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WEEKLY WO. H1. I
SEMI-WEEKLY NO. 246. 1
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GSTXCX-A-X. BIEECTOET.
United States Oillolals.
Ciasident Brover Cleveland
Vice-President Ad ai Stevenson
Boorelary of State Walter Q Gresham
Baoretaryof Treasury John G. Carlisle
Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith
Secretary of War Daniel S. LhdjoiH
Secretary of Navy ..Hilary A. Herbert
PoBttuabter-General Wrlnon B. BiBsell
Attorney-General Menard 8. Olnej
Secretary of Agrioulture J. Sterling ilorlou
State of Oregon.
Governor S. Pennoyer
Beoretaryof State (i. W. HoHride
Treasurer Phil. Metschan
Snpt. Public Instruction E. B. McElroy
" . ( J. H.Mitohel
Beuutors J. N. Doluk
,, J Binger Hermann
Congressmen J W. R. Ellis
Printer Frank C. Bakei
)F. A. Moo. t
W. P. Lord
a. B. Bean
Seventh Judicial District.
Circuit Judge f W. L. Bradshaw
1'rosHcuttng Attorney A. A. Jsyne
Morrow County Officials.
j.,,V Senator.....!. . W. Gowau
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CouimissionerB i . Ii. Howard
J. M.Baker.
" Clerk .I.W.Morrow
" Sheriff G. W. Harriigtoi.
" Troaaurer Fiaua Oilliaui
ABeeneor J. ". Willi-
" Purveyor G"'. Lord
' School Bup't Anna Bilsuer
tlonraer T.W.AyBr,Ji
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linunniluien O. E. Farnsworth, M
Lichtenthal, Otis Patterson, Julius Keithly,
W. A. Juhnbton, J. L, Keuger.
liminter F. J. Hsllm-k
f roasurer A. M. Garni
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kinir of all liver medlclnea, I consider It a
iiifillcine chest In Itself. Uko. W. Jack
son, Tacomu, Washington.
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FIVE BUSINESS LAWS.
aWanethlnr About the Legal Validity of
Commercial Paper.
' Every boy in this country who has a
spark of ambition expects to earn his
living as a man, and therefore requires
a business education, says Golden Days.
In this branch nothing is more essen
tial than a knowledge of money mat
ters, and the most important of these
relates to the legal validity of a nego
tiable draft, note or check.
There are five essential elements
which must be classed as follows:
1. It must be payable in money that
is, gold, silver or greenbacks, possibly
also in United States currency, not in
any kind of merchandise. Thus a note
"payable in one hundred calves" has
been decided to be invalid.
2. It must be payable without any
contingency or uncertainty. A note
promising to pay "one thousand dollars
out of the proceeds of ore to be raised
and sold from any mine" is- invalid.
But a particular friend may be desig
nated, as "I promise to pay out of the
estate of B., deceased."
3. It must be payable at a certain
specified time a time certain to arrive.
A note payable to A. B. "when he is
twenty-one years of age" is not good,
for he may not live to be twenty-one,
and so the time is not certain to arrive.
But a note payable "on demand" is
held to be good, for demand is in the
nature of things certain to be made at
some time. The owner of such a note
would not possess common sense if he
never demanded payment.
4. It must be payable to the order of
a certain party therein named, or else
payable to bearer. Otherwise it is not
negotiable, although as a simple written
contract it is good as between the maker
and the person to whom it is payable.
But it is not capable of indorsement
unless the words "order" or "beaTer'
appear.
5. The amount payable must be spec
ified and certain. A note for one hun
dred dollars "with interest" is good, be
cause the interest can be calculated and
thus certainly ascertained, but a note
reading "pay one hundred dollars or
two hundred dollars" is not good.
AN UNCONSCIOUS TRICK.
Ifmgielan Herrmann Has an Experience
with a Bank Not.
Herrmann, the prestidigitator, is no
torious for his fondness for doing tricks
in public He enjoys nothing better
than to surprise a crowd with some
j ;lever feat of sleight-of-haod, then dis
I appear in the crowd.'
I ' The other day he performed an in
I voluntary trick one he did not antici
pate. He-happened to jump1 oh the front
of a Broadway car and found he had no
small change. He opened his pocketbook
i to get out a bill, and, in polling out a
I note of one dollar denomination, also
I pulled out a one hundred dollar bill that
was beneath it.
