Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1892, Page 7

RIPARIAN RIGHTS. Angeline Teal in “Two Ta’en.” HERE IS A CERTAIN lovely valley in south- ern California, sur- rounded by an amphi- theater of mountains, open on the southwest to the sea. It isa high valley or mesa, with a climate as nearly per- fect as any the earth af- fords. Fresh breezes from the snow-topped Sierra Madre temper the rays of the midday fun, whose heat is borne like the oppressive tenderness of a too ardent lover; and before his isk sinks in the west{the ocean sends up its breath of balm, stirring the imagination and toning nerves and pulses. Years ago one of the Mexican governors of California granted a large tract of land in this valley to two soldier friends, Antonio Jurillo and Qarlos Mera. They, with a few friends and tives, settled upon it in its virgin state. The original grant was miles in extent, and was known throughout the region and on the Fecord ‘book at Los Angeles as the Jurillo Fancho. From a canon in the mountains, away to the and in that beautiful convent school on the banks of Merritt lake she had spent five peaceful, bappy years. She je visits home, where sko was 8 treated asa superior being. Little as had known them; she seemed to feel for her father, for her young brothers and for the ond, devoted woman who was her stepmother @ genuine affection. Supper over, Jurillo found his favorite sent on a bench under « certain broad-leaved eucalyptus. “Come, my daughter,” he called to Lucia; your mother “come and sit beside m in the evenings of other years, The air is cool and sweet and the sunset is royal tonight.’ She came presently, bringing his lighted ipe, drawing at it a iittle as she walked, to Feep it aglow, “Thanks, my flower of Spain,” he said, tak- img it from her hand. ‘The smoke pleasures me unspeakably when your lips have touched the mouth piece.” She seated herself beside him, in her white dress, with its dainty garnitures of velvet and lace.’ Never was contrast of appearance greater than that between this goddess-like girl and the rough-visaged father, in his coarse clothing and heavy boots, Jurilio’s talk turned upon his wrongs. It was not enough that the timber thieves were cutting off the forests in the mountains, thus diminishing the rainfall and so the river, but these Americans rust come and turn it out of its course. “Have you ever visited their town of Hedge- father?” asked Lucia. 4 ver, butI know all about it. Narrow, tipsy houses, their sides so thin that they heat through like ovens, and so poorly put together that « norther from the desert woull fill them with sand, and a baby earthquake could throw them over like tows. And the people—so grasp- ing and so r se! Treating their homes Rortheast, came down a little river, the Santa | with jess respect than an Atab does his which never failed in the dry sesson. It| tent—leaving them to y on the sea- ran through the Jurillo land and was the dar- some mountain Mag and idol of the little colony —Spanish origi- . Mexican afterward and New Mexican stilt Tater. : They intermarried a good deal, but owing to ‘the dying of the old people. and the drifting off of many of the younger ones down to the coast towns, they never became very numer- ous; but there were always there Jurillos Meras, Sarvesiras and Nodals. At no time did they utilize more than a moiety of the big t—that portion lying along the river. fixe they paxtured their steep and cattle, and Paised such fruits and grains as flourish in that soft climate. almost without care. A large tract of land on the river several miles above the settlement had been sold for a song to some eastern capitalists, who held it idly for atime, then put it upon the market and disposed of it rapidly in lots suitable for orange orchards and small vineyards. new colony was full of Yankee enterprise, in- telligence and push, and utterly wanting in sympathy with or liking for the early owners of the soil and the Spanish-speaking Indians who lived among them. Their first work was to construct, at great cost, a canal, the like of which had never been dreamed of in the valley. By it water from the river was conducted, sometimes through flames built upon bigh trestle work, along the exact line from which the extensive orangeries and vineyards could be most effectuaily irriguted. The natives regarded the work with jealousy from ths first, and when, two or three years later, «second canal was projected. their pro- test grew loud and intense. ‘One evening near the last of May a carriage drawn by two strong gray horses drove up to an adobe house standing in a little grove of pepper and Australian gum trees. The house was low and long, its roof was of red tiles and its thick wails were pierced with small square windows. In one end of the structure was an arched opening, larger than an ordinary door- hore or in’ the city, or spring where one of their kind has built a tawdry hotel and filled it with vulgar waiters and drinking cups as thick on the edges asa horse trough! Ab, I like them not to come here advising me on my own ground “How much land do you own here?” asked the girl, presently “Ido not know exactly. It is long since any survey has been made. The Meras, Juan Nodal and I'pay taxes on 500 acres. It makes no dif- ference to us just where the lines are. ‘The sheep and cattle cross them without knowing it and the alfilaria tastes just the same. We have lived together in peace and love for years, and the stranger is always our enemy.” Three or four days passed. One afternoon old Batty gave the youngest child his bath, and Lucia took him out to the hammock under the pepper trees and swung with him until they Were both asleep in the great net, Lucia in her yellow-white dress, and little Luis, plump and brown and naked, save the swaddling cloth about his hips. A lynx robe cushioned the hempen meshes of their swinging bed, over one side of which hung the dainty skirts anda siippered foot of the unconscious girl. She did not hear the sound of approaching hoof bents; did not wake even when they stopped within a few yards of her resting place. Tarnsey, for it was he, dismouned, and traced his way among the trees toward the kitchen door. He did not see. the hammock till be was beside it. If she had opened her eyes just then he could not have moved—conld not instantly have changed his look of passion- ate admiration, But she did not wake; and after tarrying only loug enough to fix the sweet pictare in his thoughts Tarnsey passed on to the epen door The ranchero’s dark-browed wife turned from her work, at his softly spoken ‘Buenos dias.” She gave hima stool neur the door, and took another herself. Old Batty at the way, which disclosed the appointments and pei formances peculiar to a Mexican kitchen. There was no wail or fence around the yard, and the carriage left the road and drew up quite close to the open end of the house. A group of children gathered abo 1c and stared in vari- ous picturesque atti-udes. There were two men in the carriage. The elder, judging by @ a peremptory ““iello!” redat the door. " Hesaluted en asked in English: ‘Yonder, with his horses. He feeds them,” said the woman, pomting to a low thatched shed on the farther side of a cypress hedge. She turned to one of the brown little boys with an order to summon his father, but be- fore iteould be obered Jurillo himself a1 peared. walking somewhat hastily. He was a tall, swarthy, muscular man of about sixty. He seemed to know the two men and a subtle gleam of dislike kindled in his deep-set eyes as he approached the carriage. . evening. Jarillo. How's times?” said he of the gray beard. For answer the Mexican lifted a repelling hand. “¥ouare too near my open door, senors, with your horses and wheels. Yonder is the high road; that is yours. This ground is mine —ty