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I of money as that, nor could be have Any effort to convert thus« boldluga Into luouey or luto other forms of prop erty would "bear'- tbe market and ma terially rwduce tbe value. Tbe estimate is artually t>a«ed on tbe earning power OREGON EUGENE of b!« properly, calculating tbe capital value according to the current rate of Some people clear their cona*'lences Interest. Tbe lower the rate of luter in much the saws manner they would est happens tu be at a given time, there fore, the greater is the estimated value •tear coffee. of the furuue fruiu which tue euonuuus One million duUars to nothing, as a dividends are drawn. Tbe annual lu ratio of liabilities to assets, almost ere««« of the fortune, likewise, du«» nut mean a corresponding reduction lu tbe Uno un is to genius. wealth uf other«, for It la uot drawn Talking of dog exhibitions, no ca from stuck» uf cuiiiuioditles aud muuey nine's ancestral tree can be conclusively previously existing. It is drawn. In stead, from tbe year's Increase In the decided by Its bark. general wealth of which thia particu Sarah Bamhardt aays ths A merk-an lar fortune obtains such ■ evusplcuoua man dosa not know how to make love, abate. Tlie prophecy that auch a for when ws doubt If Sarah ever saw him tune could be accumulated by any means, legitimate or otherwise. Ly the reallj try. end uf tin- tfliieteeutb century would Science now claims to tell the age of have been considered wildly fabulous fish by their scales. No scientist, how 100 years ago. Washington died the ever. baa yet discovered a method by richest man in America, yet be was uot which to tell the age of a fish story. a millionaire with all hla laud, slaves, accumulated crops and similar posses John D. Rockefeller Is credited with sions. Jefferson throughout bls writ being the richest man In the world and ings continually calls attention to tbe lu the enjoyment of the largest Income. essentially agricultural character of And yet bls digestion Is such that au this country, and the fact that by force ordinary Dutch lunch would put him of nature tbe ilevelopmeut must lie along agricultural lines, virtually aaaum on the shelf for a week. lug that the country must be relatively "Horses, cards and women.” There poor, aud that great fortunes could seems little el»« to say In tbe '*»« of hardly tie accumulated this, too, when defaulting Cashier Brown, of tbe New fl.OSJ.OlMl would have been considered old- port (Ky > bank. Tbe story Is old — a stupendous sum. That is hardly tuui-b too old. Many sermons aud many strange when we remember that for columns of editorials will not wake the whole of Itoiiislaua territory Jeffer plalm-r to people tbe fa,-t that. If a man son paid but |15.1M).<XM» lie could not sows tbe wind, be must reap the whirl anticipate the astonishing wealth which wind. Brown Is reupiug the whirlwind that very agriculture would create, nor after bls career of vic«. In tbe mean the minerals that tbe new territory time the moralist pouders over the mat would produce, far less the bonanza ter and honest men mourn tbe loss of fortunes that would follow with the their money.__ ________ era of railway building, mtiuufuctue lug and general Industrial expansion. A competent referee has reported that tbe service« of a lawyer In a ease Why Man la Hu peri or. f.,r which the disciple of Blackstone Man 1» a perfected marsupial. He la put In a bill for »17,<MK) were actually a creature of pockets. With him the worth no more than >300. It may not necessity of a pouch simply develops lie easy for an attorney who sets so uue. Tills Is the law of evolution. high an estimate upon hlaqualiti<ati«»n» The first we read of him a> a pocket- awl effort* to And clients hereafter. liearlug animal was on a level with the Uvercbargea of a few hundred per kangaroo. He then Lad one pouch cent may b« expii ted t*ow aud then at fust.-ued to his licit. Now look at him the bar. but to ask «17.000 In cotupeu and compare him to women, for whom •ailou when one fiftieth ut that amount In his chivalry be is truly sorry. would liave l»*eu a fair remuneration She. In her helplessness. Is usually be paiwies tbe boil Lula of patience. hind the kangaroo, and at her best only equal« him with one pouch fastened at The practical extinction of the buck her waist She w as not evolved through wheat cake of our fathers must lie laid the laws of nature, but under the stern at the dour of the miller. He Is accused er decrees of the dressmaker. of mixing with buckwheat flour wheat What a differ, nee between no pock bran and shorts In the Interests of ets ami a score of jiocket».' The first Is economy For a while the adulteration woman; the