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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1902)
BohemiiTNugget COTTAGE GROVH ...OREGON. A womnn does Hot begin to c maud untjljslio hns promised to obey I hums initio will Ijo n rent panahin It Is to ewt nboul $I0,000J00.-Uncli Mtasuro n niahfUUls every-dny con duoj rallicr than by Ills extraordinary uxcriious. iXCtl A iindsJup. How many of you know what they are lighting about down in Venezuela? jfen arc. coullnunlly going up against selftmoa 'thnt look Hko uioro uiouey and less work. Tlic IlljW eal ol man who Isn'tibetug fooled by nin'iimiv c so ccnera"jH""i u " ueal of lluio decelTlng himself. The new King of Saxony Is 70 years old! There seems to be one place left where tbo boy aren't gettlug all tlio goou Jobs. lfrom t)ic eagerness with wblch Boers and British are falling on each other's necks, It Is evident that each Is grateful for the help given to let the other go. Uockefcllcr's recent Investment of a larl'e sum of money In a bicycle fac tory may lie taken as an inuirauvu that he begs leavo to differ and Is will lug to back UjP An exchange says that a person's chiuccs of being struck by lightning are very slender. The use of the prep osition httcr iii place bt "or Is sug gested as an Improvement In that state ment. jKneasleru physician i-ays that mem bers of his profession can be bribed and that "they will do a lot for money." Hero U a man who knows he has his jftcc and does not wish to be selfish aBout It. .The Sultan- says Turkey has books cmbugh, Jfor. which reason ho will not P&mlt the publication of any more In that couutry. It will now be neces sary for the Turkish poets to become captalus of industry, i -Emperor WHUani says that when a German can look into the eyes of the empress he ought to have Inspiration enough to last him a lifetime. How nice It must be for her If the emperor talks like that when company Is not present. V Whenever the courts of. this country shall administer Justice with the same promptness, certainty, fearlessness nud with as little regard for persons as Is the casein the courts of England, after whlchours.;wcre patterned, lynching wTlf cense ' In the ifnlted States. 'but until then Mt. will be a standing re proach to tie people and their inachln err of Justice. A Wllmlmrton. Del., belle Is "the inmost talked-about woman of that city," because she rode astride at the horse show. Vpman'lndeed remains In bar baric bondage so long as.she'cauuot do ,'i sensible thing without being render ed conspicuous. Health, safety and good form all demand the abolishment .of the awkward aud antiquated side saddle. If riding Is to Increase with 'the release ot the horse from carriage service, women everywhere ought to .revolt against the barbaric prejudice which deprives them of the best en- "Joyment and best benefits of this no- 'blest of exercises. It Is not shade alono that makes It cooler under a tree In summer. The ."coolness of the tree Itself helps, for Its temperature Is about 45 degrees Kah renheltjaalltlmes, as that of the hu man body Is a fraction more than OS degrees. So a clump of trees cools the air as a piece of Ice cools the water In a pitcher. That Is why tho Legisla ture has authorized the park authori ties ot New York City to plant trees In the tenement districts. If the air can be made cooler and purer by the trees fewer children will die of heat ailments. As 4,000 more children die lu Now York during Juno, July, August and September than In any other sim ilar period in the year, the Importance of ndoptlng every known means to save life Is undisputed. Every town occasionally puts on a play for the edification of the public which Is no( announced on the bill boards. A village In New York renders the following performance In which the Baptist preacher and a Jealous young man play leading roles: The play -opens-at the cburchplcnlc. The min ister, an unmarried man, Is the vogue. Moreover he Is susceptible. Captured and cornered 'by the church organist, . ho dlscourses.-all the day long of love's young dream. Ahd now the villain ap pears. The organist's steady company' , shows up, Ho behaves rudely and his wrath ls'as thwrath of Achilles. The I next act Is brief but tragic. It Is on I the following feunday. The Jealous . lover lays for the preacher and wallops I tho ecclesiastic sorely. Then comes the curtain raiser In tho police court with - the villain In the dock. The pomilace. rent Into opposing factions according to creed, fill aud overflow tho right and left wings of the stage. Here the tcl grnph Instrument stopped. But It is easy to guess the sequel. Questioned by tho judge, tho prisoner glares at tho minister and tho organist and lowering hlsj'Qlco,toJho.fipor, huskily exclaims: "NaT guilty!" Pursued by the Inex- law ho goes to the calaboose Ills fine while tho mtn- ratnor than na -iSWSKi- m organist marry and live