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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1900)
I ’h i * ■ ;■ •4 M I Life Insurance men say that within ten years the grip Ims conte luto the frout rank of causes of mortality. One American company had 22 deaths from It In 1890. In 1892, It had 133, and In every year since from 20 to 40 deaths have been reported. The medical ex aminers add that the figures understate tl.e fact, sluce many deaths ascribed to pueumonla, for lustame, are really caused by this vicious Influenza, which seems not only to strike at one's weak est [Hiliit, but permanently to enfeeble the whole system. Probably the pecu- liar depression Induced by the disease helps to swell the mortality list. 4 *• For months hundreds of young cou "Papa Is afraid some man will marry ples have been rushing off to St. Joseph, Mich., to get married. It does me for my money. Do you think any not appear that It was cbMper to get one would?” "Some men will do almost anytlilug the knot tied there than elsewhere lu Michigan, which Is not an expensive for money. ♦-tate as a rule. Rut the place got a An Optimist. ■ name as a Gretna Green and became a 11 IroT.i.» %« ».io* »1 magnet for the victims of Cupid. Later I’v.Us.s i» these couples were startled by the news ™,^.l<! I »—t k,U«r IS« that sham clergymen have been taking advantage of the opportunity to earn fees, and many are asking whether or not they are really "spliced” or will have to go through the agony over again. In choosing a Gretna Green It Is evident that lovers should be very careful. The Literary L>lge«t translates •lateiiK-ut to the effect that the most recent statistics show a decrease of the birth rate In every European country, the average decrease being 3 ¡wr cent, since 1891. This Is a curious fact, and •eems to show that the Malthusian the ory failed to take Into account certain condition» In nature that tend to pre vent the overiHipulatlon of the earth. For some time It has been known that tiie birth rate lu France has Ixx-n unsat Isfactory. Hut it was not su»|>ected that every country In Europe waa in the Millie declining condition, though to a lews degre«. There Is still an an nual Increase of population by birth», but the fact that this Increase Is dlmln lslilng 1» remarkable, because, should It continue, the crl»l* would lie reached aud populations begin to die out. Per haps Macaulay's New Zealander may yet have the opportunity to view Ku rope •» an uninhabited waste. > A handsome monument ha» recently been erected at Pittsburg to the niem ory of Rtept.en 0. Foster, toe popular songwriter. The design represents the composer In the act of writing s melody, and st bls feet the figure of an old negro who cannot be mistaken for • ny other oue of hl» race but "Old 1 m le Ned ’’ The monument Is a grace ful tribute to the memory of the com poser whose songs have given pleasure to thousand» and occupy s unique place In music Originally written for mln • trel performance, they are typical of the music of the negro race, and as folk songs take a high place Though not belonging to the “higher music,” they have been d eemed worthy of perform auee by I’arepa. i’attl, Nilsson and oth er emlui-nt vocalists, an.I have lieen used a« themes by Dvorak In his syin phony. "The New World.” Foster died leavlug many Imitators, but no res I •accessor llis work 1» of such import luce. bumble a« it 1«. Hist M h:»t.>ri ,*r the progr. -. of n. is .Ai.e-.ca» J bo complete w ithout • • :i tided rvfoi I >o yon ever stop think that each time the clock strikes you are one hour nearer eternity? The Printer No: I thluk 1 aiu oue hour nearer pay day. Even IjUcr. Hc had been talking and talking and talking and talking until the poor irlrl was so tired and sleepy she didn't know whether It was this week or last week or come next Sunday, and the clock on the mantel waa holding up Its hand», either in pity or In protest. Fl- nally It occurred to the young man that an evening call had Ita limits, at least lu a latitude where the night» were not ■lx months long. "Riesa me." he exlaltned, starting up suddenly. "It certainly must tie time I w as going home.” "Oh." »he said In a dated kind of a way, "it must tie a good deal later than that." lb'trolt Free I’reaa. tourer Houses In New Zeslanti New Zealand has some quaint things In (he »ay of house«. In places where I flat laud Is scarce, there 1» some times a difficulty In securing »paca (or « place ou w hich to build a bouse. Here Is ■ ' singular «ltu«tlon for a cottage, accuas , to which 1« gained by climbing the rock at the back In the back blocks of a new country some queer habits rlona are erected, and a boot maker's «hop In the wilds of the colony Is rather a plirtureequ* »peclmeu. It la composed of sacking on a frame of saplings, whtl« the < tiininey. from which his “shin glee" is hung. Is formed of "bungles' — rhe stems of ths handsome Punga I’unga treefern Speculation sometimes empties a man's pockets and Ulla his lust with costly experience. I DICTION OF THE HOBO. that one of the •o bitn. The re.»1)u r,,t h*’ not known. to, Another prlvilere eao.hu VERNACULAR IN U3E AMONG treat tawnvenlenc. .