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A VISIT FROM THE DEVIL.
How H U Satanic Majesty Once Made HU
Appearance In Bungay.
A rare pamphlet in the library of the
editor of a department of The Repub­
lic bea-a the following quaint title: " A
Ktrangi and Terrible Wunder Rought
Verie la tely In the Parish Church of
Bungaj— namely, on the fourth of thys
Augustin the Y ecreof ourLorde 1577.”
The story, stripped of the quaint lan­
guage in which it is couched, and brief­
ly told, is as follows: A storm of ex-
traorditary fury raged during divine
services in the church alluded to; rain
fell in torrents, and the lightning flash­
ed “ blue, red, green and in a mixture
of indescribable colors,” while the
thunder peals ‘ ‘ not only disquieted men
and dumb creatures, but senseless things
devoid of all life and feeling trembled
and shook with terror. ”
W hile the tempest was at its height,
a fiend from the lower regions appeared
in the midst of tbo terror stricken con­
gregation. The account says: “ It was
in form, as well as could be discerned,
of an enormous dog, of black color, the
sight whereof, together with the fearful
flashes of tire which then were seen,
moved many minds to the belief that
the end of time bad come, and that
doomsday was upon us. The evil one,
for be it was in such strange likeness,
ran with extraordinary speed into that
portion of the church where the major­
ity of the congregation was seated. In
doing so it passed between two persons
who were upon their knees in the atti­
tude of prayer, grasped and wrung the
necks of both in an instant, so that they
died presently as they knelt As he pass­
ed by another he gave him such a grip
on the back that he was drawn together
and instantly shrunken up like a piece
of leather scorched in a hot fire. ”
Leaving the church at Bungay, the
devil is said to have “ flown with a
greate noise and rustling” to the
church at Blibeiy, seven miles away.
He was seen to alight upon the root and
to instantly pass through it, dropping
from the vaulted ceiling upon the heads
of three persons ( two men and a boy,)
who were all instantly killed, “ beying
scratched bye the horyd thing and burn­
ed to nearlie a cracklyng. ”
The “ Book of Wonderons Visita­
tions,” published in 1687, 110 years
after the events mentioned above, says
that the prints of the devil’s claws
where he ran down the aisle of the Bun­
gay church were then still plainly to be
Been.— S t Louis Republic.
pu r e
TEXAS HOOPSNAKES.
THEY HAVE
HOOKS AND HOLES IN
THEIR LIPS AND LIKE FUN.
W ith ■ Fin* Sen * * of Humor They Piny
Jokes on Tenclerfeet and W om en—Go­
phers anJ Bullttnakes Create Lively Situ­
ations For the Hoopers.
Lawyer—W om an's Emancipation.
On tbe question, “ Is business life con­
genial to womanly instincts, and is it
essential for women to have a business
education?" Mrs. Croly, better known
perhaps a« Jennie June, said at the re­
cent meeting of Sorosis:
“ What are womanly instincts? Are
they alike in all women? Do all women
want to sit at home by the fire? Is every
woman satisfied to limit her life to the
nursery and kitchen? The habits of one
generation are the instincts of the next,
and is not this staying at home instinct
in this generation the result of the habits
of the women of the past?
“ Before the jtatriarchal age there was a
matriarchal age, when the women at­
tended to all the retail business o f life.
We read in Proverbs how the woman,
after she had gathered her maids togeth­
er and set them at their spinning, went
forth and considered the fields and pur­
chased them. And because of her good
judgment she was accounted a crown of
glory to her husband. It was a woman
who organized the first squadron of ships
ami sent them out on A mercantile ven­
ture. The reason of this was because
the men were all warriors, and the wom­
en controlled all the social, domestic and
mercantile life. There are today large
numbers of women in controlling posi­
tions in the business world. One woman
there is who is known on paper as J.
Brown and controls large home and for­
eign interests. A gentleman who had
occasion to meet J. Brown in a business
way after having known the individnal
for many years on business paper found
that J. Brown was a very small woman
at the head of r. very large establishment
where the only men employed were the
porters.
“ A gentleman who lectured to a com­
mercial class of yonng men recently
warned them to look out for the women,
for they had come to stay. They were
more reliable, more persevering and more
conscientious than men. The young busi­
ness woman is more assertive, more inde­
pendent than the business woman of the
past. They have less of the feeling of
gratefulness toward men, of timidity,
and they charge, I am happy to say, twice
¡is much for their services. The day will
come when it will be said, ‘Oh, I cannot
afford to have her; she charges so mnch
more than a man.’ ”
Then Mrs. Croly, who evidently is not
afraid of having her age approximated in
conjecture, paid a pretty and deserved
tribute to the men in her profession by
saying that she had been a business wom­
an for 40 years—almost alone in it at first
—and that she had never heard from
business men a word that they might not
have nttered in a drawing room fnll of
ladies, and that the journalists were the
most advanced and liberal of men in their
recognition of the intelligence and abil­
ity of women. Mrs. Croly finished her
remarks by saying that “ woman will
never take her proper position in the
world until she gets to be a money maker
as wel1 as a money spender.”
