THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER
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OF THE AGREEABLE MAN
HIS
CHARACTERISTICS DISCUSSED
BY MRS. FRANK LESLIE.
When a Man May Talk of Himself—One
Sure Way of Being Agreeable — The
Good Hearted Fellow Is Generally an
Agreeable Man.
ICopyright, 1891, by American Press Associa­
tion.]
OME and dine on
Tuesday; I want
you to meet such
an agreeable
man,” said my
friend, and I
went.
But the agree­
able man was not
at all to my taste,
although he
Beemed to fancy
himself immense­
ly. He was fluent and flowery of speech,
and he had seen almost everything under
the sun in every corner of the world,
but for that very reason he was fatiguing.
One could speak of nothing without
eliciting such a flood of information
that one was nearly drowned in it, and
seized upon any straw to reach land
again, only to be submerged afresh be­
fore one had done gasping after the first
deluge. And this was what I said to
my friend and hostess when she unwise­
ly insisted upon an opinion. Of course
she didn’t like it; we never do like to
have our friends refuse to look out of
our eyes, although we are constantly de­
clining to look out of theirs.
“Well, what kind of a man do you
call an agreeable man if he is not?’ de­
manded she, rather pettishly.
“ What kind of man?” repeated I, mus­
ing over the question. “Why, a man
who pleases mo is to me an agreeable
man.”
“That is to say,” retorted she, laugh­
ing, “if you like that kind of a man that
is just the kind of man that would
please you?”
The entrance of a visitor broke off the
conversation; but, as is my habit when
a social question has been raised in so­
ciety, I unconsciously carry it home, and
sometimes ponder it in the weary hours
of sleepless nights.
What is an agreeable man, and where
have I most frequently found him? de­
manded I of rayself that afternoon as I
drove around -the park and exchanged
salutations with a hundred or so of my
acquaintances. Is it this horseman? Is
it this pedestrian? Is it either of these
two with the tandem team, or is it that
dear old man in the barouche? But still
the voice within said “No!” The horse­
man is silly and fatuous; the pedestrian
is buried in abstruse studies, and is at
this moment walking off a surfeit of
Semitic roots before undertaking a light
collation of Dead sea fruits. The two
boys with the tandem team will
bring it with them to whatever re­
ception they attend tonight, and
tell everybody just what time Xerxes
and Artaxerxes made last week on the
trotting course, and how they are capa­
ble of beating Cyrus and Darius “into
fits” at any moment.
As for the old gentleman, he is very
dear and very sweet, and I make a point
of talking to him for three minutes
whenever we meet, but after three min­
utes he has told me all about his health,
and where his wife is, and how warm
and crowded the room is, and that is the
end of otir subjects of mutual interest,
for he is too deaf to hear any remarks I
might offer, and too self engrossed to
care to listen if he could hear.
So collating the egotistical traveler,
and the vain exquisite, and the book­
worm, and the horsey pair, and the self
absorbed old gentleman, one sees that
they have one fault in common, and that
is selfishness, and it becomes evident
that the agreeable man must not be sel­
fish, or at least that he must, by educa­
tion and good breeding, have learned so
to disguise that “original sin” common
to every child of Adam, that it shall not
offend other people. As for eliminating
it, 1 do not suppose that is ever done,
and perhaps it would not be well if it
could be, for if self preservation is the
first law of nature a certain amount of
selfishness is as necessary to the protec­
tion of every man as claws are to a cat;
the thing is to keep those same claws
sheathed in a velvet paw.
Lady Disdain long enough he will come
to the same point in the end. And,
then, there are so many ways of talking
to a woman about herself; personal ap­
pearance is the very crudest and most
elementary part of the subject, but it is
capable of treatment in infinite variety.
“I am sure you like Browning,” he
says, and she, smiling placidly, asks:
“Why? How can you judge?”
“Beearise I notice you use some of his
wonderfully eloquent turns of speech.
You express yourself, if I may so say,
Browningesquely.”
And she is delighted!
Or he remarks: “One can see at a
glance that you have traveled a great
deal; that gracious and ready courtesy
is only learned in the royal courts of
Europe.”
Or, “1 notice that you always wear
lilies of the valley, and use that scent.
How delicate and refined it is!”
Perhaps there is nothing so “fetching”
to a woman as to have her favorite per­
fume and color noticed by a man to whom
she has never mentioned them. Or, go­
ing deeper, he appeals to some unusual
knowledge he declares her to possess upon
some abstruse subject, and begs for in­
formation, or in most confidential and
tentative manner he speaks of her lov
ing nature, her sweetness of disposition,
her gentle faith in the goodness of those
about her, and he warns her of the dan­
ger such an innocent lamb as she incurs
by trusting the wolves so fearlessly.
Of course he is no wolf, oh, no! But
probably the innocent lamb knows the
marks of a wolf quite well, and will take
care of herself even while she seems im­
plicitly to receive the warnings and rev­
elations of her kind guide and mentor.
A man who can talk jndiciously and
acceptably to a woman about herself
will be voted by that woman an agree-
ablo man, and if ho has a pretty large
female acquaintance lie will have a nu­
cleus of admirers to proclaim this opin­
ion.
But to be a universally agreeable man
—a man whom other men will admit to
be agreeable, although they won't use
that word—requires something more.
A man to be agreeable in general society,
at a dinner party, at a reception, at any
of those places and times when tfite-i-
tf-tes are either impossible or in bad
taste, must be able to talk to more than
one person and upon impersonal topics.
He must know something about a great
many subjects, and yet not have the air
of instructing his hearers. Nothing is
much more irritating than the ex-cathe­
dra style, when the speaker seems to
mount a rostrum and hold up his hand
for silence before each utterance. That
was the matter with the agreeable man
first mentioned, and he annoyed me so
much that'I resolutely forgot all the val­
uable information so carefully imparted.
