Image provided by: Yamhill County Historical Society; McMinnville, OR
About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1889)
M c M innville . O regon . F riday . N ovember I ATE THEIR COMRADES. PECULIAR WIVES. I Edison could make such a state- HIGH vs. LOW TENSION. I inent as he had regarding the insecurity The Horrible Story of Cannibal Tlie Spouses of Chinese “Mer A Defense of the Alternating I chants” Found in Dens. ism Told by two Castaways. Current For Electric Lights. i of high-tension currents, even in the sub Of the various Baking Powders illus LEAVENING POWER ways. For months past it has been notorious The parties interested in alternating “Why,” said he “look at the facts. A horrible story of cannibalism was electric light currents claim that the Appended to the report of the board of told by two of the survivors of the Brit that the young Chinese women who have ROYAL continuous current people have taken electrical control is an affidavit by John ish steamship Earnmoor, which foun been coming here as merchants’ wives GRANTS' (Alum)... .■■MMBNMNNNMI^MNI advantage of the excitement caused by P. Barret, city electrician of Chicago, in dered near Hayti several weeks ago. were being imported for nefarious pur RUMFORD'S * (bob). Lineman Feek’s tragic death to preju reference to this very matter. He says: They were Carl Graue, fireman, and poses, but up to Monday no proof of that HANFORD'S (when fresh) dice the public against the former inter “We have more than 150 miles of con Ludwig Lober, seaman, both of Ger fact had been presented in court. Chin Ah Foy and Geong Fah, two wo CHARM* (Alum Powder). NMMBBHNB ests. The two parent companies using ductors exclusively underground, which many. After describing how the eleven men arrived here on August 18th on the DA VW * ud 0. K.* (AlumiMra^MmHM the alternating currents are the Westing carry the current supplying more than men passed fifteen days in the boat house and the Thompson-Houston, and 1500 arc lights and which are working so without food or water, excepting a flying City of Sydney. They were landed on CLEVELAND’S................. BBiWa the systems are known as the Westing satisfactory that they cannot be well im fish and a few small sea-birds, eaten writs, and on September 19th were brought up before Commissioner McAl PIONEER (San Fvancuco)........... house and the Fort Wayne-Jenny. The proved. The lighting of Chicago River raw, Loder said: lister for a hearing. Their alleged hus CZAR.................................................. HMMMH two parent companies each own continu has been successfully accomplished by “On the sixteenth day out. William bands were there to swear for them, and DR. PRICE'S ........................... ^MMBB ous and pulsating systems also, and underground wires placed in 13 miles of Davis, a seaman, caught me by the their uncles remembered the time when they jointly comprise all of the local two-inch pipes buried in the earth. In throat and made a dash at my head MOW FLAKE (Groff's)..................... companies except the Edison, which this way we are serving 100 _rc lights, with a knife. He cut me on the right they were born some eighteen or nine CONGRESS ....................................... uses a low pressure, continuous current which we can easily increase to 135 when cheek, the scar of which still remains, teen years ago in some domestic castle iKURt ............................................ exclusively in New York and has all of necessary. These lights are of the inten as you will see. He was told to kill me m Chinatown. Th® books were also BILLETS.......... ................................. its wires underground. As the Edison sity of 40 volts each, and the circuits are by August Plagge, a fireman. When there to show that tickets had been pur wires have caused no deaths in New often so combined as to give 50 or more Davis began to cut me some of my com chased for them in June, 1882, and that HANFORD’S (None Such), when not fresh York the frequent allusions to the fright lights on a single circuit of 8 or 9 miles panions caught him, but others shouted, on the 7th of that month they had sailed PEARL (Andrews & Co.)........ MbMHi ful list of tragedies have, the alternating of cable. In another place Prof. Barrett ‘Kill him ! Kill him! We want some for China. ROMFORD'S * (Phosphate, when not fresh.. .NWMM On this, the usual testimony in such and pulsating current people claim, says: “It is a common thing in Chicago thing to eat. We are starving!” It cases, the landing of the women was rec aroused a degree of prejudice not war to put from 40 to 70 arc lamps on a cir seems that Plagge, Davis and others in Reports of Government Chemists. ommended to Judge Hoffman. Through “ The Royai Baking Powder is composed of ranted by the facts. They also allege cuit of from 1800 to 2400 volts of intensi one end of the boat had decided that I some fortuitous circumstance his honor pure and wholesome ingredients. k does not that they have been unjustly censured ty.’ World. should die, as I suppose. Being pretty failed to sign these particular recommen contain either alum or phosphates, or other in because of the wires being overhead and fat I looked inviting. Plagge was placed Left - Leggedness. dations and yesterday 8. J. Ruddell of jurious substances.