WEEKLY (OKYALLiS GAZETTE
CORVALLIS. - - NOVEMBER 28, 1879
AT THE SAW-MILL.
Yon, 'neatb the mill, I oat one day
In peaceful revery sank profound.
And watched tbe waters rush away.
And marked tbe cumbrous wheel go round.
The saws sprang flashing on my view
It all appeared a dreamy maze
They fiercely tore long channels through
A fir trunk prone upon the ways.
Tbe tree seemed conscious of Its pain;
And, as the rending steel progressed,
Thus moaned to me 1U mournful strain.
While quivering throes convulsed Its breast.
"At fitting hoar wast, thou inclined,
O wanderer hither to repair:
Thou art the fated one unkind
For whom these teeth my bosom tear.
" 'Tis tbon, o bopless one, for whom
A shrine from me man's band shall make,
Wherein, dark-chambered In thy tomb,
Thy lasting si umber thou shalt take."
Then dropped four planks! I saw and beard;
My heart with sudden" fear grew chili;
I sought to frame an answering word
That Instant, io! the wheel stood still'
MA'S OLD BEAD.
Clara and Mary Merwin, sisters and
orphans, were in the drawing room of
their pleasant home on the edge of a
beautiful village near the Missouri.
Their mother had been dead several
years. Their father had lately died,
leaving them an estate, as they supposed,
of the value of some forty thousand dol
lars, but they had learned quite recently
that the property was encumbered to
such an extent that they were very
likely to be deprived of it all. This
discovery, as may be supposed, filled
them with sadness and anxiety, and they
were seated in silence, unable to read, to
converse, to work, to do anything but
brood over their great misfortune.
While they were thus occupied with
their thoughts a buggy drove up in front
of the bouse, a man alighted, and the
buggy drove away.
The man must have been on the shady
side ol fifty, to judge trom his gray hairs,
although his face was indeed fresh and
unwrinkled. He was dressed with re
markable neatness, and his manner indi
cated briskness as well as precision. In
one hand he carried a small valise and
in the other an umbrella, and he stepped
quickly to the door and rang the bell
In a few minutes he was ushered into
the presence of the young ladies.
"I'm obliged to introduce myself," he
said, smiling and bowing in a courtly
manner. "Abner Pierce. Here is my
card professional card. You will per
ceive that I am a lawyer in St. liouis,
and presumably a respectable man
Don't be afraid; I'm not here to hurt
you, but to help you. I have the honor
to call myself a friend of the family
that is to say, although it is many years
since I have seen any member of your
family, I have always had the highest re
gard for your now sainted mother, and
nothing would please me better than to
be of some service to her children."
"We are happy to meet you," mur
mured Clara.
"Thank you. I happened to hear no
matter how that you are in trouble, and
have come up here in the belief that I
can assist you. I hope that you will feel
that you can trust me. I am actually an
honest man, although a lawyer, and I
mean well, though I express myself
clumsily."
"I am free to admit," said Clara, "that
we need assistance and advice, and that
we have not known to whom to look
for it."
"Very well. It is a good thing, no
doubt, that I have come. Now sit down
and tell me all about it."
Clara Merwin, who, as the elder of the
orphans was leader in everything, told
how she and her sister had taken out let
ters of administration upon her father's
estate, when a man of whom they had
never before heard put in an appearance,
and presented a mortgage, with bond in
cluded, executed by the late Mr. Merwin,
upon all his real estate, for the sum of
$40,000. Not content with prohibiting
them from attempting to sell everything,
he had tied up their money in bank,
leaving them absolutely penniless. They
had used their credit, but tradesmen
were becoming impatient, and some had
refused to supply them any further with
out pay.
"That's a bad case," said Mr. Pierce.
"You need money that is the first thing
to be attended to. You must let me act
as your banker until I get you out of this
scrape, and that won't be long, I hope.
How much do you owe?"
"More than one hundred dollars," an
swered Clara.
The old gentleman counted out two
hundred dollars from a well-filled pocket-
book, and handed it to her.
