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WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE. CORVALLIS. JUNE 11, 1880 LAST NIOHT. Last night, wf this tba little curtained room, Where the rT murtc con ided faintly clear, And silver lish -rar allng through the gloom. You told the tale that women love to hear; Ton told It well, with firm hands clasping mine, And deep eyes glowing with a tender light. Mere acting? Bat your power was half divine Last night, last night. Ah, yon bad much to offer; wealth enough To gild the future, and a path of ease For one whose way is somewhat dark and rough; Mew iriends a life as calm as summer seas. And something (was it love?) to keep us true, And make us precious in each other's sight. Ah! then, indeed, my heart's resolve I knew, J.asl night, last night. Let the world go, with all its dross and pelf! Only for one, like Portia, could I say, "I would be trebled twenty times myself;" Only for one, and he is far away; His voice came back to me, distinct and dear. And thrilled me with the pain of lost delight; The present laded, but the past was clear, Last night, last night. If others answered as I answered then. We would hear less, perchance, of blighted lives; There would be truer women, nobler men, And fewer dreary homes ajd faithless wives; Because 1 could not give you all my best, I gave you nothing. Judge me was I right? You may thank heaven that I stood the test, Last night, last night. TRUE ROAD TO SUCCESS. Edward Stone stood inpatient!- upon the step of his Uncle Dan's stately resi dence. There was not the slightest sign of life anywhere around; the whole front part of the bouse was closed and dark ened; and, having rang several times without eliciting any response, he was about to conclude that there was no one within hearing, when a head was thrust out of one of the upper windows. "Young man, go around to the side door." Considerably startled by this unex pected address, the young man obeyed. Upon the porch, brushing away the leaves which covered it, was a young girl of fifteen. She looked very pretty as she stood there, the bright autumnal sunshine falling on the round, white arms and uncovered head. Setting down her broom, she ushered him into a medium-sized, plainly furnished room, which gave no indica tion of the reputed wealth of its owner. The young man took a seat, brushed a few flecks of dust from the lappel of his coat, ran his fingers through his carefully-arranged locks, and thus delivered himself : "Tell your master that his nephew, Edward Stone, is here." A faint smile touched the rosy lips, and, with a demure "Yes, sir," the girl vanished. A few minutes later an elderly gentle man entered, with intelligent, strongly marked featnres, and a shrewd look in his eye, which seemed to take the men tal measure of his visitor at a glance. "Well, sir, what is your business with me ?" "I am your nephew, Edward Stone." "So my daughter told me. What do yon want ? "I came to pay my respects to you, air." "Yes; but what do you want me to do for you T "I was thinking of going into busi ness, and thought! would come and talk it over with you, and ask you to give me a lift." "What better capital do you want than you already have? A strong, able-bodied man wanting a lift! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! What have you been doing?" Edward's face flushed with anger at this unceremonious -language; but, feel ing that he could not afford to quarrel with his wealthy relative, he gave no other indication of it. "I've been in a store since I left school, two years ago." "Saved nothing from your salary, I suppose?" "No; it's only $500 a year not more than enough for my expenses." "Humph! You are able to dress yourself out of it, I perceive. I have known men to rear and educate a large family on $500 a year; and, if you have been unable to save anything, you cer tainly are not fit to go into business on your own account. When I was your age my income was less than $300, and I saved half of it. What is the busi ness you want to engage in?" "Stationery and books. $600 will buy it, as the owner is obliged to sell a rare chance. I don't ask you to give me the amount, only to lend it; I will give my note, with interest." "Young man, I have several such papers already. You can have all of them for $5, and I warn you that it will prove a bad investment at that. I can crive vou some advice, thouch. tich, if you'll follow, will be worth you a good many times over the uuui juu naa. uul juu nun l uu it. How do you know that; said Jdward with a smile, who began to feel more at home with his eccentric relative. "I'd like to hear it, anyway." "Well, here it is. Go back to your place in the store, and save $3 a week from your salary, which you can easily do ; learning, in the meantime, all you can about the business you intend to pursue. At the end of four years you will have the capital you seek, together with sufficient experience and judgment to know how to use it. And, better still, it will be yours, earned by your own in dustry and self-denial, and worth more than ten times that amount got in any other way. Then come and see me again." "You'd rather have my money than advice, I dare say," added Mr. Stone, as Edward arose to go; -'but we'll be bet ter friends four years hence than if I let you have it. Sit down, nephew; the train you will have