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(ISSStr, KVEItT rMDAT.) H. Y. KIRKPATKtCK . Publishers TERMS OF sTFlJSRIPrFolf; On. TfM 3 00 Sil Months 1 25 Tim Mouths 65 IPayahle in advance.) V ; TERMS OF ADVERTISING. On square, first insertion ......... 93 00 Each athliiional lusortion 1 SO (LOCAL.) Local Notiees. per line 15 cents Keulor adv;l tUemellti inserted upon li'wral Urnift SOCIETY NOTICES. LEBAXOS LODGE. NO. 44, A. F. 4 A. M : Meet at th.ir new hall in Masonic Block, on Saturday .veuing, on or before the full moon. i J WASS03T. W. M. U8ASOS LODGE, XO. 47, I. O. O. P.: Meet. Sat urday evenlu nf a.?h week, at Odd Kt-llow'a 1111, Main .traet; visiting erethren conlially invited to attend. J. J. L'UARLTOS, X. O. HONOR LOME NO. S3. A O. IT. W , Lebanon, Oregon: Meets every first and third Thursday even tags in the month. F. H. ROSUOK. M. V. A. R. CYRUS & CO., 7 - ; U v i t ' - . Real Estate, Insurance & Loan Agent. General Collection and Xotary Public Baniien Promptly Attended, to. M. N. KECK. DESICNER AND SCULPTOR, Manufacturer of IIODiimrats and Headatones. AND ALL KIXDS OF CEMETERY WORK FINE MONTMENT3 A SPECIALTY. Opp. E rem House. ALBANY, OREGON. St. Charles Hotel, LEBANON. Oregon. If. W. Comar Main &nd Sherman Streota, tw Blocks &t u( R R. Depot. T. C. PEEBLER & CO. Prop. Tables Supplied with the Best the Market . Affords. Sample Rooms and the Best Aooommodationa tor Commaroitti men. GENERAL STAGE OFFICE.- WINTER Artistic Photographer, BROWNSVILLE, OR. Enlarging from Small Pictures. In stantaneous Process. WORK WARRANTED. C.T. COTTON, DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions, TOBACCO & CICARS, SMOKERS' ARTICLES. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, CONFECTIONERY. ((aeensware and tilHwarf, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. Slain St., Lebanon, Oregon. ST. JOHN'S HOTEL Sweethome, Oregon, JOHN T. DAVIS, Proprietor The table ib supplied -with the very best the market affords. Nice clean beds, and satisfaction guaranteed to all guests. In connection with the above house joins lorvvcv Keeps a Feed and Sale Stable, and will accommodate tourists and travelers with teams, guides and outfits. BURKHART & BILYEU, Proprietors of the Livery, Sale ant! FeeQ Staples LEBAXOS, OR, Southeast Corner of Main and Sherman. Fine Buggies, Hacks,Har ness and COOD RELIABLE HORSES For parties going to Brownsville, Wa terloo, Sweet Home, Soio, and all parts of Linn County. All kinds of Teaming DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. BURKHART & BILYEU. . r n 1 H H H Ti IT ITT A "TV T TX 1 "T "T!7i "7" tt "Tr ti ri VOL. II. WHEN WIFE'S A GO'N AWAY. Somehow ,vnr:is around the groe'ry Ain't so tunny as before. An' I'm ell the time fortfettin' Th s or that "ere little chore; When I g:t out in the kitehon, Want to hung around an' stay: Guess I'm foolish onus this ev'oin". Why my wife's a go'u' away. She's n fix'n' things up for me With a thoughtful, levin' care, Tellin' me that soraeihin s here. An' sonuHhin" else is over there; Loohm' sober, spoak;n" low voiced. Though she hasn't mucli to say; Ketch her eyes tin me all dim like Uupss she ha es to go away. AVl-h 'twos over w sh 'twas way off-. W sh we didn't have to part : That's j st what I keep a thinkin". An" afeelin' In my heart. P'raps our speerits see mu -h furdor Than the part n' of to-day. An' jest hint what they can't tell us. When a loved one's iro'n' away. Calls to mind another Journey, Hy nn' by we all roust go. Wonder who's a eettin" ready For the train that moves so slow Brinirs thn tears to thin:: about it. So I git nigh her an" pray. It may be my time forstartin. Jest when she's a go'n' away. I.u R. Coke, in 0:mha World. PANTHER STORIES. Adventures of Eirly-Djiy Settlers in Missouri. Ml P-lu.ky Little Dot- A Little Olrl Watches a l'anth. r In a Tree Wlille Hr Sister Gives W amine at Home. do not believe there are now aiy, rtv but very few. p.-mtliers in Missouri. Perhaps in the deep forests of Smith e:isteru Missnnri. or amid the fast uesses of the Oz irk ramje. there aro in all a dozen, but we do not hear of even that manv. Fifty years ao they were very numerous. They were de s'rnctive, too. and sometimes mala serious ravages upon the hogs jinJ young cattle of the settlers. Fr oine reason they did not often trouble the -heep; perhaps the flavor of mutton was not to their liking. They pre ferred pis, and have been known to lira re all sorts of peril to gt one. Their sirength and agiiity starve. 1 them as well as their daring. An old senior telis me lie saw a panther a painter" he called it ne day iro -ling along through a corn-lie. d. with a 150-pound hog llirowu over his -houkler, as nimbly a a cat niigh" ruu away with a rat. P.tnthers very rarely attacked- a human being. They often ran from au unarmed mail. The worst pecu liarity about them was their fierce screams. Many a pioneer, brave :i Caesar, as ha sat by his fiivsi.le in his Uinely cabin in the forest, hns felt his blood chill and his heart stand still as the piercing scream of a prowliug panther was borne to his ears on the wings of the night wind. The cry of a panther is peculiar something like that of a woman in dis ress and agony, but much more peueti aiing and harrowing. It can be heard dis tinctly a mile or more. My old pio neer friend says: Nxihiu' ever sk -ered me like the rell of a painter. It made the cold s.reaks shoot over me. I never could iet used lo if. ofieii as I h ard if, end somehow it always made me think of Lijuna." The Missouri river bottoms in Saline County were favorite haunts of these animals in early days. In the Ed inondsou Creek settlement, sii.y years ,igo, a panther killed and carried away six large hosrs in one day. H concealed them in a large cavity in the ground formed by the uprooting of a : ree in a hurricane, covering them with leaves. H; dispatched his victims within so short a time that all of the caicas3es were warm when the p.ld was discovered. This was ahugi Jog panther, sav:go as any tiger in the jungles of B.