WEEKLY CORVALLIS GAZETTE.
CORVALLIS.
JUNE 11, 1880
LAST NIOHT.
Last night, wf this tba little curtained room,
Where the rT murtc con ided faintly clear,
And silver lish -rar allng through the
gloom.
You told the tale that women love to hear;
Ton told It well, with firm hands clasping
mine,
And deep eyes glowing with a tender light.
Mere acting? Bat your power was half divine
Last night, last night.
Ah, yon bad much to offer; wealth enough
To gild the future, and a path of ease
For one whose way is somewhat dark and
rough;
Mew iriends a life as calm as summer seas.
And something (was it love?) to keep us true,
And make us precious in each other's sight.
Ah! then, indeed, my heart's resolve I knew,
J.asl night, last night.
Let the world go, with all its dross and pelf!
Only for one, like Portia, could I say,
"I would be trebled twenty times myself;"
Only for one, and he is far away;
His voice came back to me, distinct and dear.
And thrilled me with the pain of lost delight;
The present laded, but the past was clear,
Last night, last night.
If others answered as I answered then.
We would hear less, perchance, of blighted
lives;
There would be truer women, nobler men,
And fewer dreary homes ajd faithless wives;
Because 1 could not give you all my best,
I gave you nothing. Judge me was I right?
You may thank heaven that I stood the test,
Last night, last night.
TRUE ROAD TO SUCCESS.
Edward Stone stood inpatient!- upon
the step of his Uncle Dan's stately resi
dence. There was not the slightest sign
of life anywhere around; the whole front
part of the bouse was closed and dark
ened; and, having rang several times
without eliciting any response, he was
about to conclude that there was no
one within hearing, when a head was
thrust out of one of the upper windows.
"Young man, go around to the side
door."
Considerably startled by this unex
pected address, the young man obeyed.
Upon the porch, brushing away the
leaves which covered it, was a young
girl of fifteen. She looked very pretty
as she stood there, the bright autumnal
sunshine falling on the round, white
arms and uncovered head.
Setting down her broom, she ushered
him into a medium-sized, plainly
furnished room, which gave no indica
tion of the reputed wealth of its owner.
The young man took a seat, brushed a
few flecks of dust from the lappel of his
coat, ran his fingers through his carefully-arranged
locks, and thus delivered
himself :
"Tell your master that his nephew,
Edward Stone, is here."
A faint smile touched the rosy lips,
and, with a demure "Yes, sir," the girl
vanished.
A few minutes later an elderly gentle
man entered, with intelligent, strongly
marked featnres, and a shrewd look in
his eye, which seemed to take the men
tal measure of his visitor at a glance.
"Well, sir, what is your business with
me ?"
"I am your nephew, Edward Stone."
"So my daughter told me. What do
yon want ?
"I came to pay my respects to you,
air."
"Yes; but what do you want me to do
for you T
"I was thinking of going into busi
ness, and thought! would come and talk
it over with you, and ask you to give
me a lift."
"What better capital do you want
than you already have? A strong,
able-bodied man wanting a lift! You
ought to be ashamed of yourself! What
have you been doing?"
Edward's face flushed with anger at
this unceremonious -language; but, feel
ing that he could not afford to quarrel
with his wealthy relative, he gave no
other indication of it.
"I've been in a store since I left
school, two years ago."
"Saved nothing from your salary, I
suppose?"
"No; it's only $500 a year not more
than enough for my expenses."
"Humph! You are able to dress
yourself out of it, I perceive. I have
known men to rear and educate a large
family on $500 a year; and, if you have
been unable to save anything, you cer
tainly are not fit to go into business on
your own account. When I was your
age my income was less than $300, and
I saved half of it. What is the busi
ness you want to engage in?"
"Stationery and books. $600 will buy
it, as the owner is obliged to sell a
rare chance. I don't ask you to give
me the amount, only to lend it; I will
give my note, with interest."
"Young man, I have several such
papers already. You can have all of
them for $5, and I warn you that it
will prove a bad investment at that. I
can crive vou some advice, thouch.
tich, if you'll follow, will be worth
you a good many times over the
uuui juu naa. uul juu nun l uu it.
