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LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1888.
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Opp R rere House, ALBANY. OREGON. I
St. Charles Hotel,
LEBANON. Oregon.
K. W. Corner Main and Sherman Street., two Blocks
a.t of K K. Depot.
T. C. PEEBLER & CO. Prop.
Tables Supplied with the Best the Market
Alio: as.
Sample Boomi and the Trt Accommodations foi
Commercial men.
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CONFECTIONERY
'Qaeensware and Glassware,
Lamps and Lamp Fixtures
Main St, Lebanon. Oregon.
ST. JOHN'S HOTEL
Sweethome, Oregon,
JOHN T. DAVIS, Proprietor
The table is supplied with the very best the
market affords.
Nice clean beds, and satisfaction guaranteed
to all guests.
In councctlon with the above house
JOILN DOXACA
TKeeps a Feed and Sale Stable, and will :
accommodate tourihts and travelers with
t arns, guides and outfits.
BU3KHART & BILYEU,
Proprietors of the
Llyery, Sale aafl Feal StaUIes
LEBAXOX, OR,
Southeast Corner of Main and Sherman.
Fine Buggies, Hacks, Har
ness and
GOOD RELIABLE HORSES
For parties going to Erownsville, Wa
terloo, Sweet Home, Scio, and all
parts of Linn County.
All kinds of Teaming
DONE AT
REASONABLE RATES.
JAY GOULD'S SISTER. '
She Teaehee School, -and Hi Old Sweet-
r heart Kr.pa Boarder.
The luild-looking, rather petite,- Lm
dignified, woman, lust passing, mint
have been, quite pretty in her youth.
though she never probably could have
been called handsome. There is a cer
tain something, however,, about her- a
sweetness in her looks and manner
that Is more charming in t woman of
hr years, than any remainaof physical
beauty would be, She is very siru;d
attired in blaek, .and a black bound
modestly covers her silvery-pray hair.
Y ho is she?
She is Jay Gould's sister. She has
come over from her home !n Camdm
i "quiet little town "acru'S thu river to
tin some shopping, proba;iy . One
often meets her in the busy streets hu
as her identity is known to lew, she
ecaps Ihe.oarUnST and -snirant t!ia'
bue is nut rich, bvany means. Intlm-d.
iside frotn a nu)uerate allowance that
h'? sneeulatiiis UroMH makes her.
he derives her living from a school f-i
STirls thtt her dansrhters conduct. The
school, it is said, is an excellent one.
and. G nld-!ike. it jr -ts the cream ol
the h.isincss in Soath Jersey.
The school house was erected nt Ja
.tiotlM's CXp-llSC. Jay knew that
iter had not married well from r.
financial ' point of view, and that l.ei
daughters were struggling for a livinir
but he was too buy piling up hi-3 mill
ions t' rive the ntatter much persona'
attention. But his wile had her eye on
the g'rl. and she was so pleased with
her earnestness that she brought tin
matter to the attention of her husband
and insisted on his building the girls a
school." G uild did not object, and.
now that his attention was uireclcu to
the matter, he save orders that no cx-
;ene should be spared in making the
building a model one in every respeer.
He himself takes as much pride in it
and in the success of the nieces as any
one whenever he permits hinise'f the
luxury ol live minutes tiiong'it on a
subject so far renoved from stocks and
bond. His sister and the crls were
pending, part of the summer uj ai
Piattsburjr. N. Y., with Jav Gould's
lirst love, who keeps a boarding house
n; there. She is elderly and gray
haired now, and is not strikingly haul
some, but in her day she was blithesome
and pretty. She was the daughter o!
a countrv store-keeper. Jay Gould-
after leaving his father's farm, went t
work in the store and promptly fell in
love with the rosy-checked maiden.
IV.it the old man had much highet
views ol his dangluer s future than a
narriage with a voting man in his own
shop would realize. He not r.nly gavt
young lioaia to understand that s
niarriaje was out of the question, but
dispensed wit'a his services as well
J.iv ttok his rejection philosophically
enough and gave himself up to tlu
work of making a fortune. While he
was growing richer and richer, and
piling million on million, his old lovt
was vainly trving to battle tilh mi
fortune. II.-r father, who had plumeo
himself so proudly on the ownership o!
his "general store." failed; the hus
band whom she took after Jav Gould
had gone away brought little to her
and so at the end she endeavors tc
eke out an income bv opening hei
house to summer boarders, s.ie has
wondrous amount of philosophy in h-i
make-up and very little envv. She i
br'g'jf. good-natured and contented
with what fortune has brought or
ought one to say left her. Some ol
Jay Gould's relatives spend a few
weeks at her farm-bouse every ear.
but J.-tv himself never goes there.
Cor. Chicago Tii'iune.
UNDERGROUND WONDERS.
