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THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
W • W. Aator Said re He Iu rr:,,r>,, rot
tite British Bcerrejj*.
Strange Talee Tolu by a Bailor Who Woe
Cue of the Volant*. Crew.
England <reutinnre to speak of Wil
You ;nnot «
nape u> be well® liam Waldorf Aztor m an American,
U your
and AaMriea ¡-.-red., ... hire aa an imi
BLOOD
» tation £ngh: k:rm.i. but th-: truth j, he
IS IMFLRfi. X
is so ìiiuch .fi
thu-'hc k, &**•
Ii you are tt «acted withfc tuailyuiated for the peerage
may
seem incredibb: in aumerlcu ana y<-< ii
fact
á BOILS,
LLCERS<*| is a You
ore preitaiuy aware that Mr.
« PIMPLES, ¿ORES
Waldorf A'tor has ’ready become e
jiyovr
bk
ixi
is
tad.
A
lew
bottles
of
3.
S.
S.wiUji
vvf.nr hlr.rwi i« trad A low hzxHia« nf S. S.
^/thoroughly -«-r,se tae aysterr. remove all uu- ' British subject *»u>i since !*■> ....tui-a*-
•.purities il 1 btuii TO'- up- ALuaoaezaf
Í es 1 alms*:.* here L* busen^G/úd c.z.cr-
Äffe
-•ntial election to that select circle cf
CLEARED AWAY
England’s territorial magnates, that po
its use it is tr>e be^t bloo4 remedy on
litical holiest cf the holies, the Carlton
s«tDds who ha «e used it «ay so.
•• My oiool was badly poisoned last year, which
club. A further step in his upward
hole eyrteo. out of order—diseased and a cor.scan’
flight was his nominuticn for the bench
?
uo appetite, r.o enjoyment of life. Tw botti
-ifli:
There is no
of the county of Middlesex, and he will
CwCwCW ■
¡ST reztlse on blood and - k . n aiseases mailed free-f' be forthwith ■ gazetted justice cf tue
¡f.
SV, IF I J/reCif 1C Ci-i- Atiaata,G e ", peace That is an honor conferred by the
lord high chancellor, acting fcr the
crown, on the nomination of the ler-t
lieutenant of the county, it entitles the
holder to rank as justice of the quorum
and is an inevitable prep-.t atoiy step to
higher rank. So rar so good, but the
half has not ye* been told. He has teen
offered a baronetcy, but, not quite con
E M<--NEILL, Receiver
tent with that, stipulates for the rank
TO THE
-,f a baronet least and will undoubtedly
succeed.
Let me explain the difference in rr-.nk
between u baronet and a baron. The
former is the lowest order of hereditary
rank and entitles the holder to be ad
dressed as sir and his spouse as lady. It
GIVE. THE CHOICE Of
is in point of procedure rank 65 and per
. TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL mits the holder to sit in the home of
commons, whereas tbatef baron entitles
the holder to the rank, title and dignity
of my lord arid a seat in the house of
lordi The style of addies-, to the spouse
VIA
MIA
of the holder of ihe title is still my
iady. The rank of baron is the lowest
DENVER of
SPOKANE
tbe five orders of peers and entitles
OMAHA the family of the holders to be known
Minneapolis
aud addressed as honorable
AND
AND
Lord Beaconsfield once said that there
was
certain moral force in u name
ST. PAUL KANSAS GY and “ a a dignity
in a double barreled
name ” Mr. Astor is of the same opin
LOW RATES TO ALL
ion. He writes and styles himself Wal
dorf Astor So in books of reference look
EASTERN CITIES
under W and not under A. Mi Wal
dorf Astor, however, is doing well and
OCEAN STEAMERS
is appreciated hero. He has always been
L<-ave Portland Every R Days in good hands, having from the first
Leen chaperoned by that fine old English
gentleman, that sturdy old courtier,
• • FOR • •
Christophe*- Sykes.
Success in social life in England de
pends entirely on whose hands one gets
in, ana it is not always that the most
written about are the most desirable.
For fail details call on or nddres :
In the case of Mr. Waldorf Astor, his
Aaperon is not much known outside,
bai Christopher is a man of rare judg
ment and unsullied character, and, what
is more, one of II. R. II. ’s set, high iu
the favor of Oueen Victoria and socially
EAST AND SOUTH s power behind the throne. From the
standpoint cf practical politics the giv
VIA
ing of social rank to Mr. Waldorf Astor
is brilliant. It will tend to attract other
multimillionaires, and when we get the
OF THE
Astors, Vanderbilts, Havemeyers, Rocke
fellers, Goulds and others our London
season will blossom like a roso, and
when the few remaining coronets of
British aristocrats uow in pawn be re
deemed then tho plebeian government
of the United States may devise some
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I'urtlaud.......... 61 P M i San Francisco..10-4 A M means of social demarcation to keep her
fun Francisco 7:00 P M I Portland............ sao A M
millionaires at home. Meanwhile a cor
dial welcome awaits them here —Cor,
Above trains slop at all stations from Portland to
Albany Inclusive Also Tangmt, Sliedas. Hal Philadelphia Times.
