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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1904)
T- ■ WAYS OF LONG AGO. TRANSPORTING A NINETY-TON GRANITE COLUMN ♦ Last night I dreamed I was awake; Then, waking up, I dreamed. My mind just went without a break To where the waters glearned And dimpled down beside the road I saw the willows trail Along the stream, just like 1 knowed. 1 saw the teetertail. And beard the bluejay call, and call. And saw the eddies swing In curves below the waterfall. An’ heard the ribins sing. PREVENTION OF DISEASE EVIRI BOD VS BUSINESS. By And«««* HTtson. And I was just a boy, and walked The ways o’ long ago. The catbird came agaiu and mocked Just like I used to know. And in the orchard loaded down The heavy branches swung. And In Its coat of sober brown The thrush Its matins sung. And breezes moved the ripening grain In billows to and fro, And I was just a boy again In ways of long ago. O. welcome dreams that take us back To childhood’s happy days! Along some well-remembered track In pleasant woodland ways! O, welcome song of orioles And thrush’s matins clear That bring us back the orchard knolls And days of yesteryear. Till we can hear the lullabies And feel the rhythmic Bwing That used to lull our tired eyes When mother used to sing. —Houston Post. I HIS SECOND WIFE < • ♦+++++++++4-^+* -M-4~i-++++++++ IT down, dear, and while I am waiting for John. I will tell you all about it. I know people won dered when we were married, and said I was an old flame, and that it was preposterous for old people like us to marry. But, my child, I don't care. Yes, you do seem like a child to me; eighteen, did you say? And this Is your engagement ring. Pretty, Isn’t It? How it brings back the old times when I was just your age, and John aud I was courting.” There was a pause, and one small, wrinkled hand was raised to brush away a tear. Then the sweet old voice continued— “You see, John was what they call a bound boy. He was just eight years old when he came to live with us; and he stayed until, well, until he married her. You knew Eunice? She was a handsome girl, if I do say It. Far prettier than 1. I never did count much for good looks, but for all that I took pretty well with the beaux, But I didn't care a jot for any one of them but John. He was five years older than I. and from the time I was a mite of three, my constant compan ion and protector. How he did stand by me if there was any fracas at school, as there always was more or less with part of us on one side, and part of us on the other. Well, matters went along smooth enough until I was nearly nineteen. Then the first and hardest trial I ever had to contend with, came like a thunder-bolt from a clear sky. “John and I became engaged on my eighteenth birthday, and father and mother were well pleased. Don't very often happen that way, does it? But It did in our case. You see, I vas the only child, and John was a fine, man ly fellow, fully capable of making his own way in the world, and always like a son to father and mother. How they loved that boy! They never seem ed quite the same after he dlsappoint- ed them so. And to think they never knew the truth. Oh, It was shame- ful! But there, I must not judge her. She was young and thoughtless, and sorry enough in after years. I’ll show you the letters some time. It was them that wrought all the mischief. They were written while I was West, visiting my mother’s brother and his family. You see, dear, Eunice and I were the best of friends, and I never suspected till afterward how much she cared for John, but I never blamed her for taking him when be wanted her. "I tried to think ft was the Lord's will, and stayed West two years try ing to reconcile myself to the inevit able. Then mother was taken sick, and I came home, John and Eunice had a little one by that time, and some how those baby fingers helped to heal the breach; and before I knew it I was loving John’s baby as well as I did him. only in a different way. perhaps. for there would come times when it seemed as if my life was a blank. They were apparently so happy, 1 so lone ly. trying to crush out the love I now felt it a sin to harbor, Somehow, though, it survived the years; for John is as dear to me to-day, my child, as in the long ago; when be neath the apr'e-boughs he placed Ihls ring upon mj finger. It was in the fair spring-time and the old orchard was like a drcam of fairy-land.” Again the sweet voice quavered and broke, and a tear dropped from the down-cast