The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, March 30, 1888, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text, . 1111 JOB EXP KtUKpATItlCK : Bl'QbKIt Publisher. T.fmrf dertjt.vu w TERMS or SlJB80RlPrilsi. Joli Printinz Dens llr Year 3 00 S:x M-uitha .. 1 2S Thin Months 65 iPayaWr in advance.) TERMS OF ADVEKTISISO. One Mtuare, Srat Imwrtion . . ....... S3 00 kach feULMonal iroerUun. ....... ....... 1 60 tt-ofAL.) Loral Nntbwa, Jut line IS (WiU Regular adTcrtiwmnl InBerted apan Inderal terms. Legal Blanks, Business Cards. Letter Beads, BiU Beads, VOL. II. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888. Circulars. Posters, Btc. Knotted la fsx4 Hjlm as at arvaa Iwaf fafeaa , NO. 3. EBANON 3 SOCIETY NOTICES. UEBAKOT? timflK. NO. 4. X. F A. M : Mu at their new hall In Masonic Block, on Saturday .vaning-, on or before the full uinon. J WASSOH, W, M. LKB ASON WOOF, SO. 47. I. O. O. MroU Sat urday evening of ea :h wt-wk. at Odd Vll.w'a HM1. Mntn atreet; viaittng Wrethren emditilty Invited to attend. J. J. IHAIULTOK, x a. HoNoR LonaK NO S3. A. o. V. W , Lohsnen. Ore'n: Mtt every first and tMrd Thursday even ing in lb. WDlh. U. RoSOOK. M V. DR. A. H. PETERSON, SURGICAL. DENTIST, Filling unci Extracting Teeth a Specialty. LEBANON. OREUOS. Office in V. C. Peterson" jewelry store, f "AU work warranted. Charges reawuabl C. H. HARMON, BARBER & HAIRDRESSER, LEBANON, OREGON. Shavlnc H-Ur Cutting, and Shampooing the iateat and BEST STYLES. Patronage respectfully solicited. Gt. Charles Hotel, LEBANON, Oregon. N. W. Corner Muin and Bhemtui Streets, two Blocks Kast of R R. Depot. H. E. PARRISH, Proprietor. Tables Supplied with the Best the Market Affords. Sample Rooms and the rVet Accommodations for Commercial men. GENERAL STAGE OFFICE. " I. F. CONN, Contractor, Carpenter and Builder. Plane aa Speetfleatleaa Famished a Snort Satire. ILL traDS OF C1RPESTER WORI BONE And Satisfaction Guaranteed. TPRICES VERY REASONABLE. Albany and lvebanea. Or. C.T.COTTON, DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CICARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY, l((Mriiwtre mad Ctuiwarr, Lamp and Iamp FIxtares. Main Ht-. Ltsassa, Oic9. L.EBANON Heat llarlket BIHL A KELLESBERCER. Proprietor. "Fregh. -and Salted Beef and Pork, MUTTON, PORK, SAUSACE, BOLOGNA and HAM. Eaccn anl Lari always on Hand. Main Street, Lebanon, Or. L. COWAN, 3. M. RLtTt N, J. W. Ct SICK. BANK OF LEBANON Lebanon, Oregon. Transacts a General Banking Business. AccoTrn's Kept Subject to Check. EXCHAKGE SOLD ON let Tori, San Francisco, Peruana ana Altany, Orejron. Collections Made on Favor abSs Terms. It takes the tusks of 75,000 ele phants per year to supply the world's piano-key, billiard-balls and knife- handles. It haa been estimated that in New York city about two million fire hun dred thousand bales of hay are annually consumed. Therb are about 2,000,000 bog raisers in the country arU the 4b,- 000,000 hogs are estimated to be worth $190,000,000. Siscb the great fire, Chicago and Cook county have bid 110,311 mar ringes ai;d 8,132 divorces, a ratio of one divorce to 13 marriages. Some people doubt the poisonous effect of nutmeg, but B veral cases of nutmeg-poboning have been noted in the British Medical Journal during the last Eummt r. New York state spent last year 13,760,670 on common schools. Out of 31,318 teachers employed 25.497 are weiuen ; and 1,037,812 of the 1,763,115 children of school age were in school during the year. The farmers jf Southern Russia employ the Stepant ff primary battery to produce electrio light to assist them in threshing their grain. Thus they are enabled to keep the threshing ma chines going night and day. Prof. Arnold states that it cot more to make milk from old cows than it doea from young ones having the same milk capacity. Aa a rule, the best tffects do not last beyond the eighth year of the cow's age. - A Western fruit grower used Btvenly-five bushels of wood ashes on his strawberry vines last season, and the crop yielded 250 bushels per acre, lie thinks the as-hes also counteracted the effects of the drouth to a consider able extent. The tquaws of the Navajo tribe manufacture wonderf 1 blankets with the aid of Bharp-pointed sticks. It re quires from one to four months' time to make a tingle blanket, which is, however, eo firmly mftde as to be almost impervious to w.iter. The snpieme court of Michigan has dfc-dtd that the prohibition of the sale of liquor to minors in that Stat is absolute and unqualified, and can not be nullified by giving the minor an rder from an hdult person to pur chase such liquor. During a heavy thunder storm at Washington, D. C, lightning struck the Senate wing of the capitol, but apparently did no other damage than to frighten the occupants ai.d destroy telegraphic and telephonic communi cation between the building and the oufside world. The barbed wire is a lawful fence in meet States, but to avoid damages for injury to Block it must be made visible either by a botrd or slight bank of earth thrown against it. Stock should, on being taken into a pasture inclosed by a barbed wire, be led to it and their noses touched to the wire. They will need no further lessons to induce