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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1891)
AN OLD SAV. "Don't Sing Berbr Bmaktut, Tooll Cry Before Nlftafc." A dear Ifttle maid came skipping out la t.he glad Dew day with merry Bhoat; With dancing feet and with Hying hair. She sans with joy in the mornjpg air. Dont Blnfr before breakfast, you'll ory be fore night!" What a croak to darken the child's delight! And the stupid old nurse again and aain Repeated the ancient, null refrain. The child paused, trying' to understand, ' But faer eyes saw the great world rainbow spanned; Her light little feet hardly touched the earth. And her soul brimmed over with Innocent mirth. "Never mind; dont listen, O sweet little maid! -Make sure of your morning- song," I said: -And If pain must, meet you, why, all the more Be glad of the rapture that came before. Oh. tears and sorrows are plenty enong-h; Storms mav be bluer and oat ha be rouB-hi But our tears should fall like the dear earth's showers That help to ripen the fruits and flowers. "So ttladden the dav with vnur blessed sons-: .Sins on while you may, dear, clear and strongi -Makn sure of vnur moment of nnra delf irhfc Mo matter what trials may come before nig-nir- Cella Tharter In Comrregntlonalist, A WELL BROKEN WILL Two years ago I was a hard working artist, quite content if a week's labor on black and white work brought me a moderate compensation. I had not an ambition beyond hanging a picture at the annual exnioition ox tne Acad emy. On this I had been working as siduously at spare moments. It rep resented a man sitting at a table with a jug of beer before him, the very picture of contentment. Under it was the sentiment: "If 1 had a fortune I'd neTer leave New York!" This picture was a great success. People got to discussing whether if they had plenty of money it would be ossible to fully enjoy life without earing the island. I awoke one room ing to find that one of these idiots, who had taken an piec de lettre what I had merely intended as a loke had sud denly died, ; making his will in my favor, but coupling his benefaction with the proviso that I. Peter Van Pelt, should never leave Manhattan. If 1 did so the property, some thousands per annum, was instantly to revert to another of bis fads, the Society for the Cultivation of social fclhies. You may imagine that, never having oeen ame to anora any out tne most meagre ana temporary absences from the city, this proviso attached to the gift of several thousands per annum was one which didn't trouble ine greatly. I only blessed my lucky stars that a crank like Mr. Marstoo bad existed and had taken the extra ordinary view that a man with plenty of funds at his disposal couldn't be perfectly con ten tea in flew lortc citv. I st once notified theexecutors of mv intention to aecept the conditions of the legacy. and proceeded to enjoy we. I threw np all my black and white work, neglected the art which had bronght me mv fortune, and exerted myself night and day in endeavoring to extract all the pleasure possible from my new position. I took apart ments on the avenue, tnrnisnea them expensively, gathered around me a number of choice spirits, and for awhile actually succeeded in enjoying mvseif. 1 lived on the fat of the land. Things went along swimmingly for nearly a rear. J. he onlv thing that marred my enjoyment of my new fortune was the perpetual espionage l -vnaerwent at tne nanus oi tne agent of the Society for the Cultivation of social ,thics. tie caturaiiv wanted to catch me trippingr. He was a small, thin, stealthy man. - with the most odious, ye) low eyes. At brst it was a matter of perfect indiffer ence to me whether he followed me ox not. but after awhile I got into a habit tf glancing over my shoulder to see it be was there. I was nervous if I saw him and entirely miserable if he was not in sight. O. how I grew to hate him. It was absolutely impossible for me to get rid of this fellow. He followed me everywhere. If I went to the theater and took a box he was sure to be there sitting in the parquet. If I took a seat in the parquet I had only to glance up to see him regarding me steadfastly from the balcony. I went into a restaurant, I ate with the con sciousness that his eye was upon me. I never spent a dollar but I seemed to hear him eryt How much more good that would have done for the advancement of social ethics.11 The fellow pursued me everywhere. Of course he was not always in sight, but there was the consciousness that he was perpetually dogging my foot steps. If I went down to the Battery or to one of the wharves in summer to get a little fresh air he was there, uttering not a word, but saying as plainly as possible by his looks: "Why don't you give this thing up and take a trip into the country. You know this confinement is killing yon, and what will be the use of your money thenP" I got rid of him for a whole night once- by a ruse you will admit was iiiLuer ciever. ra.y iuhu Hervaub was not unlike me in size and general ap pearance. I dressed him up to closely resemble me and sent him over to Jer sey City. The agent followed him, and that night I took the boat to Astoria and had a splendid walk in the coun try. The very next morning, however. I could tell "by his manner that he knew he had been tricked. Yon may say what you like about the pleasures of the town. I tell you they come to an end at last. There came a time when I was nearly throw-, ing up my contract and getting off somewhere out into the country. It was summer time. A party of my friends had just left that morning for Newport. O, how I detested the city and the hot pavements. I went into Central Park. It was the nearest approach to the conntry I could find; bnt its trim rusticity only goaded my brain into thinking of stiady lanes and real conntry meadows. Above the tops of the trees I could see the roofs of tbe houses. I was still in town. I felt so aggravated on this partic ular morning that