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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1891)
ft I GOOD Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is often called the Good-Luck Baking Powder. Owing- to the fact that good luck always attends the use of Dr. Price's, it is not essential to use it the moment it is mixed nor is it required to have the oven always just so, as in the case with ammonia or alum powders. It is not luck after all, but the exact accuracy and care exercised in the preparation and combination of all the ingredients of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder. Competent chemists are employed to test the strength and purity of each ingredient. Nothing is trusted to chance. Hence; it is always uniform in its work. House wives never fail to have "good luck" in mak ing most delicious bread, biscuit, pastry and cakes that remain moist and sweet. Only Baking Powder that con tains the white of eggs. t Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is re ported by all authorities as free from Ammonia, Alum, or any other adulterant. In fact, the purity of this ideal powder has never been ques- tioned. A SiigKeHtiiin for u Next DIhIi. Only the silly prejudice of people litis kept them from appreciating tlie amount of excellent nourishment to bo obtained from grasshopper soup. John the Baptist seems to have preferred them with honey, probably because he could get his honey also wild out of tha crevices and small caves in the rocks of the wilderness to which he resorted. Professor Riley, with a band of teach ers, in 187.1 thoroughly tested the quali ties of these creatures during their in vasion of Missouri. The report was al together favorable. An oyster is fully as objectionable as a grasshopper or a locust, but wo havo overcome our qualms against the eater of seaweed . why not against the eater of land vegetation I I do not know that we can make a toothsome morsel of May bugs, and so thin down the ras cals, but I wish we might. I look at the ragged leaves of my pet trees with anxiety. Mary K. Spencer in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. PreuuliliiiT In tlie Minrg. The gold fever of 1840, which it is difllcult for the present generation to appreciate, is well suggested by this in cident told by Dr. Charles B. Gillespie in The Century Piissing up the street I caiue to a large unfinished frame house, the Bash les windows and doorway crowded with a motley crow apparently intent upon something solemn happening witlu'n. ' After a little crowding and pushing I looked over the numberless heads in front and saw could I believe my eyes? a preacher, as ragged and as hairy as myself, holding forth to an at tentive audience. Though the careless and noisy crowd was surging immedi ately without all was quiet within. He spoke well and to the purpose, and warmed every one with his fine and impassioned delivery. lie closed with a benediction, but prefaced it by saying, "There will be divine service in this house next Sabbath if in the mean time I hear of no new diggin'sl" A Stuce !;. When Mrs. Keeley played in "Gene vieve" she introduced a gag which has gone all around tho world of the stage, and will continue in its course. Mrs. Keeley was playing a boy's iart, and wore trousers. Taken before the judge in the play and examined, the official asks in sternest language, "Now, then, where are your accomplices?" To which Mrs. Keeley answered, "I don't wear any. They keep up without." Mrs. Keeley used to say, "Those lines made a wonderful hit, and after a few nights it was superfluous for me to answer tho question. The audience did it for me." San Francisco Argonaut Too Hie for the Dour. Every man has a hobby and Judge Pratt has his. Strango to say, ho Imagines that ho Is something of a car penter and would sooner saw wood not in tho metaphorical sense, however than grapple with tho mysteries of. tho law. Once upon a timo ho under took to build a boat It was a good boat, stanch and trim. Hut there was one trouble with it It could not bo launched without pulling down tho house in which it was built. Brooklyn Eagle. After the Iroal. "Beforo I go," ho said, in broken tones, "I havo one last request to mako of ju." "Yes, Mr. Sampson," said she, When you return my presents, pleaso prepay tho express charges. 