V ( r \ --------- ------------------- ÿou à i^ à r e a t U t I T E M I « « hat the Largest resistía * of say P ap tr Published in lib C biaty, s a t it Usad by dearly ary Faaiily arithla itt Baaadaritt. (eu with ta Raaeb Evaryant, pat illa tbata a d v a rtiila i columns, aud P re fi't" b y it . — DALLAS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1893- ■V O L. X U - P R O F E S S IO N A L CARDS. M. KEENE, D. D. S. I MCMINNVILLE COLLEGE. ila ! «(Rea in B rey muri Brother's ing, cornar of Court aud C o n i ti streets, lîh Æ cX sÆ laajn -srille, OREGON. SALEM, — OFFERS SUPERIOR »DUMMES. ,> L . N . W O O D S , M. D. Expense» liifht. A boarding hall in the College building on the Club plan. President Bronson steward.-thus ioaurii g go>>d b *rd lit the least possible cost to the studsnt. Board can al .o he had in private families at if.50 to »C? per week, including lodging. F H S r e iC IA N A N D S U R G E O N , The fine telescope recently mounted in the new ob servatory and the Hxteu-iive'library, to which stndentg hnvn free access, offers advantages not to be found else where in this state. Dalian, Oregon. B. H. M cC A L L O N , M. D, L L A S , F IO . Five Cour.-es of Study: C l «»»tc a l, Scitm ilfH c, N o rir m l, L it e r a r y » m l Ituslnessp with special advanugoj in Vocal and loot: umi ntai Muviu. Business course of two years. Oi-M^uates of the Normal course uro entitled to a Stat- Diploma and are In demand to fill high positions .McMinnville is accessihle by rail from all purtsof the slate, on the main trunk of the Southern Politic railroad, West Side, fifty miles south of Portland. jarèM eu ovor ttr*\vii 4t S dii a «torti. II. C. K asim . J. K. SlMLKY, D aly , THOROUGH WORK, T H IR TY ACRE CAMPUS, HEAL HY SURROUDINGS. BEAUTIFUL LOCATION, SUITABLE BUILDINGS, EFFICIENT TEACHERS, Physician and Surgeon, 9 A O re g -o n . This (.’ olitile i» one f,t the oldest and liest equipped col' leKts in the Northwest. First Term Benins September 19, 1893; Second Term Begins Third Term Begins March 19,1894. * » A L Y , SIÖLLY & HAKiN, Send fo r < HtHlo-jue. A. J. HUN8AKKR, Solicitor and Financial Agent. A t t o r n e y n - a l> I Address. December II, 1833; T. G. B .IO W N S O f., Presi lent. L the only set of abstract books in Polk ! Reliable abstracts furnished, and money to commission charged on loans. Rooms 2 ~ in's block. Hallos. I J. L. C O L L IN S , Attorney and Counselor at Law, S u ito r's S a w M ill. So licitor ■ ■ C h a u c e r ,. h W i ] ill ..r.utice of III, urulv.Mion in thin pUn. |Y -^t thirty years, and w ill attend to »11 business W t-notr* to his care. Office, corner Maiu and Court to, Dallas. Polk Co, Or ----T H E P J. H . T N . L . 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I f the lam p dealer has n’t the s e n n i n e Rochester, and the style you want, send to us for our new illustrated catalogue, k and we w ill send you a lam p safely b y express—your choice o f over 2 ,0 0 0 J varieties from the Largest Lam p Store in the Iv o r Id. Popular. : lutimi Hr: ui Mirili I N S U R A N C E H e a d . f R O C H E S T E R L A f l P CO*, 42 P a r k P la c e , N e w Y o r k City. 9^ e “ The Rochester.” C O . O ffic e : gar WASHINGTON STREET, PORTLAND, OR. The Leading Home Company. I .. m * . , * 8PE0IALTY iM.un.Nc. « n _jru.a .ad Psnousges, B »w.llloga andlHoaaahold G.oda, Bobooli .adoth.r Public Baildiigi, Fini Buildinj. »»d Fera Prop.rty. —DIRKCROKS:— IleCRAKEN, F. K. ARNOLD, D. D. OLIPHANT h. PITTOCK, 1. K. OILL, J. LOEWENUERO, OKKT, F. M. WAKRKN, J. S. COOPER, 8. E. tO l'N O , E. P. McCORNACK. OWESBERO, President. H. M. ORANT. Secretai* and M.nairer CREAT SPEA1Ï TR U C K M A N , Dallas: Oregon. G Ö L T E S T . OXX1ËQ V g A LBER T DRAY, ^ p £ A R A lair share o f patronage solicited nil all o-slers p rom ptly tilled. A. J. M A R T I N , PAINTER, $ 173,250.00 | ¡u g , kalsom ing and paper hanging. - - O rkoon In valuable Presents to b e C l v e n Away In Return for WILSON & CO., ! D r ift s i Apothecaries. ■ ■ SPEAR 1 1 65 R 775 * 2 3 .1 0 0 Dialer iu drugs, chemic Is and perfumery * stationery, toilet article, inwrchaum pipes, I I S 500 oigars, tobacco, etc., etc. Pure liquors for ■ ■ aedkinal purpon«» only. Physicians Pr** [ 1 1 6 6 0 0 ■ o .u u v scriptions compounded day or night. .Mam street, «»pptieite court house, Dallas, Or. 2 6 1 ,0 3 0 P ER R YD A LE DRUG - STORE. —> T H I P R O P R IE T O R S — BARTEL & Y1GGER3, D *al ia drag«, paint«, oil.. glees doers, windows, candy, nuts, tobacco ami no- TAG S. ....................... c l k o m BTFM W IN D IN G E L G IN OOLI> W.