The Corvallis gazette., July 01, 1881, Page 4, Image 4

IIEUY CORVAILIS GAZETTE.
OorvaUis, Jvdy 1, 1881.
OUH JUVENILES.
1
Mow It Sained Kitties One XlghU
The steady rain on the melting snow
Had filled the wayi with an overflow
Of water, mixed with aloeh and Ice,
That made the traveling angbt but nice.
Who would be ont that atormy night T
No comer yet had cheered my right,
An, at the darkening window-pane,
I paused, and passed, and paused again.
One was abroad whom we two knew
(Dotty and I, that Is, not you);
We listened till the tinkling bell
Of Hearing horse-car broke the spell.
Hark ! did It stop before our door?
With feet that hardly felt the floor
I trip; ed down from the story higher.
While Dotty, sick, ttajed by the lire.
The night-latch clicked, and who stepped in
But paps, buttoned to his chin ;
And close behind him such a bit
Of a wee white-and-malty kit!
So wet its fur it almost dripped,
As through my eager hinds it slipped,
When I went chasing this wee elf,
That thus had introduced itself .
But hereby hangs another tale !
Outside arose a sudden wail,
That sent me flying to the door
Still more astonished than before.
And straightway there stalked in another.
As like the first as its twin-brother!
" Enough ! " I cried ; "no room for more I "
And, there two in, I shut ihedoor.
How many more rained down that night,
Jf they were gray, or black, or white,
We did not ask, nor did we care,
Certain that we had caught our share.
Two days we rttdind well each cat,
To know which one was this or that;
. But Dotty now has solved the muddle,
And calls one " Growler," and one " Cuddle."
.i'th'H Companion.
Boys, Don't Block Up l'our Way.
I was sitting in the office of a mer
chant not long since, when a lad about
16 entered with a cigar in his month.
He said to the gentleman:
"I would like to get a situation in
your shop, to learn a trade, sir. "
"I might give you a place, but yon
carry a bad recommendation in your
month," said the gentleman.
" I don't think it any harm to smoke,
sir ; nearly every one smokes now."
" I am sorry to say, my young friend,
1 can't employ you. If you have money
enough to smoke cigars yon will be
above working as an apprentice, and, if
you have not money enough, your love
for cigars might make you steal it. No
boy who smokes cigars can get employ
ment in my shop.
A word to the wise is sufficient. The
Banner.
A Surprise Party.
"I say, girls, if we're going to give a
E vrprise party, let's do some good with
it," said Eva Carlton, a bright, frank,
fearless girl, whom her comrades called
"General."
"Give it to the minister," suggested
Ada Campbell.
"The minister don't want it. He has
a good salary and it is promptly paid.
Besides, he has had the parvmfcge re
furnished, and we should spoil the new
carpets ; and, thirdly and lastly, he don't
like surprise parties," said the first
speaker. " No ; I move that we we uu
are the most needy of our acquaintances
and select some person who won't take
it as an insult to be presented with our
good things."
t can only think of Betty Hoyle,
who lives in a part of the old Trumble
house," said one of the girls.
" The very person ! I never thought of
Betty, for the reason that I haven't seen
her lately."
"She has been sick with a fever," said
another voice, "but she is up and about
the house, now. I saw her to-day at the
window, looking very pale and sad."
" Well try to cheer her, then," said
Eva. " Let me see ! Her mother has a
large family ? "
" Five or six little children. Betty is
the eldest, and the mother is poor
enough these hard times. She washed
for mother last week, and I heard her say
there were days in which there had been
neither fire nor food in the house."
"Awful! " was the response, while a
sympathetic chill went round the circle;
" and Betty is such a nice, ladylike lit
tle girl so womanly."
"She has to ber for there is very lit
tle help at home beside hers. It's too
l id she has to worn so, for she is anx-io-aa
to get an education. I have seen
her cry when she brought excuses for
alwenoe, andr of course, had to lose her
marks."
