Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924, April 06, 1900, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextWEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, T fYYl 'J ' - - FKOM GUY OSBORNE ESTEBIEXCK Or A BALEM BOY IX THE PHILIPPINES. fTork of tba Concord ad Her Crew In Ka : tabUahlag ianliu Kale Span iard KrleaaeeL.- (From Daily, (April 4th.) V. II- Osborn is ia receipt of a let ter from his. son, Giiy R. Osborne, -who, for the past .three years, fias served Uncle Sam as a landsman on- board the United States j gunboat Concord, and who has participated in all the naval operations in the .Philippines since the war broke out4 The letter received by Mr. Osborne yesterday, is 'dated "Gulf of Son Miguel,1 February 27. 1900," and in it the young man says, that a- short time ago his vessel cruised off the coast of the 'Hundred Islands, after which it -was ordered to Cayite in the dock, re maining at Cavite (during January and February. The Paragya, a small gun loat attached to the Concord, had beea .sent to chart the coast of the Hundred Islands and do patrol dirty. Mr. Os borne is one of the small crew of the Paragua. and seems to have been per forming an, 'unpcrtant part of the work for which the (boat was detailed. Fol lowing is the; letter -he writes to his father: ' - j (' : "Just before we left Cavite. I receiv ed a letter fiuiuj home. It -was the first one that 1 had received for several mombs. . r. "Well. we had orders to cime down and help, General llates make a land ing here. ! The (Marietta and four trans ports arc here, but! could not go up the river, sm we itook two companies of soldiers on beard! and went up thirty miles to the town, which is called N'uevo Cacerts. aird is the capital of the province j erf Canvirines Suv. AVe lid not have to fire one shot becaus-e. as quick as the Filipinos saw us. they ran away. Just as quick as the soldiers landed they went lout as outposts, and we were in the town. We 'kw:ed the houses and took a lot erf stuff cut of them. I got this book, which I am writing in, and a No. 18 Remington sbctfjun. a lot of Spanish photos, a full set erf chessmen with board, some fine neckerchiefs, j- a good sheet, six pretty rosaries, a Kulii badge, and some other things. ; Sonic of the boys found jewelry and 'watches and money. It . was 7 a -good haul for us. AVe got into the town at 10 o'clock in the morning, ami remained until a o'clock the next day. .1 j "Then we -went back down to the Mar ietta for orders. She ordered us tfgcr over to one of the transports and tow up tlie -river boats!, which .she had load ed with rations 1 for the soldiers at Nucvo Caceres. jWcll. we towed these up ami started bajek. but had not gone far when we j heard ' a shouting on the banks of the river alongside - of us. and we stop ped and lowered; a loat and wen! to sec what was the matter. We found they were, two Spanish pi ix.ncrs who had escaped front the Filipino. AVe , darted, and had not gone much further! when we picked up four more, and they were glad in get jnto our hands t they .were pretty nearly starved. AV gave them fod and clothes, and sent them to the Marietta, and she will take them to i.Manila. t They told us. there were 400 more about twenty miles fur ther up. The army will try to get them. We pot stuck on the bottom about three hcirMcfore we got out of the river that tunc. I will write from Ilo- Ilo next." j The writer gives his address at Ilo Ilo. I'anay Island. A BIG SALE MADE 4SO rl.K.fC SOI.M VKSTKKIAr -HY HOT UROWKIM' AiS.SUCIAT.ION. Hnp Vlnra Are Shooting Forth Kapblly anil Are Folly Two Wrrk Earlier Than Last l'rir. From ' Daily , April 4th.) The riHwf'h ( .April is opening up tno-t auspiciously for the Oregon Hop growers' Association, and tlie officers f thai org's nizatiorr naturally feel p!eavd vi;'!i the- otulook. The oibcers ot the association s othce. in thrs city yesterday reported the sale of several ki of hops aggregating 1450 bale. T he hop vines iare growing splendidly in all of the yards. ' James Win-tan!cy , Mvretary of the? hopgrowcrs' associa tion, yesteraay j touiufc sIkhhs in mis yard north iM t'his city that were fully a yard in lengtbl 'While this is "an ex ceptional growth, yet ven..s i ti . all of t'isc yards throughout the county have . a I .ailained a growth ot several mcties. In tact, the j vines are fully two weeks eat Iter fiian Itliey were n- the season .rf iXoo. Wiring :4 in progress in many yards. v . j , j : Mr. Winslanley. wfco made a trip to Portland a few days