other, uiiiu. Woman Is lit was undetected, but gradually cuuaum erally fettered for want of pockets. era la-gnu to complain that the buck She must carry In her hands whatever wheat cakes don't taste any more like Is not a part of her clothing, while they used to do In the g.snl old days man's arms, palms and fingers are free back on ths farm, ami i«eopls began to —free to help his unfortunate sister. atop buying buckwheat flour. As tire Thing of five ¡ss-kets In trousers, five demand fell off. the farmers raised lesa In vest, five In jacket and five In over aud lew buckwheat A race of boneet coat an exact score In all. Some men millers, co o|*eratlng with the farmers, have more than this. When man took might raise the buckwheat cake to Its up the handkerchief habit he made a former proud (ssiltlou. IMs-ket for that convenient article. H doesn't have Io be picking them up While |H-ople were still shuddering except for the women. over the atrocities of the "Boxers" In He made a pocket for his knife and China came the terrible details of the a iss-k.-t for his watch; a pocket for Illa horror at Limon, Col. The |>eople of keys and a pocket for his letters; a that region are not peculiarly blood pocket for his tobacco and a little thirsty. They seem to have gone about pocket for his car tickets, a ud he the thing much as they would have kept on making pockets aa fast as he come to the aid of a uelghbor In any Seeded them. other matter. They left the punishment Women. In their helplessness, euvy to the father of the murdered girl. They him. They reach out to him to borrow furnished the murderer with a Ribb his kulfe, to borrow his pencil, to l«»r and gave him Ums to pray. They had row a bit of string and to lairrow a ordered the rough element to keep dozen articles that be usually liar away and make no Interference What stored away about hla clothing lie la a queer mixture of order and crime, of kind and lends, for tie Is sorry for them religion and sin. of civilisation and bar In their arrested development. New barism. of comiiasalou and malignity! York Herald. EUGEtfE WEEKhY GUARD. Whenever modern luveutlon or dis cover/ has produced anything, some one pops up to Inform the world that Chlua knew thia thousands of years ago. If I'blua did know any of these, •be never made use of them, and Is entitled to uo credit. The latest claim la that archives In l*ekln show she set tied A inert, a. This really la an old claim renewed, and one that has been discredited by scholars for many years. Humboldt and Ida school believed that the civilisation of Mexico and I’eru was de'lved from other people, but the trend of modern liellef Is that It was evolved by the atiorlglnea themselves. ITilua'a claim baa no more foundation than Ignatius lion nelly's that the Set tlement and colonisation of America came from the fabled Atlantis A regimental physician In the French army has Investigated the effect upon soldiers of regular mareblug In discip line,! bodies The uniformity of the soldier’s st.-p causes the Indefinite rape tltleu of a shock of the brain aud boues, and consequently the mode of motion la far more deleterious than an lrn-gu lar walk. He attributes the peculiar aches and pains of the men to the fact that the same parts of the laxly reel ve the series of shucks. What does the doctor suggest by way of relief? Ex- prrtmenta have shown that lila plan la etti, adoua The device la simple. A rubber heel for all military boots. The brain jar and other unfavorable scusa turns are so diminished as to give the Infaatrymen a new lease of activity. The relative efficiency of the army may thus Iw Increased by what might be rotisldered an unimportant change. The scale might be turned In a long and close contest In favor of the rubber- to-led lueu, au.I ihe map of Europe altered Congresauian Jefferwu M Levy of New York la reported to have offered R.~ kefeller »pmiMi for 8 sm > ahan-s of fitandard oil stock. Thia valuailuu sp piled to bls total bolding« uf Mtsudard Oil places ILxkefeller's wealth in that prvqierty ahiue at about EMl.<Ml.