" Suppose we widen the rill of our
benevolence," said Eva, who had been
thinking. " Let as get some cheap cal
ico and make a few aprons and, no
doubt, we can all find some cast-off
clothes that are still good. I know I
can. Mamma was saying only yesterday,
she wished she knew where to send
some good woolen clothes that Jimmy
has outgrown; and I am sure that there
are plenty in my wardrobe that I never
wear."
"Can't we manage some coal and
wood?"
"I'm afraid not; but perhaps we can
make np a little purse, and Mrs. Hoyle
can buy -what she likes from it. "
"I don't s'pooe they hardly ever saw
pound cake," said little Amy Bonsall,
whose wistful eyes were full of sympa
thy. "No, puss, I don't believe they hard
ly ever did," laughed back Eva, "but
we will make them a whole one, won't
we, girls ? And now shall we pat it to
vote ? " she asked.
The vote was taken, and it was decid
ed by the small society of the " Social
Midges," as they formally called them
selves, to have a surprise party at the
old Trumble house on the following
Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock.
On that day the old broken dock in
the corner, only relic of better days, was
just striking 7 as the Hoyles, big and
little, sat down to tea.
I said tea, but there was only a pitcher
of water on the table, and a cake made
of Tnriinn meal, which, with the aid of
a little jug of black molasses, consti
tuted a supper for seven persona. A
cheerful fire burned in the open fire
place, for the boys found refuse wood
enough during the day to keep them
warm.
Betty, pinched-looking and pale, sat
up with the rest, but she only tasted a
mouthful of the bread.
"I wish I could have got spme wheat
bread," said her mother. "I should if
I hadn't owed 'em at the baker's, but
the man there always scowls so if I
don't bring the money that I really
hadn't the heart to go."
"Never mind, mother ; I'm not Very
hungry," cried Betty, with the ghost of
a smile.
" Bless me ! Who is that ?" cried the
good woman, hurriedly putting away the
remnants of their poor meal.
"It'B lots of "em," said little Tom,
flattening his nose at the window.
"Yes, it's lots of us 1" cried Eva Carl
ton, as the girls filed in, sprinkled with
a goodly number of boys. "Why, Betty,
I didn't know you bad been sick till a
day or two ago. Don't try to find chairs
for all of us; we can sit on the floor, in
the window seats everywhere."
" We brought a few jellies for you,
Betty, " said Eva, pointing to the baskets,
which were soon emptied of their con
tents, "and a little nice cake. I know
how it is; sick people don't relish home
cooking. Now I can tell you we've come
to have a good time."
And they did have a good time. The
little Hoyles opened all their little eyes
to twice their usual size at sight of the
goodies that at a later hour were spread
out upon the pine table.
" Dishes, bless yon !" said Eva, laugh
ing, " we don't want dishes ! This is a
picnic 1" And they proved that they did
not want them.
As for Betty, the shy girl was never
so happy in her life. Her schoolmates
did not look down upon her because she
was poor, and Mrs. Hoyle, who had seen
better times, pleased them all by her
gentle, ladylike reception.
Eva took the latter aside as they were
about going home.
" Please don't be angry with us, Mrs.
Hoyle," she said, " but we left some bas
kets down stairs, which you can empty
and send by your boys to father's store,
to-morrow."
" Thank yon, my dear," said the wom
an, with tears in her eyes. " You are
all so kind I And I am glad you came,
for Betty's sake."
They were glad all round. The bas
kets contained substantial gifts, that
took the sting from the fangs of the hor
rible wolf at the door ; and, I think, from
this experience of a few of my girl ac
quaintances, that this kind of a surprise
party is the best that can be given.
COXKLIXG'S TEMPERANCE.
Hugh Hastings said to Gath he sel
dom drinks anything. I remember
once, en my way to Albany, on Capt.