ago, made partieu lir 'observation of the condition of hop ..yards bordering along the railroad track. His fb-r'ations disckved the fact that a ;nnmcr of rhe yards that wrtc cultivated i la- ycar,! Irave been abandoned, i not even having ieen elcared rf the vines of last; year's crop. Thi condition, jtosether with the; re ceipt of reports fron various sections that -me yards are Wing ploug'd up. will doubt icis result "in a reduced acre age and a consequent, contracted yield, rtnks Mr. j Winstarviey. ahlfoush the deficiency so created wiill be partly sup plied by rhej yield from yards that were ;tr .oit. last j year. ' . - -' TO ASK FOR FUNDS SALEM HOSPITAL ASXIOCS TO OCCC PV KBW HOME PKOPERTV. NereMory I m prove meat a Make Kaaeatlal the Katelng ef lletareea 3.00 and S.OOUt'emmlt lee lo D ork. (From Daily. April 4th.) In the i iSalem hopkal.!r5 Capital City has an asylum for the ick and maimed that reflect credit upn the comrm'nity.l AUltongh it has bem but four ye3f ; s im worthy intitt- i,etioi was estabhVheiS in Salem, jet in that period it ?ias made: record for tI 1 c coast. . A he hofpiul not supported by a single endowmeot nor by any monetary , By the most carefui and economical management, tie inMitution ha beetKmade practically s;H-ststain-ng. whicins far more than other fcos P f.are domar Mcrwii more fa vorable coalitions. But this isof sec ondary corrskkration. Since ifiic lios prtal nvas established in Salem, rot a s:ng e appeal for fundf has been made an! a subscriptiop at this time would not be asked, w-ee- ft not particularly tssential to the imute welfare 5 of the imtitution. Unfortunately, the poses sj"? of the hospital management, in cluding the she now occupied, which wcs donated to the hopitaI by J. H. Albert, arc not available for present n.ec?- 'n appeal for popular, subscrip tion is th only alternative for the man agement ot ihi hospital ' f Prior to '.kt death. Mrs. J. L. Par-rr-h donatoi to the Oregon Childrens Aid Society the property that is now krrown , as the Glen Oak Orphan's Home an Asyhmt 'Avenue. The prop er ty was occupied as an orpiianage un til lite .Vtate refused to crant t4ie usual or amt4rMnt - a.i . . bi-annual appropriation- for its support, necessnatmg t;ie abandonment ot the property as an ,orpnanage about one year . agrJ. . In order to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Parrbh. commensur ate wit'h the Hea that prompted the gift, the board of managers of the Or phan's Home decided to give the prop erty to the Salem 'hospital people- with the reservation that it eliould always Ik used as a hospital and if not occupied as a lio-pha within one year alter its acceptance, then the property should revert to ttic donors. f The year alluded to in tire above par ailraoh. pxrrir 011 Auslh 101 an. I if i lessemial that early action be taken it the liospital pensile are to retain pos session of this valuable property, so admirably suited for hospital purposes by reason tf its suburban lrcation anl the excellesvt sarritary con-taioris ai forded. The" present quarters are not siwted for liospital purposes neither by locatiftn nor ; in construction of the bit riding, nor is it adequately large to meet the requirements. Hence the oc casion for removing into new quarters is quite sfpparcnt. But before the Or igan's Home building can be occupied, extensive changes on the linterior of tlie building will have to be made. Tiie coirtemplated improvements, which are absolutely necessary for the proper rrar.agemcnt of the building, will rc- $5000 and the charitable peoile of Sa lem will be asked to provide this amount. I I Tlie board of managers t a recent m-cetihg named the following commit tee on subscriptions: il. T. Bruce, W T. Gray and E. P. McCoijnack. The committee . will legin soliciting sub scriptions some time this wjet-k and is entitled to a very cordial and respect-, tul Clearing at the hands of Salem's bus iness and professional men and all oSier piflilic-spiritcd citizens. TO CAPK NOMll Mrs. Anna M. Nicbol, for tl past four years m.niag-. er tf ?lie Salem office of the Postal Tck graph-Cable Company, has resign ed 'her position, and leaves tor Puyal lup. Washington, this morning, whence ie sails tfor the1 Caie. Nome gold fields in a few days. Mrs. Nichol will be joined at Puyallup. 