them to keep at a respectful distance. Mrs. W. M. Haycock, of San Bue naventura, Cal., left home to visit Los Angeles, taking her youngest child with her and leaving the oldest at home with its father. The elder child died of membranous croup, and when the sorrowing father went to telegraph the death to the absent mother he was met by a telegram informing him, of the death of the youngest child from the same disease. Both children were well when they separated. The House Committee on Claims haa ordered a favorable report on the bill to pay Gov. Swineford, of Alaska his salary during the period he re mained in this country before he reached his post of duty in September, 1SS5, a share of which was disallowed him by the treasury department be cause he had not entered upon his duties as promptly as the law demand" but claimed immunity from the rule because the Secretary of the Interior had granted him a leave of absence. The re port of the California R tihoad Commission ehows that 433 people were injured an J 101 killed o-.i rail roads of that State during the year 1887. Of these aggregate numbers 398 were injured and 88 killed on lines of the Southern Pacific Company; injured and 6 killed on the Atlantic & Pacific; 24 injured and 1 killed on the California Southern : 1 killed on I he Northern California road ; 3 killed on San Francisco &. North Pacific ; 3 in jured on the Pacific Coast road, and 16 injured and 2 killed on the South Pacific Coast road. FOREIGN GOSSIP. A sinfflts day of heavy fo makes the City of London pay 40.000 more for gas. c7-.- The rreal E ffel tower in Paris is Rlready . higher than tbe Arc de Triomphe. Le Petit Journal, of Paris, on one day-dnrinsr tbe recent excitement printed 930.009 copies. The Loudon g mins thoroughly J y the troubles at Trafalgar Square. "l3 yer mother know yer out?' thejr call out to the guards. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Interest Condensed Form. In a A flouring mill is to be built at Oro Dell. t The new Methodist church at Spicer is about completed. Tree planting is the order of the day in R gue River Valley. McMinnville has voted a tax of $10,000 for a schoolhoue. Ro8eburg will, in all probability, have a woollen mill this summer. About fifty new buildings art? now in course of construction in Pendleton. Several pari tea have Iteen arresled in Jackson county for killing deer out of season. Nt ar Ashland, J.ike Kennedy shot and killed a 'panther measuring nine fei-t from tip to tip. A postnffiee has been established at Groves, Wasoo county, ith William Mercer, post in ister. Ten thousand pamphlets descript ive of Rogue River valley have beeu printed and circulated. A postoffice has been established at Ferry, Curry county, with Sarah E. Cooley as poetmistre.-s. At the city election in La Orande, B. W. Grundy defeated A. R. Matloon for Mayor by one majority. A street railway and water works are to be built soon, and electric lights are to be put in at Pendleton. The young ladies of Forest Grove have formed a base ball club. Miss Zulu Warren has beer, elected captain. The poftoffioe at Little Elk, Benton county, will be known hereafter a Eddyvule, the name having been changed. Bear Valley, Grant county, haa in creased in settlement to such a degree that a postoffice U almost an impera tive necessity. During the past eighteen months tweuly seven persons have been sent from Lane county to the insane asy lum at S dem. John Olsen, while workine on the edger at a North Bind mill, had the thumb of his left hand completely sev ered by coming in contact with a eaw. At the teachers examination in Umatilla county there were twenty nine applicants for certificates. Of this number ten were granted second grade, ten third grade aud nine filled. A young man, a son of Mr. Finn Cooper, was dragged to death by a runaway horse in the presence of his mother and sister, lie was buried iu the Masonic cemetery near the- town of Rose burg. The identity of the nun who jump from the bridge at Si'em sf ill remaii.o matter of doubt. No one appears to ve missing from Salem, and it is alto gether likely he was a stranger. No effort was made to recover the body. The stockmen of Eastern Oregon will have a grand encampment near Olex, Rock creek, about twelve miles south of Ailington, commencing May I and continuing hve days. The pro gramme will be characteristic of the life of the stockman. William Dcsurtt, a carpenter, was instantly killed at Albina, while cros sing between a traiu of cars. He climbed upoa the coup'inz all right. and was just about to jump, when the engine gave the cars a sudden jera and the unfortunate man was hurled to the ground, his head falling directly across ine rail, several cars passed over his head, mangling it frightfully and iu any severing it Irom the body. A strnnger went to the ranch of Dan Col well on Lost river, and borrowed a wagon and team, st.Uing tint he wished to take a sick woman to Link- ville for medical treatment. As he did not return the following day it was ascertained that he had absconded. monopolizing the borrowed property. A telegram from Yreka, Cal., announ ced that he had been arrested at that place. The work of rait-ing the su .ken