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The Gorvallis Gazette.
PUBLISHED
EVERY FRiDAY MORNING,
... BY..
W. 13. CARTER
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERM. (Coin.)
FwTtW $2 60
Six Months 1 60
Three Months... 1 00
Invariably In advance.
All notice and advertisements intended for
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Wednesday.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. 8. WOODCOCK.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
coimui
I OHKGOJ.
OFFICE OK FIRST STREET, OPPOSITE
Woodoock Sc Baldwin's Hardware Store.
Special attention given to Collections, Foreclo
sure of Mortgages, Real Estate cases, Probate and
Road matters.
Will also buy and sell City Property and Farm
Lands, on reasonable terms.
March 80, 1879. 16;12yl
J. K. WEBBER.
Main Btieot. Corvallis, Or.
DKALKB IN
Stoves, Ranges,
FORCE AMD LIFT PUMPS,
HOUSE FURNISHIN8 HARDWARE.
Constantly on hand, the
NEW RICHMOND RANGE,
Beet in market.
THE BONANZA COOK STOVE,
Something New. And the New
VECTA PARLOR STOVE.
Jan. 1, 1880. J7:ltf
J. R. BRYSON,
ATTORNEY A.T LAW.
All business will receive prompt attention.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Corvallis, July 14, 1870. J6:29tf
PIANKLtfl CAtfTKORIf, M. 0.
PHYSICIAN AND SUEGEON.
Corvallla. Or(n.
Bpectal attention given to surgery and diseases
of the eye. Can be found at his office, ia rear of
Graham, Hamilton A Co.'s drug store, up stairs,
day or night.
June S, 1876, 16-23 1
W. C. CRAWFORD,
DEALER IN- gj
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, SILVER WARE,
" etc. Also,
Mualoal lntrumnts &o
JBsT-Re pairing done at the most reasonable
rates, and all work warranted. .
Corvallis, Dec 13, IS77. 14:50tf
6BAHAH, HAMILTON & CO.,
CMkBYAJLLU . . UKKGON
DEALERS IN
Drugs, IPaints,
MEDICINES.
CHEMICALS, DTK STIFFS,
Oil
CLASS
AND
PUTTY.
WIRE WINES AND L'QUGBS
Jl 4fss M 1 a 'Jbsv ' X
FOR MEDICINAL USE.
And also the the very best assortment of
Lamps and Wall Papr
Tar brought to this place.
AGENTS FOR THE
AVtRIU CIKWICU PUNT,
SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER
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JOB PRINTING,
THE
Gazette Job Printing House
IS NOW PREPARED TO DO
Plain and Ornamental Printing,
As neat and Cheap as it rat. be -tone by any
Office on the Coast.
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CORVAULJS, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1881.
NO. 8.
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
or vllln LaH-e Na. 14, V. A, M.
Holds stated Communications on Wednesday on
or proceeding each lull moon. Brethren in good
standing oordially invited to attend. By oraer
vr. m.
Barnaul Lode He. 7, I. . . V.
Meets on Tuesday evening of each week, in their
bail, in Fisher's brick, second story. Members
ol the order in good standing invited to attend.
By order of N. Q.
r. A. C H IHOW1TH .
F. M. JOBXSOM
CHENOWETH & JOHNSON, .
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COKVA1XI9, OH EGO ft .
September 4, 1879. 16:36lf
ALLEY ft WOODWARD,
Druggists
and
Apothecaries,
P. 0. BUILDING, CORVALLIS, OREGON.
Have a complete stock of
ORtGS.MEOICI.NES, PAINT?, Oil,
SLASf, ITJ., ETC.
School Pooka tationeny, fco.
We bay for Cash, and have cnoioe of the
FRESHEST and PUREST Drugs and Medic oaf
the market affords.
fSS Prescriptions accurately prepared at half
the usual rates. ?Mayl6:l8tf
AUGUST KNIGHT,
Cabinet Maker.
litwjLt
mm smssJisif IT infr
TOaferv3F
alfJfv
UNDERTAKE
a
Cor. Second and Monroe Sts.
CORT1LUI,
A-
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
Keeps constantly oa hand nil kinds of
FUBNITUBK
COFFINS & CASKETS.
Work done to order on short notice and at reas
onable rates.
Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1877. 14:ltf
J NW ftAYBURI,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ORVLI,l5t, i OBKGOI.
