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m a ' HÒLT ) to He ELECTION A c llttlr U rgnl BILL. bv tho Populists ETolt election bill is a measure o( table importance tliut w ill be ictively u|«»n the attention of ;is!ature. It will be chain- by the Populisi . and they desire rage more perhaps than any ill. It has been indorsed by tho It party throughout the slate. * proposed act relates to the ap- Jen to f judges by county courts, le v is t o p o t i le ior rapraaanta- tin' three ! exiling parties Oct ■ction boards, and it is made obli- ^ ^ T u | h . ii tin' county judge to deslg- te person recommended by tho an of the respective central cotn- _i. The cleik- are to be appoint- ■ milnr manner from the two lead- lrtie s. The appointments shall le on the first Saturday in May. of in January, as at present. h<|importuiit section of the act fol- TO REAPPORTION THE K e p r « i e n U t l v « H o m er «* K i l l O n « u « o f 1895- STATE Base ou WEEKLY MARKET LETTER D o w u l i i f , H o p k in * ft r » i i i | m i i y 'l K e v le u r o f Tr***»«*. The wheat markets during the week Under the constitution, it is the duty of the present legislature to reap just closed have been under the control portion the state in senatorial and leg of short sellers. Prominent operators islative districts, based on the state have taken a hand in tlie deal, and the census of 1895; and to that end, llepre- result has been very heavy unloading sentative Somers has framed a rcappor- ! of long wheat and a drop in the price tionment measure. The census figures of May at Chicago on Friday to 78c, were obtained by Somers from tlie sec with, however, a reaction before the retary of state. The ratio of apportion close on Saturday to 78c; a subsequent ment for senatorial districts is one sen decline of half a cent from this latter ator for every 12,084 of population, and price w ith final closing figures at 75 1 ac, fraction thereof exceeding one-half; a loss for tlie week of 4 5-8c. The mar and for representatives one for every ket at the beginning of the week hud 8,042 of population. For senators, the settled itself into a scalping affair with the tendency lower, on the selling out apfHirtionment is iib follows: First district— Marion county; two of long lines and the pressing of sales by people who favor that side under senators. any and all circumstances. Dullness Second— Linn; one. begets sagging markets, and the disap Third— Lane; one. pearance of an outside interest in the Fourth— Douglas; one. F ifth— Coos, Curry and Josephine; im.rket is, in part, responsible for ihe break this week, ih e public has been one. loaded up, waiting to get out more ad Sixth— Jackson; one. 8. Oil the first Saturday in Seventh— Gilliam, Crook and K lam vantageously, or else sellers h a ^ been preceding each regular general ath; one. overdoing the thing to the extent that tile-county judge iu each coun- Eighth— Lincoln, Benton and Lane; when anything does come favorable for tiis state shall appoint in each one. a rise there w ill lie some tall hustling tt in this county three judges of to cover. The fact remains, however, Ninth— Polk; one. I possessing the qualifications of tliut tlie seller 1 ms been greatly favored Tenth— Yam hill; one. In every county the chair- in the news and by the considerations Eleventh— Clackamas; two. an A d secretary of the county central mentioned. Fluctuations have been Twelfth— Washington; one. » immd' tees of the three political par- more frequent and the oft-repeated Thirtcetli— Linn ami Marion; ono. , espfttich cast the largest, the second stories of cash business at the different Fourteenth— Multnomah; eight. .rgedt and the third largest number of markets would give one an impression Fifteenth— Clatsop; one itcsJrespectively, at tho lust general Sixteenth — Washington, Columbia that holders were resorting to desperate K i l n in the state for justice of tho and Tillamook; one. means in order to bolster up an already ^ J p i c court shall each have the right Seventeenth— Wasco and Sherman; lost cause. There is a casli demand foi hereby authorised to propose one. w heat all the time, of course, but it is -J K B b ,' umnend to the county judge of Eighteenth — Morrow, Grant and not up to sensational priqiortions or of jeh Bounty, in writing, the name of Harney; one. such an amount as jo result in tlie buy mi qp. I i tied elector to serve as judge ing of futures by tlie speculative pub Nineteenth— Umatilla; one. , W f S L -lien in each precinct in said Twentieth— Union and Wallowa; one. lic, and herein lies tho weakness of the and tlie county judge must and For the representative districts, the position assumed by the investor in kpjioint tlie electors so recorn- apportionment is as follows: wheat. 