ALONG THE COAST.
Items of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving Paelfln
States.
Railroad Extension.
Considerate excitement prevails from
Lakeview, Lake county, Oregon, all
long the line to Reno. Kev.,. owing to
the recent authenticated report of the
extension of the Nevada & California
railroad from Amedu, Cal., north. The
news of the purchase of over 8,000 tons
of steel rails in New York by the own
ers of this road was sent out last week,
and the material will be shipped im
mediately to Amedu, preparatory to
beginning of extension work in the
spring. This is a nanow-guage road
now terminating at Amedu,. and it is
concluded that the next terminus will
be, Villi Loans, 65 miles north, and
nearly crossing over the great Mada
line plains. It will place Lakeview
within 105 miles of railroad transpor
tation, and will make a considerable
difference in stock shipping, freighting
and passenger travel. The object of
the proposed extension is to head off
the Southern Pacific Company, which
is now extending its line from Upton
through the great McCloud timber belt
to Fall River.
Speedy Mall Carriers.
Ail records of ice travel on the Yu
kon have been broken by the recent feat
of the mounted police of the Northwest
ten i tor y- in bringing a big shipment
of mail from Dawson to Skagway in
nine days and 10 hoars. The mail
left Dawson on the morning of January
15 and was in Skagway before noon on
January 31. The record was made by
the Canadian officials, it is said, to
show that they could greatly reduce
the time being made by the United
States mail contractors.
Bli Sale of Wheat.
With the sale of about 500,000 bush
els of wheat on a basis of 60 oents for
No. 1 olub, net, to the farmers, the
wheat market has taken on a quieter
tone at Pendleton, Or., and no sales
are being recorded. The distribntion
of 1250,000 of ready money in this com
munity has given considerable impetus.
to retail business, which had become
somewhat stagnant fiom the failure of
the producers to realize either on wheat
or wool.
Schooner Sander Libeled.
The schooner Fred E. Sander, at the
Tacoma mill loading lumber for Vallejo
Junotion, has been libeled by James
Gillespie, formerly a cook on her, for
$318. The suit was brought while the
ship was on the lower Sound. The
case will be heard in Seattle. Sinoe
Guming to Tacoma the oaptain and all
ot the crew who were in her before,
with the exception of a Mexican, who
speaks no English, have left her.
Farming; Operations Resumed.
Farming operations are in active
progress in the country south and west
of Colfax, Wash., and last week hun
dreds of acres were plowed for spring
seeding. Farmers in the Alkali flat
country are seeding, and many are well
along with sowing their spring gram
Squirrels are out by hundreds, the
country bears the marks of spring, the
hills are becoming green, and farmers
are busy with their spring work.
A Girl Attacked.
On Sunday, an unknown man at
tacked the 14-year-olddaughter of O. I.
Morris, of Turner, Or., while she was
in a stubble field, rounding up cows.
The man jumped from behind a clump
of brush, threw the girl on the ground,
took off one of her shoes' and ordered
her to skip. Mr. Morris heard the
screams of Iris daughter, and ran to her
rescue, but the assailant wr.i nowhere
to be found.
No Bids Received.
The steamship City of Columbia was
put up for sale at San Francisco at the
upset price of $32,000. There was no
purchaser. The polioe department will
now indorse the petition of the seamen
of the Columbia that the vessel be put
up for as much as she will bring. The
sailors of the vessel are really in a very
bad shape. Most of them have not a
cent, and have not possessed a dollar
in weeks. -
Overhauling a Nail Plant.
The report published in the Port
Townsend Leader a few days ago to
the effect that the nail woiks plant
was being wrecked for the purpose of
shipping the machinery elsewhere, was
a mistake. It originated from the fact
that several workmen were busily en
gaged in overhauling the machinery
When the plant will resume work has
not been definitely settled. ,
Income From Clams.
