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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1881)
HirnLY ecu id. i,hnr Morton tat in hit room in hit ..! He ni a young man aix-and intT. tall nJ ilim frame, with face ifireat intellectual oramy, ureasea fyarmentS. thooRh hit toilet i in ftt indifferently performed. He was " L. fnr aome time had lived waa an at aXlel' I required but a single glance i.:. ftnrfli to tell that ha van into uia ym , . . . . - - in invalid. He tat with his head resting noon bit bands, ana sit wnoie irame would ever and anon tremble as though ..i. nnwarfnl amotion. As tlio Willi wuiv r tooth sat tbua his door waa opened, and n twowj e .-- "Ah doctor, you are monng early this morning," Mid Morton, as he lazily row frOlQ HIS BvBV 1UU CAWUUm UW IWUUi 0 not early for me, Arthur," returned Weston, with a bright smile. "I am an early bird." Well, have you caught worm this ' 'I hope it will prove a valuable one.' kt Ann't know." sighed the poor vouth T fear a thousand worms will inhabit this poor body ere long." "Nonsense, you re worth half a cen tury yet," cried the doctor, giving him i .i- alnn fin the shoulder. J L 1 "But just tell me Arthur how it is with "Just as I told you. All is gone." "I don't understand it, Arthur." .... -.1 .1. T ' ani.t tt.n ' tenner uu A, "u mig uuuu uiu, .sorrowfully, "that Matthew Crosby could have done that thing, I would not, could not have believed. Why, had an angel nneared to me two weeks ago, and told me that Crosby was shaky, I would not i.... nniil a ninmnnt'a attention to it. navo - But only think, when my father died, he MleCtCu lor U1J gunruiuu um ucok iiicuu, nd such I even now believe Matthew i..l,. Da and in his hands he placed his wealth, and for him to keep it until I was of age. Ana wnen i am arrive at ,urirul of life. I left m v monev where Vun i. ' . . .. it was: I hod no use lor it. beverai times .iti.in tlirt-e or four vears has Crosbv asked me to take my money and invest it, but I would not. I bade him keep it and use it, if he wished. I only asked tint when I wanted money he would honor my demand. I felt more safe. fact, thsn I should have my money been in a bank o deposit. "How much JiJ he have nen ue should have had a hundred thous and pounds." "What do you mean to do?" "Ah, you nave hit me on the hip thero." "And you must do something, my son. TTonvons knows I would keep you if I nnll. I shall claim the privilege of paying your debts, however.' "No. no doctor none of that." "But I tell you, I shall pay your debts, but beyond that I can only assist you to help yourseii. w nai ao you say A faint smile swept over the youth's pale features at inis remain. "I should make a smart hand at sea, doctor. I can hardly keep my legs on shore. Oh, no no, I must" "Must what, Arthur?" "Alas, I know not I shall die, that is all." "Nonsense, Arthur. I say, go to sea. You do not wish to remain here, amid the scenes of your happier days. Think of it at sea you would be free from all sneers of the heartless, and from all con tact rrith things vou loathe. Think of Arthur started to his feet and paced the floor for some minutes. When he stopped, a new life seemed already at work within him. "If I went to sea, what could I do ?" "You understand all the laws of for eign trade?" "Yes; you know I had a thorough schooling at that in my father's count ing house." "Then you can obtain the birth of a super-cargo." "Are you sure I can get one?" "Yes. "Dr. Weston, I will go." Arthur walked over that evening to the house of a wealthy merchant, John Mel burne. It was a palatial dwelling, and many a hopeful happy hour had he spent beneath its roof. He rang the bell and was admitted to the parlor. In a few minutes Grace Melburne entered. She had been waiting until that age to be Arthur's wife. Some word were spoken; and many minutes of painful silence en sued. "Grace you know all. I am going away from my native land a beggar. I cannot stay longer now. Grace, did I know you less than I do or, knowing you well, did I know you as I do many I should give back your vows and free you from all bondage. But believe me I should trample upon your heart did I do that thing now. I know your love is too pure and deep to be torn from your bosom at will. So I say wait! There are other feelings in the heart besides love. That love is a poor, profitless pas sion which puts aside all other consider ations. We must love for eternity so our love must be free. Wait. I am going to work aye, upon the sea to work." "But why upon the sea? Why away where my poor heart must beat ever in anguish, fear and doubts as it follows you?" "Because I cannot remain here. Hun dreds of poor fools have imagined that I shunned them because I was rich. They know not that it was the tainted atmos phere of their moral life that I shunned. They gloat over my misfortune. Men Buy call me foolish, but it would kill me to stay here." "Alas! must it be?" "It must. You will wait?" "I will wait even to the gate of the tomb." "Then heaven bless and preserve you I" The ruined youth was upon the ocean his voyage commenced bis duties as laborer