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PENDLETON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OHEGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1877.
NO. 26.
JflK wtTRir ??.! -.-
pttaa uJ n jtr y riaaa.
Nornlugr, Noon, and Evening.
She catne like the tnornlnjr, so frwh and so
fair,
With brow bullied neither by sorrow or care;
So gentle, so tender, angelic, and bright.
She seemed one unearthly a bclnj; of HchU
Not a sigh had escaped from that bosom of
snow.
She dreamed not of serrow, she thought cot
of woe;
She knew-not that men could so faithlessly
smile.
Or the vows of a lorer be prompted by putte.
I knew her a sueh In her mornioc of Mfe,
But the noontide was pascd amid sorrow
and strife;
That form once so bright, ami that fare once
so fair.
Were faded and worn by the furrows of care.
That lovc-beamlns eye, which with g'vctj
shone.
Its sweetness was left, but Its brightness was
pone;
She smiled, but bow allerM, bow bolj, how
faint.
Once she smiled like a Mry, but now Mke a
saint.
I saw her again, but the struggle was past,
And the end of her sorrows drew near to the
.last;
Her look was resigned and hrr beauty so
bright.
For a space was restored Hke a heavenly
llchL
We deem'd that she slept, but her spirit was
flowr.
The best flower of creation was perished and
gone.
The morning was calm and the noontide was
wild.
But the cvcnlngof life like the !cp of a child.
The Diamond Ring.
"IWir, Roxie, child r
A. young girl, lovely as the mo sing,
disengaged herself from tlie Uagliiug
guup around her, to rop'y t- the lady
vln called her.
-Well, auntie!" she said, with a back-wa-d
tisa of the s ftc brightest curls,
and a look of saucy deGauu out of arch,
hazel-brown eves.
"What was that. I Lca-d von av just
cowl'
Roxie colored, but lo ked finer still,
and laughed.
"I dout ctre," she said, panting very
liecnmingly the next momeut; "I Uo like
Frank Thorley, although he is pspi's
clerk. I thou'da't have said so, only
Ellen Richmond was tasking fan of whit
she calls his astcxancein dancing Kith me
so often to-night."
I wouldn't dance with hiai aaia, mj
dear."
"Why not, prayP Roxie exclaimed,
elevating her graceful ej etiro we.
"Because you are a very pretty girl, aed
he is a very handsome, impreadonable'
young man. You may do him much
harm."
uir
"Such flattering preference ai you are
eviscisg for vocngThof ley's sodey is
e.oughtn turn any young man a he id:
and coming fiom a girl in your p.-iition,
to a man in his, is calculate! lo do barm.
Takesiy advice, Roxie; be already sees
bo one in the room but you. Lavish your
witcheries on some one Irs liable to lose
Tiis wit in consequence of them."
R-ixIe turned away from her aunt a lit
tle pettishly, and stole ftom under her
thick lashes a furtire ?lance in joung
Tborleys direction. lie was, indeed,
watching her, with his heart in his hand
some eyes; and the vain little beauty
fleshed with pleaiure.
It was not long before Frank Thorley
asked her to dance with him again.
"lie is so handfome and graceful, and
so entertaining," Roxie mued, during the
instant's limitation. -1 tfiZf dance witu
him there I"
And awav g!e floa'ed in airy ctrcb-s.
lt can't do any liana," she costiaue 1.
with same inward mi-gtring, a her eyes
met auntie's mildly dtsajipr.ninglooV, or
fell benf-ath tlie irnpati..ned and almost
t o frankly almiri' g g ance of her com
aniun; "of cou se be knows I em par
ticularly kind to him, beciue be' papa's
clerk; end he can't be so r diculous ax t-
fall in b.Te wit'i roe really, and it in't
likely we shall cur be together this way
agaiu."
yiis Roxir, hotrevt r, was mTstaken in
her calculations. She had indulged a m -mcnary
whim, and hal insisted upon his
attending her party.
As a consequence, somebody ele in
vited him, and then somebody els', and
be was so handsome and entertaining
such a graceful addition to any circle
that before the winter was over, he had
become very popular, aid reccircd more
invitations titan be wai able to accept,
iloxie wai surprised, but secretlr p!eacd
at thi, and at the coatinuauce of his un
disguised and almost romsutic devotion
to herself. Rx;e accepted this derotinn
with occasion tl ieluctat.ee, occasional
misgiving as 1 1 where it as to end; but
she liked it too well to Irse, and wrs jcr
haps more interested at heart tit n she
realized hcrselL
Imagine her co3Strrnttioa when Frank
Thorlcj a-ked her to marry him!
"I I'm tony, Fjank," site inurmured,
almost iarohcnntly, a she drojtpcJ into
a seat.
Thorley's eyes flaliei momentarily.
You're done a wicked tiling, 'Miss
Roxie Lyle," he aid. "If ever woman
led mas to believe ahe loved lain, jou
did we."
Roxie stotijcd him there with a haughty
gesture, and sa angry, "You forget your
self, Mr. Thorley;" and she swept impe
rially past him, back to the drawing-room
she htd quilted a moment before on his
aim.
3tr. Vincent Lyle was at the heat of
e of the oldest firms in the city. He
wa a aaa of sterling integrity and up
riglitsess himself; and sternly severe upon
ssy dereliction iu aao her. His clerks
were ail liberally paid; and a young man
who could obtain a situation, be it ercr
o subordinate, -with Lyle & Uo, was con
sidered to have secured an uncommonly
good start in life. Dishosesty or un faith-
fulnet among the clerks of the dim was
rare; ptrtly lice -uc of the discrimination
derail in engaging them, tartly becaute
of the severe and summary reckoning ex
acted from the few oflenders.
