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EUGENE CITY GUARD. 1. 1. CAM I'll EI.L, Preprleter, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE BALANCE. lie counted out tho clinking coin And heaped It ulilnlnit In the scale, 'A very goodly pile t" laid bo, These fiituros tell a ploasunt lulo." And smiled to see tho evening sua Hum redly on tho coin lie spun. "Ton are not covetous, (rood damn. Else bud you never won my void. And yet 1 trow you scureo would worn 'I'll Ih irlmiminir hrlii). If trulli were told." 8bo liuiKlied mid shook ber proud young hOHU. "A goodly pljo, Indecdl" (bo mid. J Oil IIIVH your iirnnuii', nn.. I know, for Wk!" tier falrcheck flowed ! tui htivH wclihcri mv irrnwinir weu III The seslo these selfsame numbers showed. Yours la a pretty sum, and round, Yut 1 chii match It, pound for pound." Toraonth !" he cried. In merry acorn, f'dtnii nHlhfp lil-illtf tlin rifllCK OllL That wo may wclifh them, 'pound foritnund,' And prove your worn, ut-yoiiu a uuuuu T'nlcss so locked awny they lie That you youi-hvir Imvo not tho key!" "Nay, friend," alio lsuirhed, with happy eyes "l keep my treasure atueiy inn. Hut not within the mouldy grouud Or underneath an Iron lid. I count It secretly apart, And wear it alwaya next my heart." She caught her baby from the floor, A creeping, cooing, dimpled thing, That at niggled In Ha mollier'a urma To reach I ho gold, wllh lusty spring, And bnlililed at Die ilaz.llng night, A wordless language of delight. She pressed Iho velvet cheek to hera, And kissed the silken, ninny head. "Come, are vou readr? sliull we weluh The treasure, pound for pound?" sho said, And men wiim tender iriumpn smucu, And In the balance laid her child. Harvard Jaliiivm, in Ule Axcake. A KOMAM'E IX THE BOUGH. Jabcz Jowlnry was brought beforo the mnpiHtrato charged with committing a violent assault on li Is wifo, Ktlitli Jow iary, by striking her In tho nublio street on tho previous evening. Tho prosecu trix, a qulet-looklng, steady-like young woman, deposed tliut sho was returning homo from a visit to a friend, when her husband, tho prisoner in tho dock, whom sho had not seen for several months, suddenly appeared beforo her, and, throwing ono of his arms round her neuk, squeezed it so as to occasion her great pain, whilo at tho samo mo ment ho indicted on her breast a vio lent blow with the elbow of his other arm, causing her to faint A police man gave corroborativo testimony, llo saw the woman sink to the ground, and saw tho prisoner lift her oiT the pavement to a doorstop, where he would have left her, but ho was detained until Iho prosecutrix recovered consciousness, when sho gavo him into custody. Asked what ho had to say in reply to tho chargo, prisonor blandly requested tho opinion of the court as to whether ho looked tho sort of man who would purposely inflict an Injury to any Moinun, let nlono his own lawful wife. Had his faco at tho moment of his ask ing tho strango question borne an expression of sneering or rudeness, it would probably havo aggravated his offense In tho eyes of his worship on the bench, but since ho apparently spoko in perfect sincerity, tho general feeling was ono of-wonder that no could bo so villainous-looking and unaware of it; for ho was a man seemingly, at least, twlcoas old (us the female ho was ac cused of assaulting, powerfully built and plain-looking, with an injured nose, tho umssivo under jaw of a pugilist, a grisly beard of many days grow th, and a pair of enormous lists which were fairly In view as ho leaned with his arms folded on the ledge of tho dock. His Inquiry eliciting no response, tho prisoner proceeded to explain bow tho "little mistake" had arisen. lie had not seen his wife, he said, for more than two months, and happening to un expectedly run ngnlnst tier, In a man ner of speaking, his natural Impulso mas to tako her in his arms and kiss her. If ho had done so somewhat roughly It must bo set down to tho strength of his affection for her, and not to any intention on his part to hurt Yet what ho had done was to place his arm round her waist, which lie supposed as her lawful husband he had n right to do; and If while doing so, his other elbow knocked against her chest, ho was unaware of it. As to her fainting, it probably was occasioned by tho sudden shock of unexpectedly meeting him. "lltt.sk her," said the prisoner, "if, when she has had timo to reflect on It, whether sho doesn't think that my account of this little affair is tho right oneP" (juestlonod bv tho magis trate as to whether she hail any doubt that tho assault was Intentional, she re plied that sho had no doubt