The Corvallis gazette., August 20, 1880, Page 4, Image 4

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CORVALLIS.
- AUGUST 20, 1880
BEST AFTER ALL.
"But tell me, dear." she said
And coaxiDgly Ibe dark eyes shone,
And shyly dropped the modest head,
Aside his own
"But tell me, have you loved before?
Or one, or more?
The eager, sparkling face
Was full of tender, touching grace,
She did not fear his answer then,
Her king of men I
"Bnt tell me, dear, the teat and worst.
Or am I first?"
H turned his eyes away.
Yet closer still her band he pressed,
Nor answer yea or nay:
A blush confessed
All. in one burning word.
Unsaid, unheard.
Quick came a burster tears,
A tempest storm from April sky,
And then, "Forgive my doubts and fears,"
He heard her sigh,
"What sbould I care what lives are past,
So mine is last."
How I Got Promoted.
"Tom," said the chief, "there has been
a rather mysterious robbery at Barrow
town, and it's likely to give the 'locals'
some trouble. So I wish you to go down
as soon as possible."
This order I received one hot day in
August, on the day after the robbery had
taken place. Of course I did not let
much time pass before I was at the sta
tion and fairly started. Once there, Bar
rowtown is a quaint, picturesque little
town, like many another in goodly Eng
land. It seemed almost too dull to be
able to boast the doubtful honor of hav
ing had a full-grown robbery. Still, I
like the quiet little town, for it was there
that I gained my first promotion.
I was met at the station by the local in
spector; a stout, pompous, excitable, lit
tle man, who looked doubtful as to the
prudence of the Scotland Yard authori
ties in sending down such an ordinary
looking man as myself.
"Oh," he remarked at last, "so it's you,
young man, is it? I dont think we are
likely to trouble you much this time.
The fact is ahem we have caught the
culprit ourselves."
I merely bowed, and expressed a wish
to see the prisoner, and we both set off
tor the county jail, perhaps a mile or so
away.
Well, ii certainly seemed as plaia as
day to me that the unhappy wretch on
whom Inspector Muggridge had laid his
fell grasp could easily have proved an al
ibi had not that worthy officer continu
ally interrupted him with:
"Better keep all that for your examin
ation, my good fellow, or it'll all be
brought up against you, my man, you
know."
I told him seriously, as soon as I
oould, in private, that the man he had
arrested was no more guilty than I was;
but ho simply smiled incredulously, and
asked who else could be the culprit, as
this was the only really abandoned char
acter of the town, and it was plainly the
work of some ono who knew the place.
"Besides," he added, "itisn't very likely
that any one could beat me on my own
ground, where I know everybody, you
know; and if he didn't do it, who did?"
With which really unanswerable argu
ment he accompanied me to the scene of
the robbery, where we were shown over
the premises by the mistress of the
bouse.
When I saw the ground-floor window
by which access had been gained to the
house, I quite agreed with the worthy
"local" that it was the work of a "new
hand;" and that from the fact that his
footprints, wherever we could trace
them, showed no hesitation, but rather a
thorough acquaintance with the grounds;
the culprit, whoever he was, must have
had some opportunity of visiting the
eerie of operations and probably lived
somewhere in the neighborhood.
It seemed that the thief had ontered
the house by a window in the rear, and
carried off a small box of valuables from
the room of the master of the house, who
had been staying at a friend's on that
night. . Both these facts showed an inti
mate knowledge of the premises on the
part of the culprit, and strengthened our
former belief. We were informed that
the lost casket an ordinary tin cash-box
bad been almost filled with various ar
ticles of jewelry, and therefore the loss
was rather heavy. Of course, the knowl
edge that there would be a good reward
for the recovery of the missing property
did not abate my zeal. Still, in spite of
my eagerness to discover the culprit, I
oould make but little of the case, and
might even have come over to the opin
ion of the "local," but for one very im
portant fact, namely, the footprints in
the garden bed were all smaller than
those of the prisoner. Now, although a
man may wear boots several sizes too
large for him on occasion, yet he can
harly walk with comfort in shoes an inch
or so too short.
Very much annoyed at my want of
BnocesB and dreading the chaff I would
be sure to get, when compelled to give it
up, 1 should return to town, I was not
particularly delighted next morning to
see Mr. Muggridge coming up the road
to the house, accompanied by the editor
of the Barrowtown Weekly Banner, who
had determined, he said, to write up
the account of the robbery himself. But
there was no escape; and so, prepared
for a host of questions, I was walking
slowly to meet them, when my eye was
caught by something bright among the
bushes by the roadside. Yes, there
oould Tie no doubt of it; there lay the
lost box, empty of course. Without
stopping, however, I walked as calmly as
possible on to the inspector, and was in
troduced to Mr. Shears, the editor. It
was simply wonderful how obliging I
had become. I, even when Mr. Mugg
ridge hinted that he was pressed for
time, volunteered myself to give Mr.