"The hoopsnake of Texas is as inter­
esting a reptile as you can find any­
where, "s a id a former resident of the
Lone Star State. “ It is unlike any hoop-
snake I ever saw in the east and a good
deal livelier. Under its lower jaw there
is a lip, with a hole in it, and on the
end of its tail there is a hornlike hook
that curves upward. Whenever the
snake takes a notion to roll, it throws
its tail over its snout, hooks into the
lip, and goes spinning away over the
grass as merrily as you please.
“ The snake can get over the ground
pretty fast by crawling, but it seems to
take great pleasure in rolling. Tbe un­
der part of its body is bright red, and
you can see the snake quite a distance
when it's rolling. Some say tbe born is
hollow and capable of ejecting poison,
but I don’ t know how true that is. Peo­
ple who are ignorant of how the Texas
hoopsnake is built are simply amazed
when they happen to see one change
from a crawl to a roll. They can’ t make
out how it is possible for the snake to
put its ends together and roll away at
snoh speed unless it sticks its tail into
its mouth. You w ill often run across a
hoopsnake that is crawling along lei­
surely, when all at once it w ill throw
its tail forward and go zipping off at a
speed, you imagine, tltat makes its head
swim. But its head is always level, no
matter how fast it rolls or how far.
“ I’ ve seen many a man and boy
amusingly taken in by hoopsnakes out
there. Every newcomer desires to posses»
a specimen, and they get it into their
heads that it is as easy as lying to catch
one. The tenderfoot thinks be can cap­
ture a hoopsnake by poking a pole or
stick through the circle made by its
body. Ho gets fooled, however, for the
cunning snake instantly unhooks its tail,
thus ridding itself of the stick or pole,
ruDs along on its belly for a short dis­
tance and then hooks into the lip again
and resumes its frolic with perfect free­
dom. Tbe hoopsDake has a fine sense of
bu. nor, I reckon, for it takes delight in
scaring women and tenderfeet by roll­
ing right up to them and dodging away
when they scream or jump. They tell a
The Large Flying SqDlrrel
story out there of a man who ran the
The large red flying squirrel is inter­ handle of a rake through a hoopsnake's
esting, but not beautiful. It is wholly circle and unhooked it The snake got
nocturnal, and, like most nocturnal an­ mad, struck at the man and hit the
imals, is extremely surly and spiteful if trunk of a mesquite bush with its horn.
disturbed in the daytime. It is as large It sped away then, and tbe man found
as a cat, with a face like a rabbit’ s. Its the print of its horn in tbe bark. He ex­
coloring is extremely brilliant for a amined the bush ofteo, and he took his
mammal, and in general appearance it oath that it died in less than 90 days.
resembles some curious monster in a
“ I once saw a hoopsnake hanging to
Chinese painting. The fur is a rich and one of the hind feet of a gopher. The
deep chestnut on its back, light chest­ gopher kicked and squealed and pulled,
nut below, its head white and its eye a and the snake kept tapping it on the
dull pale gray.
head and back with its horn. The snake
The wide parachute membrane be­ couldn’t have swallowed the gopher,
tween its legs is covered with fur, and and it tormented the little thing out of
its tail is long, thickly furred and pure deviltry. Its aim with the hook
round. This squirrel does not “ fly” in was unerring, and it acted as if it was
the proper sense of the word, but in the tickled all over every time the gopher
forests its parachute membrane answers squealed. The hoopsnake's fun came to
its purpose almost equally as well as an end very suddenly the moment an­
wings. It runs with a wonderful agil­ other gopher appeared.
The second
ity up the trunk of the tree, and to the gopher took in the situation at a glance,
end of a branch, and then takes a flying and it immediately hopped upon tbe
leap, with its limbs extended to the ut­ snake and bit it in the back of the neck.
most and the wide flesh membrane Tbe snake let go of the foot mighty
stretched.
quick, and all the lively writhings im­
This “ aerial slide” carries it forward aginable that snake performed in the
and downward to a horizontal distance next eight or ten minutes. It thrashed
of perhaps 40 or 50 yards, and it is no­ the grass flat in a space five feet in di­
ticed that, as in the case of birds when ameter, and I never saw a creature hate
making use of their powers of descent to die as that snake did. It finally
with fixed pinions, the squirrel throws stretched out motionless, and I cut off
itself upward and ascends slightly at its born, which had no hollow in it
the dose of the “ flight, ” perching on The wounded gopher was squealing iu
the bough it aims at, with all the light­ some brush, and its rescuer was trying
ness of a pigeon descending from a tow­ hard to coax it into a hole, but it had
er, to some point upon the roof below. been done for by the snake, and it died
— Spectator.
in a little while.
“ How it does make a toad’s eyes hang
Bowie'* G w »t Knife.
out when a hoopsnake gets after it I
The bowie knife obtains its name The toad knows that it’s a goner, and it
from Rezin P. Bowie, who lived in begins to hop and peep and squeal with
Maryland in tlie early part of this cen­ terror before the snake has touched it
tury. He had a brother who had many The snake is in no hurry, for it knows
enemies, and he, being turbulent and very well that the toad can’ t get out of
fond of hand to hand fights, stood in
its sight and it takes downright com­
need of good weapons. Rezin undertook fort in hearing the toad wail. It crawl»
to furcish him with a weapon some­ behind the toad, and when it gets good
what superior to any that could be found and ready it throws its tail forward
in those parts at that period. A knife
and gives the toad a smart thump be­
was made out of a blacksmith's file, and tween the eyes with the point of the
a blade was had nine inches long, to horn. The toad backs up a few inches,
which was fastened a handle of six and the snake seizes it by a hind foot
inches. The knife was simple, strong in Then the toad kicks with its free himl
build and had an admirable temper.
