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