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Newspaper Page Texti ! LEXINGTON WEEKLY BUDGET. VOL. 2. LEXINGTON, MOIUIOW COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. t), 1890. NO. IB. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING BY SNOW & WHITSON, TtiKifs of Subscription i On Year, ..... 11.00 Biz Moulin, ...... go ovale. Invariably in advance. Bates or Advertising : On square (ton liana or lss), flrat Insertion 1.00; ach subsequent Insertion, 60 cents. Spclal.rats wltb regular advertlsors. All transient advertisements must be paid for In advance. Job Printing Of every description executed with neatness and dlspatuh. V. SHIPLEY, M. D., PKACTITIONHR Of Medicine, Surgery & Midwifery, Registered. II EITHER, ORE'iON JJ P. SINE, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, LEXINGTON, OREGON. Attorney for the North American Attorneys and Tradesmen's Protective Union of Cuunuc ticut. J1RANK KELLOGO, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, HEPl'NEK, OREGON. Money ts loan on improved farms. Oillce in First Natioual Bunk. O. BOON, Constable and Collector, LEXINGTON, ORKOON. Will attend to auctioneering. JJRS. KATE PAB8ELL, Notary Public and Conveyancer, ALPINE, OREGON. Deeds, Mortgage and all others Legal Instru ments carefully drawn. Apnlications for riute aud School Lauds made,auu Pensions obtained. JiBANK H. SNOW, Land Agent and Notary Public, LEXINGTON, OREGON. Filings taken on government land. Real estate advertised and sold on commission. New comers are invited to call and be tilled full of solid facta about the advantages of Morrow country, oillce hour '.urn 7 a. v. to midnight, Bluuet building. R. LIEUALLEN, GENERAL . BLACKSMITH Andll lorseshoer, TS ALWAYS ON DECK AND PREPARED TO i do anything in bis line in a neat and work manlike ineuuer. Horses shod with care aud accuracy. Shop on O BU, Lexington, Or. G. W. BROCK, A V 1 1 1ALla VUl I Q REPAIRING DONE. Arcade Street, Drt. C and D, Lexington, ... Oregon. ELKHORN KELSE MAGNUSON, Proprietor. LEXINGTON, OR. HORSES BOARDED BY THE DAT OR WEEK. Outfit Furnished for Commercial Men at Reaaonavbl Rate. Att Kisna or TrRNOuts and saddlb liorae at th disposal 01 patron. Livery & Feci Stable Mashed ly a Marchioness. I've lately irone and Itwt my 'art, und where you II never (mess; I'ai rcirularly luaghcii upon a lovely Mai-chio- nor-s! Twas at a fancy fulr wo mot, Inside tho Albert 8o affable she smiled at me us I cnino near her BlUlll At titles and distinctions oneo I'd Ijrnorantly SCO If, As if no bond could be betwixt the tradesman anil t he Toll I I held with those whu'dilo uwny with difference lu ranks. But that was nil before I met tho Murchlonoss of Manx I A home was being Bbirled by sonic kind aristo crats, Fororplmn kittens, born of poor but well-con-neeteil cuts. And on the swells who pluniied a foto this ob ject to assist, Tho Marchioness of Manx's naino stood fore most ou the list. I never saw a smarter hand at serving in a shop, Forovery likely customer Bho caught upon the 'opl And from the form her hulyshlp displayed at that bu.itar, Vou might have took your oath Bhe'd been brought up behind a barl Id vain I tried to kid her that my purso had been forgot, Bho spotted me In 'alf a Jiff, and chaffed me precious iiotl A sov, for olio regallar slio gammoned mo to spend, "You really can't refuse," she-Bald, "I've bit ten off the end!" "Do buy my crov-el work," she urged, "It goes across a chair; You'll find It conio in useful, as I sco you 'lie your 'airl" So I landed over thirty bob, though not a corny bloke; I couldn't tell a Marchioness how nearly I was broke! A raffle was tlio next concern I put my rhino In: The prise a talking parrot, which I didn't wunt to win. Then her sister. Lady Tubby, showed a painted UlllKlllg KIOOI, And I bought It, though It's not a thing I sit on as a rule. The Marquis kept a-fldgctlng and frowning at ins wno, For she talked to mo as freo as If she'd known me all my life! I felt that I was iu tho swim, bo wasn't over awed. But 'ling about aud spent my cash as lavish as a lordl Next time T meet tho Marchioness a-rldlng In tho Itow, I'll