eyes and glittered like a diamond on the worn circlet of gold. Once more memory carried her back to the time when she was a light-heart ed girl, with not a cloud to dim the sunshine of the hour; when beneath the apple-boughs she plighted her troth to the man she loved. "Ah child.” she resumed, finally, "if my life could have been like that al ways; but it was not destined to be so. Methinks, sometimes, the trial was needed to strengthen and perfect what otherwise might have been a weaker character; one that knowing naught of trouble, failed in that deep sympathy I for less fortunate mortals. How well j I remember the day I received that I letter. I felt sure It was from John by the writing on the outside. You see, she had Imitated his hand so closely that I failed to detect the dif ference. If possible I was more than usually pleased to receive it. as it was several days later than on former oc casions. and I was beginning to chafe at the delay. "Humming that sweet old love song. Annie Laurie. I hastened to my room. I always wanted to be alone when I rtnd John’s letters. You understand, my dear? How my fingers trembled as I opened It. and with a sense of happi ness. too great for words. t>ont over the closely written pages! Alas, how dif ferent from the other missives I bad i Everybody Is our neighlojr In a sanitary sense, because he or she posssses the power of Inflicting disease upon us. The community de pend, for Its protection against disease on the uulted efforts of all Its units. Hence the force of the argument that everybody should be edu- ated In the due observance of health laws; and ngth of days will only become a national ten ure when as a people we awaken to the con sciousness of the fact that we can prevent much disease by much Intelligent co-operation. Diphtheria lias always been regarded as an ailment apt to prove fatal to children. Previous to the employment of antitoxin the death rate was 30 per cent. Since the adop- t.ou of the treatment in question the mortality has sunk to 11 per cent. Mrs. Garrett Anderson’s analysis of the effects of vaccination with reference to ths London small cox epide nie of 190l-'02, Is Interesting. But smallpox la an air borne disease. The germs reach us in a far more subtle fashion than do the microbes of typhoid fever; hence In foctlou from smallpox, once established, is highly difficult > combat. Over and over again plain figures have shown the tremendous excess of mortality among uuvaeciuated i ‘ople as compared with that found In vaccinated patients. Mrs. Anderson finds that lit lV01-’O2. 9.51® patients foutid tlu-lr way to the Xmallpox hospitals of lxindon. Of this ember 1,063 died. This represents a death rate of 17.1 r eent. Now In 1901, 264 persons who had been vac- .nated contracted smallpox. Of these, let us note, 175 • ere of an age between 15 and 20 years, and It Is pointed out that the early vaccination of Infancy, not repeated, must at the period In question be regarded as having largely worn Itself out. But In 1901 It is remarkable that no deaths of vaccinated children were recorded, while the ist showed sixty-live children's deaths under the age of 10 cars. These last had not been vaccinated at all. If a smallpox death rate between the ages of 15 and 30 years among the vaccinated Is to lie estimated at 4.8 per cent and among the unvacclnated at over 30 per cent. ■ urely we may regard ,he influence thus exerted ns due to vaccination, and to it alone. As I have remarked, the diminution of this ailment is not affected by ordinary sani tary improvement such as can be relied upon In the ease of • liter Infectious troubles. There seems. Indeed, to bo no • ither explanation of the discrepancies in the figures than vaccination influence. The construction of the great Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Morning side Heights, New York, now going on, is one of the biggest architectural tasks undertaken anywhere In recent years. The work is progressing slowly, owing to lack of funds, but even. If unlimited money were at the disposul of the trustees, the enormous building could not be constructed In less than fifteen years. Eight gigantic granite columns for the choir recently arrived In New York from Vlnalhaven. Me., and attracted great curiosity while being trans ported from the dock to the Cathedral grounds. Each column Is a memorial gift, and they coat about J25.000 each. An enormous lathe was built to turn them. Unfortunately, they could not be true monoliths, as they broke in