Another rock upon which I have seen
a great many men meet shipwreck is
nnadaptability; they talk and talk well,
not too learnedly and not too satirically,
but they talk upon subjects which have
no interest for their audience. A gen­
tleman once called upon me and a bright
little girl who was visiting me. He
staid nearly two hours and he talked
almost without intermission upon some
scheme for irrigating Arizona and es­
tablishing mills upon the artificial wa­
ter courses. I do not doubt that it was
a most brilliant and interesting exposi­
tion if only we had cared anything at
all about the irrigation of Arizona, but
my entire vitality was absorbed in the
effort to keep awake and look politely
interested, while my little friend made
Punch and Judy puppets out of her
handkerchief and some tidies, and at ap­
propriate moments bobbed Mr. Punch’s
head in assent or caused Columbine to
caper with delight.
Certainly that mau did not know how
to make himself agreeable!
People sometimes ask me, knowing
that I am familiar with most parts of
the civilized world, where I have found
the most agreeable men and the most
acceptable companions.
It is a hard question to answer, for
one’s taste changes so much from time
to time, and according to the conditions
of one’s own life.
In early youth I was thrown much
with men of Latin blood, Spaniards and
Frenchmen, and naturally learned to
think their modes of thought and
speech, their somewhat formal courtesy
and stately grace the most agreeable en­
semble in the world. Later I have seen
very much of Englishmen, and nothing
can be more agreeable than the frank,
honest high bred courtesy of a true Eng­
lish gentleman, although he cannot
claim much of grace, vivacity or versa­
tility.
But today 1 give the palm to my own
countrymen, for they combine the splen­
But an agreeable man must not make did strength and honor of the English­
self his perpetual topic, especially in so­ man with the wit and worldly wisdom
ciety or with mere acquaintances. There of the Frenchman, and the Spaniard’s
are, to be sure, occasions and compa­ appreciation of and graceful devotion to
nies when lie can do nothing better than women; in fact, as the people of these
talk of himself, but he must have that United States are the union of all the
divine gift of tact to know when those races of the earth, where but among
occasions present themselves. Between their men should we look for specimens
man and man I doubt if these occasions of the best qualities of all men? Perhaps
ever do present themselves, or if a man this estimate will not hold good in all
is ever interested in getting an interior directions; perhaps not every American
view of another man's character unless combines the romance of the Spaniard
in the way of business, or for legal in­ with the wit of the Frenchman, and the
vestigation, or some other practical re­ nobleness of the Englishman or the Ger­
sult.
man ancestor of the Englishman, but
But a woman, that is to say, an in-1 the combination is very possible, and in
telligent woman, is generally keenly in- | greater or less degree I have seen it
terested in studying the “true inward­ among the agreeable Americans of my
ness” of masculine hnman nature. She acquaintance.
loves to point out the faults she discov­
I said so the other day and my hearer
ers and to bestow much sage advice, ex- J at once inquired:
hortation and warning; she loves to ex- i “Where most frequently? North,
claim in pretty wonder at modes of J south, east or west?” and I replied after
thought and action so different from her due consideration:
own, to argue which nn aisl is better,
“I have found the agreeable man
and to ask explanations of what is con­ north, south, east and west.”
trary to her own experience. In fact
M rs . F rank L eslie .
there are appropriate occasions when a
man can establish himself as an agree­ WOMAN’S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
able man in no way so surely as to talk
about himself, but, as I said before, he How a Great Opportunity Wag Lost at »
Wedding Ceremony.
has to know how and when.
Marian V. Dorsey tells in the New
But there is one topic perfectly safe
for a man to choose if a woman is his York Herald the story of a bride who
sole anditor, and that is herself. It is an was opposed to the word “obey” in the
infallible rule for being agreeable, that 1 marriage service. She arranged with
is to say. of course, if he knows how to the minister through a third person to
treat the topic; a stranger must not omit the hateful word. She was a wom­
plnnge at once inter personalities, unless, an of maturo years, largo brain, strong
indeed, his quditor is one cf those wom­ will, wide experience and a writer of
en with whom an inordinate love of flat­ note. The idea of her obeying anybody
tery outruns self respect; such women was therefore ludicrous. She wentcalmly
there are to whom a man in the first to church and stood at. the altar in the
half hour of their acquaintance may fond belief that the vows would bo as
praise her face, her figure, her dancing she had arranged. What was her horror
or her clothes, and meet with complacent therefore to have the preacher propound
acceptance, but there are other women the same old whiskered chestnut, “love,
who would meet such audacity with honor, obey.” A moment she hesitated,
freezing rebuke, so that a man has need then, “withoutthe quiverof aneyelash,”
to be very careful in the beginning of swallowed the dose, obey and all. She
an acquaintance, although he may be said afterward that she was unwilling to
pretty sure that if he knows my sweet make a scene. But wbat a glorious
•Jerry Built Fortresses in Rostla.
sceno it would have l>een had she pos­
ODDS AND ENDS.
sessed the courage and dignity to refuse,
for the sake of outraged womanhood, to Japan has built its first factory for the
pronounce the monstrous promise. It
I. manufacture of woolen goods.
would have been woman's splendid dec­ | Beware of the vicious man who proposes
laration of independence. The brave to reform his life on the installment plan.
bride would have been the heroine of The manufacture of cotton goods in the
the hour. She would have done more island of Ceylon has made remarkable
than a thousand sermons could have progress.
done to wipe this foul blot from the The life insurance policies in force upon
lives of the citizens of Pennsylvania
churches of the end of the Nineteenth the
amount to over $448,000,000.
century. Her new husband would have
Sparrows have become such a nuisance in
admired her all the more for a woman of gome
parts of Germany that a reward is
spirit, and would have known by this offered for their destruction.
that the promises she did make she The governor general of India receives a
meant to keep faithfully, But no! She aalary of $250,000 a year and extras which
lost her opportunity.
increase the amount to $500,000.
