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.