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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1899)
"TUB VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE AT A flUff STILL TELLS TIME. ..tr 77 DREAM THAT CAME TRUE, g g r- IIISUH wns .1 hint of autumn in the woodland tints, where the colors shaded from softest gray est gray-green through russet tones to deepest rod and brown, nud the breeze that swept over the uplands was sug gestive of chilly October, but the gold en spell of Indian summer lay on the valley, touching the ripe peaches with nn added bloom and wooing the late roses to unfold their fragrant hearts before it was too late to give their sweetness to the dying summer. In the rectory orchard, under the nhadows of the fruit-laden trees, vil lage lads and lasses hid and sought, and out in the meadow the children laughed and played and danced to the music of thclr'owu voices. The professor stood at the outer edge of n circle of Infant revelers, his Bpectacles pushed up on his broad forehead, his soft Hamburg hat tilted forward to shield his eyes from the euii. Gray eyes they were, with n keen ness in them that was reflected and that lent them a clearer vision for things that time had set at a distance than for present realities.. The iron-gray hair was brushed back and outlined features that were not unhandsome, though their sternness gave him a semblance of severity, un til he smiled. When the professor smiled children understood that the tall figure with its fife Jta? THEY TEBK SILKXT FOU A MOMENT. inclination to stoop was not likely to prove aggressive, and that the learn ing contained in that massive frame could ,be put aside with the spectacles; also that the professor might have been young once, before the weight of a laurel wreath had puckered his brows and powdered his hair with the frost that conies before winter. He was smiling now and looking with appreciative Interest at the game In progress. "Do you hear what they are sing ing?" he asked the rector's wife. JIrs. Errlugton detached herself from the tea urn to answer carelessly. " 'Nuts and May,' isu't it'" "The delightful Irrelevance of child hood," pursued the professor, "the sub lime faith in the impossible. 'Here we come gathering Nuts and May 60 early in the morning! Not con tent with demanding their autumn and their spring at the same time, they must have It early In the morning, too; all the world at their feet, with youth to make them enjoy it They have faith enough to remove mountains, but I am afraid the days of miracles are past." Mrs. Errlngton's glance lingered on him for a moment and then traveled to where a girl In a white dress stood un der the trees that bordered the rectory garden. "There Is Evadne." she said; "how fresh and cool and sweet she looks! Don't you think so, professor?" lie adjusted his spectacles to give a conscientious answer. "Miss Evadne Is always pleasant to look at," ho said, as he gazed with a painstaking air In her direction; "nt this distance I do not see her so plain ly ns I could wish." "And she Is always pleasant to talk to," added Mrs. Errlngton; "go and ask her if she would like some tea, profes eor." He went obediently, and the white flguro moved to meet him, while the echo of the words "cool and fresh and eweet" floated Btill in his ears. "I am sent to ask you if you will liave some tea," ho said. "Is that meant for an excuse or nn apology?" asked Evadne, demurely. "Docs my errand need either?" ho questioned in return, with his usual gravity. "You seemed to consider so," said Bhe, "in which, If you will not think mo conceited, I will confess you are unusual. There arc people," sho con tinued, noting his puzzled air, "who come and talk to me without any errand at all merely for the pleasure of the thing." A little Binilc was playing round her month, and through her curved eye lashes tho sparklo of her eyes meant mischief. The professor pushed his spectacles up again; when people were close to Jilm ho could see better without as olstaucc. "Tliera are people." ho said, "who might venture to come to you on their own merits, Miss Eva. 1 am not one of those forti i ite few." "No?" she Queried; lifting her eye brows, "yet your merits are by no means insignificant. They are public property, professor, and we are very proud of them down here. I have even." she looked away from him, "felt a little alarmed at the thought of them sometimes, and wondered wheth er we all seemed very stupid and dull to so learned a person as you." "Stupid and dull," ho echoed the words Involuntarily, while he was thinking what a dainty outline tlu coutour of her cheek nud chin made like