The Yamhill County reporter., June 07, 1901, Image 6

NEW SPORT IS FOUND.
SUNSET ON THE FARM.
D oh n behind the western hill the red
Him sinks to rest.
All the world is weary, and I am weary,
too.
The partridge seeks its covert, anil the
red bird seeks its nest,
Au 1 I nut coming from the fields, dear
heart, to home and you.
Home when the daylight is waning;
Home, when my toiling is done;
Ah! down by the gate, sweet, watch­
ing eyes wait
My coming ut setting of sun.
Spectacular Figure in Wall Street
Ax and Saw Contest. Create us Much
hurore There as Football and Base­
ball Do in America or the Olympic
Gaine, in Greece.
The sheep from off the idllsh!« haste to
the shepherd’s fold,
For death lurks in the mountains and
darkness comes apace.
The fleeing sun looks backward ani turns
the sky to gold,
Then folds the mantle of the night
across its crimson face.
Home when the daylight is waning;
Home, when my toiling is done;
Ah! down by the gate, sweet, watch­
ing eyes wait
My coming at setting of sun.
ay aside the hoe and spade, and put the
sickle by;
All the world is weary, and
weary, too.
Gently fades the rosy light from out the
western sky.
And 1 am coming from the fields, dear
heart, to home ami you.
Home when the daylight is waning;
Home, when my toiling is done;
Ah! down by the gate, sweet, watch­
ing eyes wait
My coming at setting of sun.
—American Agriculturist.
Ned s Wife
VEHYBODY but Captain Marvin
liked handsome Ned Grayling,
tlie most popular hand on board
the old Vanguurd.
Ned never shirked his duty, but it
was known to a few that he was dead
hi love with pretty Cora, the skipper's
daughter, who was engaged to a man
named Audley. a Junior partner In the
firm of owners, whom she had never
seen. Hence, the old man's dislike for
Ned.
Cora was on board, going home from
Shanghai to her future busband, as we
supposed.
“Ned,” said I to him one morning.
“I've a good mind to get off this rail
and give you a toweling on the spot.
You orter have it good and solid. You
orter know wliat chance a common
Hallor tins with the captain and act
like somebody. Conte, give up the
Idea.”
"Never.”
“You'll be sorry for it some time.”
Ned looked over ills shoulder and saw
Cora standing in the waist and bad
work there instantly. I was vexed,
for I knew that the old man was
watching bint, anil I was afraid he
would get Into trouble. He only said
a word or two and passed on, but the
old man saw him speaking to her and
bore up to hint.
“Look here, my Ind," he Raid, “didn’t
you speak to my daughter Just now ?"
"Yea, sir," replied Ned. “Any orders
to the contrary?”
“Yes,” growled the old man. “You
dare speak to her again and I'll have
all the skin off your back."
"Give your orders, Captain Marvin,
and 1 will try to obey them.”
“You must never speak to the girl
again. She's a fool and forgets that
I've promised her to the best young
niiin in Philadelphia: leastways every
one says so. But I never saw hint.
Now you must come and make trouble,
bln tile you!"
"1 love Cora," said Ned. quickly. "If
you were to kill me you couldn't
change that. But I'nt a gentleman,
■ nd If site Is prsmlsed to some one else
■ nd cares for him Pin not tin* man to
stand In iter way. 1 give you my word
not to speak to Iter unless you give me
leave."
"Go forward, then; I believe you will
do as you say," said the captain.
He didn't s|>eak to Cora again, but
tlie old man forgot to tell him not to
write, anil I believe they wrote enough
letters to fill a mail bag.
We made Calcutta by daylight and
ran In with a pilot, and Just as he took
the ship In charge the captain ran be
low to get a glass of grog and found
his daughter rending Neil's last note.
Well, lie tore around the cabin and
swore until you'd have thought he’d
■tart off all the deck planks. Then lie
eanie on deck on tlie Jump and ordered
inc to put Ned In Irons.
"I’ll have you toweil ashore on a
grating, you confounded lubber," he
roared.