foot and claws the grass with its front
Bowie used it in 1!) sanguinary contests, feet, keeping up a piteous squealing all
and then, happening in Philadelphia, the time. The snake lets it kick and
be met with a cutler who fashioned it
claw for a spell, but by and by knocks
over for him. Bowie afterward settled
the toad on the head till it stops kick­
on the Mississippi, and entertained the
ing and swallows it.
celebrated actor Edwin Forrest, to
“ While a hoopsnake was handling a
whom he gave the original knife. For­
toad in that way one spring I saw a
rest placed the knife in his collection,
bullsnake interfere. The bnIIsnake of
where he retained it until his de \th.—
Texas is a big headed reptile about 3
Hardware.
feet long. Its body tapers all the way
like a cone, aDd it has two curved teeth
Haphazard Preaching*
A clergyman in Cushing, Me., is re­ in the upper jaw and is nonpoisonous.
ported to have a unique way of set aring The hoopsnake had the toad by a hind
texts. He passed around slips of paper foot, and of course the toad was mak-
upon which the people wrote vat'ou.. iug all the noise it knew how to. Sud­
texts that they would like to hear pr‘ ach­ denly a bullsnake glided out of the bush
and struck at the hoopsnake's middls
ed from. He then passed aronie'
and gathered up the slips and asked a with its upper jaw. The hoopsnake in­
young lady present to choose one with­ stantly released the toad, faced the bn 11-
out looking. She drew forth the text, snake and hit it on the neck with iti
“ What think ye?” upon which he born. The blow didn't phase the bull-
preached, according to report, a very sDake a particle. It returned the attach
excellent sermon. This method is cer- with a sidewinder that knocked th«
tain'y unique, but we admit an old fash­ hoopsnake out of the path. The lattei
ioned preference for a text selected early must have been very much astonished,
in the week and several days of careful for, instead of sailing into the big fel­
thought and study devoted to the dis­ low again, it cleared out at once, and
course preached upon it.— AngnstafGa.) i the bullsnake seized tbe toad right away
| and started to swallow it ’ ’— New York
J o u r n a l_______________________________
Sun.
A Book M iser.
Foul breath is a
discourager o f af­
A Philadelphia auctioneer says: “ You,
fection. It is al­ i would scarcely believe it, but there are
ways an indication men who will go without the necessities of
of poor health — life to gratify their cmze for collecting
, bad digestion. To rare books. I have in mind the case of «
b a d digestion is man who lives in a back street away u|
L traceable almost all town somewhere in miserable circum­
’ human ills. It is stances. hut who has a really fine library
•the starting point of rare books. When I have had sales oil,
of many verv ser­ I have known him to cotno in looking ilk«
ious m a la d ie s . a tramp, with the toes out of his boots,
Upon the healthv soilisl linen anil a general air of semlre
action of the diges- spertable vagraney. And yet he wouh:
t i v e organs, the think nothing of paying $50 for sum«
blood depends for its richness and purity. hook that lie wanted. His daughter came
If digestion stops, poisonous matter ac­ to me one day with tears in her eyes anil
cumulates and is forced into the blood liegged me not to sell her father any more
Imoks. as the family was in absolute want
—there is no place else for it to go.
The bad breath is a danger signal. and needed the money for household pur­
Look out for i t ! If you have it. or poses. 1 looked into the ease ami found
any other symptom of indigestion, that the old man's passion for collecting
take a bottle or two of I)r. Pierce's had transformed him into a perfect miser. ”
Golden Medical Discovery.
It will
It is lawful for any person to kill a
straighten out the trouble, make your
blood pure and healthy and full of nu­ grave robber In China the Instant he la
caught
In the act
triment for the tissues.
The spirit of the jnnior organization—
modest, but earnest—gives promise that
it will prove an admirable ally to the
older association.
It is jnst what is needed in every city
and town in the country. Even in the
small villages, where the scheme of gov­
ernment is simple, not half a dozen prob­
ably of the women residents know the
duties or term of serving of the select­
men or councilmen or w hatever the desig­
nation may be of their particular town.
Every woman's clnb in these small
places, as is true in the larger ones,
should devote certain meetings through
the season to the study of the govern­
ment of the place. Whether women gain
the right of suffrage or not, an intelligent
comprehension of methods of govern­
ment is their manifest duty.—Her Point
of View in New York Times.
Her Dream, She Think», Came True.
The following remarkable recent ex­
perience of a Portland lady is a fact:
She bad been absent from her home all
day, and that night she had a dream.
She thought that she had started to de­
scend the cellar stairs when a great snake
came gliding up. It reared its head close
to her and stood there swaying back and
forth, and suddenly the l ead began to
change and assnme the form of a hnman
head, and finally the face of one of her
neighbors was grinning at her on the
serpent's body. She awoke with a
scream. The neighbor was one whom
she knew but slightly, but with whom
she was not favorably impressed.