steamer Benlley at Salem has been abandoned, an emergency having arisen which renders her successful withdrawal from her position for the present impracticable. The action of the current and the position of the boat have caused the formation of a sandbar just below her. Her machin ery will be taken out, and next sum mer when the water is low an effort will be made to raise the boat by jackscrews. Special Timber Agent Bernhardt stales that while inspecting timber lands in Tillamook county he saw many acres of blackened stumps. He was told by an old settler that on account of a quarrel between two men twenty-five years ago, about some rails which one had cut and the other claimed were split too small, the rails were set on fire and they set the forest on fire, and the outcome was that 144 (quare miles or four townsh'ps of timber were destroyed. Fire broke out at Arlington in Ral- b ton's building, and before anything could be done the names rose beyond control. The fire then caught D. S Sprinkles & Co's store building and burned the whole block, inclnding the Arlington Timet building, a restaurant, J. L. Adams' vacant building, the building of M. C. Harris, J. E. lias kins' old blackemilh shop and the county jail. In the meantime it had spread to the opposite side of the street and had burned Kirby a hall, J. B Woode' furniture and provision store, a building owned by M. V. Harrison and Condon fe Cornish's bank. The latter was brick aijd waa not totally destroyed. Here the fire was stopped by Mr. Harrison's brick. Tbe loss is estimated at S.jO,OUU, and is a severe blow to that prosperous village. Tbe pie of the season: Honor the pumpkin vine I Long may Rs tendrils twtna Over the land I Blessed he those who wear Crisp hayseed in their hair Glorious band t ' Minneapolis Tribune. It is the father of a precocious two-and-a-half-years-old who tells that the child was once watching a lady make her toilet. The old lady had re moved her false hair and false teeth when the astonished small boy saidt "Bet yer can't take yer neck off." San Francxsto Chronicle. A GOODLY HERITAGE. Vf fay oars la aa Kiwiilliifl; pleasant Tlmi to la. There hasbeen a vast increase In cen tenarians of late. Formerly a person who reached the age of one hundred years was a rare curiosity; now ther is hardly a county in the country that can not boast its centenarian. An eminent German physiologist main tains that there Is really a hundred yeai-s' wear In every healthy human organism, and that all persons who di before their first century is completed fill untimely graves. According to this theory (which we will not stop to examine too closely), every person who dies before ho reaches the centen nial mile-post tempts his fate by rough and improper usage, and unnecessary wear and tear. But, at any rate, the longevity of th race is undoubtedly being very rapidly Increased by the inereasod conformity to hygietiio laws, and by modern ap pliances of comfort and cleanliness. It has been too much the hab:t of old men to glorify the hardihood of the men of their youth, and the sturdy de velopment which they imagined re sulted from the constant battle waged with hardships and discomforts. They boast of the feat of sitting through long, nineteenthly sermons In undented churches iii the depth of winter, and of going out Into the snow barefooted in their early childhood, and climbing up to bed Into a rickety garret from a ladder on the outside. They love to boast of the stalwart men. "developed from those children who slept directly under A roof that failed to stop tht now. But the delusion that exposure makes people more hardy is passing away. The poet Whittier, in a recent interview, said that his constitution was under mined early in life by these early expo sures. The biographers of Lincoln speak emphatically about the mortality and diseases which tvsulted from the exposures and hardships of the early pioneers of Illinois. Rheumatism, the Inevitable penalty of exposure, and tha varied diseases developed by its weak ening effects on the system brought many naturally strong men to their death on the wrong side of the fifty mile-stone. To-day a business or pro fessional man is considered in his zenith at fity, in vigorous working trim at sixty, ajd many hesitate to yield up the active duties of life at seventy -fire or eighty. This increased vigor and longevity is doubtless dua to the "increased com forts of life, shorter hours of labor, a better knowledge of the laws of health and (though we know our elderly read ers w ill vigorously, jd?nt) to a higher piane nj.