0 *(|gg. In each county of this state On the surface, the foregin crop ad First representative district— Marion lie «Jnirm anof tlie two political par- county; five representatives. vices are juHt as they were when May ^ ^ ^ ^ p ting the greatest number of votes wheat in Chicago was selling 10c [>er Second— Linn; three. bushel higher than at present, but still, or the justice of the supreme court, Third— Lane; three. jnd |ie second greatest number, re- and strange to say, Liverpool cables Fourth— Douglas; two. . : r, it til ■ la -1 preceding general have been coming lower each day Biuco F ifth — Coos; one. ■lectin in this state, may also on tlie Sixth— Douglas, Coos and Curry; one, tlie week commenced. jttfijfeuturduy in May preceding eacli Seventh— Josephine; one. Market «JunlfttIon«. cgulst general election projiose and Eighth— Jackson; two. Portland, Or., Feb. 2, 1897. ecennii'-nd to the county judge of such Ninth— Benton; one. Flonr— Portland, Salem, Cascadia , in writing, the name of one Tentli— Polk; two. id elector to serve as clerk of the Eleventh— Lincoln and Tillamook; and Dayton, 14.40; Benton county and W hite Lily , $4.40; graham, $4.00; su bn board in each precinct in said one. perfine, $2.80 per barrel. I , and the county judges must Twelfth*—Yamhill; two. Wheat— Walla Walla, 81@82c; V al all appoint the qualified electors Thirteenth— Clackamas; four. ley, 84® 85c per bushel. ommended. l i any county chair- Fourteenth— Multnomah; fi fteen. Oats— Choice white, 39®40c per bnd secretary, as above provided, Fifteenth— Washington; three. bushel; choioe gray, 88@40c. B f u i l to file with the county judge, Sixteenth— Clatsop; two. Hay— Timothy, $13®) 14.00 per ton; i the first Saturday in May irnine- Seventeenth— Columbia; one. clover, $9.00® 10.00; wheat and oat, |)y preceding each regular general Eighteenth— Wasco; two. tlie names of tho qualified Nineteenth— Gilliam, Sherman and $ 8 . 00 @ 10 per ton. Barley— Feed barley, $18.00 per ton; brs they recommend for judges and Crook; one. of election in any precinct or Twentieth— Morrow and Grant; one. brewing, $ 20 . Millstuffs— Bran, $15.00; shorts, |ncts in any county in this state, Twenty-first— Umatilla; two. $18.50; middlings, $28. bunty judge of such county shall Twenty-second— Union; two. Butter— Creamery, 40® 45c; T illa |nt said officers on his own motion, Twenty-third— Baker and Malheur; mook, 40c; dairy, 2 2 'a ®30e. i county judge shall designate one one. Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 70® 80c; three judges to be chairman. Twenty-fourth— Lake, Klamath and Early Rose, 70@80e per Back; C ali |judges and clerks so appointed Harney; one. fornia river Burbanks, 65c per cental; hold their office for two years, Twenty-fifth— Wallowa; one. . sdiately after the appointment of Hold-over senators representing joint sweets, $2.00@2.25 per cental for Mer udges and clerks the county clerk districts shall be considered senators ced; Jersey Red, $2.50. Onions— $1.10® 1.35 per sack. make out and send to each judge for the new districts in which they Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.00@ •uu clerk so appointed by registered reside. 'n a il a notice of his appointment.” The most important change in tlie 3.25; geese, $<>.00; turkeys, live, 12> 4 o; measure is the increase of tho represen ducks, $4 @4.50 per dozen. l^^iator Carter has by request pre- tation of Multnomah county. It gives Eggs— Oregon, 20 per dozen. id tlie following hill relating to the fifteen representatives as against nine Cheese — Oregon, 12 <ac; Young erry at Corvallis: at present, and eight senators as America, 13'._.cper pound. hat the county court of Benton against five at present. Wool— Valley, 10« per pound; East Multnomah y, Or., is hereby authorized and has aobut one-fourtli the state’s popu ern Oregon, 6 @ 80 . levered to establish and maintain a lation. Hops— 9 @ 10c per pound. ^ J f e r r y across the Willamette river, Beef— Gross, top steers, $2.75@3.00; .tX e rv a llis , Or., and to accomplish Senator Mulkey’s road b ill is for an cows, $2.25@2.50; dressed beef, 4® end shall have the power to buy, * amendment to tlie old law providing 6 > 4 c per