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with attentive and obliging servants.
no unineao vookb Ampioyca.
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: ALBANY BATH HOUSE!
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ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying
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DB. 'E.r 0.,v8Ml'lJlI,'' DENTIST,
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and has the now luvontloo tJjTyOfSi''
In plate work, which consists In -UXTXr
Inserting teeth lie the mouth without covering
the whoe. roof, as Heretofore. It aives the
wearer the free uso of the tongue to the roof of
tbe mouth In talking and. tasting. It Is the
gmith A Purvine patent. ... ., ,
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mended, whether broken or divided. Office one
door east Of Conner's Hank, up stairs,
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WILR KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HSD
the bi nt meat the market alfordR, and
will alwayB bo foupd ready to accommodate
thnnc who may favor him with a call.
ay-Highest market brlce pukl for pork.
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WILLAMETTE '
TRANSPOBTATION-' COMPANY!""
IROM AND AFTER DATE UNTIL FCR
y ther notice, the Company will di. patch a
boat from Albany ( Cervallis on TUESDAY
and FRIDAY Of each week.
Also will dispatch a boat from Albany for
Portland and intermediate places on same days,
leaving Comstock A Co's wharf.
Fare at reduced rates. J. D. BILES,
Bee. It, 1871. Agent. .
VOL. IX.
Written for the "Democrat.
VMM A.
BY AMOS K. JOKES.
She lived till the beauty of youth was arouqd
her,
She lived till the roiea ef life were In bloom,
Then died, and the heart that so lovingly
crowned her
With truest affection, are shadowed tn gloom.
You tetl me, my friend, at my sorrow and sigh
ing: To wish her not back to this cold world again,
That she is now blest, and she found but tn
dying
Escape from the storms of life's pitiless rain.
Ah I no. Is a rose which the feverish summer
Has scorched from existence, more bloat than
the one
That lived, and with beauty delighted each
comer,
And budded, and bloomed In the showers
and sunf
That flourished and grew, that was fair, and
and with never
A scent but of balm In Its eloquent breath t
That blossomed to age, was a joy forever,
And languished, at last, In the pleasure of
death f
Yet It may be all well and her young dreams
thUB broken
Bo finished in Heaven, yet my grief is so
deep,
That though angels exult In a treasure un
spoken, Iraust turn with regret, must deplore It and
weep. . .. .
ON THE TRAP.
I was only a olown, a painted, grin
ning clown, attached, on a small sala
ry, to a theatre in the capital of one
of the little duchies into which Ger
many was divided before the genius
and ambition ot Bismarck had effect
ed its consolidation into the empire.
My role was popular becauBo every
body likes one who puts them in a
laughing mood. My make-up was
considered a marvel ot perfection.
My songs always "look, and my ees
Hires and grimaces never failed to
elicit the most rapturous applause,
It used to be said that my face must
be made of India rubber, it could be
twiRied and distorted into such
strange expressions. But I hated the
life, and my success made it more and
more distasteful.
One night I went home completely
worn out in body and mind. My lit
tle sister Ada, hi teen years old, and
ignt and graceful as a sylph, who was
engaged as a danseuse at the same
theatre, also seemed dispirited and
worn. The play had been running
foriy nights, and the whole company
was heartily Bick of it. But it was
not this alone which exerted a de
pressing influence on my spirts that
evening, r or many weeks 1 had
been losing my heart to fraulein
Dora, the principal danseuse of the
theatre, who was no less lovely in
mind and heart than in her person.
bhe was the most betititu! woman 1
had ever seen ; tall, well-formed, grace
ful; with a step like a fairy queen; large,
thoughtful eyes; and a Bweet, win
ning srcile. What first drew me
to her was her kindness to my sister,
wlmi she took every opportunity to
befnemd and assist in her profession.
This was the more surprising, because
Ada promised to become a dangerous
rival ; and, in the theatrical profession,
jealousy is the rule, and generosity
the exception. So I learned to like
Dora, and then to love her. But so
did everybody else. All the gentry
of the place fell in love with her, and
raved about her beauty and her
danoing, in a way that nearly drove
me wild with iealousy. I was in love
in the old-fashioned way we read of
in novels I am not ashamed to con
fess it eager to kiss the ground on
which she trod, and would not be
lieve that any one else could love and
worship her with the same devotion.
I must not omit to say that Dora, in
the midst of all this adulation, dis
played the the most discreet and mod
est behavior. She was alwsys attend
ed, to and from the theatre, by her
mother; and always returned the rich
presents which were showered upon
her.