The next morning her servant, a most
excellent cook and so generally pn;>erior
as to have become almost a member of
the family, told her that she must leave
her, as the neighbor of the dream had
come to the house during her absence the
day before and offered higher wages and
less work and better advantages gener­
ally. The result was the servant went
to the neighbor's, and the lady feels that
her dream was appropriate. She had no
intimation or suspicion that this neigh­
bor had designs upon her cook, and there
was nothing apparently to inspire her
dream.—Portland (Me.) Transcript.
A Model Lawyer.
One of the prettiest and most charm­
ing of yonng New York society women
and a member of the Drawing Room
club has a knowledge of legal lore that
would astonish any one not acquainted
with the marvelous versatility of the
nineteenth century woman. “ I believe
yon wonld be a splendid hand to search
briefs for me,” her husband, a lawyer,
had remarked at one time. “ Well, then
I’ll take a course in law,” was the reply.
And for two years she devoted herself to
all manner and kinds of judicial verbos­
ity and with snch charming assiduity
that the musty old tomes were cajoled
into giving out their most cherished se­
crets without demur.
The otheY day a legal connndrnm was
propounded to her, “ If a man dying in­
testate leaves only two relatives, an un­
d o and a grandfather, which would in­
herit his property?” “ I shall have to re­
fer to my books,” was the answer. “ It
is always a lawyer's prerogative to do so
in questions of that kind.” “ O wise
yonng judge; O learned judge!” was the
admiring exclamation of the perhaps
skeptical querist, for the most astnte
lawyer would not have been betrayed
into a more definite statement.—New
York Letter.
Athletics of Frenchwomen.
W om an’ s Emancipation.
The Salle d'Armes Feminine, as it is
called, which was recently opened in
Paris, has been followed by the opening
of a Cercle d'Escrime des Dames, or La­
dies’ Fencing clnb. This institution is
nnder the patronage of Mme. la Colo-
nelle Derne, the Comtesse de Murat,
Mme. la Colonelle Ronsset and others.
The chief professor is a woman whose
hnsband was formerly a master-at-arms
in a military school. The device of the
club is “ Lndas Pro Froma,” as the exer­
cise of fencing is calculated to develop
special graces and beauties of the femi­
nine form. In no city is skating so gen­
erally practiced as in Paris, for the arti­
ficial ice arena» afford more opportunity
for the sport than nature is inclined to
provide except in Canada. These artifi­
cial ice surfaces are five or six inches
thick, very smooth and glistening, and
the air inside the pavilions is pleasantly
warmed with gas.
Frenchwomen, too, are devoted to bi­
cycle riding and may be seen in their
jaunty short skirts everyday in the park
riding, with or without a groom in at­
tendance, according to their rank. It
has been considered pertinent to criticise
the Frenchwoman as given over to vanity
and lnxurionsness, but the more one be­
comes acquainted with this dainty type
of femininity the more one learns to re­
spect the little knack she has of accom­
plishing all that other women do so qui­
etly and gracefully and with so little
flourish of trumpets that no one knows
that she is doing anything at all. It is
the supreme cleverness of the woman
that deceives ns into believing her in­
competent.—Paris Letter.
The Hon. Ettore Socci, a member of
the Italian parliament, through the pages
of The Humanitarian, asks if it wonld
not be possible to hold an international
women’s congress in Rome in 1895 in or­
der to give prominence to the women's
movement, which is spreading its ramifi
cations throughout the world. He is an
ardent advocate of the movement.
The emancipation and higher educa­
tion of woman, he declares, wonld not
destroy in her the feeling of wife and
mother, and still lgss wonld it undermine
family life.
“ It is much more probable that wives
will be unfaithful in places where they
are looked upon as slaves rather than in
more civilized society, since, in giving a
worthy position and a true personality
to the woman, unfaithfulness becomes a
crime, and duty is regarded as a reli­
gion.”
These is so mnch common sense in
this last observation that it must com­
mend itself to the judgment of all
thoughtful people, says an English pa­
per. Give a person liberty and responsi­
bility. and his whole being is changed.
Keep him in Bnbjection, and ha will be
In a chronic state of irritation and unrest.
The Modern Heroine.
An English writer calls attention to
the interesting change in the heroine of
the day. The simple ingenue Amelia
8edley and her sisters have been voted
tame and insipid and are dead and bur­
ied. Becky Sharp and her host of un­
worthy imitators, with their schemes and
their lies and their ultimate discomfiture,
have joined the great majority and vex
ns no more. Nowadays it is the sphinx
who is the rage—the creature with un­
fathomable eyes and large aspirations,
passionate impulses and pessimistic tend­
encies, a more or less happy combina­
tion of Schopenhaner and Musset, with a
dash of Gyp's flippancy thrown in. She
Is a complicated person whose most sa­
lient point, perhaps, is l.er absolute self­
ishness, her cynical disregard for the feel­
ings of other people.
According to the novelist, the great
feminine cry of the age is, “ Let me live
my life,” bnt somehow or other the girl
when she has a chance never seems to
go forth and give proof positive of this
overweening genius which places her at
such an immeasurable distance from her
Commonplace snrronndings. A story in
which this new development of the fem­
inine constitution does something be­
sides declare that she means to would be
novel. It is interesting, too, to see how
very markedly the htro of late has been
forced to stand aside for the heroine,
whether it is because of the notoriously
complicated moral constitntion of the
latter, or because of the increasing num­
ber of women novelists and the alleged
difficulty in the drawing of a hero by a
a woman, it is difficult to determine.
