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WEEKLY CORY ALUS GAZETTE
CORVAXLIS, - SEPTEMBER 19, 1879
DOLCINO TO MARGARET.
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sueer, and yesterday's frown.
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JACK.
A. mnrnin ' like this, with the sun a
inin', and the birds a singin', and the
sies a blossoming in those beds down
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be tip and get a peak at it. It d do you
more good than medicine, 'cording to
my notion. There's lots of folks gone
by already, the kind that has little to do.
Well, if I ever!" and Mrs. Zib's poke
bonnet and the edge of her sharp nose
seemed ia imminent danger of going
through the shutter, she was so inquisi
tively eager in her inspection of some
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"T declare he's a shaver to be
his own pony, a black one with
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dog cart; I don't see why there s any
need of giving a decent wagon such an
outlandish name. He ain't more than
eight years old I'm sure, and is about as
sassy as they mane em ; dui men some
folks are able to make all sorts of fol-de-rols
for their children, and others are
put to their wits' end to get bread for
theirs, and you can't help feelin' that
lots is various. Some do seem to get all
the plums in the pudding, and others
can't e ven get a whiff at the crust. It's
queer, but I suppose it's right."
She gave me an interrogative glance
as she spoke, then spying some uneasi
ness in the little, week-old morsel of hu
manity who was cuddled in my arms,
she took him away and sat down with
him in the low rocker. "You folks
make an awful fuss over him," she said
meditatively; "not that he is anything
out of he ordinary run, either, as I can
see, but somehow you seem to think he
is wonderful. S'posing, now, you had
ielt bad about his coming, not knowing
how he could be fed or clothed, and
s'posing nobody kissed or cuddled him,
and wondered whether he looked like
you or his father, or his grandmother, or
all the rest of 'em ?"
"Mrs. Zib, please hand me that baby
right away. I want to kiss him."
"I ain't going to do any such thing,"
said the nurse peremptorily. "He's just
been fooled with enough this morning!
All them big girls in the family had to
have their foolishness over him before
they went to school, and I hain't counted
how many times you've kissed him.
He'll take it easy enough on my lap for
awhile. Yeller, ain't he ? Well, that's
the jaunders; it makes 'em sleepy, too.
I once saw a baby just as likely for' his
age as this one; but laws, he was blinkin'
and winkin' away in a miserable sort of
a shanty, and nobody seemed to want
him in the world very much. He was
one of them kind that never gets a whiff
at the pudding. He belonged to the
Briggs, Dan'l and Melindy, and the be
longing to them wa'nt much of a bless
ing, for they were two of the shiftless,
slack, always behind hand sort of people
who never seem to know how to take
care of themselves rightly. Their folks
had been just so, too, a workin' a little
on other folks land, doing an odd job
now and then, keepin' in vittels and
shabby clothes somekew, the women.
Stettin' cold Tittles when they washed for
m farmers wives nnrl some of the old
ciatnesnt" wa nt no use to maKe over.
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and never troubled his conscience
neither, though perhaps he didn't have
one to trouble. Sometimes he got a job
in harvest or plantin' time, but gener
ally folks were shy about hiring him;
nobody likes to pay a man for settin'
drummin' his heels agin the fence, or
stoppin' to talk to everybody who hap
pens to" go by. 'fhe women folks said he
was a heavy hand, too, on the butter and
the meat. He was a great one to go
gunning. You'd see him slouching
along regular, two mangy, ribby hounds
a followin' after; such folks must keep a
dog, you know, even if they hain't
nothin for themselves.
"Melindy used to say sometimes that
she wished Dan'l was a little steadier at
his work, but if you went to blaming
him she always had some excuse for
him. 'Squire wanted him to work too
hard, or he had to take care of the baby.'
"There was always a baby in the
house, a little, half-dressed, generally
miserable creetur, for they never got the
right kind of fare, and wa'nt made the
least of, though Dan'l and Melindy liked
them in their way. I can't even say it
was curious the little things died off
after one another, but it did seem to me
fortunate, for there wa'nt no gainsaying
world than in it. Jack, though, he
toughed it out, though he had all the
drawbacks the others had, and grew to
be a little black-eyed youngster, hang
ing to Melindy's skirts, trottin' 'round
after Dan'l, or lyin' in the sun and sand
alongside them miserable dogs.
