The Corvallis gazette., March 12, 1880, Page 4, Image 4

WEEKLY CORY ALMS GAZETTE
OORVALLIS. - - MARCH 12, 1880.
CHOOSING SIDES.
In a sunny little school room, that I remember
well,
A row of little boys and girls are standing np
to spell.
The low brown door was open, and across tbe
meadow green
Came glimpses of tne forest and tbe broo'i that
lay between.
And as I sat with dreamy eyes, and watched
the silver gleam
CM the waving locust blossoms that to childish
fancy seem
Like the banners of the angels, borne aloft
against tbe sky,
My heart was full of shadows, and I'll tell the
reason why.
'Twas "spelling day," and Harry Lane, tbe lad
I l ived the best.
Who smiled upon me every morning sweeter
than tbe rest,
Had chosen Sue and dark -eyed Kate as cham
pions on his side.
And thus to me came lesson first in woman's
wounded pride.
Why marvel that a mystic veil obscures Xhe
summer air.
And shadows in the doorway seemed to mock
m deep despair;
The woman's heart in girlhood has its embryo
hopes and fears,
With throes of tender passion, that mature in
after years.
Bntere the gathering tear drops fell, the music
of his voice
Rang out like soft tojied silver bells that made
my heart rejoice.
And little May was chosen next to fill the va
cant place.
With smiles o( pleasure chasing fast the sad
ness from her face.
I call to mind, though long pgo, that summer
afternoon.
The glance of love he gave me as I crossed that
It'tle room.
And stranger still my heart yet thrills with
happlntss and pride
As when be getitly pressed my hand, while
standing by my lde.
Another summer afternoon, but links of life
between
Tbe golden chain of childhood and the years
that intervene,
And Hairy Lane, a lad no more, but a man of
courtly grace.
Was questioning with eager eyes a happy.
oiusntog race;
Butnot within the school-room now, fur Death
tbe locust blooms.
That toss abroad tbelr giant arms and drop
their fragrant plumes.
We stand -ana one would scarcely think he's
"choosing tides" to-day.
But then it is for life he says and chooses
Utile May.
TIBBY AND TOSEY.
Kitty had been to the charity ball, and
the charity ball was very fashionable,
there was no doubt about that. Kitty
had eaten a late supper, returned home,
gone to bed and to sleep; there was no
doubt of that. She recollected distinctly
throwing one shoe under the bed and the
other into a eorner, saying "Good night"
to her own figure in the looking glass,
twisting the figure of a butterfly till her
fingers ached before she discovered that
it was not the eras-stopper, and then
laughing sleepily at all her mistakes. She
even remembered the first dream of her
sleep, which was something about char
ity diamonds, chicken -salad, lancers and
ice-cream waltzes.
No; there was no doubt that she had
gone through all this; yet there she was,
staring in at the windows of the great
ball-room, and the ball was just commenc
ing. Could she have gone to sleep on
the window-sill in some mysterious man
ner. No ; she was outside and standing
inthe air, with somebody holding on to
her hand !
"Oh, dear," thought Kitty, mournful
ly, "I must have drank some wine some
how. How strange it is! I wonder how
I came here! But what colds hands hold
m ne; it's not papa's, for it makes me
shiver. He must be horrid. I won't
look at him. So!"
There did not seem to be much need of
the resolve, however, for the person who
held her hand did not move nor seem to
care whether she saw him or not, but
quietly looked in with her. So, at last,
like most girls, Kitty's curiosity got the
better of her, and she cautiously glanced
out of the corners of her eyes.
Beside her she saw an old man. His
beard and hair were long and white, and
dropped about his neck and shoulders,
like falling snow. Upon his head was
lightly placed a crown as of trost-work,
so delicate was its texture. Robes, long
and dark, and cold to look at, fell in
broad folds from his shoulders, and were
held to his waist by a girdle of twink
ling stars. He was gazing in at the
brilliant assemblage with a sad, melan
choly lDok upon his face.
Kitty looked at his robes.
"How very old-fashioned !" she thought
''and aged, very aged."
"Yes," murmured the old man; "old,
very old.''
Kitty started. He read her thoughts,
evidently. She was sorry now she had
thought it, he looked so sad.
"Who are you?" asked Kitty, timidly,
"and why have you brought me here?"
"I am the Cold Night," said the old
man, "lowly turning his eyes toward her.
His eyes were sharp and piercing, yet
full of kindness. "And have brought
you here that you- might see how great
your charity is, for I heard this was a
charity-ball."
"Yes," said Kitty nervously.
