The OregonScout
Jones & Chancey Publishers.
UNION, OREGON.
WAR BETWEEN THE STREET8.
How
One Small liny Passed In Safety
Through the Enemies' Linos.
For vindictiveness, stubbornness and
lack of any masterly Inactivity the war
between the states is discounted by tha
war between tho streets. One wa8 sot
tlod in four or fivo years, but tho other
Ifl perennial, and as Now York gets big-1
ger and bigger it spreads out over'
xnoro territory. Evory wido awako
small boy in town knows all about
it Ho doesn't need any war maps
to show him whcro tho various
strongholds aro. If ho had maps they
would bo of littlo uso to him, for beforo
ho could master them ho would bo pretty
suro to stumble into tho very midst of
the enemy and subsequently give his
family an opportunity for valuable prac
tico in first aid to tho injured
Strategy plays an important part in
tho battles of tho small boy, and among
other things ho learns how to pass
through tho enemy s country in safety
a very valuablo bit of knowledge too,
when tho family grocer or butcher hap
pens to havo his establishment in a hos
tile district. A reporter a day or two
ago had a chanco to see how tho wily
boy does this.
The reporter was walking up Univer
sity place from Washington park when
suddenly ho becamo awaro that a boy
was trudging along by his side. Tho
youngster seemed to lmvo come up
through tho sidewalk probably ho had
emerged from a convenient areaway
but, at all events, thero ho was, a bright
looking, well dressed, activo boy, with a
small packago under ono arm. Tho bun
dlo gave proof positivo that ho was on
somo household errand. Only a woman
could havo iniulo such a curious combi
nation of too littlo wrapping paper and
too much string.
Tho boy stuck closo to his newly
adopted companion. If tho reporter
slackened his pace, so did tho youngster;
if ho increased it, tho boy was with him;
if ho stopped to look in a shop window,
tho boy followed his cxamplo; if ho
edged over toward tho curb, tho boy
went with him.
In this fashion thoy traveled on block
lifter block. Two or threo parties of
boys playing in tho street scrutinized
tho pair closely. Thoy seemed to havo
adosiro to get at the boy, but apparent
ly thoy were satisfied that an attack
would not bo politic under tho circum
stances. By tho timo Tenth street was
reached tho roportti1 began to wondor if
his small companion had decided to at
tach himself to him permanently. A
retinuo is not always desirable, and
what was worso, two or threo other
youngsters had fallon into tho proces
sion, keeping twenty or thirty foot in
the rear, howevor.
Half way between Tenth and Eleventh
streets tho following party Btoppod. Thoy
seemed to havo como to boiiio dividing
line, across which thoy had no business
to pass. Thoro thoy stood, though, with
Tory much tho air an industrious cat as
sumes when a mouso has slipicd into a
holo just in timo to avoid contnet with
feline claws. As soon as they halted tho
youth with tho bundlo seemed to loso all
interest in their doings.
At Elovonth street ho suddenly left
tho reporter's side. IIo ran across tho
street at full speed, stopped at tho cor
ner, and, turning around to faco tho
other boys, mado a gesturo which was
so full of dorision that his pursuers must
havo felt disgusted with life for half an
hour. Then ho trudged blithely away
np tho side street. Evidently ho was on
safo ground again and tho foo had been
hoiked. IIo had taken convoy through
tho lines of tho enemy, and had escaped
a lot of personal unpleasantness.
It pays it Now York small boy to havo
a long head. New York Times.
One of Howard's Vultures.
Branson Howard's play entitled "Mot
by Chanco," which Helen Dauvray pro
duced at tho Lyceum theatre, was tho
worst kind of a failure, and it camo im
mediately after tho success of "Ono of
Our Girls" and preceded tho still more
brilliant success of tho "Henrietta."
"Shenandoah" was produced first at the
Boston museum and failed to mako any
profound or encouraging impression on
Boston audiences. But Howard had ro
Tvritton "Lillian's Last Lovo" into the
successful drama of "Tho Banker's
Daughter," and remembering this o.tiv
rienco ho rewrote "Shenandoah" into
tho prosjierous drama with which thea
tre goers aro now familiar. Now York
World.
Orandmn's Idea of u 81,000 Knlitry,
E. W. Winter, general manager of tho
Omaha railway, enjoys a good story as
much as any man 1 know, particularly
if it bo on himself. Ho tells tho follow
ing talo with great gusto: "My grand
mother is a dear, innocent lady, who
lives up in Vermont.