* i C U F S ............... M o r o c c o b o d y , F IN E IMPORTED FRENCH , I'L A P S IX MGf 28,875 00 BLACK E N A M E L TKIMMINGS, i , A l VNTEEt) /»< HROMATIO... i IMPORTED G ER M A N BUCKUORN HAND!.*.*; FO! R BLADED POCKET K N IV E S ................................................................................. 00 ROLLED GOLD W ATC H CHARM POT AR Y ' "LJ* (O P E T1XJTH PICKS.................................................................................................. 57,750 tW L AR G E PICTURES 114x08 lD-hcr.) IN L L ¿ ’ 'F.y : OI/jl’A ^ r framing, no adTertMng oa .................................................................... ........... a8»878 00 P R IZ E S , A M O U N T IN G T O ............................................. $ 1 7 3 ,2 5 0 OO The«b<rve artlclefi will b© distributed, 1 ? f o n « ilir-.s, ac ot; parti*« who chew SPEAR H E AD Plug Tobskcco, and return to us the T I K VAC?.-, tuk^n therefrom* W e will distribute S 3 « of there price« iu ffc i; t o n n ly follow«: td TH E PARTY «ending u« the great *t number oi fel'EAR H E A D w atth . TAGS from th is county we will give............................................ 1 GOLD WATCH. ro the F IV E PARTIES Fending u* the uer.t irrcr**-' number r t AaamM. SPEAR H E AD TAGS, we will give to each, . OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLAS8ES f o the T W E N T Y PARTIES sending tu» the next greatest n<rr r Of SPEAR H E AD TAOS, we will glte io w h l PiXJKAP n IS the ONE HU N D R ED PARTIES ue O.e I ***', g r .. liDmbsr of HPF.AR H EAD TA>. -. «*• 111 *: v . to tr.tb I „ ROLLED GOLD W ATCH CHARM TOOTH P I C K ....................... UO TOOTH PICKS. r * l b . ONE HU N D R ED PARTI EH a-ndins a . Ihe L i t no,nbe*r of HPF.AR H S I D TAGS, T-* will give to e « U l .too p ic T u m L a r g e p i c t u r e i n e l e v e n c o l o r s .............................. *r F r la M f r x I b i . C r r : - , S3U. *, 1 M, nor nftcr February l»t, CAUTTON.-No Ta_ eri*, ba received before laj 104. Each package conta;?«. r tacs inu-t l ** marker* p . •"1/ v. iti» Name of Render, To«- I d each i-wkuçe' All charges on packages must I C ou n T Stnt an \ N Pr*PeRKAD.—SP XR ItXAi oomeae*-d moro < 3 tia!!t!«*r r.f Intrinsic value than any other t, the rl--h.NL H P F .A R H E A D I« nine tobacoo prod need. rt the woo? oat. sh i abaolutrly, pn*UI r* ly s n ’ « I s t l M t l v c l f dlíTr-i r*.r*l ir. flavor fr s m **ny oth er plug »/»beeeo. , : ». the larjrwt seller or any similar A trial will onnvir.r e the »kepUcal f th - - mil* t.‘ .■» popular taste and pleaae« tb« shape and ityle* n car.P, * ui. u proYt* tfr.f : . t a T IN T A C is on every people. Try it, s*nd pftrti«- un» In iL" ro n -*" * «. no matter bow small the STecnt picca of S iK A i: :.KAia r et ¡.* quantity f t USCII P T I M t CACEFÜLLY FILLCC. HEAD T a ti 1 Hi- i t e r V«a> The A ge Is Prolific of Young Murderers and Robbers. ALSO OF PHENOM ENAL L IA B S . lie o r f« Hanley, the 8ixteen-jear-oId Des perado— A h Alleged Eleven-year-old Murderer—A Tnsgft-C'omedy Among the Street Arabs o f New York. Agents of the Gerry societies tell us that this hot summer of 18U3 sees in the ja il« of the country, or out on temporary leave, more boys by far than were ever before in uch a plight. Some of them are mere in- iftots, and if the list be extended to include all those under 18 the number runs into the huudreds. Precocity is the phenomena of the age. A s we have boy preachers, child pianists and juvenile prodigies generally, why we must e’en expect to have juvenile robbers and murderers. NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED, A b a général family remedy for dyspepsia. Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., I hardly ever use anything else, and have never been dis appointed in the effect prodneed; it seems to be almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. W. J. M c E lkot , Macon, Ua. m e im p o r ta n c e o r E a »y G ra des la Under* estimated—Telford Pavement. Mr. F. A. Dunham, who wan the engi neer in charge o f road improvement« in Union county, N . J., aud other popular suburbs o f N ew York, the results of which have been in a high degree satis factory, in a communication to Good Hoads gives his general plan o f opera tions: A ll the roads were carefully located and mapped, and accurate levels were taken and profiles made for establishing the grades, particular care being taken with this part o f the work, as it was con sidered o f the greatest importance. On the earlier roads some quite heavy earth work was done both in excavation and embankment in order to reduce steep grades as much as possible. On later work, however, it was considered advis able to reduce the cost o f the earthwork, and in order to do this grades were estab lished which necessarily follow ed more nearly the general surface o f the old roads. Sufficient grading was always done, however, to insure adequate in clination for drainage. The benefits to be secured by expend in g even a moderate amount of money in im proving the grade o f roads about to be paved are not appreciated as they should be. H ills and hollows which m ight have boen improved at a very slight expense are often le ft in the road to be a continual detriment to its useful ness. It should be remembered that It is not expected nor desired to make a level road, but that often only a small amount o f earth need be taken from the top o f a h ill and added to the hollow at its foot to convert a bad hilly road into a good one with eaRy grades. W e should also liear in mind that this expense o f grading, once incurred, is for ever done with, while If the need of grading should be realized after the com pletion o f the pavement all the work done upon the latter would have to be sacrificed. Sometimes the road is too level, allow ing the water to settle at slight depres sions and saturate the subgrade. I t is then im perative to cut or fill, or both, as may bo found most expedient, in or der to give a sufficient fall in the gutters to carry the water to the nearest stream. Underdrains are also required in such places to relieve the subsoil of water. This m atter of securing a dry founda tion for the pavement is really the most important end to he gained by grading, as the pavement m ay be constructed and permanently maintained on grades of very inconvenient steepness, but if the drainage is neglected the existence o f the pavement itself is imperiled. SAVE THE T AC S . One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, H ouse, sign and orn am en tal, grain- ■D allas . Is the O rien ta l salutation, k n o w in g th at g o o d health cannot exist w ith ou t a h ealth y L iv e r. W h e n the L iv e r is to rp id th e B o w els are sluggish and con stipated, th e food lies in the stom ach undi gested, p o i s o n i n g the blood; frequ en t headache ensues; a fe e lin g o f lassi tude, despondency and nervousness in d icate how th e w h o le system is de ranged. Sim m ons L iv e r R e g u la to r has been the m eans o f restorin g m ore to health and appiness g iv in g them a healthy L iv e r than any agen cy lcnown on earth. I t acts w ith extraor d in ary p ow e r and efficacy. PRECOCIOUS IN CRIME. O F---- Rough and Dressed Lumber. A good supply on hand and for the yard in Dallas. How’s Your Liver? M P A ICY, M iD D L rrow ir, O s m A 1 « of the pro? le ohUtnlnr the**» prise« in thU conni/ will be publuhed Uà sr Immediately uitcr i v-brur.ry l*t, IHR»- 001 T S£I0 AHI TAOS U fC K JAIUAA11. TELFORD BEFORE WEDOINO. The total depth of pavement was gen erally 12 inches. On some of the roads the tel ford foundation was not laid un der the entire width o f the pavement, but a strip 2 feet wide on each side con- ■dsted o f maca«lam stone only. Under- drains were laid wherever required to relieve the subgrade o f water and to fit it for rollin g and consolidation. The telford foundation consisted of trap rock on most o f the roads, a hard granulite or similar stone being used on the others. The stones were o f the gen eral wedge shape shown in the illustra tion, set on their bases and placed side by side with their longest dimensums transverse to the line o f the road. The stones were