TU j L iä MUUJS
General News.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,
xi.bAJJ.LdG-HT, OCTOMER 5,
19C5
diets. I. Clough,
A WARTIME MEETING' MABIE’S TROUBLES.'
The Coos & Coquille Valley Railroad
There are in Paris 1,316 factories.
“No,” remarked an elderly, robust looking
Mrs Mabie had noticed during their days
Company, incorporated by J. M. Hod
The world’« output of coal iu 1900
man with the gilded braid around hiaslouca of courtship that Mabie was always intense
son, Phil Metsclian and H. L. Pittoc* , was 767,636,000 ton».
hat, “Washington doesn’t look much like it ly interested in w ait ver she might happen
filed articles in the office of Secretary ot
A large factory in Jena, Germany, did when I saw it tne last time—in May, to be doing and that ne was fertile m the
1865.
State Dunbar. The company ha» a capi utilizes its surplus hot water in such
matter oi suggestion. One day, fur
“My dad brought me down here to Wash ne found ner engaged <>n some embroidery
tal stock of $250,(KM) and proposes to a way as to afford the laborer» nearly
ington
from
Detroit
to
enter
me
at
George
and at once proceeded to question ner con
a
thousand
baths
per
week.
construct a railroad from Marshfield to
In some German cities it is custom town university in the year 1860 I was then ceriiing every detail of her method ot »Uten
Myrtle Point.
a bit more than 16 year»old. I liked the life ins. Then he proposed an improvement,
ary to fee street car conductors, who at the Georgetown university until the war
M * *
and, failing to explain it to tne lady to her
Pat Crowe, who was arrested at are thus enabled to add from four to broke out. Then there were too many rol ent ire satisfaction, gave her a pract c d dem
licking soldier boy» camped around in the onstration, with the result of ruining ner
Butte, Mont., was positively identified six dollars a month to their income.
The richest farm in the world is an neighborhood of Georgetown for me to pre work of art. That was rather trying, but
by a man whose name is withheld by the
serve my con ten ted ne»«. They all looked to there was worst to come and it kept coming.
acre worth $288,000 in the heart of New
police, but who is said to have worked
They kept no servant when they were
York’s ultra-fashionable district, be me a« if tney were enjoying a picnic, and
•with Crowe in the stockyards in South tween West End avenue and River I made up my mind that I’d have to get first married. They had the tiniest box ot
one of those blue uniforms on myself or a flat and there would have been no place
Omaha. The man under arrest persists side drive. It is tilled regularly an’
to put a girl even if they had needed one
that he is Crowe and says he wants tn the produce is sold at the nearest mat I shrivel up.
“Shortly after the beginning of the war
go back to Nebraska and clear himself, ket.
During the civil war the site I wrote home to my dad in Detroit—he was and had been able to afford her. Besides,
Mrs. M ibie had been given one of those old-
believing that there is no law under was covered by a government recruit then organizing a Michigan legnnent, which fashioned educations that include courses
ing
station.
he
took
all
through
the
war,
and
it
was
cut
which he can be prosecuted.
of cooking and scientific scrubbing and mar
A research steamer belonging to the to pnc.-B several times, too—and told him keting. and they got along very well in
* M ☆
that
I
thought
1
would
like
to
join
the
army,
Norwegian
government
recently
car
deed. Bui Mabie, while his admiration of
“Liberty is dead in Cuba, and the con
ried on the North sea some experi Tne phrase wasn't in use then, but he wrote his w ife’» accomplishments knew no bounds,
dition of affairs there is worse than t
batk
scniething
to
tise
general
effect
that
I
could no; help feeling that there were many
mental Ashings which yielded impor
ever was under Spanish rule, even in the
had another tnink or two a-coming. He thing» in t-.ie domain of domestic economy
tant results. In three days 117 halibut
wrote
that
I
didn
’
t
know
wnen
I
wa*
well
most ferocious periods of the Weyler and 300 large cod were caught at a
that required the application of a masculine
government. Financial ruin and dis- depth of 200 fathoms, thus proving off, and sard that, as he was getting together intelligei C-* for their successful execution.
1,000 men for tne big conflict, he figured
"I don’t pretend to know about these
honer will come to the Cuban peopleand, the existence of large quantities of
tnat he could come pretty near doing all things,” he would say, "and I know that
thef>e
Ashes
at
a
time
of
the
year
when
the
soldiering
necessary
in
our
family.