'by a lady friend and two trained nurses, and the party, well supplied with a number of tents and the necessary appliances, will go to Nome 'Ciry, for the purpse e es tablis'htng a hopital in that dismal and faraway country. Mrs. Nichol has made numerous friends rn this city dur ing her Jong 4ay here, and. as a result, t'here is universal regret at her depar ture. She ' has taken a high place in the business "community. . while in-the social world, and especially in fraternal circles, 'kcr place will be difficult to fill. Mrs. Nichol has the heartfelt wishes of iter numerous Salem friends for un bo'irded succcs-s in the gokl fields of the far North. 1 A STOCK RANCH. The Prineville Iuid &: Live Sto k Coop;iny tiletl art icle's rf incortoration in the sta'e de partment yesterday. The new firm will engage in the business of raising, ami dealing in. live stock of all kinds; deal in general merchandise, and do a gen eral commission business. The ,p'in e:pal office will be located at Portland The company has a capital of $125,000, divided into shares valued at $too each. Henry Hahn, Julius nurkhcimer. and Moses Baruh are the incorporators of record. : ONK DIPIXMA. The state boaM of education held a brief session at the capitol yeste-rday, to eemsider the ap plication of Miss Belle Wallace. f Pendleton, for a state diploma. The document wa granted by the board upon the applicant's showing that she VL-3 4tl4 hn!lr of a lit? rpc-tificate crant- ed by the educational department of the state ot Michigan, i FOR M FR SALEM IT& Tlie Pioneer Mutual Insurance Association Ita 1r-r-u orcranized recently at Seattle. and antong its prominent officers are two former Salem men r4 considerabl rvurrifiu-r in the insurance' businessj viz: J. H. Bridgefortl. who is secretary j. and Harvey S, Jordan, who is treasurer. PAID IN FU-LIi The Benton rountv treasurer yesterday deposited $4so.i in the state treasury dcpaitm nt. the same being the balance due irn that county on the ! tlx. 1 his is the second county to pay its. state U in full. Columbia having done likewise only last week.. ? ANOTHER IDOL SHATTERED. ;h va a LirtiHv Lirfd woman, and 6Iinir over with love for t'he little Colic, av; flic Umam ori-iieraiufr ir ' - - . 4 " it. faU walked nioeiesxjy mm uvc omcc oi me Kv editor artl cnquireo: 1 ,:W?!1 you please tell me which one f the staff is it fhat writes all those rery little stories abyat children? I miKt iv? tflie little folks be cause lie writes suclr-njce sttries abom liem. I want to teir mm a preciows liw'e story about my darling boy who is only , "lliat's-the man oer there, mter nned the city ei nor. Whic one. pray.- . "ICiat one -with the corncob pipe m iis mo-it-h and swearing ai rm umec bov.". i A QUliTION OF GENDER. Teacher 'WiVAc. wlwt's the mascu line of "laundress? AVillie Wiseauy L-Jimaman. uivoa- lyn Life. TRIP IN MONTANA KIXTON 8HATT WHITES THE 8TATES Itix'r&Oll L1TISG8TOX. Excellent lerriptloaa of Cltlea la That Mialag State Cms to bui ef the People Slow Travelliag. LIVINGSTON. Mont. March -33.4. Editor Statesman: I befieE. I . wrote you iist irom Helena, wiiich; place wc left -Taefday foreno-an, after sitting up ail night, waiting for fnc' train,- wbicjt was delaj-ed on account of the wTeclf ing of a freight some few miles (t of Helena. Twelve frcigfiit cars were smasjbed, but no one seriously .injured Leaving Helena, we Tun .so'tth anjd east through a country which reseni bles, to a certain- extent.- the easter-n part of Oregon, akrrrg near the Colunji bia. It is a rolling plain, covered -witi 4Mnchgrafs. The Imd is gravelly axjd will raise but little, if anythmg at all, witlwt irrigating. - j W'e reached Townsen J. a small towfn thirty-fiiree miles from Helena, at, tle noon hour. This little pkice'is a farm ine town. Here we could see stnth!c ficlt's and a few straw- stacks. Tbe .own fs on the 'Missouri river, but arty one who has ever seen the "Old Mud dy" down along its lower course, would ir?t recog.Kze tbe. stream at -this place. for here t!ie water is as clear as that bf any mountain stream, flowing over a pebldv river 'led, and presenting to our L minds an altogether dUetem picture inw Kie miKhty,. cumrfg. twisting. boiling, sluggiiWy moving stream which we see when looking upon tfye Missouri at Omaha . or St. Joe. In the evening, at 1.1:30. the .trafrt being one hour late, we started f 4r Bozeman, a town of 5000 peexple. Thjrs place, -rhe capital of Gallatin county, i s ia the "heart of a rich river basm known as the Gallatin valley. Their main crops here are oats, barley ami wheat. As you know, grains " and vegetables tiere are bought and sold by the cent! Barley at present is 65 cents per cep tal. oats Si ter cental. Potatoes arc high all't'hrough this country. Nice green timo:4iy