-ngal. The settlers organiZf-d a pursuit and chased the animal across the Missouri river into Chariton County. It swam the river wilh all ease, and very swiftly. As it reached the northern bank it shook tself. As a dog that shakes his ears When he leaps frm the water to the land, i:id rtlerinjr a loud cry, as of triumph ver the bnffl !,1 hunters on the other -hore, he sprang up ihe bank and dis appeared in the heavy bottom tim bers. Ia the year 1825 a panther was killed in the Davis bottom, north i f nhere the low-n of Malta Bend now stands. Four men. G,;orge Davis, his s.n, a G -rniaa in Mr. D;ivis' employ, and a hired negro man belonging to James M-R y lolds. were at work in a clearing. For some days previously a large panther had made its appear ance in the borders of the clearing, bui afier gitaing npoi the men for a few minutes it had uttered a few screuches .-ind gone away. Oi this particular day the men had taken their guns with i hem and had secured the services of half a d'Z ?n dogs, one of which was an insiirniticant, fussy little tice, not bigger than a lomcat, b it as brave as a gamecock. The men were eating their dinners, wilh a huge tree trunk for a table, when the panther appear ed. The guns had been left on the other side of the clearing, a quarter of a mile away. The dogs were with ihelr masters, but upon the first ap pearance of the panther slunk away arid cringed at the feet of the men as if for protection. Tiie litlle fioe. how ever did not quail. He tore around and barked and growled at the in truder ns if he meant to eat him up. The panther came boldly forward, and at last sprang upon the log where the n.en were sitting. Ho uttered a scream as if demanding His sharj of the din ner. Upon the appearance of the beast upon the log the negro and the Gor i.can caughi up large clubs, and as the animal came nearer they urged for ward the tlo?s and boldly assaulted it. The panther turned tail and the dogs rushed at him. There was something of a fight, but five of the dogs were killed in as many minutes lorn to pieces by the huge, sharp daws and teeth of Ihe monster. The only sur vivor among the canines was the lit le fice. which bravely kept up the fight. It would .charge up and snap at the panther's hind legs, causing him tci turn, then bound nimbly away, to .return again and airain-lo the contest,! The, peculiar tactics of the spunky little dog oiubajr rassed and hindered the movements of the panther, and enabled the Gorman and the negro to get in their work. They assaulted him "with their clubt, .striking hi-ti repeate I blows. At last the negro knocked him down, anil tin? German ran up and stabbed him to the heart wilh a largt clasp-knife. Bir for the plucky little fieo the real hero of thii occasion there is no tell ing how the con; est might have ended. 1 ho panther measure ! three lengths of an nxe-handle about seven feet and would weigh three hundred pounds. D.iwn on the B ackwater, in South, eastern Saline, about the year 1S3i). a settler named Samu d Miller had built his cabin and was opening a sma'l r: t in. II had two litllo daughters, J '.inio a d Susie, ng -d seven and six. 0 io morning the mother of the little ;:ii'l9 sent them u an errand to a neighbor's, nearly two miles distant. 'Ihe road was a mere pathway through tiie thick woods, bat tho children knew it very well. II od in hand thy 1 odd led along, unheeding because un conscious of peril. But half a nii!e from home, on the upper are of a lare leaning tree, which bt lit directly over the paih. they saw a large panther strerchid out at full length, basking a the morning sun! They did not k:iow rigluly what it was. O'.i. Susie," said Jennie, "there's a wolf !' Yes." said Smic. "and I sped it's the bad old follow that tatched my lamb and kills papa's pigs. Lot u go right back home and tell papa, and j ho w ill come and shoot if w iv his gun." j "But what if it runs away while j we're gone?" returned Jannie. Tell ; you what we'll do. S.isie: You Slav j h re ami watch it, and I'll ru.i a-id j tell papa! I can run fastes ymi know." I Little Susij readily assenttd to the ! arrangement, assuring her sist, r that j it the had old wolf should coin j down the tree she wt ul l 'lake a slick an I punch his eyes o:iU" Then gath i ering up some acorn cups and a j q lantity of velvet moss, she set about ! i-ons.ruciing a "play homo" at the ! loot of the very tree on which crouched 'j the panther, watching her curiously, j Presently he arose and walked back j and fo.irth, back and forth, along the j evel extent of th? tree, as if imna- tient and meaning to descend B .t ; Susie shook her littl.j fist at him menacingly. a:id soon he lay down j ag:in with his hea I between his paws, j lazily blinking his great yellow eyes. 1 "as if." Sasie said. 