EUGENE WEEKLY GUARD. CAMrBBLL BKOI., rraprletor*. EUGENE OREGON, That new contrivance which does away with the telephone girl still re tains a feminine feature It answers back. The Sultan of Morocco 1» learning to play the bagpipe. He must have un- bounded confidence in the loyalty of his subject». The story that Mr. Morgan had ac quire 1 the Washington monument aud would chop It up into fem e posts for bls estate in the country 1» denied. Rome old settlers still occasionally get excited over Ixiseliall games, but It is a long time since we have beard of a case of apoplexy due Io this cause • When Gatling's horseless plow takes on a big stone tlie driver uses the same einprthilc language tiiat has been vn regie In the past when the horse plow Jabbed the ribs of our veteran agricul turist. The Chicago professor who bragged to bls class that he had never yet kiss cd a girl is getting the laugh all around We advise the girls In his neighborhood to go Into baseball musks. The pro feasor Is doing some thinking. measurable harm. If husbands and w I vm uwy 1« taught off.or ot> with the aid of the urts <4vlllzatk>n has de generated to a depth beside which Mormonism assumes an a«|M*ct of mor al grandeur. The court doubtless had no alternative. The deserted wife wai confronted with the necessity of going to n public poorhousc at whose door she would be separated from her chil dren. Rhe did uot brilie the court to give her a dec/ee. That would have been hers anyway. Had the court been able to provide for the sulsdsteuce of the deserted wife and children other wise he would have rejoiced to sen i the miscreant father to a penlteutlary. there to work, that hia labor might be Used In part to contribute to the main teuance of those helpless ones he had brought into the world. But such are the defects of our social legal system that the family deserter goes free and the polluted purchase money Is paid by one wholly detached from legal ac countability. Thus a criminal Infatua tion acquire« judicial seal. Dishonor of wife, children, home is established as nn encouraging precedent in the American courts. Divorce by purchase will lie a more alluring gate hereafter for tiie dissolute of the aristocracy of wealth. Reaction cannot set in until wife desertion shall be added to the category of felonies and the criminal shall be held In durance for Hie sup port of his vi<-tIm and their children. Prince Kropotkin say dors not lj[lng bappint course, is not a w holly The seventeenth century has been ment. nor yet one which and Is being badly trampled by the upon as Indisputable, novelists If the action Is located In godmother should makv Rlxteen Hundred and Something and nnce and. driving nil wol* the hero says “zounds'' and “ods bod mid all skeletons from < kins,'* the sale runs Into the hundred the places of these grim t thousands. Brethren, let u» come off! little fortunes, the Chl< thinks It is safe to predl Edward VII. appears to have Inherit- tain amount of happiness eed Home of Ills mother's economical I As to bow long-lived tin habits. The old lady got In her da>' ■ wotiM tie 1« another que thousands ii|»on thousands of India are certainly new ideals »u—-u. ns presents. These she gave the relation between rlelit away to brides as her wedding gifts. news springing up. and oi There was a Hue stock of them left and frequently reflected In II these, together with a large number j used to lie that an author of engravings signed by the artists, are , secure the happiness of lib liow being sent to the King's friends . stowed upon her. besides | husband. one of tlrose lai who are taking mates. , tiiat only novelists have t Plagiarism must lx* an original sin. jMisal. But now n writer • for It Is committed by persons who guarantee of happiness would not do another dishonest thing gifts, lint will give the read At least once a year some college stand that the use Ills bet orator Is convicted of stealing the of both husband nod form apread eaglelsm which won him the civic the matter of liapplm prize In the contest. In most of these child, at some period of ex Clises It Is proved that the culprit “lift tertalns the sweet convlctlv el" I lie speech from the effort of some lifv- of ii confectioner Is th< college orator of other days, usually to lie envied and emulated, I not so very remote. In fact, these col comes the realization that lege contests are productive of a great lx* drops of bitterness In such that a man with unlimited deal of this sort of deception. tlie sltlon of pepperm "Murry young." says Father Hogan. ! may be himself in ¡liferent t< the oldest priest In