be taken advantage of in mors Iowa districts. There are uow 233 school districts or sub-districts In Iowa, where schools are maintained tor an average 1. L- Cisrsxtl. rr»prl«*«w attendance of less than six pupils, while in 2.500 the average attendance OREGON. EUGENE CITY Is less than eleven. Such methods of Instruction are wasteful when time and Don't let a great smash In crockery money could be saved by the transpor surprise you, especially In China. tation of pupils, and the larger classes, graded schools, and better class of The Methodist conference having teachers that could be secured would be dodged the amusement question the of benefit to the pupils. members are also likely to dodge it. Samuel lingers Ims lerlfied tli>story The popularity of horse shows would of Glnevra, the beautiful bride of Indicate that the^nlmal still stands so Francesco Doria, whose loveliness and many hands high lu |s>pulur estimation. pranks had been "the theme of every tongue.” At the bridal feast the bride The Methodists do not approve of all was wanting, nor was she to be found. kinds of amusement, but they apj>ear Francesco threw his life away In bat to have had all kinds of amusement at tle with the Turk. The father lived the conference. long after, seeking always the blithe girl whose fate remained a mystery for The remains of some gigantic but un fifty years, when, her family gone and known creature of other days have the palace in the hands of strangers, a been unearthed near Atlantic City, N. molderlug chest was found in a gallery. J. It may be the skeleton of the pre On being moved. It fell apart, and there historic mosquito. the skeleton of Glnevra revealed the Diamond thieves fed an ostrich H-’>. tragic Joke the bride had played In try Ing to make the bridegroom and th IMS) worth of gems while en route guests seek her In a secluded haunt Europe. This is an Insult to the pacify and facilities of that time lion She knew not that the chest had a snap lock, and Involuntarily made herself a ored Institution, the goat. prisoner unto death. Familiar as Is A murderer arraigned, tried, convict the legend, It does not warn against the ed and sentenced, all within one day. Is snap lock. Frequently the newsiHtpers the latest Item In the tine annals of report fatal cases of fright or smother •■Jersey Justice." That is not neces ing from the snapping of locks on fold sarily "railroading." It Is avoidance ing Issls or on doors not openable on of "the law's delay” and administra both sides. The most recent case, that lion of Justice that, like the giving of of the wife of a well known author, ulms, Is twice as effective because It Is emphasizes the danger of the snap lock on railroad cars. Mrs. Ilamlln Gar done quickly. land Imil to be removed through a win It is the crowning honor of the Baron dow at the only means of escape after ess Burdett <'outts, who has recently being imprisoned lu a railroad car celebrated her eighty sixth birthday, drawing room whose snap lock would that the world does not so much say not yield to key, spring or tool. how much money she Inherited, or how much she Is now worth, as how much That the Indian Is leaving his nativa she has given away for the good of her trail for the "white man's path” Is well fellows. More than five million dollars evidenced by statistics gathered from Is the record of her beneficence, und the annual reports of the United States there are few thnt surpass It. Indian agents. A greatly Increasing numlter of ludlans on the reservations, said "One-fourth or what have lately been reservations, "can Governor Him < nn read. Nearly a hundred thousand try a cast* no of them have completely adopted the they began.” w hite men's dress. Almost all of them who call cook Ito better than on the day they were married, ami are told ho have discarded tlie original dress of the three times a day.” What comtuime people of their tribes. Eleven hundred uient oration could better set forth, in dwelling houses were built by Indians co educational terms, the common prin Inst year, and the Indians on the reser clple of failure? Not to advance, as vation now possess more than twenty- Lord Bacon Insisted long ago. Is simply five thousand dwelling houses. They are, as a rule, no longer nomadic, no to go back. longer dwellers In wigwams. Exter Block raisers among our farmer read milly, at least, they are rapidly adopt era may be Interested In learultig that, Ing the ways of civilization. Are they according to Information sent to the nt the same time "becoming civilized" Htate Department by the consul at In the true sense? It Is not possible to