-E dward G. L ove , Ph.D." not having been properly insulated until on watch that night, but next morning “The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly within a few days. A paper on “Left-I-eggedness was he was missing. No one saw him go the Chinese bureau appeared before tha purest and most reliable, baking powder the commissioner and asked to have the “The local companies in which 1 am read before the British association by Dr. overboard. offered to the public. eases reopened. interested are all anxious to go under W. K. Sibley, who said that Prof. Ball On the seventeenth day in the boat •• H enby A. M ott , M. D., Ph. D." William Johnson, an inspector attach ground as soon as possible, and this has in “Le Dualisme Cerebral” speaks of poor William Robinson, a seaman, died. “ The Royal Baking Pow er is purest in qual ed to the Chinese bureau, testified that been the attitude for the past two years man as a right-handed animal. Being ity and highest in strength of any baking pow A consultation was held and it was de of those representing the Westinghouse right-handed, it is naturally assumed he cided we would have to eat the flesh of on last Saturday he, in company with der of which I have knowledge. Detectives Cox and Glennon, paid a visit interests in this etty, ” George Westing W m . M c M vrtrie , Ph. D.” is also right-legged, but this does not ap our dead comrade. to the dens that line Baker alley. In • All Alum baking powders, no matter how house, jr., said to a World reporter. pear to be the case. Standing working “The first thing done was to smash in high their strength, are to be avoided as dan "The United States Illuminating com the house of Ham Ah Jee they found a gerous. Phosphate powders liberate their gas with the right band there is a Robinson’s skull, and from the fracture girl, who when compared with a photo loo freely, or under climatic clianges suffer de pany, under its former management, did tendency to use the left leg for balance. each one sucked the blood as long as it terioration. not believe in subways, but this policy Many people find less exertion in going would flow, which was but a little while. graph in their possession was found to was entirely changed when Mr. Jackson round circles to the righLtlian in circles Then the cook stripped the flesh from be Chin Ah Foy. Detective Cox and D r . L ocke , became president of the company. to the left. Race paths are nearly al the ribs. The next day this flesh in Glennon substantiated the testimony of Mr. Johnson. Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon, While we are anxious to distribute our ways made for running in circles to the strips was placed on top of the water In the case of Geong Fah, ex-Insi>ector current by means of underground cables, tight compartments and placed in the right. So the majority of movements LAFAYETTE, OREGON. Bienfield and Johnson testified that they the overhead wires which we must use are more readily pei formed to the right, sun, which soon dried it. professional calls promptly attended day until subways have lieen provided, can, as dancing, running, etc. or night. “After taking out Robinson’s liver, had seenjlier some weeks ago in the same i S3) [Office at old Printing office. ] by proper insulation, be made safe with The rule in w alking is to keep to the heart and other parts which would furn house. Mr. Ruddell further strength the currents now in use. The Brush right, and this appears to be almost uni ish blood to be sucked, we threw bis ened the case againBt the two women by J. T. CALBREATH. E. E. OOVCIIF.R. and United States companies are now, producing a record of the Chinese consu versal. It is more natural to keep to the mutilated body into the sea. Some of under the protection of the court, re right. Of a large number of people from the men watched it out of sight and then late, which showed that no women or fe Calbreath & Goucher, placing all their old-fashioned ‘under the better educated classes asked about began to eat some of the flesh. We felt male children had sailed on the City of writers’ ’ wire put up several years ago the existence of the rule, only 67 per revived, but slowly indeed, for we were Tokio on the date mentioned in the wo PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, men's petitions. McMrxNvn.t.E, ... O regon . by new wire of the most improved insul cent males and 53 per cent females were all fast losing our minds, The case went over until Thursday ation. This work will be completed in a aware of the rule. The large majority j “Two days after Robinson died Third (Office over Braly’s Bank.) few days, and then as far as wc are con obey it unconsciously in walking. Engineer Thomas Hunt was found dead. morning to give the women’s attorneys cerned the danger from overhead wires Crowds tend te bear to the right. The Even in the agqpizing condition we an opportunity to produce them.