a pink sea shell, and what n singularly sweet intonation she had! "You agree that we are so," she said, after an Instant's offended silence. "You add candor to your other merits, professor, I see. Well, the school treat is over. I think I must be going home ward. Good evening." She stretched out a small, white hand. He took it aud considered It for a moment. "Do you go across the fields," he said, "or round by tho road?" "Across the tlelds when I have some one with me." "Should I count as some one, or nm I too " "Too what too candid?" "Too old," he said, thoughtfully. She looked him up nud down. "I suppose that you are twice my age." "More than that, I am sure." "Has anyone ever called you any. thing but professor?" "Mymother calls me John." "Anyone else?" "No one, since I was a boy." They were crossing tho meadow now. In the distance Mrs. Errlngton waved a good-by to them. They had forgot ten about her. "Which would you rather be your self at your age and with your knowl edge, or an Ignorant young person llki me?" She had taken off her hat and was dangling It by a ribbon from her arm. Her hair was all milled, and one little tress with a glint of gold in it kissed her cheek lovingly. They had reached the stile and ho stopped to help her over it before he answered. Then he said: "Miss Eva, do you think It Is possi ble for anyone to gather nuts and May at the same time?" "Yes, if they get up early enough In the morning." "What difference does that make?" "Tho difference of not leaving things till they are too late." ne was still holding her liand. She gave it to him at the stile, and appar ently he had not remembered to give it back. Her eyes were like stars, and there was a rose-flush like day dawn on her cheeks. "How Is one to know whether it is too late or not?" "I thought you knew everything, professor. And you called me stupid and dull just now, so my opinion can't be worth having." "I called you stupid and dull? Do you know what I think you?" "You think me a vain, frivolous girl." "I think you the most perfect thing on God's earth." "Professor " "I have another name, Evadne." "When you have quite done with my hand " "I shall never have quite done with It. I want it for my own." "Such a useless, silly little hand?" "Such a pink and white little hand. Like a May-blossom." Ho lifted it to his lips, and they were silent for a moment "Evadne, Is a miracle possible?" "What would be a miracle?" she said softly. He drew her with gcntlo insistence Into his arms, and she raised hers and clasped them round his neck. "This Is one," ho answered; "It Is the impossible come true." "It was never Impossible," she mur mured, "only you were asleep and dreaming, John, and now you nro awake, and It is early in the morning." Now Yoik Mall and Express. Fcmlnlno Pioneers of Long Afro. A copy of n curious newspaper has been found in tho French national archives, says Literature. It 13 dated Jan.4, 180S, and is called L'Athenco des Dames. Tho articles are evidently written by women and tho object of the paper seems to have been an at tempt to place women on an equnl footing with men. TI10 feminine pio neers of 180S wero evidently nearly 100 years ahead of their times. La Fronde, tho Parisian newspaper writ ten, printed and published by women, is now in its third year and appears to bo successful, while only ono copy of L'Athenecdes Dames is to bo found. The desire to chase men runs In families. INDIANA SUN DIAL ERECTED 70 YEARS AGO. Only Town Clock of the If'"' U,e Mtnlslmil ViUlcy How the Hand ant rimo of To-day C111110 in tic Adopted. New Harmony. I ml.. Is probably tho one town In the Mississippi valley that has a sun dial town clock. It Is proba bly the oldest and most reliable time piece In the country. It has been turn ing off the minutes anil hours ami days since 1S21 without over 50 cents' re IKilr. 11 never runs down, never goes on a strike and as long as the sun does business It Is reliable. Today It Is something more than a timepiece It Is a curiosity. It Is hlstorleal-probably having an edge over auy other time piece In Indiana In this respect. New Harmony was a colony settlement. The building on which the dial Is placed was built by the colonists and was used by them as a barracks. It was erected In 1JSM. There were no rail roads In those days and as everything was local there was no need of any thing but sun time. Tho whole world ran on the same schedule then. For severnl years the colony operated by a number of sun dials and hour glasses, but this became unsatisfactory and at last George Itapp, the leader, conceived the Idea of having a town clock, l'irnt of It Kind. ne was probably the