Among all who paid court to Dora,
I feared only one, the young, rich,
handsome, and accomplished Count
Ernest von Walters, who pressed his
suit with unremitting ardor, What
3hance had the poor clown against
this man ? Yet I fancied if he were
only out of the way I need not despair
of winning her. Did she not love my
sister, and had she not often spoken
kindly to me, and praised my acting
and singing? But. this day I had
learned the worst that her kindness
to me sprang only from a gentle and
friendly feeling for the brother of the
girl she had learned to love like a
Bister, and that she had promised to
become the wife of Count vqn Wal
ters. What wonder that I went to
my lodgings with despair in my heartl
. My little sister exerted herself to
make things cheerful in our Bitting
room. She suspeoted nothing of the
real cause ot my downheartedness,
for she, my confidant in everything
else, bad never been intrusted with
the secret of my love for Dora; and
in the hope of drawing me out of my
moody silence, prattled on about a
number of unimportant matters. She
was interrupted by a knock at the
door, followed by the entrance of our
landlady, The good soul apologized
for coining in at so late au hour, but
:lhe postman had brought a letter for
me just after we had left for the thea
tre, and as it bore a foreign postmark,
she thought it might be important I
should get it that evening. 1 thanked
h'er mechanically, but a glance at the
postmark caused me to tear the letter
open with eager and trembling lin
gers; lor I had often neara my tamer
speak of an only brother-who had set
tled in England in early youth, and
from whom vague reporU oame, from
time to time, of a successful mercan
tile career. The letter wag post
marked London, and the heavy black
border lines told the atory before the
eal wae broken. My uncle was dead.
He had never married, and on bis
death bed, remembering his only
brother, he had left all his wealth to
him or his children. For a moment I
felt tunned and faint ; nd Ada,
throwing her arms about my neck.
begged me to tell ber what bad news
was id my ltter to make me look so
strange and.pale, I took ber on my
knee, and told her we were rich, and
would have no moro need to act in the
theatre, We would leave this miser
able little town and go to Berlin
To my surprise, Ada again put her
arms about my neck, and whispered
softly, "jNeea we leave the theatre im
mediately, dear brother?"
"No, child," said I wondering what
she could mean; "but tell me why
you should want to stay another day
when you can leave at once and be
free from this slavery ?"
"Because, dear brother," ahe an
ewered, hesitating and blueing, "Frau
lein Dora told me I was a great deal
prettier than she was, and a better
dancer; and that I should have the
first place in the new dance they are
to put on the stage next week. Oh,
I would like to have such a triumph
once 1 It would be such a pleasant
way to say good-by to the stage."
I could deny ber nothing, my little
sister; and though for me it was like
going into the torture-room of the In
quisition to enter the theatre and see
Count Ernest on such familiar terms
with Dora, I consented for the pres
ent to oonceal my good fortune from
our friends, and go on just the same
as it nothing had happened.
The eventful evening oame at
length. The play was interspersed
with ballet-dancing, and was to end
with a grand transformation scene in
which Ada and Dora were to rise as
sea-nymphs, in a shell-like car, from
the waters of a mimic lake. It so
happened that, just before the last
scene, I went into the room under
neath the stage, where the machinery
tor raising the car wasplaced, impelled
by a strange foreboding of impending
misfortune, to assure myself that every
thing was in order ; and that no pre
caution against accident had been
neglected. There I found the master
machinist, a dark and gloomy visaged
man, standing by the car, muttering
to himself in nn undertone. "Better
she should die than marry the count,
lie has bewitched her, as he does all
women. A little slit would "
"What are you muttering to your
self," I asked him, suddenly; "and
what do you mean by these mysteri
ous wordB ?"
He faced me, as if struck by an un
expected blow.
"I was only examining the machine
ry to see that' everything was right,''
he answered, sullenly, and turned
away.
I carefully examined the cords by
whioh the car was raised. Everything
appeared to be secure -and in good
order; and I went back to my place,
trying to laugh mvself out of my
apprehensions. But though it was
easy to argue that all was right, and
that my fears arose merely from some
explicable disorder of the brain, I
could not feel secure. I was positive
that some frightful misadventure
would occur before the play was over;
and every nerve was strained in the
effort to maintain a calm exterior.