Melindy went when the seventh baby
come, and she and the child were buried
together, and you wouldn't hardly think
it, but one day when one of my boys
went past the place where she was
buried, if there wa'nt that forlorn little
Jack a walkin' 'round and 'round it and
pipin', 'Mammy, mammy!'
"Misfortunes never come single, they
say, and I believe it, and to prove it
JDan'l's gun went off all of a sudden one
xfay when he was climbing a fence, and
somebody found him the same day lying
there clean shot through the heart. Af
ter he was decently buried no one knew
what to do with Jack. It wa'n't to be
thought of that anybody around should
want him, and the only way seemed to
be to send him to the poor house. I
remember he sat out on a big stone in
the yard, hiding his face from every
body in his torn jacket sleeve, and cry
ing for the dog that 'Squire Jones had
took away 'cause he said he was a good
bird dog, and somebody or other had
hushed him up quite sharp when he
called for 'pappy.'
"Old Mrs. Fox asked me if I didn't
feel to take him, but I didn't mean to fly
in the face of providence by taking that
child when I had tough work to keep my
own. So Jack went to the poor house.
I'm sure we have to pay taxes to keep it
going, and it's fair somebody should be
sent there once in awhile.
"Do you know the Brones? No? Well,
that's curious, for they live only a mat
ter of four miles away. Likely as not
you've heard enough of them to know
that they are awful close, but I'm free to
say that of all stingy, scraping, rich crea
tures they are the very beat. I was sent
for to come and nurse Tom's wife when
she had her baby a couple of years ago.
Tom came over beforehand to strike a
bargain with me, tried to tell me the
work would be light with Sainant.hu. her
niece, there, and asked me right out to
take off a couple of dollars in my priee.
But I knew the Brones, and they kuew
me, and I went for my regular wages or
not at all. You see, there is a great del
to do on a large farm like theirs, and
they expected me to be busy every
minute.
"I often wondered when I was there
what was the use of money if yon
couldn't enjoy it. They certainly dulut
seem to get any good, so to speak, ont of
theirs. Their very table was mean,
mean for them who could afford better- -sour
rye bread, rusty pork and the small
potatoes they couldn't sell. Though
they had a big lot o poultry none of it
ever came on their table, neither did
eggs or such, for everything that could
fetch a copper went to market and if
they lived like that you can think what
sort of vittles Jack got ! Yes, Jack, for I
found Dan'l Brifirers' Jack there.
"You see the first night when I see
that tall, shamblin' erectur shuffiin, in
with his head droppin' forrards I mis
trusted that I'd seen him somewhares be
fore, and I watched him while he eat his
bread crusts and cold potatoes, and after
he'd gone out I asked Samantha, 'Who's
he?"
" 'Jack,' she says.
" 'Jack Briggs?'
"And then I had it sure enough.
'Tom cot him out of the poor house
some time ago,' she said, sharply: "he's
half a fool. I hate him.'
"Well, I wouldn't blame anyone for
being half a fool living on such food as
they gave him. Eat edges of pork with
out a bit of meat on them, cold potatoes,
and bread left to get hard and dry so he
couldn't eat so much of it. Bless you,
child, I'm not lying; I'm tellin' down
right truth; I've seen Christian folks
more than once play that trick on their
hired folks.
"I spoke to him next morning as he
was washing outside on the porch. 'I
knew you folks once,' says I.
" 'Eh,' said he, looking at me with
those dull, black eyes of his'n.
"Yes, and I knew you when you was a
little fellow ; you've growed considerable
since. How did you get along at the
poorhouse?"
" 'I had fits sometimes, and they flog
ged me sometimes.'
" 'You don't say so,' says I, 'How
long have you been here?'
" 'Quite a spell.'
" 'You look kind of peaked and yel
ler,' says I, 'Don't you feel well?'
"He stared at me and real tears came
to his eyes. 'I've lots of pain here,' said
he, putting his hand to his side, 'and my
head hurts sometimes.'
"Four days after I went there, Jane,
that's Tom's wife, got word that her
father and mother were coming down to
see the new baby and spend the day.
