The Corvallis gazette., March 28, 1895, Image 4

MY PHILOSOPHY.
I alius argy that man
Who does about the best he can
Is plenty good enough to suit
This lower mundane institute,
No matter ef his daily walk
Is subject fer his neighbor's talk,
And critic minds of ev'ry whim
Jest get up and go fer him.
It's nachural enough, I guess,
When some gets more and some gets
less,
Fer them that's on the slimest side
To claim it ain't a fair divide,
And I've knowed some to lay in wait
And get up soon and set up late
To ketch some fellow they wuld hate
Fer goin at a faster gait.
The signs is bad when folks com
mence A-flndin fault with I'rovidem-c
And balkin 'cause the world don't
shake
At ev'ry prancin step they take.
No man is great till he can see
How less than little he would be
Ef stripped to self, and stark and
bare
He hung his sign out everywhere.
My doctrin' is to lay aside
Contentions and be satisfied;
Jest do your best, and praise or blame
That follers that count jest the same.
I've alius noticed great success
Is mixed with trouble, more or less.
And it's the man who does the best
That gits more kicks than all the rest.
Whitcomb Riley.
Tragedy of an
Organ-grinder.
HE class, or rather sec
tion of mankind which
we are accustomed to call
Bohemian, is very gener
ally ondemned for its
supposed laxity and loose
ness of living. That many
Bohemians are lax and
loose cannot be denied, yet in what
class will you not find Individuals who
share such a failing? But in con
sequence of this hasty generalization
the beauties of Bohemia are altogether
overlooked or swamped in this sweep
ing moral censure. Now what is not
generally known is that on the fron
tier of that country there is set what
we may call the converse of a douane.
No importation of any sort Is illegal;
you may take in as many unbroken
boxes of cigars as you please, but
you and your luggage will not be
passed unless you have an unbroken
box of kindliness toward your fellow
creatures. You must be sympathetic;
your willingness to condone, or at
any rate your refusal to condemn,
must be beyond dispute. That cer
tain acts and modes of thought are
altogether foreign to your nature,
you must accept. You must be wil
ling to concede that the world is wide,
and that there are many things about
which you are not competent to
judge. You must be tolerant, and
you must remember that you are a
man and a brother; or, if you are not,
that it would be better if you were.
If you can comply with these require
ments, you may, if you will, wander
far and wide through Bohemia; you
ay, If you will be naturalized, but
without them you cannot be. As is
Bohemia, so are Bohemians, and thus
I maintain that they have many good
Mints in their favor.
.Jack Stanley was the best Bohe
mian I ever knew, but as he had none
of what are considered the cardinal
ices of that nation, ne wap never
elassed as one. He was only consid.
rea ratner oaa.
We were sitting together In the win
tow of a club one day la te in July last
year, looking out onto the hot, dusty
street. Tne season was dying hard,
but had been emitting sundry galvan
ic efforts to pretend it was quite frisky
still, in the shape of rather sparsely
attenuea dances. jack's Bohemian
ism did not cut him off from his own
lass, but he had been lamenting its
want of originality compared to
what he called "second circles."
"The capital of Bohemia," he was
saying, "is London, and the season is
from September to December. Of
ourse, May to July is very lively, and
I breakfasted off cherries this morn
ing in Covent Garden. Towzler gave
me them. Do you know Towzler?
He is one of the proper old Covent
Garden men, and drives his own van
p every night. I don't believe he
goes to sleep at all between April and
August. My dear fellow, you should
know Towzler. I don't approve of
kis morals, but he is really original."
"What's wrong with his morals?"
I asked.
"O, haven't you heard? He was had
p for bigamy at Bow street He got
ff, but Towzler tells me it's God's
truth."
"How did he get off?'
"That's Towzler's concern. They
ouldn't lay hands on the second wo
man. He says he hasn't done her
any harm; she's only on a visit to
foreign parts, apparently. Poor old
Towzler, he had a rough week of it.
But his methods, are always simple,
and simplicity is the secret of art."
"But not a proof of it, though I
don't doubt Towzler is an artist
What time did you get home this
Morning?"
"About half-past five," sai Jack.
"I left Lady Masingberd's at three,
and as it was a lovely morning I
walked to Covent Garden, and
breakfasted with Towzler, as I said.
Three to four on a midsummer morn
ing is the loveliest hour in all the
year. So mankind snores then. I am
a fool, I know, but I must say that
I have the sense to appreciate an
early midsummer morning. Even
London looks washed."