The play progressed. The curtain
rose upon the magnificent transforma
tion scene; and the plaudits of the
audience grew tumultuous as the
splendors unrolled before them. At
length the car began to rise slowly
and majestically, to low, sweet strains
ot music 1 watched, with scarcely
beating heart and abated breath, the
first appcaranoe of the beautiful vision
tor like a vision it looked, rising and
still rising, the car resplendent with
all the tinsel which shone like gold,
and silver and diamonds, ' A sound as
of many tinkling fountains mingled
with the sound of delicious music;
tairy-land seemed opening upon the
sight, with arching bowers and far
reaching vistas, and myriads of elfin
forms disporting on the ground and
in the air. For a moment I was fas
cinated, when Ada and Dora, in all
their beauty, rose above the lake, their
stalely car seemingly lifted by invis
ible hands. I forgot my apprehensions,
and once more breathed freely.
suddenly there wasa dreadful orash,
and a wild cry tilled the house. The
car had fallen. For an instant, I felt
rooted to the spot where I was stand
ing, and then recovering my senses,
rushed forward to learn the worst.
As I made my way through the nar
row passage under the stage, I heard
some one Bay in a pitying tone : "roor
thing, she will never dance again r
Which was it? Ada? Dora? I fought
my way through the'orbwd of actors
and saw my little Ada lying Benseless
in Dora's arms. Throwing myself on
my knees I took her oold hands in
both of mine. "My dear friend," said
Dora, who was' 'Weeping silently,
she is not dead, though dreadfully
hurt The surgeon will, be here di
rectly, Compose yourself. She is
reviving f
My little darling opened tier eyes,
with a deep sigh, and looked about
her with a bewildered gaze. i;
"Hush, little one, ' said lora, softly,
as she saw Ada was about to speak.
"Lie still and be patient till the sur
geon conies."
The gentle sufferer closed ber eyes,
and her little hand pressed mine with
tender grasp. Ihe surgeon was
soon on the epot. He asured me
that Ada had sustained no fatal in
jury, but it was doubtful whether she
would be able to walk again, with
a piteous ery she tell back in Dora's
arms, and tainted dead away.
1 had noticed no one but Ada, but
at this moment I was conscious that
the count was kneeling beside me, and
had clasped Dora's band. "Belter
Bbe than you, my love!" he murmured.
Dora gavo him quick look of re
proof. "This ia no lime for love-making,''
she answered, withdrawing her
band. "Have you no feeling for the
poor girl lying here, whose whole life
must be one of misery and sorrow?"
"What is this ballet girl to me?"
answered the count, stung to the
quick, and lor a moment thrown off
his guard. "Of course, I am sorry
for her," ha added tht next moment,
"but"
ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
Ah 1UIB IliUIIICII AUd vpvucu .'v.
eyes again, and a faint blush struggled
with the paleness in her cheeks, as
her gaze fell upon the coupt. A beau
tiful smile played on her trembling
lips, and she reached her hand toward
him. "Oh, my love," she said in a
low whisper a whisper whioh first
sent the blood mantling into Dora
face and then left it paler than snow
'you are near and 1
Something in the count's face stopped
her words. - ;
"The girl is wandering," he said
coldly. "She does not know what
sho is saying." -
She bad fainted again. "Go, count,
said Dora, hastily. "Your presence is
not wanted Here, ller manner was
decided and even imperious, and the
count did not venture to disobey ; but
as he left be cast upon Ada a look
which caught the other's eye, and
from the expression that oame into her
face I knew knew even then, that he
would never more hold a plaoe in her
newt.
We carried Ada home, and through
the long illness which followed, Dora
was ber constant nurse and compan
ion. To this dear friend was confided
with many tears the secret of ber
heart. The oount had won her love,
and had promised to ask my consent
to tneir union. Unsuspecting and
confiding, she knew nothing of bis at
tentions to Dora, and it was by his
wish that she had never mentioned his
name to me. I heard afterward, that
he and Dora met but once after the
accident, and that he endeavored to
delend bis perfidy on the plea that he
was only amusing himself with Ada,
and never had seriously thought of
making ber Ins wife, "so muob the
worse for. you, count," said the true-
hearted woman. "I shall never be
your wife, and never want to see your
face again, .,.-
VV e are married now, Dora and I.
From loving Ada Bhe learned in time
to love me, and the sweet and gentle
invalid, who never again will walk
until she step upon the heavenly
shore, is happy in our love. No mur
mur ever escapes her lips. Her sweet
face is never clouded. Siuco Dora
learned ber sad story, the oount's
name bas never passed mv sister's lips,
nor has she ever in any way alluded
to him. . But Dora found ber one day
weeping silently over a picture whioh
she put away without its being seen.
I hare not told how the accident
happened. The master machinist
himself in love with Dora, bad cut
several strands of the oords by which
the car was secured. He openly
avowed his crime, and only regretted
that Dora had not been killed. "She
reieotud me with scorn," he said on his
trial. "1 was resolved she should
never give her hand to another." He
was manifestly a maniac 1 can never
forgive myself for not watching him
more closely after that enoounter un
der the stage. From the Aldine for
September.