at least 8 inches deep, the base being from 8 to 12 Inches in length and not less than 4 inches in width. A fte r a sufficient length o f this foundation had been laid all protecting points o f stone were broken off with hammers, and smaller stones, spalls and chips were wedged and hammered into every opening until the whole was made a rigid mass o f stone. This process o f knapping was continued until all points above grade were broken off, the low places filled with stone, and the telford presented a sufficiently even surface at the proper grade. The foundation was then rolled thor oughly, the roller need weighing at least five tons. In the construction o f the la t er roads a thin layer o f clay was spread over the telford previous to the rolling to prevent the screenings (which were to be applied later) from sifting thronah the foundation, and also to form a cush ion for the macadam rtona GEORUK HANLEY. And verily we have them. Only a few days ago George Hanley, aged 16, who had beat his way from Chicago on the cars, tapped a till at 227 East Oue Hundred and Third street, New York, aud made a long running fight in which he shot three per sons and tried very hard to shoot another. Only a few weeks ago Louis Wood, a street arab of New York and llrooklyn, most barbarously murdered little 8-year-old Ber tie W agner in a N ew Jersey farmhouse. A t least such is the charge, though there is a faint hope that he may prove innocent. And about the same time the sad spectacle was witnessed in the great city of two boys, aged 9 and 12, on trial for the murder of a third, aged 11. The story of Louis W ood and Bertie W agner is indeed a pitiful one, be the old er boy guilty or innocent. W hen Louis stood up before Judge Bartlett of the su preme court in Brooklyn, where it was de cided whether he should be sent to N ew Jersey to answer for a life, a murmur of astonishment weut up from the lawyers and spectators. The boy looks as though he were not more than 6 or 7. He is about 8 feet 8 Inches in height, very slender aud has coarse features uud shaggy brown hair. His eyes, which are set far back In his head, gaze about in a half aw ake manner. He is, In prosaic truth, a child of the slums, stunted iu his growth probably by lack of proper nourishment in infancy, perverted In intellect by lack of training and stunted In his moral nature. After the usual career of a street arab, in which he displayed an almost unnatural cunning, he was seat at the age of 11 to be a farm boy with a Mr. W agn er near Free hold, N. J. The pet and pride of the W a g ners was their little 8-year-old boy, who was delighted with the coming of Louis and seemed quite enraptured with his slang and his talk about N ew York life. But Louis Wood soon grew very tired of Baby Bertie. He ‘’had no use for babies,” he said, and treated the little fellow roughly. He was of so little account on the farm thut Mr. W agn er soon told him to go. He went up stairs to pack his little atock of cloth ing, aud playful Bertie followed him. In a minute or two Mrs. W agn er heard the re port of a gun and rushed up to find her darling horribly mangled and lying in a pool of blood. A n old gun that had long stood in the corner lay on the door still muoklng. The father was soon there and saw that the gun had been fired at close range and the baby’s eye and left cheek had been torn away. They raised their little darling. The baby opened his blue eyes just once and looked around upon the tearful faces of papa and mamma. ‘‘Ob, mamma, mamma, give Bertie a drink,” he moaned. A few more groans and little sighs ended all. Baby Bertie was dead. In the excitement Louis escaped and was arrested some days later io New York. His account runs thus: “ Bertie dragged the gun ulong the floor. H ie trigger was cocked, and I told him so, but he kept dragging it, and pretty soon it caught in a hole iu the carpet, and the gun w ill be a relief. When Thomas Maloney of 56 Oak street. New York, disappeared from home and was seen no more for a week, his parents were not greatly alarmed, for he was a professional runaway, as it were. Then his mother met in the street a boy for whom she has no name but “ Cun- ny,” aud “ Hello, Mrs. Maloney,” this boy said. “ Do you know where Tommy