children’s playground.” Muttering a curse upon the pride of the garlic eater, the man backed his norses down the little knoll and turned them into the road, with their beads in ths direction whence they bad come. The Mexican followed. When the strangers tarned to hun again he was standing beside the carriage with an air at once cour- teous and commanding. “Now, Iwill know your pleasures, senors,” he said.” The younger of the two men then ad- dressed him: “My name is Tarnsey and this is my friend, Capt. Seott. We have come down from Hedge- to learn if itis true, as we hear, that you are aboat to prosecute Gur colony for damages, un- der the old law of riparian rights. “have been advised to do so,” said Jurillo. “Others have done it and the judges have fiver hem redress. |The law is with us who we owned these lands and the river, which is their life blood. for many years.”” “D—d litds use you've made of the land or the river, either. you Mexicans,” said Capt. Scott, with an air of insolence strongiy in con- trast with the perfect high breeding that dis- the Younger man. mu have come here to insult me or my said Juri, . said Tarnsey, wickly. “We have no right'or desire to do five Lam deeply interested in the irrigating everations up the river. I am, moreover, an Sstorney, and I know of what I speak when I tell you it will be very unwise in you to begin this suit. Doubtless there are those who will counsel you te do it. Youare still a man of Property. and I, for one, would be honestly sorry tosee the remainder of your estate swai- lowed up in litigation.” “Others have recovered damages; why not Jose Mera and I? He will sue with me.” “Bat you will have to prove damages very elearly. To what extent have you suffered Joss by our canal?” potnted dramatically ‘The Mexican turned and toward the river. “You have lessened the Santa Inez one-half. Mera bas water for bis bariey mill. The current is below the conduit that has supplied my house aud garden. Next year the water will be all gone and the river bed down here as ‘dry as the Arroyo Seco. “It's just like this.” broke in Scott; “there's Bo use your insisting that the Santa Inez was er for the sole benetit of this little settie- ment. You fellows have irrigated in all maybe #0 ‘acres. Our ditches will irrigate 10,000 rea If you prosecute you'll just lay your- weives in for a big bill of costs. ‘The suit couldn't be decided under a year, and before the end of that time there'll be a new order of | things. We'll have a new legislature this win- ter, and you'll sce them old English laws fall. ioe to pieces like the dry rot in ‘em. re in the way of progress and the develo megt of the country.” “i horses grew restive, holding the car- Fiage ou the hill vise. Scott reined them up sharply, then continued is fanfurouade sev eral minutes longer. Once be turned to bis companion for some verification of his words, but the 1 was unheeded. He did not dix- cera, the’ direction of Tarnsey's eyes, which were gazing from beveath his slouched hat Woman's face, pure Spanish in out- hue end coloring, and wondrously beautiful as it looked forty trom one of the square windows to the ie a “Rough fellow. that old Jurillo.” said Scott, ‘when they had left the house and were bowling smooth road. “They say he's got a yes reg'lar dark-skinned angel. nunnery at San Fraucisco, but 0B & Visit about once %, jOURg greasers for miles—far fuma—come gailopin’ up he spursand tapiderros, courtin carriage of the Americans had air around Jurillo’s home was ing meal, which Within. The table was set trees before the open kitchen the supper placed upon it An In- their one servant, Drought an of water and placed it upon a the yard. The children gathered dipped their brown bands into it wash. The squaw, whom they each a vigorous polish with controlling their struggles by ithe assurance that they could uot eat with sis- were not cican. family gathered around the among them appeared the ‘Tarnsey had scen at the the only child of Jurilio’s ina table went on arranging layers of split carrots and milk-swelled rice ina baking dish. Tarn- sey asked for Jurillo, and was told that he had gone to San Diego to sell some colts, and would be absent fora week from the day he started. The young man reflected im silence awhile, taking in the quaint interior with its cool, half. lights; the brown beams and benches, the brass vessels on the wall, the red earthern water- ollas of Indian make, and the smooth clay floor, over which a plump fowl was placidly ing and picking. "Your husband will come home on Friday?” he said to the woman, whose knowledge of English was very limited, “He comes on Friday,” she repeated. “Teil him I will come again on Saturday. Tel him also that 1 come asa friend who wishes him well. Iesteem you alland enter into your feelings about the river." I wish to talk with Jurilio as brother to brother, without selfishness. Do you understand? Will you tell him that?” Unconsciously he had fallen into a manner simple and intense as was the manner of these people themselves. --Monica Jurilio did not eatch his full meaning, but Lucia did. The sound of voices had a ed her. Leaving the baby still asleep she Rad-risén and approactied the door. Tarnsey sat with his back toward it. He leaned forward, with bis elbows on_his knees, his gloved hands bending his riding whip into a coil as he talked. His hat lay on the ground beside him and his uncovered head was that of a male blonde of the purest type. A fair man was always a wonder to Lucia. ‘Se ‘elt a curious wish to look at him covertly » long time. When he rose to go Lucia stood before him, ‘THE EVENING STAR: Hgcoald not pou fer autpeiee le not ‘I wanted to thank you,” she said, simply, “for your good will toward my father. He full of distrust toward you eastern men, and will do nothing you suggest. That is because no American has ever before to him as ane dove. He does not believe in you, jo and I thark you.” ‘Who is Sarvedra?" Tarnsey asked, abruptly. “Why, he is Paul Sarvedra,” she answered smiling.’ “He lives near San Gabriel, and breeds a race of horses, all black, that sell very weil along the coast. He has heiped my father to do something with horses. I believe he 19 very distant relative of ours.” ‘Then she said “Good-night,” and turned away. She waiked siowly back to the house, and entered her own room by a narrow door overhung with honey- suckle. Her father and his friend sat outside, talking and smoking tilla late hour, but she did not rejoin them. She sat by the little window that overlooked the road, with her rosary in her hand. Once she whispered: “I could never marry Pablo now. My heart rises up against the thought. I would die rather than be his wife, now.” During the following week Norman Tarnsey was much occupied in devising some pretext for making another visit to the Jurillos. He was determined to go again, and his relations would scarcely justify his going simply as a friendly visitor. A bright thought came to him. He would buy a horse. Up to this time his fruit land interests had suticedfor biscontentment. He never wearied of the picture which was month by month un- folding before him, the transformation of a re- gion originally little better than the great Mo- Jave into « garden of bloom and beauty. His Very heart was in those avenues cf eucalyptus, palm and magnolia trees; more thau all, it was in the orchards of citrus fruit trees, olives and almonds that shook their glossy foliage in the sun, promising ere long a golden harvest in more senses than one. He allowed several days to elapse, then tarted to see Jurillo about the horse. ‘It was ariy moonrise when he left Hedgeway aud he cantered leisurely down the valley. ‘the wide, dim, roliing plain swept away on his left. Be hind him and at his right were the mountains; San Jacinto and his