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Corvallis Gazette. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNIKQ BY W. IB. CARTER, Editor amd Proprietor. TERMS (com.) Per Ifnr, Mix Nonlbi, tbrw Months, 8- SO 1 39 1 UJ INVARIABLY IN ADVA NCR. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. M. 0. WOODCO CK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, VHVALI.U lIKM.'ISi FFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD COCK A BALDWIN'S Hanlware store. o Special attention given to Collections, Fore closure of Mortgages, IJeul Estate cases, Probata and Road matters. Will also huy ami sell City Property and Farm Lands, n reasonable terms. March 20, 1879. 16-12yl F. A. CHENOWETH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OK V A I. I.I, : t ! U. -OFFICE, Corner of Monroe an.l Second Street. 16-ltf J. W. RAYBUR ATTORNEY AT LAW, OK V A I. LIS, s OKTOON. OFFICE Oo Monroe street, between Second and Third. 3&-Sjecial attention given to the Collection of Xutes and Account. 16-ltf JAMES A. YANTIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, C9BVA1LI.N, . tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS of the State. Special attention given to matters in Probate. Collections will receive t ompt and careful attention. Office in the Court ouse. 16:llf. DR F. A. V.NCE1MT, DENTIST. OOUVALLI8 1 REOONi rkFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER " Max. Friendley's New Store. All the latest improvements. Everything new and complete. All work warranted. Please give me a call. 15:3tf C. R. FARRA, M. D. PHYSICIAN AKD SURGEOU, QFFICE OVER GRAHAM fc HAMILTON'S v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-20'tf J. R. BRYSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. All business will receive prompt attention. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY- Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf NEW TIN SHOP. J. K. Webber, Pro., MAIN t. - COHVALLI8. STOVES AND TINWARE All Kind. SsYAll work warranted and at reduced rates. 12:13tf. W. C. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE, etc Also, Musical Instrumi-nts 5fco Repairing done at the moot reasonable rates, and all work warranted. Corvallis, Dec 13, 1877. 14:50tf GRAHAM, HAMILTON & C0.f CUKVALLM ... 4IREUO.V DEALERS IN Drugs, lr,ints, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. DYE MIFFS. OILS, - CLASS AND PUTTY. PURE WINES AND L QJ3BS FOR MEDICINAL USE. St And also the the very best assortment of Lamps and Wall Paper ever brought to this place. AGENTS FOR THE AVERIIU CHOMCU PUNT, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. VPkrsMeai' . e.crlption ai mum . ptiei. 18-2tf VOL. XVI. CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879. NO. 34. The Breakwater at Cape Foulweather, Is a necessity and owing to an increased demand for ooorss in oxjpfc iiive, 7E HAVE THE PLEASURE OF STATING THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND best selected stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever brought to this market, and onr motto, in the future, as it has been in the past, shall be SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES," thus enabling the Farmers of Benton County to buy Goods 25 per cent, less than ever before. We also have in connection a large stock of Boots aixtl Shoes, Hats axicl Caps, Privately by our Mr. Sheppard, at a Large Bankrupt Sale in San Francisco, at 50 cents on the dollar, which will be kept separate from our regular stock, and will extend the same bargains to customers who will give us a call. As a sample of our psices, we will sell Shoes from S6c to S. Boots from 3S1 to 3 GO. Hats from 35 to t$l TS. Buek Gloves, SO cents. Milk Handkerchiefs 38c. Grass Cloth 8 cents. Kid Glove, 75 cents to 1. Don't forget the place, one deor south of the post office. Corvallis, May 7, 1879. Sheppard, Jaycoi & Co. 17:19m3 CORVALLIS Livery, Feed .AND... SALE STABLE, Main Ht., Corval Is. Oregon. SOL. KING, - Porpr. ffcWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED to offer superior accommodations in the Liv ery line. Always ready for a drive, rOOI TAMS At Low Bates. My stables are first-class in every respect, and competent and obliging hostlers always ready to serve the public. REASONABLE CHARGES FOB HIRE. Particular nttentton Paid to Boardlac K ELEGANT HEARSE, CARRIAGES AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS Corvallis, Jan; 3, 1879. lo:lyl LANDS! FARMS! HOMES! f HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim- proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY. very desirable, FOR SALE. These lands are cheap. Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale. Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of the balance to me. Write (with stamps to prepay postage). r: A. BENSELL, Newport, Benton county, Oregon. 16:2tf Woodcock & Baldwin K (Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,) EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE old stand a large and complete stock of Heavy and Shelf Hardware, IRON, STEEL, TOOLS, STOVES, RANGES, ETC Manufactured and Home Made Tin and Copper "Ware, Pumps, Pipe, Etc. A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all Job Work neatly and quickly done. Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co., for the sale of the best and latest im proved FARM MACHINERY, of all kinds, together with a fall assort ment of Agricultural Implements. Sole Agents for the celebrated ST. LOUIS CHARTER OAK STOVES the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the Norman Range, and many other patterns, in all sizes and styles. tp Particular attention paid to Farmers' wants, and the supplying extras for Farm Machinery, and all information as to such articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica tion. No pains will be spared to furnish oar customers with the best goods in market, in our line, and at the lowest prices. Our motto shall be, prompt and fair dealing with all. Call and examine oar stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac tion guaranteed. WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN. Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf Corvallis Lodge Ko 14, W. A. M. Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend. By order W. M. Barn am Lodge Ho. 7, I. o. O. If. Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem bers of the order in good standing invited to at tend. By order of N. G. JOHN S. BAKER, PRO. COBTAUU, - - OBEeOV. TJAVING BOUGHT THE ABOVE MAR ket and fixtures, and permanently located in Or vail is, I will keep constantly on hand the choicest cuts of BEEP, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL. Especial attention to making extra Bologna Sausage. : Being a practical butcher, with large experi ence in business, I flatter myself that I can give satisfaction to customers. Please call and give me a trial. JOHN S. BAKER. Dec. 6th, 1878. 15:49tf. ROBERT N. BAKER. Fashionable Tailor, pORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE has given his patrons perfect satisfaction, has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he hopes to be favored with a share of the public patronage. All work warranted, when made under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning promptly attended to. Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 15:48ft Grain Storage ! A Word to Farmers, JTAVING PURCHASED THE COMMODI ous warehouse of Messrs. King and Bell, and thoroughly overhauled the same, I am now ready to receive grain for storage at the reduced Kate of -1 cts. per Bushel I am also prepared to keep Extra, White Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared to pay the Highest Market Price. for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a share of public patronage. T. J. BLAIR. Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. 15:32tf A LIE! & WOODWARD, Druggists and Apothecaries, P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON. Have a complete stock of DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, BUSS, ETC., ETC. Sohool looks m tationeny, Sfco. We buy for Cash, and have choice of the FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medicines the market affords. Prescriptions accurately pre Dared at half the usual rates. 2Mayl6:l8tf FRESH GOODS AT THE BAZAR r FASHIONS Mrs. E. A.. KNIGHT. COBTAm.UA, ... OK CO OS. Has just received from San Francisco,, the larg est and Best Stock of Millinery floods, Dress Trimmings, Etc., Ever brought to Corvallis, which I will sell at prices that defy competition. Aseaejr for Bin.. kmtnM'i reliable 25eprl6:17tf Lord Byron. HE HAS THE" DISTINCTION OF THREE FTJNEBAIiS HIS FEMALE ADMIRERS. Lord Holland informs tha world that the poet pronounced his name Birron. With all respect to his lordship I must express my doubts of his accuracy. The name is of Norman origin, and if the poet varied from the accepted standard the change would have been to a French pronunciation. Speaking of Byron, I am reminded that his funeral was a sum mer incident, having occurred in July, (Just 55 years ago,) and what is remark able he was honored with three mortuary services. First at Missolonghi, where he died April 10, 1824. On this occasion prayers were read and a funeral service was held in the church. The coffin was then placed aboard a vessel, bound for England, amid a parting salute. On arriving at London, after a voyage of nearly three months, the remains lay in state for two days. Nine years had