Trenton, N. J. “The lights. Wealth Is largely a question of salary should be no bar peppermint sticks, ami only against this step. A young man earn has trivsl to consume a wlK Ing 9 Id a week ami upward could keep these sweets by himself kn a wife just as well as be can pay *5 a cloying they may lx*eouie. week for board and attend the opera less, riches as a sourc«. of p< every ulglit and take In all sorts of force will go on alluring uiank amusements. The young girls should eml of the cluipter. As Enter take this advice home to themselves. { "Rome men are bora to own, too. They are as responsible as the animate all tlielr possessions, young men. They will not marry a I cannot; their owning Is not ; young man nowadays unless he Is earn seems to be a compromise of th Ing a Inrge salary, so they can dress In ncter; they seem to steal th illks and satins mid make a great show dividends. They should own ing on the streets. If this step Is not administer; not they who ho; taken early In life the young man for conceal: not they who, the gre» ever abandons tlie Idea of marrying prletors they are. are only the after lie has passed the 25 year mark." boggiirs, lint they whose work There Is a great deal of this starting In out work for more, opens a p where father and mother left off. But all.“ not all of these marriages are happy. WHAT THE FOOL SAIL More often the couple that struggles »long up together from poverty to com Story of uiv Farnawt seeker, x fort looks buck with satisfaction at the tivu hvk I Who Wrote It, way so painfully trod There were les An Ignoramus, not kuowIng t sons of life In II and character develop I tier of the line “Though lost to ment. to memory dear," appealed to The recent decision by a Judge In son of discretion. "Y'ou don't New York that a husband Is entitled to to tell me you don't know?” la lila wife's earnings sounds as If It tin* |H*rwm of discretion so rmlel might be the Judgment of some wise the Ignoramus sluuk away ash I'lm klng up his courage he app acre of comic opera. It Is surely a pe cullnr partnership In which the head of <*vl a diplomatist: "Tin* same a the Hrin la entitled to all the Junior that penned the line ‘Consistency partner's profits. while the poor little art a Jewel.'” was the answer. junior partner Is entitled to only so Ignoramus asked a man who Is «■m b of the senior's as he chooses caught napping. "Of course I vwaAtewe.“ "«Wt tlie man who is I In «task» «-w% bws bests*« Injustice for you! A married woman's caught napping. "It's ahem-conf wage earning ability, according to the It, I've forgotten. Tlie name Is m New York Judge, belongs entirely to very tip of my tongue, but how lier husband, lie may employ it or not, plvl I kuow perfectly well, you k ss he sees Ht. and he may exact and but your asking me has knocke ex|H*ml for his own private use and dear out of my bead.” The Iguora pleasure the money ac< ruing there went to a wise man and told him from Were the husband |H*rmaneiitly “Three separate students lipin t dlsabled and unable to contribute any separate occasions were asked thing to the living expenses, then, this different questions," mtld tlie v decree holds, the wife might have some man. oracularly. "The tlrd quesuvm jurisdiction over Iler wages, but other wa«. ‘What was the exact numlier of wise the mail holds the pursestrings the ancient Grvs-k chorus?* tlie second. even If the woman Hila the purse. If 'W hat is the rt their laay liege lords, nothing In know. but I've forgotten.' am) the world will It Is unfortunate that each instructor. It Is said, made tlie this class Is usually too busy keeping same comment, ‘To think that the only the wolf from the door and puttlng luau who ever knew should have for fissl In the mouths of tlielr Infants to gotten!' still mystllevl, the Ignoramus bother with legislature« and public asked a fn In a civilised country. The wife alleged selousnoM of bla own lack of piety and desertion of herself ami children, fruit polish That solemn sense of his own o’ live years' marriage. The husband dignity as head of the bouse that dlvl not deny the charge, but. although shrinking deferencs paid to him by the notoriously Imiwv-uuloos ami prof.