According to the Astorian, C. N,
Carnahan, as a result of a personal in
vestigation of the subject, finds that
the estimate of value of the clam prod
uot of Clatsop county contained in
Fish Commissioner MoUuire's report
is wrong. Mr. McGuire puts the an
nual value of Clatsop county clams at
$900. Mr. Carnahan states that it is
very olose to $10,000.
Box Pirates at Ban Francisco.
John Hallin and Arthur Daught
have been arrested at San Francisco
on a charge of stealing copper and brass
from the Mare island navy-yard. They
were formerly wreckers, but of late
have been veritable bay pirates, using
a whaleboat and a skiff to commit their
depredations.
General Land Office Reversed.
In the case of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company against James B,
Gaines, involving lands in the Walla
Walla land district. Washington, the
secretary has reversed the decision of
the general land office, whioh held for
cancellation the selection of the rail
road company and allowed the applica-
tion of Gaines to make homestead en
try of the disputed tract. The com
pany's right was prior and indiiputa
ble. and Gaines has been notified to
transfer his claim to othei lands.
Llea Lands Approved.
Notice of the approval by the gen
eral land office of lieu lands list No.
63, embracing 17,177.7? acres of swamp
and overflowed lands in the Lakeview
district, incurring to and selected by
the state under an act of congress, ap-
iroved March 2, 1860, has been received
at the executive office ot Oregon. The
governor has asked for the immediate
issuance of a patent.
Mrs. Victorian Blancbard, 66 years
old, of Holyoke, Mass., is the youngest
living daughter of a tevolutionary so
flier.
New Kailroad in China
A. W. Bash, who was formerly col
lector of customs on Puget sound, was
the original promoter in China, of what
ves promise of being a very important
enterprise. The moving spirit now be-
ind the scheme is Stewart M. Biico.
The matter includes valuable conces
sions for the Amprioan-Chiim Develop
ment Company in the name of the
China Kailroad Company. The sur
vey of the road is already in progress.
The office of the new company is ut Ta
coma. New Portlaiid-Soutut Line.
W. H. Llewellyn and George Tiffany
two New York capitalists are at San
Francisco. They are said to have come
est on an important railroad deal.
They have in view the building of a
railroad from Portland to Tacoma and
Seattle, a distance of 140 miles. Honda
have already been placed in New York
to raise the necessary money for the
construction of this road. It is oom
mon gossip that Llewellyn and Tiffany
are agents for the Vanderbilts.
Cutting the Time.
The time between Chicago and'
Omaha has been reduced to 12 houis
on the Chicago & Northwestern rial-
way. This is part of the overland
imited, whioh is to reduce the time
between Chicago and Portland to three
ays. The fastest time previously
made between Chicago and Omaha on
the Chicago & Northwestern was 13
hours and 25 minutes.
A Curious Accident.
A curious accident occurred in an
Albina, Or., home recently by which a
little girl was dangerously wounded by
revolver. The mother found the re
volver whioh she imagined was un
loaded. For some reason or other she
placed it in an old slipper. The little
girl oame in and gave this a kick caus
ing the discharge of the revolver.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $1520.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnips, per sack, 50 75c.
Carrots, per sack, 45 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Cauliflower, 5090o per doz.
Celery, 3540o. .
Cabbage, native and California
$1.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 85 50c per box.
Pears, 60c $ 1.50 per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 26o per pound;
iairy and ranch, 17 20c per pound.
Eggs, 30c.
Cheese Native, 1212Mc.
Poultry Old hens, 14c per pound;
spring chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 8c; cows, prime,
7c; mutton, 8c; pork, 8)o; veal, 08o.
Wheat Feed wheat. $23.
Oats Choice, per ton, $25.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2526; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights, $3.25; California brrnds,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.50; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour,
$3.76; rye flour, $4.60.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $20 32 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 68c; Valley,
60c; Bluestem, 61o per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.66; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 4142c; choice
gray, B94c per busnel.