Mainz, a simple preventive against the answer yes with confidence. They are hoof and mouth disease, so fatal In Its learning to rend, to live In houses, ami effects among cattle. Is reported to have to wenr white men’s clothes; yet unfor been discovered by a sclentItie Investi tunately, In some cases at least, the gator of the disease. It Is said thnt If vices of civilization seem likely to over well bulled milk, taken from the dis power some of the native virtues of the eased cattle, be fed for a period of race., To civilize means to eudow with about eight days to those of the herd the proper qualities of a citizen; and so Dot yet affected, they will acquire com far ns the reading ami house dwelling plete Immunity from the disease there Imlliin lucks these qualities, his trans after. formation Into the outward semblance The recent postal frauds In Havana of n white mnn fulls In Its chief pur emphasize, by the law of contraries, the pose. The duty of ti e white people to marvellous reach ami honesty of the ward the Indian la far from belug end mall system throughout the world. Au ed with Imposing upon him the super Ohio soldier, lately returned from the ficial marks of their civilization. 1’hlllpplues, displays ii little Jar of Jam tine of the most prolific fields of oper addressed to him In Manila. It re ceived the postmarks of San Francisco, ation for wily swindlers has fur many Honolulu, Guam and Manila; ami then, years been the "unclaimed estates" after a brief pause, recontinued Its long ami the "estates lu chancery” lu Eng chase. Iloilo. Negros, Jolo am! back to land, advertisements of which are con Manila; Hongkong, Yokohama. Sun tinually appearlnst In the American Francisco again; and tlnally that of the nevi »papers. These advertisements are Ohio village In which It was properly skillfully worded and bring to the delivered. The Journey occupied eight schemers thousands of letters froui peo mouths, ami cost 38 cents. ple w ho are already possessed of n lit tle money and have a natural desire to At the recent marriage of the crown possess much more. From the great prince of Japan, Immense multitudes list of applicants for Information the In the streets watched ami applauded swindlers select a few of those who the bridal procession, but not a person they have reason, after Investigation, lookisl out of no upper window. To the to believe will fall most readily Into American eye ami mind this seemed th«» trap am! prove the best plucking. strange But the Japanese explanation The cupidity of the victims la aroused of It was simple. It Is contrary to etl and then comes the process of obtain quelle ludis'd, to royalty for a Jnp Ing from them sums of money, con stantly Increasing In size, for the pi auesc to look down, either literally < tended purpose of pushing the claim» figuratively, upon a member of the roy al family, tine smiles at the quaint developing evidence, proving lineage, com-ell that would Interpret the vis etc. Hundreds of confiding Americans ual angle as a slight. Yet there Is much have been trapped, and, from the Dum that Is admirable ami worthy of emulii ber of such advertisements as are still tloti In scrupulous regard for w hat are appearing, we should Judge that the supply of gudgeons was yet far from esteemed duty and honor. belug exhausted. The w hole thing Is a In a little Western town, originally frnml ami a barefaced swindle, ami tin1 •el tied by Quakers, stands a i-hurcn In State Department of th«* United States which the practice of seating men ami Government has sent out a warning women apart still prevails. A few against all such advertisements ami an years ago, n newcomer luusteied cour nouncements. There are no great un age to cross the aisle and sit beside Ida claimed estates In England, and the bride The second Sunday another few dormant funds are small, averag man committed tin* same offense, ami ing not more than fl.NXl each, liver the third Sunday saw a generous 1,000 claims have la-on referred by the sprinkling of bared heads alongside United States embassy at London to a spring bonnets. The aged minister, llrni of solicitors, and of not a singh with outraged sense of propriety, chose one lias any validity whatever been for Ills text "Let destructl >n come proven. Don't be a gudgeon! upon him nt unawares; and let ills net thnt he hath bld catch himself," nml <sold*ltoatlii|f. inln- ed iio words In exposition. The Gohl.beaters, by hammering, can re men who had dared to stray from ea time gold leaves so thin that 282.1M«> tabliahssl custom rebelled at twlng must la- laid upon each other to pro eternally doomed for