I
if things continue as they are, the nation
you do know- all about them. If I thoug.it
will be coverted into one of hereditary they are not to be found on. the coast remember thinking that this was pretty that you considered me officious or med
•elfish on the old gentleman's part. I re dling—“
of
Norway.
rule.” That declaration was made by
“Ronald! As if I could think such a
Many people imagine that the in flected that he had been in the Mexican
General Jose Miguel Gomez, governor of
war, and that therefore in wishing to do all
candescent electric light gives out little of the soldiering in the civil war, too, he cer thin6!”
1
L. A
the Province of Santa Clare and can
“1 know you don’t. That s exactly what
or no heat, but it is found that of the
tainly was showing a disposition to hog I say. You understand that we are all likely
didate of the Liberal party for the presi energy consumed only six per cent,
things.
to fall into a rut. I am myself in my work
dency of Cuba.
is converted into light, while 95 per
"However, I studied my lessons and went and there is nothing more likely than that
* * *
cent, goes into heat. A lamp immersed along all rignt at Georgetown university
you might be able to give ine valuable point
Andrew Dewet, nephew of the famous in water will bring the water to a until early in 1861, and then I couldn’t stand
ers. Il’s just the same about this kitchen
Boer, Christian Dewet, has been arrest boil. and. many cases of fire have been it any longer. So one afternoon 1 just cut
work. From the very fact that I am ig
ed at his residence in a suburb of jWind- caused by carelessness in letting in out througn the big gate, made for the rail norant of it 1 am more likely sometimes to
road
station
and
established
conniptions
perceive the obvious thing to do than you
lioek, German Southwest Africa, with flammable substances rest in contact
with a freight car tacked on to a freight are with all your training and experience.
four other Boers, accused of plotting the with the lamp.
train that I found was booked to go to west The beauty of the thing is that when I point
Prof, James Dewar, president of the ern New York. Inside of three or four days
overthrow of German rule in Southwest
it out you at once understand iny motive
Africa, to create a Boer republic. This annual meeting of the British A »so I was incontinentally dropped at Lockport, in doing so—to make it easier tor you—and
ciation
for
the
Advancement
of
Sci-
N
Y.
you don’t fly off the handle as a narrow
news, purporting to come from an ex
“It didn’t take me long there to fall into
ence at Belfast. has pointed out in the
minded woman might do. Now-, as to this
cellent authority was distributed to the
boldest language that while English- the hands of a substitute broker, and two dishwashing. I observe that you take every
German press Bureau, and is accepted men have repeatedly discovered scien days after I arrived at Lockport 1 was duly
separate dish, wash it in the soapy water,
as truth by other journals.
tific principles and laws of great im togged out in a government straight uni rinse it in the clear and then wipe it with
form
that,
as
I
remember
it,
was
the
baldest
* * *
your dishcloth. You do that because every
portance. the Germans and Americans
woman you have ever seen washing dishes
The first essential for success in dairy have been making the practical appli kind of a joke as a fit. Somehow I didn't
feel half so cheerful over the prospect of does it in exactly the same way. As the re
ing is the herd of cows adapted to the cations of them, leaving England be a rollicking military career when, with about
• suits are fairly satisfactory, you don’t pause
purpose, the next good pasturage or hind in reaping the advantages.
100 other young gossoons, I was herded in a
to consider that it might be done far easier
corner of an old storehouse, near the rail I and with great saving of lime.”
green feed from other sources in
road, and kept there under guard until the
COMPLAIN
OF
STAMPS.
“I belitve you are getting tired of help
season and out of season, if possible
train was ready to lake us to the front.
ing me with the dishes,” said Mrs. Mabie.
from the silo. These, attended with Loit
“Naturally enough, I was pretty curious
“Well, tell nie how you would do it.”
to find out to what part of the ‘front’ we
regular and careful attention as regards
“1’11 show you,” said Mabie. “You take
were going, but never a line of information
feed and milking and intelligent methods
a batch of them, this way, and—”
could I get from anybody about it until
“Take care of that cake dish!”
of disposing of the products of the dairy
we were well past Baltimore. 1 don’t sup
“You dump them into— Well, who'd
Many complaints have been made pose any of the others knew any more than
in the most profitable way, will bring
have thought they’d have smashed as easily
1 did.
success.
Under such conditions the to the post office authorities that the
stamps sold in books of 24 and 48 have
“When we got beyond Baltimore, how as that*”
results of dairying will unquestionably
The ba c i had slipped from his soapy
had a way of sticking to the paraffin
ever, I found out, all right, whither we were
compare favorably with almost any paper that was supposed to protect bound, and the news made me almost wither fingers and had fallen in a crash of frag
nients
into the sink. His concern over the
other line of agricultural industry, and the mucilage on them. An investiga up.