**«1 THE TRAMPS. dor’s right of ?* »reign at sny hour d«, “ * the minister repr^*1* Explanation sf a Few Terans that Pro tesemela! Beggars U'ae—ion« of Them bankrupt state could »¡J** Are Slang and Others the Exclusive •or and demand „7’>1 o’clock In the morning Property of their Profese!on. would have to be grititl ** could be delayed by Ue A slim young man who was loitering «enulty.-Chamber.- Jou^* Hong 42d street a day or two ago, kill- ug a half hour before tralu time, was accosted at Madison aveuue by a big, girl recalled ^ ac "C|3 Crowded cor..r ' surly, bealthy-looklug chap. "Say, gentleman,” the big man said, Experience that U Ln a bucksaw voice, "I’m wantin' a "I met with a terrific lump or suthln' better right smart, an' once, remarked a little . ** stopped w!th a ShX a big oue, too. I'm wantin’ to lap like- wise, an' If ye’ve got a bone iu yer around, at the corner uf pocket yer wanter divvy with uie, I'm Ison streets, she »a, , h ** )er friend. See?” childish. Inconsequential « The young man faced the other curi ^rrbody feels* ously. She wore a dainty tailor-*’ solute exhaustion, and while I lay there the children early In July. He saw hit "1 think I understand what you mean a big black hat. family off at the station at 5 o'clock ix helpless and unconscious some de by a ’bone,’ ” he said, "and 1 suppose "Oh, that is too bad,”^* graded creature il think It was Anna, i the afternoon. He strolled uptown anc you desire to say you are willing to ,he “"k ♦he maid) came In and wound him up. became mixed up with a number ul drink when you announce that you're and hurried her away fro7? At 2:30 o’clock I started broad : his pals. wauting a lap,' but I'm not onto a of the past tragedy. "Ther» "Have one,” they all said to him. awake and that bird stepped out and me all about It.” he added 2 "No, fellows,” he replied, "I don't lump.’ ” went It thirteen times. I had been The big man’s face expanded into a expecting to hear that 72 dreading that all along. He'd seen believe I’ll lilt the stuff up for a while dragged out from the wbe-;, . those twenty-four hour clocks, and now My wife's away and I've got to takt grin of good-fellowship. "W'y," he said, "a lump's a bit o’ car. he was going to ling all those changes care of the house, and if I got t< have "Well,” she SI1|j ..j wj> on me. You see. of course, what it would throwing the Mamie Taylors In 1 •tithin' cold to eat. I druther do. It would double all those ratios; It wobldn't get borne until all hours. Jus •utbin’ hot, of course, but 1 didn’t want along here with a lovely n,,'*1 to brace you too strong.” baton. It was the first fimJ. N Rerlln, In February, 1806. the would make every number almost twice count me out” "Times hard with you?” queried the ever worn It. and it blew oil “ Say, Tom, Jim's going to have a as hard to multiply and divide, and writer had an experience with a other. ran over it.” cuckoo clock that he will never for would mix everything up Just twice as little game up at his house to-night, "Say, you wouldn't t’lnk so, seein' and he told me to tell you to come -Well!" ejaculated the man get. He bad »prattled bls ankle In get much as It was before. I'm so fat an' happy lookin' in de face, "Yes,” continued the little«- At 5 o’clock the doctor came, He up If 1 saw you. Coming/’ ting off the train and so was unfit for "No, I guess not,” was the reply. would yer? But, , houest, t'ings is on »lie put her linger on her lip qu' sight seeing. He was unfitted for so felt my pulse and inquired If I didn't want "Kind o' tired, and, as I say, the little de ding wld uie. 1 got a poke out dis telling a fairy story. w feel feverish. I told him what I ciety by an Inadequate vocabulary and but me bread basket believe lt?-I picked it‘up'th’ for reading by delayed baggage and a ed to know wm how many crows woman's down at the beach with the inoruin', all right, depleted pocket book. There was noth would a clock cook at 7:30 next Tues- kids, and it's up to me to take care of is all holler ag'in. , now, an' 1 ain't bad was ruined I took it hoineuG it off and the next morning :tu ing to do but study the clock, and that, day morning if ft started in the first the shack. Some other night Tell any slops all day.’ "Well,” said the young uian, lookiug nice as ever again!” day either half an hour slow or eleven Jim, will you, for me?” as the sequel will prove, sufficed. "Ahoy, there, Tom said another of at his watch, "if you'll----- ” The man said that he bad new I saw, on his first appearance, that and a half hours fast, or fast or slow, "Ye needn't say no more, young fel of a more miraculous escaps-f the cuckoo was no ordinary bird, as the case might be. In that ratio; and the gang he met. "Say. Tom, we've Promptly at 12 he stepped out and the second and third days, either an got a hack and—(low buzz-buzz)—go ler." the big man broke In. "I see by de •Inter Ocean. cooteed or cooked (whichever Is the hour and a half slow or ten and a half Ing to take a little ride out to get the looks o' yer mug ye're goiu' to say ye'll proper word) once, theu at 12:30 o'clock hours fast, or fast or slow In that ratio, air. Understand you’ve got the family put up a chew fer me. Au' I'm goiu' to he emerged and delivered his entire and the fourth day stopped five hours planted out o’ town, Come on along— say it goes. Gee! Wot er graft! Theu ye're goin' to ask about me vocabulary, repertoire, assisted by the whole force and then cooed thirteen cooks at 2:30. going to start in half an hour.” He asked what sort of liquid nourish "Nix, Ed, not to-night” was the re see? Um a fly 't>o. I am, an’ at first I of the company. The novelty of the proceeding was ment I had been having. I said could ply. "Got an important case on hand took you for a fly bull—anyway, fer n Interesting, and Just as one begins n't he answer a simple question and to-morrow morning and want to get up plug. But w'eti I got a good look at counting the figures In his wall paper, not strike oft on tangents that had early. Tell the bunch I'll be with 'em yer I seen yer was all right. Lead me ter de can and watch me stuff I” never dreaming that before he gets nothing to do with the matter? Was in spirit, will you?” A "cau,” where quantities of food through It Is going to set him to grub I to use algebra or mensuration? He Then the young criminal lawyer bing cube roots, rolling logarithms and stroked my hair and gently said be boarded an uptown car, after having may lie bought for a quarter, was tilazHig his way through all the tan wouldn’t worry; that was all right. absorbed a chocolate Ice cream soda speedily found, nnd the “fly ’bo," as the One day in presiding •( nifeg He gave me some decoction when he with great relish, went to his lonely intelligent tramp described himself, country home iu Windwr, Vt,n gled wilderness of the higher mathe matics. ao 1 began to speculate alaiut went. It was to make me sleep, I home, ate the dinner which the black was soon noisily ’'stuffing" corned-beef swarm of grandchildren about | Judged, but It did not work very well. hand maid had provided for him, read hash and bread nnd butter, which he Senator William M. Erartibi that bird. The hands. I found, were always It went off duty whenever the cuckoo the papers for a while, played solltare, washed down with liberal "laps” of have asked: "What is the difa right and the cuckoo was always a half- went on, and he came out every six or wrote a number of letters, topped off •offee. When he stopped to take breatli lietweeu this goose before dins hour behind the hands behind hand, eight minutes all night Up to 3 o'clock the evening by reading twenty-seven the young innn assured the hobo that me lifter?” After tuueb fame| so to speak. Or, of courte, it might be he was at the multiplication table, pages of somebody or other on test!- he was right in assuming that a few Ing, he answered, in quiet jk that he was eleven aud a half hours backwards and forwards, and after 3 mony and at 9 o'clock he was in bed words about his vocabulary would be the goose is stuffed with up ahead of them, but he was either half It was division. arid sound asleep. welcome. soon the sage”—pointing to is When the doctor came next day he an hour slow or eleven aud a half hours "Er fly bull," the hobo paused to say, ’’will be stuffed with goose.’ This Is virtually the way he passed said my condition was critical, I told fast. In that conviction 1 was happy all his evenings until his wife and chil "is <*r detective. Er plug is er feller The Rev. Mr. Aleott of Efc until about the middle of the afternoon. him, If he would help me, we could dren returned.