ALONG THE COAST.
lteuag of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving Paolfln
States.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Cruelty on the nigh Sea.
At Portland, Or., on the 18th, Bailors
on the German ship Margaietha told
startling stories of alleged oruel treat
ment on the part of Captain Rasoh.
The sailors, to a man, relate a series of
outrages perpetrated since the vessel
left her home port some eight months
ago, that if true, whether committed
with or without cause, are exceedingly
startling, cruel and inhuman. They
allege that ever since they started out
they have been in danger of getting
killed one way or another, and they as
sert that not for anything could they
be induced to again go to sea under
command of Captain llasch. The
crew, 25 men all told, have laid their
complaint before the German vioe
consul. Portland a Deserve Cl'.y.
Portland is now n reserve city, and
thousands of dollars heretofore kept in
San Francisco and New York by the
bankers of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho will oome to Portland. The con- j
dition imposed upon national banks in
rese've cities is that they shall oarry I
25 per cont of their deposits in avail
able funds, instead of 15 per cent. I
Portland banks havj been carrying
from 80 to 60 per cent ever since the
panic of 1893 and '93, and the new j
condition will not be a haislnp to
them.
Steelhend Salmon Scarce.
Steelhead salmon are becoming
scarcer as the season draws to a olose.
So few are being taken that the cold
storace nlants at Astoria have refused
to receive any more, and the quantities
delivered of late were so small that
they did not pay toi the trouble of
handling them-. Private buyers are
paying h and 6 cents a pound, but
the supply is only sufficient for local
demand. The season ends February
15. .
Tnget Sound University.
The new management of the Pugot
Sound university, of Tacoma, propose
to pay the debts of the university and
endow it under a subscription scheme,
to be known as the 20th century fund.
All endowment notes given will be
made payable within 10. years, and
will draw interest at the rate of 5 per
cent per annum. It will require but
loO.OOO to settle all debts and put the
college in good financial condition.
Seattle Markets.
Onions. 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, 20$25.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnips, per sack. 60 75c.
.Carrots, per sack, 45 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, f 1.
Cauliflower, 6090o per doz.
Celery, 8540o.
Cabbage, native and California
1.00 1.B0 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 3550c per box.
Pears, 50c $ 1.50 per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 27c per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18 22c per pound.
Eggs, 27c.
Cheese Native, 1212c.
Poultry Old hens, 14c per pound;
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 6)7c; oows, prime,
6c; mutton, 7)c; pork, 67o; veal,
68o.
Wheat Feed wheat, 123.
Oats Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Pugot Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choioo Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Corn Whole, 123.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2526; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights,1 $3.25; California brends,
$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, $2022 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
THAT BEEF WAS BAD
ODD WHITECAP RAID.
Testimony of Major Daly,
the Chief Surgeon.
MEAT PRESERVED BY CHEMICALS
General Miles Charges Strengthened
Before the War Investigation
Committee.
Waterworks for Elgin.
II. V. Gates, of Hillsboro, has con
tracted to put in a gravity water iys
tem and an eleotrio light plant in El
gin, Or., construction, soon to com
mence. The water will be carried
through a flume for a distance of over
two miles. A part of this power will
bo used in running a large flouring
mill. Mr. Gates has contracted to em
ploy local labor in the construction of
the plant. .
Geo. W. Dent Dead. -
Georce W. Dent, brother-in-law of
General U. S Grant, and uncle of U.
S. Giant, jr., candidate for United
States senator, died at Oakland, Cal. j
..Ha was 79 years of age. For 16 years .
Mr. Dent was appraiser of oustoms at
San Francisco. He was appointed by (
President Grant, and held office until
retired by President Cleveland. Mr.
Dent came to California in 1852.
ITerrlng Fishing at Port Townsend.
On the 18th the docks of Port Town
send were lined with people watching
anglors catching herring, which were
so plentiful in the bay that in a single
haul of the jigger one to four herring
were landed. The fishermen enjoyed
the sport, while the onlookers secured
a mess of herring by simply picking
them up off the dock.
A Thief Can ght.
About a week aao $500 in ooin and
Bomo valuable articles were stolen from
nn old man named John Weaver, noar
Canyonville, Or. Curtis Hartline, 23
years of age, was arrested thereby Con
stable T. J. Butoher on a oharge of
having stolen the money. After his
arrest Hartline admitted his guilt and
was held to answer.
Boggs Makes Revelations.
Ex-Treasurer Boggs testified in court
recently that about $70,000 of the war
rants involved in the warrant suit
against the city were not signed by
him while he was treasurer of the city,
but were signed three days after hit
term expired.
