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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1891)
It r " " 1 i ' In the leasthi ftf i , i .-! nil: - ' ' " 1 1 t r. kuss'i f.vcs, nice h&'.r, ut".' vy t.v. yt U mt-ft mn much hn But i' :f, I ! h-.m vliat toake-i ft!! the d!f- h-t r! h- Or fmm it. He Is Just a bookkeep er dtH ri-U'w r. Of column jOnrv cnn't be much; he works 'y in ark rirown. I dare mv ail foavo to tako tho smallest kind of tUf To Hart i'h; but I love him to I h all not cxie tor that. V.k Is-n't tuVutcd at mil. Ho doesn't paint nor sinsr Xor rtM me: nor thov. Indeed, a special taste fori)Ttntn Out of the common way. He smokes more, than he otifrht to do: But then, I love him eo I've lcttrnod to lore tobacco tool And, y. he has a temper I? la not an anjrtd, QUttM. Re scolds me often; but I think he's nearly always Huh t, And even if he wasn't I slwmid try to think he wn. Because 'twould brrok my heart to really quarrel; tuid because O Just becauf o. And I can't help It that ex plains It best. Xt doesn't? Weil, then nothing Will. You think I am rxssesed? You my I make myself a slave, and wonder bow 1 i nr But, dear, I eo you don't know what It Is to love a man. Madeline P. Ttrldgvs. A NOBLE REVENGE, "I am very sorry that thU should hive happened. Miss Etherege; you have met nil my requirements iit every respect. In au establishment of this sort one is foieed to be exceedingly careful, almost over-cautious, as one may say. 1 think you will tind your salary quite correct "as ta the amount." Mrs. Carter, the smooth-voiced and gracious proprietress" of the Minerva Academy for Young Ladies, smiled as sweetly as if she were riot cutting off poor Agnes Etherege' s dependence for daily bread, as she laid the money on the teacher'; lap. I understand," Agnes said, grow ing quite white, and with a strange quiver in her voice, 'Mr. Lundie has been talking to you." Mrs. Carter pursed uk her lips. "I am no at liberty to give the name of my informant." she said primly, "but the promptitude with which" yon guess at the name of a pos sible suggest or certainly would give the Idea that yon weni prepared for f onte such accusation." Agnes rose tip wearily. Of what ua were defense, argument, pleading? Did not Hngh Lnndta's vengeance fol low her cverywhevo, blighting her every prospect? Fad he not said to her, "with a greeu. glittering light in those cruel eyes o't his, ! will yet com pel you to be my wife?" Ji'o; he eoufd not tto that. She might starve; she might suffer for the actual rjstfcssaries of life; siie might even be driven to tht-nv herself, some of these stormy nights, Jnto the black, chilly abyss of the cruel river, to find oblivion for good and all; but she never would marry him. This was tho third situation of which his subtle scheming had deprived her. She was alone and helpless in the world; he. was strong and powerful. Why was it that one human creature had power to exert such evil influence over another? . She went home, with a dull, fixed lo-ik in her eyes, and a deadly white i.ess on her cheeks. What could she do now? For she was weak, and voung, and slender, and perilously beautiful, and ttie world was so relent less anil cruel. Agnes Eihcrege was working out the problem that many other human souls struggle through; and how do we know how many sink eternally in the strife, and never are heard of more? T' 'n lodging where she kept .hent'.iuuK. and which she dignified by the title of "home. had never before seemed so high ti and diilicult of ac cess, lint When ,iie opened the door sae started back with a low cry. It was no longer dark, chill and silent. Lights burned oa the mantel, and a gret fire of high-heaped coals roared tip tho chimney, while a shrewd-faced, little old man. browa and keen, with glittering eyes, like a human squint L sat spreading his hands over the blaze. Ah !" He looked tip with a nod. ""You are Agnes. I suppose? You don't know me of coorse?"' "No, sir," said Agnes, half expect ing to see the whole scene melt and dissolve, yke the fabrication of en chantment; ,I do not." "Well, I don't know how you should," said the old man. "Tin your Uncle Tobit. I've come home to live. Kindostan's a very nice climate, but it's a little shaky when one has passed one's 60th year. I'm going into the banking business. I want you to keep house for me. Yes, I know; you al ways supposed I was dead out in the east. I let your mother think so. I was a wild chap iu my day, and no particular credit to any of my rela tives; and when I had a decent record to show her, why, she was dead. That's all over and gone-no use cry ing over spilt milk. Come.". And Mr. Daniel Tobit rose up and seized a yellow alpaca umbrella, which apparently constituted his sole stock of baggage. "Are 3'on ready? I can have a fly at tne aoor in nve minutes. "But, uncle The old man chuckled. "Say it again; it sounds good uncle!' - ' "Where are we going uncle?" asked Agnes, her heart beginning to warm strangely toward this eccentric old man. "To ray agent's. He has hired a house for me somewhere and furnished it with something. 1 dare say it will do well enough as long as the roof don't leak and the cellars aren't damp." And Agnes Etherege. feeling as if she were in i dream, allowed herself to be led away from the old room and the old life, and the drearily brooding snaaows or the past. Uncle Daniel Tobit loaded her with luxuries hung her with jewels as if she had been a glittering eastern idol, and anticipated her slightest wish. Agnes had no more loneliness and penury now yet thai one thing over which she most rejoiced was the com plete severing of aught resembling a link between her new life and her old. Hugh Luadie did not know where she was now. He could never track her to this Uveo of peace. The Lord liad at last provided for this poor, lit tle shorn laiob! Yet, withal, she bad a sort of shud dering horror of him still. Once when he paed within a few feet of her carnage window as she sat oppo site a Regent btreet shop, waiting" for her uncle, sh 'sank back, white and trembling, anijng the warm cushions, as if the shadi-w