OFFICE On Monroe street, between Second ana
'third.
E3 Special attention given to the Collection
of Note and Accounts. 16-ltf
J MES A. YANTIS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
VHVALLIN,
UBtuOH.
tl'ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS
of the Btatc. Spe ial attention given to
Uiatteis in Probate. Collections will receive
e'-'ii-i't and careful attention. Office in the Court
..ns. lS:ltf.
DR F. As V MCE NT,
DENTIST.
COltVALLIH m ' REGOJf.
r)FFICE IN FI8HER'S BRICK OVER
Max. Friendlev's New Store. AH the latest
improvement,. Evervth ng new and complete.
AM work warranted. i'Jea-e give, me a call.
16:3tf .
C. R. FARRA, M. O.
PimiUAft Aim SlUKEOS,
OFFICE OVER URAHAM A HAMILTON"!
v DruSto e, Corvallis, Oregon. 14-26tf .
Woodcock & Baldwin
Successors to J. R Bayley & Co,
TZEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT TliE
old stand a large and complete stock of
Heavy and Mieif Hardware,
IRON, STEEL,
TOOLS, STOVES,
RANG 1 8, ETC
Manufactured and Home Made
Tin and Coppor Ware,
Pumpe. Pipe, Ete.
A good Tinner constantly on hand, and all
Job Work neatly and quickly done.
Also agents for Knapp, Burrell A Co.,
for the sale of the best and latest im
proved KARM MACIfrrVEIlY,
of all kinds, together with a full assort
ment of Agricultural Implements.
Sole Agents for' the celebrated
ST. L VIS CHAftTt R0JKS 0YES
the BEST IN THE WORLD. Also the
Norman Range, and many other patterns,
in all aisea and styles.
Hsr Particular attention paid lo Fanners'
wants, and the supplying extras for Farm
Machinery, and all infot u.ation as to such
articles, furnished cheerfully, on applica
tion. No pains will be spared to furnish our
customers with the best goods in market,
in our line, anil at the lowest prices.
Our motto shall be, prompt and fair
dealing with all. Call and examine our
stock, before going elce where. Satisfac
tion guaranteed.
WOOKCOCK & BALDWIN.
Corsullie, May, 12, lo7. 14:4tf
LANDS ! F4RMS I
H0M
ES 1
I HAVE FARMS, (IMPROVED OR UNIM
proved) Stores and Mill Property, t ery desirable
FOR SALE
These lands are cheap.
Also claims in unsurveyed tracts for sale.
Soldiers of the late rebellion who have, under
the Soldiers' Homestead Act, located and made
final proof on leas than 100 acres, oan dispose of
tne balance to me.
Write (with stamps to prepay postage).
R. A. BENSELL,
Newport, Benton county, O
Uregon.
61:2tf.
H. E. HARRIS,
One door South of Chnham A Hamilton's,
CO R V A I, LIN, OIIMI,
GROCERIES
PROVISIONS,
AND
Dry Goods.
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 1878.
l:lTl
DRAKE & GRANT,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
C 'SV.tl L.H,
1VE -HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE
and well selected siock ol Cloth, viz :
Wesi or i ririami Broad
lotrts, renoh v asslmeres,
dot oil T weed m, and.
a merloaii AUltlng,
Which ve will make up to order in the most
approved and lash onable styles. No pains will
be a, ared n pioducing giwd fitting garments.
Parties wiahing -to purchase cloths and have
them cut out, will do well to call and examine
our stock. DRAKE A GRANT.
Corvallis, April 17. 1879. I6:16tf
Boarding and Lodging-.
Puiiomatli. Bo a tun o . Urf.
GEORGE KISOR,
RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE TRAV
eling' public that he is now prepared and in
readiness to keep such boarders as may choose to
give him a call, either by the
SMC E M&AL,. DAY. OR WEEK.
Is also prepared to furn sh horse feed. Liberal
share ol public patronage solicited. Give us a
call. GEORGE KISOR.
Philomath, April 28. 1879. I(U8tf
CORVALLIS
Livery, Feed
A N I.)..
SALE STABLE,
Iln t., t " val lss. Ore uon.
SOL. KING, Porpp.
rkWNING BOTH BARNS I AM PREPARED
to oner superior accommodations in the Liv
ery line. Always ready for a drive,
OOOI TEAMS
At Low Rates.