Barley Feed barley, $2223; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millstuffs 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, t055c
seconds, 4650o; dairy, 404So store,
2580o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 12o
Young America, 15o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.604
per dozen; hens, $4.005.00; springs,
$1.253; geese, $6.007.00 for old
$4.50 6 for young; ducks, $5.00
5.60 per dozen; turkeys, live, 16
16c per pound.
Potatoes 80 90c per sack; sweets
2c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o por pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; caul
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery
7075c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c pe
box; peas, 83)c per pound.
Onions Oregon, 76c$l per sack.
Hops 1518o; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
20c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton. 7c;
spring lambs, Tc per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.26;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
5.005.60 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.60$3.75;
cows, $2. 60 8. 00; dressed beef,
66c per pound.
Veal Large, 61'7c; small, 7 8c
er pound.
Ban Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada," 10 12c per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val
ley, 1517c; Northern, 9llc.
Millstuffs Middlings, $2123.00;
bran, $18.00 19.00 per ton.
Onions Silverskin,6090cper sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 28c;
do seconds, 23 24c; fancy dairy, 22c;
do seconds, 17 19c per pound.
Eggs Store, 22 24c; fancy ranch,
22 25o.
Hops 1898 crop, 1317o
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $3
2.50; Mexican limes, B6.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2.00. 800; do choice,
$3. 50 4. 60; per box.
Hay-Wheat, $14 17; wheat an!
oat, $15316; oat. $1416; best bar
ley, $13 14; alfalfa. $1214 per ton;
straw, 60 75c per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, $1.10 1.15;
Oregon Burkanks. 75ctl.15; liver
Embanks, 75o$l; Salinas Burbanks,
$1 1.10 per sack.
Tropical fruits Bananas, $1.21
S.60 per bunch; pineapples, $2.60
4.60; Persian, dates, 66e per
pound.
THE YRIBUTE DAY OF LIBERTY AND ENLIGHTENMENT.
I WIDOW DARBY'S 2
t VALENTINE.
iH E widow Darby,
I -fnir. nliimn nnil look-
ine fur vouncer than
her 45 years, had rid-
den into town with
kt Jared Kent, because
J her horse had lamed
Shimself that morning,
land Jared "happened
be going in," and
had asked the widow
ride with him.
Jared was what some
the people of the
neighborhood called a
"regular born old bach." He had flouted
and scorned womanhind most of the fifty
years of his life, and had openly set forth
his conviction that men were "better off
without 'em than with 'em," particularly
when it come to "marrying of 'em." He
had held to this conviction so long and
had proclaimed it so boldly and so con
stantly that all of the match-makers in
the rural neighborhood in which he lived
had given him up a hopeless case beyond
the pale of their schemes for making a
benedict of him.
Jared was not, like most avowed women
haters, a crabbed, cross-grained, sneering-
ly cynical man, which made his celibacy
all the more unpardonable in the eyes of
the match-makers.
"He'd make a real good husband if he'd
try, they said. "Then he has the nicest
farm in the neighborhood, with one of
the best houses on if and money out at in
terest, although he's not a bit mean and
stingy. He'll do his full share always for
a neighbor in distress. .It isn't because
he's too stingy to support her that Jared
doesn't get him a wife."
It was a clear, crisp morning in Febru
ary when Jared rode to the village with
the widow Darby seated beside him in
his neat little cutter. The sleighing was
fine and the air keen and exhilarating, It
gave the widow's plump cheeks a beauti
ful crimson glow and made her black eyes
sparkle. She was in high spirits and her
laugh rang out frequently as merry and
rippling as the laugh of a child.
But then the widow Darby was prover
bially cheery. She had suffered keenly
the loss of her husband and both of her
children, but time had softened her grief,
and she was too wise to spend her life
in gloom and grief over the kiss of those
who were beyond all care and sorrow.
She had a comfortable little home and a
few acres of land adjoining Jared Kent's.
She had known Jared all of her life, but
not once bad she thought of him as a
possible successor to Joel Darby.