happily voter .after- Tbo only default of the' entire Entertainment Is to be found In the failure pf the preacher to flall'tho' Joalous young son of Belial who attacked him. Blr Vllfrld T.nurlcr Just prior to his recotit departure to Europe spoke of tho Alaskan boundary question as a se rious danger to British nnd American relations und n "menace of open con Jllct." It iieed not becomo a menace, however, unless the Brjflsh government s?oks to mnko It such. It Is Groat Brit nlu, not the United Stnies, which In this liistnnco Is seeking to alter boundary lines. Briefly stated, the llrttlsh con tention Is that the boundary of south eastern Alaska, Instead of following a lino ten marliio leagues (thirty-four and one-half statute miles) from the const line proper, leaps from' headland to headland at a distance of ten leagues from the outlining capes and promon tories. Such a lino would bring tlio British boundary much nearer the Pa- keltic and would glvo Great Britain con trot or important estuaries ana uoras lending to the sea. This claim, which was never advanced until 1S03, Is not supported either by tbo original trea ties, by tho maps and charts of cartog raphers or by any argument recognlzn- blc to reason. The Putted States pos sessions In this territory are precisely what tho Itusslan possessions were prior to meir purennse ana we mean- ing ol me original treniy negouatcu between Itussla and Great Britain In -c 15 uuiuisiokhoic. it must ue p.n- ent to the State Department that there can bo no yielding of American rights on this point The boundary question, It is said. Is about to bo brought up again for Una) negotiations. Whatever may bo required to secure a common survey of the boundary and a friendly demarcation of the line with scientific accuracy should be done; but from the essential point at Usuo there can bo no recession. The evidence in support of iuu .iucncan ciaun is.ovcrwnciming. Tlio great value of salt as an antl- septic ana the fact that nature appears to nave maae It an essential Ingredient In the food of nearly all animals havs made the medical profession Tery ho- pliable toward new theories or dlscov- erles regarding Its therapeutic quali ties. The doctors In fact are never un prepared for the announcement of some extraordinary cure effected by the use of this widely distributed com pound. That pneumonia can be cured by pumping an 8 per cent sodium chloride solution at temperatures rang- lng from 120 to 130 decrees Fahrenheit Into the lungs, however, naturally tax - es the- credulity of most physicians. This achievement was announced by Dr. W. Byron Coakley, of Chicago, In a paper read by- him before the Amer - lean Medical Association at tho recent conventlon at Saratoga. That such a saline solution would be death to all bacteria and would also have an antl-1 septic effect upon diseased tissue will be readily conceded. It Is a question of getting the solution Into tho lungs : In such a way that the patient could Stand the treatment Dr. Coaklej ! claims to have solved this problem by ' uie use oi an instrument invented by himself, which Introduces the solution into the lungs through punctures mada t by a fine gold needle. After the salt solution destroys the bacteria and cools j iu iuB luuiperamre oi me Douy it is claimed that It is absorbed In the blood unu uues uui ciog up me lungs, m doing this It protects the red corpuscles against destruction by the poisons ot pneumonia. Physicians are naturally skeptical regarding the effectiveness of this treatment, for the reason that in the attempts that have been made to j wash ont the lungs with salt solutions the patients have been unable to stand 'It' The demonstrations before the as sociation at Saratoga, however, are claimed to hare shown the Coakley method to be a success. If future tests should more firmly establish the effect iveness and practicability of bis treat ment Dr. Coakley will have scored a great advance In medical science and will have conferred a great boon upon bnmanlty. - Advertising Is compelling other .peo ple to accept your valuation on things you control. It takes time to extract all the Juice from the advertising. That Is why one cannot become successful without starting wit- enough capital to keep the machine In motion for a long enough time to seenre the full benefit of what has been done during past months. It usually takes from six months to a year to get up a steady motion that will afterward keep things going along largely by Its own 'momen tum. Advisor. Former Governor Thomas II. Waller of Connecticut gives the following sen- stlila i-lon-a nil thn Rllhhlect at flilrpr tlslng from a professional man's stand- point; The professional etiquette that MILK OKI prevents tb soliciting or law imnlnasg one nice mat in siock. instruct mm to by discreet and proper advertising Walk up to me, when he sees me emerg works a hardship, especially