at all. "Was he in tho habit of ill-using herP" "No, ho had never raised his hand to lier before." "Hask her why sho In sists on living apart from mo," sug gested Jabez Jowiary, upon which the prosecutrix falterlngly remarked: "1 do not wish to press tho chargo against him." Fixing his eyes on her, with a queer twitching of tho muscles of his mouth, tho prisoner, with much hid den meaninr, made answer: "(iood l.or.t! 1 should hopo not" Dis charged with a caution. The wife's relenting, however, did not bring about a reconciliation between them, A cub was in waiting for her at tho door of the court, but, although ho followed her out, ho made no attempt to accompany her when a policeman es eorled her to tho vehicle, whilo sho, studiously avoiding looking at him, kept her veil dow n, and was driven away. The constable who had given evidence waited until tho clerk of tho court had marked his "time card" a card show ing tho hour tho man arrived at and hfi the court and then lie joined the late prisoner, who seemed to bo waiting fur him. Having been pre viously apprised of the curious character of tho case, I had already exchanged a few words with tho otllcer in question, and, at he was now off duty, there was no harm in his accepting Mr. Jowlarv's offer of a "glass of something." "lNm glad to be able to drink it w ith you, re marked the policeman, "for there's uo mistake about it it was ten to one on your iM'ing puf away for a month at least" "UU shorter odds than that" returned Mr. Jowiary, with a sudden accession of feiWty and with his un der jaw looking mpmrer from his speak ing with his twth set doss together, "on my being put away for good and all unless there's an alteration." ".Short odds or long odds." said the constable, turning on him more sharply than a man usually does on anotlnr who is about to stand treat to him, "that isn't tho sort of Ulk for us to listen to, so If you feel it in you, you'd best bottle it up." As though bottlingjt up and corking it close, Mr. Jowiary audibly gulped down something that w as ready for utterance, and set Lis lips tight to gether, and we all three adjourned to partake ot temperate reiresumeni. The oflicer could stay no more than a few minutes, for ho had to get biick and report himself at tho statiou. When be had taken his departure, said mr. Jowlury to mo: "Hah! it's all very well to mako a man swallow enough to bust him into bits, and then to adviso him to bottle himself up, isn't it?" 'Tcrhaps that was because he was not awaro of all tho circumstances of the case." "He knowed no more than what ho slated leastwavs. not that I'm aware of. P'r'aps he's been speaking to her though." "In which case 1 st.pposo no would know more than ho stated in court Do you mean that?" "I mean this." replied Mr. Jowiary doggedly, "only for hersako I would havo up and told )iu all there was to tell from first to last Only for her sake!" he ro pented, trying to laugh, and producing a sound indescribable instead. "That's a pretty thing to say of tho woman who has ruinoii me, and who, tnougii i ve still got a feeling of love for her, hates me wuss than p'ison, who always did hate mo wuss than p'ison." "Scarcely so," I ventured, "or sho would not havo been married to you. I heard you twice repeat in court that she was your law ful wife, and sho did not attempt to con tradict vou." "There you cut to the core of It," said Mr. Jowiary, the sud den tremor of his voice betraying how much the matter moved him, "and speaking of prisons there is none so hatcnil to mo as siio is when i think: oi it. ISho married mo for wengeance, sir. Married mo and ruined me out of dead ly suite and malice. What do vou think of that?" I did not know what answer to make him on tho Instant, and ho gavo me no time to consider the matter. "I know what you would think of It, and 1 said no more," said ho. "You'd go away and say to an v bod v vou met bv andbv: 'Icamu across a man to-day who I'd back for being tho biggest liar that ever stood on two legs. He wanted.' says you, 'to guy me with the statement that his wifo hall consented to marry him out of splto and wengeance.' It's a fact how- sornover. You saw her. What do you think of her tier looks, 1 moan? ' I re plied that sho impressed mo ns being an exceedingly good-looking and lady-like young woman, not ntall tho kind of person to be guilty of tho wickedness ho nail imputed to her. "Hah! Then you think it was a wickedness," Mr. Jow iary remarked, evidently much gratified with my answer. "Taking your version of the affair as being a truthful ono, thero can bo no doubt it." "And you can't see, whichever way you