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THE COLUMBIAN. THE COLUMBIAN. Published Every Friday, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., ' BY E. 0. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor Advertising Ratis : One square (10 linea) first insertion, . $2 00 Pi'BLisHKn Kvkuv Friday, AT-- ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO.. OH.. BT E. 0. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor. Subscription Kates : One year, in advance f- 00 Six months, " 1 00 Three month. " 50 VOL. V. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 26, 184 NO. 8. Each mbaequent insertion 1 00 THE COLUMBIAN. TWJI5HT. broad re I ciy in h. r i!iksoiiip 1 trees Lie compassed ab ut by t be hosts of night Lies humming, low, like a h.ve of bee; Aud tb day lies dead. And it spirit's flight In fur to the iftt, while the golden bars That bound it are broken to dust f'r star. Com under my oak,-, O drowsy dusk! The. wolf ami the nog; cear incense hour When mother earth hatu a smell of musk. And things of the spirit assert their iwer Wbe.'i caudles are set to huru in the west Set bead aud foot to the day at rest. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. Vortacr meetings as Described by Long: Job.it U'entworth. Chicago In e -Ocean. "The flrwt national political inuTentlon," Mtid Long John Weutworth yesterday, "ever bald in Chicago was i:t ls(V). I was mayor of the city at that time. D.d yotr know that Horace Greely was the man who nominated Abraham Lincoln f "No," said the leporter. "Wa Gieeley a delegate from New Yorkf" "No, from Oregon." "From Oregon f "Yes, lie l.ad tle Oregon proxies. Ve!L ytn see, them huh a hitter political tight bet wtK-n Seward and Greeley, and Horace made up his mind to down turn. Seward waj the proraineut can didate bffote the convention, and everybody rxpected to s. e hiin nominated. Greeley aiidn't care wb was nmir:ati so it wasn't Seward. Well, Bates and (.'base withdrew in favor of tl e dark Loi Giveley 1 ad n- candidate of hi- own to start on, but If is entitled to the whole credit of nominating Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. Whn Ulc ln came to i j i.le.it helid what few men would dare do he urn le up his cabinet of Lis opponents. He put in Seward for sec " retary of state. Bates for attorney general. CLase for secretary of the treasury." "The necoud national pol.tical convention held in Chicago," aid the Hon. Phil lioyne, "wan that Dcmccratic onvention of lSf4 that nominate i McClellan and Fendletou. My to boys we o pages in that convent on; i;ow they are young men. The convention . ww held on the lake shore in the old wiwnui. It La 1 a t-Drai roof. I went in with Governor Dick Yates and Pitt Kellogg. They bad bad some trouble in getting iu, and 1 thought it tunguiar that the governor of Il linois couldn't gt into a coovent.'on. so I helped them get seats. The convention was very orderly, inde.L I remember seeing Valiandingbam. Crowds followed nim about. I believe be made a speech from the steps of ti.e old Sherman house, where he was stop ping. "The next was the Republican convention of ltrtW. held in the Cri eby opera bouse, wi ere Grant and Colfax were nominated. Joseph B. Hawley presided. I saw Dan S cii lee, Forney and K. W. Thompson present. 1 think Logan nominated Grant. Anyway, the convention was unanimous for Grant. The effect was great when the roll of 6tates was called and th- vote of each wan an nounced by the freed lent in his magnificent sonorous voice. The choice of Cojfax for vice-president was not u:ianishous at Hie', but was afterwards made so. "No more conventions were held here until in . lbsO, when Go i field and Ar thur were nomiuateJ. Of course, you re member all about that, it was such a shvit time ago. Grant and Blaine were the prom inent and talked-of candidates. GarQtdd was the dark horse, starting on one vote, cast, I think, by a delegate from Pennsyl vania. There was great excitement through out the country. It lo-ited from the 2d to the Wh of the month. Toe first two days were oonsumed in straightening the delegations. There were fights in nearly all of them. Tne nomiration was made on the 8h, ab.mt 3 o'clock. There wouldn't anybo-ly believe at first that Garfield was nominated jjtt as bbey wouldn't believe the report of bis assas kination. I heard the speech of Flannigan, of Texas, when he said: 'If we're not here for the offices what the are we here forf The chairman sm led, aud everybody else laughed, the newspaper boys the loudest of all." Shooting the Cascade Ilaplds. Portland (Ore.) News.j The Gold Dust, a stanch and trim little steamer, successfully ran the rapids at the Cascades of the Columbia yesterday morn ing. There were five persons aboard. The Gold Dust was built in Portland some five years ago. She is eighty-five feet in length, with a twelve-foot beam, and has a draft of six feet, light. For a year or two she ran as an indej enJent boat