Subterranean t ake Connected by m Strong
Contlnnona Current,
At Zirknitz, in the Austrian Alps,
there is an intermittent lake, that is a
basin which at one season of the year
is tilled with water, at another is dried
up and cultivated by the farmers ol
the neighborhood. The imperial for
ester has just examined the construfc
tion of that basin and found in one
part of it an immense cave called Kar
lovca, which, when the surface of the
water in the basia nas readied a cer
tain height, begins sucking up the
water until the basin is empty. Thii
cave leads to a long series of' under
ground lakes, all connected witn one
another bv a continuous current. The
forester navigated the first five of them.
Immense fields of sand and gravel ac
cumulate and alternately stop the cur
rent or are carried off by it. The rool
of the caves in which this system ol
waters is located at many places comes
down very low, almost touching the
water, and in such places the moving
graved beds frequently cose the pass
age and cause the waters to l'iso in the
higher cave. The forester, with three
companions, was iu one of the lakes
when the entrance was suddenly closed
by a mass of rubbish tumbling down
from lie roof. For more than eight
ho-.irs they worked as hard as tli
could until they succeeded in opening
a passage bv the tide of the main en.
trance, which was happily still found
dry, and they were enabled to reach
z
the surface unharmed, l$ul their boat
1 tool were left behind, and will be
covered again after the water shall
have subsided. hrtsliati at Work.
Mrs. Cleveland has the reputation
of lu-innr an exceptionally good house
keeper, and Histoid that in the privacy
of her life at Oak View she will some
times don a big white apron, ami with
leather duster in hand go over tin
ho.-se putting the finishing touches U
t!i eadv wei '.-dusted corners. Mil
invades Her kitchen when she thinks it
necessary and some of her admirer
even go so far as to say that If worse
came to worse she could make a pot of
coffee or bake a pie fit for jt PresidenL
-It onght always to be borne in mind
in this dyspeptic age that not every one
can eat biscuits at night, be they hot or
cold, and a plate of bread, not neces-
sarilv fresh, should always be on the
table, that the guests may have the op-
portunity of making a choice. Uooa
Ho u8ekeeping.
Because a wife does not speak out
against some of your habits is no proof
that thej do pot nuke ber unhappy.
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.
Th Invention of a t-xllXurnla Physician fJ
Taking- Chloroform.
One of the most peculiar cases is that
of a doctor who was formerly bus ol
the finest practitioners of the West.
Coming from au excellent family, pn
sessed of large wealth, he received I
liberal education, and. tlceidinsr to
become a physician, sttidied'at one o
the best Eastern colleges, and gradu
ated with unusual honors. Many years
ago he came to San Francisco, and
after having been established here fot
a short time began to acquire a fine
practice. In a few years ho had among
Ins patients some of the most promi
nent and wealthy men of the city. 1I
hail occasion to use a largo quantity of
chloroform In his treatment, and when
lie began to be troubled with insomnia,
the result of repeated attacks of neu
ralgia, he also turned to the anesthetic
,lir relief But th reiuddy subse
quently proved to be worse than the
disease, for with repeated application!
lie found that he was unable to discon
tinue its use. and soon became a con
firmed user of the drug. Ho would
frequently return to bed during th
early part of the day for the purpose
of enjoying the drug, and not a niirhl
passed that he did not avail himself ol
its sleep-producing powers. Th cun
ningof an insane mind began to devisa
means to add to the enjoyment of the
body, and finally evolved an idea which
must be admitted to be certainly orig
inal. Obtaining a long rubber tube, which
could be easily stretched, he attached
family to the ceiling at a spot which
would be directly over his head when
in bed. To the other end he fastened
a medium sized sponge. After getting
into bed he would pour three or four
ounces of chloroform over the sponge,
often utug half a pound during the
night, and then pulling ft down to his
face would hold it to his aostrils until
uncousi-iiiusness ensued. When his
hand fell to his side, the tension on the
rubber tube being relaxed, the sponge
naturally flew upwards, leaving the
victim to continue hLs sleep without thu
possibility of receiving an overdose.
If he awoke during the night the
operation would be repeated. "It was
a great scheme," to use a slang phrase,
but it is not known if the doctor ever
applied for a patent on the invention.
It is possible, however, that the prac
tice continued until he had been a
user of the drug for some time, and so
continued until he had merely patient
enough to enable him to preserve a
proper appearance of respectability.
Although practically a slave to the drug
for years, it is sard, but with what
truth can not be readily ascertained,
that of late he has begun to see the
handwriting on the wall, and realizing
what the end must be unless the habit
is abandoned now uses the drug to but
a small ex ten L ban Francisco Chron
icle. " "
TRUTH
OF WEATHER-LORE.
The
IleTerenr-ei for Tradition Kntertalned
by trie Average .Mortal.
The persistent survival of weather-
lore in these days of intellectual eman
cipation is not at all remarkable when
we consider the extent to which the
vulgar savings embody real truths. A
few years ago Messrs. Abercrombv and
V.-rriott embarked on an extremely
interesting inquiry with a view to de
termine, by actual comparison, how far
the popular proverbs express relations,
or sequences, which the results of me
teorological science show to be real.