Shears the information he wished, and to
go over the premises with him. Once
left alone with the zealous representative
of the press, I gave that gentleman all
the points of the case, and a few more, as
you shall see.
The next afternoon, as soon as a copy
of the Banner came to the house where
the robbery had occurred I had for the
last few days spent from the forenoon
until dusk there I turned to the end of
the column devoted to the "Great Bob
bery," and read, with a chuckle, the an
nouncement that "the loss of the jewels
would be less felt had there not been be
tween the two bottoms of the box almost
two hundred pounds in bank-notes, of
which, unfortunately, the numbers bad
not been taken."
Probably the intelligent reader sees
my plan, but certainly I did not choose
to explain it to Mr. Muggridge, when, an
honr later, that worthy but excitable
gentleman rode, very hot and very red,
up to the shadeless road, to complain of
my having "made a confounded mess of
then I would bo happy to explain every
thing.
That evening, as usual, I left the
grounds at dusk, after spending most of
the day watching though apparently
engaged in something else whether any
one went near the spot, a few hundred
yards from the grounds, where lay the
box on which I especially depended as a
bait to hook the thief. By walking
slowly, I managed to let the shades of
evening close around me before I was
far beyond the spot where I had made up
inv mind to watch and wait.
Eight! Nine! Were they never com
ing? And was the trap laid and baited
in vain? Ten! Surely they should have
come by this time. Still Was that a
sound on the road? Yes, and coming to
the village, too. There were evidently
several of them, and I began to regret
not having brought some help. Nearer
they came, laughing and talking, as I
cautiously drew further back from the
road. And now they were opposite the
spot where the box lay hid. But what?
They ve gone by, and in tne neany
guffaw of the man furthest away of the
three, I recognized Farmer Lobbins, an
honest fellow, whose acquaintance I had
made during my short stay
After this sell. I had almost given up,
and was actually making up my mind to
abandon the affair, when a faint sound
from down the road made me crouch as
low as possible once more. It was no
hoax this time. A short, thin man,
whom I easily recognized as a man-of
all-work who had been helping the
gardner that day, was creeping stealthily
down the road, close to the bushes.
As soon as he reached the spot where the
box had been thrown, ho lit.a small lan
tern to aid him in the search. This time
I felt sure, and so when the man blew
out the light, after securing the supposed
treasure, the capture was made.
"Oh? why, yes;" observed the worthy
Mr. Muggridge, who "was in the office
when I brought in the prisoner that
night. "I thought as much; I've
had sit eve on that fellow all along."
The man made confession indeed he
was caught in the act, and could not
deny it. The jewels were all recovered,
and the reward proved very useful in
helping me to marry and settle down
quietly, when one month later, I re
ceived my promotion. Vliamoer s jour
rial.
The Joke on Hoefllch.
Summer Complaint.
The remedy on which we place the
greatest reliance in the treatment of sum
mer diarrhoea is undoubtedly camphor
It is of inestimable value in the diarrhea
which is often epidemic during the hot
ter months of the year, and is especially
indicated when the onset of the attack is
sudden. Even when the strength is
sinking rapidly, as the result of the ex
e'essive purging, and the face is pale and
livid, and the whole body is icy cold,
camphor will restore warmth to the ex
tremities and rescue the patient trom an
apparently almost hopeless state. It is
essential to give th strong preparation
the essence of camphor ; to give it fre
quently, but above all, it is essential to
give it as soon as possible, lor every
moment's delay is of importance. The
dose is six drops every quarter of an
hour till the symptoms abate, and hourly
afterward. It is a good plan to mix it
with a little brandy, but it answers ad
mirably if given in a little milk aud
water. If the essence of camphor is not
at hand, the camphor pillules, sold at
any druggist s, will do as well. The
tincture of cinchona or bark also gives
good results in the treatment of these
cases.
Lime water is often of great benefit in
young children suffering from chronic
vomiting and diarrhoea and consequent
wasting. It improves the digestion and
removes the irritating condition of the
uirne, which is so common an accom
paniment. It neutralizes any excess of
acid that mar be present m the bowels
It may be given in milk ; one part of
lime water to three of milk. Opium is
an excellent remedy in almost all kinds
of diarrhoea, although it must be confess
ed that in this, as in the case of several
of the following, the indications for its
use are not as yet very strictly defined.
It may be given in the form of laudanum
in a twenty-drop dose in a little water.