A piano-organ struck up in the
street outside at this moment, and
Jack got up and went to the window.
It was employed In cutting out the
"Intermezzo" from "Cavalleria Bus
ticana" with relentless accuracy.
"I know that only one piano-organ
eonld have got that tune yet," mur
mured Jack. "He'll play the 'Lost
Chord' next
Now and then I felt a little irritated
with Jack. It is excusable to feel
Irritated with a man who says he
knows what tune a chance barrel
organ will play next
"I bet you two to one he don't,"
said I.
"My dear fellow, it's not fair to
bet on certainties. It's Jim Planter's
organ; I know Jim intimately. There;
I told you so. 'Seated one day at
the piano-organ!' How well the
music suits the words, and how bour
geois they both are! They are a sort
of meat-tea-music."
He threw up the window. "That's.
the most determined piano-organ In
London," he continued. "It stamps
the notes out like a steam-punch,
and flings them down on the pave
mentbang . There! What an ex
ample of Industry and punctuality.
If there is a single moment to spare,
It sprints up to the top of its com
pass and down again, and is always
in time far the next note. Good After-
noon, Jim. How Is she going today?"
A thick, husky voice from outside
growled out
"Silly old" something I could not
catch what "She's got a wambling
in her innards today, I'm thinking."
Jack shut down the window.
"Jim is so colloquial," he sighed,
and of course Lord Anstruther passed
at the moment "That's the great
disadvantage of clubs. You can talk
to your friends from the window,
but your other friends can. hear what
they say."
He threw mmseir into an arm
chair.
"Jim has a real soul for music,"
he said, "though of course his taste
isn't educated. He went to the gal
lery at the opera the other night I
gave him a ticket and unfortunately
they were doing tne -xristan ana
Isolde. He's very straigntiorwara.
And he said he'd never heard such
darned catterwaling In his life."
That doesn't necessarily prove
that he's musical," said I.
No. I was going to tell you more
about him. He has the ihosf Intense
affection for his organ. He took the
pledge six months ago, and put Dy
twoDence a day until he had saved
enough to buy the 'Intermezzo, for
it. It was for that reason aione, tor
I know as soon as he had got it he
wasn't sober for a week. He tnea
to pawn his blue ribbon as remnants,
but they wouldn't advance him any
thing on it The man at tne pawn
shop told him that the market was
overstocked with blue ribbons. That
pawnbroker appears to be a finished
cynic I must make his acquaint
ance." Did he get all his tunes that way?"
I asked.
"I am afraid he stole the 'Lost
Chord,' ' said Jack, thoughtfully. "He
had long wanted it, and one day a
brother grinder left his organ in the
street while he went into a gin-palace.
Jim had had his eye on that organ
for a long time; it was just the same
size as his. And while the brother
grinder was drinking, he he abstract
ed the 'Lost Chord' and went away.
He nearly got into trouble over it;
but of course you "can't swear to the
identity of a 'Lost Chord.' It would
have been absurd to convict him,
"Yes; it sounds an immaterial sort
of charge.
Jack lit a cigarette, and sat silent
for a moment.
"It's perfectly true, as all your mor
alists are always impressing on us
that'a man never gets what he wants
without wanting something he hasn't
got"
He paused.
"What is it that Jim hasn't got?'
I inquired.
"He's been walking out with that
girl for two years," he continued,
"and she won't make up her mind to
marry him. How odd it is you should
be ignorant of these things! People
like you are supposed to be - looking
for material, and yet you never go
where it lies in the streets, broadcast
like manna."
"Never mind about material. Tell
me about Jim's young woman."
"She can't go out just at present,'
said Jack discursively, "she got a
severe bite a couple of days ago."
"A dog?" I suggested.
"I asked the same question, and she
said to me: 'O, no, it was another
lady what did that' She Is very
fresh and frank. Anyhow, Jim is
worth half a dozen of her, but she
doesn't want to commit herself, I
think. You see, In those classes I
don't know why I talk about classes
young women sow their wild oats
as well as young men.'
"And even the 'Intermezzo' doesn't
make Jim happy?"
"No; I hoped it would. I expect
she's been unkind to him today, for
he spoke quite quite crossly to me
just now. Good heavens! it's half-
past four."'
"Where are .v going to?"
"I'm going to nee Frank Carver."