to take won't leave until 6 in the evening. You must stay to tea; I want you to see what a complete little housekeeper I have, and make you acquainted with her." "Polly!" he cried, opening the door into the hall. In prompt obedience to his summons, a rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed girl tripped in. The neat print dress bad been ex changed for a pretty merino, but our hero did not fail to recognize her, and his face flushed painfully as he did so. "Polly," continued her father, "this is your cousin Edward. He leaves on the 6 o'clock train, and I want you to make his stay with us as pleasant as pos sible." "Polly is my little housekeeper," he added, turning to his nephew; "I hire a woman for the rough work, and she does all the rest. When she's eighteen she shall have all the servants she wants, but she must serve her apprenticeship first. It may stand her in good stead; she may take it into her head to marry some poor man, as her mother did before her. Eh! my giri?" Mary's only reply to this was a smile and blush. Our hero was considerably embarrassed by the recollection of the mistake he had made; but the quietly cordial greeting of his young hostess soon put him completely at his ease. At her father's request who was very proud of his daughter's varied accom plishments Mary sang and played for her cousin, and his visit ended in singu lar contrast to the stormy way it com menced. Edward refused the $5 note tendered to him by his uncle at parting for his traveling expenses. The old man smiled as he returned the note to his pocket book. ' 'He's a sensible young chap, after all," he remarked to his daughter, as the door closed after their guest. "It's in him, if it can only be brought out. We shall see we shall see." "A good deal for father to say," was Mary's inward comment, who thought her cousin the most agreeable young man she ever met. Three years later, Mr. Stone and his daughter paused in front of a small but neat and pleasant looking shop, on the plate glass door of which were these words: Edward Stoke, Stationery and Bookstobe. It being too early in the day for cus tomers, they found the proprietor alone, whose face flashed with pride and pleas ure as he greeted them. "I got your card, nephew," said the old man, with a cordial grasp of the hand, "and called around to see how you were getting on. I thought it was about time I gave you the little lift you asked of me three years ago. You don't look much as if yon needed it, though." "Not at present, thank you, uncle, it is the same business that I wanted to buy then. The man who took it had to borrow money to purchase it with, get ting so much involved that he had to sell at a sacrifice." "Just what you wanted to do." Edward smiled at the point made by his uncle. "It isn't what I've done, though. I've saved $4 a week from my salary for the last three years; and so was not only able to pay the money down, but had $50 besides." "Bravo!" cried the delighted old man, with another grasp of the hand, that made our hero wince. "I'm proud of you! You're bound to succeed, I see, and without anybody's help. I told your Cousin Polly that, when she was eighteen, I'd buy her a house in the city; that she should furnish it to suit herself, and have all the servants she ' wanted; and I've kept my word. Come round and see us whenever you can; you'll always find the latch-string out." Edward did not fail to accept the in vitation so frankly extended a very pleasant intimacy growing up between the three during the twelve months that followed. Our hero's business grew and prospered, until he began to think of re moving to a larger place. His uncle had given him several liberal orders, as well as sent him a number of customers, but said nothing more about assisting him in any other way until Christmas eve. Entering the room where Edward and his daughter were sitting, he said: "I mustn't delay any longer the 'little lift' I promised you, nephew, and which you have well earned." Edward glanced from the $5000 check to the lovely face at his side, and then to that of the speaker. "You are very kind, uncle far kinder than I deserve but " "But what, lad? Speak out! Would you prefer it in some other form?" Edward's fingers closed steadily and strongly over the hand that he had taken in his. "Yes, uncle; in this." The old, man looked keenly from one to the other. "You are asking a good deal, nephew. Polly, have you been encouraging this young man in his presumption?" "I'm afraid I have, father," was the smiling response. The father's eyes moistened. "Tnen go, my daughter. I give you to worthy keeping; and, if you make your husband's heart as happy as your mother made mine during the few short years that she tarried by my side, he will be blessed indeed. The Dignity of Housekeeping. Where is there any higher station than the ordering of the house? While the husband has to vex himself with outward matters, while he has wealth to gather and secure, while perhaps he takes charge of the administration of the State and everywhere depends on circum stances; ruling nothing, I may say, while he conceives that he is ruling much; compelled to be polite where he would willingly be reasonable, to dis semble where he would be open, to be false where he would be upright; while thus for the sake of an object which he never reaches, he must every moment sacrifice