is?” “ No, I wish I did.” “ Ido. I know where he is. H e’s drowned,” said “ Cuuny,” nodding his head. She showed such agitation that “ Cun- ny” took to his heels. She hastened home aud questioned her 9-year-old son John, who admitted that Tommy was drowned and that he, John, had been afraid to tell it. On bia statement Frank Lago, aged 12, and Patsy Hadigan, aged 9, were soon in the Oak street station house, and ‘detect ives were at work on them. Patsy weak ened first aud told this story: “ It w ’z las’ Friday. Me ’n Lago was gaw ’n down Beekman street t’ d’ river t* take a swim ’n we met Tommy *n ’iz brother. John sez to us, ‘Tommy’s got a quarter on ’im,’ ’u den Tommy sez, ‘No, I got fre e dimes.’ Lago sez t’ me, ‘Let’s dump ’im in d ’ river ’n swipe ’iz clo’es.* John heard ’im, but ’e didn’ say anything. So w ’en we got t’ d’ dock we took our clo’es of ’n went in swim min. ‘ Tommy couldn’t swim, so w ’en he got in the water he sat on a big fish crate float- in near d* dock. Lago swung up ’n push ed ’im off, ’n den ’e splashed water in ’i$ face, and den he jumped on ’iz shoulders ’u held ’Im down. Tommy didn’t come up again, ’n we all got out ’n dressed ’n run away. Lago took Tommy’s clo’es.” Johnny Maloney confirmed this story and added many details, and still the detectives did not believe it, for Lago is a quiet, pleas ant looking boy, with an honest face, and has the reputation of being very truthful. In answer to the main question he said: “No. H e slipped off. I can’t swim any more’n he could, an I didn’t touch ’im.” “ But you stole his clothes, didn’t you?” “I did not. I left ’em on th’ dock.” They could not get from him a detailed story of the affair, as he was too frightened to speak for any length of time. Several times he asked, “ W ill we be hung today?” So the atory went a ll over the country that two New York children had murdered a third for 25 cents and his clothes while his little brother looked on. The tragedy was complete; the comedy was to come after. Day after day the little prisoners counted the weary hours aud told a differ ent story to each successive questioner, but grew bolder and more cheerful every day, for they were held in easy custody at the Gerry society’s headquarters and were bet ter fed and cared for than they had ever been in their lives. Mrs. Maloney had her mourning dress prepared, and her neighbors were ready for the funeral when a vision was seen in Oak street. It was Tommy Maloney himself, dragged along by two stalwart gentlemen whose classical names in that locality are “ Yaller Dickson” and “Sam de Nigger.” Their titles sufficiently indicate their color. They said that Tommy had been living on their bounty nearly three weeks when they heard of the racket about him A tu h aU M U ,u a Leather possesses each excellent quali ties for the uusuy purposes to which it ia put that it would seem idle to aeelc • substitute. Nevertheless there are many persona who, whilo they find that leather serves ms an effectual protective covering for the foot, find also that it ia often obstinate in adapting itself to the requirements o f Individual feet or to the more or lees physical abnormalities to which so many ars subject. In such »uses, i f com fort is to be expected, only the most snpple and yielding quality should be worn. A t the same time, of course. It should be waterproof and durable. These qualities, to far as we have beeu able to judge, belong in a sat isfactory decree to an interesting and uew material called “ flexus flbra.” It appears to be a flax derived material, suitably prepared and oiled, so that to all appearance It is leather. It is par ticularly supple and flexible and takes a polish equally w ell with the best kind, o f calf. W e have recently had occasion to wear a boot o f winch the "vam p ” or cut front section consists entirely o f flexus fibra end have purposely submitted it to some what undue strain, in spite o f whioh no cracking o f the material was perceived, while the sense o f com fort to the foot was very evident. Flexus fibra, being a material o f vegetableorigin, is calculated also to facilitate free ventilation and thereby to obviate the discomfort arising from what is called “ drawing” the fe e t —London L an cet T h e Rsueflt o f