"I am a friend of the poor," continued
he Cold Night; "and I love to see chari
ty." He looked back into the ball-room
as he spoke. "You see all your friends
here?"
"Yes," said Kitty brightening up and
gazing inside with something of a proud
look. There's Flowery Hall right be
fore the window now. She has those
beautiful solitaire diamonds in her
ears now. Oh, dear, how bright they
look, I wish I had them."
"But you had the handsomest dress,"
said the Cold night, sadly.
"Oh, yes," exclaimed Kttty, quickly,
"It was of the richest silk and cost
several hundred dollars. Papa was so
kind."
"And it was bought for charity?"
asked the Cold Night.
"Why, no, for me, of course." an
swered Kittv, in surprise.
"But the "ball is for charity?"
Kitty began to be bewildered by so
much catechising, and she was much
relieved when he led her away.
They descended to the grand en
trance, where he pointed to two little
beggars, a boy and a girl, who fiddled
and sang, and asked a penny of all the
rich people descending from their car
riages. "You passed them by to-night?"
"Yes, but they are horrid beggars,"
said Kitty. The Cold night was silent;
and Kitty was afraid she might have
said something wrong, so she added:
"And common street fiddlers."
But the Cold Night said nothing.'
They both watched the little duo,
Tosey and Tibby, the Cold Night
and drew nearer to hear what they
would say. People, rich with money
and great in charity carefully passed
thom iv fnr thev were racnred hee--
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garb and fiddled and sang. It was
cold, very cold; and Tosey played very,
very slowly, while the breath of Tibby's
quivering plaint disappeared despair
ingly on the frosty air. The wheels of
carnages seemed to creak in sympathy
as they crushed down in the snow. Yes,
it was cold indeed, yet they fiddled and
sang untiringly, while the rich people
alighted and passed up the grand en
trance, after glancing contemptuously at
the poor little duo, who fiddled and sang
as the brilliant dresses disappeared in
the distant doorway; but finally stopped
as the last carriage drove away.
"I suppose we looks too awful," said
Tosey, wetting his lips and feeling va
cantly in his small pocket, which God
knows, had not seen as much as a dime
for many and many a day.
"Yes, ' said Tibby, "but I does feel so
hungry, and I sang so loud, and I tried
so hard "
Tibby slightly sobbed and silently
used a small piece of her shawl to wipe
away a big tear.
"Don't cry." said Tosey, tremulously,
"let's move on, and perhaps well find
little somethin'. Oh, if we only had a
few pennies V
Tosey took Tibby's hand and they
started to move away.
"Oh! Mr. Cold Night," said Kitty sor
rowfully, "let me give them something
poor little things !"
"But they are beggars." answered the
Cold Night.
Kitty looked ashamed. She could feel
herself blush, even though she was cold
and shivering. The Cold Night handed
her a piace of silver.
"Yes," said he, "drop it, even if it is
wasted. See what they will do."
Kitty took it quickly and dropped it
before them. Eight at Tibby's foot fell
the money, which she would have passed
unnoticed if Tosey had not exclaimed:
"Oh, Tibby, there's a dime!" and
picked it up.
Tibby clasped her hands in delight,
danced up and down and then looked in
to his hand, to be sure that it was really
there. It was surely.
"Won't we have a hot potato, though,"
said Tosey.
"And a big roll, and some butter, and
some meat, and just a very little piece of
pie?"
Tibby named each of them on the ends
of her fingers, but stopped when she got
to her thumb, for the money was all gone
by that time, and the thumb was quite
large.
"But how did it come there?" asked
Tosey.
"Could it have growed?" suggested
Tibby.
"No," said Tosey.
"Fell from the sky?"
"Guess not," said Tosey, dubiously.
"Or been flunged ?"
"Oh, no, of course not!" Tosey an
swered emphatically.
They both looked hungrily at the
piece of money, and began to count to
gether what lots of things they could
buy; and their faces grew bright, indeed,
as they thought of it.
From the shades of the opposite side
of the entrance, a thin bundle of rags
slowly crept, and steadily shuffled up to
them. Ont of the dirt and rags peered a
thin face and glistening eyes, and the
hands of the small bundle wearily nibbed
themselves together, to try and stir up
the blood that was not there.
"This is a charity ball," said the thin
bundle. "These folks dance for the
poor." The glistening eyes looked
eagerly at Tosey and Tibby, and fre
quently glanced at the money in their
hands. "We is poor and dances for us
and me mother, who is sick abed, they
dances to give us the bread which we
seldom has."
Tosey looked in suprise at the thin
bundle rubbing its hands.