"Is Frank Carver an organ
grinder?" "No; why should he be? I don't
limit my acquaintance to organ
grinders. I don't really know how to
describe him. He s a sort of agent'
"That sounds sufficiently vague."
"Sufficiently Inclusive, I hope,
Frank's' very broad in his views,
Well, good-bye."
This conversation took place at the
end of July, and a couple of days
afterwards I left London for the
country, and lost sight of Jack for
some months. He had been seen, so
I heard, at Aix-les-Bains in August
though what took him there I cannot
pretend to guess. He certainly did
not take the waters, and the report
that reached me that he was going
to marry a Russian princess with a
hook nose and no roubles was quite
Incredible. But in December I was in
London again, and passing one day
up Jermyn street I inquired at Jack s
lodgings whether he was in town,
and receiving an answer that he was
in his room, I went up.
On the landing outside his room
there stood propped against the ban
isters a large piano-organ. The
thought of Jim flashed across my
mind, and I gave the handle a turn,
and was not surprised when the first
two or three bars of the "Intermezzo"
detached themselves, as it were, from
the surrounding dusk, and clattered,
as Jack had said, on the floor.
Apparently the noise roused him,
for he came out from his room to see
who I was.
"Ah, come In," he said. "I am de
lighted to see you. Yes; Jim's piano
organ." "And is Jim having tea with you?"
I asked.
"No; Jim is dead. He left me his
piano-organ."
I followed him into the room, and
he poured me outa cup, of tea.
"Yes," he repeated; "Jim is dead.
He committed suicide. Confounded
fool poor old Jom."
"Tell me about it," I said.
For a moment he looked at me dis
trustfully, as the douane officials on
the frontier of Bohemia might look
at a traveler with scanty luggage.
"If you care to know, I will tell
you," he said.
"I do care to know."
"I think I told you before that Jim
had a young woman who wouldn't
make up her mind whether to marry
him or not Well, one day last Oc
tober, Jim couldn't stand it any long
er. He had taken her out for a walk
on Sunday afternoon, and he asked
her for a direct answer, yes or no,
but she wouldn't say either she is
a most tiresome young woman and
poor Jim got desperate. He told her
that she was spoiling his life,, that
he didn't care for his piano-organ any
more, that even the 'Intermezzo' was
a burden and the 'Lost Chord' had
failed, or words to that effect-; and as
for other young women well, his
classification of them appears to
have been most how shall I say it?
most peremptory. Fanny told me
all about it her name is Fanny. They
were waiting at Hammersmith dis
trict railway station for a train to
take them home, and at last Jim said
that if she wouldn't answer him one
jyay or the other lie d throw himself
down in front of the train, and she
might go home alone, and he would
never be . aoie to Dotner ner any
more. In fact he apparently played
the heavy father somewhat.
Of course Fanny laughed, and said
she'd like to see him do it; and if
there's one "thing its unsafe to do to
a love-sick man, it is to laugh at him.
You may abuse him and insult him,
and he will probably fight you, and
that will do him good; but it is best
not to laugh 'at him. He didn't say
anything more, and Fanny went on
chaffing 'him, telling him it was a
pretty thing to do to ask her "to go
out walking with him, and then be
have like a stuffed Idol, or whatever
their equivalent for a stuffed idol is
a glass of flat half-and-half, 1
should think. Then Jim said sudden
ly that he was sorry she hadn't en
joyed herself that afternoon. And
when the train came up, he stepped
quietly off the platform onto the line
in front of it. I had just come home
from Aix, and was spending the eve
ning alone, when Fanny or what was
once Fanny rang at the house and
demanded admittance. My man, on
the other hand, refused her admit
tance, and between them they kicked
up such a row that I went down to
see what the matter was. Fanny a
fringeless, dishevelled Fanny was
about half way through her vocabu
lary of expletives; but my man had
finished and had begun again from
the beginning. He is a sort of sav
age and has only a few simple words.
They were both very much out of
breath. I went with Fanny to St.
George's. Jim hadTiot been killed
outright, but he died before morning.
He left me the piano-organ."
"And Fanny?" I asked.
"Fanny Is his executrix and legatee.
We went to the funeral together, and
I took care of her. She wore a large
black ostrich feather in her hat, and
was very" hysterical. She gurgled on
my shoulder. ATterward she made me
an offer of marriage."
