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L1 i v 1 I WEEKLY COKV 4 LLSS GAZETTE CORVALLIS. - - SEPTEMBER 17, 1880 IF YOU KNEW. Oh, if yon knew how very sad and lonely. How areur. bow homeless In my house am I, Sometimes adown the street, for that thought only. You'd just pass by. If yon but knew the thoughts that germ and grow And blossom in sad hearts, with one bright glance, One look up to my window you would throw. As if by chance. And if you knew to the sick sou! the healing That comes from the mere presence of an other, . , Yon'd rest a moment 'neath my doorway, feel ing For a lone brother. But if you knew I loved yon, If yon knew it, With what a love, how deep, how tender, dear, Yon'd come your very heart would make you Jo it Straight to me here. A non. Handsome Presidents. Justly enough has it been said that "no man ever was elected President of the United States because of his good looks." Many of our Presidents never could have been nominated for office had bad beauty been an indispensable quali fication in our National Chief Magistrate. Washington was a man of imposing presence, and it would have been ad mitted that he was better looking than most men, even by an observer who was not under the power of the spell cast by his great deeds aud great name. The popular idea of the father of his country comes from Stuart's portrait; and there is at least one competent authority that the famous painting is too highly ideal ized to afford a just likeness of the just man. In Mr. Edmund Qnincy's noble "Life of Josiah Quincy," we find the following lively passage: "I was curi ous to know how my father's recollec tions of the personal appearance of Washington agreed with the popular de scriptions and pictorial representations of it with which we are all familiar. He was not an imaginative man, and never dressed his heroes in colors of fancy. No man had a profounder reverence for Washington than he, but this did not af fect his perceptions of physical phenom ena, nor his recollections of them. My mother, on the contrary, was 'of imagi nation all compact,' and Washington was in her mind's eye, as she recalled him, more than a hero a superior being, as far above the common race of mankind in majesty and grace of per. on and bearing as in moral grandeur. This was one f the few subjects on which my father and mother differed in opinion. He maintained that Stuart's portrait is a highly idealized one, pre senting its great subject as the artist thought he ought to live in the minds of posterity, but not a strong resemblance of the actual man in the flesh. He always declared that the portrait by Savage in the college dining-rooms in Harvard Hall, at Cambridge, was the best likeness he had ever seen of Wash ington, though its merits as a work of art are but small. One day, when talk ing over those times in his old age, I asked my father to tell me what were his recollections of Washington's personal presence and bearing. 'I will tellyou,' said he, 'just how he struck me. He re minded me of the gentlemen who used to come to Boston in those days to attend the General. Court from Hampden or Franklin County, in the western part of the State- A little stiff in his person, not a little formal in his manners, not particularly at ease in the presence of grangers. He had the air of a country gentleman not accustomed to mix much in society, perfectly polite out not easy in his address and conversation, and Sot graceful in his gait and move ments.' From the recollections of Mr. (William) Sullivam, which. he published many years afterward, it would seem that the impression made upon him by Washington, who was the object of his political idolatry, was the same as that made upon his friend.' He says: 'In his own house his action was calm, deliberate and dignified, without pretensions to gracefulness or peculiar manner, but merely natural, as might be expected in such v man. When walking in the street his movements had not the soldierly air which might have been ex pected. His habitual notions had been formed long before he took command of the American armies, in the wars of the interior, or in the surveying of the wilderness lands employments in which elegance and grace were not likely to be acquired. It certainly was perfectly natural that' Washington's manners should have been those of a country gentleman living remote from cities, he having been engaged in rural occupations the chief part of his life, and moving in a very narrow circle of society when he was called, at the age af 43, to the leader ship of the Revolution. "' We prefer Mrs. Josiah Quincy 's estimate of Wash ington to that of her husband, because she was a woman capable of forming opinions on all matters, and because women are far better judges of character than men; but Mr. Quincy 's estimate is entitled to great weight. President John Adams' portraits create the belief that he was a good look ing man when young, and also in middle life. His grandson, Mr. C. F. Adams, in closing his "Life" of his grandfather, says: "In figure John Adams was not tall, scarcely exceeding middle height, jut of a stout, well knit frame, denoting Kgor and long life, yet, as he grew old, inclining more and more to corpulence. His head was large and round, with a wide forehead and expanded brows. His eye was mild and benignant, perhaps even humorous, when he was free from emotion, but when excited it fully ex pressed the vehemence of the spirit that stirred