One thing is certain: If women are It is estimated that 20,000 horse power
willing to let that anachronism, the will be required for the electric lighting
word “obey,” be retained in the mar­ plant of the Columbian exposition.
riage service they ought to keep the Old newspapers torn in small pieces and
promise they make and literally obey wet iu water softened by the addition of a
their husbands, whether the husbands little ammonia are excellent to wash lamp
be brutes, lunatics, drunkards or repro­ chimneys.
bates. The marriage vows are the most Can any one tell why it is that when a
solemn of their lives, and women perjure woman is being weighed she smiles, while
themselves by making promises they do a man having his weight ascertained al­
ways looks serious?
not intend to keep.
The Greeks sacrificed many dogs in hon­
Under the new constitution, which or of Hecate, because by their baying the
was adopted by so overwhelming a ma­ phantoms of the lower world were sup­
jority in their state, the unfortunate posed to be disturbed.
women of Kentucky are put back a thou­ The output of cigarettes throughout the
sand years—relegated to the position of country for the month of March amounted
to 250,501,860 against 154,234,800 during the
their sex in the Dark Ages.
same month of last year.
Mrs. Ellen Dortch is the plucky young
The Corfcans are the largest eaters known.
editor of the Carnesville (Ga.) Tribune. Their
stomachs are generally abnormal in
The county printing has been awarded size, and the one possessing the largest is
to her paper. To the insinuation of a generally considered the richest.
masculine rival editor that she got the Baron de Rothschild has a collection of
printing because she was a woman, she postage stamps that is valued at $40,000.
retorts that she never in her working He is also a prominent and enthusiastic
life either asked or received any favors memlierof a Paris philatelist society.
on acconnt of her sex. Brave Ellen
A Church Flooded with Honey.
Dortch! This is the right spirit for a
Who ever heard of a church being flooded
working woman.
with honey? The very idea sounds ridicu­
The secretary and treasurer of the In­ lous, and in any other place than Califor­
diana Dairymen’s association is Mrs. nia would excite only a smile of incredu­
Laura D. Worley, of Elletsville, one of lity. We have all heard about places that
the most successful dairy farmers in the “flowed with milk and honey,” and meta­
state. She has a herd of forty Jerseys phorical references to the “droppings of
the sanctuary” are familiar, but it has re­
and sells her dairy products chiefly in mained
for a swarm of bees to make literal
Cincinnati, getting prices that enable facts of these familiar metaphors.
her to do whatever she chooses in life.
It appears that a lot of vagrant bees,
Mrs. Worley was a delegate from Indi­ while in search of a suitable home, found
ana to the National Dairymen’s associ­ an admirable location in the loft of an
Episcopalian church in Tulare county.
ation at Chicago.
Here, having an abundance of space, they
Mrs. Laura D. Worley, dairy farmer, increased and multiplied, and at the same
and Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, breeder time laid in a large store of honey. Great
of Shorthorn cattle, are two of Indiana’s white combs were attached to the rafters
commissioners for the World’s fair. overhead, and were built downward and
These two conspicuously successful In­ added to until hundreds of pounds of
diana business women are enthusiastic sweetness were hidden away in the delicate
white waxen cells.
friends.
One contingency, however, was not pro­
Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, says vided against, and, indeed, was not ex­
he has been acquainted with many wom­ pected. The normal temperature in the
en who carried on farming more or less contracted proportions of the loft was of a
extensively, and he never knew one to character admirably suited for the best ad­
make a failure of it. They pay closer vantage of the bees, and had that tempera­
attention to details than men, he ex­ ture continued this story would never have
written.
plains, and make their way more cau­ been
It is almost unnecessary to remind read­
tiously.
ers that a week or two ago California was
Women are designing creatures any­ visited with something bearing a remark­
how, says Judge, and it is no wonder able likeness to a sirocco. In a word, it
they can be architects. But one of them, was hot—deucedly hot.
In the loft of the church, where the bees
Mrs. Horatio N. May, of Chicago, has were
holding high carnival, the tempera­
designed probably the most stupendous ture rose and rose until it reached the
work of any women of her time. This melting poi n t. Wax gave way beneath the
is nothing less than a great steel boule­ torrid heat, and now, down the rafters,
vard tunnel to connect the north and along the scantlings, over the laths and
south divisions of Chicago in one con­ down the joists began ' o flow streams of
tinuous and beautiful driveway along liquid sweetness. They found crevices
the lake shore. The tunnel, 3,200 feet here and there, and soon altar, pulpit,
long, ventilated by electric fans and chancel, furniture, prayer books and all
the belongings of the interior of the sacred
illuminated by concealed incandescent edifice
were treated to such a deluge as the
lamps, will be only less attractive than world had never seen.
the lake shore drive itself, of which this
Efforts were made to stay the sticky tide,
subway will be a part. It is expected but these were only partially successful,
that the tunnel will be completed in and before anything could be done the in­
terior of the church was a sight to behold,
time for the World’s fair.
and damage had been done that required
Miss Hayden, architect of the woman’s expense and hard work to remedy.—San
building for the World’s fair, has planned Francisco Chronicle.
lovely aerial gardens as a part of her Re­
Baby’s Foot Is Like a Monkey’s.
sign. None of the other exposition
“How manj’ people have ever taken no­
buildings will be provided with this
tice of a baby’s foot, except to admire its
feature.
pinkness and prettiness?” said a well
E liza A rchard C onner .
A GIRL’S MINUTES.
What Is It That Young Women Do That
Compels Them to Be Always “Busy?”
