WEEKLY COUVALLIS GAZETTE.
(XmVALLIS.
MAY 21, 1880
THE ONE CERTAINTY.
Lightly I bold my life with little dread.
And little hope tor what may spring there
from. But live like one that builds his summer's
home
For coolness on a dried up river bed,
And takes no thought for freected blue or red.
To paint the walls, and plans no golden
dome,
Knowing the flood, when autumn rains
are come.
Shall roll Its ravening waters overhead.
And wherefore should I plant my ground and
sow?
Hi nee, though I know not of the day or
hour.
The conqueror comes at last, the alien foe
Shall come to my defenceless place in
power,
With force, with
l nro w.
Taking the goods I gathered for his dower.
arms, with ruinous over-
ROSE FORRESTER'S ESCAPE.
"Everybody envies Rose Forrester."
The pale girl in rose-colored silk lifted
her broad lids from her clear eyes for a
moment as the speaker's words reached
her ear; then she bent over the photo
graphs upon her lap again.
She handled the pictures with an en
thusiastic appreciation of their worth, so
absorbed in their examination as to be
totally unconscious of the tall man that
stood quite near, looking down at her
with an apparent suddenly awakened in
terest. "Belonging to such a nice family, an
heiress, and so beautiful !"
The continued words of the speaker
reached Howard Mauley's ear, but evi
dently Rose Forrester did not hear them.
She turned with a sparkling smile te her
hostess, and was talking with her of the
photographs when Mr. Clinton brought
Howard Manly up for an introduction.
As she rose in the full light it revealed
that she was very young, scarcely twenty,
yet tall of stature and with a certain
marked repose of manner.
Her beauty was not conspicuous she
was too pale; yet Manley saw how per
fectly cut was every feature, how clear the
dark-gray eyes, how dark the curling
lashes. The lios shut over the clear teeth
as white as milk, and the contour of the
face was a perfect oval.
The girl's natural and spontaneous man
ner told that she gave the young man, at
first, no unusual attention. Little by little
she observed him the fair hair shadow
ing the white forehead, the dark blue
penetrating eyes, the unusual grace of
figure, the lauitless dress.
Her manner was so cordial and friendly
and unmistakably charming that Manley
racked his brains for the chance of a next
meeting, but was obliged to abandon it
when Miss Forrester was joined by her
brother.
She left the room, but instantly he
thanked his good fortune at the Qnding
of a rubv scarf pin which he recognized
as hers. It was easy to -decide the orna
ment too valuable to he entrusted lo a
messenger. It was a presumption which
he would manage with ease to call upon
and restore it.
Rose was not a belle; she had too much
depth and passion of nature to ever be a
society woman; but she had her admirers
and out of them she chose Manley.
She could not tell why, but his looks,
words, every act, had a charm for her, and
the eloquent blood tinging her cool cheek
at his approach told him the story of his
power.
It seemed to her that it was the pleasant
influences of the opening spring that
made her dailv ways so light; the tender
colors, sights and sounds surrounding her
daily walk with Manley in the park tnat
made them so enjoyable.
Of him she knew but little; yet she
feared nothing for herself, tome instinct
or wisdom made her keep her confidence
Irom her brother, who was her guardian,
lie knew nothing of the intimacy.
From the night she had first met Man
ley she never knew anyone who knew
him intimately. He told her he had no
living female relatives no home.
He evidently had means at command,
and procured for her with an ingenuity
which was almost a genius the rarest and
most beautiful gifts.
Her brother came into the music room
where she sat at the piano dreamily play
ing, one day.
"Rose, will you give me your attention
for a few minutes?"
He held in his hand an open letter. He
was twenty years older than herself, a
world-wise, prudent man.
"Dr. Wingrove proposes for your hand.
You are aware that it will be a very ad
mirable match."
Rose had a strange, stunned feeling,
yet she bowed faintly. From childhood
she had been greatly under her brother's
control.
"I should like to write him favorably,
Rose. Have you any objection?"
"I I"
She found herself upon her feet, shiver
ing in the May sunshine.
"I would have a little time, Edwin."
"Certainly, if you wish. The doctor
will probably not look for an immediate
answer."
The next moment Rose had escaped
from the room and was locked in her
chamber.
During the next two hours she hardly
knew what she was doing. She found
herself walking the floor and wringing
her hands. Suddenly she stopped short
with a sense of pride.
