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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1902)
^¿^ASHIONEO SONO. , -T dear is d‘7’ I °Bt dear ¡a raía; « •**' L is bere, when, «»rm and SCENE OF HIDFOIS ATROCITIES 1 HE Y EIA E IN THE SEA T0M4S ESTRADA PALMA,FIRST PRESIDEST OT CIBA IN WEST Al RICA BROKEN IP. PEARL DIVERS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Thursday Island, Between Australia and New Guinan, la the Center of the Ku-best Pearl Fisheries in the World dear at day's break, stealing H«bt; 1» ,h? f 9ee .un'a awake, fa alld bright. When de»» , rnt dear to guide my band. ■A Daugerous Calling. . I ’“s m V - I san’ my dear. ^Lippinco" » SMt WAS DISCHARGED. 0K0THY BENSON laid dowu 1H.r ¡><‘11 with a sigh satisfac- tion "There, that is too good for tUhug aud ought to go Into my new ““V but ho. bum! such bits make me Xableto the Tow« aud Home, aud it mean a f»w on mv 8M1“ry ■“iin the in'« nian buys Into the flrm, homier who be is with all his dollars Ld a librarj' bee in his bonnet. If he ‘.it »lease not discharge me until 1 ’ mam.ua a summer lu the country I will be thaukful. Al>. mamma and I ‘ |10t fear poverty, for pupa's losses allJi.uiorable ones aud his name was kept dean; 1 think the poor dear .»mid nd have <He<l in peace bad owed a Penny- with ,hat t0 kevp "S happr munisy will not uilsa her high teas and I"-here n little lump came in her throat-"! shall not miss being out of the 'set' ” -They want the copy for the second form" aald « 'ok'e her elbow' ulul the musings of the pretty young usslst- ,UI editor were cut short while she made numerous scrawls on the top of urious manuscripts such as "ten- olnt leaded," or "close up" aud "cuts o follow." and the begrimed l>o.v dis- ppeareil behind the great doors that but the wbirrlir; inaclilues from the ommoilious oflii < s. Miss Benson leaned back and closed er eyes for a moment, and as she did o the face of Jack Macomber lose In er vision, and she let herself dwell oil be past She often dreamed of this face- ometiuies it seemed happy and care 's* of her sufferings, but to-day she uw It grave and sad, as It was that »st day when cruel words had Sep rated them. -I would own how sorry I am If I ieie not so poor and he so rich, but to peak now is to allow him to think pov rtv”- but this was as far as she could hink. for the tears were coming fast. 1'11 go home now and see little mother nd she w ill cheer me up; my article on Criminal Children' is so good I can leep happy." She went out Into the spring after won and walked down the avenue. The 1.5th of April—and only two years go Jack and I went to .Al----- ou a little lorseback party and he bought me a rent bunch of violets and fastened sein on tlie bridle!” She liouglit a tluy Stub uow and placed them In her coat ■just for "auld lang syne.” As she climbed the stairs to her tiny partments she felt that it was not fell, and she was not surprised to find er mother quite ill. and all thoughts of >lf ami her own heartache were ban- heil. It was a week before she was able to turn to the office, the proof pages ere sent each morning and she work- I on them hurriedly, and that was hy she woke one morning with a sud- i in start and the Instant wideawake eviction that there was an error in a I atemeut In her last article. She felt cold sweat break out ujion her fore- •ud as she thought of It, but she de- rniined to go to the office at once and irrect it. " hen she came to her desk she found covered with mail, which she put lide and went at once to the mana- ■r s room. She could hear the presses inning at full speed and she knew at rery pound that dreadful error was ■Ing run off. She found a fresh sheet on her way id opened It. but to her astonishment eerror had been corrected. She won- ■re<l who bad discovered It. for the nns were electrotyped, and to change word meant to chisel off the old aud Ider on the new—quite a delicate •k. She did not change her mind, how er. but determined to "own up" and xrlogize for the error. ”1 bo(>e the 1» owner has not heard of it, whoever l may lie," sbe thought. "Ah. yes. yes, a slight error,” said the •nager, "but don't take It to heart— r Macomber saw It before the pages *re electrotyped. You tuay think him ■ u. Mr. Macomber. Jack, one moment, <ant you to meet our assistant editor. Jas Benson." Jack's tall, athletic fig » rose from behind a roll-top desk a pair of loving eyes met a pair frightened ones. Jack—a popular oh man. downtown in business—and L’ very magazine—and her new em- ">yer. "Ab, I see you have met be- and the manager went back to ■ corner. -e pair looked at each other, stam ^tlfig. confused, but very happy. In monieDt all barriers were down. I am sorry your first duties were to |rrwt my mistakes,” she said, and her )> * was low and aa courteous as It i' uld have been to an employer. There *’ • twinkle in her eyes now. 