This is for an adult ; it must never be
given to children. Acetate of lead (sugar
of lead) is another good remedy. It
should be given in five-grain doses every
four hours. It is suitable for obstinate
cases. Oxide of zinc is also useful in
diarrhoea. It may be given in the form
of the pills, two to be taken every three
hours. Sulphate of copper or blue-stone
is sometimes used in obstinate cases. It is
a very powerful astringent and should be
used with a certain amount of caution,
and only in severe cases. The same may
be said of nitrate of silver. Either may
be given in half-grain doses made into
pills.
Gallic acid, tannic acid, catechu and
kino are all useful in simple cases of
diarrhoea, and a mixture containing sev
eral of these astringents may be taken.
Bismuth is a remedy which often suc
ceeds when everything else has failed.
A drachm of the nitrate of bismuth could
be given in milk several times a day.
This dose is larger than is usually recom
mended, bnjt it will not disturb the
stomach or cause any inconvenience. It
is a remedy of which we can speak highly
in obstinate cases. We have seen it suc
ceed when almost everything else has
been tried in vain. Children do very
well with smaller doses. Philadelphia
Times.
Mb. Bbet Habt as Dbamatist and
Poet. "Two Men of Sandy Bar" does
not seem to us to give much evidence . of
dramatic faculty; certainly it gives none
of diamatic faculty at oil equal to the
faculty which the author has shown in
other directions. The action is confused,
the speeches are often too long, and one
of the most telling characters Colonel
Starbottle pushes his habit of senten
tious broken utterance, interspersed
with the "er," so familiar to auditors in
the House of Commons, a good deal be
yond the verge of tolerable tediousness.
It is to the "Poems," the shorter poems
especially, the readers will tnrn ; and it
is these which are most woithy of
critical examination for the purpose of
fixing the author's virtue. It
is characteristic of Mr. Bret Harte's
work that it relit s very little upon the
merely mechanical aids of misspelling.of
familiar biblical quotations and the like,
and have hitherto defrayed to such an
extent the expenses of American humor.
It rests upon far more solid ground than
this namely, upon accurate observation
of nature and fact on the one hand, and
upon a sufficient acquaintance with
literature on the other; while a sure if
limited artistic faculty is shown in the
management of the materials drawn
from these two sources, f The Pall Mall
Gazettte.
Some weeks ago John Mackay was sit
ting in the Gould & Curry office read
ing about the "Jumping Prog of Cala
veras," when the idea occurred to him
that some sort of a trick like that would
be a splendid thing to ring in on Mau
rice Hoeflich, the mining expert. Hoe
flich is about the office a good deal, and
when he takes lunch with Mackay is sure
to, get into some sort of a dispute and
offer to make a bet. Mackay don't like
betting and frowns it down, unless he
thinks people are trying to bluff him.
At last he determined to cure Hoeflich of
his habit and began to watch him a good
deal to determine where the weak spot
in his armor lay.
One day he saw Hoeflich on the stoop
playing with an enormous grasshopper
which he was learning to jump. Hoe
flich's grasshopper could jump twenty
three feet, and it wasn't long before he
remarked to Mackay:
"I'll bed two dollar dot you cand find
a hinsect to peet him."
Mackay bet ten dollars that he could
beat it, and Hoeflich raised him twenty
dollars at once. The bet was closed at
these figures, and Mackay said he would
have the hopper there in a day or so.
He then sent a trusted emissary down to
Carson Valley to secure a contestant for
the winged steed of Hoeflich.
The man spent nearly a week roving
around Carson valley catching hoppers.
He finaly sent an official report to Mackay
stating that he had caught over three
thousand grasshoppers and put them
through their paces. The best gait any
one of them had was seventeen and
three quarter feet. He doubted if a
bigger jump could be secured. On re
ceipt of the letter the Bonanza Prince
telegraphed to the man to bring him up
anyway. The next day he arrived with
about a dozen hoppers from Farmer
Treadway'a, and Mr. Mackay gave them
quarters in his room as Vanderbilt
would stable his stud. Each hopper oc
cupied a cigar box, and every morning
they were taken out and put tnrougn
their paces. It was impossible, now
ever, to get one to jump over eighteen
feet, although all sorts of invigorating
diet was given them.
Mr. Mackay was in despair; but one
morning a hopper sniffed at a bottle of
ammonia on the table and immediately
skipped thirty feet. After making a few
experiments it was found that one sniff
of ammonia so enlivened the noppers
that they made jumps that were almost
incredible. Next day MacKay announced
to Hoeflich that he was ready for the
match.
The expert was on hand at the Gould
& Curry office at 9 o'clock, an hour be
fore the time, with his pet hopper, jn ot
finding Mr. Mackay in. he sat down in
his study, and there noticed the bottle
of ammonia, While he was examining
it, Bridget, the old faithful domestic of
the Gould & Curry house, came in with:
Hoflick; it's to make Mr. Mackey's hop
pers sprightly. Bedad, I belave he's out
o' his smces since the pump broke at the
north liid.