"Jared will never marry any one," she
bad said. "He isn't of a marrying dispo
sition. Some men are that way. It's all
they lack to make 'cm what God intended
they should be. My husband and I used
to talk Jared over a good deal, and we did
our full share to get him settled for life
with a good wife. We used to invite lots
of nice girls, young and elderly both, to
our house and then have Jared come over
to tea and to play croquet with him. He'd
be nice and pleasant and all that, but he
never came any ways near fulling into
any of the traps we set for him. We
thought once that he did take a kind of
a shine to a nice sweet, real good looking
girl of about 30 named Janet Deane from
over Shelby way, who was visiting us.
She'd of made him an awful good wife,
and I sung her praises all the time, but
nothing came of it."
"It's an elegant morning, isn't it?" said
Jared, as he and the widow flew along
over the hills and through long lanes in
which the snow was drifted almost to the
top rails of the fences.
"Oh, it's lovely 1" replied the widow. "1
like snow."
"So do I. You got much to do in town?"
"No; I'll be through with all of my er
rands in an hour. I can let something go
If you don t want to stay in town that
long."
"Oh, that'll be none too long for me.
Where shall I meet you?"
"I'll be at Smith & Hanscom's dry good
store, any time you say."
"We'll call it 11 o'clock, then."
It was three minutes after 11 when
Jared drove up to the appointed place of
meeting. The widow had stepped into
the sleigh and he was tucking the robes in
around her when she said:
"There, Jared, I'm just like other worn
en; I've forgotten something."
"What is itr
"I forgot to go around to the postofuce.
I know that there's nothing there for me,
because one of the Stone boys brought my
mail out last night, and there's no mail
trains in until noon; but poor old Jane
Carr came over Just before I left and
wanted me to be sure and see if there was
a letter for her. Her daughter is very
sick out West, and she hasn't had a letter
for s week, and she's half wild. I couldn't
bear to tell ber I'd forgotten to go to the
office."
"I'll drive 'round that way," said Jared
"It won't be three blocks out of the wsy.'
Two or three boys stood idling in front
of the postofflce end Jared said to one of
them be chanced to know: .
"Say, Jimmic, run into the office and see
If there's any letter for Mrs. Jane Carr,
You needn't ask for me, for I've been
around snd got my mail."
"You might look in box 184." said Mrs.
Darby. "Mebbe there's a drop letter for
sae."
The boy came out s moment later with
a very large square white envelope in one
hind snd a small blue envelope in the
other. He grinned he handed them to
Mrs. Dsrby. She glanced at the bine en
velope and said joyfully:
"O here's a letter for Jane, and it's from
ber daughter, I know by the postmark,
How glad Jane will be! And here well,
I declarer'
the bora Into merrr laugh as eke
mm
vrrx to
x mem to
x y of
looked at the big white, embossed envel
ope. The boy had told the truth when he
had gone back to his comrades and said
with a titter:
"She's got a valentine!"
"Who in the land ever sent me that
thing?" said Mrs. Darby, holding the en
velope out at arm's length. "I didn't even
know it was Valentine's day. If it isn't
the greatest Idea that I should get a, val
entine!" "I don't know why you shouldn't," said
Jared.
"Oh, because I but I guess some child
sent it."
"Maybe not."
"No one else could have had so little
gumption!" Baid the widow with another
laugh. "Maybe there's one of these comic
valentines inside of it some ridiculous
thing about a widow likely."
"Why don't you open it and see?"
"I will."
She burst into another laugh as she
drew forth a dainty creation of lace paper,
tinsel and bright colored embossed pic
tures. "How perfectly ridiculous!" she said.
"The idea of any one being ninny enough
to send an old woman like me a thing like
that!"
"You're not an old woman."
"I'm forty-five!"
"Well, I'm older than that, and I don't
call myself an old man. Many a woman
around here would be glad to get a val
entine like that if the sender really meant
it."
"Yes, and if you were the sender."
"I'm not vain enough to think that and
not foolish enough to Bay it if I did think
it."
"No, I don't think that you arc, Jared.
But I wonder who could hae sent me
this. The writing on the envelope is evi-
AT JANS CAItR S OATE.
dently disguised, and O here is something-inside!