twist it and turn it that it can bo made out to' bo wirtuo and not wickodnoss?" I should bo better .able," said I, "to judgo of that if I knew nil tho particulars. I havo no desire to pry into your private aflttirs, but since you put the matter to mo in that way, us a man of common senso you must see that I can make you no other answer." "Ditto to you, ro toiled Mr. Jowiary, "as a man of com mon sense and as a man of tho world as well, mind you, I ain't going to bo weighed up without a equal balanco of both. I'll tell vou tho particulars, if you're a mind to hear 'em, and then you shall pass your werdict for or against. "I'm in the roto and yarn lino o1 business, likewise in the sack and tar paulin wav, and I'm doing well un derstand, I'm going back to tho time aforo this affair happened, and aforo I was ruined. Well, I'm doing well. I've got a bit of a factory, and I employ say a dozen hands, and I m making enough to pay my way and put away a ten-pun note every Monday morning as tho day conies round. I'm a widower, been so ton years and more, and 1'vo got no children, my homo being only an old woman that keeps house for mo. Well, tho hands 1 employ are a mixed lot male and female, the girls and women working at tent-sewing and bag making. You saw her in tho witness- box against mo? Ladylike, says you, and good-looking. So she is. So she was whon she came and asked me to find her work to do. l'oorly dressed and w ith only nn old black silk capo on her shoulders, though it was middle of winter and snow half a foot thick on tho ground. 'It isn't work for such as you,' I says; 'you haven't got tho lingers for it. 'I've got the heart for it,' says she, 'so let mo try, please. You would, I am sure, If you Knew how glad 1 shall be to be ablo to earn a few shillings.' Well, I didn't ask her any questions who sho was or what sho had been used to. I think to mvself, you'ro a bravo gal, anyhow, anil though you'ro sure to give up before you've had an hour's work with twino instead of lino cotton, you shall have a day's pay for it, and that won't bo much hurting the pride of a genteel 'nn like yon are. Howsomever she comes, unci she sticks to the work, and she stands tho dialling of tho rough gals Iu tho same room without a mur mur. I hears 'em a laughing and giv ing on at a rare rate one day, and I goes up to see, and they are calling her everything and jeering her ln-causo sho is sewing corn-sacks with kid gloves on. I laughs, too, as who wouldn't and I tell her to take 'em off; and, without a word, she does it, and shows her lingers all raw where tho heavy needle had cut 'em. 'If I'm not allowed to wear 'em.' said sho, 'I shall have to leave the work, and I have a sick mother and two little sisters deiHMiding on what I earn.' That put a stopper on tho chaffing. I made her take a week's rest, and the gals won't let mo pav her her w ages, all tho same, but muko Vra up among 'em. "I warn't tho only one on tho prom ises w ho did . that., I had a young fel low w ho had worked himself tip to bo a sort of foreman, though ho camo to mo as an errand boy. llad luck to him wherever ho is ungrateful hound!" And Mr. Jowiary grew suddenly white, about tho mouth as he uttered the words. "You'll say, p'raps, he was as1 free to fall in love with her as I was; and p'raps you further say being nearer her own ago it was more natural. Well, who said it wasn't? Was that any rva- j son why ho should havo been so infer nally sly over it? I should have spoko to her months before I did, but I never dreamt of him being in my way. When I did speak to her, straigutfor nrd and honest and well meaning, she don't know which way to look or what to say, and when she does speak it Is to tell me if I will ask Herbert he will be better ablo to explain why sho is obliged to re fuse mo. I saw ft all in a Hash then. How I felt when she told mo is nothing to tho purpose. I didn't show it, any how. I made light of it to hor. Thongs no occasion for me to speak to him,' I says. 