Mr. Vincent Ljle wa not iadinol
therefore to dral Iceicatly with the author
of s-onie small but darini; sin-cu-atMa
that had been g-in on of late WW to
the guilty one, when he dionvrred him;
and fntn the smirching iavctigation he
wa makin , be wtu likely to do that s IH.
The matter worried him o long it liaAlctl
him; and he was sitting in his luxBriou
library at h-tne. pondering it, when Kiank
Tltorley sent iu a nle to him.
Tlie merchant sUrted, a he rad. mut
tering: "Sharp fellow, Tboriej. I watn't de
coived in him ! Show Mm , Jhi."
Mr. Lyleho-k haiMli with Mm warm
ly when he came in ; but Thwley !-cml
htrangeiy rductai.t, mI not a ittciwg the
oat the merchant offeicl him, remalnel
standing on the health ojp.Hie, hi f.ce
pale at.d hi. cvs in an unmoaIoI gtitter.
HJUd to yea, Thwrb-r, ghul to se
you. Shan't forg t it if yo can give tne
any clew to the author f tftt scaodaloui
burino,' Lvle said.
"15;liokl him,"' Frank tM. ge'tiag
wMter je.
Mr. Lvle statsl.
"It was I who s4eywroeoer," Frank
repented, with a half de-rrate eajthaiis
n the obn-xiou wonl is the Mtscr.
Mr. Ljle stated iuereduloIy a few
momoats HI. 1-efo-r be oaqM realize the
sti pendeusstsi uf the fact. He was ter
ribly aajry then. The very fct that he
bad been n ready to raeh for young
Thorley made Ms 'unfaithfulanM doubly
oalpable. lie rememlec-l scdtonly tlie
gay life the yBng man bad ticca leading
of late, tagne mm-r of kich bad
reached his cars, and said sternly, as 100a
as he could mitcr his voice ea-iosh :
"If you come here, thinking u move
me to thoughts of cirme&cy, yia will ,
find tearMdr mistakes." "
Xot for myself, Mr. Lyle," be said at !
last, sjteaking with difficulty; "bat far'
my mother s ike I do ask voir elemenev: !
not to retain me in your em ploy meat, bat
to give me a chance to begin again some
where else."
"And Serre soti nnr 4tv von Um
xntV" the tncrchmt exclaimed, with iroa-'
ical anger. "It is rather late u think f
jour mothtr, Tng man."
"I knaw it,"sir. Iflad aered no
other lore to enter mv heart bat Uve her.
I should net staad Ixst the guiltr wretch !
I am to night. Yet for her sike spare
me. I am her only son ber ealy sup-'
p-iri. If yu expo me you strikehcrte;
the heart."
Mr. Lyle ma le an imptlent movement, i
I tell yoa, jou should hve thgrt
of this before. It is tod late nw; tub
a a -
nave nau jocr cnaaee ad abased it
wickedly. Yoa mut tke the cease-qu-ces."
Tb trley was trmltling, and be could
hardly stand.
"Mr. Ljle," be said, huskily, 'd-.yeu
know how old I ami 1 am nineteen, sir.
and I never touched a Orthiog that ws ;
not my own oeJore.
It w time to end this," Mr. Lyle said,
ri-ing and approaching tte bdL "
"Wait one moment, si" Frank Thor
ley said, pauing between bim and the
bell-pull; an 1 his doperatr, anguished
look stayed Mr. Lyle an intant. "Shall
I tell jou who tempted me to de this
whose beautiful face came between me
and right, and lured me on to ruin! As
you hope fr mercy hereafter, sir, Lrar
me! li&ir bow I came to fall, and then
refuse to b- merciful, if you can."
"I am listening," said the merchant.
"I never saw Loados till two years agn,
and you yourself have commended me
for witlutinding it temptations. Yoa
know, sir, that 1 neither drink nor gam-1
ble. The smallnes of the amoant I have ;
taken must prove tltat your money was I
not seut in that way. You hate been
phrased to be very kind 1 1 me, -r. Do '
yoa remember urging upon me the ae '
cepunce of an invitation to a prty gives
by your daughter I I ws reluctot, but
I went, and from that hour my fae was !
elrL Te mot fa doating at-acda
tlie mo-t heartless of coquettes did t't
acorn to ret Iter aaa e fr me, to ilazzle !
tne with her lov lt ie, a id lu e me wit'i
her smiles. Tb-re is uo int nica ioM like
t'te firt love of ynuth, air; don't jou
kno tint? Tb're'b no ficaxj like that
inspired by a woman who make you live
ber. I lived in a delirium; I was mad
ou account i f this woman whom I loved,
and who seemed to love me, and I iu
curred a debt for ber a debt which, in a
wild moment, ra miect when I had Ju.t
been r&irufully cast ofT by her I paid
witli y ur money."
M liat was yourdebtr Mr. Lyle asked,
briefly.
"It was for a ring."
"A riog with a dumomlst-t in a cluster
of rutijeif1 the ru etch ant asked, with a
flniu of remembrance.
Yes, sir," Tfiorley said, reluctnnllr.
The merchant sat down, and, motion
ing Ttnrley to a soat, remained some mo
menu thoughtful, and with his face
tucn, uiut-iiiu i iic oeii, lie
1 r . 1 . . . . ...
waiicu, wiiue xranx money covcrvti ins
face with his hando.
