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EifS VOL. IV. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON: SEPTEMBER 7, 1883. NO. 5.
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A PARABLE.
6id Christ, our Lord. "I will Kt and see
How the men, my breibreu. believe in me.
He pawed not "gain through the pate of birth.
Bat made himself known to the LhilUren or earth
Then Mid the chief priest-, and ruler and king.
Behold, now, the Giver of all good things;
Go to. let ua welcome with pomp and state
Him whom alone is mighty and great."
With carpet of gold tho ground they pread
Wherever the boa of Man ihould tread.
And in palace chambers lofty and r re
They lodged him and acrred him with kingly fare.
Great organ served through arehes d'm
Their jubilant tloorta in praise of him;
Aud iu church and palace, and Judgment hall,
Ue saw bis linage high over all.
But still, wherever bit step they led.
The Lord in sorrow bent down hi head.
And ftom under the heavy foundation stones.
The Son of Mary heard bitter groan.
And H ehivch. and palace, and Tidgmcnt hail,
lie marked great titures that rtut the wall.
Aod opened wider and yet more wlc'e
As the living foundation heaved and sighed.
"Have ye founded your thrones and altar, then.
On the bodies and nouU of living menr
And think ye that building thai! endure.
Wnlcb shelters the noble and crushes the poot?"
"With gates of silver aul bars of gold
Ye have (euced my sb ep from their Fa.hers fold,
1 bavd beard tns dropping of their teir.
In ilea veu these tigti.eeu hundred vears."
"O Lord and Master, not onri tho guilt.
We built but as our fathers built.
Behold thine images, how thev stand,
sovereign and sole, through all our land.
Our task is hard with sword and flime
To hold the earth forever the same.
And with sharp crook of f-teel to keep
SJll. ts thou iiftest tnem. thy sheep."
Then Christ sought out an artisan.
A low browed, stunted, haggard man.
And a motberiesa girl, whose ringer tbla
fujkhed from her faintly want and sin.
Those set he i l the midst of them.
And as thev drew back their garment bfctn.
"or ler of'deniemeat. "L'. here." said he,
"The Images ye hae made of me."
James Rusfell Lowell.
WHY HE UAKK1ED IIEK.
Everybody at Mayport said that no
body knew why Colonel Heave married
Eunice Perrang. Everything but her
looks seemed to be against the girl.
Even her name was used to her detri
ment, for no one had ever heard it any
where else as that of any family, either
good or bad, unless, perhaps, it was a
corruption of the French Perrin, in
which case it implied that the young
woman's own branch of the family must
Lave fallen very low to have accepted so
vulgar a pronunciation.
But the name was only the beginning
of Miss Perrang's drawback. Her father
had nothing but money gained by com
pounding liquors to make him promi
nent at Mayport, and in spending this
his taste was so bad that he seldom suc
ceeded in not being offensive. His wife
was a handsome woman who was not
without diguity, but an unfortunate
fondness for opium and other stimulants
had occasionally caused her to act so
strangely when in company that invita
tions to" hf r parties became more and
more productive of regrets, and they
were returned less and less. When, sud
denly, Mrs. Perrang realized her posi
tion, ehe changed her set for the one of
which her husband was the most fond,
and her habits also changed for the
. worse.
People did not drop Eunice as thor
oughly as they did her parents. While
at school the girl's high spirits, good
temper and generosity made her a favor
ite, and as she was handsome as weil as
lively the young meti joined their sisters
in defending her whenever they her al
luded ta merely as "one of the Perrangs."
Beside, there were mothers and fathers
who pitied the girl and were quite willing
that their own larnily ciroles should make
some amends to her for what she lacked
at home. But as she became a woman
and found herself the favorite of most of
the yoang men in the town, many maid
ens and their parents perceptibly cooled
in their apparent regard for her. Re
gardeionly as a young woman, she was
at least the equal of any of her old
schoolmates, but as a girl who might
marry and compel a blending of good
family names with that of Perrang, she
was too dredful to bo thought of for an
instant.
The girl was wise enough to detect the
general change of manner as soon as it
began and to know the reason. The ef
fect was what it would have been on any
other young woman of ptoper self re
spect. People who tried to keep her at
a distance, or to let her alone, were vig
orously "cut" as soon as their purpose
became manifest, so she was soon com
pelled to choose between no society and
that which her father's ostentatious use
of money attracted. She chose the for
mer, or almost that, for, of her old ac
quaintances about the only ones who re
mained faithful were Colonel Heave,
who spent his occasional leaves of ab
sence at Mayport, Dr. Morsley, who was
rector of th church which she attended,
and Mr. Bonnarton, a New York mer
chant who had plenty of money, an in
valid wife and two disagreeable daugh
ters. People then said that if poor Eunice
ever married, her husband would have
to come from her father's detestable Bet,
for Dr. Morsley, although a widower,
believed it a sin to take a second wife,
and he wis a man of character so strong
that he would never abandon a principle.