Roe's steamboat Conkling being on
board I said to the Captain : " Why
don't you give Conkling the bridal
chamber?" "Of course I will," said
the Captain, and, after he was put in
there comfortably and lying down with
his clothes on, Rule Andrews and I went
to see Conkling. He made no sugges
tion about any refreshment, and, after
we talked some time, I said to Andrews,
" Bufe, it is very dry here." Conkling
looked at as curiously, bat said nothing.
After a while I said, "Bufe, we don't
get anything to drink here, so if yoq
will hunt up my coat yon will find a
flask of something my wife has pat in
there." Andrews got the flask and of
fered it to Conkling, who took a very few
drops. Bufe and I took a drink apiece,
and after another half hoar I suggested
another drink. Conkling looked at as
with a sort of rueful curiosity, and said
he, " What ! going to drink that stuff
again ! How many drinks do yon take
of it in a day?" " Generally about ten,
Ctonkling," I replied. " Well," said he,
"if I were to take half that number it
would kill me."
BOUT WELL'S HOLE IN 1MB
SKY.
SCARLET FETE It.
A very interesting experiment was
tried by Dr. Ashby, medical officer of
health for Grantham, England, in deal
ing with an outbreak of scarlet fever in
that town during the summer of 1878,
by means of isolating the patients in
tents. He prevailed upon the local au
thorities to erect a tent hospital on the
outskirts of the town and induced par
ents to send their sick there. The re
sult was most successful. Parents availed
themselves of the tents largely (their
early prejudice against tnem being
readily overcome), the patients did re
markably well and the spread of the dis
ease was unquestionably much curtailed.
Altogether the example set waa one
which deserves to be copied, and shows
with what readiness the spreading dis
eases of children may be dealt with by
the exercise of energy and forethought.
Lancet.
A physician writing a communication
to the Medical and Surgical Reporter
on the relation of sex to the consump
tion of the lungs gives figures which
show that in the United States there are
a bout twice as many deaths from con
sumption among females between the
ages of 15 and 20 as there are among
males of the same age. He thinks the
mode of life is the main cause of it, that
young women have less out-door exer
cise, fresh air, sunlight, and the activity
of mind and body which is so necessary
to health.
An AtnuHng Mplmmae of the Great Impeach
0ent Trial.
A writer in an Eastern publication, in
giving some reminiscences of the im
peachment of President Johnson, says
I wish to give one other description
from this famous trial so full of interest
that relating to Gov. Boutwell's " Hole
in the Sky." Having had the good fort-
flTtA fy"t Vvt yiH-ann nnl T Attn aav antVi sail
truthfulness, that I never have, before
or since, witnessed a large audience so
convulsed with laughter as waa the
whole Senate and the immense crowd of
spectators on the occasion of Mr.
Evarts' reply to Gov. Boutwell, touch
ing this astronomical wonder.
In the course of his elaborate and
able argument, Gov. Boutwell said:
"Travelers and astronomers inform
us that in the southern heavens, near
near the Southern Cross, there is a vast
space which the uneducated call the hole
in the sky, where the eye of man, with
the aid of the powers of the telescope,'
has been unable to discover nebula?, or
asteroid, or comet, or planet, star or
sun. In that dreary, cold, dark region
of space, which is only known to be le- s
than infinite by the evidences of crea
tion elsewhere, the Great Author of ce
lestial mechaniun has left the chaos
which was in the beginning. If this
earth were capable of the sentiments
and emotions of justice and virtue,
which in human mortal beings are the
evidences and the pledge of our divine
origin and immortal destiny, it would
heave and throe, with the energy of the
elemental forces of nature, and project
this enemy of races of men into that
vast region, there forever to exist in a
solitude as eternal as life, or as the ab
sence of life, emblematical of, if not
really, that ' outer darkness ' of which
the Savior of man spoke in warning to
those who are the enemies of them
selves, of their race, and of their God.
Bat it is yours to relieve, not to punish.