How do you know that; said Jdward
with a smile, who began to feel more at
home with his eccentric relative. "I'd
like to hear it, anyway."
"Well, here it is. Go back to your
place in the store, and save $3 a week
from your salary, which you can easily
do ; learning, in the meantime, all you
can about the business you intend to
pursue. At the end of four years you
will have the capital you seek, together
with sufficient experience and judgment
to know how to use it. And, better still,
it will be yours, earned by your own in
dustry and self-denial, and worth more
than ten times that amount got in
any other way. Then come and see me
again."
"You'd rather have my money than
advice, I dare say," added Mr. Stone, as
Edward arose to go; -'but we'll be bet
ter friends four years hence than if I let
you have it. Sit down, nephew; the
train you will have to take won't leave
until 6 in the evening. You must stay
to tea; I want you to see what a complete
little housekeeper I have, and make you
acquainted with her."
"Polly!" he cried, opening the door
into the hall.
In prompt obedience to his summons,
a rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed girl tripped
in. The neat print dress bad been ex
changed for a pretty merino, but our
hero did not fail to recognize her, and
his face flushed painfully as he did so.
"Polly," continued her father, "this
is your cousin Edward. He leaves on
the 6 o'clock train, and I want you to
make his stay with us as pleasant as pos
sible." "Polly is my little housekeeper," he
added, turning to his nephew; "I hire a
woman for the rough work, and she does
all the rest. When she's eighteen she
shall have all the servants she wants, but
she must serve her apprenticeship first.
It may stand her in good stead; she may
take it into her head to marry some poor
man, as her mother did before her. Eh!
my giri?"
Mary's only reply to this was a smile
and blush. Our hero was considerably
embarrassed by the recollection of the
mistake he had made; but the quietly
cordial greeting of his young hostess
soon put him completely at his ease.
At her father's request who was very
proud of his daughter's varied accom
plishments Mary sang and played for
her cousin, and his visit ended in singu
lar contrast to the stormy way it com
menced. Edward refused the $5 note
tendered to him by his uncle at parting
for his traveling expenses.
The old man smiled as he returned
the note to his pocket book.
' 'He's a sensible young chap, after all,"
he remarked to his daughter, as the door
closed after their guest. "It's in him, if
it can only be brought out. We shall see
we shall see."
"A good deal for father to say," was
Mary's inward comment, who thought
her cousin the most agreeable young
man she ever met.
Three years later, Mr. Stone and his
daughter paused in front of a small but
neat and pleasant looking shop, on the
plate glass door of which were these
words:
Edward Stoke,
Stationery and Bookstobe.
It being too early in the day for cus
tomers, they found the proprietor alone,
whose face flashed with pride and pleas
ure as he greeted them.
"I got your card, nephew," said the
old man, with a cordial grasp of the
hand, "and called around to see how you
were getting on. I thought it was about
time I gave you the little lift you asked
of me three years ago. You don't look
much as if yon needed it, though."
"Not at present, thank you, uncle, it
is the same business that I wanted to
buy then. The man who took it had to
borrow money to purchase it with, get
ting so much involved that he had to sell
at a sacrifice."
"Just what you wanted to do."
Edward smiled at the point made by
his uncle.
"It isn't what I've done, though. I've
saved $4 a week from my salary for the
last three years; and so was not only
able to pay the money down, but had $50
besides."
"Bravo!" cried the delighted old man,
with another grasp of the hand, that
made our hero wince. "I'm proud of
you! You're bound to succeed, I see,
and without anybody's help. I told your
Cousin Polly that, when she was
eighteen, I'd buy her a house in the city;
that she should furnish it to suit herself,
and have all the servants she ' wanted;
and I've kept my word. Come round
and see us whenever you can; you'll
always find the latch-string out."
Edward did not fail to accept the in
vitation so frankly extended a very
pleasant intimacy growing up between
the three during the twelve months that
followed. Our hero's business grew and
prospered, until he began to think of re
moving to a larger place. His uncle had
given him several liberal orders, as well
as sent him a number of customers, but
said nothing more about assisting him
in any other way until Christmas eve.