of some evil spirit's wing had fallen across her. "Is it wicked." she asked herself, "to hate him?" And once as she sat, all furs, and silks, and jewels, in her uncle's private office at the bank, she saw the face pass the little curtained window. "Uncle," she faltered,' 'what is that?" v"I don't know what you mean, chi4." said the little brown-visaged capitalist. "The rnanwith the blue necktie and the reddish mustache there, just be yond the desk." ""- "A new clerk, I believe," aid Uncle Tobit. Reduced gentleman sickly wife necessitous circumstances afl that sort of trash. Name of Lundie. Xgw, my dear, I await your com mands." - Ami as Agnes Kthercgo ' & -:; !. of the bank, closely veiled and leaning on her uucle's arm, Hugh Lnndio never knew whose were the eyes fixed mournfully upon him. "I will try to forgive him," elm thought; "but t never want to speak to him or hear his voice ngain." It was New Year's Eve :t dark, dis mal uight of suovv and tempest Miss Ethereire was sittins alone in her pretty baudoir, when a card was brought her. "Mrs. Hugh Lundie." She couhHiardly decide what course would bo best for her to adopt, when the rustliug of silken skirts were heard on tho threshold, and n palo, pretty looking little lady stood before her. "You are Mr. Tobit's daughter?" Asked the stranger, in such appealing accents. "You are mistaken," Agnes an swered, her heart at once softening towards this wau, shadowy creature. "Not his daughter, but his niece." "It is all the same," Mrs. Lundie rejoined, hurriedly. "I we have coma to ask a favor of you. Your faeo is kind and gentle I have faith to believe that you Will grant it." And, without wailing for Miss Eth erege's reply, she told one of tho pit eous stories which may be too often divulged bv bank clerks and emnloves a tale of misplaced trust ami be trayed confidence of money stealthily borrowed from the funds of the bank to meet pressing exigencies, in the fond certainty that fortunate specula tions wculd enable it to bo paid of ruin, disgrace, impending dismissal and arrest. And the story, told by the wife's lips, was of a. husband's dishouesty and deficiency. ." As the poor young creature con cluded her sorrowful tale she threw open the door. "Your influence over your uncle is said to be unbounded."" she added. "Oh. surely, sure! v. you will use it for our sakes! Dear Hugh, come yourself aud plead for what is dearer and more precious to yon than life your honor your good name among men!" And before Agnes could speak to interpose she was face to face with Hugh Lundie, the persecutor of her former j-ears, the bumble suppliant for her influence now! In the same instant he saw and rec ognized her. A crimson spot mounted to his cheek he grew pale as death. "Agnes Ethereger' Miss Etherege, with a face sweet ami serene as a pictured saint, turned to his wio. -Your favor is granted. Leave me now!'" For old Daniel Tobit never refused anght to his niece and Agnes Ether ege felt that she was more than re venged the moment when Hugh bun die's wife, as ignorant of the past as she was hopeful of the future, came with happy tears to thank her for the mercy that had been extended to her erring husband! Pompeii of England. A British Pompeii has just been dis covered near Reading in Berkshire on the great Strathfeldsay estate of the duke of Wellington, says a London dispatch of the Dun lop cable company. It is a true city, not a mere camp, and when full3" excavated will throw light upon the domestic life of our remote ancestors of more than one thousand years ago. The city now being laid bare is the Brito-Uoman Silchesler. The whole area has been free from all building operations ever since the Unman occupation of Britain, iu fact, the soil is virgin. havinr been pasture land for centuries. The excavation committee has already succeeded in revealing to the nineteenth century eyes lifeiu a British city that hail a long existence in a day of which his tory is almost silent. The task of ex cavation is a tremendous one. but the work is being prosecuted as funds come in. An exhibition will lie opened at the Burlington House. Piccadilly, within a few days which will present features of extraordinary interest. On the walis will be hung a luisre plan of the buried city, marking whereabouts the streets, walls, gates, houses baths, temples, forum and ba-iiica stood. The excavations have brought to view the remains of an important house orna mented with mosaic floors and con taining rooms heated ! hopocausto. Among the articles to be exhibited are potsherds, bpnes, combs, bronze uten sils, fragments of good glass vessels, pieces of ironwork, chiefly tools, in cluding carpenters planes, chisels, axes, hammers, gouges, anvils and some edged tools, sharp enough, even after being buried for ten centuries, to work witli'now. The city was laid out with great regularity in squares like Salisbury and Winchester iu medieval times. Strange feelings are- excited by the 6ight of a piece of tile upon which a baby must have trodan while the clay of which it is formed lay drying in the brick-maker's yard. The prints of the little toes are distinct, and the entire fool is perfectly marked. There are very fair specimens of pottery from coarse Celtic ware to delicately molded vessels embellished with artistic de signs of human and animal figures and symbolic devices. There are two sets of human bones, skeletons of imma ture infants or dwarfs, as also need less and other articles of household use. Among these it is curious to note a key ring and safety pin, with other toilet and table requisites, much resembling those in present use. There is one bangle almost a fac-simile of those worn in India and seen in our jewellers' shops to-day. Not a l'nnny Man. "I remember a frieud of mine," said Squire Johnson to the Cincinnati Times-Star man, "who considered him self fnnny. He went to a prominent jeweler on Fourth street and purchased a watch for $50, receiving a written guarantee that the watch would keep good lime for a year. If the watch failed the purchase money was to be refunded. Well, my frieud was called to Europe soon after that aud spent several months traveling about various parts of the earth, and it happened that he returned to Cincinnati on the very day the guarantee of his watch ex pired. Asking me to accompany him we went to the jewelry store, and call ing out the proprietor my friend laid down the guarantee, which the jeweler read and then expressed himself ready to fulfill his contract. The watch was placed upon the counter and was found to be jnst one-half minute too fast. The jeweler placed it carefully in a drawer, and, going to his safe, counted out five crisp ten - dollar bills and passed them to my friend with a smile. Yes, but I don't want the money,' he stammered; -give me back my watch. It was only meant as a little pleas antry.' 