the first of objects, harmony with himself a reasonable housewife is actually governing in the interior of her family; has the comfort and activity of every person in it to provide for, and make possible. What is the highest happiness of mortals, if not to execute what we consider right and good, to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims? And where should or can our nearest aims be but in the interior of our home? All those indispensible and still to be renewed supplies, where do we expect, do we require to find them, if not in the place where he go to sleep, where kitchen and cellar, and every species of accommodation for ourselves and ours is to be always ready? What unvarying activity is needed to conduct this constantly recuring series in un broken living order! How few are the men to whom it is given to return regularly like a star, to command their days as they command their night; to form for themselves their household instruments, to sow and to reap, to gain and to expend, and to travel around their circle with perpetual success and peace and love! It is when a woman has attained this inward mastery, that she truly makes the husband whom she loves a master; her attention will re quire all sorts of knowledge; her activity will torn them all to profit. Thus she is dependent upon no one; and she pro cures, her husband genuins indepen dence, that which is interior and domestic; whatever he possesses, he beholds secured; what he earns, well employed, and thus he can direct his mind to lofty objects, and, if fortune favors, he may act in the state the same character which so well becomes his wife at home. A widov who lives in a secluaed part of Michigan talks very imperfectly by reason of having lost her palate, and her two daughters, aged 8 and 12, can only speak the strange language they have learned of her, though their vocal organs are perfect. Cab and Tender. "He's been in the dumps because bis locomotive has been 'off for three or four days," said a railroad man a the Union depot the other day, as he pointed to an engineer who looked as sour as any dyspeptic. "How off?" "Go and ask him." It took a quarter of an hour and a cigar to clear the cloud from the engi neer's face, and then in reply to the query he said: "It is a queer thing. There's my en gine, one of the best on the road, in per fect order, only twelve years old, and able to run or pull with the best of tli em. A month ago I hadn't the least bit of trouble in making time, no matter how the track was or the weight of the train. She was ready at the word, held her steam .beautifully, and she seemed to understand every word I said. To-day she is down in the round-house, growl ing and sputtering and acting as if she wanted to pick a fuss with a gravelTit." "Anything out of gear?" "Not a thing. She's been looked over twice, and we can't find the least excuse for her conduct. She'll get over it in a day or two, perhaps. If she don't we'll punish her." How?" "Put her before a freight or stock train. I've seen it tried a dozen times, and it most always worked well. Here she is now, bright as a new dollar and as handsome as a picture, and 111 bet fifty dollars that there isn't the least thing out of order. She's simply sulking the same as a child or a woman, and I know what started it. Three weeks ago, while on my run in with the night express, she just wanted to light right out for all she was worth. She took the bit like a running horse, and if I had not choked her off she'd have beaten her schedule time by twenty minutes. She acted mad right away and in running twenty miles she gave me more trouble than I ever had with her in a run of three hun dred. She lost steam, tried to foam over, choked her pipes, and when I want ed more steam she'd slide on her drivers. She went right back on me that night, and has been sulking ever since." "Do all engines do this?" "Not all, but many of them do. Some of 'em begin to cut up and get on their high heels the first day out of the shop, as if determined to be master; while oth ers will be as obedient as you please for two or three years, and then, all at once, play you seme rusty trick. People say that a horse is next to a man in point of intelligence, but I sometimes think a locomotive ought to have that place. We engineers do not look upon them as ma chines, but almost as companions, and I've known drivers to talk to them by the hour. "Is this your first experience with a sulking engine?" "No; it's my third. Six years ago, when I was running out of Chicago, west, I had ten years added to my age in about two minutes. I had a fihe passen ger engine, and we were the best of friends for over a year. One day, when we were booming over the country at forty miles an hour, I saw a farmer's team stalled at a highway crossing. He had a big load of wood on his wagon, and the team was a pair of young horses. When I first caught sight of them they were dancing up and down and not try ing to pull a pound, and the old farmer was on top of the load and putting on the whip good and strong. JNow I honestly believe tnat the engine wanted to smash things. She suddenly increased her speed, and when I re versed and put on the air-brakes she plunged and kicked and almost jumped the rails. When I started up again she was sulking, and I had all I could do to make time. She was "off" all next trip, but I