hay. is $14 per tort; al lalla hay i-s iess ; eggs. v 25 cents per kzcn, and "biitter, 25 cents ;o 30 cents per txmnd. Cheese is a scarce article in t1s section. I found some oii. the table at -the Cosmopolitan hotel in He lena, but it was not much like Warren Cranston's cheese. Bozeman (has, 4 f'l'nk. three big flouring miljs and two or l-hrce big grain elevators. I did not sec the inter-ior of any of them, but from outs-;de they look like Eastern el evators. not Oregon ware'houes. On tRe low laneis nere tire' irrigate ana -e-eurz the greatest yields per acre of any tlace of carfh so they teH nie. The ?viubble looks as if their reports might be true. On the rolling rami they can not irnirate and lo,not get siicn larige ieIds oer acre. The soil is black and loamy, and, when the frost begins jto leave m the spring it resemjples very much an Iowa sloetgh under flie same circi'mstanccs, and some of your read ers know- just Ihjw such soil is adapted to rewd building. I saw a wagjon loaded with rock d-rop fhrough he street one morning, and aMer a lew nt tempts to pull it nut and breaking the tongue "snuarc off, they lett it there every wheel down to t'he hub. Thy say the roads get muddy sometimes, but tfhey re dry on top now. This town- is weH laid out and Has trees ail over t'he place- cottonwood but they look as though they were jail dead. There are mountains on la!! sides. Off to the east is a high rMinl called "Old Bakry. it is smooth can be, round, ami 'has nothing giv ing 011 top of it. To the son Blackmorc s Peak, bearing on the north fide of it a large St. CieorRe s cro formed by the huge crevice Wing, filf led with snow, while the snow surr ni imr it niflt's. iravinir the clis-'en id white cross on the "face 0 the bkre mo'm-tain. The next morning after .arriving lilcre we .saw a couple ot men, mounted tori gtHxl saddle horses, accompaiie-d hr seven big stag bounds, start 'ut to the foothills to chase wolves. The stjate iays a bounty of per heal, and the stockmen, in addition to this', give If 20 per head, so a wolf's scalp makr$ a couple of men a good day's sal.iry. pr including the tort tbey and their d-gs have in t'he chase j Friday mortvng while Sam Lee i a rrote-d stockman and exjert bni :ho brs'.er. was chasing a. loose horse about town, Ivs -sadMe lorse ran .;o r.caf a telegraph pole that Mr. Lee's head struck one ef the iron spikes projecting from the pole. He was knock d frjom his horse anvl tell upon- his left -bdul-der on t'iic cement walk. His shoul der blade was fractured and h;s leit ye wa put out by the spike projecting from t'he fKle. I saw him only a few nynutes from the lime the acciden' oc curred. The man kept saying: "llj'js, I am aflftit dead: 'my heart is kmvkir-d out rf place." He is a large man of middle ape. well known and has 4 Kpat many 'friends throughout t'his and oijiu-r parts ot tbe state. He is .the 'ec nd. if not the tH-strHler in. the state. (At one tinje he was challenged V- 'i'le a wild boTse. and at the time had a Stoo watch in his,pockct. He rnoumed:he horse, took his watch out. held it ;n orre hand so tire cayuse in its fcijrful liincintr and nluneinc would not snake riie watch so badly. ! Bozeman is a quiet little prace at I the present time. Tlie Hotel Bo T?m.;i is the best building. The business lor tion of tlie town is a. piile from the de pot. bft the electric cars ;yt '. the trains. Tk-r car fare Muringthe day is 10 cents: at night, 2$ rents. In ilie cvning at 43 we took pliss age on a Northern Pacific freight, composed of atou fifty cars ami lu Northern Pacrfic "hogs, for Livmg-Hon. a distance of tweiKy-fie m'ue. Fpm Bozeman to the Boreman tnnnel.l en almost fhe summit of the ridge between the Missouri and YelIwstone valleys, the grade is quite heavy, and we male haste slowly as: the following stateme-it will jflrow youl Any one, who is ac quainted witti me, knows I am nt a ery swift runner, but at different times I dropped from .the teps. of the Ci boose and. holding by one "hand, ran along on the ground. Not being sat isfied wkh riiis. I jumped off. ran alomr by tte train without any support what ever. So you can ec why it toffc 2 Ijoar and 15 minute to make f the twenty-five mles. A'fter parsing through the tunnel we left one engine, a s t he rest of 'the w ay is do wn bill. Friday evening it rained a shower the first of the, season tley say Itj;wa more winl than rain. Thi towrf we hA a( t o'cbck. It is built on if round aVflat as a fl-sor, sandy I and ; I 1 11 .1 1 1 1 gravelly, f The wind blows and piles the sand :p against the bonsrs and fences. The foothids. only : a s-iort distance away, z$ ;wvU as fhe -small valleys; are covered, whh tiry bunchgrass. Not a sprout of a tree ' around the pace. SrQw-elad monnrairrs are on all sides. Tbe Yellowstone river flows off to the nC on can- see; a canyon leai ng out into the mo;muin$. and tt is rp fats that the railroad . s bm't to the National Park. a distance tf fifty miles from 'here. : "The park season docs not open tmtil June 15th. They tell me there is. 