'I have complied with my contract,' replied the jeweler, -and I only meant a little business.' ' "But I must have that watch,' said the thoroughly disconcerted funny man. Well.' replied the jeweler, proceeding with his work, I consider a watch that varies only one-half of a minute iu a year is worth more than $50. I will sell you the watch for f 100.' So cha grined that he hardly knew what he was doinff. my facetious friend paid over the $100 and pocketed the watch. When you need another good watch give me a call,' said the jeweler merri ly as we took onr departure. Well, do you know. I never heard of that fellow doing a funny thing since." iJajr Uoultt Telia a Ktory. Mr.Could told a story which, coupled with Ids celebrated Daniel Drew tuiec dotfi rolAteil nt tint htifc enti fitene, nf ! the presidents, tends to show that he is becoming quite a retailer of anec dotes, says the N. Y. Herald. While the committee was discussing percent ages of freight a gentleman represent ing the Southern Pacific ingouiously suggested an alleged equitable plau, which, however, had a hidden clause which would give his road the best bite of the pie. This feature of the plan was at once seen by the "Little Wizard." "It reminds mu of a story about a friend of mine," he said. "He was getting quite old and about ready todio when it occurred to him that it would be a good thing to divide up his property before he breathed his last. Calling his sons aud daughters around him ho said to them: -Now, my dear boys and girls, I feel that mv end is quite uear. I intend to divide up tny estate before I get any worse, so that there shall be no trouble w hen I go.' This proposition was accepted by the children with acclamation. "My friend got his lawyer to draw up the papers and then set about to divide the assets. Ho unlocked his strong box and took out all his bonds and securities. He first lifted tip it bundle of very shaky bonds and put them aside, saying to himself. -These will do for Johnny.' Then ho came across somo rattletrap stock and he gathered them in a heap. These will just about provide for Tom,' he said, appearing satisfied. Iu this style he went on dividing up his assets among the di tie rent heirs. "Presently he stumbled across a bundle of prime 7 per cent New York Central bonds, the best ami most val able he had so far found. His eves lighted up. Glancing at the provWiou he had made for his children, and lick ing his chops at the thought of the packet he held in his hands, ho said: Well. I guess I'll keep these for mv self."' This story turned the lanh very considerably against the Southern Pa cific. The Wife of the Great Showman. In appearance she is a trifle under medium height, with a figure slightly inclined to matronly stoutness, which she carries with an erect ue and poise gained from long years of physical culture. Her complexion is English in its purity and beauty, her hair dark and her eyes gray. She possesses also "that excellent "thing in woman," a voice jMtrely English iu its sweetness and tone. Mrs. Barn urn's pet hobby at least, so says her husband, laughingly in dulgent is her indefatigable pursuit of brie-ft-brae. nnd most beautiful ex amples of her success in this pursuit, with the numerous mementoes of its master's varied career, nmke of "Mar ina" a home worth the having. It is the family home during most of the year, though a part of each winter is sent in New York for the purpose of attending the opera and theatres, of which both husband and wife are equally fond, aud occasional visits are paid elsewhere. Mrs. Baruum possesses to au unus ual degree a liking for society and en tertaining which 'makes of her the most delightful of hostesses. Her din ners are models, the easy grace and eordia! hospitality of their hostcss add ing niuca to their enjoyment. Her self a brilliant conversationalist, she attracts, in turn, people of unusual in tellect aud brilliancy, and her most honored guests are apt to be either literary or musical jieople. as these she finds more specially congenial. For Mrs. Barnum. though modestly confessing only to a great liking for music, is a musician of some skill, ami though no jHrsnasion has as yet in duced her to write over her own name, she is an able and fluent writer. She proves a most valuable and efficient aid to her husband in his numerous charities, such assistance as she ren ders being always given anonymously or nnder cover of Mr. Baruum's name. 2'Ae I.ndits' lvinc Journal. How Gen. Hooker tiot His Charger. "Gen. Banks's stoi v about his war charger, sai.t Pension Attorney Bond, "recalls to mind one Hooker rode in 18(3. nnd especially at the battle of Chaucellorsville. Few people know how Hooker came by that horse. I will tell yon. When Sickles corps was camed on Good Hope Hill, just across I he eastern branch, and about a quarter of a mile alw.ve tho residence of Fred Douglass, I happened one day, while out foraging for something to eat, to' run across a milk-w hite Arab ian stallion that had been hidden in the pines by his master. I took the horse into camp, aud Gen. Sickles, who was a connoisseur of horseflesh, no sooner put his eyes on him thau he recaptured him from me. I made no remonstrance, however, as the horse was of no use to me. "A few days later the owner of the Arabian came into camp, identified his horse and claimed him. Sickles held that