—Washington Post that's ag'in de liobo push. Slops is one of Abraham Lira-cln'. S;rj- Then a cold chill crept over me. How work It out In no time. Simply put •trong drink which is er ragin'. As acquaintances, tells of leeitfia did I know? If he were ahead eleven the whole clock into a geometrical pro Small Enemies. I’m gittin' to know you better, I see ing away from church unu>si$ gression the first term the sum of the and n half hours, why not twenty three Henry M. Stanley. In describing bls »ou're a getlierup, an’ that's w'y yer one Sunday morning. "Thg and a half? O, If behind .i half hour, ratios, under the radical sign D., 32 Journey through the forests of Africa, was exercisin' yer lookers so sharp why not twelve and a half? Or twen- degrees Fahrenheit plus the difference says that the most formidable foes he wiille yer was er mopin' along. No- could not have been moriii in longitude; the quotient of the least encountered, those that caused the Oody but fly bulls and getherups does way through.” says Mr. AM', ty-foiir nnd a half? son ’Tad' was slung acrasj You see. there was absolutely noth- common multiple of the exponents of greatest loss of life to Ills caravan and that. Gee. but ain't this punk good!" arm like a pair of saddle-bass.nl Ing t<> start from. When the row with the factors as the square of the bypo came nearest to defeating his expedi "What in heaven's name is a ‘gether- coin was striding along with loq the works began he might have kept thenuse and X as the cuckoo. tion, were the Wambuttl dwarfs. jp?’ And what is 'punk?' ” deliberate steps toward his bomt He took out his lancet and bled me. Ills cackle going steadily for a week and These diminutive men had only little The hobo stopped a bowl of coffee left them clear out of sight; or. Just ns Then he mixed another draught and bows and arrows for weapons, so small midway between the table and bis lips oue of the street corners be enca ed a group of bis fellow-tom likely, be had closed Ills mandibles like that did the business. For sound sleep that they looked like children’s play- tud gasped. Lincoln anticipated the quest«» ing Juliet wasn ’ t a circumstance. the bivalves of an oyster aud never let things; but upon the tip of each tiny “Sny.” he said. “I guess I must er was about to be put by the grouj I awoke at length refreshed. It was arrow was a drop of poison which but a peep. Ami now. for all 1 knew, been off me nut, but I t'ought you was he might lie giving me ills Idea of what 1 Just 9:30 and the cuckoo gave the half- would kill an elephant or a man as >ne o' dem fellers dat gethera up de taking bis figure of speech fna time It had been some day last spring, ' hour right. All Ineffable calm stole surely and quickly as a rifle. Tlielr news and writes it up lu pieces for de tices with which they were only» or what time It was going to be next over me, It seemed as If the rest might defense was by means of ¡loison aud pape. I begs yer pardon humble if I miliar, said: ‘Gentlemen. 1 etterM colt, but he kliktri around so IK Fourth of July. Nobody could tell how- all have been a troubled dream. Alas. traps. was off. Punk is wot you calls bread.” withdraw him.'” far ahead or behind lie was. and. as to I should have known by this time that They would steal through the dense The young man admitted that he telling whether lie was ahead or be It was only a strategem to throw me forest, and waiting In ambush, let fly might with more or less propriety be i i When Senator James Stqibui off my guard. He never came agaiu hind. tiie mail who hatched him could of Missouri boarded at the >il their arrows Is-fore they could be dis termed a "getlierup.” n't have done that. All I could be sure until 12 o’clock that night. Hotel at Washington, D. C, it covered. They dug ditches and care "Wai, ye ’ ve got a getherup ’ s ally- No need to tell me this time what tint of was that If he was slow it was In fully covered them over with sticks and •copes all right enough.” said the very popular with the guests i the ratio of one-half, or 12 plus one- bird was up to. I knew It. He was leaves. They fixed spikes in the ground other, "nn' now I s'pose ye wanter hear hotel. Chairman It. II. Hitt of 2» half. or 24 plus one-half; If fast, 11 going into fractious, 1 lay there with and tipped them with poison. Into uie memwars. 