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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1890)
Among the Daisied. A THAMe'S SOl.Il.OQUV. w hen the tmtnrrtiea come In the mcilder an' t inaKe It ail ycller IIK poM. An the t1'ir otit n tin- luster (row white aa thev slim iy linl.ili. Aa" tne mliln snV it. is mttnln', au' the fuller lilnl pimMciis the tin hi. Or i hp miii overhaul sni ucoikIiiv, or the whtpiKHii-Hiil ihh ithtuhd.t, W heu tin' brcetes aotily meander out over the niedder which she Hack the tcrfiinn of Sirinu Jnlnln" Summer, oh then It's blesshr ter live An' ilream as the I om-s s'lp by. An' deep In the cloven tin To watt for the drery rustle o' the brown leaves by-aa'-by. Oh folks mm- call me laxv, tin' good fiir Just nothln' Ht nil Hut to li out In ihe mottln'-lot where the daisies rise ami full An' no! an' blush a murmnrln', "GotHl for nothln' "! hut jnt Losftir, takln' life easy while other gather theUitst; But when roses borrow a fiupntne-) fn)in the air, distil It an' jdve It bak with a double sweetnew, oh then t la a blessin" ter live IVtwn mhtst ti e flower o denr. In the !utmner itm o' the vear, r while other ure plow in- uie under, I'm hvin' the daisitw hero Tea, be. an' holes may Ira full ot Ire hide I'm twnnliesa mav iimpi) in mv coiUs, But If I've had little fur breakfast the m u ir real hoick O' tli boh-o-ihik an' the sparrow, an drank o' the mystlt-al vtt O" the Summer air p-rown ilrowgc, an' me out o the neat In the shade o' the beeches an' maples, when Elves do the the buhn' o' men, Closln' my eyes an' whispcrln'! "Let them think w hat they will, un' then Let them wonder out. over the lea, Wbith you an' the hlrds an" see If ever ajntln they'll wonder how a lazy tramp can be." Good Housekeeping. -MARKIED FOR MONEY. Mrs. Estes looked at her frieud Mrs. Haslitt a moment and laughed a very - sweet peal of laughter, indeed. "I believe" her line eje brows went op a little "I really believe yes that yen are in love with vour hus band! You, Beatrice How-land!" The younger woman flushed, then smiled.perhaps a little bitterly. Is it so very extraordinary if I am?" : "Verr." . - . . . Mrs. Estes got up with a rustle of soft silk. She was a very pretty little wo man; one who still looked very young. In her "set" what woman ever ceased to look young until she was quite, quite old? She was a divorcee. The fact obliged her. as she herself said, some what plaintively, to be very careful. Standing near the heavy hangings of the drawing-room door, she glanced back. Yes, Beatrice was handsomer than she had ever been. It was not the marvelous tea-gown alone. The surrounding of. probably, the most magnificently beautiful drawing-room in town did not produce the illusion, either, though these things were potent. "Yes, you nre in love with your hus- uami, Laura repeated, softly, evenly. "You, who married for money just for money. Think of it!'' Beatrice Haslitt flushed again; "Oh, my dear, we both did that. I think," she replied, coolly. "Only your marriage was not quite so suc cessful as mine." - Would the woman never leave her alone? Her visits, though thev were not frequent, threw Arthur Haslitt' s wife .into a nervous agitation that would last, carefully repressed as it was for hours. Ah, bah! What did it-signify, after all? Laura was a dis appointed woman. Laura poor Laura had been a little envious al ways. Why should she. Beatrice Has litl. mind what the other might sav? rthur Haslitt'a wife could afford to be generous. She had everything everything-. A little cathedral clock in a farther room tolled the hour, and at the mo ment the hangings of the doors were pushed aside. The color deepened in her cheek. Daintily, with the coquetry of a happy woman, she advanced to ward her husband. His back was' turned toward the light. She did not see his"" face. Close upon - him Bhe paused and raised her own, all the glory 01 us ueamy. an me nusu ot tier love "Artharr With a little langh (she thought it was a jest) she caught the laiiels of his eoat in her jeweled hands and shook nis playfully. 1nen for the first time Arthur liashtt moved. She saw his race, and she staggered back. "Arthur!" sharply, this time. "No more comedies. please."he said. The woman gave one glance into his eyes and understood, it had come; her past was about to face her. With out removing her eves from his. she saDk into a chair. If he would only not be so calm! She shivered. "We will make this scene as brief as possible," said Arthur Haslitt. '-It is not necessary for me to remark that I am perfectly aware that men are married every day for their money. It is not thought a crime. I happen to to think differently. For years I sought a woman who could" not be bought, v You lied so successfully that I thought my supreme ideal had been found in you. A letter written before our marriage and sent me to-day has opened my eyes to the truth. The toonmous hand who dealt the blow I despise. The proof of my own humili ation I cannot refuse to believe. The letter was apparently written to some foolish lad who loved you. whom you perhaps loved in return, but to whom yon preferred Arthur Haslitt because he had thousands, and you were tired . -of poverty. My lawyer will inform you in the course of a few days of the monetary arrangements made in your behalf. J I think you w ill find them ample. I shall myself have left within half an hour. Beatrice had not stirred a muscle. She sat there still, after he had gone, perfectly motionless. The rumble of carriages over the stones of the street came to her ear. The nearer stillness was unbroken. Suddenly the cathe dral chimes give one deep, bell-like note. The half-hour! - Frantically she started to her feet and touched the bell. The servant apieared. Mr. Haslitt tell him I wish to see him immediately!" The impassive face before her did not move. Mr. Hashlt has been gone a few minutes, maciame. ' Gone! A narrow lane, a wooden ffbrch with the paint chipped off. a little chill sit ting room, where a woman sat em broidering by the failing light. This was the picture Mrs. Estes car ried away with her when she went back to town. She was a woman whose nerves were iron. Hai they been less, they might quivered a little now. As it was, Laura Estes thought only "What a fool!" What fool had Beatrice Haslitt been to give up everything to which she was entitled as "Arthur Haslitt's wife. Of course, it had been done to show her husband that money was as naught to her . after all. But it was Laura Estes' opinion that she might as well have spared herself such a self sacrifice. Arthur Haslitt was not soeasilr won -cfc. No,-nor SO easily won. either! md here the womau'seyes grew derk. Was all her scheming to be in vaiuP J. wo years she had been in Paris now, and Haslitt had been there also. But she was no nearer to her goal. And what was her goal? Her divorce had been pending when she first met hur Haslitt. She had then and determined that so soon as she - e she would marry him. She loved any one in all, her ' life: but she loved him. She facet f hint When lie married Beatrice Howlaml It hud been a blow which she had sworn to herself mulling would ever make her forget or forgive. She would sep arate them sho Mould lorcn him to loe her! Women there me as un scrup.ilouM us this, and ue un-et theiu rer) d.iv. '1 hey w ear n smiling faet, and who Mip et I leniV Mrs. Kic mm-, i'oiiijf toi' e Imll ilmt night, ll.r n. a id on her care fully as u-ii.il. M.ie uiiiv j.Mvels in her hair, lb rexes tic. c.c.,i. hcr color lovely. There was no prettier woman present. One man's eyes watched her care fully, ceaselesfy, ns she moved about the room. He did not auproach her yet; he bides his lime, and toward the close of the nilit it came. , Mrs. Estes looked up, to see a tall, grave man standing before her. For an instant the lovely color fluctuated. "Frauk Gordon! "My dear cousin, yon here? The world thought you tn 1'atagonia.or heaven knownVhefe!