"There is no reason no reason in the
world why I dare not tell my brother why
1 cannot marry Dr. Wingrove !"
Doctor Wingrove was the noblest and
gentlest of men, singularly handsome,
wealthy and highly connected, and barely
thirty years of age. He had known her
since childhood, never made love to her,
but now that the offer of marriage had
come she lealized, somehow, that he bad
a! way 3 loved her.
Catching up her cloak and hat and ty
ing a heavy black veil across her face she
went out into the street.
She soon walked herself weary without
abating her painful sensation, and re
turning to the street in which her resi
dence was situated, entered the public
inclosure of trees and shrubbery which
ornamented the square.
So close to ber home she had no timid
ity, and sinking upon a a circular seat
she gave herself up to her absorbing
thoughts.
It was soon dark, yet she had not
stirred. In her black dress in shadow,
she was quite unobserved by two men
who crossed the street from the opposite
side and sat down behind her.
She wonld have risen and goue quietly
away but that the movement was arrested
by Howard Manly's voice.
"How soon?" be asked.
"Now, my dear brother. I'll stand the
risk uo longer. I've passed false money
enough for you to shut me up the balance
of my life, and I value my liberty, siugu
larly enough," sneeringly.
"Well, well, I'm willing enough to go,
Fred. Heaven knows that I am as sick
of the business as you can be. Coining
isn't all prosperity. In a new country I
should feel like a new man. But "
"The heiress?" "
"I am sore of her, but I don't like to
urge a hasty marriage. She baa an old
fox of a brother, who may be inconven
iently curious regarding my affaire. If we
could wait till the autumu, now, I might
enter some respectable business."
"I tell you it won't do !"
Both rose in their excitement and in
voluntarily walked away.
Plainly under the gaslight Rose saw
Howard Manly and his brother pass into
the street. Tney were coiners of counter
feit money.
More dead than -alive she crept into the
house. But Rose was not a weak girl.
Before midnight she had placed Howard's
guts in a close package and sealed with
them a note briefly stating that she had
overheard the conversation in the park
As soon as her brother broached the
subject of Dr. Wingrove's proposal she
asked to have the latter call upon her.
He came, with countenance so high of
purpose, with eyes so full of trntn, tnat
she involuntarily contrasted Howard's
reticent face with it. But she told Air.
Wingrove all the truth.
"Perhaps it was wrouj;, but I loved him
love him purely and my heart is torn
and bleeding. I am wild with a secret
pain which I must hide from every one.
This terrible experience has changed me
I am not the care-free, happy, trusting
girl that you knew. I cannot love you;
but pity me be my friend; I must talk to
some one, and oh, there is no one in the
world so kind as you !
Was Dr. Wingrove piqued by this re
ception of his proposal ? No, he was too
genereus and tender-uearteu for tiiat.
"Poor .child,"' he said in a tone so sooth
ing that, for the first time, Rose gave way
to a relieving burst of passionate weeping.
"What shall L do V What do you think
of me?" she asked at last.
"We will wait, and I think that I love
you, he answered, quietly.
So two kept Rose's sorrow more easily
than one. and though ber heart still knew
its pangs of grief for a time, the summer
brought change of scene which was help
ful to a spirit really brave and innocent.
Dr. Wingrove joined Rose and her
brother at the seashore, to tind brightness
in the young girl's eyes again, and to the
latter it was sweet to call so kind and
noble a man friend.
Together thev climbed the rocks, drank
in the free air, watched the sunsets and
the sea. Of old they had been congenial,
and now they seemed more happily so.
There is usually a sacredness about first
love, and perhaps it is expected of me to
record the death of mv heroine of a
broken heart, but I must tell the truth.
In the autumn, Hose married Dr. Win
grove. She is one of the happiest wives
in the world. Tne first love lei I from her
like a false blossom, while the second
ripened richest fruit.
Repentance.
A man who as an overseer before the
war had driven the darkeys with a whoop
came to the city yesterday. After taking
two or three drinks, and feeling that
peculiar muscular growth so well known
to men who stand aiound m spiritual
seance," the overseer went off the street
with the swagger of a man noted for vot
ing whole neighborhoods. An old blind
colored man came walking along. The
overseer looked haughtily to one side
and stopped. The old man ran against
him.
"You old villain," exclaimed the over
seer, hooking a hand in the old man's
collar, "haven't you got more sense than
to run over a white man?"
"Marster, fore de Lord, I hopes you
will 'skuse me."