Entering the room where Edward and
his daughter were sitting, he said:
"I mustn't delay any longer the 'little
lift' I promised you, nephew, and which
you have well earned."
Edward glanced from the $5000 check
to the lovely face at his side, and then to
that of the speaker.
"You are very kind, uncle far kinder
than I deserve but "
"But what, lad? Speak out! Would
you prefer it in some other form?"
Edward's fingers closed steadily and
strongly over the hand that he had taken
in his.
"Yes, uncle; in this."
The old, man looked keenly from one to
the other.
"You are asking a good deal, nephew.
Polly, have you been encouraging this
young man in his presumption?"
"I'm afraid I have, father," was the
smiling response.
The father's eyes moistened.
"Tnen go, my daughter. I give you
to worthy keeping; and, if you make
your husband's heart as happy as your
mother made mine during the few short
years that she tarried by my side, he will
be blessed indeed.
The Dignity of Housekeeping.
Where is there any higher station than
the ordering of the house? While the
husband has to vex himself with outward
matters, while he has wealth to gather
and secure, while perhaps he takes
charge of the administration of the State
and everywhere depends on circum
stances; ruling nothing, I may say,
while he conceives that he is ruling
much; compelled to be polite where he
would willingly be reasonable, to dis
semble where he would be open, to be
false where he would be upright; while
thus for the sake of an object which he
never reaches, he must every moment
sacrifice the first of objects, harmony
with himself a reasonable housewife is
actually governing in the interior of her
family; has the comfort and activity of
every person in it to provide for, and
make possible. What is the highest
happiness of mortals, if not to execute
what we consider right and good, to be
really masters of the means conducive to
our aims? And where should or can
our nearest aims be but in the interior of
our home? All those indispensible and
still to be renewed supplies, where do
we expect, do we require to find them, if
not in the place where he go to sleep,
where kitchen and cellar, and every
species of accommodation for ourselves
and ours is to be always ready? What
unvarying activity is needed to conduct
this constantly recuring series in un
broken living order! How few are the
men to whom it is given to return
regularly like a star, to command their
days as they command their night; to
form for themselves their household
instruments, to sow and to reap, to gain
and to expend, and to travel around
their circle with perpetual success and
peace and love! It is when a woman
has attained this inward mastery, that
she truly makes the husband whom she
loves a master; her attention will re
quire all sorts of knowledge; her activity
will torn them all to profit. Thus she
is dependent upon no one; and she pro
cures, her husband genuins indepen
dence, that which is interior and
domestic; whatever he possesses, he
beholds secured; what he earns, well
employed, and thus he can direct his
mind to lofty objects, and, if fortune
favors, he may act in the state the same
character which so well becomes his
wife at home.
A widov who lives in a secluaed part of
Michigan talks very imperfectly by reason
of having lost her palate, and her two
daughters, aged 8 and 12, can only speak
the strange language they have learned of
her, though their vocal organs are perfect.
Cab and Tender.
"He's been in the dumps because bis
locomotive has been 'off for three or
four days," said a railroad man a the
Union depot the other day, as he pointed
to an engineer who looked as sour as
any dyspeptic.
"How off?"
"Go and ask him."
It took a quarter of an hour and a
cigar to clear the cloud from the engi
neer's face, and then in reply to the
query he said:
"It is a queer thing. There's my en
gine, one of the best on the road, in per
fect order, only twelve years old, and
able to run or pull with the best of
tli em. A month ago I hadn't the least
bit of trouble in making time, no matter
how the track was or the weight of the
train. She was ready at the word, held
her steam .beautifully, and she seemed to
understand every word I said. To-day
she is down in the round-house, growl
ing and sputtering and acting as if she
wanted to pick a fuss with a gravelTit."
"Anything out of gear?"
"Not a thing. She's been looked
over twice, and we can't find the least
excuse for her conduct. She'll get over
it in a day or two, perhaps. If she
don't we'll punish her."
How?"