W o r k . Though w e all welcome a season of rest, yet i f w e w ere never to have any thing in the way o f regular duties to perform what a purposeless, worrying existence ours would become! The cricket disporting itself gayly through the summer hours thinks that no life can be as pleasant or as sweet as its happy go lucky improvident honrs o f idleness spent under blue skies and in the fu ll glare o f the glorious sunlight, yet when w in ter comes and the lack of thought for the m orrow has proved dis astrous, then it wishes that there had been less piay and m ore serious employ ment that w ould have brought about more w orth y results. Outside o f the w orldly benefit that ac crues from conscientious work, there are other advantages that few realize unless they have experienced them for them selves. The blues speed away before its helpful influence, tim e never drags, the edge o f sorrow is made less keen, and a healthier mind and body stand forth as examples o f the benefit to be derived from having something to do beyond idle gossiping, desultory fancy w ork or a round o f dressing and dancing that may seem blissful in contemplation, but is in reality not one-half as satisfying as the discharge o f regular duties that make one feel that one has accomplished something worth talking about.— Phila delphia Times. «O f CSV W K h E .!t e r * r j V e te r a n !. TOMMY MALONEY. and brought him home. He wasn’t drowned; that w h s evident. The excitement at his home may be imagined. But there never was a sillier looking set seen in court than that formed by the parents of the prisoners and of Tommy when they appeared before Justice Meade of the Tombs police court to straighten out the tangle. Lago and Radigau were brought down by the Gerry society’s'agent, nnd the justice began: “ W ere you really under water, Tommy?” “ Yes, sir.’” “ How long?” “ A half an hour, sir.” His last account ran as follows: “I can’t swim, an I went to de bottom. It was awful muddy, an me feet kept stickin. Dey was fishes come bitin me. Dey was eels— big uns. My, didn’t they bltel I seen a body. It was a woman’s, I tink, an had no clothes on an was all bleedln. Dey was a lot of bodies dere. I staid down half an hour. I walked from one side o’ de dock to de odder. It tuk me half an hour to do It on account of de mud. Den de two colored men tuk der close off an dived after me an swum around. Dey grabbed hold o’ me feet an pulled me up an put me on a raft. I put on me pants an Jumper. Me odder clothes an me money wus gone.” And so on for quantity. And while he told this the other hoys, the prisoners and his brother Johnnie, laughed as if it were the best joke of the season. Tommy has been telling stories about it ever since, not one agreeing with any other. It is certain that the boys did play some trick on him, hut as it is very certain he was not drowned all were released with an admonition. And now the question Is, Which of the four boys has done the most lying? J erom e J acqitui . E very one knows what the tontine sys tem o f life inuuruuce is. A number o f people pay equal sums o f money into a pool, the amount is put out at interest and the surviving subscriber takes tho accumulated sum. bim iltuly every man o f letters gradually comes ta be joint owner with other persons o f a mass o f valuable literary material which cannot be used by any o f the join t owners so long as the others survive. But if he outlives the rest it all becomes his, and he can do what he w ill with it, without fear o f hurting any one's feelings or dis closing anything that would work in jury to the liv in g or to the memory o f the dead. W h o is there that writes and is still under 59 who w ill not adm it that the stories he knows the best and are the best worth tellin g are those that he can not tell because o f the score of people still on earth who would strip the dis- gnises from his characters and read os biography what he designed to have pass as Action? W hich o f ns does not think j he m ight do a magnum npn* i f there | were no Uvea in being to hinder?