"Ah, yes, you old rattlesnake; you
thought that I would be afraid to tackle
you, eh?"
"Marster, 'fore the Lord, you mus'
'skuse me fur de old man hain't seed a
wink since long afore freedom."
"Are you blind old man?"
"Yes, sah, blinder den ole Jacob at de
time ob his death."
"Give me your hand, old man. Here,
take this tobacco."
"Much obleged, thankee, sah."
"Here,, take this pipe. Here's a red
handerchief. Any man that would choke
a blind man ought to be stripped. Here's
fifty cents- and some more tobacco.
Here's a lot of flax thread. Take it all,
old man. Here's more tobacco. Is there
anybody in town that yon want
whipped."
"No, sah, not a one."
"If there is, I'll beat him till he feels
like a pig with the thumps; you've seen
pigs with the thumps, haven't yon?';
"Yes, sah?"
"Well, I'll whale him till he has the
thumps. Do you know anybody that con
whip me?"
"Why, marster?"
"Because any man that would choke a
blind darkey ought to be whipped. Hold
on, don't go here's some more tobacco.
Put this pint bottle in your pocket. I
thought at first that I'd make my will m
your favor, but to save lawyer's fees, I'll
give up everything now. Now, old man,
just step back a few yards and butt me
into the middle of the street."
"Marster, I doan wan tef hurt ye. I'se
got a powerful hard head."
"Do just as I say old man. Step back
and let drive."
The old man stepped back, bowed his
neck, and with a bound struck the over
seer so hard that he staggered out into
Ihe street and fell. "That's all right,
sir," he said to himself, getting up and
walking away. "He served you right.
The next time you collar a blind nigger
I'll use my influence to have you killed."
Little Rock Gazette.
The Family Rndder.
A Com3tocker who was having his hair
cut yesterday afternoon gave the barber
particular instructions not to remove a
lock that projected in a somewhat un
sightly way from the front of his head.
"It don't become you," said the bar
ber. "Can't help that," said the customer.
"Better let me take it off," said the
barber.
"Just you leave it as it is," said the
man.
"But," persisted the barber, "I can't
give you a smooth, decent cut if I leave
the hair so long in front. It will look
like the very devil. I can't see what you
want it left for."
"That's because you don't know what
it is you don't know the use of it."
"I know it's a bunch of hair, and it is
something devlish unbecoming just
where it is."
"Yes, it is a bunch of hair, and it is
something more than a bunch of hair
it's a family rudder."
"The family what?"
"The family rudder. "When things
don't go right at home, my wife always
grabs that lock of hair. She would feel
lost without it. When she gets hold of
that she can handle me steer me in the
right course, so to speak and when I go
in the right course all is well. I've got
used to it now and don't mind it. Should
I lose my hair and become bald, or
should you give me a fighting cnt all :
over, there would be no way of steering i
me; I should become unmanagable, and I
sooner or later a total wreck. No, sir, j
don't yon disturb the family rudder. ;
Virginia Enterprise. j
A Famous Affair of Honor.
Yes, sir, I recollect as if it were yester
day the exciting scenes of the famous
duel between Congressmen Potter and
Roger A. Pryor, said Ex-Governor Arny
of New Mexico to the writer the 'other
evening, pulling between sentences at his
cigar. It was during the memorable
contest for Speaker when Gen. N. P.
Banks of Massachusetts was elected only
after many weeks of incessant balloting".
A sharp discussion had taken place, dur
ing which Mr. Potter was very severe on
Mr. Pryor, and intimated that he was re
sponsible for all he uttered on the floor
of Congress or elsewhere. The gallery
was crowded with many ladies, among
whom was Mrs. Pryor, a proud and high
spirited Southern lady. I saw her de
liver a note to a page, which he handed
to Mr. Pryor, and in a few moments the
latter wrote, sealed and handed to Mr.
Keith a letter, which the "friend" laid
on Mr. Potter's desk. This little scene
was witnessed by many members, and in
a twinkle it was surmised that there was
"blood on the moon." The principals
retired, and word was spread about the
sity that a duel was on the tapis. The
city authorities took the matter in hand,
and officers were dispatched in every di
rection with instructions to arrest the
principals and seconds, and at all hazards
to stop the bloody work.