The colonel was not to be thought of as
a possible husband; many a mother had
endeavored to win him for her daughter,
but the colonel came to Mayport only to
be near the grave in which, fifteen yeari
before, he had placed the woman
whom he had engaged to marry. Mr.
Bennartou was far mora likely to become
a husband, for had not his wife been ill
for yearn?
But som people bad heard stories
about Bonnarton. A young lady who
once disappeared suddenly from society
in New York was never afterward seen
at the theater, the ea shore or in Eu
rope exeept with Bonnarton a? her es
cort. His manner was engaging, his will
persistent and his principles no higher
than absolutely required by business.
So, when Eunice Perrang began to ride
and dine with him, oeeming to enjoy his
attentions, a number of fathers and
mothers who had consciences began to
repent of their course toward the girl,
and to try to change it, but when they
attempted this, they found the girl's own
will in their way, so, as people always
do in such cases, they attributed her
manner to the wont reason that sug
gested itself. They confidently expectad
scandal, for some unfortunate specula
tions had recently deprived Perrang of
all his money, and soon after liquor
robbed him of his life. What could be
expected of a girl like Eunice when she
had neither father nor money, and was
loved, after a fashion, by a rich man who
alieadv had a wife?
A few people lagged Dr. Morsley to
redouble his endeavors to exert a good
influence over the girl; they got for their
pains some lectures, severer than any
one not a clergyman would dare give,
for their own neglect; indeed, the good
rector's' indignation cost him two
families who bad always occupied very
high-priced pews. Others wanted to
speak to Colonel Reave, but he had sud
denly become almost unapproachable;
he accepted scarcely any invitations; he
seemed in bad spirits, and were it not
that he was seeu of tener than usual at
tho grave of his lost sweetheart, his ac
quaintances might have believed that he
wa9 piqued at Eunice's preference for
Bonnarton.
As for the merchant, his personal ap
pearance and spirits improved steaiily,
aad those of his neighbors who were fa
miliar with him said in confidence to
other intimates that when rallied abour
Miss Perrang, the merchant would smile
as if he had every reason to be satisfied
with his prospects, and when asked,
hypocritically, how the colonel was get
ting along with Mis9 Perrang, the answer
generally was that the colonel had almost
ceased calling, for whenever he came the
young lady was almost sure to be enter
taining better company.
On one of the rare occasions when the
colonel allowed himself to accept an in
vitation, one of the guosts said:
"I heard to-day that Bonnarton had
bought Martin's place at the Ridge. It's
a charming little nest, but it's two miles
from anywhere. What do you suppose
he wants with it?"
Nobody could guess; those who might
have done so saw Colonel Reave frown,
so they thought it best to remain silent.
"Don't you understand?" persisted
the informant, with a half-tipsy leer that
was nevertheless significant.
"No." said the host, hurriedly, taking
the fellow's arm, "nor do you, Robin
son. Gentlemen, suppose we join the
ladies?"
All aeied on the suggestion but the
colonel, who begged to be excused for
the remainder of the evening. An old
wound was troubling him, he said, and
he would rather be no company than bad
company. i
But instead of going to the cotUgo of
an old soldier servant, where he was the
only boarder, the colonel strode in the
opposite direction. Dr. Morsley, who
had been a fellow guest, and had - heard
of what had been said, begged his host
to let him escape from the house unseen
and follow the colonel, for he feared
something might happen should the
soldier meet-well, he would mention no
names.
Tho host understood, and smuggled
the dootor's hat and cane from the
dressing-room, and the reverend gentle
man escaped by a Bide door so speedily
that he reached the sidewalk almost a?
soon as the colonel.. By walking on the
sodded portion of the sidewalk, he fol
lowed rapidly without making any
noise.
But the trip did not progress exactly
as the doctor had expected. Instead of
going directly to Bon nar ton's house or
to the Perrang place, the colonel went to
the little village cemetery.
The doctor promptly became ashamed
of himself; although he was glad to have
the colonel as regardful as himself of
Eunice Perrang's reputation, and was
rather sorry that tho colonel's abrupt de
parture bad not been caused by the in
sinuation he had heard, the errand upon
which his military friend was now bent
seemed of far higher nature than
chastising an old profligate. The old
man was about to retrace his steps, wh.n
it occurred to him that the colonel had
been in such bad health and BDirits for
a month or two that he might not be safe
company for himself at a time when he
preferred a lonely graveyard to a cheer
ful feast.
He had heard of middle-aged lovers
killing themselves at the graves of their
dead sweethearts; so he felt it would not
be indelicate if he were to watch the
colonel for a few minutes. The grave
was near a hedge that separated the cem
etery grounds from the garden of one of
the dootor's parishioners; so the old man
tiptoed through the garden and close to
the hedge just in time to hear the col
onel say:
"It is not for my sake, Agnes, but for
hers."
Then the colonel arose from his knees,
passed out of the cemetery, and walked
rapidly toward Miss Perrang's house.
The doctor followed rapidly, hi3 head in
a whirl. The colonel entered the house,
and a moment later the clergyman
peered in the parlor window, saw that
only Eunice and the colonel were there,
and whispared:
"Thank God!"
The colonel' complimented the lady on
her appearance and was told in reply that
Miss Perrang had never seen him look
ing better. This assurance seemed to
please the colonel, for his eye brightened
as if his mind had been cleared in some
way. He auswered quickly that no man
whose heart was so entirely and worthily
filled could help looking his b?Pt.
"Oh, Colonel!" exclaimed Miss Per
rang, playfully, "that sounds very much
as if you were in love. Do tell me who
the happy woman is?"
"May I tell you in confidence?" asked
the colonel, gravely; he extended his
hand as he added: "We are old friends,
you know. You won't laugh at me if
you don't approve of my choice?"
"Laugh at you, Colonel Reave?" ex
claimed Eunice. "No woman could do
that. The woman whom the one great
catch of Mayport is in love with is "
"Yon, Mies Perrang," interrupted the
colonel. "Forgive an old soldier's
bluntness if I ask you plainly will you
marry me?"
The lady's self possession forsook her;
bo, apparently, did her tongue. ' All she
could do was to stare blankly.
"Hava I offended yon? ' asked the col
onel, gently.
"You have honored me as no mau aver
did. I can at least be frank in re
turn." She averted her eye and con
tained: "People have talk ad about mo and
you have heard them there, there, don't
break a soldier's word for the sake of be
ing polite.'1
"I have heard scarcely anything and
; believed nothing. I will believe nothing
but what you yourself tell me.
"I can only say there is nothing to
tell." said the lady.
"Certainly not," said the colonel.
"But," continued Miss Perrang, "peo
ple will say cruel things about a friend
less girl."
"Then people should be kept in order
by a man who has a right to speak for
her and whose word no one dare
impugn."
' "Your name aud family is held in high
honor '
"Care for them, for me," interrupted
the colonel, "and let me guard you in
return."
Whether Misa Perrang would have
hesitated longer is known only to herself
and the colonel, for the latter; hearing
the gate close and steps approach the
house, quickly threw his arms around
the astonished girl and kissed her on
both cheeks. A moment later Mr.
Bonnarton entered the room and seemed
displeased at what he saw, but the
colonel, who seemed to be in high glee,
said:
"Good evening, Mr. Bonnarton, you
have arrived just in time to be the first
to congratulate us on our engagement."
Mr. Bonnarton merely glared.
.Miss Perrang without the slightest
sign of fear returned his look, upon
which Bonnarton said: "Good night,"
aud abruptly quitted the room. As he
did &a Dr. Morsley sneaked away from
the wiodow.where he had been listening,
dropped on his knees behind a neglected
rose clump and offered up a prayer that
he had never seen in print. A few weeks
later he joined the colonel and Eunice in
marriage, and everybody who was any
body came to the wedding and visited
the bride always thereafter. The
colonel, in spite of his long devotion to
first love, became a very happy husband.
As for Bonnarton, ho was so unmerci
fully chaffed that he speedily drank him
self to death.
'ot Rest, but Work.
We have often wondered where and
how humanity got the idea that rest is
happiness, for a greater fallacy never ex
isted. Yet it seems that the one bright
dream that cheers the busy man through
the years of struggle and strife of early
life is that by-and-by, when he is old, he
will give up work entirely and rest.
And the mother, as she ministers to the
ever re curring wants of her little family,
revels in anticipation of the days to come
when the children will have been raised
and she and her husband can enjoy
again the repose of earlier years.
Time passes yea it seems to fly, and
at fifty-five tho man has succeeded
beyond his most sanguine expectations
pf his youth; but does he settle up his
business affairs and invest al! his capital
in government bonds that he might be
rid of care, although his money yields
him a low rate of interest? Not one time in
a thousand, if he can find anything more
remunerative to do with it. But if he
decides in favor of the care-free course,
nine vimes out of ten he devotes the re
mainder of his days to regretting his
folly in closing out a business that had
made him comparatively happy in years
past, and by this act severing his con
nection with tho active, moving world
about him.