1 cannot an'ord to juiy any ir.oro ou your account" Harper's Bazar. A Direful IWIulllljr. Hhe I cannot, I intuit not content at once, But you will wuit, diar. will you not, until mullet urv inoio fuvorublo to i-ur union? Ho -Wullr nuvurl flhull Itlxmldof tun that )ou munii'd a ulU-' J'IIU Vurif Jlulk'ilu, LUCK. Nt'w VnrUN WlioleNiile Hump. It may be that in the fullness of time the man who owns and runs his own private house may be regarded as quito as luxuriant and extravagant a person as he who now owns and uses a private car or a private steamship Certainly in this city the tendency is very marked toward a modified and rational type of socialism in dwellings To that extent Bellamy is justified by the practical common sense of the age I am prompted to these spec ulations by the fact that the announce ment is made that another $1,000,000 ho tel is immediately to le ereOed on the I west side of the park. j The new hotel is to be ICS feet high, or fourteen stories, is to be a full block I front, to contain fiOO rooms, and to bo I provided with every modem improve j inent and elegance. This makes the , fourth, and I am not sure but the fifth, $1,000,000 hotel that is now going up in j this city Where the movement will I stop no one can tell, but there seems to be I no end to the erection of these monster j wholesale homes, and they seem to bo ( successful in the ratio, of their magnifi j cence and expense. Now VTork Cor. Washington Star Anil Still He Is Hungry. The biggest eater in the United States lives at Bridgeport, near Martiu's Ferry. His name is Eb Lyle. Ho attended the Foresters supper and social, and said he could eat more than any man in the hall. Harry Eberly accepted the challenge. but soon threw up the sponge. Lyle continued toeat fortwo hours and fifteen minutes. Ho ate all the chicken, cake; pickles and everything else that was ou tho table, and drank a coffee pot of cof fee and called for more. Lyle says that he had eaten a peck of apples before he began and did not ex pect to eat anything when he entered tho . hall. He says he will eat against any inau living, and will wager that he can eat more than any man in the world. Usually he is not an uncommon eater, but these spells come on him every few months. He has been known to eat a largo ham just before retiring, live quarts of oysters at night and so on. Lylo is u teamster and enjoys good health. Cleve land Plain Dealer, A Oliver Itlrd. James Funk a few days ago showed us the skull of a bird which he found in the Santiago creek after tho freshet. He believed it was washed down from the mountains. The skull measured seven inches from side to side, and fourteen inches from its base to the end of the beak. The cavity of the skull was largo enough to hold a quart The upper mandible was formed like that of a goose, but of course was much longer, and had been provided with a row of teeth on each side, but all of these were missing. The lower mandible was also missing. The eye and ear cavities were very large. Mr. Funk took tho skull to Los Angeles to submit it to somo of tho naturalists there to see if they could classify the bird to which it belonged. Tho specimen was in a good stato of preservation. Orange (Cal.) News. Tracks of u llle lllrd. More ancient bird tracks havo been found in a stone quarry about a mile and a half north of Holyoke. They are each 11 inches in length, three claws to each foot The tracks are 4 feet 10 inches apart. There are eleven tracks in con secutive order, lending up hill. Each track is imbedded in the stono ten inches. They are very perfect: even tho too nails are distinct. Several Easthumpton men havo tried to buy them. The owner has offered to get them out in good sbapo and deliver them for f 1,000. Other tracks were found near by, but they aro not ns perfect us these eleven, Green field (Muss.) Gazette. A lliiielr C't. t Father What's tho matter now? . Small Son Boo, hoot Smikey Groo gun licked pie. Father See here, thit U the third time yon'vo been licked within a week. How do you expect to exurcloo tho inherent prerogative of every friu bom American cttiten when you grow up win I vote m tho dloUU of your conscience ami imtn- li64 bf your let jllJgll)tnt HIKgfwt, if you ettii'l litflit bvtttr lhii lliutf POWER OF SHORT WORDS. (Tbe author lie'--? nsked if one could writ M forcibly In monos I Mcs ns In words of leiiKtb, at onco wrot tho fo. ing linra: Think not thst bi-.ngth lies In the big, round woril. Or that the brio' ..ml plnln nntt need be wenk; To nhom can tlili be true who once has heard The cry of help the w ords that nil men speak When want, or woe. or fenr is in the throat. So that eacli word is jrasivd out like a shriek Pressed from