Tho met’ '"ho come up fiem Clippt-r-
tG*r IZraXid Cli till- V OldU* " ill **.- p^i
off thio Ec cei j;. : Lil discharged, aud
whether aoy -if them will iciuia to the
guauo covert«! rec*, mts not y- c boon de
cided Ono of the men who went down
on 7he I ;k;ag auJ remained on the m-
i:a--r for several months tcld some re-
mtirkablo stories cf the treasure
;á3ure reez
yesterday.
He corroborated the tale of the hun
gry crabs and said iuat the hvus-.s which
had been put up hud to bo covered with
tin to prevent the crustaceans from eat
ing through the weed. It was so hot
taat tho sxin peeled off the men’s ba ks
through their light undershirts. Th: e
were any amount of eggs to be had,
which were laid by birds resembling
wild geese. The crabs would seize the ;e
eggs as fast as they were laid aud mal.e
off with them.
“Tho harbor,” said the Clipperton
Robinson Crusoe, “is not a good on"
aud the water is full cl sharks, »fini
the wind blows offshore, it is impossible
fur a vessel’s moorings to hold her. The
Viking went away with about 50 tons
short of what she ought to have taken,
but that was the fault of the captain.
Ho got scared and put to sea. The
weather was so bad when the Volant
was there that there was no use of stay
ing, and she gave up trying to get a load.
The sharks i*ru very vicious and seem to
bo without fear, as they are in great
numbers. When a boat is being rowed
ashore, the man eaters jump out of the
water aud snap at a man.
“While the Volancwas lying at Clip
perton the strangest kind of a fish I ever
saw came up astern of her. In shape it
was something like a stingray, with
long, ugly looking tail. It spread big
wings that must have been at least 20
feet wide from tip to tip. Tho superin
tendent said it was a rayfish, aud others
called it a sunfish. It stuck its head up,
then spread out its wiugs and skimmed
along over the water.
“The island is nothing more than a
big rock, honeycombed with the stran
gest kinds of shapes. At sunset some
parts of it eeemed a blazing mass of
gold. If there is any truth in the stories
about treasure being hidden there, we
couldn’t prove it, but you can but we
searched high and low for the pirates’
booty. ”—San Francisco Chronicle.
0. R. & H. CO
EAST
ROUTES
SAN -i- FRANCISCO
LOST Hid RED BUTTOIl
TLe ronner Chinese Minister to This €oun->
trj Degraded In Hank.
la a telegram from Peking published
by The Chiuece Mail it is said that an
imperial edict has been issued anuotmc
ing the degradation of Tsui Kwo Yui,
the former Chinese minister to the
United States, Spain and Peru, from the
post of “tso shu tsze”—senior deputy
supervisor of instruction—to that of
“chung wan’•—undersecretary of the
Hanlin college—as well as the depriva
tion of the red button of second rank,
with which he had been honored by the
emperor on the occasion of his being
accredited to the courts of the United
States, Spain and Peru.
The issue of this edict has teen the re
sult of Yui’s incompetency in the dis
charge of the duties of “tso ehu tsze”
as well as or his failure in passing the
recent special examination for promo
tion among the members of tne Hanlin
college. This special examination was
instituted at the instance of the board
of censors with a view to classifying
tho members of the Hanlin college and
to investigate their special conduct and
also for the purpose cf recommending
promotion. Consequently the persons
examined have after due examination
teen divided into three classes Those
of the first two classes Lavo either re
ceived their promotion or appropriate
imperial rewards of silk piece*. but
Tsui Kwo Yui, who scauu-s first iu the
third class, has lost his red button and
has suffered the above mentioned degra
dation in his official rank.
The Shasta Route
sey. Haziisbur(. Junction City, Irving, Eugene
ar.J all stations from Roseburg to Ashland Inclu JOSS IS TO HAVE A NEW TEMPLE.
sive
lurruunded by Trus Oriental Luxuries, the
itoeeliurg mull Bail) .
Deity Will Receive Due Homage.
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Portland
“:S0 A M I Roseburg............. P M
“The Chinese citizens of Chicago will
P.osebuxg
7:WAM | Portland
4.30 PM
loon have the most magnificent joss-
house iu America, ” said Sam Moy to a
PUL-LTUiMN * BUFFET,, reporter. “The entire furnishings fcr
the plaoe are now being designed ar.d
SLEEPERS
made in China, aud we expect to open
AND
the house in about- three inonthr. Our
SECOND CLASS SLEEPiNG CARS, people are habitually very quiet end net
given to display or parade, but the dedi
Attached to all Through Train».
cation cf the new josshouse will be at
.West Side Div'sion
tended with Cuineaa ceremonies and a
BETWEEN
PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS
parade far more elaborate than has ever
Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) been seen in Chicago and probably in
Portland
lite United States.