I had half a mind to sit down and write to the executors of the will and tell them I could hold oat do longer. ' I was in the mental act of preparing this letter when I was aroused by a terrible noise beyond some bushes, and the sound of a female voice evidently fea great distress. To plunge through the bushes was the work of but a moment. On a green plot of lawn a young girl in a light fluffy dress stood wring ing her hands and beating vainly with her sunshade at a confused mass of fur, which I presently made out to be two dogs, engaged in a canine game of fisticuffs. It was all white and black fur, rolling over and over and snap ping and biting sad barking. It was from this mass that tbe terrible noise aforesaid proceeded. I understand dogs and carry snuff. It is a habit 1 acquired in Borne, where all artists use it, "O. save my dear Benn-p' ried the girl. Not stopping to Identify Benny I cave the pair of thetn the contents of the snuff box. Benny immediately! tore himself from his opponent and the two animals sot to suwrzina: furi ously. As soon as he would let her the girl picked up Benny and getting some of the snuff started in sneezing ton. F-r a time there was a perfect ehoru-t. "Ka-chug;. ka-chug. ka-uhu." It was so infectious that 1 also said "Ka-chug." Then the cirt said, very coolly: - -"O, is that you? Thank you so much. What a fortunate thfti you take snuff." I am one of the old school, I re plied, "and carry it in or.lir to be in the fashion. If you would permit me to wash Benny I will do it with pleasure." We took him down to the lake be tween us and washed him. I never washed a dog so thoroughly in my life. You see I liegan to be interested in her and wanted as mue!t in I could possibly get of her society. I knew when I got through washing Benny I should have to leave hur. S I nearly drowned the little beggar. I declared he was posi 1 i rely H tt3. He was reallv a remarkably clean dog but you know love is biiu 1. At last he was washed. Then a bright thought struck mi; he must be dried. This we a ceo nip Uhed by sit ting down on the gms and rolling the dog ovnr between n. hall fashion. If he did uot enjov it I'm sure did. Then the girl g.t up and said very sedately: I think I mun go now. It wasn't bad fun, was it?' I declared it was splendid; that I could wash dors and dry them all day with her. I began to look around for a duenna of some kind, but to my surprise no one came. It began to dawn upon me that this supremely pretty girl wit!i the charming eyes had no other pro tector than Benny. It seemed to be my part indeed I felt admirably fitted for it." "Won't you let me see you home?" I asked. "You know Benny might meet another dog." The girl burst out laughing. That's a pretty excuse." she ex claimed. "Besides, you don't know what a contract you'd have on 3 our hands." "Why?" "Because I live a long way from here. I live in Brooklyn."" -- "That settles it." I replied, despair ingly. "I might have kiio vn auy thing very nice wasn't for ine." "Very nice! Really, sir. yon are complimentary. What do you mean, pray?" "Simply that I would like like any thing to see you home, and I can't can't do it," I stammered. "No, of course you can't do it on five minutes1 acquaintance." "And then the will, you know, pre vents my doing it. Under the term of the will, of course I can't leave the city. Why. what's the matter let me explain, won't you?" The girl had thrown np her hands in astonishment. "To think that of all people it should be you!" she said at last, slow 1 3-. "What do you mean?" "Why, you're Mr. Van Pelt, aren't you?" "I am." 'You're the gentleman who painte 1 the picture of the man with the jnir of beer, who said he'd alnays lire m New York. How do you like'ii?" "I don't like it one bit, b it w'10 ara yon. and how do you co ne to know so much alHiut my historx ? "O. I forgot. Of c mre 3-00 don't know me. I'm Bessie M irMon." What, Mr. Marston's niece?" "Yes." I looked at the girl. Her gaza wa bent to the ground. There w.i jut a suspicion of moisture glistening iti her dark eyes. "And but for me am! my picture you woulil have inherited ail this money? By Jove, it's too trad. Here. I'll tell you what I'll do. Mis Marstoo. I'm sick of this life, rtnvwav. and the money is yours by right. A- long as ! it was only a question of it going to that infernal society I'd have stuck it out. but now the case is different. I'll go and see the executors to-morrow. Miss Marstou, and surrender my claim." "You will do nothing of the kind.11 she said. "Go back to your elub and thank heaven my uncle was what peo ple call a crank." "I shall thank heaven for only one thing," I said. There was no one in sight. I looked at her and forgot that I had only known her for an hour or two. "I shall thank heaven for only one thing, and that is that I've met you. Now I can restore to you what is really yonr own. Do yoo think I would be so dishonest, knowing as I do now that I should be defrauding you out of your rightful dues to keep this money?" She was sobbing softly to herself. "It was rather hard," she admitted, "to be thrown aside for a whim." "Don't cry, little girl," I said, I loveyou." "That's impossible. You only met me this morning," she an s were I. laughing through Senear. ; Ko, you must let go my band." But I didn't. I held it pretty much during the next ten minutes, by which time we had reached the park gate. And between you and me I have got it jet. If you ever see a small, t'tin. stealthy man with a piir of yellow eyes going around anywhere, vu can tell him that Mr, Van Pelt makes bet ter use of her uncle's money than ever I did, and we are both so healthy nn l happy that the chances of its enriching the coffers of the Society for the Culti vation of Social Ethics are exceedingly small. Austyn Granville. Intelligent Water-Fowl. An example of the intelligence of water-fowl is shown at Titusvilto. Fla., wAere for several years the shooting of duck has been prohibited along the city's