"Tell Miss ltoxie I wisli lo see her
here," ho said to tlie servant who answered
his summons.
R ixie was jukt g-dog out, and she came
dressed as shs was for the patty, fleecy
white floating abmt her like cloud
wreaths, her lips ml, h-r checks aglow,
and her eyes spark line
Sbe reddened torocwhit at the sight of1
rrantc money s ghattiy race.
"Did you send for me, papaP sho
asked of her fattier, who sat with his face
in shadow.
For rcp'y. he reached and took her un
gloved hand in his. It wa a daiuty
hand, slender, small, and white, and glit
tering with rings, lie put his finger upon
one, a small diamond surrounded by
rubies, and lifted his glance to hers.
Roxie shrank a little, and looked a
though she were going to cry.
Turning toward Frank Thorley, Mr.
Lyle said: "Upon one condition I wild
forgive you. Repeat what you have just
said to wc, in the presence of this mis
guided girl."
P.ior Frank Thorley! lVrhtps he,
thought even ex.mure would be prrfer
ab'e to fuch humiliation before her whom
he loved. Perhaps a second thought of
his mother came and norved him. He
hesitated only a motm-nt, and told his i
tory with a half desperate, Iwlf sarc
t'c elnqMPHce. tlut twk the virii color
ut of n .xio's britliant aw! left it
white and scared.
"Won't y'U forgive me. Frank I" she
crirl, and clang to her father with a
burt if fi.
"WIH you frgie Iwr. Frank Thorley,
or not!" demanded Mr. Lyle.
"Hoaven knows I forgfve her, sir, as I
hop to be fgivcn."
"Tftaak you, sir. I think she has
wrofged vou more than you wronged me,
and I will how yn, yoMg m. ho I
ean f4rglve, to mmMr."
lUt when the morrw came, Fraak
Thuriey bad left LhhIati, with hU moth
er; and vain were all Mr. Lvle c4wt to
diveore-r him.
VcxTf patl. Thre rame a tfoaacia!
rah; and thotsgh cvrryldy tpfHed
Lyle & Co. to be otabKthcd es U firm
a bai to le shakea, they were not able
to outride the terra.
Scrupulously boet now ai erar. Mr.
Ljle gave up ererythiiH;: made no cTart
to satesnmacha H lie' pita frwm
gig aader the hammer.
"Never raiad, papa," e said s fUj to
htm that Ur Right leioie the site; "we
have still eaefc ether, and I aw young.
Perhaps I may 6a I me use aw for
those aec fflni.haeats jou have Uvbd
apoa eae o freely. Y.m dida't tbiak,"
she added, wi'h aa attaapt at gyety,
"that you were putMog mey by when
you were tpcadiag it as me, dd yP
"Heaves knows what it Xo lcotse of
Br moiaod the unhappy aavchaat.
"Ta-raorrow at this time wc shall have no
right evn to the roof that shelter ear
beads. Bat Hravea bles yea, my child,
far tois meet courage. It issasaethiag
U have so brave a child. Yaa have been
ud la sack freedata from care, taeagh,
IUxie. I wish you had married, dear,
and you would hate bad a base saw."
"I have got yaw, ppt, aad there aa
body I Hke better."
"Nobody, Roxie"
The t-tft cheek 2ahed a Httle aad the
red Hp trembled.
"D-ro't ask me. pap. TWc'i e4y
tw," she said, biding bar face uc hi
hutd-.
"Was it s one ase wlsa went away I"
"Yes,"faiaUy.
"I thought v, ilair. It Hke joe.
wwatrB ta lose the man they hare wtaaged
moU"
The twa bid away ia the reaMtrt ear
ner af the bwue while the aactiaa was
gwiag aa the next day, aad R xic exrSel
heretf iacrrdildj taastaia bar falhar
hsavy heart. He grew ahl fast ia thate
few boars. Tls leticg his basse saamed
to hart him cruelly.
The sale was ever, aad they stsH sat
there alaae. walttag, pexbapt. ta see If
msic friead waahi not ceaac ta speak a
word af oaaasei or oaafart in tM tryiag
boar. 1
There wo a hesitating kaeck at the
door presently, aad a gaattcmxa came in.
Mr. Lvle, seeing that it was a stranger,
said: "Van are, perhaps, the sew pre-pri-t
rl" m
The stranger bowed and said, "I bought
crarything in trust for a fnead af Mr.
Lyle's, who requoted me ta say ta bim
that his bme was as much his aaw as it
ever was."
Mr. Lyle Hfied bis head aad looked at
the man and from him to Roxie, in a ort
of bewilderment.
"Wht does be mean, Raxief"
R ixie bad eome forward breathlest, ber
face rd aad white in wift chtsga.
"Papa," she cried, rename t Mm and
sobbing up-n his neck, "it's Frank Tfcor
ley." "No, no, Roxie," the merdiiat said,
incredaloasly.
"It is Frank Thorley, air," Frank said,
sow coming nearer; "and he wishes fer
vently that he hsd come sooner. I am a
rich man, Mr. Lyie, thtak to yon fo
giring me another chaaee in life, aid I
bnve come reaily ta discharge ray ob.iga
ttnn t joa with my all. I haw nothing,
sir, that i n it y-urs also."
"Don't, Fraak! I was only jat. scarce
ly that; it seems good 'to see yon. though,
Mke the face of an old friend. We haven't
minj friends now, yu know."