Does anybody know what becomes of a
girl’s time? Was there ever a girl who
could tell what she did with it or where
she put it, or account in any reasonable
way for its mysterious disappearance?
Are the girls’ minutes like the lost pins
of which nobody ever finds a trace, though
the factories have been at work so long
that one would think that the dropped
ones would constitute in themselves an
adequate source of supply?
There are some things which have this
capacity for utter annihilation. Wild ani­
mals are never found dead in the forests;
watering place friendships vanish into
wind swept space; the hole in the stocking
speaks of a texture which once was there,
but is there no longer; yet these things get
out of the world no more quietly and un­
accountably than the hours and minutes
of a good proportion of young women.
There is a theory, which is commonly
accepted, that a girl’s time is all spent
upon dress. Certainly a little of it goes
iu that way, but the amount must be
small. Older women, with many social
and domestic cares, dress quite as well as
young girls, and usually better.
They cannot give all their time, or even
any appreciable part of it, to the planning
and purchasing of their raiment, so there
is evidently a fallacy iu the idea that femi­
nine attire is capable of engrossing the en­
tire attention of a woman.
There is another theory that a girl’s time
is spent in entertaining members of the
other sex, but this is absolutely untenable.
Even the mildest of flirtation calls for two
flirters, and, -is the student of our social
system is never weary of pointing out, we
have no class of men whose time is their
own.
A girl may spend her evenings and Sun­
days in amusing thé masculine half of cre­
ation, but business hours are sacred from
her invasion. Her will might be good to so
spend the hours from sunrise till midnight,
but in the nature of the case her oppor­
tunities are limited.
Is it domestic cares which are so absorb­
ing? The newspaper paragrapher would
say not, and I think on the whole he is
right. This is not because most girls are
unwilling to share the household responsi­
bilities, but because, during the time of
their education home life goes on without
their assistance, and once out of school
they find no place read}- made in which
they can bo useful.
It is about as easy for tho camel to go
through the needle’s eye as for thedaughter
of a well to do family to find any domestic
duties worthy the name in her father’s
house.
There are yet other ways in which it is
popularly supposed a girl’s time is em­
ployed, such as study and correspondence.
But did you ever go to a morning class?
If so you know perfectly well the formula:
“I was so busy I hadn’t a minute to spare
for preparation!”
Have you any women among your cor­
respondents, and did one of them ever
write a letter without explaining how
busy she was, and had been for weeks past
and would be for weeks to come? What­
ever the mysterious, grinding tasks which
fate imposes upon the young women who
have apparently nothing to do, by their
own confession studying and writing are
not among the thiDgs sought.
Perhaps the subject is worthy of scientific
investigation. It would be as useful to the
race as the discovery of the north pole;
and, though the inquiry might be as long
and tedious as Kn arctic exploration, it
would not be so dangerous. Industrially
it might be of value.
Here is a vast amount of labor which we
know, on the testimony of every girl in the
land, is put forth daily, yet without visible
result. Would not "experiments to make it
productive be as legitimate as those for the
reduction of uluminiuni or the utilization
of the solar force?
Anthropologists might spare a little time
from the study of cranial development and
turn their attention to finding out what
becomes of a girl’s time. It ought surely
to be done, if for no other reason than to
gratify the dear girls themselves, who cer­
tainly are as much in the dark on this
question as any one else.—Kate Field’s j
Some extraordinary revelations have jnst
been made at St. Petersburg as to the man­
ner in which certain frontier fortresses re
cently constructed, and, as it was sup- i
posed, strengthened, have actually been
built. It appears that even in this perilous
field of enterprise the jerry builder has
been reaping a rich harvest. At two sep­
arate fortresses his frauds have been de­
tected. A commission of revision on in­
specting the walls of the celebrated strong-
bold Novo Georgicvsh, formerly known as
Modlin, and situated lietween Warsaw and
the German frontier, found that the newly
constructed outer walls were not more
for
and
substantial than those of a piece of theat­
rical scenery.
A thin outer layer of half bricks con­
C m tori a cures Colic, Constipation,
“Castoria is so well adapted to children that
Sour Stomach, Diarrhœa. Eructation,
cealed a hopelessly rotten fabric composed
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di­
of the veriest rubbish—gravel, brick dust,
known to me."
H. A. A rcher , M. D.,
gestion.
sand and chalk—the whole being utterly
Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Without injurious medication.
incapable of withstanding a cannonade by
gnus of the smallest caliber. These facts
“ For several years I have recommended
“ The use of ‘ Castqria ’ is so universal and
having been reported to the minister of
your ‘ Castoria, ’ and shall always continue to
its merits so well known that it seems a work
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
war, the chief constructor of the fortress
results."
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
was arrested and tried by court martial,
within easy reach."
E dwin F. P ardkb , M. D.,
but he escaped with so light a penalty as
C arlos M artyn , D. D.,
“The Winthrop,” 125th Street and 7th Ave.,
New York City.
dismissal from the service, it having been
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
proved that he suffered from a painful af­
fection of the eyes. The chief constructor
of the fortress of Doubno, the other strong­
hold concerned, was not so fortunate. The
fortress was inspected by the Grand Duke
Nicholas shortly before his illness, and he
found the walls built so contrary to the
rules of military engineering that they
were incapable of affording any real de­
fense against modern engines of war.
In accordance with the report which he
made to the emperor on the subject, an
order was issued that the whole of the
walls in question should lie razed to their
foundations and rebuilt. The chief con­
structor solved the problem of his own
punishment by blowing out his brains,
and all his subordinates who were in any
degree responsible were sent to Siberia
Every endeavor has, of course, been made
to keep these occurrences from the knowl­
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Sun Spots.