sitting beside duce tlie thickness of an Inch, yet each their wives, and left the church In a leaf la so perfret aud free from holes laxly The result la that today in that that one of them laid upon any surface, little town stand two church buildings, ns tn gilding, gives the appearance of side by aide, counterparts In size and solid gold. They are so thin that If paint and outlook; but In one th» sexes fornusl Into a book 1,500 would only are divided by a middle aisle, while In the other "promiscuous sitting" pre occupy the apace of a single leaf of vails. The trivialities which hinder common paper; ami an octano volume Christian comity may travel far for an of an Inch thick would have as many pages a* the tssiks of a well stockevl apter Illustration. library of I,N't* volumes, with 400 pages In each. The Journal of Education gives In THE RABBIT INDUSTRY. Kal«l««K Bunns on a Large »Hal« for tbc Market. Tbs rabbit fanciers of this country • re now taking up the Idea of rn:s ng bunny on a large scale for market pur poses. Many of those interested In the project aud who have experimented with blooded horses, dugs and poultry, believe that mure money can be made with less trouble from rabbits than from auy other animal bred for pleas DOB ■ b MONTH3<M-D PRIZE WINNER-IN THe LAST MADISON 3OUARE- • GARDEN POULTRY SHOW- ure and profit. The particular breed désir«d Is known as the Belgian hare. Some of these specimens have been Imported by Americans at a cost ap proximating Sl.OCNV each. Most persons in this country have not been educated to an appreciation of rabbit meat, although lu European countries It Is a common article of diet. The flesh of the Belgian liaie Is different from that of the ordinary rabbit In appearance and taste, and It is asserted that every one who eats it once acquires a permanent liking for It. It resembles frogs' legs, chicken or lamb, according to Its age and the method of preparing It. The manner of kill tig the hare for the market Is im portant. They arc likely to be shy. and me so strong and active that In Jump ing about to escape their captor they strike the sides of the pen so forcibly us to bruise the flesh severely. They must be handled gently, care belug taken uot to startle them upon near up proach. One of the most attractive fez tures of the hare breeding industry is the economy with which It can be un dertaken and curried on. A rabb tr.i Is a simple affair, consisting simply of a log shed. The fronts are of wire net ting. with waterproof paper shades that may be let down In bad weather. The floor 1s of earth, but at a depth of sev eral inches a wire netting Is laid to pi event the rabbits fiom burrowing out. For some reason Los Angelis Cal.. up to the present time has been the cen ter of the Belgian hare raising Indus try. On«’ company there Ims about 52OO.OOO Invested In a rabbit farm ami »« I's no animal for less than $1(0. and most of them for a large price. QUEEN VICTORIA'S COSTLY HAT. Mute nf Tortoise Hliell by Native» of tlie Navigator l«lan<i«u Her majesty. Queen Victoria, who In e dowdiest roj al personage In Eu- pe. has In her ¡Hissezlol! the most ex pensin' iMiimet lu the world. It Is not i triumph of the milliner's art, and It Is not likely to be the mode. In fact, th«’ Queen Ims never worn It. It 1s not one through which a hatpin Is easily thrust, mid oh, prime reason that Its use Is hopeless! It Is unlH*comlng. I'll«’ natives of the Navigator Islands wciv most anxious to make the Queen a present. T here was formed a com mittee, which debated long and pa tiently what would I h > most appropri ate. Jewels were out of the «illestion. It wouhl cost a fortune to give one of th«’ richest sovereigns In the world a Jewel that she would appreciate. Even the most gorgeous cloths were not ad visable. India had excelled them In w eav Ing. Th«’ gift should be suggestive of their part of the world and made by their p«M<pl«*. But what? that was the ques tion. Their women were skilled In plaiting grass and making It Into every thing from furniture, matting, and mu ral deeorntlous to gowns ami hats, but this would not t‘<‘ valuable euough. Aside from the thoughtfulness of ths gift. It must have some intrinsic worth. 1'he committee disagreed. One gen tleman n-slgmst In despair. The new menitM’r Injvcti’d some ginger Into the crowd an«l revived their lagging spir its. The new member said emphatic ally that even a Queen had vanity enough to want to possess tlie most ex pensive tsvnnet In the world, one of their own tortoise shells should tie made Into a lionnct. It should be carved by their own people, and while It would not cost them very dearly, Victoria would find It quite expensive if site went shopping tor It In Bond street. Th«* tins! members of the com mittee voted the new memtwr a know Ing one. and If they did not promise him a nionument It Is becan»«’ that form formation as to the plan In vogue In < ipp«wir<t to Wslking. Iowa for the transportation of rural Moat Chinese mandarins pass the children to school. 