The investigation proved that some
thing like a hundred of the more popu
lar savings are, tinder ordinary con-
litions, trustworthy. Such being the
ease, we need not be surprised that
simple country folk prefer familiar
couplets to all the isobars," cy
clones," and 'synchronous charts." in
the world. If "hills clear, rain near,"
means the same as "the presence of a
wedge-shaped area of high pressure.
accompanied uy great atmospheric
visibility, is likely to be followed by
the advance of a disturbance with
rain and southerly winds," which
for all practical purposes it does.
the preference is justified on the mere
ground of breath economy. The thir
ty-one words demanded by science
stand no chance against four.
But it is unfortunate that, along
with the limited number of folk-saj--
ings founded on truth, there has sur
vived a very large number founded on
the grossest error. These latter have
borrowed credence and respect from
the proved credibility of the others,
and apparently they are all destined
to sink or swim together. Hammer as
we will at certain favorite proverbs
which we know to be based upon error,
it is all in vain. The reverence for
tradition is too much for us. And of
all the superstitions, pure and simple,
which defy our attempts at destruction,
the most invulnerable are those ascrib-
ng certain effects to the influence of
the moon. John Westwood Oliver, in
Popular Science Monthly.
The colored school alllawkinsville.
G.-u, to le known as the Dcmpsey
Clarke Institute, was named after
uempsey tjiarne. wno years ago was
sold as a wlave on th.i block by the
sheriff at Ilavkinsville. He ran away
from his new master, took to the
swamps and for years lived as a runa
way slave. Ho was at length captured
by dogs, but again ran away. His
owner sold him while yet in the woods.
:)empsjy was pleased with his new
inner, and became his most trusty
servant. After the war he became a
landowner, prospered, and is now one
of the mot prominent planters ol
Houston County, and his liberal gifts
have result ed in the new school.
Millionaire patron "The portrait
if. excellent, Mr. Tubes but you've
left out one essential feature." Mr.
Tubes "Excuse me, sir, but I thought
you wouldn't care to have the er er
wart reproduced." Millionaire pat
ron Confound you. sir! I'm talking
about the diamond pin, not the wartl"
hiAqt.
A gentleman, who recently retired
I from business has succeeded in wind
ing up all his affairs successfully, with
the exception of his Waterbury watch.
He is at work on that bow, taking only
twenty minutes for rasals XoeA.
NEW TORPEDO BOAT.
malt Craft Which Could Xlava
the Whole of Kelson's Pleat.
Bank
p. the Whole of Kelson's Fleet.
' The very unsatisfactory performanes
of the torpedo boats which took part
in the naval evolutions at Bearhaven
a year or two ago induced naval
architects and engineers to attompt
the construction of a new and Im
proved clas ol vessel Hcnco - the
origin of the Buouaventura-Hio new
torpedo ship has two sets of triple ex
pansion engines of a combined horse
power of 2 "OCX The vessel built en
tirely of steel, is 182 feet in extreme
longtli, 23 feet in breadth, and slightly
over 11 feet from the bane line to the
main deck. She is not a beauty; she is
what ladies would call "plain.. If her
stoel rnni wore IT she would resemble,
roughly speaking, a cylindor tapering
to a point nt either end say liko the
point of a lead pencil. Imagine the
npper.snlf.ico cl-tUi cylinder sloping
upward rery gradually for some dis
tance from stem and stern, and tho
funnel placed mid war, and you have
a rough outline of the vessel's appear
ance. The first and most obvious difference
between this torcdo boat and vessels
of her class consists In her super
structure. H.jr main deck is covered
from stem to stern by what may be de
scribed as an archway somewhat flat
tened at top, the archway, being, like
all other parts of tha boat, of steeL
O i the main deck will bo placed the
vessel's armament, consisting of six
three-pounder quick-firing guns, four
machine guns and four torpedo tubes.
The men working those, guns and
tubes will be completely sheltered by
the steel superstructure from all
enemy's sharpshooter That is the
first advantago resuliing from the plan
of completely covering the deck, from
one end to the other, by what we bare
cslled the steel archway. It will be
understood in a moment that ihe very
conformation of this superstructure
must contribute enormonslr to the
safety of the craft, even if she were
peppered furiously by an enemy's fire;
tha shot that would pierce a 11 it
surf.ici would glance off this roun 1
td surface. Let it be observed,
to that the vessel, when fully
equipped and In action, would show
no more than twelve Inches of hull
nlove tin water. Tho only portion
visible nbovo this twel -inch level
would be the steel superstructure al
ready described. Another immense
advantage of this form of construction
is this, that the torpedo boat will not
on'y "live ' in the roughest seas, i lit
dif them. In her vovage front the
Tyne to tho Thames she encountered
very rough weather, and she ltehav d,
as Captain Barclay says, splendidly.
This new boat is not a "mere tor
pedo with men upon it" a mere ma
chine f r launching torpedoes. S io
is a fighting boat a well. As a scout,
and as n f:ist cruiser after merchant
hips, sh odght, say " the experts, lo
do splendid service, and with her very
con-id Table coal capacity she can
keep the hlgn seas lor comparanveiy
long p riots. It is a striking illus
tration of the progress of naval con
struction that this small craft could
have sunk the nhole of Nelson's fleet
and escaped unhurt. London Stand
arL "MAN OVERBOARD."