MILITARY EDUCATION.
It is, we believe, a remarkable fact
that there seems more youths in the
southern states receiving military edu
cations than in the northern states.
There are very few private military
institutions m the northern states-
West roint, therefore, embraces a
large number oi the youth who re
ceive a military education at the
north. We see in an aocount of the
proceedings which took plaoe at West
Point (graced with the President and
the Secretary of War) there were but
torty-oue graduates, W e are satisned
that there are several times as many
graduates this year from the different
military institutions in the southern
slates. The military institution at
Lexington, Virginia, alone vies with
W est .Point in the number ot us grad
uates.
There always bas been in our south
ern youth a greater propensity for
military education than in the youths
of the north, The reason might be,
that the northern people cherished
most, trade and commerce ; but the
southern people, being almost agri
cultural in their pursuits raised to
the horse and gun looked to military
lile as most congenial to their pursuits
and tastes. Hence, before the late
war, almost .every state in the south
had a military institution ; whilst there
were a great number of private insti
tutions of similar character. Recon
struction wiped them out, but we are
glad to see that in all the soutbern
slates military schools are re-established.
In our judgment, they train
a youth for the battle of lite far better
than any other method ot education.
For scholarship and general literature,
our civil universities and colleges may
be the most efficient: bnt very few in
the world are men of scholarship or
literature, or appertaining to the
learned professions. , They are the ex
ceptions. The great mass of man
kind, to whom the world belongs, are
the practical men of action, and whom
thought is seldom abstract, but the
will rules. Such men best find their
educations in military schools. New
(Jrleant Jftcayune.
A teacher in Bockport, Mass., re
ceived a note the other day, from an
indignant parent, which read: "I
want you to strictly understand that
you hant boss of mi Children if you
keep maria for bein late you . will
bav truble you need not think Wee
are Slaves becas Wee hant live in a
land adoo."
A father prtnanlino' hifl dAUD-htflr
who had lost her husband, said: "I
don t wonder at your gnei lor Dim
my child. You will never find bis
equal." "Don't know as I can," re
sponded tbe sobbing widow; "but
I'll do my best!" The father went
home comforted.
The retiring editor of a Kansas pa-
per
"valedicts nimseii as follows:
I ha.ve aaid anvtbinc throueh the
If
columns that I am sorry fori am glad
, rr, . j 1 T . L. 1-
oi it, ao my meuusf x wsua yuu
for your liberality, and to my ene
mies, you can go to the devil."
TKRllIBLE BTORM ON TUK ATLANTIC
COAST.
Mail and telegraphic details of the
storm on the night of the 2d inst.,
are being constantly received at Hal
ifax. The destruction of life and
property on land and sea was fright
ful, and far exceeds the estimates
given.- From all sections there comes
reports of houses and barns being
blown down, crops destroyed and cat
tle killed. Such fearful havoc has not
been known in Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton for tbe past thirty years. At
present no accurate idea of the loss
both to land, property and shipping
can do iouna, out, win in an prova
bility reach several million of dollars.
Already many lives are reported lost,
. . . i :,i ,t i.
but there is too many reasons to be
Here that many vessels are lost, to
gether with all hands. The fisher
men on the Eastern coast nave suf
fered severely, all having lost their
boats, fishing tackle, etc, irom Uuy-
boro to Cape (Janso.
A dispatch Irom Sydney, (Jape
Breton, states that tbe schooner .u
ropa was capsized in the gale on Sun
day last and all bands lost. Over
one hundred vessels are ashore at
Cape Breton and eighteen ashore at
iiouisburg. The scnooner Uoean
Wave dragged ner ancnor and went
to pieces on Cape Hogan, all bands
f (ensiling. Another schooner was
ost with two men", A brig went
down at ner anchorage in Caribou
Cove, with all on board. Other ves
sels and crews are known to be lost-
Over one hundred buildings were
destroyed in Canso and vicinity, en
tailing a loss of $100,000. At Canso
every ship in the harbor is high and
dry. Every wharf and fishing estab
lishment bas been swept away, and
the debris lines the entire shore. The
public hall there is a heap of splin
ters, in wtnen is buried a splendid
organ. All the buildings, public and
private, are more or less injured.
TheCatholio Chapel is ruined. Tbe
fishermen have lost their all, and
many of tbem had to flee from their
dwellings with their children, naked,
into the pitiless storm. (Jut of a
fleet of three hundred fishing vessels
only twenty remain. Several fisher
men lost in fish and gear upward of
110,000 mod.