the lathe during the polishing operation, one of them fracturing within a few hours of completion. Therefore It be came necessary to make the columns In two pieces. The larger section is 37 feet 6 Inches In length by 8 feet In diameter, and weighs 90 tons. The smaller section Is 17 feet long, 5 feet in diameter at the smaller end. and weighs from 40 to 45 tons. The columns were transported from Mnlne. on a lighter, two columns being carried at one time. No very great difficulty was experienced in unloading them, but the carrying of them to the Cathe dral grounds, a distance of two miles, is proving a heavy task. A special truck was built for the purpose, which is one of the largest ever constructed. The frame of the truck Is 30 feet long, and weighs 10 tons, The axles are 7 and 8 Inches square, and are made out of cold-rolled steel, The wheels are built up of seven thicknesses of 3-iuch white oak plank. There are four 5-lnch tires on each wheel. A 40-horse power traction engine Is used to transport the columns to the Cathedral ground. Progress is, of course, rather slow; for instance, it re quired nineteen days to carry the first column from the dock to the Cathedral grounds. received from him. ‘He loved me still, but it grieved him to say, only as a sister. In Eunice he had found his ideal. Would I not release him from an engagement which, if consummat ed in marriage, would only' terminate In the ruin of three lives.' He ’begged me not to mention the affair to my parents, as he would tell them himself Spare and thus spare me the ordeal.’ I~ me! Ah, my child, that would have been nothing in comparison with what I suffered then. “From that hour my whole being was changed. No longer a happy- hearted child, but a grave and thought ful woman. How little I knew that at that very time. John was having a fierce conflict with his own emotions, as he read and re-read the letter sup posed to have come from me. Tn the far West,’ It told him, ‘I had found another, and by the time he received that. I would be a wife. Would he forgive me for my fickleness, and could he not find some one to fill my place? There was Eunice. I was sure she cared for him, and would make him happy.’ “You know the rest, child. He mar ried her. She was ready and willing to give him every encouragement; and not until she lay dying did she con fess herself the author of these two letters, and how fearful she had al ways been that we would find out her guilty secret, and by a mutual con fession learn that in our hearts we had always been true to each other. Of course he wondered why I had never married. But she told him I had been terribly disappointed, and not to mention the subject to me. The letter I wrote releasing him from his engage ment she received, Instead of him. Eunice was clever, very clever. It’s a pity so many clever people don't put their talents to better purposes. “On the day she died, she called him to her. ‘John.’ she said, ‘my life has been spared many years, but I have t been happy. Knowing at last that you would never care for me, as you did for her. I was wretched—a fitting punishment for my sin—but you have always been a kind and faithful husband, and 1 could not die without telling you all. When lam gone may you be happy together. It Is my last request. John, promise me you will heed it.' "Well, as you know, child, we were married in June, although he is past three score years and ten, and I was seventy Instead of twenty as it was to have been, That is all dear, and here is John.” Later, as I wandered In the glen, a picturesque bit of rustic scenery, I found them sitting In an ideal spot at the foot of a beautiful waterfall, the grand verdure-covered hills towering above them. Dear old people; young in their hearts as on that spring day when they plighted their troth beneath the blossom-laden boughs of the old apple-tree.