*« "weaker vessels" of his family, which slonally o|qs>seater famlilaa lu Eng prujierty. he settled upon his wife alt land, aud to some degree In the old tuony so genemiis that her attorneys fashioned New England community adv toed the urt of her acceptance of this never lightens up the pathway of the settlement, ami thus the pro. red tlie average Western householder, lie Ings came to an end The money. It Is * s' t' k If well kites» w aa provide I by another tie Is not discrowned entirely pcfaoti for whom. It la equally well known. Prof. Herron abandoned bla Too many men In thia country vote lawful wife ami family The precedent a« they pray and they never pray un thus Jmluiall,' set la fraught with lui lees it la to ask a personal favor. TAX COLLECTION IN CHINA. Frauds Perpetrated Upon toe Pcop*e • nt I pun the Government. The Chinese plenlpotent lares are ob jecting. of coi'^'e, to tue amount of in demnity demanded by the powers, and representing that it will cripple the re sources of China for years to come; but examination shows that the interest and slaking fund of the capital sum can be easily met with a very e emeu- tary reform In the financial system of the empire. An enormous sav.ng can lie made by doing away with the tiibute rice system. At present two gnat rice- grow.ng provinces. Anhal and Klangsu, are obliged to send up to Pekin annual ly something over I.OOO.IM j O tons of rise. This la supposed to be collected In kind from the farmers, but the officials real ly collect the tax in money, tiling the rate at wbl h the farmers commute at about two aud a half times the market price. The required quantity of rice is then bought In the market by the off! al«, and here the Government begins >y losing tlire - fifths of the money actu ally paid by the farmers. This rice Is then shipped In Junks by the Grand Canal, and In steamers by the sea route to Tientsin. and 30 per cent 1» allowed for waste anti damage on the way. A further loss accrues to the Govern ment In that the crews of the Junks al ways take a quantity of general cargo >n tie r own account, on which they pay in duties, tlv <"’•••-* ’ t ........ .• soo met turn Iveenme his friends. Tkey obtained pupil» f,ir hint, and also contributed imrsoually to hl« support. Among those lie taught wa« the beau tlful Rosa Walker, whose picture ap pear« here. Often she uaed to sen.I bltu flowers to brighten his lonely stu dlo. or delleacfes to tempt him when he wa« III. one day last fall, while play mg an awonipauiment to tier ainging. h« fell In a swism When lie revived the girt was bending over him. Tho thought of her klmlness overvame him. "Your name Is Rosa." he said. “I shall write a song to you. It will 1*> my la«t. When It Is finished I shall go " When he reached his ntudl« he began work on the com|«>«hlon «nd tollec' all night, despite his weakness. At dawn he had completed “My Rosary." ant carried the manuscript to the girl's home where slve «iftig it for him Then he went tvack tn his room to die While he lay III the song travelev! far. and wa« sung from one end of the country to the other. The young girl sent him flowers every day. and wnj with him when he died Rhe sang “My Rosary" at his funeral, and *n the grave of her dead friend placed a mound of the rosea tiiat be bad loved la hhi last j own room, where .Ue Wu Anin«a»o71*’L** before one of her frenzied attacks. Oc not there to rejoice with her < * casionally. too, she pressed her bands up over the glad future op..nin. '**»1 on her head, and walking to the sink, before her? bathed it in water, as if to cool its in (To be continned.) ward heat. NO WONDER HEJ^S CHAPTER VIIL-tContlnuedd Our morning about »•» w‘*k’.•*.¡1« ward Mary was in the meadow gathering cowlips for dinner when she heard aome one calling her name; an.l lo”k D« p' »he »aw Jenny hurrying toward her, her .unbonnet hanging down her back as usual, and her cheek, flushed »“h vio lent exercise. A» soon a» she v«ule * p she began with. "Oh, my. am t I ho and tired, aud I can't stay a minute, either, for I ran away. But I had auch good CHAPTER IX. newa to tell you. that I would come. You Very different this time was Mary's are going to have a great deal bet er home than this. You kuow where Rue ride with Mr. Knight from what it had been some months before, and after eft.r Corner is, the district over east. Mary replied that »he did, and Jenny brushing away a few natural tears, and continued: "We all went over there yes sending back a few heart-sighs to the lov- terday to see Mrs. Mason. She« a real ed ones left behind, her spirits rallied, nice lady, who used to live in Boston, an l by the time they reached the borders and be intimate with ma. until three or of Rice Corners there was such a look four years ago «hen Mr. Mason died of quiet happiness on her face that even We didn't go there any more then, and Mr. Knight noticed it. As they rode on I asked Rose what the reason wa». and Mary fancied that the country looked »he said Mrs. Mason was poor now, and pleasanter and the houses better