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mm mm mmi Oorvallis, Aug. 26, 1881. OLD FOLKS. Ah! don't be sorrowful, darling, And don't be sorrowful, pray; Taking the year together, my dear, There isn't more night than day. Tis rainy weather, my darling, Time's waves they heavily run, But taking the year together, my dear, There ian't more clouds than sun. We are old folks now, my darling, Our heads are growing gray; And taking the year together, my dear, Yon will always find the May. We have had onr May, my darling, And our roses long ago; And the time of year is coining, my dear, For the silent night and snow. And God is God, my darling, Of night as well as day; And we feel and know that we can go Whenever he leads the way. Aye, God of the night, my darling, Of the night of death, so grim; The gate that leads out of life, rood wife, Is the gate that leads to Him. SAN FRANCISCO LEPERS. ITS APPEARANCE AMD SPREAD ON THE PACIFIC COAST From the San Francisco Post, July 19. Last mouth Dr. James Nevins Hyde, of Chicago, president of the American Dermatological Association' trom varioloid, ms lace waa cover ed with tubercles, (now ulcerative,' usually seen in convalescent stages oi that disease, bat they did not become absorbed. He was discharged in April bat not till the similarity these tubercles to early leprosy bad been the subject of comment. On the 28th of July, 1879. he was remitted with tubercular leprosy, fully devel oped, and he died of phthisis on the 20th ot the following March, four years from the first appearance of the disease. For the two years next suc ceeding the discharge from the bos- pital in 1876, he bad been laborious ly employed as a miner. Per contra Fo Sin and Yo Gan were both in mates of the hospital two years or more, were both subjects of the dis ease several years prior to admission and were in better physical condition when discharged than when admitted The former had been eight years in the country and four or five years the subject of the disease. Ulceration had commenced in the fossa between the lower lip and prominence of the chin, but under a more generous diet than he had been accustomed to it soon healed, and his general health continued good during the period of his stay in the hospital. For the past two years alimentation has been our only treatment. The leper requires good nutrition, and wants it often addressed5 Dr. John W. Fbye, physi cian at the small-pox hospital and The ration of the American array is lazar house, in this city, a letter of inquiry relative to leprosy in Califor nia, and especially San Francisco. Dr. Hyde was particular in taking in formation relative to the number ot people here afflicted with the disease, the varieties which prevailed, the rec ords showing details which might throw light upon the question of con: tagion, heridity, length of the disease in the state, the mode of its termina tion, and its chief symptoms. Dr. Hyde says leprosy has lately attract ed great attention among the mem bers of the Dermatological association and knowing that it prevailed to a ecrtain extent in this state, they were anxious to obtain informotion: In reply Dr. Foye has written a re markably clear and concise apt r on the history, with details, of the dis ease in this state, which was to-day forwarded to the east. Dr. Foye in his paper says: "In regard to the subject of your inquiry, .leprosy, I shall be but too happy to fnrnish you with all the data attainable from our records; at the same time- wonld re mind you of the fact that the subjects of the disease, with one exception, have bee;: Mongolians, and unable to give other than the most meager ac count of themselves, and we are often compelled to rely upon conjecture in fixing the age of the patient. I find by reference to the record that the first leper, Hoy Tong, was admitted July 5, 1871, and that he died on the 29th of September, 1875. Since that date 51 additional cases bave been received 48 males and three females making a total of 52 cases to ac count for. The hospital was design ed for the treatment of smallpox ex clusively, and the leprosic have been admitted only when found necessary to relieve other publio institutions, or perhaps the streets, of their presence. Three invoices, aggregating 45, have been sent by the authorities to China. Three have died of the disease, and one from accidental causes, and one escaped. One committed suicide, and one, a Caucasian, is still an in mate. The ages of the patients have been: Between 30 and 40 IS Between 40 and 60.... 9 Between IS and 20 4 Between 20 and 25 9 Between 25 and 30 ... . 