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Corvallis Gazette.
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Editor and Proprietor.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. WOODS CK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
4 Ok V A I.I.I
OFFICE ON FIH3T 8TRKET, OI'P. WOOD
COCK Jfc BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
S;eeial attention given to Collections, i're
ciomire of Mortgagee, ileal Estate cases, ProbSte
and Roail matters.
Will also btryaiM sell City Property and Farm
Lands, on reasonable terms.
March 20, 1870. 16-I2yl
F. A. CHENOWETII.
F. M. JOHNSON.
CHENOWETH dt JOHNSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
couNAioaet .... ohluon
September 4, 1879. lC:36tf
J. W RA Y3UR i
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
lOHVll.H'., ItKIOIIV.
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and
Third.
S-Spocial attention ;;iven to the Collection
or Notes and Accounts. IG-ltf
JAMES A. YANTIS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
(OKVALI IM, . - . OBieilJI
tyiLL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the State. Special attention given to
(natters in Piobate. Collections will receive
f onipt and careful attention. Office in the Court
ouse. 16:ln'.
DR F. A. V.NCENT,
DENTIS T .
CORVALLI8
REOON,
rjFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER
v Max. Friendley's New Store. All the !atest
improvements. Everyth-'ng new and complete.
All work warranted. Flea-egive me a call.
G. R. FARRA, M. D,
PHYSICIAN AX!) bl!R6EKf,
rFFICE OVER GRAHAM 4 HAMILTON'S
v Drugstore, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf
J. R. BRYSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
All business will receive prompt
attention.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf
NEW TIN SHOP.
J. K. Webber, Pro.,
main at.. - convALLi.-'.
STOVES AND TINWARE
All Ifind.
BA11 work warranted and at reduced rates.
12:13tf.
W. C. CRAWFORD,
-DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCK?,
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
etc Also,
Musical Instruments Sc
ar-Repairing done at the most reasonable
rates, and all work warranted.
Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf
GRAHAM, IIAMILTft & CO.,
CORVALLIS ... OKEGOX
DEALERS IN
Drug's, Paints,
MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS, DYE Ml'FK
OILS,
GLASS
AKO
PUTY.
PURE WINES AflD LQJJBS
FOR MEDICINAL USE.
And also the the very best assortment of
Lamps and Wall Pap r
ever brought to this ilae.
AGENTS FOB THE
AVSBIll CH r.x P NT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER.
mr Fli j-ilct- ' t e . ptlnot nre
fVtllJf VIUI irl
Id M
Uoiviiiiis gazette.
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VOL. XVI.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1879.
NO. 50.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
CORVALLIS
Livery, Feed
...AND...
SALE STABLE,
Btfuln tit., Co vai In. Oregon.
SOL. KING, - Porpr.
fWNING BOTH 3ARNS I AM PREPARED
" to ofier superior acoom nidations in the Liv
ery line. Always ready for a drive,
At UntOfi.
My stables are first-data in every respect, and
competent and obliging hostlers always
ready to serve tfte public.
KE' A BLIi CHAKUK-. FOR HlH.
Particular iUtf Ion P.l.l to huafdin;
o.ae.
ELEGANT HEVRSE, CVRKJVOES AND
UA( K3 FOR FUNERALS
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879.
Ittilvl
Woodcock & Baldwin
(Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,)
TEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE
old stand a large and complete stock of
Heavy and Mieif Haul ware,
IRON, STEEL,
TOOLS, STOVES,
RANG ;8, ETC
Manufactured and Home Made
T"n and Copper Woie,
Pumps. Pipe, Etc.
A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all
Job'VVotk neatly and quickly done.
Also agents for Knapp, Burrell & Co.,
for the sale of the best and latest im
proved FARM MACHINERY.
of all kinds, together with a full assort
ment of Agricultural Implements.
Sole Agents for the celebrated
ST. L"UIS CHART R DK S OVES
the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also tha
Norman Range, and many other patterns,
in all sizes and styles.
I Particular attention paid to Farmers'
wants, and the supplying extras for Farm
Machinery, and all information as to such
articles, lurnished cheerfully, on applica
tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our
customers with the best goods in market,
m our line, i nn in t tie lowest prices.
Our motto shall be, proKint and fair
dealing with all. Call and examine our
stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN.