Soldier From Walla Walla Dead.
F. J. Carlyle, of Walla Walla, re
ceived a telegram from Manila, infoim
ing him of the death of Allen Carlyle,
his brothei. The deceased was a mem
ber of company I, Washington volun
teers, now at Manila. His death was
ascribed to typhoid fever.
The Astoria 1'ugh Club.
Secretary Lyman, of the Astoria
Push Club, has been authorized to visit
the creameries at Albany, Rainier and
Skamokawa for the purpose of making
observations and reporting to the
creamery committee of the association.
First Columbia Kiver Smelt.
The first Columbia river smelt o!
the Boason were offered for sale in an
Astoria market on the 18th. They
were taken at Cathlamet, and tho con
signment did not exceed over 60
pounds. -
The Dalles Slot Machines.
As a result of the semiannual license
recently placed upon all electrical slot
machines by The Dalles council, $250
lias already been collectod and turned
into the city treasury.
F. E. Thompson, who left a trail ot
bad checks on a local bank from Seattle
to Kamloops, in the interior of British
Columbia, is under arrest at the latter
point. He has drawn between $500
and $1,000 on a $10 deposit made at
Seattle tie day before Christmas.
There will be more new fishing gear
on the Columbia river daring the next
season than there has been for several
years. The price for raw fish promisea
to be good, and in anticipation of it,
nearly every local fisherman is knitting
himself a new net. and, what is a more
promising sign, the cannerymen are
not hesitating about giving the fisher
men plenty of credit for twine."
Fortland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 69c; Valley,
61c; Bluostem, 63o per bushel.
' Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4l42c; choice
gray, 89 40c per bushel. j
Barley Feed barley, $2224; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millattifls Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy. $910; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 5055o;
seconds, 4550o; dairy, 4045o store,
2580o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 12o;
Young America, 15o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2. 25 3
per dozen; hens, $3. 50 4. 00; springs,
$1.253; goese, $6.007.00 for old,
$4.505 for young; ducks, $5.00
6.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes 65 70o per sack; sweets,
2c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c pet
box; peas, 83)c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 75o$l per sack.
Hops 1517c; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
i 20c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethen
and ewes, 4c; dressed mutton, Tcj
spring lambs, 71,(c per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.35;
light and feeders, $3.00 4.00; dressed,
$5.005.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top Bteers, 8.60$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef,
66fc'c per pound.
Veal Large, 67c; small, 7 8c
per pound. '
Washington, Jan. 23. Major W. H.
Daly, chief Burgeon with General
Miles, and whose field servioe stretched
from Tampa to Porto Rico, whose re
port condemning beef furnished the
expeditionary forces oreated a sensation
lome weeks ago, made his long
awaited appearance as a witness before
the war investigation committee today.
Daly's report was the strongest in
language of those submitted by Miles,
in substantiation of his attaok on the
beef supplies. On being sworn the
witness identified the report submitted
as his own. He was willing, he said,
to stand by his report. It was wholly
voluntary, and was not called out by
any request or in obedience to any oir
oular or letter. At Tampa he had no-
' tioed a quarter of beef hanging free in
the sun on shipboard, and ha became
i interested in the experiment of having
freBh slaughtered beef plaoed under
suoh moist climatic conditions to see
how long it could stand it.
"I observed," he said, "that flies,
especially bull flies, did not affect it;
did not alight on it, or if they did they
got away from it veiy quickly."
He had cut off a piece of that beef at
Tampa and cooked it, but it neither
smelled or tasted naturally. He no
ticed indications of chemical presence
in the meat that brought back recollec
tions of oheraioal 6tuff he had used to
preserve elk in hunting expeditions in
the Rocky mountains some years be
fore. All that day and next ha had
an unpleasant taste.
In that previous hunting expedition
ho had analyzed the chemical preserv
ative and found it to contain borax and
salicylic acids. These were to be used
externally on elk, but he had rubbed it
into the raw flesh and also injected it.
Questioned as to these ingredients
he said borax was not safe to be used
in connection with food, nor for ordi
nary medicinal purposes, while sali
cylic acid was most nauseous, loath
gome and disgusting, and almOBt al
ways destructive of digestion.
tt Coat a Witness $30, bat the 6am
Wasn't Grudged.
