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Vehemently Denounced
General Eagan.
by
COARSE AND BRUTAL LANGUAGE
The Reported Criticisms of the Com
manding General Have Hotly In
flamed the Commissary-General.
VETO MESSAGES RETURNED. NEWS OF NORTHWEST
lfniiil of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving Tucifln
States.
Governor Iiogers Semis the Wanted
Document to the Senate
Olympia, Wash., Jan. 13. Imme
diately after the reading of the mintuea
in the senate. Lien tenant-Governor
Daniels announced the standinc com- A wheat Producer.
mittees. Uniontown, Wash., claims for the
Plummer called for a committee of southeastern corner of the Palouse
five to group the committees and recom-' country the distinction of being the
mend the number of clerks. Carried. J greatest wheat-producing section of
High presented a memorial from ths world. Within a radius of six
Clark oountv settlers. He asked that ' miles of tiiat thriving town there were
the memorial be referred to the com- j
mittee on memorials, but that, inas-
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Washington, Jan. 14. Commissary
General Charles H. Eagan today reap
peaied before the war investigation
committee to answer the charges of
General Nelson A. Miles concerning
the commissary supplies furnished the
army during the recent war. General
Eagan 'b statement furnished the sensa
tion of the war commission's .history,
and was regarded by old army officers
as one of the most remarkable attacks
ever made in the history of the service.
General Eagan's statement to the com
mission wis a bitter personal attack
upon General Miles, so entirely un
qualified as to scope and language that
the war commission on hearing its con
clusion ordered a brief executive ses
sion, after which the doors were
opened, the witness was recalled and
business resumed in the usual way.
The subjeot in controversy was Gen
eral Miles' already famous "embalmed
beef" testimony, and the letters and
documents supporting it. General
Miles bad oharged that the canned and
refrigerated meats sent to the army in
Cuba and Porto Rico were unfit for use,
that they were preserved by the use of
chemicals, and that they had "boen
bought and sent to the airay under pre
tense of an experiment." This reflec
tion upon both the ability and honesty
of the commissary department had an
gered General Eagan and caused him
to request to be recalled to reply to
General Miles' charges. That his
statements concerning the commanding
general were not the result of a sudden
outburst of passion was clearly shown
by the fact that General Eagan read his
remarks from a carefully prepared type
written oonv. Not the least remarks
lile phase of General Eagan's statement
was the language in which it was
couched. There was scarcely a phrase
that would not have been characterized
as sensational in ordinary official utter
auces. General Eagan, after the hear
ing was over, refused to say whether
lie had any further move in prospect in
forcing an issue between himself and
General Miles.
He denied numerous statements of
Miles, charged that the latter's testi
mony constituted severe reflections on
commanding generals of the expedi
tions, and referred to him as "This
same Commanding-General Nelson A.
Miles," and said "whoever called beef
furnished 'embalmed beef ' was a liar.
W. B. Miles, in charge of Armour 8s
Co.'s plant, appeared for the paoking
house. He testified as to the quality of
the canned meats and methods of in
sneotion.
Commissary-General Eagan, in the
course of his testimony, called Major
Ueneral Miles, commanding the army,
"A liar, who lied in his throat, lied
in his heart, lied in every part of his
body," who perpetrated a gross scandal,
and who should be drummed out of
the service and imprisoned, and should
be avoided bv every honest man and
barred from every club. He charao
terized his interviews as "filth."
much as a similar document had been
introduced in the house, he did not de
sire the' state put to the expense of
printing the memorial.
On motion of Yeend, W. C. Gray, of
Stevens county, who is contesting the
seat of Senator C. A. Mantz, was al
lowed the privilege of the floor of the
senate.
The committee on the compensation
of senate employes reported as follows:
Secretary, $5; assistant secretary,
$4.50; sergeant-at-arms, $5; assistant
sergeant-at-arms, $4; minute, journal i
and enrolling, engrossing and assistant I
engrossing, bill and docKet oierKS ana
stenographer, $4 each; judiciary clerk, I
4.60; pages, 2; all other employes,
including committee clerks, $3.50.
The vetoes of Governor Rogers on
bills aoted upon since the adjournment
of the last legislature were presented,
together with the names of the ap
pointees of the governor, lire confir
mation of appointoes was made a spe
cial order for January 30, at 11 A. M.
On motion of Megler, the vetoes were
made a special order for January 17.