McMinnville
"The place will net be usedaa a joss-
Corvallis
house alone, but also as the lodge or
At Albany and Corvallis connect with headquarters of the Chinese Freema-
trains of Oregon Pacific Kailroad,
¿ons of thin city. There ore many of
Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) these here, aud the society is hundreds
of years old in China. In addition to
Ar Ö-2 A M
Foi timid
l l> P M Lv
-.1 A M this it will serve as a place for the tem
St. Joseph
Lv
7:1 P M Lv
Lv
;i) A *\i porary entertainment of the people of
McMinnville
7 2 P M Ar
Through TickotS ’ all points In Eastern mr nation who make a few days’ stop
States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at in the city. They will be housed anil
lowe:t rates from G A Wilcox. Ageuf. McMinn taken care of there 1 ’
ville
E P. ROGERS,
Hip Lung, probably tho wealthiest
Aset. G..F. <fc P A.. Portland, Or.
R. KOEHLER. Manager.
Celestial in Chicago and a relitiveof
Sam Moy, explained that every piece of
furnishing" for the josshouse is being
I designed and made in China, and that
i the furniture will oost not les3 than <3, -
CUUKCHE3
: 900. It will be made of ebony and
BArrifT—Services Sunday 11 a. ui. aud rthex rare and costly oriental woods and
7 30p.^u ; .iunday school 9:50 a m.; the will be elaborately carved and heavily-
young people’s society 6:15 p in
Prayer
nieetiug Thursday < 30 p. m. Covenunt decorated with gold.
The entire cost of tire house will not
meeting first Sat 'each month 2:00 p. m.
M etmopist E piscopal —Services every be lees than $7,000 or $8,000, and there
Sabbath 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday will be nothing like it in America. It
t .-hool 9 30 a m. Prayer meeting 7:00 p will have two large jossrooms, with the
m. Thursday.
8 E. M eninges , Pastor.
finest Chinese hangings, decorations ami
Ct mu . P bessyteeian —Services every Sab-
Lath 11:00a iu and 7:30 p. ra. Bunday furnishings. Then there will be a large
a, tool 9 .30 a. ru. Y. P. C. E., Sunday 6:30 general parlor or reception room for en
p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. tn. I tertaining the general guests and two
E E. T hompson , Pastor.
private parlors for special use.
C hmstun —Services every Sabbath 11:00
The location of the joeshouse is not
a tu and 7:30 p. in. Sunday school 10
a ni. Young people’s meeting at 8:30 p. m. yet known.—Chicago Post.
DININ» CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE.
LOCAL DIRECTORY.
H. A. D emon , Pastor.
S t . J ames C atholic — First #t., between
<* aud H. Sunday school 2:30 p. m. Ves
pers 7 -80. Services qnce a month.
V/. R. H ogan , Pastor
SECRET ORDERS.
K kowlxs C ha FTIR N o . 12, O. E. S.—Meets a
Masonic hall tho tli st and third Monday evening
In each tuouth. Visiting members ccidiallv in
vited
MRS O. O HODSON, Sec
I
MRS. H L. HEATH, W. M.
C cstkk P ost N o 9—Meets tile second and fourth
Saturday of each mouth Hi Union hall at 7:30
j>. m. on second Saturday aud at 10.30 a m. on
«th Saturday All members of the order are
cordially invited to attend our meetings.
B. F. C lvbiss . Commander.
J. A. PXCXBiX Adjt.
W. C T. U.—Meets ou every Fri-.
dav, in Wright's hall at 3 o’clock p tn
L. T. L. at 3 p. in.
• M kk A. J W hitmobe , Pres
C lara G. E sson . Sec’y.
Strattord-upcn - Avon.
It is a pity that the Americans are
aot allowed to buy Stratford-upon-Avon
and transport it to the States. They
would at least treat it with the respect
it deserves, which is more than we do.
A short time ago rhe carved oak doors,
which were placed at th3 north end of
the church a century before Shakespeare
was born, were temporarily removed,
whereupou a utilitarian churchwarden
jold them as lumber. The purchaser in
tends to build a pigsty with them.
Those cf the inhabitants who have heard
of Shakespeare are indignant. And so
what the purchaser bought at the price
of a pigsty he is willing to resell at the
price of historic relics —Pall Mall Bud-
A TARIFF ON MATRIMONY.
A KaaiM School Board Objects to Teachers
Marryte? Duxius the Teno.
I
A young lady who goes to Conco*dia,
Kau., to teach school will find a very
exact ing rule, which was recently adopt
ed by the board cf education. It seems
that several lady teachers have married
in the midst of the term when it was
impossible to fill their places This the
Concordia school beard proposes to reg
ulate, and it did so recently by the
adoption cf the following resolutions:
Inasmuch as it seems to be the cus
tom of lady teachers of the public
schools of Concordia, Kan., to coutract
marriage without the knowledge or con
sent of said board, therefore be it
Resolved, By said board of education
that should any cf the lady teachers of
the Concordia schools hereafter commit
matrimony during the term for which
they have been elected they shall forfeit
a sum of money equal to one-half
montn’s salary, provided they take a
home man, and a sum equal to one
month’s salary in case the groom is im
ported from some other county or
state; in either case the lady 6hall cause
a card of invitation to be sent to each of
the members of the board of education.
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Xc..-* Highly Prixed of All -he Smviv-
iz i Grdei s of Chivalry,
Of all ’
H aa ”
ciders of xncdixval cLiv- JACK’S SUPcRôTi
riuvO ,>..1"’ IVCG t.Ll3 ¿llGCxa Gx
V.