"Strangest experience I ever had,"
said the man who used to do a whole
sale business In live stock, "was out In
Iowa, and not very many years ago,
either. I had put up at a little country
tavern In a sparsely settled country,
where It looked as though the Inhabit
ants were having a pretty hard struggle
to keep the wolf from the door. About
mldnleht there was a great hubbub
about the place, and there came an Im
perative demand for me to show my
self. I found a dozen masked men, and
my first Impression was that they were
after my money. But they declared
that they were whltecaps, that they
were going to make a raid, and that
they wanted a witness. It was no use
to protest, and after they had put me lu
one of their ugly disguises I rode with
them some eight or ten miles, when
they routed out a poor old couple who
lived In the meanest kind of a cabin.
'"You owe $40 on this place, and
haven't paid It,' said the leader sternly.
" 'I couldn't," was the old man's trem
ulous answer. 'Me and Beckle has
saved and scrimped and done the best
we could.'
" 'You let one of your cows get killed
and that was another $23 lost.'
" 'She was struck by lightnln', sir.
Are you goin to punish us fur that?'
This was from Beetle.
" 'You're lettln' this shanty go to
pieces. It needs patehln' and a new
roof. This Is no way to live, aud we
won't have It.'
"Tho old man only groaned, while
Bockle's eves flashed and she wished
their son Jim had lived.
" 'Twenty-five, forty, we'll call It a
hundred,' aaid the captain, and I made
up my mind to fight rather than see the
cruelty of 100 lashes Inflicted upon this
good old couple. 'There It Is,' and the
captain handed over $100. I promptly
added $50. and we left the happiest pair
you ever saw.
"'Thats the kind of whltecaps we
are,' laughed the captain, as we rode
homeward. 'We never let people like
that suffer, though we do sometimes
bring bad citizens up with a short
turn." Detroit Free Tress.
FROM A DIFFERENT SOURCE.
The
San Franclseo Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1012c pel
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 1012o; Val
ley, 1517c; Noithern, 9llc.
Millstuffs Middlings, $222400;
bran, $20.5021.60 per 'o
Onions Si 1 verskin, 50 75c per sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 24o;
do seconds, 21 23c; fanoy dairy, 22o;
do seconds, 18 20c per pound.
Eggs Store, 2728o; fancy ranch,
2931o.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $3
2.50; Mexican limes, $6 6.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2.00. 800; do choice,
$3.504.50; per box.
German Version of the Present
Difficulty in Samoa.
Hamburg, Jan. 23. Aooording to
news received from Samoa, Chief Jus-
tioe Chambers on December 81 an
nulled the election of Mataafa.who was
returned by a sextuple majority, and
. declared Malietoa Tanus, son of the
latter king, Malietoa, who is still a
minor, to be king. The three consuls
recognized Mataafa's people as the pro
visional government.
I Malietoa Tanus, Tamusese, another
olaimant for the throne, and Chief Jus
. tice Chambers. . it. is. addud, .. wont, on
.board a British warship, whereupon
the provisional government closed the
court. A British warship then landed
a detachment of blue jackets, and later
the court was reopened under the pro
tests of the provisional government.
No Official Keport at Washington.
Washington, Jan. 23. There is still
lack of official reports as to the situa
tion in Samoa, but it can be said that
the state department is moving in the
matter with duo deliberation, and with
I full regard for maintenance of the tri
' partite agrooment for government of
the islands.
I The navy department's order to Ad
miral Kautz, on board the Philadol
' phia, at San Diego, wont today. They
I were simply to "make ready." If, as
'stated in the press dispatches, the
Philadelphia is not in condition to go
' to Apia, it is supposed the vessel's hull
will be cleaned by divers.
PAUL JONES LOST.
The Chinese Chopstlok.
With the evidences of Asiatic con
tact supposed to be strong In Central
America, one might have Imagined
that so useful a device as the simple
chopsticks w'ould have secured a foot
ing. These two sticks, held In one hand
and known In China as "hasteners, or
nimble lads," are certainly the most ef
ficient device for their purposes ever
Invented by man. Throughout that vast
Asian region, embracing a population
of 500,000,000, the chopstick Is used as
a substitute for fork, tongs and certain
forms of tweezers. Even fish, omelet
and cake are separated with the chop
sticks, and the cook, the street scaven
ger and the watch repairer use this de
vice in the form of Iron, long bamboo
and delicate Ivory.
Tho bamboo chopstick was known In
China 1000 B. C, and shortly after this
date the Ivory form was devised. Their
use is one of great antiquity in Japan,
as attested by references to It in the
ancient records of that country. One
amy search 4u valu (or tho trace of any
object In the nature of a chopstick in
entral or South America. Knitting
needles of wood are found In the work
baskets associated with ancient Peru
vlan mummies, but the chopstick has
not been found. Curious pottery rests
for the chopsticks are exhumed in
anan. but even this enduring testi
mony or its cany use is yet to do re
vealed In this country. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
Compositors and Pressmen in White
Turbans and Mare Lena.