— Exam S, A. YOUNG, M. D. will be removed. We want it distinctly left leg being the stronger is more readi were, we hailed the death of the poor iner. ---------- ♦♦«----------- understood, however, that, notwithstand Physician & Surgeon, ly brought into action. Hence troops man with delight, for he too afforded us Francis Marion Crawford. ing the large amount of money that we M c M ixxvu . lk . ... O regon . have spent in putting up these new start off with the left foot. It is the foot subsistence without recourse to murdet, Francis Marion Crawford, the novelist, which is placed into the stirrup of the which would willingly be done by sev is to settle in Washington, where he will Office and residence on D street. All wires, we shall be glad to "take them eral. Mr. Hunt ’ s head was crushed in, saddle or step of bicycle in mounting. So calls promptly answered day or night. continue his literary work. Mr. Craw down and go into subways in all parts of the left is the foot which a man takes off but little nourishment was found in him. ford is a singularly fortunate man. His the city as soon as they have been pro His blood was thick and too sluggish to from in jumping. DR. J. C. MICHAUX vided. There is no reason for condemn I artistic tastes are an inheritance from In the experiments of M. G. Darwin, yield freely to those who attempted to his father, the sculptor, who for many ing high-tension currents, as, by proper blindfolding boys and telling them to draw it from his skull. His body was Practicing Physician and Surgeon, insulation they can be made safe. Arc years was a leading artiBt of Rome. His walk straight the right handed ones di also cut up. When it would yield no lighting could not be carried on sui cess- literary talent was cultivated in the best verged to the right and vice versa. From more nourishing flesh it was thrown LAFATETTK, OREGON schools, and that he has travelled far fully except by currents of moderately measurements of Dr, Garson of the skel overboard. high tension, and the alternating current and to good purpose the readers of his Ja». SI, *83. “In about three days the limbs and etons of the two legs in 54.3 per cent the of a thousand volts has created a revolu books appreciate. He is a splendid man left was the longer, and in 25.7 the right. feet of all began to swell and several tion in incandescent lighting, so that physically. The most careful attention For measurements of the’feet, the author have since broken out in pglv sores. We this form of illumination has now ceased to exercise, especially fencing, has fully collected the drawings and measurement think it is poison fiom the human flesh to be a luxury and been brought within developed this giant. He is young, and and blood.” of 200 pairs, with the result that in 44 ---- ON the reach of everybody.” must be happy. Loder then described how they were per cent the left was longer, in 21.5 the “To so insulate electric wires under Add to his joys that he has a beautiful right and in 34.5 they were of the same rescued by the schooner Mosquito and present conditions as to render accidents and accomplished wife, and you will see how Seaman Robert Johnson fell over size. Measurement at the first joint gave On Short or Long Time in 8ums to suit impossible is, of course, as much out of 56 per cent left larger, and at the instep board at the side of that vessel and was that his life is complete. Mrs. Crawford lxiwest Rates and no Commissions. the question as it would be regulate the is the daughter ot Col. Berdan, who in 42.5 per cent. From the table of the fig bravely rescued by a colored man jump business and traffic of the city of New the early part of the war organized a ing overboard after him. Loder says ures it is observed that the left foot is York that accidents to pedestrains troop of sharpshooters. Every man who more frequently the case in the male William Davis, who wanted to kill him, from passing vehicles or falling objects | ’all on or address :| fought in the Army ot the Potomac re than in the female sex, and the percent is in a hospital in Philadelphia and of could never occur,” said Dr. Henry Mor members “Berdan’s sharp shooters,” W. T. SHURTLEFF, ton, president of Stevens Institute of age of feet of the same size is greater in fered him all the money he had to say and their fourteen pound telescopic rifles nothing about it. Loder added that in the female. The percentage of the right At J. I. Knight <t Co.’s McMinnvile. Or. Technology, Hoboken, N. J., “but to that enabled them to single out a man at larger than the left is very constaut, the boat, after attempting to kill him render the electric wires so relatively and being thwarted, poor Davis cried the distance of one mile and put a ball whereas the numbers of lefts larger and safe that chances of accident would be through him. General Berdan, after the those in which both feet are the same and then kissed him. extremely improbable, and to make civil war in this country, invented a Graue, Loder’s companion, was given size are much more variable. Man, be them in effect much safer and less liable up bv the hospital physicians at Nassau, breech loading musket with a direct bolt ing naturally or artificially right handed to cause such accidents than any other where the Mosquito took the rescued. action, which failing so dispose ot here, known means of transmitting either and left-legged tends unconsciously to he sold to the Russian government for A new invention for Dress-Cutting that bear to the light; lower animals, on the He hung between life and death for can b» used by a lady and gentleman and light or power, is entirely practicable other hand, appear nearly always to cir three days. W’hen the seven men ar $703,000. He superintended the con giye perfect fit Price of scale, including a and within the range of our present rived in New York, the steamer they struction of the first 100,000 muskets and cle to the left. key of full instructions, can be had by call knowledge. This has been accomplished ing on or addressing