the heart, or as a (.trance, wild note. 8udp by some fay or fiend' Then Is a strength. hioh dies if stretched too far, or spun too flue, nlcli has more lieiKht than breadth, more depth thau length. It but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase. Which fclows ami bums not, though it gleam nnd shines; Uirht but not heat, a flash w itliout a blaze. .Nor Is it naught but strength the short word lioasts; ltseres far more than wind or storm can tell. Or roar of w nes that dash on rock bound coasts Tho crash of tall trees when the wild windj swell; The roar of guns; the groans of men that die Ou blood staiued fields. It has a voice as well For them that far off on their sick beds lie; Korthein that weep, for them that mourn ths dead; For them that dance, and laugh, and clap tho hoot) To Joys quick step, as well as Oners sao tread; The sweet, plain words we learn at first keep time, And though tho theme lie sad, or gay, or grand, WiUi each, with nil, these may be made to chime. In thought, or speech, or song, or prose, or rhyme. Dr. AddLson Alexander. TACKLIXG A BUHGLAH. Twns jest about the time we was a weepin' an' a-wailin' an' nashin' of our teeth, to speak paragorieallv, over the disap'intmeut of our hopes, that Mir-a Petilish popH?d down on us "like a wolf on the fold," as Jonathon said. (She. boxed his years fur it though, and then he pulled off her artificial bang, an' they tussled, an' tit, an' skrimmaged round, an' I'm afeared lamed the eat fur life bv troniping on her left hind laig, aforo I had time to ask her to lav olf her hat Miss Petilishes hat, not the cat's.) lint at last, after they galloped round the room fur ten minutes or so, like a couple of colls with the blind staggers Miss Petilishes breath give out, an' sho began to wheeze: an' so finally sho lopped down into the big wooden rocker, an' I got a chance to say howdy. "Wal, I've been tollable myself," says she,, "but Aaron hain't been none too well. His eoiistituenev wan't never none of the strongest, you know, an' I'm afeared he's a-goin' to git somethiu' ser'ous. He's so powerful narvy, you know. Why, when he's a-coJyin' somo papers, or a-readin' in his law books, ho can't abide the leastcst mito of noise, an' 1 hev to go into the next room to prac tize on my eatarrii. An mebbo you wouldn't b'lieve it, Belindy." says she, "but if a little eonip'ny drops in tin' wo happen to cut round a little, jest for fun, like me and Mr. Bluegrass here, he ack' shilly gits in a temper, an' rares an pitches, an' sometimes he cusses a blue streak, if we run ag'in his elbow, or jog' gle him. Oh, he's got a powerful ten per, Aaron has! I often feel sorry Quia tilly has married sich a temperate man, but it's too late to onilo tho mischief now." After we had. eat supper, Jonathon savs: "Seein' vou've got comp'nv, Belindv, I reckon I niout as well go over an' tend tho Farmers' Lyance." An' says I: "Go, if you're a mind ter; but don't set down on a log an' go to sleep comiu' home, like you done tho last time you went. "No danger," says he. "I'll ride olo Beeswax this time, an' if I do go to sleep ho II fetch me home safe an sound. So ho went an' saddled his nag an' rid away. Dave had went away that evening to see Eli Tucker, over on Ager hill, an' wan't a-comin' homo till tho nex' day, an' so we put Miss Petilish to sleep with Liza Ann. We didn't none of us set up very late, and I hadn't more'u snoozed olf when I beared a quare noise in the kitchen. 1 knowed 't wan't tho cat, fur I had put her out last thing aforo I laid down, an' thinkses I, "It's a burglar, sure shot." While I was a-studying about it Liza Ann an' Miss Petilish come a-hustling in, as white as two sheets. "Oh, maw," says Liza Ann, "ther's somebuddy in the kitchen? I kin hear 'em a steppin' round an' u-steulin' soine thin' out of the cupboard." An' witli that I j'umped up. "Jonathon's wallet is on the top shelf," says I, "an' it'sgot a silver dollar an' two bits in change into it." An' I grabbed tho lamp In ono hand an' Jonathon's walkin' stick in the tother, an started towards the kitchen. "Come on!" said I. "Both of vou ketch up a wecpoti of some kind, an' help mo tackle him. He'll bo skeered of so many wimmln." An' Liza Ann jerked the bootjack from under the bed, un'Svas a-follerin' mo, tremblin' like a leaf, but detarmiued to save her paw's wallet or parish in thont temp'. But Miss Petiflsh ketcht a-holt of us both, an' hung on fur dear life. "Oh," says she, "be you'goin' to tackle a strango. burglar with only your night gownds on? Mebbo he's a bachelder an onmarried," says she, "an' I wo'uldn't like to make his acquaintance without my dress on." 