In the silence that followed Jack
walked to the window and looked
out. The gas had lust been lit in the
streets, and the pavements were
greasy and shining with a cold sleet
which was driving down from the
east The room had grown dark dur
ing his story, and pale billious squares
of light had sprung onto the ceiling
from the gas-lamps outside. He
stood there in silence for a little
while, mid then turned back into the
room and lit the candles. A man
came in to clear away the tea things,
and just as he was leaving the room,
Jack spoke to him.
"Bring in the piano-organ," he said,
And standing in the middle of the
room, he played the "Intermezzo
from "Cavalleria Rtislicana," all but
the first three bars, which I had
played outside on the landing, and
when it was finished we were both
silent again, for it seemed to us that
it was Jim s requiem.
Then Jack turned to me,
"Poor old Jim," he said. "Of course
it was a devilish silly thing to do;
but it was a fine answer to Fanny's
chaff. It would have been finest of
alJ if he could have made her believe
that he was able to do it without do
ing it But Fanny is so obtuse I had
to tell her three times that I really
must decline the honor of her hand
and heart nothing but the practical
demonstration would have convinced
her. Yet, after all, it is better to do
a fine thing and die, than to continue
not doing fine things and live. I
don't mean that Jim had done any
thing fine before, but at any- rate,
he has done one fine thing more than
most of us ever will."
$200,000,000 AND SEVENTY TITLES
Fortunes of Golden Girls Who Mar
ried Noblemen.
That a new impetus has been given
the fashionable fad of marrying a
title has clearly been shown by recent
events. Miss Anna Gould is now a
French countess, and Miss Mary Lei
ter, the far-famed Chicago beauty,
will soon become the wife of the Hon.
G. Cuizon, M. P., prospective heir to
the title of Lor1 Scarsdale. Miss
Leiter's father is a millionaire several
times over, and it is not improbable
that as the Hon. Mrs. Curzon Miss
Leiter will take with her to England
something like three millions of good
American dollars. Anna Gould's for
tune is estimated to be fifteen millions.
These facts bring up the question
with startling emphasis How much
money have titled American girls
taken away with them to foreign
shores? A laboriously compiled list
of all the marriages of Amen-an
women to titled men for the p.- st
thirty-five years shows that at le;:-. t
two hundred millions have gone awa.,
from these shores in the period .
Eighty per cent of this is represented
in the marriagva of the past six years.
This shows huv the habit is growing.
CHINESE WEAKNESS.
Julian Ralph, In a letter relating to
the situation of affairs in the East,
makes a striking comparison to il
lustrate Chinese helplessness. He
says:
"In considering this or any other
war in China, the student must un
derstand that China is not a nation,
but a people. Instead of being a
great body, 'moving glacierlike upon
its enemy' (as an ex-diplomat in
America ignorantly describes it), it is
a broken bag of shot rolling in all
directions away from the object that
has torn the bag. We have here three
sets of people (1) the once warlike,
now enervated Tartars or Maucucos,
who rule the country; (2) the great
body of true Chinese in the provinces
north of the Yang-tse river, and (3)
south of that river a number of dis
similar provinces, speaking different
languages, having different customs,
and governed for China in a manner
that embraces much of the relics of
the ancient feudalism which not long
ago was pure there and complete."
China seems to be the most conspic
uous illustration of a nation divided
against itself. Thus, with its ad
herence to barbaric methods of war
fare and its antipathy to modern civ
ilization, it is left weak and defense
less before the brave, enterprising
progressive and homogeneous Japan
ese, notwithstanding its enormous
superiority in numbers. Harper's
Weekly.
HOW TO PREVENT TRAIN ROB
BERIES. Lieutenant Knight of the third cav
alry contributes to the North Amer
ican Review an article on a subject
which is of much Interest to the trav
eling public, to wit: the prevention of
train robberies.
- He says that the make-up of trains
in the Western country facilitates
such robberies. These trains are
made up in the following order: En
gine, tender, express - or baggage
cars, second-class coaches, first-class
coaches and sleeping-cars. The rob
bers board the forward platform of
the car nearest the tender at some
smau spopping-piace ana no yuiei
until the train has reached a trestle
in .the darkness; then they crawl over
the tender, cover the engineer " and
fireman and compel them to stop the
train. This done, they return to the
express-car and either terrify tbe" mes
senger into opening the door, or blow
it open with dynamite, when the
booty is at their mercy. The occu
pants of the passenger-cars are un
aware of what is happening until the
affair is over.