-v nm correct living. of to-day do not worry non-essspntials. They 1uch superstitious reverence fhlv forsigfa and omens, no dread of the supernatural terrors of ghosts and witches, no helpless anxiety alxxtt hope less and unsolvable theological prob lems, no such bitter partisan rancor in politics. Though the activities of life re increased there is not so much fric tion. Peopla are more tolerant and less disagreeable in their convictions. There is more coler to life, more at mosphere, a greater diversity of amuse ment and greater opportunities of self- enterlainment. Benjamin Franklin used to mourn because he was not born farther ahead in the future, that he might become a contemporary witness of the inevit able improvements and progress of the race. No such wish is justifiable for a ci.'zen of the present age. In short the conviction must be forced home upon every man ho stops to consider the subject, that we are in a better age than has ever preceded it. Our lines are cast in pleasant places. We have A goodly heritage. Yaniee Blad. Lost Rivers of Idaho. One of the most singular features in the scenery of the Territory of Idaho Is the occurrence of nark, rocky chasms. into which large streams and creeks suddenly disappear, and are never more seen. These fissures are old lava chan nels, produced by the outside of the molten mass cooling and forming a tube, which, on the fiery stream becom ing exhausted, has been left empty. while the roof of the lava duct, hav ing at some point fallen in, presents there the opening Into which the river plunges and is lost. At one place along the banks of the Snake, one of these rivers reappears gushing from a cleft high up in the basaltic walls, where it leaps a cataract into tho torrent below. Where this stream has its origin, or at what point it is swallowed up. is utterly unknown, though it Is believed that its sources are a long way up iu the north country. Go den Days. A short cofieo crop is reported. It Is to be hoped, in the interest of suffer ing humanity, that there will be enough of t!ic berry in the market to supply those gentlemen suffering from the col- fen habit who arc nnable to sit through a thaatrical performance without run iiinr out throu or four times iu search of sustenance. - m m The German system for pension ing workmen in their old age will cause a tax of three marks per year on all. estimated at 7,257,000 marks. This will give a State credit of about twenty two million marks. Workmen over fifty years of age when the bill shall have passed wil.' be excluded. x he largest tug in the world as is claimed, has just been launched at Bath (Me.) shipyard for the Knicker bocker Tower Company. It is called the ts. W. Alorse, is 100 feet long, has a Scotch compound engine of 1,200-horse power, aud is of 200 tons. - One particular snake has made himself famous. While the molds at the Sergeant factory in this city were resting in, readiness to receive the molten iron for stove doors, a snake crawled in at the opening, supposing mar ne was going into a good hiding- place. . In due time the hot metal was poured in. When ' the molds were opened there was the snake in iron, his serpentine form standing out In bold relief on the front rloor. Messrs. Ser geant will have it 'painted and keep it as a curiosity. Ureen'oro (N. 0.) Workman. - " , LAW P-OR I RAVbLCnS Deiasand Iletvatloa. For Which Damage. May II CollmtaiL We can all recollect occasions when we have sworn eternal vengeance against some railway company for landing us at our destination an hour or two late, or tor stopping us at a little wayside station through a dreary cycle of time. Wo forget all affbut It after a good square mtal. There are many occasions, doubtloss. when the company would be liable to us for nominal damages for failing to carry us according to the time-table; for the publication of a time-table is a public profession to carry you accord ing to Its terms. 4 Each. 3C7. But it Is seldom that a passenger can recover more than nominal damages and it is not every case which will warrant the giving of nominal dam-ag'-s for the publication of a time table is not an unconditional engage ment to have the trains arrive and depart precisely at the appointed moment. bi N. IL 695. If you have purchased a ticket bv steamer sailing at an appointed time, and it fails to carry you, your items of damage would be the price of ycur ticket provided you have paid In ad vance the expense of waiting for another vessel U sail, and the price of your ticket on tbe other vessel. It Is paying you to ride, and giving you food and lodging In the bargain. 1 Abb. Adm. It 80. And so, if a passenger is taken sick during a detention, it is said to hc properfor him to receive his expenses in the meanwhile. And also the expenses of the illness, both during the detention and following it 28 N. Y. 217. More explicity. the legitimate items of damage are the expenses to which you are directly or Indirectly put, and the value of the time you directly or in directly lose by reason of a detention which is the result of the em ier'a breach of duty or negligence. For a detention resulting otherwise you are not entitled to any damages. Id. For no company Is responsible for a want of punctuality not attributable to iu negligence 53 N. IL 696. If lost time is an Item of damage, you can not collect a fAncy price which you may set upon your time; but its value must be proved, with reasonable cer tainty, aa we shall sea when we come to the qiiestitn-of damages for Injuries to person 68 N. T. 391. It should go wltnout saying that you are only entitled to actual damages unless you can show that th delay or neglect to carry you as agreed is willful or malicious. 