than ma bad ’cut her;’ and when I asked her in the region of the poorhouse; and when what »he cut her with, »lie only laughed, a sudden turn of the road brought into and said »he believed I didn t know any view a beautiful blue sheet of water, em thing. But since then I’ve learned what bosomed by bright green hills, her delight knew no bounds. Springing up and point it means.” “What does it?" asked Mary and Jenny ing toward it, she exclaimed: “Oh, please stop a moment and look. Isn t it lovely? replied: “If a person dies and leaves no money, What is it?” no matter how good his folks are, or how "That? Oh, that'» nothing but *Por- much you like them, you mustn t know dunk Pond,' or n» folks most generally them when you meet them in the street, call ’etn. seein’ there’s two, North and or you must cross over the other side if South Pond.” you see them coming; and then when la "How far is the pond from Mrs. Ma dies call and speak about them, you son's?” asked Mary, casting longing FRK«H A!R FOOD RAFÄ. must draw a great, long breath, and won glances toward the distant sandy beach i a flat shingle roof of barely der ’how the poor thing will get along, and the graceful trees which drooped itch to shed raiu. The floor she was so dreadfully extravagant.' I over the water'» edge. t four feet from the ground, positively heard mother say those very "It's farther back than 'tis there, ’cause whole structure hardly big words about Mrs. Masou; and what is so it’s uphill all the way.” said Mr. Knight, » reach well across. There ■ funny, the washwoman the same day “but here we be at Miss Masou’s-tbis ■s all around, and the weatb- spoke of her, nnd cried «lien »he told house right here,” nnd he pointed to a ’ up next the roof is full of how kind «he was, and how she would go neat, handsome cottage, almost hidden without things herself for the sake of giv from view by the dense foliage which - boles, The door tits tight, ing to the poor.” surrounded it. is with a lock. Around each After a moment’s pause Jenny proceed There was a long lawn in front, and ir legs Is commonly a tar ed: “This Mr». Mason came into the into the carriage road on the right of it ipplied six inches above the country and bought the prettiest little Mr. Knight turned, and driving up to a his traps venturesome auts. cottage you ever saw. She has lots of side door, said to Mary, “Conte, jump I their kidney, thus keeping nice fruit, and for all mother pretends in down, for my foot is so lame I don't be clear. The structure is Boston that .«he does not visit her, just lieve I'll get out. But there's your chest, •d Inside and out twice a as soon as the fruit is ripe she always You can't lift that. Halloo! Judith, »t weather floor aud shelves goes there. Pa says it's real mean, and come ’ere.” In answer to this call a fat, pleasant- every morning, and scoured lie should think Mrs. Masou would see looking colored wouian appeared in the ck. Such a fixture should through it.” "Did you go there for fruit yesterday?" doorway, and as if fresh from the regions r three or four dollars, even of cookdom wiped the drops of perspira asked Mary. it built, aud it is certainly “Oh. no,” returned Jenny. "Mother tion from her round, jolly face. mndiest thiugs on can have “Here, Judith,” said Mr. Knight, “help said she was tired to death with staving >use or yard. at home. Besides that, she heard some this gal lift her traps out.” Judith complied, and then bidding old thing in Boston about a large estate in iff" the Itule Abroad. England, which possibly would fall to Charlotte to "get up,” Mr. Knight drove contractor who has just Mrs. Mason, and »he thought it would le away, leaving Mary standing by the n abroad tells of an expcri- real kind to go and tell her. Mrs. Mason kitchen door. "Come iu and sit down,” said Judith, ell h!m in Munich I lttst-a- has poor health, and while we were there fference in pretailing cus- she asked mother if she knew of any good pushing a chair toward Mary with her foot. “It's as hot here as an oven, but I with a uumbir of letters little girl she could get to come and live I had crambry sass and ginger snaps, and with her; ’ one, ’ she »aid, ‘ who could be on to European ra Load massy knows what, to make this morning quiet when her head ached, and who ^.ade it a point to Inquire and I got belated; but set down and >Ings of the various sys would read to her and wait on her at make yourself to home.” other time».' Mother said she did not Mary took the proffered seat, and then •is treated with tin form know of any, blit whin Mrs. Masou Judith left the room for a few moments, went out