"And does they dress in nice closes for
us, and ride in carriages, and give lots of
money, and all for us ?"
The thin bundle rubbed faster and
faster.
"Yes, if there's any more than as pays
for the dancin' and the dressin'; and the
dancin' costs ten dollars a piece, and the
dressin' I dunno! It's all for us if
there's any left."
"But they didn't give us any when I
sang," said Tibby.
"Lors no!" said the thin bundle; "tbey
has folks as hunts up poor folks when
they has time, and sews flannels when
they hasn't. Yes, they says they does all
this for us, but " The bundle shook
its head as if doubtftil, and continued:
"I stood over yonder thinkin' some
body would give me sumthin'; but they
all looked mad at me, and I went back
into the shadder and watched 'em. It
was a big sight, and I am jest as hun
gry." The hands stopped rubbing, and
the eyes looked wet as the bundle added :
"My mother is very, very sick. We's
poor so poor." .
Tosey looked at her little sister as the
rags began to shuffle away.
"Tibby, does we feel so awful hungry?"
said he.
Tibby hesitated. She looked at the
silver, and then the slowly retreating
figure, and then she looked up into
Tosey's gentle, loving face.
"No, Tosey, I dunno as I does."
Tosey turned round, and running after
the departing figure, handed her the
piece of money.
"There," said he, "take it; you need it
worse nor we does."
The bundle looked in surprise as she
took the piece, and tears fell down the
thin, pale face. But she only said:
"I'm very, very grateful," and walked
off.
The two little musicians watched the
figure as it disappeared in the darkness,
while the happy shuttle grew fainter and
fainter.
. Ah, there was charity, God-like
charity, in the hearts of the beings the
rich despised and thrust out of their
doors.
As the Cold Night turned toward
Kitty, he found her silently wiping her
eyes.
"Do you see what true charity is?"
asked he, in a sweet, sympathetic voice.
"Yes, yes, I see," murmured Kitty.
While they were talking they had
slowly risen up, to the brilliant windows
again.
"Now look at the mockery," said the
Cold N;.ght, somewhat harshly.
It was the most brilliant hour of the
ball. Light from myriads of jets, em
bedded in massive chandeliers, sparkled
with dazzling intensity, making the
brightest day of gloomy night. People
decked with jewels and silks and laces,
were gathered in merry groups, or join
ing in pleasurable dance to the strains of
sweet and lively music. It was a beauti
ful sight indeed ; but somehow, the peo
ple looked heartless to Kitty, and the
jewels glittered spitefully, while the rich
silks seemed to hiss and hiss as they
rustled along, as if all were rebelling
against their false use.
"But one more act," said the Cold
Night, leading her gently down to the
opposite side of the street.
From a dark corner, with their arms
twined about each other's neck, the two
little beggars watched the windows of
the brilliantly lighted hall away up in
the sky it seemed watched the gay
figures that frequently appeared in rich,
dainty dresses, and smiled to think that
it was all for the poor and needy.
"They dances for us and for others,"
murmured Tibby, "for those as in want.
Maybe the beautiful ladies will find us
here to-morrow, and give us some
bread."
"Yes," said Tosey; "and the poor lit
tle girl as had the sick mother. P'haps
they'll find them, and help them, too.
The Cold Night waved his hand above
them, and they both shivered, and said
how cold it was. Tosey tried to play a
note on his violin, but the strings creak
ed so dismally that he laid it aside. Then
they sang together the sweet little song
of charity which Tibby had sung to the
rich people; and, as they sang, the Cold
Night spread his mantle slowly around
them until they were fast asleep.
"Oh, sir!" cried Kitty, "spare them,
and let them live."
"No," said Cold Night, "they are too
poor to live. They must die."
Kittie fell on her knees before him.
"Oh, sir," she pleaded beseechingly,
"I am rich and will take care of them,
and relieve them from suffering."
But the Cold Night raised his hand
and pointed upward, saying:
"To late, to late?"
As he spoke he took the beggars in his
arms, slowly rose up toward the stars and
leaving Kitty sobbing on the ground.
As she knelt there she heard, high in the
skies, the song that the beggars sang, the
song of sweet charity, swelling to a
mighty chorus, as one would think to
celebrate a mighty deed mighty in the
sight of heaven. She tried to rise
her head but could not, she seemed
bound to the earth by a great weight, as
of gold, while above the song gre.v faint
er and fainter, till at last it ceased, then
she fell into a deep swoon.