't was a happy employment, and I u* to coriect others one. In fact, that ade me miserable for two long I ‘orotby Ren*on made hfr retreat in I m.ize Of complex thoughts. It was L”*** to «ee |,jm _(o bear his voice; ‘ * "’l l «he do? She could not ' « •■■ -ry d . \ .i nd under I . ' ’n'!'re<J what new purpose had n • soui to bring him into bu«l and whv-but the office l»>y laid a ‘ '"•b *s If in answ er to her be»-« ’’ r*F,|,|,F xtrltten: * ’ found no other way to r_, T'”‘r l,f* forgive me--| ri» 1 *** *n,i i* a time y«n would find enough A large proportiou of the pearls that deck the fair throats of the geutle sex are touud lu the 1‘acitie ocean, and ouo of the richest of the pearl fisheries is near the rocky shores of Thursday Island. This island is oue of the tuosl curious aud luterestiug lilts of laud on lue globe. It is the commercial eeu'.er of a race of people who live practl- cully in the ae*. They are the pearl divers of the Paeitie oceau Thursday island is one of the little group of coral formations lying be tween Australia aud New Gu.uea. Tait- eu together the largest of these Islands constitute a calendar, with an Island for every day of the week. beginning Ileeently a British expedition in AAest Africa, known as ttie Aru hern o.ree w ith Suu lay Island. Thursday Island broke up a fetish saentieial resort that lu it» horrors has been ul.»ur■ I t.y commands Torres Strait. Represeu any of the hideous superstitious, accompanied by cruel butcheries that iflli.t lives of nearly all tlie uatlous of t the benighted continent. The place (shown in the cutl is ■ ailed the I..u • I . , Ju. and is located at Aro-Chuku. It was used by the Aro chiefs to plav on the tar East may be seeu any day ale superstitions of the Il>o and other races, who were lured to tlie grove and its shores, disparting themselves tu the Ju-Ju spring to consult the mysterious being (or god) a bo was alleged to live water—FHipiotis, Japanese. Chinese, there. The result, of course, was that the supplicants were either »1.1 into Last Indians. ITJImis. Papuans. To the slarery at Betide and at the Aliai Aro slave markets, or. If old aud unfit for right of the island, running for 1—<*» slavery, or eveu too powerful chiefs, they were sacrificed. All sorts of stories miles down the Australian coast, is a are told of this mystery. Huudreda of people visited the place yearly and never stretch of waving given vegetation, ap returned. Some who never absolutely saw the grotto, being blindfolded, stood parently afloat upon the surface of the in the water by the cave, and heard mysterious voices talklug all round them, plae d ocean. This Is the top of the while the cattish nibbled at their feet and splashed about in the pool. If they Great Barrier Reef, the most notable were to die the water was supposed to pour nut of the source the color of bl.... I. This was probably done by some rascally old priest inside the cavern. There coral reef in the world, Throughout is an entrance into the cavern at the back of the Ju-Ju, and there are to be its length Its banks are lined with pearl seen the scaffold and sacrificial knife. The most loathsome thing about the oysters. place was the altar of skulls, the stack of captured arms auruaomited by a Thursday Island forms the great skull, ami the alligators and catfish, which were fed ..n the bodies of those .»sc- market for these oysters. Alsiut tJOO. rificed. Oloko, the stronghold of AVarau Tarti, one of the most powerful of the worth of shells are raised annually chiefs, was destroyed by the British af'er a difficult march through hilly country. along the reef and on the western coast of Australia. The business of pearl good lu me to make at least a friend, so. it is pregnant with serious conse fishing is conducted on the basis of '.he and I have no other purpose In life than quences to the Issues of war anil to profit from the oyster shells. The peirls to be worthy of that But since I have individuals Influenced by It. are dear gain, the value varying a looked Into your eyes. I have dared to it is necessary to realize that some great deal. Due pearl found in HUM» hope that it has all been a bitter mis errors of Judgment are inexcusable be sold for T'.’