19 "No record has been kept of the duration ot the disease at the date of admission, nor of the length of time the patient had been in the country, an omission mucb to be regretted, and doubtless due to the fact that their detention here was but tempo rary and pending shipment. It is not an assumption to say they were, to appearance, healthy when they enter, ed the part, the Chinese Six Compa nies hem too keenly awake to their own interest in importing unproduct ive labor, bat that they were the subjects of the disease in ita incuba tion stage at the date of shipment is an ' inference irresistible, The type of the disease is arsestbentio, tubercu lar, mixed, not given. "Accompanying these notes you will find a photographic group of lep ers, 14 in number. They comprise the second shipment made to China, Jane 2, 1880. You will also find two oabinet sizes from the same group, fine specimens of the tubercular type of the disease just prior to the com raeneement of the ulcerative process. Upon the duration of the disease, from personal observation, I can give so information, having seen but one fa t;il case. Ib March, 1876, when I i'oined the hospital, it contained' a insufficient for his support until the last stage of the disease has been reached. "Any opinion as to the number now in the citv would be mere con- iecture. I have seen none out of the Chinese quarter. It is less general than is commonly believed, yet the fact is a significant one that on the 2d of June every known leper in the city was shipped to China, and before the end of the year 14 new cases have ac cumulated on our hands. The Chi nese Consul claims hospital rights for these people, the authorities resist the claim, and the courts are now adjudi cating the question. Is it contagious? English writers in India say it is not in the sense in which the term is usu allv employed, but the Chinaman who has been familiar with the dis ease and its traditions for centuries, avoids the leper with great care, and will ctand for hours rather than occu py a seat that has been vacated by one, "The leper maintains the most pro found silence upon the subject of her edity. I have seen but one who ad mitted its existence as a family taint, and would, it is probable, have de nied it had not the enquiry been made prior to a conference with his fellows in the lazzarette. Ah Fond (in whom the disease had but recently declared itself) was five years in the country before any symptoms appear ed. Tu Wong, for several years a marine fireman in the employ of the Pacific Mail Companv, between this port and the Orient, a man of fine physique and well nourished, devel ops the disease at 32 after five years of generous diet on board an Ameri can steamship, and surrounded by healthful sanitary conditions. Tbos, Stanton, present age 47, after a resi dence of nine years in Madras, Ceylon and Bombay , sailed from Calcutta for New York, Dec. 24, 1870. For three and a half years after his arrival, be remained in good health and worked as stonemason's assistant in Cleveland Nashville and other western cities. In autumn 1874, becoming the sub ject of rheumatic pains, he concluded to seek a milder climate, and going to Louisiana he remained there and in other southern states till the spring of 1878. During his stay in the south he had worked a portion of his time, but 'did not feel well at all,' and though he had no medical advice he knew that it must be that his blood was out of order or these pimples wouldn't have come out on his face, (leprosic tubercles.) Concluding to work bis way back to Bombay, he reached Sacramento, Cal., daring the vintage of 1878, and obtained cm ployment in the drying room of a rai sin factory. He was the only white man in the room. During the sec ond. day his fellow workmen discon tinued their work and declined to re sume until the foreman was discharg ed. The Chinese had recognized the disease more successfully in this par ticular case than one of the visiting surgeons of a hospital, who for a peri od of six months subsequent treated him as a syphillitic. He was admit ted to this hospital March 4, 1880, with fally developed leprosy of the mixed variety. Six months since his appetite failed him. The numbness in the toes, which he had formerly complained of, gradually extended up the feet, his voice became husky, cough troublesome, and muscles are y unrig Chinaman, then convalescent watting, the toes sloughing. He has become very irritable, and he will, it is probable, succumb to the disease during the current year. In this in stance, the only one in which I have been able to obtain a detailed history the earliest symptoms of the disease made their appearance four years after leaving the locality where it is assumed to have been acquired. Of the symptoms no better description need be looked for than given by Dr. Filbury in page 312 and 313 of his able work on the skin. Of the fane tional lesson in the parts