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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1891)
NO ELECTRIC BELLS THERE. - The I'rlinltlTe Method or Calling Serv ants at u Sulphur Spring Hotel. Think of a grand hotel where tho room numbers run as high as 709 being without an elevator I It is easier to climb Prospect mountain back of tho Colonnado row of cottages than it is to mount tho various stairways to the top floor Perhaps some time in tho near future there will be further concessions to the spirit of modern improvement. Tho Ueid arista. Here is a hotel with a parlor half as largo tigaln as tho east room of tho Whito House. It has a long dining room, with two rows of columns. If you stand at one end and shout you can't bo heard at tho other. Twelvo hundred people can sit down to tho 100 tables without any sense of crowding. This hotel covers more than an aero of ground. It doesn't contain n bathroom. It has no annunciator. Some day tho guest may bo able to press a button and mako his existence known to the oflieo a quarter of a mile away at present the method is to open your door, stick out your head and "holler." To tho credit of Wliito 8ulphur it can bo said that two or threo 'hollers" will usually do. Tho servant system is peculiar to "Wliito Sulphur. It works as satisfac torily as such a system can. Southern ers liko it, for it reminds them of old times. Northerners do not object so long as the charm of novelty wears. To every hallway in the big hotel are assigned a floor man and couple of chambermaids. They are not pert. They are colored men and women who learned the ways of faithfulness and politeness wlien there was $."i00 differ ence between a houso servant and a field hand in "Virginny." Most of these servants had "ben a-comin' to ole White, sail, senco befo' the wall." They have their little rooms partitioned off at the ends of tho halls or across tho stairway landing, and there they live and sleep so as to respond prompt ly to tho calls of guests. If my young lady, coming up from the ballroom at fifteen minutes before midnight, thinks of some message sho wants to give the chambermaid, sho taps with her hand on tho door knob and calls: "Ln-cyl" A pause. "Lu-cyl" This timo a lit- tlo louder, and another pause. Then again. "Oh. Lu-cyl" I'rom down the hall comes by this time tin sleepy reply: "Ya-asm I'so comin'." There is a shuffling of feet along the hallway matting, and then a conversa tion in a low tone. Tho voice of the belle says a little louder at the close: "Remember, Lucy I" The voice of the chambermaid re plies. "Ya-as'm." The door closes. The shuffling sound passes back down tho hall and dies away. Fifteen or twenty people in ad jacent rooms turn over in bed and try to go to sleep ugain. Nobody thinks of kicking. It is only one of tho White Sulphur ways. --Sulphur Springs Cor. St. Louis GIobo-Democrat. A Lightning ICplsodo. A colored man, about 40 years of age. entered polieo headquarters yes terday with his head tied up and said to the sergeant; "Boss, 1 want your opinyun. Look at dis head an' tell nio what you thinU of it." "I think somebody gavo you a pretty good whack with a club," replied the officer. "Was it a club?" "It was a weapon of soiiio sort." "Wasn't I hit by lightning?" "Lightning? No." "Wasn't hit by lightning las' nito?" "How could you be, when there was no thunder storm last night?" " 'Zactly 'zactiy. Dat's all." "How did you get it?" "Woko up dis mawnln' wid do olo woman standin' ober do bod. Sho laid it on to do lightnin', but do mo' I think do mo I didn't beliovo it. I'zo suah now." "And you" "Well, I'zo gwino homo to mako dc biggest thunder sto'm you ober heard tell of. An' if do lightnin' doan' strike mighty clus to my houso at least a dozen times den I won't say a word when do patrol wagincomesl" Detroit Freo Press. John Flake. It is a curious fact and ono not wide ly known of John