'Words with him would do us no good, and might hurt him, and, con sequently, you. I've had my say, and I've got my answer, and thore's an end of it. And a very lucky thing it was," continued Mr. Jowiary, speaking as a man whose mouth is dry, though an instant before he had drank some of his ale, "a very lucky thing ! didn't speak to him or havo words with him, or it might havo been said that 1 had a spite against him. Nothing of the sort. If 1 kept a watchful eye on him it was only to satisfy myself that she had grounds for what she hud hinted nt. 1 found out more than I had bargained for. Iiy my watching I discovered that after working-hours and on Sundays he took her hero and there, spending far more money than his wages warranted; and how could ho get it unless he whs robbing me, as he Itad lots of chances of doing? But I wasn't most sorry on my own account; I will tako my flible oath of that," he continued, looking steadily in my face, "if it was the last words I was speaking afore I died. I was most sorry on her account; yet, mind you, I was going on loving her a deceitful hussy all the time. If he's a scamp to me, after all I've trusted him with, I thinks to myself, whut'll he le to her, who likewise is trusting him? Hut I wanted to bo quite sure before I did anything, not wishing to do him any injustice, since, d'ye see, 1 might have suspected him wrongfully after all. But unfortunately for him it wasn't so. I caught him," said Mr. Jowiary, with his face hard set, and still looking steadily at me, "lirsttimo, and put his honesty to test. 1 had a detec tive watching, and marked money put in the desk was found in his pockets. Had it been only my alliur, do you know what I should have done? I should have takon him by tho skoulders and shoved him out But I had consideration for her, like tho weak-minded fool that I was, and never dreaming that she would turn out the treacherous cat that she showed herself. It was ills villainy to ward her that troubled me, so I pros ecuted him, and ho got three months' hard labor. Here Jowiary paused to tako a drink out of his glass, furtively regarding me over the rim of the meas ure the whilo, and then he continued: "You'd hardly think of it but I've been called windictivo. Thorn what at ono timo pretended to bo my best friends have told mo so to my faco. 1 ask you, as a stranger who has no leaning to'rds ono side or the other, if I had felt win dictivo shouldn't I have noted a sort of triumph over tho woman who lmd re fused mo for a fellow who verv likelv was a thief at the timo? Shouldn't I havo gono to her and said, 'A pretty mess you've made of it, and it serves you right,' and p'r'aps discharged her then and there Irom her workr Hut what did I do? I wait 'spectftil like till sho'd got a bit over her trouble, and then I goes to her, and I mako my offer to her again. 'No matter for what's oast I siivs to her. 'I love vou better than anybody clso in tho world, and I'll make you my wife. You can't havo him now, of course,' says I; 'no respect able young woman would marry a con victed thief. Mio wasn t near so much took back as I expected to find her. You see she had laid her plans, her! 'No, sho savs, 'I can t marry him now. Ho wouldnH havo me. He told mo so when I went to sco him in prison. "I would sooner die," ho said, "thnn havo you coupled with tho infamy with which I am branded." ' 'Then let us mako a match of it,' I says, 'and forget all about him. 'I couldn't promise that,' were her words in answer, 'but I'll marry you on ono condition. Yon must mako over to mo all your saved up money. Only that will convince me that you love me, as you say you do, better thnn anything elso in tho world.' Well, sir, I was that settled and deep in lovo with hor I could choke myself with theso lingers when I think of it 1 diil It I mitiio over to her all legal and proper, the eight huudrod and forty pounds sterling thnt was in tho bank made it hers for her solo and separato tiso on the morning when I married her. Well, sir, in less thus a week she was missing from the pretty homo I got for her. Sue wrote mo, saying that she couldn't live with me; that there was thnt atwixt us that set her heart against 'me, try how sho might and wo was best apart Now, what about marrying mo for malieo and wengeance? She'd got my money, remember; but that wasu't tho worst of it. For soon as ho comes out of prison ho sets .tip in a flourishing way of business in mv line, of course, and what with his lies and his false representations Iio'h got tho best of my old customers to deal with him. And I'm going down lower every day." "Hut w hat has your wifo to do with your lute foreman's prosperity?" 1 asked him. "That." and lie brought bis great list with a sounding smack down on to tho palm of his other hand, "is what I should like to liml out and prove against her. But she's too cun ning, sir. I've watched her, and paid for her watching, ami she's never Leen found out in eoing-near him, or in writing to him, or iu having anything to do' with him since ho came out of t'oldbttth-lields. That's the hardship of it," continued poor Mr. Jowiary, grow ing husky again; "1 can't prove any thing against her. Sho lives With ro spectabloVoople, and does nothing I can mako a handle' "of. 