3T*A‘.:’ib.Vc
-'C-td’
oil tide CUL'.ilifixlv
ii_'.c-■ gre;:-, cataclysm of
th Lb UO ten Fleeceia pu•
ari
Imps ■ m merer diswnguished
and the
mote Lighiy coveted by ;>ersonages cf
royal ktrtfi cr cf illustrious j/atriciim
lineage, utuueuis of the history of the
art cr sdaace of heraldry will leare
with inttrez; and pleasure that, the Qr-
*:r cf the Icisou d Or of Spain having
.s*m comeireil on the Duka of York, his
royal highr. ;ts was t" T zuaday arrett
ed, at Marlborough House, with the in
signia cf ths order by the Prince of
Wales, himself a knight of the order,
acting in the name cf the queen regent
,*sd on behalf cl' the young king of
Spain. The secretary of the Spani -h
embassy, as chancellor of theorder, recti
tho rvy-1 commissiou creating lite duke
a knight, and the august cei emony was
also attended by the Duke of Saxe-Co-
burg-Gotka and the- Due d'Actuate as
knights of the order, and by tlie Span
ish ombarttdor and the Earl of Kimber
ley, her majesty’s secretary of state for i
foreign affaire
The Duke of York only received the I
badge of the order, iu the shape of the ;
figure of a sheep in embossed gold bus - 1
pended fr- :u a heavy chain of gold, but1
at a chapter of the order or at great
court functions at Madrid he would be
entitled to wear the full robes, consist
ing of a long mantle of crimson velvet,
cut ia the fashion cf a sacerdotal cope,
richly embroidered at the borders with
emblematic devices of stars, half moons
and fleeces in gold ami lined with white
satin, over a doublet and hose of crim
son damask. The full robes also com
prize u -‘chaperon,” or hood, with a
long flowing streamer cf black satin,
but this headgear has iu mooern times
been generally dispensed with.
Originally the robes of the order,
which was founded in 142-J by Philip
the Good, duke of Burgundy, were cf
cricwca cloth lined -with white lamb's
w:»l, and this circumstance has some
what strengthened the theory that tire
golden fleece wan’ instituted by Philip
the Good in grateful recognition of the
immense treasures which the Duke of
Burgundy liad acquired from the
wool cf the flocks reared on his vast
estates in Flanders. Be it a3 it may,
the woolen coztuine was changed in
1473 at a chapter held at Valenciennes
for the more ccstly materials of velvet,
taffcca, damask and gold embroidery.—-
London Telegraph.
of Lu.*
CATCH QUESTIONS-
follia
7ION'.- HAD STRANGE
FORMS IN EARLY DAVS.
Quarles That Appear Not
Kurd to Answer.
If ¿goose weighs 10 pounds and a heli
its own weight, what is the weight c-i ;
the goose? Wlio has not been tempted -
to reply on the instant 15 pounds? the i
correct answer being, of course, 201
pounds. It is astonisuing what a very
simple query will sometimes catch al
wise mon napping. Even tho follow-1
ing have been imown to succeed;
How many days would it tako to cut '
up a picce ci cloth 50 yards long, one ;
yard being cut off evary day?
A snail climbing up a pole 20 feet
high accende five feet every day and
slip» down four feet every night How
long will the snail take to reach tho top
of the post?
A wife mim having a window one1
yard high and one yard wide, requiring !
mote light, enlarged his window te
twice its former size, yet tho window
was stili only one yard high and onel
yard wide. How was this done?
Iliis a ca:ah question ia geometry, |
as the preceding were cu.ch question.)
in arithmetic. The window was dia
mond stared ct first and was afterward
made square.
As to tha two former, perhaps it is
scarcely necessary seriously to point out
that the answer to the first is not 50
days, but 40, and to the s-xond not 20 '
days, but io. since the snail, whogainA
one foot each day for 15 days, climlr i
on the sixteenth day to the top of the '
pole and there remains.—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
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Where Woman Ccmes Last.
An Arab—meaning a tout dweller; In
an equ.de sense the town dweller is no
Arab—loves first aud above ail hisfccrse.
No one need to recite the oft sung affec
tion he will lavish upon him. Next be
lovee his firearm. This, poetically sp-.,-ak-
ing; ought to ba a six foot, gold inlaid,
muzzle leading horror of a matchlock,
which would kick any man but an Arab
flat on his back at every shot, but actu
ally, in Algeria or Tunis, when he lives
near a city, it is moro apt to be a mod
em English breechloader. You must fly
from the busy haunts of men to find the
matchlock. Next to his gun ho loves his
oldest son. Last comes his wife—or out
of his wives perhaps.
Daughters don’t count—I mean the
Arab doesn’t take the trouble to count
them unless in so far as they miniate*
to bio comfort, dietetic or otherwise.
Until soma neighbor comes along and
proposes to marry—in other words, to
make a still worse slave of one cf them
—she is only u chattel, a soulless thing
And yet she is said to be a pretty, amia
ble, helpful being—said to be, fcr no
one by any hap ever chances to cast his
I
I ho Baby's Naxae and Title.
eyes ou one worth seeing. This disre
Contrary to the confident assertions of gard for women, be it eaid to their hon
ill informed persons, the new royal or, does not always apply to the Bedou
baby will bear no title for the present ins of the Syrian and Arabian deserts.
other than tha courtesy one of prince —New York Journal.