«an. In addition to thia he has large inter eat« tn other dlreeik u« so that It 1« ini possible to aieaaurs accurately t,is tire fortune Within tbe last year, bow •ver, the sdva-sce in tbe market valus of tils Mi suds rd <MI ato, k al>*ue has in ■ re a sc I his Wealth fivtkuun.is** or so. while bls annual Income In dividends from that stock is about llditsn.i«X> Much astonishing figures go far to prove that tbe Standard Oil magnate la the richest man la tbe world Th«» • re deceiving. however, la a sense Mr • -kefeilr-r lias no su< b a«vuiaulat:>>o (Quarries of Ol<| Egypt. On the way Io Plillae and the head of the cai&rtuH. a short dlstauee south of Assouan, we come upon the anden' quarries which supplied the granite for the coluiuua, statues and obelisk» throughout Egypt for many centuries An obelisk w Illi-Il we saw Iles lu Its lift the bed. It Is ninety tire feet In length, and three sides have been care fully cut. but tor some unknown ren-oii It was never separated entirely from the parent rock. The surface bears the tool marks of the workmen. The grooves tn it show that It was to have Ix-eu reduced at the sides. It was sup posed tliat the stone was split from Its lied by drilling boles In the rock and till ing them with wooden wedge», which were afterward saturated with water, the «welllug wood furnishing lb» power. From Illustrations In the temples It I» clear that these great monuments wert floated down the river on flatboata and rafts and then carried Inland by artl tidal canals or dragged overland by t house mis of slarek. In one of th. tombs at Rent-Hassan Is a picture Ulus tratfng the process. The great stone » loadt-d upon a huge sled drawn by a multitude of workmen One nun I» engaged In pouring water upon tht runners to prevent friction Anotbet •lands at the left of the statue sud beats time, that the men may work In unison, while overseers, provided with whips, urge the laborers to their task M hat king desired to extricate this block from the quarry, why It was left here, wliat It was to commemorate wv can never know The riddle of the sphinx Is solved, but the riddle of the olwllsk In the quarry will no doubt re main with us forever Chautauquan Evolutions of the Us rah I |>a. A whole fleet In the days of Nelant cotild be built and fitted out at lltth more than tbe iswt of a slugle Ironclad the coal exiwnded on a single cru's* would I Mt? for the refitting of hla tv hob battle line, while the Immense shell- required to make any ltu|M*vaslon or the n»o<lern armor plate cost mow thai his whole armament Rut the modern line of battleship could neither be built arntesl nor fought without tbe use ot staam. and Its evolution may t>e «air to have euiiimvnced with tbe first ap|Jl cotloa of the »team engine to Mviga tie*. < l>arllabte mm dtatnbute a lot el tro» •liver. I ’ fíOW ; . »-w Í f' VbD THE ERUIT. Í v.F-'wmv »-M.»um'*.» to-morrow and spend the day with her." be said, as they sat down to sup per. “Ob, may I go, mother?" cried Bean. They were great friends—"Jess and Bos,” as they w ere called by the ranch and village people—and the fruit farm wound down the valley very close to tbe sheep ranch of Jessie’s father. "Why, yes, you may.” said Mrs. Har ris. Bessie's mother. "Did Jesale want her to stay all night. John?” "Of course- -as usual," replied Mr. Harris. "But I guess you can spare her that long, eh, mother?” “No. I need you. dearie. But you can have a long day together and come home In the evening." said Mrs. Harris. So next morning Bess shouted a gay good-by as Brandy danced around the mounting block, and she whirled tbe long thongs of her quirt merrily around bio flank, which Brandy promptly re- -ented by bringing bis four little hoofs together, rising In the air and coming down on hla sturdy little legs with a Jar that nearly sent Bess out of the saddle. "Oh, you’ll buck, will you?” she cried, while the rest cheered Brandy. "Walt till you want some sugar.” Brandy repented and stretched him self Into a swinging, rocking-chair lope that carried him swiftly down the trail. The air was sharp and clear and tingled through Bessie's veins, while the cold turned her cheeks rosy. “Frost to-nigbt, Braudy,” she cried to the broncho, whose ears twitched back at the sound of her voice. And the frost came. Tbe girls bad a long, merry day. and a« the moon rose in a clear purple sky Bess turned Brandy's willing nose homeward. Sbe turned up the collar of her heavy little coat and pulled on her buckskin gloves, for the cold was already growing sharp. And. calling cheerily to Brandy, she flew along the trail toward borne. It was cold and clear aud still, and she rode along a little sleepily, while Brandy's hoofs I made the only sound that broke ■ tbe ■tlllnes«. But soon another sound I star- tied her Into wakefulness. She ■ bad reached tbe water gate on the » big ditch. and through tbe stillness came a low tinkling aud gurgling that sounded like fairy music. But tbe falr^ music seat all die color out of tbe girl's cheeks, and with a frightened cry to Brandy she slipped out of the saddle and ran to the ditch. long line« of little bare sticks lu the Brandy meandered along after her sandy aud dry looking earth, and she could remember bow her mother broke with lazy curiosity aud fouud her down and cried because she was home kneeling lienide tbe gate with her arms alck for the