Let's see what it says.
" 'O wilt thou be my valentine
Forever and forever aye.
And wilt tbou take this heart of mine,
And give me thine to-day?' "
There was another verse, but before she
had read it, the widow Darby cried out:
Jared Kent, that s your hundwritiug and
you need not try to deny it!"
"I'm not trying to deny it. lou II tind
my name signed in full to the next verse
on the other page." This was the next
verse:
"If 'yes' my nnswpr Is to be.
My heart with Joy will fill,
If 'no,' I yet shall be your friend
And I shull love you still."
They had reached the outskirts of the
town now. Jared brought the horse to a
standstill and said:
"Is It yes or no, Lucy?"
She looked at him with shining eyes and
laughing face for a moment. Then she
laid one of her mitteued hands on the
sleeve ot the great fur coat be wore and
said:
"I think it Is yes, Jared."
He turned bis horse's head toward the
town.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"Back to the minister's. It's Valentino's
day, you know, and if you are to be my
valentine, I want you to-day."
An hour later they stopped at Jane
Cnrr's gate. She came skurrying out for
her letter with her apron over her head.
"I brought you a letter, Jane, and 1 got
a valentine," said Lucy, holding up the
big white envelope.
"I got one also," said Jsred, as he put
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Detroit Free Press.
WANTED HIS HALF OF THE BERTH
A Good Story Geo. M. Pullman Loved
to Tell of Lincoln.
There was one Btory of his career that
the late George M. Pullman of sleeping
ear fame used to tell with manifest de
light. It was as follows:
"One night going out of Chicago, a long,
lean, ugly man, with a wart on his cheek,
came into the depot. He paid George M.
Pullman 50 cents, and a half berth was
assigned him. Then he took off his coat
and vest and hung them up, and they fit
ted the peg about as well as they fitted
him. Then he kicked off his boots, which
were of surprising length, turned into the
berth, and, having an easy conscience,
was sleeping like a healthy baby before
the car left the depot. Along came an
other passenger and paid his 50 cents. In
two minutes he was back at George Pull
man. "There's a man in that berth of mine,"
said he, hotly, "and he's about ten feet
high. How am 1 going to sleep there,
I'd like to know? Go and look at him."
In went Pullman mnd, too. The tall,
lank man's knees were under his chin, his
arms were stretched across the bed and
his feet were stored comfortably for him.
Pullman shook him until he awoke, and
then told him if he wanted the whole
berth he would have to pay $1.
"My dear Bir," said the tall man, "a
contract is a contract. I have paid you
50 cents for half this berth, and as you
see, I'm occupying it. There's the other
hnlf," pointing to a Btrip about six inches
wide. "Sell that and don't disturb me
again." And, so saying, the man with a
wart on his face went to sleep again. He
was Abraham Lincoln. ,
James l'arton's Prediction.
In 1802, James Porton, the celebrated
biographical writer, made the following
prediction in regard to Abraham Lincoln:
History will say of Mr. Lincoln that no
man of a more genial temperament, a
more kindly nature, .ever tenunted the
White House; that he gave all his time,
his thoughts, his energies, to the dis
charge of duties of unprecedented magni
tude and urgency; that, huting no man,
he steadfastly endeavored to win the con
fidence and love of ull the loyal and pat
riotic, and that, in spite of four chequered
years of such responsibility uud anxiety
as has seldom fallen to the lot of man,
he bore away from the Cupitol the sunny
temper and blithe frankness of his boy
hood, returning to mingle with bis old
neighbors as one with them in heart and
is manner, in retirement as in power a
happy specimen of the men whom Liberty
and Democracy train in the log cabin end
by the rudest hearth to guide the counsels
of the Republic ami influence the destinies
of the people.
Lincoln When a liny.