This done and our country is again ad
vanced in the intelligent opinion of
mankind."
Here is what Mr. Evarts, when he
came to make his argument, said in re
ply: " 1 may as conveniently at this point
of the argument as at any other pay
some attention to the astronomical pun
ishment which the learned and honora
ble manager, Mr. Boutwell, thinks
should be applied to this novel case of
impeachment of the President. Cicero,
I think it is, who says that a lawyer
should know everything, for, sooner or
later, there is no fact in history, m sci
ence, or of human knowledge that will not
come into play in his argument. Painfully
sensible of my ignorance, being devoted
to a profession which ' sharpens and does
not enlarge the mind,' I yet can admire
without envy the superior knowledge
evinced by the honorable manager. In
deed, upon my soul, I believe he is
aware of an astronomical fact which
many professors of that science ar;
wholly ignorant of. But, nevertheless,
while some of his honorable colleagues
were paying attention to an unoccupied
and unappropriated island on the sur
face of the teas, Mr. Manager Boutwell,
more ambitious, had discovered an un
tenanted and unappropriated region iu
the skies, reserved, he would have us
think, in the final councils of the Al
mighty as the place of punishment for
convicted and deposed American Presi
dents. "At first I thought that his mind had
become so 'enlarged ' that it was not
' sharp enough to discover the constitu
tion had limited the punishment, but on
reflection I saw that he was as legal and
logical as he was ambitious and astron
omical, for the constitution has said 're
moval from office,' and has pat no limit
to the distance of the removal, so that it
may be, without shedding a drop of his
blood, or taking a penny of his property,
or confining his limbs, instant removal
from office and transportation to the
skies.
"Let it then be provided that, in case
of your sentence of deposition and re
moval from office, the honorable and
astronomical manager shall take into his
own hands the execution of the sentence.
With the President made fast to his
broad and strong shoulders, and, having
already essayed the flight by imagina
tion, better prepared than anybody else
to execute it in form, taking the advan
tage of ladders as far as ladders will go
to the top of this great Capitol, and,
spurning then' with bis foot the erect of
liberty, let him set ont upon his flight,
while the two houses of Congress and
all the people of the United States shall
shout ' Sic itur ad astro.'
" But here a distressing doubt strikes
me ; how will the manager get back ?
He will have got far beyond the reach
of gravitation to restore him, and so am
bitions a wing as his could never ism.;
to a downward flight"
A VALUABLE WIND.
Mr. George Crumble, a suburban resi
dent of Cleveland, discovered that tin
water of his well had a peculiar taste,
" This is undoubtedly sulphur water.
"I wouldn't be surprised," replied
Mrs. Crumble, "for yon know that
father found a sulphur well on his place
once."
" Now here, Mary, if you are going U
express an opinion, express a sensibh
one. Do yon suppose that, because
your father found a sulphur -well on hi
place, all of his children are likely
to find sulphur walls? Don't let any
body hear yon talk that way. They V
go away and say that Td found a sol
phur well simply because your father
once found one."
"I was just agreeing with yon. Bat
Uncle James discovered a sulphur well
and" '
"That'll do. I don't care anything
about your Uncle James, bnt I believe
that we have a genuine sulphur well."
He invited neighbors over, who, when
they drank, pronounced it pure sulphur.
They took bucketfuls home, and de
clared that Crumble would have one oi
the finest summer resorts in the State.
" This water gets stronger and strong
er every day," remarked Crumble to
neighbor. "The vein must be very
large. 1 Why, if it keeps on improving,
we can go down and dig np the sulphur
with a spade."
Crumble had several era to sell, and,
although he had previously thought of
selling his house and lot, he .refused to
take twice-its former value.
"She's boiling with sulphur now,
said Crumble, one day.
"I don't like it so strong," replied hi
wife.
" No, for you don't know what good
water is. You'd rather drink water
without any taste to it."