It was broad daylight when Kitty
awoke, and the sun was shining brightly
into her window. In the hall the maid
humming a subdued song as she went
blithely about her work ; while without
tne white smoke of morning fires signs
of stirring life curled upwards from the
chimney-tops into the cool air as if glad
to meet the light of day.
"It was only a dream; yet, oh, how
vivid?" thought Kitty, as she rubbed her
eyes again and again, surprised to see
the walls of her own pretty room actually
around her.
"Only a dream, only a dream; yet how
full of truth!" cheerily rang the milk
man's bell as Kitty donned her morning
dress; while, as she passed down the
broad staircase the great hall clock seem
ed to say:
"Only a dream, only a dream; yet
there's a lesson, yet there's a lesson;" and
Kitty pondered.
A year from that time Kitty parsed by
the same old clock; but this time it said
as it ticked, ticked away:
"Onlv a dream vet it's made her an
angel angel of mercy to suffering need
Her name so dear to us, is a name of love
among the poor. Ah, happy, happy was
the day when, to her eyes, a dream re
vealed tme chanty.
Machine Calculation.
Arithmometer is the name of a calcu
lating machine about which the average
business American knows little, if any
thing. Indeed, it is considerably doubt
ful whether more than two or three of
these brain-saving instruments have ever
made their way across the Atlantic.
Probably there are many models of com
puting devices stored away in the ifat-
ent (Jmce, lor the idea of the practica
bility of such things has long been com
mon property, and they have been evol
ved from the ingenuity of ambitious
mechanicians in profuse variety. The
builders cf some of them had the cor
rect principle in view, but their machines
would not apply it unfailingly. The
primary principle upon which others
were constructed were faulty, and, there
fore, no matter how beautifully the
springs azd cog-wheels operated, their
processes and results were anything but
mathematical and satisfactory.
The first mechanical calculator that
has honorable mention in authentic rec
ords was devised by a Frenchman nearly
250 years ago. Thus far the skill of
man lias failed to improve upon the
principle which it embodied. The arith
mometer that is now gradually working
its way into public favor, is constructed
upon the same old principle. It makes
acquaintances with the greatest diffi
dence, but it is so true to its promise
that, once the opportunity is given it
ingratiates itself with itt master beyond
the danger of repudiation. It is manu
factured only in Paris, and costs, ac
cording to grade based upon capacity,
from $75to 8100. It does not do all
kinds of arithmetical work, but, being
above trifles, is intended to solve only the
vaster problems that would otherwise
require tedious and exhaustive labor.
In the line of its natural duty it will
accomplish in a few minutes with abso
lute correctness what would take a lively
accountant several hours to perform.
This honest and convenient little au
tomaton does not profess to be of much
use save for simple multiplication and
division. These, however, are the pro
cessesses which draw most heavily and
frequently upon the ordinary compu
ter's time and patience. The machine
multiplies and divides through the pro
cesses of addition and subtraction, which,
as is well known among arithmeticians,
when repeated again and again, amount
to multiplication and division, lhe
average-sized instrument will give a
product of sixteen figures. In a few
seconds it may be adjusted to work a
long sum, after which, by several rapid
movements of a handle, the answer will
be made to appear. It will draw ratios
and percentages and reduce numbers
from one denomination to another, such
as francs to cents, tons to ounces, etc.
But it will only do this through the deci
mal system of computation. In making
intricate calculations of probabilities, as
is necessary in the science of insurance,
it has been found invaluable.
Wife: "But, my dear, I shall catch cold
coming down so late to let you in."
Husband: Oh, no, my love; 1 II rap you
up well before you come down."
We forgot boys. There is ono advan
tage a married man has over a bachelor,
viz: The privilege of attending a circus
under his own roof every night, where
his wife is the ring-master.
For ourselves, we own that we do not
understand the common phrase, "A good
man, but a bad king." We can as easily
conceive a good man and an unnatural
father, or a good man and a treacherous
friend. If, in the most important of hu
man relations we find him (Charles I.) to
have been selfish, cruel and deceitful, we
shall take the liberty to call him a bad
man, in spite of all his temperance at
table, and all his regularity at cbapel.
Captain Kidd.
