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LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1. 1891.
NO, 8V
BANON
VOL.tv.
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1 FOREIGN.
The entire Portuguese cabinet re
sign ed April 15.
The czar has ordered the expulsion
of al'l Jews from all parts of Russia
except Poland and about a dozen
southern provinces.
Bisihop Racine of Sherbrooke, Que
bec, I'las issued a man d men t urging
tbe I'rench Canadians to go to the
new d istricts of the province instead
of theUnited States.
The insurgents have defeated 3000
of Balrnaceda's men at Copiapo, Chile,
and ai?e about to advance on the
capital!
The Cpanadian government does not
intend to tinker the tariff at the com
ing sesstion of parliament.
Russia, is increasing her military
force. . -
The Mexican-Guatemala claims
commission has about finished its
labors. Xhe Guatemalans presented
claims fop $2,138,379 and the Mexicans
for $1,557l232- The claims disallowed
are $ 227,787 for Gautemala and $449,
799 for Mexico. - The time allowed for
presenting more claims has passed.
The gri htLs trebled the death rate
in Hull., I
Flour sells for 22 cents a pound in
Chile and starvation ha nearly as
many victims as the civil war.
Two hundred families at King's
Cove, Nova Srotia, are reported starv
ing. The MarfpU;ris are cot subdued and
the British h)ave sent forth heavy
forces and expect hard fighting.
The grip is increasing in severity in
England ancl an the continent.
There ha Ipeen much rioting by
striking wtwfers in London of late,
resulting inhncany broken heads.
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General News.
UNITED STATES.
The rope carrying a car in the shaft
of the Philadelphia colliery at Potts
ville, Pa., broke April 15 while the
cage was coming up with nine men
on it. Th.ee of them jumped off at
the firsi landing and the others fell
300 feet. All got broken arms and
legs, but, strange to say, four are ex
pected to recover.
Stanley has gone to England.
Three small sons of Thomas Muneo,
residing near Washington, found a
partly empty nitro-glycerine can April
12 and threw stones at it. One of the
stones struck the can and then there
was only one boy there and he was
dying. The others were scattered
over four townships.
The government's ease against the
whisky trust, accused of hiring a man
to blow up the Shufeldt independent
distillery with dynamite, is growing
remarkably strong.
Spotted fever is raging at JVIesquite,
Tex.
T. Martin, ex-president of the Dover
( N. H.) Shoe company, has been ar
rested on a charge of embezzling
stock to the amount of $50,000 from
Adolph Meyers & Co. of Boston.
Dr. Pides-, one of the most prom
inent physicians of Wheeling, W . Va.,
and Taj lor Foreman, superintendent
of the county poor farm, have been
arrested on a warrant charging them
with grave robbery.
Upon the recommendation of the
civil service commissioners President
Harrison has ordered the classifica
tion, under the civil service, of the
school superintendents, their assist
ants, school teachers, physicians and
matrons in the Indian service.
The report of a combination of the
sugar trust, the independent refineries
and the wholesale grocers associa
tion of the middle and eastern states
to control prices is confirmed.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., has gone
to South. Dakota to acquire a residence
and secure a divorce, after which, it is
reported, she will marry Dr. Bui! of
New York, who attended her through
her late illness. Her husband has
gone to Europe to avoid an appearance
in the divorce court.
N. P. Shafera office at Scran -on,
Pa.p caught fireseveraltiroesin differ
ent parts of the room recently with no
apparent cause. Investigation by a
chemist showed that liquid had been
spilled about the room which, when a
certain point in evaporation is
reached, blazes.
E. T. Young eloped from Kentucky
with F. C. Cash's wife. Cash got a
divorce and then followed them, over
took them in Texas and shot Young
dead. He was tried for murder and
acquitted April 11 and he and Mrs.
X&sh were remarried the same day.
Silas Slaughter, a horse thief, de
serted his wife and moved from Par
kersburg, W. Va., into Calhoun
county, and changed his name, to
Waiker four years ago. Recently he !
applied for a pension giving, of course,
his right name, and this has led to i
his arrest.
United States Treasurer Huston has i
resigned and Enos H. Nebecker has !
been appointed to succeed him. , j
The Indians in Colorado and New !
Mexico have lost many thousand !
cattle, horses and sheep through j
severe weather. . j
Eben Tourjee is dead. I
Constable Green, who was search
ing for evidence against violators of
the liquor law in Burlington, la., '
April 13, was set upon by twenty or
liiirty of the lawbreakers and beaten :
almost Lo a jelly.