within. His presence was grave and imposing on serious occasions, but not unbending." A very good descrip tion of the man, and remarkable as com ing from a relative, who was 19 years old at the time of the ex-President s death. President Jefferson was a very tall man as tall as Washington and this, a drawback on his figure when he was young and slim, was highly favorable to his appearance in later life. He was, even in youth, an impressive man, with a good, but not a handsome face. He was a very fair man, and for every man of that complexion who is good-looking there are at least twenty dark men who are thus favored by nature. He was a polite and pleasing man, but he never insulted pthersby condescension. Mr. William Sullivan tells us that President Madison was "a man of small stature and grave appearance" when in Congress (1789-97) , adding that " at the close of his Presidency (1817) he seemed to be a careworn man, and appeared, by bis lace, to have advanced to a more mature I age than was the fact. He had a calm expression, a penetrating blue eye, and looked like a thinking man. He was dressed in black, bald on the top of his head, powdered, of rather protuberant person in front, small lower! limbs (meaning spindle shanks) and grave in speech." Evidently not a beauty man, but he hadcapital brains. Of President Monroe we have two ac counts, one representing him as tall and insignificant, and the other as short and more insignificant. A life of him by a competent person, could be made a more interesting work than that of any other President we had in the sixty years that separate the outgoing of John Adams from the incoming of Abraham Lincoln. President John Quincy Adams was a small man. We saw him about the time he had entered his 70th year, when many days had told upon him, making him stoop. President Jackson would have had a handsome figure had he not been so thin and spare; but as we saw him only when he was rid ing on horseback and he was a superb horseman he may have ap peared to be better looking than he was. His face was wan and thin, and his hair, which was abundant, though he was 66 years old, was milk white. President Van Buren we saw when he was 51 years old, he being then Vice President, and we thought he would have been hand some if his flowing locks had not been long before removed by the malignity of time. Baldness makes a handsome man ugly, and an ugly man uglier. Presi dent Harrison had the reputation of hav ing been good looking in early life, and portraits of him in his age confirmed the belief that had come down. President Tyler really was a good looking man, but he was not very far advanced in years when he entered office. President Polk was paltry, and seemed to be feeble. President Taylor was rugged, but he had a good head. The handsomest of all our Presidents was unquestionably President Fillmore. We saw him at Tonawanda (western New York) some years before he became President, and not at first knowing him ; and we thought then, as we think now, that he was a most striking specimen of masculine beauty. The only men we have seen to be classed with him in looks are Mr. Webster in his forty-ninth year, and Mr. Hawthorne in his fiftieth year. Mr. Fillmore had the best figure of the three, but Mr. Webster had the bet ter head, and Mr. Hawthorne's face was that of a god in marble, and it was well set off by the best of black hair. Presi dent Pierce was a bland, pleasing man, but he would not have been noted for good looks in a crowd. President Bu chanan had a large presence, but his face often had a semi-simpering expression that did not match well with his portly proportions. Mr. Hawthorne, who was consul at Liverpool for much of the time that Mr. Buchanan was our min ister in London, saw something of him, and wrote of him in his note book, on the 13th of September, 1855 : " The tall, large figure of Mr. has a certain air of state and dignity; be carries his head in a very awkward way, but still looks like a man of long and high au thority, and, with his white hair, is now quite venerable. There is certainly a lack of polish, a kind of rusticity, not withstanding which you feel him to be a man of the world. I should think he might succeed very tolerably in English society, being heavy and sensible, cool, kindly and good humored, with a great deal of experience of life." He was a bachelor the only bachelor President we have had which, perhaps, was the reason he took the dissolution of tne Union so easily. It has been said that be had a love affair in his youth that turned out unluckily, like many another such affair. President Lincoln was of an ungainly figure, but he had a good head and a most expressive face. He, too, had an affair at the heart, and a friend of his told us that he had never seen or heard of a stranger one, and that no romance contained anything more complete of the kind. "I do believe," be said, "he would have died had not the landlady relented." So one need net be a beauty man to suffer from the common fever of liie. General Grant is a plain, short man, but in regarding him, so great are his deeds, men are affected much as poor Desdemona was when she listened to Othello's tough yarns, and half of which were probably lies. Mr. Johnson was a personable President, and President Hayes is far from being ill-looking. General Han cock is said to be handsome, and the portraits of General Garfield represent him as a man of fine appearance. "Tis often