for his own daily bread all fairly assumed. Ah 1 it is a strange life for him to enter upon. From the ownership of immense wealth to the trade books of a Merchant ship was a transition indeed. Bat ere he went on deck again, he had ' resolved he would do his duty, come what would, short of death. He ould forget that he ever did else but ork for his livelihood. With these re solves fully determined in hi mind, he Iready felt bettor. At first our super-cargo waa too weak to do much. He waa very tick and it tod nearly two weeks, but when that passed1 off, and he could pace the vibrat ing ueca wim a stout stomach, his appe tite grew sharp and hit muscles began to grow strong. At first he craved many delicacies he had long been used to, but they were not to be had.and he very soon learned to do without them. The result was his appetite became natural in its wants, ana his system began to find itself nourished by simple food taken in pruwr quantities. For rears he had looked nnnn break. fast as a meal which must be aet out and partaken from mere fashion. A cup of couee ana pernaps a piece of dry toast, or a highly spiced titbit bad constituted the morning meal. Bnt now. when the breakfast hour came, he approached it wim a teen appetite and left at strong and healthy as at any other time of the uay. By degrees the hollow checks became full, the dark eyes assumed new luster, the color, rich and healthful, came to the face, the breast swelled with increasing power, the lungs expanded and grew strong, the muscles became hard and truo, the nerves grew strong, and the garments which he had worn when he came on board had to be let out several inches in ordor to make them fit. His position became cheerful and bright, and by the time the ship had reached the southern caie of Africa the crew had learned to love him. Through storm and sunshine, tempest and calm, through dark hours and bright, the young super-cargo made his voyage. In one year from the day which he left his native land he placed his foot against the sou or bis home, cat be did not stop. The same ship with the same offioers, was going upon the same cruise again, and he meant to go with her. He saw Grace Melburne, and she would wait. He saw Dr. Weston and the kind old gentleman praised him for his manly independence. Attain Arthur Morton was udou the sea, and again he assumed the duties of bis office, and even more. He stood watch when there was no need of it, and during the season of the storm he claimed a post on deck. At the and of another year the young man retnrnod to his home acain. He was now eight-and-twenty, and few who knew him two years before could recog nize him now. His face was bronzed by exposure, his form was filled out to per fection, and he was greeted with great effusion by old Dr. Weston, who would insist on his staying with him during his leave on shore. One day soon after Ar thur's arrival he suddenly burst into the room and said abruptly, "Well, Arthur. Mr. Crosby is here; will you see him ?" '.'See him? See Matthew Crosby 7 VI course I will. He owes me an explana tion, and I hope he can give me a satis factory one." The door opened and Mr. crosoy en tered. He was an elderly man, but hale and hearty. The old mau and the young one shook hands, and then inquired after each other's health. "You received a note from me some two years ago," said Crosby, "in which I stated that one in whom I trusted had got your money and mine with it, and I could not pay you ?" IBS, Bir, anBwereu our ut-ru, uuir knowing what was to come next. "Well." resumed Crosbv. "Dr. Wes ton was the man. He had your money." "How? What?" gasped Arthur, gazing from one to the other in blank astonish ment. "Hold on. mv bov." said the doctor, while a thousand emotions teemed to work within his bosom. "I was the villain. It was I who got your money. I worked your ruin, and I will tellyou why; I saw that you were dying. Your father died of the same disease. A con sumption was upon him not the regular pulmonary affection, but a wasting away of the system for want of vitality. The mind was wearing out the body. The soul was slowly but surely eating its way from the cords that bound it to the earth. I knew that you could be cured, and I knew, too, that the only thing in the world which could cure you was to throw you on your own physical resources for livelihood. There was a morbid willing ness of spirit to pass away. You would have aied ere vou would have made an exertion, from the very fact that you looked upon exortion as worse iuan ueum. It was a strange state of both mind and body. Your fortune rendered work un nr.paarr. so there was no hope while the fortune remained. Had it been a wl,nll hndilv maladv. I could hove argued you into necessary work for a cure. And on the other hand, had it been a wholly mental disease, I might have driven your body to help your mind. Bnt both were weak, and I knew you must either work or die." "And now, my boy, I'll tell you where my hope lay. I knew uiat you possessou trim nrirfa of independence that you would work. I saw Crosby ,and told him my plans. I assured him if we