elapsed since the poet had left his native land, but his sorrowing friends were sufficient in number to form a respectable attendance. The occasion, however, was one of rather heartless character, as may be inferred from Moore's statement. Moore says : "When I approached the house and saw the crowd assembled I felt a nervous trembling which lasted until the whole ceremony was finished. I thought indeed that I should be ill. The noise of the mob, the bustle of the un dertakers, and all the vulgar accompani ments of the ceremony, mixing with my recollections of him who was gone, pro duced a combined disgust and sadness which was painful. There were but a few respectable people in the crowd, and the whole ceremony was not what it should have been. We left the hearse as soon as we got out of town, and I return ed home to get rid of my clothes and to try to forget as much as possible the wretched feelings I had experienced." Such was Byron's London funeral. How sad and indeed how harrowing was the contrast between the scenes of splendid dissipation in which he had mingled in that very city and the weary desolation of his exit. His wife did not attend, and this omission of couise included the absence of one whom he called : "Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart." Moore saw but one woman present,who sat weeping in a barouche, and this was the sole exhibition of an emotional char acter during the whole scene. The distance from London to Notting ham is little more than a hundred miles, and on the 16th of July,five days after leav ing London, the third funeral took place. A person who was present said that it at tracted a large concourse, and yet few of the number were what might be termed the respectable class. One man who was a stranger showed profound grief, and the same remark applied to Fletcher, the poet's valet. He had accompanied Byron during his life ir Italy and also in Greece, and was thoroughly conversant with his evil habits. .hile speaking on this mortuary subject,-! may refer to Moore's visit to the Hucknall Church (whieh con tains the tomb), which was made in order to enable him to write up the poet's biography. He found the church locked and the parish clerk who bad charge of the key absent. A lady who was present suggested that a pane of glass be removed, and this having been done a small lad was crowded through the orifice in order to open one of the doors which was fast ened by a bolt. In this manner the party entered the church. Moore was but little affected until he stood over the vault, when, as he says, "Suddenly the picture of what he had been and what he now presented himself to be, and a flood of melancholy feeling passed over my heart." Moore found an old man at Newstead who informed him that during the funeral of Byron's mother he and the poet were engaged in boxing. The latter never dis guised his dislike to his mother, with whom he incessantly quarreled. Her death, according to tradition, was oc casioned by a fit of rage. It may be added that Byron never attended funerals, and the only mortuary service in which his name is mentioned was Shelley's funeral pile. No wonder a lady was seen weeping in a barouche when the cortege left London. Many a woman was left to mourn over that fascinating genius which held such mastery over the heart. It is highly probable that the lady referred to was Miss Jane Clairmont, mother of the poet's best beloved daughter Allegra. The latter was born in Italy after the poet had finally left England, but the mother afterwards returned to her native land. She never maried, but having survived both her child and her father she after ward removed to Florence, where she died recently, having reached her eighty eight year. Allegra was her father's pet, and was probably the only object that he ever loved. She died in her sixth year, and the poet sent her body from Italy to England for interment. It is the only instance of the corpse of a child being transported such a distance. The poet requested that she should be buried in the church of Harrow, the school where he passed his happiest days, and this was granted. Such are some of the associa tions which July suggests. Corr. Troy (N. Y.) Times. Chtddhood. Children are but little people, yet they form a very important part of society, expend mnch of onr capital, employ a greater portion of onr population in their service, and occupy naif of the literati of our day in labors for their instruction and amusement. They cause more trouble and anxiety than the national debt; the loveliest of women in her maturity of charms breaks not so many slumbers, nor occasions so many sighs, as she did in her cradle; and the handsomest of men, with full grown mustaches, must not flatter him self