I went the other day to see the edltoi
of an Arab newspaper In Cairo. His
office Is a disused palace; all new khe
dives build new palaces In this country,
so that It Is difficult to find a house ol
any size that has not begun life as s
palace. In the middle wing sits the
editor writing his leader a string ol
Arabic cobwebs down a narrow slip ol
paper, xiie editor is a stout man lr
fez, blue serge and yellow elastic-sided
boots, with two warts on his nose and
a deep-blue dimple on his chin; he
writes In a light overcoat and a rug
over his knees, for It Is a very cold win
terclouds half-way over the blue sky,
aud you must shut your windows by 5.
He has Just finished a slip of copy;
he rings a bell, and there comes la a
little brown-faced devil lu a f?z, blue
gown, bare brown legs and slippers.
May you see the office? Of course"-
and out we go to the left-hand wing ol
the milaee. Here are about six nare
rooms, all open to the ot tiers, me pias
ter peeling here and there from the high
walls. Here stand the eases of curly
Arab type bigger than ours, because
the language has more symbols; here
are the bare-legged compositors at
work, In the next room the paper 18
going to press on the old-fiish!on';d sort
of midline; as the whlte-timmned,
brow i-Iegged, white bicycle-skirted na
tive '.urns at the wheel for lils life, the
half-printed sheets swing slowly over,
one after another, a maze of twirls and
dots and qulggles that you would say
no man on earth could read.
And not many can. The sub-editors
can, of course rour giave-niceu young
men In the inevitable fez and overcoat,
solemnly translating from the Times;
they salaam respectfully, and when the
Englishman, who looks as If lie u.vi
money, returns their salute, as being
brother Journalists, It surprises them
much. "But," says the editor, "our
circulation is as large as any In the
east, but not large enough to necessi
tate a rotary machine; yet we sell 5000
conies dally; It Is something lu a place
like this. It is difficult; other naive
papers are subsidized by France or
Tni-kev or others: we. because we are
independent, must shift for ourselves,
Rtuf it irrnws and crows: our paper Is
read In India and Somalllnud." Lon
don Mall.
INDIRECTION.
Fair are the flowers and the children, but
their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the
secret that clasps it is rarer;
Sweet the exultanee of song, but the
strain that precedes it is sweeter,
And never was poem yet writ, but the
meaning outmastered the meter.
Never a daisy that grows but a mystery
guidth the growing;
Never a river that flows, but a majesty
scepters the flowing;
Never a Shakspeare that soared, but a
stronger than he did enfold him,
Nor ever a prophet foretells, but a might
ier seer hath foretold him.
Back of tho canvas that throbs the paint
er is hinted and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes the soul of
the sculntor Is bidden;
Under the joy that is felt lie the Infinite
Issues of feeling;
Crowning the glory revealed Is the glory
that crowns the revealing.
the symbols of being, but that
which is s.vmbolled Is greater;
Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the
inward creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence,
back of the gift stands the giving;
Back of the hand that receives thrill the
sensitive nerves of receiving.
Bpace is as nothing to spirit, the deed Is
ntitilone liv the doing;
TIia honrt nf Hie wooer is warm, out
warmer the heart of the wooing;
Anil nn from the nit where these shiver,
and up from the heights wuere uiose
shine
Twin voices and shadows swim starward
and the essence of life is divine.
Washington Star.
Brave Girl.
"It's a dreadful thing," he said,
with a gloomy air, "that ice oreani
makers are getting so unscrupulous
that they put glue in the frozen mix
ture to give it firmness."
The pretty girl set her lips together Jonegj ag0
The total rainfall in Ashland thus
far in January amounts to 3.06 inches,
within half an inch of the average tor
the entire month of January, as shown
by the records lor 17 years past.
for an instant.
"That may be true," she responded,
rubbing the spoon suggestively over
her empty plate, "but I do not believe
one dish of it ever would make anybody
stuck up."
And he had to order a second allow
anoe. N. Y. Recorder.
Straggle! ef the Young Mind.
The following are extracts from ex
amination papers presented by pupils
at a prominent private school in this
neigh borhood: In history Q.: "What
was tho character of Henry VIII?"
A.: "Henry VIII was a congenial
libertine." In rhetoric Q.: "What
is an epigram?" A.: "An epigram
is a figure of speech sometimes used in
a Joke and some times on tombstones."
Definitions "A myth is a half fish and
half woman." "The vowels are five
a, e, i, o, and n, and sometimes w and
y.' jnow xorK xriuune.