A Cry Which O ity T'ioe Who Have Been
at Sea Can Comprehend.
One day, wind fresh and abeam, the
ship staggering along under topgal
lant sails the cry was heard: "M in
overboard." Those only who have
been at sea know what this means. It
has b"en written up many times but
no writing can express just what tho
cry and the fact convey. You stand
on deck and watch the ship cutting
and sheering through the boisterous
waves. You smoke the pipe of pence
and thank your lueky star that you
are not on shore, exposed to danger
from horse cats policemen, fire en-
fines and the like, but safe on board
a poo l shin with a strong breezi and
a clear sea. But look, if you please,
beyond the Ice bulwarks and picture,
if yon can, the small chance a man
would have if tossed into that churn
ing mass of fierce waves. They seem
to leap up and grasp out for a victim.
They would seize you. if they could,
and toss and buffet you about, twist
every j dnt and limb umil it ached,
and dash their mad foam across
your face until no moro free
air could fill the poor, gnsping
lungs no more free action could
be had from the tired limbs, and the
wave fiends would dash over you and
engulf you in their mad triumph.
Every sailor knows all this, whenever
he goes aloft or pursues his calling in
any par. of the ship, and so ho is caro
ful and alert, and tries for safely all
tho time. But when the running ship,
towering on tho crest of a lofiy wave,
dashes suddenly onward and down,
burying her head booms in the boiling
soft, and tears ihem out again with a
tcrriblo strain, as was the cnsn on I his
occasion, no bving thing can hold on,
and so our poor shipmate was dashed
into Ihe sea, wis struck and passed
ivjr by tho ship and was never seen
more by any living man. It occurred
instantly and was over In a second.
It was seen and the cry raised: "Man
overboard." Sailors must act prompt
ly at all times. In less time than I
can write about It life buoys wero
thrown over, tho ship hove to and a
boat was overboard manned by do
termiiud men, resolute to rocue a
shipmate if possible, Tho effort was
vain; the boat returned, was hoisted
again with difllculty and we proceeded
on our course one man less Forest
and Stream.
m e m
"How are von fueling to-day?'
asked a physician of a paralytio pa
tient "Only a little bit on the right
side, thank you," was the cheerful re
sponse. Tid'Bits.
"JJature," said a philosopher, "is
full of wise provisions." Ho doubtless
referred to potatoes, beets and other
vegetables and not to mince-pie and
welch rarebits. Life.
---First Boy -"Say! are you ' going
to school?" Second Boy "No, I ain't
I'm late." First Boy "Ain't you
afraid of catching oold here?" Second
Boy "Well, if it gets too cold I'll go
to school, and the teacher'll warm me."
Golden Days. .
TOOL.
flow the A agar Was Discovered and
Iloa
It Is Manufactured.
The principle of the augur now in
Use all over the world, is said to havi
been discovered by accident. In 1C80,
Benjamin Pugh, an Englishman, hiie
watching some boys working endeavor
iug t'o bore a hole in tho ground with n
piece of iron barrel hoop, noticed that
after the hole had been sunken some
distance into the earth, and the pliable
metal of their improvised too! had be
come heated, it twisted and carried tho
dirt up to the surface nicely, ami he
could not see why the same principle
s'lould not apply to woo I. The inveii
thivof the augur was the resu't
'Ihe screw-augur was an American in
vention, : n I .was invented about one
1 idrcd years ago by Thomas Garrett,
whoHivcdin tin vicinity of Oxford.
Chester County, Pa., where most of
thrld:tck nugurs are Still mad Most
of the bright tools are made In th East,
but one of the piiiicipal manufactories
is in Philadelphia. The old-fashioned
pod augur is still mu I in England and
Germany. .The single screw nuuris
also an American invention, nnl was
disi overed by necident by a Ph'ladel
phian. It is the only augur th-tt can
bo used to any satisfaction in very Itard
wottds where the double screw augurs
become clogged.
In.tho olden time, and until less than
fifty years ago, the feature of the
manufacture was the excellence he
could produce Inquality, anil as nearly
every thin; was made by hand, it did
not receive the beautiful polish that, at
the present day, adorns the cheaper
and inferior implements. In preference
to a polished surface, the inventor and
manufacturer of double twist augurs
made the twist blaek and unpolished.
