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—-Ä,-. * i • ■ .... “I wish I were you?” sighed a bridemaid fair ‘ As she toyed with a tress of chestnut hair. The glittering gems on the young bride’s breast • t lUsplendently gleamed as her brow she ~ pressed With bar jeweled hands. And her heart grew cold While she thought of a life she had wrecked for gold. “I wish I were youF* lisped a fair-haired child, . _ As he gazed in his grandsire’s eyes and smiled. And the frosted bead of the man bent low, As his heart thanked God it could not be so, And silver locks blent with the fleecy gold, As his trembling arms did the child enfold. Oh, envy not others, but be content. Demur not at fate. Take what God has sent All hearts have their sorrows. We never know When a smiling face hides a heart of woe. ' “Happy New Year!” A bright face looked into the chamber; a sweet voice rang through it in tones of music. “Happy New Year, darling 1” And Mr. Ellis stooped to kiss the child. But the kiss he gave was not fervent. It was kind and gentle, but not loving. A pair of large blue orbs looked up at him in a kind of hurt surprise. Then, as if she felt repelled, the child, after stand ing for a moment or two in a shy, embar rassed way, weDt out of the chamber and left her father alone. Mr. Ellis was less comfortable^ in mind after she went out than before she came in. A ray of beart-Bunshine had swept into the room, and though he bad failed to perceive its warmth, it was colder and darker after its withdrawal. Ho bieat bed out involuntarily a heavy sigh. It was not a happy new year. In fact, the new ¿years came in always with an added weight of care, annoyance and discour agement for Mr. Ellis, each heavier and more discouraging than the one that pre ceded. “Happy New Year!” cried one Child after another, as it looked into his rocm or met him on the stairs. “Happy New Year!” greeted him from many voices. But it was not a happy new year. Oh, no! Mr. Ellis's new years were no longer happy ones. Why? Let us go back a little. Just ten years before the time in which he come» before the reader, James Ellis, than a clerk on a salary of one thousand dollars, took to himself a wife; but in doing so, he made one mistake, and that was going in debt for the furniture of his little rented house. For over three years he had been getting a salary of one thou sand dollars, and out of this had saved scarcely enough to buy his wedding suit and the marriage ring. Bow, on the same income, he was to support a wife, besides himself, and pay the five hundred dollars it cost to furnish bis house, was one of ithe mysteries in fiuance he had not stopped to solve. , . It is no matter of surprise that the first New Year's Day following the marriage •of Mr. Ellis was not for him a very happy •one. He had a dear little wife, and was «very fond of her; and she was good aud loving, and as careful as she could be to • make home the pleasantest place for him in ail the world. But there had been a Kave error in the way their new life was gun, and error of any and every kind surely works for all its measure 6f dis quietude, pain or disaster. There is no escape. The first New Year’s Day brought into Mr. Ellis unsettled accounts for over one hundred and fifty dollars, besides the five 'hundred dollars he had borrowed from a end to meet his furniture bills. These accounts came in from the grocer, the dry-goods merchant, the coal-dealer and others, with whom bills had run up that might have been settled with the cash he had let slip through his hands for articles of ornament they did not need, or for va rious little self-indulgences. If there had been a rigid system of cash down for every article that was purchased, and a just self-denial in the matter 6f things not actually needful to comfort, that first New Year’s Day would have found Mr. Ellis in a far different and happier state of mind. » The true remedy was neither seen nor adopted. “I must have a larger income,” said Mr. Ellis. If he had said, “I must adopt a new system and practice a-closer econo my,” the case would have been more hopeful. ' 1 > L r .. a 4 FRIER. VOL. XL-NO. 47. before, and of others which were to come in—bills that he had no present means of paying. “I must get more salary,” said Mr. Elli? to himself, as he brooded that New Year’s Day over his unhappy