She was mightily flustered when she
hearn it, for she hadn't a bit of pie or
cake in the house and she wanted me to
make some. She said though it must be
apple pie and a cake that wouldn't take
more than an egg or two, and but little
butter, say a tablespoonful. I concluded
to make it as best suited me, seeing I
had a fair field, Samantha having gone
to the village; and though Jane's bed
room opened into the kitchen, her bed
stood so she could not see the part of the
room where I was at work. All the
same, she made her tongue do duty for
her eyes and kept telling me what to do
-altthVtime till I clean lost patience, but
you may be sure then I mixed things my
own way. No stale drippings out of the
old yellow bowl in the buttery went into
my pie crust, but I put into it good,
sweet lard out of the firkinin the cellar,
and I didn't sweeten them pies with mo
lasses sugar either, but good granulated
went into them.
"When I begin with the cake she
called out, I guess, after all, it best be
molasses; that only takes one egg, and
shortening instead of butter.
" Well, I said, smiling to myself as I
stirred up a good cake which had plenty
of eggs and butter for once. Her speak
ing of molasses cake, tho' put me in my
mind to bake a nice, soft one, for molas
ses cake when fresh, aint to be sneezed
at, yes, and I mean to tell you that I
made a pie in an oldish saucer, and made
it thick and good and sweetened it with
molasses, and after it was baked I tucked
it away in the woodshed. After dinner
I looked to see if Jack had a piece of the
pie we had cut, and that Jane had
grumbled over because it was so good.
But Samantha didn't give him any, which
was just what I expected. So I left Sa
mantha busy with the dishes, and tuck
ing that saucer-pie under my apron, I
went down in the yard alongside the barn
to look at some blankets I'd hung there
that morning. I looked sharp to see
Jack when he came along to go to
the meadow, then I called him soft like.
" What !" says he stopping short.
" ' Here,' says I, ' take this and set
down in the gate corner and eat it ; I'll
wait for the dish.
"It wasn't three minutes before he
brought the saucer back, every crumb
clean gone.
" 'I'll never forget it,' says he, a cry
ing. "It was the next day the old folks came.
I baked good, sweet bread in the morn
ing and cut . it fresh for dinner, too, al
though Jane was hurt about it, and what
with ham and decently mashed potatoes,
chopped cabbage and the sugared pie,
we'd a good dinner, which everybody
enjoyed, especially Tom, who couldn t
stop bragging about it. But I had a plan
in my mind, so after we'd finished, I says
to Samantha : 'You're tired; so you go
set in Jane's room and hold the baby and
talk to granny, and I'll wash up the
things.'
"She wasn't backward to accept, and
Tom took the old man out to see the
farm, and for once in his life I set Jack
down to a decent meal. Nothing was
sneaked off that table by me, and it gave
me satisfaction to see him eat. Samantha
screamed right out when she came in and
saw him finishing the pie. ' Ain't you
ashamed of yourself to let him make a
hog of himself?' she cried. But I
reckon that I set her down sharp for
once.
"What did you ask me just now?
How they spent their evenings there?
Well, how do you suppose ? Like you
folks ; going into the parlor and lighting
it np bright, and talking and playing ? I
rather guess not. Yon don't think thev
would ever sit in their parlor, do you ?
If you do, you don't know them. They
sot in the kitchen, burned one candle and
kind of grumbled when they felt like it.
I almost always sot in by Jane and the
baby ; our fight came in from the
kitchen, for she wouldn't burn an extra
candle for herself. She was always hint
ing at something I might do evenings,
but I let her hint. Sometimes Jack
came in, fearful, like a dog not in place,
and sot down for a spell by the door be
fore he went to bed in the loft over the
out-kitehen, but Samantha was always
finding fault and picking at him. One
uight he oame up by the table and asked
for a needle and thread to fix his jacket ,
but she never pretended to hear him. I
was elean put ont with such meanness.
' .) .-ck ,' says I, hand me that jacket,'
and I got my house-wife and put on my
spees and sat down to darn it.
ItV a dirty, miserable thing,' says
I, workiug sway, ' It ought to go into
the ragbag, and Tom ought to get you
a deoent suit.'
"Tow's ohair came down hard, and ho
looked mad enough. ' Better dress a
beggar in broadeloth." he growled.