first to endow any Indiana town with such nn ad junct. He went to the forest and cut tho solldest black walnut tree he could And. Ho finished It down to six-foot lengths and mnde a facing Gxl feet. A strip was nailed across the top to throw off the rain. lie then had the colony blacksmith turn out a piece of steel THE SUN" DIAL TOWKll CLOCK. LThe picture ns shown Ijy tin- marking lelween wirvs :i tn!;tn 11 1 !!:2o p. 111 J wire. The date of the construction 1821 was printed across the top ln letters of lire ln other words, burned ln, as were also the hours. At the top and In the center Is the figure of the sun a thing of glory, with a man's smiling face and rays Jutting from all sides. From the nose of the sun the steel wire was run, coming to a point nud then fastening directly below the sun. The sun was then put to work nnd the hour markings were defined. Of course, the 12 noon hour was where the wire ended at the botom of the board. On the east side from the top the hours ran down In the following order: 0, 7, 8, U, 10. Eleven was on the bottom of the board, between 10 ln the corner and 12 In the center. On the west side of the dial, running down the side, were placed 0, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 was on the lower edge, occupying a po sition on the west1 which 11 did on the east. It will be seen that there were tw.o sixes. It was the beglnlng and ending of the day. Other markings until the sun went down could be reck oned on the wall very readily. Though the storms of seventy-eight years have beat against tho dial, It has not begun to show the wear. The llg ures are as distinct as though they were placed there yesterday. The col ony passed, another one took Its place nnd passed and New Harmony became an ordinary town. Generations have passed nnd babies have grown old and died, but still the old clock knocks off the hours just as reliably ns It did ln 1821, when It was put Into place. Tho old building Is now occuplc'd by a mer chant who has shown good business Judgment by utilizing the suroundlng space on the walls by signs setting forth his line of wnres. Sundials are curiosities now. Proba bly less than ono person under 35 years out of every 1,000 population over saw one. Still It has been but a short tlmo since tho sun dial regulated affairs, and though watches were used they took their time from the dial. Up to 18C9 there was no uniform time. In that year Professor Charles F. Dowd first took active measures for establishing a standard time. He sought tho rail road managers as tho persous best adapted to bring such n plan Into gen ernl service. In that year In this coun try nlono there were nbout seventy five different standards all of them on the sun basis. Adoption of Btnndnrd Time. From his work and energies evolved : -i t- M X If K It 0000000 key to Map Lout 7?mnv 'K. rteinvnv. S9i. 3MOlOM' lTtfi SauMiusY, 10". .0B CmiHVILl. 0BI. Loup AhPm 8V The controversy over the boundary lie tween Venesuela mid British Galium ha been waited for yearn. It brought the United States aud Great Britain to the verge of war In 1". when President Cleveland Mnt his fntnoim iiiessaKe lo Congress declaring that this country would not iK-rmit Great Britain lo deter mine the boundary line by uting violence against Ycnewcla. Venezuela never reoognlied the differ ent boundary lines proponed by Ureal Britain, even as demarcations of disputed territory. A brief description of the most Impor tant of the boundary lines follows. The map shows all the several boundaries and is nu invaluable guide to the proceedings of the tribunal: 1SM-The British acquired 20.000 m 1 mi re inilis In Guiana from the Dutch. IKiU The liritlxh resident minister In Caracas notified the Venezuelan Govern ment of the urgency of erecting light houses nnd placing buoys in Barium Point and Been Grande of the Orinoco, show In i; these places were acknowledged to be 111 Veneuuelnn territory. In io o, Point wjih claimed l) ih.- Iir,t.i, 1 .inn . .... tsken to trlnl In I 1 w, n, , 'j I.. nt lli.. ,..r . ' "HI lllllll- iimi .H-l-ll iJ I II 1 1 1 1 U (nr. .1 .... -...I ll... . I . ' nifo, Kiid the Hcetnt. ,1 the court under the p! n 1,,! ttj .. ,-j,'J mrv. In lHtMl (.'real ltr.m ,: , r1 .uuriiLn. IUinn aiuuiml ,.t .1.. I. ..... planted by Mr. Hrhumi. .r-k ul bore the British lln. t!- -,,:". liurernuient Kent limt nn ,. t Mr 1 tlque, IU pUMilpoteiilinr.v iii.iumrr ,3 ey roiH. to demand from 1 Hr.t,!) erumeut the rwoxnlih'ti f i!n- n ,- of the territory of Vein vn la. lKdl Urd Granville wnnl line to Dr. ItoJa, mlnii- r ut at I.oinloti. IbHi Mr. Fortlqtie J.r ..,.r. 1 ir, ..j Aberdeen n line to be .i. . i. it ,a KaverilltlelttH a a tllml tilonnni of ty1 dispute. Other linen er- pr. ;. JhV frequently by th Vein-nt. ..m li,r-r moist throuuh Dr. Jul. .1:1 .m nAbi June Maria ltojas. 