supplied by the ulnar nerve I will state that in the group ot 14 l send you it was strongly marked in nine, and a very good idea of the chancres which followed can be obtained by exam ining them (slightly manifest) in two arm views." MOST REMARKABLE EYES. Last Winter a gentleman living near Litchfield took his daughter, 16 years of age, on a sleigh-ride. The day was cold, but very sunny. On their return the girl complained of her eye. The trouble grew worse. and finally the girl was kept in dark room and there remained with no ray of light until a few days ago When Bhe experienced a peculiar sen sation which then she described as follows: "It seemed as if my eyes were running out, or part of them, Putting my hand up to my eyes could feel something coming out over my lower eyelids which I took hold of and pulled out. It gave me Fome- pain to do so, but almost immediate ly my eyes felt belter. Instead of a smarting sensation when I winked they felt cool and natural and it was a pleasure to wink them. Then came the thought, 'Whymy eyes are better, and I believe I could bear the ight,' which thought was so impress ed upon my mind that I was deter mined to try. Hesitatingly I opened the door, when to my greit joy I found I was able to bear the light as well as I ever could. The feeling, that came over me at the momet that I found out that I could once more leave the dark, dismal room and see the glorious sunlight again was so overpowering that I gave one scream ' lor joy and then tainted away." Now comes the strangest part of the story. Six monts ago the girl's eyes were straight and natural; now the girl is cross-eyed, but she pays no attention to that. She sees things just the same as she always did, but let her close her right eye and look out of only her left eye, and she can see a distance of eight or ten miles. and distinguish things as well as an ordinary person can only 60 rods away. She is able to look clear to the lake, a distance ot three and a balf miles, and identify any one de scribing their dress even. The dis tant hills are brouht close to her and she can see the farmers getting m their hay, even counting the num ber of heaps, which in an air line, are seven miles from her. To lest her, a field-glass was used, and her sight would far outreach' any object that could be seen with the glass. If she closes her left eye and looks out of the right, then she cannot see any thing except close to her, but that eye is a perfect microscope, she is able to distinguish things that the natural eye cannot see. The point of a needle looks as blunt as a crowbar, and it is wonderful to bear her de scribe the beautiful colors of dies and other insects. To ber the hairs on a person's head look as large as darn ing-needles, and in the finest piece ot inen she can count the threads as easily as any one can count bean poles. The moment she opens both eyes they assume the cross-eyed ex pression or shape and then she sees again as any other person. It is the intention ot her father to take her to New York at no distant day to let some of the celebrated physicians see this wonderful phenomenon. The girl herself is a very bright pretty girl but very timid. Ex. The New York Tribune, taken balf a column in which to describe the bathing dresses worn by little girls at Long Branch. The bathing dress es worn by little boys in Oregon are not so much complicated. They con sist mainly of a sunburnt back a pair of untanned buckskin drawers worn from infancy and a stone brnise on each heel. A girl in Happy Valley placed some nearly hatched duck's eggs in ber bosom, and thus helped a brood of young ducks into the world. Young men in that vicinity were careful to omit, in the interests of the poultry crop, their usual Satur day evening embraces until after the batching season. The people of McMmville are contempla ting the project of sinking an artesian well. THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. Belonging to no sect or creed whose soul is prohibition, we humbly beg to express our judgment upon a living and vital question, and one which of late, the exponent of pub lic opinion of our state, the Oregonian has deigned to notice. And by peculiar process of the intellect has concluded that every sentiment strenngthens his theory, even the contrary sentiment of an earnest pro hibitory Governor, who based his judgment on statistics, gathered by himself from his own state. We believe it to be an axiom that the essence of all municipal law is prohibition; but seldom or never reaches that disideratum. When the creator commanded his two children not to eat of the forbid pen fruit, He then laid down a rule for their conduct which aimed at complete abstination. In the very beginning of the Adamic race one man, through