.tssi, another for tl.5u<>. take. and that you will let me say all cause Inconsistent with recognized Pearls worth £20 are quite common. The shells of pearl oysters are of that is in my heart, “Meet me at the standards; and that dlsoliedienee of noon hour" (doesn't that sound like a orders is on its face a fault, a disre enormous size, measuring frequently working man?) and we will go to a gard of a settled standard, of an estab eighteen Inches across. The oysters lie quiet little corner, my princesa, and lished rule, of such general application tn the sea fastened to locks, especially then I will tell you that you are dis- that upon the person who commits It coral rocks, and quite away from sand charged and that we must find a new rests the burden of proving that the and dirt. They hang by thread-like tihimeiits, alsiut a dozen in a bunch. assistant editor. With all my heart. I circumstances commanded his action. The business of the diver Is to cut am Y<>1 It .1 A''K The presumption, in the case of dis "Oh, I meant to be so brave and to obedience. is not innocence, but guilt. this thread and bring up the oysters. take care of munisy, and now I shall Mere rule though it be. ill its narrow Tlie shells are worth from £101) to £2<K> end with being taken care of. Just like construction anil rigid framework the a ton for the best; the poorest from ¿15 any silly, dependent woman! But. ah, rule of implicit and entire obedience to £tki a ton. The natives trade them’ for Jack's sake 1 could do anything— rests upon reasons so sound tlint its In for merchandise, and realize alsiut ¿15 even give up a career." fringement lu action can rarely be con a ton on the average. Fishing is done in small boats or lug Jack was waiting for her at the door doned. when not thoroughly approved. and they went down the avenue to Nothing i nn be more disastrous than gers. Each boat has a pumping appar gether. "I almost wonder we don't to trifle with the cornerstone upon atus to f tree air to the divers under walk hand in hand." be said, for he was which rests the structure of coherent, water. The smallest boat, w ith appar like a school boy In his happiness, and unitied action. The admission into the atus. is worth £tkM>. The business Is very dangerous. Poi in mischief she looked up anil said: "1 military mind of anything approaching liad so hoped the new owuer would irreverence for the spirit of military sonous fish, sharks and squid abound. raise my salary and—Instead he has obedience, or levity as regards the let Sharks rarely attack divers, but con ter of the rule In which it Is embodied, tribute Immensely to their uervous- discharged me!”—Indianapolis Sun. is tlie begetter of confusion; and that Hess. Squid exude n quantity of Inky In turn Is the forerunner of defeat. To black liquid, which dangerously cloud* TESTS OF DISCIPLINE sit loose to this obligation weakens the the water. Obedience nud Disobedience on the Japanese are the best divers. They sense of responsibility, upon the due . Purt of Military Men. realization of which rests not merely stay under water longer, dare more. No clear-cut absolute reply, no vade and can be relied upon better than any tuecutu for pocket use, can be furnish literal obedlenece, but Intelligent and of tlie other types, Among the Malay deserving disobedience, In the occa ed defining Just when and how, In all sional circumstances which call for natives women are successful divers cases, a man is Justified in disobedi [ They go down without diving suits, ence, nor even when he is Justified by that. The recognition of responsibility by fastening stones to their feet to help blind obedience; although the balance a re the individual, the consciousness that them to sink. Natives and divers of professional Judgment must al serious regard to It Is governing his de not allowed to open the oysters, A ways incline lu favor of the latter al the terminations. Is tlie best moral equip careful watch Is kept to prevent ternative. writes Captain Alfred T. ex theft of gems undor the eye of an ment that a mail can have to enable Malian in the International Monthly. or him to sustain the burden of violating perlenced foreman. A good operat AV ben a doubt arises, as it frequently instructions, deliberately undertaken can open a ton of shells In one day. doe«, between strict compliance with upon his own Judgment. It Is the mens an order and the disregard of it. in RESCUING A CAT. consda Tectl in a serious problem of whole or in part, the officer is called Kt. Louis Mun Climbed a Hiah Pole to u|*ou to decide a question of profes action- sional conduct. Personal Judgment The Or.gin of "Uni-le Tom's < aliin necessarily enters as a factor, hut only Dr. Newman Hall, the evangelist, one of many; and, to be trusted, it needs who died recently, tells In his autobl to be judgment illuminated by profes ography of bls visit to Harriet Beecher sional knowledge and fortified by re Stowe. At that time Mrs. Stowe was flection. Short of that, it is not a safe living nt Hartford In a comfortable counselor and has no claim to consid house built with the proceeds of "Uncle eration if cited before a court of final Tom's Cabin.” AVe spent u long forenoon together, appeal. The officer at the moment should con writes Dr. Hall, she finishing a draw sider himself, as he in fact Is. a judg > ing. I coloring a sketch. Mrs Stowe deciding upon a case Hable to lie called told me how her tale of Uncle Tom up to a superior court, before which originated. She was at a communion his conclusion lias no claim to respect service when suddenly the death scene because it is Ills personal opinion, but of the story was presented vividly to only In so far as it Is supported by the her mind This was the germ of the evidence before him. There Is, of whole. It was written first and sug course, the necessary reservation that gested the rest of that marvelous book the final Judgment upon himself for his Extremely Si pare. professional conduct as Involved In his Subbubs (on a visit to Citlinani I decision, will lie rendered upon the thought you said you bad a spare room facts accessible to him, and not upon those not then to lie known, though af In your flat? Cltlman—This Is It. terward apparent. I Why. Subbulis- AV hat! this closet? Unless qualified by these grave con square, siderations, tlie phrase, "error of Judg this is barely four feet Cltlman—Well, what could be more ment.” so facilely used. Is misleading spare than that? Philadelphia Press to the popular understanding. Not only ¡«live un Animal. At tlie risk of bis life AV Illium Clynes, of St. Louis, climbed a flagpole seventy-live feet high to rescue a help- leas cat. This piece of heroism, report oil among the lesser events in the dally news columns, bail no motive but sym pathy with a dumb animal In distress. Three days before, the cut bad run up the tall flagstaff in Carr Park In her pursuit of a sparrow. AVhen she was within three feet of him. the sparrow flew away. '1 hen the cut. Instead of turning buck, continued to climb until she reached the golden ball nt the top of the pole, and this, too, she sur mounted. After a brief rest she tried to de scend. Then her feet slipped, Htid she made tlie dlsi-overy that her claws, al though excellent for climbing, bead up. were useless when she put her weight upon them head down. The rotundity of the ball or fright at the elevation seemed to deprive her of the power to descend backward; so she sat clutching the bull at the top of the swuying pole, and cried piteously. I Through all of one night of misery, through the following day, and then through another night she clung, cold and hungry, to her narrow perch. On the third day a park keeper nnd a po liceman tried to reach her The police man climbed forty feet and was then obliged to give up “Can't some one saie the poor creature?" lie naked s> m pathetically, aa he slid down Then AVIllIam Clynes. a tinner In a stove factory, pulhd off bl« coat and started up the pole. Foot by ftsrt lie went, until he bad reached the point, forty feet nlsive the ground, where tlie light topmast win spliced on. Up this thin, swaying stem, which to the people lielow lisikeil like a reed, and which bent and trembled under (Tynes' weight, lie slowly worked his way. <>n«-e. when near the top, he sllpp««! back a few feet. Tlie crowd gathered below shlvereil. and many of the spec tators called to lilm to come down. But be only gripped the jsile the harder with his shins, and slowly worked bis way np. until he was i » cat five feet, two et A moment top. ami wraje er lie had galncij t hand firmly ig Ills legs and o he reached the out the slender »ta and are hurled in a prom AVithin a few month« thanks to the ball, and gent other hand over the c on the sidewalk, or can humane sentiment of Americana, a ra. To see a d< >g IImrt is i pleas- ly picked the cat ft I her place of for hou will probably most necessary reform n Riel i mid danger Then lie slid >wn the pole to the average 1 lie well under way in Porto R • o Cru ore to tired horse fai In Amd ia c iblieil. the ground where I k i.a>! a moment n hen a elty to animals will henceforth be • the cat before f .r tl.e crowd to ln*p vaya K crime The l’orto Rican is es«entlally the nai tlve .¡tei-tntor r some milk. port of al be tuoi her off to get oat shocking a The mi cruel Const deration for an;mala seem« ever, a nd one which tb*- Hartl MOLD PLANTS. to be !