"No, you won't, captain!" cried Ned.
•What have I done now?"
"You promised not to speak to
Cora."
“I kept my word, sir."
"Yes. and site's got a stack of letters
from you ns high aa the mainmast. 1
ought to seize you up to the rigging
and give you forty lashes."
"I wouldn't do that.” said Ned. with
a peculiar look In Ills eyes
"You've
got tlie right to send me ashore, now
we tire In |xirt. but no Hogging, If you
pleas". Now. I’ll make you an offer:
You let me stay on board until we get
to Calcutta, and after twelve hours. If
you do not take back all you have said,
I will agree never to apeak to Cora,
write to her or see her again.”
"That's fair." saiil the ohl man. “Old
Seth Audley comes aboard there, and
I'll tell hint what a sea lawyer I’ve
shipped."
The pilot took US In safely, and two
hours later we wen- boarded by a
shore boat, carrying a passenger. Just
such an old blower as our old man and
with as little bite In him. They shook
hands and dragged each other up and
down tlie deck, and then the old man
ENTIRELY NOVEL, AND COMES
FROM TASMANIA.
.'<!
James It. Iiecne, one of the foremost figures in the public eye during the recent
skyrocket flights of railroad and industrial stocks, has earned the title of the
“Prim e of Plungers.” Conspicuous iu that group of operators famous in Wall
street for the last fifteen years, he has made and lost at least four fortunes in the
battle of speculation. During Ms care?r, and often with his back to the wall,
Mr. Keene fenced with the late Jay Gould and such other masters of the game
of stocks and money. His recent deals, it is declared, have outdone anything that
Gould ever attempted.
Mr. Keene lias a habit of speaking of millions of winnings as lightly as if he
were a farmer gratified over a good horse trade. This man, who has built up
and toppled over fortune after fortune since his entry in Wall street in 1877, was
boru in England in 18.38. the son of a merchant. Meeting with financial losses,
his father removed his family to California in 1852. and James It. Keene, then
but U years of age, began earning his first salary by caring for the cattle auj
other animals kept at Fort Reading, th n in the Indian country.
He later tried milling and stock rais.ng. He secured property near the cele­
brated Comstock lode in Nevada, went t> San Francisco, plunged into mining
speculation, and made a fortune. In the crash which followed he lost every
cent. A friend bought him a seat on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and
by a lucky purchase a few years later he cleared up $<>.000,900. In 1877, en
route to Europe, he took his first “flyer” in Wall street. He operated cau­
tiously, selling out his holdings two years later for $9.000,000. This grew to
$15,000,000, and in the early '80s all was swept away in an attempted wheat
corner. He made ami lost another fortune, and then, in 1898, backed only by
an indomitable will, he aided in cornering tobacco. He made a million and a
quarter. In two months sugar Stocks yielded him $2.000,000. Recently he got
on the "right side" of the market, ami his fortune to-day is estimated at $12,-
000,000.
asked him into the cabin and showed
his daughter, whom the old chap had
never seen.
“She’ll do," saiil old Audley. “Clean-
built little clipper as ever I see. If my
boy Ned objects to acting as convoy
for such a craft as that I’ll have him
up at the grating. But where Is he?”
“I don’t know anything about him,”
said the captain. "But I’ve got a man
on board who swears he’ll marry Corn,
and blame my eyes If 1 don't think he
will If your son ain’t smart.”
"If he can weather on Ned Audley,
give him the girl!” roared the passen­
ger. ‘My boy Is smart, I tell you. He
I
went up to Shanghai to—why. there
he is!”
The door swung open and Ned Gray­
ling walked in.
"That's the man!" cried Captain Mar­
vin. “He says he will have her. and
I'll give my consent. But I'll see him
hanged!"