Fiske, tho writer, that his real name is not John Fisko at all, but Kdmund FLsko Green. He was born hi Hartford, Conn., forty eight years ago, tho only child of Ed mund and Mnry Fisko Green. Whfto yet a mere boy his father died, and threo years later Mrs. Green married tho Hon. Edwin W. Stoughttm, United States minister to Russia. Up to this time tho lad had been known as Ed mund Fisko Green, but after this, for Ktuio reason of his own, ho dropped his father's family name, retaining that of his mother, Fiske, and adopted in placs of tho baptismal "Edmund" tho name of his maternal great-graudfather, "John," and thus he becamo John Fiske, a namo which ho has retained and honored over since. New York Evening Sun. Where He Wu Shot. Coroner (to tho physician who enun lned tho wounded man) Where was tho man shot, doctor? Doctor J n tho lumbar region. CoroiiBr In tho lumber region? Why, tho pollaumon has Just sworn that liu wosbhot In u coul yard. Texan BlftlitfcM Llltn Oilier ltoju. ncnedtot (to the ininwter, who Is cn'llngl There, sir, is my or. Fine, hundsoint) boy, isn't lief Set; Ui;n p.irini; ovr hN school books there, studying Imril wlirn the other boys nro out ilnyii)K boll. 1 tell you, lie's a wonder! Come hero, Jimmy, mid tell me whnt you are. studying. Jimmy Stuihin'f I'm try in' ter decido whedder tor call do nine I'm Kettih' up do young Quints or do Kotirf Ward Unl-iesl Laurence American. The Ml.nfk.. or h Miirnlitz. "Well," Kays Ilnnlerbtis, "if that China man hasn't exi-lmugfd one of my shirts for n shirt that opens in front!" when all the while ho had got his own on wrong side foremost. Ilartwr's Weekly. Net-ilpil I,.Kldiithm. I She had gone away and left her chewing gum btuek on the back of thosnfu, and it was lerhaps unfortunate that her little brpther saw it. It was certainly grote-quo of him to j carefully dig out ils in.-.ide, Ml up the cavity with red impiicr, carefully plug up tho hole , and put the gum back in its place. It was little short of calamitous that her beau should call just at that moment in the evening when slio iiad put tlte gum back m her mouth again. He could not understand her de meanor. Ho doc not even yet. comprehend why she daueisl and shrieked, and Itunlly ran out of the room. There is no question that the hill now upon the legiMaturo providing for the killing of ull boys, between tliu uges of 8 anil l.'i hnnM tro through - ' ' i .V fjwiii .(inuil';. IJcnpall. Tom You seem dNturlted, monsieur. Qu' 1 avez voiM M. Lumaire 1 hnf great troub-belle. It is wiz zu Angli-h laugwidge. It is zu loutlo I worn iiosen. i say l need a losen, anil one says zat ees twelve; I say I want a doseu, and unothci say I must taku sleep; I say I w ish a dos-ii, und another say zo doctnfru will dose me. ono lectio word Imf too much to do in zis grand oouutreo. Pittsburg Ibilletm. Tim I'lciiMircs of Gardeiiliiir, "Ves"siiid tiiosuliiirbauamateiirgardeuer. "I take a great deal of pleasure in my ugri- cultural luhors. Uf course, there are a good many tilings in a garden that aro not alto gether pleasant hero, Towser, como out of tiiat Hotter hedl That's ono of them. As I was saying, there aro a good many things confound it, if thero ain't old Briggs' hem diggiug up my peas agaiu." New York Press. Phonetic Selllii; of a Uizy Man. Essence of being, NTT; prior to, 154; kind ly, 119; Queen Klizalx-th's favorite, SX; four score, AT; shabbily dressed, CD; a foe, NME; process of rot, DK; void of conlents, MT; funeral jioetry, LK(5; an Oriental olllcial, KD; a girl's name, LX: vigor in action, XUG; a student's composition, SA; valuable quality, XLXO; extreme happiness, XTC Xow York Herald. At it lloiirdln lloiie. Scientific Boarder There aro no nerves of tasto in tho roof of the mouth. If we wish to get thu full tasto of uf bread and sirup, for instance, we must put it in tho mouth with tlio sweet sido down. Practical Boarder Ah 1 I suppose that