He has no right yet even to the prefix of
“Counselor Tliczcfors.“
royal highness, but the queen is expect
Sergeant Kelly, a celebrity of the Irish
ed speedily to remedy that defect in his
status by a special warrant. The only bar, bad a ltmarkable habit of drawing
question of pressing moment is the conclusions directly at variance with
Christian names to be giveu to this im bis premises and was consequently niolt-
portant and fortunate infant. The latt named “Counselor Therefore. ” la ocurt
Duke of Clarence was baptized Albert on uns occasion be thus addressed the
Victor because the queen desired the jury: “The case la so clear, gentlemen,
throne of England to be filled one day that you cannot possibly misunderstand
by a man boaring the name cf her idol it, and I should pay your understandings
ized husband. If she should wish the a very poor compliment if I dwelt upon
name revived, it will certainly be the it for another minute. Therefore I enall
first of the half dozen or so which the at once proceed to explain it to you aa
Duke of York’s son will carry through minutely as possible. *’—Greta Bag.
Life —London Letter
Stolen Wood Mortised laio tae Keel to
¿lake tiie \c&sei Sail 1 abler—Lawyers,
Women aud CJergym«*»* Looked aX With
Dbi-tkToi on Eallinj Vesssli.
Lieutenant J D. Jerrold Kelley gives
<re interesting chapter cf "Superstitions
vf urn Sea iu The Century. After
Btudy.ng them iairly well he doubts if
modern sailors are more superstitious
than any other- class with equal training
and opportunities. He '.-clicves that.
verybedy is leavened with supersti
tion, notably tho noisiest scoffers and
those mountebanks, the Thii-teeti clubs,
for these gentry protest too much It
seems to be n human instinct modified
by i :ial iul?:ritar>ce3 mid developments.
In the youth of the world its manifesta
tions wer.- the earliest recorded utter
ances of men concerning the visible
phenomena cf the universe, and *ts grip
cu simple words was an outgrowth of
the fear of the unknown. Of all people
sailors must deal at first hand, and help- '
leesly to some degree, with the most'
unknowable, uncontrollable of material i
problems, the sea, and it is only nat- I
oral that their folklore should be in
part land stories fitted with sea mean
ing aud. in part of blind explanation of
sea phenomena, both being maintaiued
valorously by the grewsome conserva
tism of the seamau, even after rational
causes come to the rescue.
In earlier days superstition was as
much u part of every ehip us the water1
she wfi to float in, for it entered with
the wood scarfed into her keel and |
climbed tu the flags and garlands wav-1
ing at her mastheads It i an riotously i
at her launching, controlled her name,
her crew and cargoes. It timed hc-r •
days and hours of sailing and convoyed
her voyages It euramoned apparition“
lor her ill fortune aud evoked portents
and signs lor her prosperity. It made
winds blow foul or fair, governed her
successful ventures aud arrivals, and
when her work was done promised a
port of rest somewhere off the shores of
Fiddler’s Green, where all good sailors
rest eternally, or threatened foul moor
ings deep iu the unoaimy locker of Davy
Jones of ballad memory.
In many countries stolen wood was i
mortised into the keel, as it made tiie
ehip sail faster nt night though if the
first- blow struck in fashioning this keel
drew fire the ship was doomed to wreck
upon her maiden voyage. Silver—usu
ally a cciu—placed iu the mainmast step
went for lucky ventures, aud misguided
indeed was the owner who permitted
any of the unlucky timbers to enter into
the construction. Something of me cere
monious ohoi-acier giveu to launchings
survives to this day. Where of old ships
were decked with flowers and crowns ct
leaves flags now flutter. The libation
poured on the deck, the purification by
the priest, the anointing with egg and
sulphur, find their exemplars in the
well aimed and wasted magnums which
are shattered on the receding cutwater as
the craft, released from the ways, slips,
weli greased, into the sea. The jar of
wine put to his lips by the captain and
then emptied on ueck, the cakes and
ale eet before the crew, the stoup oi
wine offered to passersby on the quay
and tho refusal of which was an evil
omen—all are realized in these sadder!
lustrums by the builder’s feast in thej
mold loft. Lawyer-, clergymen aurlj
women vi e ever looked at with disfavor I
on railing ships as sure ro bring ill luck
—lawyers undoubtedly from the antip-1
atiiy cf sailers to the class, a dislike so
pronounced that ‘ ¿en lawyer” is a very
bitter term of reproach, and "land
shark” is a synonym. Clergymen—
priests and parsons—are unlucky proba
bly because oi their black gowns and
their principal duty on shipboard—that
cf consoling tho dying t nd burying the
dead—though possibly because the devil,
the great storm reisu i: tiirir especial
enemy and sends tempests to destroy
them Women—who may reason out
their unpopularity?save that a ehip is
the last place for them, or perhaps be
cause cf the dread cf witches, for cf all
spell workers ia human form none is so
dreaded as thu female brewers of hell
broth. Like the priests of the middle
ages, they can raise a prime quality of
storm by tossing sand or stones iu the
air ano, like Congre ve s Lapland sorcer
ess, are supposed tu live by selling con
trary winds and wrecked vessel;-. Cer
tain families could never get sea em
ployment undei tueir own surnames,
not even such members as were boru
with cauls, for they were tabooed,
barred. And many animals—hares,
pigs aud black cats, for example—could
neither lie earned nor mentioned oil
shipboard, save under very stringent i
conditions* Scarborough wives kept u '
black cat in the hcure to assure their
husbands’ lives at sea, but cn voyages
every Hack cat carried a gale iu her
tail, and if she became unusually frolic
some a sterm was sure to follow.