1 Cab 333. It is meant that you are not entitled to initiative or exemplary damages -something over and above the damage to you in dollars and cents. In the n!d fashioned vert aculnrit Isca'ded 'saiart money." 50 Am. Law Reg. U. S. 670. A passenger bound for California, expecting to find a osltion there to work at his trade or avocation, and who mizht be delayed A week bv fault of the ritil, could show the rate of wages earned there bv persons of the same trade; but such rate would not be eon- elusive as to the value of his week's time; he might not find employment at once, and the jury should take this uncertainty into account, 1 CaL 333. But it has been held when the claim ant offers no evidence as to the valuo of lost time, the jury is not precluded from giving him such compensation therefor as they may think reasonable. -34 How. Tr. (N. Y.)14L ii a oeiaieu passenger is arawing a regular salary, or is under engagement to enter service at stipulated wages, the urn he would have received during the lost time is the measure of his damages in that respect. 5S N. Y. 631. A partner in a mercantile hnue. whose salary is his share of the profits, nay prove the nature of his business. its extent, etc., and tne tune he was prevented from attending to it 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 425. But if loss of profits is sought, the business must be of such a nature as to allow the loss to be fixed with reasona ble ceftaintv. 58 N. Y. 391 For au ordinarv commercial business is too uncertain and dependent on the exigencies of trade to ascertain what the profit would have been had a man been carried through in time and enabled to attend to it. Id. A physician or lawyer might collect anv loss which should occur through being prevented from attending to the wants of patients or clients; but he must prove the loss with certainty. 71 111. 391. An Illinois phvsician once on a time calculated to visit a patient at tho next station, but the train failed to stop for him. He would have had to wait five or six hours for the next train, so he walked. It was held that he was not entitled to damages for the injury to his health which resulted. Id Tho journey was not the necessary result of his being left on the train, but was a risk he incurred himself. He recovered only nominal damages. Id. M. T. Dly, in A. B. C. Pathfinder Guide. The Queen Regent of Spain has addressed a letter to Mrs. Cleveland asking her for her photograph. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland re ceives 16.000 lor her two years' serv ices and the use of her name at the head of Mrs. Reed's school in New York. She is also doing some literary and magazine work. Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is an unobtrusive hotel guest. He edges up to the desk. and. if Any one is ahead of him, he steps aside and waits. He writes his name in a neat, plain band, and goes at once to hie room. Pope Leo has conferred upon Mr. Charles L. Webster, the New York publisher, the decoration which is worn by the Knights of the Order of Pius DL, In recognition of his services in bring ing out the "Life of Leo XIH." The Order of Pius DC is the highest order of knighthood under the Roman Em pire. --A correspondent recently saw in the library of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson the original manuscript of her novel, Vashtk" It was entirely In her handwriting. And was,as clear and neat ab a freshly printedpare. This is te manuscript for which M. . received 115,000, and it is key . .nrAtAiTMl in a nASA nf heMi'T - THE COLONEL'S TRIAL. n Didn't Want to Haar Mlraada Talk Hat Sta. Wouldn't Hash. One of the most annoylu? faults of the hired "colorod laly" Is her persist ent disposition to talk about IRe affairs of bur own family. Sometimes, despite every attempt at dlsc.ntir.tgeni -nt, she 111 begin A story, of which her brother s tlin hut-o. and keeu it uo until na- ience Is gray-haired with aire. M i- rlnda Napoleon, a likolv colored woman, applied to Colonel Wetheral for a position of trust in his family. She began to tell him of her honasty. ili.it makes no difference." said the Colonel. ! don't care whether vou are honest or not, and you may be reasonably negligent in the discharge of your duties, but there M on thing 1 wish to impress upon yo ir mind." " hat s dat. Colonel? 'case I can do any thing." "I do not wish yon to take me Into your confidence and tell me about your lit mi ly. i Hon t want to hear a word About your mother and father." "I tin erstan Is. sab." "I will p.ty you extra to keep your mouth shuL Speak when you are spoken to. and then merely answer questions." Why, sail, dis Is de place d.tt Tse been look in fo' all dese rears. 1 spies folks dat U alius wantin er pus- son ter tain dem wld conwersation. caseer body gita tired. Now, dar's my sister Jieie. she's de udder way. All "But you are not to speak of your family." "Dat's de pinL sah. dat's de pint I warked but yi ar f r Misses Simson, an' de olks kep' me er talkin' all de time, an mu ld-r she tell me not ter pay no 'tentioi; ter de folk?." "Never mind all that I don't wish to hear anything of vour mother. 