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WEEKLY CORY ALL IS fch ZETTE. CORVALLIS. - DECEMBER 19, 1879 THE CLOHIXU 8CEXK- BY THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. The following is pronounced by the Wett minxter Revieto to be unquestionably the flnet-t American poena ever written: Within the sober realm of leafless trees The russet year inhaled the dreamy air, Like some tanned rfaper, in his hour of ease, W hen all the fields are lying brown and bare. The gray barus, looking from their hazy bills O'er the dim waters widening in the vales, Kent down the air a greeting to the mills On the dull thuuder of alternate flails. All sights were mellowed, all sounds subdued; The hills seemed lurther, and the stream sung low. As in a dream the distant woodman hewed Bis winter logs, with many a muffled blow. The embattled forests, erewhlle armed with gold. Their banners bright with every martial hue Now stood like some sal, beatn host of old. Withdrawn ajar In Time's remotest blue. On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight ; The dove scarce beard his singing mate's complaint. And, like a star, slow crowning in the light, The village church vane seemed to pale and faint. The sentinel cock upon the hill side crew Crew thrice and all was stiller than before; Sil- n', til! some replying warder blew His alien horn, and then was heard no more. Where erst the Jay, within the elm's tall crest, Madegnrrulous trouble round her unfledged young; And where the oriole bung her swaying nest, By every light wind like a censor swung. Where sung tho noisy martins ol the eaves. The bn-y swallows, circling ever near Foro-bodi.ig, as the rustic mind believes. An early harvest and a plenteous year. Where every bird that waked the verna Shook the sweet slumber from its wings at morn. To warn tne reaper of the rosy east, . All now was suules, empty and forlorn. Alone, from out the stubble piped the quail, And o.roafeed the crow through all the dreary gloom; Alone, the pbeasjnt, drumming in the vale, Made eclio in the distant oltage loom. There was no hud, no bloom upon the bowers; The spider.' moved their thin shroud night bv night; The thistle down, the only ghost of flowers, Hailed slowly by passing noiseless out of sight. Amid all this in this mostdreaiy air, And where the woodbine shed upon the porch Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood there, Fil ing the floor with its inverted torch ; Amid all this the centre of tne scene. The white-haired matron, with monotonous tread. Piled Hie swift wheel, and with her Joyless mien sat like a fate, and watched the flying thread. She bad known sorrow. He had walked with her, oft supped, and broke with her the ashen crust; Anl In the dead leaves still she beard the stir Of his thick ruautle, trailing in the dust. Wbi-e yet her cheek was bright with Summer bloom. ll r country summoned and she gave her all; And twice war bowed to her his sable plume He-gave the sword to rust upon the wall. Re-gave the sword, but not the hand that drew And ivtruck for liberty the dying blow. Nor him who, to h s sire and e.ui try true. Foil 'mid the ranks of the Invading foe. Long, but not loud, the driving wheel went on, Lilt the low murmur of hive t noon; Lung, but not loud, the memory of the gone Breathed thro' her lips a sad and tremulouB tune. At last the thread was snapped her head was bowed; Life dropped the distaff thro' her hands serene; And loving neighbors smoothed her careful shroud. While death and winter closed theau'umn scene. Arctic Perils. The whaling bark Helen Mar, Captain Bauldry, eleven days from Fox Islands, arrived in port on Wednesday evening, bring the crew of the whaling bark Mer cury which was abandoned in the ice October 24th, in latitude 71 degrees, 10 minutes north, longitude 172 west, just i rth of Herald shoals. These two barks had been hunting in company in the Arc tic. The whaling fleet has been ex tremely fortunate thus far this season, the only loss up to date having been that of the Newton Booth. On October 9th these vessels, together with the Mount Wallaston and the Vigilant, were an chored off Herald Island, a small islet but little larger than Goat Island. The day following the Vigilant and Mount "Wollaston parted company with them and beat their way north. On the 15th tbey spoke the Thomas Pope, which was then steering for the straits. On the following day they encountered a school of whales, and both vessels attempted to capture some of them ; without success, however. Cold weather had been com ing on gradually since the 15th, and new ice had begun to form. The vessels were then, on the 19th, in longitude 74 degrees west, about eighty miles from Herald Island, and, as far as the sight could stretch to the westward the ocean was one glittering mass of ice. Occa sionally the ships would find small stretches of clear water, and then again they would encounter large blocks of old ice. Their trials from the time the ice began to form are graphically told by J. Carter, the chief mate of the Helen Mar. He says: On the 18th of October we found a lot of new ice just to the west ward of Herald