he was a confiscated horse, and refused to give him up. Then the owner went to Secretary Stanton for relief, and made affidavit that he was a loyal man, aud came back to camp with the order from Stanton to Sickles to deliver the horse. In the mean time the horse had disappeared. He turned up, however, in iSew York city a few days later as the property of George W'ilkes, but neither Stanton nor the horse's owner was aware of these facts. When the matter was quieted down, one day an item ap peared iu the papers that George Wilkes had presented a thoroughbred Arabian war charger to Gen. Hooker. "That was how tho horse came into Hooker's possession, and how he came to ride him at the battle of Chaucel lorsville. He was one of the finest specimens of his race, and when seated on him Gen. Hooker was not only tho best mounted officer in the Union army, but he was far and away the handsomest. " Globe-Democrat. Yonng Men Are Sly. "Did 3'ou notice that well-dressed youug man," said the proprietor of a Harlem cigar store, ."who just bought a five cent cigar? Ordinarily you could not induce that young man to smoke a five cent cigar under any cir cumstances if that young lady wasn't with him, and didn't you hear "him call for a five cent cigar? They have jnst come from the opera, and as they live but a few blocks from here they will walk home, and she is practical enough to know that her beau would relish 'a smoke in the meantime. Generally he smokes 15 cent cigars and lives very extravagantly-. He is now thinking of settling down, and as the young lady is worth a little money "which was acquired by hard work and prudent living on the part of her parents he is fully aware of the fact that, while the joung lady does not object to her future liege having a small vice, she would naturally shrink at the extrava gance of her husband smoking 15 cent cigars. He is, therefore, cute enough in her presence to make believe that he is of the prudent kind himself. Wait till they're married and he hand les her money. High tariff or low tariff, he will then smoke 15 cent cigars altogether." N. Y. Telegram. M. Eiffel, whose tower has made his name widely known, is running for legislative office in the Department of the Cote d'Or as a working-man's candidate. TRAPS FOR ANIMALS, f' How Man') Ingenuity lta the littler or tlrutn Instinct, The wny to a man's heart is through his stomach, nnd tho proverb holds good with anlmnls iu a greater degree, says the N. Y. Ih rald. With suitable bait they are thrown off their guard nnd become easy victims, for tho idea of getting something to eat is so large that it shuts out all others for the time. Alaskan Ush-hooks am often mere curved 'pieces of bone, w ith no barb, and not even sharp nt the point. They are only hooks to hold tho bait When the fish shuts his jaws on the prospec tive food he seems to forget how to open them and is drawn out. In Alaska ptarmigan are driven toward a long line of slip-nooses fasten ed closely together. Partridges are easily drireu into nets by a man on horseback a thing to bo regretted by real sportsmen. Eugllsh sparrows may bo caught by a running noose of horse-hair hung on a tree or window-sill. Horse hair is gold lace to a sparrow for nest build ing, nnd they will pull at the uoose un til they get ft around the bg or worth less neck. In Japan they have a novel way of catching ducks" by "needles."" Along striug is fastened to the middle of a thin piece of boue. ThU bone is baited and thrown out upon lily leaves, while one end of the line is made fast to a yielding branch. The duck swallows the bait, but when ho attempts to fly away the line pulls the ueedle crosswise in his interior and "toggles," as the bailors say. "My father caught twenty-five wild turkeys in a trap like this," said a friend of mine. "He made a pen ,of rails nnd dug an inclined way uuder it. For several days previously he scattered corn uear the peu td familiarize the turkeys with the spot; then he threw corn uloog the inclined war and in the pen, aud caught the whole'llock. You see a turkey won't stoop its head to go out by the way it came in. but tries to get out by thrustiug its ueck between the rails." There are funnel traps, labyrinth traps, set nets, fish-pots. lobster-pots, and fish-slides for the deni.ens of the waters, while there are spring traps, deadfalls, snares, spring-guns, etc., in wait for land animals. Then there are decoys. The Samoan live pigeons de coys are admirably trained. The na tive, provided with a net with a long handle, sits behind a blind and sends out a tethered trained pigeon, which has been taught at the jerk of a string to hover around as though descending upon food. This action brings clown the wild pigeon from the trees, and when it is engaged with the decor the native "scoops him in" with the iiet. For ingeuuily joue is almost tempted to say diaholics. I in trapping the Esquimau excel. They betid up sharpened slips of whalebone, freeze them into balls of fat. nnd throw them c ut for bears. The In'ar swallow s the fat, which melts in his giomach. set ling free the whalebones, w hich expand and pierce his inwards. This device is anpiopriately called "sleep a night and die." Another ruse of the Esquimaus is to grease a sharp knife-blade and set it up for the wolves to lick. These animals will lick the knives until their tongues are in ribbons and they bleed to death. This is hardly a trap, but it is a shrewd way to rid the world of rnveuous wolves. THE ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH. Soma of the S or prior That Attend that Kttlrmat of Katates. The general surprise that the late Mr. Fayerweather. a man of whom lit tle was known outside of a very limited personal circle. should turn out to have !ett the possessor of millions empha sizes the difficulty, says the N. Y. Mar, of obtaiuing knowledge regarding the real extent of people's means. Pub lished lists of millionaires are prover bially unreliable, not only from the inaccuracy of the estimates given, but from the omission of the large aud in creasing class of what may be termed silent millionaires." This is not strange, for even the mercantile agen cies, whose business it is to rate the credit of men engaged in business, do not pretend to give any accurate figures on private wealth not actually em ployed as capital in trade. The way the general public and eveu the finan cial world, can be mistaken about men of wealth is sometimes strikingly illus trated. The late Moses Taylor was supposed in his lifetime to be worth from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Wheu he died his estate was worth $25,000. 