Shu was tolling a
visitor all about tho familv. ono ilnv. and
-when inv turn camo sho said. 'Now. I
there's Erne, Iio'h doing right well,' and '
her voice sank impressively. 'Thoy do I
say ho's gotting as much as a thousand
dollars a year, though I don't seo how ho
can earn all that monoy honestly.1 "
New York Star.
Why Sliu Hated 1'rench.
There is at tho Hotel Metropolo a na
tivo American girl who, accompanied by
her parents, is on her way home from an
extended continental tour. In conversa
tion with a number of hor compatriots
tho other evening she frankly confessed
that sho liked no language but hor na
tive language. "As for French," sho de
clared, "I hato it, because I always havo
to think beforo I mwakl" Euguno Field's
Xoudon Letter.
An Interested Affection.
Bella How can you bo w attentive to
tlwt rich young man when ho has told
yon he is to marry another?
Madge Pa is a broker, you know, and
1 wants mo to get tho young fellow iu
Utretd iu utockS. Knock,
SILK FEOM THE SPIDER
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF
DUCING QUANTITIES.
PRO-
The Method of an Englishman Named
Stlllben Compared with the Itesearchei
of Noted Frenchmen Success with
American and African Insects.
M. Emilo Qautier, a French writer,
discussed in an article tho history of
spiders from tho consoler of tho prisoner
Pellison down to tho nutritive spider in
whom tho geometrician Laplaco found
tho flavor of a nut.
Thero aro also, it appears, spinning
spiders, whoso web can bo used to weave
serviceable stuffs, and according to old
documents dealing with the subject, M.
Bon, president of tho court of accounts
of Montpellier, sent, as early as 1700,
mittens and stockings mado of spiders'
I web to tho Academy of Sciences.
Ho set to work in the following man
ner: Having collected a largo number of
spiders' cocoons ho beat them so as to
expel all dust Then ho washed them
carefully in warm water and allowed
them to boil for threo hours in a pot con
taining water, soap, Baltpeter and a littlo
gum arable. Tho cocoons, nfter being
washed and carefully dried, wore at lost
carded with extremely fino combs.
This was, of course, a very primitivo
proceeding. M. Bon obtained a gray
thread with which ho was able to mako
tho articles beforo mentioned. Tho
pamphlet which he published regarding
his experiment obtained considerable
success, and was translated into several
languages.
FHEKCIt EXPERIMENTS.
Fifty years later, in 1702, tho Abbo
Raymond do Termoyor mado experi
ments in America, in Spain, and in
Italy. Ho worked on tho living spiders,
whose wob ho wound on a bobbin as fast
as it camo out. This abbo was remark
ably patient and tenacious, for ho car
ried on this operation uninterruptedly
for thirty-four years (from 1703 to 1700),
but apparently all his labor was in vain,
for ho only succeeded in obtaining 073
grammes of cobweb as a result of his
thirty-four years' work.
Tho question, however, Beemed suf
ficiently interesting to tho Academy of
Sciences of Paris to induce them to
chargo tho celebrated Reaumur with
tho drawing up of a report on tho inven
tion of M. Bon.
Reaumur arrived at conclusions very
unfavorable to tho development of a cob
web industry. Stuff, ho said, mado of so
called spiders' silk could not bo employed
in tho manufacture of any useful article,
on account of its fragileness.
Tho strength of tho silk thread was
ninety times greater than that of tho
other, and it required 18,000 threads of
spiders' web to furnish solidity equal to
that of ono silken thread. Tho learned
entomologist demonstrated further that
twice as many spiders as silkworms
wero needed to produco tho same quan-1
tity of thread, bo that to provido ono
pound of spiders' silk 28,000 spiders
would havo to spin. To obtain such a
number of cocoons n much larger num
ber of spiders would havo to bo kept, for
only tho females spin web round eggs.
Then, again, tho product of tho spider i
had less luster than that of tho silk
worm, ltenumur aimed, howovor, that
although thero was no future for tho
spiders of Franco, oxcept to catch blue
bottles and flies, tho exotic kinds might
repay tho labor of study.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S SUCCESS.
Tho idea has recently been taken up
by au Englishman named Stillbors, who
has made cloth of spider's wob which has
been employed for tho purposes of sur
gory. IIo only uses tropical spiders,
from which, thanks to a scientific cult
ure, ho has obtained a much greater re
turn than was foresoen by Reaumur.