"For your mother's sake," he said,
when she refused to receive it, and he
forced it on her in such a way that she
could not help taking it. tie then ac
cepted the young lady s invitation to
make their house his home during his
stay, and he went into dinner with them
is there any place where can
smoke?" he asked, when they returned to
the sitting-room.
"You can smoke here," said the impul
sive alary. f& always smoked here,
and we are used to it."
So he took a meerschaum and some to
bacco from his valise, and was soon puff
ing away with an air of great content.
"I can think better when I smoke,"
he said. "Did you ever have any legal
advice m the matter ot that mortgage,
Miss Merwin?"
"Yes, sir," replied Clara. "Our law
yer said it was a plain case against us,
although it was strange that we never
heard of the mortgage before."
"Very strange. What is the name of
the man who holds it?"
"Alexander Campbell."
"Hum. A good name, but a bad man,
I am afraid. When and where can I see
this man?"
1 He will be here this afternoon," an
swered Clara. "He proposes, if we will
make him a deed of the real estate, to
give up the bond and mortgage, leaving
our money in banks and the rest of the
personal property."
"Very liberal. Introduce me to him
when he comes, as an old friend of the
family, and not as a lawyer."
Mr. Alexander Campbell called in the
course of the afternoon, and was made
acquainted with Abner Pierce, at whom
he looked suspiciously; but his eyes fell
when he met the old gentleman's intent
gaze, Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly
at the deed that was offered for the con
sideration of the ladies, being occupied
in studying the countenance of the man
in whose favor it was drawn.
"I can't decide upon it just now," he
said at last. "As a friend of these lan
dies standing, as I may say, in loco pa
rentis I must make a few inquires con
cerning the value of this property. Sup
pose you come after supper, Mr. Camp
bell, and suppose you bring that mort
gage with you. I have no doubt it is all
correct, but I would like to see it."
Mr. Campbell assented to this and
withdrew. Abner Pierce filled his pipe
with nervous haste, but also with tobac
co, and Mary brought him a light.
"I know that you have some good
news for us," she said. "I can see it in
your face."
"Not bad, my child, I hope and trust
that it is very good. A good name but a
bad man, I said, and it is true. I think
I see my way out of this difficulty, and
the money that I lent you is safe. But
you mustnt interfere with me, young
ladies, or object to it. xou must trust
me and let me work it out my own way."
After supper, when Abner .Fierce had
enj'oyed another comfortable pipe, and
conversed with the girls concerning their
mother, as he had known her in her
youth a subject upon which he grew
quite eloquent Mr. Alexander Camp
bell came in, bringing the deed and the
mortgage, both of which he handed to
Mr. Pierce for examination.
"I have made inquiries concerning the
property," said the old gentleman, "and
am satisfied that it is not worth more
than the amount of the mortgage, and
would probably bring much less if sold
at foreclosure. Your offer is a liberal
one; but I must first look at the mort
gage. This appears to be correct," he
continued, when he examined the instru
ment. "It is all properly acknowledged
and the signature is undoubtedly that of
Philip Merwin. I suppose the young
ladies will go to the county seat to exe
cute the deed.
The girls' countenances fell at this sud
den surrender to execute the deed.
"This reminds me," said the lawyer,
picking up the mortgage again, "of an
occurrence that fell under my observa
tion in Tennessee, where a friend of
mine died suddenlv. leavincr a widow and
one daughter. The widow was about to
administer upon his estate, when a man
unknown came forward and presented a
mortgage similar to this, and for exactly
the same amount. It was examined by
lawyers who were familiar with the sig
nature of the deceased and pronounced
it correct. Although there was some
thing strange about the affair, they could
find no flaw in the instrument. It was
particularly puzzling to one of them who
thought he had transacted all the law
business of the deceased. He got hold
of the mortgage and brought it to me
when I was in Nashville. I happened
to have in my possession a very powerful
magnifying glass that had been presented
to me the most powerful single lens
had ever seen. With this I examined the
mortgage, and soon discovered that
'forty' had been raised from 'four.