000 or more. On the other hand, one of the Bostou Thaycrs was believed to possess a score or more of millions. Yet it is stated that he left behind him wealth which, though large, was com paratively much below w hat had been credited to him. The "silent millionaires" are indeed difficult to track. They are either people who have inherited wealth and keep out of business, or men who, though in business, keep on the beaten track and avoid public or commercial Erominence. Nearly every Wall street roker or banker aud real-estate peo ple could, if they would, furnish long lists of such individuals, whose very names are not known to the public at large. Another class whose knowledge of the facts about people's real means are extraordinary are bank and trust company officers and the managers of safe-deposit vaults. But such knowl edge is in these quarters regarded as a professional secret, and the "silent millionaires" go on clipping their cou pons, collecting their rents, and. as a rule,livin quietly and saving their in comes. The number of New York ladies whose wealth counts up into the seven figures is also surprising. There arc, according to the estimate of a careful observer, over 100 women in New York worth iu their own right $1,000,000 or rjore, and some of them show double figures in the million column too. As this wealth is mainly inherited, its possessors do not attract public attention unless their husbands happen to attain prominence of some kind. Mine. Nilsson's I'omliieg Tor Poker. "Io you know what's the matter with Nilsson. the famous concert singer?" remarked Capt. A. II. Mat tox. "She's a poker fiend, and has in jured her voice through her passion for the green cloth. I don't know whether she still stays up of nights playing poker, but she used to. 1 re member some years ago when I was writing musical criticisms for tho En quirer I sent mycard up to the madam at her hotel aud requested an inter view. She sent word for me to come up. I found her playing poker with Marcus Mayer and Henry Abbey. She was expecting a visit from a clergy man madamryou know was religious. Well, tho clergyman came, but before he was admitted the paper chips and cards were hastily covered up. Madam had just won a jack-pot and was in tensely interested iu the game, but when "the clergyman entered he found her demure and apparently fully real izing that this is a very wicked world and that it was the duty of every true Christian to even up matters by being very, very good. I never saw such excellent acting. The clergyman re mained but a few minutes. He had scarcely closed the door after him when o'ut came the chips and play was resumed. Madam laughed heartily at her little joke." BESSIE AND I. t.lfa I Worth Living-and Marring Is Hot failure. flonlo nnd 1 have trndirrd tom-ther, Jniirtieird ti-ronirh fnlrHnilHiormv weather; The storm, thoiixh In avy, hns I men but brief, And more neiuive htf of Joy tlmn Brief j For one day's mill how many of shlim: Then why nt the one day's a-loora ruidnef For alter tho sUirm the culm will bo That Is tho comfort for Ik-solo and me. Bessie Hid I Imye been avked at times " by those who lived but for dollars and dlmrs, Vho knew not the lovo nf child or w ife, ho looked rot Willi illy on lilimnn strife. "Js life worth llvlnu?" We've answered, "No, If out from fclf j on never ctoi in." We live and love, ore joyous and free; I.I fe Is worth living- to llestlonnd mu, llessle nl I have wondered lit Some phnuld ak, with u lo!-drnn slifh, "Is mnrthiirr a failure'" It will irovo A fiitiure Indeed unless there's love; For love Illumines the poorest lot. Transform to a rnlnee Hi- humblest cot. Doubtless to other the none 'twill be: It bus been a success to Jiessle and inc. It seldom hnppens that In one day. Two Invlnp spirits are called a nay. rjomethni s tho lovhis- divided an; Sometime from Mm old homo sunderad far: Hut the souls that renlly love In this Will lovo In the better world of blisa Their lovo ns the love of the onirels be And such lovo retimlm-ili for II. -axle and mo. Tho Rev. J. P. Hutchinson In tho Indiana polls News. HEROIC TREATMENT. How Two Squaws Cured at Wl.lle Man of Krrer and Ague. After a week or ten days the fever somewhat 'aba ted, says a writer in Fort.it and nnd Peter, taking my double-Wireeled riflo by way of armament and half a dozen "hard bis cuit by way of grub, gave notice of two days' absence, and, buckling his blanket about him, went off tip the trail. Late in Ihe evening of tho second day while I was lyiug on the bearskin with swimming braiu and a fevered brow he came back but not alone. Two strong, athletic squaws, each tot ing a large pack, were his companions. He Introduced them as '-Ole Blackbird squaw aud he gal; pooty young squaw great medicine." The elder of the two was about as tough, leathery-looking a specimen of aboriginal ugliuess as I have ever fallen in with, aud making due allow ance for difference in age the daugh ter was the perfect model of her. They both cast their loads unceremoniously aside and the elder proceeded at once to business. Watching me closely as she did bo she rolled a large handful of leaves in her hand until thej- were par tially pulverized, then passed them over to the younger squaw, who soon made a pint of very bitter tea from them which I was told to drink. I managed to gulp it down, hot and bit ter as it was. and the old squnw then seized me without ceremony, packed me snugly in bearskin and ' blankets, after which she and her daughter, wrapping their own blankets about them, lay down on either side of me. crowding me in a manner