Corvallis, May, 12, li79. 14:4tf
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
LANDS! FARMS! HOMES
f HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim-
proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY.
very desirable
FOR SALE.
These lands are cheap.
Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale.
Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under
he Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made
final proof on less than 160 acres, can dispose of
the balance to me.
Write (with stamps to prepay postage).
R. A. BENSELL,
Newport, Benton county, Oregon.
16:2tf
ULE1 & WOODWARD,
Druggists
and
Apothecaries,
P. O. BUILDING. CORVALLIS, OREGON.
Have a complete stock of
BRIGS, MEDICINES, PAIN TP, OIL,
buss, it;., yrc.
School 1'ooks :ut.onony,&o.
We buv for Cash, and have choice of the
FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medic nes
the market affords.
Prescriptions accurately prewired at half
the usual rates. 2May 1 fi: I Stf
FRESH GOODS
AT THE
BAZAR ""-FASHIONS
Mrs. E. A.. KNIGHT.
rOBTALLM, ... ORIC'S.
Has just received from San Fran isco, the larg
est and Best Stock of
Millinery floods
Dress Trimmings, Etc.,
Ever brought to Corvallis, wh eh I will sell at
prices that defy competition.
Xa-eiiry for
r"teru.
I me. tSMsrat'
S5aprl6:l7tf
a rellabi
Corvallis Lodge o 14, r. A A. M.
Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on
or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good
standing cordially invited to attend. By order
W. M.
Barn am lodge Ma. 7, I. o. O. ,
Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in
their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. M em
bers of the order in good standing invited to at
tend. By order of N. G.
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,
TpORMERLY OF ALBANY, WHERE HE
has given his patrons perfect satisfaction,
has determined to locate in Corvallis, where he
hopes to be favored with a share of the public
patronage. All work warranted, when made
under his supervision. Repairing and cleaning
promptly attended to.
Corvallis, Nov. 28, 1878. 16:48R.
Grain Storage !
A Word to Farmers.
JTAVIXG PURCHASED THE COMMODI
ous warehouse of Messrs. King and Bell,
and thoroughly overhauled the same, I am now
ready to receive grain for storage at the reduced
Bate of" -1. cts. per Bushel
1 am also prepared to Keep Extra, White
Wheat, separate from other lots, thereby enabling
me to SELL AT A PREMIUM. Also prepared
to pay the
Highest Market Price.
for wheat, and would most respectfully solicit a
share of public patronage. T. J. BLAIR.
Corvallis, Aug. 1, 1878. 15:32tf
FRANKLIN CAUTHORN. M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Corvallis, Oregon.
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Special attention given to surgery and diseases
of the Eye. Can be found at his office, in rear of
Graham, Hamilton A Co.'a Drug Store, up stairs,
day or night.
June 3, 1879. ' 16-23tf
H JbL. H ARRIS,
One door South of Graham A Hamilton'
VORVALLia, OBKGOSf.
GROCERIES.
PRO VISIONS
AND
Dry Goods.
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878.
18:lvl
DRAKE & GRANT,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
C'R VAI. I. if., -.. OBXfiOH.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
and well selected stock of Cloth, viz :
West of nifltvnrt Broad
. loths, renoh asslmeros,
votoh Tweeds, unci
American multinirM,
Which we will make up to order in the most
approved and laeh onablc styles. No pains will
be spared in producing good fitting garments.
Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have
them cut out, will do well to call and examine
our stock. DRAKE 3c GRANT.
Corvallis, April 17. 1879. I6:16tf
Boarding- and Lodging:.
Pbiloinatb, Bcutou Co . Orrca.
GEORGE KISOR,
"RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV
eling public that he is now prepared and in
readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to
give him a call, either by the
SINCE ML. DAY. OR WEEK.
Is also prepared to fu'n'sh horse feed. Liberal
share of public patronage solicited. Give at a
call. GEORGE KISOR.
Philomath, April 28, 1879. I0:18tf
AijBekt PygaiiL. I William Ibwin.
PYGALL & IRWIN,
City Trucks & Drays,
TTAV1NG PURCHASED THE DRAYS AND
Trucks lately owned by James Eglin, wo
are prejiarcd Jo do all kinds of
City Uau luif. UeHVcrinn of
Wood. t. t. Eic,
in the city or country, at reasonable rates. Pat
ronage solicited, and satisfaction guaranteed in all
ea ALBERT PYGALL,
WILLIAM IRWIN.