ketch her eye und raiso my 'at, aud up to her I'll go, And tell her next my 'art I keep the stump of that cigar She sold me on tho 'nppy day we 'ud at her bazaar 1 Punch. SHE WANTED TO MARRY. On a wild mountain road between the Yadkin river nnd Salisbury, N. C, I cam npou a humble cablu In which resided tin Widow Watklua nnd her three children, the oldest being a boy of 15 and the voting est a Lirl of 5. I hud heard of the widow while ten miles away. Her husband was a Justice of the Pence and something of a religious exhorter, and what he dldti'l know about the history of America wasn't worth looking up. His mule ran away with htm one day, Buys M. Quad In the Detroit Free Pre, and fell Into a rnvlne and both were killed. The widow, as one of the natives expressed It, was '"tho well flxedest woman In four counties;" having a small farm nil clear nnd considerable personal property. Half a mile from the house I met Jeremiah, the boy spoken of. Ho was bareheaded, barefooted, coat less vestless, nnd so freckled that It wns hard to sny what his natural complexlou was. He rose up off a rock as I approached, made an nwkwnrd bow und said: "Cribbing, stratiKer." "Cribbins to you, my boy. And who may you bc" "Jerry Watklns." "Son of the widow, eh!" Yaas. He you'n he 'uuf" "Yes." "From the no'thr" "Yes." "Cum to see tun?" "Yes; I'll stop for dinner." '"Glad on't. Uwine to hev' chicken. Mn tent me out to meet you 'tin." "Many tliunks to both of you." "Say!" he continued, as he trotted alona beside me, "I like you 'an; you 'tin wean white shirts and clothes, and I'll jiKKer (bet) you 'un know roots from tree-tops, llev' vou 'un cum to mnrry ma?" I laughed, nnd lie was much put out foi a moment. Then he said: "Wish you 'un would. Then I could hev' a gun. If you 'un will I'll mind everything you say." "Perhaps your mother doesn't want to marry nguln." "Muffsl She'd marry you 'un like light ning. Sny! if you 'un has her, you 'un will git me a gun, won't you! Say! I saw b'ar yesterday. Suyl I know whar 1 could shoot a powerful lot o' 'coous. Say' I'll speak to mam fur ye If you 'un wil) promise the gun." The widow was at the door to give me welcome. The second child, who was a 10-year old girl, was barefooted and freck led and towheadod, and the younger one had on only a single garment and was roll lng in the dirt "Cum right tn an' squat," said the widow as we shook hands. "Pete McCoy was saying last night that you was headed this way and would stop, Ar' ye thirst able? May, Jostle him over a gloss of but termilk. We'll cribbins (eat) iu about ao hour." We talked about the weather, the staU of the roads, etc., as she bustled around to get dinner, but pretty soon Jerry went out of doors and called "Ma! ma! Cum outer yere!" "Jerry, you shet!" replied the mother. "Ma! will you 'un marry he 'uuf" con tinued Jerry. "Now, Jerry, if yer don't stop yer gu rum I'll skin yer alivel" she excluimod, ai he stood in the dwor and flourished a skil let at him. Jerry ramie off and sat down on a log, and tbe widow turned to me to explain "Don't pay no seriousness to he 'un, sir Jerry wants a new pop right bad, and I di ay that I'm dun tired of this yere glttin' along alone. But I'm not (twine teroffei myself to anybody." Just before dinner the oldest girl mali friends with me, materially assisted by tome candy, and she suddenly bawled out "Mat mat irwlna to marry hlinf" "Now, Molly!" chided the mother. "Wish yer would!" added the youngest who went by the linmo of Nnncy. "Now, Nancy! While I do go fur to saj he 'tin is the smartest-looking strangei I've seen fur a year, mebbe he 'un don't think shucks of me." I kept fighting shy of the main question nnd by-und-by we sat down to dinner The blessing had been senrcely asked whei Jerry, who had made a tremendous effurl to wash his face and comb his hairOtsSaed up nt his mother nnd asked "Has he 'un asked you yltf" - "- "Jerry!" she chided. "Hut don't he 'un want yer!" "Jerry!" "But don't I want a now pap and a gun!' he loudly demanded. "Don't serious him," she said to me in she helped me to a leg of a chicken, "While I will go fur to declare that 1 hav seventy-six acres of land, three mewls, a cow, thirty-two hogs, four stacks of hay and f;J8 in cash, I've alius sorter disagreed with second marriages. They mayn't be happy." "Your husband was a good man, I've heard," I replied. "Yes. A pumpkin is good good 'nufl fur a pumpkin. He knowed considerable, nnd thur' was considerable he nevei kuowed. lie was all coodness too murv of it. Never made a hundred dollars lu his life." "You must have been quite a business woman to have got nloug so well." "You jigger! 