more close than pleasant. I trust King David's medicine, which answered the purpose so well, was not a squaw or. if she were, that she was young and good-hwikiug. My leathery belles answeretl. how ever, to help get up a copious jH-rspira-tion. which was just what they intend ed, aud when I awoke from'lhe first sound refreshing sleep I had enjoyed for weeks it Avas with a cool, clear head and limbs free from pain. With the rise of the sun the con founded ague beg:-.! ti to threaten me, and Mrs. Blackbird, with the help of her iuteresliug daughter, proceeded to iane measures tor expelling it in a manner quite as novel and original as ner treatment of fever, first she un did a bundle of dirty blue cloth and took therefrom several bundles of neatlv bound, minute luigs. I had heard some hard stories of "whippiu' out the ager." and smelted a pretty extensive mice immediately, but on the whole concluded to o through, SO 1 sutfet ed I hem to divert me of my clothing and sei.e me linnlv bv the wrists, and made no objection even wheu Mrs. Blackbird began to apply the switchings gently to the bare skin. Gradually the blows increased in rapid ity aud severity. Old Peler. who had stood by as a spectator nt first, stepped forward nnd seized a wrist liruilv in each hand, so suddenly that I had no time to object; and the whipping im mediately became energetic and gen eral. Each of the squaws with a switch in each hand vied with the other iu rapidity of hitting, and as the sluggish, torpid blood strove to dash with answering speed through the tingling veins the pain became unen durable. I had resolved to bear all that was asked of me in hope of a rad ical cure, but the torture was too severe, aud I ordered them to desist, tryiug at the same time to wrench my self loose from Peter. They only laughed and laid on the harder." I be came road with pain and went in on my muscle, biting and buttiug furious ly at old Feter and giving the leathery females ungallaut kicks about the ribs and abdomen a proceeding that made them laugh all the more and brought down the" switches with increased vigor. I entreated and cursed by turns, tried bribery aud flattery, beg ged for a resting spell, aud threatened death to the party or conspirators im mediately I got loose, but all in vain. They flogged tne for a time that seemed an age, and only let me off when I was too exhausted to stand alone. Then I was again enveloped iu skins nnd blankets, wheu, strange as it may seem, I alino.-t immediately fell into a deep slumber, from which "I did not awake until evening. When I did awake it was with a general sense of soreness nil over the outer man; but where was the ague? ('one. Com pletely cured, as well as the fever. A Hank: on wtieeia. New Zealand has a bank on wheels. On certain days of the week a clerk from one of the Palmerston banks travels up and down the railway line from Palmerston to Otaki, transacting the ordinary business of the bank en route. Laden with a sachel contain ing his supply of cash, and provided with a teller's usual precautions against danger of robbery, he makes the car riage his headquarters and there re ceives visits from customers at the way stations, changing checks or taking deposits as occasion may require. This plan is said to bring a good share of grist to the bank's mill, and proves a great convenience to settlers, who are saved all the trouble of journeying to towns to relieve themselves of surplus money or procure change. This will probably continue until some bold rascal interviews the clerk and cleans out his bank. School MlHtMkes). "Fallacious" means -likely to fall," as "He rode a fallacious horse." A girl in the course of an essay on the use of pictures iu sclioolagaid: "Sight is a gift of nature, for without sight Fictures would be of very little use." n the certificate examination a second-year student wrote: "Constan tinople was formerly not belonging to England, and was a dull place, as the Turks generally are; but since it has belonged to us it has brightened up, and is now the key to the Black sea." Another student said glaciers move "down slopes, along valleys, over, hills, just as streams do." From the remotest times men saluted' tho suu, moon and stars by kissing the hand. INDIAN SIGN LANCUACE. How Thar Talk with Their Hands Tba Maaalus of Blanket ftlgnal. All Indians tire able to undorttand each other and to converse freelt by means of their sign-language. " The signs differ materially among different tribes, but are all so significant as to permit of no doubt as to their meaning. The sign-language Is the easiest of all languages to learu, as almost ever symbol is founded upon reason. Suppose au Indian and a whito man, riding together on the prairie, meet another Indian. The hitler is sus picious. He raises his hand, palm outwards. This menus "stop." He then points to the white man. The other Indian understands him to mean that he is suspicions of his companion. Pointing with the right forefinger several times Indicates, "Whoare you?" If a Crow, the Indians raises both his hands to his cms and flaps them like wings. It a Blackfoot, ho raises his foot aud strokes thu sole. If a Sioux, he draws his hand across his throat. Polutiug toward the white mau the Indian Is understood to ask: "Who is he?" The first Indian by crooking his two fore lingers together, informs the stranger that he is a friend. Suppose he pats each breast with his fore linger and points to the while mau and then to himself, he means that the white-man is a very dear friend or a brother. This sign signifies that they both nursed the same mother. Now, suppose the Indian wishes to indicate to the one who is the compan ion of the white man that he knows differently and considers the latter to be a bad man. he raises his right hand to a level with his right ear, extends the first two lingers aud passes his hand in a straight line across his chest toward his left shoulder. This means, 'Your last statement is not true." If he then throws bis right hand outward, scattering his fingers, he means, "He is a bad man." A brave man would be indicated among