"Put her before a freight or stock
train. I've seen it tried a dozen times,
and it most always worked well. Here
she is now, bright as a new dollar and as
handsome as a picture, and 111 bet fifty
dollars that there isn't the least thing
out of order. She's simply sulking the
same as a child or a woman, and I know
what started it. Three weeks ago, while
on my run in with the night express,
she just wanted to light right out for all
she was worth. She took the bit like a
running horse, and if I had not choked
her off she'd have beaten her schedule
time by twenty minutes. She acted
mad right away and in running twenty
miles she gave me more trouble than I
ever had with her in a run of three hun
dred. She lost steam, tried to foam
over, choked her pipes, and when I want
ed more steam she'd slide on her drivers.
She went right back on me that night,
and has been sulking ever since."
"Do all engines do this?"
"Not all, but many of them do. Some
of 'em begin to cut up and get on their
high heels the first day out of the shop,
as if determined to be master; while oth
ers will be as obedient as you please for
two or three years, and then, all at once,
play you seme rusty trick. People say
that a horse is next to a man in point of
intelligence, but I sometimes think a
locomotive ought to have that place. We
engineers do not look upon them as ma
chines, but almost as companions, and
I've known drivers to talk to them by the
hour.
"Is this your first experience with a
sulking engine?"
"No; it's my third. Six years ago,
when I was running out of Chicago,
west, I had ten years added to my age in
about two minutes. I had a fihe passen
ger engine, and we were the best of
friends for over a year. One day, when
we were booming over the country at
forty miles an hour, I saw a farmer's
team stalled at a highway crossing. He
had a big load of wood on his wagon,
and the team was a pair of young horses.
When I first caught sight of them they
were dancing up and down and not try
ing to pull a pound, and the old farmer
was on top of the load and putting
on the whip good and strong. JNow
I honestly believe tnat the engine
wanted to smash things. She suddenly
increased her speed, and when I re
versed and put on the air-brakes she
plunged and kicked and almost jumped
the rails. When I started up again she
was sulking, and I had all I could do to
make time. She was "off" all next trip,
but I wouldn't give in. On the . next
irip she showed her teeth, and they had
the gleam of a lantern of death.
"You see I had orders to side-track at
a certain station for the Atlantic express
to pass me, and my engine sulked and
growled and threw me several minutes
behind time. There was little time to
spare when we reached the station. I
had drawn the train about half way off
the main track when my engine stopped
dead still. Yes, sir stopped dead still,
and that without being reversed or a
brake applied, and with steam enough to
blow off. I was dazed for a minute, and
the fireman opened his eyes like one see
ing a terrible picture. Just then the
Atlantic whistled. I jumped down and
ran to the pilot, expecting to see a barri
cade, but the track was clear. I leaped
into the cab and gave her more steam,
but not a wheel moved; more yet, but
she stood there like a rock! Conductor,
brake man and passengers were shouting
to me, and the watchman howled like a
panther. On came the Atlantic, and I
pulled the throttle open wide. Bless
you, sir! 1 m in a shiver now at the rec
ollection.
"The Atlantic alwavs roassed us on the
fly, but that night she had a party of
stockholders aboard who wanted to get
off at this station, and she came to a stop
and saved such a slaughter as would
have put the Ashtabula disaster no
where. She'd have gone through two
sleeping cars as slick as a bullet. There
we stood, my engine growling and
threatening and I half-crazed. The
fireman suddenly lit out as if he had
seen a ghost, a mob of passengers
swarmed down on me, and I believe I
should have taken to the woods if a
change hadn't come. All at once No. 40
seemed to rear right up, she made a
plunge or two, and away she went like a
bolt of lightning, and I had the hardest
kind of work to stop her on the sliding.
"They didn't say I was drunk, and
they knew I wasn't asleep, but they sus
pended me until they looked the engine
over. She was in perfect order, and thev
sent her out on the accommodation with
a new driver. What did she do but bang
right into a train at a station, and that
with all steam shut off and the bar
thrown over. Some folks lauarh at ns
and call it superstition, but they never
lived in an engine cab. Ask any horse
trainer if his horse will make the same
time two mornings alike, even if the care
and feed and track are the same. Out of
twenty locomotives built in the same
shop, by tne same gang of men, no two
will work the same. One can be bull
dozed, another must be petted, a third
will be faithful, a fourth treacherous.
and each one will have her peculiar
traits and tricks. I'd no more take out
one of these engines without knowing
her peculiarities than you'd trv to iumrj
across that pit. I'd be all in a tremble
for fear she d ditch the whole train. No,
sir. They are as near human as machin
ery can be made, and the more human
you treat 'em the better it is for both.