that he is half so much admired as he was when in petticoats. Without any reference to their being our future statesmen, philosophers, and magistrates in miniature disguises, children form in their present state of pigmy existence a most influential class of beings; and the arrival of a bawling infant who can scarcely open its eyes, and only opens its mouth, like an unfledged bird, for food, will effect the most extraordinary alteration in a whole household; substi tute affection for coldness, duty for gravity, bustle for formality, and unite hearts which time has divided. The Grave of Lincoln's Mother. A correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel, who recently visited the grave of Lincoln's mother, at Bocheport, Ind., writes as follows: No stone, no tablet, not even a rough wooden headboard marks the windowless place. Where the headboard should stand a small, uncouth dogwood bush has deeply planted its roots, thus reminding one of the apple tree story associated with the burial place of Roger Williams. To the right of the grave, as you face the east, towers a graceful oak, whose quiet shadows seem, as it were, to hold communion with the careless slumberer that reposes beneath its roots. As I stood there in the beautiful mid morning of a refreshing summer day, re flecting on the world's ingratitude, a blithe, nimble squirrel was jumping and chattering in the branches overhead. Pretty little songsters made the woods vocal with their gushing minstrelsy, while all the mourning, cooing of a dove swelled on the fragrant air like the dying cadences of some weired requiem. The scene, though impressive, was beautiful, and recalled vividly of my memory those enchanting lines of ill fated Shelley: " 'Twas softer than the west winds sigh, Twas milder than the unmeasured notes, Of that strange lyre. Whose springs the genii of the breezes sweep." Thomas Lincoln, father of the ill starred Abraham, emigrated to Spencer county in 1817. The following season his wife died, and in a few years after this domestic bereavement he removed to Hlinois. This, in brief, is the whole story of the Lincoln family's history connected with Indiana. The little rude log cabin constructed by Mr. Lincoln and his son was carried away, I learn, several years ago, by some enterprising Chicago Yankees. And Little Pigeon Church, where the boy Lincoln listened to the hymns of Zion, has changed with the generation who gathered there in the dim years of the past. All is changed. Just why the grave of Mrs. Lincoln has lain in neglect so long is a mystery to me. Surely the spirit that actuated the Phillipses, Garrisons and Davises, and the followers of these old-time Aboli tionists is dead. Could not their follow ers pay the simple tribute of respect to the memory of their great champion by erecting a plain shaft over the rest ing place of his mother ? For sixty -one years not a single stone has marked her nameless grave. Is not this neglect an other accumulated evidence that the world is uncharitable and republics un grateful ? An English View of Mormonism. In finishing a long editorial article on the Mormons in Utah, the London Times says : Yankee shrewdness in adapting means to ends is the great secret of their success. Not satisfied with exciting enthusiasm, the Mormon leaders have organized it. If they get rid of Polygamy, which many of their number assert to be nof aa essen tial part of their creed, the Mormons may possibly long continue to prosper and populate the vast region which might have remained a desert had they not converted it into a garden by the exercise of patient toil and unre mitting industry. Not only are they innovators in religion, but they are also reformers in social customs. They are strictly temperate as Sir Wilfrid Lawson could desire any man to be ; good Mor mons neither drink intoxicants norsmoke tobacco. Brigham Young even abstained from tea and coffee on the ground that they were stimulants. Female suffrage has been introduced into the Territory of Utah. Co-operative associations have long existed among the Mormons. In deed, the stranger who walks along the streets of their capital is struck with sign boards on which is painted the All-seeing Eye, the motto, "Holiness to the Lord," and the intimation "Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution." It is the boast of the Mormons that drunkenness and the sin of great cities were unknown in Salt Lake City, till the mines of the Territory caused an influx of the Gentiles, and till the strict regulations of the church authorities were disregarded by the authorities of the United States. The education of the young is conducted with care, and the Deseret university is as use ful an institution as any one of its kind in the Western