front, and where, as vveniug comes on, thousands of duck come swimming in toward their sleeping place until the water for many rods from the shore is literally black with them. It's Her Own Fault. "I would never have lcen an old maid," said a lady of forty to a N. Y. Sun reporter, "if I had known as much twenty years ago as 1 know now. When I was at a marriageable lime of life I heard so much 11 1 tout unhappy couples that I was afraid to become a wile. But I have looked around in later times and have changed my mind on the subject. Last year 1 took up a list of twetitv wives of my acquaint ance whom f had known before their wedlock and to whom I spoke about their experiences in life. I found fifteen of the twenty were happily mar ried, that four of them got along toler ably well with their husbands ami that only one of them bewailed her matri monial lot. The fifteen happy wives are amiable women, food of their children and helpful to their husbands. About the unhappy one of them I can only say that she is a grumbler mar ried to a growler and would be unhap py anyhow, and as to the other four the fault is uot all on one side. I sus pect that the twenty married women I have spoken of are fair specimens ol wives in general, moi of whom find by experience that it is ma iti age that makes life worth living. As i myself am the soul of amiability, I believe that I would have made a happ3r mar riage if I had not been frightened by tb stories 1 beard twenty years ago." WIT AND HUM01L pi.tTMaxa' VRE.OHCI. Out on ric stoop whar the sunshine strikes. Loin and 'Is banjo yoh'a buhIi to fin', S itulu' Mftly tie ctiuneB he likes. Witl m her a kynh on '1r good nle mln. Be u d- ter de ebenlug breeze dat blows In time ter 'ts sons, and ' goes P unkiiT erlong. lie keeps sorter close ter hta self, Lem does, Lib cn cr heap like de chuni s he plays; P 1 yuli Id roln of a lime dat wuk An sometime 1 rink It's de lite dat pays; Da joh're happier If yoh doesn't know B mtde bust.e an throng:. But J to P uuklu' erlonjr. Pn.Jauder Johnson In Washington Poet. S it "So she married for lore, did ' ? He "Yes; love of money." Epoch. One of the greatest of home com forts id the shirt which isn't made at borne.- Puck A drouth is reported in the sixth ward. A talkative woman over there has dried up. Binghamlon Leader. Spring is the seed time. To the fel low who Is Mill wearing his last win ter's c'othes it is also the seedy lime. Buftuo Express M in 1 "George told me last night I his little duck!" Ethel "He pm-Ktu'y discovered that you were no hicfceii.' Life. rrimm "Is Hem an s useful in the ch nh ?" Secu nd us Tes; pri nci pal object of prayer, I believe." Kate Fi id a H rts.itioton. Mtm may be just as willing to hate you fir your virtues as for your faults, but they seldom have the same oppor tunities. A'. Y. Recorder. Mil Ige "Do you know what I would do if I had a- million dollars?" Yabsley --Buy your own cigars, per haps. ltii-tnopotis Journal. Joe "Why did they turn Harry out of the c' urch? DM he get into bad compam ?" Tom "Yes; he joined the choir." Detroit Free Iress. Mrs. Gad. I "I hear Mrs. Dadd Is goinjr to move." Mrs. Gabb "Yes, she moves every year since she got her new furniture. N. V. tVetMy- . "Move forward a little!" roared the street carcouductor. "I can't," gasped thu man in front. "I don't know how to ride horseback." Harper's Bazar, He "I met your fattier last night for the first time." Sue How did he strike you?" 'Just like the rest of the boys. He w a u t ed $3. " Detroit Free i'rtsft. Foreign Guest '-T-.e Indians are rather expensive. I preumt." Amer ican CHisum "No. not while we let them live; it's killing 'em that counts." Gojd .V, tcs. Bimby "I say. Clarence, you might make me a present of that money I owe you." Carence "I'd like to. but I can't givu what I haven't got-" Men Out filler. A comesondent, who does not give his full name, sends ns a poem headed: "Are You Weary?" We have read it attentively and can truly say we are. Lttjfalo Commercial. Playon "You can't kindle much of a tire with poker chips." Ante "No; but ton can create a blaze of excite ment with them if you have a full baud." Philadelphia Record. John," said the theatrical man ager's wife, "what is meant by a wild eat investment?" "My dear." he said solemnly, "it refers to theemployment of a comic ODera chorus." Washington PoH. The incidental expense of presenta tion at cimrt in ugland is said to be about $500. In this country a man who is presented at conrtcan frequent ly get ttf for $3 aud costs. iioston iJcT-ud. - The Superfluous Man" is the title of a recently published essay. This is the first time that the man who goes shopping with his wife has figured in serious literature, we believe. iV. Y. itecord r. Mrs. Bmgo "There! I knew it. Those moth have got at your dress suit and eaten a hole right through your pocket." Mr. Bingo "They mu--t iw female moths." Clothier and Furnisher. De Bull "De Lamb has just made 10.000 by a sudden turn of the market and is down-town whooping things up live! v." Dts Bear "Intoxicated with joy. I Mij.pos.1 De Bull "No; same oh! stuff. ' ittsbrtrg Dispatch. Di brutes have a language?" asked the pre-! lent of the Millville Literary Cirv e at a recent meeting. "Do the ? replied the secretary: 'you ou jht to hear my husband when he lostM his co!Iar button." N. . Re cord r. "Are you good at figures P1 said the mana-jer" of the hotel. "I have sys tematically trained myself for hotel accounts,' said the applicant for a Hsiiitm. How?" I never studied anything but addition and multiplica tion." Washington Post. In the Z "'logical Garden a stranger lfMiking dtiwn into the bear-pit loses W ho d ami falls over. Policeman (hurrying up and seeing the bear about to seize him) "Sir, don't you know that it is forbidden to feed the animals? Fliegende Blatter. Fa ncy Farmer WeI I, Patriek, I hear that you had a little encounter with my new Devonshire bull this morning." Patrick "Yis; yer honor." Fancy Farmer "Well, which came out ahead?" Patrick "Shiire, yer honor, it was a toss up." Boston Votrier. The following query was recently ndl ressed to a Philadelphia paper: Will you kindly let me know through y ur paper how I can make an egg's shell Mroug?" And the Philadelphia paper did not know enough to tell him to keep the egg till the inside became "strong." Watts "How did young Biggars happen to lose his government posi tion?" Potts "Don t say anything about it. but it was on accouut of etu-iH-zzImuctit. He was in the weather service, you know, and played in about $3.M) worth of the office wind in a game of poker."- Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Stout "That was a very small piexe of roast beef you brought me; I ordered an extra large cut." Waiter "Dal was de large size, san. oar. Stout "What's the difference, thenP" Waiter "When a gent'man orders de extra cut, sab, de cook puts it on a big plate an' I charges you 60 cents in Mead ob 40, sah." Smitii. Gray 4b Co.' a Monthly. The following letter shows how a young gentleman made money by pub lishing a book of poems. Tbe pub lisher wrote immediately after the hook wa published: "Dear Sir: Your rm!e edition has gone off, leaving a b.ih)KC4 of 20 in vour favor. Check im-.oed. P. S. 'fhere was a fire in tin warehouse and the contents were insured." London Tid-Bils. Tuere had !eeu several moments of oppressive silence when Miss Cecilia remarked: ! do envy Miss DeGush." Charlie, who was ia the act of light ing a ciirareite at the gas-jet. looked at the fair C ci.ia in some surprise and aked: "And why do you envy her. Miss Cecilia?" "Because," explained Cecilia. ! understand that she is a ineiiib 'rof a Press association." The mi i id iicd light of a lowered gas-jet. a murmur of lowered voices aud a sigh from Cecilia gave evidence that the wittier of discontent had vanished. th.cj.jo Times HIS ONLY LOVE. Whf an OH rrat Oni4 Had Llt the Iffa or m nwolilr. t had become strangely interested In the old guide, nys Morris Wake in the Detroit Free Press. A ailent man with stalwart frame, thick, gray hair and Krmlv-set lips, whose smile'inten sified. rather than lightened, the pen sive sadness of his face. His words were few. and it was his custom when not engaged in nctive duty about tho camp to sit aside and smoke his pipe, while his thoughts seemed to be far away. I had managed to secure enough of the old man's confidence to obtain a friendly word from him now and then and I determined, if possible, to hear the storv which I was sure he could tell. With this object in view I pleaded surfeit of sport one day and remained at the camp when all the others, save the old guide, had gone out with rods and guns. - I succeeded in striking up a conver sation, and with inllnite tact and much patience I had induced him to speak of personal matters, and at last I asked htm squarely if he had ever loved a woman. The old man sat with his arms rest ing on his knees, his pie in his band and his eyes gazing far away. He cleared his throat, and in the stillness of the forest he related this brief story: "I did love a woman once." he said, "an1 I waited on her stiddy for a long time. I was a free, wild chap them days an1, though she loved me as much as 1 loved her, her folks kep naggtn at her to give me up. 1 nas rough,, they said, an1 not fit to marry a girl like her. "Well, it went on that war. as I say, for a long spell; in fact, till I'd begun to hint thet it was a 1 rout time we two come to a deliuite uuderstnnd in an1 I guess she felt the same. I was seein1 her home from a little socia ble one night lovely night; I remem ber now jest how we walked along in the moonlight till we got pretty nigh to her house, an1 then she turned to me kind o' sudden like an1 says, says she, Jim, I've b'eu wnntin to ask you a few questions for a long time.' "Her voice was khi4 o' trembly, an' I knowed so me thin' was comin'. Well. I -says, "whatever j'ou may ask you'll get straight, true answers, anyway. '"I thank ye for that. Jim.1 says she, an then after a minute she says: 'Jim. you know my folks don't like yer. "Most assuredly they don't."' 1 says. After a little while she says: "They say you smoke. "I do, says I. "We walked on a few steps, an then she says: "They say you chew tobaceer. "They're right, I says. I chew to baceer. '"An they say. Jim, says she. that yob drink." . "I do, says I. whe I feel like it." "They say you swear.too, says she. "Yes, 1 saya, 'vigorously, on occa sion. "Well.'' says she, kind o quick, I don't know as I'd orter marry a man with all them 'complishments, "Then,1 says I. 'you'll have to look further. cause I've got 'em, and I turned "round an went home an I never called on her agin, thougb she'd a bad me in a minute. I knew she would, an be'n glad to git me." The old man's pipe was in bis mouth and that pensive, interesting smile was on his' face. "Is that all?" I asked. 'That's all." he replied. He Went Down to Hla Office. My dear." said Mr. Slough. 'l mm not going out thin morning. I have got a cold and it rains. so I think I will stay iu the hone and finish examining those papers that " "Oh, I'm so glad," said Mrs. B lough. I have wanted to get a chauce to run out for a morning's shopping for some time, so 1 will go to-day. and you will see to things, won't you? "I exieet the grocer's boy pretty soon. Tell him to bring some cheese and bread, and one-half pound of but ter, the usual quantity of tea, three pounds of loaf utr. and don't forget to say that the last coffee he brought was not the right kind. Then, when the dustman comes round, be sure you watch for him, and tell him he mustn't spill any more ashes on our walks. "And the dressmaker will be in be fore noon. Tell her I can't be fitted till I get some new trimming for the bottom of my yellow skirt, aud ask her to call on Thursday afternoon. Ob, aud don't forget to tell the milkman to leave two pints instead of one. Tell him I'm going to make a pudding to