'Hie was awful j sleepy. " I Away ran Jennie, fl-et as a little ! f.iwn. and in due tim : she reached her j father's cabin and hurriedly told hrr mother that there w as a "big wolf on a tree, and that Susie Sia 1 "staid to ! mind it." Mrs. Miiler at once eon -j i rehended the harrowing truth, and C:ilied frantically to her husband, who was at work in his clearing near by j Mr. Miller came at once, accompanied i by a young n an in his employ named j G -orge P.unkett. R-aiiziug the im- miaent peril of his child, and drea 1 j ing that perhaps already a horrible f ite hnd befallen it, the pioneer d d not speak a word, but in afewseconds be and young Piunkett, rifle in hand, were running swiftly to the scene. Nearing the locality, M. Her said: If we are not too lale, G .-orge, let nie fire first." P. ssibly the emotions of the father at this time may be imagined; cer tainly I can not describe them. Faint hopes ami sickening fears alternated in his breast as he sped fleetly on. I was hardly possible that the child was yet alive, but as the panther had not sprung at first, there was a bare chance. Meanwhile, in the little cabin home, the agonized mother had caught her remaining little one to her breast, and was praying silently but fervently. But O. the joy of it! on coming within o'ght of the fateful tree Miller saw his cnild safe and unharmed. The little innocent was busy at her play, crooning sweetly the w hile. Doubtless II? who sto pad the mouths of the lions had preserved her! High above, the pan her was on his porch. I.i two seconds Miller's rill rang out. the , a ;ther came crashing to the ground, a b ill at fairly in its brain, and little Susie sprang up and exclaimed: "O, papa! How you scared ine!" This panther measured five feet ten inches. Miller tanned its skin, and when his daughters had grown to maidenhood each of them had a cape made from it. For soiiiti reason the M Her fa nily di 1 not long remain in Missouri nfter this incident. They went back to Illinois, but in ten years or more they returned to the Black water country, where Miller still owned his farm. Miss Susie and Miss J -ii ni -t of en wore their panther-skin capes, and were very proud of them. In 1849 i ho gold fever carried off Mr. Miller; he went to California and died there many years ago. Some of the pioneers termed the panth.M's "tigers." or .iger-cala." Oi a branch of Salt river, ii Shelby County, old J lin Winnegaii. a f anion -hunter, kitfed three panthers, oi "tigers," in one winter, and the stream, has ever sine; borne the name of Tiger Fork. In this lacality. pan thers were, as may be supposed, very plentiful, but th -y were shy and even cowardly. There were plenty of bears, too. and the old settlers tell of a fierce fight between a bear and a panther which c ime off on Tiger Fork many years ago, but the talo is somewhat musty and the details rather apocry phal. Burr Joyce, in St. Louis Globe Democrat. THE GREAT OANJIRO. An Knthnilastlo American Writes About Japan's Edwin Sooth. O.ie would scarcely expect to find way out here in Japan an actor of the finest talent, but there are some here who would be considered fine in any country, and Danjiro the great Dan jiro how can I do him justice? Would you think a so-called heathen could make a hardened wretch like me almost shed tears in the affecting parts? Would you think that I would be so carried away v, ith the acting of an Asiatic that I would shout, with the native andlence: "Torishil! yor ishii!" (well done I well done!) W"" vheu J first law this slayer my LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST s ri r.so aim iia:n cation wi re so great i hat 1 cmdd scarcely keep my enlhiis'asn In reasonable bounds. and on acquaintance I am none the les infatuated. His act ing is almost inai v Ions. L of course, could not understand any of the stage language, and my intcrpro;er's E i glish was little b tier than that of an average Sioux Iiuli in at a grading agency; but Da .jiro's ta'cnt made up for all llghtdisa.lv..litago-i like these. His support, too, was good, a notable feature -f the s age in Japan being that none of the softer '-x take any part with the mii, all female charac ters being represented by mates in female dress. Ui the other haul, there are respectable theat rs Mn T kio where there are no male actor', the male characters being put on the s nge by wi men in men's attire. The two s x,-.s never lake parts in the same theater even; but the audiences of both are compos.d .f men and wom en. O.ie ii ore word about D.tnjiro: Hi is the best and most celebrated actor ii Japan and lives in Tnkio, but plays in every city of importance in the empire. Hj is said tf b rich, and I pr.sume lie is, for he lives in a bcauiifu. home hear 'he foreign concession But while he has prospered some of the theaters at which he has been from time to lime the thief altrr.cliou are now closed for debt, but 1 beii e more from bad management than fimn lack of patron age. Vet wi:h all ihis man's wealth an.i a'l his fame he does not consider it ii-.c insist nt with Irs dig-iity to accept money presents from his enthusiastic an liences. a:id he is frequently, afler a very clf-ctive rendering of some part, invite I lo the !) x'' of some .ne in the aedi.-nce, and. if tho invi at'on is accepted, n ceives a money token of admiration any amount from $1'J $3 ). If thj star can not accept ihe inv.tatio-i h sends a lesser : g it to the b x. wIiii recei vrs a small i snt for hitn-t-Vf a id cirriei o ia o his chief. 