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HOOD RIVKU, OREGON, SATURDAY. OCTOHKR 15, 1892.
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OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
An Organized Cang of Outlaws
Oin'rating in Idaho.
THE APACHES MURDER A FAMIlY
California Literary Character Sentenced to
1'iison for Thowlng Refuse on a
Neighbor's House.
Piiimilena'a sewage (arm is ready for
operation.
All hope of saving the whaltdiaek
Weluiore has lieen abandoned.
Angeles In to liuvo sun.)! t inn works
with a capacity for 20 ) tons er day.
San Diego 1 rapidly filling tip with
visitor, and there is considerable press
tire on tinted accommodations.
Thn Chinamen found illegally flrhing
in Hun Diego Bay were fined $i" each
and sent to jail in default of aymcnt.
Sacramento's State and county tax
levy haa ban fixed by the Board of Su
pervisors at $1.2 on the $100. San Joa
quin has fixed upon f 1.05.
An organised gang of outlaw is oper
ating in Idaho. Three ponlollicea have
leun looted the past oil months, a tra n
held un ami iiiuiiy burglaries of a minor
(diameter committed.
Two miner named Converge and
Grigsbv have started again from San
Diego on nnother search lor the famous
Peg Leg mine alleged to exist pomewhere
on the Colorado deeert.
The Ptiyalhip Indians near Tacotna,
rH in iiiiiulicr, will sell their reserva
lion fur ,.',r,(K),(MK). It pays to tie a no
ble red man. when the inventineiit can
pile up wealth in that fashion.
A marvelous lake Is reporter, to have
lieen disc overed in the mountain above
Icicle creek in the Big llend country,
Idaho. The lake is said to be of consul
arable b'zo and brimful of lulling water.
Tremendous forest tires are raging In
the heavily timbered country north of
the town ol Manner in the famous Boise
Basin gold country in Idaho. Vat areas
bave been swept by thimeB, which show
no trigus of abatement.
The prudacoous scale parasite ha not
been increasing, in the south. The re
port to the fruit growers' meeting, at Los
Angeles of an investigating committee
is discouraging. The Australian bug has
received a black eye.
Shipping and scaling men at Seattle
propose to nek the Washington authori
ties to send a vessel to l'etropauloveki to
inveHtigate the seizure of an American
vessel by the Russians and to bring back
the men who have been turned loose
into the atreeta of Pctropaulovski with
out any means of living.
Ex-Deputy United States Marshal
Henry Whetstone, who killed a brother
ollicer, J. It. MeLellun, at Ogden in
March last, has been acquitted on the
charge of murder. The caHe has I een
somewhat celebrated, and developed
much feeling among the peop e.
The contract for restoring the walla of
Sutter's Fort, the baa ions and a num
ber of buildings, including the old store
rooms, blacksmith shop, mill and pro
vision st re, which were arranged about
t' e walls, was let several weeks ago to
George Murray & Son. Already work is
progressing rapidly upon the walla, ana
nne ot tne Dilations, mat on uio buuiu
east corner, is at out completed.
The other day a hole was cut In the
roof of the State capitol at Sa'.em, and
tall ateel posts now protrude skyward.
These will Boon take on a Bhape becom
ing to a capitol dome. The main part
of the girder is reBting securely iii its
place, and poBts are to rest on it all the
way round. At the top they wilt le
bolted to the ateel circular brace that is
now seen above the roof, and the brick
wall is to be built up around them.
When the present term of office of
Lieutenant General Underwood esp res
next ye tr " the army headquarters " of
the I. O. 0. F., with all the military of
ficers above those of Department or State
Commanders, will beabilished, and each
of the Patriarch Military branches of
the order will be placed under the con
trol of the State encampment within
whose jurisdiction it is located. Thia
action was taken by the Sovereign Grand
Lodge at Portland.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Vnny Saving H.ink Connected
the Public Schools of Belgium'
University of Oxford.
With
The sixty-eighth year of Mi ml Uni
versity has Just begun.
Welli-slcy College Iihm opened its fall
erm with 7-lt hliidcnta.
The New Yoik nubile schools opened
September 112 with 27o,''00 pupils.
Tim University ol Oxford has appli
ances for printing 150 different languages.
The Atlanta ('tint! it niton announced
the other day that a new college was
soon to !mi " corner-Htoned."
The public sclioil Is not universal in
the old world. There are 10,000 parishes
n England with only church schools.
There will be about 47,000 girls going
to college this year, and twenty-seven
years ago there were not seven of them.