Tho spiders which ho uses aro big ones
from Amorica and Africa. Thoy aro
placed in octagonal cases, where n suffi
ciency of Insects is served to them every
day. In tho room where tho cases aro
kopt a constant toniiwruturo of 00 deg.
(Fahrenheit) is maintained, and a liquid
composed of chloroform, ether and fusol
oil is allowed slowly to evaporate. That
is to say, spiders spin best when thoy
aro drunk.
Mr. Stillbors keeps 5,000 of theso cases
in a room forty meters long by twenty
wido and fivo high. Tho spiders lay
eggs of various colors, covered with
cocoons. Theso aro gathered up and
prepared by tho samo mechanical and
chemical operations as tho cocoon of tho
bombyx.
Ono cocoon yields 120 to 150 motors of
thread. Tho weaving process is kopt
absolutely secret.
Tho stuff obtained is of a texture re
sembling ordinary silk, but thick, Btiff,
and of a dirty gray color. It is all tho
more necessary to bleach it because tho
color is by no means uniform. It is
bleached by treatment with oxygenized
water. Then it is tanned and softened.
It assumes a pretty yellow tint, and bo
comes brilliant and smooth.
To make a thread 11,250 kilometers in
length 25,000 cocoons aro requisite. This
is a great advance on Reaumur s cnlcu-
hitions.
But still 25,000 cocoons only
aupply " thread of 600 French leagues in
longth. Tho stuff obtained must bo sold
very high price in order to obtain
tho merest comik'nsatiou for all this
trouble and uxiHnse. Iroprietors of
mulberry trees and silkworms need not
bo afraid of tho competition of tho spider
yot awhile. Now York Evening Sun.
Its Virtues us a Koorlfle.
"Qrindstono, havo you ever triod a
law onion as a remedy for sleepless
ness?" "Tried it once, Kiljordan."
"How did it workl"
"Had to go to sleep to get rid of the
taste," Chicago Tribune.
A
A. Mr.
Wise Man.
Charles is a very wise
Mr.
nan.
, Mr. B. Why do you think bo?
Mr. A. I heard him in an argumont
with nuethor and ho lot tho other fallow
io all the talkini;. Wert Shorn
now Does the Dog Know So Much?
Wade, tho big English mastiff, is tho
actor. In tho morning of six days of
the week you may seo Wade solemnly
rtrolling about tho lawn, or lying grace
fully posed, with his grand head be
tween his forepaws, on tho porch. But
on tho seventh day literally tho sev
enth of tlio week, Saturday after
breakfast, at which meal ho always on
that day refuses to participate, Wade
invariably accompanies his master's
man to tho railroad station. Every
day, by a certain morning train, tho
supplies of meat, groceries, etc., como
down to tho neighboring railroad sta
tion, and tho hired man goes to fetch
thorn. On five days for Sunday is
out of tho count, of course ho goes
alone. When Saturday comes ho has
Wade for a companion.
Why does Wnde eat no breakfast on
Saturdays? Why does ho on that morn
ing alone, and then uninvited, go down j
to tho railroad station ?
On Saturdays tho butcher puts into
the basket for this household, a piece
of meat especially for tho lordly mas
tiff. Wado knows that a neck of beef
or somo other choice morsel, is his every
Saturday morning. IIo refuses to spoil
his appetite, therefore, by eating tho
usual breakfast prepared for him, and
ho wntches for tho departure of the
hired man only on that particular morn
ing. Wado must havo done somo deep
thinking; ho must bo ablo to count tho
days. Saturday is like all ojther days
in that household, yet Wado knows it
directly ho wakes, and arranges his pro
gramme in accordance with Ills fore
knowledge of tho butcher's provision
for him. Thnt is to say, tho mastiff
exercises tho rational power of which
man would fain persuado himself ho
has tho monopoly. To echo tho pas
sionate exclamation of many a littlo
child: "Oh, that dogs could talk!"
What startling revelations they might
mako I Pittsburg Dispatch.
lilsmarrk'g Presence of Mind.
Ono of tho stories now going the
rounds tells of Bismarck's clover ruso
to savo a friend from death. It seems
thnt Bismarck nnd this friend wero out
hunting one day, and tho friend incau
tiously walked off into a morass from
which ho could not extricate himself.