My stables are first-class in every respect, and
competent and obliging hostlers always
ready to serve the public.
REASONABLE CHAKMKt FOR HIRE.
Partiealsir attOHtlnsi Pal I to Board lug
urseo.
ELEGANT HEAKSE, CXRItlAGES AND
UA KS FOIl FUNERALS
Corvallis, Jan. 3, 187. its-lvl
Rkbh Hamlin. Eaaan F. w:
DRAYACE !
DRAY AGE!
Hamlin & Wrena. Propr'a.
XT.WJXG JUST RETURNED F ROM
" Salem with a new truik, and having
leased the bsru Hmneriy occupied by James Eg
lin, we are ui pruj.a ed to do all kinds of
tfi-YIKC AD HAULING,
either in the city or country, at the lowest living
rates. Can be fouud at the old truck stand. A
shnre "I Ihe public patronage respectfully solic
ited. Uorvaliis. Dec. 27, 1878. I5:52U
J C. MOR ELAND,
(t'lTT ATTOHJIKY.)
ATTOT4MEY AT TA-W.
roKTLASH, tUSW.
OFFICE Monastes' Brick, First street,
between Morrison and Yamhill. 14&8tf
THE STAR BAKEBY,
Mm trees, CorvaJUa.
HENRY WARRIOR, PR0PRIET0I.
Family Supply Store I
Groceries,
Bread.
Ctvke,
i Pie,
Candidas,
Toyaj,
JESto.,
Always en Hand.
Oervrilia, Jan. 1, W7. UOU
(Rupture
From St Merchant.
Dattok, W. T.. Feb. 10. 1879
W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir:
Ths Truss I purchased of you about sue year ago
nas provea a miracle to me. t have Men runtured
forty years, and .worn dozens of different kinds of
Trusses, all of which hare ruined my health,
as ioey were injurious to my back and spine.
Your valuable truss is es 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 and
wear your modern improved mastic Truss lmzne
diatelv. 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 flu 1 ever invested in
my life. You oan refer any one to me. and I will
DS glad to answer any letters on its merits.
I remain, yours respectiully,
D. B. BUNNELL.
- Latest Medical Endorsements.
Martin kz , Cal., Feb. 17, 1879
IT. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
I russ uo., iO-z Market street, S. r'. Sir : In re
gard to your 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 tor which Trusses are worn it is
the best truss ever ottered to the public.
Yours truly, J. H. CAROTHERS, M. D.
endorsed by a Prominent Medical Insti
tute.
San Francisco, March 8, 1879.
W. J. Borne, Esq. 9in You ask my opinion
of the relative merits of your Patent Elastic Truss
as compared with othei kinds that have been
ested under my observaion, and in reply I frank
ly state that from the time my attention was first
called to their simple, though highly me
cbanical and philosophical construction, together
with easy adjustability to persons of all sizes,
ages and forms. I add this testimony with spe
cial pleasure, that the 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 themseve- highly favored by the possession
of one of the improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. D.
Proprietor Hygenic Medical Institute,
035 California street, Ean Francisco
A REMARKABLE CURE.
San Francisco, Oct. 26, 1879.
W. J. Borne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss, 702 Market street, San Francisco Sir : I
am truly grateful to you for the wonderful CURE
?our valuable trus has effected on my little boy.
he double truss I purchaset 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 the ' alifobnia Elas
tic Tbuss. I am sure that all will be thankful
who are providentially lad to give your truss a
trial. You may refer any one to me on this sub
ject. Yours truly, WM, PERU,
038 Sacramento Street.
This is vo certify that I have examimed the son
of Wra. Peru, and find him PERFECTLY
CURED of hernia on both sides.
L. DEXTER LYFORD, M. D.,
Surgeon and Physician.
Trusses forwarded to all porta of Vie United Stoim
at our expense on receipt iff the price.
Head Stun pa for Illustrated Catalogue and
Price ldat.
Giving full information and rules for measuring.
California Elastic Truss Co.
702 Market Street S. F.
8AFE AND LOCK CO.
CA PITA I. $1,000,000.
General Office and Manufactory,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Pacific Branch
ail and 213 California St., San Fraacisoo
CHAR. H. DODII CO., rOB.Tl.AHD,
Agents for Oregon sad Wnatalngton Tea-.
Ball p.viest conokkte
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Have been tested by the most disastrous confla
grations in the country.