The votes cover, among others, the gen
eral appropriation bill. The excep
tions are: "The appropriation of $25,-
600 for the Cheney normal sohool,
$17,600 for tme maintenance of the
Whatcom normal school, and $20,000
for the equipment and improving the
grounds of the said Whatcom normal
school are hereby objected to and dis
approved, the reason for such disap
proval being such appropriations are
opposed to a just public polioy at the
present time. With these exceptions
the bill is hereby approved."
Senate bill 250 appropriated $1,745
for the relief of George W. Babcock.
The governor's objections are: "From
information and belief, I consider this
claim unjust. The claimant has his
remedy in the courts."
Senate bill 194, relating to tidelands,
the chief executive considers unconstitutional.
The committee on grouping commit
tees was named as follows: Plummer,
Wilshire, Paul, Megler and Carper.
raised this yea upwards of 1,500,000
bushels of wheat, with good crops of
barley, oats, hay, vegetables, etc. Fall
wheat averaged from 42 to 52 bushels
to the acie and spring wheat 23 to 80
bushels. If any other ambitious cor
ner of the world desires to contest
honois for supremacy in grain-raising
the opportunity is offered.
Telephone Extension.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company will soon connect Hailey
I Idaho, with all prominent places by
long distance telephone. A line will
be constructed from Boise to Camas
Prairie, thence to Halloy by the Gold
Belt, and then to Blackfoot. Hailey
j will be the headquarters of the 800
mile line between the Utah & North
, em and Boiso. Telephone lines are be
' ing extended over the prinoipal parts
of Burns, Or., and the Prineville Tele
. phone Company is making extensive
improvements.
Hops.
A contraot to sell 12,000 pounds of
the 1899 "bops at 10 cents per pound
has been made by Daniel Oavanaugh
to Faber & Neis, of Albany. Pros
pects for fair prices for this year's crop
are very flattering. Hop men in Ore
gon who held their crops and thus ob
tained better prices are now out of debt
for the first time in several years,
llorst Bros, bought several lots at
North Yakima within 10 days at 12
and 13 cents.
"MAY MAKE MISCHIEF,
Filipino! Evince Sign of Hostility
Against Americana.
Manila, Jan. 14. The situation at
Ilo Ho is unchanged. The Filipinos
are unceasingly active day and night
Saturday they loaded some lightors
with rock and sank them at the en
trance of the river, blocking the chan
nel for all vessels with the exception
of launches. All lights have been ex.
tinguished.
Order, however, is maintained with
severity, and offendeis are promptly
shot.
On Sunday one of the Arizona's
boats, manned by soldiers, was carried
on by the ebb tide to Quimares island,
and while attempting to land three
armed natives assembled on the beach
and compelled the Americans to retire,
The Filipinos refuse to have any deal
ings with the Americans, vegetables
and fruit are not obtainable, business
is suspended, and the warehouses are
filled with rotting sugar.
At Manila the situation is critical,
but pacifloation is possible in spite of
the unyielding attitude of the Fu
pinos. It is reported that the rebel
government at Malolos is willing that
the Americans should establish a pro
tectorate on the condition that they
promise to give the Filipinos absolute
indenemlonoe within a stated time. It
ia also said that the Filipinos will de
inand official recognition.
Efforts are being made to bring abtmt
another conference with the lebels.
The educated Filipinos are anxious to
avoid trouble, and it is hoped that the
militant Filipinos will reoeda before
wiser counsels. In the meantime the
tension is extreme on both sides.
Dominique Krathofoki was hanged
at Springfield, Mass., for the murder
of his stepdaughter, Viotoria Pinkus,
16 years of age. on January 17, 1897.
More Battle-Ships for England.
London, Jan. 14. The admiralty
has placed orders for two battle-ships
of the first-class of 14,000 tons each,
at a cost of 1,000,000, with the
Thames Iron Works & Shipbuilding
Company, Ltd.
Indian Appropriation Bill lteported.
Washington, Jan. 14. The senate
appropriations committee today report
ed the Indian appropriation bill. It
authorized a limited return to the con
tract system of Indian schools.
D'epew Will Be Senator.
Albany, N. Y.. Jan. 14. Chauncey
M. Depew was unanimously chosen an
the candidate of the Republican party
for United States senator at a joint
caucus held in the assembly chamber
tonight. There was very nearly a full
attendance of members of both houses.
The election will be held in both
houses next Tuesday, and on Wednes
day both houses will meet in joint es
aion to declare the result.
Cornelias McGanney and ten horses
were burned to death in a fire which
jjeetioyed stable in New York.
. Clerk' Salaries Fixed.