Feeling himself gradually sinking, tho
unfortunato fellow cried out to Bis
marck: "For God's sake como to my
holp, or I shall bo lost in this quick
sand." Bismarck saw that tho danger
was great, but ho retained his presence
of mind. "No," cried Bismarck, "I
will not venture into tho morass, for
then I should bo lost, too. It is evi-
deat that your end is inevitable; thero-
ioro, 10 reuuve you irom too cruet quail. It takes a remarkably quick
agony of slow death, I will shoot you." ; shot to get in both barrels effectively
Therefore Bismarck coolly leveled nt a bevy of quail, even when tho birds
his riflo at his floundering friend. rise in tho open and tho sportsman has
"Keep quiet," cried Bismarck; "1 an unobstructed field of view. The al
cannot tnko correct aim. Remember ' most irresistible tendency is to "fire at
that in order to put you at once out of tho thick of 'em," but besides being un-
Illisery I must shoot VOU through tho snortsiiinnliko this inntlinrl is
head I"
Tho shocking brutality of this sug-1
gestion drovo nil fear of tho morass out
of tho friend's mind; tho unlucky chap
thought only of dodging Bismarck's
bullet, nnd with this in mind ho strug
gled so violently that finally, by ul-j
most superhuman ellorts, ho succeeded
in laying hold of tho root of an old
tree and thereby ho rescued himself. j
"It was your presence of mind that
saved mo," ho confessed to Bismarck; 1
"in no other way could my extrication
from tho quicksands havo been accom
plished." Eugeno Field in Cliiengo
News. I
The Incomenlenco of llelng Wise. j
A certain learned doctor had been
preaching in a country church and was
on his way back again. As ho rode
along ho fell into a theological medita
tion, tackling several stiff dogmatical
questions, and consequently ho utterly
lost his way. At last ho met a country-1
man, of whom ho asked tlio way to I
Suvoiuileros. )
But tho oountrynmn know him and
said: ' j
"Why, master, you'ro mi honest man,
indeed. I heard you preach in our
church, and never heard a better sor-1
mon in my life. 1 should liko to hear
a dozen such sermons." "Well, well,
my good friend, I hope to say a few
more words iu season somo other time;
but tell mo the way to Savonnieres."
"Nay, nay," said tho countryman, (
"mny God keep mo from such pro-'
BUinptuousnessI to teach a man who
knows everything; you are laughing at
mo, master. Why, tho littlo children
know tho way to Savonnieres, and are
you, who knows all things, ignorant of
such a littlo matter? Nay, 'tis not like
ly, master. God keep you." And so
ho loft him. Bervaldo do Vervillo.
When You Set Out u Tree,
It is said that tho soil around an old
tree, especially a dead one, is unfavor
able to tho growth of a young ono;
prooaoiy uecaiiM) wio sou is exhausted
on souio important food element, which
may havo caused tho death of tho old
tree. If a voumr tree is set in nlaeo of
tin old. it is best to remove a lanro nor-
tlon of tho old soil and reploco it with
new if you want tho young tree to
thrive Homo and Farm.
Heaven for lllm,
A poor old, countryman was lying on
lib doathbod and tho nriest was tellinir ,
him of tho life to come, that ho mint .
not sorrow after tho life ho was leaving.
"After tho Judgment day," quoth tho
E,ood priest, "every mountain and hill
hall bo brought low and every valloy
ihall bo exalted."
"Well, well," mid tho countryman,
"that will be a famous land form poor
wagoners. " Exchange.
"bob WHITE."
A Sportsman Writes About Ills
Expert-
ence with the Quail.
In studying tho quail one cannot fail
to notice tho almost complete change
of habits in this bird which attends the
transition from one season of the year
to another. In tho spring and summer
tho once shy and bevy keeping Bob
"White becomes individualized and tamo
wo say individualized because, al
though mated, man and wife are always
ono flesh just as truly among birds as
among human beings. No longer in
flocks, Bob White turns up everywhere
under your feet in the fields, especially
if you haunt the vicinity of his nest and
brooding mate. You will frequently
see him running along by the fence, or
oven venturing out into tho road, wliilo
his cheery, sweet song for it is a song,
albeit but of two notes rings out again
and again on tho sunny air
So tame and regardless of her own
safety docs tho feinnlo grow in tho nost-
ing season that not unfrequently sho
will allow herself to bo almost trodden
upon beforo leaving tho nest, and I
havo known late brooding birds in gross
meadows to sit fearlessly upon their
nests until cut to pieces by tho relent
less knives of the mowing machine.