big shady trees and green plunged down Into the cold water. And when she stood up her pretty bright gm»» anil bu«lit<s at "home.” Idaho did uot seeui like home, They fa<v had grown still whiter. For she llied there six tea is. and tbe sixth year ' had found a small "cave-iu" near the was the “bearing year” for Western gate, and the water was trickling fruit ranches. But, as Reas said, the through In a steady little stream that frost and the worms and the blight had was steadily aud quickly growing kept the fruit back, and three years larger as the earth broke and crumbled longer they bad waited. And the and gave way around it. In a very father bail grown to look old and anx short time that cave-tn would send a ious and the little mother more aud volume of water rushing aud leaping more wistful. And they now watched along all the ditches through the ranch, the green promise of fruit with auxlou» and by morning what? “Oh, the fruit, tbe fruit. Brandy!" eye« Would anything happen tills year? or would the rich promise al Be«« sobbed, wildly. “It will be killed and mother's heart will break!” test not dlsapiKiint them? She w rung her hands as she looked “The new ditch belpeti mightily this year." said Beas. "The trees never bore down the long road gleaming white and so heavily. Aud all the fruit Is perfect lonely lu the moonlight. Too late for — the primes aud pcachea snd cherries that. Before she could go a mile to and everything. Oh, Teddy, I believe ward belp the ranch would lie flooded and the ruin complete. Again she we will really see Canada next year!” She sprung to her feet aud threw her plunged her arm Into the water If she arm« around the neck of a little bron could ouly stop up that hole! She cho that had been nosing at the back looked on all aides helplessly, and of her head while she talked to Teddy. Brandy moved closer with a aympa She kisseil the horse's shaggy head aud thetlc and Inquiring whinny. She bugged hlqi lovingly. Then she put looked at him despairingly, then aud her foot In tbe stirrup and swung her deuly sprung forward. In a moment she was tearing wildly at buckles and self l ghtly Into the saddle. "Home. Teddy!” sbe cried. "Catch straps, aud then, to Brandy's profound surprise, she dragged tbe heavy pig Soda!“ Soda, another sturdy little broncho. skin saddle from his back and rushed ca;>ered gleefully around her mate, with It to the ditch. There she went Brandy, a few momenta, then permit down on her knees aud plunged the ted Teddy to niouut. and soon the live saddle beneath the water She fumbled ly little hoofs were beating a quick rat- with It a minute or so. then liatened tat tat down tlie white alkali path to- breathlessly. The water gurgled and tinkled un ward tbe rnuch home, far down the valley The sun waa bright and the certainly, then slowly, very slowly. It sky cloudlewa. as It had been for all the grew fainter. And soon there was only long summer months. The clouds a faint whisper and drip from one or would sail tow arils the mountain top*, two tiny waterfalls that slipped and but there they would stop and dissolve slid down the bank. The weight of tbe over tbe per*», where the snow gleam water had sucked the saddle closely e»l white almost till fall. Am! no rain • gainst tlie earth and the hole was fell In tbe valley. The alkali dust lay •topped. thick tn the alfalfa, the rich gram that So much. Rut tbe nlgbt was cold— grew so strangely green out of the her arms already ached and pained bard, dry earth, and tbe dust lay thick cruelly, and sbe did not dare leave the tn the tree« and on the prickly cacti aud •addle lest It slip. Would they search grat sagebrush that grew ou the louely for her? Or would they think she bad foot hl Ila. stayed all nlgbt with Jews? If she could "Father will Irrigate to morrow. 1 only get word home. reckon." said Beas, a* the bronchos Again she looked at Brandy. Then • l>ed along « de by tide. “The ground she called him to her, slipped th« loop 1« an fully dry and cracking badly " of her quirt from tbe pommel of the “1 dun no it's gettin' pert.v tat»." re •addle, ami. raising her arm out of tbe pllrxl Teddy "I beatd pa talkin' t water, she tiim-d Brandy toward borne foreman, and they win sayin' that and then brought down tbe lashes with there w nx «Igns of frost The fri lit Is •tinging force on his flank. ripen u' bully, but there may coi lie a “Hume. Brandy!” sbe called. And nipper, an' ef they Irr'gated It wi n it Brandy, outraged and indignant, , kick • ould mean another year that a i «1 up his heels, bucked three times, Bess looked »olievly at the bl tore down the tr 41 toward borne looking earth. It looked wo thirsty resolved to tell Soda that bls young tbe great ditch roll lag aloug b mietrvM had gone craxy. them seemed anxious to turn Its rich Falntvw and fainter sounded the torrent Into tlie little dltebea that ran txaif beats along tbe trail. And soon like reins np and down tari ween the •he could hear theta no longer, Iler tree« arm« ached crneHy. am! sharp pains "M ell. I began to shoot through her body from she «a.d. the cold. Now and then sb« would take a driuh!” her arms out of the water and swing them am! !