The first business of he day in the
house after invocation by Rev. Henry
L. Badger, rector of St. John's, was
upon the speoial order involving the
adoption of the committee report
scheduling salaries of employes.
Mr. Bellows submitted an amend
ment horizontally reduoing the schedule
50 cents on eaoh employe, but allowing
the proposed $3 extra compensation to
the speaker to stand. Roll-call on the
proposed amendment on salary of clnel
clerk showed the relative strength to
stand about 47 to 23 in favor of sus
taining the committee. After one more
test ot stiength, the amendment was
withdrawn by Mr. Bellows, and the
committee report was adopted.
The speaker was authorized, on mo
tion of Smith of King, to employ a sec
retary at a salary of $4 per day.
Beals presented a petition from en
gineers and steam users of Skagit and
Snohomish counties for a law compell
ing inspection of boilers.
A resolution prevailed, offered by
Gupderson, calling upon the state
land commissioner s office for informa
tion concerning value of the state's
granted capitol lands. The speaker ap
pointed Gunderson, Minard ana Bed
ford as such committee.
A memorial was offered by Daniels,
praying for the pensioning of Indian
war veterans.
Advance in Eggs.
Eggs are worth 50 cents a dozen at
Colfax, Whitman county. It would
seem policy for the Whitman farmers
to raise a million or two bushels less
wheat and put in a few acres of hens.
It is much cheaper to raise a dozen
eggs than a bushel of wheat, yet Whit
man and other Eastern Washington
counties, whioh produced nearly 15,
000,000 bushels of wheat last year,
import thousands of dollais' worth of
daiiy and hog products and eggs every
year- -
Canyonvllle Industrie.
The crowing and shipping of fruit
in the vicinity ot Canyonville is now
so far advanced as to bring in consider
able of a revenue. Prunes to the
amount of 1,500,000 pounds have been
sold at the average rate of over three
cents per pound, bringing in over $18,
000. Shippers are now getting ready
large consignments of winter apples,
and the prevailing price for turkeys is
from 9 to 10J cents gross. Lime, sul
phur and salt for spraying purposes are
now in demand.
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
v Bromine-Chlorine Plant.
An innovation in mining that will
be of the greatest value io the people
of Eastern Oregon is the establishment
at Baker City of a bromine chlorine
plant, for the working of refactory
ores, which have hitherto been con
sidered as worthless. The Goloonda
plant, being erected by J. G. English
and others, and which is expected to
be in operation very soon,
will increase to a great extent the busi
ness of the Baker City merchants.
liime Shipment.
The Tacoma & Roche Harbor Lime
Company, which is the chief lime
works in the NorthweBt. shipped 100,
000 barrels last year, against 90,000 in
1897. The increase was both foreign
and local, and the president, J. S. Mc
Millin, says he expects an increas3 this
year of at least 60 per cent, basing his
estimates on trade conditions and or
ders now on hand. This business is
a fair indicator of the demand for
building material.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 60; Valley,
62c; Bluestem, 63o per bushel.
Flour Beat grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4041c; choice
gray, 89 40c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $22 24; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millstnffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 10; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 50 55c;
soconds, 4550o; dairy, 4045o store,
2530c.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 12gc;
Young America, 15c; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.253
per dozen; hens, $3.504.00; springs,
$1.253; geese, $0.007.00 for old,
$4.505 for young; ducks, $5.00
6.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes 7085c per suck; sweets,
2c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery
7075c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per
box; peas, 83sc per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75c$l persack.
Hops 1517o; 1897 crop, 46o,
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
26c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, 7e;
spring lambs, 1c per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5. 00 5. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 60 3. 00; dressed beef,
6 6 Jc per pound.
Veal Large, 06c; Bmall, 78c
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, 20$ 25.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Carrots, per sack, 45 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Cauliflower, 6090o por doz.
Celery. 8540o.
Cabbage, native and California
$1.001.60 per 100 pounds.
Apples. 85 50c per box.
Pears, 60c$1.50 per box.
Prunes, 60c per box.
Butter Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy and ranch, 1822c per pound.
Eggs, 27c. .
Cheese Native, 1212!c.
Poultry Old hens, 14o per pound;
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 6)7c"; cows, prime,
6c; mutton, 7sj; pork, 67o; voal,
68o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22.
Oats Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Corn Whole, $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.60.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$25 26; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights, $3.25; California brrnda,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
$3.75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $20 22 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
WAITING. ' j
lie sun has slipped his tether
And galloped down the west.
(Oh, it's weary, weary waiting, love.)
The little bird is sleeping
In the softness of its nest.