—Waverley. TO PENSION GIRL’S MOTHER. Mrs. Hedwig A. Maas, of East Or- ange. N. J., Is to be recompensed by Congress for the loss of her daughter, Miss Clara Louise Maas, who died In Cuba in 1901 as the result of an experiment made for the purpose of advancing science in the treatment of yellow fever. I She went there on re- turning from a hurry call to the Philippines a . n d permitted herself to be bitten six times by a mos quito _____ which ha<l fed upon a yellow fever victim. The health authorities were trying to dis- cover If the disease was carried by the Insect, and gave those submitting to the test a reward of $100. Although she bad nursed two Span iards who subjected themselves to the test and died. Miss Maas offered her self as a sacrifice, if necessary, to sci ence, and fell a victim to the disease as a result of the bites of the mos quito. She was taken to the yellow fever hospital, and her sister. Miss So phia Maa», started from home to reach her bedside, but decth won the race, and she reached there only to bear that her sister had passed away. A bill has now been introduced in Congress for a pension for the mother of the girL POSES AS A SECOND DREYFUS. Oberlin M. Carter, Recently Freed, Will Hue U. 8, Government. Oberlin M. Carter, former captain of United States engineers, is free af ter having completed a term of three years and seven months' Imprison ment in the United States penitentiary at Fort Leaven worth, Kan. He was sentenced to a term of five years by a court martial for alleged frauds in connection with the Savannah har bor Improvements. CAPT. 0. X. CARTER Carter, whose trial made him an International figure, was given the position of bookkeeper when he first entered the military pris on. The work was light and could be quickly finished, which left the former captain many leisure hours, which he spent in brooding over his troubles. He became extremely nervous and was fast becoming a physical and mental wreck when he was placed In charge of the flower gardens and lawns. This work occupied most of his time and he improved In health. Later he was placed In the prison hospital, where he acted as nurse and kept up records for the physicians. Carter, during his incarceration, never associated with any prisoner, aside from Captain Deming, another army officer prisoner, who was re leased on habeas corpus some time since. He was, however, always kind to prisoners who were Injured or 111. He has been a model prisoner himself and has won the respect of all the officials at the penitentiary. Carter has sued the government for $723,000, on the grounds that he was unjustly convicted by the military tri- bunal. By winning this suit he will claim a vindication from first to last. Carter alleges be never would have been convicted in a civil court, and that he was the victim of prejudice on the part of several officers who were members of the court martial. He pro claimed at one time that he was s martyr to military Injustice and com pared himself to the French army cap tain, Dreyfus. The suit will come up in Chicago. During the last year the ex-captain has been studying mining engineering, and If he be successful in his suit he proposes to spend considerable time in Arizona and New Mexico, where he and his uncle. L. D. Carter, of Dan ville, Kan., have extensive interests. INDIVIDUAL SALVATION NOT WANTED. By tfir Rev. John n'atxon ("ten Maclaren.") r The old principle of every man for himself Is dying out from national politics, from tihe organi zation of commerce, from the life of society, aud is bound to die out from religion. Dying people of, say 1850, were solely concerned with the question of what would become of themselves on the other side; dying men of to-day forget them selves In thinking of what is to become of their wives and children. Appeals to the Individual to escape hell, because of its suffering, or to make sure of heaven because of Its Joy, have little effect, and the tract which asks a by no means unimportant question, “Whither are you going?” Is an anachronism, but any appeal for the service of others will secure willing and sympathetic atten tlon. Young men wEo will not teach In Sunday school are ready to work In a boys’ institute, and women who have wearied distributing tracts are anxious to bring more com fort to the lives of their working sisters. The sense Is creeping over the community that socially and physically A MAGIC LANTERN. I ------- - ----- The Average Boy Can Make Ona at Small Coot. For an evening’s entertainment a magic lantern “show” Is always attrac tive. Slides are easy enough to get, and an excellent ntaglc lantern can bo made by the average boy at a small cost and with a little time and ma terial. A liox, some thin board», an or dinary central draft or duplex burner lamp, a reflector, some nails and • screws, a pair of condensing lenses, and a projector are sufficient Follow carefully the Instructions given below and the result Is sure to be satisfactory. Make a box of half inch wood, twelve inches long, eleven Inches high and seven Inches wide, out side measure. Cut a round hole four and throe-fourths inches In diameter, the middle of the hole