said that women do not care for beauty in men as men care for it in women. It may be so we know nothing about the matter; but good looks are passports everywhere, like good man ners and good propriety. Yet it must be allowed that very handsome women frequently do marry very hideous fel lows; and there is consolation in the fact, for misery likes consolation as much as it likes company. To adjust the balance between the sexes, many wise men marry very dull women, who make good wives of the "homely house hold savor" order women who will wash well and wear better. What John McCnUongh Saw In London. Otjb Railway System. The New York Indicator says during the past ten years the railway system of the United States has nearly doubled in extent of mileage. During this period we have bad six years of commercial revulsion and al most universal bankruptcy. It is not the extraordinary extension of our rail way system alone that challenges atten tion, but the marked improvements that have been made in the many older roads, and especially in the so-called trunk lines. Wooden bridges have been re moved and iron structures substituted in their stead; iron rails replaced by steel; the building of freight cars of double the capacity of the old ones, carrying twenty tons of live weight instead of ten, as formerly, and more substantial and thoroughly ballasted road-beds. These improvements, although expensive, are the first principles of economical man agement, and make it possible for our well-built and best equipped roads to do the largest amount of work at the least possible cost. As a result, many of our best roads are carrying freight at the present time at a profit, yet at rates that would not have covered the cost ten years ago. It is the completeness of this system in furnishing cheap transporta tion from tbe centers of the great grain growing districts of the West that has given such an enormous increase of American food crops, and enables us to successfully compete with all other countries in the world in the supply of food. A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. To make a sick man think he is dying, all that is necessary is to look half dead yourself. Mr. John McCullough, the tragedian, has returned to New York after paying a visit to London partly for pleasure and partly to make arrangements for a season next spring. To a reporter of the World yesterday he said he had been delighted with his trip to the old world. "I left here for London," said Mr. Mc Cullough, "on the 5th of June, in com pany with Mr. Sothern. My idea was to look around and see what was the best theatre to play in. But the first thing i was to go and see Henry Irving in the Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum Thea tre." "What is your opinion of Irving?" "I can hardly describe my feelings with regard to him. There is a notion that he is the pet of a certain number of men. But he has a great hold on the middle classes the kind of people who pay two shillings for a seat and every artist in London takes a pride in him." "Does be take all tbe credit of a play to himself?" "No; he suggests all the artistic phases of the play, arranges the scenery and de signs the costumes. I saw him first as 'Shylock.' He takes a different view of tbe part from any other man's I have ever known. I liked ft best the second time.' " "Is his acting at all irregular?" "He is better as an actor of peculiar things than as a tragedian. In The Bells and Charles I. he seemed to me to do as fine work as anything of tbe kind I ever saw. It seemed to me be might play one part well and another part poorly. Na ture has not given him the swell of passion." "What is the peculiar secret of his success?" "I can only say that in artistic taste he is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of his profession. In the way of producing things on the stage in tbe best manner possible he is unapproachable. Two weeks ago to-night I supped with him. At noon of that day I saw the entrance to the pit of the Lyceum crowded with peo ple who waited until 6:30 to get in." "Who else is doing well in London be sides Irving?" "Toole. He is drawing crowds at the Folly theater in 'The Upper Crust.' Then Mr. and Mrs. Kendall and Mr. Hare are playing in 'The Lady's Battle' at the St. James' theater. This is the perfection of a performance. I believe if these three people come over here they would make their fortune, and I advised them to come. Their play is a light lit tle French thing of the time of the revo lution, and it is perfectly pure." "What actress pleased you most in LondoB?" "Miss Terry, who played with Irving in the 'Merchant of Venice.' She was the most perfect Portia I ever saw." "Have you any personal knowledge as to Mr. Raymond's reception?" "Well, he himself was received most cordially, but the play was a failure. The people did not understand it. They could not form any conception of the Americanisms, and they wondered how a man like Raymond could appear in such a piece. So far as Raymond himself was concerned, he was called before the cur tain and applauded, but 'The Gilded 'Age' fell flat. Miss Katharine Rogers played with him, but she wasn t good. "Did Mr. Raymond say anything to you about the failure of "The Gilded Age?" "Oh, yes. He took the matter very philosophically. " "What are Mr. Florence's pros pects?" "Very good, indeed. He and his wife will open on the 30th of this month in The Almighty Dollar.' Of course they feel somewhat nervous, because the play is so very American; but there is no doubt that they will succeed." "How were Mr. and Mrs. McKee Ran kin received in London?" "The people liked 'Tbe Danites'very much. Holfinshed, the manager, of the Gaiety who by the way is a glorious chap said at the Savage club breakfast that it was the best American drama he had ever seen. 