Some can be coaxed, some must be pun
ished, some need watching, and once in
a while you find one which will dodge
danger, keep her time, and run herself
while you dream of the curly-heads
tucked np in bed at home." ,
Promotions in the Army and Navy. '
" Why was Grant elevated to the Presi
dency! Was it in any degree as a re
ward, for his great services? Or was it
because he was the most available candi
date to beat the other party? Why were
Thomas and Meade sent down in sorrow
to their graves, with insult heaped upon
injustice? Why are the surviving sol
diers of the great generals of the repub
lic the only persons to unite in paying
them appropriate honors? Is it true
that republics are ungrateful? or is it
only that the people in a republic can
not be justly represented by their gov
ernment? Why the great masses of the Union
soldiers are not neglected by the govern
ment is plain enough; they have votes
enough to command respect. Yet even
they are gradually losing their influence.
The mystery of this subject is only in
creased by the fact that the government
is not always so unjust to its servants.
What a contrast is afforded by the treat
ment of the veterans of the navy! There
is not an officer in the navy to-day whose
rank is not as high as, or far higher than
that of any command he ever held in
battle, while in the army there are scores
of officers still serving far below the
grades in which they won important vic
tories for their country. Since the war
there have been many times as many pro
motions to the higher grades in the navy
as in the army, although the latter fought
many times more battles than the former;
and the number of high officers both on
the active list and retired is many times
greater in the navy than in the army.
What is the standard by which our coun
try measures justice? Since the war a
score of officers of the navy who never
commanded more than a single ship
have been promoted to the full rank of
rear-admiral on the active list, equal to
that of major-general in the army; while
a score of veteran officers of the army
who held high commands on many
bloody fields are left to die, or retire as
colonels (equal to captain in the navy)
in poverty, without even the small con
solation of "prize-money," which was so
profusely added to the high honors con
ferred in the navy.
When, at some future period of our
history, the case is reversed by a great
maritime war which will impose the
brunt of battle upon the navy, will the
scales of justice also be reversed ? Will
the majority of honors and all the
"prizes" then be given to the army, and
the navy, which has fought the battles,
be dismissed with cold indifference ?
Who can tell but this may yet be the
fate of the gallant army ?
From 1861 to the present time the
whole number of officers appointed
major-general on the active list in the
army is only twelve, while in the same
time the number appointed rear-admiral
on the active list in the navy is fifty-one.
During the same period nine officers of
the army have been retired with the rank
of major-general, while sixty-three offi
cers of the navy have been retired with
the rank of rear-admiral. The army has
now on the active list three major-
generals; the navy, eleven rear-admirals
On the retired list the army now has five
major-generals; the navy, forty-three
rear-admirals. Since the end of the re
bellion .there have been three promo
tions 4o the rank of major-general
in the army; m the navy, forty-nve
promotions to the rank of rear-admiral.
Of the sixty three officers of the regular
army who held the command of an army,
army corps, or division in the war, fifty-
Uve are still serving in lower grades man
that of major-general; while of the forty-
five officers of the navy promoted since
the war to the rank of rear-admiral, at
least twenty never held during the war
higher command than that of captain.
The relative grades of commodore in the
navy and brigadier-general in the army
show the same astounding contrasts in
respect to numbers and relative rewards
for war service.
The apparent rule of justice seems ex
actly reversed. In the one case, officers
who held high commands and fought
many battles, were reduced to lower
rank, where they still remain. In the
other case, officers who held low com
mands, and fought few or no battles,
have been elevated to the highest rank.
Is this this the measure of justice which
the people of the United States have or
dained ? Is this the gratitude of the Re
public? Harper's Magazine for June.
How to Manage a Kitchen.