'My client asks nothing of you,' the lawyer sho employs writes to mo mv clieut asks nothing of vou but to be allowed to livo in peace and quiet ou her little property.' T hat's tho woman you saw bearing witness against me in the court Now vou know ail about it, what do you think of her?" I replied that I thought it had been a most unfortunate affair for him, and thnt there could be no doubt but he had got the worst of it If he had pressed me for my opinion as to his do serving tho worst of it my reply would Iprobably have been less to his litrin-j. Lofton Ttlcgrayh. .Putrefaction In lgs. The following conclusions have been arrived at in studying the phenomena attending tho process of putrefaction in eggs: It has been asserted by some that if eggs are not shaken they will keep good, but if they are jarred they will spoil in less than a month. Dr. Borne has also declared that no organ isms ever occur within an egg, no mat ter how advanced may be Its decay. Dr. fJayon, from his investigations, contra dict this assertion. As to the latter, several organisms were discovered by Dr. Gayon in addled eggs, the more common of which are Bacterium termo, a torulo and an asjHirgillus. Dr. Gayon 'docs not believe the germs of these organisms do not enter the egg through the pores of tho shell, but aro present at iu formation. Tho same organisms found In the egg are also discovered in the oviduct and cloaca of somo hens, and theso prove also to bo tho more abundant in fertilized than in sterile eggs. On using' aq injection contain ing numerous bacteria they were more plentiful in th; eggs that followed. These observations offer an explanation of tho presence of foreign bodies in eggs, such as- insects, small stones, seeds, etc., which havo sometimes been known to occur. In tho eggs of a hen that had been fed on the'refuso of a hennery have been found tho gorms of alcoholic yeast. It has been clearly demonstrated that the jarring of an egg has no effect in inducing its decay and molds have no influence in causing their putrefaction. It is probablo that this depends in a good degree upon tho nature of tho food tnken by the hen. If this be true, and there is no doubt of ft, poulterers may receive a useful hint. There is no doubt that the fertility and the purity of tho egg depend in a great measure upon tho food and tho sur roundings of hens. San Francisco Chronicle. Stay on the Farm, Tho disposition of so many young men to leave the farm and come to the city is not creditable to their intelligence. Every city in the country is overcrowded with thisclass of helpless young men. Thoy grow up on tho farms witli uo idea of the trials and temptations that beset their class in tho largo cities. They think they can livo in tho cities without the toil and drudgery they say is a part of farm life. There are many ways of living in a city, but there Is but one honorable way, and that is surmounted with as many trials and "hardships as earning ono's living on the farm, and that is to earn it honestly. A young man without a trado will tind ho nas to work harder to make both ends meet in the city than on a farm. The voungman who thinks tho world qwes him a living and that tho obligation will be can celled in the cities, makes a mistake that is often learned too late. There is no more room for idlers in the city than on the farm. The criminal class receives some of its most vicious recruits from young men who thought they were too smart to be farmers, camo to the city, found thev had made a mistake, dropped into bad company, and will end their lives on the scaffold or in tho pen itentiary. No, young man, you are not too smart for tlio farm. Tho smartest man thnt ever lived hadn't sense enough to reach perfection in farming. Bo in dependent. While thero is always something to do on a wcll-regulatod farm, if you have a leisuro moment, use it in study or selling tho many kinds of goods you will find that "ore especially niado lor your benclit i ou can always find something to do if you want to work. If you don't, wo havo no time to reason with you. AnenW Ikrald. m Keep Your Best for Home. There is no place where good man ners and punctilious etiquette is of more value thnn in the home. It Is tho moral agent of good breeding; it is the law that governs the mnnifestations'of kind ness and good feeling, and also tho law that restrains unkind and ignoblo traits of human naturo from expression. Keep your best temper for home. In society, on the streets, in business, everywhere, it is easier to control that attribute, if wo guard tho hasty word, tho poo visit tone, the irritating action in