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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1902)
TV fAxm an' the women is jest the same flrnrA ol" Bill Shakspeare's times. The '" " routd and the girls as nr:uge A '! ' Hil'"' rote bis rhymes. 'Tr roni' in :ue f hole emluriu' lot Of stuff by menot fame I've rc'l 'em all ten' I tell you what, tee .-iris U jestl the game. ITtM-r on Byroil Dryden. on' Alex ".lie, J As' lioi -out Thnrfoas Moore, Tht ' .-"'! ' K'r'l4 an' of blasted hope, Ai" h i ho miWytbey gwore. jhP lI.-k ;ire the vauie as Bobby Burns Sn.:s: m a "" yefrain TTii. t-f; inn.i syudies Vm, less he learns. . resi'u-.rcb la in vuin. 7o irion an.be women tney make no Aj i -fa ring to-day; Thf moon's as round, an' the girlg as ptru'iige. Ai tint's the mournful lay. Tue r.i".in goes on, jest as calm f c' bv:irht, As r.mud the wprld she whirls The:' h'.vear by the moon in the dreary night, An' swear about the girls. - Iialnniore American, HEN Milly RanRCome return ed from a six months' visit to the city she was accompanied by Harry Lawrence, a tall, slim young man, clad In clothes of the newest fashion and wearing upon his light eurls a shining Bilk bat, a fatal thing to do In the little, narrow-minded town of Groton. "A city swell" he was at once pronounced, and no type can ex press the Ineffable scorn with which these words were uttered. Mllly'g father, an old-fashioned, stub born man, looke.l at the newcomer and his clothes and then with a grunt of disapproval left the room to stable the horse. At supper Mr. Ranscome talk ed of nothing but farming and seemed rather pleased at the Ignorance of his guest on the subject. Harry Lawrence, however, was too deeply In love with the pretty face op- "would you say NO if" posite him to resent It or eveu notice it. He told Mllly's father that he in tended stopping in the village for a fetf days. "Don't ye work?" asked the old mau sharply. "Not In summer. I teach chemistry In the university, you know. It does not open until September." The old man grunted again, and poor Mllly's eheeks grew redder, and she proposed a walk. The news of the new arrival had spread through the village like wild tire, and every window they passed seemed to frame a pair of prying eyes. Some few who passed them even snick ered audibly, and Milly was in dis tress. She looked at his hands and realized suddenly that they were whiter than her own, his hat and his shoes shone like mirrors and a ruler could not be Ktraighter thau the crease In his light trousers. 8he might have known how country People would take these things. Pojr Milly, she liked him very much, and she wunted everyone else to like him, so that It was a very uncomfortable lit tle girl who crept between the sheets that night. The next few days we' hard ones for her. Her girl friends laughed when they passed Milly and Harry, and more than once she heard someone ay: "Just out of a bandbox" and ''niani toa's boy." And all the time she knew that she loved hlrn. One evening they started for a drive behind the old family horse. "Don't let him run away with you." called Mr. Ranscome, as they ambled out of the barn. Lawrence laughed good uatured ly. "I guess I can hold him In." The moon, round and mellow, rose lowly and lighted the leafy road for them, the breath of new-mown bay came to them In the soft breeze and the wickets chirped blithely. "Milly. I have to go back In a couple of days, and I want to ask you a ques tion first. Can you guess what it Is?" He laid his hand upon hers gently and she looked up at him. His soui was in "la eyes. "Don't ask It," she said quickly. "Do you mean you would say no?" be asked, and she noted the pain In his voice. "Oh, here Is the village." she said, and he turned away. They passed the tiny shop and the watering trough and then they noticed group of people outside the only sa loon In the place. An ugly-looking mau wtood on the sidewalk, and a pale little BE-STITCHED The new shirt-waist models are fasci nating Indeed. White seems to take the lead and the combination of black and white conies next in popularity. The most marked change In the new models Is the great amount of stitching used and the large buttons down the front. The stitched waists have a tailor-mnde effect and are bound to be popular. One especially pretty one was made of rath er coarse white linen, having four 2 lnch box plaits down the front, stitched wotnun was beside him, trying to In duce him to come home. The