-' "I have relumed. Will von upt give me a little of tour society?" He stood wailing. Laura passed her hand under his arm. Hevoud the sup per-room was a small conservatory; he led her directly there, with a steady smile. "Dear me! how dramatic toll look!"' she half sneered. Gordon paid no heed. He was still a very young man; but there was those lines in his face that come onlv from suffering. "Six months ago," he. began, "1 met iu South Africa a friend of Arthur Haslitt. From him I heard of his sep aration from his wife. The cause was understood to be a discovert- on Has litt's part that his wife had married him for his monej-. Magnificent fel low as Haslitt was, no one wa sur prised, for that one sensitive point of his amounting almost to a mania, was known. On returning home a month ago. it became necessaay for me to look over a chest of old papers I had left behind on goingto South America. Among them was a little bundle of let ters very precious to me. There were only three or four short notes and one letter, to be more accurate. That one letter was gone!" Yes, Laura Estes' nerves were iron; but this was too unexpected. Her cousin looked into the haggard face and read the confirmation of his sus picion there, "And you." he went on "you took it! Jo one they told me, had access to the house but von. And vow sent it to Arthur Haslitt. The remembrance flashed upon me that his friend down there in South America had said some thing about a letter. It was a clever plan, Laura yon always were clever." He turned a"nd left her a crouching, fierce-eyed creature, the delicate touch of rouge ou her lips looking ghastly in contrast with with her livid cheeks. , . "Mr. Haslitt has just returned from Europe. He sees no one." said the clerk, "except on very particular busi ness." "This is a particular business." A few moments later ("onion was nsnVred into Arthur H.tslitt's presence. He knew him by sight, though the kuowledge was not mutual. Could two years have made the change in him he saw? Why not? What had the last three years been to himself? "My name ts Gordou." said the younger man. "I am a cousin of Mrs. Estes." Haslitt bowed. A flash of light went over Arthur uasiitt a lace. '"Then I think we can have nothin much to say to each other." . .L ' . . I .... -oiay: ne nave, mucin You re- ceived a letter addressed to rue. It is but right you should see this one well. It has never left me for three years. It was written, observe, after me nrst." The second teller lav Iwforw Arthur tiaslitts eyes the second letter in his wiles handwriting addressed to the same man. For an instant there was a savage impulse upon him to spurn it, to tread it under foot. Then sani ty, 6ome measure of common sense, triumphed. He raised the letter with a band that shook. CATS AND RABIES. Kllllnr tha lr Whloli Mlir a I'erson T tha Wrong. VIiIiir . !). be- "IBX Frank: . We have beea frood friends tiCTuiin.-c b were emioren, ami so t tnut uru w yon now. ou lia ve been f(X)!i-h eooug-n io tninx that you caret! lor mi In at- uturr way; um you win reel dint-Tvui y wime m-y , uu meantime, wniie 1 can never ve v as you mean. I shall always care for you ni "J I nrnii. i wrote vou a lelt-r lot so lonr afro when you flivt asked rite to tnarry you. Do you rt-member? In 1( 1 t..li)..t:l would never marrv anv but a rieli hu-l.aii I i waseo weary of Uii.-j (imr. N.v.v. 1 BuiiiciuuiK cry umt-jwii to s:iy, a."..t I mv ,t uibi you may Know iiiat it is not ( vcrty U.t kept me from lovlnir you. This man. whom I first thought of marry hiir onlv tar money this man. Frank. I have come so to love that now should he ask me to to:low him barefoot irom aoor to uoor tlirourh tne world. I would fro, and think myfe:t liai i-ier than any queen. too not say tins to lm:t you, poor boy; but that you may do me a little Justice in spite of mean nit cnmiiiii; louy or my ist words. UK ATUI. E. "That you may tice." do me a little jus- The paper floated from Arthur Has litt's hand to the floor. A bare little hou.e on the outskirts of a suburban vHlage. and a woman embroidering by the failing light. The light grows more and more dim before the night shadows ' and by and by the tired eyes turn away ami the hands drop listlessly in the lan. Oh, the weary years that stretch lie fore! Beatrice Haslitt lavs her head back, and between the half-closed things burns that cannot drop. J here is a snap of a -!osiur o-atc n step on the walk, a hand Oil I hi drwit It is Half-open. Some one enters. Hp:,. trice for the first time looks no. "Beatrice! My wife! Forgive!" Thumb-Nail I'loturea. In collections centuries old, to be seen both m China and Japan, are specimens of the most remarkable drawings in the world pictures of all kinds drawn with the thumb-nail. The nails of the thumb on the left hand ot these peculiar artists are allowed to grow to an enormous length, some times to a foot or eighteen inches, and are then pared down to a pen-shaped point. Dipping this oddly constructed pen in beautiful vermillion or sky-blue ink. the only kinds of ink used in those "sacred" thumb-nail dratviugs, the artist gracefully outlines his work. Occasionally the bold touches from the studio of a master in this department of "high art" are life size, and are sketched by a few sweeps of the artist's arm. - Like other pictures and sketches of the orient these sacred thumb-nail fiictures are mounted and rolled up ike scrolls, St. Louis Republic. "Traveiinjc StoAes." The curious "traveling stones" of Australia are paralleled in Nevada. They are described as being perfectly round, about as large as a walnut;. aud of an ivory nature. When distributed about on the floor, table, or any othur level surface w ithin tw o or three feet of each other they immediately benn traveling toward each other until thev ! meet at a common centre and there huddle up in a bunch, like eggs in a nest. A single stone renu. ved to a distance of four feet, upou Ix-iuo- re leased, returns to the heap, but if taken away five feet remains motion less. It is needless to say that they are largely composed of magnetic iron ore. Do not permit a too faniilinrit v tween t our eats and do;;s. i in toruier are nil right nnd w on't gel rabies, unless they me bitten by one in men- nniuiMi enemies. So, at least, say Dr. Giluer. chief of the New l oi'K 1 asienr Institute, mid when he talks about h dropholoa other ier- are epecien to stand irom omler. 