brothers Bernard and Antonio wearing their snow crowns right roy ally. Time was when these vast areas and alti- tudes seemed too strange to be agreeubie, and filied him with homesickness. But he was at home among them now. He could compreiend, too, why a Bedouin sheik can never be more than half eivihzed. He was within a mile or two of the adobe house, which had been in bis mental sight ail day, when he heard in the distance the sound of approaching hoof beats, and at the sane momenta single horseman appeared, coming from the direction toward which Tarusey was going. The rider did uot keep to the road, but followed the course of « dry creek bed or arroyo, some fifty yards to the left. He rode on a long swift lope. and whea he came within line the still night air was shocked by the sib- ilaut rush of a bullet. Tarasey s clothing was pierced, and the missile went stinging crosa wise over his breast. His horse reared and plunged, but did not unseat him. When he had controlied the animal sufi tly to look again not even a trail of dust marked the flight of the would-be assassin How the blvod ponuded in his throat and ears! He knew he was not much burt, but for joment an awful sense of the nearness of death took entire possession of him. came another thought and with it a troubled pleasure merging into au almost savage det mination. That shot was fired by one who hated and feaced him asa rival for Lucia’s love. Even so it should be. He would deciare himself her lover that night. : He found Jurillo in his accustomed place, alone with his pipe. A little tuble stood near, on which were au empty wine bottle and two glasses. He arose ae Tarnsey approached, came near to him and said: “There is something strange in your manner, senor, and you are vers pale. What is i “Some dastard fired upon me a mile or so above here and barely missed me.” His hand was on his breast. “Sit here,” said the native, “and let me se “I do not think the ball’ drew blood,” said the young man, as ie threw off coat and waist- coat and opened his shirt. The skin was un- broken, but across its ivory whiten: livid streak, such as tho lightning leaves upon ictim. 'Jurillo uttered a deep imprecation. ‘hat was the act of « miscreant, an assassin ! What would you do it you knew his name?” “Having no proofs, would do nothing. Having proofs, I would use them to the extent of their power and punish the villain as civil- ized peopie punish sueh criminals.” “Yes,” suid the other slowly, “that is the way a civilized man talks; one, too, who is no coward. We are arace of ruftians, unworthy the angelic women who sometimes give us their love.” He turned his back to the young man, and stood with folded arms and'bent head.’ The stiliness of the nfoonlit night was broken by the yelp of acoyote far off in the foot hills. The recking horse under the pepper trees pawed restlessly. At length Tarnsey said: “Have your family all retired? It is not yet late. I would like tosee the senorita, your daughter. I have something to say to her, and I musf say it tonight.” Jurillo turned to him with a somber smile. “You cannot see her. She is not here. She went away three days ago for a long absence.” graceful and easy. She returned his bow, say- ing at the same moment: “My stepmother does not understand or speak English well, senor, but I will remember and tell my father all you have said. He bowed again and thanked her: then went away with a strange elation at his heart. On Saturday he made the promised visit, but found the Mexican in a hardened mood. “You need not fear trouble at my hands, you men of Hedgeway,” he said ina tone of bitter mel- ancholy; “I bave talked again with my friends, and we have concluded we dare not go to law. You would defeat us—if not this year, then the next. You have the wealthand skill’ We are poor and simple.” “We should certainly try to defeat you, for have «noble end in view,” said Tarnsey. “Our pian is to extend our canal till the entire valley is fertilized and made capable of sus- taining a population of 50,000 people.” “May Ibe dead, before so many of your people come here!” said the nativ Foran hour they discussed the question of riparian rights in allitsaspects. Tarusey strove to show the merits of the unwrittenlaw, which has long prevailed throughout California, ac- cording to which the waters of streams not ris- ing upon or wholly included in lands under private ownership are subject to appropriation by the people for irrigating, mining or other beneticent purposes. “This law,” said he, “bas received the sanction of custom for years: it will soon, 1 trust, receive the sanction of the legislature.” “Yes,” said Jurillo; while I was away I heard much about anti-riparian clubs and associa- tions. It is in the politics now. I can do nothing. My animals can drink awhile longer at the Santa Inez, then the river goes dry and We perish.” ~-Nousense, man!” said Tarnsey, impatiently; “the river will never be lower than it is now. A new Sop ado upon correct prinei- ples, froma int can show you within ten naimutes’ walk from your door, would irrigate all this group of farms, making them worth thou- sands where they are not worth hundreds. As a second resource, you have a strong, unfailing spring in that nest of buttes over there. too. this is all artesian well land, and Captain Scott and I have been talking of ‘coming down here and helping you disaffected people to sink such a well, just to show you what it will di ‘The Mexican took his pipe from his lips and shook his head grimly. “He was sitting under the eucalyptus, and Lucia was beside him. Tarnsey occupied a stool nearly in front of them. At his last words, so fuil of hope and practical suggestion, the girl, who beon fanning herself sleepily while they talked. | looked at him earnestly with an expression of | grateful interest. A few moments later he rose togo,and as he stood before them, all his splendid height erect, he let his blue eyes rest for a brief space upon Lucia; looking up she received the full intensity of his glance, which sank and melted into her own dark orbs, till they quavered and closed as though overcome by a strong light ‘Just then # horseman galloped up, and halted not tillhe was in their very midst. He was young and strong, dark as Jurillo, and rode a black horse, with Jingling silver trappings. He lifted his sombrero, ‘made ® sweeping bow, then sat erect and ‘gazed about him. Jurillo grew auimated. He welcomed the new-comer in Spanish, made him alight, and thea turning with a courteous air to bis other visitor suid: “Senor Tarnsey, this is my friend and the son of my friend, Pablo Sarvedra. Batty, bring another seat,” he shouted. “Monica, my wife, Jet us have some wine.” He motioned Tarnse; back to his stool. His good humor was bound- less. The wine was brought—a bottle of honey sweet Muscatel. ‘Weak stuff,” the old man said; “but Lucia will tasto no other, so Pablo likes it, too.” The young Mexican. showed his white teeth in a smile, bat Lucia’s face gave no sign that she had heard the jest. Cards were produced and Jarillo begged the American to take a hand with him against Lucia and Sarvedra. “I Gould not play against your daughter,” said our friend, “but if { mav be her partner, I eels one,” auld the, hosts “it’s the pastime “All's one,” : “it's I'm after.” But Sarvedra lowered his heavy brows. “You wili tell me where I may find her? I assure you, Carlos Jurillo, [am no trifler. and this iv the profoundest moment of my life. Though I bave seen her but three timer that girl is more to me than all the universe beside. If Ican win her heart she shall be the h: piest of women, if an honest man’s true love and the devotion of lifetime can make hey such. Surely you desire her happiness abov. every other thing.” ‘es, I think so, and yet—I can refuse her to Sarvedra after this