—Scrib ner’s. j A R e m a r k a b le A e e ld e n t. LOUIS WOOD. went off. I hollered, and Bertie fell down.” The father admits that B**rtie had on pre vious occasions played with the gun, but in sists that It was never left loaded. There is a faint hope that the story of Louis W ood may prove true and the country be spared the conviction that a 11-year-old boy ooald do such a deed. It is an interesting fast the Woods are sprung from an old and highly honorable Revolutionary family and that Isaac Van W art, one of the captors of Major Aadra. was a granduncle o f Louis’ mother. ▲ftsr such a hosrot a bit of 1 O f all the curious accidents that ever cost a man his life the strangest was one which occurred in the Madras presidency some 20 years ago. A large party were out shoot ing and had mortally wounded a tigress. Bbe was, however, still able to charge and had hold of one of the sportsmen before he could firs. W hen the others got him away, be was still alive, but severely mauled. One of bla friends was bending over him when there was a loud report, a bullet whizzed paat his ear, and the wounded man sprang to his feet, and crying “ I’m shot” fell down dead. He had been killed by his own rifle, which some one had placed un discharged against a bank. It had fallen over, and in so doing been somehow dis charged and shot Its unlncky owner, who, so far as subsequent examination conM de termine, would probably have survived the iajunes Inflicted by the Ligreea R a r e H ooks. N o t O ld O n «t, A r * V a lu a b le . A g e only gives value to comparatively few books. Hundreds o f volumes print ed in the seventeenth century are to be had at onr secondhand shops at prices ranging from 10 to 25 cents apiece, and the average vellum o f 8o0 years ago is worth 80 per cent lesa in the market today than ia one o f Hawthorne's or o f W h ittier’s | canning little first editions printed be tween 1888 and 1842. Going over an j I English catalogue a few days ago, we made a note o f the prices o f items bear ing dates from 1400 to 1510 and fonnd that the 16 volumes offered for sale could be had for »5.92, «bout 85 cents apiece. N ot long ago, here in Chicago, a 24 volume edition o f Melancthon print ed tn Amsterdam in 1660 was sold to ths Arm our Institute library for |5. By ac tual weight and by actual measurement (fo r they were monstrous folios in doa ble thick vellum ) they were cheaper than coal by the ton or wood by the cord.—Chicago Record. I f th * A t l a n t i c '! B e l W e r e R aised. An elevation of the seabed 100 fathoms would suffice to lay bare the greatest part o f the North sea and jo is England to Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France. A deep channel o f water wonld run down the weet coast o f Norw ay, and with thia a m ajority o f the fiords wonld be connected. A great part o f the bay o f Biscay would disappear, bnt Spain and Portugal are but Uttle removed from the Atlantic depreesion. The 100 fathom line approaches very near the weet coast, •nd soundings o f 1,000 fathoms can be made within 20 miles of Cape St. V in cent, and much greater depths have been sonnded at distances but little greater than thia from the western shores o f the Iberian peninsala__ Nautical M agazine rn n a n a lljr F la sh . Charlie Hanlnp—flajr. old man, lead roe «5. Dick Uppers -Horry, bot I just had to borrow «10 myself. Char lia— Well, then, you can lend ma tre , can't y en ? --T ra% The signal achievement o f ths arament weather bureau in the disastrous tornadoes in Iow a 04 hours in advance of their aw ful visita tions brought into new prominsnoe the remarkable accuracy with whioh in these days of advanced science a t forecast can be made. The prediction of the town tornado offers a noteworthy example of the value of the government bureau and illus trates the perfection of the system it em ploys, bnt the forecast in paint of soon- l racy is duplicated doily. It isn’t every day that u tornado starts on a w ild I pede, but the weather sharps are expected to keep the cities and towns of ths ooun- try posted In advance in regard to the weather. The daily foreoast has beooms an all important element in nil calcula tions, whether of pleasure or of 1 and could no more be dispensed with than the telegraph or any of the other agencies which have revolutionised affairs. Several years ago a couple of young army lieutenants who saw tornadoes in every clondcap kept the western farm