came on was met by a tug with represen left-Russia a man rich in money and dec elsewhere, and it is simply a question of Old Chinese Bridges. tatives of the owners of the Earmnoor orations. With his beautiful daughter the use of reasonable care, periodical he went to Turkey where he became a The Chinese suspension bridges, dating on board. The men were taken to Phil leading figure in court circles and taught and intelligent inspection and the en adelphia where all the horrors of their LEADING TAILOR OF McMINNVILI. forcement of proper regulations. As to from the time of the Han dynasty (202 b . experience were detailed in the daily the Turks some verylpretty tricks in war the alleged difficulty of insulating the al c. to 220 a . n.), furnish striking evidence 8econd door south of Postoftice. press, with the exception of the ex fare—for a consideration. The daughter ternating current as compared with the of the early acquaintance of the Chinese tremes to which they were put when was adored for her beauty and her large direct current, 1 cannot conceive how with engineering science. According to they ate the flesh of their dead compan gray-blue eyes, the Bort of eyes Mary of any well informed electrician can have the historical and geographical writers of ions. This is the first time the true Scotland had, were used to conquests be intended to state anything so contrary China, it was, Shang ’.ieng the comman story has been told. Both men are be fore she met and married Mr. Crawford. Has the most complete stock of harness to experience and knowledge as that the der of the army under Raen Tsu, who ing comfortably cared for by Mr. and It is like a page of romance, the life of In the county. At present 12 set of sin alternating current is more difficult to in understood the construction of the roads Mrs. D. A. Buesing, No. 911 Fells street. this beautiful and gifted pair, and now, gle harness, hand made, in prices sulate than the direct. Undoubtedly in the province of Sliense, to the west of Both men said that they have no recol like true fain- folks, they came back to ranging from 112 to 130. and H the difference in cost of additional cop the capital, the high mountainsand deep lection ot the taste of human flesh, so “live happy ever afterward,” in their set of team harness as cheap per wire suggested for low-pressure cur ergos of which made communication dif great was their mental anguish at the own country. AS ANY PLACE IN THE COUNTY rents is sufficient to materially affect the ficult, and which could be reached only time. Their only recollection of taking Harrison’s Evening Strolls. price at which the light can be afforded by circuitous routes. At the head of an Can be seen on the hooks in my shop. the food is feeling their own blood quick I have competent workmen employed to consumers. In the first place, it army of 10,000 workmen Shang Liengcut President Harrison does something to do all kinds of repairing and to make would be necessary in most cases to in through mountains and filled up the val er. as it coursed through their veins. w hich no other president of recent years any haraess ordered I also keep a full stock of oil and rubber robes, lap robes, crease the weight of copper conductors leys with the soil obtained from the ex has done in taking a stroll through the horse covers, saddles, etc. A full line of at least five times. We should also be cavations. Where, however, this was Ericsson's Experiments. streets every fair evening after dinner. extras for repairs constantly on hand. obliged to have live wires in place of not sufficient to raise a road high enough, P.udolph Ericsson experimented yes Sometimes Mrs. Harrison goes with him, one now existing if the overhead he built bridges resting upon abutments terday on the new transverse road, at sometimes a guest, sometimes he is M c M innville national bank . every wire system were used, and five times as or projections. Ninety-seventh street in Central park alone. Buttoned up in the best-looking Corner Third and C streets, in Bralv block. large or five times as many conductors At other places, where the mountains with an explosive of his which lie calls overcoat in Washington and the worst in the subways, or underground condu were separated by deep gorges, he carried extralite. It looks like powdered sulphur looking slouch hat, he saunters through M’MINNVH.I.E, OREGON. its, if these were employed. This out a plan of throwing suspension bridges and feels like brown sugar. He burned the parks and along the avenues in front Transacts a General Banking Business, would necessitate the rebuilding of the stretching from one slope to the other. two pounds of it in a charcoal fire in the of the white house, stopping very often President.......................... J. W. COWLS subways already laid, and the building These bridges, appropriately called by open air. It burned slowly with no ex at the home of the postmaster-general, Vice President..........LEE LAUGHLIN for further use of vastly larger and more the Chinese writers “flying” bridges, are plosion. A percussion primer was at who has just got home from his long Cashier.......................J. L. STRATTON expensive structures. Then there is the sometimes so high as to inspire those tached to a half-pound cartridge in the day’s work and eaten his lonely supper. who cross them with fear. At the pre open air and fired. It simply tore the One year