W om an’» Manifest Duty.
The Civitas clnb of Brooklyn, which
nas sprung into a famous existence, de­
plores with commendable modesty its
wide notice. “ We are jnst learners,”
•aid one of its members, "eager to under­
stand Brooklyn's municipal t.ffairs. Aft-
*r we know how to go to work and in
What way good can be accomplished we
hope to do something. Just now we are
•imply studying the rndiments of city
government."
The clnb is a strong and growing or­
ganization. Its first limit of 125 has
been increased to 175 for the first year,
and there is a large waiting list. It is a
•ort of offshoot or branch of the health
protective board, which baa done valua­
ble work lo tbs citr serosa tb* bri<U*.
Only One W ee, Faint Kick.
The Woman’s clnb of Montclair, N. J.,
the residence of Lucy Stone and Henry
B. Blackwell in 1862, recently met in the
parlors of the very house built by them
and now the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. Marshall. The woman suffrage
movement was thoroughly discussed bv
a brilliant and representative gathering.
As the meeting was drawing near its
close each person in the room was asked
how he or she would vote if the question
were at once submitted. All bnt one
said they would vote in its favor. And
even the one gentleman who voted in the
negative said that he believed in woman
suffrage, but tbonght it was a little too
soon to establish it.—Boston Woman's
Journal.
The Handwriting; on the W all.
That the enfranchisement of women in
the United States is inevitable is being
gradually forced upon the minds of its
opponents by the logic of events. Mrs.
Kate Gannett Wells, who has long been
a prominent Boston “ remonstrant,” is
reported in the Salem (Mass.) Observer
as saying to the recent graduating class
of the Salem normal school, "When
woman suffrage comes—as come it must
—and these young women are citizens,
let them see to it that the laws shall per­
mit a married woman to teach in th«
city schools.”
An Enthusiastic Sportswoman.
Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie of Pittsburg,
for whom the yacht Dnngenes* is now
being built at Baltimore, is an enthusiast
in all outdoor sports. She has a mag­
nificent winter home, also named Dunge-
ness, on Cumberland island, the south­
ernmost of the Sea islands, off the coast
of Georgia. Here she keeps a fleet of
boats. There is also one of the finest
game preserves in the country on the is­
land.—New York Telegram.
Skirt Dancing; Children.
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game, San Mateo county. Cal., ia one of
SOME FACTS OF INTEREST CONCERN­
the best schools lor boys on tbe Pacific
Coast.
ING FORMOSA, T H E BEAUTIFUL.
One of tbe popular amusements of
Siam is fish fighting, just as burse rac­
ing holds a high place in England.
The two fighting fish are placed in a
huge bottle together, and they proceed
to take each other's measure, shoulder
np to each other in schoolboy fashion
and back and push around the “ ring,”
tbe small fins vibrating rapidly all the
time, and each little being quivering
with excitement and wrath. This goes
on for Borne minutes, until, as the spec­
tators are growing impatient, one fish
suddenly makes a dart and a bite at bis
adversary’ s tail. Henceforth there is no
hesitation until one or other gives in.
Tbe Siamese back their fish jnst as
money is stnked on horses here, and
then tbe battle is oontiuned until one
fish is chased around tbe bottle by tbe
other. Bnt this is usually an affair of
an bonr and frequently three or four.
The fish are reared specially for fight­
ing and display wonderful plnck and
determination.
The tail is the part which shows must
damage, although it is very easily torn,
tint a good grip on the side fin is very
effective. They display considerable
agility in evading their opponent’ s
month and also in suddenly twisting
ronnd and taking a piece ont of its taiL
In 20 minutes or so these appendages,
which looked so brav: and bright as
they started to the fray, are torn to rib­
bons.— Times of India.
Partly W ith Chloeae and l a Many W ays
la Ahead o f the Celestial Em pire In
Point of Material Progress.
e
For many years it has been understood
In a general way by the civilized that the
island of Formosa is a most beautiful
place, that a certain highly prized sort of
lea is raised there and that its inhabitants
are partly Chinese and partly savage. Be­
yond these facts few have cared to know
and fewer yet, even among the well read,
have ix>en informed.
Now. however, since the beautiful Island
is to be turned over to Japan by China as
part of the price of ptace, the outside
world is making many inquiries, and
gradually many Interesting facts are com­
ing to light. Formosa is about 240 miles
long and 70 miles wide. It lies to the east
of the Chinese mainland, at an average
distance of about 90 miles, the body of wa­
ter lietwcen the two heing*known as the
Formosa channel, which is used as a thor­
oughfare by tlie Pacific Mail and many
other steamers engaged In the trade of the
far east. Although this channel is land­
locked, so far as the gales of the Pacific are
concerned, Its surface is apt to be any­
thing but a placid sea. as the typhoon, one
of the most dreadful winds of the orient,
is especially fond of blowing the biggest
kind of great guns there. The island is
A G o o d Fit.
A TEA GO DOWN AT TAMSUI.