'The Danites' started first at the Globe Theater, and is now running at Sadler's Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin will play there for some time, and will then go into the provinces. "What is your oWn programme for England?" "Well, as I said before, I went to En gland partly on pleasure and partly on business. I thought that by being there in person I could do better than by cor respondence. The result was that I made arrangements with Augustus Harris, the manager of the Drury Lane Theater, to appear at the theater next April. Mr. Harris has just begun his career as a manager. I am to appear in 'Virginius,' and he promised me that the piece would be produced in the best style. Every scene and every costume is to be new." "Who will form you company ?" "That I do not know. All I know is that the Drury Lane theater is the largest theater in London, that Mr. Harris is to select the company, and that everything is to be arranged in the best possible manner. I shall leave New York during the first week in April, shall play in London about a month, spend the re mainder of the summer quietly without fulfilling any engagements, and will then return to the United States to carry out my engagements here. " "Will you appear at all in the play of 'Aurelian,' which Miss Dickinson wrote for you ?" "No; Miss Dickinson took tho play out of my hands. It was a splendidly writ ten play. I cannot say whether it would have been suitable for dramatic repre-1 sentation. "What do yon propose to do after your return to this country after your London engagement ?" "I will travel all over the country as usual. I shall open at the Fifth Avenue theater, on November 15th, in 'Vir ginius,' and will play for four weeks." "The Savage Club breakfast, of course, was greatly appreciated by the Ameri cans ?" "Why, just look at the menu. 'Com plimentary dejeuner by the Savage Club to the Eminent American Actors' those last three words in big letters 'in Lon don, Friday, July 30, 1830.' Nearly all the actors in London were there. And what a time we had. Barry Sullivan presided, and Minister Lowell made a delightful speech. But of course you've heard all about it." N. Y. World. When a man is guilty of a breach of trust, when be loses tbe money of other people, or when a man makes a bad failure, showing large liabilities and insignificant assets, the matter is made notorious Hy publication and the talk of men, especially if the offender be a member of tbe church. But if a man is honest, if he makss an unusual exhibi tion of integrity, that receives only trifling notice, and nobody slops to in quire whether the virtue be exhibits is an example of Christian integrity or is due to the power of Scriptural truth. Scenes of Whittler's Childhood. A little more than a mile out of town we pass three beautiful sheets of water, the most noteworthy ef whioh formerly bore the name of "Great Pond," to dis tinguish it from its lesser neighbors, but not many years since it was re-christened "Kenoza," the Indian name for pickerel, with which it abounds. Wbittier con tributed to the christening ceremonies tbe sweet and musical poem which, in his published collection, bears the title of "Kenoza Lake.1' It closes with the exquisite and devout stanza: And when tbe summer day grows dim And llgbt mints walk tbe mimic sea, Revive in us the thought of Him Who walked on G.Uilee. Keeping by the beautiful lake, with its lofty and irregular shore, wooded on the side opposite us to the water's edge, we take a road to tbe left which soon brings us to the veritable old home, a two-story house with a large chimney in the cen ter. The small square porch at the side of tbe house, and particularly the stone step, must be noticed, for it was "on this door stone, gray and rude," that the "Barefoot Boy," Wbittier being himself the hero of that poem, enjoyed his 'Bowl of milk and bread." Near the house and crossing the road is the little stream, "the buried brook let," of "Snow Bound," which in summer "laughed 'for. tbe "Barefoot Boy," and whose constant ripple was ever "through the day and through tue night whisper ing at the garden wall." Here, between house and barn, is the road whioh be came "a fenceless drift" in the "Snow Bound" winter, and here the old barn to which, after tunneling the drift, they went to the relief of the "prisoned brutes, and where Tbe oxen luabed their tails and hooked, And mild reproach or hunger looked. The house stands in a hollow, and the roads about it form a sort of irregular triangle, and by driving back and forth von can tret not onlv the views (riven in Hills picture of the place, bnt others equally attractive. On the drive toward the bouse and near Kenoza lake, is a short street, which it is worth while to dnve down; you can easily return to the main road. Here you will find a pic turesque, one-story house, with a door in the center reaching to the roof. I think you cannot fail to recognize it from this description, it was the home of Mrs. Caldwell, the "elder sister" of the poet, of whom he writes in Snow Bound.' Ob, heart sore-tired! thon hast