>eyond bi« comprehension Is Inter ded to ■ 1 cattle »here get little food Horses an«! I bort distilo • -X The only Interfer- Every and many • blows of re< reatl >n rvt the bnit-xl ty everywhere ap of San HV’P wit J • and a apr. it bv Americana as Individuals. nar**i»t Catara Bai Chickens are tied together, s- met mea P e Iras in hunches of from eight to a dozen. PORTO RICAN COCK FIGHT CORRAI SHE LEARNED HER FATE. Ms Ides Took a I’eep Behind Future’s Mystic Veil and F'ound It Boay. A young woman In the throng In '¡th ■ venue paun-d before a show window, but not to inspect the goods therein, as Indicated by her actions. Her eyes wamlereil to a quaint figure of foreign outline a man In the rouianttc garb of Italy. He was standing In patient at titude hex de a high trl(>od on which rested a birdcage with many feathered oceupanta of gaudy colure. Suddenly the young woman gathered her aklrts about her and passed ou. keeping her face turned resolutely away from the Italian She crossed the atreet and nurried into a neigh boring store as though fleeing from some Invisible pursuer. Directly she reappeared, plainly under the strange domination of the Italian, who stood stolidly beside bls birdcage. Iler eyes rested u[»ou him wistfully while ber teeth were sunk Into her lips, She moved toward the crossing slowly anti w ith heightened color. Her mind WH« not made up. She Itn.-iglneu the gaze of the public consuming her with curi osity, (>erhai>s reading her purpose, for all she knew. Abruptly, as she stood upon the curb, she frow ned at the pass Ing populace defiantly and with resent ment. Determination seized her. She step[H'd from the curb and swiftly ap proached the spot where stood the Italian. Just then a party of shoppers greetist her by name, and she gas|H-d as though struck; but the eonaclouanesa that she had not committed herself enabled her to face them and smile She passed un active and prominent on. not daring to look at the Itallau. Tomas Estrada Palma Is a little, olu I'alma man He wears rusty black clothes part. At the first side strivt she left the In INtiN, when open war begun, be thick of the crowd and her pace slack He moves nervously and quickly, wink lug Ills blue eves ns he talks. He Is lav was one of the leaders tn the newly- ened gradually. She watched the ve ishly |H>llte. after the manner of the old formed legislative body. Ills home hicles speeding across the rift of ,'tli Spanish school. His chin Is more than town was the first upon which the avenue In the distance, still thinking strong aud aggressive, being what Spanish troops descended. The pat of the Italian, though she had turned country people call Jumper Jawed, riots. loving It devotedly aa they did, her back upon him. By turns she stoo I which means that bls chin betrays for It was an old and pleasant city of still or forged ahead until she bad strength anil aggression raised to the h unes, burned It to the ground, so that reached the middle of the block. There the oncoming regiments should find she wheeled and retraced her steps to highest power. The Pres dent of the republic of Cuba neither food nor shelter there. 1 «th avenue with her head down and During the guerrilla campaigning of her step firm. Once more her eyes Is «7 years old He was born at Bays mo. In the province of Santiago. His the Ten Years' War Palma was elected w«e upon the Italian, steadily but mother tried to keep him out of the President of a republic organized by furtively, fearing |>erhaps to encoun revolutionary movements which were the troops. In 1N77 he was captured by ter the gaze of others, lu her glove brewing In the Island during Ills youth. the Spaniards, Imprisoned for n short she clutched a small coin, which she She even went so far ns to restrict him time In Havana, and later taken to produced In silence. Iiamllng It to the to the boundarli's of the Buyamo estate. Spain, where lie was confiued In nn old foreigner beside whom she stoppisl. Associates she knew he must lune, castle for over a year. He smiled like a graven Image coming but Ills boy friends had to come to see He takes care to give the Spaniards to life Without a word he opened the him; he was not allowed to visit them. their due. and says he was treated witu cage A bird from Its perch flew down The father had died when Tomas was great kindness and respect by them. to the tray of printed curds Iwfore the very young. When he was 15 years old After bls release lie was postmaster floor, One of these carila the bird ho broke from his mother's lending general of Honduras for live years, and seized In its bill and the Italian sign!