And th9 house seemed never so big,
nor the mother's heart half so desolate,
as when she has siid good-bye to the
baby and he goes out into the world to
battle with its trials. Then how the
years of his dependence, whan he was
a constant care comes back to her, and
she contrasts the care-free weariness that
was then her- daily portion, with the
anxiety that is now her constant com
panion, and how gladly would she leave
the luxury and ease that surrounds her
and return to the old days with all they
held of work and worry. But it is too
late now. While all these joys of woman
hood were hers, she allowed herself to
be blinded by the dazzling picture of
rest in the future, until she could see no
beauty in the busy present.
And were it not for this effect which
invariably results from our mistaken
idea of the delights of rest, we would
feel that our time was woree than lost
that is spent in referring to it. But it is
a mistake that may in a great measure
be avoided. Every one of us may dis
cover new beauties in our daily toil by
steadfastly resisting the one temptation
to long for rest as the one thing to be de
sired. "This world is a working world
and man is a working creature, and the
sooner we realize this truth the better
we fill the places for which the Almighty
has designed us." Burlington Hawk
eye. A Fanions Aeronaut.
The village of Vidalon-les-Annonay,
celebrated last month the centenary of
Joseph Montgolfier, the famous balloon
ist. His father was a well-to-do paper
maker. The son, who had an excellent
education, early showed a marked taste
for science, and very early signalized
himself by improvements in gunpowder
manufacture and many other industries,
more especially paper-making. His bal
loon invention created an extraordinary
excitement in France, and Louis XVI.
conferred on him an order and a pension
and letters of nobility on his father a
rare instance of speedy recognition for
an Inventor in high quarters- He met
with equal acceptance at the hands of
Napoleon, who gave him the Legion of
Honor, and made him director of arts
and manufacture. Montgolfier had a
most able coadjutor in his brother,
Etienne, and a modest pyramid at An
nonay commemorates the two. The
people there think that the Montgolfiers
deserve something better, and a sub
scription has been opened for that end.
Its promoters aver that those who recall
that sixty-four balloons carried 3,000,000
of letters into and out of Paris-during
the siege, should cheerfully contribute.
Montgolfier would probably be much
mortified and surprised were he to re
turn to earth to day. and find that the
guidance of balloons remains 'as poor
Mr. Powell, the British member of par
liament, found at the cost of his Ufa two
yaars ago, as uaaoh a mystery at ever.
i Glass Eyes tar Animals.
As a Sun reporter glanced at a glass
showcase in front of a taxidermist's Btore
on Williams street bis glance was re
turned by a hundred eyes of various
colors and dimensions. They were yel
low, blue, carmine, brown and oval,
round and oval, large and small. Some
had the mild, supplicating gaze of an
Aiderny rjow, some the glare of the tiger,
some the wary glance of the fox, some
the steady stare of the owl, and some the
idiotic look of a wax dummy.
A sign on the oase read: "Artificial
eves for stuffed birds, etc.," and a painted
hand pointed upstairs. In a small front
room on the eecond floor were a number
of showcases Vail of all kinds of fancy
articles of glacsware, and among the
cases was one containing eyes like those
below. Scattered over tftable were thia
bars of glass of various hues. From the
back room came a combination of sounds
like the whirr of a sewing machine and
the sprrr-ut of a gas flame in draught.
Mingled with these were complaints of
the heat, and directions to a small boy to
take a tin can and get ttn cents' worth of
something cold. In the back the
reporter saw two men engaged in
glass blowing, and a third super
intending them. One of the men had a
bar of ordinary crystal glass. Holding
it in the gas flame, he worked a lump of
glass around the end of a wire. While
it was still soft he handed it over to the
other blower, who took a very thin bar of
yellow glass, and. heating it, worked it
into the crystal. When" after a while he
removed the crystal and yellow glass
from the flame, the glass at the end of
the wire looked like a round glowing
eye. As it cooled down the yeliow that
had worked in began to resemble more?
and more a yellow iris. When it was
thoroughly cool and hard it looked like a
large owl's eye, the pupil being a section
of the wire on which the glass was
heated.
Before the glass had cooled, the first
man had heated another piece of crystal
glass, molded it, and handed it to the
second man, who again worked iu a piece
of yellow glass.
"We've got enough owl's eyes now,"
the superintendent said. "I guess yon
had better make fifty dolls' eyes, fifteen
pair blue and the rest brown."
"You see," he continued, turning to
the reporter, "baby dolls mostly have
light hair and blue eyes, while large
young ladydolls are brunettes. As the
baby dolls are cheaper, there is more
demand for them, and so I have to keep
more blue eyes on hand."
As he finished speaking, the first work
man pressed the soft, heated crystal glass
into a tiny mold, drew it out a tiny white
human eye, and handed it to the second
workman, who inserted a small blue iris,
just as he had inserted the yellow pupils
in the owl eyes. After the glass had
cooled down it looked like a wee blue
human eye. When fifteen pairs had thus
been made, the heated crystal was dipped
into a larger mould for large young lady
dolls' eyes, and brown irises worked in.
