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Oorvallia Gazette.
PUBLISHED
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY
W. TZ. CARTER,
Editor and Proprietor.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. P. WOODCOCK,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
O -.VA Lt.iS
: UKEGOII
OFFICE ON FIRST STREET, OPP. WOOD
COCK Jt BALDWIN'S Hardware store.
Sjieoial Httent!o;i given to Collections, Foa
closure of Mortgages, ileal Estate cases, Probate
a. id Iloail matter?.
Will also :-uy an. I sell City Property and Fan
Lands, on reasonable lerms.
ilarch -II, IH7S. t6-12yl
J. K. WEBBER,
Main St., Corvallis, Oregon,
DEALER IK
Stoves, Ranges,
FORCE AND LIFT PUMPS.
HOUSE FURNISHING HARDWARE,
Constantly on hand, the
NEW RICHMOND RANGE,
Beat In Market. The
BONANZA COOK STOVE,
Something New. And tbe New
VECTA PARLOR STOVE.
Jan. 1, 1880. 17:1 if
J. R BRY80N,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
All business will receive prompt
attention.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Corvallis, July 14, 1879. 16:29tf
J. W RAYBURf,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(OKV.tLl.11, I oBieoi.
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second and
Third.
F8-Spccial attention given to the Collection
or Notes and Accounts. 16-ltf
JaMS A. YANTIS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
OHVAJulIN, - - - OHKOOH.
XV
I7ILI. PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the Stale. Suecial attention eiven to
piatteis in Piobate. Collections will receive
p otnpt and careful attention. Office in the Court
use. 16:ltf.
DR F. A. ViNCENT,
DENTIST.
COUVAl.LIB . ' REGON,
QFFICE IN FISHER'S BRICK OVER
Max. Friendley's New Store. Ail the latest
improvements. Evervthing new and complete.
All work warranted. Please give me a call.
18:3tf
G. R. FARRA, M. O.
PHltiClAN A HI) Si JIG EOS,
QFFICE 'OVER GRAHAM A HAMILTON'S
Drug Store, Corvallis, Oregon. U-26tf
C. CRAWFORD,
DEALER IN
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
etc AIsk,
Mnaloal Instruments Jfco
jjas-ltepairing done at tbe most reasonable
rates, and all work warranted.
Corvallis, Dec. 13, 1877. 14:50tf
GKA1U3, lUNlLTft & CO.,
CO It V A I.I. 1 S ... OXifiUON.
DEALERS IN
Triig-s, Xitints,
EDICINES,
CHEMICALS 1)18 STIFFS,
OILS,
CLASS
AND
PUTTY.
PURE WINES AND L QUORS
FOR MEDICINAL USE.
And also the the very best assortment of
Lamps and Wall Paper
ever brought to this plac.
AGENTS FOR THE
fVRIU CHHKIGU PAINT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER
TPIiyiilelaas' t. eserlptlona far
ftUly leupwiBdtd.
Corvallis Gazette.
VOL. XVII.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1880.
NO. 32.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
Corvallis Lodffe ft o 14, r. A. H.
Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on
or preceding each full moon. Brethren in good
standing cordially invited to attend. By order
W.M.
Barnam Lodge So. 7, I. o. O. V.
Meets 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. CHEKOWETH.
P. M. J0HN80N.
CHENOWETH dt JOHNSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
COKSALL1S .... OHKttOlI
September 4, 1879. 16;36tf
UtRJ & WOODWARD,
Druggists
and
Apothecaries,
P. O. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON".
Have a complete stock of
DBi GS.MEOIUNES, ftLitfTf, 01,
BUS, T tT ?.
School I'ooks tut oncny, Ao.
We buv for Cash, and have cnoioe of the
FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Me.!:,- ties
the market affords.
5Sr Prescriptions accurataly p'enared at half
the usual rates. 2Mayl6:lStf
AUGUST KNIGHT,
Cabinet Maker,
UNDERTAKER,
Cor. Second and Monroe Sts.,
CORVALLIS, OBEGON.
Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of
rUBNITUSE
COFFINS AND CASKETS.
Work done to order on short notice, and
at ri'iio:alih- ruif.s.
OrtrvaiiU I ,n I !-77 1 l llf
Woodcock & Baldwin
(Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,)
TTEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE
fl old stand a large and complete stock of
Heavy and hcif Hardware,
IRON, STEEL,
TOOLS, STOVES,
RANG S, ETC
Manufactured and Home Made
Tin find Copper Ware,
Pumps. Pipe, Etc.