night, and Iwill; but I cannot give her to you. No, I will not teil you where she is. “Then I must find her for myself,” were Tarnsey’s last words, as he mounied his horse and waved the old man a courteous adieu. Naturally sbe would go back to the convent school in Oakland. So thought Norman Tarn- sey during the days that followed that memo- rable evening. ‘They were crowded with af- fairs which he dispatched with reckless haste, in order the sooner to follow her. His passion drove him along. He must see her and declare to her this momentous fact—he loved her and desired her for his own. “At length he found himself in Los Angeles, his passage paid und his state room engazed on a coast steam ship that would touch at San Pedro—the port for Los Angeies—three days hence, on its course to San Francisco, He had a vacant evening before him. He was too restless to read, too self-absorbed to talk with the men ke happened to know. His thoughts turned to the one intimate friend he had in the city, & Mra. Cummings, whom he had known in the east. “She.” he thought, “will not only let me talk of what fills my heart toaching, but will say something suggestive and inspiriting.” He started out in the direction of her resi- dence. A band was playing in the vibrated with their vesper chimes. It was one of the church's great days, and a se many hours was in progres. | Wor came and went continually. A group of hor men had drawn up under the trees. They w listening to the music, perhaps: or only loung- ing idly in their saddles and watching covertly the women and young girls who thronged the plaza near tie fountain. ‘They were Mexicans, and Tarnsoy's quick cye singled out ous of the group and nover strayed from that one. Instinctively he planted him- self in anattitade of defiance. His jawa were set. his hand clenched. What was Pablo Sur- vedra doing here? He was not listening to the band or eyeing the women, but his gaze was fixed steadily upon the cathedral door. Evi- dently he was watching for the appeacance of some one whom he believed to be within the church, Tarnsey looked him over, his breast swelling with jealous rage. Sarvedra sat his biack horse easily and well. Cutthroat though he was, his personality had a certain charm. His right hand rested on his thigh, holding « jeweled whip. ahand brown ang small, but strong and sinewy as the sword hand ofa matadore. ‘Tarnsey was as sure that that hand had once taken deadly aim at him as that ite owner wat here in Los Angeles on Lucia’s acconnt. Jurillo bad told the Mexican where to find her, and had afterward refused to tell bim. Nevertheless, he would find her by following Sarvedra; of that he felt certain, She must choose between him ana his enemy ‘The iong vervice was over. ‘The last worship- ers wore departing, and = ccmpany of priests in their cansocks was passing out of the sacristy door, beyond the low sdobe wsil which inclosed the cathedral grounds. Servedes with disap- ointment in bis dark face, suddenly wheeled ‘is horse and galloped at ‘Tarnsey could only note the direction ie took; pursu‘t on foot was im He walked the streets till alate hour, never thinking again of bit pro- posed wisit to Mrs. Cummings. y ‘The following day he changed his quarters to the Pico House, thinkmng the location would facilitate ue getting another sight of Survedra. Shortly before dinner, as he stood in the ves- tibale, Le saw Servedra, through a vista of open doors, just entering the dining room. Tarnsey did not dine. | He tarned on bis heel, went out and a saddle izorse for the evening. Whos Gacvedra mounted lie bisek is trex of the hotel Tarnsoy was also in the saddle. Al- ways at a distance which kept his preseuce and purpose a secret, he shadowed the Mexican for Aours, out J o'clock Sarvedra tarned his in the direction he bad taken the evening before ‘when he left the plaza. 4 ‘Then | | gra | selves to the situa | bly, a pretty emile—if his ch WASHINGTON, D..C.,. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1892—SIXTEEN ~ PAGES. ‘Tarnsey's ou: be ined, when having followed him to Boyle Heighta, he saw Sarve dismount before handsome resi- dence of hisown friend, Mra. Cummings, and fo,within. Ten minutos jater Tarnsey rang the and was admitted by that lady hérsclf, who greeted him with mild sur; ure. She conducted ack of the parlor. ‘and genuine im tothe library, Heavy curtains screened the doorway between the two rooms, from the front one of which came an indistinct murmur of voices. While they were still standing, Tarnsey asked: ‘Who is the man who entered your door a quarter of an hour ago?” “A young Spaniard from San Diego,” Mrs. Cummings’ replied. ‘He comes to see the Spapish teacher I have employed.” “The Spanish teacher?" repeated the young mai “Yes, Spanish is my latest fad—Spanish and the mandolin. I applied to the cathedralclergy fora teacher, and they brought me this girl. She is angelic! You must know her father, he lives near Hedgeway. Jurillo is the name. _ There came a sound of hurried words, of pas- sionute, pleading words from beyond the clesed. porticre, then a low, distressed cry. Turnsey flung aside the curtain and entered the room. Lucia stood with her face turned away from Sarvedra, who, halt kneeling, held her slender wrist in a grasp of steel. His face wns a mask of passionate emotion. She had given bim a final repulse, and his love and despair drove him to frenzy. It was an immense mo- ment, buta short one. At sight of Tarnsey, white and towering, the Mexican dropped Lucia’s hand, and paved the width of the room kill. He was a coward at heert, and it required only the menace of the American's stern pres- ence to drive him pallid and shrinking from the house; almost before they realized it be was gone. Lucia had sunk trembling upon the sofa, her head bowed upon its cushioned arm. ‘Tarnsey was bending over her. “Look up, dearest senorita,” he was saying. “Do not shrink away from me or you will break my heart. Mrs. Cummings—Laura—come here and say to this dear girl that you have known . that Tama true man, and that when y Liove her, I pledge myself—all that Lam and my whole life, to her happine but Mrs. Cammingshad left them alone, even before the bowed ead, with its dusky masses of fuilen been tenderly lifted and Inid on Tarn: § It is Chiefly Their Lack of Voice That Handicaps Their Success. From the Indianapolis Journal. It is not everybody who has yet grown up to the idea that the female orator is an assential part of the sociat fabric, and yet we have her suddenly with us and taking the prizes away from the sex that has hitherto enjoyed o practical monopoly of the ors orical arts and . Ibis not worth while to question the propriety of woman's appearance on the plat- form. Asa matter of fact, she appeared there some time ago, but as» speaker, hardly as an orator in the proper sense. It hus been several years now since the sight of a woman aga pub- lic speaker created even a ripple of emo- tion. She has been presiding ovor and addressing temperance mectings and club gatherings, she has lectured to public assemblies, sue has made political stumy speeches, whe has even preach sermons— without arousing excitement or serious opp: sition. The fact is, women have “arrived and the people who are slow to adjast them- ion are at m disadvantage. It matters not whether public speaking is in their ‘sphere,’ women are making public xpecches when occasion seems to call for them. — Conventionalties and — traditions, authorities and prejudices, in the head, to be sure. Even St. Paul is discredited, but the women go serenely on— and it must be acknowledged that no serious calamity has yet resulted. If they want to talk out in meeting they will talk and it profits no man to say them nay. On the contrary, there are several reasons why they should be encouraged to excel. It