In large lng from the War Department, and get cities, upon young lawyers and gives an unfair advantage to old ones who have become known. Why should not a young lawyer, struggling to gain practice, have tho right to advertlso his profession ana a .specialty, ir ho rrom tue war ivepnnmeni to uie storo has one, without any more loss of char- where I've been duo to buy that con acter than merchant princes, like ex- founded hose for the last ten days. I'vo Postmaster General- Wanamaker, suf- fer from advertising their wares? If lawyers' services wero honorary only, as In theory If not in ract they ancient- l woman i inso a cnanco on going ly were, there would be an artificial home to-night without that miserable reason for tbe strained etiquette I forty feet of garden hose for any mon speak of; but as fees are now legally ey, and that's why I want you to pick recognized aud can be sued for nnd out the most persevering, rambunc even cpntlngent fees are legal and not cbampertous, why should not legal business be sought for In tbe same way that -any other business Is? It Did. Lady Visitor (to little gIrl)-What be came of that little kitten you bad hero Once? - Little Girl-Why, haven't you heard? Lady VIsltor-No! Was It drowned? 'Little GlrINol Lady Ylsltor-Iist? Little Glrl-Nol Lady Visitor Poisoned? Little Girl-Not Lady Visitor Then whatever became of it? Little GlrlIt growed up luto a cat -Philadelphia Bulletin. QUEER JOBS F0JIB0YS TASKS THAT MESSENGER LADS ARE ASKED TO UNDERTAKE. lingnRCd to Air liable or lOtf, AnUt lnrbrlntrd Individual, Accompany Ncrvmihotirt Keep Turn lit l!nr br Shop, and Da Other Odd lhttlc. They're, tltidlng new stunts for tbo messenger boys right along." remarked Hi,, mmini-pr at n looiil district luossell- !Kl.r omcAthtfotHtrMfty, "Airing babies and dog's, taking cnri of Jagged Individ uaU, accompanying out-of-town women on shopping expeditions, and Jobs of that sort are now old stories for the Jklds. 15utsvcry ouco In a jvhllc some thing new for them to do turns up. "A couple of Saturday evenings ago a business inau well known along I' gtrri.t Uro,,p0,j aml handed mo one twt p,j Bcr !lcanl ot ),eroro (u noctlon with the messenger business. I. want In wt shaved over at !iHflllk-8. ho said, montlnulnir a well !i,tr,,i,i,l,i i,riM-r imn. Mn shout ilm.- 1 quarters of an hour. The place Is al- vays Jammed up with fellows waiting for their over-Sunday shaves on Sat unlay evenings, aud I'vu . haa some wearisome watts there. I wish you'd hike a kid over there (or tue to uaU a place In the 'next' row for me. He can je. on that ho's due for a haircut, and ni drop around about tho tituo he's called to the -chair.' I "I sent n boy over to the shop, aud It went through all right The young- ster peeled his coat and kept a wary eye out that ho wasn't skipped In hi turn. A counle of mluutes before the boy was due to be summoned to a chair as the 'next.' the business man who hnd rigged up the little scheme dropped In, and when the lad was called by tho barber the man just slipped Into' the chair and the boy donned his coat, with a grin, his task accomplished. The business man told mo afterward that two or three of the waiting men In tho shop started to register kicks over the tmna.ipllnn until It nm nTntn Inol tn 1 them, when they calmed down nnd J laughed over tho Idea. j "During the races nt Bennlng a race- track man, wearing a lot of Jewelry, , put a new one over. When be got up ; to the desk he leaned over confidntlal- ly and said to me: J " ! want you to scud a kid down to So-and-So's nawnahnn with this rlmr.' removing a tine three-stone din man d ring from .his left hand. 'I want two hundred on lt-aud have the boy hurry "i sent one of the larger boys on tha trrnml. ami ho rpttirnp.1 nrnmntlr with the $200 and the ticket. The racing man bad observed me smile a bit over bis scheme, and he smiled along with me. -Well, It does look a bit finical, .tn' itv .m i, ti, -,.!,. bunch are travellng'around the streets to see what they can see all the time, and it anyot them happened to spy me going Into or coming out of a pawn shop the word would get around that yours .truly was on the crags, whlca wouldn't suit my game a little bit seer "Not long ago I had. another novelty here. A department official that I know well walked In with a shoebox under his arm. " 'Say,' said he to me, 'have you got any kid around this plant with No. 8 feet?' " 'All sizes, said I. " 'Good thing,' said the man, opening the box and pulling a fine pair of pat ent leather shoes out of It 'I want you to pick out a boy with No. 8 feet and have him Jog around town for a day In these Infernal contraptions. I bought the shoes yesterday. They slipped on all right when I bought them, Uut I al most died In 'em at the theater last night They sort o' drew around the Instep.