For several years the sun has been in a
quiescent condition, his surface being com­
paratively free from spots, and his promin­
ences of comparatively infrequent occur­
rence and insignificant proportions. The
great luminary has been passing through
his minimum sun spot period; for the spot
producing activity of the sun is governed
by laws that the close observation of the
last two centuries has interpreted, while
observers are still groping after the cause
of the spots themselves.
It takes about eleven years to complete
a sun spot cycle; though the intervals are
irregular. Each cycle includes a maxi­
mum and a minimum period, which are
also irregular. The spots vary greatly in
number. During some cycles the sun’s
face is never free from them; during others
it is unmarred for days, and even for
months. As the last maximum period oc­
curred about 1881-2, it is time to antici­
pate a recurrence of solar activity, and re­
cent observations show that the activity
has already begun.
Enormous fluctuations are taking place
on the surface of the sun, and will be fol­
lowed for the two or three coming years by
spots of every variety. There will be normal
spots, consisting of an umbra and penum­
bra, and spots irregular in form or gather­
ed in groups. The sizes of the spots vary
from 500 miles to 50,000 miles or more, and
they are often large enough to be visible
to the naked eye. They may last for a few
days, or for weeks or months. Their dis­
tribution is mostly confined to two zones
on the sun’s surface, between 5 degs. and
40 degs. of latitude north and south.
Other signs of solar agitation follow in
the wake of the sun spots. Gigantic solar
eruptions, known as rosy protuberances,
rise from the sun’s border, like tongues of
flame, sometimes to the height of hundreds
of thousands of miles. The earth bears
witness to the disturbed state of the sun,
for auroras flash in the heavens, magnet­
ism reaches its greatest point of oscilla­
tion and electricity takes on its most brill­
iant manifestations.—Y’outh’s Companion.
Gruff Ben Butler.
Butler has a great law practice, and
many irons in the fire besides—his bunt­
ing factory, his granite quarries, and so
ou and so forth. But much of his law
practice is made up of desperate cases,
such as those claims before the court of
claims w hich no one else will undertake,
and in which the compensation is all con­
tingent upon success. Besides, like other
men with many irons in heating, he can­
not keep them all white hot, and loses
every now and then on one of them.
Then, too, he is one of the most generous
and charitable of men. He lives on a
scale which seems extravagant to most
men, keeping up three or four establish­
ments—one here, one in Lowell, one in
Boston, and so on—and treating all his
relatives and friends most generously in
all his dealings with them.
Rough and gruff as he sometimes seems,
his heart is tenderness itself, and his com­
passionate ear and hand are always open.
He gives away a small fortune every year, ,
to say nothing of his “thank you” practice, (
which exceeds that of any other lawyer in !
the United States, and probably iu the
world. Naturally, with all his shrewd­
ness, he is deceived by the designing, and [
loses more money in this way than most- ■
people give away. Unless bis forthcoming
“Ileminicences” yield a large sum, Butler >
will not leave a large fortune behind him.
—Philadelphia Record.
known scientist. “And yet to the anato­
mist it is a revelation. Take, for exam­
ple, the tootsies of a child of ten months
that has never walked nor stood alone. It
lias a power of grasping to some extent
and is used instinctively like a hand. The
great toe has a certain independent work­
ing, like a thumb, and the wrinkles of the
sole resemble those of the palm. These
markings almost entirely disappear after
tlie pedal extremity has come to be em­
ployed for purposes of support and loco­
motion.
“The hands and feet of a human being
are strikingly like those of tlfe chimpan­
zee in conformation, while the gorilla's
resemblance to man in these respects is
even more remarkable. The higher apes
have been classified as ‘quadrumana,’ or
‘four handed,’ because their hind feet are
hand shaped; but this designation is very
improperly applied, because the ape’s pos­
terior extremities are not really hands at
all. They merely look like hands at the
first glance, whereas in fact they are but
feet adapted for climbing. The big toes
cannot be ‘opposed’ to the other toes as
thumbs are to the fingers, but simply act
pincerwise for the purpose of grasping.
“Now, funnily enough, the ‘infant's’ feet
have this same power of grasping pincer
fashion, and the action is performed in
precisely the same way. Advocates of evo­
lutionary theories take this to signify that
the human foot was originally utilized for
climbing trees also before the species was
so highly developed as it is now. Also they
assert that the fact that the art of walking
erect is learned by the child with such dif­
ficulty proves that the race has only ac­
quired it recently.”—Washington Star.
Take T he T elephone -R egister .
I
Kidney Disease
—is the cause of no end of suf­
fering. A safe and certain remedy is
DR. HENLEY’S
Oregon Kidney Tea.
Why Does the Sun Continue to Burn?
Thousands of curious and ingenious the­
ories have been brought forth to account
for the fact that the sun, although he has
whirled his burning disk across the heav­
ens for untold ages, continues' to burn
without being consumed or his bulk being
lessened in the least. Some learned men
affect to believe that the great orb is a
monstrous ball of gas, but even a great
ball of gas would be consumed in its ut­
most atom in the course of a few thou­
sand years. Others pretend to believe that
its fires are kept up by the remains of
wrecked worlds which are constantly fall­
ing into its depths, but even this seems far
from probable, not to say a purely absurd
conclusion.
In giving his opinion on the last conten­
tion, one of the most eminent astronomers
of the day has figured that a mountain
range consisting of 176 cubic miles falling
Into the sun would only be sufficient to
maintain the present heat for a single sec­
ond; a mass equal to that of our earth
would engender only enough of heat to
last ninety-three years.—New York Tele­
gram.
A
è
*
It can do you no harm. It may do
you much good. Here is the testi­
mony of one sufferer who has been
made a “ a new man.”
I had been troubled many years
with disease of the kidneys when
kind Providence sent Dr. Henley
with the Oregon Kidney Tea to my
hotel. It had an almost miracu­
lous effect and in a few days I was
anew man. G. A. TUPPER,
Proprietor Occidental Hotel,
Santa Rosa, Cal.