wouldn't give in. On the . next irip she showed her teeth, and they had the gleam of a lantern of death. "You see I had orders to side-track at a certain station for the Atlantic express to pass me, and my engine sulked and growled and threw me several minutes behind time. There was little time to spare when we reached the station. I had drawn the train about half way off the main track when my engine stopped dead still. Yes, sir stopped dead still, and that without being reversed or a brake applied, and with steam enough to blow off. I was dazed for a minute, and the fireman opened his eyes like one see ing a terrible picture. Just then the Atlantic whistled. I jumped down and ran to the pilot, expecting to see a barri cade, but the track was clear. I leaped into the cab and gave her more steam, but not a wheel moved; more yet, but she stood there like a rock! Conductor, brake man and passengers were shouting to me, and the watchman howled like a panther. On came the Atlantic, and I pulled the throttle open wide. Bless you, sir! 1 m in a shiver now at the rec ollection. "The Atlantic alwavs roassed us on the fly, but that night she had a party of stockholders aboard who wanted to get off at this station, and she came to a stop and saved such a slaughter as would have put the Ashtabula disaster no where. She'd have gone through two sleeping cars as slick as a bullet. There we stood, my engine growling and threatening and I half-crazed. The fireman suddenly lit out as if he had seen a ghost, a mob of passengers swarmed down on me, and I believe I should have taken to the woods if a change hadn't come. All at once No. 40 seemed to rear right up, she made a plunge or two, and away she went like a bolt of lightning, and I had the hardest kind of work to stop her on the sliding. "They didn't say I was drunk, and they knew I wasn't asleep, but they sus pended me until they looked the engine over. She was in perfect order, and thev sent her out on the accommodation with a new driver. What did she do but bang right into a train at a station, and that with all steam shut off and the bar thrown over. Some folks lauarh at ns and call it superstition, but they never lived in an engine cab. Ask any horse trainer if his horse will make the same time two mornings alike, even if the care and feed and track are the same. Out of twenty locomotives built in the same shop, by tne same gang of men, no two will work the same. One can be bull dozed, another must be petted, a third will be faithful, a fourth treacherous. and each one will have her peculiar traits and tricks. I'd no more take out one of these engines without knowing her peculiarities than you'd trv to iumrj across that pit. I'd be all in a tremble for fear she d ditch the whole train. No, sir. They are as near human as machin ery can be made, and the more human you treat 'em the better it is for both. Some can be coaxed, some must be pun ished, some need watching, and once in a while you find one which will dodge danger, keep her time, and run herself while you dream of the curly-heads tucked np in bed at home." , Promotions in the Army and Navy. ' " Why was Grant elevated to the Presi dency! Was it in any degree as a re ward, for his great services? Or was it because he was the most available candi date to beat the other party? Why were Thomas and Meade sent down in sorrow to their graves, with insult heaped upon injustice? Why are the surviving sol diers of the great generals of the repub lic the only persons to unite in paying them appropriate honors? Is it true that republics are ungrateful? or is it only that the people in a republic can not be justly represented by their gov ernment? Why the great masses of the Union soldiers are not neglected by the govern ment is plain enough; they have votes enough to command respect. Yet even they are gradually losing their influence. The mystery of this subject is only in creased by the fact that the government is not always so unjust to its servants. What a contrast is afforded by the treat ment of the veterans of the navy! There is not an officer in the navy to-day whose rank is not as high as, or far higher than that of any command he ever held in battle, while in the army there are scores of officers still serving far below the grades in which they won important vic tories for their country. Since the war there have been many times as many pro motions to the higher grades in the navy as in the army, although the latter fought many times more battles than the former; and the number of high officers both on the active list and retired is many times greater in the navy than in the army. What is the standard by which our coun try measures justice? Since the war a score of officers of the navy who never commanded more than a single ship have been promoted to the full rank of rear-admiral on the active list, equal to that of major-general in the army; while a score of veteran officers of the army who held high commands on many bloody fields are left to die, or retire as colonels (equal to captain in the navy) in poverty, without even the small con solation of "prize-money," which was so profusely added to the high honors con ferred in the navy. When, at some future period of our history, the case is reversed by a great maritime war which will impose the brunt of battle upon the navy, will the scales of justice