Night follows day, day follows dawn
And so the time has come and gone; '
And it's weary, weary waiting, love.
The cruel wind Is rising
With a whistle and a wail,
(And it's weary, weary waiting, love.)
My eyes are seaward straining
For the coming of a sail;
But void the sen. nnd void the beach
Far and beyond where gaze can reach!
And it's weary,, weary waiting, love.
I heard the bell buoy ringing
How lone ago it seems!
(And it's weary, weary waiting, love.)
And ever still, its knelling
Crashes in upon my dreams.
The banns were read, my frock was sewn,
Sine then two seasons' winds have
blown
And it's weary, weary waiting, love.
The stretches of the ocean
Are bare and bleak to-day.
(Oh, its's weary, weary waiting love.)
My eyes are growing dimmer
As if tears or age, or spray?
But I will stay till you come home.
Strange ships come in across the foam!
And it's weary, weary waiting, love.
Cosmopolitan.
Governor Geeri University Regents
Satisfactory.
Salem. Jan. 13. Governor ' Geer
sent to the senate this morning the ap
pointment of Dolph, Bean and Senator
William Smith, of Baker, as mem
bers of the board of regents of the state
university, and Holt as trustee of the
Soldiers' Home, the same as Governor
Lord had named, and which were with
drawn yesterday except Smith in
place of Kincald. The nomination of
Smith "took the wind out of the sails"
of the opposition to the governor, as
Selling expressed it, and instead of a
fight all were confirmed immediately.
Two Additional Justices.
Upon the assembling of the house
the committee on resolutions reported
back a resolution providing for an ex
amination of the books of the state
board of school land commissioners,
with an amendment that the commit
tee be allowed only one clerk, at a sal
ary of $3 per day. The resolution was
adopted as amene'ed.
After the first leading of the bill by
Beach of Multnomah to regulate
building and loan associations, Moody
asked the consent of the house to take
up and place on its third reading the
bill providing for relief of the supreme
court, and an increase of the number
of justices of the supreme court to five.
The bill passed by a vote of 87 to 17.
Big Cargo to the Orient.
The N. Y. K. steamship Riojnn
Maru sailed from Seattle last week for
the Orient, with one of the heaviest
.cargoes ever taken from that port. Tle
freight inoludod 4,000 bales of cotton,
13 carloads of pig lead, 14 cars of wood
pulp, besides a great quantity of flour
and miscellaneous goods. Another
cargo soon to be shipped to the same
port will contain 700 tons of salted
salmon, brought over from the Frasor
river.
Bids for tounty Bond.
The county commissioners of Gal
latin county, Mont., received bids last
Monday for the purchase of funding
bonds to the amount of $137,000.
These bonds are made payable in 20
vears. and are to bear interest at the
rate of 5 pel cent per annum, payable
semi-annually in the city of Bozeman.
The county reserves the right to redeem
any of the bonds after 10 years, by
giving 60 days' notice.
Flax Industry Growing.
A result of recent agitation through
out Oregon for the cultivation of flax,
a commercial commodity, is the
sowing of a considerable acreage this
fall to flaxseed. The Portland Linseed
Oil works is furnishing seed to farmers
on application, agreeing to take their
pay from proceeds of crops raised, for
which crop they will contraot at prices
that mean handsome returns.
Plan to Modernize Rome.
Rome. Jan. 13. The Marquis di
Medici has prepared for the govern
ment bis plans of a project to make
Rome a seaport. ' He estimates the
cost at $12,000,000. Medici is one of
the wealthiest men in Italy, and is
prominent as an engineer. He has al
ready executed gigantio works regulat
ing the flow of the river Tiber, at a
cost of over $60,000,000, and con
otrocted a number of railroads and
other feats of engineering.
Half Town Destroyed.
Halifax. N. S.. Jan. 14.-Fire
to
day destroyed half of Bridgewater, a
prosperous shipping and mill town
on La Have river, entailing a loss of
$250,000. Of 58 stores on Main street
only two remain. Seventy buildings
were burned.
Bill for Pacific Coast Cotter.
Washington, Jan. 14. Senator Per
kins, of California, today introduced
bill for the construction of a revenue
cutter of the first class, to be used on
, the Pacific coast, cost not to exceed
j $250,000.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 10 12c per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Val
ley, 1517c; Noitliern, 9llc.
Millstuffs Middlings, fl821.00;
bran, $15.50 16.50 per ton.
Onions Si 1 verekin, 50 75c per sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 28c;
do seconds, 25 20c; fancy dairy, 26c;
do seconds, 20 23c per pound.