“Don’t swear. Captain," saiil Ned.
slapping him familiarly on the shoul­
der. "I'm Ne<l Grayling Audley, the
son of that old fellow there, anti I ship­
ped In the Vanguard to see how I liked
Cora before I married her. And 1 loved
her from the start, am! unless you or
tier me ashore-----’’
"Shut lip!" roared Captain Marvin,
"Steward, bring on the wine while 1
drink the health of my future son-ln
law. But I was very near flogging you.
my boy, very near It.”- New York
News.
MAN’S SPHERE IN NATURE.
Evolution Theorists Iteclare lie Ila.
Attained It by Stow Degree«.
Since Huxley's pioneer work in 1863
a host of Investigators have carried
forward Hie study of structural resem­
blances connecting tlie genus man with
lower genera and orders, says Prof. W.
J. McGee in Ills address as retiring
president of the Anthro|>ologlciil So­
ciety of Washington. Today thq phys­
ical similarities are among the com­
monplaces of knowledge, whatsoever
the background of philosophical opin
lou concerning cause and sequence.
During the last decade or two tlie In
vcHtigators themselves. with scarce an
exception, have gone one step farther
and now include aeqnenee of develop­
ment from lower to higher forms as
among the commonplaces of opinion,
whatsoever the background of meta
physical notion as to cause. There the
strictly biologic aspect of the ques­
tion aa to man's place in nature may
safely be considered to rest.
The chief advances lu anthropology
have related to what men <lo aud what
men tliiuk, and the progress has been
such as to indicate with fairly satis­
factory clearness the natural history
of human thinking, as well ns that of
human doing. As la shown by the
latest resear<-lies, the mental workings
of the human are analogous withthoxe
of the lower animals, while the range
from the lustluet and budding reason
of higher animals to the thinking of
lowest man would seem far less than
that separating the beast-fearing sav­
age from the scientist and statesman.
In short, the evident tendency of the
science of anthropology Is, according
to Prof. McGee, toward the establish­
ment of a mental as well as a physi­
cal evolution of man from a prototype
of lower rank in the animal kingdom.
Tasmania may Justly claim the credit
G> having given the world a new sport.
In that far-off land, among the men of
brawn and might, whose swinging
axes have felled the towering forests
Bini converted tlielr trackless depths
into flourishing farmlands, has arisen
a contest tit for kings, a form of ath­
letic exercise calculated to bring the
thrill of delight to all who have an
honest admiration for good red blood
and the display of mighty muscle sys­
tematically trained to do useful work.
The new sport may be designated as
“axmanship," and although it is of but
recent origin it has already taken the
premiership over all other sports. What
the bull-lighter is to Spain and Mex­
ico. the cricketer to England, the
swordsman to France, the hockey
player to Canada, and the football and
baseball hero to the United States, the
champion axrnan has become to the
brawn-loving Australians.
The championship contest or carnival
is held yearly in Ulverstine, Tasmania,
some time during the first two months
of the year, under the auspices of an
organization specially formed for the
purpose, bearing the title of the “Uni­
ted Australian Axmen's Association.”
The entries to the yearly competition
are not confined to Tasmania, but come
also from Victoria, New South Wales
and New Zealand. Each district has
its champion, and among the adher­
ents of these various stars there is the
most heated controversy as to the re­
spective merits of each. For months
before the great contest these brawny
axmen spend all their spare time prac­
ticing, until they develop a speed and
strength that is little short of marvel­
ous. This year’s carnival is conceded
to have been the most successful since
the yearly meeting was Inaugurated.
In the championship chopping con­
tests there tvere six trials and the final.
Eight men participated in each of the
trials, and the winners fought out the
finals. As this contest is designed
primarily to test a man’s skill In fell­
ing a tree, the log, a great piece of
tough wood, six feet four Inches In
girth, is placed firmly in the ground, as
though It were a growing tree.
Five minutes before the beginning of
the heat the referee’s whistle sum-
tnons the contestants into the Inclosure.
They are all splendid specimens of
physical prowess—thick set, deep-
chested. Iron muscled and bronzed
from exposure. Each carries his favor­
ite ax. the fullest latitude being al­
lowed in the matter of selection. It is
• significant fact that several of the
saws and axes used this year were the
product of American firms. When all
is ready the pistol shot sounds and the
contest is on.