Roxie ha I not spikm. It se.-med she
ould not lift ber lace from ber father's
atta- But when Frank asked, g-n'Iy :
"Have you no welcome fr me, RixleP
"Have you forgiven me yell" she
asked, looking up suddenly.
"I heve never married," he said, in a
lo voice; "and jou
"Nor I," fludiiag and trembling.
"Roiie" ith sudden beat and eager-
nea "I have loved you all thrx yea."
"And I you."
Toe new firm is Lyle and Thorley.
Frank would have it so.
Wittt WrncnM. .V lawyer, to Ie a
gd croit-exasiinsr, mutt hare a quick
wit, nia te at a ays reaily to ur it. But.
quick 1 he may le, be sometime find
hit matclifCtpecially wheo a aoman is on
the witness-stand.
"Oh, joa say this gentleman was aliout
fifty-fire," said Canning to a pert young
woman in the witne-box, "anl I suppose
now you con i ler yourself to be a pretty
good judge of people's ages, oh I Ah,
just so. Well, now, how old should you
take me t be!''
"Judg.ng by your appevauce. sir," re
plied the wi-neas, "I aliould uke you to
be alxmt sixty. By your question, I
should suppose jou were abaut sixteen."
Whether rojnsel had any mre ques
tions for this lady is not recorded.
Anotrr fmr hundred shtntic are far
oatoo the ice in Saginaw bay. These
stntctures arc mode of thin wood, lined
with heavy lullding pspjr, aad rest on
runners, so that they may be moved read
ily. Tlie inhabitaits arc fislierroen, who
cut holes through the ice and capture
great quantities of fislu Tito population
is over a thousand, and there are stores,
saloons, and a hotel in this strange vil
lage, which will lait probably until
March.
The First Steamboat.
In Augutt, 1807, the first steamtioal
sailed up the Hudson. Tbote who saw
the Clnnt as.under the command of her
inventor, Rolicrt Fulton, she failed
atraiBtt wind and tide, regarded hrr
with wonder and anxlty, not unmixed,
in sat cae, with foar.
New.jwpers wee n it abundant in
thote daj, and the news of the previous
day wa not served up with the lreakfat;
consequently, many of the nnidaats on
the river's banks and the lioatmeo, also,
wore wholly ignorant of the straage craft
which Filtoa ha.1 built.
The farmer ran home to loll his wife
and neighlxira that he had seen the
devil going up tlie river iu a saw-mill.
Tae Clcmant used dry pioe for faeL
which sent forth a column of dame many
feel above the top of the smoke-iUrk.
Wars stirred up, the fori shot fotth
vol am j of sparks. Ia the night Iit ap
Qarare was not uniike what several
groups of Indians, camped to the hiaks.
aallcd her, "The fire sjdrit, braathhsg
forth fim aad smoke, and livhtia its
path by itt own fire."
Far down the river the crevsff Ioom
saw the singular light. As it rame
naarer, they iHccracl that it hooe from
a hage craft sailing in the teeth of
the wied, aad ajtlnit aa ebb tide.
Strange n irs of iarriag mchiacry
aad a fierce IxMtin: of the water, a with
Uurdt. were heird. What was it! Some
ran below decks to escape the terrible
sight. Others fe I on their kaeea, aad
praved for dJirrasea from the moalar
Oae aaeieat D itchmvn, long aa ar&de
In the village, alavot dropped Ml pre
aloa pipe as the fire-boat paed, rjaca
latise, "Duller aad Bticksenr
When the CUrat set tie I down ta
her w.irk af camriag paseagers aad
freight, the eaners aadcsptalns of sloops ;
snttod their buiincs senauily dimia
ibel. Oae man, a noted ctaio, de
termiaed to beild a boat that weald
boat the GtarasMtX. He aUed that as
man wer was cheaper and mare effi
cient thai steam powrr,hit biat should be
propelled by brawny arm and horny
hand.
The boat wa buHt in Eabas Creek,
at Roadaat oa the II ad ski. It had twa
side paddie-wbeeift, each of which was
to ! taraed br a lea? woodea shaft
workiag a ersak. Ta each shaft was
fitted a d-B woodea handles, by wMch
the uea were ta work the shaft, tara
the paddle, aad thas propel the bf
ik hhi wBea nassaeu v raaveu
dams ta the ath af the creek, aad the j
erew shipped, aad a watch kept f r the i
app-ac of the Cltrmxt Oae merciag
she hare in tight. Immediately the )iae !
el the raaa-power bot wer cast S. The
brawny am aad horay hands strained
at the shafts, slowly the paddles re
vwirrd, ttstl mtre slowly the boat moved
card a few hundred feet and iteopad. i
The i train was tn raach for the en
durance of human made. The CUnvmt
tlca Bird by, aad the disappointed captain
saliealy ackae lodged that steam aid
irea were too much for arm aad hands.
For a Frarmo Matt. Cikierj. Be
t wet a t we of the remote towas of Miehigaa
the mails are carried by mean of dog team .
The sledge is simply 3 thin, rlaiibk
board, six or seven feet long, aaI a foot er
more in width, turned up at one end to
enable it ta rise aver obstacle in the path.
Along the edge, on either side, is a lew
rail, to which the lead i securely bound
with card. Tne bar-en carried usually
eeasiits of the bags, a few blaiket. rare
ly a tout, provisions for a few dajs, a
small axe, and a few other articles eoea
tit! to this primitive mode of locomottaa.