This for a moment fluttered in the
wind. The car window was open; it
made a quick flip backward, and neatly
fell into a lady's hand satchel, which by
accident had been left open on her lap.
As she was looking out of the window
she did not notice the circumstance.
But Herrmann walked back through the
car, inserted his fingers into the lady's
bag and drew forth the one hundred
dollar bill, pleased and triumphant.
j The crowd in the car of course recog
nized the magician and set up a howl,
thinking it was one of his clever tricks.
The lady, however, took the thing in a
different spirit. She got very angry and
belabored him with her tongue and
. threatened to call a policeman, and said
that she was not there to be made the
laughing stock of the public
i Herrmann in every way tried to ex
plain and satisfy her that he had not
selected her as the butt of one of his
practical jokes, but without avail.
THE MOON DRAGON.
How an Eclipse of the Moon la RflgmrdeOI
in Oriental Lands.
It is a time-honored belief in Turkey
and many other oriental countries that
an eclipse of the moon is caused by a
huge dragon that seeks to devour our
"silvery sister world," and in making
the attempt winds his slimy body about
it, thus hiding it from terrestrial ob
servers. A writer on the Brandon Ban
ner was in Constantinople on the night
of August 23, 1877, the occasion of the
great eclipse throughout eastern Europe
and western Asia, and was a wetness to
the peculiar ceremony of "Kak&i-mayi-yi,"
which was calculated to free Luna
from her scaly antagonist. There was
a general attempt made to f righ ten the
"dragon" by firing muskets and re
volvers and by beating upon drums,
cymbals, kitchen utensils, etc. As in
times past, it was soon found 'that the
moon was beginning to show hter face,
and congratulations were eveiywhere
heard upon the victory gaine d. This
queer lunar superstition is not confined
to any class, but is believed in by the
rich and poor, ignorant and i iducated
alike.
The Benefit of Sea Voyag.M.
The sanitary effects of a sea voyage
are very decided, says the London
Lancet. First is the ocean climate.
Sea air stimulates the appetite, im
proves digestion, assimilation, secre
tion and excretion. The glandular fol
licles and organs of the alimen.tary sys
tem arc awakened to a high state of
functional activity. Relaxed muscular
tissue becomes firm, the herixt is in
rlgorated, the crrvalaMrjrf is qan iesi on
more actively, respiration is ilrtpejfied,
the pore air inhaled promoter;- a quick
ened oxidation and tissue change? the
sktn grows soft and blooming, the tone
of the nervous system is raised and a
cheerful state of mind induced. The
traveler gains flesh and ttteogtk, sleep
is sound, lassitude vanishes and irritabla
nerves become firm.
Th Longest Bleep n EtestL
The longest cataleptic) sleep knwn
to medical science has been attracting
attention in Germany. The latest re
port states that the man a mine at
Silesiahas been, unconscious fof four
and one-half months. with no unnatural
appearance except absolute rigidity of
the limbs. During this time Use pa
tent's haft- hasf grown but his bemrt
has remained stationary.
BEAR AND SERPENT.
A Strange Battle Witnessed in an Indian
Jungle.
Some clenchers were setting their
nets for game in an Indian jungle
when their attention was attracted by
hideous noises roars of pain and rage,
and a prolonged hissing, like ti e es
cape of steam from au engine. They
hastened to the spot or toward it, as
seems most likely and beheld what
the Madras Mail describes as a "Ho
meric conflict." A jungle bear was
fighting for his life with a colossal ser
pent. Probably the serpent hail been
sunning itself in the game track when
the bear came along, and as neither
animal would yield the path to the
other, a contest became inevitable.
What the clenchers saw is thus de
scribed:
The serpent wound its enormous
folds around the bear; the bear dashed
from side to side and rolled on the
ground in its frenzied attempts to get
free, roaring angrily all the while and
snapping its jaws like castanets at the
serpent's folds. It could not reach
them, however, on account of the way
in which they were tightened around
the bear's quivering body.
Thus engaged, the combatants
swayed to tho brow of a hill, down
which the bear cast himself with a ve
locity that plainly disconcerted the
serpent, for it unwound two or three
of its folds and threw its tail around a
tree, hoping so to nnchor the bear. The
maneuver resulted in its own undoing,
in more ways than one.