It thus showed the handwork that had
leen put upon it, and it is still a we!'
known fact that hand-made too' nr
far superior in quality and workman
ship to all others. As manufacturing
industries increased, augurs began to
b made with a high polish and beai.ty.
but the consumer soon found they
were of inferior quality, and would in
quire for the blaek twist augur, know
ing it to be the old-fashioned, genuine
kind. m
Although every one is perfectly
familiar with this commonplace to I.
but comparatively few know the pro
cess of it manufacture. In making
aujzurs the iron which forms the main
or spiral part is welded into the stel
of wlrch the tip is made before forg
ing. Ihe bar then is put under ham
mer and forged into shape. It is then
put into "what is called a "wringing
machine" and twisted up in a r u rh
shape in'o the spiral form. aftr h h
it is passed through crimpers" giv n ;
a vnJormity of twist. The augurs are
next put through ' straighteiieri an I
r.-voled. rua ing them pei
ItC'.ly S'raight nhen they are
ready for utt'ng n the head, which
is the inost delicate operation in their
manufacture, m l rt-ou'ris the work ol
.skilled arlisi n. Thev are th n mi'-
jeeted to a "grinding out pru ess.
which consists of putting hi m through
two rub!er wheels to l ough jwdi-h the
twist. The "fitter up" th -n takes ho'd
of them and "lightf n i" or fits the head. -th
n the filers file down nnd shai en
the heads, after which tiiey pass through
the h -ni's of the polishers, wh "re they
are p dished en.l hardened ready fur
market. St jvct and L'arihvnre,
LEPROSY IN EUROPE.
The Awful Dlseaae Heiu Orailaatly Prop
agated by Chineae Emigrants.
The warning voice uttered by the
rector of Greatham, as to the spread of
j leprosy, brings us lace to laee with a
i terrible danger, as little understood or
j experienced by Englishmen as is tho
i black death or sweating sickness. To
i most of us leprosy is happily only a
I name, associated mainly wit'i Serip
j tural incidents which seem scarcely
more
remote from ourselves than the
! .Ianan ilo.,11 V llinl-a r... n l, n ll,1ltil
! that til's malady, one of the most hid-
eous that afflicts mankind, is actually
among us nt this moment, mat its tend
ency is to keep a firm foothold wher
ever it shows itself, and that it is con
stantly widening the area of its dread
ful influence.
According to Archdeacon Wright the
disease is being spread all over th
world by Chinese emigrants. They
have carried it to California, New
Brunswick, the Cape of Good IIopo
tin. I the Sandwich Islands, where it was
previously unknown; and either they
have brought it into Europe themselves
or it -has been brought by Europeans
who have boon in contact with them.
All the specialists in skin disease in
Paris are said to have lepers among
their patients soldiers, sailors, mer
clrants, sisters of charity, missionaries
and others. Epidemics of leprosy have
'.roken out in more than one of the
provinces of Spain, the disease having
been brought home by sailors. There
Jie lepers in the hospitals of London.
Dublin and Glasgow, and Archdeacon
Wright mentions, on authority ho dis
not doubt, that a tdiort time ago there
ivas a case of leprosy in an English vil
lage. In fact, the two points to be
borne in mind are themselves suffi
ciently suggestive of grounds for
alarm, the first being that tho disease
itself has of late years increased in ac
tivity, and the second that, in moro or
less degree, it is to be found all over
ihe world. Any accidental circum
stance which might develop its viru
leneo would nt once if odueo a world
wide epidemic. The train is laid fcnd
needs only to be fireiL
Senator Bate, of Tefliiessce, was a
Confederate officer, and one of his
peculiarities is the carrying of an un
lighled cigar in his mouth. It is n--lated
of him that he was standing on a
field of battle in conversation w ith his
brother, and as ho was in tho act of
lighting a cigar his brother foil dead at
his feet, picked off by a Federal sharp
shooter. Since that time it is said that
General Bate has never lighted a cigar.
Mrs Mulligan, pension agent at
Chicago, reports 86,509 pensioners on
her rolls, of which number two are
widows of soldiers of the revolution.
thirty-five survivers of the war of 1812
and 452 widows of veterans ol that war
Last year she dispersed nearly t700V
000,
AN INDISPENSABLE
FOREST GUARDS.
Poorly-Pald But Knthnalaatle Servants of
Kuropean tiotrernmenta.
The forest guards, both of France
nnd Germany, a sort of half-military
public servants, of a description un
known in this country, where the ptib-
.,,,t-t,l,uto ll,l,i.lc., .1,n:a. .. -
I he European forest guards are mostly J
,1.1 a.tlrlio,.o -Iw. A .... lit?!... I . .... I
. i a.fiuii.in, nun u i , . rv 1 1 re
called to military service in case of war.
They do not take care ot the trees;
that work is performed by the forest
ers, who belong to the civil, not the
military, service. They simply act as
a -nrt oi ponce xor uie pui.iic woous.
The forest guards of trance are a j
remarKiiuie iiouy oi men. in order to
qualify themselves for the service, they
have to spend two years in study at tho
forestry school at Nancy, and their pay,
efter they are sent to their posts in the
forests, is ouly 8 francs-t-tlflii-L-- )
year. The -foresters are much better
paid, and. hare, besides the privilege
of cutting all the' wood they need for
fuel, nnd of cultivating one "acre of
land. '
Each forest guard lias a certain dis
trict which he looks after, and rSissahl
that, so familiar do they become with
the ground, and so accurately do they
know the aspect of the trees they at
once mist a limb that has been cut
awav.