pound. j l or lease a ferry, grounds and for taxing lands adjacent to tlie county Mutton— Gross, best sheep, wethers Bpnicnts therefor, or may in the cl i if- roads for the purpose of improving and ewes, $3.00®3.25; dressed mut T on of said court hire or employ them. It makes tlie territory affected ton, 5 'a@ 6 c per pound. persons to furnish such ferry, to extend not more than two miles on Hogs— Gross, choice, heavy, $3.25® Eda^and equipments and run the each side of tlie proposed road, or to 3.50; light and feeders, $2.50@3.00t : as a free ferry at all reasonable the next adjacent parallel road, instead dressed, $4.00@4.50 per cwt. s; provided, that in conducting of three miles, us under the old law. Veal— Large, 5®5>£c; small, 6@ ferry it shall he law ful for said It provides that not less than one-fifth <5M per pound. |ty court to prescribe rates of ferri- of the tux shall he paid by the county, Seattle, Wash., Feb. 2, 1897. l>e charged customers for cross the remaining four-fifths to he paid by lid ferry during the hours between the taxpayers, provided that the enmi Wheat— Chicken feed, $27 per ton. clock in the evening and 6 o’clock ty court may determine for tlie county Oats— Choice, $23® 24 per ton. le morning. Said county court is to pay more than one-flfth of the tax. Barley— Rolled or ground, $22 per ^ fb v authorised to do everything The law, as it now exists, provides for ton. »ary to maintain said ferry as the payment of the entire tax by the Corn— Whole, $21 per ton; cracked, bletelyas a natural person could do. ” taxpayers residing within three miles $20; feed meal, $23. of the road in question. Less than a Flour— (Jobbing)— Patent excellent, pre is a b ill by Senator Harmon majority of tlie taxpayers residing $5.25; Novelty A, $4.76; California | will be of interest to many: within the limits may petition the brands, $5.80; Dakota, $5.50; patent, ction 1. An y person riding or county court for such tax levy for the $8.25. Hug any vehicle, whether such purpose of improving a county road. Millstuffs— Bran, $15.00 per ton; H ' h- is drawn or propelled by animal Tlie court, upon discretion, may order shorts, $19. ^K hor power, using any of the public Feed— Chopped feed, $17.25 per ton; the levy upon petition of less than a in the state of Oregon, when met middlings, $22; oilcake meal, $29. majority. ^ ■ n y other vehicle shall keep*to the Hay— Puget sound, per ton, $9.00® An effort is to be made to establish and, when overtaken by any 10.00; Eastern Washington, $14. >thwr vehicle, he shall likewise keep to at La Grande, Union county, the Butter — Fancy native creamery, ■hejight, allowing such rider or driver “ Eastern Oregon agricultural college,” brick, 24c; select, 23s; tubs, 22c; ss him to the left, so as in both w-hieh shall receive one-half the an ranch, 18c. to permit such vehicles to pass nual government appropriation now Cheese— NativeWashington, 1 2 )^ 0 . |and uninterrupted. made to the state agricultural college Vegetables— Potatoes, per ton, $18® 2. An y person who shall vio- and experiment station at Corvallis. A 20; parsnips, per sack, 75c; beets, per anv of the provisions of this act bill has been prepared to that effect, sack, 60c; turnips, per sack, 60 c; ruta be deemed guilty of a misde- and it is understood that it w ill be bagas, per sack, 75c; carrots, per sack, Jmr, and, upon conviction, shall be championed by Representative Stan 35@45c; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.50; not less than $10 nor more than ley, of Union. _________ onions, per 100 lbs, $ 1@1.25. or imprisonment in the county Representative Langell has intro Sweet potatoes— Per 100 lbs, $3.00. fciot more than twenty-five days.” duced a bill to make Ashland college Poultry— Chickens, live, per pound, ducks, !'•■ - nsta Committee on asseemnent and normal school a state institution, hens, 8c; dressed? 