The Corvallis gazette., October 31, 1879, Page 4, Image 4

WEEKLY COR WILIS GAZETTE
CORVALLIS,
OCTOBER 31, 1879
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BASHFUL ELIJAH.
There, Isabel we Noah well
Woo'd by a bashful feller,
For Theodora of bis belle
Adored but dared not Ella.
At last one Eve upon the porch
In Earnest tones he pleaded
He'd give up Paul (o win her heart
Her love was Saul he needed.
";i wish t hat Ida heart to give,"
Unto herself she 881
" If Pbebe Levi am a flirt.
His sl will close in death."
He'd ' fesar Randal 111 tie while.
As Tims he was Able
From his big uuy a tender Luke
Beamed Dora tresses sable.
No sooner Adelaide his arm
About her waif t so clever.
Than up she R se Andrew away
She wouldn't baoll- never!
In vain did he for Vercy Sue
This looilsh swain Elijah,
"i.b, Hugo 'Ira hall," she Jeered;
"I never could Abijab !"
He never came Mary time g-in,
Ann never alter seen 'er
And lie's grown Grace since that sad day
While she's grown Evelina.
THE BitOKfcN 1 KIM ROSES.
Among all tlie flowers that make the
country beautiful, I think none have
such a tender place in my memory
as the primrose. Who ever passed the
months of spring in the country, in
childhood, that cannot recall how joy
ously the first appearance of the favorite
nrimrose was hailed, and its opening
watched as its delicate buds peeped from
amongst the thick green leaves under
the shade of a brier-bush, or around the
roots of a wide-branching: ash tree, or
on the tiny shelves of the hoary rock?
To see even a bunch of artificial prim
roses on a pretty young lady's bonnet
seems to me to give a touch of poetry to
the wearer; whilst to see them worn by a
matron about to enter into the sere and
yellow leaf period, looks like the rip
months of September or October wearing
the liverv of soriner. Thev seem more
in keeping even on the silvery locks of
old age; for an early primrose may blos
som on the brow of winter. But to our
story.
The laird of a certain Highland es
tate, which we will call Aclianeilean, was
early left fatherless, but was carefully
trained by a very wise, although a doting
mother. Sir Malcolm was a fine, high
spirited young man, who gave her the
very highest satisfaction in all things, ex
cepting in the wandering habits he had
early formed. He would often dress
himself in the strangest disguises and
mingle with his tenaDts, taking a leading
share in their games and pastimes.
His mother, knowing his high and hon
orable nature, was never afraid of his
doing anything wrong, at such times,
but she thonght his conduct undignified;
so, as she could not win him from this
strange habit, she tried to influence him
to get married. With this object in view
she gathered around her, both in Lon
don and at home, all the young ladies
she moBt admired; both her efforts
seemed in vain. Sir Malcolm was
courteous and attentive to all her guests,
but he was still fancy free; and she loved
him too tenderly to wish to see him
married without a sincere attachment.
She knew the requirements of his nature,
and understood, therefore, that a love
less marriage would only drive his far
ther into the wandering habits from
which she wished him to be weaned.
When Sir Mcolin was in his twenty
fifth year, he went to a distant part of his
estate, which he had never visited before;
and, hearing there was to be a wedding,
he went to it in disguise as a minstrel.
He wore a tattered old tartan coat, and
carried his fiddle over his shoulder in
a green baize bag, whilst his fair skin
was stained to appear like a gypsy's.
It was toward the latter end of spring
a clear, beautiful afternoon and by
the riverside the young people were
gayly dancing, while an old, white
haired man, with palsied hand, was try
ing his best to give them music.
The young man drew near, and, bow
ing to the company, he drew his old
bonnet over his brow, and began to
play.
The dancers were delighted, for they
had never listened to such strains before;
and the old fiddler, trembling for fear of
losing the reward he expected, went to
he yonng minstrel in the first pause of
music, and proposed that whatever was
paid to either of them should be equally
divided with the other. The young man
laughingly assented, and when the best
man came to offer him a glass of some
thing to drink, he refused it; but said,
as it was getting cold, if the old man
would play a tune, hM would be glad to
be allowed to dance IReel.