When ten pairs of these had been made
the superintendent said:
"Now, that we've mado eyes for babies
and young ladies, we'll make some for
full-grown women milliner's wax lay
figures, you know. Brown eyes this
time, because we've got blue eyes enough
on hand."
This time the heated crystal glass was
pressed into a mold as large as a woman's
eye, and a correspondingly large iris was
worked in.
"Is your principal trade in eyes for
dolls and lay-figuies, or in artificial eyes
for beasts and birds?" the reporter asked
the superintendent.
"In the latter. That is my specialty. I
have two diplomas from the American
society of taxidermists."
"Do you sell your goods at retail to
people who have pets stuffed?"
"No. I am simply a manufacturer
and sell to dealers in artificial eyes,
though I also sell to taxidermists."
"And for what eyes do you have the
most demand?"
"Of course for artificial eyes for stuffed
household pets dogs' eyes, cats' eyes,
and small birds' eyes."
"And do you keep these in all sizes?"
"Not only in all sizes, butin a 1 shapes.
The shape of the eye differs according
to the position .of the bird or animal
though the difference is greater in ani
mals than in birds."
"In what animal does the shape of the
eye vary the most."
'Decidedly the cat. The shape of
the cat's eye run all the way from round
to oyal. It depends on whether the cat
is looking into a flame of light or in a
dark room, or is purring, or
just waking up, or opening
its eyes in a dose and on
many other circumstances. Now people
may remember their cat with most pleas
ure in a certain position, and according
ly have it stuffed in that position. Of
course the taxidermist comes to me for
the eyes which suit the position, and it
is in shaping them according to the exi
gencies of the occasion that the manufac
turer shows his skill."
"Some animals, I suppose, have large
eyes lor their size and some have small
ones?"
"Oh, yes. The owl has a very large
eye for its size, when yon compare it to
the peacock, which has very small eyes."
"For what animal or bird do you
make tha lagest eyes and for which the
smallest?"
"I make the largest eyes for the moose
and the smallest for the thrush."
"Do you use other colors than brown
and yellow in making eyes for beasts
and birds."
"For some fancy South American
birds I have to, or 'they wouldn't look
natural."
As the reporter went down stairs the
sun was streaming into the show-case on
the street but the eyes didn't blink.
A Galveston school teacher asked a
new boy: "It a carpenter wants to cover
a roof fifteen feet wide by thirty feet
broad with shingles five feet broad by
twelve feet long, how many shingles will
be needed?" The boy took down his hat
and slid for the door. "Where are you
going?" asked the ttacher. "To find a
carpenter. He ought to know that bet
ter than any of we fellers." Hartford
Times. "
Ismail Pasha, ex khediva, will lire
permanently in London.
The Danger of Steady I linking.
While every one is willir g to admit
that the habitual drinking of spirituous
liquors is detrimental lo heidth, few per
sons believe that, except in cases of inor
dinate indulgence, ale and beer are in
jurious. So general is the conviction
that these beverages are harmless that
they are frequently drank instead of wa
ter, as a safeguard to health.) In view of
the character of the water furnished the
inhabitants, not only to this city, but to
the dwellers of other closely populated
sections as well, there wor ld seem to
be some excuse for this reasoning. This
point, however, is open to discussion,
and before jumping at any conclusion
as to the advantages of malt liquors ver
sus water, it will bo wise to consider the
opinions of medical men, who have
abundant opportunity to watch the ef
fects of each and are presumably quali
fied to judge of their respec:ive merits.
Moreover tho man who drinks beer or
ale as a sanitary measure c m have no
assurance that it is not made from water
originally even more impuro than that
he seeks to avoid, and further defiled by
drugs and herbs which are in themselves
prejudicial to health, lo the in
jurious effects of malt liqu
ors numerous English phvsicians of
note have recently borne testimony.
In a letter recently delivered by Mr.
William Hargrave, he reft rred to the
opinions of a few of these professional
experts. All of them agree ti at the Lon
don draymen, who have tho unlimited
privilege of the brewery eel lar, are the
worst patients in the Metropolitan hos
pital. Though they are apparently mod
els of health and strength, y it if one of
them receives a serious injury, it is
nearly always necessary to amputate in
order to give him the remotest chance of
life. Sir Astley Cooper findn that even
so slight an injury as a scritch on the
hand from a splinter is quite sufficient
to frequently cause death to he habitual
beer drinker. Dr. Gordon says that the
moment beer drinkers are st acked with
acute diseases they are not able to bear
depletion, and die. Dr. Edvards thinks
their diseases are always of t dangerous
character, and that in cases of accident
they can never undergo eve a the most
trifling operation with the security of
the temperate. Other medics 1 meu of no
less note are of the opinion that malt
liquors render the blood siz and unfit
for circulation hence proceed ob
structions and inflammations of the lungs
and that there ure few great bear
drinkers who are not phthisical, brought
on by the glutinous and indigestible na
ture of the ale and porter. These
liquors icflanio tho blood, and tear to
pice the tender vessels of the lfmgs.