to get tea, I followed and told be thought h** had ac- her of you. and the tears came into her saying when she returned that, as Mrs. nformation he was after. eyes when I said your folks were all dead, Mason was still suffering from a head • sed out of the otfice of aud you were alone and sorry. She said ache, she could not see Mary until after dinner. "And," cootiuued Judith, "she whom he hail lieea talk- right off that she would come round and tol.l me to entertain you, but I don't know iis hat. He had » an el.v see you soon, and if she liked you you what to say nor do first. Harry died out when It o cm re I to should live with her.” just a week to a day before he was to be So saying, she ran off; Mary, having married, and so I never had any little • was <>ue inat’et about gathered her cowslips, sat down to think girls to talk to. Can’t you think of some fnrgotteu to Inquire. “1 of Mrs. Mason, and wonder if she should thing to talk aboutWhat have you »traced my sti ps,“ * a d ever see her. That afternoon, when the been used to doing?" ¡an, "ami again entered dishes were all washed, she, as usual, “Washing dishes.” was Mary’s reply, ctlng to remove my hat. stole anay to her books. She had not “Wall,” answered Judith, “I guess you e official with whom I been long occupied ere some one called won't have that to do here for one night; tg. and. ap dogix ng for her, saying Mr. Knight was downstairs when some of the neighbors were in I -inch of bis time, i put and wanted to see her, and that there heard Miss Mason tell 'em that she got was a lady with him. jilm. you to read to her and wait on her. An ] Mary readily guessed that the lady then she said something about your not ord he reached up. took p'aced It in my i and. must be Mrs. Mason, and carefully brush having an equal chance with your sister. ed my query and bowed ing her hair and tying on a clean apron, You han't but one. now t’other’» dead, she descended to the kitchen, where she ■ me feel rather cheap." was met by Mr. Knight, who called out, have you?” Mary replied in the negative, and Ju “Hallo! my child, how do you do? 'Pears dith continued: “Wall, now you've got I Great Prive. to me you've grown handsome. It agrees over the first on't, I reckon yon’s glad ■n <>f old tiooks and au with you to live here, I reckon, but I'll the baby's dead, for she must have been Tered for sale recently venture you'll be glad enough to leave kind of a bother, wasn't she?” tivn bouse. One of the and go and live with her, won't you?” Instantly Mary’s thoughts flew back to ■ of the collection wa» pointing toward a lady who was just an empty cradle, and again a little golden favor of Henry VIII.'» coming from Mrs. Parker's room and to head was pillowed upon her breast, as atherlne of Arragou, ward whom Mary's heart instantly warm often in times past it had been, nnd as it would never be again. Covering her yn de Words, a pupil ed. "You see," continued Mr. Knight, "one face with her hands, she sobbed, "Oh. v three other copies Allie. Allie! I wish she hadn't died!” known to lie In exist- of the Lincoln girls has taken a mighty Judith looked on in amazement, and for shine to you. and It's queer, too. for »t Greek grammar want of something better to do placed a they're dreadful stuck-up folks.” in 1497. was another “If you please, sir," said Mary, inter fresh stick of wood in the stove, mutter « of the collection, rupting him, "Jenny isn't a bit stuck-up." ing to herself. "Now. I never! I might estauient. dated 1552, “I'mph!" returned Mr. Knight. “She of knew I didn't know what to say. What Ralau Willi a wooden d.ies not belong to the Lincoln race, then, a pity Harry died. I’ll give her that big tible, printed four I g less. I know them, root and branch. ginger snap the miuute it’s baked. See if I don'»." uen. aud Cromwell's Lincoln's wife used to work in the fac Accordingly, when the snap was done. . ig ilown bear-baiting tory at Sontbbridge, but she's forgot all Judith placed it in Mary’s hands,bidding ami t wrestling on Sundays are evjually about that, and holds her head dreadful her eat it quick, and then go up and see of Intcr- sf Autographs of Pitt, Fox, high whenever she sees me. But that's the nice chamber Mrs. Mason had ar neither here nor there. This woman Burke. Warren Hayings, Voltaire, and ranged for her. wants you to live with her. Miss Mason, King Edward VII were Included.