"A clean kitchen makes a clean house,"
is a saying which has a great deal of
truth in it. As all the food of the family
has to be prepared in the kitchen, and as
most working people have their meals
and sit in the kitchen indeed, as the
one day room has to be parlor, kitchen
all to the many honest families it ought
to be clean and neat, or it will not be
comfortable.
First of all the windows and the fire
place mnst be kept clean and bright.
No room is cheerful with dirty windows
and a dusty fireplace. Every morning
the room mnst be carefully swept, and
any hearth rug, mat, or piece of carpet
must be taken out of doors and beat
daily. The hearth musi be cleaned
every day, and the stoves brushed.
Cupboards want great care to keep
them free from dust, cool and neat. Sup
posing there 'are two cupboards, one on
each side of the fireplace, it is well to
keep one for stores, as groceries, etc.,
one for crockery. Everything should
be clean that is put in the cupboard, and
there should be a place made for every
different thing, so that if you wanted any
thing, in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of everv pan or pot used in cook
ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect this you may be
the cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many famines have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, if the food is not made
poisonous, it is spoilt by not being
cleanly cooked. Be very particular
about tnis.
It is a good plan to have a jar of soda
in some handy place, where you can,
whenever you wash up, take a bit and
put into the water. It is very cleans
ing. No dors to love, none to karess; how
can I ever my sadness express? Chunk
is defunct, ded as a nale hushed is bis
bark in and still is bis tale. Oh, sucu a
tale, white on the end; opht did he chase
it with waggle and bend: chase it with
hope, twisting around, till overcome, he
reposed on the ground. Now he's ekstinct,
ded as a nale: where am bis bark and the
wag of his tale ? "Why did you die?"
sadly I mone; "was it from pizen or swal-
lenn a bone ?" No waesnn tale, no beam-
in' eye, answers a question or gives a repli:
It has beeen demonstrated that a U. S.
soldier can pass 325 consecutive days in
a guard-house and not improve his
morals a bit.
m Wedding Bells ,
"Make my costumes and hats as hand
some and becoming as possible, but I en
treat you, Monsieur, have them free from
the I am a bride, look."
"Mademoiselle is eceentrfc. Does she
wish to hide her bliss and marriage from
the world?" "By no means. But my
happiness is a personal matter, and I
would rather tell every one when I am
wedded than to have the fact proclaimed
by my toilet." -
"Then the robe de cereraonie must it
' be white, with orange blossoms?" smil
ingly asKea tne great moaiste.
''Indeed no! I shall leave all details to
your good taste and superior judgement;
only let the robe be tinted and the flowers
wild and colored. I shall call to-morrow
to see your samples and designs for my
complete outfit. Good morning, mon
sieur." The great artist then turned to your
correspondent, saying: "Pardon me,
madame, for detaining yon, but that lady
is one of my choice customers, and if you
will call in one month from to-day you
shall see her complete toilets, and I prom
ise you they will be charming and unique."
Four weeks later we asked the artist:
"All these costumes for the one lady?"
"All except the dresses for the four
bridesmaids," was the reply. Then wom
anly curiosity prompted the question:
"How about the white robe and the
orange blossoms?"
'Madame can see for herself."
Upon a form in the room was an exquis
ite dress in the most delicate possible
green, entrain, with overgarment and
drapery of a silvery gauze, studded all over
with tiny beads, having the effect of a
young, pale tinted spring rose leaf, covered
with spider's web, upon which tracery
tbousandsaof dewdrops sparkled and glis
tened in the sunlight. A fringe, arranged
over the front of the dress and on train,
was in the same sheen shadings, and each
tassel was finished with a pear shaped
dewdrop. The loopings of the gauze dra
pery were secured with clusters of pale
pink crab apple blossoms and sprays of
hawthorn, which also adorned corsage and
sleeves,' forming an effective and most
beautiful costume. This was the leaf, and
now for the four buds, the dresses for the
four bridesmaids, which were all in deli
cate colors, contrasting with the robe of
the bride, for green, you know, can go with
any and every color that is, if the tints
are perfect as in nature. One costume
was of blush pink, another cream, a third
lilac or heliotrope, and the fourth dove's
breast, all elaborately trimmed with Lan
guedoc lace and garnitured with flowers,
to match those on the costume of the
lovely bride.