'or. A''aut-t Contitution. PAPER MANUFACTURE. ITonilertul Ailv:incet .M i. la Thli Inlaa tiy Wlitioi K.riy ?sr. Ihe C.tiiiese ar? suppose. I to have been the inventors oi papr. They us -d rice straw or r: gs f cotton or linen for making tier paper stock. Modern nations followed their exam p e, but male few r;Vements on the ancient proc sses until w ithin forti years. Sitie-j then v ry decade h is witnessed great advances in this in dustry. New met ho Is. processes and machinery have been devi-el. ne mat-rials brought into use. and new multifarious forms of the mauufac -nred product now eiili r into the econ omics of modern lif . It tgs are gath ered in all p.irts i f the world ami brought by ship-loads to the United S ates, but they are no longer th c i -f raw ma'eri-.tb Pqer fibers nr b ained from old rope, jute butt, st: aw of the various grains, lrom many eras'cs and reeds and from the woo'. ofeyjrvss. ine. poplar, spruce, hen -lock. Laswoo!. si can ore and oth r trees Now prent n.ills prepare the fiber s ok for paper manufacturer, who buy it by the ton. in bulk, a d then work it into v. hatever shapes their business requU-es. As it costs far l ?ss to cat ry chemicals to the forests than it would to transport the logs, wcoil-piilp es ab'.ishmeiiis are gener ally located near sources of supply. The chief chemicals are lime, potash, s. da ash. ami caustic soda. 'Jhese alkalies, dissolved in wa'er to make the cooking liquids, have been em ployed in huge wooden tanks, in wh.ch, b cause the temjerature could no' be arried above boblng heat, ii was t.fcessary to continue the cooking ro.u two to tlirpe days. The progres tf invention has recently made it pos sille to greatly reduce ihe time re quired for ibis purpose. 'Ihe demand lor paper in all Ioim-s f. r old nnd new i:ses is iiniimit d. and is d.diy increas ing. In no part of the globe is there a greater variety of vegetable fibers t it tail ill theSi.illi, whose cane-brakes, .swamps, forests, ami cotton-fields can fiil'iiis!) inexhaustible p utilities for all lime. The cotton la ilations alone could probably supply every pulp-mill l.i America with a mater. al cheaply gatheied ai.d handled, and containing a Ion . strong, beautiful tbil lia'li ntjre .Tourm' of ('.- .iy Carker (in hotel corridor) "Let's ;et out of here. Barker." Barker What's the matter?" Carker "Those two big men are having such a violent li.scussion that I'm afraid it will end in t fight-" Barker (carelessly) "No langerof that. They're both pugil ists." Detroit Free Prcts. A woman will get u; and tear iround and rant about female suffrage tnd demand cqmil rights with man in i torrent of impassioned chest tones, nut when night comes she'll get down nd tremblingly peer under the bed tor the man she knows isn't there. Somebody predicts that "Ihe tele phone will develop in time so that verybody will bo compelled to have it. The messenger boy must go." We hare a great ileal of confidence in science, but wo don't believe yet that it will ever be 'able to make the messen ger boy go. fioHon Port. And now the Sunday newspapers have formed a trust; and. as was in evitable, have raised their prices one .ent. If these ' f reedy monopolists persist in their fiendish design of w ringing four cents out of the pockets ,f the toiling masses, in exchange for t dollar's worth of reading, they may rot find that even a circulation-swearer will not save them from bankruptcy. Puck. "You don't seem at all cast down hy the length of tho sentence the Judge has given you," said a sympathetic by stander to the sad-eyed German who had just been condemned to twenty years of servitude in the State prison." "No," replied the prisoner, wearily, "I ;lo not at all it mind. I have thirteen years the proof-reader on a German newspaper been." Somerville Journal. Dame "You are entirely mistaken as to the object of tho anti-kissing so ciety. It is not intended to discourage courtship. No, indeed. The object is to break up the practice of allowing ministers to kiss brides." Male caller "O, that's it. Are the members of the society engaged young ladies who expect shortly to be married?" Dame "Well, no; tb.Sjembers are mostly ministers' wivimaAa WfirJLd. WOMAN'S BEST CHOICE. Or. Holland Taken to Taws: for Ills Ad vie to Voansi Mra, The advice of Dr. Holland for young men to select a wife from the female society above them would be more valu able if the learned doctor had defined in just what tho wife was to bo the supe rior. That he ha I a clear idea in his head seems mauifest But does he mean superior in social position? Does he mean that the coachman shall always aspire to the brilliant and ac complished daughter of his employer for a wife? Docs ho mean that the gardener's son should always a'm to win the Countess on the ground that love makes alt things even? Does he mean that the Judge shall alwavs pass by Maud Mtiller for a lady of high de gree that the aim of the noble Lord in the selection of a wife shall be the daughter of a King that the young mechanic should seek for his bride in the home of the coal kings and iron barons and blue-blooded first families? If this is his meaning his advice is worthless, for in cammon every-day life such mar riages, in nine cases out of ten, prove to be among the most unhappy and usually end in divorce. A man of brains has a better chance for peace and comfort in a marriage with a woman who is a c,ood-natured dunce than a woman of intellect could ever hope for in a union with an ignorant, clod or thick-headed boor. The rea -on is obvious. The man has the worid of business and society open to him for the pursuit of happiness. He need use his home only as a place to sleep and eat, while the wife wedded to a boor has a life-long sorrow, a