envy, killed another. Right upon the wake of this it was seen that through jealousy, envy, av arice, love of power and malice, man would kill, rob and injure bis fellow man. Hence the state was organized ror mutual protection. There early arew up as scions trom tne tree ot sovereignty, certain rules to guide men in their civil conduct, or, this supreme power prescribed certain written rules of guidance. When the aggregated wisdom of the slate saw that members of its community wouU murder others to gratify a passion or an appetite, why did the state not go to the rcmors- less murderer and deliver him a mor al lecture, place in his hands a polit ical economy, tell him it is wrong to so abuse his fellow man, and point out to him the direful consequences of his act? When a member of its community, propelled by lust or avarice robbed an old and honest man of the fruits of a long life of honorable labor, why did not the state repeat its moral lec ture and put in his hands an extra book? But this is what the disciples to the nou-in terference doctrine would have yon to do. Eor do they not tell you to educate the people up to that state of micd under which they would - m not use intoxicating drinks to inflame their brains? If it :s good to allow men absolute freedom in one line of conduct which continuously lead to bloody and in jurious acts, why not allow the same freedom in all other lines of conduct, and use their stale panacea, moral lectures? But we notice with pleasure that the sovereignty of every state has en deavored to prohibit murder, rob bery, adultery, etc., by wise and stringent laws. Now the value of such laws is their deterring force. They cannot eradicate the cause for such passions are implanted in the heart and brain. It it is good to restrain men's con duct when moved by jealousy, envy, avarice, love of power, or malice, and prevent them as much as possible from iniuring others, why not re strain Ibeir conduct, when moved by an appetite for strong drink, and pre vent them as mucb as possible from injuring others? It is plain that the conduct to be restrained in ihe latter, case is the use of strong drink. For doe not a man give money foi something for whicb he receives no value? Does not be, by such conduct, oftentimes deprive his wife and children of the means by which they are to live in dependently and enjoy life? Does not pe by such conduct tax the people to support himself or family or both in the poor bouse? Does not he by such conduct tax the people in sus taining the criminal law, in erecting and sustaining jails, penitentiaries, houses of reform, idiotic and lunatic asylums? And we ask with all can dor, is this not a fit matter for state cognizance? Then why not legislate against it, providing the people are willing to receive such law. And the very fact that a constitution can be changed or amended is conclusive proof that the people want the change or amend ment. And think you if the majori ty want a law, that the majority will not enforce that law, as well as any aw can be enforced under the cbang ng passions of men and the imper fections of human law? We take it that the aggregated wisdom of the state is the judge whether any line of conduct should be restrained. And, therefore, when the people of our state want a pro hibitory liquor law, it is not only their privelege but their right to de mand it. Adelphian. Rats ate all the signatures off a will at North Adams, Mass., and the mutilated documentslis, therefore, the subjects of litigation. WOODCOCK k UIDWH -THE LEADING- H u ARDWAR HOUSE V II This side of Portland. Can furnish anything in Iron, Steel, Hardware, Stoves, Tin & Copper "Ware. As cheap and as good quality as any one in Oregon. IRON AND LEAD PIE, GRINDSTONES, SHEET IRON, ZINC, ROPE, HORSE SHOES, NAILS, BABBIT METAL, CARRIAGE SPRINGS, POCKET CUTLERY, WIRE, BARBED FENCE WIRE, RAZORS, SCISSORS, HOSE PLUMBERS FITTINGS, ETC., ETC. Real Estate Agency. CHOICE FARM LAND And Desirable City Property, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE ' CITY OF OORVALLIS. Two Lsfg adjoining Court House with good house, barn and garden. FARMS. 160' Acres 20 miles from Newport on the Yaquina, steamboat landing, 20 acres in timothy, good house orchand, fcc. Price $1060. 1SS Acres in King's Valley. First rate land with large house, barn, close to school and church, post office, irrist and saw mill. Price $6000. 540 Acres in Linn county, 6 miles east of Lebanon, oh branch of east side railroad, and Oregon & Pacific, well watered, good timber, near school. Terms easy. $4455. 570 Acres in King's Valley. 200 under cultivation, well watered, good outrange, 15 acres orchard, pro ducing all kinds of fruit ; house and garden, very large barn and good outbuildings. 