ago Harrison had never met Bells sight exchange and telegraphic cost of alteration in the plant of the transfer. on Portland. San Franco and New electric stations, which would require sent day there is still a bridge in exis cartridge open without igniting the ex Wanamaker. Now no man is closer to Yerk. great modification in order to adapt tence in Sliense 4000 feet long, which plosive. Next Mr. Ericsson put a full him, not even law partner and Attorney- Collections made on all accessible point«. them to the new conditions suggested. stretches across a gorge of immense cartridge on a stone and pounded it to General William Henry Harrison Miller. Interest allowed on time deposits. Everything considered, I am satisfied depth. Most of the bridges are only wide bits with another stone. It didn’t go off. Harrison gives his confidence slowly and Office hours from 9 a. m. to 4 p m. that the cost of electric light and power enough to allow of the passage of two Mr. Ericsson filled a tomato can with the cautiously, but once given, as it has been furnished under such restrictions would mounted men, railing on both sides serv stuff, and standing three feet away, shot to Wanamaker, it has been given for be practically prohibitory to the public ing for the protection of travelers. It is a bullet through the can. No harm was ever, and his friendship dates back ac at large, and that it would completely not improbable that the missionaries done. Sample rooms in connection. cordingly to the beginning of things.— check what is undoubtedly one of the who first reported on Chinese bridges o------ o Having shown some of the things his Philadelphia Record's Washington Letter. great developments of the future, the two centuries ago, gave the initiative to explosive wouldn’t do, he set about la now fitted up in first class order. A Test For Tea. substitution of electricity as a means of the construction of suspension bridges in showing what it would do. He got some Accommodations as good as can be distributing motor power, light and all the West.— Iron. small holes drilled, eighteen, twelve and A Russian analyst gives the following found in the city. forms of energy in the most convenient The llerlinisclie Klinische announces eight inches deep. About eight ounces as a test by which tea can be proved to S. E. MESSINGER, Manager. and economical manner possible. i the discovery of a new opiate by Pro- of extralite were put in the first two, and be genuine or not: Take a pinch of tea “As regards the character of the cur I fessor Kast, of Freiburg- It has been six ounces in the other. He rammed it ! in a glass, pour upon it a little cold water M c M innville rents, they are substantially the same in i called “Sulfonal,” and belongs to the down with a stick and stuck a primer in , and shake it up well. Pure tea will only New York as in other cities, but there is : “disulphates” group. The crystals are each hole. The holes were filled in with j slightly color the water, while a strong this difference, which I think quite suf tasteless, without smell, and readily dis- dirt and the wires connected with a bat infusion is quickly got from the adul- CARLIN A HIGH. Proprietors ficient to accounf for a considerable dif tery. Away out in the tennis-field Mr. ' terated or painted leaf. Now boil both Goods of all descriptions moved and care ference in the proportion of accidents, i solved. It is stated to have the property ' of producing sleep in invalids, particular-! i Erricsson had his finger on the button of | sorts separately, and let them stand till ful handling guaranteed. Collections will be made monthly Hauling of a.I kinds namely, that the wires of ail sorts in j ly nervous people, but not in healthy I I the electric battery. When everybody cool, and the difference between them done cheap New York have never been subjected to | people. Such drugs should, of course, was well out of the way, and red flags will be most marked. The false tea will the intelligent supervision which has only be used under the authority of a I were waving, he pressed the button, and become still stronger after a long stand been applied elsewhere’” qualified medical adviser.— Cassell’ Fam- , j with a roar a huge mass of rock was j ing, but will remain transparent, where Frank L. Pope, a well-known elec I ily Magazine. IN THE COOK HOUSE. splintered. Big pieces of stone rose in as pure tea will become muddy or milky. blocked with the Choicest Wines, I.iq- trical engineer, at present in the employ the air and were hurled aside. The This last appearance arises from the tan of the Westinghouse company, said he Children Cry for on and Cigars—Domestic and Imported. chief ingredidnts of the explosive are an nic acid, which is a natural property in ammoniacal salt, a hydro-carbon, and pure tea, but which in artificial tea is en Ths Best Bar in. tKe City was at loss to understand how an electri Pitcher's Castoria. chlorate of potash.