Eggs Store, 2580o; fancy ranch,
84-37c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2
2.60; Mexican limes, $60.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice,
$3. 50 4. 50; per box.
The Seven Devils.
It is currently believed that the
Northern Pacific is making strenuous
efforts to establifdi a line-to connect
with the Seven Devils railroad, and
thus tap a rich copper region. The
Northwestern Railway ' Company has
also three crews of surveyors in the
field, and is preparing the way for
graders from Huntington to the Ox
bend of Snake river, and from there
to the Peacock mine. There are now
28 O. R. & N. surveyors working from
Keating, on Lower Powder river, to
Eagle valley, arranging for the con
struction work from isaker ijity to
Seven Devils.
A Good Showing.
The Whatcom creamery has turned
out 82,340 pounds of butter, or over
T6 tons since May 1, 1898. Patrons de
liver their cream and receive 24 cents
per pound for the butter yielded. The
sum ot $6,802 has thus been paid out to
Whatcom county residents since May.
The oieamoty will continue in opera
tion all winter.
It is said that the electno cabs in
New York city did a recoid business
during the blizzard and proved their
entire efficiency.
Mew Bank Proposed.
A new bank, the second in the town,
is a new project now being planned for
Lewiston, Mont. The capital is ex
pected to be $100,000, of whiuh amount
Fergus county people nave aireaiiy
subscribed for $60,000 worth. George
Bach, formerly of Utica, will be cash
ier, and the principal promoters are
H. Hodgson, David Hilger, Herman
Otten and Louis Landt. The bank
will open its doois in perhaps a week
or two.
During the season the Northern Pa
cific has shipped from the ranges to
Eastern terminals for Northwestern
and Chicago markets 10,000 head of
cattle, an increase of 6,000 over the
previous season; 515,000 head of sheep,
an increase of 15.000, and 8,000 horses,
an increase of over 50 per cent. The
present season has not yet closed.
According to the correspondent in
the Spokane Review, the- milling town
of Republic in Eastern Washington,
offers exceptionally fine opportunities
to capital to erect waterworks. It ap
pears water is now selling at 50 cents
a barrel.
The Golden Spike.
February 1 the citizens of Globe,
Ariz., will celebrate the completion to
that point of the Gila valley, Globe Xs
Northern. The regulation golden spike
will be driven, and the citizens of
Globe will make the event an auspi
cious one. The probabilities are that
the Southern Pacifiu will make special
ratets to Globe fiom all points between
Los Angeles and El Paso, and that the
inhabitants of that section of country
will turn out in gala attire.
According to the Electrical Review,
Prof Henry A. Rowland, the distin
guished physicist of John Hopkins
university, believes be has perfected a
12 message telegraphic system a de
cided advance on the quadruple so
universally used.
According to a recent compilation,
Germany has 711 miles of electric rail- t
ways, equal to those of all the rest oi
Europe together. England is ciedited
with only 98 miles. Most of the
larger towns of Germany have electiic
linos, and the whole system of Berlin
will by the year 1901 be conveited to
electricity.
THE BURGLAR AND
THE BRIDEGROOM.
mHE colonial express was just
X drawing out of New Haven late
In the afternoon, when a young
man with a dark mustache and glasses,
who had evidently Just boarded the
train, walked down the car aisle and
paused inquiringly at the vacant seat
bv mv side. The train was well nneu,
and after pausing for un Instant as If
to see whether I objected to sharing
my seat with him the stranger planted
himself at my side.
Finally he leaned over to me, and,
touching my arm, said:
"I trust, sir, the arrangements will
be satisfactory."
"I beg your pardon, sir," I replied.
"I am Miss Celeste's man. I was sent
to meet you."
I never neglected an opportunity to
take advantage of circumstances, and I
merely replied:
"Indeed."
"We are due at Trovldenee at 7:22.
The ceremony will take' place at 8," he
went on, Ignoring my non-coininiltal
replies.
"If you will please to give me your
baggage checks," he continued, "1 will
have the servants attend, to it when we
arrive."
"1 have nothing with me but this
satchel," I replied.
"Ah, you have sent it on ahead. That
Is good. But," he said, "you are per
haps wondering how I recognized you?"
"I am not remarkably well known,"
I replied, "and my pictures "
"Ah, you look just like them. Miss
Celeste allowed me to look at one. I am
gratified that you did not forget a sug
gestion I made to Miss Celeste that you
wear a fedora and a pluk rose."
"So that was your idea, was It?" I
said.