it why wo ull eat this bread and butter with tht buttered sulo u;. Xetv York Weekly THE ILLUSTRATION shows tho homo of A Small the lunrotit mail-order tho coast. Woinst&k, most overythipg that ono needs to wear or use ! whorovor you are, send to them. They at home. Thoy doal largely with manufac- ,! intend that any one , any where , shall supply turors in Jiuropo and America, thus bringing I wants any letter than they. producer and customer in direct contact. $ - lr L.arge uescripxive 5-?aiaiogue, nanasomeiy siiusiraieu, r rut; 10 Mny uurc, DRY GOODS, CLOAKS, MEN'S CLOTHING, HATS, SHOES, MILLINERY, NOTIONS, TRUNKS, TOYS, SILVERWARE, HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES, ETC, I v.. i. ii II n u( hi;. I There was spirt in the coon hunt for ' our fathers, an in a mrasuro a man's importance- in nine communities was judged by the iinber of coon skins ho could nail to hi . barn door after a hunt. 1 Why the coon has come to be despised by sportsmen in these Litter days is one of those things about which the remark has once or twice been made that no ' fellow can find out. lie is as cunning as ! the fox and more dillicult to trail. "lie is. moreover, tliecleanost of animals, and eats only the most wholesome of food. Ho should not be despised, surely, le cause he can be hunted only at night, for in threading the woods in the dark ness, following dogs that you cannot see, and whoso haying alone breaks the still ness, there is a most singular enchant ment. Even in localities where coons are the most abundant, nine out of ten of tlm present generation never saw one, and few )coplo know anything alnnit them or their habits. Although the coon prefers the vicinity of civilization as his habitat, lie plans to keep aloof from tho eyes of men. and his habits render this an easy task. 15y day he lies in out of tho way retreats, in tho depths of hollow trees or Lsolatcd crevices and holes in tho rocks. He wanders fortli only at night and al though his foraging expeditions may take him to tho very doors of farmers, and even within the boundary lines of vil lages, ho never lietrays his presence. If more than one coon is brought to bay in a tree they will imariably be females or a mother coon and her offspring. The scent tho coon leaves on the trail is at all. times less than that of other game quad ruped, but when the female is nursing her young duriuir the summer months 1 her scent is hardly perceptible to the dogs, thus saving her and her litter from rininy a rt'oi; for life. The scent of the i coon grows stronger as the cold weather ! advances, and through November and December the dogs follow it with com paratively little dinieuity. Philadelphia Press. An Ab-eiit Minded .Hun. Cincinnati has the champion absent minded man. A gentleman living in the suburbs went in a store on Walnut street to make a lew purchases. The onlv light in the store was a candle standini on the counter near the money drawer. After making his purchases ho handed the proprietor a bill, and al ter returning him the change the proprietor walked to the rear of the store to arrange some thing, when suddenly he was left in the dark. He started toward the counter, and. groping around it, found, not the candle, but the change. It struck him then that probably tho man. in a fit of absent mindedness. had taken the candle instead of his change, flo started out after him. and, witching up with him. ' thai he had the bundle in one hand and the candle in the other. After apol ogizing for the mistake the stranger look his change and gavo back tho candle Chicago Times. Fashion in beds is returning to the four poster with a rich canopy and, as a modei n innovation, a shelf between the upper pohts for bottles, glasses, etc. In the simple days of our grandparents the eye opener was kept under the pillow in a green bottle. The (ierinan emperor is a voracious newspaper reader Fifty of the