- this is Mary Mary, this is Miss Mason " “Come," said Judith; and leading the IxmdoD I tally Mail. way, she conducted Mary up the stair The introduction twlng thus happily case, and through a light, airy hnll to the over. Mrs. Mason proceeded to ask Mary door of a small room, which she opened, A t autious Millionaire. a variety of questions, and ended by say saying. "Look, ain't it pretty?” Mr. Midas (ab mt to make a wlll>— ing she thought she would take her, al Mary's heart was too full to speak, and in disposing of my estate, while I am though she would rather not have her anxious that my son shall have the come for a few days, as she was going to for several minutes she stood silent. With tonetit of a goodly share of It, I do not be absent. Miss Grundy wa« now inter the exception of her mother's pleasant parlor in old England, she had never be wi«h him to become possessed of It iu rogated concerning her knowledge of fore seen anything which seethed to her work, and with quite a consequential air so cosy sn*l cheerful as did that little bulk. Lawyer Excuse me for saying It. she replied: “Perhaps, ma'am, it looks room, with its single bed. snowy counter but the inference of that instruction too much like praising myself, considerin’ pane. muslin curtains, clean matting, con that I've had the managin' of her mostly, cern. Ut toilet table, an I what to her was seems to do your son Injustice. He but I must confess that she's live-1 with hasalwaysseemed to me to lie a young me so long, and got my ways so well, fairer than nil the rest, upon the mantel man absolutely free from any tendency that she's as pleasant a mannered, good- piece there stood two small vases, filled with sweet flowers, whose fragrance fill to dlssi|>atlon. tempcre.1 child, and will scour as bright ed the apartment with delicious perfume. Mr. Midas Very true, but you can- a knife as you could wish to see!" All this was so different from the bare not tell to what channel ambition for Saturday came at last, and long before walls, uncovered floors and rickety furni the sun peeped over the eastern hills notoriety may lead him; he may take ture of the poorhouw that Mary trem into his head to become a I'nlted Mary was up »nd dressed jBst a, ,h(, bled lest it should prove a dream from was ready to leave h< r room «he heard which ere long she would awake. States Senator Richmond Dispatch. Sally singing in a low tone, "Oh. there'll When Mary was finally » nt for by American Footwear. • Mrs. Mason «he hail lx en so much accus American made boots and shoes ar* mourning; Oh. there'll be mourning when tomed to sick persons hat she knew in tuitively jnst what to do atxl when to driving British made govxls out of Aus Mary a f.»ne away.*’ About nine o'clock Mr Knight drove do it. and her step was so light, her voice tralia ami the British colonies In the East ami West Indies and Africa. vp alone. Mr«. Mason lieing sick with so low. and the hand which bathed the where they have always had a (DO nervous headache. “I should hare been sehiog bead so soft and gentle in its touch here S n r. «aid he. "but the roads is that Mrs. Mason involuntarily drew her nopoly. awful rough, and old Charlotte has got to her bosom, and kissing her lips, called Improving Grant's Tomb. a «tub or «»methin' in her foot. But her her child, and said she should never leave her; then, laying back in her easy The grounds areusd Giaut s tomb at where'« the gal? Ain't she ready T' He wa« answered by Mary herself, who chair, she remained perfectly still, while Riverside are to be beautified The trees will be planted, the steep embank msde her appearance, followed by Billr Mary alternately fnri ber hair bearing th.* box. And now commence.! smoothed her forehead, until she fed into ment terra- ed an I asphalt walks laid. th.- leave taking«. Mi«« Grundy's turn a quiet »lumber. fr..m which she did not i owning first. awake until Judith rang the bell for sup- | Tevas < m-IMpr l ine. A pipe line will tie twilit in the oil May I kiss yon. Miss Grundy?” «aid per. which was neatly laid out n a little > belt of lleanm -nt. Texas, with a com Mary. Mi«s Grandy bent down and re dining parlor, opeuing into the flower gar ceive! the child's kiss, and then darting den There was something so very social pany ba. king It for ||a.nsi.issi off into the pantry, went to «kimrning and cheering In the appearance of the o*n, and the arrangement of the table The average girl I» engaged so many pan« of milk already skimmed, fncle r> with its glos.y white cloth, and dishes of time« that the engagement ring » mp!y Peter between time« kept ejaculating th* MSM hue that Mary felt a’rnost ss •agrrn- «erte» n« »sd of a th r forts for the men. One smal: talned her personal belongt* Rea M«h In The deepening of the # canal system has had L..- other * o1 tlinn to allow tlie pgv»a