" Un no need of that,' says I, ' only
give a man working for food and clothes,
decent ones.'
" 'I kuow uy own business, and I hate
meddler,' said Tom. ' Here Jack,
clear out to bed.
"Of all the queer questions Jack
would ask. though ; one day he said to
me, 4 What's God?"
" 'You poor creature,' says I, 1 ain't
no minister ever told you ? Well, He's a
8perrit."
'What's a sperrit V says he.
"Now I'm one that's satisfied with facts
without pryin' into them. I never mud
dle myself a wondering ; but I seen by
his questions he was kinder stupid like,
so I says, ' A sperrit is something that
ain't flesh and blood.'
"He shook his head backwards and for
wards. " 'Where's God ?'
'Why, in heaven, you poor heathen!'
"He looked down as if he was almost a
crvinat.
" 'If He was only down here, I might
find Him,' he says as serious like as
could be ; ' but I can't never nnd mm
up there.'
" Twan't no use for me to say more to
him, you see ; he showed me he was
lacking, and I wasn t no minister.
"Another time, when I was by the well
he came along to fill the water jug for
the field. 'I'm a thinking, Miss Zib,'
says he.
"What about?"
"Thinkin' if I got away to the edge of
the world, would 1 fall on t
"Of course," says I.
"Fall where?"
"The Lord knows," I says a little sharp,
for his silly Questions pestered me. I
did kind of wonder tho' to myself, where
a body falling off the land would land,
but I ain't a scholar and don't pretend to
say, besides I never expect to travel to
the worlds edge myself.
"It was that very afternoon Tom came
in the kitchen in considerable of a hurry.
"Where's the liniment?" he asked Jane,
who was sitting there, holding the baby.
"In the right hand corner of the sec
ond closet shelf. What do yon want to
do with it.'
" 'Jack fell off the mow and got hurt.'
" 'What did he want to do that for ?
Now don't waste that liniment on him for
nothing.'
" 'Guess I'll go and see if he's hurt '
says I, thinkin' a fall from a mow wa'n't
no trine.
"I found him all in a heap on the barn
floor, and That was worse, he didn't
know anything. 'That s a high mow,
says I, measuring it with my eye, 'and
how in heaven's name do you know
where he's hurt and wants to be rubbed
with liniment? The best thing you can
do is to get a doctor.
" I want to get another load in before
it rams, says Tom, in that aggravating
slow way o' his'n, 'and it's no use run-
nin' up doctors' bills when it 'taint no
need. The liniment cured the old mare's
leg last week, and by an' by when he
comes to we 11 find out where he ails.
" 'Tom Brones,' says I, 'I feel good
telling you you are the meanest man a
living. Look at that poor thing there!
It ain't enough you've starved and work
ed him to death, but you are going to let
him die like a dog. I'm going to get
Sam Lemarest to go for a doctor.
" 'Hold on, yyu long-tongued Jezabel,'
says he, 'and stop your meddling. I'll
go for the doctor myself;' and with that
he went to work saddling a horse, grum-
blin and swearin to himself, and to me
for that matter, but I was trying to fix
Jack a little more comfortable and never
minded him.
"Samantha came up and looked in, and
screamed a little, and went away again,
Bull, the dog, came and smelled of him,
and whined, for the dog always took to
Jack, but nothing roused him; he
breathed heavy and looked bad.
"It seemed an age before Tom came
back. He was slow always, and I needn't
have expected he would put himself out
of the way for Jack.
"The doctor seemed to think some
thing pretty serious was the matter with
Jack. He worked over him quite a spell,
examining, listening, growing graver
every moment. He tore away his poor
rags, even clipped away some of his
shock of hair. Then he shook his head:
'I can't do anything for him now.'
"An hour after it was all over.
"Neighbors, hearing the news, came
in and stood around, but Jack never
knew any of them; never knew when I
helped put bandages on his head, and his
hair was so pretty, thick and brown, and
with a curly wave into it.
"Jane grumbled some when we told
her he was dead. Me was a poor miser
able creature, not worth his salt, she
said, but hired folks was scarce just now
in harvest, and asked such ridiculous
wages. The town would have to pay for
his coffin, though, and was that liniment
left wasted in the barn ?