The train commenced to slow up for
Providence. My companion arose, and
I followed him when he leaped upon
the platform. 8
A carriage attended by two footmen
was In waiting, and my companion
guided nic to It. I was In such a strange
position that I would hnvo preferred
doing without the footmen at this par
ticular time.
In a few moments the carriage drew
up at the door of a large, well-lighted
house with a broad veranda. From the
parlor laughter and conversation Indi
cated that a large compauy was pres
ent. As we alighted another carriage,
which had been just ahead of us, turn
ed from the curb and a solitary gentle
man walked up to the house.
"We are Just In time. That Is the
minister," said my guide: '! will show
you to your room, If you please, and
you can join the company In the parlor
as soon as you are ready. If you need
me you can ring." The broad staircase
was at hand, and I was saved the em
barrassment of meeting any of the
guests whom I might be expected to
know. Celeste, also, I escaped.
My room was large, nnd upon the bed
a number of packages were spread out.
I opened one of them. It was a dozen
silver spoons. A small card read: "To
Mr. and Mrs. George M opart: Congrat
ulations." Evidently the package was
intended for me. I opened several oth
ers. One was a handsome diamond pin.
Just as I took It up I heard the knob of
my door turn, and unconsciously I slip
ped It Into my pocket
My companion of the train entered.
"Miss Celeste desires me to say that
she will meet you at the head of the
stairs In ten minutes, and will descend
with you for the ceremony."
"O, thank you, William. Is your name
William? I forget."
"James, sir."
" "All right, James; that will do."
1 retled my cravat and then took o.n-
other look at the presents. I remem
bered afterward that I failed to return
that pin. Several other remarkably
costly presents of small size were also
missing afterward, though 1 remem
ber perfectly seeing them on the bed
while I was In the room.
I had Just about six minutes In which
to keep my appointment with Celeste,
Had It not been for Uie ceremony
which was scheduled to take place im
mediately afterward I believe I should
have allowed my love of adventure to
lead me to the head of tLe stairs. Ce
leste! Nice name! I wondered what
he was like, as I softly opened the
door and looked out Into the hallway,
She was not there yet. Neither were
the servants. I left the room, closing
the door tightly behind me.
The ball was deserted. At the head
of the stairs I could bear laughter and
conversation. I had my hat In my
band, but In order not to excite com
ment I had left my smull satchel be
hind. I strolled out on to the veranda
Just at that moment down the street
I heard the rumble of a cab. Iu anotbe
moment a four-wheeler, driven furious
ly, hauled up and a young man leaped
out He dashed up the path, taking
the steps three at a time. I drew bac
into the shadow. He passed so quickly
that I could not see tils face.
I sauntered down the path. The drlv
tr was just turning bis cab around.
'HI, cabby!" I shouted to the Jehu.
"A dollar If I get to New Haven depot
in five minutes."
I bought a copy of the Providence
Journal next day at Boston to see how
the ceremony had been performed.
For a provincial paper the Journal
really did well on that story.
I enjoyed reading the humorous ac
count of how the bridegroom missed
his train, and how the butler had mis
taken another gentleman on the train
for Mr. Mopart.
I disliked, however, to have the Jour
nal make such open Insinuations
against the honesty of the person thus
Introduced In Mr. Mopart's stead.
It stated that in all probability the
butler had stumbled upon a clever ras
cal and crook In bis search for the
bridegroom, for a number of costly
wedding presents which had been left
in the room with the supposed Mr.
Mopart had mysteriously disappeared,
as he himself had done but a few min
utes before the real Mr. Mopart had ar
rived. He had left behln dhim a small hand
satchel In which were found a number
of jimmies, skeleton keys, and other
articles used only by a certain class of
gentlemen. It was the discovery of
these articles that first aroused suspi
cion. As for the wedding, that had taken
place in spite of the excitement. Exchange.
THE TARTARIAN LAMB.
There are more than six thousand
known languages and dialects.
There are always 1,200,000 people
afloat on the seas of the world.
The cun of largest calibre in the
world is the British 17.72 inch one hun
dred ton gun.
A map of Jerusalem In mosaic, over
fifteen hundred years old, has been
found In Palestine.
London hns a population of 4,250,000,
equaling the combined populations of
Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Rome
The highest point of land In New
York (Manhattan) is at Eleventh ave
nue and 100th street, 225 feet. In
Brooklyn the highest point Is Lookout
Hill, In Prospect Park, 180 feet
False teeth for horses, which were
suggested by the president of a French
humane society few years ago, have
actually been Invented, and are gaining
favor with owners of large stables.