'bur little in- -the park now, only three and : ne-half feeC This isan exceptkmally nMlef winter. the leHowstone i river here is -aootrt j.ke 1 the Missouri at Townscnd. They are iibout iike the Santiam fro.n Jvf- fersca cow n to the tllatnette. THE CASH BALANCE riNAMCIAL. COSD1TIUS or MARIOS Si COPJiTf TKEASit'KY, 1 ' intelUrc Iwrnuwd Uarinc I Ha Moath of March on Arcoaul of tha Cot- , lectio ot TaiU. ' Treasurer A. L Downing, of Marion county, yesterday 4gave out his financial report for . the month of March, low ing the moneys received 'and disbursed during the month and 'the balances on hand. During the .month the receipt 'have exceeded t'he" expenditures by a cemsreJerable amount, the reason fof this being tlie receipt rt" the moneys col lected bv tbe sheriff, and turned over ia the 'treasurer last Saturday.. The siaumrnt is as triven below: .Snccial City and School Dist. Fund Ca-h on hand March 1st. $ 150. 88 Receipts!. .. 1446 06 .1 . : Total i . . . I . Disbursements. .5 1(05 94 . 80 Jb Cash, on hand April ist..:.$ 1525 68 General Fund Cash oVi hand March 1st... ...$ 2610 17 Receipts.. .. .. .. .. .. 11914 06 Total. . .. J'. .. .. .. .. DisburscmetHs. . ...... ,, . Cash on "haad April 1st. General Sd Fund Ca-sli on hand March is?... Receipts... j, . .... .'.'.. . . 9524 23 . 357 21 ..'.$ 9167 02 . $ 485 .t5 .. 1891 49 Total . . . , ..... . . ..$ 2376 84 . . . .r 411 CO Disbursements. . V- CaA on band April 1st. Indigent Soldier Fund Cash on hand ; March ist -. . Receipts. .'. . . . . . Total.. ... .'. .i ... Diybursememts. . . , .. ...$ 1965 84 ,. .$ 168 17 37 73 ..$ 205 90 "9 25 Caslvon hand vVpril ist...,$ 8665 Institute Fund Cash ot band March Cash on hand April Tax Sale Fund Cash on hand 'March Cash onThand April Bicycle Fund Cas-h onJrand March flash on-, hand Anril lit... ist. .. 1st. .. ISt. .. 1st. .. ISt. .. ..$ . . .$ 16 00 16 00 40 00 40 00 178 34 178 3.1 Summarv of Totals Cash on hand Mardi ist... ..$ 3.657 91 Receipts 10.289 34 Total,. .. .. Disbursements. .$13,947 2S . . . 907 72 Cadi on hand April 1st $ 12979 53 DECLINE OF PUBLIC LISTEN " ING a Some comiarison of notes with vie tims of Washington's Birthday ban quets and o:hc,r "intolerable necessi ties" of the sort (as the tpessimtst called- the wedding at which he was present), confirms us in the belief that speakers on such occasions are finding their audiences more and more indiffer ent, not to say downright disrespect ful. The painful spectacle is getting lo'be too Common of at orator going heroically through his- appointed task. in the .face of hearers who thakc no attempt to .conceal their weariness and impatience. The thing has gone fir beyond ya-wning- or ostentatious sleep. Noisy chatter ii heard. Little groups throughout the banquet-hall fall to dis cussing, story-telling, laughing, with the coolest ignoring of the hopless speaker. He may be an invite! gucs from out of.terwn. die may even be a foreigner. No matter; if he is, unlucky enouKlrto fail to interest his audience in his first five: minutes, it is all up with him. die might as well try to talk to" the surf on the shore as to the buzzing tables-full of bored and dis gusted hearers. : We -metimes debate whether there has been a elerlinc in pnblic!"7;ra'i,'nK5 there is a clear dc "line in public listening. Wre believe, further, that the ravages of the "hu- jnorous" speaker have - done a. great deal vto break down the old habtt of respectful attention to serious steaking. It has get so that a speaker must have his stock of quips and stories, or he is at once voted a bore. Anything in the comic , line wiil do: the broader the grinning through a horse-collar. he better;' but to leave it off altogether is as fatal as it would be brr an ewa'tor to leave 'eff his shirt-collar. : We have come i to put anr irrmense premium on silliness at public dinners. A favorite way i to pit twoYiyal wits against each other.' They launch their nrarefully pre pared impromptus, and keep the tables n a roar with their tu ottoqucs. all pol ished ,np in advance, and it is rare spo-t. But where is the fteaking? And what becomes of the; faculty rif atteneKng to a man -with something realhr to say. if we sedulously: break it rfwn by turn- ng tnv "wholei thtng io farce and horsp!ay ? New York Post. she: builds minja turk ships. A Little Colorado Girl's Copy of the . ; Nash villcs the Jlouit She ' Made. In the great . mining camp erf I-ead-ville live one iof tlie brigljiest. happi est an-i most ingenious itttle girls rhat je sn of Colorado chines upon. Her name n Florence 'Fuftcn and she is eleven year old. but to small for Iier age thai tbe doe's nn?tVK4c over rum.