Free JliiHuiii states that the amount ap
propriated lust year by the Kiiaeian gov
ernment for common schools was only
$2,M.2,000.
I-oiilaville. Ky has rained by dona
tions the sum of $:t00,000 (or a manual
training high school, to ho maintained
by the city.
Uhv. Dr. M. Wolmiy Stryker, pastor of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi-
'ago, has decided to accept the Pres
idency of Hamilton College.
The oldest college in North America
was louncied in IDM the college ot ht.
Lidcfonso in the City of Mexico. The
next oldest is ljival College, Qiebcc.
F. It. Uault, formerly City Superin
tendent of Schools at Tacoma, Wash.,
hss accepted the Pres dency of the Uni
versity of Idaho, situated st More w.
It Is stated that the recent bixiuent of
$:t(K),000 from Mrs. Stewart of New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
thn richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
Tke Friends' School of Providence, K.
is now over a century old, and among
the 15, IK).) names enrolled on the regis
ters may lie found those of many distin
guished people.
Eton, or the collection of schools which
constitutes what is popularly known as
l'.tou, lias 1,000 scholars. I his great
reparatory school has jut celebrated
Is four hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public school of Belgium, and
0.000 of the primary pupils have de
posited over JC 100,000. Great Britain
has also established penny banks in
schools.
One of the finest school buildings in
New England has just been dedicated at
Worcester, Mass. 1 lie total cost ol land
and ln Idings is $200,000. The building
is of brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States whs established in 1840 at Balti
more and even as late as lKtU there were
but three others in the country, two in
Philadelphia and one in Cincinnati.
There are now ationt twenty-six of these
schools in the United States.
Indiana University has had a some
what remarka le experience in having
its profestiore called to other institutions.
In the last two yeHrs ten full proieouors
have been called from the faculty to pro
fessorships in Johns Hopkins, Cornell,
Stanford and the Northwestern.
The road to learning is made smooth
to many young women with Utile or no
money at the various colleges for women.
Yaesar has twenty-live scholarships.
Smith live, Welleslcy twenty-five, each
the interest on $5,000. Harvard Annex
ias two scholarships supported by its
Students' Aid Society. The Students'
Aid Society at Wellesley disbureed in
gifts and loans during the last year the
sum of $11, KU.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts 7,2:i!l public Bclinols,
taught by 0,227 teachers, which allows
one teacher for every lorty eight pupila.
The Hchoola are supported by a yearly
expenditure of more than s,rcju,uix,
Nearly 90 per cent, of all the children in
the State of echo 1 age are in regular at
tendance upon these schools. Included
in the above are 244 schools, with an
arerage attendance of 20,204 pupils.
PURELY PERSONAL.
VerJi About to Write Another Opera,
With a Libretto by Boito A
Veteran of Many Battles.
Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, ia
said to be a man of singular niodeBty,
" with a gentle voice and almost femi
nine grace."
Lieutenant Peary will take rank
among Arctic explorers aa one whom it
waB not necessary to send after and who
came home by himself.
Columbus seema to have aa many dif
ferent pictures sh Washington, and they
are even more dissimilar than those of
the hero of the hatchet and the cherry
tree.
The friends of Mrs. Maybrick find no
consolation in the accession of a radical
government in England, as Home Secre
tary Aequith has stated that he cannot
recommend the release of the prisoner.
John I. Blair of Blairavillo, N. J., ia
reported to be worth all the way from
$50,000,00:) to $100,000,000. He haa
never sold a ahare of stock in any enter
prise with which he haa been aasociated,
and has money invested in scores of rail
roads, some of which he absolutely con
trol a.
This ia how you may know John D.
Crimmina, the great New York contract
or. He ia described by a Newport corre
spondent as having "his eyes wide
apart, and through their brownish gray
formulating in vacancy." Now, if you
meet a man on the street with his eyes
formulating in vacancy, you'll know he
is John D. Crimmins.
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Lfttcr-IV x Robbers Decoyed Into
l'rison ami Captured.
MAINE HAS A CHINESE CITIZEN.
New York State Factory Inspectors Pre
paring for a Hound-up of the
Law Transgressors.
The gamblers ff Chattanooga, Tenn.,
are lieing run out of the city by law.
The corn crop Is pronounced free from
frofct by the Agricultural Department.
Stations at which boiled water is dis
pensed have I men established in New
York.
A test case of the Chinese exclusion
act is being prepared by Texas Federal
authorities.
An attack on the Cordage Trust has
been made before Chancellor McGill of
New Jersey.