affairs. He asked for an increase, but was denied. , “I am worth more than twelve hundred a year, and will have it!” was his mental ejaculation. So he«et himself to work to find another situation, and after a few new months succeeded in obtaining place and a salary of two thousaud a year. ’ This good fortune quite set up our young friend. He felt rich; and on the strength of this feeling indulged himself with a new parlor carpet and a set of chairs—on credit. But the next New Year's Day brought its sure reckoning, and Mr. Ellis found himself further behindhand than when his salary was only one thousand dollars, and deeper in the Slough of Despond.- “This wiH never do,” he said to himself, after brooding all day over his miserable affairs. “I cannot live on two thousaud dollars. The case is hopeless.” •> Then »ray of light shot into his mind. He was a quick, clear-headed accountant, and the suggestion came to him that he might get books to post and accounts to settle, as night work. A sense of relief pervaded his heart as this idea took shape and settled into a purpose. On the very next day he sent an advertisement to one of the papers, and in less than a week had an engagement to post a set of books and get off a balance-sheet, work that would occupy his evenings for at least a month, and for which he was to receive one hun dred dollars. A better day was dawning upon Mr. Ellis—so he thought and felt; and his heart grew light and hopeful. So the day would have been better, if to larger res >urces had been added economy aud self-deuial. But this was Dot the case. He [Kiured more water into his barrel, aud the added pressure made the water flow through the unstopped leaks more freely. It was no better with him when the next New Year’s Day came round. And so it went on for ten years; and we find him still as unhappy on New Year's dawn as when it first opened on his married life. The day came in bright and sunDy. As Mr. Ellis took his seat at the breakfast table, he looked into the faces of five pleasant children, and across at his still young and attractive wife. He ought to be a happy man with treasures like these. But he was not; and the shadows that were on his countenance threw themselves across and around the table, and dimmed the sunshipe of young hearts.- The chil dren talked gaily at first; but gradually a silence fell upon them. The oldest of them could be seen stealing glances of inquiry at their father’s face, and then dropping their eyes thoughtfully. Mrs. Ellis did the same, sighing faintly to her self, and feeling a sense of oppression going down like a heavy hand on her bospm. She knew but too well why there was a cloud on her husband’s brow. “Happy New Year!” said a neighbor, cheerily, to Mr. Ellis, an hour after breakfast, meetiug him a little way from bis own door. no image of an unpaid bill. Truejj were unpaid biffs, but none of date; none but what had been adjust! mutual satisfaction. Their aggregaf stead of bein^ fifteen hundred ddl was scarcely six hundred, and tliisj he expected to w|ie off in less th»i months. , | f -/‘Happy Nejv Year I” How swiftly time flies. Twelve mt hud coms andjgoie again. bistable! remedy,” “It is very simple,” said the neighbor. Ellis looked et him inquiringly. /‘Always pay for what you buy at the time you get it.” “Easily enough said; but, suppose you haven’t the money in hand?” “Then don’t buy.” , “Not bread and meat for your chil dren?” The neighbor'turned and looked at Ellis from head to foot, with an expres- sion of countenance that had in it surprise, reproof and just a little^Contempt. “What is your income a year?” he asked, in a quiet, repressed way.' “About two thousand five hundred dollars, take one year with another,” was replied. “Humph! A fair show for bread and meat at least, one would think.” “But bread and meat aren't all,” an- swered Ellis, putting himself on the de fensive. “No; but they represent our necessities, which usually do not cost half as much as our superfluities. Here is where the pinch comes. It is for the things they might do without that men are troubled with bills at New Years.” “Not my case,” said Ellis, rallying a little. “I have a grocer’s bill and a butch er’s bill; a shoemaker’s and a tailor’s bill; » doctor’s bill and a—” “But where have your two thousand five hundred dollars gone,” interrupted the neighbor, “and these bills hot settled before?’’ This threw Mr. Ellis’s mind into con fusion. He could not give a prompt an swer to the question. “How much rent do you pay?” asked the neighbor. “Six hundred dollars,” replied Ellis. “Can you afford to pay so much?” “No.” “Thea why do you pay it?” “Because I can’t get » bouse to suit me for any less.” Nota he [le trear room ou <116 fourth floor of tho tenement house,is No. ]"* 102 Washington street. Stretche^ opt upon a miseraib de apology for u IVedl upou the floor, thty o fi leer found the bodies of the woman and Ifant child. TfieJ ltad been dead aj>< three days. .1-1 ’< . The dead wpnmn's face looked A like that of a ' kdleton than that ¡person who hi 1 l|ut recently died. thin cheeks w^rejsunk so that they: most met, <;l»hrw. showing every lx almutthe mouth,and forehead. Thcj< were sunkeu-nj?aifly out of sight. anq| the 1 thin hands lyjnii on her h*r breast lirwast: ^rre transparent. A J^irge brown Biblei fas ¡»laced under her*: bin to prevent her, Ju w irom falling. IDjr teeth could be plainly ouuted throughiiier thin lips, andillhe |>oi»es about her Shoulders seemed p-iuly to cut through aie skin. Beside liter, with its tiny hcaij resting peacefully^ day the dead child; jit'was the merest tiilii- tweuty-five feet one and seveu-eightlis inches. This ws » much to the astonish ment of the Egy; itians, who have a tra dition that if thé. Nile rises during the night of September the 25th it will co »- tinue to rise seventeen days more. They believe this so firiuly that they give the late rise the name of “el saleed,” but it is as unscientific awl iucorrect as our Amer ican equiuoctial^-in fact, it is au exact parallel to that. ' All the Nile floods see saw between tha: middle of August and the fore part of September, a period of About twenty days; just why is not kuown. A rise iif tweuty-five feet is “a no reason Spend nothing yoursell carry money about you tion.” The neighbor understood him, and would have cheerfully placed that sum at his disposal; but he did not think it well. It would be best for Mr..Ellis in the end, if he worked out his own pecu niary salvation. “To meet difficulties and overcome them,!’ he replied, “gives us discipline and strength. It isn’t the hundred dollars you want, but the courage and resolution to tur# about squarely and go in a new direction. It will be easier to walk therein than in the old way—a hundred times easier.” * .i ■ .î» --------- - --- — irar BU8INK88 NOTICI» PRICE TEN CENTS. « It is by no means certain that the tun A scheme, with which neither the Suez nel route would offer irresistible attrac Canal nor the tunnel through Mont Ce- tions to the traveler. The subterranean nis can pretend to vie in audacity, seems journey would exact at least an hour by to be assured of ultimate execution. M. reason of the pronounced grades which .avalley, who has been associated with must be traversed, and to some persons so Jir John Hawkshaw in the preliminary long a sojourn in darkness, coupled with , geological investigations, affirms in a re the apprehension of a possible accident, a cent report that the natural obstacles to collision, or a fracture in the masonry, tunneling the Straits of Dover are by no would outweigh the dread of seasickness means insuperable to modern engineer and the discomforts of a Channel steamer. ing. The names, moreover, of the emi As regards celerity, the trip from London nent financiers who have actively pro to Paris would still demand seven hoars moted these researches, are guarantees' and a half, while it is unquestionable that the necessary funds will not be want that with a superior class of packets ths ing. It is w.orth while, therefore, to journey by way of Dieppe and Newhaven glance at the. mechanical conditions of might be performed in the same time. this notable pr »ject, and to estimate the These uie some of the.ol>jections to the degree of commercial success which is submarine road, regarded asan independ ikely to reward the undertaking. ent investment.' There is no doubt, how The Hawkshaw plan, which adopts ever, that two corporations, the Loudon, most of the suggestions put forward some )over, and* Chatham Railway,' and the years ago by M. Thome de Garnnnd, Cheurin de for du Nord, will find their makes the proposed tunnel start at a