shoals, and went through it, and finding clear water, thought we were all right, but were disappointed, for that same evening we ran into heavy ice and had to wear ship. "We headed to the northeast, shortened sail and anxiously waited till daylight. The next morning we steered first to the east and then to the west, but found ice all around us, and had to give it up. We were then in company with the Mercury. After a consultation, the two captains concluded to go back and try to get round to the eastward, as it seemed as if the ice made toward the northwest. A strong breeze carried us into clear water, after passing through some new ice. We then thought that we had got past all the ice, but met it again, after passing through occasional clear water. On the morning of the 21st we found that it was all around where we wanted to go, so we put the ships into it, with heavy hearts, and worked to the south. The ice was very close, but at night it became so thick we were stopped. The thermometer was then down to 8. The next day both ships were imbedded in the ice, with all sail set, but motionless, in eighteen fathoms of water, and a current drifting us to the northeast about two miles an hour. The ships were then made fast to each other with cutting falls and the anchors dropped. The ships were held and the ice passed us until the afternoon, when the current ceased to run. There were no signs of clear weather; it was freez ing hard; the ice was thickening; all looked gloomy, and we all thought we should have to winter there, and we knew what that meant. It was simply this: we must all die, as we hod neither provisions nor fuel enough to last ns, nor were our ships in a fit condition to face the trials of an Arctic winter. In the evening a strong wind rose out of the northwest, bringing with it snow squalls, and our hearts were happy, for we thought a gale was coming on. All hands worked with a will, and we were not long in getting up the anchors and again setting full sail. But, alas, we were again doomed to disappointment. The Mercury moved about two ships' lengths and then was stopped. We moved not an inch. The night closed in and the feeling of despair nearly ap proached us. Pew slept that night. The 23d came calm and cold, with ice so thick that we crossed from the one vessel to the other. We then decided that we were doomed to winter in this desolate spot, and in order to make the provisions last, we resolved to live in one ship and use the other for fuel. The Helen Mar, being the strongest and best ship, was selected as the one to live in, and all hands went to work to bring in the pro visions from the Mercury on sledges, carrying a ton at each load, and which we dragged over the ice. The Mercury had a lot of blubber, and we commenced to remove that, as it would be good to burn and cat. Hard did we work from morning until night fall, when it blew fresh from the north with snow, but still no signs ol the ice breaking up. At night Captain Hick usch, of the Mercury, his wife and chil dren, came on board. On the next day, the 24th, it blew a strong gale from the north. It was freezing, and there were no signs of a break in the ice. At four o'clock, after tremendous efforts by the cre, the bread and flour of the Mercury were all on board. It then commenced to blow so hard and the ship rolled so heavily, that we had to cut adrift from the Mercury. If the ships had come to gether they would have torn each other to pieces through the strain upon them All being on board the Helen Mar, we set a close-reefed fore topsail, to try and force the ship through the ice as it broke up. The ship pounded very hard, but we worked slowly to the southeast and tried the pumps everv hfteen minutes, expecting that the ice would stave the vessel in. but she stood it nobly. On the 25th we worked through the ice all night and all day, every moment fearing that the frozen waters would cut our brave ship through, as there was a heavy strain upon her and a terrible gale blowing; but it was a case of life or death, and we thought we might as well go that way as stop there and perish. At four p. M. we got through into quite clear water, but it was freezing hard and bitterly cold, and the ship was covered with ice and snow. The next day a heavy gale blew from the N. N. W., we steering to the S. E. At 2 p. m. , we raached more new ice, packed closely with a heavy swell run ning, so far as we could see, to the N. E. and S. W., and as we could not get around it, we set all sail and workeel through it, and got into quite clear wa ter three hours afterward. For a day and a half we worked through ice, and again we experienced another long and anxious night ark, a thick fog, the thermome ter down to zero, the ship one mass of ice, the rudder frozen, the ship unman ageable, and a heavy gale blowing. The captain was in the foretop all night, and had no-sleep for three days or nights; in fact, for a week few of us had any sleep. We remained in the ice till the 28th, when it cleared, and we made East Cape and the islands. The strait was blocked with ice. We worked through and came out of it off Cape Prince of Wales. On the 