1 klu turn a dollar as well ns the best of 'cm. While I will go fur tc say second mnrrlnges are not alius happy, the man who gits me dou't git no sitter nor complnlner." I managed to turn the subject for awhile, but as soon as dinner was over .lorry took his mother into the other room for a con sultation, and Molly ciuno aud sut ilowu beside me, and nsked "Do you 'un like ma?" "Oh, yes." "And she likes you. Wish you was my pap. Mebbe you will bo by to-morrer." 1 went out and sat down under a tree tc smoke a cigar, and pretty soon Jerry came out. He had a busiuess look all over his face ns ho said "I've nxed mn If she would hev' ye." ' Have you? You ure real klud." "And she says she will." "Indeed!" "And how about that gnu? When shall I git It?" "Say, Jerry, did you over have dollar all at once?" I nuked. "Lor' no nor two bits!" "If I'll give yon a big silver dollar, will you let up on that guu until I come again!" "Will I? Hoop Buakes and bad fighters,' f ...lllltl 1 gave him the dollar ami he dashed)' through the house to show It to his sis ters, and then started on a run for a neigh bor's two miles awny. When. I returned to the house and said I must be going I was met by such an avalanche of protests that. I had to agree to stay until next day. That night I "sut up" with the Widow Wut kins. I got around to it after awhile to state that I was living with my third, and had three sets of children numbering live in a set, and that I couldn't possibly see how I could make her my wife. I was very sorry, but helpless, aud I hoped she would let me semi her a new glugliuui dress from Salisbury. "That's honest mid straight," she said, in reply. "While I will go fur to say 1 like yer looks, and I believe we could live happily together, if ye can't marry, why, ye can't. Yo would if ye could, wouldn't ye?" "Quicker'n seal!" "That's next to It, nnd I'll go fur to say that I'll wait live years on ye and see how things turn. Mebbe I'll wait six, but I'll say live fur sartin. I'd us lief be a fourth as a second wife." And she is waiting, while Jerry writes that "gnus hev got so cheapless that he kin git one fur II vu dollars." Marble I'onds of Persia. The wonders of nature consists o) pools, where the indolent waters, by a slow and regular process, stagnate, con crete, anil petrify, producing that beau tiful transparent stone, commonly call ed tiibriss marble, much used in the burial places of Persia, and in their best edifices. These ponds ure con tained within the circumference of half a mile, and their position is distinguish ed by heaps of stones which have ac cumulated as the excavations have in creased. The process of petrification may be traced from its commencement to Us termination, lu one part the water is clear; In a second it appears thicker and somewhat stagnant, in a third stage quite black, contrasting strongly with the fourth and last stage, in which it is white as hoar frost. In the third stage, when the surface is quite black, it can be indented by toss ing a stone on the surface; but in walk ing across it it will no more stick to your shoes than greased taffy will to the hands. Such is the constant teudancy of this water to become stone that when it exudes from the ground in bubbles the petrilication assumes a globular shape, at if the bubbles of a spring, by a stroke of magic, had been arrested in their play aud metamorphosed into stone. The substance thus produced is brit tle, transparent, and sometimes richly streaked with green, red, and copper colored veins. It admits of being cut iuto very large slabs, and takes a good polish. So much do the people in the laud of