being eight Inches above the inside bottom of the box. Make a door at the back of the box, aud fasten a reflector just oppo site this hole. Cut a hole In the top of the E>ox, for a lamp chimney to come through. Nail a piece of half Inch wood eight inches long to the front of the box three we stand together, aud religion cannot remain a water tight compartment of spiritual selfishness. With such a wind blowing like a gale upon one’s face, have we not reason to expect that the message of the next revival will he social righteousness aud its effect the redemption of the natloual life? There was Irony In the situation, when the church preached the divine love to those who bad no slgu of human love, and the church asked people to believe In the sacrifice of Christ when she herself was making no sacrifice to save them from the Ute of beasts. When God Is pleased to send bls new prophet one expects that he will preach the gospel of social deliverance; that the white female slaves who sew from morning till night and half through the night, arid hardly get the wherewithal to keep soul and body to gether. should be delivered from their Exmdage. that every laborer who is willing and temperate should have his liv ing wage wherewith to keep himself and h's family, that every citizen, however humble, should have his own little home wherein to live In peace and comfort, that the coun tryman should not be evicted from the laud to make room for wild animals aud rich men’s sport, that the owners of insanitary property should be punished and not com pensated, that temptath'us should not be placed nt every street corner In the way of the poor and miserable, that every man should have free access to education, to the country, to health and Just enjoyment, and that the burden of weariness and sickness and tyranny should be lifted from the shoulders of them who lal>or aud are heavy laden. STOCK SHOWS ELEVATE STANDARDS. By W. 4. Henry. Deen of College of A grlculture, Vntv. Wisconsin. To elevate the standards of domestic animals on our farms Is one of the greatest problems confronting us as an agricultural people. Con sider for a moment then what has helped the British people to their high attainments In ani mal husbandry. First of all was their Insular condition, causing them to become self-reliant. Then there has been the local free inter-communi cation In all matters pertaining to live stock, such as the local salesday, the great sales of flocks and herds moved from one region to another, the numerous fairs and competitive exhibitions, the system culminating in the wonderful royal and Smithfield shows. When we visit the Chicago stock show each fall and see the marvelous animals tilling the thousands of stalls, when our own pet stock, the pride of our eye, comes In close competition with uumeroua animals from .11 over the Union, then the crucial test Is at hand. Pride vanishes, prejudice lias not a featherweight, and merit only wins. Conceit melts away and scales drop from our eyes. No matter how excellent the attainment, we are humbled, though not discouraged, and return to our homes burning with ambition to have still better live stock and to go to the show the next year with something better than ever before. Then there Is the great helpfulness that comes from mingling with others Interested In the same line of stock breeding as ourselves. We meet hundreds of people work ing for the Improvement of the same particular breed that had captured our fancy. Business matters are talked over, acquaintances are made, friendships are renewed, and from the date of the meeting our Impulses and ambitions are started on a new round of effort. The difference between our own pet and the nearest to perfection Is often much greater than we Imagine. It Is for us to narrow this difference as much as possible and In every way work towards the Improvement of live stock In America. We can do It in no better way than by our own direct observation, and no field Is so complete for this self education as the stock «hows. upright and make It rigid. See Fig. 5. Cut a hole In this upright board so that the center of the projector mounted In It lines exactly with the center of the condensing lenses. Tills Is an Import ant point; If the lenses are not care fully mounted opposite one another the picture will not be dear, Now fit a piece of wood one-fourth of an Inch In front of the main lox, fastening it at the top with a strip of tin. There must be a hole three Inches square cut In this board the