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y ,n THE INDEPENDENT, rV B1IIBID Every Thursday Erening, THE 1 Ad ndeDendent I.KOAL AOTCRTIIKXXITf (coin.) One squara or )rm, one InMrtlun .......... .fl W Ou luare tacit suti-rquciit turUon... 80 Bl'ttlWKMK AIIVKKTlMKSf KXTM (cln.J BY II. is. i. v i-:. Office, - - - Old Court House, ; aim TIME, 1 q. J M). j I aq. j 4 aq. VeulM eoll eol. 7 WpHW gtOB l I II wasj 40.' 10 0ft' 17 Sffi ar 50 asoo M 00 woo tl H II ooi Tfrwof KuhM-rlptiou (ruin rnlm.) is ui ilntrtV copy pr y?,. Mftg! copy alx month f MlgJ nun .. , IT M .ti . 1 50 VOL. 4. HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1876. NO. 5 now 80 01 JmonUii... 4 00 ISO TOO months... too Ton ion month... T 60 10(11 M Ml I rr 10 00, 14 0 JO 00 From Shore to Shore. n"v eim r.Miti.iRTv. O give nie buck the happy days That fuiled from me long ago; The scenes oil which 'twere oliss to gaze. The friends v hose smiles hail made t)im so The sunny lioj.es iiiuliinnied with fears, The tender trust, the vows so true. The love that all the past endears, Tlie perfect peace my bosom knew. give nil- lui' k youth's glory fled, Its fragrance and its melody. And all the joys now cold and dead. That once made life so sweet to me. Eut sighing through the Iteiihns of Spate, Time passed upon his silent flight, And left on every human face An impress that foretold his misfit. Alas, an nge wc backward gaze, I'pon the lie. thus of Nevermore, Still seen through memory's golden haze While sailing on from shore to shore. Fate's Choice. There were just one hundred and three of us as we marched out of the little in land village that morning, drums heat ing, flags flying and men shouting and women weeping u farewell. It was .May, loul, and we were going to the "front. A inontli later, w hen tlie roll was called on the heights at Georgetown,' there were only an even hundred in Company . Death had el. dined the three even he fore they had snutled war's powder-breath. And a month later still the roll was called on the morningof .Manassas. Foot sore, hungry, excited and anxious, the men answered "aye" ami "aye," and there were ninety-seven re-ponses, mak ing jnst a hundred with the three com pany otlieers. Would we tight? I saw our captain look dow u our line. There were printers, lawyers, mechanics, stu dents, farmers and day laborers in Com pany G, and not a 11111 knew what grim war was. I )own across the meadow, up along the edge of the wood, and there we rested and waited until tlie fight opened waited half an hour longer than that, and then came the order to move. It was like a dress parade, as we inovud by the left ll.mk, down across the old pasture, ami into the edge of the. blue cloud jf powder smoke floating on the morning air. Only the men's faces were white and their eyes'anxious a.-t they caught the roitr of mu.iII arms and felt the ground tremble under the discharge of tlie heavy cannon which were throwing shot and shell into the hillside above us. Down went a company to the edge of the forest, spread out like a fan, and the skirmishers were hidden bv smoke. The rattle of musketry increased; they had found targets tor their bullets. Standing in line, we looked down into the smoke cloud, trembled a little, and then came the order to go' forward. March! much! and then the smoke hid Us, and we .-truck the Confederate line of battle thrown out in front of an earthwork. - Crash! crack! roar! The line wavered, fell back, sprang forward again with 11 cheer, ami we; were all there all but those dead or wounded. Jt was like a w ild dream. Forward retreat forward now at the earthwork, now hurled back by the sheet of llame, ami finally driven back, to stay. A thousand men had been fighting three thousand, ami there could be but one result. The roll was called at Arlington Heights, and seventy-four men responded seventy-four from ninety-seven twenty-three of the rank and tile of Company G left dead along the little creek which -meanders past banks of willows, over beds of gravel, ami around gray old trees which have felt the blasts of half a cen tury. We had no wounded ill dead all lying under the smoke-stained leaves of the dark foiest. It wais'sad, and yet glorious. There would be thirteen wid ows in the little hamlet, and ten sons and brothers would be wept for, but we had been tried in the balance, and Company G had made the whole regiment famous. "Winter nine, and war was chained for a w hile. When the south w ind blew the frost away and war shook olf its lashings, there were but seventy men to answer roll call. With 111 1 1 til ,-d drums and arms re versed we had fallowed the others to their lat sleep, ami they cared not w hether it was war or peaee. The Peninsula cam paign was not for us, but the thunder of .Jackson's cannon as he swept down on to Manassas a second time, called us ni-j lie was a tl ail, we the jjraia it was ml) longer a battle, but a slaughter. In the sjray of morning his column came feeling through the wootls and over the tields to find us. We. heard him coming. There was a weak brigade to oppose ten thou sand Confederate muskets, but if we could hold l.im for one hour