The Farmers' All iance is almost
certain to run a presidential ticket
next year. Judge Greshen is " talked
A crazy woman in the poorhouse at
Birmingham, Al., set fire to it April
13 and it was burned with one bed
ridden inmate in it. -
Adam Itzel, musical director of the
McCauli opera company, arrived at
Chicago April 12, got into a hack clad
only in his underclothes, drove to the
Leland hotel, sent for a blanket and,
clad in this, entered the hotel. His
clothing had been stolen on the train
from Baltimore while he was asleep.
A party of boys returning from Sun
day school at Pittsburg, Pa., April 12,
stole a can of giant powder from a
factory, built a fire and burned it to
see the fun. Michael O'Toole and
Edward Caldwell, aged about 12, were
killed, and none of them saw any fun
in it.
A cycloue destroyed the courthouse
at Hansford, Tex. April 17, killing
two men and injuring another, and
wrecked the little town of Paludona,
Oklahoma.
Current News.
Southern California at Chicago.
The southern California citrus ex
hiuition was the most elaborate and
perfect of Its kind ever seen. Start
ing at the door the visitor saw a glor
ious orange thirty-seven feet in cir
cumference made up of thousands of
smaller fruit. Behind it were the rest
of the orange county products in the
form of banks and pyramids of times,
lemons and oranges with a car wheel,
indicating that all are sold in carload
lots. To the left is the additional dis
play made by Cucamonga of oil, wine
and other things.
Then came the beautiful arch, forty
six feet in span, of Redlands, San
Bernardino county, representing in
its background the Bear valley dam.
Next was an exhibit from Ontario of
a car composed of oranges. The
upper San Gabriel valley with separate
exhibits from Its three towns, Glen
dora, Covina and Azusa, showed a
model of Cleopatra's Needle and an
immense mass of fruit. An interest
ing feature of the exhibit was the
courthouse of Los Angeles, standing
upon an eminence and built, except
the clock, of mandarin oranges and
limes.
The bay and harbor of San Diego,
with Point Lioma, were represented,
gulches and all, in the gold-yellow
fruit, with orange and lemon-laden
ships, wharves and piers. The exhibit
of various products followed.
A beautiful model of the old mission
of the Franciscan monks at San
Gabriel stood at one side of the en
trance, with steps, ruined walls and
the old Spanish belfry carefully por
trayed. In the center were architec
tural designs not less pretentious and
impressive.
Duarte had a great mosque, cres
cent-topped, admitting a score of per-
ons beneath its bulging minaret,
while to the north was the great obelisk
of Pasadena. This alone required
24,000 oranges of assorted kinds,
navels, St. Michaels, Malta Bloods and
Mediterranean sweets, the choicest
of all the golden coast products.
Nearly 200 boxes made thirty-eight feet
of solid oranges, with palms and pam
pas plumes atop, bringing the total
hight of the column to fifty feet.
The Santa Barbara exhibit was in
hard luck. The1 first night out, before
it had crossed the mountains, the
train tumbled down an embankment
and left nothing but fragments. With
characteristic enterprise, a new lot of
fruit was exhibited by the third day
of the exhibit, and the original idea
of a beautiful tropical garden carried
out. At the entrance to this garden
stood two great fan palms. Behind
them were strawberry guava of Japan
n full fruit, from which comes the
famous jelly, and the Abyssinia
banana, both in fruit and flower, the
latter measuring some ten feet in
length. There was also a lime nearly
ten inches in length having all the
flavor of the smaller fruit without its
excessive acidity. Custard apples,
Cherymoya, Eygptian papyrus, giant
bamboo, branches of a she-oak from
a tree 5 years old and fifty-two feet in
height.
Then there were two date palms
containing six bunches of fruit weigh
ing from sixty to eighty pounds
apiece, a branch from a lemon tree
eleven feet long, all grown In one
season of four months. All this, with
raisins and olive, citron, lemon and
oranoe trees in both blossom and
fruit, hardly gives a complete idea of
tne nnest exmuii ever mane.
Stanford University Faculty.
Dr. Jordan has completed his ar
rangements for the appointment of
the faculty for the Stanford Univer
sity and has made the following names
public:
Dr. Andrew White, ex-president of
Cornell University, to be non-resident
professor of history.