“ ‘We’re going to Giesboro’ Point!’ one of accident was so genuine that his wife had
the great progress that is shown in this tion was made, with the result that a
not the heart to scold him, though the cake
industry in all States that previously circular was issued authorizing the re the young officers announced when the train
dish was a wedding present and one of the
got outside of Baltimore. Now, only a few
demption
of
stamps
so
glued
to
the
turned their attention almost wholly to
days before I'd jumped the Georgetown uni most valued of their possessions. She gath
ered up the pieces carefully and poured balm
grain production is proof that the sheets in books.
versity I’d received a letter from my dad
on his wounded spirit by assuring him tnat
It was explained that “by mistake”
in Detroit, saying that he’d be over to the
farmers who are receiving good in
the dish could be mended by an expert that
the contractor who made the books
university
to
see
nie
presently,
as
his
rtgi-
struction along this line from various had used a poor quality of paraflin pa
she knew of so neatly that it would be al
ment was going to be stationed only a little
most as good as ever.
sources are turning toward it in great per. Postmasters were instructed to
distance away from Washington—at Gies-
“I>et me look at it,” said Mabie. “I guess
number, with gratifying results.
return to the department at Washing boro’ Point! None of the terrors of battle that's
so. 1 think I could mend it myself.”
or sudden death looked half so fierce to me
* * *
ton all books of stamps made with this
“Oh, 1 wouldn’t bother, dear. 1’11 take it
in prospect as my dad’s discovering me in
Permission to begin suit against John inferior quality of paraffin fly leaves
around to the little china shop to-morrow."
a misfit uniform, and right in his own camp,
A. McCall, president, and George W. I which they had on hand. Under this
He per.-isted in his intention and went out
too.
after
he'd
so
expressly
forbidden
me
that evening and bought a bottle of china
Perkins, vice-president of the New York order about $12,000 worth of damaged
to have anything to do wit.i soldiering.
cement. After about an hour’s hard work
Life Insurance Company, for the resti. books have been turned in. and it is
“I well remember the night we were
he succeeded in getting the dish pieced to
dumped at Giesboro’ Point, the little place
tution of $150,000 contributed to the I thought that there will be little more
gether and sticking the tablecloth to the
I trouble of the kind.
down
tne
Potomac
a
bit
on
the
Maryland
Republican campaign funds, was asked ;
table, though he was not aware that he had
This is not t he only stamp t rouble of
side- I drove over there yesterdaj to have
done this until his wife tried to remove the
of Attorney.General Mayer by William I the post office. Particularly from the a look at the old grounds. 1 made up my
c oth the next morning and pulled out a
Hepburn Russell, acting as attorney for 1 south and along the. Atlantic coast
mind that the best thing for me Iodo would
leaf and upset some more china on the floor.
be to look up the old gentk mm ti e very
several policy holders. Under the laws' there -’ame many complaints that the
The
fabric stuck so firmly that he was con
first thing on the following morning and
the sanction of the Attorney-General i ordinary one and two-cent stamps
vinced that the dish must have “set,” al
lake
my
medicine
—
I
was
too
tired
to
think
though the directions said the mended ar
is required in order to bring a suit of stuck to everything they touched. A
of anytnii g but rolling up in a blanket on
ticles should be allowed to remain in a cool,
the first nig it we got in.
this character.
Mr.’ Russell said the ' sheet of 50 or more was turned in at
dry place for three or four days. It certainly
the New York post office this week.
“I found my dad in his tent along toward
suit would be based on the contention ' They had been sent loose in a letter
looked as if it had “set,” but when he tri
10 o’clock on the next morning. He had
that the money paid to the National! from the south and were hopelessly
umphantly
knocked it against the mantel
no idea, of course, that 1 wasn’t right over
piece to prove it the d'«u tell apart on the
Republican Connnittee was expended by j glued to the paper.
the river at Georgetown c mjugating Isatin
hearth and smashed into bits.
McCall and Perkins without corporate
Whether the trouble is due to some verbs, and on that very day, in fact, be
So it went on for years, Mabie always full
was intending to cross over to Georgetown
authority.
lie declared that he in. thing wrong with the mucilage or the
of new ideas for the lightening of house
to look mt up.
tended also to sue for the restitution of abnormally wet season in the south
hold toil and prodigal in his expenditure for
“ ‘Hello, pop,’ said 1, strolling into his
patent houseaold devices of every descrip
$233,0(H) which Mr. McCall testified had and along the coast has not been de- tent and endeavorn g to look as rakish as
termined. There is no provision for
tion,
daunted by no failure and txul irg in
I could. ‘How are they all at home?’
been placed in the hands of Andrew
the redemption by poetmasters of
the faintest measure of success, and Mrs.