28th, during a thick snowstorm, the bark ran aground on the shoals off the cape. She lay on the bottom and pound ed hard for about an hour. It was pret ty bad, and we thought things had come to a climax. We were compelled to throw lots of stuff overboard to get her off, From the time we left Cape Prince of Wales till we had passed the Fox is lands, the weather was very bad and dirty, from the Islands to San Francis co the weather was pleasant with light contrary winds. The probable fate of the Vigilant and Mount Wollaston, can only be conjectured. If they persisted in making their way north, as the cap tains intended, they were undoubtedly caught in the ice an event which leads to the conclusion that the will never be seen again. None of the vessels had seen the Jeannette, although it was reported that the Sea Breeze had sighted her. The -winter the whalers all admit, is a very severe one, and the impression is that the Jeannette has sought some shel tered spot in which to winter. American Wood Engravers American wood engravers are the best in the world, and even the London Saturday Review at length recognizes the fact. "The impartial critic," it says, "who asked where the best wood cuts are produced, has, we fear, but one answer possible: Neither in England, Germany nor France, but in America. In fact, the engraver there is far ahead of the artist,' and if they had such men as our own chief book illustrators artists to whom drawing on wood has been a special study to draw for their en gravers, " our trans-Atlantic cousins might well boast that they had beaten the country of Bewick and Jackson. The only proof needed of the truth of our re luctant admission may be found in a mo ment. Take any recent number of such an American periodical as Scribner'g Magazine, wA compare it with the Corn hill. Yet look at the delicacy of the American engraving, the number of dif ferent tints and shades, the microscopic graining of the ground, the absolute fidelity of the print to the original draw ing, the subordination of the engraver's mind to that of the artist whose work he perpetuates. In ordinary English wood cuts, the artist's work is translated, not perpetuated. It is obliterated, and we must put up with a translation, just as some ancient Greek authors are only known by the Latin versions of their works. A child can recognize the heavy hand of the engraver. His individuality, his mannerism, his much more strongly marked than that of the artist, and in the result we have a black and white imitation of a pen-and-ink drawing, absolutely devoid of gradation, and showing everywhere that the cutter has been wrestling with the artist, not help ing him; has been shouting him down, rather than allowing him to tell his own tale. It is, of course, no business of ours to ask how the American engraver obtains his effects, whether he largely uses machinery, whether he cuts on a softer wood than box, or on no wood at all, but some composition. All this is beside the question; certain it is that, if we want to see modern xylography worthy to compare with Bewick's, we must go to America for it.' " Two men started out on a wager to see which could tell the biggest lie. No. 1. commenced: "A wealthy country editor" whereupon No. 2 stopped right there and paid the forfeit. To Young Men. And then remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you have to handle a pick or a pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a pa per, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you will look around you will see that the men who are the most able to work are the men you work the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork, son. It is beyond your power to do that. Men cannot work so hard as that on the sunny side of 30. They die sometimes because they quit work at 6 P. m. and don't get home until 2 a. m. It's the in tervals that kill, my son. The work gives yon an appetite for your meals, it lends solidity to your slumber, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, my son; young men who make a living by sucking the end of a cane, whose entire mental development is in sufficient to tell them which side of a postage stamp to lick; young men who can tie a necktie in eleven different knots and never lay a wrinkle in it, and then would get into a West Hill street car to go to Chicago; who can spend more mon ey in a day than you can earn in a month; who will go to the Sheriffs to buy a pos tal card, and apply at the office of Street Commissioner for a marriage license. But the world is not proud of them, my son. It does notknow their names, even ; it simply speaks of them as oh Soanso's boys. Nobody lakes them, nobody hates them; the great, busy world doesn't even know they are there, and at the great day of resurrection if they do not appear at the sound of the trumpet, and they cer tainly will not unless somebody tells them what it is for and what to do, I don't think Gabriel will miss them or notice their absence, and they will not be sent for or disturbed. Things will go on just as well without them. So find out what you want to be and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less