This chase was kept up for three days,
Bladensburg and Big Falls, the noted
duelling grounds, being specially watch
ed, but no trace of the sanguinary Con
gressmen could be found. Excitement
ran high, and rumors of the wildest kind
were afloat. It was learned afterward
that while the police were passing rest
less days and sleepless nights in a vain
search for the knights of the duello, they
were snugly quartered in a room on
the top floor of the National Hotel
in the city of Washington, in a lively
wrangle over the choice of weapons.
Potter, who was the challenged party,
claimed the right to elect the mode of
dealing death, and he chose the bowie
knife. Mr. Landers, who was Mr. Pot
ter's second, was surprised at this selec
tion, and suggested that it looked too
much like murder, but finding that his
principle was inexorable he sent for Mr.
Pryor and stated the proposition.
"I will not fight that way," said Mr.
Pryor; "it is an unheard of proceeding,
and not tolerated by the code."
Mr. Landers respondod: "You have
issued the challenge and we have the
choice of weapons."
"No gentleman would ask to fight that
way, spoke up the impetuous and now
thoroughly aroused Pryor.
"Do vou mean to say that I am no
gentleman?" quickly responded Mr.
Landers: "mv nrinciole is out of the
way, and I will fight you on - any terms
you propose.
"Mr. Pryor answered: "I have noth
ing to do with you, sir; my quarrel is
with Mr. Potter."
It was during this prolonged absence
of the belligerent Congressman that a
funny scene occurred in the House.
There was a German member from Penn
sylvania who was troubled with the yel
low jaundice, and had to lie brought into
the sessions daily on a cot. He spoke in
broken English, and during a roll call,
after Mr. Potter's name had been called,
he called out:
"Mishter Sneaker, I vishes to rise a
privileged question. Mr. Potter, the
shentleman whose name has shust been
called, has a Pryor engagement, and
can't be here."
This sally was received with shouts of
laughter and applause. When Mr.
Pryor's name was called, this same
yellow-jaundiced Congressman again
spoke to a privileged question, and said:
"Mishter Speaker, I vish to inform
the House that Mr. Pryor is ash clay in
the hands of de Potter."
It was while the laughter that greeted
this second sally of the Pennsylvania in
valid was still at its height that Mr.
Pryor walked in and took his accus
tomed seat. He was instantly surround
ed by his friends, with whom he held an
earnest conversation for a few moments,
detailing the circumstances of the three
terrible days, and explaining the extra
ordinary terms proposed and insisted
upon by Mr. Potter. It was at first be
lieved that the duel had taken place, and
that Mr. Potter was either killed or
badly wounded. The excitement was
intense, and all business suspended.
Mr. Pryor was followed in a few mo
ments by the two seconds. This lent ad
ditional force to the supposition that a
duel had taken place with serious re
sults, and recess was taken, the Dutch
member exclaiming: "The Pryor en
gagement of Mr. Potter is ended." It
was subsequently learned that Mr. Pot
ter was firm in his peculiar method of
dueling, and Mr. Pryor point blank re
fused to participate in what he termed
downright murder.
"You have been in pnblic life a great
many years, Governor," said the re
porter; "have yon never engaged in a
duel?"
"Well," answered the Governor,
laughingly, "I never had a real fight,
but I was seriously challenged. I had a
controversy with Colonel Rigg, United
States army, who was stationed at Santa
Fe, in New Mexico. He challenged me
in all seriousness, but being a non-combatant,
I at first told his second that it
was against my principle to fight, and
that I must be excused. Before he de
parted I reconsidered, and consented to
meet the warlike Colonel. Being the
challenging party, I had the right to
choice of weapons, and I selected two
cannons, with the understanding that
each of us was to take one, place them
in canyons 40 miles apart, and at a given
signal we were to blaze away at each
other until we got tired. When Colonel
Rigg received my response he laughed
and said, 'D that man Arny,' and
soon afterward left the Territory. If.
Y. Star.
How it was After His Money was
Gone. The case of Congressman Voorhis,
of Hackensack, New Jersey, is a painful
illustration of the flitting of summer friend
when adversity comes. He was esteem
ed wealthy, was liberal without being
extravagent, and friends clustered about
him in sunshine like bees upon the honey
flower. He was chosen to Congress in an
adverse district, anil ull classes paid him
homage as a worthy citizen. It is not
charged that he deliberately lefrnuded
any one : but he borrowed from bis own
bank without lawful authorities, confident
ly expecting to par, and embarrassments
so accumulated about him that be was $5,
000 short in restoring the money. He was
arrested, and the man who bad thousands
of summery flatterers could not command
$10,000 security. After a day of surveil
lance in the douse under the care of a
United States Marshal, the amount of bail
was reduced to $0,000, and bis father and
brother were then able to save him from
the ignominy of a prison.