States. Degrees are given in it for proficiency in one of the three courses of study the classical, the scien tific and the commercial. As might be expected, the commercial course is preferred by students. The work of the class-room is a representa tion of the work done in a merchant's counting house; and the student is taught not only how to carry on mercan tile correspondence, how to dispatch tele grams, insure property, recover compensa tion for injury or loss, but also how to manage a postal and telegraphic, a bank ing and an insurance office. Mormonism is, in fact, a curious mixture of discredita ble and praiseworthy elements. That it would not survive the death of Brigham Young was confidently predicted by many persons who had studied it on the spot. Yet the death of its unscrupulous leader has not had any apparent effect upon it. A bodv which will soon number 150,000 may not easily be got rid of or dissolved. A Costly School-Hodse. The most costly school-building in the world is the new Polytechnic Institute at Hanover. The late King of Hanover commenced the construction of a magnificent palace, up on which he expended about $5,000,000. When his Government was overthrown and the kingdom of Hanover became a province of Prussia, the building was found to be in a half-finished condition. For several years the windows were boarded up and the empty rooms became the residence of bats and birds. At last the German Government resolved to alter the building and adapt the uses of the polytechnic school. This work has been going forward for several years, and is now nearly ended. There is a man in New Haven who owns a ben that only lays once in ten days. Of course they must be decade eggs. Confound such a hen. Ancient Egypt. THE RELIGION OP THE EGYPTIANS COM PARISON OF DATES. A great deal, says the Saturday Review, has been written of late uponthe religion of the ancient Egyptians. Knowledge on the subject is confined to very few per sons, and these few differ so much among themselves that there are as many opinions as there are professors that is to say, perhaps a half a dozen, all told. It need hardly be said, therefore, that a large number of people are interested in the matter, or that which finds its way into print is a character rather to obscure than to elucidate. A great deal of fog might be cleared off if we could make these writers explain what it is they mean' by the term "ancient Egyptians." In one essay we observe that all Egyptians, whether they lived under Ptolemy or under Shoofoo, are so called. This is the comprehensive method employed by some of the most voluminous, at least among English, Egyptologists. It is im possible to expect anything but con fusion and puzzle-headedness from it. VVe should think the historian mad who mixed up the reigns of Bomuuls, Odoacer and Victor Emanuel. Yet the interval which elapsed between Menes and Cleo patra was at least twice as great, and the social revolutions were scarcely less marked. We cannot argue from what we read in the ritual, composed, at the earli est, under the Eighteenth Dynasty, as to the religion of the people who lived un der the Fourth. Yet in many books and articles both periods, and many other periods besides, are referred to under the same heading of "Ancient Egypt" , We could almost wish to confine the use of the word Egypt to a definite time, short, indeed, in relation to the whole history of the country, but long enough to take us back to the beginnings of history in the Western world. By the "ancient Egyptians," if we may refer to the oldest monarchy by such a misused name, the country we now call Egypt was called ,w hen it was called anything, "the Black Country," or, in their own language, "Kam," which answers to the Biblical Ham or Cham. There .had been an Up per Country, and there had been' a Lower Country, but History begins with their union under one sovereign, whose successors bore for thousands of years the title of "the kings of both lands," or "lords of the double crown." No other name, or no name at all, is applied to the valley of the Nile in the oldest inscrip tions" Its inhabitants knew of no other countries, and no other- countries knew of them. Their interior life was not dis turbed by the interference of neighbors. Elaborate and minute as was their sys tem of government, it comprised no foreign office. It was not till far into the third dynasty that we know of anything like conquests or any expedition beyond the immediate boundaries of the valley. Even then we only hear of the repression of the wild tribes of Sinai and the pro tection of the mining colonists of Kam. It is much the same till the end of the Sixth Dynasty a period of perhaps seven centuries more. Then follow wars and the earliest