"This love of the forest" said an old
guard, "is a sort of fever; it comes
over you little by little, but it comes
fast, and when it has once got you there
is no getting over it It doesn't make
any difference about the wages or the
hard life. You hat got to lead it .
Several old fortt guards in the
French service have declined promo
tions which would take them away
from the frontier, so eager are they to
do good service as scouts and guides if
a war should break out. They are, for
the most part the bravest of men.
An old guard was attacked one day
by a wschcr, who. setting traps in the
woods, heard the guard coming, lay in
wait for him. tripping him up, and
leaped upon him. The poacher was
of gigantic stature, and succeeded in !
overjowering the guard. Seizing him ;
firmly, the ioacher put bis knife to the
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old guard's throat.
"Swear to me," Said the poacher,
"that you will not inform against me,
or you are a dead man."
"If I am a dead man," said the
guard, "I shall not inform against you.
But if you do not kill me I shall cer
tainly bring you to triaL"
The poacher, taken aback by the
man's extraordinary coolness, and
ashamed of his threat, let his knife
Srop to the ground and took to flight.
The guard 'was as good as his word
He informed against the poacher, who
afterward, however, settled down to an
honest life, and told the story of the
guard's brave response to his threat
Hie guard himself bad never related
his own defiant speech. Cor. Chicago
A'eH-s.
THE WOMAN HE MARRIED.
Marriage the Pivot oa Which n Man's Iee-
tlojr Turns.
The pivot on which a man's destiny
turns, either for good or for evil, for
happiness or for misery, is marriage.
If you live to see the end of his life, he
will perhaps confess to you or per
haps lie will not, but he will know it
all the same he will tell you that the
magnet which first attracied him, and
then guided him with a master hand
either to the one or to the other, was
the Woman he Married.
I remember many years ago hearing
of the death-bed of a very distinguished
man, a General whose military career
had !een so brilliant and so invariably
fortunate that the world looked upon
him as a perfectly happy man. He had
earned his honors he had served his
country well, and he knew on his death
bed that he had done his duty. His
Queen had rewarded him, and his hon
ors had fallen thick and fast upon him,
yet what were his last words?
As he gave the friend who was with
him the last clasp of his hand, and the
last look of his dying eyes to that
friend's intense astonishment he said :
"I thank God that my miserable life is
ended." There was one in his regi
ment who had known him from boy
hood, had been educated with
him, had served under him. and
was supposed to know every thing
about his past life; to this man the
friend who heard the dying words ap
pealed. "How could he have been mis
erable? Did yon ever suspect that his
life was not one series of triumphs and
perfect contentment? Flattered, fol
lowed, praised and envied, how could
he have been miserable?'' "To the
outward world," was the answer,' "he
appeared all you say, but there was an
inner life that no one saw, and few
knew of. That life was blighted and
its happiness wrecked, his affections
chilled and his temper soured by the
woman he married. She was cold, un
sympathetic and selfish. Two years
after she had accompanied him to In
dia she declared the climate tlidn't
agree with her, and she came home.
She professed openly that she would
go her own way, and he might go his.
She spent his money, she kept him a
poor man all his life, and she broke his
heart. That is his story, but he never
told it, and if the near approach of
death had not wrenched it from him,
you would never have known the state
of mind in which he went to his well
earned rest." London Queen.
m .
A ruooer ball, two inches smaller
than the pipe, was placed in one end of
a new natural gas main in MeKeesport,
and five pounds pressure suddenly
turned on. The ball turned several
sharp corners passed through two T
joints up six feet to the top of the regu
lator .'.id landed at the other end of
the main, a mile distant, in forty-five
ieoonds, actual time.
Got "UsedT to Him.
Happy Man (to widow of three hus
bands) Whom shall I ask to perform
the cereniouy, darling? That matter,
of course, I shall leave to you.
Widow (hesitatingly) Welt dear, 1
haven't any very particular preference,
although I've always had tho lie v. Mr.
Goodman. .V. T. Sun,
FETISH ' WORSHIP.
rite
Terrible Belief Reld by the Katlvo
of the Dark Continent.
The African believes that there are
everywhere evil spirits who are amen
able to charms or incantations or, as
be calls them, fetishes," and thatcer-
tain nnknown or half-known persons
whom he palJj wi2ard. are a uainted
. . .
with these charms and use their occult
knowledge for nefarious purposes. He
believes further that certain other per
sons are gifted with the power of track
ing or "smelling out" the offenders
So universal is this belief that almost
every Tiliage of pagarl Africa, parti
ulfirl tofrarJ the west coast has i
c-
irly toward the west coast has its
fetish house; a grim and ghastly build-v
tng, often ranged round with human
sknlls in every stage of decomposition,
and a fetish man, who is its high priest
No human being, surely. Ttr hsniavf
,noh terr.ne"poWer committed to him.
and few have used it more unsparingly
or unscrupulously. The fetish man is
bound by no law; he recognizes no
rules of evidence. Any thing which
happens even in the most ordinary
course of natnrs he may pronounce
to be the work of a fetish, or a wizard,
and to need his- assistance to ferret it
out A heavy rainfall or drought a
ruurra n among the cattle, a pestilence
or a conflagration, a child devoured by
a wild animal an illness or a death
each and all of these may be pronounc-
; ed to be 4fetish" somebody has done
it and he must be detected. So pos
sessed are the natives by
this belief. It so forms part of
their being, that it never occurs to any
of them, though be knows his own torn
may come next to question the reality
of this uncanny power; and, in the
panic terror of this fetish man and his
decisions' ie negro losrs for a time
some of his most essential and amiable
characteristics his frivolity, his light
heartednesst even his family affection.