The experience of these gentlemen
teaches them not alone are the brain and
lungs affected by even the moderate use
of beer, but the stomach is i.iso made to
pay its share of the penalty. The nerves
of tho stomach are injured, causing dys
pepsia, etc., and its mncuous lining be
comes inflamed and covered v ith ulcerous
patches. In conclusion, they think that
regular moderate dt inking is more inju
rious than periodical drunkenness, with
intervals cf abstinence. It is, then,
tha daily tippliug in which tha greatest
danger lies. The stomach is subjected
to frequent stimulation and depression,
and the system has no time to overcome
the injury of the poison which accumu
lates from day to day, never ceasing in
its work of destruction. The conclusions
rtu:hed by a recently presented ! report
of the committee of theHar-eian society
in England relating to the mortality due
to alcohol may be of interes ; in this con
nection, as there is no reason to believe
that the death rate from such causes in
England and America differs very widely,
The report says:
"There is, upon the whols, reason to
think that in the metropolis the mortal
ity among any considerable group of in
temperate persons will diffe r from that
generally prevailing anion? adults in
the following important particulars,
namely: A fourfold inoreise in the
deaths from diseases of the liver or chyl
opcetio viscera, a two-fold increase in the
deaths from disease of the ki dneys, a de
crease of half as much again ot those
from heart disease, a marked increase of
those from pneumonia and pleurisy, a
considerable increase and at earlier re
currence of thoso from disease of the cen
tral nervous system, a marxed inorease
in those from bronchitis, asthma, emphy
sema and congestion of the lungs, a de
crease nearly as great in those from
phthisis, and a later occurrence, or at
least termination, of the disease, a very
large uecrease in tnose irqm oia age
with an increase in those referred to
atrophy, debility, etc., and he addition
of a considerable group referred in gen
eral terms to alcoholism or chronic alco
holism, or resulting from accidents."
Phila. Press.
Married at a Funeral.
The late Mrs. Swift was
buried from
her residence last Friday morning. The
Rev. J. .M. Lyon conducted
tho
f nneral
services. After the people
had
assem
bled, and just before the time for com
mencing the services, the
pastor stated
that it had been the desire
of the de-
ceased, a few hours previous to her
death, that her adopted daughter Lizzie
and Mr. Jesse Lawrence, to whom she
(Lizzie) was betrothed, should be mar
ried before she (the mother) closed her
ayes in death, but as Mr
Lawrence
was out of town at the time!
her request
ed. In view,
oould not, of course.be gran
therefore, of
thought best
tha circumstances, it was
to and eminently proper
that the young couple should then and
there be united in marriage. In the
connection it might be
observed that
Lizzie, by the death of
wonld be left alone in the
Mrs. Swift,
world. The
ceremony was, therefore, performed in
the presence of the dead arid the friends
assembled, and was an occasion of more
than ordinary impressivehess
eminty. isy will, lizzie take3 the resi
dence all furnished, and land connected,
besides, we understand, about, $2500 in
money invested, and the young people
commenced housekeeping at once in the
old homestead, under favorable, though
peculiar circumstances.
-Rochester,
(Mich.) Era.
The German emperor.
is over 86
i, while the
invalid.
yaars old, is hale and vigorc ui
express, at 72, is a oenfirmod
Dueling, Past and Present.
Twenty-five years ago. at the table of
a gentleman wnose latner ltau fallen in a
J i it . . .
uuot, me conversation leu upon duel
ing, and after it had proceeded for some
time mo nosi remarked .emphatically, that
there were occasions when it was a man's
solemn duty to fight. The personal ref
erence was too significant to permit fur
ther insistence at that table that duel
ing was criminal folly, and the subject
of conversation was changed.
The host, however, had only reiterated
the familiar view of General Hamilton.
His plea was. that in the state of public
opinion at the time when Burr chal
lenged him, to refuse to fight under cir
cumstances which by the "code of
honor" authorized a challenge, was to
accept a brand of cowardice and of a
want of gentlemanly feeling, which
would banish him to a moral and social
Coventry, and throw a cloud of discredit
upon his family. So Hamilton, one of
the bravest men and one of the acutest
intellects of his time, permitted a worth
less fellow to murder him. Yet there is
no doubt that he stated accurately the
general feeling of the social circle in
which he lived. There was probaWy
not a oonspicuous member of that so
ciety who was of military antecedents
who would not have challenged any man
who had said of him what Hamilton had
said of Burr. Hamilton disdained ex
planation or recantation, and the result
was accepted as tragical, bnt in a certain
sense inevitable.