account-nrthe new enterprise, and it is joint between Calais anc^ Sangatte and mainly to their exertions that an inter end at St. Margaret's Bay, alxmt four national tunnel-between the French and miles east of Dover. Tne length of the English coasts is in the way of probable coming night. submarine works from the French to the execution. Whatever, indeed, may be “Father,” said one of the children English coast will be twenty-one miles, the commercial promise, or the ultimate and connections with the French rail financial results, none will dispute the road known as Ligne du Nord, as well as grandeur <>f an undertaking which aims with both the English roads terminating to reverse the decree of natyre, and to at Dover, will be effected by under ink the shores of the inviolate island ground gradients, one of which will cov With those of her hereditary foe.—JF. er five and the other nearly seven miles. Y. Sun. t In the middle of the strait the sum A Timely Rescue, mit or the vaulted passage will -be one mudred and tweuty-five yards below the “Alan overboard,” said an old seafar evel of the incumbent water at low tide, and about seventy-five yards beneath the vo older children m the bed of the Euglish Channel, whose , a boy and a girl. They soundings along the proposed route no these children worked where exceed one hundred and fifty feet, ip the supply of bread, n order to reach this depth, the Interna more through idleness in tional R til way, after separating from the from lack of employment, Ague du Nord, will plunge iuto an i came home soon after open trench, thence into a tunnel, follow their father’s return, land brought him ing a grade of ten, twelve, and possibly their earnings f >r the day. thirteen feet in a thousand. By the time “O,father,” si id the boy, “such a dread it reaches the coa-t line, and begins to ful thing has happened! Henry Lee's penetrate the chalk bauk beneath the sea, it will be some seventy yards below the surface of the soil, and will continue to descend like the Channel bottom for sys Henry wefeping. He hung his head two or three miles further: There the I’or shame of hi» own father! Only think downward slope will cease, and the road of that !” will atceud gently at the rate of four “Ashamed o his father,” thought the inches in a thousaud feet to the middle man And will my children hang their of the strait. This slight-, inclination to heads, also, in shame! No, no; that shall ward the shore will draw the water never be.” which may filter through the masonry to the points where the slopes were changed i to throw around him a whence dn escape pipe will convey it to a influence, was sitting at well on the edge of the coast, which will udezvous for him whose be duly fitted with Bteam-pumps. ’The ive<l him. But he waited second half of the subt -rra »eau works is precisely similar. Re-descending from the central point with a slant of four inches in a thousaud feet, it afterward And he did t according to his word mounts more rapidly to the level of the When the other man went forth to his la- English »oil. It results from these de bor on the nex day, he learued that bis tails that the total length of the projected accomplice had been taken in the act ol r»ad will not be far from thirty-two robl>eryj and wks already in prison. miles, of which two-third-“, however, will “Tnauk lieavjen for virtuous children!” be beneath the sea. said he, with fervor. “ 1'hey have saved In his rep»rt M. Lavalley de-cribes the me. Never will I do an act that will soundings and perfuratious which have cause them to I luslif ir their father.” been uuuertakeu with the object of de termining whether the lower strata of the W oman L ove .