1 he occasion for this assurance of the hydrophobic safety of cats was a case whic i Dr. (Jibier received last Wednesday, in w hich a woman about 30 years oid was bitten by a pet cat ami came lo the physician for treat meet. 1 lie luting occurred about leu days be lorn, and from the woman's tie senption of the cat's action the Doctor had no question that the animai was siiiiering irom rabies. In fact, the cat tlied from them three days aflcr the luting. The patient, whose name is withheld ny request, described Ihe bilingashav lug occurred w hile she w as attending to her Housework. llu cat, which had always lieen a pet, was seized with spasm and rushed about the room with her tail greatly enlarged and the hairs t-i isiling ou her back. She. suddenly ... i - . . . . . moppcu, ami aner crouching on the floor sprang at her mistress' throat 1 . . . r .i. i . . . . , . . i.icctaiiiig me tatter s snouitiers very severely with her teeth. The wounds were cauterized. t x ue. cat rusneu into a closet and re mained three days in rapid! v succeed ing spasms, (lying with every evideuce of hydrophobia. The victim was of a nervous temper ament and was prostrated. When she caned upon lr. Gibier.she had already reached the dangerous period for the development of the disease and she was inoculated with a greater quantity of the virus than is usual in the first treat ment. Ihe patient received other in ocnlations yesterday roornino- and evening and expressed herself as being much quieter anil stronger. i no nonor is comment that his patient w ill not sutler seriously from her experience. I asked the doctor.on behalf of those women whose affections can be only contented with a feline, whether there was danger from cats contracting nines "niiuiu naving oeen miien bv a dog. lie replied in the negative. "IJogs are the only animal who actual ly generate the disease." he said, "and so there need not lie any fear of an epidemic of hydrophobia from all the cats going mad. Should a dor bite a cat and that cat go about biting other cats, there might Im some danger, lie- cause cats are kept more w ithiu houses man are tiogs. 'the t real men t for this case, which is the nrst that has lieen brought to mv attention while Iu this country, will !. exactly similar to those of dog bites. The poison is the same iu all cases aud int? auimoie is me same, ihe patient ...mi I..- :.. ..i . . t . . iu w: itiocuiateu lor the required fifteen day. and then will be considered sale. ' i rames. as manifested in e.n appear differently than in dos?" I asked. "I he symptoms." th Doctor replied. .... ii.. . I. . - 1 fie iicuctotit me same in very im portant aspects, but cats are more fierce ana their excitement much greater. 1 nev have a fashion of ormn . i.;- t-neatis, too, when thev are dangerous. ami ot course show the usual trailing saliva which the contractions of the inroat compel to be ejected." t: I. t i . . . .. - i . ... ... u'iuuiu a cat til ,tlK tlniJC WTItelt & ra ma nog has lasted . . I dropped saliva in, the former might contract raoies. "The whole thing resolves itself into this, said the Doctor; "without do3 vou won t get hydrophobia, and so the best way to stamp out the disease is tor Americans to do as Is done in Northern Germany that is, keep the dogs muzzled all the time in the cities and also in the country. Then vou .-am. ei uie raoies. i ne most insane thing for persons who are bitten to do is to kill the animal. If thev shoot the dog how are thev to tell whether it has rabies or not? Let it live, and then if it dies with hydrophobic symptoms mere is aeciueti reason why you should rake ail seientihc safeguards to save yourself from a similar fate." A. I Herald. DESTRUCTION CF FORESTS. Bad KRaets of ThU Vand illmn on tha Cli mate of tha Country. Floods, cyclones and droughts belong iu tun euiute laititiy. i ue ax is intnerui inem an. unman stupidity is their mot her. Nature is no more to blame for them thau the blind earth which thn dig rer under mines till it falls ou hint. l ne ax Kins trees. Willi the trees unco mo snow s oi wmicr melt more Itiickly under the rain and snow of early spring. With the trees killed wamps, fallen logs and leaves that once heid back the waleix for months no longer act. Ihe water, rush to their main al outlets without oppos uou. i no rapid transit of Ihe witters clogs the great natural channels, and they orerllow Into new ones, carrying devastation wherever thev rush. "The more the nt 1 used the higher rise the waters. , Had goes on to worse. The nd no human wit can foretell. l he destruction of the forests has ruminated the principal factor in mod "i "' A "' mot einciii ot I lie nlr cur rents, accord tig to the Cleveland Press. Like the trade winds ou the ocean, the air currents over sections denuded of lorests llow freely and persistently for long periods without change. As mange is necessary in the movements of the air in order to have change iu the rainfall, it follows that persistency in mi- mi-reius caused uv lorest dC' structlon means long "spells" of drv ness at one period and long "spells" of wet at another. Thus floods are some. times aggravated as much by unusual wet "spells" as by the rapid transit of mo waters to their natural channels in consequence of conditions just men tioueu. Vi heu both pauses conjoin terrible floods are inevitable. Destruc tive droughts must follow excessive rainf ills, for the average rainfall varies out little from year to year in a giren locality. An excess at one time means a scarcity at another. 