In Ecuador they sweeten coffee with
crushed Beetles; in Japan they give you
gooseberry pie with roast duck; in Cey
Ion the richest people beg, and in Lon
don a man who refuses to tip a waiter
runs a fair chance of getting arrested.
To "dance attendance" Is an expres
eion borrowed from the medieval cus
torn, which compelled the bride at
woddinc to dance with whomsoever
asked her. No matter how low the con
dltion or how objectionable the person
the bride could not refuse.
AFtrange Plant that Closely Resem
bles an Animal.
Among the strange stories to be found
In the narratives of early travelers,
few are strangi r than that of the veg
etable lamb of Tartary. This story, as
believed by the reading public, and
even by the naturalists of two cen
turies ago, Is so marvelous, and so ob
viously absurd that we wonder bow tho
most credulous could have believed It
to be true.
The story Is that In an elevated and
cultivated salt plain of great extent.
west of the river Volga, there may be
found a creature half-animal, half
plant to which the natives give the
imo of barometz, meaning "little
lamb." To obtain it, the Tartars sow
In the ground a seed like that of a
melon, from which. In due time, rises
the strange plant having the figure of
lamb, with the feet, the hoofs, the
ears, ana the wuoie neaa, except me
horns, of that animal, distinctly
formed.
It grows on a stalk about three feet
In height, being according to one ver
sion, rooted to the ground by Its four
feet, while another account raises the
whole lamb, feet and all, from the
ground on a single stem, on which It Is
able to turn, and also to bow Itself
downwards to the herbs on which it
feeds. It lives as long as there is grass
or herbage around It, but when It has
consumed all within Its reach. It dies,
and withers away. Its skin Is covered
with a very white down, ns flue as silk,
and Is greatly prized by the Tartars,
who pull It off, and wear It as a cover
for the head.
Inside, It Is composed of flesh and '
bones, nnd when wounded It gives out
a liquid resembling blood. Wolves are
said to be the only animals that will
eat It, aud they are very fond of It
Specimens of this remarkable produc
tion were looked upon as the rarest
treasures in the collections of the curi
ous In days gone by. Two different
specimens have been described In the
"Philosophical Transactions," and a
third has Its portrait given In an en
graving In Darwin's "Flower Garden"
and Its history told In the florid verse
of that work.
The "lamb" Is a natural production.
greatly helped, In the development of
the particulars In which It most resem
bles that civature, by the Ingenuity ot
the natives The body Is a portion of
the creeping stem of a species of fern
which generally grows as erect as a
tree. This stem Is densely covered with
beautiful, Jointed silky hairs, of a rich
golden color.
On the surface next to tho ground a
few roots are glvea off, while the leaves
or fronds, as they are called In ferns
spring from the upper surface. The
fronds reach a height of twelve or four-
Growth of the Language.
"It seems to me, Henry," remarked
tho wife of a professor of English lit
eral ure, after the guests who had at
tended one of their "evenings" had
gone, "that you treated Mr. Scollops
with marked discourtesy."
"Oh, I did, did I?"
"Yes. You turned your back on hlin
while he whs talking to you, and walk
ed deliberately out of tho room, mutter
ing to yourself."
"I listened to him patiently enough,"
snld the professor, "while he was tell
ing mo where he had 'Sundayed tho
wcok In-fore lust. I stood It, even when
ho observed that It nhviiys 'enthused'
him to talk over old times, but when ho
asked mo to come around some evening
nd 'reminisce' awhile" and tho pro-
ssor walked to tho window and clear
ed his thront vigorously "It was all I
could do, Hester, to keep from throwing
hlin out of the house!"
Hwiss Humor.
The Tull Mall Gazette, having hnd
access to the oinciiii archives or mo
custom houso at Los Verrleres, pul
llshes the following cxatnplo of duly
scheduled Imports:
A missionary was returning to Basel
rom Patagonia, bringing with him, not
as the milts or urn moors, nut merely
for the purposes of science, a collection
of Patagoiilan skulls.
The custom house ollleers opened tho
best, Inspected tho contents and In
formed the owner that the consignment
must be classed ns animal lnmes, and
taxed at so much tho pound.
Tho missionary was Justly Indignant;
therefore tho otllclnls agreed to recon
sider the question. When the way-bill
hud boen revised, It appeared In the
following form:
Chest of native skulls. Personal ef
fects, already worn."
teen foot, and have a longbare stalk
before the leaf Is spread out. The Tar
tar takes a suitable part of this creep
ing stem for a body, deprives It of tha
roots, and of all the leaf stalks except
four, which are Intended to be the legs,
two short ones for the ears, and a
stump for the tall, and then, turning Id
upside down, trims the stem, and so
produces this mnrvel of tho early ex
plorers. The fern, known to botanists
ns the elbotium baromotz, Is a native
of Eas'tern Asia; It has been Introduce,!