1'11 give ’em to you on mittee of foreign relatioM. fo«ti the cold sweat beading my brow, and plus one half. 23 plus one half, or 35 that Green was not much eft'll these ditches and on these spikes man de level, too. plus one half. And so I went to sleep. saw him balance on Ills perch and clap and beast would fall or step to their goer, and insisted that the * "In de first place. I'm on de bum all The first thing I saw that bird do first one wing and then the other, and I next morning waa to step out at 8 30 go from halves to fourths, fourths to death. One of the strangest things de while, an’ dat's no fake. 1 ain't should mend his ways In tbits about It was that their poison was kipped in a pad—wot's dat? W'y, slep’ One Sunday he was late for di and crow for 7 o'clock. Of course, that eighths, eighths to sixteenths, six- mixed with honey. in a bed, of course—fer I dunno how The women asked him why. 1 «polled those ratios; now they would teenths to thirty seconds ad Infinitum, The account of these small people and long, till de cold weather comes on. been attending divine worst!?, have to go to 10 plus one half. 22 plus and then, with redoubled fury, plunge ♦ heir successful warfare Influences one Most of me winters has lately been plied the Senator gravely. Tf one half, or 84 plus one half: or else 1 Into complex fractions and decimals. to remember the small enemies we all »pent in de balmy South. Au' I ain't church do you go. Senator: 11 When 1 came to I was In a long room, plus one-half. 13 p’us one-half. 25 plus are apt to encounter In habits, seem ind er chew as good as dis since I got woman. "1 don't know." n»*# one-half, that Is, If he kept this rate, with two rows of white beds. They ingly harmless, but dangerous to web ■r Mulligan. Hay? Oh. er Mulligan's courtly Missourian. "Who pa* and lie did. all day, never a variation told me It was the City Hospital. I fare and happiness. tn Irish stew- an’ 1 bad one in Cleve they asked. "I don't know, it from sun to sun About 4 o'clock an had become so violent It had boon “I walked up the avenue, 'tn land last fall. Idea occurred to me: He changed an found necessary to remove nte, and for The Frigate Bird. "Dey ain't no romance-ln-real-llfe in Fourth street, and entered 18 hour every day That would give a a fortnight they had watched me night Many sailors believe that the frigate on the left-hand side.” Thin ratio twelve days' long, nnd to work and day. My landlady called that after bird can start at daybreak with the my hlst'ry. Me folks wan't never Episcopal church. "How did!* much. On de level. I don ’ t know who out the details In one’s head was some noon, nnd. by way of being entertain trade winds from the coast of Africa the service?" asked »noth« *• thing terrific. But I had tiie clew, and ing, told me the clock had been stolen. and roost the same night upon the 1ey was. An’ I ain’t never seen better "It appeared to me.' ins»«* lays dan dis one, now dat I'm gettln' It seems the former occupant of my that was half the battle. American shore. Whether this is a fact Senator, “that there waa :* 1 I found next morning that I was room, now confined In the Berliner or not has yet to be determined, lint it a whole chew, hot. I t’lnk I'm lucky rending of the journal and t"1 wrong All my hypotheses about that Lunatlck Anstnltgesellschaft, wrench Is certhlu that the bird is the swiftest w’n I gits a muck ter shove tro’ me debate.” bird were wrong. He w as still running ed the bars from his window one night of the winged creatures, and is able to face—oh, yes—er muck's er stew up of In the early days of steam'.«1* any old t ing yer can pick up. slch as nnd escaped. Next morning they on yesterday’s schedule, and as if he fly. under favorable conditions, 200 I hoboes makes w'n dey's on de tramp t.he Ohio river they had »1! fotlnd him bnck In his padded cell with had never had any other. miles an hour. i u de kentry. Hut I ain’t never nippei wheel tmnts. and old Concn“1* My reflections were not confined the clock, hugging It to his breast In no clocks, n<>r nothin’. Hay? I ain’t Cullough of Cincinnati merely to calculating the cuckoo’s or transports of Joy. Rhe said she hadn’t Dairying In Great Rrltain. neen er pickpocket, nor I ain't cracked scheme to build and lauorb t bit I thought of hltu also as an Indi the heart to take it from him. British farmers aud dairymen are to "side-wheeler." which wonldi , no cribs. In three days I returned to my lodg vidual. sometimes with ail impotent ex day milking over I.Ooo.OOo cows, nnd "De worst t’ing I ever done was ter of her lieauty and sise "run * asperation Why didn’t he end this ings. nnd by the end of the week was producing annually In their dairies feud with the work» and stop the whole able to take up my studies. San Fran $100,000,000 worth of milk, butter and | lift suthln' fer er chew a few times, but wheelers out of the trade, I ain’t bail ter do dat often, fer you kin rled bls Ideas to a snecessfd* combination from making a fool of It cisco Chronicle. cheese. get pokeouts most anywhere, an’ 1 ain’t tlful finish, and «ent lierni •elf forty eight times a day? He could HOW HE PASSED