1 mile from school, near postoffice, saw and grist mills, aud close to pro nosed narrow gauge depot in King's Valley. Price, 911,000. 354 Acres adjoins above with equal advantage of po sition, about 100 acres under cultivation, an excellent farm, capable of carrying a good flock of sheep, under fence, well watered, good house, barn and orchard. Price, 85,500. 422Acresadjoins above, 100 acres under cultivation, good house, orchard, et. Excellent stock range with good outlet, 2 miles from school, postoffice, etc. Price, 84,500. 840 Acres, 00 under cultivation, good house, barn and orchard, four miles north of postoffice Price, 84, 600. Excellent stock farm. 1, 357 Acres, 8 miles west ef Corvallis, on Mary's River. 1000 under fence, 225 acres under plough, 155 now in grain. Best hill pasture, woll grassed. 11 miles from school. The land is well timbered, good house, two barns, etc. Price, 916,500 200 Acres of first class land, west side and upper end of King's Valley, 60 acres under cultivation in cluding 22 acres of timothy, good new house 16x24, and barn. School house within 200 yards, and con venient distant from mills, story &c. : well watered and timbered. 82,700. 160 acres' situated on Little Elk road, two miles west of Modgett's Valley ; 60 acres table land, 100 acres new bottom, well watered : IS acres under cultivation ; abundant out-ranve for stock. Price, 81350. Au excellent bargain ; terms reasonable. Elk City Large house with furniture suitable for a hotel, together with about 69 acres of good land close to steamboat landing. F.Ik Citv 123 acres of eood land. IB a,Tes under fence, rontage to river and county road. Good house and barn, garden and yound orchard, spring branch through the land, good outfit for stock; price 81,400. S00 Acres east end of Blodgett's Valley, well improv ed. near school and on proposed line of Yaquina R. K, Price, 84000. 1S5 Acres west side of Blodgett's Valley, all fenced ; do acres under plough. A snug farm with good house, barn and other ont-bulldings, I mile from school and close to proposed Yaquina K. R, Price 482,500. 240 Acres on Elk road, 6 miles from junction wirh Yaquina road. Good house, barn, etc. A good farm with outlet to well grassed ranges. 2,200, 200 Acres. 10 miles west of Summit, extending of a mile along the road and river. A good farm with plenty of bottom land. Small house, etc., and or chard. A bargain. Price, 81000. S20 acres ef land at the junction of the Yaquina and Elk road and river, 25 miles east of Newport. Good bottom land with outlet to well grassed ranges. Price 2500. 240 acres two mii s from Summit on fork of Marys River. Land very productive, with good range; ex cellent house, two large bams and other buildings; good fences; improvements valued at 81500. Price? 160 acres situated on Little Elk next Babcr's, Excel' lent water and good ontlel to fine range. AT NEWPORT. 120 acres of land situated on south shore 3 miles above Oneatta saw mills. Excellent land with river frontage: Price, $1200. 160 acres of land situated half way between New- Eort and Cape Foulweather facing the ocean. Good ouse and out buildings and good barn. Excellent garden and timothy field, well watered by several springs and large creek, in which are plenty of trout, gopd sea filling from the rocks. This would make a very desirable residence or cut up into lots. Also other desirable property at Newport. 160 acres 1 mile east of Newport on the road, and with comfortable house, garden, etc. This property commands splendid views of the ocean, the harbor and entrance, and would divide into several building lots; Well watered by numerous springs. Price on application. A saloon, large warehouse with capital hall above and also wharf opposite. Also other property in Newport and vicinity. Harbor improvements having commenced and there lieing every prospect for a lively summer renders this a good chance. 160 acres , tWenty-two miles this side of Yaquina bay, on the road between Trapps' and Eddys, one half bottom laud with excellent out range for stock. This property will sell at a bargau. Price, 8650. For price and other particulars apply to the under signed, who bogs to intimate to intending vendors of real estate, that by establishing agencies in England and also in the Eastern States he trusts to be able to effect sjicedy sales. Some large tracts of land for sale. 8 ime half improved, on the line of the Oregon Pacific railroad, well watered, good roads, having unlimited range for stock. Suitable for JOHN 1SI. AYLES, Summit, Benton County, Oregon, Or at the Law orifice of Jas. A. Yantis, Corvallis, Oregon; or R. A. Beniell, Newport, Oregon. W.w. Coixyns & Co., 5 East India Avenue, agents, London. Neatness ! Cheapness ! Punctuality ! 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