man was the village drunkard, whose temper was of such repute that no one ever Interfered witb him or crossed his purposes. The constable had once attempted to arrest him. but after two weeks in u hospital he hud seen the futility of his efforts. The Ranscome buggy was just oppo site the saloon when the woman put her hand on the man's arm and tried to turn him homewards. With an outb the man struck her and she fell to the ground. Not a man In the crowd moved, but suddenly the drunkard felt himselt lifted off his feet and shaken until his teeth chattered. "You brute," was hissed In his ear, nnd he was sharply pulled to his feet. The hand which had held his collar now moved down to his arm and felt like a vise. "Pick her up and take her home," said a stern voice, and when the man, sobered by the attack, looked around at his assailant, be faced the flashing eyes of "the city swell." Something In the set of the square Jaw and the numb feeling which pos sessed the arm which the young man still grasped cowed the bully, and he walked along with his wife without a word. Harry Lawrence settled his tall hat on his head again, wiped his bands daintily and turned toward the car riage. An old man left the group of silent spectators nud held out bis bund to him. It was Mr. Ransconie. "Fine eveuin', Mr. Lawrence," he said. Harry showed nil his white teeth in a smile, while he shook the man's hand heartily. "Isn't It fine? Never sow bet ter. Good-evening." and he gathered the reins again and drove on. When they had left the village Milly stole a look at him. His face seemed sad nnd his thoughts were fur away. "Are you still thinking about that man?" she asked gently. "No," he replied. s"What are you thinking about that makes you so " she stopped, star tled at her own temerity. "I mil thinking how 1 shall get along without you." Milly gasped. "I had, buoyed myself up with the hope that, you cared for me, a little anyway, but when to-night I asked you " I "You didn't ask ine anything, came the demure interruption. The young man looked at the blush ing, downcast face beside him. and felt a rush of new life within him. When they returned from the drive a dia mond flashed on the third finger of Milly Kanseome's hand, and she had promised to marry the city swell. In dianapolis Sun. MENTAL CAPACITY OF A 'CHICK. They Learn Readily to Do Those Actions Which Bring Food and Kuse. In 180(5 I made a great many experi ments with young chicks, testing their ability to learn a variety of perform ances, such as getting out of a box by pecking at a certain spot on a door or by jumping upon a little platform or by pulling down a string with their necks, escaping from a pen by going up a ladder or following an Intricate path through a maze, etc., writes Prof. Ed ward J. Thorudyke. of Columbia Uni versity, in the International Monthly. They learn readily to abundon those acts which bring discomfort and to emphasize those which are successful In securing them food, shelter, warmth and the companionship of their fellows. Their learning, like that of the fishes. Is essentially a process of selection. For Instance, a chick is confined in a cage from which it can escape only by pecking at a certain spot, and so open ing the door. It sees other chicks and food outside and reacts to the situation (confinement) according to Its inborn or ganization, by running about, peeping, jumping at the walls, trying to squeeze through any small openings and peck ing at the barriers confining it The chick feels a score or more of Impulses to a score or more of acts. If Its re action include one pnrticulur act namely, a peck at a certain spot it of course escapes. This one act Is fol lowed by freedom, food and general comfort T be other acts resulted only In a continuance of the unpleasant soli tary confinement If, after the chick has enjoyed free dom for awhile, we put it Into the cage again we have a repetition of the first event, except thnt the chick Is likely to run and peep and Jump ana squeeze less and to peck at the door sooner. If ; we continue this process, so that the! chick Is again and again confronted by ' the situation "confinement In a box of i SHIRT WAISTS. on either edge in black. Large white pearl buttons down the front and on the cuffs and stock of black and white dotted taffeta. Kelt of black velvet ribbon. Another stunning model bat wide Inverted plnits on each shoulder, covering the gatherings in the top of sleeve. Five small stitched tucks, either side of the front at the neck, give the fullness to the front. Stock of black satin ribbon with white linen turnover. such and such appearance" it con stantly decreases the useless acts and performs the suitable one sooner and sooner, until finally It pecks at the spot immediately whenever put Into that box. It has learned, we say, to get out of the box by pecking at a certain spot NEW YORK SOCIETY QUEEN. Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, the Leader of the Smart Set. If you don't know Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, of New York, you aren't any body. That is the dictum of smart society In the me tropolis, for Mrs. Gibson ts Its un crowned queen. Not to be able to quote Mrs. Gib son's latest witti cism, not to be acquainted with her gowns, not to have been Invited to her lust tea all these speak badly for the UHS. GlliSO.N. woman who aspires to social distinc tion. Mrs. Gibson, whose busbnnd Is the well-known artist and Illustrator and the creator ot the "Gibson girl," Is credited with having one of the finest figures In Gotham. She has a beauti ful voice. Inferior only to that of Mel ba, and possesses a charming muuner. Like many other successful society women she !s a Southerner and as Irene Lnngliorne was a famous belle In Richmond, Va. When she married, her husband was a struggling artist, and for a time in New York she de clined many invitations on the ground that she could not afford to accept them. She Is said to be the only wom an who ever refused an invitation to dine at the Astor table. Hut now her husband is famous and growing wealthy and she has made her way to the top of the social ladder. Mrs. Gib son Is related to many of the wealthy families of New York. Gypsy Methods of Communication. The ancient roud-signs of the Ro mnuy, the "patterau." takes the place of signboards or maps. The "pat terau" Is a little, carefully arranged pile of sticks, grass or stones, placed at cross-roads, where cone but a gypsy would notice it any more thau any one but a Romany could read It; but to him it is as plain as the noon day sun, and by It a succession of such wayside tokens one family or company can follow others who may be days ahead of them for hundreds of miles. Though the Gypsy has uses for other methods of communication besides the mysterious "patteran." he is not a letter-writer. He rightly cares first for his own Immediate family circle; the closest "lu-laws" do not travel to gether unless perfectly congenial or unless It is convenient for them to do so, and as the roving life Is not con ducive to letter-writing, eveu the uear est relatives do not usually bear from each other directly more than once or twice a year at most. In the city livery stables and pawn brokers' shops opportunities are af forded for the exchange of news, but for those who roam in small groups and rarely strike a large city or the great bureaus of Information, summer camping-grounds, where all the gossip of the year is retailed, communication of personal family news Is uncertain. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. He Was Not a Sucialist. There Is a curious little restaurant In Ann street where clerks and otllce boys and peddlers discuss business and politics over their frugal luncheon. A few days ago the collision In the New York Central tunnel was under discus sion, and a young Irish peddler was advocating public ownership of rail ways, while a law clerk was defending private ownership. Finally, at a loss for answer to a statement made by the Irishman, the clerk retorted: "Oh. you are a socialist." "Sure an I'm not" replied the Irish man Indignantly; "I'm a worklngman," New York Post Mormons in Germany. The 2.000 Mormons In Germany are total abstainers from alcohol, coffee, tea and worldly amusements. When you go anywhere by railroad, and expect some one to meet you at the station, and no one does, ever notice how funny you feel? A political pull Is often a great strain on the candidate's leg. ATROCITIES IN M. Rouyer, a survivor of the massa cre of a Kronen scientific mission by canuibals at Sileraka. New Guinea, on Jan. 1, in describing the horrible occur rence, relates that the yacht Salvantl, with the mission 011 board, had anchor ed off the coast of New Guinea, and that several of the explorers landed. After an apparently friendly reception from the natives the laiter treacherous ly attacked them during the night, mur dering thirty-two of the party. Includ ing Baron Yillars. Count de Saint Koiny and MM. Hagenbeck and Vries, and wounding thirty-three, including M. Rouyer, the chief of the mission, and another Frenchman named Iteimer. M. Eouyt r writes: "We were all sleeping peacefully when there was a great uproar and we were attacked by hundreds of natives carrying torches. Several of us were felled to the ground with clubs, hatch ets and spears. Others were overpower ed, carried away and bound to trees. I was among this number. I received a blow on the head from a club and fainted. When I recovered conscious ness at 5 o'clock In the morning I found myself tied hand nnd foot and sur rounded by savages, who, believing me to be dead, were keeping me for them selves. I saw the body of Baron Vlllars near me, bound to a tree. Ills body was naked, his head had been split open, and his eyes had leen gouged out. The Count de Saint Kemy had been de capitated and his head stuck on the end of a spear as a trophy. M. llagen- TIME CHECK ON POSTAL CLERKS. Every Employe In the Pontoflice Must Contribute to His Own Kecord. "Remember the Bundy" Is the watch word In the big postotlices, and Uncle Sam's gray-coated men are In constant dread lest they forget to "ring In" or "ring out." About a year ago the United States rostotfiee Department at Washington, D. C, conceived the Idea of procuring a clock to keep a correct record of the arrival and departure of all employes In that branch of the service all over the, I'nlted States, which resulted In the supplying of all postoffices of Im portance with the now famous clocks at a cost of over $100 each. The Bundy clock Is a large affair, having three strong mainsprings and an Intricate time-recording apparatus. Two of the springs work the clock and the other Is the power of the striking part, for C1IKCKI.NO tue time. the Bundy strikes off the time the clerks and carriers report on and on duty, not like other clocks that only strike the hours and half hours of the day. It is a complicated affair and many a poor hard-worked clerk and carrier will ver ify the statement, for It bus cost some of them much of their hard-earned and mall salary. The Bundy is worked as follows: When the otllce opens for business at 0 o'clock in the morning the clock Is the first thing attended to. The three dating keys ore used, and the date and hour. 6 a. m Is Imprinted on the tape; then the employes each take their key and "ring In" their arrival. Each employe bus his own number and that number la on bis key. He is uot allowed to use another's key or "ring in" or out any fellow clerk or carrier, under penalty of dismissal from the service. The let ter carriers have four keys, the first being used when he reports for the day at 6:30 a. m. When be goes out on his first trip he takes down bis next key, which is the key bearing the letter "L," and "rings out" and leaves the of fice. On bis return be Immediately 011 entering the office "rings In" his arriv al, the key bearing the letter "R." and after be has performed bis office work and It is time for him to take bis "lay off" or "swing" for an hour or two, a carrier not being allowed to work more than eight hours per day, be uses the key bearing the letter "E," meaning end of duty. As each key is "rung In" the clock registers the time to a frac tion of a minute. Letter carriers are allowed by law to work only eight hours, and when a carrier has worked over that time. If Duly for one minute, intentionally or unintentionally, be must pay the penal ty, which Is usually suspension from one to three days without pay, for Un cle Sam Is a very strict master in the postofiice and the Bundy never lies. There are penalties for failure to ring the clock on arrival and departure, for all employes, from the heads of the va rious departments to the porters. Let ter carriers are suspended from one to fifteen days, according to bow many prior convictions there may be record ed against tbem In the record book. Clerks suffer for their mistakes by be ing fined from one day's salary up. as the case may be, as prior convictions also count against the clerks. NEW GUINEA. THE SCENE OK 1 1 OH ltd IIS. beck was spitted on a bamboo and was being roasted over a fire. "I waited my fate. I was afraid to move. My head hurt me dreadfully. All around me the ground was strewn with corpses. Suddenly a grent clamor arose, followed by a fusillade. I opened my eyes and saw Dr. Kortler and the re mainder of the mission from the yacht tiring