Young quail aro perfect littlo necro
mancers. Almost as soon as they ore
out of the shell they seem to have tho
! power of making themselves invisible
at the wave of a wand. Wherever they
go to nobody can tell. Tho ground may
bo as bare as a floor, but somehow they
manage to vanish utterly from the eye.
And this is a trick which they do not en
tirely forget as they grow older. It
takes a sharp eyed sportsman to see a
bevy of quail beforo they rise, even if
tho dog is pointing right nt them nnd
the grass is as short as it is on a lawn.
By August Bob White begins to take
on a different character altogether from
that he has displayed during tho spring
and summer months. IIo ceases to
i perch himself in conspicuous places and
sing for the delight of himself nnd his
t friends, both feathered and unfeathered.
He no longer makes excursions into ex
posed and dangerous localities, nor does
ho trust to tho friendliness of every
human being who conies his way.
Gradually he begins to assemble his
family and nearest relatives into a little
j community conducted on tho simplest
' communistic principles, and animated
by ono all pervading desire to get
, through the terriblo open season with-
. out being brought to griddle.
That Bob White has developed ro-
, markablo powers for realizing this de
sire every sportsman will readily ac
knowledge. No bird can place so many
yards between itself and tho gun in two
0r three seconds as tho
lively littlo
meflcctivo also, for, while it mny now
and then cripple a bird, it oftener lets
tho whole bevy get away unscathed, or
elso sends two or threo slightly wound
ed birds into tho cover to dio a cruel
and lingering death.
Tho philosophy of this result is easy
enough to explain, for, quickly as a
covey of quail may seem to tho excited
sportsman to fly together when they
are flushed, a littlo calm observation
will show that tho intervals between
the several birds aro almost always
nearly as groat as tho spread of a charge
of shot at thirty yards. Thus it will be
seen that, if tho center of tho chargo falls
iu ono of tho intervals or spaces, as it is
just so much more likely to do as the
spaco is larger than a quuil's body, the
only possible chanco is that a bird may
bo crippled by tho outer pellets, and
oven tills chance is small compared with
tlio alternative which has been previ
ously stated.
Therefore, my advice to tho true
sportsman in quail shooting is to select
ono bird for each barrel; mako a clean
kill or none at all. And if you aro not
skillful and quick enough at first to so
lect a bird for each barrel, make suro
of your41rst shot only, for a time, until
you get so that you ciui drop your bird
quickly and neatly; then begin to at
tempt your double on the principle
which has been laid down. I make a
practice of concentrating my attention
every timo on what 1 call tho "laggard"
that is, tho bird nearest mo when the
gun is raised ; or, if tho bevy crosses mo
instead of going straight away, it is tho
last bird hi tho line-that I lire nt. This
rule applies to tho uso of both barrels.
Select tho Inggurd each timo. Paul
Past nor in Shooting and Fishing.
A Wealthy Wouiun.
Mrs. Robert Goolet Is not yet thirty
years of age, bho lias a cottage in
Nowport worth $250,000 and an income j
of 182,500 a year, or $500 a day. Her j
father is George Henry Warren, tlio ,
wealthy financier, from whom sho
v - .
ea"lel w to kt;P her account book
U",U1"U- , wuhiKij
IroUv- 81,0 ,,as brIKht .vol,ow halr. ft
iair complexion, violet eyes,
violet eyes, nnd her
manners are those of a patrician lady.
Her littlo son and daughter aro beauti
ful as dolls nnd her constant compan
ions through tho day. Sho thinks noth
ing of asking a caller to oxcuso her
when a doll's dress or n paper kito Is In
process of
construction. Now lork
worm,
Face and Figure,
"See this check, Jones?"
"Yes; for a thousand, eht"
"Exactly; only I refer to tho fino lith
ograph work on it."
"Oh I I admire ltd face less than iti
figure I" Chicago Ledger.
I
THE HABITS OF
Prairie Schooners.
A common sight in Texas Is the prai
rie schooner bound west. The prairie
ichooner of today is a littlo more yacht
like In its build than the typical wagon
in which the earlier emigrants navigat
ed the west. Tho modern manufact
urer who turns them out by the thou
sand makes the lines n little finer, and
wliilo they may not sail any closer to
tlio wind or any faster than tho old
timo schooners did thoy look trimmer
and more in keeping with tho times. In a
growing state liko Texas dealers in farm
implements keep wngons on hand just
as they do plows, and it is not unusual
to see packed alongside a store in a
small town where thero is plenty of
room outdoors forty or fifty wagons,
comprising half a dozen different styles,
each as well known to wagon buyers
by the brand of its maker as sewing
machines aro known by their names.