Hoeflich pumped the domestic and
soon knew all about Mackay s game.
A light broke on Hoeflich, and, grab
bing the bottle, he rushed up town to
Perkins' drug store, threw away the am
monia and ordered it filled with chloro
form. In ten minutes he was out, and,
leaving the bottle where he found it, got
out of the place as fast as he could
Mackay soon arrived with half a dozen
mining superintendents he had invited
up to see him have some fun with Hoe
flush.
They were hardly rested before Hoe
flich came in with the hopper in a cigar
box under his arm.
"I vash a leetle late, Mr. Mackay, but
I m here mit de bobber and de coin.
He laid down his money, which was
promptly covered.
"Anybody else van t to pet?"
Joe Stewart laid down $100.
John Kelly put up $50.
Warren Sheridan stepped in for $200.
Hank Smith wanted a like amount.
Sam Jones only had $60, but he put it
up.
Then a few got into the corner of the
room and concluded it was a shame to
rope Hoeflich in that way, and finally
agreed to give the money back after they
won it. Mackay then bantered Hoeflich
to raise the pot 100 shares in Union coin.
Hoeflich wrote an order on his broker
and remarked:
"Dare's no limits to de bets, shentle
men; de coin sbeaks."
Nearly every man doubled his bet, and
then Mackay got behind Sam Jones and
let his hopper sniff of the ammonia bot
tle which held Hoeflich's chloroform.
Time being called, the hoppers were
placed side by side on the piazza, and at
the woid "Go," each insect was touched
on the back with a straw. Hoeflich's
hopper described a simicircle in the air
and scored twenty-four feet. Mackay's
gave a lazy lurch of four inches, and,
turning over on its back, folded its legs
across its stomach and fell fast asleep.
Jones swore that you could hear it
snore. Hoeflich walked back into the
room, swept the coin into a canvas sack,
and Mackay wrote out an order for the
stock. Hoeflich went up town with his
hopper under his arm, leaving the oth
ers too astonished to speak. Presently
Sheridan put up the ammonia bottle to
bis nose and called Mackay's attention to
the smell.
"Chloroform, by!"
Then the Milesian woman who was the
author of all the mischief appeared with
a broom and announced that it was
"swapin' " time, at which the crowd dis
persed, each goiug ia a different di
rection. As Mackay started for the
Union shaft be remarked:
"That feller Hoeflich plays in d d
queer luck."
And to this all hands inwardly agreed.
Advertising His Mutton. At the
church of Great Salkekl, in Cumberland,
this custom prevailed thirty or forty
years ago. 1 fancy that it has now raiien
through. After the banns were publish
ed for the third time the parish clerk ex
claimed, "God speed them weel !" Nor
was this the only curious custom m this
parish. As the congregation were leav
ing the church alter service, tne cierk,
taking his stand on a "thruff ' in the
churchyard, announced all the sales by
auction which were to be held in the
parish during the week, and other mat
ters of interest to the parishioners, such
as, "On Wednesday next Willie Pearson
will kill a sheep." evidently suggesting
that Willie Pearson would be glad to
dispose of part of the mutton to his
neighbors, his own family not being
equal to a whole sheep. Notes and
Queries.
The manufacture of paper bricks is
said to be carried on extensively in the
West. The quality of the bricks render
them well adapted'for building purposes.
The Chinese make the soles ol their
shoes of paper similarly prepared.
Naming a Steamboat.
In my boyhood days it was the custom
among the Cineinatti boys to own all the
steamboat bills possible of the boats
then running, as well as those that had
been boats worn out, sunk, burned or
exploded. The boy that had the greatest
variety and number was envied by his
fellows, and fabulous prices were, as we
thought, paid for the bills of old time
boats, such as the Mediterranean, Walk
in the Water and Car of Commerce. It
was not an exception for a boy to have
two or more hundred steamboat bills, and
often the case that they would look over
their wealth and assort in different piles
the boats that had sunk, burned, explo
ded, etc. This brought to my notice
what seemed to be a fatality which at
tached itself to all steamboats whose
name commenced with the letter M, and
since then, now over thirty years, I have
given this my attention; but stop, I know
you will say that I am superstitious.
Let us look into this before you condemn,
for I do assert that, with barely an ex
ception, all steamboats built and run on
the Mississippi river and its tributaries,
whose name commenced with the letter
M, were either burnt, sunk, exploded or
unsuccessful as an investment to their
owners. You can look over the long list
of Missouri, Mississippi, Mary, Michi
gan, Marie, Monarch, Mediator, -etc. , and
you will find that they met the fate of
one as above indicated.