The rigid, outstretched line of tail
gave the bear a chance to seize its as
sailant, a chance which up to this time
had not been afforded. The bear was
quick to seize its opportunity, and
fastened its jaws in the snake's quiver
ing flesh. The hissing was now fright
ful, as the snake rapidly unwound it
self and struck savagely at the bear's
jaws.
By way of response the bear roared
furiously,' dashing rrom side to side,
and worrying the mouthful of serpent
in its jaws in paroxysms of rage and
pain. Once more the serpent wound
itself about the bear, the bear howled
and gasped, and both, still struggling,
rolled out of view into the high grass
of the forest.
Their track was marked with pools
of blood; and when they were again
sero they had parted. The snake was
coiled in an attitude of defense, with
its head erect, and hissed apprehen
sively. It had had enough, and wished
only to be left alone.
Not so the bear. Though almost
crushed to death, it would not retire
from the combat. After a moment's
pause it rushed upon the serpent, s jized
it by the head and dragged it about
with roars of triumph.
The undergrowth was beaten flat by
the couvulsive strokes o- the great ser
pent's tail as the bear crushed its head
to pieces, and finally it lay dead
beneath the assaults of its vindictive
enemy.
HEAT OF THE HUMAN BODY.
The Variations of the Temperature Are
lttfl"eMf.,.1 hv Fn d an't f'vrclae.
Owing to the common use nowadays
of the clinical thermometer, most per
sons are aware that the normal tem
perature of the human body is about
U8 Odegrees Fahrenheit. It is, however,
subject to important daily fluctuations,
which have to bo considered in esti
mating any decided alterations, says
the Fortnightly Review. It is suili
cient here to notice that the human
temperature falls to its lowest about
one or two o'clock a. m., while tho
maximum daily temperature occurs
some time in the afternoon. These
variations are influenced by food, but
as they occur in fasting persons they
are not altogether dependent upon the
supply of nourishment. Exercise hits
a decided effect in raising the temper
ature, a fact of which every one is eon-
scions. The application of cold, as by
a cold bath, lowers the temperature of
the skin, but raises temporarily that
of the internal organs, as it causes an
increased volume of blood to be forced
into them. In hot countries the bodily
temperature is raised at all events, in
newcomers.
Perhaps the most wonderful phenom
enon connected with the bodily tem
perature is the preservation of its gen
eral level under all external circum
stances of heat and cold. This power
seems to exist in man in a higher
amount than in most other animals,
since he cannot only support but enjoy
life under extremes which wouid be
fatal to many. The accounts of de
grees of cold frequently sustained by
arctic voyagers are almost incredible.
We read of temperatures 80, DO and
even Vfi degrees below the freezing
point. On the other hand, in the trop
ies the temperature often rises through
; a large portion of the year tollOde-
i grees, or even higher, and we know
that workmen can remain in furnaces
at a temperature of Sou degrees or
more without inconvenieuee. In all
thse cases the air must be dry and
still; similar extremes of heat or of
cold, accompanied by moisture, would
prove intolerable.
A I'laret-MrlukUia; log
A tiny West Indian hound, owned by
Charles R. Price, of St. Ann's avenue,
New York, has a history. The dog
was born at Mt. Thomas, West Indies.
When the ready-made cruiser America,
which was fitted out in that city for
the navy of Brazil, to fight Admiral
Mello, touched at St Thomas, Gunner's
Mate John I). Price, of the ship,
a brother of the present owner of the
animal, bought the dog. He was then
but nine days old, and when he was
taken aboard the America the sailors
initiated Mm into a life of sin by feed
ing'tilnl claret for breakfast, beer for
dinner and whisky for tea. The dug
was' brought to that city by Gunner
Price, who resigned from the Amuriea
at I'ernambueo. Since his arrival he
'las been Cut down on his allowance of
liouor and eats like other dogs, al
though for three months after his
birth he lived a life of constant intoxi
cation. The animal is very valuable
&T takes kindly to New York's cli
mcte. He has been named Mello, after
the rebel chieftain.
ODD CONCEITS ABOUT JEWELS.
Empress Euceale Always Refused to Wear
Opals.