on the cannlbnls. I shouted and the rescuers ran to nie and cut the bonds which bound me to the tree. Th cnnnlabls tied, leaving many dead. The clothes of M. V'riea were found, but his body was missing. He had evi dently been devoured by the savages during the night." THE ENGLISH SPARROW. How the Obnoxious liird Was Wrought to This Country. Two old residents of Germantown took advantage of a delightful day to Raunter up Germnntown avenue, stop ping now and then at the different places of historic Interest along the avenue. They spent some of the time at the old Ship house, telling each other about the ancient structure, and as to how the ship came to lie placed there, when their attention was attracted by myriads of sparrows that congregated up on the roof. "All! That reminds me," said the elder of the two, "of the old John Bardsley house and the story of how the sparrow came to Genniintown." Walking up the avenue farther they came to a halt In front of a little white painted two-story house at the north west corner of I'psul street and Ger mantown avenue. For over an hour the two old men lingered In front of this "old house," and the following story was told: The house was occupier for a number of years by the late John Bardsley, bet ter known as "Sparrow Jack." During the time that William V. Smith rep resented the Twenty-second Ward In Councils he presented an ordinance appropriating $:ioo with which to pur chase English sparrows to destroy the measuring worms that had become u nuisance In the city squares. John Bardsley. an Englishman, but for niiiny years a resident of Geriimntown, was delegated to go to England to se cure the sparrows. Being familiar with the English birds, be had no trou ble In catching them In nets. He se cured betwe-11 300 and 400. On bis way over from England, one-half the sparrows died, but enough existed to Insure a rapid Increase of the little pests, which have since become more troublesome than the worms. Bardsley was always an enthusiastic admirer of the sparrows, and to show his love for them he fed them regular ly during the winter months, and had a number of fantastically constructed boxes, surmounted with weuthervanes and ornaments, for their use. He al ways reproved any one who Interfered with or abused the sparrow. Philadel phia Telegra'ih Had Given It Up. "The priest was here the day," said Mrs. Launlgun to her husband, as the two sat down to supper. "He said he w as hoping you nor your brother Tim would go to hear that walklug delegate that's making speeches all around the town." "Sure, and Ol'd no Intlntlons to go." said Mr. Iinnlgan, bis utterauce clogged by a biscuit "He said." proceeded the wife. Im patiently, "that the uian Indoolged too much In hyperbole. What Is that. Ar thur?" Mr. Lanulgan looked at her reprov ingly, and paused In the middle of an other biscuit, "Oi'm a tlmperance man these eight years," he said, loftily, "and If you are wishful to know what annytblug of that koiud Is, Mary Ann, It's from some wan else besides me you'll have to get your Information. Oi'm amazed at ye, woman!" No Cripples in China. There are no deformed or crippled Chinamen. If a child is born de formed it Is at once made away with. You may travel all over China and never see a maimed native. When a serious accident befalls one of them he Is likewise put to death. This Is part of their religion, to which they adhere closely. May's Girl Friends. "May says she's afraid be Is going to marry her for ber money." "Poor thing! She must have been looking in the mirror." Philadelphia Bulletin. "Say that again," said a girl to-day to a man who had complimented her tremendously, "and I'll make you mar ry me." When you slip and full, of course you have remarked bow foolish you feel AN ESKIMO NURSE-MAID. Brought to the United States by Wife of Kiplorcr Pcsrjr. Biography Is a department of litera ture which does not usually appeal la readers at the Mother Goose age. Nev ertheless, the biography of Miss Marie Ahulgiiito Peary, by her mother, ia that of a tot for tots; and the pleasure afforded their eiders is merely Inciden tal. Little Miss Prnry, born within th arctic circle as the long night km drawing on, was called the "snow baby" by her Eskimo friends, who wem uot satisfied until they had touched the warm skin of the newcomer that her whiteness was not that of ait actual snow image. One of them, a little girl of twelve, called Billy Bab, afterward liecumc her nurse maid, and returned