the shah look upou this stone an article of luxury that none but the shah, his sons, and persons privileged by special edicts are permitted to use i I A Wadsworth, O., man has a pumkin which is almost cubic in form and is as large as a soap box. Ho will exhibit 11 at the county fair. ' Samuoi Kauffuian.a York County Pi tobacco grower, ban some leaven oval , live feel long. History of Forks. A silver plater says. "Iu only one mediieval record is there any men tion of tho use of a fork after the fashion of modern times. Thu hero ine of this record is a Byzantine woman, who married a Doge of Venice many centuries ago. lu Venice this Byzantine woman continued to cat as sho ate at home. Slio cut her meats in ven small bits on her latu ami car rier each bit to her mouth on a two tiimd fork. Tho people of Vcnico re garded this unusual manner of ealing as a symptom of morbid luxury. "In all probability, as this incident Indicates, tho modern uso of the fork originated ut the cultivated Bvzanlino court, and spread gradually to the West. Tlui Western people did not tako kind ly, however, to this instrument of new fangled Eastern table manners. Many centuries were required for its general introduction and adoption. The famous By.antino who ale with her fork in Venice lived in the eleventh century. Not till tho seventeenth cen tury did the great folk of Eurjipo begin to follow her example. "in 10.52 the use of forks, according to modern ideas, was general Iv known but not generally adopted. iJeylin, an English writer, mentioned it then as the custom among dandies. In a French bonk printed in 1073 are these words: 'When a person helps himself from the platter he should take care not to take his piece before the most dis tinguished persons have taken fneirs. A person should take all he wants at onetime, and not keep slicking his lingers iuto the dish to pull out piece after piece.' Earlier in the century a princess of Conde was still eating with her lingers. Louis XIII. ate with a fork, but his wife, Anna of Austria, who was educated at the Spanish court, ale with her lingers, although she was very proud of her beautiful hands." A Remarkable Timepiece. On the desk of Edson B. Braco, In the navy department, is a little rose wood casu writes a Washington corre spondent. It is in the form of a cube, and eoutiiins a chronometer nieh as is used on all naval vessels. This little instrument has quite a tragic history and is held of considerable value. i was the ship's chronometer of the un fortunate Polaris that was sent out on an Arctic expedition in 1H71. When the Polaris was nipped in the ice Captain Hall saved this iiislriniont and some other things from the vessel. As long a Captain Hall survived he kept the chronometer w ith him. When he perished it was buried in the Arctic snows und abandoned. This was some time in 1472. For four winters it lay buried in thu snow and ice. In 1876 Captain Nares, of the British navy, now Sir tieorge Nares, dis covered this chronometer at Newman's Bav. He dug it out of tiie snow and took it to England witli him on his re turn. It hail then been buried in the snow for four years in a region where the mercury sinks to 104 degrees below freezing point. It was found to be in perfect order, ami was wound and ran all right, as soon as laken from ils cold bed. On returning to England Cap tain Nares turned the instrument over to the British admiralty olliee, from whence it was sent to this government. With all this experience it loses only a single second iu twenty-four hours. Wine at $2,000,000 a 1 Initio. Wine nt 2,(KM),(KM) a bottle is a drink that in expense would rival thu luxu rious taste of barbaric splendor, when priceless pearls were thrown into the wine-cup to give a rich flavor to its con tents; yet in the city of Bremen just such a costly beverage may be found. In the wonderful wine-cellar under the Hotel de Ville, in the Rnse apartment. there are twelve cases of holy wine, each case inseii led with the name of one of the apostles. This ancient wine was deposited in lis present resting place in the year 1024, 26; years ago. One case of this