- If you've got a youngster that can stretch 'em for me I'll pay right for the merchandise, although I'd hate to have to take a chance on paying the kid's relatives for bis life In case he failed to survive the ordeal.' "I handed the shoes over to a tidy lad provided with feet that fitted them snugly enough, and the boy wore them around for the day without any dis comfort. The man came In for them that same evening, and the next even ing he dropped In to say that the shoes fitted him Immensely, and that he hadn't been bothered a little bit by the drawing Insteps, after wearing them all of that day. "A very much flustrated man came prancing In here before 0 o'clock on Tuesda'y morning last" continued the manager, according to the Washington Star, "and leaning over the desk, and addressing me In a voice of suppressed wrath, mingled with emotion, be said: "'I want you to assign a messenger boy to meet me at tbe main exit of the War Department at precisely 4:02 this afternoon, rick out a boy with strong lungs, one that can holler so that he can be heard four miles. If you've got a powerful, unbreakable clutch on my Coat tails, men lie is to howl with all his might "Forty feet of garden hosel forty feet of garden hose!" nnd keep right on hollering the same all tho way forgotten It every time, and now I'll bo denied If my wlfe'll speak to me at the table on account of It. tious, leather-lunged son of a gun of a boy that you've got on your pay-roll to bawl "garden hose' at mo sixty times a minute from the Instant I break out ot the War Department building until I walk out of that store with the gar den hoso under my arm. If the boy Is arrested for disturbing the pence I'll nnv his fine, nnd cladlv! I'll bo eternnl- y hornswoggled If I'd let a little thing ke that feaze mo when It comes to having my home broken up.' " EXCITABLE PARIS. Kot BstUfled with the Humdrum Life of the Ilcpubllc. What Is the cause of tho separation of Paris from the rest of the country? We believe the cause to be that Paris Is bored. Tho republic may be all that Its ndmlrcrs contend, but to her It ap pear to liavo another and less charm- 'lug quality. It Is humdrum. Partly from her history, partly from being (ho rendezvous of all that Is ambitious, vain, nud esurient lu Prance, nnd part ly from tho "gvnlus" which gradually molds the people of every great city, Paris thirsts for an element of the dra matic lu politics which the republic U unable to supply. Its rulers hnve no fancy for grand coups: they arc not seeking war, but protective nlllancos: thoy art; tho center of no splendors! nnd they give no subjects for excited talk. Thoy prefer. In fact, that govern ment should tint bo scenic, while Paris prefers that It should be. Sho Is. there fore, dull; and Paris, when sho Is dull, Is discontented, and ready to accuse any government, no inntler what, nnd seek relief lu a chnugo of governors, no matter whom, If only they win glvo her lively times. So far as can bo per ceived, she rather despises nil tho pretenders. She has no cnndldato for the dictatorship. It she wishes for war In tho abstract. It Is not for any particular war. AH she knows clearly Is that sho wants something to be done which will tunko the world stare, and glvo to herself the feeling she most enjoys that of being fully ullvo. Tho respectable republic which tho provincials approve, because It gives them order nud Justice, slow but fair ly steady Improvements, and plenty of local expenditure on roads aud useful buildings, does not and cannot give her this, and therefore Paris frets, and anathematizes tho government, for which all tho while sho has no prac ticable alternative to offer. Sho will continue to fret, we fear, until events In some way grow exciting, nnd her fretfulncss will always bo n cause of anxiety to hor rulers They know It, however, and they keep n strung con trol ou her movements, nnd while France supports them they will move forward In n fairly determined way. France has probably never had a better government than tho present, or oue more sollcltout to secure her perma nent well-being, nnd It Is highly to her credit that the majority of Frenchmen have perceived this, and have voted what Is at least a consent that It shall continue to go on. London Spectator. A GREAT SMOKER. President McKlnlejr Always Fond of n Good Cljfur, 'Presldeut Itooscvelt doesn't smoke. nt leaet not lu his olllce during busi ness hours," said an attache at the White House. "In fact, I have never seen bliu smoking anywhere, nnd I understand that he docs not Indulge In tobacco In any form. Yes, Presldeut McKlnley was an Inveterate cigar smoker and was rarely without a cigar In bis mouth during his working hours In his office. I remember that be was sensitive to newspaper suggestions that he was smoking too much. For Instance, some of the yellow Journals occasionally pabllsbed a story that he was threatened with cancer because of his constant smoking. He didn't like this. "At another