Permission was at once given, and the
minstrel asked for his partner a pretty,
grav-eyed, modest-looking maiden, whose
graceful movements he had watched in
the dance. She readily gave him her
hand, and such dancing was seldom seen
by those present. When he led her back
to her friends, he offered her a few prim
roses from a small bouquet he had gath
ered from the riverside, and turning to
another fair girl, he offered her the re
mainder of the flowers, and begged her
hand for the next dance. She tossed her
head indignantly, and her looks said
plainly
"Do you think I would dance with a
gypsy?" she broke them and cast them
away, saying
"I don't care for flowers, and I'm not
going to dance with you, thank you."
The young man turned away, hastily,
and the maiden who had danced with him
said to her haughty companion
"How could you wound the young
man's feelings so? What harm could it
do you to dance with him? And oh! the
dear primroses ; the first I have seen this
year. See ! you have broken them ;" and
Jessie bowed down and gathered the
scattered flowers, and carefully placing
them among those given herself, fixed
them in her belt.
"How could you, rather, dance with a
fellow like that likely one of the gang
of tinkers that passed yesterday? And
will you really wear the flowers he gave?"
continued the maiden, with an exceed
ingly scornful sneer.
"1 wear the flowers for their own
sakes. How could you break them the
beauties?" replied Jessie, caressing the
bouquet with a tender touch. "As for
dancing with the jroung man, I am sure I
am quite ready to do it again, were it
only for his delightful music."
Margaret drew herself away in digni
fied silence. She was quite horrified at
the conduct of Jessie; and the young
man, who was hovering near, and watch
ing the maidens, again offered his hand
to Jessie; and, anxious to heal the wound
her companion had given, she danced
with him gladly.
He saw she was enraptured with his
music, and he was delighted when, at the
close of the festival, she asked him to
proceed to her father's house, where she
wished to hear again his sweet strains
She had an old piano not a very good
one, but nevertheless one that gave her
pleasure; and she wished to try some of
the tunes he had played to the dancers.
Jossie's sisters were very much afraid she
had compromized the family dignity by
lancing with this stroller, and they
grumbled about her asking him to their
home so late in the evening.
Me went, however, and after Jessie and
himself had discoursed music for a con
siderable length of time, to the delight
of the old folks, who were rather proud
of Jessie's musical taste, he rose to
leave.
They offered him a bed in the barn,
but he said he had to be miles away be
fore daylight; so Jessie gave him apiece
of money and stuffed his pockets with
bread and beef -and a large piece oi
cheese, at the same time begging of him,
if he ever came that way again, to give
them the pleasure of listening to his
minstrelsy.
Sir Malcolm returned to his own castle,
but he could not banish the image of the
gentle Jessie from his heart. When he
slept or woke he always saw her as she
stood fixing the broken primroses in her
belt looking so sweet and pretty in her
white dress and blue ribbons, and her
rippling brown hair tossed by the even
ing breeze and by the dancing; and at
lenarth. when his mother renewed her at
tacks upon him about getting married"
he told her of the maiden he had learned
to love so well.
The ladv was dumfounded. Was her
darling son, the pride of her heart, to
wed a nameless, humble bride. But as
she pondered the matter over she be
came more reconciled to it. If he loved
this maiden his happiness was concerned;
and what was his true happiness was
hers. So. after a short silence, that al
most seemed years, she raised her head
and asked Sir Malcolm if he had cause
to think the maiden returned his love.
"I dare not think she does, mother,"
he renlied. "vet I think she thought ten
derlv of the strolling musician. I
think there was a sigh of regret for his
not being the son of a neighbor tanner
I could read that in her dark gray eyes
even when she was not the least conscious
of it herself."
"God bless yon, my dear .son," replied
the good ladv, wun a tremor m uer vuiuc
"God bless you, indeed; so amiable a
maiden must prove a sweet companion,
and she must be in a measure accom
plished, according to your statement;
and if it is for your happiness, I am
reconciled."
The young man kissed his mother's
hand with tenderness and gratitude; and
he went at once to order out his carriage
for the interesting journey. He attired
himself with great care, and a finer look
ing man could seldom be seen.
His well knit limbs were lithe and
hardy -looking, and showed 'the nimble
huntsman or the brave soldier, as occa
sion might demand. His dark hazel eye
was beautiful, and his curling hair of the
very sunniest shade of brown. His
bushy whiskers were auburn, and the
habit of command gave a dignity to his
presence that heightened the charm of
the whole.
