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Corvallis, July 14, 1871T. 16:29tf
J. W RAYBUR ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HIRVL!H, i ORIUU..
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and
'ihinl.
?s&-Sjce!al attention given to the Collection
of Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf
JAMS A. YANTISf
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
(tKV.Al l.IX, . . ORKSDS.
tniiL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the State. Spet ial attontion given to
matters in Piobate. Collections will receive
rami and careful attention. Office in the Court
fouse. 16-.UI.
DR F. A. V NCENT,
DENTIST.
COUVa.IjL.IH
OREGON.
()FKICE IX FISHER'S BRICK OVER
v Max. Friend ley's Kew Store. All the latest
improvement Everything new and complete.
All work warranted. Plea egive me a call.
15:3tf
G. R. FARRA, M. O,
PHY i!UAS AND M'RGEOS,
O
FFICE OVER OR All AM A HAMILTON'S
Drug Sto. e, Corvali is, Oregon. 14-2tftf
W. C. CRAWFORD,
DIULKft IN
WATC -Es
CLOCK?,
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
etc Also,
Muwlcal Instruments fco
Sr-Repairing done at the most reasonable
talcs, and all work warranted.
Corvallis, Pec 13, IS77. H:50tf
GRAHAM, IlUllLW & CO.,
CORVAI.LW ... iHK.4.
DEALERS IN
JDiMig-!, Traints,
MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS DYE STtfK
OILS,
GLASS
AND
PUT1Y.
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VOL. XVII.
CORVALLIS. OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1880.
NO. 13.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. 8. WOODCOCK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD
COCK Jt BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
6;cial attention given to Collections, Fore
ciomire of Mortgages, Baal Estate cases, Probata
a. id Road matters.
Will also uy and sell City Property and Farm
. jnd, on reasonable terms.
March 20. Hi y. 16-I2yl
orvallifi I o.l if e llo 14, F. A. SI.
Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on
or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good
standing cordially invited to attend. By order
W. M.
Bar muni Lodge Wo. 7, I. '. O. tr.
MceU on Tuesday evening of each week, in
their hall, in Fisher's brick, second story. Mem
bers of the order in good standing invited to at
tend. By order of N. G.
F. A. cnENOWETH.
F. II. .JOHNSON'.
J. K. WEBBER,
Main St., Corvallis, Oregon,
DEALER IN
Stoves, Ranges,
FORCE AMD LIFT PUMPS.
HdUlE rURNISHIKG HARDWARE,
Constantly on band, the
NEW RICHMOND RANGE,
Best la Market. The
BONANZA COOK STOVt,
Something New. And tbe New
VECTA PARLOR STOVE.
Jan. 1,1880. 17:1 tf
J. R. BRYSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
All business will receive prompt
attention.
PURE WINES AND I QU3RS
FOR MEDICINAL USE
And also the tbe very best assortment of
Lamps and Wall Paper
ever brought to this place.
AGENTS FOR THE
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER
mm Fkrstelaas' ft escriptt
CHENOWETH & JOHNSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
fOKSAIXIB .... OH1.UOM
September 4, 1879. 16:36tf
CORVALLIS
Livery, Feed
... AND...
SALE STABLE,
Main (St.. t'oivnl Its i-oyrn
SOL. KING, - Porpr.
K
OWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED
to offer superior accommodations in tbe Liv
ery Hue. Always ready for a drive,
OOOI T E 1 &
At. Low ltntOM.
My stables are first class in every r.-sjvet. and
competent and obliging bogtlors aiwsyi
ready to serve the public.
REASON A RLE CHARliE FOR i I . E.
Particular MMa.a P.l I an ttua .Hut
ELEGANT HEH.SE, CARltl C.I-3 AND
H At K FO R F U X Kit A LS
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879. lfislyl
Woodcock & Baldwin
Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,)
EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE
old stand a large and complete stock of
Heavy and shell Hardware,
IRON, STEEL,
TOOLS, STOVES,
RANG 8, ETC
Manufactured and Home Made
Tin and Copper W n
Pumps Pipe, Etc.
A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all
Job Woik neatly and quickly done.