Report of mortality in Boston for Au
gust shows a death rate of 25.0 per 1,000
inhabitants.
An attempt will lie made to eslablitsh
a distillery in Chicago that is not in tne
Whisky Trust.
The watch of the blind poet, Milton,
is said to have drilted to Chicago from a
St. Ixmis pawnshop.
Subterranean Hoods and eruptions of
gas are reported to be frightening the
people of Jerome, Ind.
The officers of the Salvation Army at
Macomb, 111., are in limbo for failing to
pay a fine for parading.
Uncle Sam pays as high as $2,500 per
annum for t lie rental of bis sub-postal
stations in Philadelphia.
On account of cholera the Mayor of
Clarksburg, Tenn., has forbidden the
people to eat watermelons.
The city liquor agency of Portland,
Me., last year sold $tk).000 worth of liq
uor for medicinal purposes.
In the course of a couple of months
the last veotige of the horse-car lines
will have disappeared from St. Jaws.
The lower part of the Hudson river is
shallowing because ot brick dust and
broken brick thrown from canal boats.
Maine lays claims to a Chinese citizen.
His name is Wall Ngock Lee, who mar
ried a Maine school teacher eoiue time
ago.
Mrs. Mary Mcuratu ol Jui8vule, kv.,
has brought suit against a saloonkeeper
for selling whisky to her husband against
her wishes.
The projected oil-pipe line from the
Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic
Coast will become an active competitor
o! the Staudiird.
The "Judge" Short gang of cattle
thieves in North Dakota is reported
cleaned out by the settlers and the
"Judge" lynched.
The fisheries on the St. Lawrence have
been failures this season, and many of
the people have sold out and are coming
to the United States.
The Olympic Club at New Orleans
cleared $10.1,000 by the prixe-fighting
"carnival," and when all expenses were
paid $43,000 remained.
The type founders in the East have
formed a trust. The fierce competition
of the last ten vears is to end, the rates
of discount will te reduced and prices
go up.
United States Marshal Joe Rankin of
Wyoming, who has a national reputa
tion for bravery, has bsen removed for
not making arrests of desperadoes when
ordered.
The jury in the case of Burton C.
Webster, charged witn murdering Book
maker Charlea Goodwin at New York,
brought in a verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree.
The crop report for Missouri shows
that there was a general but light frost
on two nights and numerous grasshop
tiers, the latter necessitating tne late
sowing of wheat.
Governor Boyd of Nebraska haa un
conditionally pardoned ex-Treasurer
Charles H. Paul of Adams county, Neb.,
convicted of having embezzled $51,000
of county money.
W. R. Crosett, cashier and proprietor
of the People's Bank of Hope, Ark., has
decamped with the deposits and school
funds to the amount ot a number ot
thousands of dollars.
Frof. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard,
the literary executor of Emerson, Low
ell and Carlyle, is said to be constituted
literary executor of John Ruskin by a
clause in the latter a will.
The corn cutters in the vicinity of
Springfield, O., have formed an associa
tion to fight the patent corn-cutting
sleds, and refuse to work for farmers
using the obnoxious sleds.
in t. liOuis all granite, wood and as
phaltum Btreeta have been cleaned. The
work of polishing up the macadamized
streets is to begin at once, and it ia esti
mated that it will cost $00,000.
A bottle waa picked up on Scorton
Beach, Mass., the other day, inclosing a
paper on wnicn waa written : " V. ifi,
Reed, L. A. Reed, L. B. Reed, W. F.
Gilling, loBt August 14, 1892, at sea."
Two members of the Stratton gang of
letter-box robbers went to the Colorado
State penitentiary to effect the escape of
their leader, Stratton, but instead were
decoyed into the prison and captured.
The Department of Agriculture, it ia
expected, will issue a proclamation rais
ing tne quarantine wnich bad been es
tablished against cattle afHicted with
pneumonia in New York and New Jer
sey.
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.
The Situation of Affairs in the Hawaiian
Islands Receives the Attention of
the State Department.
The President lias appointed Prof.
Thomaa C. Mendenliall, Superintendent
of the geodetic survey, the United States
Commissioner of the International Com
mittee to fettle differences between
(treat Britain and the United States in
the matter of the lioiindary line between
Alaska and British Columbia.
The Secretary of the Interior has ap
proved the allotment of land to the
Seneca and Eastern band of Shawnee
n the Indian Territory. There are 275
of the former and 200 of the latter who
will receive sixty acres of land apiece,
and in some cases an additional eighty
acres, where the land is used for grazing
or is not fertile.