A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all
Job Work neatly and quickly done.
Also agents for Knapp. Burreli & Co.,
for the sale of the best and latest im
proved FAR IVt MACHINERY,
of all kinds, together with a full assort
ment of Agricultural Implements.
Sole Agents for the Celebrated
ST. L UIS CK&hTsR 0K $ 0VE8
the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the
Norman Range, and many other patterns,
in all sizes and styles.
1ST" Particular attention paid to Farmers'
wants, and the supplying extras for Farm
Machinery, and all information as to such
articles, iurnished cheerfully, on applica
tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our
customers with tbe best goods in market,
in our line, and at the lowest prices.
Our motto shall be, prompt and fair
dealing with all. Call and examine our
stock, before going elsewhere. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
W00KC0CK & BALDWIN.
Corvallis, May, 12, 1879. 14:4tf
Bees Hamlin. Emmett F. Weens.
DRAY ACE !
DRAY ACE!
Hamlin At Wrena. Propr's.
HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM
Salem wWi a new truck, and haVing
leased the barn formerly occupied by James Eg
lin, we are now prejia-ed to do all kinds of
GRAYING AD HAULING,
either in the city or country, at the lowest living
rates. Can be found at the old truck stand. A
share of the public patronage respectfully solic
ited. Corvaliis, Dec 27. 1878. I5:52tf
FRANKLIN CAUTHORN, M. 0.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Krwvial attention eiven to sureerv and diseases
of the Eye. Can be found at his ojftce, in rear of
Uraham, ttanuijpn kjo:& iujptqre, up svana,
day or night, ' -t-'. "
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
LANDS I FRMS! HOMES!
tHAVE FARMS, (Improved and unim
proved,) STORES and MILL PROPERTY,
very desirable,
FOR SALE.
These lands are cheap.
A lso 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
tbe balance to me.
Write (with stamps to prepay postage).
R. A. BENSELL,
Newport, Benton county, Oregon.
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H XU. HARRIS,
One door South of Otaaham A Hamilton's,
I'ORVAI.i IS, . OBSttOSf.
GROCERIES.
PRO VISIONS,
AND
Dry Goods.
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1873.
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DRAKE & GRANT,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
C 'HVAl L..t.
- (IHliUHJ.
VE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
and well selected stock it Cloth, viz:
VF-J of urlsin'i II road
l?lli, rcnoli uHAlm'Tes,
(rotcrlt 'lwe;i. and
mcrlcuit iltlfu
Which re will make up to order in the most
approved and lash onable styles. No pains will
be s- ared n producing good tilting garments.
Partita wishing to purchase cloihs and have
them cut out, will s'.o well to all and cxamiue
our st4ck. DRAKE A GRANT.
Corvallis, April 17 1879. Itt:lfitf
Boarding and lodging.
P IUMiatii He, -Ion (' . 4rirM.
GKOIH.K KSSOR,
T ESPECT Kl L LY INFORMS THE TRAV
ftling public :h.it h is now prepan.-d and in
readinen to keep such boarders as may choose to
give him a call, cither by the
S MO Hi . -L OAV. OR WEEK.
Is ai.-o pu-i-urcd to fu u h liors feed. Lilii'rai
(hare ol pubHc patitHiage : . .i i i ti-l . Hive a
call. tiEOKOE Ki.SOR.
Pbilomal!.. A ril 2H. !7J. H:l8tf
J C. MOREUNO,
(city attounky.)
fTTORVEY AT LAW,
POKTLAKI), - - UKKSOX,
OFFICE Mfniastes' Brick, First street,
between Morrison and Yamhill. 14:38tf
THE HTAB BAKERY,
flMn Street, Corvallis.
HENRY WAKRIOR, PROPRIETOR.
Family Supply Store !
Groceries,
Bread.
Cakes,
Pies,
Candies,
Toys,
Etc.,
Always on Hand.
Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1877. U:2tf
CORVALLIS
Livery, Feed
... AND...
SALE STABLE,
Main (SC., Co val is. Orcifon.
SOL. KING, - Porpr.
fkWNING BOTH BARNS I AMP REP A RED
5 to oirer superior accommodations in the Liv
ery line. Always ready for a drive,
GOOD TEAMS
At Low Rates.