Lieutenant Knight suggests that
the make-up of trains should be
altered by placing the engine and the
express car at the two ends of the
train. If this were done, the robbers
would have to traverse the whole
length of the train after they had
stopped the locomotive ' before they
could reach the plunder they sought,
and In that long journey they would
run no small risk of resistance by the
train crew. And if they let the loco
motive run on, and attacked and
uncoupled the express car at the rear
end of the train, an automatic alarm
bell would Immediately apprise every
person on the train of their enter
prise. The tocsin would be a signal
for the engineer to back down his
train, and by the time it reached the
cut-off express car there would be a
force of armed men on the rear plat
form ready to do battle. Lieutenant
Knight supplements his plan with the
suggestion that every car on the train
should be provided with two repeating
shotguns, each magazine containing
five buckshot cartridges.
The plan is worth the attention or
railroad managers and express com
panies. If the chances of death in
train robberies is made greater than
the possible prospect of gain, the
business will be abanaonea. it is
only because train robbers generally
escape scot free that the race con
tinues to flourish. Some day two or
three gangs of highwaymen in rapid
succession will encounter train crews
brave, resolute and keen-sighted, and
will leave their corpses on tne track.
That will put a stop to the industry.
When William III became king of
England he found that all the great
highroads leading out of London
were Infested with highwaymen, so
that men traveled at the risk of their
lives. The shrewd Dutchman de
tailed a regiment of cavalry to attend
to the business. They patrolled ev
ery road from sunset to sunrise, and
being rough riders, with a brutal di
rectness in their methods, they shot
and killed In a few weeks eighty rob
bers. There were no trials only a
few brief coroner's inquests. But the
business of highway robbery fell Into
disrepute and was abandoned. s. Jj,
Bulletin. '
ONE GAMBLER'S LUCK.
A party of horse racing followers
were standing in Willard's lobby last
night when a tall, soldierly looking
man, with white hair and snowy mus
tache and imperial, strode in and ad
vanced to the clerk's desk.
"See that feller," said one of the
elderly men in the group. "That's
'Lucky Jack Doty. Never hear of
liim? Well, he's got a story that is
worth knowln'. Thirty years ago
there wasn't a higher roller in the
South. His people had died out one
by one until only a sister was left,
and Jack and her had loads of money
and lots of negroes. She got religion
the worst way, and all of a sudden
went into a convent - .
"As I said, Jack was a high roller,
but he'd kept within bounds up to
that time. When the girl left the
world, as they call it, Jack was crazy.
He was devoted to her, in spite of his
runnin' around, and he just cut loose
and raised a fog.- He played the limit,
and it wasn't long before the brace
players had layouts fixed for him In
every town he struck. His money
went, and his negroes, too, and the
time came when he didn't have the
price of a shoestring. He drifted up
to Memphis one night, broke and des
perate. He went Into a farrar bank
and watched the game for awhile, but
he didn't get a nod, where not long
before the negroes used to break their
necks to shove a chair up right jn
front of the layout for him.
"Old man Galloway had a fever
streak on him that night, and was
playin' blues at a hundred a stack.
Jack sat down near him and seemed
to flustrate the old man, because he
bet 19 chips on a double seven and got
split. He was madder'n a hornet, but
he laughed just the same and said to
Jack, as he handed over the split
check to him:
" 'I reckon you wanted a stake and
made me bet odd chips. See what
you can do with- that.
"Jack grabbed the two and a half
like a hungry man catchm' a bun,
and shot it into the square. The king
won on tne turn, xnen tne auce won
twice. Jack let the $20 lay; the deuce
won again; then the king won twice,
and then the deuce won again. Neither
the queen nor ace had showed, but
the $320 in blue chips were still un
touched. The dealer thought he had
a cinch and never spoke about the
$200 limit The queen won on the
turn.
'Draw down to 200,' said the deal
er, and Jack took $440 away. Well,
the last king and all the queens and
aces won, and Jack had 200 on every
one. He kept on playing and turned
the box down and carried off the $7,000
bank roll with him along about day
break. He got the blue split he had
started on and had a hole bored in it
and put it on the chain of the watch
he bought next day. - He went to
New Orleans and won $60,000 in five
weeks. Then he went on a bank
breaking trip up the, river, and he
reached St. Louis In the spring of
'69 worth $200,000 in solid cash. He
was coming out of a farrer bank the
day after he got there; when a little
woman came up to him.