"It was the next day, Mr. Somers, the
old Methodist minister, came to the
house and made a prayer over him. Ac
tually, the first prayer I believe ever
made by anybody on his account, and
Tom and two or three of the neighbors
took him up to the wood-lot to bury him.
Jane had come to it, and let one of
Tom's white shirts be put onto him; it
wa'n't one of the newest, and really he
looked as peaceful and calm as any baby
could, and he wa'n't bad looking seen so,
and I was glad to remember that I had
been kind to him, in them little ways I
told you of.
"I just thought the last Sunday I was
there that I'd put on my bonnet and go
see where they laid him, so without say
ing anythin' I tramped np there. It was
a wild place enough, and of course there
was nothing to mark it, but the Lord
will know where he sleeps at the last
dav, and that is enough ain't it?
"I kind o' wondered when I stood
there what had become of bis soul ? He
was such a white heathen. It made me
think of the beautiful sermon I once
heard our old Dominie preaoh. 'No nut
cared for my soul,' or some text most
like it, and it did seem to me all of a
sudden as if no man cared for Jack.
"But I guess I had better put this lit
tle fellow down bv vou now, for he's
sound asleep, and I can go down and seeu
whv nobody lias brought them lemons
yet. Tut, tut don't look so down. I
meant to chirk you up a talking."
A Murdered Nation.
In 1781, when the Empress Catherine
stopped at Asov on a visit to the southern
part of her domains, she was struck by
the majestic aspect of the Daghestan
mountains which interpose their snow
capped ramparts between the Russian
steppes and the garden lands of Tiflia and
Georgia ; and on that day the conquest
was first resolved upon which has since
been accomplished at the cost of three
million human lives. As early as 1783,
General Lazareff made raid into the vallev
of the Terek, but was driven back with
the loss of 5000 men, and had to recruit
his forces in the Ukraine till the spring
of the following year, when he landed at
Anapa, and attempted the same region
from the south side. He was again re
pulsed, but fortified the village oi Redout
Kaleh on the Bea-coast ; and thus estab
lished a base of operations, for all future
expeditions, which year alter year were
sent forth, and as often vanquished,
though with greater and greater difficulty,
bv that heroic resistence which mere
butcher's arithmetic could foresee must
cease at last. Lazareff and his successor,
General Godolitsch, gratified the Czarina
by a monthly bulletin of raids and mas
sacres; and thereis something
which seems inexpressibly revolting in
their cynic admission of the superior
strategy and valor of an enemy whom
they hoped to subdue by starvation and
rt that is, treachery, and the mas
sacre of hostages and non-combatants.
The passes of Western Caucasus were
defended bv the Lesehians and Ossetes,
who, in 1795, could still muster a force of
60,000 warriors in the Spartan Bense of
the word ; but with the return oi every
SDrine a fresh swarm of Cossacks, Cal-
mucks and Muscovite serfs fell upon that
devoted band standing at bay like a wild
animal against a pack of buteher dogs.
The valleys were devastated, domestic
animals were slain the aute, or mountain
villages of Western Le9thia, were burned
and their defenseless inhabitants butch
ered ; and in innumerable encounters
the Dasses were strewn with the bones,
and the mountuin streams of Circassia
dved with the blood of her native sons.
who, though almost victorious, found no
time to repair their losses Deiore an im
perial ukase sent a new horde of blood
hounds against them. Yet in 1824, more
then forty years after the commencement
of hostilities wmcn naa aireaay cosi me
lives of nearly half a million ot his sub
jects, the Czar could not yet call a square
yard of the Caucasus his own. unlets he
kent within cannon range of his forts.