F. Stanford, Lake Forest Univer
sity, associate professor of physics.
Horace B. Gale, Washington Uni
versity, St. Louis, professor of mechan
ical engineering.
.Professor Joseph Swain, Indiana
University, associate professor of
mathematics.
Doughlas H. Campbell, Indiana
University, associate professor of
botany.
Mr. Blaine Concedes Nothing.
Secretary of State Blaine has at last
replied at length to the demand of
the king of Italy in regard to the New
Orleans lynching. He says first, that
the only criminal proceedings possible
will probably be those in the state
courts, though the question has been
submitted to the United States at
torney general ; second, the treaty
with Italy does not guarantee any
money indemnity to the Italians or
their families, but only the same pro
tection afforded to United States citi
zens, and that is the right to sue the
members of the mob for damages;
third, if the authorities of Louisiana
had due notioe of the intention of the
lynchers and did not attempt to pre
vent their action, and if any of the
men who were killed were Italian citi
zens who resided in this country " not
in violation of our immigration laws
( this bars out at least three of the four
claimed to have been Italian citizens
who were criminals whose immigra
tion was illegal ) the president would
feel that a case had been established
which should be submitted to con
gress with a view to the relief of the
families of such Italian citizens.
Mr. Blaine says : " I am directed by
the president to express the satisfac
tion of his government with the very
material qualification of his demand
made by the marquis Rudini on be
half of the Italian government" But
he gives no encouragement to expect
that even the modified demands of
Italy will be acceded to.
Farm Notes.
Pertinent Paragraphs.
Ostrich farming is not a bonanza to
the man without experience. The 162
ostriches on the farm of the California
Ostrich company at Anaheim, valued
at $30,000 and assessed for $11,000,
have boen sold for$6000. We wouldn't
advise any young man with $500 cap
ital and no experience to go into
ostrich farming for profit.
The owners of 8000 acres of vine
yards In the Saratoga district of the
Santa Clara valley have combined
with two objects, first, to market their
own wines in the east, without carry
ing the burden of middlemen, and,
second, to see that no poor wine goes
out with the brand of the organiza
tion. There is an enormous differ
ence between the price the producer
gets for all kinds of crops and the
price the consumer pays, and a large
part of the difference can be saved to
the producer, in almost every product,
by such a combination managed with
ability and honesty.
Foreign Practice.
An Hanoverian farmer, chiefly en
gaged in calf-fattlng, was not abio to
push forward the animals sufficiently
rapidly for the market. The milk he
utilized was creamed; linseed meal
was employed to supply the absence
of milk-fat, but did not suit. He pur
chased what he calls ox " kidney fat
or tallow, and melting it added it to
the warmed milk. At first the calves
disliked the mixture, but took to it in
the end, even when scales of grease
were on the milk. The butchers, he
states, prefer his veal to that of other
iatteners.
Professor Nathorst of Sweden is oc
cupied with the question, how to aug
ment the richness of milk without
diminishing its quantity. He totally
objects to crossing breeds of milk
cows to effect that end. He has tried
the union of the Jersey and the Dutch
or Freisian races, but the result was
illusory. Next he studied the ques
tion of alimentation, ' and naturally
noted that rich rations tended to rich
milk ; but they did not at all increase
the secretion in the case of cows yield
ing rich milk. Ultimately he decided
to analyze the percentage of fat in the
milk yielded by each cow of the Dutch
breed ; he found much vaiiation under
this head. But he selected the best
butter animals and, breeding from
them, has nowa most satisfactory herd
of dairy stock. There is nothing new
in the principle; patience, time and
careful selection will develop and in
crease good points perhaps in every
animal.
The very interestingdiscussion con
tinues, before the academy of sciences,
between the two eminent chemists,
Messrs. Schloesing and Berthelot, on
the subject of the absorption of at
mospheric nitrogen directly by the
soil. The question divides continental
chemists into two opposite camps.
Awaiting the agreement of the doc
tors, the situation appeal's to be this :
That nothing definite has been estab
lished by any of the experiments.
Galleu says yes; Hippocrates, no.
Berthelot, among other investiga
tions, has sent electric currents
through vases, containing soil and
growing plants. The soils electrified
were found to be richer in nitrogen
than those not electrified. The only
step this delicate subject has made in
In advance Is the discovery that
microbes, while executing their role
of grand decomposers and disintegra
tors of organic matters, favor the ab
sorption of nitrogen by the soil and
by the plant. But what effect would
Berthelot 's electric current have upon
this lowest form of parasite life? Can
the victim resist the executioner?