more, help would come. Company G went 'roiipino through the woods tu, it 111 nii.i to meet death. There were but sixty-eiht of us then, and it was a poor, tlii.i skirmidi line which c-pt under the trees and fright ened away the birds jnt sin-;in.f their inoininej souths. We crouched down lie side a fence, and saw a heavy line of irruy come over tlie mil ami halt way across the open field, a;id then Death took com matid. We staprcd their line, and as it bent back and twisted about like a hue serpent in his death strule, we cheered until the forest leaves danced and Ojiiivered. Tlie line straightened, and with answering cheer it came forward five hundred muskets to sixty-eight. And yet we held our own, ami let them come, and men fought hand-to hand over the fence, with clubbed muskets and blood stained bayonets. Each riil h id its stain of blood; each corner had its burden of dead and .wounded. I hey hurled us back, and then the great battle opened all around us. I was first sergeant then, and when we fell back I was m command. Along the fence, w here deatli had struck them dow n, lay captain, both lieutenants, and thir teen of the rank and tile sixteen out of sixty-eight. The tiftv-two retreated be hind the line of battle, joined our regi ment, and again and again before night fall we gave Jackson' veterans shot for shot. It was to be, and when night fell the brave fifty-two were living and un harmed. After Manassas they filled us up to eighty-hve, but somehow we went on counting fifty -two, and felt as if tlie strangers were intruders. My commis sion of captain came one d iv. and the two lieutenants were men who had brave ly won their shoulder straps. At Sharpsburg we numbered forty-nine fortv-nine old veterans, I niein. The other three had been killed on picket. As we deployed to the lelt ot the pike, am) filed across the fields, I wondered if the new men would do us credit. We were eighty strong as a com pan v, and over thirty of the men hail never leen under fire. Lee's artillery was pounding at our column halt uu hour before our brigade got the order to move. Meadows, fields, groves, knolls, fences, and a creek ami we knew that Le was standing on the defensive and had a strong position. When the word came I could see that some of the new men trembled, but the old forty-nine took up their knapsacks and tell into line as it we were breaking camp. Down across the field we went, follow ing the double line of skirmishers, and at last we struck tlie enemy. lie hail a fence, a long ditch, ami a line of willows, and he did not yield until we crushed him by weight of numbers. As he retired we followed, men failing dead every moment. Unknown to us, a weak three thousand were piercing Lee's line, lie saw the danger, and a battery wheeled into fie gap, opened on us, and the left ami centre of our brigade swung back under the fearful rain of grapeshot and shell. The right caught t'ni order to re treat, and to go forward. Some fell back; others leaped the ditch with a w ild cheer, and charged the battery. Company G ed. Halt way to the guns we lett the recruits behind, and only the forty-nine kept on. Men could paiisc and retreat from tint charge, and no oife could call them cowards. The smoke and the flame hid us for a moment, and then we reached the guns, leaped over them, crawled under them, hot, stabbed, shouted and hurrahed. I he whole battery was ours! We seized the guns to drag them off, w hen a heavy line of battle came down through the gap. clo-ed it up, and men fought hand-to-hand over the cannon, over the caissons, ver the great heaps of dead on the grass. Less than three hundred Federals were ti-diting five thousand Confederates! It eould not last long. After a moment we were driven back, over the ditch, beyond the fence, into the federal line oi battle. '1'retty hot in there, Captain !" shouted brigadier, as the torn and mangled remnant halted to reform. "Pretty hot!" My God I it was the work of fiends and devils! Forty-nine of the bronzed old fighters of Company G hid dashed at the cannon; only twenty-four came back! Twenty-five were lying de. id. under the gnus, heaped up so they blocked the heavy wheels! The recruits were there to answer "aye" at the next roll call. No one thought ill of them; men cannot turn to devils at nice. We still had a strong company -stronger than some, but we went m counting twenty-four counting only those who would stand until touched by the 11. line of death. Both lieutenants were gone, and they gave me men from the ranks. We looked down upon the placid river from the north bank in front of Fred ericksburg, and when the blue column crossed we were near the front. We were still twenty-lour. Deatli had taken some of the new men, but the old ones had been spired. On through the curi ous old town, up through the valley be hind it, and then the line of battle fol lowed the line of skirmishers on to the low stone walls behind which Lee's vet erans were panting tor the word to tire. Their sheets of flame almost scorched our faces. The battle line melted, doubled, tw isted, and then we fell back, the living leaping over heaps of dead. Forward