A son will join in putting his father to
death; a brother will help to tear in
pieces a brother. If the accused dares
to deny the charge which he seldom
'does however preposterous or impossi-
ble it may be he has to submit to some
terrible ordeaL such as the running at
full speed under an avenne of hooped
i 1 a. 1 t.:. V i I. i i
arches about half his height when, if
he stumbles or rather, as soon as be
! stumbles he is hacked to death; or the
! drinking of some deadly decoction.
such as the casca bark, when his one
chance of escape is handsomely to
bribe the fetish man to give him the ex
act quantity or quality which will make
him desperately sick, before the poison
has well begun its deadly work. In
Ashantee and Dahomey, at Bonny and
Calabar, in the Fan country and
throughout Angola this terrible belief
prevails, and, as may well be im
agined, it ramifies ont into every kind
of villainy and crime Nineteenth Cen-
turtf.
ALGERIAN CHILDREN.
The
Meet Prominent Feature of Interest
la JTorth African Clttea.
I must again refer to the children.
for this street was teeming with little
Tlemcenites who had never left and
probably never would leave, their na
tive town. The boys when running
about wear nothing but a long, white
chemi, and dark blue vest but of all
bewitc-fling creatures in the world the
little eirls can scarcely be surpassed.
They are everywhere, and must strike
stranger, certainly an artist as a
prominent feature of Interest Some
are going to the baker's carrying on
bated loaves piled on a plank on the
head; others with little brass-bound
buckets br'mming with milk; singly, in
crowds alwa' s fascinating; not only
pretty, but arraved in an infinite vari
ety of costumes they dart from shadow
into sunlight and disappear in a twink
ling round a corner or through a door
way. Thev wear, first a white chemise
with gauze sleeves over it a gandoura.
or chemise without sleeves and reach
ing nearly to the ankles usually of
printed calico, glaring in color, and
with spots stripes birds branches and
leaves; this gandoura is sometimes of
rich brocade or light silk. Over the first
they often wear a second gandoura of
tulle with a design in it ordina
rily nothing more nor less than com
mon white lace curtain stuff. All the
materials hang limp and flutter when
they rnn; ronnd the waist a broad
ceinlure. and over the shoulders a little
bodice. On the head a conical cap.
always of crimson Telvet more or less
ornamented with gold thread; children
and unmarried girls wear them with a
strap nnder the chin; married women
tie them on with a colored handker
chief besides the strap. Their hair is
fringed square, just over the eyebrows
and plaited down the back. The opera
tion of dyeing it dark brownish wine-
color requires several days during
which time they appear certainly at a
disadvantage. lienna is made into
mushy paste and plastered all over the
head, as much as the hair, being tied
np all over, .can hold in place and
even more, for it runs down the neck,
the cheeks and into the ears. The
process gives somewhat the appear
ance of a head modeled in wax with
the hair studied in masses. The palms
of the hands fingers and the feet and
toes are also stained. F. A. Bridg-
man, in Earjtra Magazine.
In Liverpool, England, a play en
titled, "Who s the Lunatic, was re
cently enacted. Bjfore it was finished
half the peopla In the audience were
shouting: "The author, the author."
When he blushingly appeared he was
reeted with roars of laughter, and
cries of II 's the lunatic"
A regular industry in Paris is said
'o be the tasting and inspection of
dishes at private houses by profes
sional cooks. He comes when ordered
to the house where a great dinner is
under way. looks smells tastes of.
orders a little salt in this soup, a bit of
sngar in that sauce, a flavor of onion
in tho other salad, an r goes'off to the
next customer.
The manner in which the sprnee
and pine forests of Norway are being
x'.erminated Is becoming so serious
ihat the government is called upon to
put a stop, by legislation, to the de
forestation of the country. Apart
from the wanton exhaustion of this
commercial wealth, it is maintained
that wholesale felling has the effect of
changing the climate In the forest lo-
CldiUe
t MOURNING DRESSES.
Fabrtos Employed la Their tjonstraarttea hf
loading Press-Maaera. -
Striped crepe de Chine woven very
thin is the new fabric for summer
mourning dresses. The stripes are of
different degrees of thinness, some like
gauze, and those next them like sum
mer Bengaline, or else with corded
stripes in clusters, or hair lines on a
thin stripe next a border stripe, or per
haps every other stripe is lightly em
broidered; broad stripes over an inch
wide are considered most stilish.