Cor. New England Farmer.
A New Class.
For fifty years to come horticul
tural interests will probably increase,
and among horticulturists the skilled
fruit-grower, owning from ten to fifty
;ires of land, will best represent his
class. Such a person is likely to be
more of a business man than the
average farmer, and is in closer rela
tions to town and city life. He is
compelled to travel more, watches the
markets and the fields of invention
closer and represents, all in all, a finer
type. A California fruit-grower is in
some respects akin to the middle class
of suburban dwellers near Boston and
New York, with this very important
difference, that he actually and con
stantly makes his living from the soil
he owns. The one tendency of his
life is toward what may be termed
extreme Calif ornianism for he is
growing almonds or oranges or some
thing or other that cannot be pro
duced at a profit in many other places
on the continent, and the ' glorious
climate " is his best friend. But, on
the other hand, he is in a skilled busi
ness, full of technical details, requir
ing plenty of brain work, and he is
selling in the world's markets. Many
a California grower of raisins, oranges,
walnuts, olives, prunes, or other horti
cultural products goes to Chicago and
New York every autumn " to keep the
run of the field." The drift of Pacific
coast life is toward a rapid increase of
the number of orchardists. They are
organized, too, in a manner Junknown
among the farmers, and have several
times shown unsuspected courage in
independent politics. Some of these
days professional politicians will have
to deal with a new factor the horti
culturist, a distinct evolution from the
conservative American farmer type,
quicker of brain, less wedded to party
bonds, and more capable of under
standing the interests of the common
wealth. Charles H.Shinn in the Pop
ular Monthly for April. -
The Burlington road's switchmen
are on strike.
Growing' Mangels.
The following hints on the growing
of Mangel Beets have been kindly fur
nished by Mr.. W. C. Damon of Napa :
Beets do best in a deep, sandy loam,
mainly because such soil is easily
kept moist by working. But they will
do equally well In blaek adobe or yel
low clay, when thoroughly cultivated
so as to retain the moisture. Any
land adapted to corn or potatoes will
produce good beets. They also do
well in alkali land, and will extract
the alkali, thus improving the soil for
other crops. Beets do not exhaust
the soil more than wheat. They are
great air feeders, gathering all their
sugar through their leaves, and tak
ing nothing from the soil except wa
ter and a slight trace of salts. Like
all vegetables, they do best in rich,
stnpng land. I never irrigate my
beets, though a moderate use of wa
ter will improve the crop. If manure
is used it must be old aud well rotted,
as green manure renders the soil too
porous and the crop will dry out If
not irrigated after July.
The land should be plowed In the
fall and left as rough and well
drained as possible through the win
ter. In March or April it should be
plowed again, but not harrowed down
until the heavy rains are over. Then
lay off the ground as for corn, in rows
one way, four feat apart, for Long
Red Mangels; but Yellow Globe, or
Sugar Beets should be planted three
feet apart. Sfft in the seed with the
hand, walking at full pace, using
from five to seven pounds to the acre.
Cover with the harrow ; if early, one
or two inches deep by harrowing with
the rows and no clodding or rolling
afterward, as a heavy rain after plant
ing will harden the land if it is left
too smooth ; if late, plant four inches
deep by harrowing across the rows,
and clod-mash or roll thoroughly af
terwards, to hold the moisture. Two
men can rplant five acres in a day,
and no tools are needed except a corn
marker and a harrow. I never use a
seed drill. Success depends largely
upon planting at the right time. The
seed must not be planted too early,
as heavy rains after planting will har
den the earth around the roots. April
is generally the best time to plant, or
even May, if the land is kept moist.
The Long Red Mangel yields the
largest crop on a deep, rich soil, often
producing 25 to 40 tons per acre. It
can be pulled without the spade,
comes out clean and is very brittle,
crisp and tender. If harvested about
Christmas it can be corded up like
wood, (not piled in a heap) in a cool,
dry place, and it will keep nicely until
June. The air must circulate through
the mass to prevent moulding. Wilt
ing does not injure, but improves
them. When harvesting, clean off all
dirt and cut the tops closely.