Jessie's father saw the carriage ap
proach the house in great surprise, for
he knew the yellow carriage, though he
had not seen it for years. He went, bon
net in hand, to meet the laird, while his
good wife hastily got on her best cap,
and looked to her whisky bottle and
her bread and cheese, in case he might
alight to rest his horses and get some re
freshments, as she had seen his excellent
father do.
Sir Malcolm leaped from the carriage
and gaily entered the old house, as if he
had been acquainted for years, to the
great delight of the good farmer and his
wife. He partook of a glass of rich
cream and a piece of delicious oat-cake,
and then asked to see their family. They
came one by one, tall, blushing girls, and
stout, healthy-looking, awkward lads
all but Jessie; and Sir Malcom asked if
these were all.
"We have one other daughter, one
second eldest, but she is busy with some
household duties and unfit to come into
your presence; so we hope you will ex
cuse her, Sir Malcolm," said the mother,
in a decorous manner.
"Show me where to find her, then I
will go to her," said Sir Malcolm, with a
strange quiver of lip and voice.
The mother was about to call the
daughter, when one of the boys, hastily
opening the door, pointed to the room
where Jessie was busily taking off the
butter from the churn. She was arrayed
in a plain gray linen dress, neat and
clean, and the curls that had hung so
prettily about her face and neck at the
wedding, were fastened back with a piece
of bright blue ribbon; but the drooping,
tall, lily-like figure, and the modest gray
eyes were the same, and the expression
that he thought so angelic when she
gathered the broken primroses was still
the same, also; indeed, as he gazed upon
her, he thought her more beautiful than
ever. She looked bewildered at the fair
face of the young man, and he took her
hand, saying:
" I have accepted your invitation, Jes
sie. You see I have returned, though in
good sooth your eyes would speak a
warmer welcome if I had come with my
tattered coat and my fiddle."
Jessie stood speechless in astonish
ment, for she saw. indeed, he was no
other than the strolling musician, for
that hazel eye had left a tender regret in
Jessie's heart, for which she had often
chid herself; and as it flashed across her
mind who he was, and how she had stuff
ed his pockets with bread and beef, she
fell on her knees, crying:
"Forgive me, sir; oh, forgive me ! I
knew not, indeed, you were any other
than you represented yourself to be."
" Forgive you, Jessie ! Yes, my fair
girl, yen have more need of forgiveness
than you think, for you have stolen my
peace of mind away. Will you be my
partner now again for all mylife long?"
He raised her from the floor as he
spoke, and drew her tenderly toward
him, and she laid her face upon his bo
som and wept tears of the purest joy and
gladness, as, amid his caresses, she prom
ised to be his through life. Ere he led
her back to get a blessing from her pa
rents, he took from his bosom a bouquet
of the latest primroses of the year, and
fixed them on her breast, whispering:
"These flowers must always be sacred
to us, for it was when you were gathering
those of mine, so rudely broken and scat
tered by an ungentle hand, that my soul
went out to you in the fullness of its first
affection."
So Jesse became the wife of Sir Mal
colm ; and all through life proved herself a
true wife, a loving mother, and a bene
factress to the poor and lowly. Sir Mal
com's mother never-had cause to regret
having given her sanction to the mar
riage, for she became very proud of her
suns uiu
ve lovers
and in
lovely daughter-in-law, whose charming
character was daily astonishing her more
and more.
They are old now, and the elder lady
has passed away ; and the young genera
tion are grown up to manly.
beautiful daughters, being
wooed and won in their ttdE
of them are happier with the
than Jessie is with Sir Malcolm
the Spring he never appears before her
without a primrose, which the places in
her belt as she had done long ago to
those he had first given her.
The family all knew the story ; and
they have heard how chagrined the
haughty Margaret was when she learned
who she had refused W dauee with at
the wedding by the riverside, and whose
flowers she had broken so rudely and
cast to the winds ; and the most valued
painting in the castle is the fair Jesse in
her white dress and blue ribbons, and
sunny, rippling, golden brown hair,
with a tender look, half-sad half-regretted,
gathering into her bouquet the bro
ken primroses, and a hazel-eyed, hand
some gypsy gazing at her with passionate
admiration.
AN OLD TCTEB4B.
A BIOOBAPHIC SKETCH OF GENEBAIi JOSEPH
LANE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
How to Wobk Meadow Lake Ore.