1'he law permits whole of their Ilves without taking a tlie authorities of one township to con single v ird of exercise The late Nan tract with those of another for the In [ king Viceroy (father of the Marquis struetlon of children who live at an Tsengt was considered a remarkable unreasonable distance from their character t-ecause be always walk«*«! schools Where the saving of expense l.i«»> steps a day In bls private garden. or Increased advantage to the pupils Under no circumstances whatever Is a , f uieatm »» « - « Hm' , , tnsy warrant It. arrangements may t** msudarln ever seen on foot In bls own Vi .ii1»': > ' tH>nnrt was made of a ma<h* for the trans|x>rtatlon of any Jurisdiction. whole sliea. The workmanship was children to am! from the school The vqiils’t«’ Never was t«»rtols«* shell plan Is In operation on the largest scale VS here British Kecrutting Is Done. artistballv carved. The shape Is Um- third of the rQrutts of the Brit lu Wlnnetiago county. There forty it of salvation ^pny las ulne eluldrv n are conveyed front two Ish army enlist In l»>n<lon and Dublin. In titio- tli«' Queen r< • . ’ am! one half to tlv« ami one half inllea, Wise Is the man who acta as If be ex ft. and wrote the committee a using tour t sms. at a cost of J25 a pected to live a hundred years, but la note of thanks, i ,ie Qms n found the month. Him e the plan was put In op prepared to shuttle off tomorrow. tn.it« r al. ss well as the shape, a llttl* •ration the county authorities have In practical as far as everyday wear A man who cauuot tell a story pretty been able to <! sp<-nse with four selioods g < > bu slo »< ut : tu Uie I’1©**1 mu •Bring a '»ar. The plan should weU should nut attempt IL r GREAT AMERICAN EYE-OPENER | aeum. But the committee, which feels that a load is off its miud. draw» men Cuffs« Fsvorit* »«!•>•!•■» »• »•»« tal pictures of Qeen Victoria driving Lnitcd Dial««- Ths acquisition of • ¿vMlderaWs down "The Lady * Mlle audQuoddlug to her faithful subjects and wearing area of coffee-ffrowing territory as * r* the gift that caused so many wrinkles suit of—the Spanish-American *ar fflvet more San ordinary Interest to th« sta lu the gray matter of its brain. Atlstles of “ coffee consumption in tuii lhe Saber-Toothed Cat. country. The American people have The most remarkable of all the ex become, without question, the greatest tlnct feline animals are those known to coffee drinkers 1« the world. We are naturalists as the *aber-tuoth«id cats or not only cunsuml!®: more coffee than tigers, a group comprising the greater auy other nation each year, but statis part of all the fossil forms. They date tics siftw that the amount consumed back to the earliest times of which we per capita each year is constantly on know anything aliout the family In the Increase. It has become by far the North America aud reach down to the most important item in the American time of man himself. A large aud dietary and its consumption is not con powerful species described from the fined to auy class. It Is the sustaining Indian territory by Cope live«! contem solace of the wage earner and the fa poraneously with the hairy mammoth, vorlte stimulant of the man whose as evidenced by tlie commingling of work calls for a high degree of mental their skeletons. There can tie little or energy. Following are the figures which show no <|uestlon blit that the hairy mam moth was contemporaneous with man the importations of coffee lu pounds In lu North America as well as in Europe. the years named, w'itb the population Their geological range Is from the close of the country for the same years: Population Pounds. of the Eocene to the later part of the 42.0« »(.(»>0 1874 ................. 285.01(U.ooO Pleistocene. 50.000.UOO The chief peculiarities of the animal ISM) .................. 446.000.000 6(1,000,000 18(10 .................. 499.OOO.Ol«) arethe extraordinarily elongated canine 65,000,000 1802 ..................640,(»)O,0UO teeth. The tail is of unusual length 1893 .................. 563.000.000 67,000,000 and the legs are short. The auluial 1897 ..................809.000,000 72.(«»>.000 measured alxiut seven feet lu length 1898 ................. 