A t the Wigan pantomime the ether
night two ladies w ho lived at a distance,
having to catoh an early train, were
obliged to leave the theater before tbe
performance was finished. Selecting, as
they tbonght, a quiet interlude, they
were passing ont of the stalls, when an
actor suddenly appeared on the stage,
and repeating a part of his role ex­
claimed: “ There they go— the only two
women 1 ever loved. One I couldn’ t
' have, and the other 1 couldn’ t get ”
The amusement of the audience and the
astonishment of the young ladies can be
| imagined.— London Spare Moments.
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.<The Bine Bells of Soctland” was
the work o f Annie McVicar, afterward
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Mrs ° rant‘ the daughter of a S c o tc h
| oilicer m the British army. The melody
; was long believed toJ)e Scottish, but is
uow known to be of English origin, be
ing an old English folk song,
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I » ous nature, can lie quickly and surely cured with Pain-Killer.
A s no one is proof against pain, no one should be without
Pain-Killer. This good old remedy kept at hand, will save 11
much suffering and many calls on the doctor. For all sum­
mer complaints o f grown folks or children it has stood with­ h
I i out an equal for over half a century. No time like the present h
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Pold everyw h ere. T he q u a n tity has b een d o u b le d b n t the p rice rem a in s
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hearing the n a m e —P e r k y D a m s A S o n .
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I have bought from the RECEIVER of F- L. POSSON A
SON, the stock, fixtures and good will of the seed busings
Istelv carried on by them and will cont nne the same at 2i>5
Third Street.
BUELL l.AM BKRsON, P o b t l a j c d , O k .
SEEDS
SHEEP-DIP
Eatab
186 «.
LITTLE’S— WON-POISONOUS, SAFEST AND BEST
Mixes with cold water,
improv* ■ the wool.
JAMES U I 0LIH t C0„ P w lM , Or, z n
SSE E
C O R B ITT & M ACLEAY CO ,
Inc. 1803 .
IMPORTERS, HHIPPING n d COMMISSION MERCHANTS 1 iberal advance made on approved
consig: m e n u of Wheat, Flour, Oats, W ool and Hop«. Special Imports from Chlua J kj an and I d *
dia: Tea, Coffee, R ce, Matting and Rues, Hpices, Sago, Tapi«K*K, ch in a N- t O 'l.e t c . F r o m iiv -
e»pool: Liveip 'o l F ne, Coarse and Lump Rock Salt, Chemicals o f all kinds. Tinplate, selected
No. 1 returned W heat Bags, Hop Burlap, Roll Brimstone, Ba s Ale, Guinness’ Porter, Sc tch and
Irish W hisky, Brandy and W in«», 'o r sale in quantities to suit the trade. PORTLAND, OR.
A ntifermentine
Preserves all kinds of Fruit without cooking, and retains their
natural flavor.
longitudinally separated into two parts by
a range of mountains extending from the
northern to the southern extremity Many
of these mountains are of volcanic origin,
an<* some two or three are still active
----- (IN K KGS OR BUT I LK*)-----
vents for the products of Internal disturb-
Second to none—
T R Y I T ...
No uia ter when* f om.
r O K T L A N D . OH.
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That part of the island lying to the west
of the mountain ridge is by far the more
C hichester 8 E nglish . R ed C ross
progressive, albeit the progress is mainly
of the Chinese sort, though somewhat in
advance of that of the celebrated empire,
TH E O R IG IN A L AND GE N U IN E
_______ _______ „ ____________
The products, besides tea, are camphor,
« n d ta H i d and Ooid n
boxra mk M with bine ribbon. T a k e no o th e r kind. Mrfust Subetitm.ona ond hnii-Uion* '
sugar, drugs, tropical fruits, spices, maize,
All pill» in pasteboard boxr«, pink «rapp#ra. art- 4 * n g r r o a * r t t a a t r r f r lt a . At PniKjriai.. • r aend na
dye stuffs, tobacco, rice, jute, hemp, coal
4 r . in stamps for particulars tMtimoniala and " K r l l r f f o r l .t t d lt * .” m Utter, b r re t u r n M u lL
CH AM PIO N N H II*.
| «.«»«*«* rmtioinntala. Kmm*
» o ld by a ll l.oe-al l*ruC r <*<*
and sulphur, and there is a rather exten­
l l l l ( l l » T K K i'H KM It A L i t » . , S M I M adlaou
I’ l l I L V O K I.I’ l l ! k . P A .
sive commerce between the dealers in these
In
all
the
out
door
«ports
of
the
season
articles and the rest of the world, the im- !
ported goods being principally opium, the weather is playing champion to kuock
“ IT I S I G N O R A N C E T H A T W A S T E S
cheap cotton goods and a limited range of out and close up games. A cA n ge will
manufactured articles. Along the western come, of course, and with hot weather will
E F F O R T .” T R A I N E D S E R V A N T S USE
coast there are numerous towns, chiefly come the fiercer struggle to make up for
inhabited by Chinese from Amoy, Swatow ost time. All this means a greater amuu nt
and other places in the province of Fukien, of wear and tear to the body, to its muse es
to the government of which the island has nerves and bones. What tbe damage in
all will be from sprains, bruises, wounds,
formerly been tributary.
Kelungis the chief city of Formosa from hurts, inHammations, contusions and the
a commercial standpoint.