Corval!i, Dec. 20, 1S78. l:5f
J C. MORELANQ,
(CITY ATTORNKY.)
ATTORVEY AT LAW,
POKTI.ASO, WBEWOJI.
OFFICE Monastes' Brick, First street,
between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf
TIJLK HTAU BAKERY,
Jlofn Street, torvalll.
HENRY WA8BI0RL PROPRIETOR.
Family Supply Store !
Groceries,
Bread.
Calces,
Pies,
CandfcR,
Toys,
Etc.,
Always on Hand.
OorvaHiB, Jan. 1,1877. l2tf -
A Page from the Hi lory of Carriages.
How few ever think, as they enjoy
their elegant carriages of the day, of
the clumsy mode our forefathers had of
traveling and of the suffering they must
have endured in their rude, uncomforta
ble, clumsy wagons without springs, that
were then in use! Chariots of a very
clumsy make, were in use by the people
of Israel 4000 years ago.
The earliest record we have of convey
ance is the camel. In ancient times it
was the only means of carriage to con
vey the products from Arabia to Egypt.
Even in the present day, through Persia,
Arabia, Barbary and Egypt, the camel is
largely used, as m the days of old, not
only to carry merchandise, but as a car
riage for passengers.
The horse, the ass and the mule date
equal with the cfimel.
The elephant has been trained for cen
turies, and was in use long before Greece
and Borne were known; but neither the
elephant nor the horse were as well
adapted to the sands of Arabia and Egypt
as the camel, and consequently were not
as generally used. In time of war, the
ancient Romans, Carthagenians and
Egyptians made great use of elephants to
assist in carrying great loads, both of
baggage and of archers and spearmen.
The hrst knowledge we have of wheels
to carriages is in the Book of Genesis.
and makes known that wheels were much
used in ancient Egypt 4000 years ago.
It was not till about the seventeenth cen
tury that we had anything like comfort
in traveling, and it was almost a century
after before mail coaches were intro
duced. Before this date all traveling
was done on horseback, although wheeled
vehicles of various kinds were in use by
the ancients; it is stated that it is only
within the present centuiy that close car
riages were introduced.
The hrst coach was supposed to have
originated in Hungary, and introduced
into England from Germany, in the six
teenth century, but so little was it in
use, if at all, that we have no trace that
Qaeen Elizabeth ever used one. The
first coach ever used in Ireland was in
1593; the first that was ever seen in Scot
land came from Vienna in 1571, although
some writers claim in la. Coaches
were long rare in Scotland, the young
looking upon them as efiemwate, pre
ferring the quick movements of the
horse.
It was not till the reign of Charles I.
that a British King had a state carriage.
In bcotland, the only means of con
veyance for goods was by pack-horses,
-with sacks thrown across the back; this
mode of conveyance continued till about
1700, when one horse-carts came in use.
During all these times traveling was very
perilous, the roads, if they may be called
such, were infested by highwaymen,
which made traveling anything but a
pleasure. About the year 1700 springs
of a very rude make were first introduced
in Scotland. Up to this time the manner
of traveling was of a very rude and
primitive nature, and in consequence of
the bad roads the speed was not over
four miles an hour for the mail coaches.
We might mention that in South America
and Mexico the mule is used as a mode
of conveyance, their country being al
most destitute of good roads; so also in
Kapland the reindeer is employed, as
also in Eamtschatka the dog is almost
universally used as a beast of draught.
Jb rom the time of the old weeks and
Romans, the way back to the ancient
Egyptians, following up a period of 4000
years to the present age, the greatest ad
vancement ana improvement ot venicles
of all kinds have been made during the
past fifty years. There are many who
can readily recall to mind the cumbrous
and clumsy family coach, as uncomfort
able to ride in as it was heavy and un
sightly to look at. Our grocers' and
butchers' wagons of to-day are more
sightly and comfortable than was the
state carriage of King Charles I. of Eng
land. Surely we are living in a wonder
ful and luxurious age; what progress has
been made in all things that tend to make
life desirable; how perfectly elegant and
comfortable is the family coach of to-day;
what beauties of taste and comfort, how
easy, noiseless in all their movements, as
they roll over our fine avenues. As we
have been astonished at the discoveries
snd improvements during the past cen
tury, what may we expect in the next.'