HIS SUMMER. easily enough If he had a mind to. and. It was found that the Society to Sup never worked none, only w’en I’ve been trip. and she cstne hsd ** anyway, the works were right and he Trnthfnl Recital of s Model Husband's press Useless Noises had four preach pinched an’ hud to. Ths natives along tin- Tunings. wrong ers as member«, and as some of them ship on her. nor wonM tuff . her. nor trust their Hr» 7 This sportive young criminal lawyer's can be heard preaching two blocks But at other times 1 thought of him AN AMBASSADORS PRIVILEGES. They "couldn't th» with that unmlxed sorrow we all feel wife went down to the seashore with away, the club has disbanded. r Hls Intercourse with th« Bovereign round." So the I h’r» f " In contemplating genius misapplied. 1 1» Peculiar. Here was this bird in the prime of life, after trip, burning ff'i» » COSTUMES FOR STYLISH WOMEN. evidently, to Judge by the freshness of A curious privilege of an Ambassa worth of coal sn<’ ' his paint and the splendid mechanical dor is that he, and he alone, when dis $21»’. The newspapers’<** action of his wing», running a regular missed. may turn bis back to the sov It was street talk si“'”' w Jehu steeplechase through the whois ereign to whose court be is accredited. the Flora Belle *«' calendar, prostituting the talents with The mode of procedure Is as follows: old National Theater <»• which the clocktuaker had endowed W hen tiie Ambassador's audience Is I theater of Cinelnna' hint in impiously attempting to induce over, he waits to be dismissed by the men and lovely a chronological chaos in which time sovereign. When dismissed, the Am performance«. One n t■ _ would lx» no more. bassadorbows. retires three paces, bows dore attended a 1 '"..j It Munds a heartless thing to say. the Se» •gain, retires another three paces, bows those "Bertha, tbe ¡th » hyi**' but I was glad he had no mate, A a third time, turns on his heel» and Girl” dramas, wi. De •r«* 1 clock cuckoo Would be at beat a ques- walks to the foldingdoors. Ine. and there was o mirrttF tlonable life canipaulou. considering But It 1» felt that mon* polite meth- the proposed tie lover per — - > the hours he keeps. Indeed that may ods should obtain when the reigning .aid ths heroine. a be the rcasi ti why they are so genera I- sovereign is a woman. To turn his wife. Hanfid. Yon are ly single Rut this one yes. It was liack is to be discourteous, to walk are a million-'’ lire. *1>* 1 **, fsr better that there were no eggs If ’ backwards is to resign a privilege; the poor «ewtng Jrl. cl batching back there among the wheels. Ambassador retires sideways, like a my friend« v w1 . " Rut these were the reflections only crab; be keeps one eye on the sovereign, money ' ----- ’ort ’ of niy leisure, so to speak. The seri tud with the other tries to see the door. I yourself. G** r '¡ '' ous business of life had become the He thus shows politeness to the sov darling and I will t” dlsi-oierery of that bird’s combination. test* ereign and at the same time retains one »be mail* t>er I was nervous that night. Every time of his privileges As the Ambassador walked ”P ’ the clock went off 1 < muted the crows 1« . is usually an aged man. often short Ing his hand« ~ •nd then struck • match and looked at sighted. be sometimes fail« to reach the can I win her ' mv watch When 1 woke Just as I ex door, and cornea into colllatou with the my money ? 1 » pected hr had tne again. He had run •ore-, cwt. H*rose<v£ wall. do» n Art the morning there was Another privilege of Ambassadors Is the parquet a»’ peace I lay figuring on my ratios, and *.ie right of being ushered into the Flora Belle” ____ ___ _ he (I know the Word this tirnei kept royal presence through folding doors, his box and cooked up new things to iiotb of which must be flung wide open do. He did not have to wait long. \o one except an Ambassador .-an About 1. I sank Into a lethargy of ab- ' lafm this privilege; the most any non- Ambassadorial person can asoset la ence to It. In this connection It is fit ting to suggest that a similar tributs should be paid to the memory of F, Nicholls Crouch at Baltimore, the com poser of Kathleen Mavourneen. ’ one of the most truly musical and popular EUGENE OREGON. of ballads, both In tune aud “— Though an Englishman by birth, be Good for Spain! The Spanish wheat came to this country lu IMO. aud re crop of l'JUO la the biggest for u gene.a mained here until bls recent death. His ballad was written here, and may tie tluo. fairly claimed as belonging to Ameri There 1s said to be a scarcity of mon can music. keys in America. From a monkey The question whether a workingman famine good Lord