between this city and Vancouver; thn she was taken to the Columbia river to run between the Cascades and the Dalles. The owners had to cut the boat In two aid haul the sections with teams aronnd the Cascades rapids. Lately her owners concluded to return the boat to service on the Willamette river. "It was a mighty ticklish job to run the rapids," said Engineer St. Martin to a News rep -rter last evening as be was enjoying a smoke in the engine-room of the Gold Dust, tnugly moored at Ham, Taylor t Co.'s dock. "Fve been on the water for over fifteen yais, and it was the hottest time I've ever experienced. Wo started from the upper Cascades at 8:80 in the morning, and at once shot into the seething waters in the channel, Hose to thii Washington site. We shot through the rapids, fully 300 feet in length, like an arrow. It didut seem to me to take us half a minute. The water was very rough, the mad wavea dashing ns to and fro. This channel is less than 100 feet wide, with savage recks on both sides. Owing to high water these rocks ar some .six feet under water, an I this fact made the trip the riiore dangerou. Twice in the rapid vr.yage I thought we were goners. The waves dashed against the boat viciously, knocking in the lights of the engine-room and pouring a volume of water into the boat. I was dienohel to the skin, and so were the others. Once out of the main rapids we had smooth sailing. We made the trip from the upper Cascades to the lower Cascades, some six miles in about as many minutes. The Oregon shore was lined with spectators, uiottiy government employes, and they gave ns a round of hearty cheers as we safely rode through the rapids. One such a trip will do a man for a lifetime. Jim Flsk'e Revenge. ' New York Lett r in Troy Times. The Jate Samuel Bowles, former editor of The Springfield Republican, spent one night In the Ludlow Street jail, and found even this brief experience fully sufficient. This was the work of Jim Fisk, whom Bowles ha i andled in a very severe manner. Bowles soon afterward came to this city, and Fisk arrested him for libel. He ordered the olncers to wait till late in the afternoon, when busine men had gone home and no bail could be obtained. Bowles was trapped in this tricky manner, but the next mornnig bail was pneured ani he was released. Fisk then dropped ti.e u t. HU only object was to lock Bowles up. He was always proud of this exploit. Aikansaw Traveler: A man what is evil tut whut tries tr dogpod, soon gits tired o' ae job. De wolf ken be ea gentle de Iamb, but it's so tirsom dat Le kain' bol' out long. MADAME SA IT V AGE. rNew Orleans Times-Democrat from the French of Guy de Maupassant. When the war broke out, the son of San vago, who was then Hi years old, enlisted, leaving his mother totally alone. Folks did not, however, pity the old woman much le cause she had money everybody knew that! So she remained alone in her isolated house, so far from the village at the edge of the forest. But she was not in the least afraid, leing of the same stock as the men of the country a hardy old woman, tall and gaunt, who seldom laughed, and whom hoIkkIv pre sumed to trine with. Indeed, the country women there do not laugh much. laughing is well enough for the men! The minds of those women are melancholy, and narrow, for their lives are dismal and seldom lightened by an hour of joy. The peasant husband or son learns something of noisy gaiety in the tavern: but their helpmates and mothers re main serious, ' with visages perpetually austere. The muscles of their faces have never actjuired the movements of laughter. Old Mother Sauvage continued her ordi nary mode of life in her cabin, which was soon covered with snow. Once a week she us-d to come to the city to buy a little bread and meat, after which she would return to her dwelling. As there .was a good deal of talk ulut wolves, she never went out with out a gun slung at her back the son's gun, a rusty weapon whose butt was quite worn away by the mej e rubbing of horny hands against it, and it was really curious to watch the tall old woman, n little stoojied by age, striding leisurely through the snow, with the lttirrel of the gun sticking up alove the black covering which surrounded her head and eoiifhicd those white tresses which no body hail ever seen. Chte day the Prussians came. They were quartered upon the inhabitants of the place, according to the fortunes and resources of each family. The old woman had to nn-eive four, because she was known to le rich. These were four big lads with fair flesh, fair lieards and blue eyes who had remained stout in spite of all the fatigues they had en dured, ami who seemed to le right good fel lows, although conquerors in a conquered eountiy. Finding themselves alone with the old woman they took pains to show her all Issible consideration, and did all in their power to save her trouble and expense. They could lie seen every morning, all four together, making their