It is located on like, no one can tell, but th*re is a cham­
the west coast near the northern extremity pionship to be won. important to all, to
which few give sufficient considerate n,
and owes it importance to Its exports of and that is the triumph over all the;e
coal dug from the mines near by, Tam- pains and mishaps in the surest, prv>mpt-
sui is another important city, the prized est way. 8t. Jacobs Oil is the champion
Formosa tea being its chief article of ex­ remedy for all s *ch ailments; it does n -t
i f you use the Petalum®
port. Taiwan, the capital, is much far disappoint and never postpones a cure for
Incubators A Brooder*.
Make m oney while
tner south than either of these cities. Be­ any cause whatever.
other» are wasting
sides its commercial importance, which is
CAS a n d
tim
e by old processes.
New woman has a lo tto learn.
considerable, this city brings forth the fur­
Catalog tel is all about
Emerging from her prison
it,and describes every
ther claim for attention that it is better
The new man «ay» it’ s now his turn
GASOLI Nl
article needed for thr
To ta’ k; »he »g o t to lUten.
paved, better built and better cleaned than
poultry business
almost any other Chinese city. Takao is
still farther south, and it Is from these two
L IK E A S IE V E .
last named cities that most of the fruit and
m echanically the best
.wheel. Prettiest model.
other exports aside from tea and coal are
The ch ief function o f the kidneys is to »ep-
We are Pacific Coast
sent.
ara;e from the blood, in i's passage through
Agents. Bicycle cata-
To the east of the mountains the inhabit­ them, of certain im purities ana watery particle»
t
logue,mailed'free,give»
whicn make their final exit through the bla <1
ants are mostly aboriginal savages, sunk­ der. The retention o f these, iu consequence of
full description, price», etc., aokwts watttkd .
P ETA LU M A IWCUBATOR C0.,Petalnm».Cal.
en so low in the scale of human develop­ inactivity o f the kidueys. 1 » prtduetive of
B ranch H ouse , »31 S Main St., Los Angeles.
ment as to make the Chinese civilization Bright's disease, dropsy, aiabetes, albuminuria
other muladies with a i f fatal tendency. Ho*
to the west seem almost like enlighten­ and
letter’ s Stomach Bit ers, a highly sanction*«!
ment in comparison. These savag«« have diuretic and blood depureut. imuels the kid
always llatly.declined to submit to the rule neys when inactive to enew their sifting fum - i t ASK YOUR DRUGQIST FOR it
and blrain from the vital current impuri
of the .Chinese, and there have been many tion,
t:e» which infest it and threaten their own ex
contests lietween tlie mongols and the na­ isteiice as organs o f the body. < a arrh o f the
tives, though these fights have been less bladder, gravel and ret 1 ntioii o f the urine are
maladies arrested or averted by this beniini
sanguinary than the encounters between also
troiroter and restorat ive o f organic aeti m. Mu
different trills of the natives themselves. aria, rheumatism, constipat-on, biliousness
According to all accounts, there Is always and dyspepsia also yield to the B.ttar», w hich is
apt e lily benefit ial to the weak aud uer
fighting going on among these tribes, and also
vou».
it is understood that the quelling of the
girl w ho has a piano and h pink »ilk ev* n
turbulent aborigines will be one of tbe ing A dress
is equipped for the v »ysge o f life,
first tasks undertaken by the Japanese whether she lias a cargo o f sense or not.
he
-NOTED FO R -
after they actually take possession of the
island.
A t ilt E A T S T A Y E R .
A number of English and German trad­
ers are located In Formosa, and it appears
As eom peti ion increase« it becom e» hardet
that the best part of the foreign trade has and harder for the bn ine«» man to »uceeed.
n d i u r « c gnition o f this fact, the public i«
drifted into the hands of these men. Some a often
inform ed t at this o r that thing ha» “ com
years ago a protege of Li Hung Chang to stay. ’ A strong purpose is good, but doing
named Lin Ming Chuan was made govern­ the thing is eveu belter. One o f the gr. ate»t *
JOHN CARLE A SONS, New York.
*
we know o f is Pain-Killer, the advertise­
or, and he at once began to introduce all stayers
m ents o f which we are printing elsew htre
sorts of occidental improvements, project­ This fam ous old family rem edy has stayed in
ing railroads, telegraphs and many other the liom fs o f tbe country 56 years, and is to ‘ a>
more popular than ever. This one fact prove*
-A N D -
new fangled things. It was largely due to it*
value, and m akis argument iinuece sarv
his energy and enterprise that the coal It only remains for the proprietors (as they aie
IMPROVED
mines iD the northern part of the island now ('oin g) to remind each com ing genera t o il
were opened, and it seemed likely at one that for over half a century Pain K iller h»s
been rec guized as t e handiest, surest and
time that he would soon cause his domain cheapes
cure for the com m on ills o f hum anity,
to lead all China in m iterial progress. It an 1 that a bottle on tbeir shelf will soon-, r or
A MILD PHYSIC.
has been explained that he did all these later save them trouble and suffering and
OVK PILL FOR A DOSE.
things In accordance with the wishes of money.
the viceroy and the imperial government,
H O W ’ S T H IS ?
In Every Detail.
who desired to test the availability of mod
ern mechanical improvements in Formosa
We offer On • Hundred Dollars Reward
bei.*re risking them on the mainland. for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
However that may be, the governor did cure 1 by Hall’s Catarrh Cure!