'But ho'll git away," says I, 'If wo stop to dresri." But sho wouldn t hour to nothln', 60 wo give in, an' slipped ou our dresses an' started ag'in. But Miss Petiflsh wasn't ready yet. 'I ain't got my shoes on," says the, "an 1 wouldn't go barefooted fur no money." 1 wan jowei fill ouuuny, but I waited, "Now, ooiuo on," uy I. But iuatiil of toiiiiiiK on the llov over to the bureuii an' bog'") to uniooth her huir an' II hr bang, an' event inuk a fctaroh bug out uf MA)kt tin' begun to iHiwdor her fueo. An' thuro vwmi inu on' Mru Ann on pin ami iiuwIIub fur tour Ilia I'littf far would Kit uwnv, un Iiyi a jtoMuiwjj ait' juiiik. in' liko sho whs goin' to a play party, or was gittin' ready fur a full dress descp tion. Jest think of itl An' come to look at her, sho hadn't put on tho dress sho wore down, but had slipped on her new pink tea gown sho had brung along in case the' was any thing going ou. I swan I was mad. "You kin go or stay," says I, at last, "hut I ain't a-goin' to stand hero an' bo robbed no longer." An' I started ag'in. "I'm a-comin'," says she, "but I 'can't find a 6tick of no kind." "Take the poker," says I. "Oh, no," says she, ""'twouldn't be per lite to hit him with a ioker. I'll jest takethis feather duster, nn' I kin jab him with the end of it." "Now roller ine," says It "an' keep close." An' we crope along, still as mice, to the door, an' I opened it as easy as I eou'd; an',' la! there stow! tho burglar, shore an' sartin, right by tho cupboard. I was powerful skeered, but tho thought of Jonathon's wallet give mo strength, an' I rushed at hsm an' hit him on tho laigs with the walkin' stick. "Git out o' here," says I, in stertorous tones, "or I'll will the "men folks!" An' at that moment Liza Annthrowed the loot jack and hit mo in tho small of tho back. It hurt like sixty an' took my breath away fur a minute or two, an' aforo I got il back ag'in Miss Petiflsh rushed up an' thro wed herself into tho burglars arms. "Oh, oh!" says she, "I'm so skeered!" An' then what do you think the burglar says: "Drat it all lemine go! Do you want to squash a feller?" An', bless you, if it wan't Jonathon hisselft ' swan to Peter," bays he, "if you wiinuien folks hain't a passol of loony tieks, a-whaekin' a man an' tuniblin' onto him that away! A buddy niout as well be killed outright as skeered to death!" says he, as crabbid as Sam Hill. Wo all felt mighty sueakin', but 1 wan't ii-goin' to let on. "What did you como homo so soon iur.' says i. "An now uitl you git in the kitchen when the door was locked." An' then it was his turn to look sheep ish. "It wan't the night fur the meeting, after all," says he, "an' I jest rid over to Seth Soperses an' back, an' I snuck in through the sillier, so's to not wake you up, an' got tne a bite to eat, an' had jest took a mouthful of pie, when you thumped me on tho laig an' Miss Petilish tumbled into my arms an' tried to hug me." "Sho tuck ym fur a burglar," says I, "an' you ort to be thankful you got oil as well as you did." Miss Petilish sot down on tho wood box an' laughed till sho cried; but I sorter suspicion sho was a lectio grain disap'inted to think it wan't a burglar, after all. But no more at present Belindy Bluegrass in Sal unlay night. I'l Inters' Old Shoes. No class of men is so fond of old shoes as printers. It isn't that the' wear old shoes, for they don't, except when stand ing at their case. I hen they either in case their feet in shoes of tho most dis reputable character or havo ono or more pairs of shoes that a ragman would shilT nt stuck under their frames in such a position as to attract instantly the atten tion of all who enter a composing room and who aro not of it. Everything about the new composing room of The Times is in tho most admi rable condition, except tho shoes. Tho same old shoes that disfigured the old frames in tho old composing room orna ment tho new composing room. When tho printers marched upstairs, cases in hand, they marched down aguin und re turned, shoes in hand. They liked tho new room, with its white walls, its lofty ceiling, its abundance of light and air. Ihero was absolutely nothing in com mon between it and old snoes, yet tho printers took great euro that not a single old shoe should ho deserted, and tho now composing room of Tho Times contains just as many old shoes as did tho old composing room in its palmiest days. Tho printer likes