time I remember that a newspaper man wrote a story describ ing President McKlnley at work at his desk. Iu the story was something about the blue wreaths of smoke curl ing upward toward the celling. Mr. McKlnley called this young man In bis office and requested that he say noth lng In the future about his use of cigars, as It would surely lend to stories of disease from excesuve smok ing. Mr. McKlnley, during his long sorvlce In Congress, smoked a good deal, and tbe habit grew with him after he entered the White House. He found pleusure In a good cigar, aud when talking or thinking he had a lighted cigar handy. He bad a special brand of cigars that he bought and paid for despite the fact that admiring friends throughout the country sent him hundreds of boxes of the best ci gars ever put up. After we bad ac quired Cuba and tbe Philippines, box after box of tbe finest cigars made In these countries used to reach the Prea Ident from nrmy officers nnd friends. Very few men ever remember to bav.e seen President McKlnley at the bead of tbe Cabinet tablo unless he had n lighted cigar In his mouth or one lying on tbe table nearby." I loon for Cliloagoans. "Oh, we're booming right along," said tho Chlcaco man, as be talked to a PIttsburger In the smoking compart ment of a Pullman sleeper. "I suppose you noticed the city directory puts us .. . . I . fJi lJil ). n .1.. wen auove me ,uw,wu umi& iu iu? matter of circulation." "Yes," said tbe PIttsburger, "your directory man Is surely a wonder as an estimator. Tho Chlcngoan Ignored this nnd con tlned to remark: 'Of course, you have seen something of tho fast train that Is to run. between Chicago and New York'" 'Yes; you are glad of that I sup pose?" Surely." 'I thought you must be. It adds to your facilities for escaping from Chi cago, you know." Then tbo Chlcngoan relapsed Into dls coinflted silence. Pittsburg Gazette. Telephoning Through tho Earth. Among tho most Interesting experi ments In telephoning without wires aro those of Monsieur Ducrctct, a Freiich scientist. He places an ordinary tele phonic transmitter In direct communi cation with the ground, nnd, at a con siderable dlstanro away, on the other side of some buildings with thick walls and cellars, ho has a receiver connected by one wire to the earth and by another wire to a small metallic sphere let down through an opening to the floor of the catacombs beneath Paris. When words are spokeu luto the transmitter they aro heard In tho receiver with much greater clearness than In an ordi nary telephone, Monslcub Ducrelot Is continuing his experiments at Increas ed distances. If tho young man in tho case Is In love and the girl Isn't ho makes a fool of himself; but If the girl I In love and he Isn't ho makes a fool of her. A pessimist Is a man who believes that every chestnut has a worm In It When the otllceholdcr loses his grip he does less handshaking. A STUDY IN SCARLET. BY A. CONAN DOYLE. CIIAPTKIl I-Contlmted. Sherlock Holmes scvnicl 'delighted nt tho Idea ot sharing rootm with mo, "I liavo my oyo on sulto In linker trout," lio said, "nlileli would suit us down to tho ground, ton dim t mind tho rmell of strong tcbucco. I liopo?" "I always smoke 'ship's' mysoll," I nnsnorod. "That's good enough. I generally liavo chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments. Would that annoy you?" "By no moans." "Let mo m what aro my otlior shortcomings I get In tho dumps a times, nnd don't open my mouth for days on cud. You must not think am sulky when I do that. JiiFt let mo nlono and I'll soon bo all right. What liavo you to confess now? It's Just as vo.ll for two follows to know tho worst of veli otlior before thoy begin to llvo together. I laughed at this cross examination "I keep a bullpup," I said, "and ob ject to rows, licraiieo my nerves aro shaken, and I get up at all nor Is of uu godly hours, und I am uxttcmoly liny I have another sot of vices when I I'.ni well, but thoH) aro tho principal ones at present. "Do you inrludo violin plavlng In your category of rows?" ho asked, mix iouslv. "It depends' on tho player," I nnsnorod. "A well played violin is treat for tho gods; n badly played one " "Oh, Hut's all right," )iu cried will a merry Inugin "I thine no may con cider tlio tiling ns settled that is, if tho rooms am agreeable to you. ' hen shall wo mi tlienir "Call for mo hero nt noon, tomorrow nnd we'll go together and settle every thing," lie answered. "All right noon exnetly," wild I, shaking his hand. Wo loft him working among his chemicals, and wo walked together to ward my hotel. "By tho wnv," I asked luddenly, "how tlio deuco did lie know that I hail come from Afghanistan?" ' My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. 'That's lust his llttlo peculiarity," lie said. "A good many people have wanted to know how ho lluds things out." "Oh, a mystery, ie It?" I cried, nil bing my hands. "This Is very piquant I am much obliged to yon for bringing us together. 