leading Journals of Hurope are laid on his table every morning, and immediately aftei breakfast he plunges through them, shears in hand, nipping any item that sti'ik'f bis fancv I Largest Ceneral Retail House on EINSTOCK, LUBIN, & CO., 400-412 K shopniuc business on v ones, und Lubin, tfe Co. soli al. i at thoir . a I VKOTHCT VOITK 1IKA1.T11. CoM ntid moisture romblned hnve a tornorU IS effect itpoti the bod Up orcstH. and tho fit Restive and secretive iirocpMC are apt to o tnoro tardily performed In winter than In tlio fall. The same it truo also of the excretory functions. The bowels aro often ahnrvlsh, and the pores of tlio skin throw oil-but 1 ttlo wasto matter at this season. The ovo. m, theref.-re, requires oimmiIiir up a Utile, and io tmrlfylhi; and rivulstlnvr, and tho safest surest ami most thorough tonic ami alterative that can he Used fr these purswes Is Hostetter'a Stomach Hitters. Persons who wish to escape the rhpumatie twinges, trie lyspeptlc atronlcs. the painful dis tnrbances of the bowels, the hlllons attnrks. and tho uen ous visitations, so common at this time ot ine year, will do well to reinforce their svs tenia with this renowned cRetnble stomachic ana inviRoraut. it improve tlio appetite, strengthens tho stomach, cheers the spirits, anil renovates the w hole physique. Whkn a man Is living he Is In the singular number: u lun lie Is dead he becomes plural. He becomes not a " remain," but " remains." OUT KID OK THAT It A 1) TASTK. When yon wake up in the morning with a bad taste in your mouth, with vour threat and tongue dry and a yellow coat ing on your teeth and gums, don't imagine it was all caused by what you ate tho night before. Of course, everybody does that ami everybody "swears oil'" from again oitlng such food. The trouble is that your liver is clogged, jour kidneys are over worked and vour bowels nro not dolnir their lty. Take from three to H-n of HitAMiKKTit's Pil.l.s, and note the sudden and wonderlul change in your system. ' Til K retard of sprig," ships the poet with a cold in his head. UUl'TUKK AMI IM1.KS Cl'ltKD. Wo jswIUvoly cure rupture, and all rectal dis eased without pain or detention from bnlnc.-s. No wire, no pay; and no pay until cured. Ad dress for pamphlet l)rs. I'orterlleid A. lvwy, (CM Market street. San Francisco. roretliotiuht. She Uh, horrors! j He What is It, darling! ' She I forgot all aliout poor pussy, left hi tho house alone, and we off for a week. She'll ! starve. j lie 0,"l remembered her. I left n can of j coudensil milk on the kitchen tablo with a' Kirdino opener beside it. Lifo. nlvtiled Duties. Daughter Ma, tho now- girl has got mad and gone, and we'll have to get another right off. .Mrs. Do Style Well, telephone, to your pa to send u loy to somo employment, ollico for one. 1 need somo zephyr to match this silk, too; but I stipposo 1 will huvo to go for that myself. New York Weekly. Consoling. Mrs. A vnoo Bridget, tho parlor w Indowsi are so dirty I can't see through them. Bridget Wull, mum, I only jist emtio from tho front door, and beyaiit tho faces of .Miss Fashion and her young man in tlio bay win dy opiKisito time's nothin' across tho way wort lukin' at. Now York Weekly. Didn't. Know Which. "What Is the matter, Alico! worried." You look "1 am. It's too mean for otiytliing! Thesa roses huvo just come with a card, 'Wear thesa for Jack,' and I don't know whuthor they nro rrom the Jack I hato or thu one I liko. It's too horrid I" Harper's Bazar. Com pll imiutury. Miss Crabtreo See what liico shoes I pur chased for fo. MUs Glltsiun Why, theso I'm wearlog cost $10. Miss C Well, 1 suppose they charge uc-coi-dini to blzu. Ohio Stato Journal. Toole tin) Hint and Col Kvcu. MIm B. (hinting tor Mr. C. to leavej sboakl think you would tuke cold out, here. lit: C Yes, if you were the weutiier trJs'ut; need night. West Shore. Uullciitelv I'ut. 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