again, back again, and then the walls were hidden from sight by the piles of dead dressed in blue, and we did not charge again. Six of the twenty-four were left close to the w alls, and eleven of the ne men never answered the roll call again. It was n t war, it was not murder it was butchery. Uat no one murmured. Toe order had come to charge, and we had charged, though every soldier knew that he was charging into the open j tvvs of destruction. Xot a soldier in Company G had been wounded; not one of those who fell back to the river's bank could show a scratch from bullet or bayonet. It had been thus ever since our first battle. There was nothing to repot t under the head of "wounded" and "missing," but all the names of those who had heard their la-st roll call, went down under the head of "killed in action." When they fought it was to the death. After Fredericksburg more recruits came down to us. We received them kindly, but we kept on counting eighteen, just as if Company G would be wiped out when the last veteran went. And they said that my company was fated. Other companies had been deciinated,and other companies could show long lists ot "cap tured and "wounded, but no other com pany in the brigade had suffered like G. Tuen came Gettysburg. The eighteen old veterans w ere there, and the company numbered sixty-eight with the new men. Other divisions were held in reserve, or escaped the hottest of the tight, but ours was to leat back the fiercest charge of the bloody war the charge against It mud Top. S unehovv Company G was at the front again, aud as the tierce yells of the coming Confed erates were heard above the mighty roar of the cannon, I looked down the line. Some of the new men were looking this w ay and that, as if seeking cover, but the old veterans peered coolly through the sinoke,and waited w ith leveled muskets to catch the first glimpse of gray uniforms. Kfn across me nelUs came tlie chariuir. cheering host, up the steep hillside, aud men a sheet or flame leaped out and with ered them. The gray line was absorbed in that flame of death just as water dis solves salt. But a second line sprang at us, anu a mini ana a lourth, and then they were at the guns w hich w e were sup lorting. Some one trave an order. No one exactly understood it, but all rushei for the guns. Shrieks, groans, shots shouts, and. then the line of gray pusliei back the line ot blue. They were all around us front, right, left and man neither asked nor gave quarter. Back hack, went the line of blue, ami It nim Top, tlie key of Gettysburg, w as w on for tile Confederates. But only for a moment. A double line of blue pushed its way up through the sinoke, hurled itself forward, and Bound Top was won again. And how won! Men slipjw d ami fell on the bloody grass, heap of dead were piled up like logs, and the shrieks and groans ot the wounded were awful to hear. And when Lee faced southward, fight ing as he marched, I called the roll again. None wounded, none missing, but upon the crest of It mud Top w e left ten old veterans and fourteen new men. Ten out of eighteen, twenty-four out of sixty eight! The blood-thirsty tiend u ho wields the sword of war should have been satis fied with that. Sixteen more widow- back in the little country village, more orphans, more sobs and tears. Not out- of the living couhl show a won. !, but each of us would have rejoiced at the loss ot an arm at some grievous wound which would hive made the surgeons shake their heads and look seiioiis. Only eight left! Only eight men out of one hundred and three w ho marched out of the hamlet that Mi v morning ! Tin row men had fought well, and we re spected them, but we went on counting eight. three held commissions the other live were seigeanti not enough to officer the comp in y ! In the dusk of evening Stonewall Jack son came down through the- forests ami thickets iK'yond the U ippah tnuock, aud struck the federal camps, and opened the battle ot the Wilderness. 1 he eight old veterans of Company G were there, and the new men made up a band of fortv strong. As we heard the crash of mus ketry over on the lett, our ioor, skeleton brigade, numbering twenty-three hundred instead of four thousand, fell into line md pushed on through the stunted pines after a line of skirmishers. Company G was on the left of the skirmish line, and we found the enem first a heavy liueof gray coming through the wilderness at a lalf run. D.wn we knelt among the vines and bushes, and our lire checked them. They fired a few wild shots, re treated a little, and then we leaped up Mid drove them 1 band of forty drove a double line of skirmishers, supported by a line of battle. History has not told it to the world, but blood was left on the vines and corpses on the ground to prove it. They were feeling over strange ground, after a foe whose strength was not known, and that was the reason of our success. We pushed tbeiu back to the line of battle, attacked that, ami then we wen; tossed back, torn and bice ling, almost blotted out of existence as a com pany. Of tic; eight old veterans, six were lying deal under the trees; of the new men twenty-live