the Sioux by clinching the list aud thumping the breast once. The signs for death are graphic. To say "he is dead'1 au Indian would raise his forefinger and drop it back down ward to a horizontal position. Dying is indicated by moving the forefinger slowly downward toward the earth. For uearly dead, but recovered, an Indian will use the last sign, but will slowly raise the linger again. For "killed" a sort of stabbing motion with the right hand is used. The elements are indicated in just the manner oue would expect. A cir cle formed bv the forefinger and thumb of oue hand fn some tribes, and of both iu others means "the suu." A semi circle formed by tbo forefinger ud thumb of one hand means 'the inooa." The hands raised with the fingers hanging downward aud then dropped several times as if shaking water off means "rain." A tree is indicated by holding the Jiand palm upward and the fingers raised, theu moving at once upward. Growing or to grow is raised several times with a jerky motion. The same sign is used to signify smoke, only the hand is slow ly raised without the jerky motion. For nothing, none. I have none, etc, the Sioux pass the palm of the right hand over the palm of Ihe left from the wrist to the tips of the lingers. Sileuce is indicated by holding the finger upon the lips. Hofdiug a blanket out with the hands far apart means. "We have discovered buffalo," or tised to when there were any. U-iisitig a blanket on a pole means, "We are goiug into catnp." Waving :t blanket toward the legs means "You may approach." Riding around in a circle means "There is game." If several Indians do this in opposite directions, passing and repassing one another, they mean "There are enemies." Signalling at a distance with pillars of smoke or dust aud shooting a bias ing arrow far itito the sky at night, are other methods of conversing with, or giviug warning to friends at a dis tance. How Mall Cars are Manned. Nearly every railroad in the Uuited States carries, at least once a day. one or more men whose business it is to receive, sort, and deliver the mail gathered at the towns along or near that road. If there is little work to be done, one mau does it alone, in a small room built in a part of the. baggage-car or smoking-car. As the business in creases, two or more men work to gether, having a whole car for their accommodation. This car is drawn directly behind the engine, so that there shall be no occasiou for any pass ing through it. With still more busi ness, between the large cities, two or more cars are run; until between New York and Chicago we have a whole train run exclusively for mail service, made up of five cars and worked by twenty men. A line of railroad be tween two cities, used in this way. for sorting the mail, is called "R. P. O.." .". e., "Railway Post-Office," and there is au immense number of such in the country, taking their names from the chief offices on the line. Such are the "Bostou and Albany," "Bostou. Springfield, nnd New York." "Portlnud nnd Island Pond." "Chicago and Cedar Rapids." and many hundred others. The runs vary greatly in length, ranging from twenty miles to as high ns a thousaud miles. The ex tremely long runs, with the exception of tho "New York and Chicago," are found ouly in the West, where there are great distances between the cities. On such a run there will be two or more men, one crew sleeping while the other works. The "New York and Chicago" is divided into three sec tions. On this run, the twenty men who start out from New York are re lieved by as many more at Syracuse, and these in turn are relieved at Cleve land by another company who take the train into Chicago. As a general thing, however, a run is planned to be about the distance which can be cov ered in a day. On all the more important lines there are two sets of men, one for day, one for night service. If the run is a short one w ith but little mail, one man does tho work alone, runuing every dav, and usually having several hours to rest at one end of the road or the other. Where the run is loug enough, so that the trip takes all day, there will be four sets of men. One man, or set of men. starts at one end of the run, und covers the entire line, meet ing tho other somewhere on the route, and returning the next day. When these men have worked a week, they go home to rest a week, and others take their place. Such is the arduous nature of the work, the strain to mind and body, aud particularly to eyesight, from working all day long iu the con stant jar aud rattle, that few men would be able to retain a place were it not for these periods of rest. Max Bennett, St. Nicholas. Gulls ou a Garbage Scow. The garbage scow iu the Seattle har bor attracts vast multitudes of sea gulls. Whenever the boat' is towed out from 1,500 to 2,000 follow it to its destination, aud the meu employed on it claim that they scarcely have room to work, ns the gulls cluster around them in swarms, all fighting one an other to get on the scow and select their food. Lord Anton, who is considered one of the most learned men in England, has a library consisting of 100,000 volumes. BELL'S TELEPHONE. Tba ratent Kxpires In Two Tears, When There'll It Creat Improvement. In about two years the original patents of ihe Bell Telephone com pany on the art of transmitting the human voice over wires by electricity will expire, says the St. Louis lb-public Then anybody who chooses can make and use a telephone without let or hindrance. Desiring to learn what would proba bly be the result of the extinction of the Bell Telephone company's mon opoly a Ilrpublic reporter sought oat Leo Ehrlich, a noted iuveutor of St. Louis. Mr. Ehrlich was one of the first inventors of Ihe telephone in this country, aud with others contested in the Supreme court of the Uuited States the Bell Telephone company's right to exclusive right of the invention, but the Supreme court decided against them and they were forced to abandon tho use of their inventions. On learn ing the mission of the reporter Mr. Ehrlich said: "Yes, the Bell Telephone company's patent on the art of transmitting the