Scarcely less exciting is the sawing
contest. The log used Is the same size
as that employed in the chopping con­
test. but the time made is much more
rapid, for the great saw cuts through
the wood much more quickly than the
• x can go.
This year for the first time the ax-
men’s and sawyers’ championships were
won by the same man—Thomas I’ettitt.
of Sprint. Tasmania. Not only did he
win both events, but he also broke the
record for each.
were drowned. Striking Mr. WatlLng-
ton aud knocking bitn Into the water
saved the life of the bull, and the water
saved the blow by the bull from killing
Watlington.
Further examination showed that the
bull struck Mr. Watlington and the
shock had knocked the gun some dis­
tance. aud when it struck the ground it
was discharged and killed one of the
cows and wounded another so badly
that It had to be killed. The gun was
not Injured.
Un these facts Judge Brown held that
the railroad company was not liable in
dautagvs to Mr. Watlington. Since the
trial the owner of the two cows has
sued Mr. Watlington and recovered
$100 in full damages for their killing.
Mr. Watlington says the ending of
this lawsuit bangs a biue sheep: That
he was knocked down by a Jersey bull,
which was hurled at hint by the train,
and nearly drowned, aud his gun is dis­
charged and kills two cows, and he gets
no damage and is compelled to pay $100
for being the principal in the most cele­
brated ease in the history of accidents
by railroad trains.
But since all this happened Mr. Wat­
lington has had a great piece of good
luck to befall him. He has been work­
ing for II. N. Snow, at High Point, in
the furniture business.
Mr. Snow is
getting old and. being rich and tired of
the business, he retired and gave the
whole plant and business, worth $20,-
000, to Mr. Watlington, who was of no
kin to him, but simply a faithful em­
ploye.
So. Mr. Watlington has had
some recompense for his experience
with the
.................
bull and train.—Chicago
Chronicle.
< entury in Office.
Hubbard B. McDonald, whose official
title Is journal clerk to the United
States Senate, but who is in reality the
parliamentarian of
that body, is the
third of his imme­
diate family to oc­
cupy that position,
H Is grandfather,
John G. McDon-
aid, was appolnt-
ed chief clerk of
the Senate In 1809,
and continued in
that position until
H. B. M’nOXALD.
his death, in 1836.
Ills son, the father of the present in­
cumbent, was appointed to succeed
him, and he remained as the official
helmsman of the Senate until his
death, nearly twenty-five years ago.
Even before the death of his father
Hubbard McDonald had become con­
nected with the Senate in a clerical ca­
pacity, and he has now served for
many years as its parliamentary ex­
pert. It Is his business to sit close to
the presiding officer of the Senate and
keep him from falling Into parliament­
ary pitfalls. He reports that of all the
Vice Presidents It has been his fortune
to coach Mr. Roosevelt Is by far the
hardest to keep In line. “Teddy" has
such decided Ideas and opinions of his
own that he yields with poor grace to
the mandates of tradition and prece­
dent.
For His Country,
Lord R----- , who had many good qual­
ities, and even learning, had a strong
desire of being thought skillful tn phy­
sic, and was very expert in bleeding.
Lord Chesterfield, who knew his foi­
ble and wished on a certain occasion
Booms In Suicide Mania.
to have his vote, went to him one
In one of the Philadelphia asylums
morning and after having conversed on
for the insane there are certain apart­
Indifferent matters, complained of a
ments known as "suicide rooms.” These
headache and desired his lordship to
are set aside as harbors of refuge for
feel his pulse. It was found to beat
those patients who manifest a strong
high and a hint of bleeding was thrown
desire to end tlielr lives. Everything in
out, “I have no objection and as I
these rooms is round. There are no
NOVEL ACCIDENT IN COURT:
hear your lordship has a masterly
knobs or posts to the beds, for the
—
hand, will you favor me with trying
maniac would tie a sheet around atty One of the Most Extraordinary l am
your lancet upon me?” said the tact
such projection and hang himself, For
ace Cases in In I’cial Annal«.
the same reason there are no gas tlx-
A suit in the Superior Court In Ra- ful and politic Chesterfield. After the
tuces and no Inside shutters. There [ leigh. N. C., against the Seaboard Alr operation he said: "By the way. do
are not even door knobs, while the Line Railway has brought to light the you go to tlie house to-da.v?”