42- . I.. - . ou, tuu, cii-ioues. like simoons, im only possibly where enormous areas of country uubroken bv forests eist. Tk. ... : .. I . i. x uc nuiua gamer lorce as tney go, or rather freedom to move easily, which means that they will go quicker than if obstructed, a point of refraction means mat me surrounding atmos phere will rush in to restore equilibri um. If there is uothing to oppose the oucomiug nir. it win move rapidly. I he forest is the greatest of modifiers to Wind-storm, holdui'r them l....lr and checking them, and, doing so, tend to modify sudden and rapid cases of rarefaction. I he Hood, drought and ct clone, ad monish the people of the United Statea to oe wise, if they heed not t in ad. mnnitiou they must pay the penalty. l'l. 1 7 1. .. . spectacle presented in me vai era oi me siississippi and its tributaries aud along the track of the cyclone that devastated Louisville should be enough to cause some serious thinkin!?. These sjM'etacles can be excelled. Give the ax time and bribe it to do its uttermost ami horrors now seen will be mercies compared with horrors that will inev itably ioiiow. A Nation of Tea-Drinkcra. A Ktory of Mnv Cleveland. An old days. flame The light of other a . . . . ai one or airs, need s commence ments I remember an interesting ad dress made by Bishop Fottor to the graduating class. He forebore the old time theme of their sphere, their first duty to their ow n homes, their useful ness m society. He said: "Make the world somewhat different because of your presence in it! Do not Pattern aner mose around you. Kather stamp . i . -, . . .. .. jourowu individuality upon them." oiutt ami nousense. whispered an old society lady to me. "Individualit v forsooth! As soon as thev wake up to morrow morning thev will studv the Wall street calendar am find out what oung member of the stock exchange it will be worth their while to le agree able to." I gave her one of mvsaintliest looks I thought her altogether horrible and o she was. Beside me sat a lady whom I recor nized at once as being a polite French woman, to whom I might lie civil without the chance of a rebuff nnd taking refuge from the blase, old Mrs. Worldly-wise, I ventured a pass ing compument to the beautv of the girls and their interesting exhibition. Ah, madanie." she answered, "the American girls are charming and good! I have taught them, madame. Thev know how to be e-raeious " You know the world is a lookinir. glass,"' I insinuated. Ihe little bit of tlattcrv warmed her into confidence and she told m ah had taught the young wife of the late Democratic President. When I heard she had arrived in New York en route for her weddinr I took her a'little bunch of w hite roses. Uid you not read, madame. that sho carried white roses in her hand when sne leit lor W ashington P Those were my roses! When I gave them to her 1 said: "Quel bonheur pour vous. Frankie! Le President! Le President.'" " Ce n'est pas Le President.' she 6aid. -C'est un homme honnete!' She had the great soul to think most of this." Alpha, in Home Journal. Queen Victoria's Old Age. Queen Victoria at the age of seven ty-one is a very plain old lady, and she was by no means good-lookinr muiy years ago, wnue she was still in the prime of life. She suffered a great deal from attacks of erysipelas, which reddened and coarsened her skin. She lost her teeth very early in life, owing to the use of a camphorated dentifrice to which she took a great fancv and which proved most pernicious." But from her accession at the age of eight een till she was twenty-five or twenty six the Queen was a very pretty j-oung woman, fresh and fair, with soft I.Iua eyes, a small, rosy mouth and the loveliest arms and shoulders imagina ble. Her lack of height was always a great drawback, and was the cause of her delighting in giving grand fancy costume balls, at which she was wont to appear in a court toilet of the eighteenth century, the high-heeled shoes which must perforce be worn w ith such a dress lending a very be coming addition to her stature Lon don Letter. What au English home would lie without tea, I cannot imagine. What England itself would be without that beverage, it is dillicult to conceive. It is no exaggvratiou lo say that one might as well try to faucy New York City w ithout a bar-room. They drjnk enough liquor in Etisrl.nnl. Ifeaioo knows enough to flout our navv. lint the liquor-drinLing i incidental" while tea-drinking is apparently essential the national life. " Where' we see ad vertisements f patent, medicines in America, they sce'it.lvci -tiscinent n tea." "Woiule'rfiil tea" "IVtlon Tea" these words stare at ihe British from every (lead-wall, on every "bus. in ev ery newspaper, and no foreigner can escae the actual substance ur fluid any more th tn the native can avoid the advertisements. You have tea for breakfast, tea for luncheon, tea at late supper, lou only miss it at dinner. but meanwhile vou have had it at live o'clock. If you call ou vour banker in his office. on your frieud" iu his home. on your fellow-lodger in vour hotel, he rings a bell, and tea is brought iu with tliiii slices of buttered bread, or, if ladies are present, with larts. W hy. the editor of one of the prin cipal newspapers iu England lold me tnat every man-jack in his establish ment clerks, reporters. publishers and editors has i. a at lite o'clock ev ery day as sure as that hour arrives. And it is a most excellent practice " said he. sippiug from his own cm, his tlelightlul hcine; "for it brinirs nil the people together as itothiu-' else could do. and we find oul from one no. other just what each one has been do ing or is going to do during the day." jea: tea: tea: , as ever a nation so involved? W hatever thev do. where. ever t.iey go. I hey have their lea. There is no C ommodity or habit in America lo liken to that in England. Thev can uoi eai wimotit it. visit without it. .isst-moie at nouic without it, picnic wiiuouiii, or attend to business with out it. Aud such tea! 1 hey say w Amer icans tlo not know tvhat tea is. If thev w, we cei laniiv o not. for never nave 1 tasted such lea as 1 got nearly everywhere in England such biting, strong, uerve-niurderiii"'. sleeo-tlrs. pel ling, th ug-like tea. 1 had to w eak en it at least one-half, anil theu I round it aromatic and pleasant that is to say, as nearly pleasant as that sick . ... i . - loom iiecocuon ever can be to a mas culine, coffee-drinking American Julian Ualph. tn Harper's Weekly. MISSING LINKS. Mr. Justice Lamar has received the degree of LL. D. from I'.mory College, Georgia." Queen Natalie of Servia has had her life insured for f '."00.000 for the benefit of her son. A colored mau nt Albany. Ca.. lias served no less than tweutv-one terms 'n jail for lighting. Mr. Gladstone, despite - his vast wealth, is almost penurious in per sonal matters. He 'wears his clothes until they nro threadbare, shiny, and shabby. The Duke of Edinburir. besides lelnT a clever violin player, is au enthusias tic postage-stamp" collector. All Him members of the roval family have cer tain hobbies. Lord Tcunvsotl Is an ei-.tliiishisl!.. friend of all birds that fly. A friend lunching with him the other day re lates the poet's indignation on henrinir that a hawk had been shot. " The Duke of Fife is deenlv interenled In Otie Of the Companies now enrarr...l In exploiting Eastern Africa. Besides this, he Is oue of the largest owners ol founders' shares In London. Sir Ed w in Amohl has been offered 1100,000 for his new poem of 6.000 lines, and if ho understands the sci ence of finance as applied to his own poeketbook he will take the money. Ex-Senator Fair, according tn thn Jewish I'roqrcss. of San K "has so much regard for the tireneni of Judaism that he is contemplating an early entrance into the path that leads T..lr 10 tiuuaisin. The Chinese Emperor has lust con ferred upon the shade of the late Mar quis Tseng the brevet