It is said that forty dead bodies
have drifted ashore, and on tbe north
side of Prinoe Edward's Island and
at other points bodies are washing
upon the beach.
The steamship saltwell, Captain
Mace, from London for Sydney, foun
dered off Scatterie on Sunday night.
Tbe lifeboat, with the Captain and
twenty -four of the crew, landed at
Forshie, Cape Breton. : On Monday
morning one boat with six men was
lost alongside the steamer. Another
boat with nine men is missing, but is
supposed to be at Louisburg. ...
It is ascertained Mat thirty-two
Gloucester vessels went ashore at
Magdalen Islands in the gale of Sun-
TUB VIENNA SCANDAL-OFFICIAL.
The investigations of Minister Jay
and Mr. McElrath, into the Vienna
Exposition scandal,, have been con
cluded, and their report to seo
retary Fish brings this disgraceful
affair once again into prominence.
They find that the charges of corrup
tion made againBt both, (ieneral van
Buren and General Mayer are true.
These Commissioners, says the re
port, made considerable sums of
money out of tbeir positions, by sell
ing "concessions for tbe keeping
of bars and restaurants, etc., and for
such other , business as - might be
profitably carried on in the American
division of the great exposition. So
shameless and open did these specu
lations grow before any complaint
was lodged against tbe oorrupt Com
missioners, that it was a subjeot of
oommon scandal throughout Vienna
and among the representatives of
other . nations - who were present-
Americans of character and pride
shunned the Commissioners from
very shame, and such remarks were
frequently mode by American visitors
when talking among themselves, as
I wish some Commissioners would
come that a man would not De
shamed to give his hand to," "our
Commission is nothing but a pool of
corruption," and others of like
character. The report also states
that General Mayer received $30,000
for a single contract in connection
with the Amencan section of the
building.
If we at home feel so keenly tbe
disgrace of those transactions,- how
must Americans - in Vienna feel?
What with our Credit Mobilier and
salary steals at home, and the cor
ruption of our representatives abroad,
our country's fame is certainly in a
fair way to be made finally and for
ever secure. , .
Affection of Monkeys. From
James Forbes's Oriential Memoirt,
the following interesting aooount is
extracted : One of a shooting party,
under a bannan-lree, killed a female
monkey and carried it to his tent,
which was soon surrounded by forty
or fifty of tbe tribe, who made a great
noise, and seemed disposed to attack
their aggressor. Tbey retreated when
he presented his fowling-piece, the
dreadful effect of whioh they had wit
nessed and appeared perfectly to un
derstand. The head of the troop,
however, stood his ground, shattering
furiously; the sportsman, who per-
aps felt some little degree of com-
punotion for having killed one of the
family, did not like to fire at tbe crea
ture, and nothing short of firing would
suffice to drive bim off. At length he
came to the door of tbe tent and find
ing threats of no avail, and the
most expressive gesture seemed to
beg ror the dead body, it was givon
to him; be took it sorrowfully in his
arms, and bore It away to his expeot-
g . oompanions. 1 her who were
witnesses of tbis extraordinary scene
resolved never again to fire at one of
tbe monkey rice. ,
12, 1873.
DEAD STATESMEN.
Austrelitz killed Pitt as surely as
Trafalgar killed Nelson. Each died
for his country, but tlist country
mourned more deeply for the great
admiral, stricken down in the battle
whero be was the victor, than it did
lor the great minister who died ot a
broken heart. The last book he read
at Bath, was Miss Owenson's (Lady
Morgan's) "Novice of St. Dominic"
l bat now unreadable romanoe, Pitt
said, he oould not lay down till he
naa nnisned it, and thence did "JSo
vioe" come to be a rage for a time.
People almost i'ougbt to obtain it at
the libraries, and nothing in literature
was talked of but a book which has
long since fallen out of literature and
ot memory altogether. People, too,
fought for another novel. "A Winter
io London," in which fashionable life
was illustrated by an incapable whose
name and whose works are equally
wrapt in oblivion.
Fox did not long survive his great
rfVal, Pitt. He died on the 13th of
September, 1806. A week previously,
when he was already dying, lit, trans
acted puuno business. He gave an
audience in his bedroom to George
Jackson, with instructions as to how
the latter was to act on bis new mis
sion to Uermany. 1 here was a mix
ture of the solemn and the ludiorous
in the scene. When Jackson was an
nounced, Mrs. Fox, in complete die
habiUe, was in the room. In her
flurry she slipped into a closet, and,
as the interview was prolonged, the
;htly draped lady kept signaling to
r. lox, as if he alone could bear her,
by little coughs and murmurs, to warn
him not to over-exert himself, or to
dismiss the envoy, that she might be
set free. At a moment when there
was a pause In the conversation be
tween tbe minister and his agent, tbe
fair captive tapped at the panel, and
asked if the young gentleman was not
gone, and complained ot being oold.