could contrive to get you to sea, and make you start out into active me, ior IK a a lr nf a livelihood, vou could be saved. He joined me at once. I took your money and his and bade him clear out. You know the rest. Your money is safe every penny of it to the amount of one hundred and fifty thou sand pounds. Poor Crosby has suffered mnM. nn knnwinff how VOU looked Upon him; but I know he is amply paid by the sight of your nooie, powenui inuuo, as he sees it to-night. And now.Arthur, are we forgiven?" It was a full hour before all the ques tions could be asked and answered; and when the doctor and Crotby had been forgiven and blessed for the twentieth time, Mr. Melburne said, "Wait! tTa lft the room. and when he returned he led sweet Grace by the hand. TaI in the evening, after the hearts of our friends had fairly begun to grow tired with joy, Arthur asaea urace whether he need wait any longer. Grace asked her father and ine anawer mav be easily guessed. Even a railroad disaster occasionally develops a humorous situation, in an accident in Canada a mau was thrown clean through one of the windows of a sleeping car into a waste and wintry landscape, attired only in the airy cos tume of a night-shirt. When the con ductor reached the earth and surveyed the scene of destruction, the first thing that met his eye was this individual, wildly gesticulating, ana erring at mo top of hit voice, A aouar ior ui mu who bringt me my pentai Influence of Light Aati, Sir John Lubbock, Bart, M. in a paper containing some further observa tions on anta read at a meeting of the Linnean Society, said that in oue of his former papers he bad given a series of experiments made on anta with light of different hues, in order, if tiossible, to determine whether anta bad the powor of distinguishing colors. For this purpose he utilized the dread which ants, when in their nest, bare of light. Not unnat urally, if a nest is uncovered, they think they are being attacked, and hasten to carry their young away to a darker and, as they suppose, a safer place. He satisfied himself by hundreds of exper iments that if he exposed to light moet of a nest, but left any part of it covered over, the young would certainly be con veyed to the dark portion. In this man ner he satisfied himself that tho different rays of the spectrum act on them in a difforent manner from that in which they affect us; for instance, that ants are specially sensitive to tho violet ray. But he was anxious to go beyond this, and to attempt to determine how far their lim its of vision agree with ours. This in teresting problem he endeavored to solve as follows: If an ant's nest be dis turbed, the ants soon carry their grubs and chrysalises underground again to a place of safety. Sir John, availing him self of this habit, placed some ants with larvat and pupte between two plates of glass about an eighth of an inch apart, a distance which leaves just room enough for the auts to move about freely. He found that if be covered over part of the glass with any opaque sub stance the young were always carried into the part thus darkened. He then tried placing over the nest different col ored glasses, and found that if he placed tide by side a pale yellow gluts aud oue of deep violet, the young were always carried under the former, showing that though the light yellow was much more transparent to our eyts, it was, on the contrary, much less so to the ants. So fur he had pone in experi ments already recorded. But he now wished to go further, and test the effect upon them of the ultra violet rays, which to us are invisible. For this pur puM, auioug other experiment, he used sulphate of quinine aud bisulphide of carbon, both of which trausniit all the visible rays, and are therefore perfectly colorless and transparent to us, but whioh completely stop the ultra violet rays. Over a part of one of his nests he placed the flat-sided bottles containing the above mentioned fluids, and over an other part a piece of dark violet glass; in everv case the larva) were car ried under the transparent liquids, and not under the violet glass. Again, he threw a spectrum into a similar nest, and found that if the anta had to choose between placing their young in the ultra violet rays or in the red, they preferred the latter. He infers, therefore, that the ants perceive the ultra violet rays which to our eyes are quite invisible. Now, as every ray of homogeneous light which we can perceive at all appears to us as a distinct color, it seems probable that these ultra violet rays must make them selves apparent to the ants as a distinct and separate color lot wnicu we caniorm no idea) . but as unlike the rest as red is from yellow or green from violet. The question also arises whether white light to these insects would differ from our white light in containing this additional color. At any rate, as few of the colors in nature are pure colors, but almost all arise from the combination of rays of different wave legntht, and as in suoh cases the visible resultant would be composed not only of the rays whioh we see, out of these and the ultra violet, it