They are thoroughly fire-pro-" f.
They are free from 'dampness.
Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about'150,000 of these safes are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by sums
of the most disastrous confiaf tAvati in the
country, there is not a siugla in.tawce on record
wherein one of them ever foiled to preserve its
contents perfectly.
HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED
TENOS AND 6KO0VB
BURGUR-PSOOF
Hare never been broken open and robbed by
burglars or rob'iors.
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 lucks cannot be picked by the most
skillful experts or burglars.
By one of the greatest improvements known,
the Gross Automatic Movement, our looks are
operated wilhont 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 we
will put from $1,900 o $10,000 behind them any
time aeainst an eoual amount.
THEY ARK THE BEST SAFE
Mads in America or any other country.
One Thousand Dollar
To say person who can prove that one of Hall's
Patent Burglar-Proof Safes has ever been
broken open .and robbed by
burglars up to the
present time,
a W. POOL, TRAVELING AGEXT.
Onto with C. H. Dodd A Co., Portland, Oregon.
. B. PAHCKLU, Manager. . F.
"Culture."
$300!
A MONTH guaranteed Twelve
dollars a day made at home by
the industrious Capital not re-
auired; we will start you. Men .wo
men, boys and rirls make money faster at work
for us than at anything else. The work is light
and pleasant, and such as any one ean go right
at Those who are wise who see this notice will
sand us their addresses at ones and see for them
selves. Costly outfit sad terms free. Now is the
time. Those already at work are laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO.,
AgtaC, Maiaa.
A Cambridge, Mass., correspondent of
the New York Tribune makes the recent
celebration of the 250th anniversaries of
the settlement of Boston and Cambridge
the text for a critical letter on their
literary peculiarities. He says the two
places are pretty muoh alike, though
with some minor differences, and continues:
Before the f Boston "Brain Club" was
attacked with softening and expired, a
well-known writer was taken home after
one of the meetings in the carriage of a
lady rejoicing in wealth and social gran
deur; and when the carriage stopped at
his modest door in an unfashionable
street, the footman, on getting down,
remarked audibly to the coachman,
"What place is this? We've never been
here before." The tone of this servant
was not so unlike that of his employer's
class as an impartial observer could
wish. The opposition to snobbery comes
naturally in the main, from literary
people, journalists, and artists; but
even the author or the artist finds it hard
to withstand the influences which so
imperceptibly tend to produce the same
thing in himself. The literary
"school' of Boston, in fact, is
freely accused of being thus infected,
by the press and the authors of
other parte of the country. One of the
last times that I saw Bayard Taylor be
fore his departure for Berlin, he spoke
with a good deal of quiet bitterness
about the way in which his translation of
"Uaust had been received by some of
the magnates of literature here, for
whom as artists he had always the warm
est praise and recognition. Another
famous and popular writer, after visiting
Boston and Cambridge, gave it as his im
pression that the great men of letters sat
rather too much in the shadow of their
own greatness. At a Phi Beta dinner,
again, the poet of the day, who came
from New York and was cordially re
ceived, made a speech in which lie paid
a glowing tribute to the work of Cam
bridge in our literature, and thereby
drew forth hearty applause. He then
went on manfully to assert his belief that
New York was nurturing a new school
destined to even larger life and a more
dramatic scope, and tried to enkindle a
sympathy Between the two movements.
This was received with' total silence.
Such matter may be called gossip; but
gossip of this sort is a potent influence,
and its facts must be taken into account
as significant. The social frigidity of
New England that mysterious thing,
whioh really exists, yet often seems so
incredible in the presence of a sudden
thaw has its share in throwing around
Boston literary circles that air of icy re
serve and narrowness generally at
tributed to them. How much of warmth
and charm, what episodes of delightful
informality they really inclose, only a
gradual and constant association makes
plain.
The affectation ol lungusn ways and
an English tone is another singular and
self -contradictory trait of Bostonians, for
those who most indulge in them are fre
quently the quickest to resent English
patronage, and to dwell on the great dif
ference between America and England,
in favor of onr own country. Occasion
ally, however, the preference for a for
eign country is aired, as a mark of su
periority. The real attitude in whioh
such persons put their selves was once
delightfully stated by a competent au
thority. "Those persons wno preier
Paris or London, I once heard Mr.