UVIUU ntUbUBlUBU lUUKBU ttl, jttu&-
son with a languid smile, and with
friendly wishes bade him farewell as
it proved, forever.
JOURNALISM.
Newspapers are getting to be much
more than mere transcripts ot the
news and gossip of tbe day. They
are pioneers in learned exploration ;
they are foremost in geographical and
historical discovery; they are teach
ers ot social soienoe. ' 1 hey are no
longer salisfiedjwith disseminating the
knowledge laboriously oolletittd by
savants, by travellers, by experiment
ers in natural philosophy ; they must
pursue their own investigations, and
send their agents into all tbe half-ex
plored fields of Bcience and adventure.
The reporter of to-day is the adven
turer who penetrates tbe desert and
the jungle, the soholar who searches
lor relics ot tbe forgotten past, the
courier who bears the news of viotory
to courts and (Jongress across a wil
derness and through hostile armies
the deteotive who pries into publio
abuse and discovers bidden wrongs,
the pioneer who throws new countnes
open to the world, the philanthropist
who unbars the door of the torture
chamber, tbe chemist who deteots
adulteration in tbe spioe-box, the in
spector who seizes false weights and
measures, the Auditor who exposes a
theft in the publio treasury. Journal
ism busies itself now with everything
that affects' the publio welfare. It
trenches upon the province onoe sa
cred to the soholar, and supplies the
detects ot an inefficient government.
Year by year, its ambition beoomes
larger, its purposes more benencient
and jib means more abundant; and
we oan hardly doubt that it is destined
in a short time to be tbe foremost ot
all the seoular professions the most
brilliant in its rewards, and tbe most
useful to mankind. t-JV, Y. Tribune.
MARRIAGE MAXIMS.
The following marriage maxims are
worthy of more than a hasty reading
Husbands need not pass them .by,
for they are designed for wives ; and
wives should not despise them, for
they are addressed to husbands:
"The very nearest approach to do
mestic happiness on eai th is the culti
vation on both sides of absolute un
selfishness. Never talk at one another, either
alone or In company.
Never both get angry at once.
Never speak loud to one another,
nnless the bouse is on fire.
Let each one strive to yield oftcn
est to the wishes of tbe other,
Never find fault, unless it is per
fectly certain that a fault has been
committed, and always speak loving
ly. Never taunt with a past mistake.
Never make a romark at the ex
pense of another, it is meanness.
Never part for a day without lov
ing words to think of during absenoe,
Never meet without a loving wel
come. :
Never let the sun go down upon
any anger or greivance. ;
Never let any fault yon have com
mitted go, until you have frankly con
fessed it and asked forgiveness,
Never forget the happiness of earth
ly love.
' Nover sigh over what might have
been, but make the best of what it is.
Never forget that marriage is or
dained of God, and that His blessings
alone can make it what it should be.
Never let your hopes stop short of
tbe eternal home.
A drunken fellow wandered Into a
Sunday sobool and took a seat with
the primer scholars, when the teacher
thus acoosted bim I
"Why, James do you know what
oandition uu are in ?"
"Yes, mm ; in the gall of bit'ness
an' bonds of 'niquity. Ask me some
bardqnesh'os."
A Cmcioo paper haa this queer ed
itorial paragraph :
"President Maclfabon fallows the
example of the ex-Empress Eugene,
and unbosoms himself to newspa
per reporter,"
NO.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN BELGIUM.
The Belgium newspapers give the
following account of a dreadful trag
edy that occurred three weeks ago in
a little village near Brussels. A
farmer and his wife bad plotted to
murder their neioe during her sleep,
to rob her of 1,800 francs that she
was taking'to her sick mother. In
order to foil the future search of the
police, they, previously to perpetrat
ing the crime, were engaged in dig
ging a large hole in their garden, so
as to. bury the body in it, when the
young girl, who, not being asleep,
had heard her terrible sentence.
rushed out by the window and ran to
tbe police station, distant one mile
only. But as soon as she was out
the daughter of tbe wicked farmer,
who was not expected home that
night, came back, and, not wishing
to awaken anybody in tbe house, went
noiselessly into the bed where her
cousin had been lying a few minutes
ago. She soon fell asleep, and thus
ner motber, not being aware of the
providential substitution, owing to
the darkness of tbe night, broke ber
own daughter's bead with an axe.