>e«t her hands together till chrfr ftthf they stung; but only for a moment, they then tbe saddle had to be held In place “I met J The time «eemed horribly long, but at last far down tbe trail there sounded alow, thudding no'se that quickly grew T seems most as big as a real river,” said Bess, wbu wa« sitting on top of tbe beaped-up earth be side the big, new irrigating ditch, hug g.ug her knees tailor fashion. “If tbe water only didn't roU so awful fast we could most ride a canoe In H. eh. Teddy?” Teddy was not at all handsome. His balr was red ami bls mise turned up. and be was much freckled, But there was a great deal of sympathy in ids greenish eyes as be looked up at his sister. “You do miss Canada and the lake and boating aud everything, don't ye, Bess?” lie said. “I was such a little feJJer when the folks came west, an’ 1 can't remember much about It But. gee! It must uv been jolly fun swim- min' In a reel big lake. Au' pa said he would take us all back when tbe fruit tree« bore.” “Yes," said Bess, staring thoughtful j ly at the yellow, rolling water. * But It seems au awful long time to wait somehow. Last year It was frost, and year tiefore worms, and year before that the blight, aud It doe« seem as tho' pa would lose most everything be had before the ranch paid. And to think oue good bearing would make us rich' Rich, Ted! Juat think!” Teddy crawled up to the top of the bank of earth and looked far down the valley. He »aw long rows of trees, hardly twice as tall as himself, and be was only a 10year-o!d boy. But the slender little branches of the trees were covered thickly with little green bun< lies, and these bunches meant thousands of bushels of luscious fruit. Be»* could remember when she first saw the tries They were theu only B |nnAsr sad she cprung to her feet with a gasping little cheer as four borsi-a galloped madly to tbe ditch gate, aud nj m a minute fudr men bad dragged her up from the water, torn off her wet jacket and asked twenty questions Braudy bad reached bom« riderless and wa* auw galloping back with Teddy, white and frightened, clinging to bis bare back. The fruit waa »aved. thanks to Bess •nd Brandy. Tbe frost did very little . damage that nlghL aud at teat the yield waa rich and plentiful. And the following summer, in far off Canada. Teddy and Bess «plashed In the waves to their hearts’ content, while mother" looked on happily aud Mr. Harris told old friends all about fruit ranching "out West.’’ "It was a close call," he would say. "but Bess and Brandy saved the fruit If the ditch had burst through that night and flooded the roots it would have meant ruin.” And Bees, fully recovered from the heavy cold that fallowed her little ad venture, was surprised to find herself a heroine.—Chicago Record. LONG LIFE. Sought by Members of New Hundred-Year L'lub. York* To discover tbe secret of long life about a hundred profess.uual aud scien tific men and women of New York City have organized what they term the Hundred-Year Club. These people be lieve that under present conditions life should be prolonged for a century. They do not seek to keep man alhe merely as an exhibit, but to make him a useful member of society up to tbe day of his death. They have nut pledged themselves to live In accordance with any particular set of rules or to apply the secret of longevity to themselves if It be discov ered. Neither are they vegetarians. Christian Scientists or Ralstonite«. They do not pretend to say they will live to be centenarians, but they hope they may. Prominent among tbe members of the Hundred-Year Club are Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Theodore Sutro, Dr. Carleton Simons, Dr. H. W. Wiley. Di- rector of tbe United States pure food display at the Paris exposition; G. W. Smith, Albert Turner, Mrs. May Banks Stacey, John l»e Witt Warner. Dr. John R. Hayes, of the United States Pension Bureau, Washington, and Col. E. P. Vollum, U. S. A., retired. Dr. Simons, chairman of the Commit tee on Statistics, has secured tbe names of twelve citizens of New York City who are over 100. Incidentally, the club has learned that In Ireland there are 575 centenari ans; In Germany, with Its vastly great er population, but 75, while Servla has fully 600 over 100, 120 over 125 and