would appear that the colors of objects and the general aspect of nature must present; to, them a different appearance from what it does to us. Similar experi ments which Sir John also made with some of the lower Crustacea point to the same conclusions; but the account of these he reserved for a future occasion. He then proceeded to describe some ex periments made on the sense of direc tion possessed by ante. After dotoiling some further experiments on the power of recognizing friends, he gave some facts which appear to show that ants, by selection of food, can produce either a queen or a worker at will from a given egg. Lastly, be stated that he had somo ants which he had commenced to observe in 1871, and whioh are still living and in perfect health. They therefore must be more than peven years old, and by far the oldest insects on record. On the Track of Outlaws. Chicaoo, July 29. A dispatch from the Maple Spring Camp, Eau Claire county, Wiaconsin, says that new life has been infused into the pursuit of the Williams brothers by the arrival of eight Indian scouts, with thirty blood hounds, employed out West by the U. S. Government. The scouts are headed by Buffalo Charley and Yellowstone Keller. With these names the publio was made familiar during Custar s and Miles' cam paigns in 1376 and 1877. Buffalo Charley's parents, brothers and sisters were killed by the Indians over six years ago, tince which time he has devoted his whole heart to the work of tracking red skins and fugitives from justice gener ally. The trail of the outlaws will be taken up in the vioinity of DooliMle's camp and the scouts will go abead with the entire pack of bloodhounds, making such a hunt as was never witnessed in the Big Woods before. The pursuit of the Williams brothers has been kept up since the tenth of July, when they shot down two men in the streets of Durand and escaped to the wilds of Wisconsin. Ibev are a dangerous pair and know how to fire a fatal shot without taking aim. Edward and Lon Maxwell are the real names of the outlaws, who are keeping Wisconsin in a fever heat and it is only of late years that they have become known as the Williams brothers. In the early part of the war the father and mother of the then mere lads lived in Fulton county, 111., upon a farm. In 1874 they moved to Washburn, and sub sequently to Colchester, in McDonough county. Edward worked on a farm out of town. One day he rode into town , or dered a suit of clothet at a store and said he would call for it. That night he broke into the place, got bis clothes and retired to the farm. Dines, the clothier, went after him with a warrant. Young Edward pulled open bis coat, displaying a bowie-knife and a conple of revolvers. While Dines was in the bouse Edward stole hit hone tnd drove off. Chase was made for him and the officers tent to ar rest him joined in the hunt, but the scoundrel doubled on hit track, ruturnod to the farmer't house tnd remained over night and disappeared the next morning. He waa now t fugitive. He got his brother Lon with him, and, with a third man, turned up iu the town of La Harpe a few months afterward. They virtually capturod tue town, "i in very sorry to trouble you," said Ed, as he rode up to a formers uousej "but it you ve got any thing here worm taking, i want It. lie got it. The three bandits then rode from one farm to another and, brandish ing their revolvers, demanded every thing of value. They mode a good raid, and made off with many expressions of regret for intrusion. The Town Mar shal and a squad tracked them to the next town and found them in a saloon. The Marshal placed his hand on Ed's shoulder and remarked: "You are my prisoner." In the twinkling of an eye Ed covered him with his pistol. "Not by a d d sight," said he, coolly, and he was right. The Marshal didn't touch him, and Ed and his com panions rode off. It was only a few weeks later, how ever, that both Ed and Lon were cap tured and tent to prison. Ed broke out, but was recaptured and put in for six years at Joliet. Lon got out alumt two years ago, since which time he has leen known at Uersey, Knnpp and Me nominee, Wisconsin. He has as sociated with the very worst class of people, and law-abiding citizens have received frequent mysterious warnings to be on their guard against him. It is a fact that depredations and outrages have been committed and traced direct to Lon Williams, whioh have now been maJe publio. He had worked in saw mil's and wagon-shops, and last winter had a contract to get out oordwood for a Heresy firm. Some time ago at Hersey he married a pretty girl, to whom he was devotedly attacbod. For a while ho set tled down to un honest life, but when his wife died the devil seemed to take pos session of him, and when his brother Ed, fresh from jail, joined him last fall, he was ready for any mischief. Ed and his brother worked off and on at tho wood oontrsot at Uaraoy during the winter and then disappeared. On the Wtli of May they turned up in Henderson oounty, 111., stole two horses and followed this up with more horse-stealing. Sheriff Anderson went in pursuit. He took the