Emerson say, gently (speaking of a
young American author who appeared
very ill satisfied with his native land),
would much better stay there, ior we
do not need them." And, certainly,
what is vital in Boston's influence has al
ways been intensely patriotic.
In Cambridge life there is a nappy
mixture of high aims, prosaic details,
and agreeable companionships some
what disturbed during three-quarters of
the year by excessively muddy streets
and sidewalks, wherein people sometimes
leave their cubbers sticking while in the
pursuit pf social or intellectual pleasure.
Pleasant and peaceful as that country
town-like city is, there is room for ques
tion whether it is not too much shut
away from the stir of the great world.
Like its highways', it becomes rutted.
The very recreation which professors,
literary men, studious ladies, and culti
vated professional people seek at evening
parties is often only a prolongation of
the mental exercise involved in their
work. The tone of conversation is
largely critical. Even scandal may be
said here to assume the form of "analy
sis." How seriously Cambridgeans some
times take the practical minutiae of lite
will be guessed when it is whispered
that a lady who could not make her house
furnace work well attended a course of
austerely technical lectures on thermodynamics!
Dancinc is a rare diversion, excepting
for young girls and undergraduates. A
Methodist preacher, Vho looked on at a
small dancing party at a private house
in Cambridge, observed with sectarian
humor that the yonng women went
through their quadrilles and waltzes as
gravely as if they were "under convic
tion. Clubs of ladies, or ladies and
gentlemen together, are numerous; but
thev are often rather to be described as
classes for the stndy ot languages Ger
man. Italian. .Russian, or even Arabic;
and when not formed for this object, they
make essay reading, the study of litera
ture, or amateur acting, their aim. One
dramatic company in especial, embrac
ing members from sundry lamuies oi
the greatest social consequence, has
held a brief season each winter, for
several years, during which difficult
plays are brought out m excellent
style, with scenery, mechanism, and
even music produced and executed by
amateurs. Tickets- are sold only to
friends of associate members, and the
performances are crowded. Strangely
enough, attempts to found a club among
professors and instructors in the uni
versity here always failed, though these
gentlemen have their small clubs for
the pursuit of specialties in which they
are interested. Of anything more than a
dilettante interest in literature outside
of. the college, and, excepting Mr. j
Longfellow, and such men as John ,
Fiske, or T. W. Higginson, there is
yery little. Yonng writers are not wel- j
corned, and the men of established re
nown appear indifferent as to whether
literary vitality shall continue or cease
on this ground, which is generally
thought to be consecrated to fruitful
thought and imagination. Meanwhile
inspiration, breadth of sympathy and
aims, and all tendency to express
sturdily strong ideas and sentiments of
national or general value, are being
sacrificed to the desire for specializing
culture. Perhaps Harvard thinks its
proper duty better fulfilled by educat
ing the average undergraduate mind in
accordance with a higher standard than
heretofore. But it is a question whether
it shonld encourage actual production in
stead of mere criticism, and stimulate lit
erary growth outside of the class room.
An nonest Ticket Agent.
Don Piatt tells this in a recent num
ber of the Washington Capital:
A reformed ticket agent, now engaged
in a mercantile pursuit, and who looks
back with profound melancholy and re
morse to his wicked career, as he sailed
in as a ticket agent, told me that once,
in his sinful days, he was employed at
Chicago on the through line from that
incorporated Boreas on the lake to New
York city, which, made up of a new
combination, was "bucking" against
Vanderbilt. To extend its custom the
combination had at Chicago a corps of
able-bodied runners, to seize wayfarers
by the throat and fetch them up to the
ticket agent, where the innocent traveler
was to be talked into a ticket over the
combination.
One day an able-bodied ruffian came,
leading up a rough-looking customer,
who wished to purchase a ticket to New
York by the way of Cleveland. The
combination did "not touch Cleveland.
Bnt evidently the old white-hatted,
loose-trousered, coarse-booted country
man, with his white head and goggling
look, did not know what he wanted. It
was for the ticket agent to care for him,
and so he rattled on, with ticket in hand,
until the venerable, goggle-eyed old
nuffle toes had extracted from a fat wallet
the price and shambled awkwardly away.
"Say, old fellow," asked a friend who
happened to be in the office, "do you
know who you sold a ticket to then ?
some old fool of a corn-cracker.
"Not a bit of it that was Horace
Greeley."
'dee wnillicans! and he wanted to go
to Cleveland ?"