There are also barred China cm pe9
that are very handsome, the bars
being like open rows of braid, and the
centers crinkled tike Japanese crapeu
The plain China crapes are now made -
In very fine qualities, and are so en
tirely without luster that they are
hosen for the" most elegant toilettes to ,. ...
tie worn in the deepest mourn mr- '
Grenadines nave been little used for
two or three years buf are now re
vived in great variety. For first deep
mourning are sewing-silk grenadines
of plain surfaces so closely wove,n that
they do not require silk beneath them;
lighter qualities- are like silk, muslin.
and the gaze da Chambery is a similar
fabric of glossy thin silky black, ihe
pen-meshed silk and wool Hern am.
with all the armnre, canvas and iron
grenadines is again used, either quite
plain or else with new striped patterns
alternately like crape, or like Benga
line of the twilled peau de soie, each "
stripe from one to two inches wide.
making effective patterns for over
dresses above plain grenadine skirts.
For those who dislike stripes are fig
ures of Greek keys and large balls
or Gothic arches of -dull silken surface
sunk in open armure grounds and
there are many Spanish lace designs
woven quite thick on their surfaces that
recall the fancy for brocades. The
more opsone camel's hair grenadines
have a hem-stitched border along one .
selvage to use for trimming, and these
excellent fabrics are also striped and
barred in many ways. For half-mourning
the more lustrous silk grenadines
have ribbon stripes of taffeta edged
with white, or else they have double or
triple lines f white woven in twills.
Nun vailing remains the popular
summer fabric for mourning, just as
Henrietta cloth is for winter dresses
It is of varied thicknesses and has its
own trimming in its wide selvage.
which is always an inch in width, and
in the better qualities is two or even
three inches wide. There are also
many striped railings those with
repped silk, like Bengaline, being very
handsome. For evening dresses worn
n mourning the large-meshed Brussels
nets are used in layers as tulle is ar
ranged, also in plaited flounces with
ribbon trimming. India silk is worn
in solid color in deep monrning. but
even in its best qualities is not found
so satisfactory ; a th-tf with white .
figures; it becomes "stringy," and does
not wear well otherwise. Bayonnaise
is a barege-like fabric much used by
French modistes for summer mourn
ing. For thicker fabrics ttmise cloth of
smooth plain surface and pure wool is
chosen for seaside and mountain wear.
while for traveling are Cheviots of
light quality, bison cloths and serges
or else the Sicilienue mohairs that re
semble alpaea. bnt are more broadly
woven, like the b.vsket-weaving once so
popular. ,
English crape is less used for trim
mings for snmmer gowns and many
families object to it altogether, nsing
folds and plaitings of the dress goods
with dull jet and ribbons instead. The
dull lnsterless gros-grain ribbons are
excellent trimmings for nuns' vailing
and India silk dresses while gauze
ribbons are used on black net Har
per's Bamr.
THE TIRED-OUT MOTHER.
Bow She Should Be Treated and Cared For
by Her Haaband.
And when you go home at night and
find her jaded and worn, thLik of some
way in which to help her, instead of
finding fault with your surroundings
and hurling harsh words at her, if you
do not sometimes break the third com
mandment in your zeal to be emphatic.
She is just-as tired as you are and has
worked as many boors at home battling
with the children s.nd servants or, when
there are none of the latter, battling with
the monotonous housework, doing the
the same things to-day which she did
yesterday and knows she will have to
do to-morrow, until it is not strange
that she becomes disheartened and
thinks her life "one eternal grind,"
like poor Mantilini, who, however, used
a stronger ad jective than I have dons
And while she has been so busy.
with scarcely a thought beyond the
kitchen and the cook-stove, yon have
been ont into the world and he;vd
what it was doing, and felt its pulse
beating against your own, and mingled
with your kind, and in one sense you
go home fresher than your wife, to
whom you can at least give a loving
word, which is of more importance ,
than you think for. You little dream
how hungry she gets for some sign
that love is not dead, although it may
be so crusted with thoughtlessness and
self that it is seldom seen. Kind words
cost nothing, and if they were more
freqnent love and happiness would lin
ger longer by the hearthstone, where
now there are bitter repinings for the
past and hard, resentful feelings as
the wife bears her burden alone, nn
cheered, unhelped, and, as she believes
nncared for by her husband. St Paul
Pioneer.
a ouuewno was visiting irtenfisin
the country complained of the eggs.
"They seem," said he, "lacking in
flavaw, compared with our city eggs;
hey are rathaw insipid, aw!"
To know wnas yon prefer. Instead
of humbly saying amen to what tho
world tells you you ought to prefer, is
to have kept your soul alive. Such a
mac may be generous; he may be hon
est in socnething more than, a com
mercial sense; Je may love his friends
with an elecSve personal sympathy,
and not accept them as an ad junct of
the station to which he has been called.
He may be a man, in short acting on
his own instincts keeping in his own
shape that God made him in. Zteberi
Lovit Stevenson,
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BURKHART &n BILYEU .