The driver never rides, as his weight is
too much for the itrenrth of the animals
and the frail sledge. The dogs are not
noble looking animals, by any means.
The truth is tbey are mangy curs, whieh
are "driven" by being called on by the
driver in advance, stimulated ta some de
gree of speed by a famishing process and
various ingeni-M kind of tort are, aad
oecadeatlly be-'p-d along by propnlsive
aid frm behind. Their weekiy ad re at in
Ma quette is still the source f wonder
ing cariuity anil interne admiration of a
large greip of dirty urch n, who have
a lingering love of the antique. One of
the smtll atteadtaU mually precede tlie
train on snow shoes, cither to encourage
ths dogs to a greater speed, or to break
the path and remove obstacle, as the
road is narrow and circuitous.
Umbrella ix Arnica. Umbrellas
or, rattier, ptrasols are the badges of
royalty in Africa. King CotTee's um
brella wa one of ths mint ootid tr
pbie tikeo by the Kaglish in the Abys
sinian war. Tliis however, wa a shab
by aifalr in comparisoa with the hand
some and gigaitte suniha !es jutt manu
factured, to the numlicr of forty, by a
Glasgow firm. They have Ixrtn ordered
by a mercantile house in the same city,
aad are intended to lie given as presents
to African chiefs with whom ths mer
chants in quoti in d bmine. Three
of thevj ptraso!, or palanquins, a they
arc also cillcd, are aboat thirty feet in
circumference and ths remainder a'.ojt
eighteen fett. Tliey arc covered with a
rich variegated damask si lk,f ringed round
tlie cdes, ornamented with a gilt ball
at the top, and lined with finished cloth.
The handle, which is of lance-wood, is
armed with a spike, for tenting pur
poses, and a byoiet J ilnt at the end of
tlie stick renders the whole more portable.
Ax olS:ial cstima c ha just been nude
or the revenue of China. It is sttteJ to
amount to 1123,000,000, raised Jby taxes
on land, grain, the transit of good, for
eign import, ctc aid by the sale of
ranks and degrees. Of this amount,
$75,000,000. it is citimitcd, is strent
upon the army. Thee mount are irre
spective of local dues requiiltloni in
kind, and of direct plunder un the psrt
of Chinese ofliclali. A remarkable fea
ture of the budget is the smalt amount
raised by land tax only $30,000,000.
Wb breathe easier now. Tlie new
counterfeit $1,000 notes now in circu
lation can be detected by thsir "greaiy
feci." It eats into an editor's salary
fearfully to get "stuck" with four or
tire such notes is a week. Norr. Herald.
Knliirmon Crusoe.
Tlie ieonoclatts barerobbrtl us of Wll
li am Tell awl reduced Pocahontas to a
-oaic aavage, ami now it I pleasant to
;ive them a Ibdsnd for their Oliver by
ctalttihing the real existence of a hem
f firtin heretofore reganlci a a myth.
Thetory of Iioldnwn Crusoe ravle iu
appearance in 1719. The rare simplicity
f the style, the Daturalne of the iact
deats the interrst sustained thrugbodt
aad the ex e4leat Iaor4 iaeilcited, gave
it iottint jwpttlarity, wh-ch it ba always
retained; and li-dar, after the lape of
one buatlrrd ami fifty years, no similar
production p. - sqch charm for tlie
joothfnl muler.
Df ie ws a fierce pvtlssa ia the strug
gle of thirty years' duration, abteh gaire
c otitatioar liberty to Ea-;laa4, and
thi. t gether with hi graat literary sse-c-s
art the eaaaity aad eary a hirh
HtrairU him rt4attdy through life.
The charge that he had t rfen h mv
tia' fr m the n trrative of Abtxaa ler
Selkirk pfteedcd frn Ms eaeotl, bat
wa totally aafonald. Selkirk volsa
ta'l'y went id-ire ea the itlaad whea ie
aa frrqaeatrd by shisn, aail the data
tbn af hit exile wa a asattar ef hi ocn
choke. The iaddcau ef his t'rr letr
bo psrtlcaUr rmblaace ta tho of
Cm vie life. I'ctar berraao, who was
Hipxrckci oa aa itlaad ia the Car.
ribeia Sea, ia the slxteeeih centner, and
wboe story i rcJalrd ia Gorrllaie's
"Histery af "Peru." p14idsal ia Lwdea
abiut the ;oar 1700. prwb ably gsre Defoe
the feaa latiea of Ms rominee.
D:fe aimed, above all clve, at proba
bility, aad fie try dees cot evetsin
any iaeaa4taey a r aa imp-iulale io
cidra. The title h-as been takca for
graatrd a the saveatlea af the greatest
aereHt,aut tMs is iacjarrrct. It wa
stated some time siaec ia a magazine
artk'e that Def first met with the name
R binva Craoe ea a tambstme ia a
graveyard at Ljae K"gS aa impKtaat
i-agbih seaport. The rarity of tb aame,
aad poasibly the fact tkvt its owner had
been a sailer, cam (needed it for hi par
poe. The Crae family b aa eld ace
ta Lyae. aad there ii no ether family ef
the came knows than the oae which hails
frem that locality. Ceriiesly ceeogh.
taey have aoally beea afmag people
Iariag the war between France aad
Great Briuia, ia the early part ef the
pretest ceetary, Jeaa Crusoe, ef Lyea
ltgis was ia the navy aad participated
in the glorious actiea ef Trafalgar. In
laid be emigrated t- America aad set
tWd at FjtUriile, N. C wnere h rw
sided fir many years. A diary h hi
vyg, ia Ms ewa baailwritiag, is ia
ear pxeba, aad sres rodeaee ef
ch-dxr.Mp aad a mlad ef mere than er
d la try calibre.