"Yes, he's billed to lecture there, and
the Tribune will give your combination
the devil for the swindle."
"That's so. Esre. nut your cheek to
ihis hole till I find hirn."
Awav ran the ticket aceL.'. It was not
difficult to find the hotel at whioh the
venerable philosopher lodged. The
ticket agent found him in the reading
room, pouring over a stale issue of the
Tribune, He tapped Horace on the
shoulder, and the philosopher looked up
with the child like expression of his that
seemed to come out from open eyes and
mouth.
"I beg your pardon," said the agent,
"but I sold you a ticket to New York
a while since, and I made a mistake."
"In the money, 1 suppose, replied
Horace, dryly.
"Ho. sir: in the route. I remembered
after you left you said Cleveland. Now
the ticket I gave you will not take you to
Cleveland."
"The hell it don't!" cried Greeley,
starting up.
"Well, young man, 1 can tell you that
would be a great -disappointment in
Cleveland."
"I don't know anything about that;
but I did not want any man to miss his
way through any fault of mine. So I've
been in every hotel in Chicago after
you."
"The devil you have.
"I have. There is the right ticket. It's
over a rival line. But my honor, sir,
rises above trick. I bought the right
ticket for you, and if you will give me
the old one we will be even."
'Young man." said Horace, fishing
from his capacious pocket the ticket of
the combination, 'you are very good; too
good, come to think of it, too damned
good for a ticket agent. .Leave that,
good young man, before yonr innocent
nature is corrupted, or your damned
patent-screw pod-auger line is bursted
ap. Go west, young man: go west."
An Absent Minded Man.
The Hartford Courant says that a
curious demonstration of absent-mindedness
occurred at the New York and New
England Railroad hearing in that city.
The original dispatch of instruction to
Conductor Aldritch, in violating which
he met his death, was put into evidence
and was passed about the room. One
gentleman with whom it lodged held it
a while and then began carelessly twist
ing it up as one does a bit of waste paper.
The hearing went on, and by and by,
some one asked for the dispatch. It
could not be found. One person thought
he saw it being twisted by the gentle
man alluded to, bnt the latter did not
remember having it. An adjournment
to hunt for it failed to reveal it. Finally
when the bearing was over it was found
on the floor, twisted into a little bunch,
where it had been dropped by the absent
minded gentleman who had forgotten he
had ever had it.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, says
that while in Italy three years ago, he
went into a barber a shop at Pisi to have
his hair dressed. "You know," says
Mr. Bruce, in describing the incident,
"that the hair of my peculiar 'race, color
and previous condition of servitude' is
very singular; the longer it gets the
shorter it grows, and really outkinks
every conception of curiosity. There
was just enough of the black race dashed
with the white to furnish my barber such
a specimen of wool as he had never seen
before. He toiled with it, and was puz
zled. After running the comb through
it he would press it down with his hand,
bnt it wonldn't stay down; it persisted
in jumping up like a jack in a box. He
went out and called in another barber,
who stood over my wool, wondering.
Finally he got his scissors, clipped it off
to suit himself, and carefully wrapped
up the fleece for preservation as the
greatest curiosity he had ever seen. I
could not speak Italian nor he English,
so he must wonder to-day what manner
of man I am."
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A Drover's Story.
My name is Anthony Hunt. I am a
drover, and live miles and miles away
upon the western prairie. There wasn't
a house within sight when we moved
there, my wife and I; and now we have
not many neighbors, bnt those we have
are good ones.
One day about ten years ago I went
awsy from home to sell some fifty head
of cattle fine creatures as ever I saw. I
was to buy some groceries and dry goods
before I came back, and above all, a
doll for our youngest Dolly. She never
had a shop doll of her own, only the rag
babies her mother had made her. Dolly
could talk of nothing else and went down
to the very gate to call after me to "buy
a big one." Nobody but a parent can
understand how my mind was on that
toy, and how, when the cattle were sold,
the first thing I hurried off to buy was
Dolly's doll. I found a large one with
eyes that would open and shut when you
pulled a wire, and had it wrapped np in
f-per and tucked it under my arm, while
had parcels of calico and delaine, and
tea and sugar, put up. It might have
been more prudent to stay until morn
ing; but I felt anxious to get back, and
donaF In lioav Tkkllv'a nvat.fla alim.l tlin
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uou sue was so anxiously uxpeuuiig.