dead weight of woe, and a penitentiary for a home. But the gifted women who have mar ried inferior t?en and v have had any sort of a fair chance for happiness we fail to remember, while Mrs. Hemans. Miss Landon, Mrs. Norton. Fannie Kemble and others stand out as awful warnings. Dr. Holland's line of ad vice, if carefully followed by men. might trive comparative happiness to them. Marrying above themselves in wealth, social position, intellect an 1 piety might perchance not be bad as world goes, but what of the women who thus coma down to wed men of low estate in each or all of these things? In former days such stuff and cant mtght hive been accepted as sense and wisdom, but nowadays no such ig noring of women will be counted as gospel. A marriage to be really happy must be a union of true friends and real lovers, who have a fair endowment of reason and common sense between them. Two fools with but a single thought will be happier in marriage than an angel married to a Tommy Noddy, no matter what Dr. Holland says. All the talk about "angelic superiority" may be set down as cant, or what the English call "rot." Pitt--burgh Dispilch. IN YUCATAN'S CAPITAL. Th Street, Churches and Convents of the City or Merlrta, The streets of Merida cross each other at right angles, and eight of them lead out of the Plaza Mayor two in the direction of each cardinal point. In every street, at the distance of a few squares from the center, stands an ancient gateway, arched high above the pavement, anil just beyond are the bar rios, or suburbs. Not long ago the now dismantled niche over each great gate way held its Christ or saint or Virgin, before which people were always kneel ing and crossing themselves. Formerly all the streets were distinguished, in a manner peculiar to Yucatan, by images of birds or beasts set up at the corners, and many still retain the ancient sign. For example, the street upon which we are living is called La Calle del Flam ingo, becatise of a huge red flamingo painted on the corner house. Another is known as the street of the Elephant, and the representation of it is an ex aggerated animal, with curved trunk and body big as a barrel. There is the street of the Old Woman, and on its corner is the caricature of an aged fe male, wih huge spectacles astride her nose. The street of the Two Faces has a double-faced human head, and there are others equally striking. The reason for this kindergarten sort of nomen clature was because whoa the streets , were named the great mass of inhab itants were Indians who could not read, and therefore printed signs would have been of no use to them, but the picture of a bull, a flamingo or an elephant they could not mistake. As in all Spanish-American cities. Merida's distinguishing feature is its churches. The great cathedral, erected in 1667. is of quaint and attractive architecture; and besides there is the church of the Jesuits, the church and convent of San Cristobal, the church and convent of Mejorada, the church of Santa Lucia and the Virgin, the chapel of San Juan Baptist and of Our Lady of Candelaria, tho convent de las Monjas, and others too numerous too mention. Though now impover ished, and some of them iu decay, a number of them still retain enough rich ornaments and vestments to furnish suggestions of former grandeur. Since the expulsion of the Jesuits, nearly a quarter of a century ngo, all religious processions have been prohibited on the streets, much church property has changed ownership and eren the names of streets and places have been altered to suit the present sentiment. Thus one of the pleasantest squares, formerly known as the PUca de Jesus, ia now called Plaza Hidalgo. In the old days this park had an exceedingly quaint and beautiful center, which, sad to say, has been replaced by an ordin ary statue of the hero whose name it bears. Fannie B. Ward, in Trot Times. Not so Much or a Success. "Yes," said a business man, "Single ton has been wonderfully successful, not particularly on account of any shrewdness but because he is such a close collector. He is undoubtedly the best collector in this city." "I have heard so," some fellow re marked, "and I used to believe it, but I have found that he is not such a suc cessful collector after all." "How so?" "Well, you see, I have owed him a bill for quite awhile and he never has fcz&ceeded ia collecting it" Arkaneauf Traveltr. s i 17, 1888. A FEMALE HERCULES. She Can Lift n Tiirfussntl-Pound Weight and Walk O.T With n Safe. A quiet, modest girl, of n e Hum heigh i and slender, graceful figure, dressed in a simple brown dress, brightened up only by a narrow red ril bon and tiny bow at the throat, dialling pleasantly away to her visit or in her qniel room and now and then interrupted b,f the piercing voice of a tame canary that is Mine. Vi c to ri na. Ihe female Hercules, who every evening astonishes the audience of the Empire Theater with fea sof her mar velous strength. For fdx years past she has ntw- bt;en before the public as "tho strongest woman in the wor'd;" she has astonished B r'.iu and P .ris aud:euces; has been v ctorious in her competition with many, of ihe world's greatest athletes; is honorary member and nxilalislof the Central Athletic Club of Stettin; honoinry member of '.he B'ida-Posth H -icules Club; of the Hercules Citib, Vieon:-; of the Cotn p. gtiie Hercules of Paris, and a string of other athletic societies. How came it," our representative asked, that yon adopted your resent profession? II id you exceptional