A reception toilet for the bride was in
a rich shaded satin, ruby and gold, entrain,
the latter being trimmed with a plaiting
dividen by Mechlin lace, and embroidered
with amber and ruby beads. The front
of the skirt was decorateot with cascades
of lace and bouquets of magnolias. The
bodice of satin was covered with flowers,
save where flowers of amber and ruby
beads sparkled in embroidery and added
much to the richness of the robe. Flow
ers on the shoulder, in front of corsage
and at waist line, finished the dress. The
gloves were Foster kid, embroidered
in gold and ruby beads, and finished at
the wrists with Mechlin lace, to match
that on the costly robe. New York Cor
respondence Philadelphia Times.
Buskin and Gladstone In Conversation,
A friend of mine had once the
good fortune to meet both Buskin
and Gladstone at a country house.
He lost no time in setting them by
the ears I mean in introducing them
to each other; and very curious was
the conversation to which he had
the privilege of listening. Euskin
propounded all sorts of wild theories,
and Gladstone gravely demolished
them all. The poet set up a succes
sion of political ninepins, and the
statesman, with earnest, smileless
face, quietly knocked them down.
Euskin, slightly nettled, fell back on
a little quiet chaff and managed to
annihilate the jokes in the same way
that he would one of Sir Stafford's
arguments, and of course came to
grief in the attempt. Talking of
being "nettled," Euskin frankly ac
knowledged well, one hardly knows
how to pat it. He shall speak for
himself. "I have sympathy," he
says, "in my enforced and accidental
temper with Dean Swift." "Doest
thou well to be angry?" was the
question addressed of old to Jonah.
And the prophet answered: "I do
well to be angry." So does Euskin,
in his own opinion, whether the
merits of Whistler or the gayeties of
the Second Empire or the Sunday
amusements of the people be the
theme of discussion. Writers who
pen jeremiads on the decay of most
things that are supposed to be good
and great in this world do not neces
sarily give you the impression of
supposing themselves to be affected
by the general decline. So it is right
to say that Euskin, at all events, is
the most modest of men. Said the
father of an old Oxford man to Eus
kin: "My son is quite enthusiastic
about your lectures, and so are all
his friends." "What an immense
triumph!" quoth the lecturer; adding,
with a smile: "Are you sure they
listened? If I could be only certain
that they heard what I said to
them that I had their minds for a
few minutes it would be very grati
fying to me."
Why He Would Not be Sued. A
singular story is told apropos of the
storv of Prince Oscar of Sweden, in
Paris, concerning the objection his an
cestor .Bernadotte always naa to oemg
bled. His medical advisor, who was a
disciple of Dr. San gr ado, insisted in
vain that it was necessary for his health ;
the King was obstinate. At last a crisis
came, and when Bernadotte heard that
the doctor declined to answer for his life
if he would not consent to bleeding he
gave away. But before baring his arm
he made the operator promise that he
would never divulge what was to be seen I
on it, and the doctor made a solemn vow i
which he broke. A Phrygian cap, with
the motto "Death to the Kings" was
elaborately tattooed above tne elbow.
The dashing soldier when he picked this
regicide maxim into his skin never
dreamed that one day he npuld come to
be a King himself.
Charles Xjamb says a speaker should
not attempt to express too much, but
should leave something to the imagina
tion of the audience, and he tells how,
being called on to return thanks for a
toast to his health, he rose, bowed to his
audience, said: "Gentlemen," and then
sat down, leaving it to their imagination
to supply the rest.
Drouyu de L'Huys and the Carman.
Some years ago a carious scene
was enacted in the Continental
Hotel, then called Maurigni's Hotel.
M. Drouyn de l'Huys had come
over to England, accompanied by an
Italian Private Secretary, who had
previously been in the service of one
of the uncles of the King of Naples.