morrow. Anil the butcher will have to be paid. Give him 8s 6ri, and tell him the sirloin he left on Friday wasn't tender, so I won't pay hitn full price for it. "And the upholsterer is coming to see about doing over that chair in the back parlor, ami say to him that I will come round and pick out the color I want in plush. And now I'll run ont. You can have a nice quiet day, . with nothing to disturb you; and you won't mind going out for lunch, will 3 0U. if 1 don't get back? Good bj'e good bye. dear." And Mrs. Blough went out Mr. Bloiiirli whistled softly. Then he said to himself: -Somehow I don't think it will rain much." And he went down to his olfice. Hawaiian Superstition.. It is the custom for the Hawaiians to shave the right side of the head or beard at thu death of the king, and many of the kahalt bearers around Ralakaua's bier beau tided themselves in thin fashion. One old chap who crouched in the corner of the room had his beard chopped fancifully, so that the repulsiveness of his countenance was magnitieil. He was what the na tives call a kaula, or prophet, and be longed to the race of kahunas. There were several of these gentry in the room constantly and they managed to make their voices heard in alt the wail ing. Kalakaua was several sorts of a kahuna himself aud wrote on the sub ject at great length. It seems that shortly after he ascended the throne he was much ter ri tied to learn that the kahunas, or "medicine men,11 were en deavoring to prav him to death." whereat he hastened to declare himself the chief priest of all tfie Kahunas, and after that held monthly meetings iu his boat house, which he named the "House of Wisdom." At these meetings, which were held behind curtained windows and amid the greatest secrecy.a species of Eleusinian orgy was carried on. There were present the kahuna maoli or priests, the kuhtinasnaaua or sorcer ers, the kahuna uhane or ghost doctors and the kahuna pele or doctors of vol canoes. Electric LlKhts In Coal-Mi nes. A curious test is being made iu the coal-mines of Cardiff. It is proposed to light the mines by electricity, but apprehension exists that tbe gases in the mines may be ignited and an ex plosion caused should one of the little glass globes about the light be broken. When the globe of an incaudescent light is broken the light is at once ex tinguished 10 the eye it seems to ex pire instatieottsly and the point to be determined is whether or not the thing is so quick that gase may be ignited as they rush into he vacuum. A FARMER FOR REVENUE ONLY. Ha Sad Xr Bvstrodn Horn ft, ToaehwA a Plow, nr Mllkttd a Cow. . A comical story is in quiet circula tion among tbe members of the Board of Supervisors anent some of the new appointments made at the Industrial School. The central figure in the tale Is the Individual lately installed by the new administration in the position of "farm er" at the institution in question. To this person, as the story goes, came Superintendent Kincatd, himself a new appointee, a day or two after they had both taken their places. "Let's see, you are a farmer, are you not?" he Inquired. "That's what," replied the one ad dressed, taking his feet dowu from the parlor mantel. "AH right, then. What I wanted to tell was tliat the field below the bouse is in good condition for plowing now, aud the sooner you tackle it the sooner It will be done. Better hitch up and go at it right away." A dazed expression came- over the "farmer's" face and he seemed foe a moment at loss for a reply. At last he said something in the tone of a man recovering from a fainting (it: . "Do you mean I'm to plow that Held myself?'1 "Why, of course. Aren't you the farmer?" "Yes, that's all right. All the same I never touched a pair of plow handles in my life, and as for plowing that field why, I simply can't do it." "Then you'd better learn very quick. Ita your work and it's got to be done." - , "Well, I'll not do it. I canL and I won't." And he didn't. It is said to have been the next day, late in the afternoon, when Superin tendent Kincaid again encountered his "farmer." This time the latter official was read ing a newspaper from which he looked up with anything but a pleased ex pression when interrupted. "You don't seem to be doing any thing." remarked the Superintendent. 'Better take a horse, ride over to that field yonder, and drii-e up those cows. You'll have to milk them, too." The farmer staggered to his feet, fairly gasping: "I never iu my life milked a cow," he exclaimed, as soon as he could speak. "How do you think 1 can do it now? More than that, 1 was never on a horse. Yet you ask me to get tip on some wild beast's back and go and drive them up. You must thiuk I'm a sort of living miracle." Well," said the Superintendent, with some pardonable impatience. "I should like to know how 30U came to be appointed 'farmer to "the institu tion. That's all." "Well, all I can say." he answered, according to the accepted version of the story, "is that I got my appoint ment probably pretty much as you got yours. SupKse we drop the sub ject. The subject is said to have been dropped. Han Francisco Examiner. PLAYED STRIPPERS ON HIM. A Card fthsrpor RoOVra for Trying Old Trick ta Nw Trk Drummer. Nb. siree." exclaimed my friend "Buck," who is a traveling salesman for a large Broad wav importing house; "you don't often catch us drummers asleep. We're wide awake to the tricks of most all trades. 1 can tell you." "The last time a sharper tried to down me was at Cleveland. O., a few weeks ago. He tried to work the stripper racket on me. I was seated in my room early one evening, when a little terrier dog ran in through the open door aud began sniffling about. Pretty soon a well-dressed young fel low appeared at the dour. aud. auolo gizing for the intrusion, asked if t had seen a stray dog anywhere around. - "'Ah. there you are, said he. espy ing the canine, -always running away from me into other, people's rooms.1 he exclaimed. As might be expected, one word led to another, and very soon we were engaged in a general conversation. The talk drifted to cards, and then the stranger produced a pack. He had just learned a new trick which be would show me. "'Now take aboard aud look at it," said he. I did as directed, selecting the ace of clubs. 