1880 Iord Itoscbr rv boundary io the V 1 Uuunan Illaneo. lSM)-Lord Salisbury 1 - : . I j ! ary which ha Ihtu . u.. : ,1 Hue for arbitration. " l.S05-Tne Itoyal (I. ' - P. .;, of IiOQdon Issued a limp i ' 0 ltluii of ScAoniburtr!.' I .. . jH from Its position ou tin- n. ; 1 1 -. i.j later dale. The extreme of the 1 !nr 1 .f ' is defined ill a memorandum r .j Salisbury In INK) to Mtnwi.r I'rbaL.jt New York Journal. a est what Is now known as standard time and which aim has the sun dial uh its basis. Four meridians, each one hour apart sun time were chosen us stand ard meridians. They are the seventy fifth, which imsses near Philadelphia; the nlnetleh, osKliig near NewOrlenns nud St. I.uuls;the ouehtiudredtiud fifth, passing near Denver and the one hun dred nnd twentieth, near Virginia City. By the division thus adopted the ttpnee between them readily became divided Into minutes and they Into seconds, so that after all the world Is thus trans formed Into one grent sun dial of Imag inary lines not only tracing the min utes, but even the smaller divisions. Thereotlcally It was Intended that each meridian should govern the belt seven nnd n half degrees on each side of It; but there has been a slight variation from this. The local time of those places at the edge of the belt will differ from the standard time by half an hour. The details of the system were worked up by V. K. Allen, secretary of thnJ wny time convention. It v. as totnil lSvSii thnt the rnllwiiji tk l-'A It onrnest. In that year 00 o r nt 4 them adopted standard time. andso the United .States nnd the eui: racniil world operates on that plan TliMlist of the seveiity-Ilfth meridian Is ci!W eastern time, that of the r:n'l!tt) Milled central nnd that of the one bus dred and fifth mountain "'"1 tlie om hundred and twentieth I'ik-uc. Tm ndotrtloii of standard t:m.- Mile Net York's lime four minutes slower tl" previously. At the conference of tl International Geodetic association beH In Home In 1MW the question of cow polltnu time was first discussed. A womnlilways likes the bat that some other woman wears letter tto sho likes her own, nnd blames the ma Iner for It. A woman's dress never turns out u she thought It would. THE "KISSING. BUU " UNDER THE Ml.ROSCOPO. HF you meet a dark-cyod stranger whoso features resemblo n pnir of Ma lamps on nn ice pick, feeling his solitary way by menus of a flshpole covc-nw with .dog's hair, you will be safe in assuming that he Is meliinolestes p i'l nlhis kUiiiig bus. In order to recognize him nfter this fashion, however, It ' bo necessary to use a microscope. Tho illustration was obtained by this nieuu the Smithsonian Institution. j This hideous insect is called melnnolestes plcipes by tho scientific i""1 "J1 Is a predutory Insect. Until recently It was never known to feed on ""' favorite pasture has been tho cuhtcular bug that Inhabits bedding, nnd acceptable feeding time just nfter that bug has had a meal of blood from a being. In this way melnno, etc., gets a taste of human blood. It has n'' t;"" into the business for Itself, and taps Its food btipply without the aid of a vicnrw distributer. , . , The kissing bug Is black, has a fat body, and does all Its hunting by mi, e tho wolves In "Tho Jungle Hook." It Is about an inch long, hu a "Jrr0:! Itko ...... .1. iuu uuuh'iu nuuu, ii m uuoill mi mill H'lib, , l,,.n,l 1 1 1. . .. . . .. ,1,1 l mirks """"" uwhu, mm u ucuk as snurp ns mat or a mosquito, vin.' )cn victim, who Is always asleep, feels no pain, but tho stung parts swell to w times normal size In from two to four dnys. Collodion is used In the trentm" 1 he probable cause of tho provalenco of the melnnolestes this year is the nhundnnco of insect life to ho found everywhere. Nature has provided species to prey upon caterpillars and other Insect pests, nnd with tho llsnlp nnco of these the meliinolestes will dlsnppenr also. Agnin, nature 1ms lrY,u millions of parasites which In turn feed upon this Insect and destroy Its eggs. As a rule the meliinolestes plcipes makes his homo under tho hark of ro trees. The Insect runs with great swiftness iiniLJs hard to catch on that occou It files mostly at night. In the larvae stnto theso creatures resemblo B01c,Vthe the common bedbug. In fact, In the Stntes of California and Texas and la 1 Southwestern country where consldernblo nnnoyance and suffering are causeu its depredations, It is commonly known as tho "Great Big Bedbug." IP': Z Ul'0"" l.WW 1 .iiuir 1,1 Inl boon- be tB' ' (( alone 1U1IDU