three over 135. Dr. Simons la trying to discover whether these figures can be attributed to the difference In the diets of these people, China la the only nation, so far known to the club, that seta a premium on old age, granting special honors to persons who are IMi or over. Albert Turner, In discussing the men tai phase of longevity, said; "One of the elements In long life Is a conviction that It Is our duty to live; that It is not right In Itself, aside from other motives, for us to shuttle off this mortal coll until we have filled out a long term. It will, I think, be seen that the Importance of this Instinctive love of life cannot tie overestimated in its relation to health, disease aud long life.” SUPERSTITIOUS WOMEN. They Place a Great Deal of Confidence in Dreams. It doesn't seem possible that In this enlightened age superstition could be rife among the educated, but there are nevertheless a numt>er of young worn en who converse fluently. If not elo quently, In thr-e languages, and who read Spencer and Browning and Emer son, but who place a dreambouk with their Bible on the table beside the !>ed and consult It lu tbe morning tbe first thing. With a credulity worth a darky mam my, if tbelr sleep has been visited with unusual visions, they seize till« volume vs soon as their eyes are fairly opened and look tor an explanation. If misfor tune Is foretold by it, the seeker after knowledge assumes a bravado she is far from feeling. "I don't care.” she says to herself, by way of bolstering up her courage, “I'm not superstitious anyway, and I don't Ix-lieve In such arrant nonsense.” But she's nervous just the same, for a cou ple of days, until other troubles have driven this mythical one out of her mind. There's one young woman known to the writer who never dreams of a young child without shivering and shaking for days after. In fear of some dreadful thing happening to her. She has not consulted a dreambook on the subject, and so she doesn't know bow Infants and bad luck liecauie connected In her mind, but, nevertheless, after she's had a visitant of this sort while sleeping, she says prayers of unusual length aud then makes up her mind to !>e patient under afflictions sore. She's an Intelligent woman, mind you. but she doewn't attempt to explain the terror that besets her at this par ticular dream. She doesn't call herself superstitions, of course no woman does, not even tbe one who won't walk under a ladder, but her friends do. and make light of her until sbe exposes some fetich of theirs, when the subject Is carefully a routed afterward Baltimore News. MAD A OLDtST MANJN THE WORkD. IU-S Fubv Has Livesl l>ns ROUGH EXPER ieno C It Co«vini.vd the Judice that HnndrsA Might Be tte«t to an Aeylum ^* M- H. Cbetwynd. of Pbliad«^^ I-- tue possession of all bls faculties, t practically unimpaired, there lives a commenting on a rxwnt case man in tbe poorhoii»e at Plainfield. - • san« person was released by the eouf-,| J who has seen 12S winters come and Aom an asylum where be bad been ii- gi "Uncle M=3h Raby enjoys th« legally Confined, told the follosiai distinction of being tbe oldest man m story: "About twenty years ago a the United States. Not far behind him yer of prominence got Into a eontro- in point of years Is Mr*. Nancy Holli- versy on this very po nt with au equally ________ of Ellvnboro> ?j. C.. who ba* reach- well-known Judge. The lawyer main- n_ Mr Kaby u Mld taiued that It was the easiest thing ,n to be tbe oldest man in America, if not tbe world to get a sane person confiae(1 In tbe world. He has t*en for thirty la an asylum The judge, while adait. years an inmate of the New Jersey in ting that it might be pos»:ble. beld stitution, aud seems contented w;tb hi» that It would be very difficult and that the difficulties would Increase in pro. lot. Noah Raby was born In Eatonton, port'on to the position in society or tt» Gates County. N. C., In 1773. His moth Intended victim. 'A person's staudlng er was a native of North Carolina, but in tbe community presents no obs ae.«; his father. Andrew Ba«s. was an In said the lawyer. Why.’ turning sud dian. Though the blood of an aboi'g denly to his companion, 'I could ev»a ine Is In his veins. Raby's skin is per get you locked up in an asylum if i wanted to.’ 'Nonsense.' auswervd tbe fectly white. Piscataway's poor farm is situated judge, aud then be laughed aloud at th« absurdity of the Idea aud the discuss.ua for the nonce was drupped. “It 'occurred on a railroad train, which, stopping a short time later st i station, the lawyer suggested to tbe Judge that they stretch their legs on the platform. They had not gut tea feet from the train when the lawyet suddenly hurled himself upon the Judge and at the same time cried aloud for help. A half dozen bystanders rushed to the lawyer's aid. and before th« judge realized what had happened he was held by a dozen hands. 