Years ago ou board the flagship
Franklin, up the Mediterranean, wc
had a yarn that illustrated a survival of
this antipathy to certain forms of ani
mal life T wc eld quartermasters were
heard during the morning watch ex-
chimging in ths cockpit dismal experi
ences of their dreams the night before.
One was particularly harrowing, for the
narrator wound up with: "And I say,
Bill, I was nevei so efoared in my life.
Wnen I woke uj?, it seemed as true as
day, aud I was all of tremble like an
asp on a leaf.”
"What's tiiux.-” said the other. "Pipe
down.
Don’t mention that reptile.
He’s a hoedoo on shipooard ”
Figureheads were at first images of
god*, aud later of saints and sea heroes
aud were held iu high reverence, aud
tbe eyes glaring from each bow of a
Chinese junk enaWe the beat to voyage
intelligently, for “no have two eyes,
how can see? No can see, how can do’”
is the shibboleth of their sailors. Ships’
bells were blessed-, and today if a mis
take in their striking is made by a stu-
pid messenger boy they are struck back
ward to break th" spell. Iu oue ship tc
which 1 was attach*-! the bell had culm,
down to us from the Ticonderoga,
through the Tnetis, I think, and wu.-
siijpo-ie.l to be ami** the.'p*uia* control
of a f jno spirit of mischief. Why tin'
blue spirit should indulge in such va
garies is hidden, but in the middle of
desp ecu. uighu, whoa tuc moon rode ir
an auspicious quartur, aud the wind
blow with the force end from the direc
tion necessary for the spell, ths bln-
bell w»s bound to make a complete cir
cle aad rmg out nine bells stridently
Gf co c*ie uo one ever beard or ought t<
hear uine bells at sea, lor eight belL
are as fixed iu limit as tho decalogue,
but this was promis’d Whether tht
conditions failed to co-ordinate I cannot
say, but though the bell was watched
by all sorts and conditions of nun th
occult ceremony tva-’ never performed
fcr our be:iefit. It is necessary to add
that by report it was a c ommon event in
the other ships mentioned.
The proverbial desertion of sinking
ships by rats is founded upon reason
and undoubtedly occurs, for as rats lik*
to prowl about dry footed and will stick
t< io place so long as food is plenty it
is prebable that the ship they leave is sc
leaky and unseaworthy that their un
derdeck work is too wet to suit them.
for Infants ar.u Children
»st ..-.-.-^-1-0»^»-*.—. M:»:z_aaauMl,ib .l. ;
H1RTY yaar»’ A.ariiiUn of Catari» *Hth the yAtronag« »f
millions of yeranug, permit u, to - peak of it withnnt gnegsigg.
It is unquestionably tho best remedy for infants and Chilàren
give« them health.
Mme. Lauazano.
Uhiidron liko it. It
In it Mother» have
something which t» aWulwtely «afe and practically parf«ct_a»j*
child’s me dicing.
Ca-tovia de»trgy» Worm..
Cahterta allay. Faveriahn««».
Ca.tozia pievanu vomiting Sour Curd.
Cantoria curas UiurrU.^a und TA’ind Colio.
Cantoria relieve. Teething Trouble».
Cantoria cura» Constipation and Flatulency.
Castori h , neutraïùoé tho effects of carbonio acid teas or phonon«
Ckstiu ns Joi i not contain morphine .op* mtn .or other nui colit- property.
Which Illustrates the Gentle Thoughtfui-
uess cf the Famous Novelist«
There is much talk just uow of a uew
singer, Mme. Pherore Luugrana, au In
dian lady and a pupil cf Sims lieevc-..
Royalties are patronizing her, musical
people are running after her, and she
is to sing before Queen Victoria shortly.
Her specialties are Persian melodies ar
ranged as songs. A j far as known she
is the first Indian woman to attain ui -
tincticn as a public singer. Her sister
passed an examination in law at Oxford
and is now practicing iu Bombay. —
London Letter
it is naz-mtass.
It will »ave 'heir live».
the world has ever known,
A STORY OF THACKERAY.
As toward the end of October a little
over 40 years ago the night train oi
tho Chemin de Fcr du Nord was about
to leave the station at Paris an English
gentleman got into a first class compart
ment, and stowing awuv Ills small va
lise took his seat in ono of the vacant ■
corners. He noticed that on the seat op-1
posite to him was a gentleman who ap
peared to be ill. His face was deathly >
pale; he was breathing very hard and I
appeared to be in great pain.
"Are you ill, sir? Can 1 be of any
assistance to you?” the gentleman
asked.