dev iltry you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier will be your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you. No, my son, the world does not owe you a living. The world does not need you you need the world. If you can convince the world that you are necess ary to its well-being, its happiness, its pleasure, its moral existence, then the world will begin to claim you and make room for you in the body pews with the softest cushions and the easiest footstools. But don't fall into the common error of supposing that the world owes yon a liv ing. It doesn't owe you anything of the kind. The world isn't responsible for your being. It didn't send for you and it never asked you to come here, and ur no sense is it obliged to support you now that yon are here. Your living is here a good comfortable living. Plenty to eat, plenty to wear, an abundance of good, healthful, hard work, ripples of laughter, and sprinkles of tears, hours of happiness and moments of heartache, days of labor and nights of rest, duties to be performed and rewards to be won; it is all here, son disappointments, strug gles, success, and honors, but the world doesn't owe you one of them; not one. You can't collect your living as yon would a debt, by simply presenting your bill, or giving your lawyer the account to sue. You have to work for it soon and work like a Trojan, too. When you hear a man say the world owes him a liv ing, and he is going to have it, make up your mind that he is just making him self a good excuse for stealing a living. The world doesn't owe any man anything, son. It will give you anything you earn, and you just look out over the world and know that all the plunder you can gath er in by honest work is yours, and no more. If you can't get any, why none of it is yours, and if you can search out and carry away ten times as much as your neighbor, why it is all yours, and he has no right to wait and whine over his bad luck and want to divide. And , in all hnman probability, you : want to divide. I hope you may, but it is very likely you won't. if. J. Burdette in Burlington Hawkeye. mv son will not Hindoo Women. The Hindoo women, when young, are delicate and beautiful, as far as we can reconcile beauty with olive complexion, says the London Times. They are finely proportioned; their features soft and regular, and their eyes black and languishing; but the bloom of beauty soon decays, and age makes rapid progress before they have seen 30 years. This may be accounted for from the heat of the climate and the customs of the country, as they are often mothers at 12 years of age. No women can be more attentive to cleanli ness than the Hindoos; they take every method to render their person delicate, soft and attractive; their dress is peculiarly becoming, consisting of a piece of silk or cotton, tied around the waist, and hanging in a graceful manner to the feet; it is afterward brought over the body in negligent folds; under this they cover the bosom with a short waist coat of satin, but wear no linen. Their long black hair is adorned with jewels and wreaths of flowers. Their ears are bored in many places, and loaded with pearls, a variety of gold chains, strings of pearls and precious stones fall from the neck over the bosom, and the arms are covered with bracelets from the wrist to the elbow. They have also gold ttnd silver chains round their ankles and an abundance of rings on their fingers and toes; among those on the fingers is fre quently a small mirror. I think the richer the dress the less becoming it ap peal's, and a Hindoo woman of dis tinction always seems to be overloaded with finery, while the village nymphs, with fewer ornaments, but in the same elegant drapery.are more captivating al though there are vcrv few women, even of the lowest families, who have not some jewels at their marriage. They who stand in high stations look for higher; but they who have occupied the highest of ail. often think with regret of some one pleasanter they left below. The most wonderful thing m human natnre is the variance of knowl edge and will, where no passion is the stimulant; whence the system of life is often chosen and persevered in which a man is well convinced is neither the best for him nor the easiest. Few can see clearly where the happiness lies, and. in those who see it, you will scarcely find one who has the courage to pursue it. Every action must have its motive; but weak motives are sufficient for weak minds; and whenever we see one which 5 believe to be a stronger, moved habitually by what appears inadequate, we may be certain that there is (to bring a metaphor from the forest) more top than root. The telephone, after being in use only two or three years, pays inteiest on an invested capital of $5,000,000. Sorth Atlantic Icebergs. The recent disaster to the Arizona wilr not be an unmixed evil ifnt serve to open np and settle some of the questions rela tive to the icebergs which infest the western basin of the North Atlantic. There is probably no track of any ocean largely frequented by ships that exposes them to peril from ice so much as the peninsula