'Now put it back? he said, handing me the pack. He then requested me to shuffle the cards well, which 1 did. He then took the pack. "'There is your eard, he said at once, producing the ace of clubs. -Very good, said I. 'but I don't think vou could do it again.1 I then called his' attention to a picture in the room, while I hurriedly examined the pack. No,' said I, I don't think you could do it again; not for $20. "I'll see yon, said he, producing the money. "'All right, said 1. and tbe bet was made. I then selected a card tbe ace of spades. He handed me tbe pack, requesting me to replace the card and shuffle them as much as I pleased. "Now, I can handle the pasteboards myself, so while I was shufiliug X just fixed the cards on the sharper so that be couldn't tell one card from another, There,1 said I, handing him the pack, where's my card?' "He took the pack with a smile of confidence and began to run bis fingers over the edges. Then he began to look a trifle nervous. 'Come.' said I, produce the eard or 1 take your money.1 "Well, air, after he .had fumbled over the pack for a few minutes I just pocketed his $20. 'Now, see here,1 I said to him, 'you've been trying to play strippers on me, haven't youP" "He never said a word for about two minutes. He then rose to leave the room.- 'Say, said he, as he was about to leave, "you're a New York drummer for another twenty. 'I'm not making any more bets, said I. I knew it,' be remarked as he left the room. "Strippers? Why, that's a pack of cards made slightly narrower on one end than the other an almost imper ceptible difference, yet enough to be distinguished by the touch. "When yon select a card the sharper hands you the pack so that you replace it upside down, the broad end among tbe narrow ones see? He can then snake' it out without any trouble. It's a neat trick and hard to detect unless you have been initiated. Of course I knew what he was up to when he handed me the pack. I put the card in as he wanted it, and then, while I was shuffling, I quietly turned it arouud so that the ends were all alike. "Did it cost me anything to learn that trick? Well bnt'l'm not-giving myself away. I got $20 out of it back, at any rate." A'. X. Herald. Her Bent Is for Mathematics. Miss Nellie Whyte, who has just woo the mathematical exhibition at Mel bourne University, is just eighteen vears old. Her teachers declare her to nave wonderful genius for mathemat ics. Nellie Whyte comes of a talented family. Her father. Patrick Whyte, M. A., was for many years headmaster of a model school. Her eldest sister. Miss Bessie Whyte.- took the degree of M. A. last year, and the second sister. Miss Maggie Whyte, Dassed for her fourth year's medicine in November, never ouce having hail to go up for the supplementary examination, since he began her course. . WEARLf BROKE tilS HEART. The KzperlcnflM of a Lnnaly 1riabru on a Dnll Dy. Friday was the luckless day of my bwo failure and broken heart, says Andrew Lang in Good Words. The water was still very heavy and turbid, a frantic wind was lashing the woods, heaps of dead leaves floated down, and several sheaves of corn were drifted on the current. The long boat pool at Yair, however, is sheltered by wooded banks, and it was possible enough to cast, in spite of the wind's fury. We bad driven from a place about five miles distant, and we bad not driven three hundred yards before I remem bered that we had forgotten the land ingnet. But as I expected nothiug, it did not seem worth while to go back for this indtspenable implement. We reached the. waterside, and found that the trout were feeding below the pendant branches of the trees and in the quiet, deep eddies of the long boat pool. One can not see rising trout without cast ing over them in preference to labor ing after salmon so I put up a small rod and diverted myself from tbe bank. It was to little purpose. Tweed trout are now grown very shy and capricious; even a dry fly failed to do any execu tion worth "mentioning. Conscience compelled me, as I had been sent out by kind hosts to fish for salmon, not to neglect my orders. The armor the ponderous gear of the fisher was put on with the enorm ous boots, and the gigantic rod was equipped. Then came the beginning of sorrows. We had left the books ol salmon fiies comfortbly reposing at home. We had also forgotten the whisky flask. Everything, in fact, ex cept cigarettes, had been left behind. Unluckily, not quite everything; 1 had a trout ny-book, and therein lay just one large salmon fly, not a Tweed fly. but a lure that is used on the beautiful but hopeless waters of the distant Ken, iu Galloway. It had brown wings, a dark body, and a piece of jungle-cock feather, and it was fastened to a sea-trout casting-line. Now, il I bad possessed uo naliiion flies at all I must either have sent back for some ot gone ou innoceutlv . dallying with trbut. But this one wretched fly lured me to my ruin. 1 saw that the casting-line had a link which seemed rather twist ed. I tried it; but. iu the spirit of Don Quixote with his helmet, I did uot try it bard. I waded into the easiest-looking part of the pool, just above a huge tree that dropped its boughs to the water, and began casting, mere from a sense of duty. I had uot cast a dosen times before there was a heavy, slow plunge in the stream, and a glimpse of purple and azure. 