women will address her fellow-citizons from the stage or the stump it is better that she should do it acceptably. Even the most ardent friends of advanced woman, those who have kept her in sight in her rapid progress toward “emancipation,” are obliged. to confess to afrequent wish that she wouldn't when she essays to clectrity the multitude, She may be earnest and eloquent, she may be witty and wise, butas a rule she cannot speak. Her voice gets away from her; whe is alternately shrill and husky; sho shrické when she would be emphatic; she whispers hoursely when she would persuade. Sensitive and _#ympathetic members of the audience incline to crawl under the benches, She has, in short, a voice that,waatrained by ancestry and early en- vironments to domestic “uses, and has not grown to the requirements of a hall. Henceforth this will be different. Col- leges recognize this Inck and are prepared to remedy it. If any female students show oratorical talent or are ambitious to become ers opportunity shall be offeréd them. mn of the future and of the near fature, who speaks in public on the stago may, if sie likes, be the Daniel Webster, the Henry Ward Beecher or the Chauncey M. Depew of her sex. Whether the young woman who so proudly bore the oratorical pennon from the male contestants of other Indiana colleges on Friday night will choose to follow up her vie tory is not yet known, bat if she doos she will undoubtedly win renown. The public will her to “come give us a taste of (her) qual- ——. 200 THE PRETTY CASHIER. It is Not Sentiment Alone That Leads Bust- ness Men to Employ Her. From the Chicago Tribune. Quietly and by degrees young women—and Pretty ones, too--have been superseding the sterner sex as cashiers in down town stores— this, too, in places patronized largely or al- most exclusively by men, Why? Your average Chicago business man is.as keen an individual as breathes. He un- derstands human nature thoroughly, and this matter of female cashiers has a great deal to do with human nature. Take one of the mediocre restaurants, for instance—there are hundreds of them ere. Aman has sworn that he will not stand another such meal again. Bat he goes back there just the same. He would not admit to his dearest friend why he goes there, | bat he knows in his heart that he does so sim- ply because he catches a glimpse of a pretty face, pretty cotffure, a pretty gown and, possi- ck is pretty large. ‘There isa sott spot in the human heart for grace and beauty, and, just ax women like to be waited on by handsome men—and these women laza, op- | are not flirts, either—-so does a man like to see posite the cathedral whose ancient belis still | handsome femininity in an unusual lace. What matters it if the steak be tough, the broad underdone, the coffee wretched? ’ All is for- gotten and forgiven, too, when the victim steps to the desk Homely girls stand no show behind the desk. Bennty, grace, taste in dress and neatness are requisites. And these draw good remunera- tion, as high as $15 a week being paid. Itiva subtle attraction, and in the last #ix years has been established in many retail stores, including tobacco shops» And there are adozen barber shops that beast girl barbers, not mentioning the larger shops that employ them as cashiers. Will th barmaid come next? On> phase of this female cashier question that storekeepers of the class described do not consider inuch is that these women average greater honesty than the men. Who ever heard of an out-and-out defaleation by @ fo- male cashier? ‘This point, however, is consid- éred by the employers of female clerks in the big stores. Aud the economy of the thing, too, enters into the calculation, But those storekeepers who recognize only human natare are the ones who are willing to pay high sal~ aries to cashiers who are fair in face, form and raiment a Going Too Far. From the Chicago Tribune. “Have you any cold victuals,” inguired the rusty-looking pilgrim, “to spare fora hungry No!” snapped the women at the kitchen door. “Perhaps I was wrong in asking for Kner} victuals,” he rejoined. apologetically. “ had suggested lew he pyrite with baked potatoes, madam, and a cup of cocoa——" “You wouldn't have got that, either." “H'm! My own preference, I acknowledge, would have teen roast turkey with cranberry sauce, chicken salad, a morsel of Roquefort cheese — Freveh coffee, with periaps a lass of —' Me “It wouldn't have done you any good to ask for that, either, you impudent, insufting vaga- bond! You ought to go to work!” 3 ‘Madam,” interposed the rusty tourist, with dignity, “1 can overlook your total inability to satisfy the gastronomic requirements of a il somewhat fastidious ite, but. es apply stpanive aptinetes png es ‘seoaiio: Trea altogether too rico you are presuming far. whahas ho pet crvensitietogle 00 ae haha he could Weer tie ipperal of et waier strike the wall of the bouse opposite between himself and the rival he had tried to | are all knocked | ae? CHARMS AND AMULETS. Curious Fetiches Which People Wear Upon ‘Their Watch Chains. SCARABS AND GOLDEN EYxS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT — SEALS FROM BABYLON AND FOSSIL ‘TRILOBITES — HORSE CHESTNUTS, POTATOES AND LUCK PENNIES—SOURCES FROM WHENCE SUCH SUPERSTITIONS anise. Some OF THE MOST VALUABLE OB- jects of art nowadays are hung upon watch guards. There is a well-known Washingtonian whose scarf is usually adorned with an Egypt- fan scarab worth $5,000. Its appraisement is so high not so much on account of its exquisite workmanship as because it was found in the aar- cophagus of Rameses the Great and is believed to have been the royal seal. The beetle was the emblem of the Creator in the mythology of the People who lived in ancient Egypt, and gre numbers of scarabei are discovered with the mummies in the tombs. THE EYE IX Gop. In the tombs of the Pharaohs have also been found very curious representations of the hu- man eye in gold. Some of them are left eyes and others right. They are beautifully exe- cuted, the brows, lids and pupils being carved | out of little rectangular pieces of metal. It is believed that they were carried about by peo- ple for a protection agninst diseases of the eye, which in northern Africa have always been ex- tremely prevalent. The glare of tho white, sandy plains produces dangerous ophthalmia, while every modern traveler is femiliar with the iittle ties which lay their eggs within the lids, the larve hatched therefrom feeding upon the tissues of the organ, NEGLIGENT NATIVES, After the oriental manner the natives of Egypt have always been entirely neglectful of | remedial measures for the treatment of such complaints. In the olden days they wore these golden eyes for the purpose of warding off the evil influences which were supposed to cause such diseases. A person whose right eye w | sick would carry the corresponding optic | carved in metal, and vice versa. Probably it | was the eye of the goddess Isis whiah was re resented. When the good god Osiris was set | upon by the Egyptian satan, whose name was Typhon, and cut to pieces, the fragments of | his body being thrown to the gnomes, she wept | so much that the river Nile was formed by her | tears. “Subsequentiy she manazed to collect ail the bits and mado him as good as new again. Recently it has been quite a fad to hang coun- terfeits of these golden eyes upon the watch chains. HOW AMULETS ARE WORX NOWADAYS. It is upon watch guards nowadays that amulets such as these are mostly worn. They are supposed to possess all sorts of virtues supernatural. It is astonishing how many people even in this enlightened nineteenth cen- tury have faith in them. Altnough belief in ghosts and witches no longer prevails, yet the dread of the mysterious and unknown in nature mind, Individuals are often heard to say that they “have no