answered roll call after the Wilderness! Was that war or ! uightei ( A captain and a second lieutenant only were left to represent the one hundred ami three! The end was not yet, but the end was coming. There were no new recruits fu my company, but we marched toward Richmond, numbering twenty-seven. II is the country forgotten the fierce conflict at Petersburg? As we fell into line to make twenty-seven more in the brigade, I saw the Lieutenant looking at me. P.or fel low! there was no need for him to speak. Would this ti;ht wipe out the old com pany entirely, or would one be spared? Aud which one? He had a wife I had none. I hop;d he might live to call the roll after the battle was over, ami that diMth would have taken me. The line quivered as they felt the order coming, and then it dashed at an earth work, went forward with the same old cheer which had been its own ever since its bronzed veterans heard the w histle of bullets. But it was too much for us. They had forgotten hour weak we were, and some one had blundered. The lines withered before the storm ot shot; we fell back, were charged in turn, and I went down among the heaps of dead and wounded. The roar of battle died aw.iv in a moment, daylight changed to datk ness and w hen I opened my eyes again the surgeons stHd over me, and my left arm was gone. There was no one to call the roll. The stark, stitl'f inn of the lieutenant had been given to earth, and the seven men who represented Company G looked to them selves. Fate hid a choice who should be taken and who left, and death passed me by. I alone of the one hundred and three veterans returned to the country village to tell them how this one and th it one died; to he ir the sobs of w id vv and or phan, until my heart ached. Sometimes in my day reveries or night dreams I call the roll again, and shadowy foiins stand in line, and ghostly voices answer "ave" and "aye," until I start up with a sob" in my throat at the remembrance of those who sleep in the trenches, beside the Po tomac, 'neath the shadow of It utid Top, along tht; K ipp iliannock, ami down urn hi the dark thickets of tlie Wilder ness, sleeping there never to know war again. C. B. Lkwis, in the G tlixy fur April. AltlSTOCIt VTIO Pit KTF.NDKKS IN Fu.YM E. The social value of the de is so enor mous that it is the commonest thing in the world to usurp it. The odd thing is that it makes little difference whether the title is lorne legitimately or by a noto rious and fraudulent usurpation. It is like current coin you are respected for possessing it, whether you came honestly by it or not. Official recognition will. of course, transmute such pinchbeck into "old. If the false noble can make him self useful to the government, he becomes at once really noble. The false nobles are generally the loudest legitimists in the country. O.i the other hand, there are manv descendants of the true old nobleste who are pursuing humble occu pations. They keep small shops, are saddlers, perhaps, or smiths. Poisoned Sleep. Sleep is a boon commonly regarded ns priceless; but it may be purchased too dearly. Macbeth murdered sleep; a very large and unhappily increasing mimlier of well-meaning but. misguided persons poison it. The medical profession has a keen interest in the growing practice of habitual recourse to sleep-potions be cause it is w ith the connivance of the pro fession, if not under its specitic advice, that these soporific poisons are employed. We think tlie time Ins come when some strong means should be taken to clear medicine from the reproach of counte nancing the lay useof opium, chloroform, chloral, chlorodyiie, and tie; rest of the sleep priHlucers. The public should be told that they are playing with poison. If they escape a so-called "accident" which ends in sudden death, they are scarcely to be congratulated, since, if the body does not die, the brain is disordered or disorganized, ami the mind enfeebkal. and the moral character depraved, or evils hardly less deploraole than death are entailed. the consideration may be agonizing, but it is urgent. The sleep produced by these narcotics or so-called sedatives let them act as they may "011 the nervous system directly" or "through the blood" is poisoned. Their use gives the persons employing them an attack of cerebral congestion, only differing 111 amount, not in kind, from the condition which naturally issues in death. There is grave reason to fear that the real na ture of tlie operation by which these del eterious drugs, one and all, bring about the unconsciousness that burlesques natu ral sieep, is lost sight of, or wholly inis umlerstood, by those who h ive free re course to poisons on the in st frivolous pretenses, or with none save the exigency of a morbid habit. Great responsibility rests on medical practitioners, and noth ing can atone for the neglect of obvious duty. The voice of warning must l; raised instantly and urgently if a crying abuse is to be arrested, anil fiaal loss of confidence in drug avoided. The L incet. How Fishermen Cook Fish. A correspondent, who visited the fish eries of the Not th, says, "It was night fall. The men had just returned