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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,
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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
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sale at either the m ill or
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O R B Q O N .
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A n d a good lam p
K IN D S . —
must be simple; when it is not simple it is /
I not good. S im p le, B e a u tifu l , Good— these 1
| words mean much, but to see “ T h e Rochester ” <
will impress the truth more forcibly. A ll metal,
tough and seamless, and made in three pieces only,'
it is absolutely safe and unbreakable. L ik e Aladdin’s
of old, it is indeed a “ wonderful lamp,” for its mar
velous light is purer and brighter than gas light,
softer than electric light and more cheerful than either.
IE - Setfinfi
P^. All work guaranteed finstclasa.
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Prompt.
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Dallas.
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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.
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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 .
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gar WASHINGTON STREET, PORTLAND, OR.
The Leading Home Company.
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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.
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M A R T I N ,
PAINTER,
$ 173,250.00
| ¡u g , kalsom ing and paper hanging.
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In valuable Presents to b e C l v e n Away In Return for
WILSON & CO.,
! D r ift s i Apothecaries.
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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...
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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
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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 ..............................
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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.
,
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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.
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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
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