superstitions,” but in reali there is no one who does not cherish a fe faith that luck inheres in certain objects. You pick up a copper cent in the street and keep it in Your poeket book for a “luck penny.” It is an umulet pure and simple. ANCIENT ORJECTS OF VARIOUS KINDS are utilized as amulets, some charm being imagined to belong to them. Thus the little | cylinders of stone which the Babylonians of old employed for seals are often scen dangling | from watch chains. For the same purpose | jewelers mount in gold or silver small fossil | trilobites—erustaceans found in rocks that | were formed perhups 40,000,000 years ago, the | ancestors of modern lobsters and crabs. | Gamblers and actors are of all people most | given to superstitions respecting luck, and it is not surprising to find that they are greatly ad- dicted to amulets of various kinds, carrying them on their watch guards, in searf pins “and | set in rings for the fingers. ' Miniature boars’ |tusks and the shells so much affected by gypsies are both of very ancient Priapic origin. - What they signify can easily be found out any one who cares to inquire. SUPERSTITIONS. Horse chestnuts and potatoes carried in the pocket to keep off rheumatism or for other su- perstitious purposes are amulets. The virtues supposed t6 be possessed by amber beads are variously familiar. Belief in the supernatural qualities of amber is very old indeed. It arose | originally from its peculiar electric quality, from which was derive: the word “electricity. electron being the Greck name for amber. Miniature arrow heads cut out of jasper and carnelian are found to this day by Arabs in the desert sundsand strung in necklaces for cl The Etruseans of old used to mount si arrow heads in gold, and one oxen now in scarf pins, Thus is the stone age brought down to the very present time. SOME MAScors. People’s fingers, cut from the hands of the dead, aré sometimes carried as amulots by the | ignorant and superstitious. Dried lizards sewn up in leather serve the same purpose. The Indian banter will cut the shape of an | wnimal out of stone, have it “blessed” by tho medicine manand believe that it gives hima | good fortune in the chase of the beast repre~ sented, When he kills one he dips the fetich in the blood. Perhaps he wraps abont it beads, signifying money, and attaches to it little arrow heads, which represent the execu- tive function of slaughter. So as to secure us much help from the unknown as possible h hangs charms al! over his person. In Core three spirits are supposed to enter the world with every infant, guarding the child until it grows up. For these terious protectors three little bags are sewn upon the child's waistband, each containing lock of its hair. WHAT SUPERSITITION 18, Superstition is simply blind fear of the un- known. To the untutored savage tho world, being full of mysteries which he cannot under- stand, is filled with terrors, because whatever is unknown is always at least possibly harmful. Naturo surrounds him with maleficent in- | It a rock fails from a cliff above him nt up there must have thrown it at § him. Respecting other natural phenomena he concludes in similar fashion. ‘There 18 some- thing in them which is disposed to hurt him. Storms, earthquakes, floods, pestilence are all intended to acsuil him. A quecr-shaped boulder has arrived where it is by strange means. Is not that an ovidence that it is supernatural? Either it has flown hither itself or some one bus thrown it. In the former case it has life and is to be feared; in the Initer, he who threw itas formidable. PROOF AGAINST GHosTs. In this feshion the primitive man peoples the world with ghosts. He cannot fight them with ordinary physical weapous, because they are invisible and so infinitely more powerful than he. But he cen defend himself to some extent, porhaps, with charms. There are wise men itt | every generation who profess to have the power | ofcommunicating with tiese unseen spirits, The jure proves that there aro gvod spirits as wellas bad ones. ‘Thicse wise men are able to secure the help of the former and to placate or render harmless the latter. ‘They secure from the ghosts the bestowal of protective qualities apon certain objects, which they sell to other human beings who enjoy no personal.acquaint- ance with the spirits. Such objects are worn by persons who are so fortunate as to secure Possewsion of them and are called amulets. ‘THY INFLUENCE OF CHARMS. ‘Things not so obtained may nevertheless Possess influence as charms. Asin the case of amber, they have mysterious qualities. Nobody is ablo to explain theso qualities, and therefore they must be supernatural. Objects particu- larly ancient, of which no practical use is any longer recognized, have presumably some oc- cult property attiching to them. ‘The mere fact that chance has directed the finding of a Penny Jn the street shows that the coin has tuck inhering mm it. ‘Therefore, if carried about in the pocket, it will presumably bring good fortune. There is something decidedly mys- terious about a potato or» horve chestnut. As germs they represent the reproductive fune- tion, which no man comprebends. Accord. Like them he wears amulets and does not tate to express his faith in them. Ga Shales, “What Dreams May Come.” From the Bangor Commercial. It was Monday evening that a man went into chestnuts, though smailer. Three of them are developed in each pod, which bursts when ripe with a sound rese ng the explosion of a | firec owing the nuts to soie distance retains inore or iess infiuence over every human | secretly. The form in which this weakness is | most commonly exhibited is in un unreasoning | | bottles, distributing it as evenly as possiBle ident working of good and evil iniluences in | BUBBER CULTURE A New Industry to Be Tried im Florida, HOW NATURE'S SUPPLIES OF RUBBER ARE BEIX@ DESTROYED—AN INTERESTING AXD VALUABLE PLANT—HOW TRE SEEDS ARK SCATTRRED—NOW ‘JHE TREES ARE BARKED AND THE TREES KILLUD. UBBER CULTURE—AN AGRICULTURAL industry new to the United States—is to be tried in the Everglades of Florida. Sui- cient warmth and plenty of moisture, the two chief essentials, are to be found there. It is believed that plantations of the trees, estab- lished on a great scale, would prove enormously Profitable. With this purpose in view experi- ments are now being made at Lake Geno with seeds and plants obtained from Brazil. The vast region of swamp referred to, covering thousands of square miles, is presumably capable of producing enough rubber to supply the world. NATURE'S RUBBER SUPPLIES. The supplies of rubber furnished by nature are seriously threatened with exbaustion,owing to the reckless manner in which the trees have beon destroyed. In Brazil the forests are as full of rubber trees as they are of snakes and fevers, yet those who gatlier the product pur~ sue such methods of havoc that the govern- ment hes been forced to seriously consider Projects for preserving the industry by culti- vation. A ike Proposition is being ted in Mexico and elsewhere, the fact having only re- cently come to be realized that the world will not be able to depend much ionger upon wild forests for rubber, which is at present recog- nized as one of tie most useful substances vegetable kingdom, PLANT SEEDS. There are many different kinds of rubber- Producing plants, but the best of them is the “siphonia elnstica” of Brazil. It ig one of the most superb of tropical trees, having a spread ot bra hes of eighty feet when full grown. The see: somewhat the shape of horse In one day a man can gather enough of them to planta quarter section of land. When the litth da height of six or eight inches in the nursery each one should be put into @ hal!