ers dodging in and out of low ground cellars until they became round shoul dered and neglected their crops, but the young lieuteuants' experience is now one of the amusing traditions of the office. It is told, too, possibly as s joke, that the colored janitor who had rheumatism and looked upon his left lag as a reli able gange did the prophesying business when the lieutenants were invited to some swell function. Things are ran differently now, as the reliability of the predictions and the able administration of the bureau at test. It iz doubtful, moreover, if any country on the globe has a bettor equip ped service. This is dfie in some meas ure to the opportunities of study offered by the diverse climatic peculiarities of the United States. These peculiarities make the work of weather prophesying here a most difficult task, requiring the employment of men of wide experience and learning. It is by no means an un common circumstance for the weather bureau to chase half a dozen different varieties of storms over the country in a day. It may be hailing in North Da kota, a tornado may be making sad havoc in the western farming belt, a windstorm may be bowling along the Atlantic coast, imperiling shipping, and four or five thnnderetorme may be creating alarm in as many different sec tions. W ith all these complications, a short, thickset man, with gray eyebrows and gray mustache, calmly looks over the maps which are made on the reports of every one of the government observers throughout the country and figures out just the kind of weather that may be expected in every state and section. This short, thickset man, with gray eyebrows and gray mustache, is the official who, on examining the maps on the night of JniyS, paused for a mo ment, and then, to the surprise of his assistants, murmured, “ This looks like a tornado.” Major Dun woody was ths officer who read the signs aright. The government observers at Sioux City, Das Moines, Keokuk and Omaha had all reported threatening atmospheric conditions, and their reports when reduced to tracings on the maps showed that the oenter of the atmoepherio disturbances was at Cheyenne, with the winds racing from all four points of the compass toward the Wyom ing capital. M ajor Dun- woody has had an intimate aoquaint- anoe with storms for years, and this tornado didn’t fool him by pretending to rendezvons at Cheysnns. Ths major is an old army officer, who understands all about flank movements, and he began to figure out where the main attack might be expected. He was sitting on n high stool in ths forecasting room at ths weather bureau, calculating on ths tornado’s probable evolution. The major read the report of the storm sentinels at Sioux City and Des Moines over again and than drew a circle, with the oentor at Cheyenne and the circumferenoe toward ths asst, touching Davenport. The major’s ex perience taught him that the most trouble might be expected in the south east segment of the cirols. and before • o’clock that night all the observers who furnished the alarming reports ware in structed by wire to tend out warnings to cities and towns on the respective sec tions, and orders were also given to em ploy every means to Inform ths country districts of tbs Impending peril. Hours before the storm broke with its terrible fury express trains running through ths isolated communities bad carried the bureau's intelligence, and thoae who lived far from the railroad station were warned by whistles whioh were blown according to an established and well unde re toed code. How quickly all thia was accomplished Illustrates the efficiency of the govern ment system aa directed by Chief Har rington. A t 8 o'olock on th* night of th* 5th the observations were made, and an hour later Major Dnnwoody, with quick judgment based on long experieooe, ' located the storm and had east os oat a forecast to the threatened community, telling of the danger* to be feared. How much greater might have been the dam age to property and how inuota greater tbs loss of Ilf s but for the warnings! that a tornado might t o sxpssteii . aa tornado predictions went ant of favor with the young army Usuteoeata. The ’warning, as sent oat, i that savers threatened, I well what t by them H i would to I * » L V