From the Found.
Lodger How do you buy your sau
sages, Mrs. Knag?
Mrs. Knag Oh, by the pound.
Lodger Ah, I thought it was some
where near the pound, from the horse
flavor. Larks.
It is 18 years since the first Japanese
newspaper was established, and now
there ate in existence 675 daily and
weekly papers, 85 law magazines, 85
medical magazines, 11 scientific and a
large number of religious journals.
Plenty of Change.
"Have yon any change abont yon?"
"Can't hear a word ye say."
"Becauset. if you have, I can pay
you that bet about the war, that I owe
you."
"Oh, I guess I have change enough
for that" Brooklyn Life.
Old gentleman f who has received a
present of batter from one of hie ten
ants) And how does your mother make
all these beautiful pattern! on these
little cakes, my dear?
Meosemrer Wif our comb, air.-
Punch.
Part of Her Stern Fonnd on liretoa
Island Was Blown Up.
Mobile, Ala., Jan. 23. The govern
ment steamer Pansy touched at Biloxi,
Miss., this afternoon, and reports find
ing on Breton island a part of the
stern of the naphtha launch t'aul
a yawl boat with bow
smashed and other small articles from
the launch. The condition of the
wreckage tends to show that the napl
tha tank blew un and tote the boat to
pieces. The Pansy met the Maud with
Messrs. Jones and Taggart on board
The latter visited the wreckage and
identified it as part of the Paul Jones.
No bodies were found.
The launch had the following pleas
ure seekers on board: Joseph Brink
ham. Louisville: Miss Margerie Wood
'land. Chicago: Colonel Harry O. Yo-
cum, St. Louis; Miss Florence Yooum,
his daughter.
The crew consisted of three men
whose names are unknown.
A Carious Seattle Verdict.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 21. The jury
in the trial of Isadore Schopps, for the
mnrder of Gus Hoyer, has brought in
a verdict of "not guilty by reason ot
insanity."
Nothing for Coos Bay,
Washington, Jan. 23. It is learned
that the rivers and harbors committee
has left out the appropriation for Coos
bay. An item of $100,000 waa made
by the department. The committee
savs there is not enouirh commerce at
that point to warrant the expenditure.
A Itank Barglarlced.
Arthur, III., Jan. 23. The bank
here was entered by burglars last
night. The loss is betweeen $1,000
and $5,000. The bandits escaped.
Central I'aelfle Stock I p.
Ban Francisco, Jan. 23. Central
Pacific railroad stock, which lesa than
three months ago was quoted at 13,
has advanced to 48. Mrs. Stanford
own 83.833 shares of the stock, and at
13 it was worth $433,329. At tb
present rate she might sell it for
tl. 699.981. and it is said she baa re
ceived even a better offer.
Pop Convalescent-
Rome. Jan. 23. Dr. Lapponi, phy
lician of the pope, says the pontiff,
who has been suffering from a slight
attack of influenza, if convalescent.
Sea Lions as lint-Catcher.
The wonderful alertness and activity
of sea lions lu tho water which enables
them to get fish for their food In arctic
seas are qualities that are manifested
In a still more striking way by the cap
tlve specimens at the Zoo. These three
sprightly individuals in the big outdoor
tank have developed into rat-catchers
that never miss their prey. Hats are
pests that naturally thrive about the
animal houses, aud at nlghfs, when the
Zoo Is deserted by visitors, tho rodents
run in all directions. They are fond of
water, aud they flud their way In con
siderable number to the sea lion tank to
dabble at the water's edge. They may
go to the lake and seal pond with im
punity, but when they venture to the
home of the sea Hons that visit is their
last Swiftlossly and noiselessly tho
sea Hon dives and reappears at the Bur
face precisely at the spot where the rat
Is peering Into the tank. One snap and
Is all over. The rat goes down the
hungry throat at a single gulp. So
many rats do the sea lions catch In this
fashion that they are sometimes Indis
posed to take their early morning meal
of fish thrown to them by the keepers.
Philadelphia Record.
Thepa Aro Others.