Prairie schooners under sail in Texas
aro seen sometimes singly nnd some
times in small fleets, showing that four
or fivo families in a neighborhood had
come to the same conclusion at the
same timo and had decided to move in
company. In such a climate there is
no great discomfort in this kind of mov
ing in dry weather. Of course store1
and cooking utensils aro taken along,
and tho camp at night is mado if pos
sible on running water, and running
water is at all times a refreshing inci
dent of tho travel to tho horses.
You mny seo a fleet of perhaps four
schooners in procession, with men, wo
men, children and dogs alongside or be
hind tho wagons. On tho march, when
a stream is approached, tho men, wo
men and children clamber into the
wagons. 'You see tho horses of
the leading schooner when tho cool
water washes their feet bend their
heads and drink deep. Then thoy tug
tho schooner up tho opposito bank and
move on. Each following team does
the same and closes up again on its
leader.
Somo of these schooners carry tho
household effects of immigrants from
other states moving into Texas. Moro
of them carry tho goods of farmers
who aro moving from tho more thickly
settled parts of Texas into tho western
and northwestern parts of the state,
where thoy con get more acres for their
money. Still, in keeping with tho gen
eral advance of modern comforts, many
of these outfits carry small tents. The
tent will servo as a dwelling place until
tho house is built nt tlio now homo,
and if tho family is largo it adds to the
comfort en route. Philadelphia Tele
graph. Advantages of a Trip to Kurope.
I have found that if I slay in Amer
ica I get no rest. If I went to Sara
toga, Newport, Long Branch or Bar
Harbor, and I havo tried them all, I
am in constant receipt of my mail and
telegrams and am consequently kopt
with my nose to tho grindstone all the
timo. If I didn't get my mail while at
any of theso resorts I would worry and
fret just because it was possible to have
my correspondence delivered promptly.
It has been my experience that these
daily waves of letters and telegrams
compel mo to do twice as much work
as I am called upon to do in my office
here, becauso I am deprived of the as
sistance of stenographers, typewriter
and secretaries, those necessary con
veniences to a busy ninn of business.
So you seo that instead of my getting
rid of work for a timo my labor is act
ually doubled and I get no material
benefit from my outing.
But by jumping on an ocean steamer
I am comparatively out of reach, and
tho leisure I thus obtain gives mo the
rest I need. Yes, I know people think
I am very busy wliilo I am abroad, and
it is true I run about n great deal and
seo a great ninny people, but it is a
break from tho monotony of my daily
lifo, and I enjoy tho change immensely.
It is being shut, out from ofllco cares
that gives a man liko mo tho mental
rest required, and, no matter how much
I gullop about, I always como back re
freshed and invigorated. Different
scenes and different people aro among
tho principal charms and benefits of
foreign travel. Thoy rub off tho rust
and sharpen tho intellect and restore
tho equilibrium of n man's mental
capacities. Chauncey M. Depow Inter
view. Weeping Trees of Washington.
In tho forests of Washington and
British Columbia I havo frequently
seen tho trees dripping copiously during
clear, bright days, when no dew was
visiblo elsewhere. The dripping was so
profuse that tho ground underneath
tho trees was almost saturated. The
phenomenon In this case was caused by
tlio remarkablo condensing power of
tho fir, nnd it occurred only when the
nativo humidity was near the dew
point. Tho dripping ceases after 10 or
II o'clock In tho morning, but resumes
at or near sunset. In Hakluyt's "Voy
ages" there Is an account of Hawkins'
second voyago to Africa and America,
written by a gentleman who sailed with
Hawkins, in which wo aro told that in '
tlio island of Ferro thero is a weeping
tree which supplies all tho men and
beasts of tho island with drink, there
being no other available water supply.
Further, he states that in Guinea he
saw many weeping trees, but of a epo- f
clos different from that at Ferro,
Seattlo Post-Intolllgencer.
i
In 18SS there were In Germany 876,
C54 marriages, 1.82S.379 birtlis and
1,209,708 deaths; in Franco, 276,818
marriiigoa, 6S2.C30 births and 837,867
deaths. The increaso of Germany1
population was thereforo 618,581 la
1SSS, against COS, 155 in 18S7. FnuWa
increaso of population 41,773 in 1888,
against 56,536 in 1887.