" 'Jack,' she said, 'gimme that thing
you ve got on your watch chain and
hang this instead,' and she held out
a little medal. Jack saw it was his
sister. He broke the blue split off and
took the medal and put it on. There
were twenty crooked games fixed for
him at St Louis, but he never played
farrer again. He wears that little
medal yet"
When Doty came out a few minutes
later a dozen pair of eyes searched
his vest. Dangling from the heavy
gold chain that crossed it was the
little medal. Washington Star.
- ELECTRIC TANNING.
The capabilities of that marvelous
fluid, energy, or condition, whichever
it may be, which we use so freely and
know so little about, seems absolutely
infinite. It is now employed for tan
ning leather. - It is more especially
valuable In coloring leather, which,
by its aid is accomplished with won
derful rapidity and effectiveness. The
skin is stretched over a metal slab,
ana tne eolormg mixture is then
poured over It A current of low pow
er is sent through the metal. The
pores of the leather are relaxed and
opened, and the dye is absorbed into
them by capillary attraction. A thin
hide is colored completely through Its
substance in a very short space, a
thicker hide requiring a proportionate
ly longer time, . - ,
CAEEEE OF DOUGLASS
INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OP THE
SLAVES TA'l ESMAN.
His Tr lumps in England and Ireland
Graphically Belated by an Eye
. Witness and Friend.
The Cleveland gentleman who was
best acquainted with the late Fred
Douglass Js probably Rev. Dr. George
W. Pepper. Dr. Tepper first met Mr.
Douglass abroad nearly fifty years
ago, says the Cleveland Herald, and
tells some very interesting stories of
the negro statesman's career.
"The first time I met Mr. Douglass,"
said Dr. Pepper, "was in Ireland, in
1847. He had met with enthusiastic
receptions in London and throughout
England, and had arrived at Cork.
He was met at the landing by distin
guished citizens, and rode away in a
earrlage seated between the lord
mayor of Cork and Father Mathew,
the great Roman Catholic apostle of
temperance. He was dined by the
city council, and was accorded es
pecial marks of attention Dy tne most
prominent people in Cork.
Going to uuDiin, ne went to can
pon Daniel O'Connell, who was the
first Catholic lord mayor that city
mad had for more than 300 years. Mr.
Douglass had a letter of introduction
from Hon. Charles Sumner, but when
Q'Connell's servant announced that
there was a colored man at the door,
the great Irishman rushed to the
door, and clasping Douglass In a
warm embrace, said: "jfrea uougiass,
the American slave, needs no letter
ef introduction to me.'
On the day following his arrival
O'ConneU took Douglass to Concillia-
tion hall, where he introduced the
ex-slave to the repealers, when he
used the following words: 'if there
be in the huts of Africa or In the
swamps of the Carolinas, a human
being panting for freedom, let it be
nroclaimed to him that ne nas a
friend In the oM Irish nation. My
Words sliall travel across the winds
and waves of the Atlantic; they shall
roll up the banks of the Mississippi
and the Missouri, telling the slave
holder that the time for his injustice
to cease has come, and that the period
for the emancipation of the bondman
has arrived, according to tne laws oi
the living God; and a prayer goes
forth from my heart that a black
O'Connell may arise in America,'
pointing his finger at Douglass as he
anoke. The whole audience arose and
gave three hearty cneers ior uoug
iass and the aDoiitionists.
"Daniel O'Connell," continued Dr,
Pepper, "was a fierce and uncomprom-
isine abolitionist. About that time a
check for a good many thousand dol
lars arrived from ' New Orleans to
heln the Irish cause. Mr. O'Connell
took the DaDer and said. 'Send it
back. Ireland Is poor, but poor as
she is, she cannot accept the wages
of the unpaid negro.' About the same
time O'Connell wrote his- powerful
appeal, urging the Irish In America
to join forces with the abolitionists.
"Probably the grandest moment in
Mr. Douglass' life," said Dr. Pepper,
"was in London, near the time of the
events which I have just related. He
attended the world's universal peace
convention, at which Lord Shaftes
bury, the famous philanthropist, pre
sided. Douglass was introduced to
t.-re audience, which consisted mainly
of dukes and lords, as 'The American
Slave. At the conclusion of his ad
dress his hearers cheered for fully five
.minutes.