from setting their nets, and were busily pre paring supper. In some of the cabins were ancient and rude fireplaces of stone. ami from them the tires gleamed warm and chcrlul. Great pots id water were steaming, and generous slices of salt Mrk and the daintiest parts of the dainty white fish were sputtering in tlie frying pans. Two or three tires were burn ing on the beach, for some of the men have a notion that an open tire is better to cook by than is the stove, and then, too.it affords an op;wu tunity to prepare tin; fish in the most popular manner aiiiongtheiii ; that is, baking it 011 a board. Die fish are p cpire l and seasoned. pinned to a board by warden pegs and then board and all are propped up cloe to the fire. The fish is very quickly baked brown, and by this method it retains all its flavor. Another popular but lazy method is to cover the fish with clay two inches thick, and throw it into the hot test of the fire. The clay hardens almost instantly, and the fish in its tough oven bakes through and through, retaining also its juices. The clay is then poked out of tin fire, cooled w ith a dash of wa ter, and a sharp stroke w ith a stick sepa rates it from the fish. The fish's skin peels off with the clay and the dish is readv. Plain bread and potatoes coiisti- sute tin; rest of the meal. Eoo Saick fou Pi odinos. Warm a tablespoon heapim full of butter, until it is a little soft, but not melted; stir into this four heaping tablespoons of white -ugar until it is creamed; leat very light the yolks of tw and the white of three eggs and stir them into the sugar and butter; bring three wine glasses ot gixd wine to a boil, pour it boiling hot over the other ingredients, stir it all to- 'ethcr. FitKveu To st. Save all the slices of stale bread and prepare as follows: Beat in egg on a plate and have a small dish t milk st in ling close at hand; dip the slices of bread first in the milk, and then turn them on each ide in the egg, ami lay them at once on the hot pan with a little butter. Frv to a nice bro vn, and end to the table hot. It may be eaten with butter, syrup, or sugar. V"ki. SwEK'NJTiKr. Trim it and par boil for five minutes. Then throw it into a basin of cold water; roast plain, or beat up the yolk ot an egg and prepare some breadcrumb. When the swoct- re.Ml is cold, dry thoroughly, run a skewer through it and tie it on the spit; egg if, po .viler with breadcrumbs and roast. Serve on butt "red toast with gravy. Potato Pi;kps. One pint of milk boiled, one-fourth pound of butter or lard, one tablespo uiful ot sugar, six good potatoes mashed hot, flour to make a thick bitter. L"t rise very light, then knead into soft dough, roll thin, put two together; let rise two hours and bake in hot oven. Fkiko Oyster. Simmer for a few minutes in the liquor, then drain till quite dry; dip in yolks of eggs, and then in breadcrumbs, seasoned with nutmeg, cayenne and salt. Fry light brown. Serve with thick melted butter, moistened with oyster liquor as sauce. Washinotox Pie. One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, four table sxonfuIs of sweet milk, one-half table spoonful of so 1. 1, one tablespoonful cream of tartar, one cup of flour. Bake in two layers, w ith jelly, fruit or cream between. Farixa - Tapioca Griddle - Cake. Soak one pint of Durkee's Farina-Tapioca in one pint of milk overnight. In the morning add one quart milk, one quart flour, a teaspoonful salt, two well-leaten eggs, aud two teaspoonfuls of baking K)wder. Delicate Spoxoe Cake. Use the whites of ten eggs, one and one-half tumblers of flour, teasjMonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of salt; lemon to suit the taste. Bake aljout thirty-five minutes or more. Queen Victoria's Crown. One gem at least in the crown which was borne before her Majesty not long since is ot great antiquity and of high historic interest. The large sapphire, the partial drilling of which suggests that it may have tormerlv figured 111 the turban of home K istem Suit in. was purchased, it is true, by George tlie IV'.; but in front ot the diadem ami in the centre of a Mal tese cross of diamonds is the famous ruby given to Ldward the Black Prince by IVdrn, King of Cistile, after the battle of Nejeva, A. D. Lf'17. Tins same ruby was worn by Henry V. in his helmet in Agin- eourt. I he gem is pierced right through Otherw ise, albeit each particular diamond, emerald, and pearl in the dazzling gal ixy may have its own pedigree ami legend no authentic record of the crow 11 jewels has been preserved, and Queen u toi ias crown, structurally speaking, is a very modern aifiir indeed. The famous lory crow 11 of Sir It obert Vyner, which the crazy worn in mutilated in lSl-, had served at the coronation of William IV'.; but, us it weighed more than seven pt.u ids troy, it was tlfci led that the ponderous gewgaw should be broken up and that a new and permanent crown imperial should be fashioned. The new crown, after hav ing been examine'! and approved by Iter Majesty, was exhibited during the last week in June, IH'-li, to a large party of friends by Messrs. Itundell k Bridge, at their premises in Ludgate Hill. Origin