A score of people have gone daft, and
hundreds have "gone broke" trying to
discover some process for working
Meadow Lake ore. With hand-mortars
for crushing purposes, and a frying pan
for a furnace, any man could get fine
prospects. Assayers could always get
returns from the ore ranging way up in
the hundreds of dollars per ton. In many
places free gold could be seen cropping
out of the rock as thick as mussels on a
rocky beach. Yet in spite of all this,
every man that took a fortune to Meadow
Lake, left it there, sunk in some intricate
process. When simple amalgamation
failed, everybody was panic-stricken. It
was at once concluded that the ore was
rebellious that only the costliest chemi
cal process could extract it. The tneoi.,
was strengthened when chlorination fail
ed, and was everlastingly established
when the Schievely process, the Fryer
process, the Robertson process, and forty
other processes failed. And now comes
James Gould, a well known amalgama
tor, who worked last in the famous Black
Bear mine of Siskyou county, and solves
the problem. Assisted by Lee Butts, a
well known machinist and mining ex
pert, and C. A. Griffen, and backed up
by S. Harris and James Griffen, all
heavily interested in these mines, Mr.
Gould worked the ore successfully. And
what did he do? Why, nothing, except
to handle the ore as if it was descent, or
dinary rock, in which sulphur ets strong
ly predominate. With a fire in
which layers of wood and
layers of ore alternated, he heated the
ore, and thus dried and partially oxid
ized it. Then dry crushing it in an or
dinary stamp mill, he roasted the ore in
a reverbatory furnace until it attained a
cherry redness. This roasting completed
the oxidation. This done he subjected it
to ordinary wet amalgamation, with pan
and settler. The result, from six tons of
ore, was a beautiful bar of bullion worth
six hundred dollars. The method of
working ore is the simplest known, and
yet the results are pefectly satisfactory.
Great interest is manifested by mining
men in this part of the country, and the
result seems likely to revolutionize the
commonly accepted views of the Meadow
Lake rock. Truckee Republican.
The Warlike Editors of Paris.
An editor of the Republican Dix-neu-rieme
Steele, M. Eugene Liebert, and
an editor of the Radical Marseillaise, M.
Edmond Lepelletier, proceeded to bare
their arms and satisfy their honor by
spilling a little blood on the Belgian
soil at Dinghem, recently. An armis
tice had been proclaimed, and nine
times did the battle begin afresh. The
combatants were equally matched, and
both seemed powerful in defense, for
it was not until the seventh encounter
that blood was drawn. The editor of
the IHx-neuvieme Steele was wounded in
the hand. The eighth round was not
marked by any particular incident, but
in the ninth, the editor of the Marseil
laise was hit in the forearm. Hereupon
the medical men in attendance held a
consultation, which ended in a request
that the seconds should interfere and
declare that honor had been satisfied.
A paragraph in the proces verbal adds
that the seconds consider it their duty
to render homage to the intrepidity and
courage shown in this encounter by the
adversaries. The interview of M. Oliver
Pain's seconds with M. Magnard, of the
Figaro, resulted, it seems, in the deter
mination of M. Pain, of the Marseil
laise, to have recourse to measures of
violence, M. Magnard having declined
to give him satisfaction by arms. The
Oaulois expresses a hope that this re
port will be contradicted. Paris Cor
respondence, London Times.
A Golden Throne. A correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press, writing from
Santo Christo, says: As I said before,
the throne is of solid beaten gold; the
shape is antique and clumsy, but gives
opportunity to dispose of more material
than otherwise could have been done if
the work had been more classic and less
thoroughly Jewish. The mercantile
value of Santo Christo is somewhere in
the neighborhood of $500,000, though a
great many put it at a higher figure. It
is, course, a sacrilegious thing to do to
give an estimate of dollars and cents on
Heaven's belongings, but to one who has
been brought up where filthy lucre is
considered of some account, it becomes
second nature to come down to real hard
pan, especially where the subject is lucre
itself. Beneath the image walked some
half doxen ladies of high degree, dressed
in black, and closely veiled, who at every
rest fell upon their knees and told their
beads. The ladies were fulfilling vows
given at times of trouble, and are very
much respected and looked up to by
every one as persons who have felt the
power of Santo Christo, and in conse
quence must be of more saintly life
though that always does not hold good
or specially beloved by our Lord. The
tales told of the wonderful efficacy of an
appeal to this saint are almost strong
enough to tempt one to put him to proof
in his own behalf, but as it requires a
sincere vow, faith, and some stamps, I'm
afraid that I for one shall never be bene
fited by any miracles from the hand of
Azores, Santo Christo.