Over thirty years ago Captain John
Pierce built (lie Metamora. The custom
had always bten to christen the boat
when launched, and before this occurred
I tried my best to persuade the Captain
to name his boat some other name, and
gave him my reasons, going over a large
number of boats whose names com
menced with the letter M. He laughed at
what he called a superstitious notion
of mine, and called his boat the
Metamora. She was a great
success, but sank above Choctaw
Island, while she was in the prime.
Captain Charlie Davis about the same
time built a splendid Cincinnati and New
Orleans boat, in which Captain Harry A.
Jones had an interest. This would be
sufficient to the knowing ones that she
was "a good one." Davis, like his old
partner, Pierce, would not listen to my
idea, launched, and christened her the
Midas. She sank in the bend above
Island Sixteen. Captain Joe Brown
built the Mayflower some time during
the '50s. Long before she was launched
I tried to talk him out of calling tlieboat
by that name no use. She was burned
at Memphis. Our old townsman, Nor
man Cutter, Esq., who in 1850 owned the
Josiah Lawrence and the Atlantic,
bought a hull that had been at Hanni
bal. Her Cabin and machinery were put
on at St. Louis, where she was finished,
and was then (1852) the finest boat in
the St. Louis and New Orleans trade. It
was the owner's intention that I should
have taken charge of the Charles Belcher,
'which was the name Mr. Cutter gave her
about a month before the Belcher was
ready to start on her first trip. I acci
dentally found out from Emerson, who
had built the hull, that she had been
launched and christened Magnolia.
That was enough for me. Nothing could
have induced me to take charge of the
Belcher. She was burnt on her sixth
trip at New Orleans.
I could name hundreds of instances to
show the fatality that seems to shroud
the steamboats whose name commenced
with the letter "M," but I will content
myself by giving one more instance. I
was in New Orleans in 1875, when I met
Captain Frank Hicks and his clerk, Mr.
Alf Grissom, who were at that time
building a hull at Metropolis, 111. They
talked of calling their boat Mary Boll. I
did my level best to persuade them not
to call her that name, or any name that
commenced with "M;" gave them my
reason and recited many instances of
losses, etc., all to no good. The boat was
called Mary Bell, made a few trips and
burnt with a full load at Vicksburg. I
do not pretend to give any reason why a
steamboat's name commencing with the
letter "M" should be any more unlucky
than one commencing with any other let
ter, but the fact still remains, supersti
tion or not.
The Beogahs and Victims of Chab
ity. It is impossible to calculate the
waste of time and of money with which
this whole irregular machinery of public
charity is kept at work. Persons are in
duced to give to objects of which they
know nothing. They give, and they
fancy they have done with it, until the
claimant, in due course, reappears, as
importunate as ever, and with something
of a prescriptive rigiii on his side. Beg
ging is fast becoming a profession. It
has its well-known rules and cautions, its
literary style and manner and tone of
voice, its various methods of approach to
suit every case. Its victims proper
would not feel flattered if they knew how
their faults and weaknesses, their virtues
and their vices, are described, when the
soft-spoken applicant is off duty, or how
they are kept on record for his future
guidance. Each may be sure that in
some phrase or other he has been duly
written down an ass. There is no malice
in the description; there is scarcely a
bare flavor of half unconscious contempt.
Of caurse the man is an ass; he would be
of less use otherwise for the professional
beggar s purpose. To the rest of the
world he may be a well-to-do 'squire, or
a wealthy banker, or a merchant trades
man who has retired with a fortune
larger than be knows bow to employ.
But all these are disguises which the
professional beggar very soon strips off.
His concern is with the man under them
and he differs from his fellows in the de
gree of skill and assurance with which h.
manages to reach this. London Times.
A J udgs Who Bflieves in Ghosts.
The Newburyport Herald says : In the
police court, the other morning, Isaac
Hibbs of West Newbury was indicted
for an assault aud discharged. The facts
of the case appear to be as follows ; On
the morning of the 5th, a company of
young men thought it would be a good
joke to throw a stone into the chamber
window of one of the citizens of the
town. A member of the family however,
overheard the young fellows plotting
mischief, and hurrying home, informed
the old gentleman of the plan, and he,
quickly donning a portion of his under
garments only, hastened to put himself
in ambush. When the young rioters
came along he sprang out, aud all ran
but one ; who stood up and knocked the
old gentleman down a couple of times.
Whereupon a warrant for assault was
issued, and when brought into court,
Hibbs pleaded that "he thought it was 'a
ghost' and he wasn't going to run from
it." Accordingly, his honor ruled that
if the young man thought it was "a
ghost, and was struck with that idea, he
committed no assault, and consequently.
should be discharged. Such a judge as j
that deserves a much wider reputation j
than we are able to give him.
Exchanging Dusters.