track and followed them across the Illi nois river, just above Peoria, wkere they crossed Saturday night and stopped in a school house, putting the horses in a coal shed. An alarm was given by a man who taw the horses sticking their heads out of the shod. An inves tigation was made and the school house found locked. A trustee un locked the door and on entering was con fronted by two revolvers. The crowd withdrew without further invitation and the robbers quietly mounted their horses and rode away. They west south thret miles and doubled back, sn old trick of theirs, passing Sheriff Anderson and hit posse in the woods. Th trail was not discovered again for ten days, when it was found that the thieves had actually turned back to Washbarn, where they were known. Anderson was notified that they had been toon at Woodford, and on gotting there found they had gone north. Satisfied that they were coming to Wisconsin, Sheriff Anderson sent telegrams and postal cards to all Motions, including Hersey, where he knew they had lived. One of the messages sent was to the Colemat brothers, of Durand. On a postal card Sheriff Anderson wrote: "Go prepared. They are desperadoes and will resist arrest." Milton Coleman and his brother went .prepared, but they were net quick enough for the desper adoes. Just at dusk on the 10th of July they met in the streets of Durand. Re volvers were drawn. Edward and Lon Williams are men who nevor need to take aim. They hit the mark every time, even without sighting. Two dead men lay upon the walk in front of a peaceful home, and two murderers fled to the woody thickets near by, leaving but a terror-stricken lad, the only neu tral witness of the terrible scene to re late in a broken, incoherent manner the woefnl tale. Sinoe then the county has been aroused. The Ludington Guards eavnlrv comuanv. fortv strong, under Captain Jeff George, is a fine body of young men, well mounieu anu eqmppou. The men took to the woods, and are co operating with Sheriff Doolittle's posse. Rewards are offered for the bodies, doad or alive, of the bandits. Bloodhounds, as above stated, have now been brought into service, and there is a good prospect of running them down. Mystery of Exchange. Most of our readers are aware that the quotation of foreign exchange represents a premium considerable in excess of the actual fact; but we doubt whether all of them know precisely what is the differ ence. By the use of the bankers.the old Spanish dollar is as the par of exchange, one pound sterling being equal to four and four-ninths of these dollars. In ftoint of fact, however, in the estab ished moneys of Great Britain and the United States, a pound sterling contains as much gold as 4.87 of United States money; and this is the true par of ex change or rate which must be used in converting the money of one conntry into that of another. For instance, if anything costs 100 in Great Britain, its true value expressed in the money of the United States is $487. Ac cordingly, it is a fact familiar to all bankers, that when exchange is quoted at 109, there is no real premium, but the true par has been attained; because if we multiply 4.44 4.9, which is the nom inal ar. bv 109 4-2. which is then the quoted rate, we get $4.87, which is the true par. We need scarcely add that it is owing to this circumstance that the amort of irold from the United States are not larger. If there existed such a heavy premium on billa of exchange as many people suppose, it would be im mensely profitable to export gold to Great Britain. In point of fact, in view of the necessary expense of freight, in surance and lost of interest, the margin does not more than cover the risk. The United States half-eagle, it may be ad ded, contains 116 grains of pure gold, annivalent to 45. the British sovereign, or pound sterling, 113 grains, equivalent Trne fidelity. In these days when defalcations and embezzlements are of to frequent occur rence, when so many who occupy posi tions of trust and responsibility prove recreant to the confidence reposed in them it it refreshinj to note instances of an entirely different character. Abra ham Lincoln, while a resident of New Salem, Illinois, followed various avoca tions. With the rest of them wat a "storekeeper" and postmaster. On a certain occasion one of his friends, having learned that an agent of the Postofhoe Department and a "drum mer" wore in the village tho former to collect what was due the Government from Lincoln, as postmaster; the latter 10 receive irom mm, as wauer, wuai he was owing the firm represented by himself and knowing Lincoln was never overburdened with spare funds, went to the store aud offered to loan him a sum sufficient to meet the claims he was so soon to be called upon to sottle. "You are very kind," said Lincoln; "But I do not think I shall require your assistance." Within a fow moments the agent en tered their presence, aud Lincoln took an old stocking from a drawer, out of whioh he poured a lot of copper and silver coin the latter mostly in piooes of a small denomination. "Thoro is the very money I have taken on account of tho