Shamvl Ben Haddyn, a man whose
name is almost unknown to America and
Western Europe; has left a record in the
memory of his countrymen about which
coming generations may kindle into wor
ship. Unless ultimate success alone be a
criterion of merit, the exploits of Hanni
bal, of Cromwell, of Kosciesco and Gari
baldi anneai trifline in comparison with
the feats of the Lesghian prophet-chief
tain. There is a somewhat doubtful
tradition about a Gothic knight, named
Pelaeius or Pelavo. whose father had been
slain with King Roderic, in the battle of
Xeres de la Frontera, and who, when
Spain was overrun by the Saracens, en
listed a corps of volunteers from the
Christian fugitives with their a undefended
himself year after year in the fastnesses
of the Pyrenees, till the power of the
Moors was broken in the seven days' fight
at Tours, and the little band ot patriots re
ceived succor from their brethren in
Southern France. If the story of Pelayo
should be authentic, the achievements of
Shamyl Ben Haddin are hardly equalled ;
otherwise they stand altogether unap
Droached bv anything the history of the
world could adduce from the records of
the last 4000 years. The Pass of Ther
mopylae, though defended against greater
odds, was only defended for twenty-four
hours, while the followers of Shamyl
maintained their ground for more than
twenty-four years. Mithridates, King of
Pontus and Asyria, resisted the powers of
Rome for even a longer period ; but his
resources were almost as vast as those of
the Orbis Jtomanus, while the Circassian
patriot, with never more than 20,000
righting men, defied the legions of the
Russian Empire, which were increased
under Prince Barvantnski to ninety-five
of Regiments, forty of artillery, 1600 polks
of mounted Cossacks together almost a
third of a million. Frederic the threat, in
the Seven Years' War, showed the same
manful self-reliance, fortitude and heroic
scorn of com promise : but would he not
have surrendered Brandenburg and Ber
lin as well as Silesia, if the four-fold nu
merical superiority of his enemies had
beeD increased forty-fold, the seven years
protracted to twenty-seven, and his regi
ment restricted to a diet of beechnuts and
water ? Or, to take an illustration from
the history of our own country, would the
resistence of General Lee have been pro
longed for. we will not say twenty-seven
years, but that number of weeks, if Vir
ginia bad been attacked oy a combina
tion of the "Solid South" with the solid
North, East and West ; if all the artillery,
all the horses, all the cooking stoves,
medicine chests, tents, shoes, blankets,
flous, sugar and coffee, as well as all the
cash had been monopolized by General
Grant and Lee's own commissary supplies
reduced to hickory nuts and wild berries
of the Blue Ridge ? How few of our hardy
ancestors would have undertaken for any
for any temporal or eternal reward what
the Lesghian chieftain bad done, and
done in vain. His followers diminished
from year to year and at last
succumed, worn out, in the most brutal
sense of the term, by an ungenerous
enemy, who increased the terror of bis
superior force by atrocities which make
the conquest of Caucasus the blackest
page in the history of the world.
But to the Circassian themselves their
untimely grave has, perhaps, been a
refuge from worse evils, since the doom
of Poland would have been the penalty
of submission ; and in thus far, at least,
they have still been the arbiters of their
own destiny. Five successive generations
have been called upon to decide between
death and a Muscovite citizenship, and
they have deliberately chosen death as
the less horrible alternative. By a hun
dred years' war, and the sacrifice of a
million human lives the Russians have
thus become the undisputed master of a
graveyard, but they will hardly find it a
renumerati ve acquisition. The tendency
of the cosmetic regulations is adverse to
cruelty, and we may trust that the same
by law of nature which prevents the
hunter from digesting the flesh of a tor
tured animal will not permit the butchers
of the Circassian patriots to utilize their
victory. For alimentary purposes vivi
section is an unprofitable business.
Say ! look here. We've got a conun
drum. What is the difference between a
piece of mica and a fellow taking his nip
of grog? One is Isinglass, t'other is nose-in-glass.
Don't faint. Keep your spirit
up.
All Forts.
Truth is mighty mighty scarce.
"Have you a mother-in-law ? " asked a
man of a disconsolate-looking person.
"No," he replied ; "but I've a father in
jail."
A wife at Portland, Me , calls her hus
band home by firing a skyrocket from the
roof of the house. When the rocket goes
up he goes for home.
Religion gives you a creed as a kind of
ladder up which you may climb to a
noble life . Too many people, however,
put the ladder up and then Bit on the
ground.
In the Sunday School picnic procession
it is the graat stout homely girl that
carries the banner. The nice-looking lit
tle girl is kindly cared for by the Superin
tendent. Little six-year-old was obliged to take
a doee of medicine that left an unpleasant
taste in the mouth. When asked how she
liked, she said, "It is good enough, all but
the end of it."