I hurriedly called for my linenduster
(ever since my uncle in California left
me $300,000 1 always wear a linen duster
when I travel; I feel as though I could
afford it and society rather demands it of
me) and climbed into the train and
waited for it to start. By and by I
reached into the capacious pockets of
that duster, and in an idle, vagrant
kind of a moment, drew forth a Police
Gazette, radiant with the usual aston
ishing display of all kinds of stockings,
in all manner of attitudes, save proper
ones, with female figures attached to
them. Now I never buy and never read
that journal, and I was amazed to find it
in my pocket. I went down again and
brought up a couple of beer tickets.
Then I raked down again and found a
piece of billiard chalk, several grains of
coffee and a bit of lemon peel. It seemed
to me that my ordinary well-behaved and
exemplary duster had evidently been out
with the boys last night, instead of re
posing in the quiet of my coat room.
Curious to know just how far this in
iquity went, I reached into another
t ?cket and found a corkskrew, three
c'3e, reveling in the luxurious affluence
0 three aces apiece and a poker deck,
containing four kings of spades. I was
ashamed of that duster. Not only had
it been out with the boys, but it had
fallen among thieves, and was itself tbe
meanest thief of the lot, and unworthy to
be called one of the boys. I was almost
afraid to examine tbe last pocket, but I
finally sent down the grapple and up it
came with a whisky flask, vety empty
but very odorous.
I began to wish the train would start
so that I might watch my opportunity
and throw that duster, with all its mani
fold iniquities on its wicked head, into
the river. I stealthily felt under the
bottle and found a pair of brass knucks.
That settled it. My duster was irrevok
ably bad. I would wear it as far as the
first river or the first tunnel, and I would
never wear it farther. Would the train
never start?
Just then a gentle hand touched my
shoulder. I started guiltily and looked
up to see a policeman. If I had been
arrested on any charge, theft, burglary,
murder, sheep stealing, treason, any
thing, I should have given right in and
gone along. I hadn't enough confi
dence in myself to deny anything. But
when I looked up and saw a kind , tender
face, and I heard the tender voice of a
Methodist clergyman.
"I beg your pardon," he said, "but I
fear you and I have exchanged dusters.
1 only noticed the change this moment,
when Ifound some letters aud lecture
tickets bearing your name in the pockets.
The mistake was my own, I have no
doubt. I am so very careless, and our
dusters are so nearly alike."
I was so shocked that I didn't know
what to say nor where to look, but I just
had enough sense to say yes, that it was
my duster he held in his hands. That I
couldn't find my own in the coat room
and took the only one that was left. And
then I gave the good, innocent man the
villainous old sin-dyed Philestine that
had been corrupting my morals all morn
ing. And then, to sit there and never look
around, but just listen to that man's ac
clamations of amazement and horror.
First he found the billiard chalk. He
didn't know what that was, so he only
said "H'm!" When he found the coffee
grains but he didn't exactly understand
them, and he just said "Ha!" Then he
fished out the corkscrew and he seemed
to understand that in a general way for
he said "What!" in a staccato of aston
ishment that elicited an encore from the
entire audience. The poor man's "Mer
ciful heavens!" that greeted the appear
ance of the whisky flask was drowned in
a perfect torrent of applause and wild
cries of "Go on, go on!" and "More."
And then when he pulled out the Police
Gazette and the brass knucks, he fell
back into his seat with an audible gasp of
horror, and the whole car full of people
just rose as one man and yelled and
howled, and trampled on their hate and
wanted to get out and tear the bottom
out of the car and throw it into the Sha
nango river to express their feelings. I
never saw so great enthusiasm over such
a little thing. And tbe fainting clergy
man came to me, holding the disreputa
ble, character-destroying old gallows
bird of a duster in his trembling hands.
"Sir,' he said, with patient rebuke and
pitiful appeal mingling in his tremulous
utterance, "bir
But I steeled my heart against him,
because I was as innocent as himself,
and it was the pulpit and the rostrum for
it.
"Go way," "don't bring it around
here! Don't you point that thing at me!
'Taint mine! You claimed it yourself!
Don't dare to charge me with it! Throw
it under the car! Burn it up! I won't
have it! Don't you dare-
But the clergyman held it toward me
and raised his right hand appealingly to
Heaven. Just before the tableau began
to tell with the jury, however, the porter
came panting down to the train. He had
an innocent looking duster in his hands
with a package of papers bulging in one
pocket, and a Moody hymn book flatten
ing in the other.
"Genf'men," he said, "de barkeeper
sent me down and he says as how some
body has don' run away wid his duster,
and he want it sent back or he make it
pow'ful lively for de man what took it ef
he have to come after it hisself ."
That settled it. The clergyman took
his own ulster and gave up the robe of
unrighteousness to the embassador. The
man on the wood box made a generally
condolatory remark about the false and
fatal strength of circumstantial evidence.
The band played "Benny, Come Back to
the Farm" and the train pulled out.