—Tuese fellow mortals, every one must be accepted as they are chalk, through which the tunnel is to' be you can neither straighten their noses, excavated, might not offer some untow nor brighten tl eir wit, nor rectify their ard dislocations. It appears that, with dispositions; ajnd it is these people— the exception of an unimportant bend among whom y ’»nr life is passed—that it near the French coast,* the disposition of is useful you ihould tolerate, pity and ttiege »logical layers is regular, and offers love; it is these more or less ugly, stupid, little probability of fissure. It is prob inconsistent people, whose movements ot able, therefore, if not certain, that the goodness you s lould be able to admire, construction of the vaulted road for whom you should cherish all possible way will be unattended with any serious moreover, of hopes, all possible patieuce. And I acc.deut. Tne example, moreover, would not, even if I had the choice, be uumerous galleries, which, in the Eng the clever novolist who could create a lish mines, have been pushed beueath tne bed of the sea, demonstrate that a subma world so much rine tunnel need not offer conditions es work, that you would be likely to turn a sentially different from those encountered harder, colder eye on the dusty streets in piercing a mountain. As for the me and the comipon green fields—on the chanical menus of execution, the appli real breathing men and women, who can cation of perforatinghuachines, aud C >u- be chilled by your indifference or injured trivances tor ventilation, these are ques by your prejud ce; who can be cheered tions already solved in the course of auala- and helped onw ird by yourTellow feeling, gous operations. There is, however, an economical, Css your forbearance, your outspoken, brave well as technical standpoint, from w) rfclL justice.— George Eliot. the scheme may be examined. How' A ir and Suus H ine .—Sleepless people large an outlay will be exacted by this should court the sun. Tne very worst enterprise, aud what are tne proportions soporific is laudanum, and the very best of the traffic upon which it may reason sunshine ------ L._j. Therefore it is very plain that ably calculate? Messrs. Hawkshaw aud poor sleepers should pass as many hours Lavalley have not yet submitted esti in the sunshinetand as few as possible in mates on this point. Gut M. Thome de the shade. Many women aft martyrs, and Gamond, in au elaborate memoir on the yet do not knew it. They shut the suu- subject, c »mputed the cost at fifty mil- lious of d >llars, which ’ would represent an average expenditure of rather m >re do all possible! things to keep off the than a milliou and a half per mile. Tnese subti&st and yit most potent influence figures have been* attaiued by several which is to give them strength and beauty tunnels already executed, and it is be and cheerfulness. lieved by many ompeteut engineers that B oston B a R ed ’ B eans .—One quart they should be doubled in view of the un small white dried beaus; parboil in salt known factors pre-ented by this problem, and of the special difficult es attaching to io a boil. Then pour off submarine excavatioa. If their opiuion put them into a stone is well grounde i, t ie revenue of the pro tàblespoonful molasse»« a jected road o lglit to yield five million dollars in order to make the investment fairly remunerative. It is at least doubtful whether the re ceipts from traffic could be made to re alize silih a sum. For the year 1875 the channel trade of Eng aud, lucuding^ the lines to Ostend as well as to Freuch ports, showed a total of less than half a mil —Moths will vfork in carpets in rooms lion of passengers, and rather more than that are kept Warm in winter as well as two millions of tous in mercbandi-e, ex in summer. sure method of removing cluding coal—which under all circum the pests is to hour strong alum water on stances would be shipped in lighters from the floor to the distance of a half-yard Cardiff, Newcastle, aud other convenient around the edges before laying the car ports. There is no doubt that the move pets. Then once or twice during the ment of freight is steadily expanding, and season sprinkle dry salt over the carpet it is claimed that the amount of trave before sweeping. Insects do not like would be vastly augmented if the delays salt, and suffioient adheres to the carpet and annoyance of maritime transit coulc be avoided. Granting, however, /bat the to prevent their alighting upon it. tunnel would from the start comrirand a S tings .— If the bees have stung you, million of passengers, and that the mer press the hollow part of your watch-key chandise traffic at the date of its comple- nr a small tube over the sting to extract tion"will aggregate three million tons, it it,and bathe the place with aqua-ammonia, would be requisite to charge a toll o ’ or moisten saleratus and put on it; for two dollars a head and one dollar per poison is acidJand must have an alkai too in order to pfiy five per cent, on the to neutralize It Soft soap will often capital invested.! We must likewise sup prove the best Antidote for a bee-sting. pose that the channel freight would take M rs . P aob ’ c F ried C akes .