toilet at the well, in their shirt sleeves; pouring the cold water over that fair, rosy, northern flesh of theirs even on the days when it was snowing most heavily while Mother Sauvage went to and fro. preparing the soup for them. Then they could le seen clea:iing up the kitchen, wash ing the windows, chopping the wood, peeling the iKtntoes, washing the linen, in short, dic ing all the house-work, just like four gxi sons might do for their mother. But she, the old woman, was ever thinking of her own son her tall giant liov, with hi hooked nose and brown eyes, and thi-k mous tache that seemed to cover his lip with a veritable pad of black hair. And every day she used to ak each of the four soldiers quar tered in h r home: "I)o you know where that French regiment is the Twenty-Third of the line? ' My son's in that." The-worild reply, a well as thy o.ild: "Nein! don" know dou' know nodings." And comprehending her pain and anxieties, these young men, who had mothers living far away in Germany, paid her a thousand delicate lit tle attentions. She liked thc-m well enough, too those four enemies of hers; for jeasants do not feel patriotic hate; such feelings only belong to the upper classes. The humble folk those who pay the most just because they are jioor, and who are lieing jxTjvtually weighed down by new burthens; those who are slaughtered wholesale, who form the ver itable food for powder, because they are the ma jority ; those, in fine, who suffer most atrociously from the miseries of war, lievause they are the weakest and the least aggressive such folk do not at all understand what wnr enthusiasm is, nor touchy points of military honor, and still less those pretended jx litical combinations which exhaust two nations in six months, the victoras well as the van quished. People in that part of the country ued always to say when speaking of Mother Sauvage's Germans: "There's four felljows who've found a snug berth." Well, one morning while Mother Sauvage was all alone at home, she caught sight of a man, quite far off on the plain, hastening toward her dwelling. He soon came near enough for her to recognize him : it was the country postman. He handed her a sheet of folded jiaper; and she tiKik her glasses, which 6he always wore when sewing, out of an old spectacle-case; and read as follows: Madame Sawage This will bring you a sad piece of news. Your boy Victor w-as killed yesterday by a round-shot, which liter ally cut him in two. I was close to him at the time: for my place was always next him in the company; and it was only that very day that he was talking to ine elxut .you, so that I could let 3 0U know if anything'should happen him. I took his watch out of Lis jxk ket to bring it to you when the war is over I salute you amicably. C'ESAIRr. Riyot. Private sei' ond class in the Twenty-Third regiment of the line. The letter was dated three weeks pre viousl'. She did not cry. She remained motion less, so overwhelmed, so stupefied hy the blow, that she did not :it once feci t e pein of it. She thought only: "There's Victor killed, now!" Then, little by lit: 1 the tenr. j lowly rose to her eyes, and the pang began to make itself felt at her heart. Fancies came to her, one after the other frightful, torturing. Never could she ki: s her child again her only child, her gteitt-ill fon! never! The gendarmes had killed his fjit'.er, the jmacher; now the Prussians had killed her son. He had been cut in two by a cannon ball. And it seemed to her she could e the thing the whole horrible thing; the head falling off, with eyes wide open, and his teeth still gnaw ing the corners of his thick moustache, as he was wont to do in his hours of anger. And after, what bad they done with his body. If they had even given her back her son again, as they had brought her husband !ack to her, with a rifle ball through the center of his forehead. But she heard a sound of loud voices. It was the Jrussians retundng from the village. Quickly she hid the letter in her jwket, and received them very calmh with her cus tomary face; for she had had the time to wipe her eyes well. They were all laughing, the four of them quite delighted because they had been able to bring home a splendid rabbit with them stolen, no doubt: and thej' made signs to the old woman that thej' were going to have something wonderfully good to eat. She set to work at once to promre break fast for them; but when the time came toldll the rabbit, her heart failed her. And yet it was not the first rabbit by any means that she ha1 been given to kill! One of the sol Jiers killed it by striking it behind the ear v-ith his hand. Once it was dead she took te red b-jdy out of the skin ; but the sight of the blood which she was handling, which covered her hands the warm blo-xl which she felt getting cold and coagulating made her tremble from head to foot; and she always saw before her the ilgure of her tall son, cut in two. and all red just like the lody