'He will not come again." I said, when there was a long, heavy drag at the line, followed by a shrieking of the reel, as in William Black's novels. But he soon came back, while one took in line, and discussed his probable size with the t rout-Usher opposite. His Bize, indeed! Nobody kuows what it was, for when be had come up to the point whence he bad started he began a policy of short tugs not jiggering." as it is called, but plunging with all his weight on tbe line. I had clean for gotten tbe slimness of tiie tackle, and, as be was clearly well hooked, held him perharps too hard. Only a very raw beginner likes to take hours over land ing a fish. Perhaps I held him too tight; at all e rents, after a furious plunge, back came the line; the cast-ing-lme bad snap pet I at the top link. Presently I had another chance, but it all ended jut as disastrously. I had borrowed au old fly from farmhouse this time. There was a slight pull, such as n trout givtr in midstream un der water. 1 ruisted the (Miitit, and again the reel sang aloud and gleeful ly as the salmon rushed down the stream farther and faster tliati the first. It is a very pleasant think to hook a salmon wheu you are all alone. as i was then alone with yourself and 1 lie God dess of Fishing. The salmon. jtct like tbe other, now come back, and instant ly began the old tactics of heavy plung ing tugs. But I knew the gut was sound this time, a il as I fancied he had risen to the snigijler I had no anxiety about the iHckle holding. One more plunge, and Imck came tbe Hue as before. He was off. One could have sat down and gnawed Die reel. What bad gone wrong? Why. the brute had takeu the old fly ami had snapped tbe loop that attaches the gut. Naming a Limit. While waiting at the depot I noticed S colored man look into the room sev eral times, and be finally beckoned to the African who hail just til "led fhe water cooler to come outside. The latter took a coupling iin with him as he left tbe room, and' I strolled out to see what was on the tapis. "Look-a-heah. Abraham!" said the first, as the two came together. "I has cum down hoah prepar'd to hurt yo mighty hard! "Better look out fur me, sah!' re plied tbe second, as he waved the iron pin. Yes- I has come down prepar'd to hurt yo, but Ize gwine to give yo1 a chance Ize gwine ter be a gem' I en, I is." "What sort o' chance?" "Ize gwine to let yo pologize fur say in' I was a no-scconnt nigger." "I'll nebber do it! ' "Lookout. Abraham! "Doan you jump 011 me!' The man with the coupling pin was tbe smaller of the two, and but for be ing armed with that weapon would have been assaulted at once. The big ger man didu't quite like the looks of things, but he felt bound to retire hon orably, and after walking around and finding tbe other constantly on guard, he said: I reckon yo was mighty busy to day?" Tolerable busy." "Hain't got much time to study up?" No, not much." "An1 if you was broke nil to pieces yo famy would feel powerful bad? Who's gwiue to broke me?" 'I is de pusson dat could do it, sah, but owin1 to my feelins fur dis rail-, road an1 yo1 family, eon pied wid de fact dat yo is powerful hit? jess now, Ise gwine to contain myself to some odder occashun. Look me in de eye. boy! Now, yo listen; yo' either 'polo gize to me widin de next fo' y'ars, or I'll gin yo de moas powerful battera shtm any nigger eher heard tell of in de State of Sonf Carolina! Fo' y'ars, sah uot anodder day lieyan' fo Vara, and doan you disreckolect it!" 'N. K Bun, Bank of England Notes. Every one mav not know that the Bank of England notes are made from new white linen cuttings never from anything that has been worn. So care fully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each workman is registered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are counted and booked to each person through whose hands they pass. They are made at Laverstroke," on the Kiver Whit, in Hampshire, by a family named Portal, descending "from a" French Huguenot refugee, and have been made by the same family for more than 150 years. They are printed within the building, there being an elaborate ar rangement for making them so that each note of the same denomination shall differ in some particular from the QtUer. .J for t? LADt's Face. GrMtuifcnd T p mm tn How Ah Mar fetost Obtain a MMt Enviable Complexion. The subject of complexions is of iierennial interest to the feminine ipart. though most advice about com plexions is very theoretical and seems chiefly based on the notion that the more disagreeable a thing is the better It is. A well-known society girl once lived a year on graham mush and practically nothing else (except when she went to dinner parties). She had. a poor complexion when she began, and she bad a poor one when she quit. Of course, however, that did not break her faith in mush, and because she was so careful of her skin she still went on refusing to dust her face with the little touch of powder that would have re lieved its greasiness. It is always women with skins like sacking that are the most particular about preserving them from powder. Make-up is much worse than injurious; it is vulgar; it is low form. But here, as in a good many cases, the sin is in being found out. If a woman can help herself artificially sd that you can't see that she is made up, why. you should be grateful for her good looks, that is all. There is only one way to put on powder and that is to put on cold cream first, wie that off with a dry cloth. and then put on the powder. It will do all powder can be safely expected to do it will give a soft, y outhful bloom to the sktu and shade defects. The most touehingly native thing in the world is the way numbers of women paint themselves with liquids that tnrn a delicate violet tint and then come forth into tbe light of day with a full con fidence that people will believe that God made them that color. Violet is fashionable, but not on the nose. Two sovereign laws can be laid down about uiake-up; it should be deceptive (and that means that there most be but lit tle of it), and it must be washed off at night. Theoretically, of course, it is very bad to clog up tbe pores of the skin with anything, but, as a matter of fact, scores of women who make np keep their skins nice much longer than farmers' wives. Look