deliver us. should marry or not was discussed In They may change the character of one of our dally pupers by a regular the season’s walta, but young people contributor recently, aud the statement will always find some pleasant way to was made that a Chicago contractor get around each other. bad declared the contrary—that work lngn ten ought not to marry. The reasou The New York man who says that he gl ven by the contractor for his belief left bls wife because she earned more was that wages were too low for lalior- money than be could evidently doesn't ing men to support families on. The writer cited an Instance where a young know bow to appreciate a good thing. carpenter secured work during the If St. Louis has attentively studied summer at 12 a day, but in winter the financial history of the world's could gt t little or nothing to do. so that fairs of the decade uow closing It has he earned only alsiut $3<»’ a year, or learned bow not to do some things Ln less than $1 a day. with rent at $15 a month, $180 a year; street car fare say 1908. $2o for the year; groceries anil clothing The Duke de Abruzzi is going to try for the family, however small, would •gain to discover the north pole. We more than consume the remaining $100. wish to tender the Duke a heartfelt The day laborer, working, say, 300 apology, We have wronged him. We days In the year, gets perhaps $100 thought he would stay aud lecture more, but must use upon the poorest of fare If lie has a family of five or about IL mors to feed. Iz*t us figure for him. The mosquito never shows apathy or His bread or flour w!l! cost not less indifference. She is always earnest and than $25 for the year; his meat bill, say, enthusiastic. ' Tills Is doubtless the $<a>, which Is less than 20 cents’ worth cause of her success. If It were cus a day; potatoes and other vegetables tomary for mosquitoes to vote none half as much more- a total of $115. would ever lie absent from the ¡tolls. Add $120 for rent, and how does the poor man clothe himself, not to apeak Through the stoppage of Japanese of wife and children? Verily, It Is a emigration to Hawaii since annexation serious question whether laboring men there la now a call for laborers In that can afford to marry. It Is not much island. The young lalxirlng man of an better with office clerks in the city, adventurous turn has a chance to see salesmen In stores, etc. Few of them a little of the United States aud Judge get more than enough for a fair living for himself as to Its annexation policy. for themselves, and many can earn scarcely enough to pay board and The young men of to-day are too fin clothing expenses and can not lay up Icky too much given to self analysis, anything for the future. Such facts self-pampering. Their shoes and neck show the folly of farmers' sons and ties cost more each year than did the daughters going to the city to Improve eutlre wardrolie of their grandfathers. their prospects. At home they are sure They feel a sense of degradation in of food, shelter and clothing of some »mall beglunlug* aud plodding and they sort. In the great towns their very llv wait for success ready-made to come to Ing Is precarious. The superiority of them. The young man of to-day can the farm* r’s calling Is strikingly shown not be president of a bank or Judge of In this, that, however hard the times, u court the first week he Is from school, however slack the la lair market aud and he feels like the famous Ell Pussley, low the wages In all the Industries in the manufacturing or trade centers, on that be lias "no chance." the farm there Is always work to be The House of Representatives elected done that either presently or remotely tn November will doubtless lie tiie Inst w 111 pay well for the doing It may be one chosen under the present appor repaIrltig. making Improvements, slid tionment of members to the various tertng the stock or Implements, hauling Htates. When the census returns are out nnd spreading the mannre, killing fully made up. Congress will decide weeds, trimming the orchard, or auy iiow many Representatives shall tie al other of the thousand and one Jobs lotted to each State, and then the States alsmt the farm. There Is always some w ill lie divided by tbelr legislatures Into thlug waiting for the Improving hand districts. Whatever changes the new of the farmer who has a mind to work, apportionment makes in the States as aud bls work. If Intellgently aud full!» such, It seems certain that the large fully done, pays every time. cities will gain something at the ex The Curie of Gold pense of the rural districts. EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD. rx I