comfort during tho hours of toil. Old shoes mean comfort to him in tho fullest sense. Printers' Ink. German Discipline In l'eiinl Iimtltutloni. The lash lias never been abolished as a means of discipline in penul institutions of Germany. Generally they use a thong twenty inches long, fastened to a handle a vard'long. The lash is thick est at tho end. The thickness varies ac cording to tho provinces. But tho small est lashes are two inches thick. Only in Saxony aro tho dimensions llxed by law, tho handle there being thirty-nine inches long and tho lash thirty-six inches. the maximum number of blows is left to tho judgment of the prison directors, but it must not exceed twenty-iivo in Mecklenburg and Oldenburg, thirty in Saxony and sixty in Prussia. The German penitentiary regime pro vides still another menus of repression, namely, confinement in cells, tho walls and floors of which are covered with sharp points. In these they put prison ers dressed in woolen, with nothing but socks on their feet. Tho cell contains no chair, lench or bed, and after u cer- tain time tho prisoner can neither stuud up nor lie down. His body and feet bleed everywhere, and for a month after ' ho is let out ho cannot walk, Such con Uneiuent was resorted to in Prussia fifty nix times during 1888, and of tho butler ere fifteen were women. A XitrMrulun (.'lirUtmu Custom, There is a very turiouu old Norwegian ctiHtom, which, 1 think, bus died out, excepting, poi'lmpa, uiiioiig the country jMJoplu. City folU Iom( old customs flrt, and now (uuloin. obtain hut of ullumong tho country pwiple. The custom I bpctI of N for soi 1 1 ii pei'Miii to Ik kuluotod, wl. j U tilad in kin in the uiliUt of a throng, with a jxjlntod Uutdlu of tiuw In hU mouth, vvliilu Ihti uthwi duiuui uiound hlni. Thw na tliUmg nut by hi uon vun mipjMMMnl in ivpiMum Ihu hrltlw of u Ixwr, awl hulyi'illud thy Wvllnj of SOMH A NCI KM I'LZLKS. THEY SEEM TO BE INVESTED WITH A VIGOROUS IMMORTALITY. ItevUiiig n CoiiiiiiiIiiiiii Which Win Sutln fnrtnrlly sohril forty Years Ago Trlrks That Are fluxed ltli Numerals Inter esting rnihlrms III Arithmetic. There are certain problems, chiefly arithmetical, endued with a vigotous immortality. No matter how often the solution is printed, or how widely an ex haustive answer is published, the ques tion comes up again, beforo tho ink is fairly dried, to tho lips of hundreds who have not seen the reply, or who either cannot understand it or will not accept it. There are several of these which wo havo printed so often, but which still kupt coming, that to save further timo wo struck off a hundred proofs of each, and mailed one to tho inquirers in sue cession without comment. These proofs aro exhausted, and wo havo accumulated from a score or more of correspondents the Kitne olil questions, with urgent re quests for a fresh solution. Wo notice that The Brooklyn Kaglo has been strug gling with one of these. The editor who has charge of that department is very clever, and wo think hois playing a little with his inquisitor. The original question sent to us forty years ago and involving tho same point submitted to I he Kagle was, how to find tho product of 11) IDs. lid. Uf. mult! plied by itself. Of course if tho parts of tho jKHinds were stated as fractions, and the pounds as whole numbers, then 10 0,-i9-0(50ths could lo multiplied by itseir. But money of account has not two dimensions. If n table is 4 feet wide and 1 feet long, then 4.41G feet, nnii we nave tne unmoor oi square feet on tho surface. Five times live ounds are 2!i, but five pounds times five pounds is unmeaning, as money does not measure itself in that fashion. Twice two children are four children, but twice children two children has no meaning. So "nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings, eleven ponce, threo farthings times nineteen pounds, nineteen shill ings, eleven pence, threo farthings." is utter nonsense. Titoriii.r.so.Mi: mills. The next puzzle on tho list, nnd ono which wines tho oftenest to our desk, in some form of a problem which proposes to divide a whole sum into fractions that together did not make the dividend. The original of this in our columns was an answer to an actual case where a man in his will had devised one-third, one-fourth, one-fifth and one-sixth of his property respectively to his four children, supposing that ho had thus de vised the whole of his estate. Tho frac tions mentioned only made nineteen twentieths of a wholo number. This is easily seen if they aro reduced to a com