— Neu- York World.' tirely absent. cian of the reputation of Mr. WM MARTIN. Proprietor. trated from actual testa. F. S. MONEY TO LOAN Improved Farm Property INSURANCE NE80TIATED. -Z^-tterxtiorx 1 F. ZIRKEL, E. WRIGHT The St. Charles Hotel TRUCK AND DRAY CO., THE NADJY BAR! VOL. I. NO. 41 15,1889. A Burdette Idea. They Would Have It. The Mail Is ing Otto. What would I do if I were a woman? I wouldn’t try to be a man. Cut that out and paste it on your looking-glass, daughter, and it will be an ornament of grace unto tby head and chains about thy neck many times a day. I wouldn’t shudder and groan every time the name of the Monster was men tioned, but I would studiously avoid ac quiring the lightest of his many accom plishments and the best of his manifold ways. I would never learn to lay a Are, in range or fireplace. Every time I touched a fire, summer or winter, I would put it dead out. Then I’d never be expected to make one. The first loaf of bread 1 baked I would let drop on the dog and kill him. Then I’d never be asked to bake bread again, and I’d get a new’ dog. When I descended into the laundry, I would manage to bring out all the fancy flannels white as ghosts, and all the white skirts as blue as the skies of Jnne. Then I’d dever be asked to assist at the wash tub again. I would pinch every baby that was given me to hold, black and blue in half a dozen places before it could catch its breath enough to shriek, and I would frighten the life or tease the temper out of anybody’s children whom I was asked to amuse. Then I’d never be troubled with other people’s young ones, and no body would never ask me to teach the infant class while the tired teacher took a vacation. If I had to sit on the front seat when asked to drive, I would carry a large sun umbrella and gouge the driver’s eyes out and run the team into a fence corner the first mile out. Then I’d get the back seat on the shady side every time after ward. I would always sit sideways in a street car. Then I would have plenty of room. 1 would wear a carriage dress in the street car if I had no other place to show it off. I would smash something choice and expensive every time I ’.swept a room or dusted a parlor. Then I’d never be asked to do such work. In church I would never rise during the singing and never kneel during the prayers. Then people would notice me and say, “Who is that pretty girl with such pretty eyes?” At the theatre I would wear the biggest hat obtainable. At cricket and lawn-tennis matches I would sit in the front row and raise my parasol. I would cultivate such charming help lessness, such hopeless innocehce, such pretty childish ignorance, such fascina ting dependence, such dainty baby wajs that people would say, “Oh, we must take care of her she dosn't understand these things.” Then all my life long I would be petted and coddled and fondled and cared for in a thousand ways, where more independent women have to “hus tle” for themselves. That is,J daughter, if other women would care for such a sweet little bit of helplessness. Maybe they would. You know better than I do how women re gard that sort of a woman. But, you can gamble your piece of mind, your love of case and all your en joyments or life that the Monster man wouldn’t torment the solitude of such a woman with his presence longer than a day or two, and ehe would thus be spared one of the greatest annoyances to which mankind is subjected. Here is a story that General Pierce Young tells. Away up in the Georgia mountains lie Catoosa springs, a favorite summer resort of Savannah and Atlant« society people. Among the pines and breezes of the hills the fever and lassi tude bred from the malarial air of the low country disappear like magic. One day General Young saw an old fellow come up with a basket of eggs and a bunch of chickens for the hotel people, and recognized an old trooper of his com mand. “Jake,” he called, "Jake Dorridge, how are you?” “Why laws a massy, gineral, how-de- you do? 1 hain't seen ye 'tall since de wall.” They chatted a few minutes. “Do you come up here very often, Jake?” “Pootv nigh evry day. The folks want my chickens’n’aigs, ’n’ I likes to rest my eyes a-looking at these yer pooty gals.” “They are handsome, now aren't they Jake?” “ ’Deed they be.” “Now, Jake,” said General Young, waving his hand toward a group of three young ladies with whom he had been chatting, “tell me which one of of those yonng ladies is the prettiest.” “Aw, but Gineral Young, tney's all pooty. ’Twouldn't be good manners fer me ter sav that ary one was pootier’n t’other.” “But Jake it will give them great plea sure to learn your opinion. They are all great friends, and will not feel at all hurt by your decision. Now walk up and pick out the prettiest.” After much solicitation Jake under took the task. He walked up and peered closely at the laughing girls. About 100 guests had gathered by this time to see the trial. Finally Jake turn ed, scratching his head. All three of the young ladies wore broad sashes around their waists. “Gineral. they’s all so pootv it’s hard to make a ch’ice, but I’ll have to say the one with the yaller belly-band is a leetie the trimmiest.” There was a scream, a flutter of white dresses, and three blushing young ladies with various colored sashes, dashed in the hotel and out of sight.