wine, consisting of live exhofts of 204 bottles, cost ,000 rix dollars in 1024. Including the ex pense of keeping up the cellar, interest ou the original outlay, nnd interests upon interests, one of I hose oxhofts would to-'!ay cost bhh.w.it .h 10 nx-dnl-lars; a single bottle, 2.72:1.812 rix-dol-iars; a glass, or the eighth part of a hoi tie, is worth 310,476 rix-dollurs, or 272,:W0; or at the rate of 640 rix-dol- lars, or 272, per drop. A Novel Kcfrlgcrntor. A young friend of mine, who lias for several years each summer gone with his father on a camping trip on the south shore of Lake Superior, tells me of a novel expedient Limy often em ployed tor preserving their venison iu warm weather, lu that country some of the streams are Hanked by long row of sandhills, whose composition is so loose that they shut about continually under a wind of any force. In the win ter time tint high w inds often blow the sand over the great snow banks which lie upon the north side of the sand dunes, covering up the snow to a depth of several feet, lhe snow is thus kept umncltcd, and even in the middle ol Slimmer one can dig down through the sand to it and find the best imaginable sort of a natural refrigerator. In this way, said my young friend, they buried their dec! and trout, and found they kept entirely fresh so long as they cared to leave them. This is certainly a new instance of nature's Ixiuntiluluess with flio sportsman. I'uratl ami Stream. A lawyer, while arguing a case in n Louisville court, was attacked with rheumatism of the heart, ami calling out, "What, am 1 deadr"' fell lifeless to the floor. PRECIOUS STONES. Gems Only 1'rlzcd for Their Vulvar Worth, Not for Their Natural Itcauty. Tim very small catalogue of precious stones popular with us may be one cause of our poverty iu design; another in our few forms, says the Vuntemjtorary llt'.view. A brooch, ear-rings, linger rings many people have no idea beyond those a locket, rows of something round the neck, studs, stars for the hair voila tout! These orthodox "set" cast and polished and machine engrav ed, are its deadening as bad Taws. Where there is no liberty there is no enjoyment, and what becomes of the joyau, the joyous guild? It seems there are only n certain number of thingsonc can do with diamonds. After the dia mond coma some half-dozen well kuowu mimes down to the dismal gar net. Perhaps tho eminent lapidary nnd mineralogist, liryee Wright, has done more than anyone in the present dav to increase the catalogue of our possible ornaments, as he has materially aided seienco by introducing a number ol hitherto unknown minerals. At his museum in Suville row, a haunt of evor inereaslng splendor and interest, speci mens of extraordinary beauty may be seen not only the largest diamonds and sapphires, the purest crystals and lapis in the world, and other things that delight the merely rich, hut curi ositieswhite sapphires, colored dia monds, black pearls, pink emeralds, and exquisite specimens of novelties, such as hiddeinde, Australian opals, anil scores of beautiful materials which most of us only know from the ltevela tion of St. John; fabulous glories such as lire children's dreams iu Mine. d'Aulnoy's fairy tales where entire ta bles of emerald, miniatures covered with a sheet of diamond, and bracelets cut in a single ruby are quite common just such exquisite and rare objects may be seen at Bryee Wright's, along with many beautiful historical unliqiii lies, worth any length of journey tc view. Iu my opinion there is no material f-c beautiful as opal for cameo-ciilting, an art revived by Bryee Wright with ex traordinary success. I have a speci men of its native matrix treated with antique grace and ingenuity by Elser, u well-known gem-culler. Ils color is at vivid as I have seen in opal it glow like a blue Hume; on close inspection Venus and Cupid start out from tin mouth of a gleamy cave with pillars ol ivory. This is in the true spirit of the old designers. 