the home circle, and study to wound nono of its inmates. Keep your best spirits for homo. No where do gloomy and depressed spirits tell so disastrously as at home. Tho parents may have just cause for aux loty and cafe but it is wrong and un just to shadow the young life of chil dren with anxieties they cannot appre ciate, and cares they cannot understand. Tho tendency to brood over trouble or misfortune increases with its indulgence. So, also, tho disposition to be cheerful and happy at all times increases with cultivation. This is by far the most ad mirable trait. Those who are sunshiny and cheerful in character always have the mast friends, and where are friends so truo and loyal and so desirable to perpetuato as those of home and family? The old comparison of tho b'.mt twig is as truo iu this case as in any other, and children who grow up in an atmosphere of foreboding of the future, anxieties about tho present ami cynical reflec tions on tho motives and actions of peo ple about them, aro training a tendeiicy to bo miserable and sad, and in their turn east shadows, instead of sunshine, on the path of all about them. National rrctbykrutn. orin-sAxavixK Washington Herald. A visionary local financier, who Lal a thousand wars to make a fortune and not a single ono to make a living, is described by a friend as "a man so sanguine that tho mero getting hold of a shoestring makes him think he is al ready tho owner of a tannery." Philadelphia T.mes: Tho mission of the orator is not over, but his influence is weakened every timo the mountain of elocution labors and brings forth suet insignificant mice. Burgh: The proud have no friends; not in prosperity, for then they know nobody; and not in adversity, for then no one knows them. IHO HEAD TO FOOT. The postmaster at North Buffalo, Pa,, Mr. M. J. Green, say St Jacobs Oil, the great piti-oqueror, cured him of pains lii the Dead, and also of frosted feet A College Oponinir l'he Centuries Ago. And now the great day arrived when Wykeham's work was sufllciontly com pleted to allow of the first "seventy faithful boys" to be reccivod within its walls. Ou March ISM, all tho good folk of Winchester, both lay and cler ical, assembled to witness tho opening of tho collego and to see tho little bund of scholars, headed by their master, come down from St Giles' Hill, chant ing psalms as tbey entered into pos session of their promised land. Since that time both dress and fashion have changed more than the stone walls, but standing in tho almost unaliered quad rangle wo can picture to ourselves the fourteenth ceutury;crowd who, partly from curios'ty, partly from admiration of their bishop's work, would be press ing forward on thatspring day to share in the proceedings -the poor in their rough untauned shoes, leathern breeches (galligaskins ns they were called), and their smock frocks of rus set or undyed wool; the richer citizens, though clad much iu the same fashion, had liner material, while those in longer dresses looked much liko the "blue-coat" scholars of our own day. Somewhat apart from the villoius and tradespeople stood tho knights and no bles, decked in silk and velvet their cotio hardio or tight-fitting vests (from tho sloeves or which hung lon strips of cloth) partly hidden by a or'ghtly col ored mantle fastcuou jauntily at the shoulder. A few had hats with feathers in tlicm, that fashion having just como in; others wore small hoods tied under the chin and ornamented with jewels or gold. Below their parti-colored hoso their very conspicuous long shoes were noticeable, some with toes bending up ward like the claws. of a bird and loopod with chains of gold or s'ilvcr to the knees, 6adly impeding the move ment of thoir owners. Rng' A lllus ruled Magazine. Liquid Manure. Any sort of manure infused in water, which is then ponrod over tho soil, con taining the roots of the plants to bo fed, constitutes liquid manuring. Nature manures similarly with tho water of rain, which, falling on the surface, dis solves a small portion of whatever plant food may be there and carries it to the roots. It will bo seen that there Is a great advantage in the slow solubility of the surface plant food; wet seasons dissolve it foster than plants consume it and it wastes, so that after wet sea sons, we usually havo reduced crops, and good ones 'after dry seasons: (with water) in dry couutries. Liquid ma nuring is largely used in pot culture of plants and fruits. As in feeding ani mals, moderation and dilution are ad visable. It is a means of supplying at any moment, and iu any degree, what nature feeds irregularly, and often slowlv. With