804,000.000 74,000,000 76,000.000 aside from the tall. The lower Jaws 1809 ................. 878,000,000 have a downward projection In front, The countries that consume the tyeat due to a flauge-llke widening of the est portion of the world's coffee crop Juwlxinea. which doubtless served as a are Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, the protection to the teeth, preventing their Uuited States aud Germany. It is injury or loss. Iu some of the larger claimed, how«.er, that the popularity of ten. so great in England and Russia, Is now on the decline and their con sumption of coffee Is increasing at such a rapid rate that they will soon rank with Germany and the United States as coffee drinkers. Hygienic ami dietetic authorities will doubtless view this Increase In the con sumption of coffee with much appre hension. They stoutly maintain that coffee drinking Is injurious to the race. They trace all sorts of digestive de rangements to the excessive drinking of coffee. Other authorities, however, are disposed to regard this increase In coffee drinking as a hopeful Indication of an increasing tendency to abstain from alcoholic stimulation. Indeed, there are many who adhere to the be lief that coffee is a specific for alcohol ism. and that any marked Increase in its consumption means a decline in the use of spirituous liquors. It Is noted In N. J. tills connection that Germany, the most extensive consumer of malt liquors, is forms from South America this flange next to tne United States the greatest was not present, while the canine teeth consumer of coffee. Whatever diverse were even more elongated than Is the views may be entertained regarding the case with this species, attaining a hygienic or food value of coffee, there length of over h I x Inches and protrud Is no denying the fact that It appears ing far below the Jaws when closed.— to tie essential to meet the dietetic re quirements of modern American meth Popular Science Monthly. ods of living.—Chicago Times-Herald. GIRLHOOD OF YESTERDAY. Propensities thnt the Twentieth Cen tury Maiden Might Well Revive. "Arabella is safely shut away iu an old daguerrotype, and there is nothing left to her memory but a few dead rose- leaves nml tlie fading dreams iu the hearts of the old. But we would otter to her memory a tribute of praise for certain 'sweet endearlug young charms’ which are almost lost arts at the threshold of the 20th century,” writes Carrie E. Garret lu the Woman's Home Companion. "True, Arabella was a pale, faint »tar In the brilliant light of the New Girl, and yet. looking Into that old da guerreotype tin Just the right Hue of vision), one sees some sweet, old-fash- lolled propensities which have been banished to tlie cobwebs aud dust of age, but which even the proud New Girl would do well to adopt. "if It Isold fasliioue I to be m «lest,then It Is a grand, goo I old fashion, aud we need to dig up out of the past and give it a genuine 19th century ‘boom.’ Old- fashioned gowns, old songs, old plays, are born again after years of burial, and delight new generations. Happy If some old fashloued virtues long abandoned and forgotten might be resurrected and become the rage! Is there anything so refreshing (ami so rare) lu this weary world as a sweet, unaffistisl, modest youth? After the cheap Jests and shrugs and manner isms of society, a pure, frank, unspoiled manner Is like sunshine ou the waters of a brook after the yellow glare of gas light. Arabella was wont to sit In a state of sweet receptivity ami absorb the eliMiuenee of man. which, though perhaps inglorious, was at least rest ful. Therefore, she had that pearl of all mantiers repose. The New Girl, ou the contrary, is all the time making a palpable effort to sustain her reputa tion for brilliancy. Now. the conscious effort to lie continuously w itty and en tertaining may be ns trying to the nerves as th«»se deadly pauses which occur between Ideas (and which un questionably occurred pretty fnviuent- ly between the Ideas of our lost Ara- belln). The girl who Is determined at all hazards to All up silence, amt takes that task wholly upon herself. Is suns to become exhausted and exhausing Isn't the New Girl, by demonstrating her power to do anything. In danger of having everything thrust upon her?” Monsieur Dussard. a French inven tor. has combined a phonograph with a telephone In such a manner that a mes sage spoken into the telephone is im pressed upon a wax register at the receiving end, In ease the person to whom It is addressed happens to be ab sent. The registered message can at any time be turned ftto speech by set ting the phonograph in operation. A similar device