also be reversed ? Will the majority of honors and all the "prizes" then be given to the army, and the navy, which has fought the battles, be dismissed with cold indifference ? Who can tell but this may yet be the fate of the gallant army ? From 1861 to the present time the whole number of officers appointed major-general on the active list in the army is only twelve, while in the same time the number appointed rear-admiral on the active list in the navy is fifty-one. During the same period nine officers of the army have been retired with the rank of major-general, while sixty-three offi cers of the navy have been retired with the rank of rear-admiral. The army has now on the active list three major- generals; the navy, eleven rear-admirals On the retired list the army now has five major-generals; the navy, forty-three rear-admirals. Since the end of the re bellion .there have been three promo tions 4o the rank of major-general in the army; m the navy, forty-nve promotions to the rank of rear-admiral. Of the sixty three officers of the regular army who held the command of an army, army corps, or division in the war, fifty- Uve are still serving in lower grades man that of major-general; while of the forty- five officers of the navy promoted since the war to the rank of rear-admiral, at least twenty never held during the war higher command than that of captain. The relative grades of commodore in the navy and brigadier-general in the army show the same astounding contrasts in respect to numbers and relative rewards for war service. The apparent rule of justice seems ex actly reversed. In the one case, officers who held high commands and fought many battles, were reduced to lower rank, where they still remain. In the other case, officers who held low com mands, and fought few or no battles, have been elevated to the highest rank. Is this this the measure of justice which the people of the United States have or dained ? Is this the gratitude of the Re public? Harper's Magazine for June. How to Manage a Kitchen. "A clean kitchen makes a clean house," is a saying which has a great deal of truth in it. As all the food of the family has to be prepared in the kitchen, and as most working people have their meals and sit in the kitchen indeed, as the one day room has to be parlor, kitchen all to the many honest families it ought to be clean and neat, or it will not be comfortable. First of all the windows and the fire place mnst be kept clean and bright. No room is cheerful with dirty windows and a dusty fireplace. Every morning the room mnst be carefully swept, and any hearth rug, mat, or piece of carpet must be taken out of doors and beat daily. The hearth musi be cleaned every day, and the stoves brushed. Cupboards want great care to keep them free from dust, cool and neat. Sup posing there 'are two cupboards, one on each side of the fireplace, it is well to keep one for stores, as groceries, etc., one for crockery. Everything should be clean that is put in the cupboard, and there should be a place made for every different thing, so that if you wanted any thing, in the dark, you could lay your hand upon it. Be sure, whether you keep the lids bright or not, to keep the inside of everv pan or pot used in cook ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and sweet. If you neglect this you may be the cause of poisoning yourself and your household. Many famines have been poisoned by food being cooked in dirty pans. Besides, if the food is not made poisonous, it is spoilt by not being cleanly cooked. Be very particular about tnis. It is a good plan to have a jar of soda in some handy place, where you can, whenever you wash up, take a bit and put into the water. It is very cleans ing. No dors to love, none to karess; how can I ever my sadness express? Chunk is defunct, ded as a nale hushed is bis bark in and still is bis tale. Oh, sucu a tale, white on the end; opht did he chase it with waggle and bend: chase it with hope, twisting around, till overcome, he reposed on the ground. Now he's ekstinct, ded as a nale: where am bis bark and the wag of his tale ? "Why did you die?" sadly I mone; "was it from pizen or swal- lenn a bone ?" No waesnn tale, no beam- in' eye, answers a question or gives a repli: It has beeen demonstrated that a U. S. soldier can pass 325 consecutive days in a guard-house and not improve his morals a bit. m Wedding Bells , "Make my costumes and hats as hand some and becoming as possible, but I en treat you, Monsieur, have them free from the I am a bride, look." "Mademoiselle is eceentrfc. Does she wish to hide her bliss and marriage from the world?" "By no means. But my happiness is a personal matter, and I would rather tell every one when I am wedded than to have the fact proclaimed by my toilet." - "Then the robe de cereraonie must it ' be white, with orange blossoms?" smil ingly asKea tne great moaiste. ''Indeed no! I shall leave all details to your good taste and superior judgement; only let the robe be tinted and the flowers wild and colored. I shall call to-morrow to see your samples and designs for my complete outfit. Good morning, mon sieur." The great artist then turned to your correspondent, saying: "Pardon me, madame, for detaining yon, but that lady is one of my choice customers, and if you will call in one month from to-day you shall see her complete toilets, and I prom ise you they will be charming and unique." Four weeks later we asked the artist: "All these costumes for the one lady?" "All except the dresses for the four bridesmaids," was the reply. Then wom anly curiosity prompted the question: "How about the white robe and the orange blossoms?" 