—Wathingfon Post. One of the saddest spectacles which is possible to conceive is that presented by the prisoner of Furstenried, the mad king of Bavaria. Tall and almost ax gi gantic in stature as his brother, the late King Ludwig, hie appearance is enough to startle any one w ho sees him for the first time. His hair is long and unkempt and his bushy brown beard reaches down below hie waist. There is a kind of weird, wild look in his eyes, the gaze •f which remains steadfastly fixed ahead into empty space. For hours he will stand, gesticulate wildly and talk to the imaginary persons created by his fantasy, and then again, for days together, he will remain in a state of lethargy and lifelessness that his physicians become afraid that he will pass away without even their becoming aware of it. All day long, except when overcome by one of liis bi-weekly or tri weekly fits of apathy, he will puff away at cigarettes, of which he smokes almost 100 a day. His consumption of matches is still greater, for whenever lie lights a fresh cigarette he delights in burning up the entire box of lucifers, and in seeing the whole bundle blaze up at once. Tlie apartments which he inhabits are all situated on the ground floor ami are magnificently furnished, and the strict est orders prevail to the effect that all doors should be left w ide o|>en through out the day. If King Otto hap|>eiis by any chance to come across a closed door he immediately falls into a kind of epi leptic and maniac fury, and seeks to dash it down with his still powerful fists. It is, moreover, impossible to induce him to permit himself to be bathed, and he displays an almost hydrophobic anti pathy for water. 11c likewise absolutely refuses to enter any carriage, and dis plays signs of terror whenever any ef forts ate made to induce him to enter one for the purpose of taking a drive. It is impossible to predict how much longer be may live. He may drag on his present miserable condition for years, while on the other band it is likely that the failure of the natural functions of the body may bring on a malady which will carry him off in a few days. As his mad ness is of an altogether incurable nature his death can only be regarded in the light of a happy release.—A>i>- York Tri bune. Practical Joke on a Squirrel. Most squirrels keep two or more stores of food. Wood, the British naturalist, tells of a friend who found one of these reserve stores which a squirrel had pro vided for an exigency,and the friend in’a moment cf thoughtlessness, determined to play a joke on the squirrel. He ac cordingly replaced the nuts by small round Btones, and carelully concealed all evidence of bis visit. One cold day in winter he passed the spot and found that the squirrel had called there a short time previously. This he knew by the fact that that ten inches of snow had been scratched from the top of the hole, outside of which the stones had been cast by the disappointed animal. This struck the joker with remorse. He said, “I never felt the folly of practical joking so much in my life. Fancy the poor lit tle fellow, nipped with the cold, and scanty food, but seeing a long winter, re solved to economize his little horde as long as possible, Fancy him at last de termined to break this—perhaps his last —magazine, and cheerily brushing away the snow, fully confident that a good meal awaited him as the reward of his cold job, and after all finding nothing but stones. I never felt more mean and aBbamed in my life, and really would have given a guinea to have known that injured squirrel’s address. He should have had as fine a lot of nuts as would have put him beyond the reach of pover ty had he lived to be as old as Methus elah. No Place Like Home. The Author of “Nancy bee.” There is a man living quietly in lam- don who is one of the most succesful writers of verse set to music that is in England to-day, yet he is not very wide ly known by name. It is Frederick F.. Weatherly, and he is the author of “Nancy Lee,” a song that has been sung in every quarter of the globe, and lias brought the author an amount of fame and money that makes him practically independent. The song was written at Oxford in an hour. Weatherly had made an appointment for a pupil whom he was coaching for the annual com mencement. The pupil failed to keep bis appointment, and while waiting for him the piece came suddenly to his mind and was written then and there. One of the strange things about the song was that it was in the heyday of its pop ularity about the time cf the Princess Alice disaster. It was being sung on deck just before the vessel went down. That fact was printed in all the English news|>apers, and the song suffered a temporary check in its popularity, but thousands of copies of it are now sold, not only in Great Britain, but through Australia, Canada, and in fact wherever the English language is spoken. Mr. Weatherly is the author of scores of other songs that are not so well known. He haB been writing songs ever since he was an undergraduate, twenty-five years ago.— Philadelphia Timet. Tennyson’s Old Age. Simple yet Fatal The preparations necessary for elec trical executions are very simple. The condemned criminal's cell is visited bv the prison authorities, and his hands and feet are saturated with the weak potash solution which bo rapidly overcomes the skin’s resistance; during this space of thirty seconds or less his electrical resis tance may be measured, though Mr. Ell ison's researches in this line have ren dered even this unnecessary. Shod in wet felt slippers the convict walks tn the chair and is instantly strapped into posi tion. His feet and hands are again im mersed in the potash solution contained in a foot tub connected with one )>ole, and in a hand basin connected with the other. With this perfect contact there is no possibility of burning the flesh and thus reducing the effect of the current upon the body. Dials of electrical in struments indicate that all the apparatus is in perfect order and record the pres sure at every moment. The deputy sheriff closes the switch. Respiration and heart action instantly cease, and electricity, with a velocity equaling that of light, destroys life liefore nerve-sensa tion, at a speed of only 180 feet per sec ond, can reach the brain. There is a stiffening of the muscles which gradual ly telax after five seconds. But there is no struggle and no sound. The majesty of the law has been vindicated, hut no physical pain has Ireen caused.