post-office," ho said to the agent, "and I think yon will find the exact amount due you. It was, to a cent. This business had hardly been con- eluded, when in came the "drummer." Lincoln had recourse to another old stocking, with a similar result. So soon as the two were again by themselves, tho friend said: "I suppose, were a third creditor to present himself, a third stocking would enable you to settle with him," smiling. "Yes," returned the future President. "Look here," and he held up three other stockings. "In each of these is tho sum I severally owe to three parties the only persons in the world to whom I am, pecuniarly indebted. I see you are amused at my way of transacting busi ness. I never allow myself to use the money that is not mine, however sorely pressed I may be, and I intend to be propared to pay my bills whon they be como au, without delay or inoon venience to those untn. I owe. The simple system whioh I have aaoptea using a stocking'to represent each credi tor and placing in it the monoy, to be passed to the creditor himself at some future day renders the former unneces sary and the latter possible." Pet James. And now for one or two specimens of vulgarity of a deoper hue vulgarities by which the morals of the country is de teriorated, dispositions are marred, and even, in the case at all events of one that will be named, the stability oi the con stitution itself is to a oertain extent im periled. Amongst those a very prominent one is the appallingly vulgar habit of calling every one, high or low, acquaint ance or strangers, not excepting even the fair sex, by "pet names, in the sanc tuary of the family, and in that of long standing friendship, the mutual address by "pet names is a privilege according to afloction. In the case of ladies it is a freedom not aooorded to well-regulated communities to any of the other sex out tido the family, unless, perhaps, to men advanced in age, who, from long and in timate acquaintance, have booome at it were, domesticated in the family. It may be that the names of publio men are eonsidered publio property, and that they have to pay this penalty of thoir prominent position. But it it carried among ut to an offensive degree, which tends to rob the people of every senti ment of respect or dofonse. And the vulgarity it intensified by the hideout names with whion American parents in tuit their children at an age whon they are too young to resent it. Thus we ,.. rfnaaao" and "Takfta" and "IknS." and a hoBt of other barbarous abbrevia tiout of a barberous momenolatnre, the very sight of whioh in print 1b equivalent of a powerful shock from a gaivanio battery. A worthy Episoopal minister, in try' ins to do battle against this rage for un' oouth names, came to griof. Ho was baptizing a female Infant, lhe god mother, who held the child in her arms, was a bright little damsel with a very pronounced lisp, and when bade by his reverence to "name the child," said, as well as she ocnld: "Luthy, thir." The good man thought she said "Luoifer." "Nonsense! I will baptise it by no such name. John. I baptise thee." etc. And so the little srirl went into the world sad died with the name of "John." The Hour. Tnnlslan Feminine Beauty. Plumpness, suoh as would be oonsid- arnd AYnhprnnt in the oold and critical North of Europe, constitutes the popular ideal of female beauty in the Regency of Tunis. Among marriageably young . . . laUies of .& at proYince sienaorDe&B vi nm flaliAanw nf nrinnrtinn arA TA lUlUI twsau uuiivan j vjwa- - garded with justifiable aversion, as (lis- Justifications ior tue weuaea siaie. xue atter a maiden the bettor is her chance nf tnakinir a cnod and earlv match. To be abnormally obese is to be certain of drawing a prize in the matrimonial mar ket, and the loveliest litheness remains nnwnd. while homelv corpulence can piok and choose from among a throng of eligible suitors, now deep a root mis predilection for capacious charms has atrnnk in the Tunisian manlr bosom may be gathered from the fact that widowers, aesirioua w muzij biu, should they haply, moved by family or pecuniary considerations, select s bride whose dimensions are reported to fall something short of those to which their previous experiences had occustomod them, are wont to send the "dear de parted's" girdle and bracelet to the parents of their too exiguous betrothed. On receipt of these articles oenveying a bint that it might be expedient to make up for nature s shortcomings by some judicious treatment, the bride t papa and mamma proceed to fatten her with assiduity and dispatch. For tome weekt the leada the life of a Btrasburg goose, and when the hat attained the necessary goodly proportion, her nup tials are celebrated to the entire satisfac tion of everybody concerned in them. London Telegraph. PERSONAL A5D GE5EBAL. - Disraeli: A definition of liberty do at others do, tnd never knock men down. A little learning it not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal The truly strong and sound mind is the miud that can embrace equally great things and small. Walter Savage Landor: No ash oa are lighter than incense, and few tilings burn out sooner. If sn offense come out of truth, bettor it is that the offoso come than that the truth bo conoealcd. Greensboro, D. C, has a paper called the Daily Battle Ground. We suppose it is a domestic issue. The free man thinks of nothing less than of death; his wisdom consists not in meditation of death, but of life. Truth is brought to light by time and reflection falsehood gathers strength from precipitation and bustle. It it better to wear out than to rust out. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike till it is made hot. We take lessons in art, literature a thousand things; but that high sense of honor, man's obligation to man, is for gotten. Benefit your friends, that they may love you skill more dearly; benefit your enemies that they may become your friends. Vanity Fair says that England is being rapidly renuoed to a fortress in the ocean, without self-supporting food powers. The first advertisement in a newspaper appeared in 1048, and the first paper de voted exclusively to advertisements and shipping in 1057. Charnook: God often lays the turn of hit amazing providence in very dismal afloctions, as tho limnor first putt on the dusky colors on which he intends to draw the portraituro of some illustrious beauty. Fenderson was at tho thoater the other night. "It was a burlesque, a take-off, wasn't it?" asked Smith. "Yos," said Fenderson, "that's what it was, I guess. They had taken off about everything thoy dared to?" The Paris Figaro propounds thia con-" nudrum: "Give two widows of the asro.sauie social oondition and char aoter.one ot w uu-1, . husband and the others good one, whicu.r m tw0 will have the strongest detrte to get married again?" Senator Hoar has been visiting West minster, Massachusetts, seeking inior . mation concerning the former home of the Garflold family. It was from this little town that Solomon Garflold grand father of the president, departed to en tor the army of the revolution. The weeping willow is said to have been brought to Amorioa by Lafayette on his second visit, who planted it on 5 ; Washinuton's arave as bis tribute to the great man. The tree flourished and from it dippings were taken, and thus has it , tprea Jail over the United States. A San Franoisco lady wanted her little girl to bathe in a room, the windows of ' whioh opened into tue vara, in wnion -were some fowls. "But' said the little girl, "I don't want to bathe bofore the chickens." "Oh, never mind the chiok- ens," said the mother. "Well," said the little woman, "I won't bathe before the rooster, anyhow." Opium Smoking In British Burma!). A return just published contains a copy of a memorandum by C. U. Atchi son, Chief Commissioner of British Bur mah, on- the eontumption of opium. The Chief Commissioner says hit atten- ' tion had been specially directed to the change which was gradually coming over the Burmese national character, of whioh the principal cause was said to be the growing habit of opium-smoking. When on a visit to Akyab he was waited , on by a large deputation of the most in fluential natives of the town, who pre- sented a petition describing in very forcible language the misery entailed on the population by opium, and pray ing that the traffic in opium might be . altogether abolished in Arakan. The Chinese population in Burmah consume opium without any apparent bad effects, and do not smoke to excess; but the Burmese seem quite inoapable of using the drug in mod eration, and the dealers tempt young, men to smoke by giving them at first opium to smoke. Among the Burmese the habitual use of the drug saps the physical and mental energies, destroys the nerves, emaciates the body, pre disposes to disease, induoes indolent and filthy habits of life, destroys self-respect; is one of the most fertile sources of misery, destitution, snd crime; fills the goals with men of relaxed frame, predis posed to dysentery and cholera; prevents the due extension of cultivation and the development of the land revenue; checks the natural growth of the population, and enfeebles the constitution of tue ceeding generations. That opium smoking is spreading at an alarming rate under our rule does not admit of doubt. ' On thit point the testimony of all classes of officers and of the population is unani mous. The quantity of opium consumed in 1879 was more than double what it was in 1869, and the prosperity of the country was least where the eontump tion of opium was greatest. Misted a Car. ' , in ATnitad man rano- the door-bell at John F. Myert' well-known drug ttore last night. - f "What't the matter?" said John. . "Open the door." "Who are you?" said the drowaj druggist. fiaaad a ear." Wall T dnn't ears a continental If you missed three," aaid John, at he re tired. Presently the bell rang violently again. "What't wanted?" asked the ever ready purveyor. ' 1 "Missed a car," was the antwer. "Well, what do yoa suppose I care if you missed a whole train of 'em. I'll take a shot at yoa if yon don't olear out" . . "Yet, but I want prescription. My name is Mist er Carr." "Well," said Myert, "why in thunder didn't you tayaof" 1 1 n