The fancy for having one's birth
month stone introduced as a mascot in
all possible designs has led to some
quaint and pretty conceits in the way I
of spoons, winch have set in the han
dles in unique and effective fashion
the stones assigned by superstition to
the various months, says the Great
Divide. Thus January has the garnet
imbedded among fanciful tracery of
silver, February the amethyst, March
has the blood-stone, April the diamond,
May the emerald, June the agate,
July the ruby, August the sardonyx,
September the chrysolite, October the
opal, November the topaz and Decem
ber the torquoise, while the pretty su
perstitions attached to the moonstone
make it a favorite at all times. It is
said of a famous actress that she never
appears upon the stage that some
where about her person is not to be'
found one of these Indian gems.
When the birth-stone happens to be a
secondary gem it is put in a seal, and,
mounted with the monogram or crest
of the owner, exercises its occult influ
ence over the letters sent out from
my lady's boudoir.
It is said that Queen Victoria has
tried to set at defiance the old supersti
tion about the opal, and that she has
given many opals as presents, while of
the unfortunate Empress Eugenie it is
written that she has always refused to
wear the stone. The old legend tells
a story of an opal belonging to a
Roman senator which was coveted by
Marc Antony, yet rather than part
with it the records say that the sen
ator went into voluntary exile, prefer
ring to part with his country rather
than lose, his gem. The modern preju
dice against this beautiful stone seems
not to have prevailed among the an
cients, who believed that it strength
ened sight, made its wearer lovable,
dissipated melancholy and paled at the
approach of poison.
That Sir Walter Scott shared the
prejudice of modern times against the
opn l seems indicated in "Anne of Geicr
stein." Anne's grandfather married a
lady, so the tale reads, with a wonder
ful opal. On the day of christening
their child the opal first glowed, then
paled and shortly after the wife and
husband both died.
MONEY STOCKS OF THE WORLD.
Tha HlKhest Per apita Is la France and
the Lowest In China.
A report recently issued by the treas
ury department presents a table show
ing the monetary systems and approx
imate stot'l;.s of money in the aggre
gate and per capita in the principal
countries of the world.
From this table it appears that
France, with a population of 88,300,000,
has the highest per capita of any of
the countries named in the table, it
being 8S0.81. "The Straits Settle
ments," with a population of 3,800,000,
follows with a per capita of $28.94.
Closely following and having very
nearly the same per capita are Bel
gium, S'26.70; Australia, SM.05; the
United States, 820.03, and the Nether
lands, $24.84. In China, a country hav
ing a population of 402,100,000, the
masses apparently do not have much
to handle, for the per capita is but
81. 80, all in silver. Countries follow
ing China closely in this respect are
Koumania, with a per capita of 81.60;
I Hervia, 84.27; Sweden, 82.71; Turkey,
82.39, a population of 89,200,000; Cen
tral American states, 83.78; Japan, 84;
India, 83.14, against a population of
287,300,000; llayti. 84.90.
The money issued by the United
Kingdom is sufficient to give each In
dividual 830.44 if equally divided,
and that of Germany $18.56 to each
person. Portugal, with a population
of but 4,700,0011, has a per capita of
821.00, and Egypt a per capita of 810.85.
I The South American states have a
per capita of 810.07; Canada, 810; Cuba,
812.81; Italy, $0.59; Switzerland, 814.48;
Greece, 812.22; Spain, $17.14; Austria
Hungary, 80.59; Norway, 80.00; Dim
mark, 81172; Russia, 88.17, with a pop
ulation of 124,0110,000, and Mexico, 85.
Since this statement was tabulated the
per capita circulation of the United
States has decreased to $25.55.
The table puts the stock of gold
money at $3,901,900,000; silver, $3,981,
100,000, and uncovered paper money at
83,700,000,000.
UNDER THE SPOUT.
A Htrange Indian ftlethod of Pottlas; Lit
tle Ones to Nleep.
Sir George Campbell records In his
Indian Memoirs a ver3' strange habit
t native mothers in the neighborhood
of Simla. He seems inclined to recom
mend its adoption in England, but per
haps he is speaking in jest.
I wonder not to have seen more no
tice of the curious practice of the hill
woman of p itting their babies' heads
under a spout of water to send them to
sleep and keep them quiet. When the
new cartroad was first made, there
was a village at a halting-place where
rows of siieh children might be seen in
a grove close to the road.