Not that we would suggest or recom
mend and .backward steps, any plan
which would render our farm work any
slower of performance, or be attended
with any more expense. Nor would we
recommend a complete substitution of
oxen for horse labor; but this much is
sure, steers and oxen are never out of
place on a New England farm ; there are
many kinds of work they can do better
than horses, and they are always a source
of advantage and profit. At all our fairs,
the well-matched, large, well-disciplined
oxen and steers are always an object of
admiration and pride, and we have sel
dom known a New England farmer who
had a "likely" yoke of oxen or steers for
sale for which he could not get a good
price, and always find a purchaser. They
may not again assume their former im
portance as a farm team, but on the farm,
as animals for work a part of the time,
for sale as workers or for beef, they are
of a coming high rank. Crosses of Here
fords with our better class of grades
make a superior working and an excel
lent beef animal, while the grade Devons
are also esteemed as workers or beeves,
and the excellence of our Shorthorns is
well known.
- The main question of farm labor aside
for the moment, we would much like to
see a revival of the interest in steers and
oxen in New England. If their number
were greater we-believe our agriculture
would rank higher, for the more cattle
we can keep the higher will be the con
dition of our agriculture, and the greater
crops of grass and the cereals we may be
enabled to grow. Besides there is always
a auick market at a crood nrice for the
. . .. - - . . .. . .
weii-tattened steer, and where the nay is
consumed and animals fed upon the
form, there is a profit to such husbandry
which cannot be argued out of sight. A
I pair of good steers on every farm in Mew
I England this fall would not be a bad
sight, and every one which the owner
wished to part with could find a good
market at Watertown, in preference to
Western steers.
Vandalism at Venice.
The poet Morris writes to the London
Daily News:
I have just received information, on
the accuracy of which I can rely , that the
restoration of the west front of St.
Mark's at Venice, which has long been
vaguely threatened, is to be taken in
hand at once. A commission is called
for next month to examine its" state and
to determine whether it is to be pulled
down immediately or to be allowed to
stand until next year. The fate of such
a building seems to me a subject import
ant enough to warrant me in asking you
to grant me space to make an appeal to
your readers to consider what a disaster
is threatened hereby to art and culture
in general. Though this marvel of art
and treasure of history has suffer
ed some disgraces, chiefly in the base
mosaics that have supplanted the earlier
ones, it is in the main in a genuine and
untouched state, and to the eye of any
one not an expert in building looks safe
enough from anything but malice or ig
norance; but anyhow, if it be in any way
unstable, it is impossible to believe that
avery moderate exercise of engineering
skill would not make it as sound as any
building of its age can be. Whatever
pretexts may be put forward, therefore,
the proposal to rebuild it can only come
from those that suppose that they can re
new and better (by imitation) the work
manship of its details, hitherto supposed
to be unrivaled ; by those that think that
there is nothing distinctive between the
thoughts and expression of the thoughts
of the men of the twelfth and of the
nineteenth centuries; by those that pre
fer gilding, glitter and blankness to the
solemnity of tone and the incident that
hundreds of years of wind and weather
have given to the marble, always beauti
ful, but from the first meant to grow
Pmore beautiful by the lapse of time; in
short, those only can think the restora
tion" of St. Mark's possible, who neither
know nor care that it now has become a
work of art, a monument of history and
a piece of nature. Surely I need not en
large on the pre-eminence ot iSt. Mark s
in all these characters, for no one who
even pretends to care about art, history
or nature would call it in question; but
I will assert that, strongly as I may have
seemed to express myself, my words but
feebly represent the feelings of a large
body of cultivated men who will feel real
grief at the loss that reems imminent a
loss which may be slurred over, but
which will not be forgotten, and which
will be felt ever deeper as cultivation
spreads. That the outward aspect of the
world should grow uglier day by day in
spite of the aspirations of civilization,
nay, partly because of its triumphs, is a
grievous puzzle to some of us who are
not lacking in sympathy for those aspi
rations and triumphs, artists and crafts
men as we are. So grievous it is that
sometimes we are tempted to say: "Let
them make a clean sweep of it all, then;
let us forget it all, and muddle on as best
we may, unencumbered with either his
tory or hope! " But such despair is, we
well know, a treason to the cause of civ
ilization and the arts, and we do our best
to overcome it and to strengthen our
selves in the belief that even a small mi
nority will at last be listened to and its
reasonable opinions be accepted. In this
belief I have troubled you with this let
ter, and I call on all those who share it
to join earnestly in any attempt that may
be made to save from an irreparable loss
a loss which only headlong rashness
could make possible. Surely it can never
be too late to pull down St. Mark's at
Venice, the wonder of the civilized
world.