the best That Heaven ltsell can give thee rest. Rest from all bitter thoughts and things! . How many a poor one's blessing went With thee beneath the low green tent, Whose curtain never outward swings. On the return drive you will wish to see the spot where the school house of Wbittier s childhood and of the poem entitled "In School Days" stood. In this poem, you will remember, be has celebrated the devotion ef the little girl with Tangled golden curia, And brown eyes full of grieving, Who said, I'm soriy that I spelt the wortr, I hate to go above you ; "Because." (he brown eyes lower fell, "Because,'' you see, "I love you." You must take the road as you drive toward Haverhill proper (the home stead is in East Haverhill) , which will bring the house on the left and the barn on the right. Soon after passing the latter, and on the same side of the road vou will come to the site of the school house, which has within a short time been torn down, much to the disgust of all tourists. Here, says one of his com panions, Whittier used to sit and read Bible stories when the other boys were at recess, l can easily Deiieve mis oi nun, for his poems abound in Scriptural al lusions that he uses with a skill which could only be gained by early familiarity with the Old and Hew Testaments. Bound to Boss the Funeral. A policeman who was beating through "Kaintuck" one afternoon, was halted by a little negro man who had business in his eye and both hands tightly clenched as he said: "Say, boss, am you gwine to be 'round yere to-morrer afternoon?" "Yes, I suppose so." "Waal, dar's gwine to be the power- fullest fuss up yeiro dat ole Kaintuck eber saw, an you d better hev about six pa'r o' handcuffs an' shackles ready." Why, what s the trouble now "Truble nuff, sah. You ee de old man Jinking, 'round on Hlinoy street, am gwine to die afore night. Dat's settled fur shuah." "Yes." "Waal, de ole man has axed me to sort o' boss de fun'ral 'rangements, kase he knows I'm solid on sich rings. Ize tended to fun'rals so long dat Ize got de hang of em, you see." "Yes." "Waal, dar's Dekun Allen, libin' ober on Calhoun street, one of the most pompons Africans in Detroit. Just as suah as a black man shuffles off de coil anywhar' aroun' 'heah de Dekun' he alius wants to boss de fun'ral biznesa." "Does, eh?" "He does, sah, an' he's de poorest han' you eber saw. He can't start a hymn, nor make any sort o' speech on de shinin' qualities of de late deceased. Why, what d'ye spose de Dekun got off ober heah on Clay street at a fun'ral in Jinuary?" " I can't say.' " Why, he said dat man cometh up like a. flower an' am' cut down. De de ceased wasn't a man at all, but a girl, an' de ideah of flowers coming up in Janu ary ! Sich ignorance, sah, needs re buke." "Well, what about this fuss to-morrow?" "Waal, sah, Ize been requested to boss dat fun'ral. I'ze bin requested by de werry man who am gwine to form the subjeck of tbe sad occashun. De Dekum will be ober dar as usual, put tin' on scol lops an' tellin' folks to stan' back and so on. Hell swell up an' walk 'round wid his hands behin' his back, same as if he owned de hull street, an' same as if I wasn't knee-high to a clothes-boss. " "Well?" "Well, sah, dar will be a rekonter between de Dekum an' myself. De wery minit dat he begins to swell up I shall shed off my . Sunday coat an' purceed to mangle him wid in two inches of his life! I'll do it 111 do it, sah, if I have to go to State prison fur a tousan' y'ars." " I wouldn't." " But I will, sah ! Ize gibben you Tar warnin', sah, an' if you am not on ban' wid a one-horse wagin' to convey de body of de Dekum to his late home it won't be my fault. Dat's all, sah ex cep' dat I strike with bouf fists to once, an' dat de pusson struck at soon pines away an' dies. Good day, eah."-Deiroit Free Press. A man out West was offered a plate of macaroni soup, but declined it, declaring that they "couldn't play off any biled pipe-stems on him. A Fiendish Trick. The aristocracy of the Tenth Ward were shocked recently by the report of the terrible battle between Timothy Dooley, the chivalrous Fourth street coal-heaver, and Edward Mulchay, the genial Jessie street asphaltum-roofer. The trouble was caused by some insidi ous and black-hearted enemy stealing a nest of game eggs from Dooley, and substituting therefor tbe tame product of a duck. The game eggs were sup posed to contain in embryo the choicest spirits that could wield' a gaff. Mul oahy had reluctantly supplied them at a dollar apiece and intimated that they couldn't be purchased at any price if it hadn't been for the illustrious union of the Dooleys and Muloahys early in the thirteenth century. "No Connaught man could get a smell of 'em, Tim," said the impulsive chicken-raiser, who prides himself on having come from Cork. Under the circumstances great care was taken of the eggs. The inoubation was instrusted to the most sedate hen in the ward, and soon after her patient labor appeared to have been crowned with success. Mrs. Dooley was the first to notice the exhiliaration of tbe trust worthy hen, and hastened with the news to Dooley, who was still in bed, recover ing from the effects of a Democratic speech in a Greenback meeting. "The chickens are all out, Tim," said she. "Glory be to God, "was the pious reply. "An' how do they look." "Begor. they look very quare, Tim they're as yellow as Chineyman, an' they've got bakes on 'em as fhlat as a felounder. For the first time since the big earth