My stables are first-class in every respect, and
competent and obliging hostlers always
ready to serve the public
REVS'iNABLK CM A HUES FOB UIBE.
Particular attention Paid to Boardlaf
uracil.
ELEGANT HEA.RSE, CARRIAGES AND
HACKS FOR FUNERALS
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1879.
lo.lyl
$300
A MONTH guaranteed. Twelve
dollars a day made at home by
the industrious. Capital not re
quited: we will start yon. 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
Ti, i . i i .1 a ? . a r
w lu sena us lueir auuresses ul uuw auu ee ivr
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time, Those already at work are laying
up large sums of money. Address TRUE k CO.,
Augusta, Maine.
Legend of Wallawa.
Legends are as common to the Ameri
can Indians as the witch tales of New
England were common to her people in
Colonial times. There is always some
thing wild and weird about them that
strikes awe to the savage heart and
mind, and appeals to his native crednlty
and superstition. Legends are pre
served by tradition handed down from
one generation to another in the same
manner by which the story of wrong and
suffering is retained in the mind of the
savage. The long lapse of time does not
lessen the influence, or rather the im
pression, a strange, fantastic legend has
upon the Indian mind. It may be that
the mind of the savage is dark and unen
lightened and that his sole desire and
thirst is to lead a worthless life, bnt let
me here remark, however far it may be
from the subject, that the American
Indian is more imaginative than any
other race of human beings. When he
talks he refers to the sun, moon and
stars, the mountains, the valleys, the
rivers, and almost every object in the
natural world to illustrate and impress
his thought. However ignorant the
savage may be, this is vhe impression I
have derived from a close observation of
many tribes and careful study of their
habits. But to return to the theme. My
renders will remember tbe long and
bloody struggle the Government bad
about two years ago with Joseph's band
of renegades who roamed over Northern
Idaho and Western Washington Terri
tories, and that the struggle on the part
of the Indians was made for the posses
sion of the Wallowa valley. This valley
is ntuated in Eastern Oregon, and is tbe
grandest and most beautiful in the
world. It is walled off from the rest of
the world, and is only accessible through
a narrow pass. In the southern portion
is a lake of crystal water, which seems to
have been in the long past the crater of
a volcano; this much is known, its depth
has never been ascertained. As Scott has
said:
For rarely human eye has known
A scene so stern aa that dread Jake.
With its dark ledge of barren stone.
Seems that, primeval earthquake's sway
Halb rent a strange and shattered way
Through the rude bosom or tbe hill;
And that eaeh naked precipice,
Salle ravine and dark abyss,
Tells of the ontrage still.
When in possession of the valley, the
Indians never entered the water, and
regarded the lake with superstition and
awe. Years and years ago, tradition
runs, an Indian maiden, the chosen
daughter of the chief, and the pride of
the tribe, named Wah-tu-wah, lived
with her parents near the enchanted
lake. An Indian warrior, brave and
true, won tbe heart and hand of the
dusky maiden; and in the autumn, when
the warpath would be forsaken, he would
return and claim his bride. Time went
on and the warrior returned. Tbe
battles over with tbe hostile tribes, be
bore with him tbe bloody trophies of his
triumph, with which to grace his coming
nuptials with Wah-tu-wah. He has al
most reached her secluded hut; the lake
and the bordering crags are in sight.
One moment more and he will be with
Wah-tu-wah. But look! see! With
wild shriek the warrior sees his future
bride leap down the mountain side and
run toward the lake, pursued by a fierce
monster. With speedy flight, the war
rior runs to her rescue. Alas! he is too
late. The monster seizes the dusky
maiden and disappears beneath the
waters. The legend runs that the war
rior became but a sigh, and that his
restless spirit still broods over and
haunts the lake where the maiden disap
peared. No Indian ever bathes in its
waters, as the hike, is considered sacred
to the two Indian ' spirits. Joseph and
his tribe are far from their native homes,
but. doubtless, they preserve in their
traditions, in sacred awe, the legend of
the Walla wa.
Music.