—/faroM P. Rmwn in North American Rerirv. Prohibition Statesmen. “I saw and talked with Tennyson re cently," writes an English friend to me. “It was at the annual flower show at Haslemere, Surrey, and the poet had been prevailed upon to leave his seclu- for the botanical display. It was his first public appearance since his illness, and I had not seen him for six months. That the Poet laureate is rapidly ageing I saw at a glance, and this became more im pressed upon me during our brief con versation. He was no longer the Tenny son of a year ago; talk meant distress to him, and references to persons very close to him in friendship, which formerly en listed his interest, seemed to meet with but little response. In his walk he shuffled heavily, and the cane that he once carried as a companion to idly swing in moments of thought had become al most a staff. He told me hie health was good, but his general appearance scarce ly verified his statement. The strong aroma of a pipe, carelessly jamed into one of his coat pockets, was about the only thing that suggested to me the Ten nyson of old—there was certainly noth ing in his conversation, or manner of ap pearance.”— Philadelphia Times. The venerable senator, Justin H. Mor rill, of Vermont, was observed yesterday to walk up to the bar in the Fifth avenue hotel, order a hot whisky toddy and drink it. He seemed to relish it too, and raised the glass to his lips with the air of a connoisseur. How shocked the go<si people of the Green Mountain state would have been at the sight! The sen ator probably believes that the prohibi tion laws of Vermont do uot apply to New York. It is an interesting fact for the prohibitionists to ponder that all the prohibition states are represented in the United States senate by men who drink when they like. Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Morrill’s colleague, keeps a private bottle in the senate judiciary committee room for his own use, and it is not ne glected, either, Senator Hals, of Maine, prides himself on having one of the finest wine cellars in the country, and his col league, Mr. Frye, takes a drink occasion ally. Allison and Wilson, of Iowa, also do the same. All of these statements roll their eyes and talk prohibition in their respective states!— Neu- York World. The forty-third annual report of the commissioners in lunacy for Great Brit ain contains interesting figures. On New Year’s day last there were in the king dom 84,349 insane persons. Various causes of insanity are set forth in a table covering 136,468 cases. Of these 9,569 persons lost their reason from domestic trouble, 8,060 from “adverse circum stances," 9,273 from overwork and wor ry, 3,769 from religious excitement, and 18,290 from intemperance. The influ ence of heredity was ascertained in 28,- 082 cases, and congenital defects in 5881. When a young Greek determines to take a wife to himself he does not go a courting, but he takes Lis oldest female relative into his confidence and they at once go hunting for a suitable mate for him. Marriageable maidens are visited and silently appraised. They receive the old dames courteously, answer all their questions and never venture to ask the nature of their errand. As soon as the visitors have made a choice the wooer dispatches them again to the maiden's home with instructions to ask her hand in marriage. Match-Making in (Im-cc. Some of the people who get to Europe and take the name of the United States in vain are eminently calculated to set cold shivers running up and down the spines of the effete monarchies they walk over. A Washington gentleman tells of one he encountered traveling on a Cook’s tourist ticket. Strangely enough she was from Massachusetts. Standing in front of a masterpiece of art in a Florentine gallery, she convulsed her hearers by exclaiming: “Oh, my! wouldn’t that look lovely in woosted!” Some One Is “Shook.” Give Him a Lift. She traveled forty miles to see the fa mous Blue Grotto, and then didn’t see it So the freckled nosed, but sweet tern- The Iudiana husband who walked because there was a small fee charged. | pered Gwendoline Caldwell, the Ameri- away from home twentv-six years ago While sight-seeing at the Paris Expo- can heiress, is not to wed Prince Murat, and returned the other day to find his Bition, she yawned heavily and remark- i as has been announced time after time? wife re-married, and to raise a row about ed: “I do hope we will get home in time What broke off the match is not explain it, should be given a lift out of tlie coun for the Ta’nton cattle show!” able, bnt we all think we know. Miss try on the toe of a boot. A wife may let Caldwell had it fixed to keep her cash in ! her husband roain around for five or ten Children Cry for her own name, and the prince wouldn't years without asking any questions, hut _ , take her that wav. It was the rhino he if left much longer than that ehe has a Pitcher’s Castoria. w.n(ed legal right to look out for herself.