There was no mistake about it. I could
easily see the marks of chemical erasure
and the difference in the pen and ink
between the 'raised' and the rest of the
instrument. How the rascal got into the
Recorder's office I don't know: but the
record there had been altered in the
same manner. He ran away, and it was
not considered worth while to follow
him. Very strange circumstance, wasn
it, Mr. Campbell ?"
Mr. Campbell was fidgeting uneasily
in his chair, and made no reply.
"Here is the glass," continued the old
gentleman, taking it from his pocket
"you can see yourself how well it magni
fies. Now, as I look at this 'forty,'
why, bless me, the same signs are visible
that i saw m the lennessee mortgage!
think you will be obliged to drop this
Mr. Campbell. My Tennessee man
name was Alexander Bell, and he has
added a Camp to it since he came to
Missouri."
Campbell, his face red as flame
reached out to take the document.
"I believe I will take this, Mr. Camp
bell, for fear of accident. What, do
von think von can take it hv tnro.p
Here is something that shoots five times
Croing, are you Verv well, I don
think you will be molested, if you will
leave this part of the country and never
return to it. It is barely possible that
the estate of Philip Merwin may really
owe you four thousand dollars. If so
I advise you not to try to collect the
debt, as such an attempt would land you
in the penitentiary. Orood-night, Mr
Campbell, and farewell."
"What is it ? What does tbis mean ?
asked Clara, as Mr. Pierce, rubbing his
hands and smiling, bustled to fill his
pipe.
"Are you dull, my child ? The fellow
is a swindler, and has been found out
I guessed as much when I first heard of
the affair, and was sure of it when you
told me his name. You will soon be
able to pav me my $200, and then we
will straighten tip matters. Thank you
Mary, you are very kind to give me
light."
"Don't yon mean to punish him ?'
asked Mary.
"It wouldn't pay. We could put him
in the penitentiary, but you might lose
$4000 by the job. By trying for forty
thousand he lost the four that may have
been justly his due. He will be far
from here by morning, I have no doubt
and good riddance to him. Ah! this is
comfortable. I know that I feel better
and I hope that vou do."
The girls were sure that a great weight
naa been lifted from their minds and
hearts. Alexander Campbell, alias Bell,
decamped, and Abner Pierce stayed a
week with the orphans, during which
time he arranged all their affairs satis
factorily, and won their lasting gratitude
and love.
"How can we ever thank you for all
you have done for us," said Clara, when
he was about to leave.
"It was for your mother's sake, my
child. And for her sake, if I can ever
help you, all I have is at your service."
Abner Pierce has made visits to the
orphans frequently since the event above
narrated, and they have always had a
cordial welcome for "ma's old beau."
Genebous Feeding Pats. Creamery
butter has gone to 30 cents per pound.
Cheese has jumped to 10 cents per
pound. The reason undoubtedly is the
continued draught, which has kept
pastures as bare and sere almost as in
winter. Good dairymen commenced
feeding in season, and thus kept their
their stock up to a tolerable now oi miiK,
what was lost in quantity being made up
qualitv. Thaap, the grain leu mauetne
milk rich in tJweonstituents that go to
to make up butter and cheese. Those
who have neglected to feed will suner,
for, once a cow shrinks in her milk from
lack of feed and water, it is impossible
thereafter to bring her back to a full
flow. Those who have suffered most are
those who do not believe there is any
good in agricultural papers, and those
who read them superficially. The good
dairyman never allows his stock to suffer
even during the summer for want of
food. The stock-breeder who keeps pace
with improved agriculture never allows
his stock to cease growing from the time
it is fit for market until ready for the
butcher. The progressive farmer never
loses a crop for want of feeding to the
soil. How to do all these in the most
economical manner is the problem that
each must solve for himself according to
the snecial requirements in the case.
There is one point in dairy-farming not
generally considered, and that is that the
larm should be getting richer every year.