has been employed In Germany by another inventor. Herr Poulsen. In Paris experiments are being made with electric automobile fore-wagous which can be attached, somewhat af ter the manner of a locomotive, to car riages otherwise drawn by horses, lhe fore-wagons are so arranged that w hen hitched to n carriage all the mechan ism required to mauuge them Is direct ly under the ha mi of the driver, as In an ordinary automobile vehicle. The method of attachment Is such that the fore-wagon can be removed, and horses substituted in its place without ditii- culty. Some curious spiral fossils, recently discovered In rocks of the Permian period in Russia, appear to represent a kind of saw-like appendage, armed with enameled teeth, and capable of being rolled up In the manner of a spiral sprlug, which once belonged to a species of fish related to the rays nud dogfish of to-day. A French geologist. Mons. Prlem, suggests that the fish car ried this singular weapon as an exten sion of Its upper Jaw. Except In its capability of being rolled up. such an tppendage seems to be no more wonder ful than that of the sawfish or the swordfish. From the study of clouds Prof. F. H. Bigelow of the United States weather bureau concludes that the ordinary cy- -lones which traverse our country from west to east are not more than two or three miles in depth, although their diameter Is many hundreds of miles. In other words, their motion does not affect the upper regions of the atmos phere. In the case of hurricanes Prof. Bigelow finds that the depth is great er, amounting to as much as five or six miles. But the higher currents blow directly across the cyclonic and anti cyclonic areas which produce storms and fair weather at the surface of the earth. Some of Prof. Bigelow's conclu sions upset former Ideas concerning the circulation of the atmosphere. Although the Inhabitants of the earth are not perceptibly affected by the wandering motion of the north pole, yet it is a phenomenon of unceasing In terest to astronomers, and on Jan. 1 a new plan for Investigating It went In to effect. The motion, which Is sugges tive of the wabbling of a top, is ex tremely slight when the vast size of the earth Is taken Into account. Since 1890 the north pole has never been more than 35 feet away from the place It should occupy If the earth's axis of revolution never varied In direction. But the new plan of observation was formed by the Inteinational Geodetic Association. It provides four observ ing stations, all close to the 39th de gree of north latitude, and all within 500 feet of the same parallel. These are at Mldzuswa, Japan; Carloforte, Sardinia; Gaithersburg. Maryland; and Ukiah, California. Precisely similar ob servations with exactly the same kind of zenith telescopes will be made at each station on carefully selected stars. Any change In the direction of the pole revenls Itself by a shift of the stars. THE BOXERS. Describe! by a Man Who Recently Re turned from China, Clarence Carey, a member of the Uni versity Club, who returned from China a few mouths ago, explained last night what the Boxers were in China aud told of th« ir origin. "The Boxers," said be. “originated In the Shang Tung province. In which the Germans claim the sphere of lufluence. l'hcy began among villagers who were allowed by the local Chinese governors to curry arms to put down robber bands In their particular neighborhoods. Gradually they became possessed with th«’ idea of turning robbers themselves and they gathered In all of the malcon tents and the many who were out of work ou account of the great drought last winter. When they became pos sessed of considerable strength In num bers they went west to I'ao-Tlng Fu, the terminus of the Lu Han Railroad, about sixty miles from Pekin. There they murdered an English missionary named Brooks. They advanced along the line of the railroad, tearing up tracks ami burning stations, until they reached the main line, Feng Ti, which they also tore up and destroyed iu sec tions. "The name Is an arbitrary one. given to them doubtless by some English- speaking person who got It from their Chinese iiunie-1 Ho Tuan. This being interpreted means faith, righteousness and the two fists. 1 suppose we would call It tlie 'Good Right Arm' Society or something like that. They are doubt less taking in all of the old secret so cieties and nil of the lawless and dis contented ones. They have only been In existence for a year and no one knows much more than this about them."