'All right; thank you,' said the lawyer to the tnea who bad come to bls aid. 'Tie his handi behind his back, for he's dangerous.' This was too much for tbe Judge. Tn Judge So-and-So,’ he began with digni ty, 'and this outrage----- ’ Just then h« felt a rope on bis wrist and bls self- about four miles from New Market, In possession deserted him and be fairly the Stelton highway. When a cor- raved at tbe indignities that were being respondent called at the farm "Unde heaped upon him. He resorted to lan Noah," as he Is familiarly called, was guage not usually heard from the bench in his accustomed place In the sitting or employed by the judiciary. But tbe room, quietly dozing in a large high- more he said the less effect it seemed tc back rocker, where he always sleeps. have on bls captors. He never goes to bed. fearing a rush of “Finally he paused for breath aud the blood to his head might prove fatal. He lawyer in a quiet voice said: 'Ale you Is almost totally blind, but Is In full satisfied now that I was right in tbe possession of bls other faculties and argument?’ 'Satisfied!' be^an the judge, seems to eujoy life. hysterically, ‘satisfied!’ But he got no “Uncle Noah" smokes almost Inces further. 'Yea. d—n you!’ was the man santly. On pleasant days in the sum ner In which he lowered bls colors. mer months be gropes his way about “A few words and Judiciously distrib the dooryard and mingles with the uted coins among his captors by the male inmates. His thin. gray, almost lawyer released the Judge and enabled snow-white hair and bls bent figure him to get upon the train Just as tbe denote bl« great age. though bls mus i conductor called 'All aboard!’ cles are firm and he appears quite ac , “In the town where they had stopped tive. ! was tbe State lunatic asylum and the He has a remarkably clear Intellect idvent of lunatics was a part of tbe and bls mind is retentive on nearly all ' town’s daily routine. Hence tbe alac subjects. The most noticeable thing rity with which the judge was seized about the old man Is his slight frame. 1 But It was a pretty rou»li object lee He Is quite thin, weighing less than son,' he complained when he had re-or- 100 pounds. ! -red sufficient equanimity to enter Into tonversatlon with his companion. 'Per- 1 haps, but It proved w hat I said,' was 'he reply, ‘and who knows but that some day it may prove of great value to you and enable you from that ex The population of the earth doubles perience to prevent or else to right I Itself in 200 years. great wrong.’ The judge made no re- I'rof. I.loyd Morgan, tn a recent ad •ly, but lost himself In thought.” dress. stated that he bad fouud that young chickens, taken straight from the Mud Mountain. incubator, could swim very well, the The.princlpal railroad of Coata Rlcx power of swimming being perfectly in now- but 117 miles long, Is just belnt stinctive. »xtended to reach from San Jose to the As seen from the moon, the earth Pacific coast. The general manager of would appear four times greater in the road, in speaking of the enterprise diameter and thirteen times wider In ■ecently. said: "There is one place on the road which surface than the moon does to us. The illumination of the earth is fourteen tas given the engineers a great deal of times greater on the moon than that of trouble, aud w hich lias cost many the moon on the earth. thousands of dollars every year sine« The oldest public building In New he r“a'l «'«•'’ bul|t- This place 1» about York City Is St. Paul's Chapel, at the forty-five miles from Port Limon, anil -orner of Broadw ay and Fulton street s called Bluemud. I-or about 600 feel It was built In 1766, ten years before the track runs aloug a ledge on the sld» the Declaration of Independence. For )f a mountain, with the iliver Reventa ■onie years Gen. Washington was a reg- Zon below. The mountain is composed alar attendant of the church, and bls >f a bluish clay, which turns into mud luring the rainy season and keeps con- pew is still pointed out to visitors. The people of the Southern Ap- stantiy sliding down on the tracks. We palaehian mountains number about two have to keep a big gang of men at million, their descent being from the work day and night cleaning the road Scotch Irish, French Huguenots. Eng-1 of this blue mud, and when the rains llsh and German. They have been in ire very heavy the traffic has to be sus these mountains since long before the pended. In July so much of the mud revolution. They love their homes and slid down over the roadlted that vt mingle but little