The products are hay, grass and corn,
fed on the farm, and the products sold
are simply the condensed product in the
shape of butter and cheese, and the nogs
fed upon the buttermilk and whey
while the manure made may be applied
to the land to keep up its fertility. Thus
when necessity requires, maximum crops
of grain may be raised at a maximum
cost. Thus, although the dairyman may
think he is getting light profits (and
that they have been light for the last
last two years is acknowledged) every
thing now points to good prices the com
ing winter. It is true, only those will
reap the benefit of this who keep well
posted as to the ways and means, through
the reading of carefully edited agricul
tural papers, and their own correct
judgment founded thereon. It must, of
course, be satisfactory to those who have
not done this that have nobody to blame
but themselves.
Poisoning Heb Relatives. Investi
gations in Madison county seem to indi
cate that Mrs. Francis Shrouder, of Chit
tenango, not only poisoned her mother,
Mrs. Lowery Barnard, but also Mrs.
Pope, aged eighty, who died in July,
1876, and Mr. Barnard, who died over a
year ago. Dr. Manlius Smith, of the
Syracuse University, found positive
traces of arsenic in Mrs. Pope's stomach.
The old lady had $800 in United States
bonds in her bed, which were never
found after she died. Mrs. Shrouder
spent money very freely after the funeral.
Mrs. Pope was buried in Truxton, Court
land county, the day after her death. It
is alleged that a Chittenango man se
duced Francis at fourteen, and she lived
as his mistress for some time. Mrs.
Barnard opposed this, but her father up
held the girl. She is now twenty-five
years of age, and not very prepossessing
in appearance. At the recent term of
court in Madison county she and her
husband were indicted for the murder of
her mother. The testimony against her
is said to be very strong. 1
A Day With Wagneb. Dutton Cook
contributes to Belgravia an interesting
chapter on the music of Wagner, with
special reference to the work of the
librettist. An extract is given from
Roche's account of a day passed with the
musician of the future, the former ham
mering out the words, the latter the
music, which is worth reproducing: "He
came," says Roche, "at seven in the
morning; we were at work without rest
cr respite until midday. I was bent
over my desk, writing, erasing: he was
erect, pacing to and fro, bright of eye
vehement of gesture, stiking the piano
shouting, singing, forever bidding me
"Go on! go on!" An hour, or even two
hours after noon, hungry and exhausted,
1 let fall my pen. I was in a faint state
"What s the matter .' he asked, "l am
hungry." "True; I had forgotten all
about that; let us have a hurried snack
and go on again." Night came and
found us still at work. I was shattered,
stupefied ; my head burned, my temples
throbbed. I was half mad with my wild
search after strange words to fit the
strange music. He was erect still, vigor
ous and fresh as when we commenced
our task, walking up and down, striking
his infernal piano, terrifying me at last.
as I perceived dancing about me on
every side his eccentric shadow cast by
the fantastic reflections of the lamp, and
crying to me ever, "Go on!" go on!"
The Aspabagtjs Bed. It is a good
time now to prepare the ground for set
ting out a bed of asparagus in the spring
We have been just enlarging one made
two years ago, and have proceeded in
the following manner: First, a trench
was dug two feet deep. This was filled
half-full of rotted manure. Another
trench was dug by the side of it, and the
top dirt thrown in to nil up the farst hole
The bottom of the second trench, being
clay, was carried away and manure filled
in, in its place. Thus the whole bed was
gone over, and although it involved a
good deal of hard work, yet we are sure
it will pay. In digging the last trench,
next to the plants set a year ago last
spring, we were surprised to find the
roots down in the ground to a depth of
nearly two feet, and thoroughly perme
ating the manure which was trenched in
there before the asparagus was set. So
it pays to take extra care at the start. A
well prepared asparagus bed will last a
family a lifetime, furnishing each spring,
before any other vegetable arrives, one
of the most delicious dishes from tha
garden. It is classed everywhere as
luxury, yet is so easily attained that any
one if he chooses may have it, providing
he is the owner of a spot of ground.