at actresses! There is not another class in the world that can f Ornish such a number of voung-looking women between 40 and 50 as Patti, Bernhardt, IxHtb. Kate C tax to n. Ellen Terry, and Sara Jewett. How do they do it? It is not stage make-op that has kept all these women good - looking? No. indeed. Tbey neutralize the make-up, and the late hours, and the bad air of the stage chiefly by one thing that is. keeping clean.' Undoubtedly they owe a great deal. too. to the introduction of French cosmetiques as welt as to Turkish baths. If yon want to be safe on cos metiqnes either get things from some body who makesthem or one whom ydn can personally trust. There may be some tricking and wire-pulling about them sometimes, bnt they stiU offer a thousand times better chance of purity and wholesomeness than things made in this loo-too utterly free coun try. There has been a great awakening on the whole snbject of physical cult ure, and the effect is apparent. Girls no longer lose their complexions before they pass out of their teens. Despite tbe disad vantages of our eitmate there are a number of women in Chicago of mature years who would compare well in point of frtsshness with English women of the same ae. The things necessary to cleanliness are. first, heat sufficient to induee per spiration, hot water, soap, and plenty of rubbing with a brush. The face itself is generally greatly helped by a ery gentle brushing, us ing at tiie same time some of the French or American soaps attested to bv tint Afil feiiiv of Mfitietne, There nre some very strong and trying soaps pofMliar now. wuich it needs the epidermis ot a coal-heaver to use with impunity. It marvelous honr people belier- advertisements. Don't trust thetu wlmit it cotites to the soap you use on yonr face and don't let your face go without soap, either. It ought to be washed with it at least several times a week. There are skins so thin not necessarily goodthat they can uot stand bruising; but don't presume that yours is one of that kind till you know it. The chances are that it will help it 50 per cent. All those ugly roughnesses you sometimes see on girls arms and shoulders, when they are in discreet enough to show them under such circumstances, witl almost invari ably disappear by brushing. The amount and force of it should be regul ated by each person according to their own experience. The fashionable woman appreciates more and more the value of massage in renewing and resting their yootb. A woman in the full swim taxes her .self very severely. Such women are always massaged after coming home from any festivity. . Mrs. Private Cir cus Waterbury is massaged regularly every morning at 9 o'clock, and her at tendant is a Swedish woman who is very popular. She was once a general maid of alt work at $3.50 a week. She has succeeded chiefly through a genial mauner and command of unlimited flattery. Mrs. Waterbury is not sick, but she finds massage a great help in keeping up her physical condition. One thing in the' massaging way you can do for yourself and it is extremely valuable. Xou can massage your face. Some knowledge of the usual massage movement is a help. The point is to very gently move all the flesh on the bones, and to gently knead every part icle of it When you are through yon feel as if you bad a new face, and the effort in keeping tbe lines and fallings in from becoming settled and fixed is great. Ton should rub your face out ward from he nose and upward from the chin in washing, in oiling, in touch ing it all, because the tendency of the flesh is to fall in and downward. Two minutes a day will suffice. As for all the lotions and appliances and dieting that the beauty books talk of, they give them a prominence dis proportionate to their importance. Finally, the favorite fad of the hour among luxurious Chicago women is to have themselves rubbed all over several times a week, after the bath, with cocoa oil. It is undoubtedly good for the nerves, nice for the skin, and nourish ing as well. Chicago Times. Russian Ill-Treatment of JtSn. In the capital of a Russian province the wife of the governor met a poor Jew in the Jewish quarter in a very narrow street aud in endeavoring to make way he happened to knock against her and almost upset her. He was arrested and brought to the governor, who sent him to the police station, where he was sentenced to twenty-five lashes with tbe knout, and received tbem. Next day his lawyer, a Jew, called on the governor and asked for an exact copy of the proceedings in the trial. "You waut an exact copy?" said the governor; "very well." And he had him brought to the police sta tion and twenty-five lashes administer ed to him. A Bank-Gar. Pay cars are familiar sights on Amer ican railways, but this country has not yet employed the locomotive in bank ing operations. One of the New Zea land banks has a special car which visits the rural districts, cashes checks and receives deposits. The experi ment is said to be profitable, and is a great convenience to . settlers who would otherwise be compelled to leave their farms and visit town on numer ous occasions. Sign ot Spring If yon read these learned maxims and take note of each small thing, yon may come to be a prophet and fore tell the gladsome spring. When trees begin to blossom and violets to bloom; when the bullfrogs in the meadow -warble boom-ah-boom-ah- boom ; when ducks are flying northward and bright butterflies are out, and robins go house keeping in the waterspout; when grass hoppers are bopping, and black bats come out at night, and venture in your bedroom attracted by the light; when " birds fly down the chimney, and hens walk in the door and beetles hold con vention in the center of the floor; when the mud is o'er your shoe tops as yon cross the new-ploughed land you may count on it as certain that sweet spring is near at hand. harper's Young Peo pie. The Sanft w. the So ex Canal. 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