with tbe outside world. could not run trains there for three weeks. A frequent cause of the oiliness on “To add to the difficulty there Is a the outside of lamps is that the wick lake back of the mountain, and the is kept too high when uullglited. It waterfrom this lake percolates through should be remembered that tbe wick the mountain and keeps It constantly draws tlie oil to the surface, and if it wet The lake was drained by the en projects too far above the burner. It gineers. but they discovered that It was will soon accumulate oil there, which fed by springs, and still the mountain will find its way slowly over tbe out was kept In a wet state and the mud side. kept sliding down over the tracks. Saxon makers of needles drove En • “At last they obtained what is known gland out of Brazil by wrapping their In the mining region of California as a good« in pink paper Instead of black. hydraulic giant, and which throws a Other Germans are catering to the very powerful stream of water with fondness of Russians for red in tbelr great force. They rigged up this hy dress. France recently learned how draulic giant, and when I left Cost* distasteful green is to a Chinaman, but Rica they were actually washing th» It coat a good deal of money to make mountain away with it Into the river." the discovery. aud IwenW-elihi Year«. Friday Superstition. A row of paupers' bouses, very neatly designed, has just been erected *• Abnaracle, Mr. Rudd, of Ardnamur- chan, having advanced a considerable sum for building purposes to the pariah council on easy terms. Accommodation Is provided for ten persons. A f»w days ago IL MacFhersoa, inspector of poor, visited Abaracle in order to ’u perlntend the-removal of the ten select ed female paupers to the new cottages- They all occuplexl houses which wet« In a wretched stattof dl«repa;r. yet esrb of them resolutely and pereuiptor ly re fused to "flit.” In vain did the in-q»«^ tor dilate on the Increased comfort and conveniences to be Injoyed In tbe ne< dwellings. The aged dames were In vincibly proof against all argument" nor did threats of compulsion and »her iff's warrants have any terror for them At length It was elicited that the d »■ Inclination to remove was ba sei I • mpi? on superstition. Tbe day of tbe happened to be Friday; and It appears that to change quarters on that par i- lar day constitutes a gross aud want n violation of all the canons govern ng highland “flitting." On discovering ' *: tbe perversity manifested by the oid women was mainly attributable to “conscientious scruples.” the inspe<"'-’r at once agreed to humor them, ai d th» removals were postponed until the fol lowing day. when they «»■» accom plished without any opposition or *■ mur — Edinburgh Scotsrrin A Thoughtful Proft-asor. "Johnny found a half-dollar to-day • nd bought a pound of chocolates. Wasn't he lucky?" asked the wife of tbe cranky, analytical professor. “Luckyr answered the professor, slowly. "Let ns see. He has now cre- ated an appetite for chocolate«. There Is not one chance in a million that be will again find enough money to pur chase another pound. His former ap petite for gumdrop« and cheap candle« la now gone. He will turn from them with scorn, yet will not possess enough money to buy chocolates. Would you call him lucky? Always remember, madam, that we are happy with the simple things until we taste the rich and grand. Tell the cook, when you go down, to not serve any more health Potatoes as Penwipers. A certain New York hotel uses a foists to-day. as I am feeling unwell bushel of potatoes a year for |w>nwipers and need a change of diet."—Indianan- on the tables in the writing-rooms. Ev oils Sun. ery morning a large potato Is put It a Two Creeds in tine Chnreh. compartment of the pen box. and after In the city of Heidelberg. Germany, 2-4 hours the potato la removed and an other put In. Pens In pen holders are there Is a church . ailed the Church of stuck Into the potato half a dozen at a the Holy Ghost, which Is unique In Its time, giving it the appearance of a way. being the only church In the porcupine. It Is claimed that a potato world in which the Protestant and penwiper la the best preservative Catholic services are held at the same against rust and mildew that can be time, a partition wall through the cen ter separating the two «'ongregat ons. secured for the pens. Doctors in China. The women believe a man sbou.d fac» A Chinese doctor's fee Is perhaps tba every misfortune with cheerfulness, ex smallest in the world, ranging from d •epi the death of his wife. to 5d but this can be accounted for by the fact that any one can practice The real proof of the pudding 1» » t8* as doctor or physician. puaaesa.ua thereof. I