shaped sea of cold water south of Newfoundland. As the Gulf Stream nears the Grand Banks it makes what Lieutenant Maury called the "Great Bend," into which, as a grand "iceberg harbor," the glacial drift of the whole Arctic Ocean pours its chilling volumes. The Antarctic Ocean has at every meridi an a free outlet for its surplus ices, which, after they emerge from the South Polar circle, form an almost uninter rupted belt about the sixtieth parallel of south latitude. But the North Polar ocean, having no outlet at Bearing Strait (through the narrows of which no ice berg can make its way against the inflow ing warm current) , and the sea between Greenland and Norway being mostly oc cupied by southerly currents, the only great gateway through which it can dis charge its frozen masses is Davis Strait. No body of water on the globe of bike size yet discovered can compare with this for the volumes of ice which it transports to low latitudes. The single ice drift which bore the old exploring ship Keso- lute, abandoned by Kellett and floated through Jtfamn s Bay to the southward, was computed by Herschel and others to cover 300,000 square miles, and Scoresby measured icebergs in the Greenland seas weighing as many tons. It is remarkable that the icebergs of the entire arctic basin which find their way to Newfoundland should all make for the "Ureal liend ofi the ureal Banks, where the Gulf Stream turns sharply to the northeast. The prevailing winds are westerly, and would, were there no coun teracting force, drive the ice to the east So would the Gulf Stream there tend to distribute them over the eastern Atlantic But the force of the earth's diurnal rota tion and the underflow of the arctic cur rent, acting on the largest or submerged part oi the berg, press it to the westward and carry it into the "Great Bend," through which the navigation of the world continues to this day to select its transatlantic routes. It is claimed by some apologists for the Arizona's collision that the Newfound land icebergs are rarely met with except in spring. But Maury states that the cold current from Davis Strait "in late summer and autumn brings down a large number." Certain it is that, with prob ably the exception of the three winter months, a ship is at no time secure from the rude encounter with such an obstacle as met the Guion steamer. The ill-fated City of Boston, which gome years ago left Halifax in the last week in February and was never heard from, it is thought by many perished in the ice. But what is of greater import, it appears from well authenticated data that in some years the ice-drift from the polar seas is so abnor mally great as to falsify the calculations of the oldest and most experienced sea men. Thus, in lWbO, Sir .Leopold Mc Clintock found that unusually great quantities of icebergs had accumulated on the Greenland coast "to an extent not previously known for about thirty-six years, a tact which Admiral r itzroy ex plained by the abnormal heats which pre vailed in the two preceding years; and, of course, in the first warm season that succeeded, these towering formations were launched upon the Arctic current that descends to Newfoundland. Simi larly, in 1869, from the Antarctic basin, there was an abnormal discharge of ice bergs into the ship tracks of the South ern Ocean in quantities and of dimen sions greater than had ever before been recorded by the British Admiralty. It is possible that the present month and the early spring of 1880 will prove as mem orable for icebergs in the Atlantic as the summer of 18b9 was in the South Indian Ocean. In the long dark nights of an antarctic winter, when the moon is not near the full, the great anxiety of the skillful nav igator is, as Jntzroy says, to keep "a vig ilant lookout for ice." This is no less true in the foggy nights of our northern winter off the Grand Banks. It is said that icebergs at the distance of several miles can be detected by their depressing effect on the sea temperature, sometimes amounting to ten degrees of the ther mometer. But, valuable as instrumental indications surely are, the chief depend ence must ever be upon the "vigilant lookout." If the steamship companies will risk the dangers of the Great Banks rather than lose a little time, their cap tains should, at least, be required to be on deck the little while their vessels are running the great ice gauntlet at night. New York Herald. The Authob of "Kismet." The news that Miss Fletcher, the daughter of an American missionary, granddaughter of a Genevan preacher and author of "Kismet, is to marry Lord Wentworth, the grandson of Byron, is somewhat rur- prising. Lord Wentworth has always been a strange man. During the life of his father, when he wore by courtesy the title of Viscount Ockham, he became es tranged from his family and labored for years in a shipyard as a common work man. He married and had children, but the union was unhappy; his wife was beautiful, scandal arose and a divorce ensued. Ralph Gordon Noel-Milbanke, the second son of Lady Lovelace ("Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart") is now 40 years old; it is interesting to note 'hat his title of Baron Wentworth de ives from Charles I.'s earl of Strafford. x!y and by there was a sort of Byron ic premonition in Miss Fletcher's familiar name of "Dudu" inevitably reminding one of a little incident in the adventures of "Don Juan." Springfield Republi can. The house at Gadshill, which was oc cupied for years by Charles Dickens, and under whose roof he died, was lately put up at auction. Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man with out it. Our people are fast learning to ap preciate and consume good mutton, while the demand from abroad for American mutton is growing with astonishing rapidity. A rich and childless merchant of Tam- kboy, Karpoof by-name, has left a fortune of BOU.UUU rouDies nearly mA,vw to the Nihilist heroine, Vera Sassaulitch. The local court has admitted the will to probate. There is, however, one little formality to go through with before the young lady who shot General Trepoff can get the money she mast appear in the Russian Court and prove hsr iden-tit timiscences. The death of the late General Joseph Hooker recalls to the mind of the wri;r a memorable incident that occurred during our "late unpleasantness" of 3000 Confederates warmly cheering a Major General of the United States Army. Those of our readers who shared with us the privations of a prison like in Rock Island, 111., during the severe winter of 1863 will learn with sorrow of the death of General Hooker ; a sorrow born of. profound respect for a gallant soldier and true gentleman, and the mention of his name will doubtless re call fresh to their memories the visit of inspection he paid the prison in if we mistake not the date the winter of 1863. In full uniform and mounted on a large, handsome gray stallion. General Hooker presented a grand appearance when he entered the prison gate. By his side rode Lieutenant-Colonel Carrier, second in command of the post, but who really commanded it, and a more cowardly, cruel and dirty villain never disgraced God's image of man. Behind the two rode a couple of officers we have forgotten their names, but they were members of - General Hooker s staff. Slowly the little cavalcade rode down, and then up the lines of the wretched, half -starved captives who were drawn up for inspection, but who instinctively shrank back from the bru tal and triumphant stare of Carrier, ex pecting every moment to receive a curse or a blow from him. The keen, quick eyes of General Hooker seemed to scan every man from head to heel, as he slowly passed them in review, and at the upper end of the lines, near where the writer stood, the party halted; and the old General, half wheeling his horse, lifted his hat with as much knightly grace as if we had all been courtiers, and a soft expression passed over his face as he said, "Young gentlemen, I am sorry very sorry, for you, and hope that our differences will be settled, so that you all can return safely home again.'' simple as the expression was, it was so different from those we had been accus tomed to hearing from the commander of the prison that it touched the hearts of the "ragged rebs" like a current of electricity, and instantly three thousand throats gave a lusty cheer for lighting Joe Hooker. We are pretty certain that there was not a man in the line who would not, if he had a chance, have hung Carrier at that time ; and we were equally as cer tain there was not a rebel on the ground would not, at the same time, have risked his own life to save Gen. Hooker from harm. It is with profound sorrow that we an nounce his death, for when friendless, penniless and fettered in irons, he cheered us by his gentle looks, and won our respect and admiration by his kind words; and we, as ex-Confederate soldiers, will contribute our mite towards having his name engraved upon the everlasting rock of Lookout Moun tain; and let the mountain itself be his monument, for no man during the war, whether he wore the blue or the gray, more truly won his sobriquet than did the gallant "Fighting Joe Hooker." Nashville, Tenn., Mural bun Novem ber lSlh. The Suffering Saltan. $66 The Constantinople correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, writing on the 24th of September, gives a gloomy account of the state of affairs on the Bos- phorus. He says: The supposed attempt to assassinate the sultan has made a deep impression, and Abdul Hamid is now brooding over the stormy scenes and violent events which had rendered possible his advance ment to the throne. Ugly rumors are floating about as to mental derangement and wild measures being instituted to give a fancied increase of security to the palace of Yildiz, and though it would be hardly safe upon such grounds to assert that the present Saltan was going the way of his predesessor, it is certain that the unfortunate monarch at the present moment is suflering from great nervous depression, and can hardly be brought to pay the necessary attention to public affairs. While gloom and distrust reign at the palace, anger and despair have en tered every Turkish household at Con stantinople. Discontent is hardly the term for the feeling with which the present state of