If a man has love in his heart, he may
talk in broken language, but it will be
eloquence to those who listen.
A TALE OF THE JUNIATA.
BY EDWARD JAMES.
It was night. One of those dark,
gloomy periods when the very stillness
startles the solitary thinker and causes
him to conjure up sights the most hor
rible. Awful murders, fearful tragedies,
bloody assassinations and kindred scenes
rush past his mental vision with such
painful rapidity and vividness as to make
him fondly wish for the early approach
of dawn, with its cheering, horror dis
pelling light.
The scene of my sketch is a few miles
southwest of Waynesburg (now McVey
town, Penn.), a small settlement on the
historic Blue Juniata, a stream justly
famed for the rapidness of its waters and
the grand and sublime scenery of the
valley through which it winds its sinuous
course. The time of the occur
rence dates back almost a century
ago and time, with its changes, has al
most effaced the old land marks, but
enough yet remain to make the site re
ferred to familiar to all readers convers
ant with that portion of the Juniata val
ley. In the woods which run down to the
river stands a heavy log house, embow
ered in deep foliage , soon to be the scene
of a most exciting adventure. The little
rivulet hard by ripples over the moss
covered stones making a peculiarly pleas
ing noise as it hurries on to join the
placid river below just at this time,
however, subsiding from the autumnal
floods. Inside the heavy building all is
still as death; no light can be seen what
ever, and as the hours pass on the dark
ness seems to become impenetrable and
the stillness more intense, until the sus
pense is almost unbearable, when hark !
the defying, challenging war-whoop of
an Indian rends the air and echoes
throughout the distant mountains, chil
ling the blood of all ho hear it.
Soon all is bustle and excitement with
in and cautiously the barrel of a gun is
thrust through the loop-hole, followed
by a flash, a report, and as the sound re
verberates through the neighboring hills
and glens, the death-shriek of a savage is
heard, and once more the portals open
and another dusky spirit enters the hap
py hunting grounds.
Not many minutes elapse until the
house is surrounded by a score of dusky
savages, anxious to avenge the death of
their brother.
At this stage a short description of the
occupants of this besieged place is nec
essary to a proper understanding of the
foregoing remarks, and will enable the
reader to form an idea of the perilous
life and adventures of the primitive set
tlers of the Juniata region.
Alexander DePugh for such we shall
call him -was an old and experienced
hunter, who with his family, consisting
of his wife, son aged twenty, and daugh
ter, the latter a beautiful girl of eighteen
summers, had settled here because of its
seclusion and its being the center of a
good hunting: section.
On the day upon which our story
opens, young DePugh was out on a
hunting and fishing expedition and be
ing of a fearless and venturesome nature
had wandered several miles from home.
About noon, being very much fatigued,
he extended his tired limbs on the leaf
strewn ground beneath the spreading
branches of a large tree, while he par
took of a refreshing lunch. He bad not
remained in this position long, however,
until his trained ears were greeted with
the gruff voice of a man near by in close
conversation with another. DePugh
raised himself upon his elbow and, with
an intentness born of experience, lis
tened to their conference. But a few
moments satisfied him that the speakers
were Indian scouts and that, too, from a
hostile party who were devising plans for
the capture of his father's family.
With stealthy steps the young hunter
stole away from the dangerous spot and
not having been discovered, made his
way rapidly home? reaching there just
in time to inform his unsuspecting fam
ily of the impending peril. He had
been in the house but a short time when
peering into the darkness through a
loop-hole he espied a savage with a
lighted fagot skulking through the trees
toward the dwelling. This latter move
ment on the part of an Indian, as well as
the signal shout before spoken of, were
unusual for such wily rascals, but they
were so confident of victory that they
forgot their cunning treachery. The
young man grasped his rifle, and run
ning it through the aperture fired the
shot which killed the rascally scout and
brought the Indians around the building.
Anxious to wreak vengeance on the
devoted family for the death of their
cpmpanion, the savages commenced to
light fire-brands and throw them about
.the house, but these only served to re
veal their foes.
"Robert," said the father, "aim low
and be sure of your mark."
With this advice from his parent, the
son ran out his gun and fired again with
fatal effect, as was announced by the
maddened yells of the red devils which
floated away on the stilly night air.