1 have an ancient corai pendant curved iu a.gr.ieeful liguro ol Our Lady stirroiiniliM by cherubim, and ununited in arabesques of blue ami while enamel. All s. Alma-1 ailetna h:u a graceful sevciiteontii-oenliiry necklet ol line blue enamel, an iiiterlaccry ol true-love knots probably Italian. These are jewels as opposed to the vul gar, "noisy," concatenations of dia monds dislinguisliahle from glass only by the dichroseope, though costing a fortune which we conned wilh women of wealth but no training. How Johnnie Caught Haulers. A little boy was very fond of ramb ling in the woods in southern Georgia, and every time he went out ho would capture a rattlesnake and bring it home alive. "How do you catch them, JolinnioP" said the mother. "Jos' so," said the hoy, and be showed her the operation. He would take a large candy jar and place the month of the jar iu front of the 'rat tler. Then he would lirmlv tix his gaze upon the snake and hold him spell IhhiihI. ilo would then punch the snake's tail with long stick and shove him along until lie had him secure in the bottle. In this manner ho captured thirty rattlers, anil placed them ou shelves in tlie kitchen. The curious colled ion remained there for some time. One morning the mother missed the snakes and also the boy. She looked around the house and found them nowhere. Finally she heard laughter iu the front yard. She went out and beheld a fantastic spectacle. The young kid wasdancing Hioiiiiil the front yard, while the thirty snakes were twisting around flowers and hushes, and had converted the llower yard into a regular Hiiakcdoin. Atluiim t'hriminte. A Jewel In Great Demand. It is doubtful whether Shaksnearo'l toad, tlirly ami venomous, Wears yd a precious Jewel In his head, but there is a belief current in all parts of India that a certain variety of snake, called Shesh Nag, when it attains tho age of 1,000 years has a precious jewel formed iu its head. This jewel, it is allirined, possesses the quality of suck ing up the poison of the deadliest snake if applied to the wounded part. Strangely enough, a Parsee gentleman is reputed to possess this invaluable jewel, according to a correspondent ol a Gujarati weekly published at Wadhaii, in Gujarat. The correspondent says that when the present owner, who by the way is now C.'l, was 2:) years old ho found a snake of the above-mentioned variety, which he killed. Then he found the jewel in its head. It has already saved several lives. Last year when Mr. Vidal, the collector of the district, was there it was shown to him. The jewel is said to contain a thin crescent-liko liber, which unceasingly oscillates in the center. His Highness the Galkwar of B.roda, his Highness the Maharajah of Kolliapur, and several other native priuoes are said to have offered more than 100,000 rupees for this unique jewel. The name and address of the owner iru Kraiuji Ladahhal Govekar, Tarapur, Bombay l'resideucv. JcwtU r' Werlriu BORING A BREECH-LOADING CANNON At last tho cannon is turned down, and is ready to be bored inside. In this operation it must be bored so straight and true that the boring tool, entering at the exact center of the small end of the cannon, will come out pre cisely at tho center of the large end, seventeen feet nway. Those of you who have tried to bore a straight hole lengthwise through even a short bit of wood will know that this work requires not a little skill and care. When any of you boys have a job of boring to do at your work-bench, you make fast the article to be bored ami turn the lairing tool. It is just the other way iu boring a cannon. The boring tool or "bit," is held linn and motionless, while thu great mass of steel to be bored turns around. This plan is found to insure steadiness of t lie "hit." It would be almost impossible to make this bit iirm and solid enough to do its dillicult work, and yet free to turn around in the cannon. So if you had been at the side of this gun-lathe when the work was begun you would have seen that the bit was motionless except for a slow advance iuto the gun. The bit attends strictly to business, and steadily bores its way through the steel. Most of you have been to thu country and have seen a pig "rooting" intheground. Imagine, then, the pig to be standing still and the ground to be slowly passing