"Was Captain Kidd a Pirate?" is the
subject of an essay read by Douglas
Campbell at the St. Nicholas Club of
New York, the authoi taking the ground
that Kidd, instead of a free-booter and
murderer, as he is painted, was, in
reality, a loyal subject of the King, and
fell a victim to the political persecution
of his friend and Whig patron, Lord
Somers, by the Tory lords, who came
into power in the last days of William
III. Kidd was by birth an Irishman or
Scotchman (for both coth countries
claimed him) who distinguished himself
as a privateer commander in the war
against the French, and with the wealth
acquired from privateering settled in
New York. His house was in Liberty
street, near Nassau. During the Lister
anarchy, which preceded the arrival of
the Earl of Belmont, Kidd rendered the
city valuable services, for which the
Governor and Assembly presented him
with 150. So great was his reputation
as a successful naval officer that the
colony of Massachusetts, in 1691, tried to
hire him to take charge of an expedition
against a privateer which ivas then
ravaging the coasts. Piracy and free
booting had then grown to a most
alarming extent, especially in the Indian
Ocean. Many of them were soi-distant
privateers from New York and other
American colonies, who, beginning with
the pursuit of French and Spanish ships,
in the end extending those operations to
those of all nations. It was to put down
these "Bed Sea men," as they were
called, that Kidd was sent out in tbe
Adventure galley with his crew of scape
graces and desperados. Among his
patrons and partners in the expedition
were Somers, Halifax, and the powerful
Whig Lords, and even the King himself
offered to invest $3000 in the undertak
ing. Arrived at the Indian Ocean, Kidd
found his insubordinate crew more
ready to take sides with the pirates than
to fight them. He captured some vessels
which he claimed were sailing under
French papers. It was his misfortune
that his mutinous crew prevented his
taking them before a prize court. After
the capture of the Quedagh, merchant,
owned by Moors, and which was made
the basis of the principal charge against
him, ninety of his crew deserted him
and joined the pirates. The others en
deavored to persuade him by threats to
turn pirate ana take the iioyai captain,
an armed .English ship, which was sail
ing in his company. Kidd steadily re
fused, and in an altercation growing out
of the affair, he struck William Moore,
one of his petty officers, over the head
with a bucket, inflicting fatal injuries.
He was recalled to Boston, where Lord
Bellmond took his papers containing the
French papers of the ships he had
captured, and which he was never alter
able to obtain, thongh his lite depended
upon their production. While he was
gone the Whigs had suffered defeat in
the parliamentary elections, and a Tory
minister had come in, eager to revenge
themselves on the Whig chancellor,
Somers, by proving Kidd a pirate and
then impleading Somers for having
affixed the great seal of England to
Kidd's commission. Kidd, who had now
assumed the dignity of a State prisoner,
was taken to England in the man-of-war
Active, which had been dispatched to
bring him. The Lords of Admirality,
the sworn enemies of th Lord Chancel
lor, subjected him to a long and tortuous
examination, in which they strove to in
duce him to implicate the Lord Chancel
lor in his transactions, but without
effect. Kidd's fidelity was not to be
shaken. On the 30th of March, 1YU1, he
was ordered for trial at the old Bailey,
and two days later Simon Harcourt, the
Tory leader in the Mouse ol Uommons,
introduced the lesolutions impeaching
Somers. The former articles, which
were not submitted till two months later,
after Kidd's trial and conviction, charged
the Lord Chancellor with being impli
cated with "William Kidd, a person of
evil fame and reputation, and since that
time convicted of piracy." Kidd was
really hanged in order to carry out the
impeachment of Somers . His trial, in
which he was denied access to his papers
and .confronted by a host of law lords
and King's consul, all anxious for his
donviction, was a monstrous farce. Even
his two sailors, who turned informers,
were forced to admit, on cross-examina
tion , that Moore was killed in an angry
altercation and in a manner that showed
no premeditation or intention to cause
death. Kidd was denied counsel, was
hampered by legal tricks, and brow
beaten and overpowered by the six
partial judges on the bench and the five
cunning lawyers opposed to him. His
trial was "railroaded." It began May
8th, two verdicts, one of "murder" and
the other "piracy," were brought in on
the 9th, and on the 12th, three days fol
lowing, Kidd was hanged in Execution
Dock. The impeachment ot Somers,
which the Tories had thought to carrv,
by the aid of Kidd's death, failed, the
House of Lords throwing out the
articles. History has done full justice
to the character of the great Whig Chan
cellor, while that of his friend, William
Kidd, the New York sailor, has for six
generations rested under undeserved
ignominy.