Old Musical Scales. The important
part played by music in the worship of
Jehovah, and the development of the
Jewish choral service, is sufficiently
proved by the Old Testament; and there
is an abumdance of treatises, both
ancient and modern, on Greek scales or
modes. But all this is of comparatively
little importance to the musician and the
student of modern music. It is true
that some of the Greek scales the
Dorian, the Phrygian, the Lydian and
the Mixo-Lydian are said to be identical
with the four authentic modes attributed
to St. Ambrose, and to be still surviving
in the Gregorian chant, and on rare oc
casions modern musicians have made use
of them. Beethoven, for instance, heads
a movement in his great quartet in A
minor, "canzona di ringraziamento in
modo lidico ofi'erta alia privinita da un
guarito," and Liszt and Rubenstoin have
borrowed the augmented intervals of the
old Eastern scales, which have survived
in the music of the gypsies and of some
Salvonic nations. The gypsy heroine of
Bizet's Carmen also is well characterized
by a theme containing the superfluous
second. But these few survivals, intro
duced with the distinct purpose of gain
ing local color, do not constitute a real
organic connection between the ancient
and modern systems. London Quarterly
Review.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, the Representative
in Congress from the Buffalo, New York
district, is said to be worth $1,000,000 or
more. In 1872 he went to that city, a
penniless vender of patent medicines of
his own manufacture. His success
illustrates the advantage of judicious
advertising.
Miss Linda Deitz is winning golden
opinions in London. She has been
transferrel from the Haymarket to the
Prince of Wales Theater, where the play
"Mother and Son," has been produced
under the title "Duty," Miss Deitz play
ing her original role of Marcella.
Scientific Intelligence.
Underground telegraph cables are now
in successful operation between a number
of European cities, such as Cologne and
Berlin, Cologne and Elberfield, Frankfort
and Strasburg. and Hamburg and Cuxba
ven. Their tatal length equals about
1,500 miles.
Peterman's Mitthciiungen estimates the
population olthe world for 1877 at 1,429,
145,000 souls, distributed among the con
tinents as follows, viz: Europe, 312,498,
480; Asia, 813 000,000; Africa, 205,219,500;
Australia and adjacent Islands, 4,411,300;
America, 86,116,000.
A Prussian inventor has patented, as a
new article of manufacture, a material for
clothing, consisting for the greater part
of sponge. Tbis material, it is claimed,
rapidly absorbs tbe perspiration, is a
poor conductor of beat, can be readily
cleansed, and is very flexible, and so pre
vents chafing.
Dr. Anderson gives iodine instead of
quinine in cases of intermittent fevers,
with, he claims; highly satisfactory re
sults. Tbe iodine is administered in the
form of the tincture, with some potassium
of iodide added to prevent the precipita
tion of the iodine. If the facts are as
claimed, the discovery is a valuable one,
owing to the cheapness and inexhausti
ble supply of the substitute,
Our readers who are subject to the disa
greeable and painful effects of poison ivy
and other vegatable poisons, will be glad
to learn that Dr. Ward finds a valnable
antidote in Labarraque's solution of chlo
ride of soda. The solution is applied three
or tonr times daily, to the skin. When
the latter is broken, the solution should
be diluted with from three to six parts
of water.
Prof. Rcvnold8. of Dublin, has discov
ered a new explosive compound which, it
is claimed, is safe to transport, since it is
composed of two separate substances,
which are mixed only when desired tor
use- These substances are potassium
chlorate seventy-five parts, and sulphurea,
tnenew explosive cotnpouna, iwenty-nve
parts. Sulphurea is obtained chiefly
from one of the waste products in the
manufacture of illuminating gas.
The depth of the Niagara River below
the falls has at last been satifactorily
measured by a corps of government sur
veyors. Approaching the American
Falls in small boat, they cast the lead so
near the foot of the fall's that great jets of
waer were occasionally darted over them.
The lead ran down to 83 feet. This was
quite near the shore, where an eddy en
abled them to make their first measure
ment. Passing out from this spot they
were carried rapidly down stream, and
their next two measurements were 100
and 192 feet. Had it been possible to
safely approach tbe middle of the river
near the foot of the falls, the depth
would most probably have been greater.
A Notobiotjs Duelist. In most coun
tries where the practice of the duello still
prevails, there are a few persons who in
dividually illustrate the absurdity of this
mode of settling disputes. They pass
their leisure time in shooting galleries
and fencing saloons, and when any one
calls them out they pink him or shoot
him for a certainty, thus proving, ac
cording to the test of the trial by battle,
that they must be always right, though,
as it happens, they are generally not.