Those engine» are acknow ledged by expert en­
F. J. CHENKY & CO., Props.,
not carry out his plans of improvement
gineer» to be worthy of highest com m end» lion
TAKE
Toledo, Ohio.
for »iraplicity, high grad« iniiti rml nnd «ny>erior
beyond a limited degree, and he was or­
We, the undersigned, have known F. J
workmanship. They develop the full net uni
dered to be disgraced while in the midst of
P L U N D E R 'S .
bom* pow er, »nd run w ithout nn E lectric Hpnrk
Cheney for the last 1ft years, and believe
bis career of progress.
Battery;
the system of Ignition is sim ple, in ex­
hint perfectly honorable in all business
pensive and reliable.
It was claimed some four or five years transacnons and financially able to carry
For
pum
ping outfit« for irrigating purpose«
ago, at the time his degradation occurred, out any obligations made by their firm.
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no better engine can be found on the Pnelflo
LKIDNEY*. liver diseases , dyspcpsia .
that he had been detected in making com­
W xst A T a rsi,
Const.
^PIMPLES. BLOTCHES AND S K « DISEASE
binations with a certain German trader,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
For hoiaM ni outfits for m ines they have met
wiih highest approval.
-H E A D A C H E " * COSTtVCNCSS
W a i d i k g , R innan A M a r v in ,
whereby the trader got a monopoly in cer­
b l OOO
For interm ittent |»ower their econ om y is »in-
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
tain lines of trade and the governor took
questioned.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure ia taken internally,
a part of the profits—In other words, that
directly upon the blood and mucous
the two men had a “ deal’’ on. Lin Ming acting
Portland, Walla Walla,
surfaces of the system. Price, 7Sc. per bot­
Spokmie. via O. R «St N.
Chuan is said to have borne his disgrace tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
Railway and
Great
in the most philosophical spirit, and well free.
Northern Railway to
he may have done so, if the published ac
Montana point«, fit.
Paul. M i n n e a p o l i s ,
counts aw correct, for the degradation 1 b
M U S IC S T O R E —W ilev B. Allen C o .,t* e
Omaha, St. Louis, C hi­
«»’ deal, the largos', 211 First St., Portland.
said to have consisted simply of a button’s
cago «nd hast. AddrcfMi AME.
Chickering, Hardman, Fischer Piauo», Estey
removal and not to have included the cut­
nearest agent. C. C.
" “ easy term».
Organs Low
Low —*
price*,
Dunavan, Gen. Agt.,
ting down of any of his revenues or the
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T MU*—
J^IC—Send
catalogues.
Portland,O r.; R .C.Ste-
curtailment of any of the privileges of the
__ veu»,Gen. AgL, Seattle,
German trader who made the “ deal” with
T ry G bim ba for breakfast
Wash.; C. G. D ixon, Gen. A g t , Sp^ kane. Wash.
him.
No dust; rock-balla*t track; fine scenery; P«1
—MANE FACTURKD BY—
a e sleeping and d ining cars, buffet-library cars;
The course taken by Japan in the gov­
Piso’s Cure is b wonderful Cough medi­
ernment of Formosa will be watched with cin e.- Mw». W. Plug ret . Van Sielen and family tourist sleepers; new equipment.
the greatest interest by the rest of the Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N Y.,Oct. 28,1804
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Carious Facts.
The medical statistics of this country
have ’jeen studied by Dr. John T. Bil­
lings from the racial standpoint. He de­
duces many curious facts: Tbe infan­
tile death rate among the blacks is very
high; the race itself is shorter lived
than the white; it is less liable than the
white to malaria, yellow fever and can­
cer, hut succumbs more readily to tu­
berculosis and pneumonia. Irish chil­
dren suivive infantile diseases, but the
adult death rate is high; tuberculosis,
pneumonia and alcoholism cut them
down. Germans are especially liable
to digestive disorders and cancer. Jews
have a low death rate; they live long;
their diseases are diabetes, locomotor
ataxia and kindred nervous ailments.—
Zion's Herald, Boston.
The latest thing at 5 o’clock teas is to
have the children of the house brought
in to dance a skirt dance for the guests.
In London it is no uncommon thing to
see at the daily teatime a 5-year-old
child in an accordion plaited skirt dance.
When it is questioned if snch a practice
is good for the children, fashionable
mammas argue that it is—it gives them
O u id a ’ ft D resses.
grace and self possession.—St. James
The novelist Ouida is decidedly plain
Gazette.
looking, about 50 years old and “ over­
dresses shockingly.” She drives on the
New Orleans' Librarian.
fashionable thoroughfares in Florence
Mrs. Culbertson has been librarian of
every bright day, a gay picture against
the New Orleans city library for 18 years.
the turquoise blue satin of her smart
She is an accomplished scholar and has
brougham, in an orange colored batiste,
many times been of invaluable assistance
muck trimmed with lace, and a black
by translating volumes from the French.
guipure mantilla.—London Sue.
Dnring all the changes in the city ad­
ministration during 18 years there has
never been suggested the making of a Dr. P r ic e 's C rea m B a tin g P ow d er,
World*. Fair HI,hast Matfal and Diploma
change in the city librarian.—New Or­
leans Letter.
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tired in the morning as when you retire
at night, you may depend upon it, your
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