"I am very ill," the sufferer replied
faintly. "I am subject to a very pain
ful malady, and feeling an attack com
ing on while in Switzerland I resolved
to go home—to England. It generally
gives me a week’s warning But I feel
I shall uot reach Calais a’ive ”
"But you must net go on, my deal
sir,' ’ said his fellow traveler feelingly.
"I am a perfect stranger ia Paris. 1
have come right through from Geneva,
and I do not know a word of French, ”
replied the sick man, almost tn a state
of collapse.
"It will never do for you to travel in
that state. Come, let me help you out
before the train starts. ’ ’
The kindly gentleman was uot a mo
ment too soon. Eut by the friendly aid
of a porter he got the sufferer out of the
train, placed him gently in a cab and
had him taken to the hotel which he
himself had just quitted and where hi
knew the sick man would receive every
attention. Caring for him on the way
with all the tenderness of a woman, hs
tade him cheer up, for he knew a phy
sician who was one of the highest au-
thorities on the particular disease from
which be was suffering.
All the night the gentleman was ex
ceedingly ilJ, nor did he improve much
the next day. The following morning a
relation of the sufferer, who had beer,
telegraphed for, arrived, and the kind
hearted gentleman who had put off his
journey to England, thrown away his
railway fare and sper.t two nights aud a
day ulmos’- constantly by the sick man’s
side handed over the sufferer to the care
of his irienrl.
Then, and uot till then, did this geld-1
en hsarted man decide tu resume his in
terrupted jeurney.
Going into the patient’s room in the
evening to bid him goodby, he said:
“I must now wish you farewell, as I
have important business in London. I
wish you a hearty godspeed toward re
covery. ’ ’
Tho sick man was still extremely ill
and not able to do more th m press his
benefactor’s hand aud whisper a few
words cf gratitude.
The relative of the patient, however,
who was no other than his sister, fol-
lowed rhe gentleman out of the room
end said:
"You have not done me tho honor tc
toll me to whom I and tny brother owe
so signal an act of kindness as that
which you have shown tu an utter
stranger. Had you not so generously
and so disinterestedly taken compassion
on him I fear his relatives and friends
would never have seen him again alive.
In thanking you again for ycur kindness,
therefore, I should like to know to whom
wo are so much indebted.. Besides you
forfeited the cost of your railway ticket.
If you will allow me tv reimburse you I
the amount”------
“Do notmention it,” said the gentle
man. ‘‘It ip of no consequence. ”
"You will at least dome the pleasure
of permitting us to know your name?” I
■ ‘Certainly. I will give you my card. ’ ’
With these words the gentleman took
out his cardcase aud handed the lady
his card. She read upon it the came
"William Makepeace Thackeray. ”
It was tome weeks before the invalid
was well enough to resume his journey,
but after bis return to England one of
the first visitsAe paid was to call upon
the great nove"gt in company with his
sister to thank him personally for the
great kindness he had shown him when,
as he believed, he should have died but
for his timt-lv assistance.—London Mil
lion.
f
Caatorin aa.iinUatea the food, 1 eeuJat*-» Fho -toniat h and l»ow«l..
giving healthy aud natural sleep.
Cantoria is put up in one*"ftize bottles only. It i.» xiot auld in bulk.
Don’t allow any one to eoli yon anythin« elee on the plea or promt»«
us Risosi” -.nd ’’ will ouMWer every pwrpc»<-,”
that It
Soo that yon tret C> A-S-'L’-O-K-li-A■
1» oit everjr
The ftcn-üimtl®
wrapper.
Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria
HEGOTINTOTHEDIET
A
MEMBER
OF
THE
LIARS’
CLUB
HEARD TiSZA'S LAST ADDRESS.
He Made ,* Bole Play audCamad His Point,
and His Conscience Only Kotheied Hiu*
When He Saw Xiiat He Would
Sac-
cessful In the Scheme.
The party was in eonvorsau.ju over
its beer of all shades and all degrees of
excellence, and tales had been told iu
several languages aud of diverse degrees
of trustworthiness whan thu Hungarian
pounced upon an opportunity—he had
his glass empty first—to tell for the
hundredth time of the beauties of his
native Budapest The baths, the An-
drassy avenue, the park, the theaters,
the bridge, the palaces, the musio and
the “incomparably beautiful women”
had all been described, and Hungarian
statesmen, from Kossuth to Kaincky,
lauded when a story teller interrupted
with:
“Budapest may be all that you claim
for it. but I’ll never forget an experi
ence I had there when I fooled some of
its bigwigs. It was only a few years
ago, when I stopped there for a Test on
my way from Paris by the Oriental ex
press to Constantinople. I noticed an
unusual excitement at the Hotel Hun-
garia, could see there were many strau
gers in town, and across the Danube,
over tho Schloss, floated the royal etond-
ard of Hungary as a sign that the king
was There You know the Hungarians
never speak of Franz Josef az emperor, I
always as zing
“During the day I heard that the
ministry would resign the next day, and
that Premier Tisza would make his last
address in parliament. Well, you can
well imagine 1 wanted to be in ct the
death and set about to secure a ticket of
admission to the diet hall. Those whom
I asked simply laughed at me. Tickets
were at a high premium, and some to
whom I applied gave m« a Hungarian
look of withering contempt tvhicn made
me only more anxious to get there.