Ludwlg Lush! Is a good man. lit
preached a most valuable sermon to
women the other day, and his text was
that nmenlficent piece of slang, a gen
uine classic In Its way, "There Are Oth
ers." A willful young woman who was
nrnn-pri tn marrv Lushl threw hlin
over "at the last moment without
word of warning. She did not really
mean It. for five days afterward she
telegraphed Lushl to come to another
her. and marry her. No
doubt she had pictured the distracted
Lushl wandering by the rivers briiitt
In the moonlight, heaving sighs that
raised a heavy sea ou the unusually
nnnr.oflll U'dtprS. Ond dwelling OU
thoughts of suicidal tinge, mu i-usm
was not that sort of a man. ue was
one of the men who say: "mere nie
fw in the. five days which had
nnaseil he bad made the acqualntauc
,. ... hint mnrl'lnrt
or nnntner m. nun m.-.,
her. Iu answer to the telegram he sent
imr marked conies of the papers con
tnlnlnir the wedding notices. Now Girl
No. 1 will go through life with the
cheerful conviction that by her folly
she lost a real num. But perhaps that
kind of a girl would be happier In th
end with a man of dougu. .New oi
Times.
Thn U-turn of the Rations.
in Mm pivll was as well as In that Jus
nnst our soldiers faced privation and
imiornr. A little story. In II. Clay
m-.,iuiir recent book. "War Memor
les of a Chaplain," tells of the spirit
which they sometimes did It.
wiith. l.efore Petersburg, doing siege
,.-.ni.- in Hip summer of 1MH, our mi
had wormy hardtack served out to
them. It was a severe trial to the men.
Breaking open the biscuits and finding
live worms In them, they would inrow
the pieces In the trenches, although tho
orders were to keep the trendies clean.
A brigade officer of the day, seeing
some of these scraps along our front,
called out sharply to our men:
"Throw that hardtack out of ths
trenches." Then, as the men promptly
gathered It up. he added. "Don't you
know that you've no business to throw
hardtack In the trenches?"
Out from the Injured soldier heart
there came the reasonable explanation:
"We've thrown It out two or three
tirnci, sir, but it crawls back."
Well, for a day or two a few maj
remark my absence, and then "
He finished the sentence with a care
less wave of his hand, to denote tht
ephemeral nature of the friendship he
conceived was felt for him.
"But there are no nice girls there,"
she remarked, mischievously.
She was trying to get back to the
coquette again. But her eyes were
moist.
That Isn't a consideration,"-he an
swered, gloomily. "There's only one
girl In this world for whose smile I'd
give the hopes I entertain for my busi
ness future, and I'm afraid that In her
eyes I'm but as all the rest of the
world."
"Who Is the young lady, may I ask;
do I know her?" she queried, with an
attempt at gayety. Warren glanced at
her, but she wasn't looking at him.
She seemed to be manifesting an ex
traordinary Interest In picking at the
end of a ribbon on her dress.
"I've just been reading the Social
Gossip," wrote Marlon, who hud gone
West for a month on a business trip,
"and I congratulate you. But why In
tho name of all that's absurd did you
hesitate to call for a show of hands,
when you held a flush? One of these
fine days you will want a crest. How
would this suggestion meet your ap
proval: 'A bold bluff painted ou a field
of blue?'"
And he underscored two words In the
last sentence. Boston Herald. .
A GAME OF BLUFF.
A-
Ma
Had Spelling a Disease.
A medical authority claims that bad
spelling is caused by a disease. In c r
tain conditions of brain and nerves the
patient frequently writes "of instead
of "to." In another slightly varying
form, instead of "the," tho first letter
is omitted, and so In many other sho;t
words. The malady usually affects
the brain only In connection with
words of one syllable, but caKes have
occurred where longer words have
been so distorted that It was difficult
to get their sense. It Is a question
whether one would be comforted by
being told that bad spelling wus caused
by mental disease or whether out
would prefer to have this lack of ac
curacy set down to Ignorance or care
lessness. That It is not always a p:o:l
of defective education Is quite certain.
Philadelphia Lodger.
It HarTron.
Saffron would strike an ordinary ob
server as decidedly expensive at 50 shil
lines a pound, until told that It Is com
posed of the central small portions only
of the flowers of a crocus, 70,000 of
which It takes to yield the material for
one pound. Chambers' Journal.
Poisonous Castor Oil l'lant.
There Is no plant which animals so
detest as the castor oil plant, It being
poisonous to the whole animal world.
A goat will starve rather than eat It,
and those destroyers of everything
green, the locust and army worm, wllj
not feed upon It.
Old Well.
Over GO.OOO oil wells have been struck
In the United States. ,
Tree's Itoot In a Tomb.
Meehan's Monthly has recorded trees
prowluz from the mortar of stone walls
and on church steeples. It Is said that
a horse chestnut several years old is
still growing from a tomb Inside an old
church at Ketnpscy, near Worcester,
Fnirland. The monument Dulil in the
church Is to the memory of Sir Edmund
Wylde, who died In 10'JO. The tree is
now several years old, having sprouted
In the crevices of the mortar on the
back of the tomb, spreads toward the
light and forms a leafy canopy over the
stone form of the old kulght as cut on
the surface.