I It has cured thousands;
I why not you ? To-mor-
j row may be too late.
Your druggist will tell you about
it. Ask him.
Ever since the establishment of the first paper on
the bay of San Francisco, which we believe was
the “Alta,” removed from Monterey in 1849; the
inhabitants of the Coast generally have been inter­
ested in the news from San Francisco. The “Alta,”
like many other pioneers cf *4?, has succumbed to
the inevitable and gone over to the great majority,
and, like ether pioneers, has been succeeded by
younger generations. The “Examiner” has
taken perhaps the most prominent place in the
newspaper field cf late years, ar.d its Weekly
edition is very generally taken by those who
want an interesting and reliable paper published
at “The Bay.’’
Everyone is familiar with
the Premium Offers made by Mr. Hearst, the
“Examiner’s” enterprising publisher, ar.d it is
only necessary to say that this year the aggregate
value of the premiums—of which there are 5,000—
is $135,000, which are distributed among all the
subscribers to the paper. In addition to these pre­
miums, which range in value from CO cents to
$7,500, every subscriber receives one cf the four
great premium pictures, which will be mailed to
him in a tube direct from the “ Examiner” office
as soon as the subscription is received:
Wliat a “Ration” Is.
A ration is the established dailj’ allow­
ance of food for one person. For the
United States army it is now composed of
the following: Twelve ounces of pork or
bacon or canned beef (fresh or corned), or
one pound and four ounces of fresh beef,
or twenty-two ounces of salt beef; eighteen
ounces of soft bread or flour, or sixteen
ounces of hard bread, or one pound and
four ounces of cornmeal.
To every 100 rations, fifteen pounds of
beans or peas, or ten pounds of rice or
hominy; ten pounds of green coffee or
eight pounds of roasted coffee or two
pounds of tea; fifteen pounds of sugar, four
quarts of vinegar, one pound eight ounces
of star candles, four pounds of soap, four
pounds of salt, four ounces of pepper and
four ounces of yeast powder to each 100
rations of flour.—St. Louis Republic.
” The Retreat frost K oscgw ,” ly McMcr.
" Tie Roman Ciarlot Eace,” by A. Vter.
The Wax Palm.
Each of these pictures is 21x23 inches, and they
On the high mountains of New Grenada, are elegantly reproduced in fac simile, showing
every tint and color of the great originals, ei her
as high up as the lower limit of perpetual one
of which could not be purchased for $ico,ooo.
snow, grows the wax palm. Its tall trunk j
is covered with a thin coating of a whitish j "Women anti Chilfirca First,” ty C. Nader Hc37
waxy substance, giving it a marbled ap-
, f
pearance, which is scraped off and forms "CiiriSt LCaVlUg tuSPratOriUD," 1)7 GESiaYjDOii
an article of commerce. It consists of two
parts of resin and one of wax, and when
Each of these pictures is reproduced <1 i bo'.o
__ ____________________ gravure, size 21x28, end eminently fitted for I-; tu
mixed W lth one-third of tallow it makes iug, and will adorn the walls of ihe mest refiiuc
very good candles.—Washington Star.
home.
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In Corea sheets Of paper pass for money;
one sheet brings
one quart
of rice, or t-wen-
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sheets a piece of hemp cloth.
The subscription price of the “Weekly Exami-
ner” is $1.50, and subscriptions may be sent either
direct to \V. R. Hearst, Publisher, San Francisco,
through the Local Agent of the “ Jfaamiuer ” or
the Postmaster.
DUG
ÜUÜ ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street NEW YORK.
East and South
VIA—
Southern Pacific Route
SHASTA LINE.
Express Tyains Leave Portland Daily
LKAVK
ARBIVK.
UAVt.
AKKIVK
Portland
7.no p m S.nFrancisco 8.15 am
San Fran. 9ato p m Portland
9.35am
Above trains stop only at following sta­
tions north of Roseburg: East Portland,
Oregon <’itv. Woodbarm. Salem. Albany,
Tangent. Shedds, Halsey. Harrisburg. Jun­
ction city, Irving. Eugene
Roseburg Mall Daily.
Portland.
Roseburg.
8:00 a m - Roseburg.
Rosebui .. 5:40 p m
6:30 a m I Portland
_.
. . 4 :00 p m
Albany Local, Daily. E«ce»t Sunday.
1XAVZ
Tori land
■>.
Albany....... 5:
AKR1VI.
pm Albany.
a on Portland
.9:
9:
p ni
am
riillinaii l»ii!T(‘t Sleiperx,
Tourist Sleeping Cars,
For accommodation of second class passen­
gers attached to express trains
WEST SIDE DIVISIOM
Between Portland and Corvallis.
Mail Train Daily, except Sunday.
LEAVE
ARRIVE
Portland . 7:30 a m McMinn' 10 :10 a in
McMinn’ . 10:10 am Corvallis. 12:10 p iu
Corvallis 12:55 p ni McMinn’
2:56 p in
2:56 p m Portland.
McMinn’
5 30 p m
At Albany and Corvallis connect with
trains of Oregon Pacific
Express Train Daily, except Sunday.
LEAVE.
arrive
Portland . 4:40 p in McMnn
. 7.25 p m
McMinn*. . 5:45 a m] Portland
8:20 a ni
Through Tickets to all Points
EAST AND SOUTH.
For tickets and full form at ion regaril­
ing rates, mans, etc., call on the Company’«
agent at McMinnville
R. KOEHLER,
E. r. ROGERS,
Manager.
Asst. G F. A P Agt
THE YAQUINA ROUTE.
CUBES
ANY
HEADACHE
“While You Wait,"
BUT CURES
NOTHING ELSE.