France abounds in such individuals, and
Spain possesses at least one in the person
of the Marquis de Gil d'Olivares. This
hidalgo is master of all possible weapons,
and has the mania of fighting for his
friends. It is no doubt, an - amiable
feature in a man's character to defend the
absent; but when he carries the principal
to the length of slaying the backbiters
one is compelled to admit that virtue in
the superlative degree has a strong sem
blance to the opposite. The Marquis has
just fought a duel at Ostend with a
French gentleman who ventured to steal
the good name of Marshal Martinez Cam-
Sos. As always happens when the
arquis d'Olivares is a combatant, his
adversary got the worst of it, receiving a
fearful saber-out, which renders his re
covery extremely doubtful. If M". de
Bouvie dies, he will be the third victim
offered up by the Marquis on the shrine
not of friendship merely, but of his
friendship for Spanish Marshals. In
1858 he killed his man for backbiting
Marshael Jxarvaez.andm 1862 he avenged
an insult to Marshal O'Donnel in similar
deadly fashion.
Anne Boleyn and Henby VIII. I
wrote lately to your Majesty that if the
lady (Anne) could only be kept away
from Court for a little while the Queen
might still regain her influence over the
King, for she does not seem to bear any
ill-will toward her. Quite lately he sent
her some cloth, begging her to have it
made into shirts for him. The lady,
hearing of this, sent for the person who
had taken the cloth one of the principal
gentlemen of the bed-chamber and al
though the King himself confessed that
the cloth had been taken to the Queen by
his order, she abused the bearer in the
King's presence, threatening that she
would have him punished, severely. In
deed, there is talk, as I am told, of dis
missing, to please the lady, some of the
officers of the royal household, and if so,
the said gentlemen will not be the last,
for some time back, tha wife of the young
Marquis (of Dorset) and two other
ladies, most devoted to the queen, and in
whom she found more comfort and con
solation than in any others, were at her
request dismissed from Court and sent
home. Simancas Archives.
A Queen's Mishaps. The old, old
stary. Great effects from trifling causes,
Do you know the original cause of the
dethronement of ex-Queen Isabella of
Spain, the coronation of Amedee, the un
timely death of his wife, the German
French war, the fall of the Empire of
France, France's loss of Alsace and
Lorraine, $1,000,000,000, and heaven
knows what besides? Thumb on nose
and twirled fingers. 'Pon my word!
Twas in this wise: One day Marshal
Prim called upon Queen Isabella to beg
her to change her Ministry. She re
ceived him kindly and begged that he
would call the next day with a list of the
new Cabinet. He retired delighted, un
til, as he neared the door, he saw in a
mirror Her Majesty's thumb on her nose
and her fingers twirling. Quick as
lightning he turned, bowed low, and left
to exert all his power to dethrone the
Queen, to whom until the hour he had
been devotedly attached. Paris Cor
respondence N. O. Picayune.
There are some things that are as well
kept dark. It isn't policy to throw light
upon such a subject as an open barrel of
gunpowder, for instance. f Yonkers
Gazette.
We hear that Mrs Julia A. Smith has
given her husband a wig, and the ques
tion is, was - Mr. Parker bald when she
married him, or have the exigencies of
married life already removed his hair?
Physical Education For Girls.
BY NATHAN ALLEN, M. D.
Fifty years ago or more, scarcely any
attention was paid in education to tbe
physical system; the body was not recog - j
nized as of any account in mental im- j
provement. But as tbe principles of j
physiology became better understood in
their practical applications, it was found j
that they sustained most intimate rela- i
tions to education, and the more thor- j
ougbly this science is understood, the ;
more profoundly is one convinced of the 1
importance of observing the laws of the j
physical system in their connection with i
mental culture.