—New York Suu. TWO COMMON NAUTICAL TERMS Probable Origin of the Phrases “Star board” and “Larboard." Mexican Criminal Lux*«. They have some very curious crim inal laws in Mexico. For instance, It is twice as much of an offense to mutilate the face of a wouiau as that of a man. The law seems to be based on the idea that a woman's best possession Is her beauty, and that to mar It does her a gieat Injury. There Is another curious law. If a person should be wounded In an encounter the punishment to the offender Is fixed by the number of days his victim has to stay in the hospital or under a doctor's care. A line Is fixe«! at forty days In the way of a general division. If the Injured man occupies more thnn forty days In his recovery He Was a Pusher. A physiognomist would have said af the iw-nalty doubles up. ter a glance at the young man with the I lead (tame. •link eyebrows that he was one to push "Is foot ball a game?" asked the for himself forward st every opportunity, eigner. am! proof would have been at ha tai to -Diinno," was the reply, “but foot «•orrotHinite the diagnosis. A lady who ballers are. When a man breaks both lioanlcd the Metropolitan car fourni bls legs and dislocates his spine and every seat taken, and the young man tlicn won't go off the field until the play was the first to offer her his. As she Is ..ver yon bet he's game. Yes, sir.”— bow«sl her aektiow hslgments be looked Pick Me Up. more closely at her and queried Aren't you Mrs Rlueflel I«?" Parole Mystem f. r the Insane. "Yes, sir." was the reply A parol«’ system Is In use at the hos "Hubsand has au oftR-v on F < pital for the insane In Nebraska, under "Yea,” which those mildly afflicted are placed T thought so. I am one of th rl In the custody of their friends for cal force In bls office, you know ninety days before being finally dis "Well" O charged. “Oh, that's all. One of the whore l ine« of the Orest Lakes. force, you know, a tai If it <x>mes Tig 1 nlte«l States shore lines of th* you might tell your husband ik« » are i> follows Ontario, 23O gave up my «eat to you Evei nl. « Erie, 37'1 miles. Huron. 510 gia’s when a fellow is look ng foi le« Superior. I«."« miles; Michigan up and a rai«e of ».ii0 w(. Post. The woman who Is compelled to da her own worsts lucky , it « easier for a woman to do her own work than it • to fuss with a hire«! girl. No Canine Science invention China. -• • no cauulng industry among hlM«e. All of their sauces and »tes are preserved in earthenware or in old wine an«! beer bottles. All time (»the proper time fur a man to m.ud bis M u business I sternpost and operated s. a later de»eloptnent7n ,h‘ lion. The Tyn. keel ' „ 'P earlier practice of our steering by an oar from of the ship, and frOffi designation for that » m /. j 3* •Ide.’’ or starboard.^ *1 zine. 4 ROMANCE OF M ar 774< A Virginia Mai l W Q., baud b, H.r 81uu Mary Ball, who arurwJ> the mother U•„,, «• k, early iu the eigUeeutfi ¿2* l«reuu having emigrated t try from England onlya»““*' viously. Her girlhoud »a, ally different from that ut 2*'* pioneer child lu the wild^ spinning aud the other art, . Sea rued were such a, U lara la«» . 1 . also by her playmates. Th. It] J” of Miss Ball to Augustine attracted not a little atteauT country-side, for two rea^t?. of the bride aud the fact thatr? was a widower. Iu th0^ rlages were usually coatraJ the girls were mere eblldni bride of twenty-four , 1 looked upon as au exception^ The engagement of Mary tine was of short duration, u spring wedding which follows one of the events of the glnia social life. There wa, J tour, but Instead the yuuai . journeyed to the estate of groom, which enjoyed thedhuw being the largest plantations moreland County, it |( 001y s course, to presume that the beautiful, but we have alwthe- Ity for It of an old letter, the« which designates her a, the > est maiden” she knows, and gm, enthuslsastlc In expression,of, tlon for her flaxen hair, blueev< cheeks “like May blossoms." the love story of the Virginia', devoid of the always-desired tj romance, for tradition has it-j dashing Augustine gained s^ of her charms as she nursed ¡a to health after he had been «■ Injured by the upsetting of bj, before the home of bis future The friendship Inaugurated ott terestlng occasion speedily rpes mutual love. Bereaved of bet! when George was but eleven y age, and with four young» j to be cared for, she discharged^ sponslbllltles thus sadly deroltg her with scrupulous fidelity ui ness.