An exhibition of Lincoln's practical hu
manity occurred while a boy. One even
Ing, while returning from a "raising" with
a number of companions, he discovered a
straying horse, with snddle and bridle
upon him. The horse was recognized as
belonging to a well-known drunkard, and
it was suspected that the owner was not
far off. The fellow was found in a per
fectly helpless condition upon the cold
ground. Lincoln's companions Intended
to leave him to bis fate, but young Lin
coin would not hear of it. At his demand,
the miserable man was lifted to his shou!
ders, and he actually carried him eighty
rods to the nenrest house. He then sent
word to bis father that he would uot be
back that night. He nursed the man un
til morning, and believed that he bad sav
ed his life.
The Ship of State.
Gen. John A. Logan relnted the follow
ing: "On the morning of President Lin
coln's arrival In Washington I called upon
hiin at Willard's Hotel, in company . with
Mr. Lovejoy of Illinois. We both urged
on the new President the necessity of a
firm, vigorons policy. He listened to the
end and then , said very seriously, but
cheerfully, 'As the country has placed me
at the helm of the ship I II try to steer her
through.' "
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LAW AS INTERPRETED.
Notice of an Incident causing death,
given to an insurance company twenty
ulue days after knowledge of the facta
was obtained. Is held, in Foster, vs. Fi
delity and C. Company (Wis.), 40 L. K.
A. 833, to be too late to be "immediate"
within the meaning of the policy.
The right of a servant to rely on the
promise of his master to repair defects
In the place where the labor is to be per
formed Is held, In Illinois Steel Com
pany vs. Mann (111.), 40 L. It. A. 781, to
exist for so long only as Is reasonably
necessary to make the repairs, and af
ter that period the servant is held to
have waived the defects and to have
assumed the additional risk. With this
case is nn extensive note on the rights
of a servant continuing work on the
faith of the master's promise to re
move a specific cause of danger.
Notice to nn employer that one who
Is employed to manage a brake con
trolling the passenger cage connected
with a mine has become Incompetent is
held, In Walkowski vs. Penokee & G.
Consolidated Mines (Mich.), 41 L. It. A.
83, not to be Implied from the fact that
the engineer thought he ran the cage
too fast, If there was nothing to show
that the Information has reached the
employer. With this case Is a remark
ably elaborate note on the subject of
knowledge as an element of an employ
er's liability to an Injured servant
Publication of a delinquent tax list In
the English language, but In a news
paper which Is otherwise printed in the
German language, is held not to be suf
ficient in state, Goebiil vs. Chamber
lain (Wis.), 40 L. R. A. 843, when the
statute provides In general terms for
publication in a newspaper printed in
the county, as the English language Is
the language of the country to be used
In all official proceedings, in the ab
sence of statute authority to the con
trary. The drainage of seepage or surplus
water from irrigated lands into a canal
from which water Is supplied for do
mestic purposes as well as for Irriga
tion, Is held, in North Point Consolidat
ed Irrigation Company vs. Utah and
Salt Lake Canal Company (Utah), 40
It. A. 851, to be wrongful, when the
drainage renders the waters unfit eith
er for domestic or for Irrigation pur
poses, and to constitute a nuisance, al
though a prescriptive right to , do so
might be acquired by twenty years' un
interrupted use.
The purser of a steamer who lives on
It Is held, In Jones vs. Skinner (Md.),
40 L. It. A. 752, to be unable to acquire
by such residence the right to vote In
a district at which the steamer ties up
at her home port, where he had for
merly acquired a residence In another
part of the city. Substantially the
same rule Is enforced In Howard vs.
Skinner (Md.), 40 L. It. A. 753, In the
case of a clerk who slept In a room on
the boat, and who had no other room
or place to live, and who was unmar
ried.
STRANGE, BUT TRUE.
Pretty Women Feldom Make Hand
some Pictures.
"It Is a curious fact," said an experi
enced New Orleans photographer'that
It lsu't the handsomest women who
mako the handsomest pictures. I'll
venture the assertion that nine-tenths
of the women who are noted for their
beauty are poor subjects for the cum
era, and It is undeniable that the more
striking and attractive photos are those
of people who seem plain aud luslgniil
cant lu life.