title of "Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent." It is only the heir that is apparent in the combination. Catherine Mevers. a vniinir lad of Virginia, spent some lime with her brother's family in Philadelphia, and became so infatuated with citv life that she committed suicide rather than re turn to her home. Tasteur has treated durinc the last tnree years 7.n.l persons h i ten bv mt.l dogs, ami of this number onlv thirty thiee died. These figures "seem to overcome the theory that the Pasteur treatment is not effective. Gen. N. B. Forrest, who was a llsht. n iioin w ay oacK in me lie Pel armv, but whose early education had been sadly neglected, once remarked that success in battle largely depended upon "getting there first with the mostest men." Abraham Emerson, of Caudia. N. II is the sou of a soldier who fought at Bennington: and is 90 years ofd. In spite of that great age he is in excel lent health and is uncommonly spright ly. He may any day be seen at work on his farm. Toscanelli has published a uamnhlet In which he states that last year the Po was about leaving Borne w ith the assistance of France, when he was I warned by the Italian Government i that the atican palace would be ei. ed and occupied the hour he vacated it. The Princess Louise has more skill than an Indian in handlin? a canon and often lands without assistance a salmon weighing as much as thirty pounds. When she kills a particular ly line fish she carefully ttacka it in !. and sends it to her royal mother, the Queen. King Humbert's decreased allowaneA of cigarettes has improved the condi tion of his melancholia. This lesson should not be lost on the vouth of the period, w ho could decrease the mel ancholy otherwise adjacent to them, so to speak, by letting up on cigarette smoking. most interesting old mansions in Scot" land, w here Mary Quoen of Scots wj lodged during her. progress through the uorlhcrn counties iu l.'iU'J. Capt. Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea, Mass., can claim honors ns au excellent swimmer, though lie Is 83 rears old. He was tisiiing a friend. Dr. A. 8. Davis; of Islcsboro, Me., and when ready to lake thn Belfast steamer found that the only boat available from shore had iis mooring- line caught, lie promptly stripped, swam lo tiio boat, cleared her tiwur." anil C0TTRELLS IN FLORIDA. A Ju.lco Who Had tha Interest or tha Htata at Heart. DICKENS AS A DINER. His Prlda In Making- a Certain Dclletoa Oln rnoeh, '. rowed lo the shore. Rear, Cattle, and Itulldog. A few days ngosnys aScranton (Pa.1 lotlcr to the N. Y. bun. Charles and Robert Klple, thrifty Monroe county farmers, brought up" a lot of young cattle on the Pocona plateau, and started to drive them to their farm in the neighborhood of Kunkletown. A brindled bulldog accompanied ' them. Ihree miles south of Honser's mills the cattle came to a halt and partly turned around, and the men had all they could do to keep them from stampeding After they had got the cattle headed right again they saw what had caused the scare. A few rods away an old she bear was sitting in the road, and on each side of her there was a cub, and all three of them were looking at the frightened cattle. The young men couldn't get the drove to budge from where they were, so ther sent the don ahead to drive the bear "family out of the road. The dog bounded forward, and when the bears saw him eomin" they got down on all fours aud stared at him. making no move to get out of the way. Instead of pitching at the old bear the bulldog collared oms of the cubs and began to drag it toward the log fence, bu'. he hadn't gone far with tlus squealing little brute before the mother bear tackled him aud made him let go. That waked the bnlldo" up and he whirled nod got a hold on the oldnbear's flank. The cults van. ished like partridges while their mother was raging and trying to shake the dog off. aud for a minute the old bear and the dog had it hot and heavy from one side of the road to the other. Finally the bulldog settled bis teeth into the lears nose, and the noise and efforts she made to fling him away ex cited the curiosity of the cattle to such a pitch that they set up a bellowing rm cantering toward the belligerents with heads and tails in the air. The young men hurried after the drove, intending to keep it on the move until it had passed the bear, but the ringleaders halted as soou as they had reached the fighters, and the whole procession had to stop. Just then the old ear shook the dog loose from her bleeding nose and threw him over the fence. She then started for the opposite side of the road, but the ringleaders headed her off. and a moment later the whole herd was bellowing furiously and en deavoring to get a whack at the bear. J hen the dog returned, and the cattle separated, when he again tackled the bear and got a broken back from one of her paws. Before the cattle had time to close up their ranks Charles Kiple dashed ahead of them and tired five revolver-bullets into the bear's head. 'I lien the young men w hipped the drove iuto a run aud left the dead dog aud the dead mother bear lvin" by the roadside. " " Am Ma njr Liivea as a Cat. He Understood Coons. Bob H. is a stable-keener no in Vetv ii ,. . . .... . liampHuire. uou is also quite a coon hunter and keeps a pair of coon doo-a. which he thinks are not to be beat. One night some parties caught a line coon alive anil brought it to Jlob's stable and put it iu a barrel. Bob brought out the dors to show what. they would do with Mr. Coon. The barrel was tinned down on thn sid and one of the dogs told lo take him out. The coon was not in Ihe mood to come out just then, ami Zip p-ot the worst of it and could not take, him out. Old Zack was brought up and told to take him out, and in went his head. The coon was there, and after a des perate lussel the dog gave up the job as a bad one. Ihe crowd here became jubilant over the defeat of Bob's dogs. Just then Farmer II. came alono-iuid asked. "What's the matter?" On be- ug told he said, "That 'enlo'r of mine cau take him out," pointing to a cross between a shepherd aud lust dot for the other part. "Bet you $o0 he can't." says Bob. "I guess "l can kiver that; put up Ihe pictures," the old man sava aud to Bob's astonishment out cam, the greenbacks. The money was out in a third party's hands. Oti time be ing called. Farmer H. takes his do--by the collar and head and backs hiuiTuto the barrel. When he conies in con tact with the coor. the coon iusffastens to the dog's rear. With a howl of as tonishment the dog gives a jump, and out comes Mr. Coou la-fore he knews what's up. The dog turn on him, and before he gets over his astonishiueut he is a goue coou." "Well, I never squeal, old man." says Bob. "The money is yours. But I'll be hanged if there ain't more than one way to't'-ct a coon out of a barrel." Forestand Stream. In France the copyright of an authoi is for life. Gen. W. T. Sherman's annual s.abirv