The world has no gratitude; no mem
ory for aught but disagreeables. And
yet I know not why one should speak of
her so hardly, making her, as it were,
the scape-goat of individuals so meek
and unrevengeful as she is too. I sup
pose the cause is cowardice; a collective
hatred, too, has all the relish without
the bitter after-taste of a personal ani
mosity. But to continue. Tbe world
hates all musicians because they make a
noise. She classes them with Germ en
bands, barrel-organs, paper boys, old
clothes men, the irresistable sparrow,
the matutinal quack of the park-haunting
duck, and the town-bred chanticleer,
who, by crowing throughout the night,
forfeits his only claim to respect. Musi
cians violate the peace of the domestic
hearth; their art is an obtrusive one.
The poet who recites his verses and tears
his hair is not, though bis ravings equal
those of the Cumsean Sibyl, as a rule, au
dible through that razor-like partition
which, as in Sweden borg's other world,
separates many a Heaven and hell; but
the abortive efforts of the tyro-musician
cannot be restrained by the thickest and
hardest of walls. Shut the window and
door, tbe detestable flat notes drift down
the chimney with perplexing persever
ence. Do what you will, short of stop
ping your ears with wax, you cannot es
cape those unsirenish sounds. The only
resource left to you is to fly to your piano
I don't ask if you have one has a
prize-fighter fists? Did Fitzgerald pos
sess a pair of pistols? to fly to your
piano and revenge yourself upon your
unoffending neighbor on the other side.
Thus the musician is not only the direct
means of destroying other people's com
fort, bnt is indirectly the author of mul
titudinous evils, and consequently an ob
ject of universal execration. Would not
the composer of "Home, Sweet Home,"
whoever he may be, turn in bis grave if
he knew that his innocent composition
was daily torturing the most Christian
souls into mingled thoughts of hatred
and revenge? The Persians have doubt
less lived to curse the king who, in mis
taken kindness, when he saw his subjects
dancing without music, introduced 12,000
musicians and singers from abroad. The
Cornhill Magazine,
Sayings About Cats.
For living a "cat and dog life," the
French say to "love like cats and dogs;"
and this leads us to observe that many
of the sayings which are current in one
language appear in others more or less
modified. Thus, we say "to buy a pig
in a poke;" but in France, Flanders and
elsewhere they say "to buy a cat in a
bag."
A scalded cat dreads cold waterjust as
much as a burnt child dreads the fire;
and though a scalded cat does not go
back to the kitchen, the Spanish idea is
good: "One eye on the pot,' and the
other on the cat." The Italian means
cat when he is in earnest, does not mean
cat when he is in jest, and plays the dead
cat when he dissimulates. He calls the
cat when he speaks plainly; he sets
about skinning the cat when he under
takes a hard task; and when he sees no
one he finds himself neither cat nor dog.
That evil-doers are caught at last, he
shows by saying the cat goes so often to
the bacon that she leaves her claws
there. He goes to see the cat drowned
when he lets himself be imposed upon,
and he cheats another when he gets him
to go and see him fish along with the
cat. Though every cat would like a
bell, the cat of Messina scratched out its
own eyes in order not to see tbe rats.
The Spaniard, like the Italian, plays
the cat when he dissimulates, but it is
not a dead one. The Spaniard says the
cat would be a good friend if he did not
scratch, and he thinks a cat which mews
is not a good mouser. An Italian says
one had better be the head of a cat than
the tail of a lion ; a wary German goes
like a cat round hot broth, and believes
it too late to drive the cat away when the
cheese is eaten. Many believe that a
good cat often loses a mouse, that no cat
is too small to scratch, and that you can
not keep away the cat when it has tasted
cream. The Russian that play for cats
means tears for the mice; the Arab says
that when the cats and mice are on good
terms the provisions suffer; tbe Turk
tells us that two cats can hold their own
against one lion. Another Turkish say
ing is, it is fast day to-day, as the cat
said when it could not get at tbe liver.
The Englishman fancies that some men
have as many lives as a cat that a cat,
in fact, has nine lives; yet he holds that
care will kill a cat, and that May kittens
should be drowned. He is scarcely
alone in thinking that the more you
stroke a cat's back the higher she raises
her tail in other words, that flattery
feeds vanity. He lets the cat out of the
bag; but so do others, and they all agree
that it is in the nature of a cat always to
fall on its feet. Only he talks of turn
ing cat in pan, and of raining cats and
dogs, or sees folks dance bike a cat on hot
bricks.