affairs is viewed by the people in general; for the language of individuals when they nnd themselves free to express their thoughts is disloyal in the extreme. How can it be otherwise when, aftei months of patient waiting, they find matters going from bad to worse; and the promised amelioration as far on as ever? The last .tsairam has been anything but a season of joy; for the struggle to keep the wolf from the door has left nothing for feasting. For the first time within the memory of any one at Constantinople, perhaps in the history of the Turks since they first be gan to form a nation, the troops did not receive a month s pay either in Jtiamazan or Bairam. Only the officers received half a month's pay, and even this relief was not extended to all, while the rations upon which these families depend for food have been falling into arrear. The people are cowed, and among themselves hardly venture to air their grievances for fear of the secret police. 1 have heard lately of one officer who ventured to present a petition to the Sultan having mysteriously disappeared. Hts family have sought for tidings of him in vain. and the supposition is that he is now on his way to some distant place of exile for having spoken too plainly of the distress among the poorer officers. Unfortu nately for the people, the scarcity of money, and the distress it occasions, is not brought home to the ministers and the heads of departments. They always manage to secure their large salaries whether debts remain unpaid. No steps have yet been taken for the reorganiza tion of the police and gendarmie, or the reduction of tho army and navy. The Imperial irade was signed for the dis banding of some seventy-five battalions during the Ramazan, and it was said that the men would .be sent to their homes immediately after Briram; but appar ently tho Scraskeir ite has not been able to provide the necessary money for pay ing even a portion of the arrears due to the poor soldiers, and the arsenal for the same reap on cannot furnish the neces sary transport. Conscience is the voice of the soul: the passions are the voice of the body. If every person would be half as good as he expects his neighbor to be, what a heaven this world would be! Gaor&re Eliot is in a very nrecarioua sti te of health. She is at presc nt resid ing at her country house near Godal ming. . A WEEK in your own town and no capital risked You can give the business a trial without expense. The best opportunity ever offered for those willine to work. You should try nothing else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we offer. No room to explain here. You can devote all your time or only your spare time to the business, and make great pay for every hour you work. Women make as much as men. Send for special private terms and par ticulars, which we mail free. $6 outfit free. Don't comp'ain of hard times while you have such a chance Address If. HALLETT k CO., Portland, Maine. 16:31yl $15 TO $000 A YEAR, or $5 to $20 a day in your own locality. Ho rislt. Wo men do as well as men. Many make more than the amount stated above. No one can fail to make money fast. Any one can do the work You can make from 50c ts to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business. It costs nothing to try the business Nothing liko it for money making ever offered before Business pleasant and strict ly honorable Reader, if you want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address and we will send you full particulars and private terms free; samples worth $5 also free; you can then make up your mind for yourself Address GEORGE STINSON A CO , Portland, Maine. 16:31yl SAFS & LOCK COMPANY, CAI'ltAI. - - - l,non,0o Uenrral (' fliers vnd a iu factory CINCINNATI, OHIO. l'ACtFic Branch, No. 210 Sansoiue St., S. F Agency fur Orejain and Washington Territory, with 11 A w UKij vuuu cu., rortiana. HALL'H patent concrete FIRE-PROOF SAFES. ILive been tested by the most disastrous confla grations in the country. They are thoroughly lire proof. They are free from dampness. Their superiority is beyond question. Although about 150,000 of these safes are now in use, and hundreds nave been tested oy some of the most disastrous conflagrations in the country, there is not a single instance on record wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its contents perfectly. HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED TENOK AND GROOVE BURGLAR-PROOF A FE!. llave never been broken open and robbed by burglars or robbers. Hall's burglar work is protected by letters . . . , . : i , patent, and ins worn cannot oe cquaieu lawiuuy. His natent bolt is superior to anv in use. His patent locks cannot be picked by the most skillful experts or ourgiars. Bv one of the greatest improvements., known, the Gross Automatic Movement, our MPs are oiierated without any arbor or spindle passing through the door and into the lock. Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur glars or exerts, (as in case of other locks), and we will put iron $l,uuu 'o ?iu,uuu oenino mem any time uizainst an eo.ua! amount. The most skilled workmen only are employed. Their work cannot be excelled. Hall's Safes and Locks can be -elied on at all times. They are eanfully and thorughly constructed. THEY ABE THE BEM SAFE Made in America, or any other country. Ono Thouisund Dollars To any person who c n prove that one of Hall's patent burglar-proot sates nas ever oeen broken open and robbed by burglars up to the (.-resent time. P. IV. WILLIAMS, Agent for Oregon and W. T. rii tvlth Han lev. iiodd '.. 2S:ebl6:9tf. Portland. Bees Hamlin. Emmett F. Wbenn. DRAY AGE ! DRAY AGE! Hamlin & Wrenn. Propr'a. "HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM Salem with a new truck, and having leased the bam ionnerly occupied by James Eg- ltn, we are now prcpa eel to uo ait Kinas oi D RAYING AD HAULING, either in the city or country, at the lowest living rates. Can be lound at the old irucn siana. & share of the public patronage resjiectfully solicited. Corvallis. 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Published Monthly in octavo form, at $2.00 a year in advance, or 20 cents a number. New volumes January and July Inclose amount in a registered letter or bv a P. 0. crder for one or for all of the above, and address S. R. WELLS A CO., Publishers, 7.17 Broadway, New York. Agents wanted. RUPTURE CURED! From a Merchant. Dayto.s, W. T. Feb. 10, 1879. W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 720 Market street, San Francisso Dear Sir: The Truss I purchased of you one year ago baj proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur ed forty years, and wore dozens of different kinds of Trusses, all of which ruined my health, as they were very injurious to my back and spine. Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe and is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords me so much pleasure. I can and do advise all, both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme diately. I never expect to be cured, but am sat isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to wear it. It was the best $10 I ever invested in my life. You can refer any oue to me, and I will be happy to answer any letters on its merits, remain, yours, respectfully. D. D. Bunnell. Latest Medical Endorsements-. Maeti.vkz, Cat, Feb. 17, 1879. W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 720 Market street, 8. F. Dear Sir: In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, I would say that I have carefully studied its mechanism, ap plied it in practice, and I do not hesitate to say that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn it is the b st Truss ever offered to the public. Yours truly. J. H. Caeothbbs, M. D. Eodorted by m Prominent Medical Instt lute. San Fbancisco, March 0, 1879. W. J. Home, Esq. Dear Sir . You ask my opinion of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic Truss, as compared with other kinds that have been tested under my observation, and in reply I frankly state, that from the time my at tention was first called to their simple, though highly mechanical and philosophical construction, together with easy adjustibiiity to persons of all ages, forms and sfzes. I add this further testi monial with special pleasure, that the several persons who have applied to mo for aid in their cases of rupture, and whom I have advised to try yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction, and consider themselves highly favored by the possession of your improved Elastic Truss. Yours tiuly, Bablow J. Smith, M. D. Proprietor of the Hygienic Medical Institute 635 California street, San Francisco. A Remarkable Cure. San Fbancisco, Oct. 20, 1879. W J. Home, Proprietor Calilornia Elastic Truss, 720 Market street, gan Francisco Dear Sir: I am truly grateful to you for the wonder ful CURE your valuable Truss has effected on my liuio hav. The double Truss I purchased from you has PERFECTLY CURED him of his pain ful rupture on both sides in a little over six mnnths. The Steel Truss he had before I bought yours caused him cruel torture, and it was a hap nv day for us all when he laid it aside for the CALIFORNIA ELASTIC TRUSS. I am sure that all will be thankful who aie providentially led to (rive vour Truss a trial. You may refer anv one to me on the subject. Yours truly, J nr.. ii ooo o qi TV M. L JEKU, IIOO OUU MiaMI Thin is to certify that I have examined the son of Wm. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY CURED of Hernia, on both sides. Li. 11RXTKB LiTFonn, M. i'. Surgeon and Physician. Trusses forwarded to all parts of the United States at our expense, on receipt oj pnee. mmmM stamp tor Illustrated Catalogue Giving full information and rules for measuring California VlWnT 720 Narket Sired, 9. F. $300 A MONTH guaranteed. $12 a day at home made by tho indus trious. Capital not required; we will start vou. Men, women, boys and girls make money faster at work for us than at anything else, rne worn is ngnt ami pleasant, and such as anyone can go right at. Those who arc wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and sec for tbemsel ves. n..i iitfit. and terms free. Now is the time. Those alreadv at work are laying up large sums of money. 'Address TRUE A CO., Augusta, Maine. mkmjm;