1 don't want you to mention your family bile you are in this house." "'Cose yerdocau't. sah; an I doesn't blame yer talL De laa word my brud der Hen r- said ter me 'fore I lef dis mawnin' wus gibbn me 'vice how ter please der whit folks. Henery he's er favnrit all down in our neighborhood. Worked for old man Dosniukee three ears, 'an would t't er quit den 'ceul de ole man died an' ertiuder nussoo tuck de place. Henry's de fines' han' wld horses yer ever seed. Dat clay- bank boss o Mr. Anderson's, mhw onldii't let nobody go in de stable " "Say. M.tiioila, you "It's jes' like I tell yer. Dar wan'l a blessed aottl on de place dat could d-- niitbin a id d tt hos. an Henry ' "Listen to me. I tell you!" "Yes. sah. What was yer 'bout tt observe?"' I told you that I wanted to hear nothing about J-our family. I set though, that vou are like all the others G w ' "Yes, but Henry he tuk a blin" bridle " "Stop!" "Didn't vertell me ter go on?" "Yes. I tell you to go away fro.i hi re. I don't want you." "Whut yer 'groe ter hire me fur. den! Ain't my s'cioty pleasin ter yer?" "Ton can t keep your mouth shut. and I don't want you. Now go." "Yt by, yer s de curiest pusson 1 neb It seed. Doau' kere ter stay heah. 'case yer's sorter 'common folks, no how. I au 2lal I refused ver ofler ter hire me. Good mawnin. sah." Ovie Read, in Texai Siling . STORMS AND RAILS. Haw Rala Appvara to Follow tka Laylm of Kallroatf Track. A singular theory has been promul gated in Mexico concerning an Alleges' relation between Ihe steel rails of rail ways and the prevalence of storms. The northern section of the Mexicar Central road has been seriously dam aged by washouts, and people who obj served the phenomena express the opin ion that the waterspouts which burs' on the track were attracted bv the rails and the Iclegraph wire. An elec tric current, ihey sav. runs alonsr the track, which makes a convenient Av enue for storms. This would appear to be a somewhat fanciful conjecture, but the engineers engaged in building the Guadalajara branch of the Mexican Central railroad offer testimony which gives it at least n air of plausibility. They state that as lost as the construction advances rain follows, and thuy believe It is due to tha large quantity of steel rail on flat cars which are carried forward as fast as tho work permits. The count ry, ac cording to their rep rt, is dry in ad vance of the construction trains, and also behind them far many miles, but in a circle of a few miles in diameter, having its center at the p unt where the steel rails are, the rain comes down in torrents. It apjHsars that enough Importance is attached to these -theories to induce scientific men to make them a subject of study. We do not, however, antici pate any immediate practical results of great value. With all the skill and knowledge which the Government can brinff to bear, it has not yet succeeded even in predicting storms with such certainty as would lie desirable, and when it comes to producing or prevent ing them, we shall probably have to wait bo rue time before the matter as. .unies the character of an exact sci ence. Safety Valve. m m Instantaneous Photography. Instantaneous p'totoffrai-hy is no longer tt qu"8tion to be dctT.niiid by ttudy and experiment, but has as- umo.l the place of an Accomplished and familiar fact O io of most Inter sting achievements in this direction, as described in a L oidon p:iper, or gr unted in tho question as to whether he upper part of the wheel ot a vehi cle alien in mo ion travels faster than tha f.iw.-r part In determining this ma tier by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an oni'ileus en route, and ia this photo grap while the lower eada of the spokes tmiK.diately alj tcat to J he ground are not perceptibly unshap enod by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion corresponding to about ten degrees. The photograph i t this case most suc cessfully expressca the Tact thai the - k,. t r.nreseivfri in rapid motion . -t THE SICK HORSE WON. A lxnc-M.lr.d Ketoraakaa's Ia.traatlr. Kip.rleura wlih Two Stranger. Say." said a long-haired man wear ing one toot apd one shoe as he ap proached the wagon while we were camped on the edge of Sidney. Neb., "you fullers ain't got no runuin' stock with you. 1 reckon?" "No." "I Mowed they didn't look hat way. But. then, you can't tell nothin' by looks. Hosses." and here be made a long pauso And appeared to be count ing the sjMikes in the wheel; "hosses is peculiar critters." "How's that?" "W'y, 'bout a month ago Just such a look! u' crowd as you be come along with a couple of old hosses an' a cov ered wagon. You know. Bill Simmons has got a runnin' hoss. Well. Bill hap pened to mosey 'round where tbey was camped, an he looks at their poorest hoss ait kinder grins inwardly an' keejrs down a laugh by tryin mighty hard, an' says he: 'Stranger, that air hoss o' your'n looks 'b If be might have some speed In him?' 'Ya-es,' says the man, sorter sleepy and careless like; he runs some. 'Y ever put hiiu on the track? -asks Bill. Somofimes. Ciou-h he's gettin' p-etty old. says the man. 