9® 10c; ■taxation has under consideration to be known as the "Southern Oregon $2.00® 3.50; dressed turkeys, 15. Eggs— Fresh ranch, 23c; Eastern, | hing like twenty-five hills, eover- normal school.” A board of twelve Till phases of the subject. It meets regents is appointed, and the general 19c per dozen. Fresh Meats— Choice dressed beef, pst daily for the pnrfs.se of con policy of government is the same as for ing them. Several of the bills pro- other normal schools. The b ill carries steers, 6 c; cows, 6 > 40 ; mutton, sheep, per pound; lamb, 5c; pork, 6 c pier | an entirely new assessment of law; a 115,000 appropriation. pound; veal, small, 6 c. hairman Hughes thinks that the A t the reqnest of the Arlington Roil Fresh Fish— Halibut, 5® 6; salmon, Ion has so far progressed that it w ill and Gun Club, Representative David B nadvisable to attempt to enact a has introdneetd a bill to prevent night 6® 6; salmon trout, 7® 10; flounders ^ n l law. An attempt w ill prob- hunting of wild ducks, geese, swan or and soles, 3 ® 4c. Provisions— Hams, large, 11c; hams, j be made to paas a special meastue other water fowl, on the islands of the small, 11 % c ; breakfast bacon, 10c; I Columbia river. Hi I dry salt sides, 5%c per pound. code. i he total appropriation for legisla- two years since was $55,- I " _________ I expenses lie Benson house was called to order •30 Monday, pursuant to the ad- pmi-nt on Friday. There were r present. Several bills were in- eed and read. ■ Davis house held a brief session jla y previous to the meeting of the or. hon-e. As usnal nothing was except to call the roll and m «v* |dhioueriment nntil the day following^ r 9 Representative Crawford, of Douglas county, has introduced a maximum freight rate bill, designed to govern the railroad corporations of the state. Rates in detail for various distances are prescribed for every manner of freight, and it is made unlawful for any corporation to charge more. Repre sentative Crawford says that one prin cipal object of his bill is to prevent railroads from raising rates when the jirice of wheat or other commodities advances. San Francisco, Feb. 2, 1897. Potatoes — Salinas Burbanks, 75® 90c; Early Rose, 75® 85c: River Bur banks, 50® 75c; sweets, $1.00® 1.25 per cental. Onions— $1.25® 1.60 per cental. Eggs— Slor«, 16® 17c; ranch. 17® 19. Butter— Fanoy creamery, 20®2!c; do seconds, 17® 19c; fancy dairy, lie ; Seconds, ll® 1 3 c . Cheese — Fancy mild, new, 10c; fair to good, 7® 9c; Young America Ho; Eastern, 13® 14c. Must Keep His Hands Nice. Jointing Is out o f the most difficult and delicate operations In Atlautic ca ble-making. • • • To see a Joint made I climbed, ou one o f my visits to Woolwich, up iuto a swallow-uest of a cabin, fastened iu some mysterious way to the side of a wall of the “ core” qjnk-rooin. Ill the center of the little room sat an Imposing Individual, whose characteristics seemed to be rotundity, profuse sweating, anil absolute clean liness. An assistant shared the narrow- space with him; a few simple Iron tools and several big gas-jets served as his equipment. • • • First the assist ant cut off a few hiiliC:: from the two ends; pared down the gutta-percha In such a way as to leave two or three inches o f copper conductor uncovered; bevelled each end with a file, laid them together, soldered them, and then wrapped the joint tightly for the dis tance of half an Inch with Hue copper wire. Tills wrapping Insures a con nection in case the solderlug should some time break. The other mau so far had done noth ing. It was explained that 111 the work of Jointing the copper lie was not allow ed to share lest It should “ spoil Ills hands.” His duty was to joint the gut ta-percha, nu operation In which much depends on delicacy of touch. When tlie copper Joint was done, the core was passed oil to him, and he proceed ed to pare down the gutta-percha until j he had perhaps a foot In all to work on; he then heated the gum on each side with a spirit-lamp, 11 ml with his fingers Worked It down until the cop per was all evenly covered. Ilis next step was to build up the Insulator. One after another, strips of gutta-percha, which Ijad been heated at tlie end, were applied, wound around the core, and carefully worked and molded the length of the wound. Should a hit of dust, nu air-bubble, a speck of moist j ure, he left in tlie Insulator, it would give trouble later. Hence this heating and kneading and caution against dirt. Experience has shown, too, that no ma chine will pack the gutta-percha at tills critical point so perfectly as the human fingers. They alone can feel when the work Is progressing properly and Is finished satisfactorily; hence the care to keep them always sensitive, to prevent their becoming callous by rougher work.