as General uf the Arm-, which ofllce has been abolished and which title will die with him. is 115.000. II has no duties to perform and a clerk to help him to perform them, which makes it 3uite pleasant for the old hero in bis eclining years. Sig. Arrigo, the Italian banker just ransomed from Sicilian banditti for the round sum of t2".0n0 in gold, says that his captors kept him iu the bottom of a dry well, where thev furnished him regularly with foot!. At the end of a certain time, unless ransomed, he was tn be killed. Baron Liebig, the German chemist. ays that as much flour as will lay on the iMiiut of a table-knife contains as much nutritive constituents as eight pints of the best beer matle. All of w hich may be true, but beer will cou- linue to have the call over a pinch of notir ior general purposes. Prof. Burt Wilder of Cornell Is mak iug a collection of brains. He wants brains other people's. He is especial ly desirous that editors should leave their brains to him w hen thev go iuto the obituary department. Biit by the lime the average editor dies he has al most used them up in the service of humanity. Senator Evarts has recently pur chased and fitted up at considerable cx jieuse a commodious log cabin on the minks of the Potomac adjacent to Fort Washington ami opposite Mount Ver non. Besides this establishment thn Senator has residences at Montpelicr, Vt., one in New York City, and one in Washington. Ida Lew is, at New pott, is the onlv womau lighthouse-keeper iu the Coun try, and the last, it is said, to whom will lie giveu a light by the Govern ment, it is said also that no light on all the coast is more perfectly attended to than is hers, and the Government Inspector always gives her au uu usual ly high report. Ward McAllister tells the fashionable youug men firmly, but kindly, that they must uot have valets. "No gen tleman should permit himself this sort of association," he says, aud there are those who dare suggest iu this connec tion the principle of self -preservation and the old saving that no mau is a hero to his valet. Olga Loubanouski, a young Russian of high birth, has started from St. Petersburg oji a journey to Odessa on norseiiacK'. She Is 19 years or age and has wagered 60.000 rubles on the ui. cess of her trip. She is accompanied by a committee charged with tho duty of seeing that the terms of the waer are complied with. The Rev. Charles Weston, a Wiscon sin minister, has married his wife, Stella Weston, nine times in nine years. Recently ho requested her to go through the ceremony for the tenth time, whereupon Mrs. Weston tiled suit lu Providence, R. I., and asks for a di vorce instead. She is -of the ouinion that the honeymoon ought not to have too long a run. Miss Margaret Alford. the vounv niece of Dean Alford. who has lost taken first rank as a classic at Cam bridge, has never found that sthdv in terfered with her health. She has studied about eight hours a day ou an average, and enjoys long walks and plenty of open-air exercise. She is also fond of music, and used to find time to practice the violin. The Duke of Fife continues to sell off his agricultural property and manors iu Scotland iu a way which indicates that he is pressed for cash. He has t'nst parted with the fine estate of tothiemay, which has on it oue ot the The blow of a bullet will ordinarily paralyse so many nerves and muscle" of a white man as to knock him down, even though no vital part be hit, The Indian gives little heed to such wouud9 and to "drop him in his tracks" the bullet must reach the brain, the heart or the spine. -I have seen an Indian go off with two bullets through his body," writes Colonel Dodge, "within an iuch or two of the spine, the only effect of which was to cause him to change his gait irom a run to a digni fied walk." A cavalry force of some twenty-five men surprised a small party of Indians in a thick chaparral, through which, however, there were numerous glades and opeuings. The Indians scattered at once, and the soldiers separated in pursuit. After some time, w hen the cessation of bring indicated that the affair was over, the commander had the recall sounded. Soon one and then another came, uotil the w hole command had assem bled, wheu, to the gratification of the officer, almost every man claimed to have killed an Indian. They went to collect the liodies. On reaching the first one it was found that nearly every soldier claimed to have killed him. A Sergeant dismounted and ap proached the body. The prostrate In dian roe up and dealt a vicious blow with his knife, which the Sergeant barely escaped. When the Indian was finally killed, it was discovered that he hud no less than seventy wouuds. One bullet, probably the first one, had broken his hip aud thrown him from his horse. After that he had shot at every soldier that passed near him. attracting attention and being "killed" again and again, only to rise up and light the next soldier who came along. Instead of twenty Indians the sol diers t u i I one. Notrel Way to Subdue Dogs. A gentleman w ho has had a good deal of experience in the man aire men t of dogs says that the most vicious brute can be conquered Seedily by any owcrfiil odor, especially a pun gent odor like ammonia. " He tells how he once won a wager ou haudling a dog that few-persons could approrchT It was in a little towu in Canada. The conversation being on the subject of dogs, the proprietor of the iuu where he was stopping laid a wager that his visitor could not put. his hands upon a dog chained tip iu tiie backyard. "All right," said the visitor, "but as a matter of precaution for the protec tion of my hands J w ill go up stairs and put on a pair of gloves. "I put ou a pair of old buckskin gloves." says the old gentleman in telling tho story, "and saturated the right hand w ith unimonin. We then went out lo the dog, and at mv ap proaching he rushed from his kennel with open mouth. As soon as he got w ithin reach I thrust out my haud. Instead of biting it he turned tail and ran into his kennel. Then I went to tho kennel, and. mittimr mv lmnd inside, made him come out again. The secret of the matter is that adog can't bite without drawing in his breath, and as he does so he inhales the ammonia, which partially suffocates him and subdues for the time bciug his bitiu' propensity. Some dogs may Iks su dned with cologne." AVio York Times. "A good deal of surprise,, has been expressed by newspapers," a man who has recently returned from Florida said to a N. Y. Tribune writer, "that thM fellow CottreH. the fighting mayor of Cedar Keys, should find ft possible to terrorize anl subjugate an entire town, as he is said to have done. To one who has lived in the small towns of the southern part of Florida tha situation is easily understood. There are, few exceptions to tho rule that the govern ment of any jieople is j ist about what a large clasri of the community is con tented to have it. This holds good, in