'Madame can see for herself." Upon a form in the room was an exquis ite dress in the most delicate possible green, entrain, with overgarment and drapery of a silvery gauze, studded all over with tiny beads, having the effect of a young, pale tinted spring rose leaf, covered with spider's web, upon which tracery tbousandsaof dewdrops sparkled and glis tened in the sunlight. A fringe, arranged over the front of the dress and on train, was in the same sheen shadings, and each tassel was finished with a pear shaped dewdrop. The loopings of the gauze dra pery were secured with clusters of pale pink crab apple blossoms and sprays of hawthorn, which also adorned corsage and sleeves,' forming an effective and most beautiful costume. This was the leaf, and now for the four buds, the dresses for the four bridesmaids, which were all in deli cate colors, contrasting with the robe of the bride, for green, you know, can go with any and every color that is, if the tints are perfect as in nature. One costume was of blush pink, another cream, a third lilac or heliotrope, and the fourth dove's breast, all elaborately trimmed with Lan guedoc lace and garnitured with flowers, to match those on the costume of the lovely bride. A reception toilet for the bride was in a rich shaded satin, ruby and gold, entrain, the latter being trimmed with a plaiting dividen by Mechlin lace, and embroidered with amber and ruby beads. The front of the skirt was decorateot with cascades of lace and bouquets of magnolias. The bodice of satin was covered with flowers, save where flowers of amber and ruby beads sparkled in embroidery and added much to the richness of the robe. Flow ers on the shoulder, in front of corsage and at waist line, finished the dress. The gloves were Foster kid, embroidered in gold and ruby beads, and finished at the wrists with Mechlin lace, to match that on the costly robe. New York Cor respondence Philadelphia Times. Buskin and Gladstone In Conversation, A friend of mine had once the good fortune to meet both Buskin and Gladstone at a country house. He lost no time in setting them by the ears I mean in introducing them to each other; and very curious was the conversation to which he had the privilege of listening. Euskin propounded all sorts of wild theories, and Gladstone gravely demolished them all. The poet set up a succes sion of political ninepins, and the statesman, with earnest, smileless face, quietly knocked them down. Euskin, slightly nettled, fell back on a little quiet chaff and managed to annihilate the jokes in the same way that he would one of Sir Stafford's arguments, and of course came to grief in the attempt. Talking of being "nettled," Euskin frankly ac knowledged well, one hardly knows how to pat it. He shall speak for himself. "I have sympathy," he says, "in my enforced and accidental temper with Dean Swift." "Doest thou well to be angry?" was the question addressed of old to Jonah. And the prophet answered: "I do well to be angry." So does Euskin, in his own opinion, whether the merits of Whistler or the gayeties of the Second Empire or the Sunday amusements of the people be the theme of discussion. Writers who pen jeremiads on the decay of most things that are supposed to be good and great in this world do not neces sarily give you the impression of supposing themselves to be affected by the general decline. So it is right to say that Euskin, at all events, is the most modest of men. Said the father of an old Oxford man to Eus kin: "My son is quite enthusiastic about your lectures, and so are all his friends." "What an immense triumph!" quoth the lecturer; adding, with a smile: "Are you sure they listened? If I could be only certain that they heard what I said to them that I had their minds for a few minutes it would be very grati fying to me." Why He Would Not be Sued. A singular story is told apropos of the storv of Prince Oscar of Sweden, in Paris, concerning the objection his an cestor .Bernadotte always naa to oemg bled. His medical advisor, who was a disciple of Dr. San gr ado, insisted in vain that it was necessary for his health ; the King was obstinate. At last a crisis came, and when Bernadotte heard that the doctor declined to answer for his life if he would not consent to bleeding he gave away. But before baring his arm he made the operator promise that he would never divulge what was to be seen I on it, and the doctor made a solemn vow i which he broke. A Phrygian cap, with the motto "Death to the Kings" was elaborately tattooed above tne elbow. The dashing soldier when he picked this regicide maxim into his skin never dreamed that one day he npuld come to be a King himself. Charles Xjamb says a speaker should not attempt to express too much, but should leave something to the imagina tion of the audience, and he tells how, being called on to return thanks for a toast to his health, he rose, bowed to his audience, said: "Gentlemen," and then sat down, leaving it to their imagination to supply the rest. Drouyu de L'Huys and the Carman. Some years ago a carious scene was enacted in the Continental