The pension bureau has more than
180,000 unsettled claims on hand. They
have been coming in at the rate of 2500
and more a week, since the passage of
the arrears of pensions act, and the pro
vision for the veterans of 1812 has added
10,000 to the roll.
When gifts and tokens of remem
brance, chosen with appropriateness and
and tendered in a kindly spirit, are re
ceived with true appreciation and regard,
there are two hearts made happy. So
let us in all our actions endeavor to
please others while please ourselves.
Rosebubo, Oregon, July 17, 1879.
Dear Madam: Your letter of the 21st
alt. has been received. I thank you for
t, and would have answered ere this but
for a press of business that could not be
delayed.
I am the grandson of Jesse Lane, one
of the three brothers mentioned in your
letter, who lived near where Raleigh own
stands. The three brothers were born near
where they lived, away back in colonial
times; were clever, intelligent, old style
gentlemen and did good service in the
war of the Revolution. My father, John
Lane, entered the army when quite
young, just in time to be in the battle of
King's Mountain, and remained in the
army until the surrender of Cornwallis
at Yorktown. He voted for George
Washington on the second term. North
Carolina having adopted the Constitution
after his first election; he then voted for
John Adam's first and only term, then
for Jefferson two terms, then for
Madison, for Monroe, Jackson, etc.
My father and uncle, Charles Lane,
settled in Buncombe in 1795, where they
spent money, time and much labor in an
effort to establish iron works near where
Ashville now stands, but failed to accom
plish their object.
In 1798 my father, then about forty
years old, married my mother, Elizabeth
Street. I am the second son, and was
born in Buncombe, within four miles of
Ashville, on the 14th of December, 1801.
In 1804 my father left Buncombe for
Henderson county, Kentucky, where I
was raised. I married young, raised ten
children .six sons and four daughters
all of whom are living except one son,
who died of cholera in New Orleans, in
December, 1848. The rest are living in
this State, all married but one, to-wit:
Col. John Lane, a graduate of West
Point, who resigned at the commence
ment of the late civil war, joined the
Southern army, came out at the end of
the war badly whipped and returned
Oreeon.
My life has been an eventful one. I
was elected to the Legislature of Indiana
in 1823, from the counties of Vanderberg
and Warwick, where I had settled some
years before, and continued in the State
Legislature off and on till '46, when I re
signed a seat in the Senate and entered
the army, then being organized for the
war with Mexico ; soon raised trom the
position of private to that of brigadier,
and came out of the war at the close of
the service a major general. My first
battle, Buena Vista, was under Taylor,
then transferred to Scott's line, and saw
and helped to fight as many, if not more,
battles than any officer of that war. Very
soon after the close of the war with
Mexico I was, by Mr. Polk, the Presi
dent, appointed Governor of Oregon
Territory and ex-officio of Indian Affairs.
The trip to reach my post of duty had to
be made across the plains in the winter,
the feat that had not before been accom
plished. But I had, at the request of
Mr. Polk, undertaken the journey, and
with hurried preparations and an escort
of twenty men, under Lieutenant Haw
kins, left Fort Leavenworth on the 10th
day of September '48, and after a hard
struggle arrived in Oregon City on the
2d day of March, 1849, and on that day
issued a proclamation making known that
laws of the United States by act of Con
gress had extended over the Territory of
Oregon; and that I had been duly elect
ed Governor, had taken the oath of office,
and had entered upon the duties thereof.
Well, I continued in office, attended to
the interests of the good people, and also
to Indian affairs; brought the murderers
of our people Chief Tilokite and four of
his braves to trial and the gallows, and
several fights with different tribes, came
near being killed, was very badly wound
ed, placed relations on a good footing
with all the tribes, and in 1851 was
elected delegate to Congress; was four
times elected delegate, and then elected
one of Oregon's first United States Sena
tors; retiring from the Senate in 1861.
In 1870, on the 10th day of August, my
good and beloved wife died. Since then
I have lived alone on my ranch in the
mountains, about 12 miles from this place,
until now have just finished a neat little
house, where I think I shall spend my
days unto the end. I am in a quiet part
of our town, near some of my children,
with whom I shall take my meals and
still live alone in my pleasant little home.