The Spaniard says, "Has the cat kit
tened?" when he sees a place full of
lights; and be asks, "Who has to take
the cat out of the water?" when some
thing unpleasant has to be done. That
any one watches as a cat a mouse, is
French as much as English. The French
always say, She is as dainty as a cat;
it is nothing to whip a cat for; their
singers have a cat in the throat when the
throat is not clear; and the phrase "cat
music" is not unknown. If one has a
scratched face, he has been playing with
cats; and an impossibility is a mouse's
nest in a cat's ear. That people should
sometimes go like a cat over hot coals, is
intelligible enough. The Queen.
Care of the Hands.
A writer for an Eastern exchange says:
It does not follow that hands which look
the worst do the most work; but it may
prove that the hands have been treated
carelessly, and I might say cruelly. For
instance, when a woman plunges her
hands into hot water until they look like
boiled lobsters, or taking hold of the
handles of hot kettles or flat-irons, caus
ing them to become like some people's
conscience, "seared as with a hot iroti."
How it looks to see a well-dressed lady,
with hands all scratches, burns or scars!
I have wondered if they did not almost
wish they could take them off and leave
them at home whenever they went in
company. Have plenty of soft, thick
holders near the stove to take hold of the
handles of kettles or pans, Keep a pair
of gloves near your sun-bonnet to bring
in wood, work in the garden, or to put
on when yon sweep, that your hands may
not become callous. If they are liable to
chap, use plenty of glycerine or wash them
in vinegar, and when you sit down to your
sewing and your hands feel bike a nutmeg
grater, rub them with camphor, and it
will make them feel so soft and pliable
that you will be enabled to handle the
finest fabric without its adhering to your
fingers. If you are troubled with salt
rheum, use juniper tar soap, which is al
most an infallible remedy. Keep a
bottle with a few cents' worth of oxalic
acid dissolved in it, and marked poison,
somewhere handy, and when there are
fruit stains, or you have been coloring
carpet rags or old garments, use a few
drops on the stained parts and they will
disappear. If you are in the habit of
scraping the pans or kettles with your
finger nails, don't do it never again;
but keep an old knife for the purpose.
Sisters, take good care of your hands,
for your husband's sake, for your own
sake, for your comfort and for your con
venience. If a piece of wood be placed in a de
canter of water and tbe focus of a large
burning glass is thrown upon it, the
wood will be completely charred, though
the sides of the decanter through which
4Vta i-QiTO rtaaa will tint Vo OrftllOfl nor 111
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any way affected, nor the water perceph-
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and the rays be thrown on the water,
neither the vessel nor its contents will be
in the least affected; but if a piece of
metal be put into the water, it soon be
comes too hot to be touched, and the
water will presently boil. Though pure
water alone contained in a transparent
vessel cannot be heated, yet, if by a lit
tle ink it be made of a dark color, or tbe
vessel itself be blackened, the effect
speedily takes place.
How to Use Glue.
The following practical hints on the
preparation and use of glue are from the
London Furniture Gazette:
AH the glue as received from the factory
requires the addition of water before it
will melt properly, ani every addition of
water (while the glue is fresh made) will,
up to a certain peint, increase the ad
hesiveness and elasticity ; and it is the
duty of every man who uses glue to find
out just where that point lies, as it is pos
sible to melt glue and have it so thick
that alter it is dry or set it will be so brit
tle as not to adhere to the wood. Some
glues will bear more water than others,
but all will bear more water than usually
falls to their share, and that, too, with a
greater increase in the quality of the
work.
For glue to be properly effective, it re
quires to penetrate the pores of the wood,
and the more a body of glue penetrates
the wood the more substantial tbe joints
will remain. Glues that takes the longest
to dry are to be preferred to those that
dry quick, the slow-drying glues being
always the strongest, other things being
equal.
For general use, no method gives so
good result as the following: Break the
glue up small, put into an iron kettle,
cover the glue with water and allow it to
soak 12 hours; after soaking, boil until
done. Then pour it into an air-tight box ;
leave the cover off until cold, then cover
up tight. As glue is required, cut out a
portion and melt in tbe usual way. Ex
pose no more of the made glue to the at
mosphere for any length of time than is
nacessary, as the atmosphere is very de
structive to made glue.
Never heat made glue in a pot that is
subjected to the direct heat of the fire or
a lamp. AH such methods of heating
glue cannot be condemned in terms too
senve.