Great advances have been made in the i
physical sciences, and in the application j
of sanitary law to the prevention of dis- i
ease, to preservation of health, and to
human welfare; but in every stage and
department of education, the importance
of physical development in its relation to
mental culture is underrated. When it
becomes fully understood that education,
in all its manifold parts and applications,
is dependent upon the brain, and that
the functions of this organ are very de
pendent upon the condition and develop
ment of the body, then it will be seen
that there is a right and a wrong way in
'all attempts at mental improvement, and
that, in order for the greater success, an
observance of physical laws is indispen
sable. In no part of female education is there
so much need of reform as in that of
ohvsieal culture. If the standard of
scholarship is to be raised higher and
higher in all our schools for girls, and no
greater attention is to be paid to the laws
ot lieaitn ana me, grave consequences
may well be apprehended.
If this educational pressure was con
fined to a few individuals, there would
not the same danger, but when the great
majority of our girls are thus crowded, its
effects become widely extended and far-
reaching into the future, lhe remark has
been made"Educate a woman and you
educate a race." This saying is full of
meaning, and capable ot different inter
pretations. Its meaning or application
must depend upon the term "educate"
how and in what way it is done. This
"educating" should have reference to the
future, as well as to the present; to the
body, as well as to the mind; for the
highest developments of the brain and
nerve tissue, alone will never go far to
wards educating a race in fact, it will in
evitably run out.
God has established most intimate rela
tions between one generation and anoth
er, by the laws of inheritance. As yet
these laws are very imperfectly under
stood, but enough is known to show that
these laws depend upon certain condi
tions, which must be carefully studied
and taken into account. These condi
tions and laws cannot always be ignored
or set aside with impunity.
While it may require several genera
tions for the development of these laws,
the first links in the chain seem the
more important. If an education that
breaks down and impairs the physical
energies of the system tends to defeat
the wise operations of those laws if this
supreme devotion to mental culture
alone, combined with other influences in
society, is calculated to establish gener
ally a "standard of living so high and ex
pensive that the great majority of the
young people have neither the means nor
the physical strength to adopt and carry
it out if such is the result of this state of
things, that it must and does interfere di
rectly, with the duties of domestic life
and the objects of the marriage institu
tion, is it not time to pause and consider
whither, as a people we are drifting?
It may be said that education is not
the cause of such a state of things or con
dition of society, and the evils that
threaten, but it constitutes the leading,
if not the most powerful, agency in
society. This education commences ear
ly with tbe girl, shapes her character and
habits for life; and the influence of
women dictates the fashions of tbe day,
and moulds our domestic institutions.
The high pressure of educational influ
ences does not extend much farther back
than one generation, and, as a people, we
are just entering upon the second, but we
and already unmistakable signs of phys
ical degeneracy. The registration and
census reports are bringing forth startling
facts in respect to decline in the birth
rate, to the diminution of marriages, to
the permanence of the family institution
and changes in population, etc Should
the same causes continue and increase, as
they may, Corresponding results may fol
low, and the next generation will witness
in tiiose matters still greater changes.
Inasmuch as the primary cause of the
evils that have been alluded to is, we be
lieve, closely connected with the school
system, we would earcestly call the at
tention of teachers and the friends of ed
ucation, to consider if some reform can
not be effected, and especially in tbe case
of girls. Said President Elliot a few
days since, in addressing the Alumni of
Harvard University: "Now everything
depends with us, and in the learned pro
fessions, upon vigor of body. The more I
see of the future of young men that go out
from these walls, the more it is brought
home to me that professional success, and
success in all tbe learned callings, de
pends largely upon the vigor of the body,
and the men who win great professional
distinction have that as the basis of their
activity."
Now if young men must depend for
success in life upon the vigor of the body
is it not equally important for young wo
men, who are to be their competitors in
the learned protessions, and in various
departments of business, but what is more
important, who are to be, in the broadest
and fullest sense, the "educators of the
race?"
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RUPTURE
CURES!
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 j proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur
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Latest Medical Endorsements-.
Martinez, Cal.,Fob. 17, 1879.
W. J. Home. Proprietor California Elastic
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In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, I would say
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Endorsed by a Prominent Medical Instl
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A Remarkable Cure.
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W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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Surgeon and Physician.
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