The water of a hill spring was so ad
justed as to furnish a series of little
spouts, each about the thickness of
one's little linger. Opposite each
spoilt was a kind of earth pillow, and
i little trough to carry away the water.
iCach child was so laid that oue of the
water-spouts played on the top of its
head, and the water then ran off into
the trough.
I can testify that the process was
most successful. There never were
such quiet and untroublesome babies
as those under the spouts. The people
were unanimous in asserting that the
water did the children no harm, but
on the contrary, benefited and lnvig-
l orated them. In fact, they seemed to
think that a child not subjected to
this process must grow up softrbrained
and good-for-nothing.
Certainly their appearance showed
no signs that this singular method of
bracing the intellectual part of their
bodies had done them ar'' harm.
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your watch or clock. Ge keeps a full
stock of everything pertaining to his
business.
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WHlbKY TnULf iLi I'lFlcD.
A Flask Is Walled Up 1st a Ksw Jeney
Chureb.
The distinction r.f having a quart
flask of whisky walled up in the
structure belongs to the Sacred Heart
church of this city, says a New Bruns
wick special to the New York Sun. Al
though the church has been built for
over ten years, this was not generally
known until recently. Ten years ago
last October the corner stone of the
church was laid, and the Work of
building the edifice was pushed as rap
idly as possible, so that before the
dawn of the new year the walls were up .
to the first story. The eold was in- j
tense at this time, and some of the i
masons employed on the building ac
quired the habit of depending upon
stimulants to keep their blood in circu
lation. Consequently a large quart
flask was brought into requisition, and
frequent trips were made from time to
time to a hotel to keep it filled
with the enlivening fluid. The men
had their whisky with groat regular
ity until an incident occurred unex
pectedly one day that upset their cal
culations for the time being.
The flask had just been replenished,
and the men wore making ready to en
joy it, when they were startled by the
sudden appearance of Father Mulligan
in company with several other ecclesi
astics, who had come to make an in
spection of the progress of the work.
The man who had the flask happened
to be quick-witted, or the secret would
have been out. Without a moment's
hesitation he quickly stowed the flask
in between the inner and outer walls,
while the other men went on with
their work, consoling themselves with
the thought of the good cheer that
awaited them when the visitors de
parted. They reckoned in vain.
Father Mulligan and his friends re
mained close to- where the men were
working for a long time. Although
the wall was gradually inclosing the
precious whisky bottle, the masons did
not dare stop work for fear of exciting
suspicions.
When the party finally took its de
parture! to their dismay the masons
found that the flask was out of sight,
and all efforts to get it were -unavailing.
They did not dare tear the wall
down to get it, so the whisky remained
in the wall, and the filling of cement
sealed it securely.
The men who were engaged in erect
ing the building lived out of town, and
the story of the flask was recalled sev
eral days ago, when one of the men,
who was visiting this city, went to the
church to attend service, and thus had
the incident brought to his memory.
THE TRICOLOrToF FRNCc.
How It Came to Uo Adoptetl as the Na
tional Flag Loop; Ago
Some seventy or eighty years before
France was involved in tho flames of
the revolution that is, at the cpocli of ,
the war of the succession, when she
was in close allianoe with Spain and
Bavaria it was thought desirable,
says All the Year Round, to distin
guish the allied soldiers by a eoehnde,
which combined the colors of the three
nations the white of France, the red
of Spain and the blue of Bavaria. To
none of these incidents, however,
would it be wise to attribute the origin
of the historic tricolor and cockade
adopted by revolutionary France. At
the outset there seemed a likelihood
that green which Camille Desmoulins
had popularized at the Palais Royal
would have become the national color;
but men remembered in time that it was
that of the livery of Comte d' Artois,
the most unpopular of the Bourbon
princes, and it was thereupon discard
ed. A proposition was then made to
assume the colors of the city of Paris
blue and red, as Dumas reminds us in
his "Six Ans Apris." To these was
added tho white of so many glorious
memories, because it had been selected
by the national guard always faith
ful to the throne and its traditions.
Not until some months after the cap
ture of the llastile was the tricolor
definitely adopted, when Bailly anil La
fayette presented it to Louis XVI. in the
great hall of the Hotel do Ville, and
the convention isued a decree in
which It was described as consisting of
three colors "disposees en trois ban
dees egales, de maniers que lc bleu
soit attache a la garde du pavilion, le
blanc au millue, et le rougo llottant
dans les airs" that Is, In equal ver
tical sections, with the blue inward, the
red outward and the white between.
