing tho boy ovor, "aro you dollboratoly swindling tho public?" "How?" "By passing that kid off as a fat boy." "No, sir." "You advertise that ho weighs about four hundred pounds?" "Yes." "That's ufalsohood. Ho won't weigh ono hundrod." "When?" "To-day; now; this minute." "Oh, I see. An explanation is du you. 1 run a musourn in Now Orleans. That boy is ono of my freaks. In the summor ho is my skoloton and In th winter my fat boy. It takos him about six weeks to muko tho change, and he just bogan to pick up flosh last week. Ho was the most beautiful skoloton you ovor saw, and if you can only boo hla two months lator you'll bo delighted id his rotundity. Ho' 11 wolgh all of four hundred In two months from this." "Yes, but I camo In horo to soo afrit boy." "Well, there ho is." tlltut tw-k'u nn fiitti-ii Hum nnv rttltn boy of his age. It looks to mo liko. a fraud." "Good heavens, man, but do you want all tho oarth at once!" ho gasped. "Glvo him time to change, won't youf Hero, look at this look of haircut from tho head of George Washington. It's my own proporty, and not on exhibi tion, but I want to satisfy you that I am square. ' A Bkoloton wolghlug forty-two pounds can't cluiugo to a four-hundrod-pound fat boy In an hour or a day. Wo expect tho publlo to lw lonlent with us. Going? Well, good bye. Come In with your family and I'll mako reduced rates." N. Y. Sun. Besslo- "What'a tho mattor In the Bltting-room, Tommy?" Tommy "Oh, the usual contest between p and ma ovor the spoukorahlp of th house. " Burllngtoa Frea I'reis. "No, thankeo,