This being done, tbe two were
going to the garden, carrying the
corpse enveloped in a bedspread
when two gendarmes, accompanied
by the fugitive girl, rushed into the
bouse with lanterns in their bands.
At tbe sight of their niece, whom
they thought they had murdered, the
two wretches took oft tbe covering
and found their unfortunate child
killed by their own hands. The
man, taking a large butcher's knife,
plunged it into bis breast and fell
dead on the , ground. As to the
woman, who wsb prevented from
committing suicide, she became in
sane, and is now shut up in a lunauo
asylum, where she is expected soon
to die from' mental exhaustion. A
more horrible accounthas rarely been
registered in the annats of crime,
BRING BASH FVIi
TERMS.
A broken-hearted young girl writes
as follows :
"About three years ago I became
acquainted with a young gentleman
and, although he never paid me any
particular attention, lie would often
acoompany me to and from church
&o. But lately I noticed a great
change in him. He avoids me as
much as possible, and starts if I ad
dress bim. Can he have ceased to
love me ? for I know he did, though
he never said so. If I thought be
had it would break ray heart." '
Perhaps we ought not to interfere
in this matter ; but as we know ex
actly what should be done with the
young man, we feet as if we ought to
speak out. Do not attempt to reason
with him, or cajole him, or pacify him.
Tbe next time be calls take a monkey-
wrench, fasten it seourely upon bis
nose, tead him off to the dining-room
and ask bim in a firm voioe what be
means. : If he won't answer, twist the
wrench three or four times, and bntl
his head against tbe stove or mantel
piece until his gloom is dispelled. If
he says he has oeased to love you, let
your fingers dally with his ringlets
lovingly for a few minutes, and then
suddenly lift out a oouple of band-
fuls, and have an Irishman at band to
oome in and sit on bim awhile, and
knook out bis teeth, and jump up and
down on bim, and be sociable. Then
let him go and commence your ar
rangements to rope in a' fresh man,
You cannot afford to waste your
young life upon such a wretch as this;
and where heart will not throb to
heart, or soul respond to soul, the best
ig to do is to oontuse tbe nose at
onoe.
Danish Proverbs. All wish to live
long, but none to be called old.
lake help from many, advioe from
few.
He who builds according to every
man's advice will have a crooked
house,
God gives every bird its food, but
does not throw it into the nest.
He who says what be likes must
hear what he does not like,
Empty wagons make the most
noise. ' : '
If God bids thee draw. He will
find thee a rope; if he bids thee ride,
He will find thee B horse.
Better suffer for truth than pros
per by falsehood.
When 3 Irishmen dug a ditch for
which they were to reoeive four dol
lars, the trouble was how to diyide
four among three and have it equal.
One of them remained quiet and the
other two at last deferred to bis judg
ment, as he had been to school and
knew arithmetic, to make the the di
vision. He did it at onoe, saying
"It's aisy enough I Sbure there's two
lor you and two tor me, too." "Be
gorra," said one of his oo-laborers,
"What a great thing it is to have
learning !" "And," said the other,' as
he pocketed his single dollar, "to
know aritmetio, . loo I It's the like
of us towe'd never divided them four
dollars squally."
The "India-rubber bustle" is again
heard from. This time it was a
Brooklyn young lady, who was thrown
from her earrings coming down the
hill from Prospect Park. She made
ninety-seveu and a half bounces in
all, and was finally rescued by shook
and ladder company from tho top of
a telegraph pole, where she had stuck
in attempting to complete tbe ninety
eighth bounce.
A steamboat on tbe Mississippi
passed a drowning man. The unfor
tunate man struggled, floundered,
and screamed for dear life in the water.-
The pilot of the steamboat yell
ed to bim to "stand upl" He did so,
and found the water scarcely knee
deep.
An Iowa Judge sentenced a man
to six months imprisonment for spit
ting tobacco juice in a Dorse s eye. ,
Business notices In the Local Columns, it
cents per line, each insertion.
for legal and transient adrsrtlsemoiiti t! f.5
per square of 11 lines, for the first insertion,
and $1 00 per square for each eubscqneut 1p-sertion.
AN OWEB TRUE TALE
Th sail, sad story m Dubvqne- Cltfrk
and his brid nt Davenport.