-bushel basket of As sou as they are three feet high they may be perma- nently pliuted, the basket bemg set in the | ground with each one. A TREE PLANTATION. The rubber trees having thus been set out the work is done. No preparation has been peeded for the land und it is not necessary to cultivate it further. At the end of the first year the plants will be eight or ten feet high, but twenty years must elipse before they will be in full Dearing of sap. It is a long time to wait, and this is the reason why rubber culture has not been ex resorted to already. Few people care to sow crops for the next genera- tion to gather. Nevertheless, 1 is estimated that 10,900 trees will yield in th ‘ir sixth 60,000 pounds of juice, 55 per cent of which is water and the rest ru This would signify rofit of $4,253 profit in the seventh and so it would proceed full-grown tree will pro- uk” annually, THY RUBBER HUNTERS OF MEXICO strip the trees of their bark or fell them, slicing the bark and placing vessels to receive the sap, which is dried in the sun and sent to mar- In Peru they eut down the trees and chop m to pieces, limbs and all, allowing the milk” to run into hollows dug ‘in the ground. Its coagulated in these pools by mixing with it commo: Being then ready forsale it is disposed of as u low grade of the article. Scme- what less destructive are the methods purstied by the Indians of Nicaragua, who cut channels from the to; to the bottom of each tree, placing vessels on the xr ‘o receive the juice. They use the strong vines which twine about the trees for lads mb by. THE MANUFACTURED ARTICLE. These vines, whick are of the kind known as “liana,” are useful to the rubber seckers in an- other very curious way. From thema decoction is made which is the most efficient agent known for coagulating the juice. For this purpose it ix added to the “milk ’ in the proportion of one pint to cach gallon. ‘The rubber is made into round dat cakes for market. These natives Manufacture in a most simple fashion the finest rubber blankets m the world, They put the fresh sap into bottles and keep it for a few days, until It has reached the desired consist- eucy. ‘ihen they spread a piece of canvas on the ground and pour the juice upon it from the soap. with wooden paddlvs. It dries very soon, when the blankets ure ready for use. Kubber bags are made out of canvas bags in like manner. ubber trees may be tapped with 4 hatchet day for years without injuring them, therwise than to make them scarred and bumpy, so long as only the bark is cut. But if the wood beneath is wounded even slightly the milk-produciug giant dies. The “harie- quin” beetle lays its eggs in the wounds and the grubs hatched from them bore great holes in the trank, rapid decay following. With careful treatment a rubber tree will continue to yield pleutituliy for forty years. THE RULBER FORESTS OF BRAZIL are worked by traders who either own them by right of pre-emption or rent them from capi- tulists in Para and other cities. They are usu- obliged to maintain their claims by rifle , hever veutaring out without a handy uose regions there exists & + of desperadoes known as “capangas.” uy traders employ gangs of these fellows to their claims. Sometimes there are pitched battles bet n two rival gangs, and feuds often atise which cres. ‘Ihe laborers hired to gather the rubber are little better than | i them starts out at daybreak, carrying # basketful of small earthen cups, a jump of moist clay aud a hatche:. He has from 100 to 150 trees to attend to. MILKING THE TREES. Upon reaching the first tree the man makes three incisions in the bark of it with his hatchet, Beneath each cut, from which’ the juice issues im rapid drops, he fastens with a bit of clay one of his litue’ cups, so that the milk” sliuli flow into it Every one of the trees ailotte | to his share he treats in like man- ner, Then he goes home, eats a basty break- tast, aud starts Out again to guther the sap. He finds the cups nearly or quite full and collects enough of the liquid to make three or four pounds of rubber. Returniig with it to his hut he builds a smudge tire of palm nute in an earthenware furnace. Dipping «paddle in the juice he turns it avout in the sinoke of the fire, which coagulates the “milk.” He continues to dip and redip the paddle, holding it in the smoke, until alump of several pounds weight is formed. ‘This is finally shpped off from the paddle and sent to market. The number of uses to which rubber is put is really astonishing. Among other things it as employed as @ material for clothing, shoes, dolis, earrings, bracelets, brooches,” watch chaiis, combs,’ hair pins, collars, cuifs, cuff buttons, bruvhes, bathing tubs, machine belting, hose, tobacco pouches, bed sheeting, cravats and ‘nipples for babies’ bottles. How- over, these are only a very few of the thousands of articles made of this in vegetable substance. ed Judge Fuller's School Days.” From the Kennebec (Me.) Journal. ‘The name of Chief Justice Fuller having been mentioned in connection with the next presi- dential nomination public attention has been again directed to him and stories regarding his boyhood are now inorder. “Mell,” as he is called by the le of Old Town, lived in that city ass schoolboy ten years. Ho was 8 studious boy and a terror in =. the lyceum where — were = " took part often against grown folks, and out of paged those discussions there grew a quarrel between aman now an ex-judge and the present chief justice that has never healed The ex-judge was » young school teacher then and “‘Meli’ wasin the second classin the school. In the lyceum one night the boy de- feated the teacher in debate and got some plause, Full of wrath the teacher ailuded to his 0} cuentas 6 coronas fa bo: re pads consisted in being a boy be and L l a “some time he should bees biga tencher thought himself to be, ‘that be great indeed teacher his desk cover and then wen! term be ignored Faller asa scholar. jel a8 justice Jieatin Dlanknation the people were thinking about. { files i f ik l All around the world, from East to West, Pipe Smokers think Bull Durham best. How good it is, a trial will show, And make you smoke and praise it too. Get the Genuine. Made only by BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO CO.. DURHAM, N.C, BEES AND THEIR ways. How They Are Transported and How Queen Bees Are Bred. ‘OREIGN BEES WITHOUT PEDIGREES may be admitted to the United States free of duty. The Secretary of the Treasury has so decided. Until the last tariff bill was passed bees from abroad came in gratis as “animals imported for breeding purposes.” The Mo- Kinley law declared that this ruling should only apply to animals “regularly entered in recog- nized herd books.” Accordingly, bees were as- sessed 20 per centad valorem because they had no pedigrees. The beekeepers protested and carried their point. Some time ago the Post Office Department Acclared that bees were “unmailable, ground that they would be likely to sting peo- ple if they got loose. The beekeepers secured the recall of this regulation by proving that the packages employed could not be broken. Most of them use for purposes of transporta- tion an ingenious wooden box with a sliding cover, invented by Dr. Benton, an expert at- ached to the Department of Agriculture. It is four inches long and is divided into three rtmonts. The compart- ment at one end is filled with soft candy for the one at the c umunicating com the insects to feed upon; c other end has holes for ventilation, while the middle compartment is a dark chamber for the into when it is cold. In such a receptacle bees can be sent around the world and will reach thcir destination in good health and ready to fly to the nearest flowers for honey. Each box will hold a queen and from twelve to twenty workers. Before mailing it is secured with rubber bands or put in a strong envelope. THE BREEDING OF QUEEN BEES for market has grown to be