Some Italian Costumes. The costumes
of Scanno are very beautiful; also the
embroideries and carpets, especially the
old ones. The people spin, weave and
dye all their clothing. It is mostly of
wool of the richest colors, which are con
trasted in those fine, abrupt, skillful har
monies of tne Orientals. The head
dress of the women is a strangely shaped
wool cap with a white linen one under it,
and the ear-tabs of the linen turned up
over tbe rich-hued wool. Jackets, petti
coats, aprons and stockings are of differ
ent colors, deep but vivid blues, greens,
reds, all tailing together in effect most
harmoniously. When the Scanno women
go on the mountain paths they gather up
their gay petticoats under a girdle and
skip like chamois up and down the
rocks, showing their legs above the knees
like ballet dancers. But the legs are
cased in long, bright-colored woolen leg
gings, the feet of which have mule-skin
soles. The festa dress of the men and
women is very gay. The woman's cap is
especially pretty. The top is of blue or
purple satin. This is bound around the
forehead like a turban with an ecru color
scarf of gauzy linen, the ends of which
have g ld bauds and hang down at the
buck of the head. This gold striped scarf
is also woven by the Scanno women.
Correspondence Boston Advertiser.
We may cut a scholar able to adorn a
university out of Mr. Gladstone, and Mien
carve from him a fine student and rever
encer of art; next mark ofl' a reviewer
and general lileraleur, whom professed
authors will respectfully make room for
in their ranks; and not only is there still
left, solid and firm, the great Parliament
ary Minister, but of the scattered frag
mentsa couple of bishops might easily be
made, with, if nothing at all is to be
wasted, several preachers for the denom
inations.
The Ruffianism of Old Dublin.
Tradition tells how Fighting Fitz
gerald, an exquisite and dueUist of the
last century, dealt with the "bucks," a
plague then infesting the streets of
Dublin, and indeed the street of every
town in Ireland. These "bucks" were
half-bred young fellows of some means
and high animal spirits, whose sole
occupation consisted in making town
life intolerable to quiet people. Parlia
ment was once more compelled to frame
penal enactments with the view of re
straining their peculiar ruffianism; but
as there was no properly constituted
police to enforce them these statutes were
of small effect.
Among the tricks of the Dublin bucks
was this: One of them would stand in
the middle of a crossing on a dirty day,
and, drawing his sword, thrust every
body who wanted to pass in the mud. It
was a common thing to see half a dozen
or more of these unpleasant sentries
lining a thoroughfare all ready to afford
each other support. Nor were they con
tent with merely obstructing the pas
sage. They knocked off hats, ripped up
garments and pricked the limbs of the
wearers with the points of their weapons,
and broke ribald jests on them the while
to the amusement of the ragmuffins
who used to collect in the vicinity. If
anybody turned on one of these bullies
the rest would rush up and form a circle
round him; then seizing him by the
collar and arms they would prick him
about the legs until they considered him
punished sufficiently.
Fitzgerald proposed to some of his
brother exquisites and fire-eaters that
they should clear the streets of the
metropolis of these pests. It was jnst
the sort of proposal to to suit such daring
spirits, and an association was immedi
ately formed to carry it out. Like their
leader, they were consummate swords
men, and dandies of the first water the
Dandy being in all essentials the anti
podes of the buck a distinction which
the people who write about the Ireland
of the past are very apt to forget.
The association set to work most
heartily, and in this way: Whenever a
fine afternoon followed a showery morn
ing, they would sally forth in knots of
four or five, each being followed by a
lusty valet carrying an oak sappling. On
reaching the haunts of the bucks, the
servant kept the rabble oil while the
exquisites did the work they had under
taken. For a couple of months few
days passed without three or four affrays
between the bucks and the dandies, in
which the former came out second-best,
Ere long, the mainstay of the bucks, the
mob, turned against them too. This
meant that defeat was sure to be followed
by hooting and pelting with mud and
stones. Then the pleasant pastime of
blocking the thoroughfares in broad day
light was abandoned. Uornmll.
The Limited Ownership of London.
It is curiously significant of the limited
ownership of London that there are not
more than four, if indeed so many, ot the
British dukes inhabiting houses in the
metropolis. The Duke of Portland, the
eccentric millionaire who died last
month, possessed a vast metropolitan es
tate: vet Harcourt House, the vast
gloomy mansion in which he lived and
died, belonged to Mr. Harcourt, M. P. for
Oxfordshire, whose grandfather inherited
it from his maternal uncle, Earl Har
court. kven the far-famed btanord
House, the palace of the Duke of Suther
land, stands on land paying ground rent
to the crown, as does Montague House
the vast mansion of the Duke of Jiuek
cleuch. The Duke of Bedford, whose
London rentals are about SoOO.000 a year
had a stately abode, the same to which
the patriot Lord William liussel fondly
turned when on his way to execution in
Bloomsbury. This, much to the regret of
the present Duke, was pulled down at the
beginning of the century, but now he
pays rent to his brother, the Duke of
Westminister, as does the Duke ot Kich
mond, whose grandfather's house occu
pied the site of what is now known as
Richmond Terrace, near the House of
Parliament. That Crabbas of the West
End. the Duke of Westminister, does oc
cupy a house of his own, as did the Duke
of Northumberland until Northumber
land House. Charing Cross, was pulled
down; but he, too, now pays rent to his
brother Westminister, who, like the
Browns, of Providence, buys, but never
sells. His own house stands in an excel
lent situation, but is architecurally un
worthy of his estate. The handsomest
thing about itexternally is a stone screen
dividing it from the street, which was
bi ought troui Carlton House when that
palace now as completely effaced as
though the Prince Regent had never ex
isted was dismantled.