"I did not intend to go, not being
doors themselves are made to open out­ most novel accident known to the an-
sufficiently Informed of the question t >
ward. When the men undress their lulls of Jurisprudence.
clothes are carefully removed from the
The vestibule passenger train from be debated,” answered the impromptu
room, so that they may not be used J Atlanta was bowling along toward Ra­ physician. "Which side will you be
for strangling tlielr owners. All the leigh on a down grade at the rate of of?”
Lord Chesterfield, having gained his
edges of bureaus, the backs of chairs, fifty miles per hour at 10 o'clock in the
etc., are carefully rounded, so that morniug. William Watlington was on confidence, easily directed his judg­
there may be no points upon which the I his way to a wild turkey blind, which ment; he took him to the house and
inmates might beat their heads, No i he has baited, and had his doub'.e- got him to vote as he pleased. He af­
terwards said that few of his friends
canes or sticks are allowed In the Ibarreled, breech-loading shotgun on his
had done ns much as he, having liter­
rooms. The doors are left open nt night shoulder, two cartridges being in the
ally bled for the good of his country.
On reaching the railroad
and a keeper parades Incessantly up chambers.
and down before them.
, track, which was on an embankment
Golilsinith's Generosity.
i about ten feet high at this place, Mr.
A beggar once asked alms of Oliver
Little Blanche 1«Meditative.
Watlington beard the train in the dis­ Goldsmith as he walked with a friend
Blanche is tlie little 5-year old daugh­ lance and stopped on the side of
tile up Fleet street, and he gave her a
ter of an East Side newspaper man. track about fifty feet away to view
the shilling.
His companion. ’ knowing
She has lately been meditating on the train as it swept by.
He could not something of the woman, censured tlie
problems of existence, Yesterday site
see over the embankment on the other writer for his excess of humanity, say­
got something in iter throat which
side of the track.
Along bes:de the ing that the shilling was misapplied,
caused her to cough, When she got embankment on both sides of the track
as site would spend ft for liquor. “If
through she said: "I guess I will
there are the usual ditches, which were it makes her happy in any way, my
cough my head off some day
Then filled with water.
Mr. Watlington end Is answered." replied Goldsmith.
she went on: "If I should cough my was standing between the embankment
Another proof that the doctor's gen­
head off, papa. would God make me a I anil one of these ditches on the north erosity was not always regulated by
new one?"
side of the track with bis gun on his discretion was at n time when, after
Her papa answered: I am afraid right shoulder.
On the other side of much delay, a day was fixed to pay the
not. I never heard of such a ease."
the track were a number of cattle nip­ forty |wttnds due his tailor. Goldsmith
She pursued her thought a step ping grass, which Mr. Watlington could procured the money, but a friend call­
further and said: "I suppose It would not see.
ing upon him and relating a piteous
be just as cheap for him to make a
Just a few seconds before the train tale of his goods being seized for rent,
whole baby as to make Just a head." passed these cattle commenced to the thoughtless but benevolent author
Her father answered that he thought struggle across the track to the side on gave him all the rnouey. The tailor
it would. Cleveland Lender.
which Mr. Watlington was standing. called and was told that If he had
The borines all got safely across except come a little sooner he could have had
Her Father's Fault J
Jorker- I hear you have broken off one small Jersey bull. He was caught the money, but that be had Just parted
your engagement with Miss rrettifaee. on the cowcatcher and hurled away with every shilling of it to a friend in
with terrible velocity, and. as mis- distress, adding: “I would have been
Mutiny seeker.