quake Dooley got out on the wrong side ol the bed and forgot to bless himself. As he made tracks to the yard the fantas tic carelessness of his attire would have challenged tbe admiration of a Piute In dian. " It bates the devil," said he, as he pulled out one of the chickens and cast a critical eye on it. " It bangs Ban agher," he muttered, as he pulled out other specimen, and looked aghast at the yellow down. Mrs. Dooley, who was an interested observer, chipped in : " What ails tbim toes, Tim ? They've all htuck together. What happened their bakes, Tim ? Did the hin sit too heavy on 'em ? Faith, they're the quar- est looking chickens i ever see. "They're ducks, be hevins," said Doo ley, and he retraced his steps to his bed room and dressed himself with the por tentious calmness of a man about to step down to Pine street and part with Union Con. on a rising market. The re mainder of the storv is too easily told. The victims of tbe lowest-down trick that was ever played on the liberal pa trons of a noble sport, unfortunately met in fifteen minutes by all the watches in town except those of the Howard street conductors, which made it six minutes and a half. Said the unsus pecting Mulcaby: " How is the clutch of eggs. Tim ?" " Clutch, ye thavin' vagabond, I'll clutch you !" And he did. Officer McGuffy, who ar rived too late to witness the duel, testi fies that from his careful inspection of the battle-ground he is convinced that the fight was the liveliest seen in tbe ward for ten days back "and that's saying a great deal for it." S. F. Chronicle. A Brooklyn Princess. A divorce suit is pending in Brooklyn entitled Trice against Trice, the parties being colored, in connection with which there are some curious stories. Both sides claim a decree, the wife, who is the plaintiff, on the ground of the defendant s unhusbandiike conduct, and the husband on the ground that when be married the woman she had a husband living in Africa, no less a person than the King of the Ashantees. About the year 18t5, a tall young black from Africa found his way to Brooklyn. He could not speak English, but he acquired the language readily, and it was soon known in the Siloam Presbyterian church, into which he happened to fall, that he was Albert Agamon, the eldest son of the Ashantee king. He had heard in his country of the great world beyond, and had set out, like the prince he was, to see it. He was an ob ject of great interest to the fe male members of the church, but es caped all their snares until the plaintiff in tbe present suit, then a comely color ed widow, smiled upon him. He marri her, and she became a princess. They lived together in harmony for some years, and a little prince was born, who is still a resident of Brooklyn. In the meantime the prince became an ardent Christian, and was licensed to preach. After a while he was persuaded that through him Christianity might be es tablished among his native people, and with this as his mission, he set out on a visit to his early home. Upon reaching the gold coast, he wrote back to his wife that his father, the King, was growing feeble and desired his first-born to be near him, ready when death came to re ceive his mantle. This was the last ever heard in Brooklyn from Prince Agamon. After several years had elapsed, the Brooklyn Princess was married to Chas. Trice, who is now a waiter at the Bocka way hotel. N. Y. Times. Tbe Story of Four Law Students. In the law office of John C. Spencer, at Canandaigna, N. Y., in 1831-2, were four young law students, to fortune and to fame unknown. Under tbe careful guidance of Mr. Spencer they were duly admitted to the bar in 1834, and one of them at once struck out for the West, locating at Cleveland. Here he stuck fast, and while waiting the expiration of the 6 months required by the Ohio laws be fore a citizen of another State can practice in her courts, he was surprised by a call from his three fellow students. They were looking for places to hang out their shingles. "WeU, one of you can stay here with me; an other of you can go further to' this little French village they call De troit, and the other can push on to a new place they call Chicago, on the site of old jfc ort .Dearborn. Alter a little con sultation, this plan was finally agreed to. Tbe one who went to "the little French village," was George C. Bates; he who went further on was Stephen A. Doug las, who made a mistake and went to Springfield instead of Chicago; while he who remained in Cleveland was Henry B. Payne. This was in 1834. Tbe young man who thus planned out the career of his three companions was E. H. Thomp son, now of J? lint, Michigan, who told us the circumstances. T-nof 'liim JiUIa wtirk nmi'aaa all Ttim less who censures all; and him least who indifferent about au. Father Farrell's Estate. The will of the late Rev. Father Far rell, of St. Joseph's church, in this city, disposed of about $12,500. The broad ness of view and tolerance of spirit which it indicated in the testator attracted at tention at the time of its publication. There was also incidentally aroused some surprise that a parish priest should have accumulated so much money. The question has been raised by those who knew Father FarreH only by general repntatation, how he could have gained so much money from his position in St. Joseph's parish. The answer to this question is that he did not so gain it, and in the mercantile sense of that word he did not gain it at all. It was