"One of the most striking incidents
occurred, however, when a prominent
New York clergyman went forward
with the others and extended his
hand, which was proudly refused by
the black man. 'No,' said he, 'you
would not do this If we were in New
York, and I refuse' to accept it here.'
The incident was noted, and the New
York clergyman did not have an op
portunity to preach in a single Lon
don pulpit during his stay.
.
"During his stay with me he re
ferred to his escape from slavery. It
was brought up by his reading an
address of mine in Ireland in which I
referred to the reception which was
tendered to him there, and to the ab
horrence of the Irish people for slav
ery. He said that when a boy, on
Colonel Lloyd's plantation, about fif
teen miles from Baltimore, he was
seized with a desire to se a ship, and
obtained permission from his mistress
to go to that city. While at the docks
he saw two Irishmen unloading the
timbers from a vessel, and gave them
some assistance.
"On taking leave of them, one of
the men asked him if he was a slave,
and upon his replying affirmatively.
the other exclaimed: 'Why don't you
run away? God never made a man
to be a slave.' As he walked back to
his master's plantation the words of
that Irishman rang in his ears, and
the idea resulted in his making his
escape. Then, his sides shaking and
his face wreathed in smiles, Douglass
concluded: 'Mr. Pepper, when I get
to heaven, I will search for those two
Irishmen, and when I have found
them I will take them before the
Great Master of all, and will say
'There are the men who told me that
I was never meant to be a slave.'
"Then he talked for an hour about
the celebrated men he saw and heard
in England and Ireland, and said he
thought Mr. O'Connell was the most
natural and spontaneous orator he
ever heard. He talked of Disreali,
Wendell Phillips, and went into rap
tures over Lincoln. Said he: 'As the
years roll on, yes, the centuries travel
around, Lincoln's fame will continue
to grow greater, and the colored race
will never be able to mention his name
without emotion."
A MEDAL PRESENTATION.
The' President of the Commission
Pleasantly Remembered.
A few days ago a beautiful gold
medal was presented to Hon. Geo. T.
Myers, president of the late Oregon
World's E'air commission, by his fel
low commissioners and the officers of
the commission. The medal was for
mally presented to Mr. Myers by U.
S. Senator Geo. W. McBride. who said:
"Mr. Myers On behalf of the Ore
gon World's Fair commission, I have
the honor to present to you this medal
as a token of the personal esteem of
those whose names are thereon in
scribed, and as a testimonial of our
appreciation of the energy, ability,
and fidelity with which you have per
formed the onerous duties of president
of the commission. We recognize that
the success of the Oregon exhibit at
the World's Columbian Exposition Is
largely due to the able manner In
which you met the trials and difficul
ties of your official position, while we
must especially commend you for
your personal sacrifice of time and
money, in the Interest of our common
work in behalf of our state. Accept
then, this medal as an evidence of our
recognition of your valuable service
to the commission and to the styte,
and of our personal regard and esteem."
Mr. Myers responded with much
feeling, saying that while, as a mat
ter of necessity, the duty of supervis
ing the general work of the commis
sion had devolved upon him as its
president, he had relied upon the ad
vice and assistance of the commission,
whose faithful and efficient perform
ance of duty had brought about the
signal success of -Oregon's exhibit at
the great exposition. He insisted that
he had done only his duty according
to his best judgment, and said that
the credit for the success of the Ore
gon exhibit should rightfully be
shared in common by the members of
the commission, who had together
shared its labors and responsibilities.
He returned his thanks to those who
had joined in presenting the medal,
and said he should prize it "highly, but
not so highly as he prized their com
mendation of his course as their pres
ident and the good will and personal
regard which Drompted their kind
gift. Mr. Myers closed by saying
that he should gratefully remember
his fellow members of the commis
sion for their steadfast aid and sup
port in the difficult labors of his posi
tion and for the beautiful memento
of their appreciation and esteem.
The medal presented was or hand
some design representing the globe,
above which is a plain gold bar, on
which is engraved the words, "George
T. Myers, President." On the face of
the medal the globe is surrounded by
the words, "Oregon World's Fair
Commission," and engraved on the
obverse side of the globe are the
names of the donors: Geo. W. Mc
Bride, J. R. Cardwell, W. F. Matlock,
Phil Metschan, E. B. McElroy, J. A.
Wright, Mary Payton, C. B. Irvine,
secretary, Jay Guy Lewis, general
superintendent.
ORIGIN OF EASTER.
Queer Customs and Superstitions In
All Countries.