— One and the submarine road; but it is obvious one-half cups sugar, one-half cup short- that this would not be the case, aud that enisg, one tin cup of sour milky on« spoon- bility, and ofte 1 unconsciously, detracts nothing from the beauty of their sweet usefulness. Ofie of the many instances of erring parentis saved from worse-doing by their little c nes is thus related in the Church Union: Two tìien hai 1 entered into an agree ment to rob one of their neighbors Everything was planned. They were to enter his house at midnight, break open lis chests and drawers, and carry o: iff aU the-silver and g:»ld they could find. “He is rieh and we are poor,” said they to each other, bp way of encouragement in the evil they were about to perform. “He will never 1 liss a little gold,while the possession will nakc us happy. Besides, what right has one man to all this world’s goods?” Thus tjiey talked together. -One of these men had i> wife and children, but the other had n >ne in the world to care i'or but himself. The man who had chil- is mother’s breast, v Mis freely to the mothen s.si - labout two pouuds, vn a ¿jueutly saw it sttded I .seen anything human I husband of the dead on a line of boats ruti- ,rt to Richmond, Vir- ^liors thought the name .Tigri», Tedut or Tidtu. §ie money/and was from j time that what little $sted but half through his wife, to supply her- icessaries of life, had pawned every* tailable article in her possession until fehe had nothing left, She was too ill; tri work, and for the last two weeks was:c<Ai fined to her miserable bed. , | If Tile neighbors; pl ing “an extra ff id r his sickly wife, y seven years old, uu coffin it seenledjj almost think her uuder Sorty-fivo friend, manner. “You ought to see it, then,” answered the neighbor. “If you don’t, there’s something wrong.” “Of course there is. In fact there’s al- ways something wrong with me on New Year’s Day.” “Bills?” said the neighbor, shrugging his shoulders and arching his eyebrows. “BillsI” answered Ellis, moodily. “I thought so,” frankly responded the other. “You did, ha!” His manner a little nettled. “Of course. What else could mar * I Inch....... 2 luche«..*. 8 Inches... 4 Inches... M Column. X Column. M Column. 1 Column.. ••.1 — fwo three I Three TTx 1 One week. wlu. wTts. 1 mos. Hins. 1 Year 81 00 1 if 25 1 »1 75 ifeto SÎO00ÎI15 00 1 A j 2 50 »00 8Ö0 "Y5 tor» ® 2 50 1 8 50 4 50 • 00 "20 00 ( 25 0Ò “Ä00| 80 00 8ÖÜ 1 400 5Ô0 4 50 1 5 50 (to 18 00 TO ®| 85 00 5 00 j 7 00 »00 20 00 36001 «00 7 00 1 8 00 12 00 20 00 Tooa so« 10 Ö0 1 15 00 [is to to 00 "«rarnto® Shall They B%ush for Their Father? The Submarine Passage Under the enough to render the all-rail transport of goods lucrative. ■V English Channel. ,, That children do good without responsi — T of the Metropol^ “Qome to my house this evening,” Naid the neighbor. “Bring with you a state ment, as near as you can make it out, of, all ybu owe, and the longest time you can get for its full payment. We will then look the matter squarely in the face, and Sefe what can be done.” The list of unsettled accounts brought in by Mr. Ellis was a long and discour aging one, amounting iu all to over fifteen hundred dollars. “I am ashamed to make this exhibi tion,” he said, in a choking voice, and with a look of humiliation. The neighbor went over the list in a quiet, business way, ticking off several itelns with his pencil. He then made a list of these items, and, footing up the amount said: “These are all things that might have been done without, and you see they have cost you over threw hun- drel dollars.” 1 One c • LAFAYETTE, OREGON, JANl| À.RY 12, 1877 L. 2. Subscriptions lent East, 82 00 a Year. “I wish I were youF’ said a friend one day, As he grasped my hand in a heartfelt way. 1 glanced at his upright, honest face, And sighed as I thought. Could he take my place, He’d know how a heart, tho’ it e’en did break, Could its woes conceal for a woman’s sake'. •- > LATAYETTE COURIER 1 LAFAYETTE Legs! Adverttiemrnti to be paid for upon making Proof by the Publisher. Personal Advertisements SO cents a Uns. ì ____________ _____ LAFAYETTE COURIER, l Q 1