middle of which must line with the center of cond'-nslug lens. In the opening between this board and the box, slip a thin piece of board, for the slides to rest on. Set a double-wick lamp or central-draft burner wtthln the box at the proper height so that the brightest part of the flame will be In direct line with the center of the re flector and the condensing lenses. The principle of the magic lantern Is the reflection of the light through the condensing lenses, which pick up all the light possible and throw It through the slide, which is located directly In front of it. The light Is then taken up by the projector, and the pencils of light are thrown to the screen, nt the same time magnifying the picture. This WORKING PLAN OF HOME-MADE MAGIC LANTERN. inches from the bottom. See Fig. 1. We will call this tiie deck. Fasten a piece of wood fourteen inches long and four Inches wide on either side of the lx>x and deck piece. Bee Fig. 2. Perforate the bottom of the box with holes half an Inch In diameter, to af ford the necessary draft to the lamp. Elevate the box on two croso-stlcks an Inch wide. See Fig. 2 B B From an optician or camera supply house obtain a pair of four-inch con densers mounted In a brass barrel, and a quarter-size projector with a rack LOVE THEIR Her I let or t. True holiness Is simply walkin always hand in baud with the Ilia*, I eat. KING AND QUEEN The Woman« Ar** Rtanch Friend« of Their Sovereign«, IT p was explaining why be dldif’ get home until an early morning hour “The fact is,” he said, “an old co lege chum—a stranger in the city cam? to the office, am! I felt as If J ought to entertain him a little------ ’’ “Oh. It wan charity!” ah* In-.crrupted “Why. ye*,” h»* ret uni» <1. brlghtmin at the suggestion, “you might call »harity to spend a Little time an< mor» y a lonesom e — ■” “But charity,” she Interrupted agar “begins at home.” Then he gave up the explanatlo: business. principle Is shown by the dotted lines In Fig. tj, which show also the relative position of the lamp, lenses and ie- flector. To keep In the light that would es cape through the top ojienlng In the lox, put a piece of common stovepipe (small), over the lump chimney, or paint the top of the chimney black. Cut n cap from a piece of tin (Fig. 7 A), the *tr« extending down Inside the chim ney to hold the cup in place. To cover the space betweem the lan tern top and the moving front board, a piece of broadcloth can be used, and as a result of ull this you will have an excellent magic lantern, as shown In the large Illustration.—Joseph II. Adams, In the Woman's Home Com panion. and pinion. Mount the «-ondensers In je hole in front of the box, supported •uy m«r.ins of a block (Fig. 3) fastened on the inside front of the t>ox. See Fig. 4. In order to adapt the focus .of the lenses acconllng to the distance the mitern is from the screen, a sliding i out is necessary. See Fig. 5. Cut a .a«., block scant seven Inches wide • I six Inches long, fastening to It, hree * nd on«-half Inches from the runt. an upright piece of wood high nigh to lie even with the top of the antera-box. When the base Is rusting on the deck In front of the box two small angle brackets will steady tbs The Romans are quite ready to be lieve all the good |>oasible of tbelr king and queen, but are brought very little Into real contact with them. In the country In the summer It 1« dlffirent, however. Then their maj«wtles mix among the people as much as p«Bible, and try to learn their point of view, while maintaining their own Incog nito. Recently th«sy were motoring, and were suddenly overtaken by a very severe storm, gossips the Pall Mali Gasette. They, together with Gen. Bruanttf, who acompariled them, took refuge In the nearest house. whl>h proved to be that of a public school teacher. They were moat cordially re cetved. being taken for some gentle folks from Turin. Night closed In. and still the storm maintained Its fury, so that they wer<- Invited to partake of the simple din | JIT. | At the approach of the first Christ** mas after the wedding, a certain bride, desirous of giving her best be loved something ma le by her own affectionate but inexperienced hands, manufactured a truly wonderful night shirt. It was made of pink and white outing flannel, trimmed with lace- edged rutiles, and was further embel lished with »ows of elaborate feather stitching. The surprised husband expressed a proper amount of gratitude, and said —with truth—that he had never be held a garment to compare with it; but when