ally tht; cap w as of purple, or rather dark blue velvet; but at the last moment this was changed to one of crimson. Purple Is, indeed, the proper iin;erial hue; but it should not be forgotten that such a purple cap of maintenance is still extant in I he crown of St. Kdvvard, which, in its actual form, only dates frmii the reign of Charles II., when it was made to replace the coronal worn by the Confessor at the altar. St. Kd ward's crown has arches ami fillets covered with large multi colored jewels of no very exceptional value; and this is the one whLh Colonel BIimkI stole. Her Majesty's crow 11 is con structed out of the fragments of half a dozen of bygone insignia of regality which were broken up in 1S:JS, and which im-imled the diadem worn by Mary of Moilena, by Q leen Caroline ami tj'icen Charlotte as t leea's Consort, and that assumed by M try I Land Anne as leen's It -g iant. Thus the British crown may, as a comparatively new thing made up of very ancient materials, le held to pre sent a sulliiiently striking likeness to the British constitution, wh ch h is itself been broken into very small pieces, which has been patched and mended, enlarged, and renovated over ami over again. Liter' ji'tol Alh ion. Mr. Skidm ore'n Bugle. Mr. Peter Skidm re, of Gcrniantow 11, plays a little 011 the bugle. One night last summer he went into the parlor in the dai k and felt over the top of the piano for t!u; horn. It happened that his aunt from IVim s Grove had Ix-en there that day ami had left her brass car-trumpet lying on the piano, ami Peter got hold of this without perceiving the mistake, as the two were ot similar shape. He took it in his hand ami went out on the porch, where Miss Mills was sitting talking to his sister. lie asked Miss Mills if she was font I of music on the horn, ami when she said she adore. 1 it, he asked her how she would like him to play "Kver of Thee," ami she said that was the only tune she caret! anything lor. So Peter put the small end of the trumiM't to his lips ami blew. lie blew ami blew. Then he blew some moie, and then he drew a fresh breath and blew again. The only sound that came was a kind of a hollow moan, which sounded sit tpieei ly in the tlarkncss that Miss Mills isked Inni it l e was not well. And when he said he was, she said that he went ex actly like a second cousin of hers that had the asthma. Then Peter remarked that somehow the horn was out of order for "F.ver of Thee," but if Miss Mills would like to hear Swecetly I dreamed, love," he would try to play it; and Miss Mills said th.t the fondest recollections clustered about that melody. So Peter put his trumpet to his lips again ami strained his lungs severely in an effort to make some music. It wouldn't come, but he made a very singular noise, which induced Miss Mills to ask it the hor.se in the stable back of the house had heaves. Then Peter said he thought somebody must have plugged the bugle up with something, and he asked his bis ter to light the gas in the entry while he cleaned it out. When she did so the car- trumpet became painfully conspicuous, and lnth the girls laughed. When Miss Mills laughed, Peter looked up at her with pain in his face, put on his hat and went out into the street, where he could say over some sensational language to hi !! self. lie is courting another girl now, and learning to play on. the piano. Phild dclphia Bulletin. Model. Metiiou ok Divorce. The "marriage knot" among the Burmese is very easily undone. It two iiersons are tired of each other's society, they dis solve partnership in the follow ing touch- 1 ... i,. :. . ti .. Hlg oui ti'iaiusns iii.oinci. 1 ney 1 e- spectfully light two candles, and, shutting up their hut, sit down ami wait quietly until they are burned out. The one whose can 11 ; bums out first gets up at once and leaves the house (ami forever). taking nothing but the clothes he or he may have on at the time; all else becomes the property ot the other party. "I BcrrosE," remarked a Chicago man to a gentleman of Michigan, "there are plenty ot saw-mills in your state." The gentleman of Michigan replied: "Shud say there wuz. Why, Michigan is trettin' so full uv saw-mills that you can hardly meet a man thar with niore'n two fingers on a hand." And sticking up a paw on which was a single finger, he quietly added, "I ve shuck hands with um myself." FniEXDsnrp may and often does grow into love; but love never subsides into friendship. Byron. Anecdote of Hojalty. Lucy II. Hooper, wilting from Paris to Appleton $ Journal, gives the following anecdote of Iving Louis of Bavaria. The incidents occurred during the King's o journ at his roynl Chateau de Berg. Littler penalty ot fine Mini arrest, it is forbidden to any one to enter the paths reserved for the king. Une day his nod Csty met, face to face, a stout young fel low, who was promenading there very mi- ceienioiit uisiy. 