mon denominator. One-third is twenty sixtieths, one-fourth is fifteen-sixtieths, one-llfth Is twelve-sixtieths, nnd one sixth is ten-sixtieths, which together mako but fifty-seven sixtieths, leaving three-sixtieths (or l-20th) to tnnko up tho whole number. This puzzle reappears in somo form every few days tho year round. It is answered on tho same principle involved in the interpretation of tho Arab's will. Ho had fifteen horses and four bons. Ho devised his estate, giving one son a half, another a quarter, another an eighth and tho last a sixteenth. They found it impossible to agree ou a division. Tho eldest son insisted that as seven horses would not ho half of fifteen ho should havo eight; hut tho other sous objected, and us neither one-half, one-fourth, one eighth nor one-sixteenth would give either son un even lot they had a ilcrco dispute over the division. A venerable sheik rode up just as the quarrel was nt its height, and to compose their differences dismounted and generously offered to add his inaro to the fifteen belonging to tho estate, agreeing that each should taku his allotted share from tho wholo sixteen, only stipulating that his should bo tho last selected. The addition made an easy solution of the difliculty. Tho first then took eight as his "half of tho sixteen, tho next took four for his quarter, the third took two for his eighth, and tho fourth took one for his sixteenth. As this ipade but fifteen tho sheik mounted his maro and rode away. The Arab loys regarded It as n miracle, and exclaimed that Allah had given n horso to the sheik for his generous inter ference. Jn spite of this oft told tale the problem still survives und annually puz zles hundreds of our countrymen. JUOOLIM) WITH FRACTION'S. ' A more recent problem which wo have already answered beveral times, but which is repeated every week from sorno quarter, is the division of ono fraction by another. The original question which wo answered several years ago was: "What is the quotient of two-thirds di vided by pne-hulf?" Tho unthinking per son would say that as the half of two thirds is one-third, this must bo the solu tion of the problem, hut Daboll will easi ly refute It. Tho quotient of 3-0 divided by J is 1 1-3; that is, j will go in 2-3 one ami one-third times. The lust form of tho problem, received as wo write this, is to find the quotient of 1 divided by , two partners in a leading bunking houso, having disputed, as they say, all ono duy over the result, the senior maintaining that 1 divided i is j. and defying any to rt.r,llo it, '0 answer that when lis divided by J the quotient is 2; that is, will bo found two times in 1, If (1 bo divided by ) the answer is 12; that is, thero aro twelvo halves in six. Wo should beg pardon of our readers for ro Icatiug these demonstrations if it wero not for tho character and magnitude of tho disputes which occur orery day con cerning Ilium. Wo havu rwi vud for Ihu hut of tho puzzles the century qiioktloii, which will novor bo luitl in itt, wo IhiIIuvu, us long lot thu vsoild kiuuiU. Wu printed W nroofri of a fiiiumr aiuvvur, und (hoy imvo all helm ilifetriiiiiied to pa i tic who havo qiiuriidmi mT It. A writer wliow Initial um li. I', il ink n in a hlbir jut In hand nlnlhw Ihu Ttvvhllulll lummy !'! i.- mill Jan I. llW. r Jun 1, 1UJ1, and declares that of nil whom ho addressed for an answer about half took; ono date and half the other. Them should bo no question about it. Thi century ends with tho last moment the year 1000. and tho next begins will Jan. 1, 1 00 1. The muddle grows out of tho fixed! idea which some people have that tho reckoning of time begins with a cipher,, and that one is counted when the hour, day, month or year has closed: whereas all tho counting of time begins with one, and at the end of tho first period two begins to count. Thus, when a child is born, he enters on his first day of the first month of tho first year of his life. His ten years are finished, not when ho enters in his tenth year, but nt its close;, nnd his hundred years are completed,, not when the hundredth year is begun, but ended. When wo writo 1900 we have lx.gun tho last year of tho century, not ended it. Tho centuries do not begin with 0, 100, 200, but with 1, 101, 201, and thus tho Twentieth century begins with 1901 at tho first moment of that year. Tho quotud dato comes with the beginning, not the close of the twelvo months; and therefore, while wo quote tho year 1900 as wo do every other year at its lginuing, wo must wait till it