Also agents for Knupp, Burrell & Co.,
for the sale of the best aud latest im
proved FARM MACHINERY,
of all kinds, together with a full assort
ment of Agricultural Implements.
Sole Agents for the celebrated
ST. LCUI8 CHART R 0 K S 0YE8
the BEST IN THE WOULD. Also the
Norman Range, and many other patterns,
in all sizes and styles.
ttSm" Particular attention paid to Farmers'
wants, and the supplying extras for Farm
Machinery, and all information as to such
articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica
tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our
customers with the best goods in market,
in our line, and at the lowest prices.
Our motto r-hall lie, prompt and fair
dealing with all. Call and examine our
stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN.
Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf
$15
TO $6000 A YEAR, or $5 to $20 a day
in your own locality. No risk. 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 Is to
$2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare
time to the business. It costs nothing to try tbe
business - Nothing like 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 vourself Address GEORGE STINSON A
CO., "Portland, Maine. 16:31yl
$300
A MONTH guaranteed. Twelve
dollars a day made at home by
tbe industrious. Capital not re
quited; we will start you. Men,
women, boys and girls make money faster at
work for us than at anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Those who are wise who see this notice
will send us their addresses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time, Those already at work are laying
up large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO.,
Augusta, Maine.
A WEEK in your own town and no
capital risked. You can give the
ousineps a inai vwiuuut expense.
The best opportunity evc"jejwl for
lung to wont.
ou see t
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
LANDS I FRMS1 HOMES!
1HAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim
proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY,
very desirable, t
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. BEN8ELL,
Newport, Benton county, Oregon.
16:2tf
II. HI. HARRIS,
One door South of Graham A Hamilton's,
(UKVAII.IS, OBBfiOBf.
GROCERIES
PRO VISIONS,
AND
Dry Goods.
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878.
lfi:lvl
DRAKE & GRANT,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
CORVAi-LiR.
OKKttWH.
TE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
and well selected slock of Cloth, viz:
"W.-w ' oC i tfland Broad
lot lis, rencli asglmereg,
coteh Tweeds, and
merlean u i 1 1 no;
Which we will make up to order in the most
approved and tash onable styles. No pains will
be spared n producing good fitting garments.
Parties wishing to purchase cloths and have
them cut out, will do well to call and examine
our stock. DRAKE A GRANT.
Corvallis, April 17 1879. I8:16tf
Boarding' and Lodgin
Pi ilomatli Beutou Co . Orrffou.
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
SNC.E MEAL, DAY. OR WEEK.
Is also preiwred to fimi sb horse feed. Liberal
share of public patronage solicited. Give us a
call. GEORGE KISOR.
Philomath, April 28, 187K. I0:18tf
J C. MORELANO,
(t'lTT ATTOBNKY.)
A.TTOI. rv AT JL.A.W,
P4IHTUMD, - OREtJO.V
OFFICE Monastes' Brick, First street,
between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf
THE STAR BAKERY,
Hals Street, Corvallis.
HENRY WARRIOR, PROPRIETOR.
Family Supply Store !
Giocericisi,
Bread.
Cakes,
Candies,
Toys,
Always on Hand.
Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1877. 14:2lf
KllM & WOODWARD.
Druggists
and
Apothecaries,
P. 0. BUILDING. CORVALLIS, OREGON.
Have a complete stock of
DRLGS, MEDICINES, PAIMTf, OIL,
aim, it?., itj.
School I'ooks -tationen y , fec.
We buy for Cash, and have choice of the
FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs aud Mcdie:nea
the market affords.
pSr- Prescriptions accurately prepared at half
the usual rates. 2MaylO:IStf
FRESH GOODS
AT THE
BAZAR r FASHIONS
Mrs. E. JL. KNIGHT.
roRVAtLIN, ... ORIGUN.
Hat just received from San Francisco, tk$. larg
est and Best Stock of
Nillinery floods
Dress Trimmings, Etc,
Ever brought 'to dbnrallis, wh'ch I will tall at
prices that defy competition.
1
riieruT
V
e. i emnrit' reliable
25aprl6:17tf
ROBZET N BAKER.
able Tailor,
ALBANY WHERE HE
Wnw patrons perfect satisfaoj
Mi' Wan it. i'orvHllis. whJS
favnr1 veil h a share of the uubnc
A A II Mrr wnrraiited. when made
rh?s supervision. Repairing and cleaning
r attenaea ".