of the still palpitating animal. She sat down to table with her Pi-ussians; but she could not eat even so much as a mouthful.. They finished the rabbit without noticing her. Meanwhile she watched them sideways, without speaking maturing a singular puriMifio in her mind, and yet with such an impassive face that none of them oljserved anything unusual. All of a sudden she asked: "I don't so much as know your names; and yet we've been a mouth together now'" They were not able to understand what she wanted without some difficulty ; and then they told her their names. .That was not enough! She made them write the names down on a piece of paper, together with the addresses of their families; and, lurch ing her spectacles upon her great nose, she looked at the strange German writing. Then she folded up the paper carefully, and put it into her pocket, next to the letter which had told her about the death of her son. When the meal was over she said to them. "Now, I'm going to do some work for you." And she proceeded to carry hay up to the loft in which they slept. They thought this was very queer; but she explained to them that it would enable them to keep nice and warm, so they all helped her. They piled up the hay to the straw roof ; and thus made themselves a sort of bed room with four sloping walla of ' forage, warm and fragrant, where they could sleep delightfully. At dinner-time one of them lieeame quite anxious at seeing that old Mother Sauvage ate nothing. She told them she had cramps. Then she lit a good fire in order to warm herself; and the four Germans ascended to their loft by the ladder which led to it. As soon as they had closed down the trap door, she txmk away the ladder; and going oit noiselessly, she began to collect straw and till her kitchen with it. She walked barefoot through they snow so softly that no one could hear her. From tune to tune she heard the loud and irregular snoring of the four sleeping soldiers. When she judged her preparations com plete, she put a bunch of straw in the tire, then flung the burning heap upon the rest; and she went out' and looked: A fierce glare lighted the interior of the building in a few seconds; then the whole lie came a frightful furnace, a "gigantic oven, whose violent light blazed through the single narrow window, and flung a long bl ight band across the snow. Then a great and terrible cry rang out from the upper part of the house ; succeeded by a clamor of yells, human bowlings, hideous cries of agony and fear. An then, the floor crumbling in, a storm of flames, roared up into the loft, burst through the rof of straw, rose to heaven like a ast torch-fire; and the whole structure flared against the night. Nothing could now lie heard but the crackling of the conflagration, the crumb ling of the walls, the falling of the great lienms. The last fragments of the roof fell in, and the red hot carcass of the dwelling flung skyward a great jet of si arks through a cloud of heavy smoke. The snow-whitened country, illuminated by the tiiie. shone like a sheet of silver, tinted with eriinsojn. Afar off, a great liell begaii to ring. Old Mother Sauvage stood eiect before the ml ruin of her home, armed with a rifle, her dead son's rifle, fearing that one of the men misrht escape. y AVhen she saw it was all over, she flung the weapon into the fire. A single sharp report rang out. People came running to the scene peasants and Prussian soldiers. They found the old woman sitting on the trunk of a tree calm and satisfied. A German officer, who spoke French like a Frenchman, asked her: "Where are your soldiers f She stretched out her long, lean arm to ward the crimson mass of ruins, where the fire was dying down at last, anil answered in a strong and violent voice: INSIDE!" All gathered about her. Tho Prussian asked: -How diil the fire start if" Sho replied sonorously : "I started it." They could not believe her; they thought the disaster had rendered her insane. And then, while all listened, and pressed closer about her to hear, she told the whole story from the beginning to theend from the re ceipt of the letter even to the last cry of the men burned up in her hou. Sho did not forget one single detail of what she had felt, nor of what she had done. Then, when she had told all, she txxjk from her pocket two pieces of paper, and in order to distinguish them by the light ofhe fire, she coolly put on her glasses. Then she said, showing one paper: "Thdt is the letter about Victor's death." And holding up the other she added, nodding her head toward the ruddy ruins: "There! that's their names, so you can write to their folks about them." She presented the paper to the officer who held her by the shoulders, nd she continued: "You can write to them how this thing happened ; and you can just tell their parents that it was I who did it I, Vietoire Simon, called La Sauvage! Don't you forget it!" The officer roared out some orders in Ger man. They seized