Do not use thick glue for joints or ve
neering. In all cases work it well into
the wood in a similar manner to what
painters do with paint. Glue both sur
faces of your work,excepting in the case of
veneering. Never glue upon hot wood or
use bot cauls to veneer with, as the hot
wood will absorb all the water in the glue
too suddenly, and leave only a very little
residue, with no adhesive power in it.
Could not Harry Peaceably.
It is not intended that man shall
marry peaceably. Bill Skittles lives in
South Arkansas. For the past six
months he has been studying for the
ministry, and it occurred to Bill several
days ago that just before instituting a re
vival it would be a good idea to get
married. He mentioned the subject to a
young lady and asked her to share his
ministerial melancholly hilarity, but tbe
young lady said she had promised to
marry Zeb Monk, tbe professional well
cleaner of of the neighborhood. "Oh,
well," said the minister, "I am pretty
well acquainted with Zeb, and I don't be
lieve he'd kick."
The young lady finally agreed, and the
wedding day was fixed.
Grand preparations were made. The
girl's brothers had caught a couple of
'possums, and tbe old lady had baked an
immense sweet-potato pie. The Justice
of the Peace arrived. The parties took
their places. The Justice proceeded
with the ceremony, when Zeb Monk
walked in and demanded:
"Let up thar, boss. Say, cap'n, turn
that gal loose."
"I reckon I won't," replied Bill.
"Well, then," said Zeb, drawing a re
volver, "I'll kinder resort to extremi
ties." "See here," remarked Bill, "are you
in year nest about this thing?"
"I reckon I am.'
"Do you mean hog's head and turnip
greens?"
"I reckon I do.".
"Right down to corn bread and cab
bages?" "I reckon it is."
"Well, then, you can take the gal; it
was only sweet milk and apple pie with
me. I'm in fun. I had a new pair of
trowsers and didn't know what to do
with 'em. Come a little closer. Is it
spar ribs and backbones?"
"I reckon it is."
"Then the gal's yourn," and with a
slight change in the license the marriage
proceeded. lAttte Mock (Ark) Gazette.
Dbownino an easy Death. The
strangest incident perhaps among the
many strange incidents that crowded
themselves into that terrible hour that
followed tbe wreck and the burning of
the Narragansett in Long Island Sound,
was tbe deliberate suicide by pistol
shots of two young men, to avoid death
by drowning. It is true that the death
produced by a bullet in the brain is one
of the most painless of deaths, if the
band be steady that pulls the trigger and
the aim be true. But, then, so is death
by drowning. Science, indeed, insists
that it is, or can be made, the easiest of
all deaths. The pain experienced in or
dinary drowning is, we are told , solely
occasioned by the convulsive efforts of
the victim not to drown. As soon as
these efforts cease and nature is allowed
to have her course all pain ceases also;
and the testimony of all resuscitated
persons concur in this the victim sinks
into unconsciousness with pleas
ant, and not unpleasant, sensations
The water coming into contact with the
lung fibre causes an exhileration of the
nerves, and this is the last thing a
drowning man feels. If a person then
had the courage, when he saw that all
was absolutely lost and death inevitable,
to first expel all the air from his lungs,
then leaping into the sea to draw in a
full inspiration of water as soon as be
got below the surface, science asserts
that his death would not only be pain
less, but would come to him as sweetly
and softly as Blumber or drunkenness or
chloroform stupor. If a person had the
courage ah, there's the rub! How few
men or women would have the courage
thus to bid deliberative farewell to life
in order to purchase a painless death.
Yet, he who could look in a loaded pistol
barrel while he pulled the trigger, for
this relief, should surely have the nerve
to try science's own plan for escaping the
last agonies.
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The Horse's Frog.
If we were to go to many a blacksmith
and ask him if he did not think nature
had made a mistake inputting the clumsy
frog into tbe horse's foot.he would hardly
be ready to say yes, and very likely
would put on a surprised look. and perhaps
explain that in some countries horses did
very well without shoes, and so the frog
was left to care fcr itself. But while not
ready to take ground with you in any .
criticism of the plan upon which the foot
is constructed, you have but to look in the
corner of the shop where two horses stand
newly shod ; lift up their feet and ob
serve for yourself, that if the smith has ...
not said it, the knife has said the frog is a
bad thing, and must be cut away. The
horses do not stand on the ground, but
nearly half an inch higher, on the iron of
their" shoes.nd outer shell of their hoof.