1,1880. 15:4R,
OUT AND AT HOME.
Mr. and Mrs. Harris were taking tea
with their neighbors, the Joneses, in a
friendly manner. Mrs. Harris came over
early, bringing her crotchet-work and the
ladies had a pleasant chat before the gen
tlemen came in to supper. They were
both from their business offices, but were
just as fresh and lively as if there were
no such thing as business cares, those
worrying ones which so often darken a
man's brow when he enters his "ain"
fireside.
"Your husband is always so jolly and
good natured. It must be quite a pleas
ure to live with him," said Mrs. Jones to
Mrs. Harris, as they went to the table.
"Y-e-s," answered Mrs. Harris, with a
slight hesitation, for she remembered
certain things which happened at home
now and then.
'Tm afraid this tea is not strong
enough," remarked Mrs. Jones, as she
passed Mr. Harris his cup. "Do you
find it agreeable, Mr. Harris?"
"O, delightful, delightful, madam,"
returned Mr. Harris, with a bland smile.
"Strong tea is hurtful to the nerves, and
keeps one awake, at night, I think."
"That won't at all events," thought
Mrs. Harris, as she sipped the tasteless
fluid in her cup.
"Have a bit more of the steak, Har
ris?" said Mr. Jones. "Mollie, it seems
to me this is a little scorched."
"Yes, it is," admitted Mrs. Jones. "I
did not have very good luck with it this
time. I am very sorry, too."
"O, it is very nice very nice indeed!"
returned the "cordial Mr. Harris. "I
think I will take another bit, Jones. If
there is anything I like, it is a steak just
a bit scorched. Thank you, no more of
the gravy. These are fine biscuits, Mrs.
Jones. I believe I must send my wife
over to take lessons of you in cooking."
Mrs. Harris looked up in surprise, and
blushed a little, but did not say any
thing. She knew she was a better cook than
Mrs. Jones; and at home Mr. Harris was
not accustomed to be so polite.
Mrs. Jones was greatly flattered.
"You're very good, I'm sure," she
simpered, "I can generally cook, but
it seems to me that I always have
the very worst kind of luck when I
haxe company."
Mrs. Harris thought Mrs. Jones had
met with some bad luck this time.
The cake was heavy and the preserves
were sour, but Mr. Harris praised
everything and declared he had enjoy
ed his supper.
"If he would only be as pleasant as
that as home," sighed little Mrs. Har
ris, as they walked through the street,
after they had taked leave of their
friends. But she knew it would be
useless to say a word. Coaxing would
be lost in this case, and scolding not
of any use. However, her woman's
wit set to work to find some way to
teach that husband of hers a lesson,
and after a while the way was found.
The next evening supper was ready
when Mr. Harris came home, and it
was nearly a counterpart of the supper
at Jones' the night before. Weak tea,
scorched beefsteak, biscuit only moder
ate, heavy cake and sour preserves.
But Mrs. Harris was all calm and se
renely unconscious.
"Come, Mamie, George, supper is
ready, and papa has come," she said,
calling the two children, who came
bounding in from their play.
"Hope you've got something good,
I'm awful hungry," Master George ex
claimed, while gentle little Maud an
swered him:
"I'se 'shamed of you Georgie. Mam
ma's suppers are always good."
Mamma said nothing, only poured
papa a cup of tea.
"Humph! Is this tea dishwater?"'
was his remark as he tasted it.
"You told Mrs. Jones strong tea
hurt you," said Mrs. Harris quietly.
"TJm well yes, I did," said Mr. Har
ris, somewhat taken back, "but I didn't
mean such weak stuff as this. The steak
is burned, too. It isn't fit to eat; such
trash!"
"You told Mrs. Jones you were fond
of scorched meat," said his wife as quiet
ly as before.
Harris colored.
"Well, but I not as black as this,
though. Haven't you got any light
bread ? Those biscuits are not as good
as usual."
Mrs. Harris brought a slice of bread
and laid it beside his plate. He took it
without saying a word.
"Why, ma, what ails your cake?" add
ed George, taking a huge slice.