1 ho king s'opped him and asked him who he was. "I am from Switzerland,' he answered, "ami I am a atudeut at t.iu Munich Lid versify." "Ah! you arc a Swiss'" said tlie king with a kindly air. "Vou ought to know Schiller'. William Tell' by heart." "I could iccite to you w hole acts of 1 1 ! "Admirable! I am charmed to have met y.u. Come to the caslle with me. ami we will play William Tell!"' "But, sir, the castle belongs to the king!" "No matter! I nm his most intimate fiiend. Come, you will sec that wo shall be permitted t enter." "Let us try then, sir, since you desire to do so. They set out together. "Do you like Munich?" "No; it is a stupid city, ami the best proof of ih it is tlie king U never there." "Aad what ilo they say of the king?" "On! they say that he is a light irooJ fellow at heart." Louis II. could not help nulling. "Have you ever seen him?'' "Never! I am a republican, sir; but I am told that he is very handsome, ami that the women are wild about him," Would yo i like to dine with him?" "Vou are making game of me, are you not?" Not at all si,ct. inviteyou myself." ".Since then, sir oh, pardon perhaps you aie the king?" "Xoii are 1 iglit, and you arc my pris oner !" They had reached the chateau, and the sentinels presented arms. After dinner the king seated himself ut his piano, and plaicd the overture to " William Ted;'' he then caused the stil- leut to declaim the whole of Schiller's li'auia. The next day they began again. Th king gave the replies on that occiiioa Vt the cud of the third day he sent oi 'uest, in one of the royal carriages, back to Munich, ami I'orw aided to him, hoi tly titer, a gold watch with the scene of the Gi utli engraved upon its case. Woman. It has been said that to a in fin (incor rupt ami properly constituted, woman ilvvavs remains a mystery, ami we know that she herself ' desires to be considered t poem. Belovv we present some of the biightest thought of tlie noblest mind relating to this peculiarly iuteiesting and tender subject: Kindness in woman and not their beau teous looks shall win my love. Shakes- teate. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tcm- icst. W hafely. I ho foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. Landor. A w oman w ho has never been pretty has never been young. Madame Swet- nine. Woman do act their part when they do make their ordered houses kuow them. Sheridan Know les. Most men like in women what is most opposite to their own characters. Field ing. She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one. lturke. Women have more heart and more im agination than men. Lam.11 line. Women are extreme in all points. They are better or worse than men. Bi uyere. No Harm. Kev. Dr. W., of P., w hen h can find leisure, is fond of hunting and fishing. le is a ke n shot am a ready wit. Com ing home one day from a shooting excur sion, with several ducks in his hand, he met a Q laker fiiend whose salutation w as : , "Good morning, fi iend XV. Wher did thee get those ducks?" "I shot them, was the answer. "Well, does thee think it right to give pain to such harmless birds, and even to take away their life?" "Why not?" sail the doctor. "Vou know that they, as well as we, must die at some time; and if they can be of use to us as food, 1 jo not see any harm in shooting them, any more than killing the chickens you and I every day cat." "es," said the O laker. "I know every creature must die irhen it$ time cornea, but it seems cruel to take its life before that time." "Well," said the doctor, "fiiend II., when, with a well-loaded gun, I get my eye on a duck, generally find hit time ha come. So, even 011 your own view, there can't be anv harm in killing It." "All, friend W., '-aid theQ 1 akcr with laugh. 'I see it ia hard to get a way from thy wit as from thy shot." New York has a female was arrested recently on miser. She a charge of ink ket-iiicking, and 011 being searched at the Toombs it was found that she had two deep pockets concealed in the folds of her dress which contained two pocket books, ktulTed with greenbacks amount ing to over. $400, wrapped in pieces of cloth, bcsidci a bag of gold and silver coins, valued at $227, a silver watch, sil ver thimbles ana other articles. The prisoner showed conclusively that she had been hoarding this money for twenty years, and as none of it corresponded with the description given of the money alleged as stolen, she was discharged. Now that it is known what a mine she carries with her she will have to guard her treasure more carefully than she lias here tofore done. The late Mr. Ralston has two sons at school in West Newton, Mass. The Engine Driver's Story. In the autumn of IH'tii I was engineer on the Galena and Chicago Union Hail road, now the Galena Division of the great Chicago and Noithwcstern Hallway, and was stmt one Sunday from the junction thirty mdes w est of Chicago to Harlem, to In ing up several cars loaded w ith rail road iron. On arriving ut Harlem I found the turn-table broken, ami, therefore, went down to the limits, then llaUted street, to turn my engine about. At that time there were no houses between Iho city and Oak Hidge, nine miles out, It be ing a smoith, level prairie hII the wny, ami but liltle travel except on the cms. The road was mii ah dine, and when I had got half over the distance, I saw walking mi the track a young man ami a young woman, eac h one carrying a small parcel and