'Would you mind havin' a little race with an old horse o' miner goes on Bill. "I'm 'greeable, says the man. So they wen over to the track, an' all the rest of us went 'long, o' course. Bill's hoss come on So he couldn't hardly hold him, head up an' rtotith open. The strange boss looked kinder sneakin an stood "round with one for'ard leg bent an' its head down eatin' grass. I knowed Bill's hoss was goin to beat, an most ey'rylxvly else did. We bet all we could, though there wa'n't nobody to bet with cqt the stranger's partner, an' he didn't seem overly 'u' above anxious, though he did take a few bets an' kinder 'polo gized by savin their old hoss could ran once, though it was hard to tell what he would do that day. I'm darned If he wasn't right, too." "How waa he tight?" "Wy. it was hard to tell what he would do that day. Old Captain Bings ley started "cm. an Bill's bors led right off. The stranger pounded 'way on the ribs o his'n. but he couldn't git no motion on to him. Bill came in 'way ahead, an' I'm a liar if we didn't see the strange hoss nippin at the grass 'long the track as he come down the home-stretch. "vt ell, the stranger looked g;oomy. an' set on his hoss an let him .cat 'tween the heats it 'as to be the best two in three. But his partner, who was doing the bettin", acted a sight difl rent. He got hopnin' mad, an' aid he'd bet anyhow if he did lose. We heered the m.i what rod ? the hoss tellin" hi'.n not to do it, cos' Bill's boss were better than they thought, but he said he did. i't give A durn, he'd bet .xnyhow. So we all bt with him. givin nun big oiios. so his money would go fnrder an' we all could have a whack at IL. tsitf ne peareu to have an uncom mon pile of it. an kep' pullin' it ont an' takin. ev'ry bet offered. Til be snaked if be didn't have more'n the whole crowd. After awhile Jhey got ready to start again. Th stranger hadn't been off bis hoss at all. but had set there chewin terbacker an look in' sick. I got ten dollars more to bet on our hirjs, . says the man. but nobody had another cent. Jes then they started; same old story Bill's hoss takin' long jumps an' the other kinder bobbin' uo'n' down an' aclin's if it hurt him. Til bet you my watch agin yer ten dollars, says L 'Shove her up. says he. I turned round an done so an looked back jes' in time to see the t ranger kinder lean over and whoop at bis boss bout the time thev was half way 'round the track, an' Til be gol durned if I ever seed any thing like it in my born days. Run! Great jump in' Jupiter! Run ain't no name for it. That boss jes' humped down his back and reached out an doubled up, an reached out an' doubled up! Bill said afterwards that he didn't know nothin 'bout when he passed him an s' posed all the time he was ahead till be met the other comin back jes' 'fore he went under the wire! FacL I tell vou! They rested awhile an then run the other heat. This time the strange 1ioss jes' went off in what 'poured to be an easy gallop, an kep 'boot a rod ahead o Bill all the way. throwin' dust in his face an 'casionally kickin back at bim kinder tunny iike. But, you bet. we didn't see nothin funny 'bout It. We was the sickest crowd von ever seen. Kv'ry cent gone an' a circus comin' in 'bout a week! An' one of em had my watch swelliu' 'round with it stickin' in his boot-leg! Sick! Well, stranjrer. we was too sick to stick out our tongues! Them fel'ers hooked right up an pulled out o' town with that cujse l runnin' hoss droopin down his head an nippin at the fire-weed 'long the side o the road. They didn't jit none too soon, neither; we was jes join over to lynch em. J hat s why I came over to ask "you feller 'bout this btis'ncss. The lioys said thev would git he rope ready while I came over, an if you said you had a hoss that wa'n't -.10 runner, but still you would run it. -.v'y we 'lowed we'd string you up over on that big tree with the crooked limb. It 'pears that the best time fer such vind o exercises is 'fore the race an not ai'ier you go 'way with yourw agon '.Hix stuffed out with our money till it ike to split. F. IL Carrulh, in Chicago JiumaL Tutor "Tommy, what is the chief haractcristic of the hippopotamus?" Tommy (who likes to go the Zh) "Ha dwavs baa his mouth wide ucn for peanuts. " tvrfejiJ .Vf. .rrui.Oiiket x w. pounds ot raisins. three cups of molasses, three eggs. two-thirds of a cup of butter, seven cups of flour, one tablespoonful of soda, spices to taste, citron and cur rants if desired. Boston Budget Many well-known weeds, though unfit for food when matnred, are high ly valued as greens when younz. , The poke weed haa been used in some sec tions lor years, yet Ita berries Are poisonous. It is ncw claimed that the common purslnina is ex lent when tot as irreens. India Mlii Journal. J WOULDN'T INTERFERE. A llnther-la-law Who Knows How ts Korp Hr Tones from Waa-glnsv "No," said old Mrs. Dragon, who had ust arrived for her Tisit at the h.me of Cf her newly acquired son-in-law, Chauncy lireene, "No. I don t believe in mothcrs- in-!aw interfering in the affairs of their married children. I've always said that I never would, and I why, Hattie Breene, you ain't using your best silver ware every day, I hope." "ies, mamma. Chauncy likes IL" "O. be does; well, it makes an awful sight of work scouring it, and yoa know you Ain't extra strong. But, aa 1 was saying. J don't believe, in Uattie. I hope you don't try to keep that baby dressed in white all the timeP' "Yes, ma nma