"It's as heavy as lead. That's what's
the matter with it! " snapped Mr. Har
ris. "You said Mrs. Jones' cake was de
lightful, and her's was no better than
this," responded the wife, in tones per
fectly even and unruffled.
"Ah, pshaw!" ejaculated Harris. "I
don't like to eat such stuff at home, any
how. And seems to me these preserves
don't taste just right. I believe they are
soured."
"I believe they are soured a little,"
replied Mrs. Haaris, coolly.
"What did you put them on for then ?
I think this is a delightful meal, I do
not a thing fit to eat."
'Tm sorry it doesn't please yon ; I tried
especially to please youl " said his wife,
as coolly as before.
"Tried to!"
"Yes; you said you were going to
send me over to Jones' to take lessons
in cooking. I took them at home, that's
all. But I don't seem to succeed as well
as she did."
"What on earth do you mean. Sue?''
"Don't you see? If you think, you
will see that I have given youT to-night
just what she gave us last eight, and
then, you remember, you praised every
thing until she was i3erfectiveiisfien.''
"Bosh, Sue! Don't yajft know that
was for the sake of poitWjss?"
"Oh, was it? WelVene are to
teach our children thai politeness is only
for ccuumny use. arfj jt necessary at
home?' f -
"Why, no, of course not."
' "Then , if not, jmtfi it as important to
wear a aile an5 kind faC6j and try to
excuse little accidents at home, as when
you are visiting?" And if we don't
grumble all the time we are among
mere strangers have we a right to make
those we love best miserable by doing
so at home?"
Mr. Harris wasn't going to own that
he was beaten. What man would?
But he came around to his wife's chair
and gave her a kiss, a thing a little un
usual since his love days were over, and
said:
'You are a first rate little preacher,
Sue; I'll lend you to the church next
year;" and off he went.
But the lesson was not lost, for Mrs.
Sue, who feared that perhaps she had
said too much, and done. harm instead of
good, heard far less grumbling, and got
many more smiles at home as the days
went on, and if Mr. Harris seemed dis
posed to fall into his old ways, she would
only say archly :
"Hadn't we better take tea with the
Joneses again?" and he was on his guard
immediately.
There are very many more Mr. Har
rises at home who might do well to lay
the lesson to heart, also. Let us humbly
hope they will.
How Near Horace Greeley Came to Being
Arrested in 1863.
The following, from the "Journal of
Henry J. Raymond" in the March Scrib
ner, will be news to some of our readers:
Mr. Seward talked very freely of our for
eign relations. At the outset of the war,
he said, every foreign minister in Wash
ington except Baron Gerolt, the Prussian
minister, sympathized with secession in
one way or another. Their views have
been changed, until now they were all
solicitous to avoid giving us any offense,
and anxious to maintain the most
friendly relations. France had with
drawn her fleet from the mouth of the
Mississippi, and had dismissed her Con
sul at New Orleans, who had made him
self offensive to us by aiding the rebels.
England evinced in variotis ways her
kindly feelings, and now asked as favors
concessions which she had hitherto de
manded as rights. As an instance of this
he mentioned that an officer of the British
army, Major Winnie, had been taken at
the Point of Rocks coming into our lines
without authority. He was in prison and
was to be tried by court-martial as a spy.
Lord Lyons had urged his release several
times, but this had been refused. He
had finally promised to put a stop to the
frequent visits of English officers to the
rebel armies, and in consideration of this
Mr. Seward had agreed that the officer
should be tried, but immediately par
doned. He recited several other in
stances illustrating the changed disposi
tion of the English Government. And
now (said Mr. Seward), just when we
have with great difficulty established
these relations with foreign powers and
given them most distinctly to under
stand that intervention in any form will
not be tolerated, Mr. Greeley comes for
ward, holds private interviews and opens
a correspondence with the French Minis
ter to persuade him that the people
would welcome a mediation which should
terminate the war. Mr. Seward showed
a great deal of indignation at this mis
chievous interference with our foreign
relations, and expressed fears that it
might produce very serious and injuri
ous results. Mr. Greeley, he said, had
rendered himself clearly and unmistaka
bly liable to the penalties of the law for
bidding all such intercourse with foreign
ministers; but his own personal re
lations with him would render it
impossible for , him to take
any steps in the matter, as it would be
charged to personal hostility, on his
part. Secretary Usher (of the Interior
Department) thought this consideration
ought not to interfere with his discharge
of a public duty. He said that the ar
rest of Mr. Greeley would do great good
by satisfying the people that the Govern
ment meant to punish all violations of
law and all departures from loyalty with
impartial vigor. Mr. Seward indulged
in a good deal of lively ridicule of Mr.