—McClure’s Magazine. P lG T U o t SQUE ATHENS. The Stre t« Arc M a d e B r i l l i a n t M arb le Houses. performance which confuted in the promiscuous firing of bis "gun” aJ the barkeeper, bystandeia. lamps, bottle* and picture«. Sheriff Bardsley grabbed the first weapon handy In his own sa loon. which happened to bs a double- barreled shot-gun. and proceeded to Riley's 011 the run. Dashing In he or dered Frank to throw up his hands,aml the response was a bullet from Frank's .44. Letting go both luirrels o f bis shotgun, Bardsley brought the desper ado to the floor, so full o f shot hole« that he couldn’t hold either air or water. Frank was not killed however, and In course o* time recovered, under the kind attention which he received in tlie county jail. Presently It was observed that tlie Texas mau was walking around town without a guard, and a little later the people were astonished to find him serving legal papers and making arrests. Bardsley waa ap proached by a newspaper man at this time, when the following colloquy took place: “ Is Texas Frank your deputy?” que ried the reporter. “ Yep!” was the sententious response o f Bardsley. “ H ow does that come?” was the next Inquiry. "W ell, you see,” said Bardsley, “most sheriffs appoint their deputies, .but I like to shoot mine.” —Kansas City Jour* naL O f the three mountains inclosing the plain of AtUeus, Mount Parties is the highest <4.640 feet); Mount Pentillcus 13,641 feet), with Its regular triangular shape suggesting the pediment of a temple, Is the most Imposing; hut the tliyme-covered. bouey-produclug Hy- mettus (3,3(18 feet) lias always beeu most lutmuitely associated with Athens. It lies nearer to the city, and from almost all the streets and all the windows looking eastward can be seen its curved Hue marking the blue sky above, except on the rare gray days, when clouds resting on its top are an infallible sign o f ra'n. The various hues of the mountains and the smaller hills forming an inner circle around Athens, combined with the view of the sea, lend nu additional effect o f nlrluess and buoyancy to the as|>ect. Iu the long, straight streets of the new town from end to end. nothiug impedes the view on either side. In praising Athens, we must not draw a veil over her defects. Such Improve ments as are Indispensable to a modern city lmve not kept pace with her growth In extent and affluence. The stages of this progress can be seen In the struc tural inequalities even o f continuous dwellings. These dwellings may be chronologically divided Into three cate gories: those of the first settlers, when all were poor, and the nmlu necessity was at any rate to be housed; those of the thrifty citizens, who felt the want of more space and greater convenience, but had little regard for external ap- isuiranee or interior comfort, and con sidered carpets and plate-glass a lux ury. and even chimneys of small conse- George W. Cable expects to sail f >r queuee; and those of the wealthy Im England 111 a few weeks. He has made migrants. who gave an Impulse to the arrangements to give public readings building of elegant houses among all from bis works in London and the who, thanks to Increasing prosperity, provinces. could a fif'd to imitate them. Dean Farrar quotes Tennyson as hav The proximity of the quarries of Hy- ing related to lilm the remark of a far mettus and Pentellcus enables Athens mer who, after hearing a ..re-and-brim- to supply herself with a building ma stone sermon from an old style preach terial which no other city could have a» er, consoled his w ife by saying: “Never equal cost. Marble, in Itself an embel mind, Sally; that must be wrong. No lishment, is profusely used, and loses constltooshun couldn’t stand It.” none of Its brilliuncy In tlie dry atmos Mrs. Ernest Hart, who will be re phere, whose transparency makes membered by many Chicagoans as a pleasant to the eye even the light col visitor to the World's Fair, has written ors spread on the stone walls, which a book entitled “ Picturesque Burmab. Iu other la i ¡tildes would hardly be Dear- Past and Present,” which she lias also One oi* Nelson's Captains. able. Tile agreeable effect thus obtain Illustrated. She writes In a elintty way The fifth ship was the Theseus, Cap ed is Increased by the trees In some of of the far-off country as Hhe saw 1L tain Ralph W illett Miller. This gentle the streets nnd squares, as well as In man, whom after his premature death the gardens of the better class of A movement lias been started to rec Nelson styled "tlie only truly virtu houses. But Athens might and would ognize publicly Herbert Spencer'8 ser ous man l ever knew,” was by birth be more verdant still were It not for vices to philosophy and science, npon a New-Yorker, whose fam ily had been the lack