I was mounted on a steady-going old
horse of mine, and pretty well loaded.
Night set in before I was a mile from
town , and settled down as dark as pitch
while I was in the middle of the wildest
bit of road I know of. I could have felt
my way through, I remembered it so
well, and it was almost that when the .
siorm that had been brewing broke, and
pelted the rain in torrents, five miles, or
may be six, from home, too. 1 rode on,
as fast as I could ;bnt suddenly I heard a
little cry like a child's voice. I stopped
short and listened. I heard it again. I
called and it answered me. I could not
see anything. All was as dark as pitch.
I got down and felt about iu the grass;
called again, and again I was answered.
Then I began to wonder; I am not timid;
but I was known to be a drover, and to
have money about me. I thought it
might be a trap to catch me, and then
rob and murder me.
I am not superstitious not very but
how could a real child be out on the
prairie in such a night, at such an hour?
It might be more than human. The bit
of coward that bides itself in most men
snowed itself in me then, and I was half
inclined to run away; bnt once more I
heard that piteous cry; and said I, "If
any man's child is hereabouts, Anthony
Hunt is not the man to let it lie here to
die."
I searched again. At last I bethought
me of a hollow under the hill and groped
that way. Sure enongh, I found a little
dripping thing that moaned and sobbed
as l took it in my arms. I call
ed mv horse and the beast
mmfl tn mf and I mounted, and tuck
the little, "soaked thina tinde my 'loat as
well as I could, promising to take it
home to mamma. It seemed tired to
death, and pretty soon cried itself to
sleep against my bosom.
It had slept there over an hour when
I saw my own windows. There were
lights in them, and I supposed my wife
had lit them for my sake; but when I
got into the dooryard, I saw something
was the matter, and stood with dead fear
of heart five minutes before I could lift
the latch. At last I djd it, and saw the
room full of neighbors , and my wife
amid them weeping. What she saw me,
she hid his face. ,
"Oh, don't tell h'ifV' ,she said, "it
will kill him."
"What is it, neighbor?" I cried.
And one said, "Nothing now, I hope;
what is that in your, arms?"
"A poor lost child," said L "I found
it on tie road. Take it, will you? I've
turned faint." And I lifted the sleeping
thing, and saw the face of my own child,
my little Dolly.
It was my darling, and no other, I had
picked up upon the drenched road.
My little child had wandered out to
meet "daddy." and doll while the mother
was at work) and they were lamenting
her as one dead. I thanked God on my
knees before them all. It is not much of
a story, neighbors, but I think of it often
in the nights, and wonder how I could
bear to live if I had not stopped when I
heard the little erf for help upon the
road the little baby cry, hardly louder
than a squirrels chirp. Christian
Woman.
USEFUL RECIPES.
For a Cough. For a tight, hoarse
cough, where phlegm is not raised, or
with difficulty, take hot water often as
hot as can be sipped, ihis will give
immediate and permanent relief. Don't
fail to try this remedy because it is sim-
Catarrh. The best way to deal witn
the disease is not to have it to keep
clean, to eat wholesome food, to live in
clean, well ventilated houses, to dress
warmly with flannels next the skin, and,
above all, to keep the feet warm and
dry. Children Sitting with damp shoes
on are almost certain to contract catariL.
The evaporation of the moisture pro
duces a constant chilliness which is dan
gerous even to those in robust health.
Children's feet and legs are ordinarily
not more than half clothed, and it is
little wonder that catarrh is so prevalent,
among them.
The Ear. Dr. Boosa, in a lecture on
the ear, said that no small amount of
trouble in the ear was caused by too fre
quent syringing and boring out with a
twisted towel or handkerchief, not to
mention hair-pins, bodkins and other
metallic instruments. In hitpsepinion,
one should never put ' ariytbinjg in the
ear smaller than the little finger, al
though one writer si'-' M nothing
smaller than the elbow. . avoidanoe
of many ear troubles was to be assured
by atking care not to duck the head in
cold water, or to syringe the deeper part
without the order of a physician, or in
troduce anv body which can push the
wax lower down in the drum.
"No. as I understand it these cold
waves come from the vast deeerterof snow (
in the Siberian plains, and radiate thence (
iko r1nhA hnt nrincinallv in this
jiiAI " 'W11 whv the dickens
don't they stay there?" WbY, ita toa
cold, idiot."