it, pure sand alone is n sutlieient and excellent soil. -Ar. X. Tribune. KOT QUOD ENOUGH Inter Ocean. A Boston lady having more thnn onca pestered a New York friend with her pitiful surprise that ho had never yet visited Boston, was in a measure satis fied with this explanation : "The truth is, madam, I have never felt that 1 was good enough to go to Boston.'' . Professor Proctor says tho earth ts still iu her youth. That explains whv she goes around so much and is out so late of uights. Tcxai Sif lings. m After eating two quarts of ice-crea i. nt a church fair, James Gormlcy, o' Setauket. N. Y., went home and dropped dead. N. Y. Sun. Thoinai A. Edisoj says that in "fiftv years, or possibly sooner, we shall reach the electrical millennium.'' "THBOW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS." It has come to this with all who are using the new Vitalizing Treatment now being se widelv dispensed by Drs. Starkey P, T I llJKi fltaA dImiqI T, I In ,1,! .V, in Pa., specialists in Chronic diseases. This is not a drug treatment. It does not in troduce an enemy into the system, but a kind and gracious healer. It does not as sault or depress nature, as is always the case when crude drugs are taken, but comes to her assistance and restores her weakened vital forces. All of its effects are gentle, pervading and vitalizing. If vou are suffering from aay disease which your physician has failed to cure, send to Drs. Starkey & Palen, for their pamphlet, and learn all about this wonderful treat ment. All orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment directed to II. E. Math ews. 60(1 Montgomery Street San Fran' clsco, will be tilled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in i'Miaaeipnia. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is a certain cure for that obnoxious disease. England imports between 4,000,000 and o,U(JU,nuu ot apples annually. "KO PHYSIC, BIB, IN MIRE!" A good story comes from a boys' board ing school in "Jersey." The diet was monotonous and constipating, and the learned principal decided to introduce some old-style phvsic in tho apple-sauce, and await the happy results. One bright lad, the smartest in the school, discovered the secret mine in his sauce, and pushing hack his plate, shouted to the pedagogue, "No physic, Bir, in mine. My dad told me to use nuthin' but Dr. Pierce's 'Pleasant Purgative Pellets,' and they are doing their duty like a charm!' They are anti bilious, and purely vegetable. The importation of tin plate now reaches the sum of $17,000,000 per annuo!. fJTFAUMERS. WHKN YOU VISIT BAN Francisco remember tliat the American Ex clianire Hotel continues lobe the dinners' hoiul quHrtctK; under tlie experienced management ot Charles Montgomery, the IraveliiiR public re afwured of fair, honorable treatment; board and room per day, (1. $1.25 and $1.60; nice single rooma. 50 cents er niht; this hotel stands at the head of the list for respectability, and con sequently is doinx an extensive family business; it is strictly a temperance hotel, havuip no con nection directly or indirectly with a saloon that is next door in the same building; Montgomery's Temperance Hotel on Becond 9treet wan the first tcriijieranee hotel ever started in San Francisco (It years ago) and haa the larreat number of steady patrons of any hotel in the State; board and room, ft to 9i per wee, or 7a cents toll per day; single rooms, ii to SO cents per night; when you visit Ike city dont forget to try either the American Exchange or Montgomery's Hotel; both hotels have free coaches to and from all steamers and trains. CHAKLE3 MONTGOMERY. Proprietor. CATARRH A New Treatment whareby a permanent cure is effected In fjpm one to three applications. Particular and trea tise free on receipt of sUmp. A. IL Dixon & Son, 906 King street west, Toronto, Can. CAUGHT BY AW OCTOf US. A dlvar w ho was trying to find pearls off the Alaska coast, found none, but found himself all of a sudden, in the grasp of an uglv octopus with arms twenty-seven feet long. Such an experience is rare; but there are thousands of people who are caught bv dyspepsia, which is quite as bad. An octopus hates to let go. So does dyspepsia, brown's Iron Hitters settles dyspepsia, and makes it loose its cruel grip. Mrs. Schmidt and her daughter of i;ttl Conway street, Baltimore, were both cured of dyspepsia by the use ot brown's Iron Iiltters. Vita Oil. Vita Oil. Vita Oil.. Vita Oil Vita Oil. V1U OU. ",U1U If you want a handsome photograph go to the only first-class gallery in Portland Abcll & Son, 2U Washington street. ' Chest protectors may be called bosom friends. It's no