My son, Lafayette, who represented this
State in the Forty-Fourth Congress,
lives near my house; he is the youngest
of my children, a good lawyer and a kind
son.
And now returning to the old family:
I visited in 1860 North Carolina and my
father's birthplace, the old home of my
grandfather, four miles from Raleigh.
In Raleigh I visited the house in which
Joel Lane lived at the time he deeded to
the State 640 acres of land, on which the
city now stands; called at the State
House, where such records are kept to
look at the deed of conveyance, saw many
relatives, and spent several days with my
cousin, David L. Swaine, at Chapel Hill,
and learned more about our family, and
intended to visit old Buncombe, but did
not. Had I carried out my programme,
I might have enjoyed the pleasure of see
ing you.
Of my grandfather's family there were
eight sons and eight daughters. My
aunts married gentlemen named respect
ively as follows: Rhoda was married to
Rakestraw, Patience to John Hart, Re
becca to Luckey, Sally and Polly to
brothers named Kirkpatrik, Elizabeth to
Parson Montgomery, and Carrie, your
grandmother, married David Lowry.
My father, Uncle John Hart, Matt. Ba
ber, Uncle Lowry and one other gentle
man, whose name I forget, were in pur
suit of some Indians who had been steal
ing from and robbing some outside
settlers and all five of them were good
Indian fighters venturing too far were
attacked by a large party of warriors.
Barber, Lowry and the other, after hard
fighting, were killed; my father and
Hart made good their escape. Some
time after Carrie married Swaine, whose
son, David L. Swaine, I had correspond
ed with many years before I made his ac
quaintance at Chapel Hill, as above men
tioned. All the eight sisters were noble,
good and true women. I often saw your
grandmother, but was too young to re
member her. Governor Swaine often
spoke of her with much love and respect,
and esteemed her one of the best mothers
and most lovable of women.
The eight sons of my grandfather were
named as follows: Charles, Joel, Jona
than, Simon, John, Richard, Joseph and
Jesse. Gov. Colquin, of Georgia, is the
son of the daughter of my uncle, Joseph
Lane. I met him in Congress. My
grandfather moved from Georgia to Illi
nois when she was eighty-four years of
age, and killed many buffaloes in that,
then, new and uninhabited country. She
is eighty-eight.
I know but little of the whereabouts of
many of my cousins. They are scattered
over the Southern States. Very truly
your friend and relative,
Joseph Lane,
Mrs. L. E. A. Strikeleather,
Onn, Iredell County, N. C.
Export of American Bacon. A Bos
ton firm of exporters of bacon and other
produce some time ago complained to
the State Department of certain alleged
regulations of the German, Austrian, and
Italian tjovernments pronioinng me im
portation of American bacon into the
ports of those countries. The State De
partment instructed our Ministers to
look into the matter. Lately Collec
tor Merritt received a communication
from the Treasury Department embody
ing the replies received from our Minis
ters in Rome and Vienna. The former
replies that there is no general regula
tion prohibiting the import of American
hams (which were specially referred to)
into Italian ports. Mr. Kasson, from
Vienna, says the same for the ports of
the Austrian Empire; but he adds, for
the information of American exporters of
meats, a warning that, if they want fair
treatment, they must be careful to select
for their correspondents men who are
shrewd enough to see that they get fair
play. Ahe American export trade has
become so aggressive that European pro
ducers are getting seriously alarmed.
Thev are likelv. savs Mr. Kasson. to in
voke official and other influence to lessen
it by discouraging the use of American
products. He mentions instances of the
prominent publication in the Austrian
press of large seizures of American hams
at Trieste, which, it was stated, had on
examination been found to contain trieh
nia. There was reason to suppose that
these examinations were not conducted
as impartially as they might have been.
An offer was made to have them tested
with an equal number of Austrian and
American hams, but no Vienna paper
would publish it. Mr. Kasson thinks
whatever troubles have arisen at the
ports about the introduction of Americar
bacon have been mainly caused by the
jealousy of the home producers.
The Webster -Pinkney Stoby. The
Albany Law Journal contains a letter
from Bishop Pinkney, of Baltimore, pro
testing against the probability of the
story in Harvey's " Reminiscences," that
Webster extorted an apology from Pink
ney for language used m the court-room.