The Yellow Globe Mangel is more
turnip-shaped, and less brittle and
watery ; it yields well, is very easily
pulled, and does better on a thin, dry
soil than any other variety. The Su
gar Beet is smaller and grows more
in the pTound, but it is richer in su
gar, and yields g re at crops on good
soil. But the Long Red is the general
favorite, and very extensively grown
by dairymen, though the others may
be better for horses.
Never use hot water on the seed ; it
is liable to weaken the germ, if it
does nut utterly destroy it. I have
found the following treatment very
successful : Three or four days be
fore planting, dip the sack of seed In
a tub of milk-warm water, and leave
it there one day. Then take it out
and lay it in the warm sun. Cover it
up at night. Every morning dip the
sack in warm water (a moment or
two), and leave it in the sun. The ob
ject is to keep the' seed moist and
warm, but not to leave it under water
after the first day. In about four
days the sprouts will begin to appear.
ixun jmuui it,, ami u me SOU IS
moist and warm it will come tin with-
in ten days. But it must be planted
in moist soil, of course, or it will Hrv
out. Seed planted before the first of
a.pru neeu not oe soaKed.
After the plants are well started
they should be thinned out. On
every six inches is enough, and later
sun remove nan oi cnese, leaving
them a foot apart for Long Red. Do
not neglect this if you want large
beets. One hoeing is enough, but
keep the ir round well-stirred with the
cultivator the first part of the season.
It will pay to go over it every two
weeKs in iuay ana dune.
Bird Seed.
Whoever buys bird seed at retail
pays a huge profit to the dealer, even
when weighed out of seeds in bulk ;
to use the pound paste-board boxes is
still more costly. These are often
adulterated with millet, which no bird
eats unless forced by hunger; well
fed birds waste itso much the package
might as well be weighed with sand.
I sowed some German rape from one
of these mixtures. When it grew it
was wild mustard or charlock, Sinapis
arvensis. But it is good bird seed all
the same, and it may be gathered in
quantity from the fields in many
places. Pull the plants and hang
them in bunches till dry, then the
seed can be cleaned very easily.
Turnips set out in spring will yield
bird seed, and mustard seed may be
fed to some extent. Canary grass
sown in garden drills a foot apart, and
kept hoed, will yield a long succession
of heads, first from the top of the
stem then from the lower points. Cut,
not pull, them as they ripen, dry and
rub them out, winnow in a large pan.
Hemp is easily grown in the garden
or any out of the way corner. Some
hemp plants are males, pull them up
mostly as soon as you can tell them
their flowers swing by fine threads,
the females are In thick, erect spikes.
One male plant is enough to keep.
Turkeys willTareak down hemp some
times, and hens will eat up canary
grass if they can get to it. Yick's
Magazine for ApnI.
Woman's World.
" Current Comment.
L. E. McEIroy is the first
female notary public In California.
She was commissioned April 6 and
has her office at San Quentin. Women
are working their way into all places
in California except that at the polls.
The Young Women's Christian As
sociation of San Francisco has opened
a lunch room where working girls can
bring their lunches and eat them or
with or without tea or coffee or bread
and butter, which last are eharged for
at 1 cent each. Tea, coffee or bread
and butter tickets are sold at the fac
tories, five for 5 cents.
Misses Evelyn and Jarrett Keyser,
practical printers, have decided to go
Into the job printing business at Paso
Robles and perhaps to start a paper
there. The young ladies learned to
set "type in Hanford and those who
know them prophesy success for them.
Voong- Shoppers. '
Too many people assume the cares
and duties of house keeing and home
making without the knowledge gained
by experience in handling money.
The safest and - least humiliating
place to acquire this ease Is under the
home-roof where a dear, sympathetic
mother can guide and ad vise. against
errors. Children may be trained very
early to understand and appreciate
the value of money, and I know of no
better way than to allow them to pur
chase some simple articles for the
house.
All children should have a little
money of their own to accustom them
to personal expense. No child realizes
the unavoidable expense he is to his
parents unless he handles and, if pos
sible, earns some of the money that is
used In keeping him comfortable and
happy. Such knowledge, if properly
brought to a child's notice, will only
serve to make him more considerate
of his parents and less likely to make
them needless trouble.
This habit of allowing young folks
"pin money" is a familiar one in
many families, but few, I think; take
the pains to instruct them in the im
portant art of judicious buying. Chil
dren enjoy a little importantance very
much, and will exercise great care if
sent on an errand in which they may
use their own judgment. When the
result is unsatisfactory, gently point
out the fault; if all is well, be equally
sure to give due meed of praise, for
much is due the child who succeeds
while learning something new.