Hotel, then called Maurigni's Hotel. M. Drouyn de l'Huys had come over to England, accompanied by an Italian Private Secretary, who had previously been in the service of one of the uncles of the King of Naples. M. Drouyn de l'Huys was sitting down to dinner with a few friends, when the Secretary rushed into the room, pale as a corpse, and trembling in all his limbs; with him was a cab man. Hastily ringing the bell, the porter ordered a bottle of port, and on its being brought up, proceeded to pour out glass after glass, which the cabman drank. Then he took some sovereigns out of his pocket and handed them to the cabman. "What is the meaning of this?" asked M. Drouyn de 'IHuys. But the Secretary was too agitated to reply, and the cabman said that he did not know." He had driven the Secretary across London bridge and back homo by Waterloo bridge. It was very foggy, so he had gone slowly. On setting down his fare, the fare had told him to get off his box;' he had embraced him, and had asked him to come in. And with this ex planation the cabman pocketed his sovereigns, took another glass of port, and withdrew. At length the Secretary explained. The cabman had saved his life. He had wished to see the London bridges. After driving some time in a dense fog, the cab had stopped. A mysterious figure had appeared, at tired in a sort of white apron, and made signs to him to hand some money. As the figure spoke, he kept one hand in a capacious pocket of his apron, in which, no doubt, was lodged a pistol. Whilst he was de bating what he should do, the cab man had gallantly driven away. Clearly the mysterious figure was one .of the chiefs of a London Camona; the cabman would be marked down by its members for having saved him, and would lose his life. Dimly it occurred to the guests that this chief of the Camorra was a tollman on Waterloo bridge, but they said nothing; and the Sec retary sped back to Paris the next duy, where for years he used to re count to his friends his providential escape, and to explain how London, like his native Naples, had its Camarro. London World. A Delicate Question. When a man waits on a young woman for two or three years, without propos ing marriage, although monopolizing her society, and preventing the approach of other suitors, what should she do? Terminate the acquaintance. She need not tell him plumply that their intimacy must cease that would look like fishing for an offer, which is an unmaidenJy bus iness but she can stop the intimacy. Then if his intentions have really meant something, he may wake up to the idea that love-making which does not end in an offer of marriage cannot be pursued indefinitely. No lady of self-respect tol erates impertinent assurance in a man, nor does a lady choose her intimate friends among men she deems lacking in manliness. In cases of this kind she is apt to be the sufferer. She waits in vain for the proposal she expects, and to which she is ready to give a favorable answer, and at last she finds she has no exchange in kind for her affection, and perhaps has to tremble at the wedding of the man to another lady. This is a bad business, and girls should avoid get ting into such entanglements, and should not be lead into them. It is a mean thing for a fellow to pay marked atten tions to a girl and then desert her unex pectedly. Episodes of this kind have been known to end tragically. Artificial Fuel. A new kind of artificial fuel is now manufactured in Germany. It is made in the form of of bricks or blocks out of peat, coal dust and other combustible materials in combination with seagrass, seaweed or similar vegetable substances. One or more of the materials being first boiled in water to a jelly, the latter is then carefully mixed with the combustible articles in a powdered state until a pasty mass is obtained. The resulting mix ture is compressed in molds of suitable sixe for bricks, which are dried in the open air; after having sufficiently hard ened, the bricks are furnished with a coating of pitch, thus forming a strong protecting surface against atmospheric influence. Rupture JOB PRINTING. THE Gazette Job Printing House IS NOW PREPARED TO DO Plain and Ornamental Printing, As neat and Cheap as it ein be dons by any Office on the Coast. bill Heads, Li Iter Hrads Role beads, 1st a euienta, P. OKrammei, Ball Ticket. luvltatlonn Circular, Uualneas arda, ViHiitutr Cards, Labria. gsiJsvi s.i. a mall Poatara, aiuvelopea. Legal Blanks Bank Hot, anluplug- Recelpla, Order Hooka, Uuui, Taa, Ktc, Etc. SS-Orders by mail promptly filled. Esti mates furnished. $15 TO $6000 A YEAR, or $5 to $20 a day in your own locality. Mo risk, wo men do as well as men. Many make more than the amount stated above. No one can fail to make money fast. Any one can do the work. You can make irom overs 10 $2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business. It costs nothing to try the business Nothing like it for money making ever offered before Business pleasant and strict ly honorable. Reader, if you want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address and we will send you full particulars and private terms free; samples worth $5 also free: you can then make up your mind for yourself. Address GEORGE STINSON CO., Portland, Maine. 