Greeley's proposition to make Switzer
land the arbiter of our destiny- a Re
public half Prussian and half French,
half Catholic and half Protestant, held
together only by outward pressure, and
represented at Washington by a Consul
General, who keeps a "flour and feed
store" near the Capitol, and who knew no
more about the necessities and condi
tions of our national existence than he
did of the politics of the moon. Mr.
Bancroft, who had fallen asleep during
the more serious part of the Secretary's
exposition, awoke at this sally, and ex
pressed the opinion that it would be
much better to ridicule Mr. Greeley out
of his crotchets than to send him to Fort
Lafayette. The rest of the company,
however, thought the matter one of too
much gravity for such treatment. Mr.
Seward said that Mr. Mercier (the
French Minister) knew Mr, Greeley as a
very prominent and influential supporter
of the Administration, as having, in fact,
almost dictated its policy upon several
most important Subjects; and it would be
very natural for him to receive Mr.
Greeley's representations as proof that,
in spite, of the assurance of the Secre
tary of State, the people would not be
wholly averse to foreign intervention.
A Refined Butcher.
Organ Grinders of London.
Harkins' daughter returned from Den
ton,s butcher shop, laid a steak on tbe
table, and said:
"That.s the most refined butcher I ever
met. I asked him if this steak was tender,
and be said, oh! so beautifully ; 'tender as
a maiden in he flret blush of "love; a steak
tit to be classed witli tender and hallowed
associations, and one likely to be flattered
at being devoured by so f.iir aud beautiful
a maiden.' :'
Harkins pushed his glasses tip on top of
his head, looked at the girl, and thundered:
"What under the canopy was that fellow
giving you?''
.And, as her color came and went, she
replied:
''Giving me taffy, I tuppo'e."
"CjU'and come again," as the girl said
to JsCj- lover when she heard the old man
.'rumbling around in the dark.
One class of musical mendicants that
of the organ-grinder is mucn misun
derstood by the public in general, and
receives far more sympathy than it de
serves. Whoever wants to know its mem
bers as they really are should study
them at home, and about Saffron-hill,
and in their own lodging-houses. The
latter, as a rule, are kept by the greatest
rascals of the whole, which is a strong
assertion, for I could hardly name a call
ing in which low-lived rascality more
predominates. Fighting and stealing are
incessant among them, and much more
stabbing than the world gives them
credit for. Indeed, I am disposed to
think that not a few of the bodies found
in the Thames are deposited there by
these unpleasant immigrants. I know
that a common practice the commonest
of practices among them is subordina
tion of perjury in civil and criminal
cases, I have it on good authority that
of the agent principally employed in
getting the thing up. This man a typi
cal personage in all respects, and a Lon
don notability besides used to be very
well known, especially to the cabmen in
and about Leicester square, up to quite
recently. From beginning to end his
career was remarkable. An Italian jour
nalista soldier of Novara, a Red Re
publican, and an intense priest-hater
one who, slaying his man in the streets
of Milan (a deed for which he was sen
tenced to death en contumace) , fled for
ever from Italy to take up his residence
in London. Here he spent many years
as the keeper of a notorious haunt near
the Haymarket, to sink, in the end, to
what he was when I saw him the agent
of the rascality of all sorts of low for
eigners. He was hand-and-glove with
all, no matter what their nationality.
And, as was very well known, he was a
police spy among the rest.
He used to be a singular object as he
stood waiting for his clients at the north
west angle of the square, with his gray
hair, tall, robust figure, and rags, every
one of which was bidding good day to
the other. No man was in more request
among his compatriots, and none knew
them better or mistrusted them more.