human voice over wires by electricity expires in March, 93. aud then every body cau make and use a telephone. As to what the result will be I would say that us matters now stand it will nllect the price of ihe telephone ser vice but little. I am satisfied, how ever, that at the expiration of their patent the Bell Telephone company will give ns a much superior telephone system to tho present, and one where the slightest whisper, live or ten feet away from the phone, will bo distinct ly transmitted for miles. They have been preparing against the competition that will spring up at the expiration of their patent by purchasing at nominal figures from needy inventors all valua ble improvements' that have been made to the telephone, and they are now the owners of patents as superior to the present telephone as it is to the toy phone. from personal tests in Boston I know they have practical instruments that are 100 per cent better than those in use now iu transmitting the human voice distinctly. They are keep ing these inventions, on which the patents will yet ran for years, in re serve aud will bring them out if any attempt is made in competition. So the net result, jou may sar, will be better service at a slightly reduced rate. The Western Union similarly has a vast number of telegraph patents stored away for future use, should competition become more active. There will be also another result on the expiration of the patent. aid that is that telephones will ' become very cliemi, and for $2 or f 2.SO any one can purchase an efficient telephone. This will have the effect to create an exten sive use of them,' and private telephone lines and small exchanges will become numerous. They will also generally displace speaking-tubes and pu-h-but-tous in buildings, and hotels wilt sub stitute them fur annunciators, so that guests ean communicate their wishes to the office without the intervention of a bell-boy." "As a rule, are the inventors fairly treated and protected iu the United States?" asked the reiwjrter. "The inventor, as a rnle. I thick gets all he is entitled to. but not so much as he would like, for the simple reason that 999 out of 1.000 inventions are worthless. We hear a good deal about the impecunious inventor and his many hardships, but neither the laws nor the public, but the poor iu veutious, are to blame. Take up the official gazette of the patent office and I will guara- lee that not twenty-live iu 1(H) of the patents are worth the paper they are written on. To suc ceed as an inventor, as in any other calling, a person must be content to patiently struggle along for years with out success, and never grow weary or lose courage at reverses. A fortune is uow and then niadeby a happy hit of some genius, but it is very rare and should not eucourage any one to enter the field unless he has staying qualities and great industry. "I will tell you what makes the money in this business. It is the patent-solicitor and the government. When a man gets an idea that he thinks valuable he immediately rushes off and pays some solicitor a $25 fee and the government $40 for a patent, and from the hundreds of thousands of patents annually issued you can see what an enormous sum is paid solicit ors and the government. I really doubt if all that has been made off patents in the United States since the passage of the patent law would equal what has been paid by inventors in ob taining their patents. "Up to date the inventors have paid the government $3,000,000 more than has been required to pay all the ex penses of the patent-office department. This, I think, is wrong and should be changed by a reduction of fees to merely cover the expenses of the ,de partment. The Winter of '47 In Ireland. As winter advanced the distress grew deeper and fiercer. It was a hard winter, cold rains and snows alternating. To famine and fever was added cold. Hundreds of -cabins in County Cork had nothing on their earth floors save a few rotten bundles of straw not a blanket, "not a stick of furniture." Neither could the peo ple afford in many cases even the cheap peat fires. The men tramped barefoot through the snow to the re lief works. Their rags hardly covered their bones. It was the commonest thing in the world for men to be "struck with the cold" and die in a day or two. All over the country men and women could be seen "redigging the potato grounds, in hopes of finding some few remaining." They were bending over the fields which the sheep had desert ed, trying to find turnip roots. Fami lies were known to have lived for weeks "on the flesh of horses that bad died." A Skibbereeu man with a family of live had nothing for them all to eat from Saturday to Thursday except eleven and one-half pouuds of potatoes and a head of cabbage. He walked several miles to the works, and the superintendent gave him a piece of bread: he tried to swallow it and dropped dead. Octave Thanet, in Cen tury. slur man and liner. A Maudalay paper tells how a Bur mese laborer defended himself from a tiger: "He was cutting grass in the jungle with the usual agricultural dah, a short, heavy weapou. While stop ping to rest himself for a moment he discovered that a tiger had stalked him. He immediately gave a back hand stroke with all" his force and caught the tiger right across the eyes. The tiger sprang on him and seized him by the back of the head and fleck, when the plucky Burmau planted his dah twice in the brute's belly. Mr. Stripes let go, and the Burmau hit him over the head again and then fainted. On recovering consciousness heound the tiger had gone, and he managed to crawl toward his village, till some peo ple met him and carried him home. Although he has some ghastly wounds, the doctor hopes to pull him through. The tiger, a full-grown one. was found dead two days after by the villagers." The Paris Figaro pays yearly dividend of over 100,000. mm PACIFIC STATES . Type-foundry And Printers' Warehouse, 4O0-U WaaMnrton St, OppoaiU Poa OOem, The favorite printera Sapoly Howae of the Pacific Coast, prompt, Sioaare and Pro jrrrMlve. 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