T. IZ. Zïegrg-, Receiver.
—AN IV—
OREGON DEVELOPMEN COM
PANY’S STEAMSHIP LINE.
225 Miles Shorter—20 honra lena
time than by any other route.
W First class through passenger and freight
line from Portland mid all points in the Wil­
lamette valley to and from San Fiancmco.
Time Schedule (except Sundays).
LcaveAlbanvl2:20 pmlLeave Yaouina 7 am
“ Jorvalfs 1:03 pm “ CorvallwlO :35 am
Arr'vYa<|iiina4 :X> pni ArrivAlbany 11 13nm
ADDITION
ARE SELLING FAST!
-¿farxd.
It
Is
Su.ild.irxg'
Vp
Soon Lots will be scarce and Command a Higher Trice.
Before Too Insite,
ZES’ci'y
Price Ranges $50 up. For full particulars apply to
J. I. KNIGHT A CO..
Beal Estate Agents, McMiunvilla.
THE INVESTMENT CO..
4 < Stark St.. l\»rHand, Or.
F. BARNEKOFF A CO.,
McMinnville Flouring Mills.
O.
C. trains connect at Albany and Cor­
vallis.
The above trains connect atYAQClNA with
the Oregon Developement Co's. Line of Rleatn-
ships between Yaqaina and San Francisco.
N. B.—Passengers from Portland and al’. Wil-
amette Valley Points can make close connro­
tion with the" trains of the Y aqfina K ovtr at
Albany or Corvallis, and if destined to San
Francisco, should arrange to arrive at Yaquina
the evening before date of sailing.
Sailing Dates.
The Steamer Willamette Valley will sail
FROM YAQIT1NA.
FROM HAN rKANCl.lO
September 5th
September 9th
“
14th
“
18th
“
23d
“
3>th
Passenger and freight rat«*, always tli. low
cat. For information, apply to
C. C. HOGUE,
Headquarters for New and Second-Hand
TYPE-WRITERS and TYPE-WRITER SUPPLIES
Gen’l. Frt. A Pa... Agt., Oregon Pacific It. w
Co., Corvallis, Oregon.
«
B WEBSTER
Geni. Frt. A- Pase.j Agt., Oregon Development
<>
Montgomery street San Franeiaro, Ca
Including fine Linen and Carbon paperR, Ribbons,etc. General agent for
THE SMITH PREMIER TYPE-WRITER
EDISON’S MTMIOGrllJYPM
(Three thousand copies from one original.)
RACINE AUTOMATIC STEEL COPYING PRESS.
COOK’S
^.’UTOXdLA.'ne
POSTAL SC-a.IL.3Z:.
(Tells you instantly amount of postage required for any mailable package.)
Victoi-
Send for Catalogue.
5 Tvx>e-lVriter.
T”-
1891.
ON
SALISI
TO
DENVER
Expenses need not exced #150 for the en­
tire Session.
J. B. ROHR,
Remember Paper Hanging and Inside Fur­
nishing a Specialty.
Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Ex­
perienced men employed.
Third Street, McMinnville. Oregon.
Assignee’s Sale of Real Property.
In the Circuit Court of the County of Yam­
hill, in the State of Oregon,
In the matter of the assignment of Geo
W. Sappington, insolvent debtor:
State of Oregon
I
County of Yamhill f s
By virtue of a general assignment for the
benefit of all his creditors in proportion to
the amount of their respective claims made
and executed by the above named G. W
Sappington on the 27th day of December,
A D,, 1890, which instrument of assign­
ment was thereafter, and on the 8th day of
January, A D., 1891, duly filed for record
in Yamhill County, State of Oregon, the
same being the County in which the busi­
ness in respects of which the same was
made, has been carried on said assignment
having been made under and by virtue of
an act of the Legislative Assembly of the
State of Oregon, entitled: “An act to secure
creditors a just division of the estates of
debtors who convey for the benefit of cred
itors. approved October 18th, A. D. 1878,”
and acts amendatory thereof, 1 have, as
assignee of said debtor ami assignee named
in said asssignment become seized, possess­
ed jof and own all the right and title to the
one-half undivided interest which the said
G W. Spyington had and owned at the
time he made said assignment, to-wit: The
27th day of December, A. D . 1890, of, in
and to the following described real proper­
ty and premises, to-wit.
Commencing at the southeast corner of
lot 3, block 1. running north one bund ed
and ten feet, thence west fifty five and
three tenths feet, thence south one hundred
and ten feet, thence east fifty-five and three-
tenths feet to the place of beginning, in the
town of North Yamhill, a- re < r h <l in the
Recorder s office in the County of Yamhill,
in the State of Oregon, which said real
property ami premises I shall expose for
sale and offer for sale as the law directs, at
the Courthouse door, in said Yamhill Coun­
ty, Slate of Oregon, on the 15th dav of Sep
temlier. A 1) . 1891, at the hour of 2o’clock
in the afternoon of the said day. the same
being between the hours of '« o'clock in the
morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
said dav. at Public Auction.
G A. DOUGLAS,
Assignee of the estate of G W. Sappington.
I »«solvent debtor.
Dated this 16th dav of Jnlv A. D . 1891.
32
Of Others,wro wisn v> «umr»
AV 1 fell I lOfeilV th:s paper.Of obtam estimate»
on advertising space when in Chicago, will find it on file af
the Advertising Agency of
LORD & THOMAS
-THE-
Oui.ba, Klima City. Mid all NlMo.rl
Hiver 1'olnt.
lt< magnificent steel track, uniurpanad
train service and elegant dining and
ileeplng cars baa honestly esrnod for It ths
title of
The Royal Route
ST PAUL,
ST. LOUIS,
AND ALL POINTS
East, North South
House, Sign, and Ornamental Painter
- AT--
The Only Sign Writer in the County.
ors.,
Homes fitted up in the Neatest and Most
Aif Style.