-. 'Among her accompli stl men r.at of ship buihling. On both side erf the street w nere she jives runs a nitco. The monster pumps t t1e mrrrr-s force fhe water up and end it,down through the efcrehes of r1e town- below "in a mad rssh. It comes almost to the level of the banks when the full force is on and tears down w-ith a speed as if h con!d not fly fast enough to irke way for the volume back of it. In these ditches Florence bas aval parades. -The finest piece of Iwork llrat Flor ence has ever turned kut is tbe Nas4i villc. She built rt without assistance or advice from any one. copying from pictures in old magazines of the real Nashville. 'It -hi"s portholes made with eyelets taken- from j old shoes. Its smokes-tacks rise tall land majestic, as A they really carried clouds of black smoke: from pantingl furnace's below. !.1! the finishings" ot tJ miniature war vessel cak time and1 skill. -;. Tliere were masts to carve out anl reipes and spars to adjuvt, and jaH cJhe details 1 a big fighting sihrp to, arrange. Florence has neverf seen a big ocean steamer, but she hai -studied pictures until she knows mor afcout them than many boys and girli who have lived on the sea coast and 'crossed the ocean in t'.bcm. It was onljf after many days of bard and patient work-on her Nash ville that j by adding improvements lere and tbe re, she at last turned mt an- immensely cleverj cejy of it. The dashing trip k Iras since taken- down the muddy waters to the ditch would make a book of exirifing- tales. Besides ships and! all kinds of infe rior craft which she -makes she has ricsred our an anvil dn -whicCt she snolds metal into any shape ,4ie desires. S5ie Cieats it in ihe kitchen Stove and pounds it orH with 1 art okl batdiet. Since the United States has gone into tbe fighting business ,it has naturally turned her mind into warlike channels. As a result slie eas been turmng nlont'hrOiares into swords upon ber an vil and making a regular" arsenal of her work-shop. She? even has her can non mounted on wheels and some- timtV spends weeks on one piece w work. ' " Last summer she built a Jrousfn. th-i back yard. ,-It ;lexked very much like a mosaic. The framewejtk was of scarling. Over: this was a . nust e!;iflorate patchwork oi slabs. trai of shingles'and remnants of old boxes. Anvtr.i.ng vhe coukl. pick up stic uttl izri AH llicse t'iiTercnt pieces she fitted neatly together, so that the house inside was) snug atid warm. She put in a window and hung a strong eloor so that it ciotrld ic iecurcly fastened up at 'stsgh-t. She alstfput a nuniibcr on it and gilded the figures.. She fitted up the iitteriov wi:h vfiielves and scats and papered it with railroad posters, on y.".:ch -were great, gleaming red straw 'berrks. adirtisingv,traw4erry day in one of lite neighfjoring tewns. On the ot.tsiil slie -had. a flag staff, and when at htme she ?ran 115) an American flag. vt one time lrcj- sympathy was so keen tor 1 lie Cirbains that e put up the Ci'ban colors, but one of the sirrah urchins of the ncig3iborhood tore tfliem down, and she basf never snicc replaced t'hem. Instead she ispent weeks in carv- ing out an it before the small tance. lmmense cannon and moiint- hc kKr as a warning to boy to jvcep at a safe elis- Florence! also ilraws well, and she Iras a good ear ior music. Slie was taunted one day with not doing the things thai little girls 4mu!d. such as sewing ankl doll-dressmaking. In ber disgust slip aid nothing, but a few days later presen-feel her doll to her mother completely dressed an a lutiy. having evf n made a pair of kid boots for it. D enver ISpws. - . ' TI I E LAUGH ON GIBSON. Not long, ago a txry came into. Gib sorn's fttudfo and licgged permission to show some drawings. The ladwanted to know i the driwings gave any evi dence of a future j career for the artist who made ttfie.m. 1 Gibsoir looked the skctcbrs over, ani in a disgu-ited way exclaimcd'J , j "Not a bit. Tikre is riot a line in all there tliat gives any proiiis. They are crude in' facti they are awful. ' H t'hat is all -you can5 tlo, ejuit. Tire hand hat drew these things, cair never lie the hand, of a. ucfcessful artist," "Arc you quitci sure, 'Mr, Gfbson, with study tire person wlio made these tirawings m-iglit ljot accoinpUsh some thing?" ' I ' '"tjuite -sure." sanl GBson. "Tliere is r.o hope." . j , . 