Ia 155 Csptala Ofee revisited Ea
rape, aad M tMtry Is salad alia interest
iasr tarideats ef hssiearaer. Hitirraat!-
ehlHrca ae sow, a-d hare been for"
some years, highly esteemed re ideal af
Ihetuaaet eraat ie, aad oae ef them
bear the ease ef R-Wan Ds Bratz
Crusne. From lei geetleaaia we leara
that RabieM ha a a ays beea a family
name with M pple. aad this i con
firm eI by the diary ef Cipttin Crsse,
who psak ef a Baphew named R Ma
soo, wtrem he aawen a viiit tj Lynn
Regis ta lSS-V
lacse fact we believe ta be perfectly
authentic aad reliable. Tee aatiquaiiaas
are welcome tigive th-ta foil inveitiga
tloa. MeaawMie, Versailles may let the
outside world babble with ceatcaaitl ea
thusiatus aad political exeitemeat,eaa:eat
ia the poae-ska ef a gcuiae Crusoe.
Szur Maoc Mcx. Rstatlre U Cardi
nal Aatoaelti, there appears te be a
plena re mtaifrtted in stating from what
a modest family he sprang. Wnat day
thi prere! Have sot the ray ritj of
ce4ebratei men risen from th m-st hum
ble jrrtitioo in the social scale to reach
the most derated f Dsmoithene was
th- am of a blacksmith, Virgil of a
bakrr, Horace ef a freedmas, Toeophras
tea ef asslesava, Amrnt of a currier.
La Moth of a Sat'ar, J. B. Itetu of a
shoemaker, M tire of an uphoUtjrer.
Quinut of a workiag baker, Flcchiar of
a tallow chandler. It dlia of a cutler,
MsAiillon of a taaner, J. J. U nKtaa, Da
punt, ami Btaum trchais of watchmaker.
Was not II .mr a meadicaalt Francot,
Ataro hal a farmer fr bis father, Cino
va was attached to the s.-rtice of the
house of Falieri, Columbus was the son
of a wood-carder. Co ik of a peatast.
Copernicus of a baker, D'Alembsrt (a
foundling) wa reared br a draper, and
Franklin and Fulton started from much
more miserable position in life. Jac
quard wa tae otTtpring of a weaver.
Herschel wai a itrret ma.ietin. Mince
the sin of a hay dea'er, Bernard Palis.y
and Lplaee were tte chlldrea of peas
ants aRd Volts was brought up on char
ity. Stxtn V. was ahenler of pigs, and
C ilbert was the son of a cl-ith merchant.
GaligninS.
Couk Atoso. The 'Providence i'roi
relate the following story of a gallant
cdonel of a Rhode island regiment dur
ing tha earlier portion of his military
life: "Tlie regiment being at Sirdcr
arms' our colonel desired to put tha col
umn In podtion. He therefore gave the
order 'Forward march !' and rodo otT
without looking lnhind him. No man
moved in the ranks, and, after riding a
short distance, the colonel discovered
this fact. He turned, saying, 'What
have I done now' and was informed
that it was impossible, from a millt-iry
standpoint, for a column to more when
at 'order arras. 'O, well, rej dued the
mtttcr-of fact colonel, 'pick up them
things and comd along.' They came."
At a recent meeting of clergy inra in
Wellington City, statistics were a Iduced
showing tliat there are 00 professional
gamblers to HO ministers of the giispcl,
and more money Invested in gambling
than in building diuretic. Wo think,
however, these figures lurdly di the
gatublcrj justice.
It took onlv eleven day to rcvisa the
constitution of New Hampshire, but it
cot the State $20,000.
The First Steam Whistle.
Tlie sbiry of the firt steam whistle on
the Mist-Kiri rivtr it amuiing. Iu in
troluction dates back to 1811. At that
time the settlers on tlie Miuoari river
were in the habit of making rezular
yearly vldls to St. ly,txit to do tbrir
Uali0g f r themselvea aad friend..
They were not provided with diily Inter
C"Ure with tite out-ide world, aad many
who lived back from tlie river seldom, if
ever, aaw a steamboit mr-re thas once a
year. It happened that daring the fall
l 1311 tlie new it-antioit IsjiMlon.
started up the Mirsouri river loadol
down to the guirds with freight.
Among the uiwoirrr were Judze
Jwph C. R8-ki, now of this city;
Theodore Waraer, of Lexingtin; Bea.
Hollhlay, afterwanl the fats out overland
stage proprietor; CoL P-ime-of. of Lex
ington, and a plantrr of Platte county
namoi ueerge 1 ocum.
The steamer Luiagto wa provided
with a team-wlos'lc tlie flrt Bvrd oa
the Mt ur i river and a it happened
no one knew alat it except Warner,
who was a waz aad a I irer of a ioko.
The nght after leaving St. Louis the
pateegrr were collectoi together ia
ths cabin, whea the talk turned apoa
fteamboat cxplesias tlieo very com
mon. "I feel psrfcetly stfe 03 thi boat,"
said Gainer.
"Why!" ieaifel Y cam. the aiaattr.
"Why!" ccbeal the rt af the com-
piny.