strength when young?'' ' N , not at once; and when I was quite young I was not stronger than Ihe average healthy chibL 1 was born at S rasbourg, and after my father died I went to my uncle's, who was a etc ts proprietor, and he at f-nce began to train me as a circus rider an I a performer on the trap. ze. But my career as an acrobat came soon to an end, for I fell front height of forty feet while jwrf .ruling, and ever since 1 have the greatest dislike to trapeze perforsnaices Luckily I only I roke the briitge of my nose in the accident, and therefore I was in no way impeded from legiiining to train for something else. At that time I became acquainted with my present husband, who was an athlete, and who began my athletic training. This n as done by making me practice every day with an expander, just as you see girls use them in calislhenic ilass(s. with the one difference that the firmness oi nir expander was periodically increas -d till at last the muscles and sinews of the arms the shoulders and the neck got so strong that I could without d fficulty work with ati expatider consisting of an India rnblier rojn; as thick as my wrist, and I a'so practiced lifting and handling weights, beginning ith smaller ones and - gradually increasing up to a thousand pounds This of course, took several years and in my daily pet form an cos I do not always lift quite the full weight which I could i:ft and c: rry. b it there is never a day on which I Jo not handle from seven to eight hit ml red pounds at the per forma' c s Once we were at B rlin. and. as our luggage is naturally tremendously heavy, and expensive iu j rop rtion. we take as much of it as possible into the railway carriage when we are traveling. The porter, who had put our boxes intoth" vai. saw that I was carrying what looked like two small handbags. He ff-re l to put them into the carriage for me. and I never saw so nstonishet and overawed a face than when I handed him Le two parcels each containiii!; one of my heavy weights Another lime we were going up the stairs of onr hotel. wh-Mi we found six men engaged in taking an iron safe up-stairs The owner, who knew ns said, laughing ly: 'Oh, here comes madame; she will show you how to do ihis kind of work.' I had never tri d any thing ike 'v. but I to k-a firm hold of the safe and put it on the next step, al hough I wore my ordinary clothes Ihe safe was presented to me by the owner, and 1 have since then often carrit d it rcross the stage," Pall AlttU U ize'lt. A Famous Ohio Landmark. Among the memories of early C lit nt bus is "the old Eagle Tavern," where, if there were such things in tiiosedays and there must have been since the time of Oear many politic al ri tgs formed At any rate, it was a fatuous resort in the '20' s, and was situated on High street, opposite the public offices Among those who fre quented the place wer-H'tiry Sla hery. Thomas E ving. James M. Bell, Lyne Sinrling, and scores of others who became rou inen in the political history of Ohio. The proprietor of the place was a John Young, who was noted for the excelence of his mint j tleps the elegance of his wardrobe, and his being th;? greatest gambler in Olio. Perhaps it was Ihis latter faet that Bell who was at one time Speaker of the House, owed his passion for gambling, which afterward proved his ruin. Ewing was considered the epi cure of the clique, caring little for Irink, and Stanbrey never forgot the lelights of m nny cozy hours at the old Kaglo, even afler tin became a mem ber of Johnson's C ibinct, from which, it will be remembered, ho resigned to defend the impeachment. Nothing now remains of this ild Etifr! Coir--II ouse." 's.'..'er W'e'ch. in llarph 4 Magazine. A wiaow living in the suburbs of Montgomery, Ala., found her young son playing cards with William Oates, a saloon-keeper, in expressed violation of her own orders to the latter. Mrs. French thereupon covered Oates with a pistol, held in her left hand, and with her right administered a cowhiding that he won't forget in many a day. It was a new brand of prohibition, but should prove effective. A prominmt market-gardener and milkman of South Iladley, Mass, feeds his peddling horses by clock power. The cracked corn and oats are pnt into a hopper over night, and the alarm clock is set for a morning feed. The con trivance works to a charm, the horses thrive by it, it saves labor in the busi est part of the day, and the machine tosts about t6. Glass noors are coming into very general use in Paris. Although they cost more at first, they are found cheaper in the end. The room below can often dispense with artificial light, and there is far less fire risk. Glass, too, will outwear woodmany times. NO. 23. GUM FOR CHEWERS. Bow the Raw Material Is Transformed Into the Tablets of Commerce. Chicago has a chewing-gum factory, a place where ton upon ton of the eter nal stuff is made. There are twodepart ments. the laloratory and the packing. In the laboratory the men are at work chopping np the gum by means of a pug-mill, and rejecting the leaves, bark and other foreign substances that find their way into the gum, owing to the carelessness of the shippers. The gum. crude, that i principally used is chickel gum. an exudation from a Mexican tree obtained by freely incising the bark and catching the flow in cans This is allowed to harden, which it readily does on atmospheric exposure; is then molded in cubes weighing about ten or fifteen pounds each and packed in sacks Each sack of gum as it is shipped weighs