Taking Advantage of Leap Year.
A Detroiter who was sent out in the
country the other day to look after some
poultry got stuck in a mud-hole, al
though having a light buggy and a strong
horse. He got out, took a rail of the
tence, and was trying to pry the vehicle
out, when along came a strapping young
woman about twenty-six years of age.
She halted, surveyed the situation, and
said:
"Yon stand by the horse while I
heave on the rail, and don't be afraid
of getting mud on your hands and
boots."
Their united efforts released the
vehicle, and the Detroiter returned
thanks and asked her to get in and take
a ride. She hesitated, looked up and
down the road, and said:
"Stranger, I'm blunt spoken. Who
are you?"
He gave his name and residence, and
she continued:
"I'm over 25, worth $500 in cash,know
all about housework, and this is leap
year."
"Yes, I know, but for heaven's sake
don't ask me to marry you !" he replied
as he saw the drift.
"See here," she continued, looking
him square in the eye. "I'm a straight
girl, wear a No. 7 shoe, and I like the
looks of you."
"Yes, but don't don't talk that wav
to me!"
"Stranger, it's leap year, and I'm
going to pop! Will you have me or
not?"
"I I'm already married?" he fal-
" Honest Injun?"
"Yes."
"Well, that settles me, and I won't
ride. I'll take a cut across the field
over to old Spooner's. He's got four
sons and a fool nephew, and I'll begin
on the old man and pop the crowd clear
down to the idiot, for I've slummixed
around this world just as long as I'm
going to! Good bye, sir no harm done!''
Detroit Free Press.
The risk of sudden death, says the
Journal cf Chemistry, is very trilling com
pared with the inevitable injury sus
tained by every individual who has to
make a long journey by rail. The trav
eler really takes his life in his hand
whenever he sets out. The danger is less
from accident than design, less from mis
placed switches than from misplaced ven
tilators, less from bad road-beds than
from bad air. We are not now speaking
of the barbaric nuisance of having to
smell, breathe and bathe in the smoke,
soot and cinders pouring from the engine,
which, until some other method is found
to obviate the difficulty, ought to be in
the rear of the train instead of the front.
Of all conductors, brakemen, porters and
passengers, probably not one in a thou
sand understands the vital importance of
pure air, nor do they know what pure air
is. To the conductor's mind, as to that of
the majority of his passengers, the com
fort of the car depends upon the temper
ature it is a matter of warmth and cold
entirely. A warm car, or more commonly
a hot car, is the one desideratum, albeit the
warmth is the product of animal heat
from fifty bodies, many of them not very
clean, and of exhalations from fifty pair
of lungs, with little chance for the escape
of vitiated air or the ingress of pure air
a condition ot things tending to produce a
state of "blue blood" not contemplated by
the haut ton. When the life current
comes up to the lungs to be changed from
blue to red, to throw off there the car
bonic acid and take in oxygen and the
whole volume of blood makes this circuit
once in every half-minute, or over one
hundred times an hour if there is a lack
of sufficient ventilation in the car or sit
ting-room or sleeping-room, the blood
cannot undergo this vital transformation.
It goes back to the heart, and from thence
is pumped through tbe arte les irom
crown to sole, throughout the rom plicated
mesh-work of the capillaries, in a state
entirely unfitted to perforin its functions
of supplying oxygen to all parts of the
body, of carrying off the waste particles
resulting from the ''never ceasing death"
of the atoms composing the body, and of
replacing these with tresh, living atoms,
or, as it is usually put, "repairing the
waste.'
The Fashionable Kaffir.
They call it a romantic marriage in
Michigan when a couple of neighbors get
the bride's father into a back room and
sit on him to prevent his interrupting and
breaking up the wedding.