The attention of the Postollice De
partment has been called to the fact that
many letters from China and Japan spe
cially addressed to go via Vancouver, B.
are forwarded to San rrancisco. In
order to remedy this instructions have
tH-en sent to division superintendents to
issue orders that will insure the dispatch
of mails as addressed when intended for
any country and marked to go by any
iarticu!ar route.
The two vessels, proposals for which
were issued recently, will make an im
portant addition to the navy. 1 lie ar
mored cruiser will cost, exclusive of
armament, about $3,000,000. She will
be 400 feet long on the load line, 04 feet
beam and 23 feet draft; will have 15,000
ndicated horse power and make a speed
ot twenty knots. The armament is eight
eight-inch rules, twelve live-inch r tiles
and a strong auxiliary battery, gatling
guns, six-pounders and torpedo tubes.
1 be steaming endurance is specified at
15,000 miles at a ten knot rate. The
battle ship will be 30 J feet long, 48 feet
beam and 24 feet draft, with 11,000-borse
power, and will make l'i'j k no tb speed.
The armament will be four twelve-inch
and six four-inch rifles, twenty six-
pounders and five one-pounders.
1 tie situation of ailairs in tne Hawaii
an Islands continues to receive the best
and constant attention of officials of the
Department of State. To inquiries as to
the political situation in the dominion
of her Majesty (Jneen Liliuokalani the
reply is made that it is regarded as un
settled. Further than this they say they
do not care to express an opinion, and
this despite the fact that on September
13 the new Ministry was inducted into
office. The change of government was
accomplished without demonstration of
any kind, but the feeling prevails that
there is no confidence in the Ministry,
and any change would create no sur
prise. Ihe department is under more
or less influence to bring about even
closer relations between the United
Stat"8 and Hawaii than have ever been
obtained. Annexation is openly arged,
the argument being made that tne lsl
ands need the support of a strong gov
ernment, which would restore the
commercial credit of the country, give
assistance to the producers and conse
quent development to the Islands. Un
less the United States does take these
Islands under its care, it is urged that
some other Btrong government ia likely
to do it, and that government is Eng
land. In addition to sugar rice is culti
vated, tea can be raised in abundance,
and the coffee of the Islands is of the
finest quality. AH that is needed is some
money and an effort to improve the lands
and cheap labor to work them. Eng
land could easily supply theee from her
surplus capital and coolie colonies.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Four Powerful Search Lights to be Used
During the Ceremonies Have
Been Received.
Four powerful electric search lights to
be used during the ceremonies bave been
received and placed in bond. They were
manufactured in Rotterdam, and are
said to be the strongest lights in Amer
ica.
Plans for the building to be erected by
the citv of Paris have been received by
Chief Fearn of the foreign affairs de
partment. The structure will be erected
on the site formerly allotted to Costa
Rica.
Carl Heller has gone to Chicago to bu
pervise the erection of the German head
quarters building. He is a mechanical
and mining engineer appointed by the
Imperial German Commission to con
duct this work.
One of the curiosities to be exhibited
at the World's fair will be tne compass
which Jacques Cartier, the Canadian ex
plorer, owned. It was recovered from
the ship Le Petite Hermine, which was
abandoned Dy Cartier in 1527.
George F. Morgan has secured the
contract for the popcorn privilege. He
agrees to give $140,000 lor the concession
and 70 per cent, of the gross receipts
above $200,000. He filed a bond for
$120,000 to cover the contract.
Major Moses P. Handy has received a
letter from Yquitos, ftrazii, proposing
an exhibit of some of the aboriginals of
the Amazon. The writer states that one
of these tribes, the Cashibos, are still
cannibals and very interesting.
Spain will not erect a building, but
will make its exhibit in the mam build
ings of the exposition. The space allot
ted to Spain will be given to Guatemala,
and will be planted with coffee trees and
flowers indigenous to that country.
F. Zeggio, the official Commissioner
from Soain. has applied for the space
allotted to Colombia, hut relinquished
by that government. He proposes that
his government erect a small building of
pure Italian style on thia space.
Twenty ladies from every section of
Texas will be sent to Chicago iree ot ex
pense as a result of a voting contest held
by the Fort Worth Gazette. They will
arrive in time for the dedicatory exer
cises, and will be accompanied by an ex
cursion ot aooui i,ow xexans.
;0liEIGN CABLEGRAMS
Renewed Activity in the Eviction
of Irish Tenants.