"Why Is it? Well, a beauty nearly
always owes her charm to something
beyond reach of the lens to her com
plexlon, her hair or the vivacity of her
expression. Very few such women
have regular features, and when they
are reproduced lu plain black and
white they are at a great disadvantage.
Their photographs ore generally unsat
isfactory aud are really not correct like
nesses. On the other hand, a woman
who Is regnrded as homely may have
singularly perfect lines, but attracts no
attention through lack of animation or
color. I'll cite you a queer Instance.
"A dozen or so years ago Maude
Bransconibe was the most popular
model In the United States for photo
graphic 'art studios.' Her bust pose
was as a nun, and her pictured face
was striklugly beautiful. Thousands
upon thousands of people have raved
over ber loveliness, but the real Miss
Branscoinbc, whom I had the pleasure
of knowing, was a demure, pale little
woman who would never In the world
attract the slightest attention In a
crowd. Without a doubt she was pass
ed unnoticed by many a person who
treasured her portrait as a marvel."
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Property of the City.
Bicycles ploy an Important part In
business as well as lu social life. The
distribution of bicycles to the employe
of German towns Increases from day
to day. In the cities of Hanover aud
Ludvlgshafen.and In some towns of
loss Importance, machines have been
distributed to the municipal employes
In order to facilitate their work. The
municipal council of Cologne 1ms Just
decided that bicycles shull bo reckoned
In with the communal budget aud
placed at the disposal of the following
city employes: Tax collectors, police
men, foresters, commissaries of police,
sergeants do vllle, watchman, men of
the health department and In the de
partments of water, gas and electrical
supply controllers, and all clerks In the
employ of the city, J he machines re
mulu the property of the city. They
are simply loaned to the employes,
Forty marks a year are allowed to th
borrowers for each machine, to keep it
In order. It Is expressly forbidden to
use the bicycles except In the perform
ance of the city's service.
When a girl writes her name
"Mayuie" or "Mai," she puts a label
upon herself that contains tho wor
Cheup. She may be sensible In some
respects, but no one seeing the label
will believe It. The "Mai's" and
"Mayme's" are not good daughters,
and they will not make good wives,
They are silly, Irresponsible, and ro
mantic. Show us a girl who changes
her name from Mary to Mai, and w
can read her palm like a fortune teller,
It Is all right for parents to Co m pur
prima doiinus with their daughters, to
the prima donna's discredit, but Is It
right for them to expect their friends
tc have the same opinion?
1
She Had Corrected Hie Pronunciation
and He Took Revenge.
He was one of the people who rather
pride themselves on being oblivious to
the finest distinctions of language. He
had once lived In the Kocky Mountains
for a short time, and the border novel
had gotten into his system. She, on the
other hand, was alertly punctilious and
sometimes overbearing In her superior
knowledge.
"The ruin of Spain," he remarked
casually, "has been that word 'man
anner.' "
"You mustn't say 'mannnner,' " she
observed, gently. "It should bo pro
nounced 'manyana.' "
"Oh, should It?" And there was a
world of sarcasm In his tone. "It ain't
spelt that way."
That makes no difference. It Is pro
nounced as I tell you."
lie changed the conversation.
"Politics has been right exciting this
year," he observed.
"I see you prefer the singular verb,
notwithstanding the fact that the form
of the noun is plural."
"Do I?"
"Certainly. You say 'politics has.' "
"Oh, yes. I just came from a small
town In Mississippi. They have only
one kind there."
I take a great Interest In political
celebrities. I once had the pleasure of
shaking hands with Mr. Mark Ilanua."
"Mark Hanna?"
"Certainly."
"Oh, yes," he proceeded, with an un-
forgetful glitter in his eye. "You mean
Mark Hanyer. I chanced to come
across him once. He was eating banan-
er. And, by the way, would you mind
sitting down at the planyer and playing
something in your own exquisite man-
er?"
"What shall I play?" she gasped.