“But the morrow came, ana I taw the
chances for a puep at the show growing
exasperatingly less, when 1 suddenly
felt myself possessed of an idea I went
to the house of parliament and after
much inquiry learned that the librarian
of the upper house, and hb alone could
admit mo, and I succeeded iu seeing
him. ‘I’m surprised, ’ I said to Liu,
’that you have made uo provision for
tht- press at a time so important as this. ’
Press’’ said he. "Why, press tickets
have been issued to all who aru eutlitled
to them, aud if you have received none
it’s a mistake—au oversight ’ He called
a servant, said something iu a jargon
which I could not understand aud made
me a bow of dismissal The man, who
was dressed to go on in the chorus of
the ‘Beggar Student’ or the ‘BlacL Hus
sar, ’ beckoned me to follow him, led
me to an inner room, where he left me
with a desk, two chairs and my guilty
conscience. 1 began to wish myself
back at the hotel, with its good wine,
good music and fine view on the Dau
ube. Visions of police investigation
and an exposure, with possibly a term
iu a Hungarian jail, rose before me, for
you know I had uo more to do with
newspaper business than I had with
African exploration, when a clerk en
tered and with many a flirt and flutter
proceeded to make out my credentials
for admission to the press logo.
“He was a funny little tuau, this
clerk, who labored under the hallucinu
tiou that he could speak English, aud
he was further afflicted with that mild
form of insanity which manifests itself
in the dyed mustache. He took my name
and pedigree, asked me whence I came
and how long I proposed to remain iu
the city, and I answered all with that
promptness and strict truthfulness which
one acquires by years cf association
with the members of this club
‘¿Finally be put the poser, ‘What u
the name of your- paper?’ I thought with
right that all great papers must be rep
resented and feared that if 1 mentioned
one of them 1 would be discovered and
lost; so, thinking of the motto of the
club, ‘God loves a cheerful liar, ’ 1 eaid
without a moment's hesitation, ‘The
North Adams Transcript ’ He didn’t
just remember the name and had to ask
as to the spelling several times while
making out the documents by means of
which I was to secure an admission
card, but if he had prezsed me after-1
saw that the bluff went I would have
told him a circulation story which—
well, which would not ba in keeping
with The Transcript's books.
“Well, 1 got into the press loge iu
time to hear Hungary’s grand old man,
Tisza make the greatest speech of his
life. Of course I could riot understand
his Hungarian, jierfeot as it no doubt
was, but the enthusiasm which he
aroused seemed contagious, and ouce
during his talk, when a great shout of
approval filled, the chamber, women
waved their handkerchiefs and fans, aud
members of the opposition even looked
pleased, I caught myself applauding,
but I quickly recalled the fact that I
was there as The Transcript representa
tive and as such bad uo opinion
‘ ’The picture from the gallery where
‘we of the press’ sat was one I snail
never forget. Every inch of room in the
spectators' pens was occupied, every
deputy’s chair was taken, and on the floor
the monotony of ths black and white
was bioken by the picturesque costumes
of the bishops, whose office entitles
them to a seat in the house.
“After it was all over I went with
my new companions cf the press to a
ueaxbj restaurant, where we ate all
-arts of things, all seasoned more or less
with paprika, and drank tokay wine. 1
told my story, and The Transcript ie-
eeived its baptism of Hungarian fire—
Kelinerein glass Dnnkles Htte. ”—New
York Tribune.
A caterpillar in the cour-u of a muith
will devour 6,000 tiiues its own weight
in food. It will take a man three months
Ixrforo he eat3 an amount of food equal
to hia own weight
SITTING BULL’S DEATH.
Tho Rilliut of the Chief Brought About by
Hib Sou’s Taoist.
“Did you ever know just how ¡Sitting
Bull was killed?’’ asked Lieutenant
Baker of the Twelfth in fan try, U. 8. A.
“1 do not think,” he continued, “the
details were evci printed. I never saw
them, and I was there. ”
I tell it, as near as it cau be recalled,
as the lieutenant told it.
Sitting Bull was at his shack with his
sons, near Standing Rock agency, when
he was sent for to come into ths agency.
The Indian police wer e commissioned to
bring him in, and when an Indian po
liceman gets that order and finds his
man he brings him, dead or alive, un
less the man gets the drop first. Sitting
Bull was disposed to obey the summons,
but one of his eons, as haughty an In
dian as ever lived, taunted the old man
for his weakness. He called him a
equaw, and that epithet ro an Indian
brave is the cap sheaf of all that is de
risive. The old man weakened under the
boy’s taunts, and the Indian police did
the rest Sitting Bull was all that his
admirers claimed for him. When he
fell, the boy who had taunted him
crawled under the bunk where the old
man had slept He was there when
Shavehead, an Indian from the agency,
came in. He heard the story. He liked
Sitting Bull, and when he was told that
the boy had taunted his father and was
the cause of his death Shavehead said
the boy deserved death, and he was
dragged out from under the bed and
killed. These details Lieutenant Baker
says he never saw in print—Chicago
Herald.
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