asked later why he did not wear it, be replied that it was— For too good For human nature’s daily food, and that he was saving it for some occasion that really demanded a night shirt of more than ordinary gorgeous ness. It was Just the thing, he aver red, to wear if one happened to be convalescing from a broken limb or a ong attack of fever. But one day the husband telephoned that he was unexpectedly called out of town on business, and requested hla wife to pack his valise and to have it at the station within the hour, all of which she did. Feeling tired nftor a long day's ride, tnd having nothing better to occupy his time, the man went to his room at i o’clock that night, intending to go at once to bed. When he unpacked his valise he discovered that the long treaded “special occasion” had ar- •ived. for there, folded neatly In the valise, was the pink and white night- -lilrt, rlblsms, rutiles and all. The traveler was slightly bald, he core a sandy mustache, and when he ind tied the broad pink ribbons in a bow under tils decidedly masculine chin, he made a picture never to be orgotten. He was Just about to climb nto bed, hoping fervently that no sud den alarm of tire would render it nec- ■ssary for him to appear unexpected ly in public, when he was startled by a loud rapping at his door. Supposing ills visitor to be the bear er of an expected telegram, he opened he door to find himself confronted !>y tiie last person he wanted to see—or to be Been by—in the circumstances. Ils culler, a man upon whom, for •uslneBS reasons, he was desirous of making a favorable impression, had liscovered his name on tiie hotel reg ister. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the as tonished visitor. “Are you on your »vay to n fancy dress ball?” “No,” returned the embarrassed vic tim. “I'm merely getting ready to go to bed In the nightshirt that my wife made me for Christmas.” The young wife subsequently con sidered it strange that her husband was never afterward able to recall the mime of the town in which he ab sent-mindedly left that unexampled nightshirt under the hotel pillow. “There were seven yards of lace on it, too,” she would sometimes sigh, re gretfully, "and four yards of ribbon; mt never mind, deal, I'll make you another some time.” A CARNEGIE 8TORY. Made n Millionaire of a Man Because lie w«« Horn In the Same Town. Well l*len«cd with Illa Work. Mr. Cailn gie once made a millionaire of a man who, all unconscious of th« fact that his visitor was born in tiie same town, hapiHjued to say, “I am 'rom Dunfermline.” The story goes back to the time when Mr. Carnegie’s fiance was pur- •liaslng a part of her trousseau In Brooklyn. After she bad been shop ping for several days the clerk who lutd been waiting on her told tier In a sudden burst of confidence that she, too, was to be married, “but I'll not B-ive sucli nice things,” she addl'd, as -he fingered tiie delicate fabrics held out Etefore the customer. Th«* clerk's confession struck n sym- a.lh'tlc note In Mr. Carnegie's liamte. she In turn tol«l her who was to be her husband nnd when, and then asked: “And you will tell me whom you are going to marry?” “Mr. Peacock,” wan the reply. "He's the floor manager here, ami when we • re married I'm not going to be here my more.” A few weeks Inter Mr. and Mrs. iirn«“gle went abroad ou their wed ding trip nnd were gone several nonlhs. When they returned Mrs. 1'nrnegle went to the store where she had I »ought her trousseau to do some hopping, and all unexpectedly she an across the clerk who had helped her select her wadding finery. "Why,” she exclaimed, “bow Is ft lint you are still lu re? I thought you cere not going to stay after your marriage. Didn’t you t«-ll me yon were io Im married a few weeks after my w< dillng?” "Yes,” was the reply, “but Mr. Peacock became lir shortly after our •v«*ddlng, and I've taken my old posl- lon again nnd will k«*ep it till he la :lbl<“ to get back to work.” That evening, when she went home, Mrs. Carnegie told her huslmnd the lory of tlx* clerk who hail helped her elect her trousseau, ami ended by inking him to call with her at the ’eicock home. A few days later when the Carnegies id«“ the call they found Mr. Peacock n Isd. and while the two ladl«“s chat- d together In nn adjoining r«s>m Mr. • rnegle sentctl himself by the l>ed- de. He ha«l bei-n there but a short m<* when he asked: 'Mr. Peacock, from your pronuncia tion. I'd sny you are from Scotland. Yre you?” "Yes." was the reply, “I was born in Dtimferline." "You «lon't sny ao!" exclaimed Mr. Carnegie. “Why, that was my birth place, also.” That wttled It. Before he left the i ■•««■ Mr. Carnegie had mad«* It plain • hla fellow townsman that he was • b iv<> Ills all anti follow him. A. <}. ’ ck «11«! as he was told, and to-day •> Is one of the mllllonnir«*s of the *■ I lixliistry anti a leadltig citioen of •ittsbunr. Fond Parent—I understand the fac ulty are very much pleased with your work. Dropped Junior—Y«*. they encored my sophomore year.