period ot the history of Kam comes to an end in obscurity 'nd con fusion. Between the Sixth Dyn.isty and and the Eleventh there is a great gulf fixed. Here and there the name of a king comes up. We read of Memphite dynasties and Heracleopolite. But the old kingdom is no more. The stream of time which seemed to flow as peacefully for the inhabitants of the Black Country as their own Nile, becomes turbid and stormy. For forty generations there is a blank, a solution of historical continuity ; so that people who mix up the chronology and religion of the time after the Eleventh Dynasty with that of the time before the Seventh leave out of their account a period probably as long as that which separates in English history the landing of Hengist from the lauding of William Third. Sound Doctrine. It is a mistake to think that men with out money are without the means to set tle on wild land. Every man with en ergy and muscle and nerve has the means. He can make an honest living out of the ground in almost any part of the West, and do it a thousand times easier than the men who planted fifty years ago, and packed a sack of corn upon the shoulder 20 miles to a mill, or beat it to flour with a pestle. The mil lions of fertile acres are crying for hands to turn the sod, promising to yield wealth, health and happiness to the in habitants of the over-crowded alleys of towns and cities. It would be better for fathers and mothers to make any sacri fice of personal comfort than to raise children in these rank hotbeds of vice, where it is impossible to protect them from its taint. If one-half the energy and enterprise now displayed by labor unions and pro tective labor organizations were directed to finding homes npon the unoccupied lands of "the West for the thousands who could profitably till them, there would be less occasion for complaint, both from those who wonld go and those who would stay. A little assistance to enable deserving persons to secure such homes would pay far better than the money spent in sustaining strikes. There are a great many families in Chicago to-day whose best interests would be served, and whose happiness wonld be increased if they could be persuaded and aided to leave the busy hum of the city and dig an honest living from the ground. There is room enough yet. According to the reports from the Land Office, there are 724,312,477 acres of surveyed lands ready for occupants, and nearly twice as much more waiting the sur veyor. During the ten years which closed in June, the Government sold for cash 57,666,970 acres of land, besides the large grant to homesteaders. If the many hundred thousands, who have with hardships opened up their new homes, could give their testimony, but a few of them could be induced to move into the stifled air of our cities, and attempt to raise their children amid the temptations and vices that would surround them. Scientific American. Children are beginning to count the days that must elapse before school commences. ... 4 . uurvauis uazei. RATES OF ADVERTISING. I 1W. 1 M. 8 M. 6 M. 1 Inch 2 iui m on i c nn i a mi I 200 6 00 7 00 12 00 I 4 00 I 7 00 I 1 00 I 18 00 Coi. I 6 00 I 9 00 I 15 00 I 7 fQ 12 00 18 (0 I W 00 I 85 00 VS t 1A llA l 1C Aft l Oi i)A I Ail i jNoucea in Local uoluuin, 20 cents eacb insertion. Transient advertisements, per square IfnAu TAMniu41 ............ ..1 .' 1 1 T. . tl - , t ., .. ioreacn suoseaneni insertion lu auvanuk Legal advertisements charged as transient, and must be paid for npon expiration. No charge for publisher's affidavit of publication, Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. Professional Cards, (1 square) $12 per annum. All notices and advertisement intended for publication should be handed in bv noun tin Wednesday. TEHPEB1XCE LECTUB.B. From the Telegram, Aug. 4th. Portland ers do not often have such a. treat as the Rev. S. Monroe Hubbard served up for those who attended the Open Temperance meeting at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A., on last Saturday night. Mr. Hubbard took for his theme "What's the Matter?" giving a synopsis of and combining much of his celebrated lecture on that topic, so popular wherever he has delivered it. He directed his remarks mainly in the interest of the youth of the land, and we but speak the senti ments of all who heard it when we say it was one of the most forcible, urgent and eloquent appeals in behalf of the young we have recently heard. .Reviewing the whole ground he showed the corrupting and demoralizing influences of our soci ety from the use of intoxicating drinks, and impressively put the questions, What shall be the close of our second century's life as a State and Nation 7 hail we be a Nation ? Shall we have a stable, model government, and an able Christian Executive as now? Shall we have a free and unsectarian pulpit, an untram meled press, free schools, an unviolated Sabbath, an intelligent, prosperous and happy people, or shall we be a nation ot drunkards? Shall we be reveling in our moral and political corruption and wend ing our way to the grave of nations crushed by the weight of drunkenness with all its attendant vices and depreda tions. rwvt 1 t . 