"I will tell yoa why," said the wag.
"This b-t l provided with a new pc
eat safety-valve, which notifies ths pas
seegers 00 board when it is about ta
blowup. Itisacoacera which mke
a mot unearthly coite, and when you
hear it it Is time ta get b uk aft or jump
overboard."
NetwithiUndicg the fact that Waraer
tald his story with the most solemn and
earnest countenance, some were skepti
cal. Not o, however, with the planter.
Next morning, wbea the LexieU was
steaming up the lonr, straight asreteh ef
rjvrrjc. ueiuw Datningros, .uo, ice
paaseagcrs were ai breakfao. To- meal
had been called, aad all were batilr en
gaged in L4sg jestice to the kind of
meals they were accustomed to serve 00
steamboats in laote days. Suddenly the
whistle commenced to blow, the first time
on the trip. Toe pisengers looked at
each ether a moment, aad horror aad
dismay spread itsdf over thesr faces.
The first maa to realize the situsttoa
aad act wit Yocua, the plic'rr, wa-s
ith bair erect and biaaehod face.
jwt&ped up, crying as he pulled ever eoe
aier aaeiacroi Uie paaseagtTt:
"Ran, run for year lire; the eW
thiag going la be it. FeHew me and
ltt" save earvdves."
Of ceurc there was a starspsde far
ta rear ec tse not- ana it was oalr by
the exrrtiess af some ef the crew that
the mere excited were restrained frs
jampiag into the river. A'oavii Ctty
TtMU.
The Orator and the Xewipapcr.
In it remark opM Mr. Jonathan
Wild, the Hsy Coair has sot alluded t
a theiary which has beea recently pat
forth, that newsptpers are takin; the
place ef erators. Tccre is aa apparent
reason i -r tae remark, r ur In a coantry
where newrpspers daily at morning and
tveaiag discus every public question in
every way, aad where newspsper reporters
coouBci isretugauoos luia ever aimi o;
subject, it might be supposed that noth
ing remained for the speiker whea the
writer had snisoed bu task. But it u
singular that the theorist did n t remem-!
Ir oae of several things. Raiding a
written word and hearing the same wonl
spoken are by no means the same. A
hundred people read a statement or an
argument ia a newspaper, I Kit they are
not conscious of iu force until they hear
it from living lips. M-reorer, the most
familiar thiag ia print have a fresh
charm In the bearing which may be in
explicable, but is catainiy undeniable.
Tire II i. j Caair ha I beard Mr. Wendell
Phillip deliver ward fir word a lecture
which hail beea long priuted in a book,
aad which it knew perfectly. Yet it
liiteoed with a much delight at a child
Ibteocd t a story ia which it corrects
the tilicr. Harper $ Jfag-uiiu.
A Doxkct Race. The officer of a
ciralry regiment stationed at a dull Eng
lish ganisoa town, lately got up a don
key race for their amu-emeat, and very
amusing it proved to b One donkey
took tbe lead from the start, and rapidly
n cared the goal ami 1 the wildest snout
ing. When within a few feet of the win-ciag-poit
his rider thought to put on a
fine p jrt, and so gave tbe teit tha spur,
but with disastrous edTect- Tlw brute
put his head down, kicked furiously,
topped dead short, and would not budge
an men: rnoe who were running
second and third t tbeir comrades
difficulty, and redoubled their efforts.
Sloaly bet surely they cane along, every
atridu bringing them nearer to tbe goal I
At last tbe rider ot joakey number one
came to the concludes that soaie action
ought to be taken, and that at once.
Should he let the prize slip from his
hands wbea it seemed almost within
his grasp! He sprang to the ground
without a momenta heitttion, and seiz
ing his steed's Uil, put It over his shoul
der, and dragged tbe unwilling animal
backwards past the post! An objection
wa lodged, but the decision was given In
favor ot the winner.
BotamcaL Gardkx. Mount Holjoke
Seminary, at Siuth lladley, Mav.. pro
poses to establish next spring a scientif
ic liolanictl garden oa a large scale. It
is to bo kept by a professional gardener,
under the superviiion of Mis bin t tuck,
tin long-time botanist of the institution.
A grc it variety of seeds and germs is
now being collected for the purpose,
which already indud a m isy rare sorts.
A collection which was procured at the
Centennial contained Exyptua com.
lentils castor-oil beaa, rice, barley, etc
tne school sow sumiKMa a5 pupils aad
u teacntrs.
The Saltan and Hi Grand Vizier.
Abdul Hamid, the present Saltan of
Turkey, is a brother ot the enfbrtunato
Mura l, who preceled bim, aid was de
po$ed Ixt spring, and is a jeaager son of
the Sa;t 13 Abdul Medjkl, who died some
Sftwo yra ago. His advent to the
Tur'aidi throne wa in Jdan, for no one
cmld bavtf f-reeea that Msrad, after a
very brief reign wa to leceme inaae,
and ihsj onfitied to govern. At the time
ofBM acoion, tbe world knew abto
lu'eiy nothing of young Abdol HtmLL
Ls thas thirty years of age, with but
a le-ai-tepro-pect, as lately ayeir ago,
f erer a eadifig the tarwae. be hi al
ways lei ih- ots-cure aal retiied life to
which all Turkish prise ef the blood
are aaHjected. Of a saddes be appeared
en tfc ptaaaele of power, aad th U at a
moment when above alt things experience
and statesta tasSip seemed to be nerds I
to save the Tarkitb empire in Europe
fr.KS d traction.