under the pig's snout and being "rooted," and yon will havo a case much Ike that of the bit and the cannon. In fact, the boring tool is called a "hog-nosed" bit, ami it roots tip thai in as if it enjoyed the operation. No long, graceful curls come from this boring, hut small, crisp shavings that are removed as fast as thev accumulate in order that the bor ing loot's work shall not be interfered Willi. The bit is going into the steel at the rale of throe-eighths of an incii for every turn of thu cannon, and it is making a round hole almost largo enough for a boy to put his head in live aud three-quarter inches in di ameter. As tho round hole grows deeper, the heavy liar, on which thu bit is fastened, advances' into the can non steadily, moved by a i her of wheels and screws that form part of the lathe. 1 must not lose sight of the shavings, the little ones that come from the in side, anil the long, spirally twisted ones that are turned from the outside of the cannon. A military-looking man, standing near the, table, does not lose sight of those shavings or trim mings, either. For this man's busi ness is In carefully inspect the borings and trimmings. I bat is what he is paid to do. Uncle Sam pavs him. and expects him to earn his salary. The cannon Is being made for 1,'m-le Sam, and he intends to lind out all its qualities, whether good or bad. So the man eyes the boring carefully. Now, if Willi a plane, or your kuilu- blatle, you will cut a thin shaving I rum a bit of wood, it will show any little Haw existing in lhe wood from which it was sliced. The) tiniest, knot-hole or crack will show in the shaving much more plainly than in the wood Hsell. So it is wilh a cannon's shaving. It is a dreadful tell-tale, and the fault-lind- ing man beside the gun knows this per fectly well. He examines the spiral turning, or the little piece of boring, and linds no evidence of a Haw or crack. Tint long spiral strip is as smooth as glass ami glossy as your sis ter s cut is. Into the solid steel tho hog-nosed bit roots ils way, tiutij it is in so far that if little electric light must, bear it com pany, to show the workmen how matr tors am progressing in the heart of thu cannon. Alter eighteen days of steady poring, lint nil lets daylight into thu bore ol the cannon by emerging at tin) other (or larger) end seventeen feet away. (1. K Mutter, in HI. Meliulim. Economy In Shoes. A woman who understands the econo my of dress will never buy a cheap pair of shoes. No poorer investment can bo made, for besides giving out lu shorter time than a iirst-class article, it will look shabby and worn long !) fore it should do so. But any shoe, no matter how costly or well-abuped iu thu beginning.will lose its freshness speedi ly if not properly cared for. This is especially applicable to those made of French kill, which every little bruiso and touch turns purple. A rule ob served by many women, and a good one it proves, too, is never to wear a street shoe in tho house. It receives harder treatment, strange to say, from numerous inevitable collisions with articles of furniture than it would iu double the amount of street wear. Another sensible custom is to reserve a pair of Units for wet weather wear, leaving them to rest in a comfortable bag between times. Nothing tells against the beauty of footwear so much as getting it wet, and even with rub bers no amount of diligence will pre vent thu dampness of the skirls reach ing the ankles. Shoes should he re moved immediately on arriving at home, the dust ami soil wiped away with a clean, soft rag, and then they should be placed together in a scparuto pocket of the shoe bag until wanted again. If this course is invariably pur sued a considerable saving of money, time and temper will be added to the increased service derived from even nil iiiferiorqiialilyof leather. JJelruit t'ret Press. Young lady (in great store) "I-t me see a bonnet suitable for an old lady." Salesgirl "For your mother?" loung La'ly "Jo; for myself. I don't expect to gel the change from my pur chase until I'm old enough to Is) a grandmother, so 1 shall bu prepared." -A. JT. JJtraid.