A paper describes a young lady with
hair "as black as a raven's." The ravens
weren't wearing any hair to speak of last
summer, but we suppose the style has
changed this year.
It has been said that an Italian queen
bee got loose in the mail sack at Keokuk,
and was sent to a distinguished naturalist
of that city for examination. He classi
fied thus : "Italian queen.bedamnedfit
aintahossny." "Rash, sinful man." said upbraidingly
the chaplain to the prisoner. ''Suppose
you were to die now, what sOrt of a con
cience would vou die with, eh V "Ob,
my conscience is as good as new, never
used it a bit," said the prisoner,
proudly.
A Dresden man owns an old doe that
has lately caught butting its head against
the bucket as it swung over the well. The
act was referred to once by a poet who
wrote
"The old doe can buck it.
That hung in the well."
A European writer asserts that acute
coryza, or cold in the head, Is cured in
half an hour by chewing the leas of the
eucalyptus and slowly swallowing the
saliva. Its action is doubtless similar to
that of cubebs, which will produce the
same effect.
One of the private schools in Washing
ton this year held its annual ex
ercises and distribution of prises in a river
steamer, which ran down the Potomac
some thirty miles and returned. This is
an improvement over warm, badly ven
tiltaed halls.
The last slave sold In the Confederacy
was in 1865, near Richmond, a negro man,
who was bought for nine hundred heads
of cabbage. The cabbage at that' time
were worth one dollar a head, which
would pan out nine hundred dollars for
the negro.
Elmira Brooks thinks "the only differ
ence between a young lady and a married
woman is an offer of marriage." If it
hadn't been for this kind of scribe we
should have gone to our grave with the
impression that it was eighty-five cents
worth ot ice cream.
The Patriarch of Turtles. We re
ceived a turtle a few days ago on whose
back was marked the date 1700, and also
the Spanish coat of arms, indicating that
this old resident was in existence one
hundred and seventy-nine years ago.
What changes this old fellow of the deep
has seen. The rise and fall of empires,
and the continent on which he partly
lived, emerged from the thraldom of
despotism, with the rise of a republic
that has become the great conservator of
freedom, the advancement of civilization,
and the glory of the world. A few words
in Spanish on the shell were translated,
which say: "Caught in 1700 by Her
nando Gomez, in the St. Sebastian, and
was carried to Matanzas by Indians;
from there to the Great Wekiva," (which
is now the St. John's river). On Tues
day, the 17th of June, the turtle was
turned adrift in the St. John's river at
Palatka, with the inscription on his
back: "Eastern Herald, Palatka, Flor
ida, 1879." It may be supposed mat by
this time the old fellow has scented salt
water and gone over the bar at high tide,
and probably a few generations hence
may take him up at a Spanish port on
the other side. Palatka, (Florida)
Herald.
HALL'S
8AF & LOCK COMPANY,
CAPITAL ... 91,000,000
(jeneral Cfficea nd Wanufactory
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
A Queer Georgia Wind Spout.
William Langley, a cotton planter of
Gwinnett county, was standing in a field
on his farm. Around him were several
men, a woman and three children, all
breaking the soil for cotton. The sky
was clear and the air quiet, there being
about both considerable sultriness. The
children had just stopped work, and had
thrown themselves, tired as tired could
be, on top of a pile of guano sacks, when
a peculiar roaring was heard in the field.
The sound bore some resemblace to that
of an approaching train, but as no train
was near, the workers looked at each
other in amazement. In a few moments
they saw a small column, not larger in
circumference than a barrel, skim rap
idly along the ground. The wind spout
or column appeared to be filled with
dust. The mother rushed toward the
children, who crouched low in fright,
but before she could reach them the pile
of guauo bags, children and all were
scattered right and left. In its course,
always eccentric, the column struck a
stump squarely from the butt to roots
and tore it from the ground, the wood
splitting into three pieces, and dropping
twenty or thirty yards away. Mr. Lang
ley was sucked in as the whirling thing
passed and thrown into a ploughed gully
some distance away. In the next instant
the strange visitor had gone, passing np
over the tops of the trees. It was seen
plainly by the ladies at Langley's house,
appearing ts them like the smoke that
rushes np in circular volumes from the
smoke-stack of a locomotive. Augusta,
Ga News.