On no account would he spend a night
among them, but preferred rather to
consort with English rogues in one or
the other of the numerous common
lodging-houses thronged by them, and to
put up with all the insult and annoyance
such people delight to heap on the hum
ble foreigner. I have listened by the
hour as he recounted in his polyglot
style, story after story of the ways in
which English justice may be baffled and
foreign rascals rescued from its clutehes
through the agency of such people as
himself, and I saw more of the lo v class
Italians in England than most people be
yond the circle to which he belopgs. But
to return to the organ-grinder. Cooking
and eating being flhished for the day in
one of the lodging-houses, the kitchen is
cleared, and two or three of the frater
nity are seated in the chimney corner
with their instruments before them.
Then as many girls as possible of the
neighborhood all being under 16 are
enticed to enter, under the pretense of
dancing. Here they are rapidly contam
inated in every way. Some of them are
transferred to the Continent for the basest
uses. Others are degraded into organ
girls, a position in which they arc the
most miserable slaves imaginable. The
girl's master exacts an exorbitant
fee for the use of each instru
ment, every deficiency being writ
ten down as a debt against
the defaulter, She is also brought in a
debtor for most of her food, and a good
deal of her lodging, and there is abun
dance of harsh treatment besides. Fi
nally, the tawdry rags in which she goes
about the streets in the course of her
calling, and which form her only cloth
ing, belong to the padroni. Thus she
cannot quit the trade without running
the risk of being given into custody for
stealing the clothes she wears.
The" organ man occasionally hits on a
shrewd device for enhancing his perform
ances, as thus: Once upon a time I saw a
man go about for months with the case of
his instrument perfectly empty of the
usual sound-creating machinery. Never
theless, he perambulated in the usual
manner, pausing awhile at every door,
and turning his organ handle as assidu
ously as if he were eliciting the sweetest
sounds. He was never known to utter a
word, but every now and again he would
open the case and direct attention to its
empty state, When asked for a particu
lar air, no matter what, he would bow
with the greatest gravity and change the
motion of the handle to suit the measure
demanded. Nothing could be more ridi
culous. At first people took the man for
a lunatic, and laughed without 'measure
at his freak. But, as he continued Ids
promenade day after day with the same
impertubable business-like demeanor,
they began to think that there must be
more in the matter than met the eye ;
and curiosity being thus excited, just the
right sort of story to be greedily swal
lowed was put in circulation. It ran
that upon the man of the empty barrel
organ it had been imposed by the lady of
his love, as a suitable test of affection,
that he should parade for a certain pe
riod in this lashion, and collect a speci
fied sum before she would give him her
hand. The story, of course, was a fabri
cation, but I can answer for one thing,
that no organ-grinder, before or since,
ever collected as much money as that
one. Akin to the foregoing trick was
that of a pair of Connaught reapers,
whom the close of the English harvest
found some hundreds of miles from Liv
erpool their favorite, because cheapest,
port of embarkation for home. Old
hands at the business, they had been ac
customed to make their way to Liverpool
without spending a farthing of their earn
ings, by dint of cadging. On this last
occasion, however, they conceived the
bright idea of passing themselves off for
a pair of South Sea Islanders The clev
erer of the two, pretending to have
learned a very little broken English dur-
voyage, contrivea m oroKen ian
much eked out by signs to make
e understand that himself and his
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comrade had been carried over the ocean
and abandoned in a Southern port by an
unscrupulous captain, and that they were
now making for Liverpool as the most
likely place wherein to obtain a passage
home. So much for the story. As to
backing it up, the Irish did that in ex
cellent style by giving the Irish funeral
howl with variations, as a hymn to some
god with an unprorounceable name; the
"Shan Van Voght" in good Erse, as a
Tonga love ditty ; an indescribable com
bination of kick and yell as a war dance
and its accompanying war song. They
did a little in the raw meat eating line
also. And great was their success among
the English peasantry. They found their
way to Liverpool eventually, and to high
prosperity.
Deafness in Children.
The ear is subject to affections that im
pair its functions at the earliest period of
life; indeed, it is frequently found to be
defective at birth. Children are exposed
to influences from which they seldom
entirely escape without more or less
aural disease. Such are the consequences
of colds which, when of long contin
uance, are productive of enlarged tonsils,
chronic catarrh of the mouth, throat and
nose, the resulting sympathic deafness
in some instances being so great that in
struction is impossible, and the child is
unable to learn to talk. It is then a deaf
mute.