'The proper study of mankind Is man, y.u know. "You must study him then," Stain ford raid, us ho bid mo good-by. "You'll find him a knotty problem, though. I'll wnger ho learns more nbout you than you about him. Good by." "Good-by," Ianwf-crtil; nnd strolled on to my hotel, considerably Interested In my now acquaintance. CHAPTER II. Wo met next day, as tin had arrang ed, and Inspected his rooms at No. 221D Baker street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. Thoy consisted of a couple of com fortablo bedrooms and a single, large, airy sitting room, cheerfully furnished, and Illuminated by two broad win dows. So desirable In every way wero tlio apartments, and so moderate did tho terms seem when divided between us that tbo bargain was concluded upon tho spot, and wo at onco entered Into possosslon. That very evening I moved my things round from tho hotel, and on tho following morning Sherlock Holm cs followod mo with Bovoral boxes and portmanteaus. For a day or two wo wero busily employed In unpacking and laying out our property to tho best advantage. That done, wo gradually began to set tie down and to nccommodnto pur selves to our now surroundings. Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to llvo with. Ho was quiet In his ways, and his habits wero regular. It was rare for him to bo up after ten at night, and ho had invariably breakfasted and gone out beforo I roso In tho morning. Sometimes he spent his day at tho chemical laboratory, gnmoUmos In tho dissecting rooms, and occasionally In long walks, which appeared to take him Into tho lowest portions ot the cltr. Nothing could exceed his energy when tho working fit was upon him but now and again a reaction would seize him. and for days on end ho would Ho upon tho sofa In the sitting room, hardly uttering n word or mov ing a muscle from morning to nl,;ht. On these occasions I have notlcod such a dreamy, vacant expression In his eyes, that I might havo suspected him of being addicted to tho uso of some narcotic, bad not tho temperance and cleanliness of his wholo llfo for bidden such a notion. As the weeks went by, my Interest In him and my curiosity as to his alms In life gradually dcepenod and Incieus ed. Ills very person and appearance woro such as to strike tho attontlon of tho most casual observer. In height he was rather ovor six feet, and so oxc?s slvoly lean that ho seemed to be con siderably taller. Ills eyes wero sharp ana piercing, save during thoso Intervals of toryrr to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-llko noao pavo his wholo expres sion an air of alertness and decision. His chin. too. had tho prominence and squareness which mark tho man of determination. Ills hands wero Invariably blotted with Ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I walchod him manipulating his fragll philoso phical Instruments. The reader may sot mo down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my cu riosity, nnd how often I endeavored U break through the reticence which he showed In all that concerned himself. Before nronounclng judgment, how ever, be It romombored how objoctloss was my life and how llttlo thero was to engage my attention. My health forb d mo from venturing out unless tho woathor was exception' ally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break tho mo notony of my dally exlstonco. undor these circumstances, I engcriy 1 hailed Ilia llttlo mystery which hung around my companion, nnd spout much of my tlino In endeavoring to unravol It. Ho wna not rdudylng modlclno. Ho had himself, In reply (o n question, confirmed Htmnford's opinion upon Hint point Neither did hp npponr to hnvo pur sued any rourso of rending which might (It him fur a itcgrco In science or nny other recognized portnl which would glvo him nn entrance into tho lonrnod world. Yet his zrnil for certain atudles was rotnnrknble. and within occontrlo lim its his knowledge was so extraordinar ily ample nnd mtmito that his obser vations havo fairly astounded mo. Buroly no mnn would work so h"' to attain such prerlso Information un less ho hnd snino definite end In view. Desultory renders aro seldom remark ablo for tho exactness of their learn ing. No man burdens his mlpd with smnll matters unless ho haa bojuo vory cood reason for doing so. His Ignorance wna ns romnrknh! as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know noxt to nothing. Upon my quoting- Tliomns Cnrlylo, he Inquired In the nnlvest wny who ho might bo and what ho had done. My surprise reached a cllmnx, however, when I found Incidentally that lie was Ignnrnnt of the Conornlrnn theory, and oi tno composition nt tlio solar ya tern. That any civilized human bolna in this nineteenth century should not ho nware thnt the earth traveled round the sun appeared to mo such nn ex trannllnnry fnct that I could hardly realize