One girl can never forget how hard
was her path when, on going at seven
teen to live with an invalid aunt, she,
for the first time in her life, had all
the shopping to do. Totally without
experience In this kihd of work, for
work it certainly was, she was often
completely at the mercy of the store
keeper and, on reaching home, ex
tremely liable to her aunt's dis
pleasure. Let me relate one instance. She
was sent down town one day to buy
gingham to make six short dresses
for the year-old baby. For two, she
bought material of a small blue check,
for two more of a small brown check,
and for the other two of a pink end
white that was very pretty to the eye.
No one had ever told her that pink
rarely washed well, but she never
touched one of those pick dresses in
all the long winter that followed with
out thinking as she looked at the
faded, slimpsy garment:
"Why couldn't some one have
cautioned me against such a mis
take? "
One wise mother said to her grocer,
and to the head of the dry-goods
house where she usually dealt:. "I
shall occasionally send my little
daughter to make small purchases,
allowing her to use her own judgment.
If I am in immediate need of any
thing for which I send her, she will
bring you a note. Otherwise do not
allow her to take time from your more
important customers."
The dealers thanked her warmly,
for there are many seasons when their
time is altogether too valuable to per
mit of their turning the business into
a training-school for young shoppers.
So in this way the child had a chance
to learn without defrauding others.
She was sometimes sent to "buy
some suitable buttons for this ging
ham apron, dear," or some like in
stance, and although only ten years
old, she showed considerable good
taste and judgment.
She would occasionally be sent to
the grocery store to order vegetables
for dinner, and was teasing hard to
be taught all about meat, so she
"could order papa's Sunday roast."
Not a precocious child, mv TMAf
Only ono whom a very conscientious
motner naa oeen training m this
direction for several years. Maud S.
Peaslee in Rural Press.
Phoebe Cousins Belligerent.
A Chicaco dispatch of Anril la m -
The war between the executive com
mittee or the lady managers of the
world's fair and Secretarv nnn;na
was brought to a climax to-day by the
positive re i u sai or Miss Couzlns to
recognize the authority of the sub
committee, headed by Mrs Potter
Palmer. Miss Couzlns said she would
neither retire nor appear before the
committee; that she was legally a
member of the board of lady managers
and was not amenable to discipline
from the executive committee.
She also declared that if this com
mittee undertook to depose hamhA
should appeal to the courts. A fear
was quite generally expressed this
evening that the feud may entirely
disrupt the board of ladv martnemra
as Mrs. Palmer, it is pointed out, is a
woman oi great ability and determin
ation of character, and Miss Cnuina
has a legal education and a remark
able record as a pluckv and succaha
ful fighter
"Needles and Pins.'
When Nrtt of NsdoII came to this Kbore.
She knew but two words "needles, pins"
and no more, a
Until a street Arab, rjncoitiired yoong wtgj .
Did something I cannot consider as ripbt.
And laugbt her to add to tire "needles f
pins." - . em.
"When a roan's married, bis taonbler7. ,
Bnt Netta of Nspoll noted erelong,
By looking at ladies who'd list to bersong,
Thst this was a sentence exceedingly wrong.
And being a poetess after her way,
Betbouirht her of something more fitting to
say;
So that now her refrain is still "Needles mo9
Pit
Wben a man's married, a treasu're-e wins
Which Is why the good housewives, at least U
our block,
W hen Notta appears, all select from her stock.
Mrs. Valentine Adams, In Harper's Young
People.
LEGENDS OF THE 7REN.
Its Trick on an Eagle Wins It Popularity
Among the Irish.
In Ireland the wren is called ihfT-.
king of birds. One old legend amon.
the Irish, that dates as far back as the .
days of the Druids, is thus stated by
the Boston Globes ;
Once upon a time the eagle, arwayT..
proud of his strength and valor, called v
all the birds together for a trial of ,
flight, with this understanding, that h .
who soared the highest would forever
command the distinctive title of "king
of birds."
The eagle, by common consent, had
been invested with the honor from
time immemorial and be had oo Mea
of giving it up; bat the better to im
press his superiority on all inferior
birds he called together the whole
feathered tribe for this flying tonrna-
meat.