M. Drouyn de l'Huys was sitting
down to dinner with a few friends,
when the Secretary rushed into the
room, pale as a corpse, and trembling
in all his limbs; with him was a cab
man. Hastily ringing the bell, the
porter ordered a bottle of port, and
on its being brought up, proceeded to
pour out glass after glass, which the
cabman drank. Then he took some
sovereigns out of his pocket and
handed them to the cabman.
"What is the meaning of this?"
asked M. Drouyn de 'IHuys. But the
Secretary was too agitated to reply,
and the cabman said that he did not
know." He had driven the Secretary
across London bridge and back
homo by Waterloo bridge. It was
very foggy, so he had gone slowly.
On setting down his fare, the fare
had told him to get off his box;' he
had embraced him, and had asked
him to come in. And with this ex
planation the cabman pocketed his
sovereigns, took another glass of
port, and withdrew.
At length the Secretary explained.
The cabman had saved his life. He
had wished to see the London
bridges. After driving some time in
a dense fog, the cab had stopped. A
mysterious figure had appeared, at
tired in a sort of white apron, and
made signs to him to hand some
money. As the figure spoke, he kept
one hand in a capacious pocket of
his apron, in which, no doubt, was
lodged a pistol. Whilst he was de
bating what he should do, the cab
man had gallantly driven away.
Clearly the mysterious figure was
one .of the chiefs of a London
Camona; the cabman would be
marked down by its members for
having saved him, and would lose
his life. Dimly it occurred to the
guests that this chief of the Camorra
was a tollman on Waterloo bridge,
but they said nothing; and the Sec
retary sped back to Paris the next
duy, where for years he used to re
count to his friends his providential
escape, and to explain how London,
like his native Naples, had its
Camarro. London World.
A Delicate Question.
When a man waits on a young woman
for two or three years, without propos
ing marriage, although monopolizing
her society, and preventing the approach
of other suitors, what should she do?
Terminate the acquaintance. She need
not tell him plumply that their intimacy
must cease that would look like fishing
for an offer, which is an unmaidenJy bus
iness but she can stop the intimacy.
Then if his intentions have really meant
something, he may wake up to the idea
that love-making which does not end in
an offer of marriage cannot be pursued
indefinitely. No lady of self-respect tol
erates impertinent assurance in a man,
nor does a lady choose her intimate
friends among men she deems lacking
in manliness. In cases of this kind she
is apt to be the sufferer. She waits in
vain for the proposal she expects, and to
which she is ready to give a favorable
answer, and at last she finds she has no
exchange in kind for her affection, and
perhaps has to tremble at the wedding
of the man to another lady. This is a
bad business, and girls should avoid get
ting into such entanglements, and should
not be lead into them. It is a mean
thing for a fellow to pay marked atten
tions to a girl and then desert her unex
pectedly. Episodes of this kind have
been known to end tragically.
Artificial Fuel. A new kind of
artificial fuel is now manufactured in
Germany. It is made in the form of
of bricks or blocks out of peat, coal
dust and other combustible materials in
combination with seagrass, seaweed or
similar vegetable substances. One or
more of the materials being first boiled
in water to a jelly, the latter is then
carefully mixed with the combustible
articles in a powdered state until a pasty
mass is obtained. The resulting mix
ture is compressed in molds of suitable
sixe for bricks, which are dried in the
open air; after having sufficiently hard
ened, the bricks are furnished with a
coating of pitch, thus forming a strong
protecting surface against atmospheric
influence.
Rupture
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W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, Sau Francisco Sir:
The Truss I purchased of you about ono year ago
has proved a miracle to me. I have been ruptur
ed forty years, and worn dozensof different kinds
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I remain, yours respectfully,
IX IX Bunnell.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martinez, Cal., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702'Market street, 8. F. Sir: In 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 public
Yours truly, J. H. Carothf.es, M D,
Endorsed by a prominent Medical In
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W. J. Home, Esq. Sir: You ask my opinion
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Yours truly, Babl-iw J. Smith, M. D.
Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute,
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A REMARKABLE CURE.
San Frakmsco, 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 CUBE
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The double truss I purchased from you has PER
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CAPITAL, 81,000,000.
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His patent bolt is suerior to any in use.
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By one of the greatest improvements known;
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through the door and into the lock.
Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur
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