given to him. His friends, including the trustees of St. Joseph's church, desire this to be understood, in order that his true char acter may be made plain to all. The property was given to Father Far rell in Alabama State bonds by personal friends, who were not of his faith, when the bonds were not of as much value as they are now. The basis and true reason for the gift was Father Farrell's love for his country. Although he was educated in a Southern State, he was a warm sup porter of the Government. In the dark est hours of the war his voice was clear est in upholding the union. His patriotic impulses led him to the front, where he labored in hospitals and on battle-fields. The gift was made so delicately that an effort, made yesterday, to learn the names of the donors or the occasion of the pre sentation, failed, though inquiries were made of friends who were long intimate with him. To show Father Farrell's confidence in the Government and his sense of duty toward it, the following is told: A friend came to him indignant because a debtor had insisted on paying him about $80, 000 in United States paper money, then newly made a legal tender. He wanted to know what Father Farrell had to say about that. The priest told him that the transaction was past, and that it was idle to say anything about it; "but," said he, "I can tell you what to do with it. Give it to Uncle Sam. Buy five-twenties with it." A second time his friend called with a repetition of bis grievance. A second debtor had put off about $30,000 of the new legal tender on him. Again Father Farrell advised him to buy five twenties. He shook his head and went away. A third time his friend called on him ; this time to tell the priest to take the $80,000 and keep it for him. He did not know whom else to trust in those times. "No," said Father Farrell; "I don't want it; but if I should take it, I should let Uncle Sam have every cent of it." Again the friend shook his head. "You won't let Uncle Sam have any of my money," he said. It was not long afterward that the friend made a fourth visit. He came to tell Father Farrell that he had invested the $80,000 in five-twenties. This, of course, proved very profitable. It is said, however, that this friend was not among those who made Father Farrell the gift referred to. N. Y. Sun. Rupture A Candid Dabkey. An old darkey who had "put away" watermelons every summer for sixty years, stood in front of one of our grocery houses eyeing a pile of that fruit. The merchant, who sat in tbe door, noticed the wistfulness of the African's gaze, and finally asked, "Don't you want to buy one of these melons, uncle?" "How much you axed for one, boss?" inquired the African, still keep ing his gaze on the melon. "Twenty' five cents," replied the merchant, getting up from his chair and stepping to the side ot the hillock. "What you gib me one-half fur?" asked the darkey, taking a step toward the pile. "Fifteen cents, replied the dealer, lifting one in his hands. "What 11 yer sell me a slice fur?" asked Africa. "Ten cents," said the accommodating merchant. "A bite ob one?" continued the darkey. "Five cents, answered the merchant, as he picked up a, knife and started to pluck out a piece about two inches square. "Hold on, boss! 1 se an honest niggah. You say you gib me a bite for five pents. Well, sah, if I takes a bite ob dat melon you'll be setin' heah in a pow'ful study an' er wond'rin' what 'come ob de bal ance ob it. Now, boss, Leah's de two bits. Der am t nufhn mean bout me when it gits up to watermelons" He took the watermelons and went off to hunt the shade. f Tallahasse Floridan. The Uses of Wateb. Water-power for household purposes has been brought into use at Zurich. Frewood, for ex ample, is to be sawn into convenient lengths for burning. A small sawing machine, on wheels, is drawn by two men to the front of the house. They connect it by a flexible tube with the nearest hydrant; the water flows to the machine; the saw dances and outs up the wood with surprising ra pidity. The quantity of water used is shown by an indicator affixed to -the sawing-machine A portable turbine has also been invented, and employed in many places in the city,' in driving a Gramme machine for the purpose of electric light. Water is sold very cheap in Zurich: but there are per haps other towns in which this, so to call it, domestic water-power could be advan tageously introduced. A turbine of about four inches in diameter has for some time been sold, Its office is to work a sewing machine. An india rubber tube is attached to the ordinary water supply a similar tube acting as waste pipe to the nearest sink. JOB PRINTING. THE Gazette Job Printing House 18 NOW PREPARED TO DO Plain and Ornamental Printing, neat and Cheap as it ca:. be Hone by any Office on tbe Coast. Bill Heads, - , X , ";V Letter Heads Hot headsi, BUiemtniD, P. orrammea. Ball Tickets, Invitations 4 - - - Circulars, ItaslBCM Tarda, Visiting Cards, Mttgrn Bsda-ers. small PMUn, Envelopes. i.evai aunnmn- MOlpplnc Receipts, urdc rder Books, vans, TSHSS. Etc., EM. -Orders by mail promptly filled. Estf. sates furnished. From a Merchant. Daytok, W. T., Feb. 10, 1879. W. J. Some, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco Sin The Truss I purchased of you about one year ago has proved a miracle to trie. I have been ruptured forty years, and worn dozens of 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.anJ 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 and wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme diately. I never expect to be cured, but am sat isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to wear it. It was the best $10 I ever invested in my life. You can refer any one to me and I will be glad to answer any letters on its merits. I remain, yours respectlully, D. B. BUNNELL. Latest Medical Endorsements. MBri.tEZ,Cal., Feb. 17, 1879 W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss Co , 702 Market street, S. F. Sir : In re gard to yoar California Elastic Truss, I would say that I have carefully studied its mechanism, ap plied it in practice and do not hesitate to say that for all purposes lor which Trusses are worn it is the best Truss ever offered to the public. Yours truly, J. H. CAROTHER3, M. D. Endorsed by a Prominent Medical Insti tute. 6a Fbascisco, March 6, 1879. W. J. Home, Enq. jr: You ask my opinion of the relative merits of yoar Patent Elastic Truss as compared with otbei kinds that have been ested under my ohserraioD, and in reply 1 frank ly state that from tbe time toy attention was first called to their simple, though highly me chanical and philosophical construction, together with easy adjust bilitr to persons of all sizes, ages and forms. I add this testimony with spe cial pleasure, that tbe several persons' who have applied to me for aid in their especial cases of rup ture, and whom I have advised to use yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction, and consid er themse ve- highly favored by tbe possession of one of tbe improved Elastic Trues. Yours truly, BARLOW J. 8MITH, M. D. Proprietor Hygenic Medical Institute, C35 California street, San Francisco A REMARKABLE CURE. Sab Fbakci?co, Oct. 26, 1879. W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir : I am truly grateful to you for tbe 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 sides in a little over six months. The steel truss he had before I bought yours caused him cruel torture, and it was a happy day for us all when be laid it aside far tbe California Elas tic Tbuss. I am sure that all will be thankful who are providentially led to give your truss a trial. You may refer any one to me on this sub ject. Yours truly, WM. PERU, 638 Sacramento Street This is to certify that. I have ezamimed the son of Wm. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY CURED of hernia on both sides. L. DEXTER LYFORD, M. D., Surgeon and Physician. Trusses forwarded to all parts of the United States at our expense on receipt of the price. Send Stamps for Illustrated Catalogue and Price last. Giving full information and rules for measuring. California Elastic Truss Co. 702 Market Street, S. F. SAFE AND LOCK CO. CiPiTAL 411,000,000. General Office and Manufactory, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Pacific Branch 211 and 213 California St., San Francisco. CHM.U. BOO dc CO., POKTLA.V1), Agents for Oregon and Wniblngton Ter. m HALL'S I'.ilfcXr COScrtETK FIRE-PROOF SAFES. H.ive been tested by the most disastrous confla grations in the country. They ure thoroughly fire pro:f. They are free from dampness. Their superiority is beyond question. Although about 150,000 of these safes are no in.use, and hundreds have been tested by some of the most disastrous cou(la;'i li'ons in the country, there is not a single inta,.oe on record wherein one of them ever failed o preserve its contents ierfeetly. HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED TENON AND GKOOVE BURGLAR-PROOF MAFE8. Have never been broken open and robbed by burglars or robliors. Hall's burglar work is protected by letters, patent, and his work cannot be equaled lawfully. His patent bolt is superior to any in use. His patent locks cannot be picked by the most skillful experts or burglars. By one of tbe greatest improvements known, the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are operated withont any arbor or spindle passing through the door and into the lock. Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur glars or experts, (as in case of other locks), and w will put from $1,000 to $10,000 behind them any time against an euual amount. THEY ARE THE BEST 8AFE Made in America or any other country. One Thousand DollarM To any person who 'can prove that one of Hall's patent Burglar-rrool Sales has ever been broken open and robbed by burglars up to the present time. C. W. POOL, TRANELINTG AGENT. Office with C. H. Dodd Co., Portland, Oregon. A WEEK in your own town and no capital risked You can give the bus iness a trial witboul expense The best opportunity ever offered for those willing to work. Yon should try nothing else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we offer. No room to explain here. You can devote all your time or only your spare time to the business, and make great pav for every hour you work. Women make as much as men. Send for special private terms and par ticulars, which we mail free. $6 outfit free. Don t complain of hard times while vou have such a chance Address H. (lALLEf & CO., Portland, Maine. . l:3ly 1 $15! TO $6,000 a year, or $5 to $20 a day in your own locality. jno risk. Wo men do as well as men. Many make more than the amount stated above. No one can fail to make money fast. Any one can do the work. You can make from $50. cts to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business. It cost nothing to try the business. 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