Yet the result aroused public senti
ment to the atrocity of this barbarous
.survival of the ordeal of private battle.
lhat ono ot the most justly renowned of
public men, of unsurpassed ability,
should be shot down like, a mad dog, be
cause he had expreesed the general feel
ing about an unprincipled schemer, was
an exasperating public misfortune. But
that he should have been murdered in
deference to a practice which was ap
proved in the best society, yet which
placed every other valuable life at the
mercy of any wily vagabond, was a pub
lic peril. From that day to this there
has been no duel which could be said to
have commanded public sympathy or
approval. From the bright June morn
ing, eighty years ago, when Hamilton
fell at Weehawken, to the June of this
year, when two foolish men shot ft each
other in Virginia, there has been a steady
and complete change of public opinion-,
and the performance of this year was re
ceived with almost universal contempt,
and with indignant censure of a dilatory
police.
The most celebrated duel in this coun
try sinoe that of Hamilton and Burr was
the encounter between Commodores De
catur and Barron, in 1820, near Wash
ington, in which Decatur, like Hamilton,
was mortally wounded, and likewise
lived but a few hours. The quarrel was
one of professional, as Burr's of political
jealousy. But as the only conceivable
advantage m of the Hamilton duel
lay in 'its arousing the public
mind to the barbarity of dueling.
the only gain from the Decatur duel was
that it confirmed this conviction. In both
instances there was an unspeakable shook
to the country and infinite domestic an
guish. Nothing else was achieved.
Neither general manners nor morals
were improved, nor was the fame of
either combatant heightened, nor public
confidence in tbe men or admiration of
their public services increased. In both
eases it was a calamity alleviated solely
by the resolution which it awakened that
such calamities should not occur again.
Such a resolution, indeed, could not
at once prevail, and eighteen years after
Decatur was killed, Jonathan Cilley, of
Maine, was killed in a duel at Washing
ton by William J. Graves, of Kentucky.
This event occurred forty-five years ago,
bat the outcry with which it was re
ceived even at thai time one of the
newspaper moralists lapsing into rhyjie
as he deplored the cruel custom which
led excellent men to the fatal field
"Where Cilley meet their Graves"
and the practical disappearance of Mr.
Graves from public life, showed how
deep and strong was tha publio con
demnation, and how radically the general
view of the duel was changed.
Even in tbe burning height of tbe
political and sectional animosity of 1856,
when Brooks had assaulted Charles Sum
ner, the challenge of Brooks by some of
Sumner's friends met with little publio
sympathy. Duriug the excitement the
"Easy Chair" met tbe late Count
Gurowski, who was a constant and
devoted friend of Mr. Sumner,
but an old-world man, with
all the hereditary sooial prejudices
of the old world. The count was furious
that such a dastardly blow had not been
avenged. "Has he no friends?" he ex
claimed. "Is there no honor left in
your country?" And, as if he wonld
burst with indignant impatience, he
shook both fists in the air, and thunder
ed out. "Good God I will not somebody
challenge anybody?"
No, that time is past. The elderly
club dude may lament the good old code
of honor a word of which he has a very
ludicrous conception aa Major Penden
nis, when he pulled off his wig, and took
oat his false teeth, and removed the pad
ded calves of his legs, used to hopa that
the world was not sinking into shams in
itsoldage. Quarreling editors may win
a morning's notoriety by stealing to the
field, furnishing a paragraph for the re
porters, and running away from the po
lice. But they gam only the unsavory
notoriety of the man in a curled wig and
flowered waistooat and huge flapped coat
of the last century who used to parade
Broadway. The costume was merely an
advertisement, and of very contemptible
wares. The man who fights a duel to
day excites but one comment. Should
he fall, the common opinion of enlight
ened mankind writes upon his head-stone,
"He died as the fool dieth." George
William Curtis, in Harper's Magazine
for September.
A new use has been found for cotton.
Manufactured into duck it has been suc
cessfully introduced as a roofing mater
ial. Aside from its cheapness it pos
sesses the advantage of lightness as com
pared with shingles or slate, -it effectually
excludes water, and is said to be a non
conduotor of heat.
Coinage of silver dollars for August
will amount to $2,340,000.
ALL SORTS.
Senator Fair is said to intend to marry
on his return from Europe.
J. W. Mackay and hi wife will spend
the coming winter in New York.
A pert miss says she bangs because
she don't want to look so forehead.
In fashionable London there is noted
a great increase in the number of ladies
who drive gigs.
Bancroft, the historian, though eighty
years old, is reported as one of the best
equestrians at Newport.
A Zulu belle may be said to be liku
the prophets, because she had not much
on-'er in her own country.