my opinion, from the vast empire of Russia down to the little town of Cedar Keys. Ami I judge from the tyranr nieal policy pursued bv the "czar and thn outrageous boldness of the festiye Cotfrell that each has an equal ly large influential and admiring back ing iu proportion to the extent of his domain. "I have just been spending a winter iu a growing town near the gulf coast of a southern Florida county, where there is just such a clique in control of municipal affairs .as there must be in Cedar Keys. This clique is led by the county judge, however, and he main tains his authority, not by means of the shotgun, but "by the processes of the court. The rascally decisions he gives in trumpedup suits against the enemies of his gang would make dull read iug, as a rule, to any but those immediately interested in them, but oue case which I had him decide my self had a grotesque touch of humorjn it. "One of the supporters r.f the 'court house gang. as the clique is called. b I picked a quarrel, by persistent effort, with one of the opxnents of the clique, and had drawn a w icked-looking knife, of great length and keen edge, from his boot-leg. with which he attempted to stab his opponent The latter, see ing the knife, drew a revolver, lev eled it at the ruffian's head, and com manded him to put away his knife. The man did so and sneaked out of the store, where sceue occurred, without saying another word. In the course of ten minutes he came back with the sheriff and the towu marshal. They arrested the man who had drawn the revolver, lodged him in a horribly hot stifling jail, where clouds of mosquitoes and a wretched negro or two were his ouly companions, and there left him for the night. "The next day about noon he was brought before the judge and charged with carry ng t-oneea'ed and murderous weapons about his person, within the limits of the town. This is a con venient law for the court-house gang, who all go armed and never enforce the law except in regard to their enemies. The prisoner was fined 10. He paid it without saying a word, knowing how useless au appeal would lie. and then made a similar charge against his opponent for carrying the knife iu his bootleg. The knife was exhibited in court, and a most murderous-looking tool it was, fit lo carve a man s heart out, in fact; but the judge, who seemed also lo act as counsel for the accused member of his gang, ap pealed to the crowd in the room, as a sort of the jury, and said: 'Do 3 0U call this a murderous weapou? "Vo, feutlemen. this is a simple pruning nife. a peaceful tool of husbandry, a mere agricultural instrument. Fine a man for carrying the implements of his a vocation about bim? Never, gen tlemen. To punish a genleman for carrying a pruning-knife in Florida would be a blow at the great orange growing industry of this state, which it shall never be said I was the first man to strike. The charge is dismissed with fo costs to be paid by the com plainant." The Art of Past Walking. Persons who have never been trained to walk fast generally quicken their gait by bending foward ami lengthen ing the stride, at the same time bend ing the knees very much at each step. It is pretty safe to say that no one can possibly adopt this stile and keep a 1 tair wais at a iastergait than six miles an hour. The fast walker .must keep himself erect, his shoulders back, and his chest thrown out. He must pni down his forward foot and heel first. ana wnn the leg straight. He must take strides so quick that they' look short. He must, if he expects to get a good stride, work his hips considerably, overcoming the sidewise tendency of the hip movement by a compensatory swinging of the arms. The length of stride in fast walking is astonishing to those who look at it. A little figuring will make it clear why this is so. There are 1760 yards in a mile, or 1760 strides three feet long. To do a mile in 8 minutes a walker must cover 220 yards a minute, or 11 feet a second. Now 220 steps a minute nearly four a second is pretty quick work, as any one may discover for himself. Even three steps a second, or 180 to the min ute, seems quick. The chances are that your 8-minutes man, although bis legs move sp quickly that the steps seem short, is not doing as many as 200 steps to the minute, and conse quently that the stride is at least 3 feet 6 inches. With a little practice a man 6 leet high can easily maintain a 4-foot stride for half a mile. It is true that fast walking is an ar tificial gait; but it is also true that practice at fast walking will quicken a man's nnartificial gait. One who can do his mile in 7.30 in racing trim and on the cinder path, can walk in the street at a six-mile gait without either getting out of breath or becoming red in tho face, and without attracting at tention by any peculiarity of his gait except its swiftness. It is a real gain to any man to be able to walk a mile in ten or twelve minutes without over exertion or fatigue; to be able to walk five or six miles for every four he used to walk without any more consecious effort, and with a sence of enjoyment in the mere exercise that he never had before. The walking records at some ordinary distances stand: One 7 minutes. 20 5-8 seconds. F. P. ray; two miles. 13.48 3-5. F. P. ray; three miles, 21.09 1-5. F. P. ray; live miles, 38.0 5-8. W. II. Purdy; selen miles, 54.07. E. E. Merrill; ten miles. 77.40 4-4. E. E. Mrrrill. Walter Shirlaw, in Harper's Weekly. 1 s . ... f Dickens, savs John Hollingsheifd in bis lately published Majara Fprutf, was neither a gourmet nor a gour-..-y maridf llit,'. as a man' taking an ItrA' ' ' mense amount of tvalking exercise"- dally, he possessed a -healthy appetite, and was not ashamed of it. He was born and lived in the days of taverns and chop-houses, before the town - -was tilled with restaurants of French' or Italian origin. Ilis taste for good food. ? plainly cooked, may have been im" grained in him in his youth, but it wa- -kept alive by the three or four leading London taverns. The Garrick clui. ' probably owed to. him the introduction of a monster steak called the '-Garrick steak," adopted from America, wttr" . out acknowledgment, where it -known as the -porter house." i i Albion was his favorite tavern. - 'IW C old boxes with leather seats gave a semi-privacy to a small and select " party in the public eoffee-rom. and the endless procession of joints gave a varied ami substantial meal at a moderate price, without the trouble of ordering a seat dinner from a menu like a British museum catalogue. In his own house. r office, nt Household Words, where be bad a little dinner uj upper room, ne senrcrntr-exwiaEi show occasions, departed from his favorite simplicity. The chief ap proach to artificiality at these little banquets, was noticeable in a leg of mutton prepared in a manner not gen erally popular. The bone of the joint was taken out and the place supplied with veal stuffing and oysters, and the whole