Occasional firing was kept up for a
number of hours when suddenly all be
came quiet.
The old settler knew that this omin
ous stillness boded him and his family
no good and that the Indians were only
waiting for the light of day to aid them
in the destruction of his family and home.
Arriving at this conclusion he ordered
preparations to be made for an imme
diate flight, if such a thing was possible.
He saw that unless they buried daylight
would be upon them and their escape
would be impossible; indeed, "the gray
light of dawn was already appearing.
This last resort was decided upon after
much mental torture to the anxious
parents.
To flee to the river was thought the
best plan, but, ah! what dangers attended
it!
The red fiends were watching every
point of exit, but when the hunter built
bis house he had run a kind of subter
ranean passage from the cellar several
hundred feet toward the river (in antici
pation of such an exigency as this one) ,
and it was thought by following this to
the end they could reach the river and
their canoes and from thence get to the
settlement below.
Having secured their most precious
relics the whole family commenced their
dangerous retreat. The end of the pas
sage was gained in safety and they were
making their way through the under
brush to the river, silently congraulat
ing themselves upon their escape, when
a savage yell at no great distance warned
them they were discovered.
Now was the supreme moment. In a
few seconds the whole band of blood
thirsty demonds wonld be upon them.
The poor man knew now that unless he
reached the river all would be lost. Sum
moning his great strength he caught his
wife up in his arms while Robert lifted
his sister and both ran toward the canoes.
The Indians came rushing on, yelling
like fiends incarnate, yet happily they
were several hundred yards in the rear.
The race of life and death was con
tinued in this manner for some minutes,
but the father "saw that unless they made
an extra dash they would fall victims to
their foes.
A few more seconds and the boats
would be reached. Could they hold out
they asked themselves.
Father and son did nobly and as they
rushed on the veins in their faces stood
out like whip chords and the perspira
tion rolled from their heated brows in
great drops. .
The Indians were gaining upon them
perceptibly, but the tired hunter makes
a Herculean effort, while his son follows
closely after with his charge and with a
desperate strain the canoes are reached.
The women are laid in the bottom of
the boats to shield them from the arrows
of the savages and with tbfi father in one
and the son in the other The canoes are
paddled rapidly out into the stream
just in time to escape a shower of ar
rows which go whistling harmlessly
overhead.
The baffled Indians stand along the
shore venting their rage in fearful,
blood-curdling yells that echo and re
echo along the distant hills.
All danger was not yet over, for an In
dian, followed by several of his com
rades, was Been running along the shore,
with the intention evidently of getting
on a projecting point of land below,
where they could reach the fugitives
with their arrows when they passed in
their boats.
Fortunately the river was higher than
usual, but though the escaping family
kept along the eastern shore they felt
they could hardly pass the point above
mentioned alive and were almost ready
to give up in despair when they were
encouraged by a loud, ringing cheer.
Looking up the river they descried a
large party of hunters approaching in
their boats and the imperilled family
knew they were saved.
The red skins quickly disappeared in
the woods and were subsequently nearly
all killed or captured.
The brave hunter acid his family, to
gether with the other boats one of
which contained the handsome person of
Frank Murlnst, the favored suitor of
Rose, the settler's beautiful daughter
pulled for the Waynesburg settlement,
where they arrived a few hours later in
safety.
As the Indians had become somewhat
troublesome in that region the family
remained in town for some months.
In the war with the redskins which
followed soon after the events narrated
above, Robert, who was a fine looking
young man, enlisted and being a brave
soldier soon rose from the ranks to be an
officer of distinction. Rose, who was the
loveliest girl in all that region, acqui
esced in the oft repeated request of her
brave and gallant lover, Col. Frank
Murlnst, and on Christmas day, just
four months after her perilous escape
from the Indians, was married and lived
many years after, ever the joy and light
of her husband's home.
Her father and mother, pleased with
their daughter's choice, lived near her
on the site of their old home which was
destroyed by the murdering savages.
How She Kept an Expense Account.
"My dear fellow," said Lavender,
"it's all very nice to talk about econo
mizing and keeping a right rigid account
of expenses and all that sort of thing,
but I've tried it. Two weeks ago I stop
ped on my way home, and I bought just
the gayest little Russia-leather, cream
laid paper account book you ever saw,
and a silver pencil to match it. I said
to my wife, after supper:
"My dear, it seems to me that it costs
us a lot of money to keep house."