HE YOUNG DUKE OF ORLEANS
Disinfection Craze in Germany Becomes
About as IUrmful as the
Plague Itself.
Louis Kossuth has finished his mem
oirs.
Cholera is on the wane all over Eu
rope.
Bismarck, if alive, will probably visit
America next year.
Among the nobility of England 21 per
cent, have no children.
The French are preparing to make an
other attack on the Dahomeyans.
Great Britain has sent a vessel to in
vestigate Canadian seizures by Russian
cruisers.
Palacio, ths Governor of La Guayra.
has been opening the mail of the Amer
ican Consul.
The French Naval Minister wants to
remodel the staff by substituting old of-
ncers with younger ones.
The London Timet declares that Rus
sia should apologize to England for the
insult in capturing Canadian sealers.
The corn and potato crops of North
Finland have been almost entirely de
stroyed by frosts. A famine is immi
nent. There is renewed activity in the evic
tions of Irish tenants, with the object,
it is said, to discredit Morley'a govern
ment. The Popolo Romano of Rome pays that
all of the brigauds concerned in the re
cent outrages in Sicily have been cap-
lured.
" Haddon Hall," Sullivan's new comic
opera, was well received in London, but
it is not likely to reach the popularity
of his other productions.
There wa9 great rejoicing at Rome on
the twenty-second anniversary of the
realization of the national hope that the
city should be Italy's capital.
The German Reichstag will adont a
bill putting the country under an effi
cient plan of federal or imperial sani
tary regulations, it is said, without de-
Date.
Emperor William has given orders
through the German Consul at Bergen,
.Norway, lor 120 Norwegian carpets for
the imperial hunting chateau at Pots
dam.
A well-known physician, who has been
studying the cholera question, says that
the disinfection craze in Germany has
oecome about as harmful aa the plague
itself.
The largest ostrich found for a genera
tion in Central Africa is on its way to
London, a present from the great Mo
hammedan chief, Alimary Samaden. to
Queen Victoria.
Germany will maintain the new law
against Sunday trading, and except in
cases where it is known to interfere with
the personal comfort of the inhabitants
will it be relaxed.
The Comte de Paris is said to enter
tain the belief that something will hap
pen in Europe within the next two years
which may result in his being called to
the throne of France.
Emma Nevada, the American singer.
was recently given a dinner at Gibraltar
by the officers of the King's Royal Ri
fles. Her husband. Dr. Palmer, was the
only male civilian present.
The Empress of Austria has been
since the death of Prince Rudolph a
complete mental wreck, subject to most
pathetic delusions about her son and
requiring the greatest care.
Dr. Lee. the nrominent. Rfc. PAtprnVmror
Dhvsician. who reoorta unfailing' Rnei-PHs
in the hospitala there with his irrigation
treatment ot me prevailing epidemic.
wae originauy an umo man.
Thfl TVTAtt.prn:pll fnmilw w)in oro nloinf.
.".www. u . J , .... iwy U u
iffs in the contest over the will of Count
waiaenstein at rrague, contend that
Waldenstein drank cognac by the turn
blerful until he became insane.
The Birmingham Dai7y Gazette is said
to be the first daily paper printed, cut
and folded by the aid of electricity. The
current is supplied from the mains of
the Birmingham Electric Supply Com
pany.
During the cholera epidemic in Paris
which preceded the present one it was
computed that a person living in clean
quarters and taking ordinary care had
about one chance in 1,000 of taking the
disease. ,
Thirteen millions sterling have al
ready been spent on the Manchester ship
canal, or 5,000,000 more than the origi
nal estimate. Two millions more will
have to be borrowed from the corpora
tion ei Manchester.
Paris just now offers an unusual op
portunity for feminine title-hunters. A
voung Viscount has just put himself up
tor a raffle. The winner gets him as a
husband with the title thrown in. The
tickets are $20 each.
The railways of the United Kirgdom
of Great Britain have 16.86J locomotives,
of which only 1 ,841 are in Scotland and 705
in Ireland. The London and North
western haa the most, 2,643, followed by
the Midland with
The English quarantine authorities
burn all diity linen found on an in
fected ship. A Russian who came to
London recently with a very scant ward
robe was left without a shirt to his
back, until a missionary came to hia assistance.
THE FLUTES OF PLAQUEMINE.
I look tfirouc.li the wistunf niwnorjr
To a fur off clow of Hpring,
Nor liei rl the wiiftn that come to Die
Krmn Horrow'a noinber wing;
Tor brlKlit or rlark (lie charm liolda good.