her and flung her back against the still glowing walls of her dwell ing. Quickly twelve men took their places in front of her, twenty yards away. She never winked. She knew what was coming. She waited in perfect calm. An order rang out, followed by a long de tonation. One shot was beard later than the rest all by itself. The old woman did not fall ; she sank down perpendicularly, as though her legs had been cut away from under her. The Pinssian officer approached to look. She had been almost severed in two by the volley, and her stiffened fingers still clenched the letter, all spattered with blood. Xlie Wile's Strategy. New York Morning Journal. "My dear," said a young wife to her hus band, who had already fallen into the habit of going to the lodge in the evening, and who was just preparing to go out, "I am going up street to interview the superintendent of the post office this evening.)' "Ah! i iv teed; on what business, pray ft "I want to seo if he can give me any ad vice In regard to getting a habitually late male in on time." The huslmnd blushed, pretended he was looking for a newspaper instead of his hat, ami there was a member absent from the lodge that night Eflects ol" the Earthquake. Exchange. A curious result of the recent earthquake shock in Essex, England, was that the wells in and around Colchester exhibited a rise in their water level of about five feet. This gradually increased for five da3-s after the phenomenon until a height of eight feet wa attained. The wells at last accounts had apparently permanently rested at the height of seven feet above their old water mark. IN THE "BIO FLAT." k Tenement House with Over Ktlit Hundred People In It. IW. M. Donuellv in Texas Siftinsa. We will go up Mott street to that tall brick building labelod on the front, in letters five feet high, "THE BIG FLAT." It is detached, i.s seven stories high, has seven windows on each Door m front and thirtv-two on eaeh floor at the sides, and , jt 1. -ii: 1.. ii. . runs rigni inrougn 10 .ciizaot-tu street It is said to be fireproof and it appears to be so. l wo broad nights of stone stairs with iron balusters, one on the Mott street and one on the Elizabeth street end, lead from floor to floor. At the thp of each flight is a long, dark corridor, off which sixteen doors open on one side and thirty-two windows on the other. Eachpf the doors lead into a suit of three rooms, with windows opening on the court -yard, and each suit, except the end ones, which cost $13, is rented for $y to f L0 a month, payable in advance. There are at present, the janitor informs us, between 800 and iU0 peo ple living in the house. Most of them are Bohemian Jews, but there are some Russians, Italians, Chinese and Irish also. "We have very few Irish," says the janitor, "for we don't want the lowest of them, and the better class wouldn't eoine here.'' The tenants are chiefly tailors who work at home, and street peddlers. "The Big Flat," continued the janitor," was originally built for colored people, and was afterwards turned into logg ings for working girls. Now it belongs to the New York Steam-Heating company. What are my duties? Well, to collect rents, to see that the tenants keep their rooms clean Jews are mostly dirty to have the water-tank on the roof, which is filled by a steam pump iu the cellar, kept always full; and to exe cute general repairs. There is no gas in any of the rooms except mine, and the tenants burn kerosene. They bring tln-ir own cooking-stoves with them. No, there is no elevator; if a man lives on the top floor, he must. walk up and down to his room." "The Big Flat.'" says the sergeant at the desk in the Elizabeth street station; "The most troublesome house in the precinct! Not so much the tenants, you know, who are hard working people, but thieves and pickxx'kets, when they com mit a rblery, make use of the passage from Mott to Elizabeth, to escape the officer chasing them. We get a good many complaints of all sorts from the t.'tiauts, too, but they don't amount to much, tio and see some of the Italian tenements in Mulberry street. The Italians are a saving jieople, and are rapidly buying up all the Mulberry street houses. " Up long flights of dirty stairs we toil, until at length we reach an open door. A woman, apparently about. 