The Kaffir women wear a piece of blue
calico, tied by the corners round the neck
so as to hang like a cloak over tne slioul
ders and down the back, but their princi
pal garment is made of hide, folded round
the loins, and reaching the knee, lor or
dinarv wear; a second petticoat consider
ably louaer being always kept in reserve
for dancing. Young wives assume an ad
ditional garment, consisting of tbe skin
of an antelope, with a strip of hair peeled
off down the center, ornamented with a
triple row of buttons and brass knobs in
rows of four, sewed as a finish at the
lower end. It is tied over the breast and
under the arms, and hangs down straight
in front. A belt encircles the waist, and
they all wear bracelets, anklets and arm
lets. In early times, when they had
nothing better worth their wearing, they
used to cut circlets out of ostrich eggs, of
which they wore a number together like
bangles. They now deck themselves
with finger rings of copper or brass, and
other ornaments ot glass or metal beads
Their hair appears as little esteemed by
them for its decorative character as it is
by ourselves, for the married women
shave their heads, leaving only one small
tuft at the crown, which they dye red
This practice of cutting ofl the hair on
marriage is also in vogue among the Pol
ish Jews, who wear in its stead wigs as
undeceptive as any pinned on a wax
doil s head.
The friend who escorted us over the
store-house in question pointed out the
white, undyed tag-end ot thin blue muslin
before named of about an inch in deptt
on every piece. This unfinished termina
tion, he observed, was an essential char
acteristic of the material, on which its
purchase by the over-suspicious natives
was entirely dependent. Were the mus
lin dyed to the extreme edge of the
piece, the negro trader would conclude
that some portion had been cut on, and
that he had been defrauded of the full
quantity originally manufactured. So
each piece is opened, and the white end
looked for before any bartering is made.
Tlie (iueen.
We hear of a man who has had five
wives, and has just married the sixth. It
is, however, due to the unfortunate man
to state that he has been totally blind for
many years.
Rupture
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From a Hereotnt.
Datton, W. T., Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home. Pronrietor California Elastic
Truss Co , 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir:
lhe Iruss I purchased of you about one year ago
has proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur
ed forty years, and worn dozens of different kinds
ot irusses, all of which have ruined my health,
as they were 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,
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diately. I never expect to be cured, but am
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i wear n u was tne best $iu 1 ever invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me, and I
will be :lad to answer any letters on its merrits.
I remain, yours respectfully,
D. U, Bunnell.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 7u2Market street, S. F Sir: In re
gard to your California Elastic Truss, 1 would sav
that 1 havearcfully studied its mechanism, ap
plied it in practice, and do not hesitate to suy
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
it is the best I russ ever offered to the public
Yours truly, J. If Carothek, M D.
Endorsed bjr a prominent Medic 1 Iu.
Mtiule.
San Francisco, March , 1879.
W. J. Home, Exq. Sir: You ask my opinion
of the relative merits of your Patent .Elastic
Truss, as compared with other kinds that have
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frankly state that from the time my attention
was first called to their simple, though highlv
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gether with easy adjustibility to persons of all
ages, forms or sizes I add this furtherte stimouy
with special pleasure, that the several persons
who have applied to me for aid in their special
cases of rupture, and whom I have advised louse
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored bv the
possession of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, Barl w J. Smith, M. D.
Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute,
635 California street, San Francisco.
A REMARKABLE CURE.
San FranciSc), Oct 20, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California (Clastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CUBE
your valuable truss has effected on my little boy.
The double truss 1 purchased from you has PER
FECTLYCUKED him of his painful rupture on
both sides in a little over six months, l he steel
truss he had before 1 bought yours caused him
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when he laid it aside for the California Elastic
Tri'ss. I am sure that all will be thankful who
are providentially led to give your truss a trial.
You may refer any one to me on this subject
Yours truly, Wm. Peru,
038 Sacramento Street.
This is to crtify that I have examined the son
of Wm Peru, and find him PEKFEOlLY
CURED of Hernia on both sides.
L. Djlxtkr Lvfobd, M. D.
Surgeon and Physician.
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Have never been broken open and robbed by
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Hall's burglar work is protected by letters
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His patent bolt is superior to any in use.
His patent locks cannot be picked by the most
skillful experts or burglars.
By one of the greatest improvements known,
the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are
operated withont any arbor or spindle passing
through the door and into the lock.
Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur
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present time.
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FnAM(L'2f CAUTHORN. M. D.,
PHYSICIAN ANi SURGEON,
Corvallia, Oregon.
Special attention given to surgery and diseases
of toe Eye. Cau be found at his o fice, in rear of
Graham, Hamilton & Co.'s Dmg Store, upstairs,
day or night.
June 3, 1879. 16-231X