At the appointed time the birds
came. There were thrushes, linnets,
magpies, crows, blackbirds, bluebirds.
nawKS, uoves, rooms, sparrows, nignt
in galea, larks, game birds from the
fnreftt- Rpahirds frnm the. eoaat and last
of all, bat as noisy as any of them,
came the turkeys, geese, oqcks ana
hens from tbe barnyards.
The eagle surveyed them all with
bis piercing eyes. At some of them
he cast a contemptuous glance, bat
wben be saw the skylark he looked a
little uneasy. This was tbe only bird
be really feared, for the skylark can
fly very high. Bat his fears did not
last long, for just then he saw some
thing to make him laugh. It was the
little wren hopping along saucily with
his jaunty little tail perked up with
the utmost assurance. One would
think he sorely expected to win the
prize.
Tbe eagle began to poke fun at him.
and all the other birds joined in. so
that the poor little wren was glad to
escape out of sight.
Wben tbe signal was given for tbe
birds to start he was nowhere to be
seen, and if any one thought of him at
all it was probably to conclude that be
had realized the folly of his trying to
compete with those so. much stronger
than himself, and bad wisely gone
home to his nest in the hedge.
At a given signal away, flew tbe
birds. Up, up. up! Tbe wild
did very well, so did tbe hawk, and
the skylark kept close under the eagle's
big wings; but one by one they bad to
give up. all bat the proud old eagle.
He kept on soaring until be reached a
point from which he could not raise
himself another inch.
Then be looked down proodly at all
the representatives of tbe feathered
tribe below him, and they looked up
admiringly at him, wbeu suddenly up
above him flew a little dark speck. It
was a bird, and the horrified, eagle
looked up to see the despised little
wren hovering above him.
All the other birds saw him too. and
they set up a great shout. Then down
flew the crestfallen eagle.
As the birds touched the ground
they looked for the wren, and they
saw him hop off the eagle's back. He
had been nestling among the feathers,
and the big eagle .did not feel bis
weight. "
So it was that when the eagle and
the other birds had used op all their
strength he was able to reach a point
higher than all of them.
According to the letter of the law the
wren was adjudged "king of birds."
bat, as one may suppose, the eagle
was very angry. He set to work and
cursed tbe wren and laid a spell on
him so that he sbonld never agxin he
able to fly over anything, and to this
day an Irish wren cannot even fly over
a hedge; be must find an opening in it
somewhere before be can pass from
one field or garden to another. -
The drnids treated the wren with
great distinction, but when Christianity
was introduced into the cooatry tbe
first Christian missionaries, not above
superstition themselves, considered
their admiraticfei a great offense, and
since then the poor little king baa
sometimes had a bard time of it.
Another incident to bring the wren
into ill-repute with the Irish is the
story that once when tbe Danes had
invaded Ireland a party of their while
asleep were about to be surrounded by
the natives when several wrens awoke .
them by pecking on their drams. The
same story is told of wrens awaking a .
detachment of protectants daring one
of the religious wars of Ireland.
Either affair would be enough to
make the Irish hate the poor little
wren, and they set apart St. Stephen's
Day that is the day following Christ
mas on which to persecute hrm.
On that day tbe idle men and boys
go a wren hunting. They take sticks
or clubs and run like mad from hedge
to hedge nntil they succeed in killing
one. Then they form a procession
and carry about tbe poor little body,
bong by one leg in the center of two
hoops crossing each other at right
angles, the whole arrangement deco
rated with bits of colored ribbon.
They march from door to door, and in
front of each the funny one of the
party, called the "drolleen," sings:
The wren, the wren,
Tbe king of all birds,
St Stephen's Day
He was caught In the firs;
And although be is little,
His family's frreat.
Bo arise, good lady.
And give us a treat.
They usually receive a hearty wel-
come, and tne treat rhyming with
great besides a few pence dropped
into an old stocking which the drolleen
holds out as he sings. These receipts
are spent in a jollification for the
evening:, and the funnier tbe drolleen
is and the more apt he is at repartee
the heavier the stocking will be at the
close of the day.
Serving; a Subpoena.
While a constable at Bayville. N. Y.r
was trying to serve a s'ubpeena the
other day the unwilling witness in
endeavoring to keep away from the
man of the law jumped through a win- -dow,
landingin a tub of water. The
constable landed on top of him, and,.
white both were "w allowing in their
bath11 the constable served his a ibpov
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