50, but in icality not more than half that age, stands in the entrance with a fortnight old baby in her arms. She is unkempt, unwashed, and altogether unattractive. Is this a sample of the bright Italian beauties of which we have read and dreamed so much, with their darkly fiahing eyes and raven locks, and clear, pale olive skins to which the red blood rushes on occasion? Alas! it is even so. Italia's maids are women at 15. mothers a year later, grandmothers at 30, and decrepit hags in a year or two more. Here in New York the descendants of the Masters of the World live like rabbits in a burrow. They sleep anywhere and anyhow on the floor or sitting on a box with their backs against the wall. You will find twelve or fourteen domiciled in a i 00m that would fairly accommodate two persons. Disease is common among them, and their dense ignorance of the commonest things makes the evil worse. They eat anything they can get, whether they buy it from the butchers' offal, or pick it out of the ash barrel or the gutter. They will not spend money on fuel, and pork is cheap, so they eat it raw, and tri chinosis is rife. They can live, like the Chinese, where men of other nationali ties would starve, and so they are sav ing money and becoming householders, and are forming a permanent Italian colony in Mulberry street and its neigh borhood, as they have already done in the vicinity of Snow Hill and' Uolborn Valley, London. Au Kate I e Ke. Exchange. A story is told of Van Amburgh, the great lion-tamer, now dead. On one oc casion while in a bar-room he was asked how he got his wonderful power over animals. He said: ; "It is by showing them that I am not the least "afraid of them, and by keep ing my eye steadily fixed on theirs. I'll give vou an example of the power of mv eye." I Pointing to a loutish fellow who was standing near by, he said: "You so that fellow? He's a regular clown. I'll make him come across the room to me, and I won't say a word to him." Sitting down, he fixed his keen, steady eye on the man. Presently the f How straight Hiied himself gradually, got up and came slowly across to the lion-tamer. When he got close enough he drew back his arm and struck Van Amburgh a tre mendous blow under the chin, knocking him clear oyer the chair, with the re mark: "You'll stare at me like that again, won't vou. 1 ! A Little Abaent-iVIlnded. ! New York Inn. J ! A Whitehall woman, about to boil an egg for her husband's breakfast, asked the loan of his watch to tieie the boil ing. "Your wateh has stopped," she cried; "the egg is in and I can't tell how long it ought to remain in the kettle." The husband hastened to the stove, and was horror-struck to find that the (wd woman had drotmed his eletrant gold watch into the kettle, and was hold ing the egg to her ear. Cement for Patching Shoe. Texas Sifting. J The cement used in patching the up pers of fine shoes is generally made by dissolving gutta perchit in chloroform until the mixture is about as thick as syrup. Scrapo and pare clean around J the hole to be covered, ami thin care fully with a long chamfer the edges of the bit of leather to be applied. Ouh a little of the cement is needed, but. the surfaces must be pressed close togc! ler. The parts will adhere firmly in a few aiiuutes. i Jlorocco Tlrlc-a-nrae. ' - Ie.ds (Eng.) Mercury. The leather-work for which Morocco has so long been famous will probably disappoint most persons who visit the country. The usual red and yellow Arab sliptiers are to be obtained here at a very cheap rate. The common ones cost 2 shillings a pair, which is about half the price paid in Tunis. For ladies' embroidered slippers, any sum up to $5 a pair may lie paid. Perhaps the most useful form the leather-work takes is m the shape of covers for foot-stools, em broidered in gold and silver wire. These covers mav be bought for 18 pence each, and when they have been stuffed with wool or horsehair thev make remarkablv good and handsome foot-stools, which have the advantage of harmonizing well with the present fashions in - furniture and house dicor.it ion. I have seen in ferior specimens of the.se cushions of fered for sale in England, I need hardly say at prices greatly in excess of that which I have mined. It is impossible to resist the conclusion that a brisk trade in these leather overs might easily be organized between Morocco and Eng land. Another staple industry of the country is potterv. Before me, as I write, stands a collection of platters, vases, jugs, etc., brought from Tangier. The cost of the whole collection was probably less than 30 shillings, and yet it includes many remarkably fine npecimens of the gor geous Rabat ware, which forms so tell ing an ornament in a modern hall or in a room iu which a little brilliant color is desirable, as well as several shapely pieces of the blue and white wares of Fez and Mekenes. There are, too a mini ber of the earthenware drums, or tomtoms, as well as some of the quaint lamps wh eh are used in the interior of Morocco, and which surely furnish the very earliest and crudest form of the duplex flame. lastly, in connection with this ques tion of brie-a-brac, -something must le said alout the paiotiil woodwork from Tel nan which is so pular in Moorish houses. It is uUe possible, that its brilliant -t-olois and rich arnljesquo pat terns may Mem gaudy to the European eye. But. gaudy or not, the brackets and mirror frames which are sent out from Tetuan are often singularly beauti ful, ami deserve a p!ac iu any house. llov t W Cured. ,Gi ro.iici ITu erton.J I know a young man who is just a trifle fond of flirting. He has that sympathetic