“Well, the old gentleman looked at me
Hamilton, of Albany. The jxilicy. damaged individual stamps.
Mabie forbearing and sympathetic, but with
steadily for a good three minutes before he
holders represented by Mr Russell are
•aid a word or before I knew what was going premature lines of care on her pretty face
Iluell
ntc
Ln
*ivlt«rrlfi
nd,
that may have been attributable to her hus
Walter Goodyear, Lemuel I). Lilly and
to happen to me. I put in the time shifting
The duel, though prohibited by law. from one leg to the other. Then my dad's band’s idiosyi c asy.
William B. Winslow.
still exists in Switzerland, but the countenance broke into a gun.
Then the Mabie» grew prosperous—that is,
* * «
“ ‘That's a queer-looking uniform, son,’ they enjoyed a fair measure of prosperity—
In his forthcoming annual report to ( practice is confined to the students in
and Mrs. Mabie no longer wore a kitchen
the Swiss German universities. Even
he said. ‘You’ll have to be looking up your
the Secretary of the Interior, ’.and Com these fire-eaters are beginning to real company tailor to have it whittled down to
apron and cooked little dinners. There were
servants to attend to all that. In the first
missioner W. A. Richards will make two ize the absurdity of the practice, for your proportions.’
days of the change Mabie hardly seemed
“That was all. He didn’t roast me at all,
important recommendations that are a meeting was held at Zurich lately
to fed as if the joys of life had departed
entirely new and designed to better the at which student delegates from all and 1 had been expect ing him to swoop upon
me like a thousand of bricks. Not a ques from him, but a realization of the fact came
public land service. As a means of re parts were present, to discuss the duel tion dhi he ask me as to why I'd disobeyed upon him by degrees. He strayed down into
ducing fraud under the various land and. courts of honor. A proposition by
him and jumped the university. I’m not cer his kitchen now and then in an aimless sort
of way, but somshow he felt that he was
la ws, lie w ill recommend the enactment the president to abolish the duel alto tain that the old gentleman wasn’t just a bit
gether was rejected by a large major tickled inwardly that one of his cubs had
not welcome and that hi« tentative efforts
of a law imposing a heavy iienalty upon ity. The consequence was that a large taken
to make life brighter for the help were not
the bit m his teeth in that way.
anyone who offers an inducement to an number of duels which were previous
appreciated,
“Well, pretty nigh four years after that,
He began to lose flesh and
have fits of depression
.
___ worried
________ Mrs.
that
other to make any kind of public land ly arranged and whcse principles were
in the month of March, before Appomattox.
Mabie,
and
she
made hun consult three or
1
was
dumped,
along
with
many
scores
of
entry in the interest of a second person, awaiting the result of the vote took
others that had been pretty badly hit, into four doctors, who prescribed various reme
and increasing the penalty to tie imposed place at Bremgnrten. near Berne. a boat on the James river bound from there dies, none of which did any good. Not until
upon those who make entries for the Many students received severe rapier to a Washington hospital. I had got mine nearly six months after that did Mrs. Ma
»ole purpose of selling out at a profit. cuts, chiefly in the face, but nobody in a skirmish, and yet it was a bad enough bie guess her husband’s complaint. He came
was seriously wounded. The police,
Mr Richards realizes the difficulty of though they know the practice exist», piece of work for a man to have got in the in one evening with an air of having some
biggest pitched battle of the war. Down thing on his mind and sec d several times
securing convictions of persons who and are often aware of the “affair,” the Janies and up the Potomac was the on the point of speaking, but apparently
make speculative entries under the law seldom interfere, for they look upon
course of the boat, and when 1 came to I
thought better of it. At last he pull«! from
his pocket a small package from which after
as it stands today, for the Government the duel, as practiced by the students, found my «elf on a cot in an institution called
Campbell
’
s
hospital
a curious hesitation he produced a mysteri
has been hampered and practically as a sporting and harmless matter.