General Hooker in Hospital.
I remember the first time I ever saw
General Hooker at a reception given by
President Lincoln in the year 1861-62
a tall, handsome man, keen gray eye, a
proud, sensitive noss of the Roman
Hebraic mongrel type, a soldierly and
chivalric bearing. The imagination lin
gered on him, and looked ahead, and saw
him at the head of affairs. He had all
the qualities of a good leader, except one
patience. Napoleon lacked that, too,
but he was such a master that he didn't
need patience any more than the sun
needs a watch, or lightning a pair of
crutches.
I next saw Hooker on a little cot in the
Insane Asylum Hospital, across the East
Branch, opposite Washington. It was in
the fall of 1861, just after Antietam. He
was "mad." He half reclined, with his
well foot on the floor, and the foot which
had been shot through in battle, on the
cot. I interviewed him for the New
York Tribune. "You can say for me,"
said he, "that the battle was managed
with inexcusable stupidity, and that we
ought to have driven Lee into the Poto
mac and captured all his artillery and
half his men. And you can say for me,"
he added, rising upon his elbow, and
accenting every word by pounding his
crutch on the floor, "you can say
that General Hooker says
that -General H is
-damned-
-coward la
"Shall I say that, General ?" I asked
him.
He earnestly enjoined me to say it for
him.
I scarcely remember now, but I be
lieve I did not say it, for I considered
that the man was suffering from his
wound, that he was irritable and unrea
sonable, and very likely unjust. But
the man he mentioned never rose any
higher in rank, and was shortly retired
to a position where personal courage was
not required. I have omitted to mention
his name, for he is still living, and to pain
him would do nobody any good.
And McClellan, whose chef dceuvre of
Antietam, Fighting Joe criticised so se
verely, probably smiled grimly a few
months later, when Hooker was in com
mand and lost a big battle at Chancel
lor svi lie, and had his right wing rolled
up like a carpet by the midnight onset
of StonewallJackson.iVet York Ijetter.
"lite Babies."
The fifteenth and last regular toast
was "The Babies. As they comfort ns
in our sorrows, let us not forget them in
our festivities;" and to this Samuel L.
Clemens responded. He said:
I like that. We have not all had the
good fortune to be ladies. We have not
all been generals, or poets, or statesmen,
but when the toast works down to the
babies we stand on common ground, for
we have all been babies. It is a shame
that, for a thousand years, the world's
banquets have utterly ignored the baby,
as if he didn't amount to anything. If
you will stop and think a minute if you
will go back fifty or one hundred years
to your early married life laughter J and
recontemplate your first baby you will
remember that he amounted to a good
deal, and even something over. You
soldiers all know that when that little
fellow arrived at family headquarters
you had to hand in your resignation. He
took entire command. You became his
lackey his mere body servant, and you
had to stand around, too. He was not a
commander who made allowances for
time, distance, weather, or anything
else. Convulsive screams. You had
to execute his order whether it was pos
sible or not. Roars. And there was
only one form of marching in his manual
of tactics, and that was the double-quick.
Shouts. He treated yon with every
sort of insolence and disrespect laugh
ter, and the bravest of you didn't dare
to say a word. Great laughter. You
could face the death storm of Donelson
and Vicksburg, and give back blow for
blow, but when he clawed your whiskers,
and pulled your hair, and twisted your
nose, you had to take it. Roars.
When the thunders of war were sound
ing in your ears, you set your faces to
ward the batteries, and advanced with
steady tread, but when he turned on the
terrors of his war-whoop laughter J, you
advanced in the other direction, and
mighty glad of the chance, too. When
he called for soothing syrup, did you
venture to throw out any side remarks
about certain services being unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman? Boisterous
laughter. No. You got up and got.