Designs furnished for Decorations.
fajo & fetem M toj ,
B is positively the shortest and fin 1».
line to Chicago and the east and south and
tho only sleeping and dining car through
liue to
COURSE OF STUDY arranged expressly
to meet the needs of the farming and me-
chanical interests of the state.
Large, commodious and well-ventilated
buildings. The College is located in a culti­
vated and Christian community, and one
of the healthiest in the state.
Zvlilita,r3r Tra.laa.iaa.g'.
Two or more free scholarships from every
county. Write for catalogue to
B. L, ARNOLD, Pres., Corvallis, Or.
If so be sure and call for your tickets
via the
. IEBE-X”i'TOI-iIDS,
29 Stark Street, Portland, Oregon.
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
O pens S eptember 18 th ,
ARE YOU GCffiG EAST1
GEO. S. TAYLOR' Ticket Agt
Other. may imitate.but none ran surpass it
Our motto It “always on time."
Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets
ria this celebrated route and take noui
ttbeit.
W. II. MEAD, O. A.
No, 4 Washington aUaot, Portland, Or
from Terminal or Interior Pointa lh<
Corner First and Oak Sts.
Notice of Sale on Foreclosure.
Notice is hereby given that by virture of
an execution and order of sale, duly issue«]
out the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon
is the Line to Take
for Yamhill County, to me directed ami
tested, of date. August3,4891, in the suit of
Sylvestdr Pennoyer as the Governor of the
State of Dnegon,George W.McBride as Serre
It is the DINING CAR ROUTE. It runs
tary of the State of Oregon, and George W,
Through VESTIBULED TRAINS
Webb as Treasurer of the State of Oregon,
Every Day in lhe Year to
and ex-officio of the board of commissioners
for the sale of School ami University lands,
and for the investment of the funds arising
therefrom, as plaintiff's against H.F,Mayer,
<No Change of Cars)
Fannie Mayer, A. J. Switzer, Joseph Bird,
Sam Simon, ami P. Selling as defendants,
upon a judirement and decree of foreclosure, Composed of M.VIM; ( IRS
duly rendered in said Court in said cause
on the 25th day of March. 189], and duly
docketed on said day in sai 1 Court in favor ITLIdllMliiiH'dMili Ti U SLEEPERS
(< )l Latfc.M Djuipim tit,)
of plaintiffs for the sum of $5,0U0.(X) in
United States gold coin, together with in­
terest thereon from May 1. 1888. at 8 per TOIKIST SLEEI’IW HRS
]te-t tbat < an ta- <-<inatrn< t«-d and in
cent per annum, and $300.00 dollars At­
Rliieli af-<-«itiini<Hfnti<>n* i.r< for
torneys’ fees and the cost and disburse­
d<-ra of First or Ket-on-l-ejHiMi Tl«-k-
ments of said suit taxed at $30,05, against
eta, and
said defendant, IL F Mayer, and a decree
of foreclosure of mortgage upon said lands
ELEfiHT IIH COiaiES.
hereinafter described. I have duly levied
upon and seized the fidlowing real premises A Continuous Line ccrnecting with al!
as in said decree specified to wit:
lines, aflordiuq direct and unin­
The donation land claim of Janies Allen,
terrupted service.
claim No 37, notification No. 6722, in sec­
Ilnutn Fte< ;»ei te-i-r vati<-ii* can be aer-iir
tions 13, 18, 19 and 24 in township five (5j
in adv.-mietl>r<ni|J. i.
: teni of tf„ road
South of Range six(6) and seven (7) West Thruiigb
lit ¡«is,}
of the Willamette Meridian, containing 160.
Acres in Yamhill County, Oregon, Also bik I Euroirt* < an !*• ¡ ih < I. j . m <1 at ¡mv 15’kwl
the Donation Land Claim of Simon F. office of this <-<>i:n ; . \.
Likens «nd Sarah A. LikettS, bis wife.
Infurtiitttit■!) < < nccri.ing <at«-s, tinif
Claim No 38, Notification No. 6718 in Sec­ of Full
r«mi< s ai <l oil « i .!i tails hirnisiird
tion 18 and 19 in Township five (5) South of on Intin*.
application to uiiv ujrnt. or
Range six (6) West of Willamette Meridian
A I) CHARLTON.
containing 320 Acres in Yamhill County,
GetierMl l'iimM’ti)n*r Ap«-»’*
Oregon, Also, the boutli West quarter of General <’ Asst
»<•• or the < <.m|
, >«,, i«|
Section seventeen (17) in Township five First HE.,
nhiftfft <» ii , l*«irtars«i. «>t
(5) South of Range Cx(G) West of the
Willamette Meridian in Yamhill County.
Oregon, and containingRGO Acres oPSchool
Lain!. Also the South half of the North
West quarter, and the North half of the
South West quarter of Section 13 in Town­
ship five (5 j South of Range six ( 6 > West of
the Willamette Meridian in Yamhill County
Oregon, containing !O> Acres, and all said
tracts containing 8(X) acres of land, and on
Saturday, the 12th of September. 1891 at the
hour of eleven o'clock in tho forenoon of
said day at and in front of the Court House
door at McMinnville. Yamhill County, Ore­
gon. I will sell said real
premise;«
and all the right, title and interest of the
said defendants in and to the same, at any
time, to the highest bidder, at public auc­
tion for cash, to satisfy said decree, costs
and accruring costs, said premises will be
sold in separate tracts or parcels as bv I
provided, Dated August 6th. A. D. 1891.
A 13-34
W L. Warren.
Sheriff of Yamhill County. Or< ^«»n
To all Points East & South
ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO