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The Oregon Scout
IONE8 & Chancey Publishers.
UNION, OREGON.
At tlio Silisldo.
The bluo of tlio sklc3 is tho lino of her eyes,
Asslio stands on tlio strand, lost In thought;
And the wave's tubtlo grace suggest her dear
face
A taco that from dreamland was brought.
The sough of tho breezo 'mid the boughs of the
trees
But echoes ber accents amiss;
And tho clinging pcrfumo of the mignonette
bloom
Is a faint souvenir of her kiss.
But nothing below or aboro that I know
Resembles, no matter how dim,
That ezqulslto maid when bo cjuecrly arraya4
Sho returns from her afternoon swim.
-William E. 8. Fata
I GERMAN PROFESSORS.
They Are Amazingly rrofound Hut Dry an
Raliarn Desert Hand.
Tho reputation of Gorman scholnrs
for thoroughness and patient, laborious
rosoarch 1b provorbial, and no ono who
Is well informed doubts that Gormany
lias moro professors who aro authorities
in tho difToront doparttnonts of knowl
edge than any othor country, but it does
not always follow that tho most learned
mon aro tho best teachers, and until a
tudont has reached an advancod stage
"ho will ofton got bottor instruction from
toachor a shado less proficient and
.more practical. Somo of theso profes
sors aro attractive and eloquent lec
turers, somo aro quito tho rovorso, and
for a dry, tedious, untintolliglblo, uttor
ly dispiriting lecture commend mo to a
Gorman professor who spoaks fourteen
Oriental languages and can't toll a hawk
from a hand-saw. It is woll to speak of
tho loro that is to bo acquired in tho
cloistered shades of thoso ancient unl
TOrsitios, but lot tho student onco enter
a dingy, poorly-lighted, chilly room
lomo wintor evening at five o'clock and
listen to a profossor, who for half an
liour, with a mumbling, indistinotartlcu
lation and double-tracked, suspension
brldjro Bontencos, explains tho theory of
abnormal Latin roots of tho third con
jugation, and, liko Hob Acres, ho will
fool his courage oozing out. Tho Gor
man studonts aro moro thorough than
Ainorican bocauso it lies in their nature
to undortako less and do it bettor. A
'Gorman is like a locomotivo, a powerful
machine as long as it is on tho track,
"but porfoctly holpless whon onco oiT,
while an American will oithor flounder
back or find another track. Somo of tho
Germans aro prodigious scholars, and
oom to have laid the wholo kingdom of
learning under tribute, but for general
Intolllgenco, practical faculty and
Itnowlodgo of current events I think
Amorlcan studonts aro suporior. Un
less ono can read Gorman fluently and
understands it whon spoken, the tirst
year after coming abroad wi'A have to
lo largoly dovoted to learning tho lan
guage Tho marked superiority of Ger
many is in the professional departments
of law and inodiclno. With us a young
tiaan who has not ovon a docont common
school education, takes two short terms
ml flvo months each in medicine, and is
let loose on tho community as a doctor.
Jin olllco boy of equally brilliant ac
quirements dusts out a lawyer's otlieo
id does errands, takes two terms in u
Slight law school, and is shortly ad
mitted to practice Such an open dis
f Taco to both professions is not tolerated
tiero. A doctor or lawyer hero has
spont sovoral years in elementary
schools, four yoars in college, and from
four to flvo yoars in professional study.
If ho is not a gontloiuan and a scholar
Jus has at loast had a chance to bo, and
Ills aotual aoquiroments and preparation
Xor his work aro far suporior to those of
tho young professional man In America
Artur Woodcock, in Chlcugo Journal.
THE SULTAN AT HOME.
Slow Abdul llainlit Manage to Spend Ills
Monotonous Kxlstence.
Abdul llamld gets upoarly. Ills tollot
iocs not detain him long; indeed, it
might dotain him longer according to
Kuropoan codos. Whon drossod ho at
onco dovotos himsolf to recite tho pre
scribed prayers, after which ho drinks a
cup of black oolTon, and Instantly after
ward begins to smoke cigarettes, a
mstlmo that ho continues all day al
most without intermission, for ho Is an
ardent smoker. Itreakfast ondod he ar
ranges family a Hairs when thoso require
Ills attention, as Is almost always tho
ease with so large a family and of such
varied ages and needs. This done, ho
quits tho harem and goos into tho
solamllk. lloro ho receives tho roports
concornlng court allalrs. Toward ten
o'clock his court secretary and chief
dignitaries uppoar, boarlng tho day's
dispatches and roports. Those handed
In, tho Sultan seats himself on a
sofa with theso documents on his
right, on his loft a pile of Turkish
newspapers and extracts from the Hiiro
jpcan press, translatod into Turkish for
Ills benollt by a translation bureau
specially appointed to that and. Ills
lunch, which follows tho dispatch of
this business, Is most simple little
uaent, a fair amount of vegetables. Tho
meal ended, ho takes a walk in tho park
cr rows in n little boat upon one
of tho lakes it Incloses, always acconi-
Smiled by n chamberlain or some high
Ignltury. After taking two hours' ox
crciso In the air, ho returns to his sit
ting-rooms, where he holds an open re
copfem or else presides over somo com
valtloo meeting. An hour or two before
eunsot ho onco moro goes out to walk.
Ills dinner Is as simple as his lunch.
Ills favorite food is plllatfo, sweets, and
, very little moat. Ho never touches
spirituous liquors, In duo obedience to
tho commands of tho Prophet, but he
prinks largo quantities of sherbet and
mts a groat dual of ico cream. Dlntior
,nd digestion over ho receives company
in tho solamllk, or he retires into the
karom, where his daughters play and
sing to him. Ho himself on thoso oc
casions will often Boat himself at th
piano, an Instrument ha plays fairly
well. Leisure Hour.
A roort that the Anarchists of Liege
-would attack Kinpcror Williiun, extra
precautions were made, but nothing
jiiHrml the enthusiasm of tlio Kuiser'a
-wtAcome in Belgium.
NUMEROUS OCCUPATIONS.
A Western Wag Outdid All Competitor
and Then Didn't Get Through tho List.
A Kansas gentleman sends to Tho
Companion ft report of a conversation
recently overheard In a shop whero
several western men wcro comparing
notes on their different kinds of work.
It soon camo out tlint nearly every ono
present had been born in the state of
Vermont and "raised" on a farm. But
niter going west they had all engaged
in a variety of occupations.
Ono man said: "I went into real
estate; then sold out and tried clerking
it on a Mississippi steamboat; then went
Into tho cattlo business, and tired of it;
packed up my goods and settled on a
claim in Nebraska; quit that, and went
to Texas to do business in a feed store;
from there I went on tlio road for a
boot and shoo firm, and Just now I'm in
tlio livery business."
"That's nothing," said another. "I've
been a school teacher, a post master, a
nrcacher. a lawver. a blacksmith, a
notary public, a store keeper, a sheiifl,
a county superintendent of schools, a ,
cigar manufacturer and a farmer."
Thero was silence till another man
remarked that ho had left the printed
list of his accomplishments and occu
pations nt home, because it was too
bulky to carry around, but if ho re- j
mombered right tho list began-with a
collego president and ended with mem-,
ber of tlio legislature.
At this point two or threo men re
marked that it was getting rather closo
in tho storo; they guessed they would
go home, and they went out. Another
man edged up to tho door and said in
a lazy tono that he thought his expe
rience would beat tho lot for variety.
Somo ono asked him to tell it. and ho
said;
"I began life as a baby.
I grow into a boy. Whilo
I went to school, clerked
store, worked on a farm,
From thnt
I was a boy
it in a drug
had my arm
n CfUf. tTltll
broken in two places in
taught tho district school ono term and
sung in tlio villngo choir.
"When I grow up I served as appren
tice to a tailor in Boston, but nt tho
end of six months I ran away to sea,
and wont around tho world threo times.
At tlio end of my last voyngo I bought
a ticket for Texas, and went onto a
ranch whero I stayed two years. I then
had an ofTcr to edit Tlio Weekly Bliz
zard, and held tho position just ono
week, when tho government ofTored mo
a placo us Indian agent.
"After serving a year at that I went
into tho mining business in Colorado,
and mado two hundred thousand dol
lars in six months. I went to San
Francisco and invested my fortune in
real estate. Tlio Investment was un
fortunate, for in less than a mouth I
lost overy cent of it, and was obliged to
seek work as a day laborer on a rail
road. "I worked up from brakeman to en
gineer, and then in a collision I broke
my leg and had to go to a hospital.
"Whilo thero I studied medicine, and
whon I got out I took to practicing,
and was quito successful until I treated
a smallpox patient for erysipelas. Then
I decided to go to preaching, and got
on well nt it for soveral months. But
tho pay was not very regular, and I
quit to go intoadontist'soilleo and"
It was very quiet in tlio store, and
tho man who hud hud such a varied ex
perience said softly: "Good night, gen
tlomen," mid wont out. Ho was tlio
wag of tlio town, though tho strangers
did not know It; but his story was a
good comment on tlio number of occu
pations that somo western men try.
Youth's Compiuiion.
The Cliillr Took u Notion to Stroll.
The action of a chair which formed
part of a display of furnituro on a cor
ner in ono of tho important cross town
streets caused no little wonderment
ono windy afternoon not long ago. Tlio
pavement in front of tlio storo is
smooth, and slopes to tho gutter at a
considerable angle. This chair, which
had a solid buck, stood right on tho
comer, and tlio wind, blowing squarely
against it, caused it to slide gently to
ward tho gutter. Tlio wind blow stead
ily, with justsulllcient strength to movo
tho ehnir at a slow pace.
Tlio orsons who happened to bo
looking out of neighboring windows or
of passing street cars or carriages, and
thoroforo did not feel tho wind, could
not imagine what had eonio over tlio
chidr, that it should thus gravely nnd
sedately leave its fellows.
Kvon those who wore on thosidowalk,
for tlio most part, never thought that
tho wind could bo tlio oauso of tho phe
nomenon. A policeman across tlio way
made up ids mind that somo thief had
tied a thin wire to tho chair, and was
dragging it where ho could put it into a
wagon and drive oil with It. Tlio olll
oer started toward tho chair, and just
then a clerk who had happened to soo
tho runaway dashed out of tho furnituro
stow, recaptured tho Mooing object and
tiod it to a big sofa. It took tlio polloo
man somo time to understand tlio enuso
of tho chair's pranks. Now York Trib
une It Too Nutural.
A boy at Niagara Falls learned to
hoot liko an owl, to as to givo signals
-when ho got out to tho Indian country,
llo hooted in the back yard of a citizen
to sco if his intonation was a go, and
tlio man camo out and tired a shot
which peppered him all over nnd a'most
cuusod his death. Detroit Freo Press.
Citiitti Knougli.
Country Swain (timidly) Would you
bo mad If I asked you to bo my wifof
City Girl (brbkly) Not at all ; but I'd
be tu&d If I said "yea." Puck.
nigh Sounding Appellations.
"That bootblack has become Inocu
lated with Bostoneso magnum caput,"
remarked a patriotic New Yorker of tho
old school, as he paused in the corridor
of tho postofllco and pointed to a con
spicuous sign thnt rend, "You will find
tho artist insido tlio building during tho
chill season."
"Tho good old names of 'bootblack1
and 'shiner,' that express just what
they mean, aro fust going the way of
all Uesli, wlule such pretentious and ob
noxious titles as 'boot polishing artists'
aro being substituted. I blame it all
on Boston. Tho fad of dubbing over
bootblack a professor originated in int
locality several years ago, and has been
spreading through tho country with de
plorablo rapidity.
"Why, in Boston tlio most miserablo
shanty or tho dirtiest cellarway is dig
nified as a. 'bootblacking emporium,'
and Its genius is 'Professor' Job John
son or 'Professor' Tomoso Vermicelli, as
tho case may bo.
"Thero aro scores of theso pretentious
emporiums anu parlors scattereu an
over tlio Hub, and they serve as a for
cible commentary on tho city's pedan
try. No ono but a Bostoninn would
havo evolved tho phrase 'tonsorial art
ist.' Thero aro no barber shops in
Boston. They are all hairdressing par
lors. "Tho term 'washerwoman' has, I am
told, been relegated to Chelsea, and
every woman who rinses stockings in
soapsuds at four cents a pair is respect
fully entitled a 'wash lady.' 'J. O'Cal
lahan, artist in black and white,' is tlio
legend that a South Cove son of Erin
has inscribed over his dilapidated cellar
door. Ho combines whitewashing with
boot blacking.
"Such aro Boston's barbarisms. But,
then, what can ono expect of a town
that allows its five cent museum to -bo
advertised jus a 'nickelodeon, theatrid
ium and repositorium' all in one?
"Oil, for a tasto of the days when a
spado was a spado 1" New York Herald.
A Story of I'rlvnto Allen.
Allen had no special reputation as a
wit or orator when ho first ran for con
gress, and so ho had a timo getting tlio
nomination. Ho stumped tlio district
with his competitor, a Gen. Tucker,
who opened tho campaign with a rhe
torical rhapsody in which ho alluded to
his war services, and particularly do
scribed a battle in which ho had com
manded tho Confederate side, begin
ning: "Fellow citizens, I slept ono
night in a tent on tlio mountain sido
awaiting tlio battle on tlio morrow."
When ho had finished Allen got up and
said: "Friends and fellow citizens, it's
all truo what Gen. Tucker told you
about his sleeping in his tent that night '
before tho battle. I know all about it,
for I was guarding that tent all night
long in tlio cold and wet on picket. I
And now I just want to say to all of you
who were generals in tlio war and slept
nt nights in your guarded tents liko
Gen. Tucker, you vote for him. But
all you fellows that guarded tho gen
erals' tents in tlio wet nnd cold liko me,
you voto for Private Allen."
It is needless to say that Privato Al
len was triumphantly elected, and was
Privato Allen over after. Philadelphia
Record.
Care of tlio Ilody Aftor n Speech.
I know soveral members of tho
legislature who take tho most extraor
dinary precautions for making ft
speech. They do not speak often.
Thoy know for weeks beforehand that
thoy aro to speak, and after all prepar
ations aro made for tlio speech itself,
and tho day conies for tho eiTort, thoy
havo n. servant bring a complete chango
of linen and underwear and a heavy over
coat to tho Capitol, and wait with theso
things nt hand until tho speech is end
ed. Then tho speaker, with tlio per-
J, IV,-.- 11.
spiraiiou pouring on mm, rusties io uio j
cloak room, where tlio servant stands
with tho coat ready, and throws it over
his shoulders as soon as lie comes within
reach. Next, tlio member, with tlio
collar of his overcoat turned up high,
tucks his dry underclothing under his
arm and makes for tho bath rooms.
Thero ho enters tho waiting room,
whero tho temperature is high and
thero can bo no draught, being under
ground, and waits to cool of! a littlo
preparatory to a bath. Thero is no
moro work for him in tlio houso that
day. 'When lie has got his bath ho
makes for his lodgings as fast as ho can,
and stays thero until thoroughly rested.
Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
A Wiimlni; to Ojnter I.ovcn.
Lovers of bivalves, especially thoso
who prefer them cooked in their own
liquor, may bo interested in knowing
what that tluid contains. Tho micro
Beopo makes somo very unpleasant dis
coveries, of which with tlio naked oyo
alono wo should remain happily igno
rant. A scientific journal says that if,
on opening an oyster, tho liquor is re
tained in tlio lower or deeper shell and
viewed through tlio microscope, it will
bo found to contain multitudes of
small oysters, covered with shells, and
Bwimmiug nimbly about 120 of them
extending but one Inch. Besides theso
young oysters tlio liquor contains a va
riety of aniinaleulio and myriads of
three distinct sjuvles of worms. Somo
times their light represents a bluish
star abou1'. tho center of thosholl, which
will bo bountifully luminous in a dark
room.
Ilitd Itlm There.
Sho (during a slight tliD You nover
can keep a secret, anyway I
Ho I can't I Suppose I had told
that I kissed you before wo were en
gaged!
Sho (calmly) Woll, 1 should saf yo
were not the only ono. life,
BOW LEGS EASILY CURED.
Breaking the Limbs Unnecessary If
Child Can Go Barefooted.
Mrs. Bassctt had spent tho first five
years of her married life in England
and when sho returned to her native
town she brought, together with tho
twins and a baby girl, a great many
novel ideas.
Tlio twins were 3 years old fine,
sturdy littlo fellows, with rosy cheeks
nnd sparkling eyes, straight limbed
and vigorous as young athletes. Tho
Bassetts wero "well to do," and it was,
therefore a matter of great surprise to
tho village in general, and to tho
young mothers in particular, to see tho
infant Bassets running about from
morning till night sans shoes and
stockings.
It was soon ascertained that the
baby girl who was just beginning to
walk was also destitute of these two ar
ticles of attire, and tlio Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children had
serious thoughts of calling upon Mrs.
Bassett and remonstrating in a body
with that derelict matron.
But it was tho general opinion that
if Mrs. Bassett choso to bo unconven
tional sho had reasons of her own for
conduct which might bo worthy of
consideration, and it was finally de
cided that a committee of two ladies
of an inquiring turn of mind should
visit tho Bassett household and furnish
forthwith to tho community at large a
report of tho various heresies which
had been put into practice.
Mrs. Bassett received her visitors
cordially nnd smiled pleasantly when
informed of the nature of their call.
"I am very willing to talk about my
barefooted babies," s'o said frankly,
for, to tell tho truth, I am rather proud
of them. When tho twins wcro ba
bies," sho continued, seating herself in
a low chair, "they were treated, I sup
pose, very much liko other children.
They lived out of doors a great deal
and were healthy and strong, butsoon
after they began to walk I noticed in
them a decided tendency to 'toe in.' I
was horrified, for if thero is ono thing
I detest it is a bow legged man, and
hero wero my littlo men of a year and
a half actually setting out on tho
crooked journey of tlio nursery jingle.
"My friends all said that most chil
dren wcro bow legged at first and all
that would come right itself in tho
course of time.
"I waited with considerable impa
tience, but saw no signs of improve
mcnt. Finally I consulted a doctor
and asked him if 1 must put tho two
pairs of legs in irons.
" 'Irons 1' shouted tho doctor. 'Fid
dlesticks I Take olF their shoes and
stockings. Their muscles have prob
ably been cramped and weakened al
ready and irons will only increase tho
trouble. OIT with their shoes.'
" 'But won't they take cold?' I ven
tured to humbly inquire.
" 'Cold P ho said. 'Why should they J
You don't keep their hands tied up, do
you? If your house is fairly comforta
bio and they nro active and vigorous
their feet will bo as warm as their
hands. At first perhaps they had bet
ter wear shoes out of doors, but in a
short time thoy can dispense with them
even there, except, of course, in sovero
weather.'
"I was not altogether convinced,
but I thought tho experiment wortli
trying. Another suggestion which tho
doctor gave mo I also found a most
useful one. Ho advised mo to let tho
boys walk up hill, and when thoy
could not bo out of doors to liavo an
inclined piano arranged in tho houso
for them to practice oil. In tho eiTort
to walk up a steep incline ono natur
ally throw's tlio feet outward.
" 'Let your boys try it for awhile at
any rate,' said my good doctor. 'Don't
cramp their feet and I will wager that
nature will givo thorn as straight legs
and as firm muscles as anybody liecd
wish for.'
"I linvo followed my wiso doctor's
advico; tho results you can sco for
yourself," added tlio young mother,
proudly, ns her two barefooted boys
camo running into tho room.
"But your baby, does sho actually
go barefooted, too?" asked ono of tho
visitors. "Yes, indeed," replied Mrs.
Bassett. "Sho has nover worn n shoo
in her lifo. When she goes out for an
airing sho wears warm woolen Bocks,
for until sho can walk sho cannot of
course tako suiheiont cx-rciso to keep
her feet warm. But in tho houso sho
is ns barefooted as tho boys. Sho is
just beginning to get on her feet nnd
her littlo bare toes are almost ns useful
to her as fingers. Thoy havo saved
her many a full." noino Maker.
George 'Washington's lluttous.
In connection with tho conch shell
buttons, tho story is told of Gen.
Washington that ono day, whilo walk
ing alono in tho streets of Philadel
phia, ho was accosted by a poor Ital
ian, who, ignorant of tho personality
addressed, continued to follow and im
portuno him to buy somo of tho conch
shells which ho carried in n basket on
his arm, nnd which ho persisted wcro
tho only things that ho had in tho
world to dispose of. "But, my good
man," remonstrated Gen. Washing
ton, "what would I do with your
conch shells? I havo no uso for thorn."
"Oh, yes you have," camo tho ready
rejoinder. "You might havo them
mndo into buttons for your coat."
Smiling nt his prompt reply, Wash
ington not only purchased tho shells,
but, tlio better to further tho advico,
tooL them ut onco to his tailor, and,
directing them to bo riveted, ordered
a brown velvet coat, that their espe
cial usofuluess might bo straightway
demonstrated. Century.
ONE OPIUM EATER CURED.
But it Took a Term In Sing Sine and
KndleM A cony to Do It.
A confirmed opium smoker was re
cently asked whether ho ever knew a
person who had been cured of tho
habiL
"Only once," ho replied, " and then
it wasn't a voluntary euro by any
means. Ho was a man about 35 years
old, who had been a slave to tho habit
for fifteen years. Ho was so given up
to it that his business went to smash,
and ho used to resort to all manner of
things in order to get money to pur
chase a 'shell.' Ho used to crave
eight shells or $2 worth of opium a
day, and 1 havo frequently met him
in a joint that was run by two tough
Chinamen in Marion street, offering to
roll for smokers in order to sharo their
opium. Ono day ho had been with
out a smoko for about seven hours,
and ho becamo so desperate that
ho tried to rob tho till in a
grocery store. Ho was detected
and arrested, no got word down to
tho joint telling of his misfortune,
and begging for God's sake that some
body would send him somo opium. 1
bought somo dry opium pills and got
them in to him after n deal of trouble.
Tho next day I colled on him nnd a
moro miserable wretch 1 never saw.
Ho was suffcrinir tho tortures of hell.
Ho was doubled up with cramps in his
stomach, and tho inevitable pain be
tween tho shoulders, which feels as
though somebody was driving spikes
into your flesh, was racking him.
Theso tortures wero joined to severe
fiains in all tho joints, as though tho
imbs wero decaying and would soon
drop off. Ho hail been without opium
so long that ho was fairly famishing,
and tho smnll quantity of tho drug 1
had been ublo to send va3 disposed of
in short order.
"'There isn't a tasto of it left,' ho
yelled to me ns I entered his cell in
tlio Tombs. Then ho rolled his tongue
around as though searching for any
small particles that might bo hidden
away in a tooth. I gavo him tho pills
I had brought Ho seized them liko a
starving man would seizo n crust of
bread. He placed two of them in his
mouth and rolled them arountl until
thoy had dissolved, and then washed
them down with a mouthful of water.
In a fow minutes ho was lying on his
cot as placid and happy as a healthy
baby. I kept him supplied with opium
until ho was tried and sentenced. I
managed toslip a fow of them into his
hand as ho was on his way to Sing"
Sing. I heard no moro of him and
forgot all about him until ono day, on
Broadway, soveral years later, a stal
wart, rosv cheeked fellow slapped mo
on tho shoulder and heartily shook
mo by tho hand. I was nearly sur
prised into a fit when ho explained
that ho was tho opium fiend of a few
years ago. Ho said that when lie
got to Sing Sing tlio habit was
on him very strong. Tho pills
I had given him had crumbled to dust
in his pocket, and had become so
mixed up with a lot of other shift" that
ho could not uso them. Ho was in a
raging torment that night and cried
for tho drug. Tlio keepers found him,
nnd tho prison physician, who was
called, fortunately diagnosed tho case
correctly. It wasn't much credit to
him, however, for overy featuro of the
man's face and every motion of his
body almost proclaimed him an opium
fiend. Ho was removed to tho hospital,
and tho physician was kind enough to
get interested in tlio caso. Ho braced
him up with hypodermic injections of
morphine every timo tho craving camo
on, and by a liberal uso of this drug
finally woro nway tho .desiro for the
other. Of courso this treatment cre
ated the morphino habit, but this was
moro readily cured, and my friend
soon lost all desiro for drugs of nny
kind, and is a prosperous, happy man
today. If ho had not been arrested ho
would certainly havo gono tho wny of
all tho fiends, and liavo ended his
lifo himself, or died miserably in somo
holo. no tried to reason tho caso with
mo in hopes that I would surrender
tho drug nnd enduro tho agonies that
such a privation would produco for
tho pleasuronttcnding tho feeling thnt
I was no longer a slavo to iL I havo
heard all of thoso arguments a thou
sand times, and frequently I havo lain
in a joint with another smoker, and
wo havo both sworn off, nnd tho very
next day wo would both bo in tho
samo placo again. I nm getting worso
every year. Tho habit is growing
moro expensive, and tlio longer I am
nt it tlio less disposed do I feel for
work of any kind. My memory is
failing mo now, and I am already
pretty well aloii" on tho downward
road. I'll go a littlo further down,
and then good-by to everything."