He went out to the well and came
back with a pitcher full of the valuable
fluid. He poured out a glassful, drank
about half, gagged, turned away and
remarked : .
"She'll be fine by a week from now.'
However, he went away and hired f
man to go down and see if he could not
scrape up some of tho sulphur.
" See any ?" yells Crumble.
" Oh, yes, answered tho man.
"Genuine is it?"
"Yes w-o-o-k."
" What's the matter?'
By this time he arrived at the top and
threw ont a yellow dog and an old boot.
Crumble turned away and heaved. His
house and lot can be bought at half
price. Cleveland Leader.
A witness in a law suit brought by a
physician against a Montreal widow
married in haste to repent at leisure.
While he was in the midst of his im
portant testimony in her behalf, the
court adjourned for dinner, and he im
proved the interval by wedding her. On
his return to the box, the opposing coun
sel objected to his further evidence, and
it, together with his morning's batch
which had not been signed, was ruled out
entirely.
TRAINED AM I MALM.
Although the training of nim1 at
the present day is an art almost perfect
ed, a glance over some of the trained
animals of the past shows that we have
not really advanced in thU direction.
Horses were exhibited in the early part
of the thirteenth century that walked
and danced on a rope, a trick that at the
present day would be pronounced im
possible. The ropes were extremely
large and pressed into a triangular
shape, and' the horses' feet were pro
vided with shoes made of a similar sub
stance. Others were taught to lie down.
while an ox with a trumpet in his mouth
would straddle his back, making a most
comical and ludicrous appearance as they
marched around.
Drawings which are more than 400
years old represent horses standing on
their forelegs and beating time with
their hind ones on a drum held by the
showman, and in 1612, at a grand court
festival, Mose3 Pluvruel, riding-master
to Louis XIIT. of France, accompanied
by nine gentlemen, went through a bal
let dance on horseback, executing leaps
in o the air and graceful returns that
ere wonderful in the extreme.
In olden times the hare, which is now
thought to be so untractable and timid,
was rendered so bold by constant train
ing that in all the fetes and shows it
held quite a prominent position ; and in
a very old manuscript found in the Har
leian Library there is an engraving
which represents a hare marching up
and down, and beating a tabor to an ad
miring crowd of spectators. Johnson
notes a similar case in the above- men
tioned shows. A hare was rtoined to
attack a dog, and, as the latter rushed
tt his antagonist, it would spring in t u
air, and, landing on the back of the dog.
vonld drive it sharp claws into th
tesh just behind the ear, and cling with
a tenacity worthy of a better cause.
Tho following is told of an exhibition
given near Pall Mall, London, in 1700 :
' - A number of little birds, to the amouut,
I think, of twelve or fourteen, being
taken from different cages, were placed
upon a table in the presence of the spec
tators, and there they formed them
selves into ranks, like a company ot
soldiers ; small cones of pap?r, having
some rese Jiblauce to grenadiers' caps,
were put on their heads, and diminutive
imitations of muskets, made from wood,
secured under their left wings. Thru
equipped they marched to and fro sev
era! times, when a single bird wa
brought forward, supposed to be a de
serter, and set between six of the mi
keteers, three in a row, who conduct e.
him from the top to the bottom of th.
table, on the middle of which
small brass cannon charged with a lit
tie gunpowder had been' previously
placed. The deserter was placed in
front of the cannon and his guards di
vided, three retiring on the right side
and three on the other, while he was
left standing by himself. Another bird
then immediately came forward, and, a
lighted match being pat into one of it
claws, he hopped boldly .on the
tail of the cannon, and, applying the
match to the priming, discharged the
piece without the least appearance of
fear or agitation. The moment the ex
plosion took, place, the deserter fell
down and lay motionless, like a dead
bird. But at the command of his tutor
he rose again, and, the cages being
brought, the feathered soldiers were
stripped of their ornaments, and re
turned to them in perfect order." New
York Sun.
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