She sighed and said:
"I know it does, Lavvy, but I'm sure
I can't help it. I'm just as economical as
I can be. I don't spend half as much
money for candy as you do for cigars."
"I never take any notice of personali
ties, so I sailed right ahead. I believe,
my dear, that if we were to keep a strict
account of everything we spend we could
tell just where to cut down. I've bought
you a little account book, and every
Monday morning I'll give you some
money, and you can set it down on one
side, and then, during the week, you can
set down on the other side everything
you spend, and then on Saturday night
we can go over it and seo just where the
money goes and how we can boil things
down a little."
Well, sir, she was just delighted
thought it was a first-rate plan, and the
pocket account book was lovely regular
David Copperfield and Dora meant busi
ness. Well, sir, the next Saturday night
we got through supper and she brought
out the account book as proud as possi
ble, and handed it over for inspection.
On one side was, "Received from Lavvy
fifty dollars." That's all right! Then I
looked on the other page. "Spent it all!"
Then I laughed, and, of course, we gave
up the account book racket on the spot,
by mutual consent. Yes, sir, I've been
there, and I know what domestic econ
omy means, I tell you. Let's have a
cigar. Ex.
Proud of His Work.
There is a natural satisfaction experi
enced in the contemplation of the results
of diligent and well-directed toil. The
workman's grandest monument is the
work which he has completed. He
looks at it, and rejoices in it. Even "the
Lord shall rejoice in his works;'' and in
similar rejoicing all true workers have
some right to participate.
But as our good works may be an oc
casion of rejoicing, so the evil which
men do, not only lives after them, in
dark and terrible permanence, but it
often confronts them, haunts them with
its shadow, and shows to them the dire
and terrible results of wrong doing even
in this life.
During a recent discussion of the tem
perance question in the Canadian par
liament, Mr. Ford, of Queen county, re
ferred to a member of one of the families
in the province, who had not long before
been laid in a uauoer's crave in conse
quence of being addicted to the use of
intoxicating drink, and remarked that
such a circumstance was "a temperance
lecture in a nutshell."
Mr. Pugh, member from Halifax, im
mediately arose, and in opposition to Mr.
Ford, stated that he was a liquor-seller,
and that the business was just as honor
able and legitimate as a carriage -builder's.
This remark called up Mr Ford again
and be said: "I build carriages, and
when I turn out a fine wagon, and put it
to rolling along the streets, I say, 'That
is my work.' I would ask the honorable
member from Halifax if he is proud of
his work, as he sees it rolling along the
street."
There was no answer to this question;
i: was a question that answered itself.
SHORT BITS.
Crew ditties Boat songs.
The great question in Congress Shall
we go out and have something.
When the farmer puts a porcelain egg
under the hen, is he setting a good egg
sample.
What is that which asks no ques
tions but requires many answers? The
door-bell.
I reckon him a Christian indeed who
is neither ashamed of the gospel nor a
shame to it.
When a tooth begins to feel as if there
was a chicken scratching at the root, it's
time to pullit.
"Flour is rising," said one dealer to
another. Tnat shows it is good," was the
quick reply.
"Put not your trust in Kings and
Princes Three aces and a jack will skin
them every time.
A gentleman in conversation said that
his dogs were A 1. Shouldn't they have
been rated K 9.
A fellow who was detected stealing cot ;
ton said he hooked it because it was a
great staple.
"Bare and for bare," as a bald-headed
man said when he bought a front seat for
"The Black Crook."
"Every man has his prejudices," said
a wife. "And every woman her bias," was
the husband's reply.
A man should make it a part of his re
ligion to see that his country is well gov -erned.
Wm. Penn.
"Where yer bin, Billy?" "Bin fishing?"
"Ketch anything?" "No, but I expect to
when I get in the house."
Paris is an iron-founder in Troy, N. Y.
We do not know whether there is any
Helen 'round there or not.
The generality of men expend the early
part of their lives in contributing to ren
der the latter part miserable.
Faber has made a great deal of money
from lead pencils; which is the difference
between Faber and reporters.
An old maid's advice to young ladies.
Don't marry until you are twenty-five
unless you get a good chance.
"Does your mother know your route?"
asked a rival when the bride and groom
started on their wedding tour.
Our Burlington girls ahem! young
ladies are like "the frog who would a
wooing go," they leap to the year.
The French ladies have a saying that
a man should keep his eyes open before
marriage, and shut them afterward.