- strings and went to llavann to study. then came to the United States, where fled that his fair client should take It. Soon after that the death of Ills mother he established a collegiate school for She took It nnd tied not even stop left him In sole control of a great es Cuban and South American boys at ping to rend, snys the New York Tinies, late. He went back to Baynmo to man Central Valley, N. Y. but. nevertheless, convinced tlint the age It. During the last struggle for Cuban story of her future wns In her grasp. By this time rebellion had broken out Independence he was the bend of the Turning Into 5th avenue she «inootheil actively and Palma east Ills lot with Junta which, with headquarters In New out the i-runi|H'd card and sennned It the island party. Years of agitation York, raised money and carried on a eagerly. Then she flushed with anger. and organization followed, lu which propaganda In behalf of the cause. The legend on the enrd ns follov • ••••••••• "vOiiR FutUrE Is IlilGHT, scope, declare that the mold plant la a gotten over their fears of the Insur You AA'il.l bE tile FaTIler most lovely creation. Indeed, a writer gent* and are thinking solely of their OF A glteaT In the Kitchen Magazine says that share In the tremendous betterment I'oEt " nothing In nature Is more beautiful that Is to come. These plants are associated In our "Laws have been drafted aud are minds with death mid decay, mid so an uow before Congress, which, when unreasoning prejudice has developed passed, will throw open the nlmost In against them, lu many cases they do conceivable riches of these Islands to accompany decay, but ns the lily rises American development. Capital has al nlsive the foulest pond, so a mold mnj ready begun to come In. and at least develop Its frost like daintiness and two big syndicates have been organ cleanliness. Its exquisite coloring. In ised. one of |2.(Nk>,()0U ami one of »1,- Shetland's shortest night Is the midst of putrefaction. Still thej oOO.OOO. Hut laith are, I think, prema hours, but her longest Is ov«r eighteen also thrive In the cleanest soil, and are ture. though they may be all right If hours. wholly harmless In their growth. reorganized as soon as the new laws The greyhound, which can cover a The most common of the molds Is the are enacted. mile In Im. 2Na., Is the fastest of quad Penlelllium glaucum. well known to "I am having the Invaluable advan rupeds. housekeepers ns the fungus, against tage of the advice of men here who In both the provinces of Ontarla and w hich a tight Is made at canning time have simile 1 the situation from the be It first forms a grayish green mat, and ginning. and know the conditions. I Quebec fhe birth rate Is steadily de If removed, gives forth a line, powdery also have the advantage of an exten creasing. The Chinese have the Idea that milk dust. Under the microscope It Is a sive acquaintance among the wealthi wonderful thing, but housewives are est and most Influential natives, obtain revives the youthful powers, and that probHbly less Interested In Its form ed through Introductions, which gained It has special virtue as winter food for old people. than In methods of combating It. for me their confidence at once.'l In their struggle for existence the The first salt was produced tn this plants are very hardy and obstinate, Hopeless. country prior to 1020, and In the vari ^ind nature lias provided them with n Irving Bacheller, the scene of whose ous reports of the federal census men way of upsetting the most careful pinna stories la laid In the north country tion Is made of not less than thirty- for their undoing The spores, which nround the Nt. Lawrence River, gave, I two States In which salt has at some take the place of seeds, sometltiKS, for at a meeting not long ago. a humorous I period been produced In considerable n reason thus far unknown to science, mid pathetic sketch of the degeneration quantities In 1WM) Utah produced 233.- pass Into a resting stage. Instead of of a once prosperous country. The «71 barrels of salt, equivalent to 1.- sprouting at once, they lie dormant for Bookman quotes tlie dialogue which 178.355 bushels, nearly all of which an Indefinite period, mid germinate ap Mr. Bacheller described himself as was made by solar evaporation. parently at their own sweet will. A holding with n seedy man sitting on a There Is a railway over tiie Egyptian German scientist Ims dis overed that a dllnpaldati-d doorstep. desert which runs for forty-five tn I lea spore may lie quiescent for two years, "(¡Ind to see ye,” said he. In a straight line, but thia Is easily nnd then under favorable conditions “Thanks,” said I. beaten In Australia. The railway from of heat mid moisture, develop Into a he. “AA'e've heerd about you,” aald Nyngtin to Bonrke, In New South sturdy growth. and they say you done noble.” Wales, runs over a plain, which Is as TIHs Is probably the reason why fruit “AA'ell. mid bow are you?” aald I level ns a billiard table, for 12« miles may exhibit no mold for mouths, and "l’orely,” said he. In a mathematically straight Hue. then suddenly make the housekeeper's “How's that?” said 1. There Is hardly an embankment, no- heart to faint by a thick green growth. “Jest innkin' a bare livin’,” aald lie where a curve, and only three very Here, aa everywhere, "eternal vlgl "AA hy don't you go away?” aald I. slight elevations. lam e" only may ex|>e< t to w in the day "Can’t," sal J he. A bet was recently made by a man "AA by lint?" said I. who asserted that the Tremont build MANILA AS IT IS TO-DAY. "Morlgngcd," said he. Ing In Boston covered more groiin-1 "That's bad," aald I. War F.nile I So Far «1 llr IsCnncerned than Is included In the Granary bury ” 'Tie," said lie. Embracing American Ideas. ing ground, next adjacent. The as "You don't seem to have much to The following letter, written lately sessors' books show that the Tremont by an American business mail now In live for." said I. building stands upon 25.4<»l square feet "Don't want to live,” said he. Manila, gbea an Interesting description of land valued at II.11H.IMM), while Gia "You might die." said L of the situation lu that city as It Is to Granary burying ground contains N7.- "Can't,” aald.be. day. It reads as follows: I Isa) square feet, aaseseed at 82.7X>,tMW. here and "AA by not?" said I. • "I wish you r mid get out The King's Chapel cemetery has H>,- "Mortgaged," aald be. see this country. You would have one 200 feet of land worth flMMUNM), and thu of the greatest surprises of your life lot upon w hich King's Chapel Is situat Bearing Reverses. nnd matter for thought for a long time re- ed lias a value of nearly $l,fMM),(MM). As a rule, women bear fortune's to come. The country Is beautiful, the versos better than mon. A woman per Marriage brokers are a regular Insti climate delicious, though warm to one forms little acta of self denial as s mat tution In Italy. In Genoa there are accustomed to the temperate zone The ter of course; she gives up her own per several marriage brokers, who have sun Is hot at mem. but shade Is always sonal luxuries, or eveu necessaries pocketbooks tilled with the names of uear and somewhere a breeze Is always without comment or complaint; there marriageable girls of the different to l>e found Tlie nights are comforts fore her deeds of unselfishness often classes, with notes of their figures, ble all the year roand. escape notice. The average mail can personal attractions, fortune and other "The war sceius as far off here as It not do this. Ho may relinquish some circumstances These brokers go about did In Chicago It affects Manila aul Idg thing w ithout a growl; bls conduct en leavorlng to arrange matrlmonl il tlie other principal cities Just as much In a great renunciation may lie charac alliances In the «ame offhand mercan nn tlie war against the Hloux or terized by the same exemplary pa tile manner which they would br.ng Apaches used to Interrupt the business tience which marks women at such a to bear upon a purely business trans In New York. Boston or Pnltadelpbta. time, but, aboulil the string of unaccus action. and when they succeed they get There are a few skirmishes In outly tomed poverty be so severe as to take a commission of two or three per cent ing districts, of oourse, but they are from him any of the trifles which be upon the dowry, with such extras of of little or no Importance. No one treats as a matter of course, he be bonuses s« may be voluntarily bestow- ever speaks of any war here It Is all comes morose, and his teiiqier suffers ed by the party. finished from a local point of view, aud In consequence. every man Is straining each nerve to Changed Ills Mind In a Harry. solve the mighty problems of peace The Uri-li lamgiis ge. The army department telegraphed to "Tlie rapidity with which those prob At a recent eisteddfod at Dolgelly. an officer In San Francisco who had lems are be,ng mastered surpt sea one W l'ale«, one of the principal speakers la-en ordered to the I'blllppines; "You In ten years a new civilization will stated that In IN71 as many as I.OIMI.- hare permeated all the Islands In five 11*1 persona «poke AA'elah, but In lsi)l can go to New York and sail on trans port that goea by Silex If you choose." years I bellevs we will see a new M.i the numlier had fallen to 9II.2WD a do- The answer was se. t back: "Would nils. Already the Filipinos of rank crease of though tbv population prefer to eroga the ITictflc direct. ’ and means are feeling the contag,on of bad meanwhile Increased Then the department wir».I him: American optimism and are looking to "Transport will make good time, lias bo A week after the funeral, the the future with glowing hopes Ex sixty women school te.-ichers abroad Insurgent generals sre taking post* un reared husband attracts no more at* The young lieutenant answered; der the government on all sides, and tentJon than a brldegro m a week after "Saie me a tiertb on truns;sxL’ I the ceremony. those who have l>een always loyal have I