secret nostrum. We speak ot Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed, com posed of best French Brandy, Sniart Weed, Jamaica Ginger and Camphor Water. It cure cholera morbus, colic or cramps in stomach, diarrhoea, dysentery or bloody-flux, aud breaks up colds, fevers and inflammatory attacks. Young ladies ought to make good sleight-of-hand performers. If you want a gosd smoke, try "Seal of North Carolina," plug cut." Thare iz no trechery In silence. Silence is a hard argument to beet. Josh Hillings. "Ilellol" we heard one man say to an other, the other day. "I didn't know you at first. Why! you look ten years younger than you did when I saw you last." "I feel ten years younger," was the reply. " You know I used to be under the weather all the time and gave up expecting to be any better. The doctor said I had con sumption. I was terribly weak, had night sweats, cough, no appetite, and lost llesh. I saw Dr. Pierce's 'Golden Medical Dis covery' advertised and thought it would do no harm if it did no good. It has cured me. I am a new man because I am a well one." Dane county, Wis,, raised 7,050 acres of tobacco this year. Dr. Henlerfa Celery, But and Irn is the best Nerve Tonic ever discovered. BUYERS OF FUB5ITUBB, Don't fail to visit the extensive warerooms of the Indianapolis Chair Manufacturing Company. You will save 15 per cent. No. 750 Mission street, San Francisco. A CA R D. To all who are Buttering from er rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak ness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc., I will send a recipe that wiU cure yon, FltfaK OF CHARGE. This great remedy waa discovered by a missionary in South America. Bend self addressed envelope to Kgv. Jobkuu T. Ivman, Station U, Now York. THE TESTIMONY OF A PHYSICIAN. James Boocber, M. D., ot Sigourney, Iowa, says: "For several years I have been using a Cough Balsam, called DR. WM. HALL'S BAL SAM FOR THE LUNGS, and in almost every case throughout my practice I have had entire success. I have used and prescribed hundreds of bottles since tho days of my army practice (1803), when I was surgeon of Hospital No. 7, Louisville, Ky." FOB THB0AT DISEASES AND COUGHS. Broien s Bronchial Troches, like all really good things, are frequently imitated. The genuine are sold only in boxes. Hostetter'a Stomach Ifttt ib fine Mood rtipuront, rntioniil cathartic and anuiwrh autl-hilioiuttpedtio. It nil lit the fuilinv en ertftt of thetleltilitat ami eheiku prema ture decay. Fever wid ague, Mlious remit tent, dyaieiia and Itowel conipluititB are amur.f the e? iU which it entirely removes. In tropictil count rit'f, where the liver and bowel art orgaim inont unfavorably affected by tbe combined influ ence of climate, diet ami wutvr, it in a very Decennary iafeKUarti. For wile by all Drug g'itn and Deulers gcu erally. mm TUTTPS IPBILLbS c "THE OLD RELIABLE." 25 YEARS IN USE. lis Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age! Indorsed all over the World. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Losjofappetlte. Nansea,bowelscos: tiye. fainln the Head.wiih a dull penr satioain the back parti Pain under the shoulder-blade, fullness after eau ijwdisincjinantoxertion of body or mind. Irritability of temp er, LopirUsjLossofniemory,wit a feeling of having neglected gome duty weariness. Dizziness, Flntterj ing of the Heart, Dotsbefore theeyes, VellowSkln.Headache,Restlessnes3 at nlghtj highly cdloredTUrine. H THESE WARNINGS ABE UNHEEDED, DISZA2I3 WILL GOON Bl CSVEUFtfi. I01TS FILLS are espeeially adapted to such cafws, one close etl'ucta auoh a change of feeling as to astonltih the sufferer. They Iucrraae the Appetite, and cause the body to Take on Flaxh, thus the ays tern is noirlhd, and by their Tonic Action on tlin ItiffeMive Ornai, lteRtt lar Ntool nro produced. Price lf eenn. TUTTS HAIR DYE. Grat lUtn or Whiskers changed to a OtiOsT Black bvasiuRlo npplicntion of thin Drs. lt Imparts a iiitturul color, sets Instautaneouslv. Sold by UrnggisU, or sent by express on receipt of $ 1. Office, 44 Murray St.. NewYork lit a 'al vert's Carbolle ' I J . . M M M III I All SHttr WASH. V! per Cation. After itippliifr he hi.,, !' ue(ul fir pneriiif ct hitles, destroying thevine pert and tor wheat dressing nJ disinfectliigpurpascs.etc- T. W. Jackson, a ., Sola Agent for WrHflc rut COShotCurv Revolvers, Rities, Etc. L G.uns, Rifles, Etc. Breech and Muxrie-Lnadinsr Guna. Ridea, Pis tols, Ammunition of all kinds, Snortinir Uooai. Fishing Tackle, at Wholesale and ItetaiL Thos. Cotrel, SM OBtxBtrr Nt. Han Fraarlae. AU order- by mail or otherwise carefully and promptly attended to. 1 X