“
1
was
still
there
when
Lincoln
was
as*
ous
arrangement of c >g wheels and flanges
thwarted in every attempt it has made , It is certain that nobody has ever been
sassinated. and 1 can remember how I
“I saw this in the store to-day.” he ex
seriously
hurt
in
these
affairs
of
hon
to prosecute speculative entrymen. But
pitched and tossed around in a hostile humor I plained. as he began turning a little crank
or.— London Tinies.
because I wasn’t in shape to get up for the
be liclieves that if the law is made more
that made a strange buzzing sound. “A
grand nview of the army. My dad. who’d man was demonstrating with it. and the wav
drastic ami is made to apply not only to '
Tie tasrewIniM Inventor,
lieen thr ugh the entire war with his Michi
the man who submits to a spccwlative
“The market is overrun with substi gan outfit, came to see me at the hospital— it beats an egg is simply a marvel. I should
think that our cook might like to have it.
proposition but to the man who offers tutes for this food and that.” asserts
I hadn’t clapp»**! an eye on him »in»« leav- ' She probably uses a fork, as her great grand
thebitbe. there will be less difficulty in the capitalist. “I see no justification ing Giesboro’ Point, nearly four years be mother did before her I^t me »how you
fore and he inquired of me which apj ealed ! now it works, my dear 1 know you would
reaching the men who are really re. for backing your new health food.”
With a naive »mile the inventor turns to me the more- the life of a soldier or a have liked it.” He sighed and turned the
N|H«naible.
Mr Richards will not lay to him and suggests:
student? He got me out of that place when erank again.
dow n any particular form of law .but w ill
"But it may also be used as a substi I was just able to walk. and. wtth a lot of 1 “Those were happy days when I used to
back
pay and the like m my rags, back to help you around the kitchen, weren’t they?”
c<»utent himself u ith urging the passage tute for cosl.”
Detroit 1 went with huu and tr.at’s the
of a law along the general lines indi
I hen the capitalist displays unusual last I ever saw of U ashington until about , he asked, smiling brightly, as Mrs. Mabie
rated. The mxmnd recommendation activity in sending for patent attor four days ago. I’d like to have brought the exclaimed in an ecstasy of delight at the
ingenuity of the egg beater “I am afraid
will concern I ocm I land offices 'Sill e ney« and clerks to draw up articles old gentleman along, but he stood nit last ' our cook is rattier a conservative woman,
of
¡tartnership
N
Y
Time»
inspection
and
muster
long
years
ago.
That
’
s
the establishment of the public land
but she -»ug it to be glad to have this Don’t
how near 1 < ame to getting w . at you call you think the night*”
service carb local land office has been
Ci rnmii*.
‘a college edd cition ’ My chance was gone,
”1 thouiJ think to, indeed." replied Mr,
Belcher "What was the use in of couree. when I got back from the war—
in charge of a register ami a receiver,
_
- your
ami in offices doing a go«»d busmen each showing Muritch through
things weren’t so prosperous as they had NUbie. enthueiaatirally. ' ¡'nig .irg to take
it down to her thu minute It'e wonderful
gallery? “
lie couldn’t appreciate your been, and it was up to me to go to work
official uas drawn
a year. Experi.
-and nothmg like the work of noet hu
paintt >»4 '
“Rut. all the same, when 1 take a look at beater,
one >eee."
rnce has shown that in almost every
\\ ashmgton, the miracu' >u«’.y changed and
Kutcher- “Well, hr »rented inter-
She returned after a «hort nb.en.-e and re
inttanre Hie work could la» more satis- ested and •urpriaed.**
the marvelously beaut¡’’ul Washing!, n. as
ported that the cook wai overjoyed and
factonly liamlled by one official than by
Belcher- “Realty, and what did he it is to-day—well. I dunno but what I have grateful beyond meaaure. and Mabie wae
a tenden. y to sort o’ swell up over the re
two.
nay r*
flection that I chose to be one of the no m ire I ke hi, old cheerful aelf that evtnm»
Kulcher
; matter how infinitesimal units that helped tnan he had been for month.
W. C. King has .bought the Walt. C.
you’ve got. You must *a’ b
Now Mr. Mabie ha. g-.ee» him a chafing
to keep the little old place t< grther at «
Itailev property in thiscilr.paying $tV>0 awful lot o’ tea in your tinu
time when it look«! like a fair even money duh to amuw ti.tn.elf with and they com
lor it, including some lumiture.
together,
and there i, no more contented
adelphia Tresg,
bet that the capital might go out of bust
®^,«ny where than M.bie,-( hn-ago Dad,
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H T
J Keaton, deceased.
« T. Botts. Attorney for Administrator
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Money
by buying thi»
reliable, honest,
high grade sew
ing machine.
STRONGEST GUARANTEE.
National Sewing Machine Co.,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
FACTORY ATDELVIDERE ILL