having the appearance of fugi tive. That was long before Mr. Greeley had instructed - the young men to "go West," and this pair had really got ihe start of the Tribune seer, for they were going West as fast a they could walk, ami at the time of my meeting them, hail a long stretch before them that promised no pica-sing company except as they found in each other, After turning mr engine I started back, and in a short time overtook the wander ers, when I stopp'-'d the engine and in vited them to ride. At first Ihey xeemed a little timid, but I quieted their fears, imi having got them nicely seated in the cab, I started on. By severe questioning I learned tint the yning man hid beeu in the employ of a farmer in Chautauqua county, N. V.; that tho girl was tho onl y daughter of the farmer; that they had determinedon getting married against the wilt of the parents, and h id run away, seeking that haven of rest, Chicago. Here they got out of money, ami as thu young man failed to get work, they had started out to look for a place among tho farmers. I took him to tlu Junction, where his story awakened a good ileal of interest for them among the railroad men, resulting in placing him at De Iv ilb, as niglit-wiper of locoin itives. Here they continued through the w inter,and 11s I used to see them at times, I think I never saw two persons who seemed to be better or more lovingly mated then they. The fob iw ing spring I lost sight of them, but subsequently learned that they had re turned Last. A few divs after Christina. 187.1, I went into L'vereft' dining-rooms, Wash ington Mirket, New York, and ordered liuner. While waiting to be served, I saw a well-to-do farmer-looking individ ual enter ami take a seat at the next fable. Ie was in conversation with a butcher, ami I thought I recognized something amiliar in the voice mid features of the new-comer. So Impressed was 1 with the belief that I had seen him before, that on finishing my lunch approached and asked li 1 in it we had not met somewhere. He failed to remember having ever seeu me, ami I was about to go away when I asked if lit h id ever been on the North western Hallway, At first he answered in the negative, but quickly correcting limselt, ho said: "Why, yes, I was out there years ago." "iJnl you work ir the company? ' "Ves, I wiped engines at Di Kalb 0110 winter !" . Then, for the first time, it occurred to me w ht he was, ami I asked if ho remem bered being picket uu one Sunday be tween Chicago and Oak Itidgc. "I shall never forget I bat!' said he: "ami I kuow you must be the man who befriended me then, How my wife would like to see you!" And ho arose and grasped my hand in token of my ormer klmlues and Ids remembrance of It. I learned that his wife's parents had sent for them to come back the sprint that I missed them; that he hail finally come into possession of the farm, 011 the leath ot hi tathcMn-law; hail been very successful, and wa at that time delivering two car loads of stock to the butcher by his side. I spent a half hour with him, ami w e parted, 1 promising to call on him some good d ty, ami he assuring me that a good wife and two children would join 1 1 1 in in welcoming me to a pleasant farm home in Chautauqua county, whenever I rauvj there. Itochetter Krprett. Victor Hloo had recently dined with Arsene Hoiissaye, and tlie latter reports the old poet's defense of his belief in God anil immortality, as follows, in the Iribune: "I feel in myself, ho contin ued, "the future life. I feel like a foiest w hich ha been more than once cut down, The new shoots are stronger and live lier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The ftumdiiuc is on my lead. I he earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven light me with tho reflec tion of unknown world. iu fctiy the soul isnothing but the resultant of bodily powers. Why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to wane? Winter I on my head, aud eternal spring is in my heart. Thero I breathe at this hour tho fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and tho rocs, a at twenty year. , The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around 1110 the Itn- moital symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It in marvelous, yet simple." Blessed is the man who knows enough to keep Ui mouth shut. Some people livo sixty years without learning the art. In deed, the older they grow the wider their mouth open. A man or woman who i a gabbler at forty-five I a dreadful a 111 lo tion to a house or church or community. There arc two things this age need to learn when to say nothing, anil when to say anything to say It well. "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridlcth not hi tongue, this man's religion Is vain." Golden Jlule. Two village worthies met on the street one day. "Jamie," says the richer of the two, "are ye never gaun to pay mo that accoont? I'm ill alf for siller the noo." "Oh," says Jamie, "I liavena aeen ye this lang time. Could ye checnge a twenty pound note?" Ay, could I," says the laird, drawing nut his pocket-book. "Ah, weel," aays Jamie, "ye're no neediu' iller, then," and walked on. w