This is the historic flag which Na
poleon's legions, in conjunction with
their eagles, bore victoriously from
the Seine to the Elbe, the Tagus, the
Borodino and the Danube; which they
planted victoriously on the walls of al
most every European capital.
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THE VAMPIRE BAT PEST.
One of tha chief Drawbacks to Cattle
Balnlnf In Central America.
There are some drawbacks to the
Isthmian cattle business that would
rather astonish the American cowboy
were he to go there. The chief of
these is the vampire bat, says a Sun
correspondent writing from Panama.
One reads stories of the vampire bat
sucking the blood of human beings,
and at least two books by naturalists of
repute say that these bats do suck hu
man blood Vampire bats are found
by the thousands in Vcraguas and
Ciriqui. I asked at every place for a
person whose blood had been sucked
by vampires, but could not find a soul.
And yet people sleep out of doors
without even a blanket to protect
them sleep bare headed and bare
footed. The vampire had every chance
to alight on the human big toe, as he
is said to do, and, while soothing the
foot with his fanning wings, to suck
out the life blood. I could not find
any such case, however, nor had that
observant Englishman, C. Freedy, who
lived twenty years in David, ever
found any But the vampire is the
pest of the cattlemen. He is particu
larly fond of veal blood, but older
stock and horses, colts, mules and bur
ros all suffer. I did not catch a vam
pire at his work, though I saw hun
dreds of them, but the cattlemen all
tell the same story The vampire set
tles somewhere on the bacls of the
beast in the pasture at night, and then,
while slowly fanning its wings to and
fro, cuts a circular piece of skin one
quarter of an inch thick in diameter.
Through thia hole he sucks the blood
till satisfied. One wound would be of
little consequence, nor would the loss
of blood do much damage were that
all.but half a dozen vampires may feast
on one poor calf or on tho back of a
saddle horse in one night. The calf In,
badly weakened by the loss of blood,
while a saddle horse so served is
worthless until the wounds are entire
ly healed. But that is not the worst
result of the bite. The region swarms
with a pestiferous fly that soon after
daylight finds the wound and lays eggs
in it. Unless the wound is properly
cleaned and dressed with a waxy salve
within forty-eight hours after the vam
pire's attack the animal will be de
stroyed by the progeny of the fly. The
percentage of calves thus killed is
large, in spite of the watchfulness of
the cow herders.
INATTENTIVE HOUSE MEMBERS.
A New York Congressman Thinks Their
Writing Desks Should He Taken Away.
"There is but one way in which this
can be made a decent legislative body,"
said a member from New York to a
Washington PoBt reporter as he sur
veyed the house and heard one man
speaking while one hundred and sixty
six othors chewed gum or rustled pa
pers, "and that way is to take from the
members their desks. They should be
given no opportunity to write while
legislative business is on tap. If placed
upon Ktraight, hard benches with noth
ing to do save talk or listen they would
know more of what is going on. Long,
long ago the English reali.ed this fact.
In the house of commons there is never
disturbance of any kind unless an ex
tremely heated and factional debate is
on. Everybody in the chamber hears
what the man who has the right of way
is saying. If the members wish to
write or read the newspapers or swap
yarns that used to be funny many roons
ago they go into a room provided for
that purpose. I am not much of an
Anglomaniac myself. In fact, I think
that cockney immigration ought to be
permanently barred. But there are
things other than trousers that we
might copy from England and be noth
ing the worse for it."
A Ilrlght Lad.
There is one Belfast (Me.) youth who
will make a general some day, if he
properly develops his natural traits as
they uppeur at present, lie is but three
years and eight months old, but showed
engineering skill in getting out of a
scrape last week that few big boys
would have equaled. While at play in
a camp with some other boys he was ac
cidentally locked in, and his comrades
all went off to school. Finding himself a
prisoner.instead of silting down and ery
ingour youngster first built up the arti
cles in the room until he could reach
a window, which he promptly smashed.
Next he threw out the various articles
which he could lift until the pile outr
side was within safe dropping distance
from the window, when he climbed out
and dropped to the pile. He was near
ly two hours doing the work, but says
he wasn't going to take any chanceB of
breaking I ' v jumping from that
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