"Oh, well, let it be something patriot
ic. Let it be 'The Star-Spangled Ban
yer.' "
And then he settled back In his chair
and looked' Inanely happy. Washing
ton Star.
RECENT POPULAR WONDERS.
Inventions of Pclence Which Are Ex
citing Much Attention.
Science Is acquiring a new dignity
every day. A Bhort time ago Menelek,
negus of Abyssinia, was addressed
through a phonograph by Queen Vic
toria, and the delight of the fighting
monarch Is said to have fixed no
bounds. Then, for the first time, it ap
pears, he recognized -t he worth of the
venerable lady who rules the world
round acres of Great Britain.
From time Immemorial men have
been keenly Interested in one another.
It is a very human sentiment. We study
Intently the souvenirs of historical men
and women, seeking to know better
what manner of beings they were. The
rude sketches of the Tharaohs, busts
of Caesar and Tonipey and Cicero,
tapestries of the days of ancient
France, drawings of Shakspeare and
Napoleon and Washington they all In
terest us to-day less deeply than they
Interested their contemporaries.
In a like manner, although on the
ground of affection, we get and keep
the photographs of friends. It is all the
undying sympathy ot curiosity that
man shows toward his fellow-beings.
Now comes science to increase our
concern. It preserves the voices of tho
rulers and leaders of men, offering to
many throughout the world new in
spiration and unspeakable plensure;
and now, latest of all, It offers the al
most living pictures of the great. No
doubt, following the route of the pho
nograph, the blograph will grow luto
common use for It Is not every sover
eign who will satisfy the blogruphlst.
So, by-and-by, in a deciule.or two, we
sliill sit down In our darkened front
room and see how our friend in Aus
tralia ate his brenkfast some months
before, and how our dear rich uncle off
In California planted the orange groves
and gold mines that may some day de
scend to us.
We have machines that can take a
picture of our skeleton, that can regis
ter our speech and our song, and that "
can represent every movement made
In the greeting of an auld acquaint
ance. Maybe the time will come when
we shall have our thoughts lifted while
we wait and presented to us on a sult
ably decoorated engraving. Tho won
ders of the world are no longer nine.
Boston Journal.
Belling Papers on the ItooC
Not all the enterprising newsboys ar
In the United States. The small street
merchants of Paris, when forbidden to
enter the cars and omnibuses, got over
a serious difficulty lu reul Yankee
fashion.
It was eaRy enough, of course, to sell
papers through the windows to people
seated In the vehicles; but how was It
possible to reach would-be customers
perched on tho Impetiules, the seats
provided on the roof? A youth prompt
ly solved the problem.
He procured a stick seven or eight
feet long, with wire clamps fastened to
the sides. Papers were put la tlu
clamps. Ou the top of the stick them
was a small cup with a bole in the bot
tom. The hole was a very Important pari
of the apparatus, for it reached nil the
way down; aud through It came the
copper coins of one or two sous, accord
ing to the price of the paper, which the
patron selected when the boy held up
the stick. Youth's Companion.
Out of III Line.
"Do you know," cautiously Inquired
a young man who was making his tlrsl
trip on an ocean steamer, appronehlng
a group of passengers on the deck,
"whether there's a doctor on board?"
"Yes," replied a fun-loving passenger.
"That Is one, standing over there neat
the rail."
The young man hastened over to th
grave, elderly personage who had been
pointed out to him.
"Beg pardon," he said, hurriedly,
"but you're a doctor, ain't you?"
"Yes," replied the other, with a slight
smile, "doctor of laws."
"Well, Dr. Uvlaws," rejoined tin
young man, "I wish you would con m
down to the cabin with me. My wife U
awfully sick to ber stummlck."
Philosophy.
"Anyhow," said Perry Patettlc ta
himself, as he curled up In the hay, "1
kin sleep long as I please 'thout belli'
afraid of mlssln' my breakfast, 'causa
they alu't no breakfast fer me to uiLss."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
SQUELCHED THE WOMAN.