two hun dred pouuds On arriving at the fac tory the gum is chipped, ground small, washed and then placet! on large trays to dry. being comlied over several times a day to permit all the moisture consequent on the washing to evapor ate. It is now ready for boiling and is placed in a huge cauldron, beat applied and the mass grows visibly thick. When the consistency of the mass is perfect pulverized sugar is added, equal quan tities of gnm and sugar being requir ed. The whole is stirred with a large wooden spatula and the mixture allow ed to cool. At the time when the heat is least, but not before it is quite cold, the flavoring matter is thrown in pep e:m:iit, anise-see'!, fruit juice, man na, or whatever it may be and the whole thoroughly incorporated. It is then removed to the tab!e,work ed by band until the air bubbles are ex pellej. run throngh heavy iron rollers until it looks like so much leather on a s-uldWs counter, dusted with pow dered magnesia to prevent adhesion to the trays, and cut in longitudinal or square pieces by a little cutter for that purpose. It is not cat through, only an indentation being made that is easi ly made a fracture. Now comes a fur ther hardening process by exposure, lasting usually a day or so. and it is then ready to go up stairs to the pack ers In the packing department, sitting around half a dozen tables, are twenty or thirty girls, nimble of fingers and dexterous to sa degree, employed in wrapping. The pieces or tablets are brought to them by a boy, who. when not engaged in supplying their needs is found completing the symmetry of the packages by. tying and finishing off. The tablets are put np in lots of half a dozen and held secure by a small rubber band. The chips, or broken pieces are gathered in small barrels and returned to the laboratory beneath to be mixed again with the fresh materia! as it is melted. The tree from which the chickel gnm is obtained is of abont the same pro portion as an oak tree. Its exudation is a purely vegetable product, and is j m no wise deleterious In certain parts of Mexico the natives'cultivat the trees with great care, as in a large measure they derive a livelihood from the annual yield of gum. Southerners are passionately addicted to gum. either pure or flavored. Cor. M. 1. Journal. THE CREDIT SYSTEM. The EtTecta on the Knyers Worse Than - Those on the SeUers. It is somewhat strange that when ever the credit system is criticised, it is as a rule from the standpoint of the dealer rather than of the buyer giving the trouble of the man who gives cred it rather than of him who receives it. Of course it is an annoyance and a loss to the seller; but its effects upon tlu buyer are still worse- It is bad for all classes of purchasers, and simply ruin ous to voung men. The one of the j latter who begins a career of buying on credit and borrowing ends in mis fortune and too often in bankruptcy of character. Many a yonng man has been ruined by the credit system. Take, for example, the young fellow of honest purpose who enters society believing that his future home and happiness depends upon his ability to please, and that to please he must dress well and liberally spend his money for theater privileges and ball room fancies The chances are that such a young man will soon find that his ex penses exceed his income, in which case he usually resorts to the credit system for temporary relief. He finds that his tailor will furnish him a new suit of clothes on time, hence he dresses well; he finds that his livery bills can be charged, hence he drives well because it is fashionable to do so. He docs all this with honest intent, le lieving that he can meet his bills when due; but when pay-day comes he is un able to keep his promises, so there be gins the era of broken pledges which too often ends in bankruptcy of char acter. Young man, don't put all you earn, and more, upon yonr back, for the voting lady who is attracted by good clothes is in fact not a very rich dis covery. If yon have a small balance at the end of the week, take a second thought before yon pay it out for cigars or tickets to the theater; but whatever you do. don't run in debt. In this new and comparatively undeveloped coun try there are many fine opportunities for the industrious economical and sober young man. And he who guards his honor by living within his income is the man whom the public can rely I'pon, and he is the man, too, that will make good use of these opportunities Toietkt B ode. Henry C. Lea, the Philadelphia vithor and publisher, spends his life iu his great library, and not only writes books that have given him world-wide fame, but maintains his activity in advocating wise reforms in municipal affairs His recent gener ous gift of $-1)0.000 to the Philadelphia library for the extension of its accom modations for the public in its building at Juniper and Locust streets is a characteristic act. Mr. Lea's son's have long since taken his place in the management of the great publishing house founded by his grandfather, largely built up by his father, the learned naturalist, who died a year aao. .... . JOB PRINTING. Job Printing Done on Sliort Fotics. Lesral Blanks, BuaineM Cards, Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Circulars, Posters, 2to. Execated ia food atyl and at loves Bviof nrlsaa. HOW TO RAISE CATTLE. (sn't Attempt It Cnleas To Are WllOsur co Work Uaro, We should endeavor to make a calf ?ain every day of its life. I do not raise many cattle, but buy and fat quite a number