Munnysixker Yes; It was her futli fortune would have !L he srru k Mr. an unfeeling monster not to bare re-
Watlington
about
midships
and lieved trouble when in my power.”
er's fault.
knocked him down Into the ditch and
Jorker- How was that
Welsh latnguage.
Mutiny seeker Why, the Idiot failed. planted the bull on top of him.
The poll taken of Cardiff. Wales, on
The bull was stunned anil struggled,
—London Tit Bits.
the question whether children in the
but could not get up, and the water
board schools should be taught the
Would Seem That Way.
was drowning both man and beast.
Welsh language has resulted In a ma­
Mrs. Metldergrass The paper says The engineer, Mr. Honeycutt was
jority of GT votes against It.
that most o' the Rooshians Is ignorant watching the cattle and had not seen
people.
Mr Watlington. and when the fireman
Had No* Li*.
Mr. Meddergraas Well. now. I sh'd told hint what had happened he stopped
First Kansan—Did thet cyclone dam­
think they'd have to be purty smart tc the train and hurried back, and got age Jed Verkins’ house enny?
understand their own language. Balti there in time to get Mr. Watlington and
Second Kansas—Dunno; it hain't lit
more American.
I the bovine out of the ditch before they yit.—Ohio State Jourral.
REGISTER OF TREASURY.
Hon Judson W. Lyons, Register of
the United State T reaery, in a letter
from Waahington, D. C., says:
Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the
Trees u ry.
April 23d, 1899.
Pe-'it-na Drug M’f’g Co., Columbus,
O. :
Gentlemen—I find Pe-ru-na to be
an excellent remedy for the catarrhal
affections of spring and summer, and
those who suffer from depression from
the heat of the summer will find no
remedy the equal of Pe-ru-na.
Judson W. Lyons.
No man is better known in the
financial world than Judson W.
Lyons. His name on every piece of
money of recent date, makes his sig­
nature one of the most familiar ones
Hon. Lyons'
in the United States,
He is a
uldress in Auugsta, Ga.
ember of the National Republican
onimittee, and is a prominent and
influential politician.
Hon. Judson W. Lyons recom­
mends Peruna for spring catarrh.
If you do not derive prompt and
satisfactory results from the use of
Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hart­
man, giving a full statement of your
case and he will be pleased to give
you his valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, president of
the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Room for Improvement.
“Say,” remarked the impatient
passenger, who was traveling on busi­
ness in the South, “is this the fastest
train you have down here?”
“Yes, suh,” replied the conductor,
proudly, “this is the Southwestern
limited, sub. ”
“Well, your company ought to
raise the limit, that’s all.”
More Substantial.
Blobbs—Why did she jilt you?
Slobbs—She detected the odor of
beer on my breath.
“A prude, eh?”
“Not at all, but there was another
fellow whose breath smelled of cham­
pagne. ”
Where
Ruben Went
Farmer Hayrake—I s'pose ye’ve
heard 'bout my sendin’ my son Reu­
ben to an institution uv lamin’?
Farmer Snakeroot — Why, no.
Some fool's bin spreadin’ the report
’round the neighborhood that yew’ye
sent him ter college.
They Hadn't Made Up.
“Well,” said he, anxious to patch
up their quarrel of yesterday, “aren’t
you curious to know what’s in the
package?”
“Not very,” his wife, still unrelent­
ing, replied, diffidently.
“It’s something for the one I love
best in all the world.”
“Ah, I suppose it’s those suspenders
you said you needed.”
Why
He Said It.
Costigan—Don’t say’ you ain’t done
nothin’.
Madigan—And why not?
Costigan—Because that isn’t good
English.
Madigan—Faith, I’m glad to hear
it, for by the powers, nayther am I.
Good Name,
“The new American consul general
at Hong Kong is named Rublee,”
remarked the observant boarder.
“Rub Lee,” rejieateil the cross eyed
boarder; “how suggestive of washee-
vashee!”
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Foot of Morrison Street.
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