ends to close the century. Journal ot Commerce. righting I'Hrii During tho Kightccnth century Pres byterian ministers settled among tho peo ple of northern Scotland needed to b men of great strength, piety and zeal. The Hev. linens Sage, whoso story is told in "Parish Life in tho North of Scot land," belonged to the order of muscu lar Christians, being more than six feel in height and stout in proortiou. A year or two after ho had become minister of Louheareau, ho announced ono Sunday his intention of holding "n, diet catechising" at tho house of a dis solute man, a desperate character of great physical strength. Tho minister's friends remonstrated with him, but he went to tho man's house, and was ordered to go away. "Easier said than done," answered tha minister; "but you may turn mo out i( you can." They were both powerful men, and neither of them hesitated to put upon the other his ponderous strength. After a short but fierce struggle, the minister became the victor, and tho landlord, prostrated upon his own floor, was with a ropo coiled round his arms and feet bound over to keep the peace. The people of tho district wero then called in, and the minister proceeded, seriously to discharge the duty of cate chising them. When that was finished, ho set himself to deal with tho delin quent present. Tho man was solemnly rebuked, and tho minister so moved his conscience that ho afterwards became a decided Christian. Youth's Companion., Unrly of Sou p. Mon. than 2,000 years ago tho Gauls wero combining the ashes of tho beech tree with goat's fat and making soup. When Marius Claudius Marcellus was hastening southward over tho Flaminian way, laden with spoils wrested from tho hands of Viridouiar, the Gallic king lying dead by the hanks of tho Po, his follow- ers were bringing with them a knowl edge of the method of making soap. Tho awful rain of burning ashes which fell uion Pompon in 79 buried (with palaces and statues) tho humble shop of a soapmaker, and in several other cities of Italy tho business had even then u footing. In tho Eighth century thero wero many soap manufactories in Italy nnd Spain, and fifty years later tho Phoenicians carried tho business into. France, and established tho first factories in Marseilles. Prior to tho invention of soap, fullers' earth was largely used for cleansing purMses, and tho juice of cer tain plants served a similar purpose. Tho earth was spread upon cloth, stamped in. with tho feet, und subsequently removed by scouring. It was also used in baths, and as late even ns tho Eighteenth cen tury was employed by tho Romans in thut way. Exchange. Krlcwton'it Home Life. Wealth was unknown to tho Ericsson, family, and Swedish country living at that time was plainness itself; but lovo altouiidcd, and tho mother's cheerful temper, with tho father's good humor nnd generous disposition, assured tho blessings of a hariyonious nnd happy home. Caroline was a child of unusual ieauty, Nils was spirited and engaging, and tho baby, John, a wonder to nil. As a child John was busy tho day long, drawing, boring and cutting. Providing; himself with pencil and paper, he would. In tho early morning, run to the mines, and sit there until dark, watching with deep, earnest eyes the motions of tho heavy engines, copying their forniH and studying into the secret of their motion. "John Ericsson, tho Engineer," by Col. W. C. Church in Scrihncr. Tim I'ropar Form. I am often asked what is the best style of dress to bo worn at a morning wed ding by the groom. I can only say that according to "form" in New York if tho wedding occurs lxforo noon, a double breasted Prince Albert coat, silk hut and light trousers. If after the noon hour, it is more sttictly tho vogue to wear a fciuglo breasted black cutaway coat und vest, dark striped trousers, and carry a black derby hat. Standing collars must bo worn with either costume, a four-in-hand scurf of rich und quiet colors, gloves in harmony with the ensemble, and a hunch of white (lowers as a bou touniere. Tho ushers und best man must ho fiiuillurly attired, with tho exception of a dlbtlnutlvo Mirlatlou us to gloves ami lou loonier. -Society Man in Uloby. Democrat. I VuiH'lllUllllll till Ihu ' A Frenuh pruutltloiier. In Ibocourooof n largo nuiiilMir of iivuculuutio:iu, wu ktruok with the fuet thut ihu ojwrMtlOM WON fur inoru MiuuttMtfiil whw) pworwwl on tho hj thuii hIich tho arm wu tM ImMod, Among 177 iniho (ho ivrmt)bHf of fuiluro vvit )f 1 1) mi the h H wm wivd vviih filial git tlm Hrw,-M4i4'J urvtilttr