Transplanting and Replanting
Teeth. Can teeth be transplanted? If
recent accounts of operations by dentists
are trustworthy, the answer must be in
the affirmative. But the question has
been formally discussed at a meeting of
the Odontological Society, and from this
we learn that it was in replanting
(which is not the same thing as trans
planting) that the foreign dentists,
whose names had been cited, achieved
their success. Among them a French
man, Dr. Magitot, has published full
particulars of cases in which diseased
teeth were taken ont, and the root, or a
portion of periosteum, was cut away, and
then were replanted in the same socket,
where, after a few days or Weeks, they
became firm and serviceable. Out of
sixty-three operations in four years, five
were failures; but some of the cures were
painful and tedious, owing to local dis
charge. In technical phraseology, Dr.
Magitot holds "the indications for an
operation to be the existence of chronic
periostitis of the apex of the root, its
denudation, and absorption of its sur
face. The resection of this,
which plays the part of irritant, is the
essential aim of the operation. And the
extraction having been performed with
due care, if no other lesion be detected
save the alteration in the apex of the
root, the tooth is to be replaced as soon
as this has been excised and smoothed,
and the hemorrhoge has ceased."
Officious Friends. The London Truth,
peaKitig of officious friends, says:
"Friendship among them means alien,
not a loan ; possession, not exchange ;
and they will not amend their record.
With such friends as these, at those mo
ments when you take stock, as it were,
of your life, yen are forced to ask your
self what do you get out of at all ? You
are snubbed, tyrannized over, rebuked
and set down ; you are always in disgrace,
and you may not call your soul your own;
your life is regulated for you, not accord
ing to your own desires, nor even for
your own best needs, but according to the
fancies of those you do not understand
what they are about. Your.time is taken
up, your pursuits are interfered with,
your sympathies restrained, your affec
tions chilled and all for what?"
How can you best illustrate the differ
ence between the French and English
language? The French say, "Host mort."
The English, He is no more."
Pact pic BpAircH,
No. 210 Sansome St., S. F-
Agency for Oregon and Washington Territory,
with HAWLEY, DODDJfc CO., Portland.
HALL'S PALEST CONCRETE
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Have been tested by the most disastrous confla
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They are thoroughly & re proof.
They are free from dampness.
Their snperiorily is beyond question.
Although about 150,000 of these safes are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous conflagrations in the
country, there is not a single instance on record
wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its
contents perfectly.
HALL'S PATENT DOVETAJIED
TENON AND OROOVB
BURGLAR-PROOF
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 superior 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 we
will put from $l,(Kj0 to $10,000 behind them any
time against an equal amount.
The most skilled workmen only are employed.
Their work cannot be Excelled.
Hall's Safes and Locks can be lied on at all
times.
Tney are carsfully and thorughly constructed.
THEY ARE THE BEhT SAFE
Made in America, or any other country.
One Thousand Dollars
To any person who can prove that one of Hall's
patent burglar-prooi saies nasever oeeu
broken open and robbed by
burglars up to the
present time.
8. N. WILLIAMS,
Agent for Oregon and W. T.
Ofllee wltb Hawlcy, Dodd '-.
28fcbl6:9tf. Portland.
Bees Hamlin.
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RUPTURE
CURED!
From a Merchant.
Dayton, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, San Francisco Dear
Sir : The Truss I purchased of you one year ago
ha i proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur
ed forty years, and wore dozens of different kinds
of Trasses, all of which ruined my health, as
they were very 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. 1 can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and
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diately. I never expect to be cured, but am sat
isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to
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my life. You can refer any one to me, and I will
be happy to answer any letters on its merits. I
remain, yours, respectfully.
D. D. BoifNELL.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martinbz, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, S. F. Dear Sir:
In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, I would say
that I have carefully studied its mechanism, ap
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that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
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Yours truly. J. H. Ca both ebb, M. D.
Endorsed by a Prominent Medical InstI
tme.
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Yours tiuly", Ba blow J. Smith, M. D.
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A Remarkable Cure.
Sa Francisco, Oct. 26, 1879.
W. J- Some, Proprietor California Elastic
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-r w Porii. and find him PERFECTLY
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