—Woman's Home Comp- QUEER COLONY IN Pt Rule» Which Govern a Setl Australian» in South Ai One of the strangest coloi world Is probably that of C m ed in Paraguay by colonist, J blood from Australia. The property of the colou held iu common aud all th« done in common—cultivating.I housekeeping—but each fanriy cupy a house by itself. There! reucy but labor, and every co! to give the colony thirty-six tea a week. If he works longer» llshes a labor credit which kz on at any time. Only teetotal! acepted as colonists. A single man may put la era to provide himself with a boat marriage. If labor to his cnil sufficient the colony will allo«' overdraft to a certain amounts have as large a house as he«• though he would be consider to have a larger isossessloa t needs. Having paid for his bow draw upon his surplus labor 1 thing else he requires, or beta leisure for cultivating his go any other private purpose. 'v house has been built by labor he cannot, however, set only his to occupy. Cosme does not want sing’ though single women won*. come, being scarce, •’ 1’1 communities. The women»v with knitting, sewing. other womanly occupations! a woman is married the ok« no more claim upon her. all thnt the communityreqwt" aging her house and attenw children. Men are married*' on at 18. There is no rel$* but the community Uro* * Commandments and on It»’« principles.—New York Wor» The origin of the words "starlioard" anil "larlaiard," as used In the nautical vocabulary, has been attributed to the Italian words questa bordu, meaning "this side,” and quells borda, “that Bide.” Abbreviated, these two phrases appear as sta borda and la borda, and by corruption of languages were soon rendered "starlioard” and "hirlioard” by British sailors, These two words sound so much alike that frequent errors and accidents occurred, and years ago, therefore, the use of "lar- board” was discontinued and "port” was substituted. A correspondent of this Journal has made the point that the former term lias th’en in use In the English language from a remote period, occurring In An Home Matrmoni«! F glo-Saxon as "stearboard,” and In mid Widowers are ai<”*lDcbB" dle English as “steretMiard,” while in later times It was written "sterboard,” than bachelors. Wfdcw’*-’ from which It developed Into Its mod cllned to marry th«“ ’P-1* ern form, "starboard.” It originally facts are eloquent In ft«« meant, so our correspondent says, the parative advantages o Isvard, or side, of the ship on which the For one bachelor that nil man who steered it was placed. It may the ages of fifty aDl' ® tie called a native English word ns dis widowers remarry tinguished from one of imported origin, These are marriages onto- and It possesses a special Interest In Its bers of each class; the * Indication of the method of propelling of bachelors married ” - and steering In vogue from very early only In proportion a» times. The ancient mariner could run seven to one the a' ' "3‘ < before the wind with his single square widowers living at Under the same condlt’ sail, but he could deviate ouly a few points on either side. Unless, therefore, spinster married N't*1** the direction of the wind agreed with sixty five two widow» x the course of the vessel. It was neces Inasmuch a« the total n sary for him to tie In constant readi sters far exceeds that ness to moilify his direction by the help th«’ figures given ref''r of the oar. The illustrations of early of ."lu.'i! a English manuscripts aud the later fig so not.' >■.(• • I’* ** ures of tapestries exemplified the old is tieyond dispute- Similarly, out of »a *1 square rig. with auxiliary oars and steering from the side. In these ex widowers and ba« 'll amples one or more heavy oars are ty-flve and thirty used at the bow and on one side only; widowers remarry while the lourse la kept by the steers bachelors who enter t man. with a lighter, and often paddh’- men for the first ».;.i('c't "ar. w irk»»! near the «tet Q mil The Germ invariably on the starlsuird side of the -Independence ft » ship. This method of rowing survived until recent times, and was well shown Americans." said * 10 ttf on the coal "keels," whlcn added so other day. picturesque a feature to the navigation .good as every one ’U<* 'n» ine. of the River Tyne. These vessels were ®conti<l 1 "Tbat «me « managed by crews consisting of three men and a boy; they bad a single as every one else. *iuare sail, and carried some twenty a great deallrfi old tons of coal. When unable to run Ders.- was In-fore the wind resort was had to row better to ,hlB* ing. and this was done by a single good as I »m heavy bow oar. worked on the port mendable trait o aide by two men and a boy. while the „ material skipper kept the course, rowing tn time there Is an with a lighter oar. calle«! a "swape.” ognize«! in o'b’’n‘ ’ from the »tern on the starboard side. obligations to •*“' I tzed rudder, htuged from tbs Uesuua&loa