Bismarck is entitled to wear 466 deco
rations. When he is dressed for cere
mony he looks like a speckled hen.
A Derby farmer sat down on a piece of
hot iron in a blacksmith shop, and on
rising broke a hole in the ceiling.
The greatest man living may stand in
need of the meanest, as much as the
meanest does of him. Thomas Fuller.
A yonng man who has recently taken a
wife savs he didn't find it half so hard to
get married as he did to get furni
ture.
The Omaha Herald says a drink of
Council lilufts whisky will make a man
go off to some secluded spot and rob
himself.
Minerva's baby was probably spoken
of by the old women of the neighbor
hood as "nothing but a bundle of
'Nerv's."
, When an Indiana woman addresses her
husband as "old corpse" he goes and
applies for a divorce and the court
grants it.
I never had a man cum to me for ad'
vice, but before he got thru he had
more advice to offer than to ask for.
Josh Billings.
"What will the harvest be?" asks an
exchange. Well, just wait till the har
vest bee crawls up your trowsers leg, and
you 11 hnd out.
An eccentric old Georgian, Wm. Wil
son, of .Newton county, recently died
leaving his estate, worth $10,000, to his
former slaves.
Lately a gentleman of nearly ninety
years had the grief of losing bis wife.
"I cannot complain," he said, for she was
nearly sixty-five.
The only instance of leap year privi
lege yet noticed in this vicinity was that
of a woman being seen down town at
midnight after her husband.
Four of the widows of Brigham Young
have found rest and consolation with
second husbands. The rest are so homely
that they are waiting to die.
It was a Chicago woman who first in
vented the idea of placing; a canary bird
stuffed with sawdust in a place where a
cat would have to work two hours to get
at it.
What i want, said a pompous
orator, aiming at his antagonist, "is good
common sense." "Exactly!" was the
wnispered reply; "that s just what you
need.
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Daytos, W. T., Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Some, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co , 702 Market street, San Francises) Sir:
The Truss I purchased of you about one year ago
has proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur
ed forty years, and worn dozensof different kinds
of Trusses, all of which have ruiDed my health,
as they were injurious to my back and spine.
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will be (-tail to answer any letters on its merrits.
I remain, yourj respectfully,
'D. U. Bdnnkll.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 7.'2Market street, S. F. Sir: Jn re
gard to your California Elastic Truss, I would say
that 1 have carefully studied its mechanism, ap
plied it in practice, and do not hesitate to say
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
it is the best Truss ever offered to the publ ic
Yours truly, J. H Carothkrs, M D.
Endorsed by a prominent Medical lu
stlute. San Frakcisoo, March 6, 1879.
W. J. Home, Esq Sir: You ask my opinion
of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic
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been tested under my observation, and in reply I
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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 to use
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, Bakl w J. Smith, M. I).
Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute,
035 Caliliirnia street, San Francisco.
A REMARKABLE CURE.
San FnANcisco, Oct 26, 1879
W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir I
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CURE
your valuable truss has effected on my little boy.
I he double truss I purchased from you has PER
FECTLY CUKED him of his painful rupture on
both sides in a little over six months, 'i he steel
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are providentially led to give your truss a trial.
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Yours truly, Wm. Pbuu,
C38 Sacramento Street.
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CURED of Hernia on both sides.
L. Dsxteb Lvpoed, M. D.
Surgeon and Physician,
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CAPITAL., 91,000,000.
General Office and Manufactory,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Pacific Branch,
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CU VS. H. D3DD &, CO., TORTLAND,
Agent for Oregon anil Washington Ter
iitLL's patent concrete
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Have been tested by the most disastrous confla
grations in the country.
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Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about lall.ilOll of the.-; wife are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by soma
of the most disastrous cuDftugrutioiis in ihe
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wherein one of Lhcm ever failed to deserve its
contents perfectly.
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Have never been broken open ami robbed by
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patent, and his work cannot be equaled lawfully.
His latent bolt is Miperior 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 nro
operated wilhont any arbor or spindle passing
through the door and into the lock.
Our locks cannot be oencd or picked by bur
glars or experts, (as in case of other locks) , and we
will put from $1,0U0 'o $10,000 behind them any
time against an equal amount.
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Made in America, or any other country.
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To any person who c n prove that one of Hall's
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broken open and robbed by
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present, time.
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Office with C. H. Oodd A Co., Portland. Oregon
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