A llus4ian Sect.
A new religious sect tins been found
ed lu Russia, iu the province of Sara
tov, the main Idea of the members of
whldi Is thut while the soul Is Iminor
tul the body Is of the devil and should
therefore be neglected as far as possi
ble. In KukhWi this possibility goes
further than anywhere ebo in the
world. The leader of this sect Is a fa
natic of the name of Panjuckko, and
neither be nor bis followers will con
sent to wash, thunge their clothes or
clean their bouses. Indeed, their gos
pel Is dirt.
Marriageable In Turkey.
The Turkish woman Is marriageable
at the nee of 0 years, and by Turkish
law, at that age, If married, she Is com
Detent to manage her property and dls-
nose of one-third of her fortune. Tho
law allows her to abandon her hus
band's bouse for just cause, and will
protect her In so doing. She cannot bo
compdk-d to labor for tho support of
her husband.
Soms people are so skcptlcul that they
even doubt their own doubts.
t ( a ItAG and a bone and a hank
hair," cynically quoted
Marlon. The next moment
he renented his words, when he noted
the hurt look, accompanied by the flash
of resentment. In Warren s eyes.
Marlon meant to be sympatnetic,
after the manner of men, by uttering
philosophical platitudes as a balm for
.,,Mm..ntiii honrt troubles, but he
quickly realized that the case before
him was too genuine ana severe to ue
cured by such superficial ointment as
quotations from cynical Kipling. So
he took another tact.
"Of course, old man, there are women
and women. Some can be naa tor me
asking, while others play for all the
line they can get. It's JUBt into nsn
Ing" his metaphor suggesting an Il
lustration from out his sporting pro
clivities "a hornpout will bite at al
most anything, but a gamy trout in
sists ou a nice fly for nn attraction,
and even after you've got one really
hooked you've got to play It until your
patience Is almost gone. Now, you'd
rather have a girl with some spirit,
one who'd stand you off for a time,
than one who was all the time throw
ing herself at your head, wouldn't
you?"
Warren vouchsafed a weaif, aouoirui
"Yes."
"By the way, have you asked hor7
"No. That's the difficulty. I don't
really get a chance. Just as I get my
self spurred up to the mark some con
founded interruntiori lntortercsr orsne
switches me off on a sidetrack with
some remark or other."
"You think the girl really cares for
you?" asked Marlon, dropping bis rail
lery and becoming serious.
"I think she does," frankly answered
Wurren, "although sometimes I feel
as If I didn't know whether she did or
nrtt." be continued, somewhat dubi
ously.
"Well, there's only one way to find
out," remarked Marlon, "and that Is
to-sny, I have a plan," breaking
abruptly Into his sentence. "I have a
plan," he slowly repeated, "and I be
lieve It will work If you follow my ad
vice. Put yourself In my hands," he
continued, his face brightening ns hit)
plan was unfolded to his mlml, "and
I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you u
win out." Then he buttonholed Wur
.. . . ... . i .1
run, puneu mm into a corner, unu uu-
ressod him In a low, earnest tone, in
terspersing his remarks with emphatic
gestures. When ho had finished War
ren still looked dubious, but somewhat
more hopeful.
"Oh, good evening, Mr. Warren. I'm
so glaa to see you. were gum puck
lng up, getting ready to go to tho moun
tains."
Indeed! Lovely weather. Hope
you'll have a pleasant time." But he
might have been a pnonograpn, or a
runch-ond-Judy operator, for all tho
expression he put into ins wonis.
"Oh, I've no doubt wo will," she an
swered, with a toss of her head.
"There's so much going on there nil
the time, and so many interesting peo
ple to meet," she continued, with a
bored air, as If her Immediate sur
roundings were productive of nothing
but ennui.
"yes," he nssentcd, In a listless mono
tone, which might mean anything or
nothing.
Shu pretended not to notice bis ab
stracted manner, and rattled on.
"My friends write me there are ever
O many nice people mem, unu wuu
coif and driving and dancing there'll
be no end of fun."
"Yes."
Again that tone of polite Indifference
"Well. I'm going for a trip myself,"
he added, rousing hlm.-elf f.om his leth
orgy, aud almost blurting out his re
nin rk.
"Indeed! Where V
This was her turn, and she countered
forcibly In the mutter of polite Indif
ference. "To Hongkong."
"To Hongkong?"
This time she was Interested, In spit;?
of herself. She repeated his remark,
with distinct emphasis on the words,
and a rising Inflection on the end of
each. "Oh, come, now, you're Joking.