16:31yl Prom a Merchant. Dayton, W. T., Feb. 10, 1879. W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 702 Market street, Sau Francisco Sir: The Truss I purchased of you about ono year ago has proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur ed forty years, and worn dozensof different kinds of Trusses, all of which have ruined my health, as they were injurious to my back and spine. Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe, and is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords me so much pleasure. I can and do advise all, both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy any we"ar your modern improved Elastic Truss imme diately. I never expect to be cured, but am satisfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to wear it It was the best $10 I ever invested in my life. You can refer any one to me, and I will be glad to answer any letters on its merrits. I remain, yours respectfully, IX IX Bunnell. Latest Medical Endorsements. Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879. W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 702'Market street, 8. F. Sir: In re gard to your California Elastic Truss, I would say that 1 have carefully studied its mechanism, ap plied it in practice, and do not hesitate to say that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn it is the best Truss ever offered to the public Yours truly, J. H. Carothf.es, M D, Endorsed by a prominent Medical In stitute. San Fhamcisco, March 6, 1879. W. J. Home, Esq. Sir: You ask my opinion of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic Truss, as compared with other kinds that have been tested under my observation, and in reply I frankly state that from the time my attention was first called to their simple, though highly mechanical and philosophical construction, to gether with easy adjustibility to persons of all ages, forms or sizes. I add this further testimony with special pleasure, that the several persons who have applied to me for aid in their special casus of rupture, and whom I haveadvised to use yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction, and consider themselves highly tuvorcd by the possession of the improved Elastic Truss. Yours truly, Babl-iw J. Smith, M. D. Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute, 63d California street, San Francisco. A REMARKABLE CURE. San Frakmsco, Oct 26, 1879. W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir I am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CUBE your valuable truss has effected on my little boy. The double truss I purchased from you has PER FECTLY CURED him of his painful rupture on both sides in a little over six months, 'lhe steel truss he had before I bought yours caused him cruel torture, and it was a happy day for us all when he laid it aside for the Califounia Elastic Tri'SB. I am sure that all will be thankful who are providentially led to give your truss a trial. You may refer any one to me on this subject Yours truly, Wm. Peri:, 638 Sacramento Street. This is to crtify that I have examined the son of Wm Peru, and find him PERFECTLY CURED of Hernia on both sides. L. Dkxteb Lvforo, M. D. Surgeon and Physician. Trusses forwarded to all parti of ike United Statu at our expense on receipt of price. Mend Stamp for Illaairated aud JPrlee Liat. I'Mtalogue Giving full information and rules for measuring. California Elastic Truss Co. 702 Market Street, S. F. HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK CO. CAPITAL, 81,000,000. General Office and Manufactory, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Pacific Branch, ill and 313 California St., San Francisco. t HAS. H. DODD & CO., PORTLAND, Agents for Oregon and Washington Ter HULL'S PATENT CONCRETE FIRE-PROOF SAFES. Have been tested by the most disastrous confla grations in the country. They are thoroughly fire proof. They are free from dampness. Their (superiority is beyond question. Although about 150,001) of these safes are now in use, ami hundreds have been tested by some of Hie most disastrous conflagrations in the country, there is not a single instance on record wherein one of thorn ever tailed to preserve iU contents erfei-lly. HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED TfcNOK AN!) GIIOOVS Have never been broken open and robbed by burglars or robbers. Hall's burglar work is protected by letters patent, and his work cannot be equaled lawfully. His patent bolt is suerior to any in use. His patent locks cannot be picked by the most skillful experts or burglars. By one of the greatest improvements known; the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are operated withont any arbor or spindle passing through the door and into the lock. Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur glars or experts, (as in case of other locks), and wa will put from .$1,900 to $10,000 behind them any time aeainst an eo.ua! amount. THET ABE THE BEST SAFE Made in America, or any other country. One Thousand Dollars To any person who c m prove that one of Hall's patent burglar-proof safes has ever been broken open and robbed by burglars up to the present time. C. W. Pool, Traveling Agent. Office with O. H. Dodd Co., Portland , Oregon C. B. PARCEJLL8. Manager, S. F. AUGUST KNIGHT, Cabinet Maker, UNDERTAKER. Cor. Second and Monroe Sts., CORVALLIS, . OtNOI. Keeps constantly on band all kinds of FUBNITUSE COFFINS AND CASKETS. Work iloue to on'.fr on -dt.-rt l.otice, and Corv.-liif Jrtii 1 I, U:ltf