dear; Caaunev dislikes colors on a baby." "O, well. I suppose the child must - . wear white, then; but it most make your wash bills awful heavy. How ever, as I was saying Chnncy, if I was you Td speak to the butcher about leaving so much fat on the steak." Chauncy likes it that way, mamma." "O. does he? Well, he'd better learn not to like H; it's oTTfiikUhy. You oughtn't to put sugar in tomatoes. Uattie; they're healthier withoauaaai "But mamma, Chauncy " "O, if he like them so. of course it' no, ahair of mine. Bat I won't eat them that way. Seems to me I smell tobacco urn ike. "I guess it's Chaancys cigar smoke. mamma. He doesn't smoke in the honeT "Why. yes, he he does mamma. "Mercy on us! I wonder the baby lives through it. B it, of course, it's his own house and Cjaancy don't yoa tbink Uattie looks thin and nale? I noticed soon as I saw her. Hattie. yon make your coffee entirely too strong." "Cfcauney, likes it so, and " "That's just what makes bis color so bad ami vou know very well that yoa oughtn't to touch it. Ciiaaner. thai baby mustn't wear spring he-Is yen ril change thee boots yjjabrougfft home this eveoing. And xoj and lltrtia make a mistake i feeding the child aa you do. Til see to it's diet hereafter; and I think I must speak to yonr pro vision man about the meat and pota toes. And I think. Uattie. that yonr servant needs a little looking after. And. Chauncy, Fm afraid yoa burn too much gas. and Fm sure the furnace, wastes co.tL If I can find a good car penter around here I'd like to chang some of these, doors. I don't believe in meddling mothers-in-law. but it's A real help sometimes to bare a little ad vice, is i't iL children?" Zenas Dane, in Detroit Free Press. MISERY UNSPEAKABLE. A GliBnp a the Sqaalor aadt Want 4 Tenement Haa Inmate a. O ii -half the world does not know how the o; her ha' f lives. It iJIJl,o '- saw and pi ifully true. ..Pr-rrap tt the f fortunate ha'L In tlrft--comfortaba homes, could know of tEe d'sco.i.fort , and misery endured by tbe other halt their own petty inconveniences would , grow in their hearts, bearing fruit ia eff rts to help the less fortunate. W, Through tbe p orer quarters of New York last summer, during the heated "f term that we all thought so hard to bear, thousands of people walked the - streets or lakl upon the door-steps, be cause of the foul and suffocating air in the crowded tenemen'-houses. And in those stifling tenement-houses the cries of sick children, perishing for." pure air and strengthening food, were heard all through the day and night. Poor, tired women, tbe papers said. who worked hard all day. paced tbe streets nightly, carrying their babes to give them a breath of fresh air. Ia one house, where lived seventy-s.x families, fifty-six children died in a very short time from disease. rnr feeding and the effects of heat. Under the terrible conditions of life in large, ' crowded tenements. It can only be the strongest children who survive, and the sufferings undergone last summer by all tbf inmates havsba-'a beyond description. - Idleness, vice of all kinds, ignorance. and drunkenness help to make a stats) of squalor and wretchedness that no one without seeing could believe ex isted. Bitter no homes than bone like . these, some will say. but what does it mean to have no home? It means, as hundreds know, hnunting dorks and markets to buy a few cents worth 1 1 stale food or begging unsalable refuse. ' t when even the few cents can not b spared, and stealing room to sleep be hind boxes and nnder benches, re mo to from the drea'el policemen whoso business it is to tell such vagrants to move on. V hen cold ami stormy weather comes and these refuges are unavailable, there are dirty, fooi smelling. rooms whose sides ar lined with "bunks" or shelves, and by the payment of five c nts a man. or worn an, can ocenpy one for a night After food for the day has been bought A va grant's pocket seldom holds five cent. but two cents will purch.tsa the r vt- lejre of layinjr the wearv, homeless body on tbe bare floor, with often many others a the floor can Accom modate. And if even the two cents are not forthcoming? Then, no matter how low the mercury falls, there are the staeels to pace to keep from freez ing, till the tired feet ran Lear it no longer, and the wearied frame is forced to hide itself in ihe mo-t shelter corner, with Ihe winter wind for a iniiaoy anu peiuaps tue snow ior blanket. Th?re is no pleasure" in dwelling upon the details of wretched lives and squalid homes, but we who live in com fort should know of the miseries of others, not only by way of learning to be thankful for our own greater b'ess ings, but that we may fe-l inspired to give from the store that ha.s been given us for the relief of the destitute who are .as much children of God as we ava. Several of the French railway companies and other public bodies have resolved on having their pri g lone i n green instead of white pp.''" The reason for the alteration ia i - " they believe the combination of wL paper with black characters endaage. -. ;he eyesight of their work-peoplew Black on green has always been reco- J ilxad as a gxl comUaaf -nany railway tickets &r ". PaMwt Omnium. r - i i SV- .