It. "You appear to bo astonished." he said, smiling nt my expression of snr prise. "Now that I do know It. I ulrail do my best to forgot It." "To forget It!" "You see." ho cxplitlned. "I ronsldni thnt a man's brain originally Is like a little empty attle ami you havo to stock It with Btich furniture ns you rhoosn. A fool takes In all tho lumber of every sort thnt ho comes across, so that tho knowledge which might lie Useful to him gels crowded out. or n best Is Jumbled up with a lot o other things, so thnt tin has a dim culty In laying his linmls upon It Now the skillful workman Is very cnref.il Indeed as to whnt he takes Into hi brnln attic He will hnve nothing hut tho tools wlflrh mny help him In do ing his work, but of.theso he lis largo assortment, nnd all In tho most perfect order. It Is a mistake to think that that little room has elnstlcwnlls and can distend to nny extent. De pend upon It, thero comes a time whon for every addition to knrtvledgo you forget something that you know he- fore. It Is of the highest Importance therefore, not to hnve useless fnct el bowing out the useful onos." "But thn solar system! I protested "What tho douce is It to me?" ho In torrupted. Impatiently; "you any thnt wo go round the sun. If wo went round tho moon It would not make pennyworth of difference to mo or tc my work." I was on tlio point of asking him what that work might be. hut some thing In his mnnner showed mn that the question would be nn unwelcomo ono. I pondered over our short conversa tion, however, and endeavored to draw my deductions from It. He said thai ho would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his objftct. There fore, all tlio knowledge which ho pos sensed was such ns would be useful to him. I onumernted In my own mind all the vnrlous points upon which ho had shown mo that ho was exceptionally well Informed. I even took pencil and Jotted thorn down. I could not help mulling nt tho Monu ment when I bail completed It. It ran In this way: SHKRLOCK HOLMKS His Limits. 1. Knnwlodgo of Iltornture Nil. 2. Knowledge of philosophy Nil. 3. Knowlo'lgo of Astronomy Nil. 4. Knowledgo of FoIIMca Feeble. 5. Knowledgo of botany Variable. Well up In holla donna, opium nod poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. C. Knowledge of geology Practical, but limited. Tolls at n glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his timb ers, nnd told mo by their color a.ul conslstonco In what part of London he had received them. 7. Knowledgo of chomlstry Pio found. 8. Knowledgo of anatomy Accu rato, hut unsystematic, 9. Knowledge of sonsatlonnl litera ture Immense. Ho appears to know every dctnll of horror porpctratcd in tho century. 10, Plays tho violin well. 11, Is an export slnglo stick player. boxer and swordsman. 12. Has n good practical knowlndeo of llrttlsh law. When 1 had got so far fn my Hit I throw it into tho nro in despair. If I ennnot nnd what the follow In Irlvlng nt by reconciling nil thoso ac complishments and discovering n call lng which needs them nil, I said to mysolf, "I may as well glvo up tho nt tempt nt onco." I sco that I havo alluded above to his powers upon tho violin. These woro vory romnrknblo, but na eccen tric as nil his other accomplishments. That ho could play pieces, nnd dlfll- cult pieces, I know well, because nt my request ho had played mo Homo of Mendelssohn's "Llodor," nnd othor fa vorites. When left to hlmsolf, however, ho would seldom produce nny muslo or attempt nny rccognlzod air. Loaning back In his armchair of nn ovenlng ho would closo his oyes and scrapo carelessly at tho flildlo, which was thrown across his kneo. Some times tho chords woro Bonoroua and molnncholy, Occasslonnlly they woro fantastic and cheerful. Clearly thoy rolloctod tho thouahts which possessed him, but whether tho music Bldod thoso thoughts, .or whether tho playing wna simply tho rcuult of n whim or fancy, was moro than I could determine. I might havo robollod nrralnat thoso exasperating solos had It not boon that ho usually terminated thorn by playing In quick succession a wholo se ries of my favorite airs ns a Blight compensation far tho trial upon ,my patience. During tho first wook or bo wo hnd no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless n mnn ns mysolf. I'i'CBonllyluwovor, t found thnt lio hnd tunny acquaintances, niid.tlio-o In tho most different classes of unduly. Thorn, was omi little sallow, riU-fnced, dnrk-oyod fellow who won lutiiidufcd In mo ns Mr, Leslrndo, nml who came throe or four times In n single weeli, Ono morning n young itlil called, fnshlonnbly il reused, nud stnyed for halt nn hour or more, Tho nuno nftei nooit brought a Rrny-hendod, ueedy visitor, looking like n Jew peddler, and who nppenrml to be much excited, nnd who wns closely followod by a slip, shod elderly womnn. On nnother occasion nn old white haired gnntloiunu had nn Interview with my