The Egyptian Osiris was probably
the prototype of the Latin goddess
Aurora the dawn who was known
to the Germans and Saxons as Ostara,
or Eastre. The latter goddess was
often worshipped with fire, probably
as an emblem of the dawn Oster
feuer. When Germany became Chris
tianized, the new church did its best
to trample out all the old pagan cus
toms. But they could not do it The
Eastre festivals in particular had
taken a deep hold on the hearts of
the people, and the heads of the new
church wisely decided to make the
best of them. So they turned them
into Christian observances instead of
heathen rites. The people held fast
to their eggs. Let them go they
would not. They kept on coloring and
giving them as presents quite as much
as though they still worshiped the
goddess Eastre.
One must go back to the Persians
for their first oDservance or tne e;
day. Before their conversion to Mo
hammedanism the Persians reckoned
the beginning of their new year from
the day in which the sun enters Aries,
which is in Marcn. According to one
of the ancient cosmoganies, all things
were produced from an egg, hence
called the mundane egg. This cos
mogany was received in Persia, and
on this account there obtained among
the people of that country a custom
of presenting each other with an egg.
the symbol of a new beginning of
time on every New Year's day that
is, on the day when the sun enters
Aries.
Among the Jews the season of the
ancient New Year became that of the
passover, and among the Christians
the season of the passover has be
come that of Easter. ,
In olden times the fires were al
ways quenched in all the churches on
Easter eve and kindled anew from
the flint, and the new fire being hal
lowed by the priest every one could
take home a brand to be lighted, when
neeaea, as a preservative against
tempests, jess well observed is an
old custom of putting the house in
order on Easter day, particularly the
K-ucuen.
In many parts of Ireland anil Eni?.
land in olden days the belief obtained
that on Easter morning the sun
danced In honor of the resurrection
on the evening of Holy Saturday
great preparations were made for the
finishing of Lent. Many a fat hen
and dainty piece of bacon were put
in the pot by the cotter's wife, and
woe to the person who should taste
it before the stroke of 12. but at that
hour would be heard the clapping of
nantis and cries or "Out with the
Lent!" All would be feasting and
merriment for a few hours, when the
good people would retire, to rise about
i o clock in order to see the sun dance.
It was an old custom in England to
oreak the Lenten fast by eating a
gammon or bacon on Easter Sunday,
and thus show the abhorrence in
which the Jews were held on that
festal day.
A custom obtained in many parts of
England in which, as soon as the
service of the church was over, the
boys ran about and laid hold of every
woman or girl they could meet on
the street and accosted them with
"Pay for your shoes, if you please,
at the same time stooping to take
them off, which, if they were not paid.
they would do and carry the shoes
off, leaving the hapless female In her
stocking feet
At Twickenham two great cakes
used to be divided in the church on
Easter day among the young people,
while in the Peak of Derbyshire a
custom known as sugar cupping ob
tained. The children used to repair
on Easter morning to a spring called
the "Dropping Tor," with a cup in
one hand, a quarter of a pound of
sugar in the other, and having caught
in their cups as much water as was
desired from the dropping of the
spring they dissolved the sugar in it
and drank It.
It is the custom of German families
on Easter eve to place sugar and real
eggs, the former filled with sugar
plums, in a nest, then to conceal it
with dried leaves in the garden, that
the joyous children may hunt for
them on Easter morning.
It is a superstition ail over the
world that one should 'wear new
clothes on Easter day. Bad luck will
follow if there is not at least one arti
cle which is new.
It was an article of faith - with the
devout of Normandy that with the
earliest chimes of the church bells of
Easter morn celestial visitants de
scended and at every house where
there were little children left eggs for
them as tokens of their visits.' But
satan, ever on the alert, sometimes
adroitly, slipped In an egg of ill omen.
Many of the old Easter customs
have gone like the wassail bowl and
yule log of Christmas, but colored
eggs, like Santa Claus, have firm hold
on the childish heart
There is a pretty legend to account
for their origin that a bird sung a
sorrowful lay over Christ's tomb, and
as a reward for its devotion its eggs
were ever alter decorated. j
Another story is that of an exiled,
lady who amused herself and children
by decorating eggs with Easter mof
toes. One bearing the words, "Hops
In God," fell into the hands of a sol
dier, who, by chance, gave It to the
captive husband and father. He rec
ognized the handwriting, and at last
the fragile train brought about the
re-union of the family.
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