Now York Sun.
A Ituby Horn with Teeth.
Gcorgo Baker, a restaurant keeper,
living at ICS Park avenuo and doing
business nt 38 Madison street, is tho
proud possessor of a baby girl who was
borti with a set of teeth. When littlo
Julia Orino Baker arrived in town a
day or two ago, very red, very bald
null weighing six nnd n quarter
pounds, sho horrified tho nurso and
astounded Dr. Phillips, tho family
physicinn, by exhibiting an upper row
of six white front teeth and four per
fect ones on her lower gums. Tliey
wero almost fully developed nnd wero
hard enough to uso on tho toughest
beefsteak in existence. It might bo
thought that tlio littlo stranger would)
develop accomplishments in keeping
with tho early growth of teeth and
start out, walk, talk, sit up at tho table,
paid perform over so ninny clover acts,
and her foud father doubtless gleefully
imagined that sho would do something
of tlio kind to sort of keep up tho
record, but sho did uono of these.
Sho cau bite, though, and that, too,
good aud hard, as her father can tes
tify, she having got his littlo finger in
her mouth aud mndo him dance.
However, tho little ono shows remark
nblo signs of physical vigor, and at
present she eats bread sopped in milk
uud littlo particles of tenderly cooked
chicken, a feat which is said to bo un
precedented in tho annals of medical
fccicuce, Chicuco Special.
KEEPING THE HEART YOUNG.
Old Teople Who Are Tonne In Their
Ways, and Those Who Are Not.
Dickens says: "If all had hearts liko
thoso which beat so lightly in tho bo-
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Bom of tho young anu oeauuiui, wnai
a heaven this earth would bo I If,
whilo our bodies grow old and with-
' ered, our hearts could but retain their
youth and freshness, of whnt avail
would bo our sorrows and sufferings?
But tho faint imago of Eden, which is
stamped upon them in childhood,
chafes and rubs in our rough strugglo
with tho world, nnd soon wears away;
too often to leavo nothing but a
mournful blank remaining."
How true and beautiful this senti
ment is; but is it always the contact
with tho rough sido of tho world that
leaves tho heart hard and blank? Is
it not too often tho indulgence or bit
ter feelings of envy and discontent
that sours and turns to wormwood and
gall many of tho sweets of lifo? Bo
causo wo do not prosper as well as our
neighbor, we fret nnd imngino our lot
harder than nny ono else, and look
upon it as "luck," and nro thereforo
bitter in feeling against thoso who nro
moro fortunate than ourselves.' It is
tho yielding to evil passions and tem
pers that makes tho heart grow old ;
tho inclination to look on tho dark
and gloomy sido of everything, or to
'uso a familiar adage, "crossing tho
bridge before wo get to it." This
seems to bo tho nature of somo people,
and consequently they grow old be
tnm lmin tiinn ntwl tlm bonrt is scared
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and hard and nothing truly but a
"mournful blank remains."
Why not keep tho heart young?
Why not havo the earth a heaven,
and keep ciniunooci s iniui anu nappi
1 ncss in our hearts, even though tlio
bodies will grow old and withered?