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Protection Against Flies aud Mosquitoes.
A correspondent of Nature makes
known what he calls "an absolute pre
ventative of the bites of mosquitoes,
gnats, of green fly in the vinery, blight
in the garden, and a protection to ani
mals from these insect pests." It is sim
ply a weak solution of quassia. He ap
plied it to a peach tree growing upon a
wall, exposed to drought, and which
blighted, and blight was prevented. In
the vinery it succeeded equally well. In
stead of limewashing the wall to get rid
of the green fly, one watering with quas
sia dismissed them in a day. His head
gardener, who had previously much ex
perience in nursery grounds, wondered
that he had never heard of it before. He
now uses it in all cases as a protection
from flies and blight. The dilution goes
a long way ; one pound of chips of quassia
wood, boiled and reboiled in other
water until he has eight gallons of the
extract for his garden engine. He finds
it inadvisable to use it stronger for
some plants. This boiling makes
the quassia adhesive, and being princi
pally applied to the underleaf,
because most blight settles there, it is
not readily washed off by rain. And now
as to gnats and mosquitoes : A young
friend of the gentleman was severely
bitten by mosquitoes, and unwilling to
be seen so disfigured, sent for quassia
chips and had boiling water poured upon
them. At night, after washing, she
dipped her hands into the quassia water
and lift it to dry on her face. This was
a perfect protection, and continued to be
so whenever applied. At the approach
of winter, When flies and gnats get into
houses and sometimes bite so
venomously, a grandchild eighteen
months old was attacked. The nurse
was given some of a weak solution of
quassia to be left to dry on his face, and
he was not bitten again. It is innocuous
to children, and it msy also be a pro
tection against bed insects. But this
has not been tried. When the solution
of quassia is strong it is well known to
be an active fly -poison, and is mixed with
sugar to attract flies, but this is not
strong enough to kill at once.
Jelly Fish.
A little more of the present summer
sunshine will soon fill the river-mouths
and harbors of the coast with those curious
creatures, the jelly fishes. Yachtmen and
steamboat passengers, where the sea
water is clear, will mark the familiar but
ever-wonderful bell of glass opening and
closing as it slowly makes its way beneath
the surface. Children playing on the
beach will find the shapeless masses of
many a medusa for such is its scientific
term helplessly tumbled on the sand,
like a spilled mold of that jelly from which
its ordinary name is so reasonably de
rived. But spilled jellies, especially
when gritty with sand, are useless to play
with, and the children quickly tire of
poking the dead medusa about with their
spades ; nor is it very great fun either to
catch them alive ; to say nothing of the.
fact, dimly known even to young natur
alists, that some species sting severely.
Yet beautiful as well as marvelous is the
creature of the wave. Its body, or swimming-bell,
is a cup of crystal, clearer
than any wine goblet ever blown by glass
makers, and gemmed around the rim with
spots or bosses of violet, blue and purple
jewelry, which Salviati could not equal
for brilliancy and effect. From the bot
tom of the translucent chalice hang leaf
like processes encircling the mouth,
which is veiled by a delicate membrane,
as if the medusa were an Eastern
beauty and kept the "yashmak" over her
lips. The sapphire and amethyst-colored
spots are rudimentary eyes ; the cavities
seen round the lip of the crystal cup are
ears, and it has countless hands or "ten
tacles" hanging from the pellucid brim.
Some of them, even more modest than
their simpler sisters, cover their violet
eyes, as well as their mouths, with a hya
line hood, and others shine at night with
a lambent white and blue fire which
lights up the sea as though with subma
rine lamps. Sea-side visitors are soon
weary of observing them, and the thawl
fisher and the shrimper hates them for
clogging the nets ; nevertheless, objects
more graceful and perfect are not found
in the wide waters, and it might more
easily be believed that etheriol, diaphan
ous, and divine beings may conceivably
exist and more in the upper ether when
these gemmed phantoms of the wave have
been seen winnowing, as it were, their
way through the elements from the sub
stance and color of which only the most
delicate outlines divide them. Even the
power of offense which some possess is an
interesting creative marvel. The '.'sea
nettle," as they are styled, have cnidae, or
"thread cells," each of which contains a
tiny lash-tongue pointed at the end, and
furnished with stinging fluid from a sac
When the cell is pressed it bursts and
shoot forth a flying dart which pierces the
skin and injects the poison from the ef
fect of which as many have found out
who incautiously handle the ".rortugese-man-of
-war" rash experimentalist may
suffer for many days or even weeks.
Woodcock Carrying Their Young.