A NEW AUTHORESS.
tier Work Abounds In Carefully-Selected
Foreign Words and Phrases.
My Deau Niece: I havo road tho
story of yours, which you wore klndj
enough to sond mo from tho somlnary,
and must say tho horolno was very
vivacious, tho horo sagaciou3, tho rich
old undo mendacious, tho designs of
tho rival falaclous, tho old aunt auda
cious, and tho characters in general
loquacious. Tho foreign words and
phrases whieh abound in tho story,
which Is quite tho proper fad, of late,
show groat caro in solection, and aro
spelled correctly; but It strikes mo that
you aro not always up to tho mark in
tho application.
"Tho rounded cheeks of Jano wore a
beautiful sub rosa hue," goes a littlo too
far.
"Sho woro a splendid nom deplume in
her hat," is somowhat far brought, per
haps. What kind of a doctor was John, that
ho should ask, tenderly: "My dearest,
what doth inter alia!"
Where John tears himself away in
despair, exclaiming: "Au fait What
is my lot? falso, fair ono; au reroir, au
dieu" theso should havo been followed
with ah there, to mako it complete.
Whoro you had hor sit "at table and
el eelera, and other viands," 1 feared for
hor digestion; and was oven moro
alarmed when sho obsorvod: "fch dien
at two preclsoly, and am quito fond of
a la Francaue, and also Sicitzer caise.
"Tho littlo bona fde came in wagging
his tail. IIo did? I don't quito seo
how ho could do it.
"When ho heard tho talo ho was per
fectly emeute for several minutes." As
ho sat quiet, I am glad ho was not so
warliko as you would havo us infor.
"Sho exclaimed, excitedly: 'You have
got moro chupeau bra3 in your cheok than
any body I ovor saw;' " from whieh, I
would "think, it was perfectly soft
onough to bo folk
I suppose tho ducks and chickons
woro safo, whon "sho gontly put thorn
in tho coup d'etat."
"IIo fell into tho canaills, and was
nearly drowned," was a thrilling acci
dent, and I was glad ho was saved.
"Away he galloped on his horn du com
bat;" but it was a wonder ho was not
thrown. That is such a risky thing for
him to ride.
Whoro Jack quarrels with his land
lord and says: ,kJ)ernier rensort" no won
dor tho latter wont in and shut tho door
in his face, under such a malo'diction.
Was it not hard on John's head to
wear an ad cap tandem! I should
think so.
John must havo had a good appotito
whon ho said to tho waiter: "I want my
stoak double entendre."
Sho was extremely complimentary,
whon sho said: "Ah, dearest, your
poem is quito rice vena."
"Whon tlio rerbum nap began to stir
in tho plants," is very springy, indoed,
and pootieal.
"Finis, tho end," is very aptly
quoted.
On tho svhole the story is quito up to
tho average, and the foreign phrases
not any moro out of tho way. Tho lat
ter give tone to it, and I predict its suc
cess. A. V4. Itellaw, in Light.
Center nf the United States.
Do you know the exact location of
the center of the Union? Never
thought anything about it, probably.
Well, it is marked by a grave that of
Mnj. Ogden, of the United States army,
who died at Fort liiloy, Kan., in 1855,
during the cholera epidemic of that
year. The remains of tho major wero
removed to Fort Leavenworth and
buried in the National cemetery there,
but his monument still stands upon a
littlo knoll to the northeast of tho fort
Fort Riley and it lifts its head to
wards tho clouds in the exact geographi
cal center of the United States. Of
tho thousands of men who have been
located at Fort R'.lev during tho past
forty years, perhaps not one in a hundred
know or caret 1 anything about tho odd
ity of his situation. The post is a few
miles east of Junction City, Kan., mid
was formerly one of the most important
in the United States. St. Louis lie
public. T1m s'ecrt't of Ills Career,
All this heavy, systematic robbery
was made possible by tho fact that the
thieving clerk never took a holiday or
a, vacation ; he was the first man at the
bank in tho morning and the last to
leave it at night. Frequently ho worked
elono by gas light. 1 know of more
than ono great commercial establish
ment in this town where tho officers en
force the absolute rule that no em
ploye shall work longer than the oth
ers, and that every employe shall tako
a vocation every year and surrender hi
books or department to another man.
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