of abundant water. This want the completion o f bis system of syn loyalists during tlie American Revo was felt in antiquity as well; to it may thetic philosophy. A committee has lution. A letter from him to his wife partly be ascribed the epidemics re been formed at the Athenaeum Chib, gives au account of tlie fight which corded by ancient historians tri times London, to decide on the form o f this Is at once among the most vivid, and, of war, when the number of inhabit recognition. from the professional standpoint, the Though a site has been chosen fo r tlie ants was Increased by those of the sur most satisfactory, o f those which lmve rounding country seeking refuge within bust of Sir W alter Scott, there will yet been transmitted to us. O f the These be a little delay before It Is finally set the walls. us’ entrance Into tlie battle lie says: Antoninus I'lus endowed Athens with lip In Westminster abbey. Tills Is due "In running nlong tlie enemy's lino a perfect system o f water works. They to several causes, one, though certainly in the wake of tlie Zealous and Goli consisted of subterranean galleries col not the most Important, being that the ath, I observed their shot sweep Just lecting the waters of the neighboring money has not yet been fully subscrib over us; and, knowing well that at f mountains. To these old Roman aque ed. such a moment Frenchmen would not ducts. successively discovered, repair Snys the London Dally News: “A have coolness enough to change their ed. nnd utilized, Athens still owes her new volume of the poet laureate?” One elevation, I closed them suddenly, and, scanty supply of water. Projects for forgets for the moment tliut Tennyson running under the nrcli of tlielr shot, increasing the supply nre ever talked Is dead. Then one yawns at the recol reserved my fire, every gun being load of, but will be deferred so long as the lection o f Mr. Austin's uame and tlio ed with two and some with three municipal finances remain no better announcement that Ills new book Is to round-sliot, until I had the Guerrler’s than the national. Meanwhile, the be entitled ‘Tlie Conversion of Winckle- masts In a line nnd her jilibooni about macadamized roads between the fine mnn and Other Poems.’ ” six feet clear o f our rigging; wc then sidewalks are hardly watered. This There is to be published In Liverpool opened with such effect that a sec fact and the nature of the soil, noto early In the new yenr “ A History o f ond breath could not be drawn before rious for its thinness since the days of the Liverpool Privateers nnd Letters o f her main and mizzenmasts were also Thucydides, account for the dust, Marque,” by Gomer Williams. The gone. This was precisely at sunset, or forty-four minutes past C; then, pass which Is the greatest blemish of greatness o f the city, snys the publish ing between her and the Zealous, and Athens. All English lady was heard er in announcing the character o f the as close as possible round tlie off side to admire the picturesqueness o f Its forthcoming work, was suckled on tho* of the Goliath, we anchored by the whirling clouds; hut even were that twin Iniquities of slave trading and stern exactly In a line with her, nnd single representative of an optimistic privateering, nnd the book is to consist abreast the Spartiate. W e had not minority on a fine day. sueeeedlng one of nu nccount o f l "2h. been many minutes in notion wltli the of rain, to see tlie town nnd the clear In some remarks ou the promised Spartiate when we observed one of our outline o f the distant mountains Byron revival W. E. Henley says that through a dustless atmosphere, she ships (and soon after knew her to lie the public “ has lind enough o f fluent the Vanguard) place herself so directly could not help regretting that the same minor lyrists and hidebound (If su effects are not nrtlflclnlly attainable. opposite to us on the outside o f lier perior) sonneteers, and Is disposed In On the whole, Athens will show to that I desisted tiring on her, that 1 the natural course o f things to renew might not do mischief to our friends, best advantage If visited after Con its contact with a great English poet and directed every gun before tlie stantinople and other towns In Turkey, who was also a principal element in the mainmast on the Aquilon (fourth ns the standard of comparisons will be aesthetic evolution of that modern Hn- French), and all abaft It on the Con fairer than that afforded by the great rope