It a appeared that Hamid wasaa
a'd-fr aad m-re eeergetk mas Lhxa hit
brother. He devoted bimxlf with zeal to
hi most ditEceit duties; be proved free
from many ef the debasing vices which
have dttgraced the lives ef so many sal
tans and be shewed ta mceh ea to
cKegaVtsaateiy it despotic power at a
time wfc'S wilom say is eoaceadfla aad
eoncilUu . The Sa.'taa Abdul II'mi-1
b describol s rather tall and slight is
farm, with an era! aed swarthy face.
Urge bisck eyes acd short black hair,
while he weirs a long, sweepis, black
avMutache, and so ether beard.
Ia maaaer be is qiict, seriaas asd dig
sifiad. Hi babiu are good. He rises
early, and devotes rainy boars a day to
councils ef his miaiuers asd the bustse!
of tbe State. He is acoampSdied is sev
eral laegaages and the forced retirement
of his lite, before he ajcesded the threee.
was pest ia study aad reading; rather
thas is the iadolest pleasures of the Ot
torn u court.
It would be a great mistake to suppose
that Turkey, Bowerer btd her
meat has becsse, is wasting ia able and
eaHghUnrd statemes. There has seldom
beea a period whea the ceusciU ef the
Sab aa have ait contained son ef eai
aeet taleatt aad braai viers. The I ale
Foad Pa.ha, who declared that Turkey
matt follow the lead ef the ether Eiro
peaa aatiess is Kberty aad progress was
the equal, perhaps f j stateima-i ef
that metises t.
Happily, the yeoag Saltaa basis Mid
hat Iaa, the neaiy -appointed Gratd
Vixier, as ad ri jt net iaty wf great eaesgy
and rigir, bu: of latenigen: aad pro
gressive piaoai.
Midhat Pasha is eae ef the veuagest of
the Saitaa ' cesassNnm, aad is is th
ttardy prime ef life, beteg n-t far from
fxty years ef ag-. He has already had
set a little expeneace ia af urs of Sure,
aad as Goreruer ef Balgaria, aevcral
years ago, showed a high capidty for
reatndiiag mee aad carrying out a wise
aad viznt9t poKcy. He is probably tbe
most edeetive Turkiak orator Hvieg. Or
atory is sot a very cemmea gift ameag
the Ouesans bat it is said that Mid
bat Pasaa acses a rautery of language
aad a grace asd energy of dedaaaatioa
which hare dose mnob to give aim the
great insuesce be sow has cot ooly at
court, but over the S-ftat asd the people.
Midhat Padsa bu another quality
which will be of impmat use to him
and his coaatry is iu present serkxt dif
ficulties. For years be has studied Ea
ropeaa politic, and ha made him df fa
miliar with Europe is ideas. He has
watched the course of events with the
keeactt istert, and his tas ebtiiaed a
knoa ledge asd a breadth of view which
will jrive him a great advantage Is tha
titk he has sow csiertakea of reforming
Turkey, asd converting it from a despotic
into a casttit'itioau nviairesy.
He u tbe leader of the Party which be
lieves that Turkey caa jaly he saved
fnra the disasters watch threaten it by
giuag up all the old tyrannic asd
abuse , sad securing t every subject of
the deltas tbe greatest freedom ta speech,
religion and action, aad c omplete equality
bef ire the law; aad it wa be who drew
up the Coastitutioa whl was described
is the Oempiiian a fe Weeks ago. It
speaks weit for the &uitaa that se abouhl
put such a m in at the betd of his Csbi
ner; asd it is aa equally hopeful iga
th it the Turks sh-iuld welcome Midhat
Pasha's promotion with general appruvaL
Wiiat is x PashaI At the haii of the
Turkish state b the soltao, or supreme
ruler, who, before -be comes ta the soTar
eiguty, i kept secluded from all political
aad state aUdrs until suddenly, perhaps
at a day a notice, he finds himself called
to ot5 e. with despot'c power at his c im
mind, to ess as he plea-. Bat if he is
ignorant of state matters to begia with,
his Grand Vizier will be able to give him
all the information he requires. Tbe
Grand Vizier has indeed, the entire re
spoaiibiltty of the stita oa his shoulders
aed ia asiisted by six vizier of the cap jla,
as they are called, ti ditingcih them
from the various other viziers in Turkey.
The word vizier signidea "he who bears
or support a burdea," and was first con
fined to the Saltaa's prime minister, bat
at the prrtiut time la applied to numer
ous high officials in Turkey asd oth.-r
Moliametan states. Comely lesembling
vizier is pasha, a title fotmerly given to
princes uf blood, but afterwards extended
10 the Grand Vizier aad other civil offi
cers. Tbe word is derived from "Pa,"
foot or suppo:t, and shah, ruler. Tbe
badge of a pis ha is a horse's tall waving
from the end of a stafil crowned with a
gilt ball; but if you happen to coem
acres a pina 01 three tails he ta a very
exalted personage, in fact, the pasha of
tatci tails U the Grand Vizier hiauelf.
A rKDOLKR was around the other day
with a contrivance which included tifteea
things ia one. It was a stoveholdr, Sad
a rolling pin, and a case lifter, aad a
grata shaker; and a, nut cracker, aad a
half a dozes other things the fellow
recommended it to women because it w
hsavier oa one end than tha other, sad
heace eoald be throws with uarriag art-eiaaa.--0i7
City Dtcritk.