Having had the pleasure this summer
for the first time of verifying, with my
own eyes, what before I had accepted on
the testimony of others, I give the cir
cumstances for the benefit of your
readers. While watching some warblers
in a small clump of pine trees near a
littte patch of ground, sufficiently moist
to admit of 'boring, 1 flushed four
woodcocks. Three of them, two males
and a female, may be dismissed, with
the remark that their flight showed noth
iag peculiar, they went off uncumbered,
as far as I could see. But as the fourth
bird rose, a female, 1 could plainly
detect, tightly clasped between the
thighs and close to the belly, a dark
bunch of something, the effeet of its
weight being visible in the slow moving
wing and the over balanced body of the
bird, which appeared almost perpend icu
lor. Had I been in any doubt as to what
that something was, the old bird s actions
could have told the story. For, when
few feet away, she settled to the ground.
but apparently without lighting on her
feet, and with beating wings scuttled
along the ground, using the old trick of
the disbled bird which we all know so
well. I was a willing dupe and followed
her for some distance, until she had de
coyed me far enough away from her re
maining young, she took a longer flight,
and I lost sight of her. I take it for
granted that she had more young near
the spot where she first got up. Perhaps
she had time to conceal all but one, as I
approached but slowly. At all events.
did not succeed in finding them, closely
as I searched. In this instance then, her
companions, one of them doubtless being
her mate, showed no special interest in
the fate of the young, but left tlffcriother
to take care of the nest as best .could
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Rupture
, From a Merchant.
Dayton, W. T., Feb. 10, 1879.
W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir:
The Truss I purchased of you about ono year ago
has proved a miracle to tne. I have been ruptur
ed forty years, and worn dozensof different kinds
of Trusses, all of which have ruined my health,
as they' were injurious to my back and spine.
Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe, and
is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords
me so much pleasure. 1 can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy any
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme
diately. I never expect to be cured, but am
satisfied and happy with the comfort it gives me
to wear it It was the best $10 I ever invested in
my life. You ean refer any one to me, and I
will be glad to answer any letters on its merrils.
I remain, yours respectfully,
D. I). Bunnell.
Latest Medical Endorsements.
Mabtisez, CaJ., Feb. 17, 1879.
W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, S. 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 arc worn
it is the best Truss ever offered to the public
Yours truly, J. H. Cakothebs, M. D.
Enilurirtl toy a-' prom I mm n t Medical la.
atlute.
Ban Francisco, March 6, 1879.
W. J. Home, Esq. Sir: You ask my opinion
of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic
Truss, as compared with other kinds that have
been tested under my observation, and in reply I
frankly state that from the time my attention
was first called to their simple, though highly
mechanical and philosophical construction, to
gether with easy adjustibility to persons of all
ages, forms or sizes. I add this further testimony
with special pleasure, that the several persons
who have applied to me for aid in their special
cases of rupture, and whom I haveadvised to use
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, Barlow J. Smith, M. D.
Proprietor Hygienic Medical Institute,
635 California street, San Francisco.
A REMARKABLE CURE.
San Francisco, Oct 26, 1879.
TV. 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.
The double truss I purchased from you has PER
FECTLY CURED him of his painful rupture on
both side, in a little over six months, 'the steel
truss he had before bought yours caused him
cruel torture, and it was a happy day for us all
when he laid it aside for the California Elastic
Tncss. I am sure that all will be thankful who
are providentially led to give your truss a trial.
You may refer any one to ine on this subject.
Yours truly, Wm. Pkru,
638 Sacramento Street.
This is to crtify that I have examined the son
of Wm. Peru, aud find him PERFECTLY
CURED of Hernia on both sides.
L. Dexter Lvford, M. D.
Surgeon anil Physician.
Trusses forwarded to all parts of tlie United States
at our expense on receipt of price.
Send Stamp tar Illustrated atalog-ue
una rriee lisi.
Giving full information and rules for measuring.
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702 Market Street, S. F.
HALL'S
SAFE AND LOCK CO.
CAPITAL., 1,000,000.
General Office and Manufactory,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Pacific Branch,
Sill and 313 California St.. San Francisco.
CI I AS. H. DODD &, CO., PORTLAND,
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H ILL'S PAIEKT CONCRETE
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Il.ive been tested by the most disastrous confla
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They are thoroughly fire proof.
They arc free from dampness.
Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about 150,000 of these safes are now
in use, ami humlnds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous conflagrations in the
country, there is not a single instance on record
wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its
content jK-rleetly.
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Have never been broken open and robbed by
burglars or robbers.
HallV burglar work is protected by letters
patent, and his work oailEOt be equaled lawfully.
His sUeiit bolt is superior to any in use.
His patent locks cannot be picked by the most
skillful experts or burglar..
By one of the greatest improvements known,
the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are
operated withont any arbor or spindle passing
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Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur
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time upainst an eaual uinouut.
THEY ARE THE BEST SAFE
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patent burglar-proof safes has ever been
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treseut time.
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Office with O. H. Dodd & Co., Portland. Oregon,
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