The practice is as sensible as it would be
for a man who had to travel on all fours,
taking the weight on the nails of bis
fingers and toes rather than on the cush
ion which lies behind them. It is always
the soft part the india rubber part of
the feet of animals that have such which
receives the weight, and not the shelly,
hard part. We know what an elephant's
foot is ; it is all rubber-like. The horee
Iris the same eucased in a shell, which
gives him accuracy and steadiness of
movement. Now, this casing protects the
fro?. It grows slowly, the frog grows
rapidly. The healthy foot of the colt
shows a center, if not projecting, at least
level with the line of the hoof. He does
not take his weight wholly on tht rim of
his feet. Old horses would have feet
mere like them if blacksmiths would al
low they knew a little less than na
ture, and really knew enough to read her
intentions.
The object in shoeing the animal, aside
from the occasional one of changing its
gait, is simply to prevent the wear and
shattering of the outer shell, and to en
able it to take a firmer hold of the ground,
escaping tbe slipping of the unshod horn.
It is an unfortunate incident of our sys
tem of shoeing that the horse is raised
from the ground as a boy is when he
mounts stilts.
Little Duties.
A letter carrier in one of our large
cities a few months ago, found on reach
ing the post office, after a long round of
delivery, a letter in his bag overlooked.
It would have taken him half an hour to
return and deliver it. Ho was very tired
and hungry. He thrust it into his
pocket and delivered it on his first
round the next day.
What consequences followed? For
want of that letter a great firm had failed
to meet their engagements; their notes
had gone to protest; a mill closed, and
hundreds of poor men were thrown out
of employment.
The letter carrier himself was dis
charged for his oversight and neglect.
His family suffered during the winter for
many necessaries of life, but his loss
was of small account compared to the
enormous amount of misery caused by
his single failure in duty.
Another case: A mechanic who had
been out of work a long time in New
York went last September to collect a
small sum due to him. The gentleman
who owed it, being annoyed at some
trifle, irritably refused the money. The
man went to bis wretched home, and,
maddened by the sight of bis hungry
wife and children, went out to the back
yard and hung himself.
The next day an old employer sent to
offer him a permanent position. Here
was a life lost and a family left paupers
because a bill of a dollar or two was not
paid at tbe right time.
The old Spanish proverb says: "There
is no such thing as a trifle in this world."
When we think how inextricable the
lives of all mankind are tangled to
gether, it seems as if every word or
action moved a lever which set in motion
a gigantic machinery, whose effect is
wholly beyfad our control. For this
reason, if for no other, let us be careful
to perform promptly and well the duties
of life even the most trivial.
An Afghan Woman's Shoes. The
slippers and shoes are of Cabulese make,
and are very pretty. . On a pale green
background beautiful patterns are
worked with gold and silver thread and
parti-colored silk until the effect is
more like that of a fairy slipper than
one for daily use. But a stout leather
sole is put on, with high heels rudely
bound with iron, and then the work of
art is complete. The stalls in which
their slippers and shoes are made are
the gayest in the whole bazar. A Cab
ulese lady's foot is small, almost to de
formity, and the baggy trousers by con
trast make them appear exceedingly
petite. From the few faces seen, and
those chiefly of old or passee women, it
is difficult to judge of the famed beau
ty Cabulese are said to boast of. The
children are certainly, as a whole, the
prettiest I have ever seen. Their com
plexions are red and white, with a tinge
of olive pervading the skin, eyes black
and lustrous, well-shaped features, teeth
to make a Western beauty envious, and
bright intelligent looks that sadly belie
tho race to which they belong. Their
mothers must be beautiful, for their
fathers are generally villainous-looking;
the .men losing all the pleasing traits
which as boys they possessed.' The la
dy I hive described as seen in the ze
nana, for a moment was certainly hand
some, and was far lighter in complexion
than a Spaniard; her eyes were really
worthy of the praises sung by Hafiz,
but the sensuous lips were a little too
full and pouting. It was just such a
face as one imagines in a harem, and
would be in keeping with the languor
ous life of a voluptuary to whom sen
suality is a guiding star. Such faces
always lack character, and wonld soon
prove insipid in the eyes of the West.
The Cabulese lady, when journeying, is
either carried in an elaborate wicker
work cage covered with the inevitable
flowing linen, or rides, Amazon fashion,
on a pony behind her lord. Calcutta
Pioneer. .
"Honesty is the best policy," bnt too
many people claim that they cannot af
ford the best of anything.