companion i and on another n rallwny porter In his velveteen uni form. When any of thoso nondescript Individuals put In nn npponranro Sher lock Holmes used to bog for the uso of tho silting room, nnd I would retire to my bedroom. Ho nlwny npolnglzoi to mo for putting mo to this Inconvon loifco, "1 havo to uso this room ns a place of business," ho said, "and thoso peo ple nro my clients." Agnln I hail nn -opportunity of ask ing him a point Manic question, nnd hgnln my dollrncy prevented mo from forcing nuotlior mnn to contldo In me. I Imnglned nt tho tltno thnt hu hnd some strong reason for not nlhidlng to It, but ho soon dispelled tho Id on by coming lound to tlio subject of his own nccord, It wns upon thn 4th of March, as I havo good reason to remember, that I rose somewhat earlier than usunl, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished hla breakfast. Tho landlady had become so neens tinned to my Into hnblts that my plnco had not boon laid nor my coffoa pro pared. With tho unreasonable petulance of mnnklnd I rang thn boll and gave a curt Intlmntlnn that I wns ready. Thou I picked up a magazine from thn tablo and attempted to whllo nwny tho time with It, while my companion munched silently nt his tonst One of tho nrtlcles hnd a pencil mnrk nt the bending, and I nnttlrnlly begnn to run my eye through It. Its somnwhnt nmbltlous title wns "The Book of Llfo," and It nttemptod to show how much nn obsorvnnt mnn might leer n by nn nccurnto systoinatla examination ot nil that enmu In his wny. It struck tno as being n remarkable mixture of shrewdness nnd of nbsurd Ity. The reasoning wna close and In tense, hilt tho deductions npponrod to mn to bo far-fetchml and exaggerated. The writer claimed by a momentary expansion, n twitch of muscle, or n glnnrn of the eye, to fathom a man's Inmost thoughts. Deceit, according to him, was an Im possibility In tlio case of one trained to observation and analysis. Ills con clusions wero ns Infallible ns so ninny propositions of I'uclld. So startling would his results ap pear to the uninitiated that, until they learned tho process by which ho had arrived at them, they might consider him as n necromancer. (To Us Conlinti.!,) The Minyin Ajc The marrying age, according to r-tn-tlntlcs, is rtiNidlly advancing. This accounts, x.'rliaps, for nnother fnct, that women are liegliinlhg to look younger and more girlish In the shady twenties nnd tlio early thirties than they umh! to do. Twenty-live josis ago n woman nt 32 who was unmarried would hno boon regnrded ns a hojM'lets iii mam. isow she is quno a gin at that age and her marriage is still thought of. If wo continue to grow old in this leisurely fathlon (he very nnuio "old iiinid" will ditsppenr from our vocabulary. If Indeed it has not douo hi alicady. Spi.klnJ of Royalty, DamocTos had been Invited to dlno with tho King of Syracuse. On taking his teat he liintuiitly saw tho sword hanging by a hair abnvo bis head. 1 Mippoto, he mi Id to the king, "yon call that tho hair apparent." IHonyslus, pretending to sou no humor in tlio remark, replied: "I don t kiuiw nlMiut thnt, my boy; but if it falls upon your head it will make wiuio crown print!." This shows that the ancients weio not nvcrro to Joking, even under trying circumstances. Now York Times. True Phlloiophy, Few men nro better known In the down town district of Now York than James Itellly, t ho man who is almost an exact counterpart of tho latedenerul tirant, Mr. Itellly was long connected with a loading navigation company ami Is very wealthy, lie Is now airangiug to buy three licurrcn, which will be for tlio free iimi of tho funerals of iioor pur- sons, "lor," says ho, "nothing so en- rage me as to hvnr of uu undertaker grabbing the last penny of a poor womnn for tho burial of her husband or child." Tint Woman to Win Scholanhlp. Miss Helen K, Wallace, a brilliant student nt tlio Mellmurne, Auitralla, iiulvenity, has Ix-on awarded tlio Hhakeieare scholarship of 150 pounds. This Is tlio most imjmrtnht scholar ship In tho gift of tho university, and it nas never ixiioru boon won by a womnn. The Vmhhlnx Weight "Tills trunk U overweight." "Now look bete, let mo ulvo von a tip" . Oil, vory well, then. In that case it isn't." Indianapolis News, She Wai Prepared, Ho I don't seo why n wnmnii shouldn't lay something by for a rainy my us wen iih n mnn. Hbo by, thoy do. I havo a lovo. ly rainy day skirt. In Memory of Dr. Johnton. Dr. Johnson's long association with the Strand, London, In to !o- com memorated by placing n lienutlfnl stained glass window lu St, Olomoiit's Dane chapol, Deth'i Surprlie. Both was dollghted with lior aunt's now ehnngcablo spring gown, "Oh, iiiamai" biio exclaimed, excited v. tho colors of Aunt Mnrv'a now slllc Irons nroall oxtompornncousl" Judge. A Wlie GUI, Alice How long should n irlrl know a man beforo becoming ongagod to him? uraco-un, long enough for him to roposn.