roasted ov baked in the usual fashion. The result, as it was cookeJ in the little kitchen at Household Words, was always a success; and if it had not been there was ample compen sation afterwards in the master's ' un rivaled gin punch. I verily believe that Charles Dickens was more proud of his skill i manu facturing this seductive compound than being the author of all his great works. The preparations for all this concoction (which I named "five shil lings and cost") were -simple and vet elaborate. First of all the jug was prod ucetl the vat or the receptacle of the brew. Theu came a plate and knives, then the lemons, the sugar basin, and then finally a large table napkin. In the meantime the kettle on the hob had prepared the boilioo water, and the bottle of distilled liquid an important factor, as the phrase goes was placed iu the hands of the master. I shall be guilty of no irrev erence if I say that at this point his eyes twinkled aud generally. winked. The process of blending was like a conjuring trick preformed by an accompolished professor. The mix ture being made with care and de licacy, and with a certain amount of demonstrative pride, the jug was plac ed npon the table and the napkin thrust into iu mouth. The brew, timed by the master's watch, had com menced, and in a few minutes the nap kin was withdrawn, and "five shiliings and cost" was ready for convivial dis tribution. Among those who drank fmoder- mciyj ami admired 1 hugely) this Dick- ! ens nectar was Wilkie Collins, who told me that, next to a veil-made ap ple pudding, he knew of nothing more agreeable. Wilkie's tastes, like Dick ens', though he knew the culinary ways . of the cultivated foreigners, were es sentially simple, and so were Thack eray. Xigbt after night the anthor of ""Vanity Fair." leaving the delights of the Garrick club a few doors higher up in King street. Convent garden, was a constant visitor of Evans' supper-rooms (the original of his "Cave of Harmony"), where he was not afraid to eat solid mutton chops and baked potatoes at midnight, aud not ashamed to show his delight in the part singing of the choir hoys, who divided their time between the cellar and a Roman Catholic cathedral. RARE AND RADIANT BEINGS. Men anil ftmn Who Honor Mtw Tork by LlTlng There. New Yorkers are like Parisians, say." " a New York letter in the San Francis-' co Argonaut they won't admit any thing tolerable putside their own me- tropolis. They look npon the west I " English people, as "charaeteris j tic;" they look upon New England as "repressed;" they look npon the south as -used up." The United States is to them New York. The Chieagoans' "sister metropolis" galls their proud spirits. If they have a sister metropo lis it may be Paris. , To go deeper, a New Yorker will not believe there is anyone in his own country as nice as himself. He will admit that there have been geniuses, great men. in other parts of the republic, but for pure., consummate style and finish he is the man. The west, if he is broad, is full of types;" if he is narrow, of "hayseeds." He likes to welcome and . study the types, feeling the while that he is studying humanity from ; the ground up. j.ne more unusual and impossi ble the types are the more he glories in them. "These fellows are so origi nal, after one's own gang." he observes, complacently suffused with satisfaction that they should" be different from his own gang. When any member of the -s gang meets an outsider., who is like himself he resents it bitterly. He feels as if his sacred rights had been abused, as if some one had "jumped his claim." Can it be possible that anything but types are going to come from .the wil derness beyond the Mississippi? Can it be possible that the wild and woolly west is going to produce rivals? Hid eous thought! The women of the same rich, nar row class are a thought worse, as naturally having no reasoning facul ties and taking their cne from the more . . knowing and experienced male. Bos- ' ton women, who. are always looking for "material" whether they write or not, delight in an outsider from any poiui, vi me compass. Aew xort wo- of the mile, Two Remarkable Accidents. Jefferson Miller ot Jeffersonville, lud., has good reasons for his stronc dislike of both rats and threshin" machines. In 1872 he was feeding 1 threshing machine in the barn, when a rat rau across the floor. Turuino- to watch it his left hand was pulled off bv the machine. Again, in 1887. while feeding the same machine, in the iden tical barn above mentioned, a rat ran ecu ilia leet. e Kicked at 'it, slipped, and had his only remaining band ground to a pulp in the greedy machine. The Prisoner Seconded the Motion. I heard a pretty good storv about a certain ignorant Justice who does business up in Fulton County. This Justice was elected over an able but very unpopular lawyer, and his first case was that of a prisoner charged with violating the fishery law. The complaint and warrant were defeet.ro and this the defendant's attorney took exceptions to in a masterly argument, winding up by moving the prisoner's discharge. "Is the motion seconded?" asked the Justice. "It is," replied the prisoner. "Gentlemen," continued the Judge, "it is regularly moved and seeonded that the prisoner be dis charged. All those in favor of the motion say aye." "Aye." came from the prisoner and his counsel. -Opposed, no." Silence followed and after a snort pause the scales holder said: "The motiou is carried and the prisnu er is discharged." whereupon to the surprise and amusement of all, court was declared adjourned. Aincrd-im Democrat. men simply look to see if he be de notre monde, and if he is not better for him that a millstone were tied around his neck and he were cast into the sea. Snch uncnlightenment in this refulgent nineteenth century is sad. Moreover, the poor things never know what they lose in renouncing the ac quaintance of the American Lochin vars, but go blindly on through life, cutting off their noses to spite their faces. The English women who come over here are always on the lookout lor dashing, daring, unconventional males, like the cowboys in the Wild West show, or 'those splendid crea tures you read about in Brete Harte gamblers, and road agents, and things. These are just like the men we meet -everywhere else!" But the beautiful metropolitan can be horrified by any thing. She. in the flower of youth and beauty's pride, would as soon have tender relations with a tight-rope dan cer as bow to a man on the avenue who wore his hat on the right side when The Fellows with large capitals wore theirs slightly tilted to the left. Thus are the artistic perceptions of Gotham hopelessly blunted. For these reasons do they fail to see the "good in everything" which the banished duke recommends as a safe line of con duct throughout life. A thief who robbed a house at Wilkes barra. Pa., took a bath ami arrayed himself in clean linen and a fresh suit before he left. J. Vt