1. A 1 A J Al swers to these questions are to be T.icm fir (i r ( vs Hnn (ririH. 1 mill s wi the matter ! The great question in to-uay is, wnat s to Decome oi our .1 ai 1 : c . ness, profanity, Sabbath-breaking political corruptions with whicn come in centact everywhere ! 1 1 1 X 1 i. ! nation 8 greatest wealth, and moral acter its greatest bulwark. Our M rH llfllllll mirrniira lll-lf MTIM I I. ih.ii Mil j-iie reverenu ireniiemau urew a ue MIIIIIlf-4 III IIH r 1 ( IfHir II Mllfl (111 the Willamette river as childhood, Columbia river as youth, theColumbia va.av VHWS(V VVJ iiitvuii VOU MU ' ' -r ' " V -r v- and the Pacific Ocean as the great busy life. Oregon is a nation in itself-great in all the developed and undeveloped resources that constitute a nation. Portland is a great mart of trade and immense in its future. The actual is what now is the possible is what may be. So morally, parents can do much, we may all do much to make the possibilities of our children. Many live only in the actual, for the pres ent, and never strive and live for the pos sible. The actual blacksmith was the possible Ellibu Buett. The actual shoe maker was the possible Vice President Henry Wilson. The actual railsplitter was the possible Abraham Lincoln, the revered and lamented savior of our na tion. Notice the intellectual differences of Newton, Shakespeare, Milton, Napo leon, Watts and others. .The causes that childhood, and even to the period of birth. Education and moral training is the only hope of our people. Neglect and carelessness is too apparent in the train ing of our youths. That's what's the mat ter. The lecturer showed thoughtful ap plication, deep research, and set his large audience to thinking and inquiring what's the matter. It was, as a whole, worthy the attention of any audience, and reflected (trii-if drfijif unAn t ta o nmianr anpa tor delivered as it was in his rapid and on- ii i i i i z : v. i. a have repeated. We are delighted to state that Mr. Hut i tit rr i i n li'iiiiu rrj rpnoar r.ri if mi n ut (umnvaTon nnrnrny nr r , i u in lrnpiiiiiu wwm r of our State. He has prepared with great pains and care the following: "What's the Matter," "America's Dan ger," "A Man," "How to Succeed," "Not T,1 .. -II IT,.i;. :... .....! MflmH" Trip vprv nr. mm nre sn(7reH ive of profound and deep research in their preparation, and in the hands of such a Sleasant, earnest and eloquent speaker as Ir. Hubbard will not only give very great intellectual treats, but will do an immense amount of good. Success to so noble a philanthropist as Rev. Mr. Hubbard. No Hiping in Paris. The population, floating or permanent, of every arrondis sement or ward in Paris is counted officially every month. Be your abode at hotel, boarding-house or private resi dence, within forty-eight hours you are required to sign a register, giving your name, age. occupation and former resi dence. This, within the period mention ed, is copied by an officer ever traveling from house to house with the big blue. book under his arm. The register gives also the leading characteristics of your personal appearance. Penalty attaches itself to the host or landlord who fails to get and give to the official such registra tion of his guests. There are no unmark ed skulking-holes in Paris. Every house, every room is known and under police surveillance. Every stranger is known and described at police head-quarters within a few days of his arrival. Once within the walls of Paris, and historically, so to speak, yonr identity is always there. In case of injury to any i-srson the suf ferer is not dependent on the nearest drug-store for a temporary nospitai, seen the prominent sign, 'Assistance for c lI .1 1 . U A v . 1 . I T i u ..: - ! , 1 uniciai lu-wiui. a. any uuiuni, uctnuw n onro! n ulnnilur nrn 1 rs r (fa 1 1 rvtl At lha tlarv- private party may adopt this fashion. The trench nag is not flung nigsletv- i a. a . i I n l : 1. n O . Stripes, so that none can determine whether it indicates a united Mates Government station or a beer saloon. IIUIU -A- V.U i. u. V" MVVtt T to UMWJ VI rF liino tn Miflfl H. i7ahrh A K HoTrlnnt- Whitshed, only child of the late Sir St. Vincent Bentinck Hawkins-Whitshed. It was a very fashionable and distinguished event, and was attended by t he cream of society, including many lords and ladies auu utuciui oeraouugeB,