Queen Victoria has received a woman
physician, Mrs. Scharlieb, with unusual
favor at Windsor Castle.
In India they gamblo on the weather.
but in this country they bet on Wiggins
to lose, every time.
"Never mind the wire wherefore?" is
the agon v evolved by a Philadelphia
paper of Pinaforical proclivities.
A Philadelphia paper thinks there is a
wide spread conviction that this ooantry
should be put on ice immediately.
A well-known actress, Mrs. Kendal.
was presented at court recently, her
chaperon being the Countess Rosse.
Theodore Tilton is now in Europe.
Mrs. Tilton is said to be somewhere in
Central New Jersey, taking in sewing for
a living.
There is one thing about Munchausen,
saya a Philadelphia paper to his credit.
The baron never tried to be a weather-
irophet.
Robert Buchanan intends to coma to
America next winter to supervise the per-
ormance of a play made out of his "God
and Man."
An Arkansas editor says that the stin
giest man in his town talks through his
nose to save the wear and tear on his
false teeth.
The Truthseeker, the organ of the in
fidels, counts among its constituents "all
the judges in the supreme oourt exoept
Justice Strong."
The treasurer of a Long Island base
ball club and $70 belonging to the or
ganization are missing. In whom can
we put our trust?
Tbe beading "Another Safe Robbery .
On the South side." leads the Oil City
Blizzard to remark that most robberies .
are safe nowadays.
Up to the hour of going to press
David Davis bride had not addressed
him as, "You dear little baby," or "you
fat little ducky darling."
Rev. Thomas Harrison, known as "the
bov preacher" when he was younger, baa
announced his intention to convert the
city of St. Louis next winter.
"Dwo vos schoost enough, budt dree
vos too blendty," remarked Huns, when
his girl asked him to taka her mother
along with him to the dance.
An Alabama judge has decided that a
man who puts his satchel on a seat in
the cars reserves that seat unless the
man that moves it is bigger that he is.
There is now no living member of the
group pictured by Carpenter's celebrated
painting of "Signing the Proclamation."
Montgomery Blair was the eighth and.
last.
"Tbe difference," said Twistem, as he
thumped his glass on the bar, "between
this glass and a locust is simply that one
is a beer mug and the other's a mere
bug."
Prince Bismarck has become suspicions
and crabbed in his disposition to a degree
that makes it impossible for any publio
official but the most obsequious to serve
under him.
Even Socrates, says tbe Saturday Re
view, could make no head against an op
ponent who argued "that if a dog was
yours and was also a father, then thadoj
was your father."
Count de Chambord's Castle Frohs
dorf, one hour's distanoe from Vienns,
which "shines out of a dense forest like
a snow-white Easter egg in a green nest,"
is a plain square building.
The rheumatism which has driven
Princess Beatrice to the continent, is
said to have been caused by the low.
necked and short sleeved dresses which
the queen makes her weir.
When the rifle team returns, the mem
bers will feel like scooting home across
lots. The boys doubtless did the best
they could. Angels couldn't do any bet
tor than that. N. Y. Com.
A contemporary, in reporting a case of
attempted suicide, alludes to it as tha
"rash act." Such language strikes tbe
mind of the. intelligent reader with a
"dull thud." N. Y. Com.
"No," said " Mrs. McGill, "we don't
celebrate All Fool's Day at our bouse.
The 'squire never pays any attention to
legal hollow days; and at for me, I feel
just as foolish one day as another."
An 'up-country exchange asks this
idiotic question: "Did Romeo for what
Juliet?" The man who would perpetrate
such an atrocious one as that wonld not
only pick a pocket, but steal an entire
clothing house. N. Y. Com. .
The wild agony of a man as he kisses
his wife and children good-bye at the de
pot before they "go to see grandma," is
only equaled by his intense exuberance
as he applauda'tbe singers at the eirons
a few hours later. Syr. Herald.
The New York Morning Journal makes
the remark that "There were no water
melons in the Garden of Eden." It is
more than flkely that the watermelon
was the real forbidden fruit, and that it -'
doubled up the existing population at
once. N. x. Pioayune.
A famous North Carolina clergyman
while preaching from tbe text, "Ha giv
eth His beloved sleep," stopped in the
middle of his discourse, gazed npon his
slumbering congregation and said:
"Brethren, it is hard to realize the un
bounded love which the Lord appears to
have for a large portion of mv auditory.
The editor wrote it: "Toronto Odd
Fellows have endowed a ootin the hospi
tal of that city for the benefit of sick
children;" but the new compositor, who
was not familiar with tha scribe's chircr
raphy, set it up: "Twenty old fossils
hare dossed a cat in the horse-pond of
that oity for tbe bone-pit of six GbiiM
n."-N. T. Com.