an important in- In every hive are de- veloped each summer from a dozen toa score dustry in this country. or two of queen cells, each of which is destined to produce a queen, ‘They are bigger than the ordinary six-sided cells and are of an elongated shape. ‘The queen mother lays the same sort of eggs in them that she deposits in the otber spracics, but the worms hatched from these eggs are fed by the nurse bees with such extra Tich food that the winged insects into which they are metamorphosed become queens instead of ordinary workers—that is to say, big females fully developed soxually. It is purely a matter of diet. But inasmuch as there can be but one queen ina hive, after the old queen mother lias gone away for good with swarm those of the workers left behind guard the sealed cells of the young queens that are about to emerge, only permitting one to get out at a time. if two escaped at once, as sometimes happens, they would kill each other. Perhay one or two of the new queens fly out of hive with swarms,but the workers which finally remain aliow the next queen who comes out to stab all the others to death in cells, even helping her to perform this cruél but neces- sary operation. ‘Thus it happens that com- paratively few queens are permitted to live. ‘The beekeeper, however, saves their lives by cutting off the superfluous queen cells from fhe combs, selling the queens produced from them for #5 each and upward. Agents nowadays travel around the world to seek new varieties of bees. A very excellent and popular stock of industrious honey getters has recently been introduced from Cyprus. When the Venctians owned the island 200,000 hives were kept there. People used honev for sugar in those days. Now there are only 30,000 hives, owing to oppressive taxes levied upon the mdustry by the Lurks. ‘The residents are usually unwilling to sell any of their bees, believing that those left behind will fly away’ after the ones which are disposed of. “Accordi to secure fifty queens, This is apt to be a bore. Dr. Benton found it sc on one occasion when he tried to carrya number of earthenware hives across the country on muleback. Some of the hives got broken by an accident, the bees attacked the mules and the doctor was #0 badly stung that heswelled up to about twice his normal dimensions. If he had not been thoroughly died. ean See WOMEN LIKE PARIS. undoubtedly have WHY SOME The Gay City Winks at Moral Shortcomings. Lucy H. Hooper in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mrs. Deacon's wealth, her beauty, ber social position—that last altogether unaffected by the many rumors that were afloat respecting her— mado of her one of the most prominent society ladies of the American colony. She was warmly welcomed into its most exclusive cliques, And it is possibie that once she has obtained her di- vorce she may come back and receive and be received as usual by her former friends. For society over here has infinite toleration for the little escapades of a lady of handsome fortune, particularly if she chances to belong to one of our old families. There are certain drawing her withdrawal The other Indy guests sat still and looked on sympathetically. I do not know if the good old custom of not recoiving women of improper character is still maintained in the social circles of the United States. I know that it is not here in American I have met at certain very aristo- cratic houses in the American colony women whose moral status did not admit of a ity of doubt—creatures the very whose garments in passing should y_ honest i touch have i Hl e e We by e i are i i | f a on the} occupants to crawl ingly, the purchaser is commonly obliged to buy fifty hives in order inoculated with bee peison in moderate doses during previous years be would SENDING OUT DRY GOODS SAMPLES. A Seoming Trifle That Costs = Great Deal of Money. From the Chicago Herald. “I wonder whether one person in « thousand who asks for a sample of « piece of dry goods ever stops to think what it costs the merchants of this country « year to satisfactorily respond to the simple request?” asked the manager of one of Chicago's greatest dry goods houses the other day ashe opened the thirty-cighth re- quest found in asinglo mail. “I had » talk with the managers of = dozen or more big houses not long ago,” ke continued, “and among other things discupsed was that of giv- ing away samples and souding out samples of ary goods, &e., by salesmen. Finally we got to figuring on the mutter. The result was almost appalling. Some of us bad been com- nected with big factories in our time ee well as other large houses, wholesale and retail. We found that, placed at » conservative figure, there are more than $3,000,000 worth of goods given away, and consequently destroyed, im samples every year in the United Staton “When you come to figure this out it means an average ot 5 cents apiece for every man, woman and child, including all the babies, im the United States. “This $3,000,000 or more eventually, of course, comes out of the pockets of the pur- chasers, or, more properly «peaking, the con- sumers of dry goods. The sample feature of the dry goods business is at once one of the reatest nuisapces aud blessings that we bave, ‘here the nuisance comes in is easily to be m: the blessing of itis in the fact that i saves us—or, Ishould say, the dearly beloved people—many a thousand dollars which other wise would go for the expense of sending out more traveling salesmen. Thousands of dollars worth of goods are sent out every day to retail customers over the country from which we never hear # word. But do we lose it? Oh, no—never! We simply count upon it as bei #0 much clear loss or necessary expense with clerk hire, taxcs, &c., and ask the more for the goods that we sell, a THE POWER OF Lova & Young Girl Sacrifices Her Teeth for Her Young Man, From the Boston Herald. “I've heard of agirl pawning ber engage ment ring to buy her lover a Christmas present, but I never beard anything stranger than & story told me while out west recently,” said the barber as be stropped his razor the other day, “Ina combination jewelry and pawn shop ® diamond pin was exhibited for sale. Tt caught the fancy of a young lady. The more she gazed on the pin the more she wanted it for the man. she loved. ; “She went bome and got all the money she Possessed. Coming back to the store she asked. the price of the pin and found ite few dellars , en's i minute. Suddenly she « min brightened up and took » set of teeth from her mouth. The plate was of solid gold. “Can't you use that?’ she asked the pawa- “And to weigh it Ishall have to knock teeth off.” - ~ found that ite value meds up the lack ena cen: “The girl took her 3 cents and the diamond and went out withe ber er handkerchief over ce een ‘The Smallest Keal Letate Transaction. Interview in the Chicago Tribune. I read in the New York Tribune that » Cim cinnati man sold s picce of land for €2.25, which was described injthe deed: ‘“The 1-1,000th Part ofan inch from the northeast corner of lot No. 28 and running south one-fourth of an ineb; thence west to the back line of said lot; thence north one-fourth of an inch; thence east to point of beginning.” This is ag the smallest real estate transaction on record. As usual, Chicago cam boat it. know gentleman who holds by « regular form of real estate conveyance, dul; te S aesorived ports ten ‘ordinary recorded, a descri jon of city lot 'so small that the Cincinnati lot de- scribed in the clipping could be divided into @ million times more ions of « like size than could the American continent into lots ag large as the Cincinnati property mentioned. The following ix the description: “The east Vigintillioneth of the east vigintillioneth” of @ certain lot on Oakwood boulevard, and the owner he has an estate of some value