We agree with Bishop Pinckney that the
anecdote, as told by Harvey, does not
comport either with the character of
Pinkney or with that of Webster. But
it is easy to imagine how it could have
assumed its present shape from a very
different foundation of fact. The gossipy
and often-told anecdotes of Webster,
which Harvey bound up into so attractive
a sheaf, do not pretend to, nor merit, a
reputation for weighty historical accura
cy. The facts probably were that Pink
ney used language in court which wound
ed Webster; that the latter afterward
went to Pinkney's room, and with im
pressive seriousness of manner stated his
sense of injury, and that Pinkney, touch
ed by the manliness of the appeal, met it
with an equally manly and voluntary
apology. This would be in accordance
with the known character of the men, and
is creditable to both of them. A gradual
addition of such little touches of imag
ination as the recoufeur uses to embellish
and round out his stories may have
brought the anecdote to the shape in
which it has attracted Bishop Pinkney's
criticism. Quillets of the Law.
England's Anthem. The national an
them of Great Britain, adopted also by
Prussia and the German States, is ap
parently adopted, as respects the words,
from the "Domine Salvum" of the Ro
man Church. The authorship has been
erroneously credited to Dr. John Ruli,
organist in Queen Elizabeth's Chapel,
professor of music in Gresham College,
and chamber musician of James I.
About the time of the discovery of the
Gunpowder Plot he composed and played
before that monarch, on a small organ,
an ode beginning "God save great James
our king." It is not shown, however,
that this or any other old composition of
a similar title had any connection with
the modern hymn. After much discus
sion it has been settled that Dr. Henry
Carey wrote both the words and melody.
He was a poet and musician, who com
posed the anthem in honor of a birthday
of George II., and it was performed for
the first time at a dinner given on that
occasion (1740) by the Mercer's Com
pany of London. It was first published
in the Harmonia Anglica in 1742, and
appeared three years later in the Gentle
man's Magazine. Dr. Arne says that the
air has preserved its original form, but
its harmonies have been modified again
and again. The words were changed on
the ascension of William IV., and also
on that of Victoria.
Almost everything is comparative in
this world. One is rich to those who are
poorer than he is, and poor to those who
are richer. The man of thirty-nve is
called "old" by the girl of seventeen,
while the old lady of seventy -five calls
him a "youth." There are so many peo-
le with so many different estimates of
ife, that what we think of ourselves is
by no means what is thought of us by
every one else. This is a thought to
comfort the bumble and to moderate the
conceit of the self-complacent.
Julius Hanks firs made bells at Troy.
N. Y., in 1808, having come from Litch
field, Ct. , with his father, Colenel Benja
min Hanks, one of the first bell founders
in the United States. Troy has since
made 50,000 bells, which are scattered
throughout the United States and in for
eign countries.
Americans pay more for teeth than
any other nation on tke earth, and yet
they do nine-tenths of their chewing with
their stomachs.
We are not surprised to learn that the
man who saw Grant's vessel first and was
the first to propose three cheers has al
ready filed his claim for a postoffice.
Think Before You Spend. Do you
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chairs, new bedstead, or new dress; you
are tempted to buy something a little
handsomer than you had intended, and,
while you hesitate, the dealer says to
you, "It's only a trifle more, and see
how far prettier it is." Will you be
the better a year hence, much less in old
age, for having squandered your money.
Is it not wiser to "lay by something for
a rainy day?" All these luxuries gratify
you only for a moment; you soon tire of
them, and their only permanent effect is
to consume your means. It is by such
little extravagances, not much separately,
but ruinous in the aggregate, that the
great majority of families are kept com
paratively poor. The first lesson to learn
is to deny yourself unless expenses; and
the first step toward learning thp lesson
to think before you spend.
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light; then turn into a large basin. Add
a pint of lukewarm water, half a tea
spoonful more salt, with two tablespoen
fuls of good brown sugar, and stir in
Graham floour till stiff, not as it can be
made, but as it can be conveniently
made with a spoon, (if made too stiff the
bread will be dry.) Grease the tims;
turn in the dongh; smooth over the top
with a knife or spoon; set again to rise,
and when sufficiently light, bake in a
tolerable hot oven an hour or more.
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RUPTURE
CURED!
From a Merchant.
Davto.v, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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Mabtinkz, Cal.,Feb. 17, 1879.
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