It is a fact worth record that when
you meet a genial, happy old person
you find they liavo a youthful heart
a heart of lovo and good will ; a heart
that sympathizes and enters into tho
pleasures and every day enjoyments
of tlio young and aro willing to make
any sacrifices that tho young people
may enjoy lifo; such old peoplo al
ways havo pleasant faces, placid ex
pressions, and n light in the eyo that
reflects tho emotions of tho heart.
Ono is involuntarily drawn to such
people But thero is another class of
old peoplo (alas, too numerous), whoso
faces aro as sour and crabbed as possi
blo; they never sco nny good in nny
ono; tho young never do right, every
thing lias degenerated since their
young days, and tho wholo world
moves different; is it any wonder that
tho hearts of such peoplo are as with
ered and bitter ns their faces indicate?
Tho face is tho truo index of tho
heart, a mirror in which its emotions
aro truly pictured; tho face may grow
old, and timo may leavo its impress in
heavy lines and wrinkles, but from
beneath them all thero beams a light
that is a reflection from n heart kept
young and fresh, whilo tlio body has
grown old beneath tho weight of
years a heart that has cherished none
but love, peaco and contentment, and
has gathered only tho sunshino of life,
keeping "tlio faint imago of Eden,
which was stamped upon it in child
hood," even down unto old ago. At
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1UIUU OUSlUUlIOIl.
The World's Greatest Lumber Reclon.
A lumber pile mado of boards, each
100 feet long and C feet in width,
would bo an unprecedented sight in
tho east, but a gentleman recently re
turned from a visit to tho coast of tho
North Pacific ocean says that piles of
timber such as that aro common at
tho mills on Puget sound. "Boards
100 feet long and 0 feet wide, with
out a knot in them," ho says, "aro
common cuts from tho gigantic fir
trees of tho Puget sound forests.
Theso trees grow to tho enormous
height of 250 feet, and tho forests are
so vast that although tho saw mills
havo been ripping 500,000,000 feet of
lumber out of them every year for ten
i years, tho spaces mado by theso tre
mendous inroads seem no moro than
garden patches. Puget sound lins
1,800 miles of shore line, nnd all along
this lino and extending thencoon both
sides miles and miles further than tho
eyo can see, is ono vast and almost un
broken forest of theso enormous trees.
Thero is nothing liko it anywhere on
tho Pacific coast. An official estimate
places tho amount of standing timber
in that area nt 000,000,000,000 feet, or
a thousand years' supplyt ovon nt tho
enormous rato tho timber is now being
felled and sawed. Tho timber bolt
covers 30,000,000 acres of Washington
, Territory, an area equal to tho states
of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecti
cut and Now Hampshire. Tho markets
j for tho Puget sound lumber aro en
I tirely foreign, being South America,
I Australia, Central America and tho
(Pacific ocean islands." Philadelphia
Press.
j Bonnets for Men.
I Tho bonnet, onco upon a timo, was
an articlo of malo as well as femnlo
I head dress. Fino old English gentlo
mon down to tho early part of tho Six
teenth century woro bonnets of cloth,
silk or velvet, moro or less ornament
ed, according to tho rank or tho tasto
of tho wearer. Theso coverings, how
over, wero superseded by tho hat in all
tho lengths aud breadth of tho king
dom, sayo in Scotland, whero it still
retains its ancient name.
Tlio good old "braid bonnet" was
broad, round aud fiat. It over
shadowed tho faco aud neck; it could
bo slouched in front, behind or side
ways, as a protection ugniust tho "cold
blast" or any "airt" tho wind might,
chooso to blow. It was mado of thick
milled woolen stutl's without seam or
lining; it could bo folded up, sat upon
or put in tho pocket; it was water
proof and kept warm when it was wet;
when dry it was as good as ever; und
it was so exceedingly durablo that u
good dark bluo bonnet with a x-cd tuft
liko a cherry on tho top, and worth
somo two shillings sterling, would,
! 'with reasonable care, lost a man a life-
j time. Rural proprietors of a small sort,
mm luuwuersoi cottages ana an aero
or two of land, woro it as a badge of
disUncUou nnd wero called "bonnet
lairds." Millinery Trade Roviovr.
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