with the Peary family to spend a year amid the wonders of civilization. The first of these was the ship; and It was on board the vessel that she learned to submit to although never to approve the Incomprehensible re quirement of her employers, that s should bathe and brush her hair everr day. Se had never had a bath before. The next was the railway station is "Igloo" go palatial that It was dltllrult to Induce her to leave It. especially as she distrusted that appalling new draft animal, the locomotive. She Inquired anxiously If It ate people; and when the train began to move she sat rigid, with bulging ryes, clutching the bark of the seat In front of her as the land scape flew at miraculous speed past the windows. To cat and sleep at regular times was something quite new; go It was to hnv put things away In special places. It took sad experience to teach her that playthings left trustfully anywhere on the sidewalks of Washington could not te found again on the game spot whea wanted. Bllly-Bah's flint Christmas celebra tion was a great event, but Ignorant as she was, she met It In the true Christ mas spirit, for she was go delighted with little Marie Ahnlghlto's presents nnd her joy In them that she scarcely noticed her own. It was not till after bedtime that Mrs. I'enry, seeing a light burning late mid iecplng Into her room to see If anything was uuilss, found her seated on the floor among her many gifts, only just nwnkened to the rap ture of possessing them. Bllly-Buh went back to her own peo ple at the yenr's end. When Marie Ahnlghito was four she, too, returned north with her parents for a season and saw her faithful nursemaid once more. She bad found Hilly Itah, men aged fifteen, a married lady and a per gon of consequence, whose husband was proud of his traveled spouse and her superior accomplishments as a seamstress and housekeeper. But alas! Rejoicing In "all the com forts of a home'' of her own, BIIIy-Bah hud decisively discarded the discom forts of a civilized toilet; the sponge, the towel nnd the hair brush knew her no more; they hud become mere mem ories of foreign travel, like the tele gruph and the locomotive. Tramp Mourners. Train 1 is every where uro wont te prize their boots ubove every oilier part of their wardrobe, guys Josluh Elynt In "Tramping with Tramps." Id St. Petersburg, lit least, there is good reason, although a strange one. The agencies which inuiiage funerals recruit from the trump class a cerlula number of mourners for each funeral. 'i lie agencies furnish suitable clothes and pocket handkerchiefs -every thing, in fuel, but the shoes, which the trump must be able to show ou his feet, or he will not be hired. When there Is a funerul the tramps guther at the Nlkolskl Market, and ars selected by un employe of the agency. Those chosen are conducted to tho bouse of the deceased. 11 nd there, In a shed, or even in the court, ten to thirty of them, according to the elaborateness of the funerul, undress themselves en tirely, even in the deud of winter, and put on the mourner's garb. Their own clothing Is rolled up in a bundle and taken to the cemetery In a basket, where, after the ceremony, It must be put on again. The promised wage for this servlr Is forty copecks a mun; but wltb tips It usually amounts to a ruble. A Monastery of Nobles. Burled iu the thickly wooded fast nesses of Austrian Btyria la the ancient monastery of Kekkan, famous for It history, and remarkable because of the rank of most of Its Inmates. Ia this Interest'ng place every monk Is a member of the uoblllty, and several of them bear names famous lu German history. The two fathers of the com munity act as cooks, and are Prince Edward of Hchonburg-liurteusteln and Prince Philip of Iloheulobe, both of whom were prominent In court cir cles. The porter Is one of the highest nobles of the Grand Durby of Baden, Baron von Drais; and others engaged In the most servile work of the mon astery are Baron von Sails, Baron von Oer, and Count Ilemptinue, all of whom were blgb officers In the Saxon army. It Was Ho. He Your hat looks very well with that wing In It She Yes, but It would look better wltb two wings. lie Oh! that's Just a matter of a pin ion. Philadelphia Press Just What He Wunted, ' Frank What! You going to propose to Miss Heartburn? Why, you're th last mau In the world she'll engage her self to! Harry I hope so, old fellow. Stray Stories. Opportunity takes a mean advantage of most people by golug around disguised.