Whatever Intervene.
When I can hear wrowi the wood
The flutea of 1'la'i'ii-miice.
The niHtle of the fie Mm of cane,
iieHicie the calm buyon,
The lime trvee ty the winding lane.
The dreamy heaven of blue.
Are leagueH away and dimly float,
filmed in a rlrowxy utieen;
But oh, how clenr each quavering not
From flutes of i'larjueniitiel
The lugger lift (heir wlngt and bear
Their load of (.olden fruit
And brown pecan and vintage rare
And store of bulb and root:
The garden, rimmed with roues gay.
And dashed with dusky green,
Bwlm dim and far while phantoms pLa
The flutes of l'uui'iemine.
So, lapped In memory, let me dream
My boyhood's May time o'er;
Fair let the will e savanna gleam,
Koft let the south wind pour
Through mosnhung wood, o'er marsh and
fen
And oruri(e orchard green.
While morn blow like a flower, and then
The flutes of I'laqiiemlne.
Oh. yellow globes of sctippernong
That brace the air with w inel
Oh, cool ripe melons heaped along
In shadows of the vine!
You haunt me with a subtile lura
Of Juice and perfume keen;
But more than all, blown soft and pure
The flutes of I'la'iueniiue!
The great wide world I've wandered yei,
On feet of change and chance.
Have sailed all seas and found each siior
Of beaut y and rornauce;
But give me now the calm bayou.
Hetween the cane fields green.
Where lips of love at morning blew
The flutes of I'laiuemine!
-Maurice Thompson in Youth's Companion.
Soldier Hail to Eat Sheep.
The great Roman General Corbulo,
we are informed by Tacitus, waa in
his Armenian campaign reduced to
extremities, his army having suf
fered, not indeed from losses in bat
tle, but from being driven to satisfy
its hunger from V.yj flesh of sheep.
To the average Briton, into whose
dietetic cult the mutton chop enters
so largely, this announcement must
seem inexplicable ; 6o much so that
he might be excused for thinking
lightly of the (Stamina or pluck of his
forefathers, who allowed themselves
to be conquered by soldiery for
whose stomachs the flesh of 6heep
was too strong.
The fact is, however, as Tacitus
has stated it, and we know from
other authorities that animal food,
as a constant element in the Roman
soldier's fare, was found hurtful to
his health and efficiency. Caesar, in
his "Gallic War," tells the same
story. London Lancet.
He Was Fighting.
"'Squire Dick" Reese, just after
the war, a red headed lawyer of
Leavenworth, Kan., was almost a
pygmy in stature, but as plucky as
any other bantam. One day his dig
nity took affront at some speech of a
Missouri legal light, of unusual tall-
ness, and springing upon the big fel
low like a cat Dick began to claw,
kick and belabor him. The giant
looked down at the assailant clinging
to his arm and said with good
humored affectation: "Why, Dick!
What are you doing there?" "Doing !"
cried Dick wrathfully ; "Doing! Why,
I'm fighting you, sir." San Francisco
Argonaut.
Papa's Sore Leg.
I had my leg severely hurt by a log
rolling on it, and when it was getting
better so that I could walk with a
crutch I found that the muscles of
my calf cramped so badly that it was
extremely painful and I complained
of it several times. Our little girl.
Esther, 3i years old, seemed to be
pondering on the matter, for one
day, after having kept' still for as
much as half an hour, she suddenly
said, "Mamma, what is the matter
with papa's little bossie?" Cor. Ba
byhood. Meerschaum Artists.
The artist who carves meerschaum is
required to pass through as severe a
school of apprenticeship lasting from
three to ten years as though his work .
were in marble. Meerschaum carved
and in the rough resembles the ordinary
plaster cast. The outlines being com
plete, it is scraped with a knife, filed,
soaked in a preparation, and then pol
ished with a linen cloth. New York
Times. j
Cannot He Both. j
A good body is necessary to a satisfac
tory expression of the mentality. But
no man can be a Daniel Webster men
tally and a John L. Sullivan physically.
The. possibilities of either the mind or
body can be fully developed only at the
expense of the other. The college boy
who becomes a great athlete will not be
a great scholar. Genius is almost always
associated with soft spots. Troy Press.
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A Paying Business. !
Money Lender You want to borrow
a hundred pounds? Well, here's the
money. 1 charge 5 per cent, a month,
and as you want it for a year, that leaves
just forty pounds coming to yon.
Innocent Borrower Then if I wanted
it for two years, there'd be something
coming to you, I suppose, eh?-
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