'Then the boy, jwith a dejected1 . air, said: j "Mr. Gibson, nry fatber is outside. Will you see him' and tell "him what you have told mef "Oh. show hijn .in." said GJIson, anxious to end the interview. , The father came in and asked; "Are tu irc these j drawings give no promise?" " I "They arc awfid." .aid Gibivon. "Tl boy will never make an artitt. IonX let him waste bisj time." Jisi then Gibjm took a second xk at the father's fajre and said: '"Yo'ir far? is -familiar. Have I met you befrre?" j -.-.. "I ho-ig'iTt you would know me," said the father, j "You lived ot my bouse -one wintef, and thee are your own drawings, niade while vou were, a youngster." , , Gibson' Raqte'li He had patd em hrs own work, -rribt recognizing k after l5;e ktpe of ycrs, and flie- lwy lud mae'i bim fr?olislt There was a jjewd laiixh-. erf course; br-t G'bson, did pt feel like laughing when hi vtsitors had gone.- 'Wash in g Sm Lc 'ter. . CREATED A SU LPI I U R LA K E. In the Weterii part erf t1e Mexican State erf Michoaifan, near the I.ake Of Chanula. in the tiudfacbe Iwrienda. an trdergremnel rubbling was heard re cently, followed by a strong detona tion. whk3i threw the populace into a panic. An immense cerfu mn- of smoke rovt from a neighboring ball, w-hidi is vamot for it stilpbur springs. A lake of -hot julirfinr 'water formed on the plateau of t'h-i ill. Tlie lake i" t,ooo feet across and & feet eve-cp. AN UN R EDEEMAB LE BORE. Is rhe Conccitevl Man Standing Sen try at the Door of His Dignity. Good fcllow1iip i not ioniy nat ural gift, or trajt. to be found in the Americans. iy Max O'Rell mr the New York Journal; it. iV actuality cul tivated by thc-mj i even. a late at in the mature days ot mamjorKl. And I hope I tbill not offend Amefkan" wo men rf, using the word ire its best and most respectful; sense. I say rhat they do. too, trike jthe foreigners as g"oed fellows. gsod comrades, ; " . After all, gkd felkjwship r like e sense of htmor--4etb arc the out come of simplicity and philmophv in the character, i Yon will never be a Rood fellow or a humort until you can stand a joke at your on expense. The conceited man has no humor br him. nor can be see it in otbers. The conceited man is a dull - fool, who spend-i his lite standing sentry at fhe door of hi dignity. He is an unrea t Kr.r. tio mwes the sweeten pleasures of 4ifc. and makes life un bearable to all those w'to live arounu him. You doVot meet fliat man i polite society in America. The American man is a generous, goctJthjcartcdL pkakant genial, good fellow, with whom j-oo get on from the beginning. In Etrgjand you meet cbarmtng men; but there is a crust to bpeak through at first before you 'ca get at them. The American i widej ojen, ready for use,, j' HOUSE SERVANTS IX BOSTON. The Labor -Bulletin of (he Common wealth of Massachusetts for February contains some interesting informatiem akng many different 1 lines, says the Boston Herald. In general, tt is an ef fective prosperity document, as it sliows gains along a number X imlvrs trics. with plenty of work promised for the future. The bulletin is also in teresting to those directly or indirect ly affected by the "servant-girl prob lem." Indeed, some! of the worst kickers on that core might get nior- mation 4rom the-bulletin wtmh would aid tbem in keeping efficient servants and improving poor ones. There arc servants in Boston who read bchiller and Goethe, f ' t , . . -A considerable mas of statistics is published in tegard to domestic em ployment, showing irt representative; instances the nunvber of yervanti em ployed in a family, a ckissificauon ot them according u their resiectiye bn-s t ,t- tn!r Kim.! mlaces of lurtli. religion, reaeling and the chances given- lor it, opportunmes 1 km ..... callers, attemlattce by servants of clubs, classes, lectures, etc..., their savtns m hinle tha extent to w Inch they sup-. In regard to wages. jit is said: t,Uc tiv.t numerous wace!classes comprise 2S out of the entire number, wbo I received , $.t per week; 50 who -e'c paid $3 50: $4; .H $4 5o.nd 25 'at $5. Only three employes received less than $t. One Was paid $6.50, six $6 ami one $5 5- As might 1c expect 'cd. the wajjes of the cooks range high ! est. only about 31 per cent of the en tire number receiving a wage as low a $4. The average wage, the entire num ber of employes lcing considered, wa $4; for the otiks alone, $462: bj the 'employes in general housework. $3 71 for the parlor ana .cnamuernwaius, en.., $4.22. ami for the second girls. $3.81 j "These -figures are unekmbtcdly some what alKtvei those which would appear In localities more reunite from Boston or any large city. When it is remem bered that board is in every case in- I eluded in addition to the nnoney wage, the aggregate. Tccompense for the week's - service per employe eloes not suffer in comparison,; if there were no 'other factor , to te r constdercu. wwii ! wages paid in storef or fsctoric. to wemien 01 average capacity. In regard to religion, it is shown that of the whole number of cases investi . . . ... . . pated, 231. there were 15s K)inan one's, 74 Protestants, and two person I wliose religion was unknown. I As to. the character of the reading. ne wspapers: and- magazines were avail able to the employes and read by them in 130 instances; newspapers ejnly in 5s additional case,s j Reading of this kind was' seldom rjone in tt'cac; neer in itj, and in 6 cases the replies were not definite or ronHusivc. . The replies- as to the kinds of lxxks which were reael were so various as to make anv simple generalisation ini- ncssible. 1 he tuore prmment m;iy be given, however. In 33 instances n books were read, and in 57 no lan vwe r , was giveen to the -question. In -eighT-1 1 HIV IVJ'lJf Wlt lllrfl . lilt- I were unknown. The replies that re main numiK-r 133. i Cook looks apparently conipriieI either all or nearly all that were read in three instances. Nearly all the oth ers are reported to j read fiction only, the exceptions being so few as to be easily notl .In luv rr 1 , J m w ' w n r ii lilt I 11 1 1 history, either of thic United States or I England, seemed to tc preferred. In " iiiii-7siiMinie: fr crnicai woTie was "mentioned: in one. the works of rr-ethe and hchiljr and the poems t,f I o""irr were specineii; ant in one ot itbe ChautauMtia cirsc was followed, i r-ttiA ttntif .r A : . . : , - . rf i ' 'lie Kinos oi ni inn mrnliritipi nnn.,1 irom cliildren s bt ks to the novels f George Eliot. Dumas. Dickens. Th-irk-enay. Victor Hugo j and .Eugene Sue. In a few, cases tire reading of novels wa stijdcmenteflTTby the Works e;f Sliakcteare.. OM ALLEYS HAVERSACK. During an advance in Manila, re cently,! one cemipatiy had to lie down at the side erf he rpad for jdiclter from the well-directed- vedleys of the in surgents. ! One srf the privates had dropped his haversack in the middle of the road away back, and after the ronrpany i had lain down, he calmly s'.oeid up ! and .walked demn the road towards the lost, haversack, die. made a fincftarget for the) insitrgerrts, and the bullets rattled around hint pretty live ly. "Here, come back here. O'Malley." yelled the lieutenant of the conipany; "youll be killed:" "Well," replied O Malley encr his shoulder. "I might jest as well be killed as have funeral Tfis a runnin'-me itp , hill and down dale and ce.min rjver in mr house ivery mornm and a sayin', 'O'Malley, why don t you eiay the government for that haversack?'" -Then he calmly walked cn. and got the lost 'piece 'of preiperty, and. as be came back and sat down just in time to escape a volley of 'Man sers, he threw the haversack on the grenind and sail: "And when h? d'es' rrmie trmorrow mornin to me lKue. I'll .say, 'Otis, me little nwn, you're dead wrong. I never lost no have' ack. There's your bkxnly eld p'rta'o bag. Take it to the troverrrme-nt with me compliments.:" Chicago Tribune. None of tlie currem items of literary ne- Las been cemucmeel upm more widely among 'Frenchmen and reader of French literature than the a.nnoiiiK c mcr.t that Jori-KarI Huysmanns. the novt-Ht. hz.i finally left the world and jo-rneef a Ilenedictmc monastery a an V,1ate"---that is l( say. ' wi'fit permis sion to live fMtf-idfc tlte mona.cry and rentinue bis writing. M Hnvstr inns drclare himelf U tlneigh whit tlv-r wewld and avows 'that be regret none of ehe customs anf companionships which be.? leaving. Naturally th'.se w!;-nr frrfbtwed the a uiIkm-' progress as shown his. wyM'k ttrottgh ' variou stage erf jikepticism and pexsimbm to tlie tegirming erf religious faith natur allytrace an nalogy tetween hi -rwn life arff his intellectual evolutwu a ditcloicd in -hii book. ' ' , ,