When he ordered his pap bottle, and it
was not warm, did you talk back? Not
you. Renewed laughter. You went
to work and warmed it. You even de
scended so far in your menial office as to
take a suck at that warm, insipid stuff,
just to see if it was right three parts
water to one of milk tumultuous
laughter a touch of sugar to modify
the colic, and a drop of peppermint to
kill those immortal hiccoughs. Roars.
I can taste that stuff. And how many
things you learned as you went along!
Sentimental young folks will take stock
in that beautiful old saying, that when
the baby smiles it is because the angels
are whispering to him. Very pretty,
but too thin simply wind on the
stomach, my friends. If the baby pro
posed to take a walk at his usual hour,
two o'clock in the morning, didn't you
rise up promptly and remark, with a
mental addition which would not im
prove a Sunday school book much
laughter, that that was the very thing
yon were about to propose yourself?
Great roars. Oh! you were under good
discipline, and, as you went faltering up
and down the room in your undress
uniform laughter, you not only prat
tled undignified baby talk, but even
tuned your martial voices and tried to
sing, "Rock-a-by baby, in the tree top,"
for instance. Groat laughter. J What
a spectacle for an Army of the Tennessee.
And what an affliction for the neighbors,
too, for it is not everybody within a mile
around that likes military music at three
in the morning. Laughter. And when
you have been keeping this sort of thing
up for two or three hours, and your little
velvethead intimated that nothing suited
him like exercise and noise, what did
you do ? You simply went on until you
dropped in the last ditch. Laughter.
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to
anything! Why, one baby is just a house
and a front yard full by itself. One baby
canirnish more business than you and
your whole Interior Department can at
tend to. Laughter. He is enterpris
ing, irrepressible, brimful of lawless
activities. Do what you please, you
can't make him stay on the reservation.
Great shouts. Sufficient unto the day
is one baby. As long as you are in your
right mind, don't you ever pray for
twins. Mr. Clemens is the father of a
pair. Twins amount to a permanent
riot; and there isn't any real difference
between triplets and an insurrection.
Uproarious shouts.
Yes, it was high time for a toast to the
masses to recognize the importance of the
babies. Think what is in store for the
present crop ! Fifty years from now we
shall all be dead, I trust laughter, and
then this flag, if it still survive (and
let us hope it may) , will be floating over
a republic numbering 200,000,000 souls,
according to settled laws of our increase.
Our present schooner of state will have
grown into a political leviathan a Great
Eastern. The cradled babies of to-day
will be on deck. Let them be well
trained, for -we are going to have a big
contract oh our hands. Among the
three or four million cradles now rocking
in the land are some which this nation
would preserve for ages as sacred things,
if we could only know which ones they
are. In one of these cradles the uncon
scious Farragut is now teething; think of
it, and patting in a word of dead earnest.
inarticulated, but perfectly justifiable
profanity over it, too. In another the
future renowned astronomer is blinking
at the shining milky way with but a
liquid interest, poor little chap! and
wondering what has become of that other
one they call the wet-nurse. In another
the future great historian is lying, and
doubtless will continue to lie laughter,
until his earthly mission is ended. In
another the future President is busying
himself with no profonnder problem of
state than what the mischief has become
of his hair so early laughter, and in a
mighty array of other cradles there are
now some 60,000 future office-seekers
getting ready to furnish him occasion to
grapple with that same old problem a
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second time. And in still one more cra
dle, somewhere under the flag, the future
illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the
American armies is so little burdened
with his approaching grandeur and re
sponsibilities as to be giving his whole
strategic mind at this moment to trying
to find out some way to get his big toe
into his month, an achievement which ,
meaning no disrespect, the illustrious
guest of this evening turned his atten
tion to some 56 yesrs ago; and if the
child is but a prophecy of the man, there
are mighty few who will doubt that he
succeeded.
Owens' Baby.
The following letter from the cele
brated comedian, who is the central fig
ure of the interesting incident subjoined,
is self-explanatory:
Palace Hotel, Nov. 19, 1879.
Mu Dear Sir: Thank you for the ad
vance proof of your article, which is cor
rect in almost every particular, except
that yon have overdrawn the scene in the
theater slightly, and made, I think, too
much fun of a matter 'which to me is ono
of the most serious events of my life.