Into our conservatories, where It flour
ishes, producing, after a few years'!
growth, good specimens of the "!amb.'!i
The silky hairs of this fern form a
favorite remedy among tho Chinese for
checking the How of blood by applying;
them to a wound, In the same way ns
felt or cobwebs are used by some poo-'
pie In this country. The more fibrous
and elastic hairs of several species of
the same group, natives of the Sand
wich Islands, are largely exported from
these Islands to California and Austra-i
Ha for stiifllng cushions and for similar
purposes, Philadelphia Times.
(Simplicity of a Novelist's Ufa.
Jokal, the Hungarian novelist, lives
In extreme simplicity. Ho Is seldom
seen away from home, and begins work
at his desk fh the early morning, some
times remaining there the whole day.
A small room adjoining his library con
tains the ixwks of reference he con
suits, a narrow bed like a soldier's, and
a few window plants. The room Is so
destitute of what Is generally looked
unon ns necessary comforts that It
might lie the dormitory of a monk. Dr
Jokal, now In his seventy-fourth year,
Is constantly attended by a devoted
man-servant, who hns grown aged In
his beloved master's service.
A Delightful I'lotur.s
A homelike picture of Mrs. Washing
ton and her favorite granddaughter Is
given by Mrs. James Gibson, who fre
quently visited her when, as the Presi
dent's wife, she resided lu Philadelphia,
then the capital of the United States.
Mrs. Gibson's language Is quoted by
Miss Whiu-tou In her "Martha Wash
ington." Mrs. Washington was In the habit of
retiring nt an early hour to her own
room, unless detained by company, and
there, no matter what tho hour, Nelllo
(Miss Custls) attended her.
Duo evening my father's carriage be
ing late In coming for me, my denr
young friend Invited me to accompany
her to grandmamma's room. There,
after some Little chat, Mrs. Washington
apologized to mo for pursuing her usual
preparations for the night, and Nellie
entered upon her accustomed duty by
reading a chapter and a psalm from the
old family Bible, after which nil pres
ent knelt In evening prayer.
Mrs. Washington's faithful maid
then assisted her to disrobe and lay her
head upon the pillow; Nellie then sang
a verse of some sweetly soothing hymn,
and then leaning down, received tha
parting blessing for tho night, with
some emphatic remarks on lutf duties,
Improvements, etc. The effect of these
judicious habits and teachings ap
peared In tho granddaughter's charac
ter through life. j
The Hliapo of tho Kurth.
Owing to the action of certain well-
known laws, the earth Is not a perfect
sphere. Careful measurements show
that It Is slightly bulging at the equa
tor. It Is a simple matter to show
proof that the earth Is rouud. When a
ship Is approaching tho shore, the first
parts to be seen are the top sails; as
she nears the land the lower sails and
rigging como Into view, and lastly the
hull appears. If the carta's surfuce
were flat the hull, being tho largest
part, would be Been first." Philadel
phia Inquirer.
Japanese Hooks.
Tho Japanese now publish three
times as many books as the Italians.
Out of 25,000 volumes published last
year In the Land of Flowers no less
than 5,000 were law books, and 1,300
treated of religion.
Clubs drive some men to-matrimony
and matrimony drives others io club.
Oklahoma.
A sensational ease with a funny side
is reported from El Reno. A couple ar
rived at the principal hotel and regis
tered themselves as man and wife. In
fact, they were elopers, one having run
away from a wife and tho other a hus
band. In the course of a week the In
jured husband and tho Injured wifo
arrived from Kentucky and caused tho
arrest of the pair. Tho deserted man
and woman had never seen each other
before, but while waiting for requisi
tion papers from Kentucky they stop
ped at the sumo hotel, uud formed an
acquaintance. Having a common grief,
they became Interested In each other,
aud on the day the requisition papers
were to arrive they astonished tho offi
cers by eloping oil their own account,
going to Texas, where they aro now
supposed to be. The first pair of elop
ers were released from Jail, and the
Kentucky officer returned home, after
Informing the local paper that ho
"hoped a rattlesnako would bite hlin
If ho ever traveled a thousand nillea
again to help a couple of men trade
w!ves."-Kansas City Journal. .t
The good points of a great many peo
ple aoew to have been brokeo off.