which we know ” quérant, giving up my proper bird to capitals o f the West. It must not be People who have seen manuscripts of the admiral.” —Nelson. In'the Battle of forgotten that, If one of the most an the Nile,” by Captain Malian, in tho cient, she Is nt the same time one o f the W. D. H ow ell’s writing have been sur newest among European towns; nor prised tbat tlie work o f a man who I* Century. ought tlie long period o f her decline such a prolific writer should show so Civlli/.ation’a Work. ever to 1> p lost sight of when compar many changes. “ One little sketch o f his A man carrying nn armful o f fire ing her with other towns. The traveler that I happened to see.” says an ad wood would not ordinarily he made the who, remembering that long period of mirer o f the author, “ was crossed out subject of comment. When, however. : Turkish sway, counts on receiving nn and rewritten many times. And it was the man represents a people who used Oriental Impression from the aspect of a simple sketch, not a story—one that to think t liât such labor was a degra Athens is doomed to disappointment. I should have thought be would have dation. he Is interesting from a socio Even the national garb is fast disap written at a sitting without cbnngiug a logical point of view. A correspondent pearing. It may still be worn by a few word.” o f the New York Evening Post, writing elderly Athenians. These, and a peas Hconnd Fiddle. from Montana, tells o f seeing a Chey ant here nnd there selling milk or Stylish maid. enne Indian walking from the brush up cheese, recall the day when their dress Many «'harms, to his lodge carrying wood. By his side was the national otic. It Is, however, Poppy «log was a tiny girl with a backload o f little 1 the uniform o f certain soldiers of light In her arms. twigs. A few years ago an Indian Infantry, who may be seen parading Youth drops in. would have been ashamed to be seen Cool re«-ept— the streets or mounting guard at the doing wbat lie would have called a Darling pug palace, in all the white splendor o f the squaw's work. To-day tlie tribes are Still '« kept. fustanelle. The wide blue trousers of directly, and consciously, and of neces Lover sighs, tlitr Aegean Islanders nre not less rare, sity adopting civilized ways. The little I-ooks at her; nor Is there much chance o f seeing Wishes he girl at play represented the prist; tho them at tlie Piraeus, among the craft Was a cur. mau, a promise o f the future. from the various islands moored along Ten o'clock, the quays. The uglier and cheaper A Snap Shot. Time expired; “ Tom, good ulgbt. A little child Ofteu not only leads but product of the slop-shop has replaced Fill«’« tired.” amuses by original descriptions of ordi - , the picturesque drapery o f the olden nary events. Says the Pittsburg Chron time. The monotony of the modern —New York World. costume Is broken only by the priests icle: A Traveller's Forethought. A Judge’s little daughter, who had at with their long Mack robes and their Little things illustrate certain En tended her father’s court for the flrs t 1 peculiar hats.—“ Public Spirit In Mod glishmen's knowledge of American ge time, was very much Interested In the ern Athens,” by D. Bikclas, In Cen ography very picturesquely. An En proceedings. A fter her. return home tury. glishman who had taken the Pacifle she told her mother: “ Papa made a express at Philadelphia calleil out on How He Selected Ills Hcpnty. speech, and several other men made ! going to tied before the train started: speeches, to twelve men who sat all to- \ That tale related In the telegrams of “Portah! portah!” get her. and then these twelve men were an Alabama girl who shot a young man The porter came. “What Is It, sir?" put In a dark chain tier to lie developed." a couple of times and then married him be said. recalls the method employed by George "Please wake me up when we get to Edith—Me told me I was so Interest Bardsley, one of the early day sheriffs Ran Francisco, you know,” said the En ing snd so benutlful. Maude—And yet of Ellis County, In appointing bis depu glishman. you will trust yourself for life with a ties. One night he was called to Chris man who beglna deceiving you even Riley’s saloon, where "Texas Frank." Men have better health than the wo at the commencement of his courtship a newly arrived desperado In Hays ! men. Iiecatise thev sigh less whem —Boston Transortnt. City, was "shooting out" the place—a I things go wron.™ sad kirk moro.