during the year. Last winter I fed fourteen head of two-year-old steers I weighed them every month for five months The average ain per day was po and from the time I took them off from the pasture until the 1st of March. They had no hay, only corn and stalks I fed the fourteen head 8 bushels of corn per lay daring this time, and after that, hay and not so mnch corn There are a few fixed principles that a farmer should keep in mind. First, that it takes a certain amount of food to supply the waste of the system. If the animal is merely fed what will sup ply this waste dur ng the winter? We have made no rofit, but the addition of a small amount of ftod will give cs a profit- Another thing that requires our attention is the warmth and shel tering of our cattle. It is equivalent to food, for one of the purposes of food is to maintain anima! heat and food used for that purpose will not add muscle or fat. Therefore the warmer we keep oar cattle the more they will repay ns for the food they eonsume by potting on more f!?h. The old saying is: "An animal well wintered is half summered." I find cattle well wintered and fed so as to make a little gain every day will be gin to gain rapidly when turned out to pasture in the spring, and before the half-starved one has shed its old hair the well-fed one will be good beef. Another essential thing is properly watering onr cattle. I bePeve onr windmills are a great detriment to the health of cattle. The water is so cold that they can not drink It without hav ing the toothache. If they do manage to get some down they stand haruped np all day in the fence corners, trying o keep their teeth from falling otst. My cattle will not drink out of the tank, but will come for water freshly pumped out of the welL The better we feed and care for our cattle the bet ter the nurture pile will be. and the larger that is the better crops our far mers will produce, and the more they produce the more stock we can keep. A good many have said to me: I don't see how you can keep so many cattle and make it pay." With the markets the way they have been, for the past four years (I will take the past six years) I claim I have made more money, sri made it easier, out of what cattle I have handled than from any other branch of farming, and ray farm is ia better condition to-day than it was six rears ago- You can't say that of wheaL I have bought and sold during these fix years 101 bead of cattle. I received for them more than I gave. $2.14-5. ?2. an average gain of $2L 24 per head, and kept them from five to seven months Who made the most money, the man who raised and fed them two years, or I? Yon will say it was not ai! profit I think the manure will pay for the coarse fetd and yonr work. I did not feed them much gTAin; only to keep them growing, and turned them over to pasture in June; besides I usually winter from twenty to forty hogs after my cattle, with a small addition of corn, so I calculate the above figures to be nearly all gain. I do not think it pays to fatten cattle for the winter market; it takes too much grain. I am feeding shock eorn this winter, and like it very much. I was a little prejudiced against it at first, for I had an idea they would mass it over and pick out the corn and leave the fodder, but they eat it np clean. Next season I shall plant fifteen acres thicker than com mon, on purpose for cattle. It is a great saving, as two men can tie np ten acres in two days; so it saves the ex pense of husking, drawing corn and carrying it from the corn-house to feed. 1 have been experimenting this winter with cutting stalks that I feed in the barn, and am well pleased wi h it One eommonsized load will make S0O bush- els after it is cut I feed it at night a? ter the cattle have eaten their shock torn, giving them a bushel a piece. I feed twenty-seven bushels at night, and in the morning there is not over one or one and one-half bushel left in their mangers. One other thing I wish to speak of is kindness Do not throw elnbs and scare your eattle half to death if they dont happen to get out of your way; make it a point to go around them if they are lying down in the yard, and not give them a kick. I have two steers now that I bought thia fall that have been mauled so much that their eyes stand right out of their heads and every time they go into the stall they will crouch down expecting to get a pounding. If you don't like to take care of cattle don't raise them, because you can not make it a success J. 11. Lane to Wisconsin Insti tute. Satisfactory Explanation, "What is ih matteT - yon: asked a Washington la'?v a.idreieg her husband, who h&a come home late at night D I look as if any thing ia the matter?" Yes. you keep nodding all the time. There yon go again. Why. you can't keep you eyes open." Til tell you why." he said, with an ffrt. "I attended the au hor read i.tg" Arkansaw Traveler. The Advice of a Sage. A young man who was abont to start in business on Michigan avenue, went to an old retired merchant the other day to secure business advice. "How much cash have you got?" was the blunt inquiry. About $300." And how much stock will jou put in?" "About $2 000." 'Urn! Then your first move roust be to engrave your name on a flag stone in front of your store; your next to paint your signs on all tSe fences for ten miles around the city.' And why, oh. Sage?" "That the public six months hence may recall the fact that you weut into business instead of going into a luna tic asylum! Good morning. auT Detroit Vee - - I