You're "
"No, really," he asserted; "there's an
Opening there In our house. They want
a young man to take charge of their
No bird can fly backward without
turning. The dragon fly, however, can
accomplish this feat and outstrip any
swallow.
Oysters, after they have been brought
away from the sea, know by Instinct
the exact hour when the tide Is rising
and approaching their beds and bo, of
their own accord, open their shells to
receive their food from the sea, as If
they were still at home.
The tongues of the cat family are
covered with recurving spines. In the
common domestic cat these are small,
but sufficiently well developed to give
the tongue a feeling of roughness. But
In the lion and tiger the spines are
strong enough to enable the animal to
tear away the skin of a man's hand
merely by licking It.
There are several species of fish, rep
tiles and Insects which never sleep dur
ing their stay in this world. Among
fish It is now positively known that
pike, snlmon and goldfish never sleep at
all. Also that there are several others
of the fish family that never sleep more
than" a few minutes during a month.
There are dozens of species of files
which never Indulge In slumber and
from three to five species of serpents
which the naturalists have never yet
been able to catch napping.
Women are strongest when Incased
t the armor of their weakness.
branch banking-house there, and I can
have the place. It looks like a good
opening, and I thought I'd tuke It. Of
course, It means"-clearing his thsoat
"tearing one's self away from one's
friends, but then, I probably will not bo
greutly missed."
"Oh, Mr. Warren," broke In the girl,
reproachfully.
Tho coquettish manner was gone.
The genuine woman was sneaking.
The Pig Was Stolen.
Whether "a llo told and stuck to
artorwnrflsriiros "?flinrTTieti'tiTir
was debated at the dinner table where
a niooi was sitting one day, and It
brought out the following story from
a rather dysieptlc-lookIng man who
had oaten very sparingly:
"I used to llvo In the country," said
he. "One of my neighbors,' an unlucky,
unthrifty sort of a man, killed a pig
one day with tho aid of a local butcher,
ity jinks, Sam, I hate to cut up that
pig.' 'Why?' "Cause, you see, I'm
owln' most everybody hero a piece of
pork, n,nd If I cut up the pig I'll hnvo
to give most of him away.' 'I tell you
what to do,' said the butehor. 'What's
that?' 'I'd have the pig hung up out
doors till twelve o'clock at night, then
take him In and give out tho next morn
ing that bo's leen stolen. 'By Jinks,
I'll do it;
"It was a wonderfully fine plan, tho
farmer thought, and he left the pig
hanging out, as tho butcher suggested.
t eleven o'clock the butcher him
self eamo along and packed the pork
Into his cart. It was not there when the
farmer wont out after It.
"The next day, with a long face, ho
addressed tho butcher In a hoarse
whisper: 'I sny, Sam, somebody did
really steal that pig.' 'That's right,'
said the butcher, nudging him and
winking wickedly at tho same time.
'But, by Jinks, the pig was really
stolen.' 'That's right; you stick to that
and you'll bo all right,' said the
butcher, encouragingly, and he hurried
off, leaving his friend In a most be
wildered stato of mind, from whldi I
don't think ho ever fully emerged."
Muslo Hath Charm.
A couple of sailors, returned from a
long voyage, strolled Into the bar parlor
of a public hoiiBo near the docks.
Above the rumble of the traffic In tho
street could bo heard at Intervals a
harsh, unmusical voice.
After listening Intently for a moment
one of the sullors turned to his com
panion and suld:
"Eh, Jack, lad; It's a long time since
wo heard that song."
"What song?"
"The one thnt fellow's singing In the
streot-'The Light of Other Dnys.' "
"Stow It!" ejaculated tho other gruff
ly. "That fellow ain't singing 'Tho
Light of Other Dnys' ut all, man. I'vo
been listening to him. He's a plplng
'The Bauks of Allan Water. "
Each sailor was certain ho was right,
nnd, with characteristic contempt for
money, a wager was made a mouth's
wages depended ou the result.
"Here, Tommy!" called out ono of
tho men to the llttlo son of the land
lord, "run out and get to know what
that fellow's singing."
Tommy departed on his errand, which
did not tuko many minutes.
"Well," demanded Jack when tho
youngster returned, "which of us is
right?"
"Naythur," replied Timy, grinning.
"The feller's not singing. He's hawk
lug fly-papers!" Answers.
"I niuist be getting old," sa'd a woman
to-day. "All the friends I go to see
are In trouble. I can remember when
I didn't have a friend who bad
grief."
If there Is anything particularly use
less lying arouud tho house, you can
make up your mind It was wou sa a
prize at a card partr.