The fact should not be lost sight of
that at this early period of existence the
function of hearing is crude, and re
quires gradual cultivation for its devel
opment, and that any deafness should be
promptly met. Thus the hearing of
children ought to be often tested, and
although accurate results may be difficult
of obtainment, the knowledge gained is
advantageous.
Should infant escape all other causes
of aural disease, it encounters at the sev
enth month a physiological process in
development that is frequently the
source of great irritation in the ears. I
refer to the cutting of the teeth, which
usually begins at this age. That this
period is fraught with special danger to
the organ of hearing is well recognized
by both mothers and nurses, who have
long considered teething as in some way
connected with earache. Every one of
the tirst twenty teeth in perforating the
gum is liable to be thus heralded. For
tunate, therefore, is the infant who has
passed its second year, the period at
which first dentition is concluded, with
out having experienced aural irritation.
These first teeth, however, are subject to
premature decay, as well as a natural
absorption of their roots, before the sixth
year, at which time the second dentition
begins. From this cause sympathic
aural trouble often arises, and frequent
ly continues while the second teeth are
cutting.
About the sixth year, as stated, the
second or permanent teeth begin to ap
pear, and at the thirteenth year they
have all been cut, with the exception of
the wisdom teeth. These second teeth
are promoters of even more disturbance
in the ears than the first; the earaches
and discharges are more persistent, the
complication in general more grave.
Subsequent to this period there is a ces
sation of dental irrigation, although es
tablished discharges from the ear are li
able to continue on indefinitely.
The foregoing remarks will serve to
draw attention to the liability existing in
youth to frequently recurring attacks of
earache, each one of which leave the con
ductive mechanism in a worse condition
than before, repeated invasions finally
leaving behind irreparable injury. In
these cases, even when comparatively un
important as respects pain, competent
advice can not be too early obtained, for
the longer they are neglected, the less
amenable to treatment they become.
Certain diseases in childhood very fre
quently affect the ears; such as scarlet
fever, measles, diphtheria, cerebro
spinal meningitis, whooping-cough and
mumps. Duriag the attacks of these
diseases, and even when convalescence
has been established, although earache
may be absent, occasional examinations
of the ear should be made, in order that,
if affected, they may receive early atten
tion. Deafness is usually an early symp
tom of most aural affections; but on the
contrary, in some instances very consid;
erable impairment ci tne arum cavixyji
and its contained mecnanism exists u-
out any perceptible impairment of hear
ing. It is believed that a very small per;
centage of the adult population possess
normal hearing, which fact greatly de
pends on the neglect in childhood to
which allusion has above been made.
I)r. Sexton in Harper's Mtvjazinb?'
A Mine-Owner's Mistake.
A man, now a prominent merchant of
Virginia City, won at poker an undevel
oped gravel claim near Nevada City,
worth in the neighborhood of $200. His
friends had the laugh on him. for several
days regarding his "investment," and
a:-ked him what proportion of the taxes he
would pay in case they accepted the prop
erty as a gift. He finally got mad at their
incessant guying, and told them they
would see he was not such a fool as they
took him for before he got through with
that mine He then wrote to some capi
talist acquaintance that he had a claim
worth a labulous sum, which be would sell
for $2000, being hard pressed financially.
The bank was next visited, $-jO0 worth of
gold dust aud nuggets poog:u, aua me
Claim uiuiunguij owiw". . ..
tending purchasjjfcrtrived they prospect
ed the round-PBe,and the panning
out was atten4eeFjBy iMg cleanups, they
p;iid the $2000 tlia?Banie day, and got pos
a,.uirn nf r.htt tsround. .- Work was at once
b"gun and they took out $8000 inside of
three weeks. The "salter" was so taken
he did not smne ior a
parties to whom he con-
jjpdness at the time of its
ever meet bim to this day
im if he bas another gravel
aback that
month, and
fi ied his sTi
perpetra
b:t thev
mine to sell Nevada (Oil.) Transcript.
stta.rt.inn- ft sftvincrs bank b
some other fellow's money,
him forever, is now the popul
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