—Princeton Tiger She I think It's so silly of lovers to uarreL II«- Y«*s, the making up Is so expen- iw. Brooklyn L'fe. Some American Htinhandn. Jefferson Wanted Peace. When trade restrictions failed of their effect, the united kingdom once again tried war, says the Atlantic Monthly. Her policy toward Mr. Jeff erson admitted of no other interpreta tion. Jefferson had a passion for peace to keep peace he would submit to any humiliation, undergo any insult or hardship, but he could not placate his adversary. The more he cringed, the more he disarmed, the more nggr< slve Great Britain grew. No outra.i was ever more wanton than the cap ture of the Chesapeake by the Leopar* and though that outrage was In a man ner disowned it made war Inevitable Also the purpose for which the w. i was wag<-d was avowedly for the d. mem berment of the union, Not on was this purpose declared dally In tl press, but the dismemberment of tl union was made the terms naked f* peace at Ghent. Lord Castlereagh 1 Bisted on the cession of the larger r a of the Mississippi valley and the wl j shore of the lake«, Also there Is r< son to believe that In this, as in tl revolutionary war. Great Britain inlgi.t have succeeded had the military sluff been better «lucari’l. • ner of the household, which they did with such mutal pleasure that the schoolmaster declare«! that the king might have been a professor, he talk*«! so cleverly; nnd the king said that not many meat had the brain of his host. They parted with mutal expressions of pleasure. The following day a much grnndvr personage than his master presented himself at the schoolmaster's h'-ttse saying he had been sent by their maj «“«ties to thank him for the hospital tty received and to deliver several par cels. It was only then the simple man understood to whom he had given she! ter. The queen Is always looking for ways to Itenefit others. One day. from a terrace of the castle, she saw some men cutting hay. nnd Immediately ordered food and drink to be taken to them. Later she descended for a walk and. passing nenr the spot, stopped to speak to the mowers. They' were very much nffeetrol, nnd. as they had nothing to offer her majesty, one old man stooped and. picking n wild flower, pr<«ented it to his queen, “In the name of all of us.” ’ A »LOST” CHRISTMAS - ■ Mrs. Gertrude Atherton’s nrtlcle In the Fortnightly Review on American hiiHbamls a'lracts attention, partly be cause of Its theme and partly because Mrs. Atherton Is always readable, it Is rather nil islil notion that the Ameri can husband Is being rapidly convert ed into a savage by la*hig compelled to catch trains mid street cars In the morning. This practice, according to Mrs. Atherton, is rapidly changing ills character, and In the end will be the ruin of him. Mrs. Atherton's article seemed to me to miss the distinguish Ing characteristic of the American husband ami Its cause. He, Ilk«* all other Amt-rlcnn men, has set woman —with a large W—up on a pedestal, and lias taught her that she la on the whole vastly superior to the average angel. The result Is that the Ameri can woman has taken the American man at his word and treats him ns If he were the Inferior l«dng that he pre tends to be. Herein we have the ex planation of tin* American husband nnd his subservience to Ills women folks, and Mrs. Atherton might have made the fact much more prominent In her analysis of the American hits band than sb«“ has done.—W. L. Al den's London Letter. Natural Enough. “I don't understand your metho«! nt nil,” anl«l Miss Obesity somewhat Irate ly to the professor of physical culture. "I have Just been talking to Miss Skinny Bones ami she says thnt your advice to her Is exercise nnd diet. Now you have told me thnt diet and exer cise Is what I need. How can you isswlbly hope to accomplish such dif ferent ends with the same means?” “Simplest thing in the world, madam,” answer«“«! the professor “Your caws are exactly reversed. A mere reversion of the medicines la all that In n«“ee-sary."—Detroit Fr«-e Press. Why It In Hilly.