The Davenport Uazelle of Thurs
day vouches for the absolute truth
of the following, though from ob
vious reasons all names are suppress
ed: One of the leading citizens of
North Davenport had an only daugh
ter who was betrothed to a young
man of fair promise, a clerk in a
leading commercial house at Du
buque. . ,
His visits to that city were regulari
and arrangements had been made
for an immediate union, when the
bride elect was stricken down by
typhoid fever, nnd in spite of all
which medical skill and care could
do, died. The Gatetle reporter saysf
"We saw her in her coffin, dressed
for the burial of death, not for tbe
consummation of an earthly love.
We witnessed the agony of her lover
as he bent in speechless, tearless ab
straction over the satin lined burial
case." i
After the melancholy journey to
Oakdale, the young man returned to
Dubuque. Nervous fever set in and
a peculiar hallucination seized him,
that his lost one was present in the
same room, ever present, draped in
the samd garb which had enveloped
her in her clay. All remonstrance
was in vain. He minutely described
her dress, her appearance and her
position in his chamber, even when
his parents or friends would sit or
stand where be declared her to be,
he saw her glide sway and take an.
other place. This went on for weeks,
and the patient was gradually sink
ing under physical and nervous ex.
citement, wben a friendly ruse was
tried to cure him of his ecstacy. -Coming
to Davenport, bis mother
found that the funeral garments were
purchased at tbe store of C. & XL
and made by Mrs. B. She purchas
ed tbe material, had it made up iu
fac simUe and returning, a young la-.
ay as near in neignt and appearance
as could be found, was dressed to
resemble his deceased love, and dur
ing one of his fevered and brief
slumbers was introduced into the
room, quietly taking her seat in a
shaded corner,
His awakening was anxiously
watched, and sanguine hopes of re
moving bis hallucination were in-1
dulged in. He woke at length, and;
turning bis eyes in the direction ot,'
the pious fraud, stared with fixed
eyeballs for a few seconds, then rais
ing himself almost upright in his bed , '
Dung bis arms aloft, and shrieking in
an unearthly voice. "My God, tViere
are two of theml" fell back and ex-
pired. ,
RESOLUTIONS OF 56,
The following resolutions, engraved
on hiokory bark, are said to have been
exhumed recently in Posey oounty by
a party of explorers who were bunt
ing tor ooal :
Posey County, Ind.,
1 ' August fust, 18
Ursolved, fust, that God made the '
wuld fust and Stephen a duglas after
wards, and all this yer talk about
Adam bein the fust man is a dam
black Republican lie.
ursolved 2end, that Stephen a dug
las are the father of his kuntry ; alius
was, is cow, and will be agiD
Ursolved agin, that tbis yor tneotin
do awl stand up.
Ursolved, last, that this yer meetin
unanimously journ soatterin.
Bdtler's Chances. A Tribune
special from Springfield, Massachu
setts, says Butler is developing more
strength in some quarters than was
expeoted. tits chances of carrying
the Convention havo improved within !
a few days ; still no intelligent and
partial canvass has yet been made
that does not leave him in a minority
of at least 100. ; His friends did not
do so well in Boston as then expeoted, '
nor in Newburyport. Tbeir oauoua
in Lowell and Lynn was conceded.
The result now chiefly depends on
Butler's success in getting any con-'
siderable portion ot the rural dis
tricts. He has been manipulating
them very industriously, though se
cretly, through the State-house lobby .
and Federal office holders, but there
is no reason yet to believe that he can
carry enough of them to give bim a
majority. Ibe oontest is growing
very warm, and there is much excite
ment throughout the State. There
certainly will bo a bolt if Butler car
ries tbe Convention, and another Bo
publjcan candidate run. It' he is
beaten his bolting is doubtful, but b
is evidently making ready to do so if
he dares.
A PAPEU published at Bonham,
Texas, says that a few days ago, and
a short distance from that place, a
man "saw something rosembling an
enormous serpent floatiug in a cloud
that was floating over his farm. Sev
eral parties oi men and boys, at work !
in the fields, observed the samo thing,
and were seriously frightened, It
seemed to be as large and long as a
telegraph pole, and was of a striped
yellow oolor, and seemed to float
along without any effort, They oould
see it coil itself up, tarn over, and
thrust forward its huge bead as if
striking at something." It is a pity
that lager beer or some other mild
liquid could not be substituted for the
beverage now in use at that place.
A Georgia editor describing a wed
ding lately, said tbe bride looked a
very lily cradled in the goldou
glimmer of some evening lake a
foam flecked, snowy, yet sun-flushed,
crowning tbe ripplings of some sort
summer sea." If that were really so,
the bridegroom must have been
puzzled to know whether he wan
wedding a submarine conservatory or
an Aurora Boreolis.
"Who are the meek?" was askec
of a little boy, to which he replied.
"Those who give smooth pnswers to
rough questions."