Little David (for I have resolved to call
him after you) is sleeping quietly in the
new crib I bought for him this morning,
and I have an alcohol lamp to warm his
milk the moment he wakes up. I have
already learned how to dress, undress,
wash and powder him, from a kind mat
ron residing on the floor below, and can
perform every office that his infant help
lessness demands of me. I had to dis
card the "Maws Feeding Bottle" for an
other kind with a rubber attachment that
works better. If you know any friends
who have children and could spare me a
few bibs and one or two pinning Mar
kets, send them along. I have all tie
diadems I want. D. is just waking up,
and the little rascal has kicked off one of
his woolen shoes. Excuse my closing
this abruptly, as I have to take him. He
has commenced to cry. Your sincere
friend, John E. Owens.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE,
Which will be eagerly read by all who
know Mr. Owens, are 8s follows: He
had retired to his room on Monday about
half-past three in the afternoon, and after
taking off his coat and shoes, lain down
down to take a short siesta as a prepara
tion for his evening labors. He was just
beginning to doze off when he heard a
loud knock at the door, which he au""
swered by requesting the caller to wait'.
About a minute and a half elapsed while
he was putting on his coots and coat,
during which he heard the rustling of
dress of some person evidently hurrying
down the corridor and the ozy ot an in
fant. When he opened the door there
was no one in sight, while on the mat
outside lay a beautiful baby boy about
three months old, with large blue eyes,
and crowing lustily. When his first
burst of astonishment had passed away
he naturally lifted the . little one and
noticed a page of note paper pinned to
its dress. On this was written:
"My Deab Sib: I have seen your per
formance of Higgins in 'Dr. Clyde,' and
consider it one of the finest impersona
tions I ever witnessed. The only way in
which I can evince my gratitude to you
is my offering you one of the loveliest
infants I could select from the Orphan
Asylum. Take it and cherish it, and
may God bless you and prosper you.
"An Unknov,' Admibeb."
He was on the point of taking ih
tie, helpless cherub, and in a moment of
ANGEB AKIN TO INSANITY,
Dashing it to the floor, but the baby was
smiling at him, and his heart melted in a
moment, while great tears welled up from
the princely breast of the old comme
dian. as he folded it to his bosom and
carried it into his suite of rooms. There
he laid it tenderly on the bed, covered it
with a red handkerchief and a green
coat, wrapped its little feet in an old
S3ratch wig, looked at it, chucked it
under the chin, and well kissed it till
his prickly beard made it cry. Then he
soothed it, and pulling an arm chair
close to the bed, contemplated the situa
tion. "I'll keep it," he cried, "in spite of
what any one may say. I'm eighty-four
years old, and a member of the Baptist
Church, and only six weeks in the city;
I'll defy public opinion; I'll be if I
don't. Next he rang the bell and sent
for Mr. Sharon, told his story and his
resolve. The latter secured the services
of a kind lady guest, who, amply pro
vided by Mr. Owens with the necessary
funds, secured a lavish outfit for the
foundling within an hour. When the
time came to go to the theatre, he for the
first time felt anxious about his treasure.
He could not leave it. Like the Spartan
heroes of old he faced the music,, the
gibes of the company and the incredu
lous disgust of the leading lady and the
soubrette, and with the child sleeping in
his arms and a feeding bottle sticking out
of his pocket, entered the dressing room,
where he improvised a crib. He wonld
allow
NO ONE TO NTJBSE IT,
Except his friend, Mr. Kennedy, nor to
touch it or handle it. The noise of the
orchestra woke it up, and its screanjs
drove the leader nearly wild, and an
noyed the audience, but he persevered,
and merely set hii teeth and sent for
some paregoric. How he set up all night
with it, and sent for Dr. Bishop to allay
its colic, and how devotedly he nurses it
day and night, are matters which will be
told by-and-by. His act.was that of a
good, brave and generous soul, and, as
such, deserves to be given to the world.
San Francisco Post.
A negro was asked if he knew the
nature of an oath, to which he replied:
"Oo, yes, boss, for sartin. My ole mar
ser 'structed me in all dem tings."
"Well," asked the judge, "what is your
notion of an oath?" "Why, boss, it?a
jes' dis: "li I once tells a lie, I'm w
stick to it clean t'rough to de end."
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England is spoken of as the "tight lit
tle island," but there is a city over the
channel in France that is Toulouse.