and altogether charitable notion that a great .many young men have, that anv ladv who sits alone bv the window watching the passers by must inevitably 1e lonely ami pine for masculine attention. Several mornings as he came down town he saw what lie took to In a wistful face at a bay win dow lM)king longingly into the distance. He 'first le aine curious, then interested and finallv excited. The lone, lone female should not pine in vain or waste her young life in loneliness if he could help it. He gradually worked up a smile for her, growing broader and broader, until it assumed the projtor tiotis of a grin. He thought she appre ciated it and he kept it up. "Ah, me! Tis sweet to know there is an eye that watches for our coming and grows brighter when we come." At last he mustered courage to add a bow to the smile. She did not show any displeas ure. The other morning he came along smiling so broadly that he could lie seen two blocks off. .She was at the window. He raisd his hat, and just as he did she rose, disappeared for a moment, and then returned with a gentleman in his shirt sleeves, to whom she pointed in a significant manner, and a baby which she held up to him in the most kindly and expressive way. The young man goes down the next street in the morning now. Arizona's Fertility. .Tucson ( .T.) Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Those who declare that Arizona will never be prominent as an agricultural country are mistaken. Take Phonix, for instance. It lies iu the Gila and Salt Bher valley, and is surrounded by land which is extremely fertile and which is liecoming more productive every year. The soil is a heavy black loam, and four crops are cut in a year. The planting season extends from No vember to March. Alfalfa is raised in large quantities. In Maricopa county, of which Pho-nix is the chief town, there are already 33,000 fruit trees and 21, 000 vines. Cotton was raised in Salt P.ivcr .valley by the Pima Indians before De Soto reached the Mississippi. The average yield of wheat per acre is 1,500 inmnds. Alfalfa yields 3,000 pounds per acre. In 1883 Mari copa county produced 14,000,000 pounds of wheat and 18,000,000 jiounds of liar ley. As to grazing lands, it is safe to say that there are fully (),000 square miles ujKin which grows a" fine, nutriti ous grass. Water can be had by boring. The cattle I have seen in the valleys where there are streams, have invariably been fat ami sleek, and stockmen have said to mu that t heir cows and beeves were in far better condition than any grazing e'sewhere in the southwest. As regards t. in ber, the largest tract is the Mogollou forest, containing 12,000 square miles. The timlier is mostly; P''. j '"he Fund and the Millionaire. j Chicago News. j A wee Hi tie Fund approached a mill ionaire. I "Please, sir, won't you give me a little assistance.'" j "Are you one of those miserable pro-i fessiotial lieggarsJ" "Yes, sir. It is the only way I have of get tvig along." j "Well, here's a dime; now don't come to in, again." j "Oh. sir!" said the little Fund, great tears of joy running down its checks; "oh, sir, you are so kind! You have given so much that it almost takes my breath. A penny is the most anybody think . of giving me, and now I see they are trying to have a half-cent coined for me." ! "Who are you, anyway?" I "Why, I'm the little Bartholdi pedes tal Fund." Is it worth while that wo jostle a brother Bearing his load on the rough road of lifer Is it worth while that we jeer at each other In blackness of heastsl That v. war to the knife! God pity us all iu our pitiful strife. Joaquin Miller, LEARNED FROM ANIMALS. Bevei-slng th Farorlte Theory That j Animals Are Imitative. Cincinnati Enquirer. j It is a favorite theory of some that ani mals are imitative, and what man does they follow after and try to perform. Pos sibly man learned first from the animals. jMany animals are born armed and jweaponed both for offense, capture and defense when attacked or pursued. ;The gorillas of Africa fought the soldiers of Hanno, and apes use handstoncs to . crack nuts. In the days of Strain), that historian tells us that Indian monkeys climbed mountains and rolled stones down on their pursuers. Take throwing, for ex ample. The primitive man learned it ; from beasts. The squid (cuttle fish) de fends itself by discharging its ink-bag, im bedded in the liver, and escapes in the blackened water. The toxotes or archer brings down insects with a drop of water when thev are three or four feet high in the air. 'The archer fish of Japan is kept in a glass jar and fed by holding flics at the end of a rod a few inches from the surface of the water, and it never fails to hit them. The llama or guanaco throw their acrid and fetid saliva some distance and with accurate aim. Men would learn to strike by watching the blow of the bear, and the kick of those animals which defend themselves by kick ing, as the horse, zebra, the camel and Siraffe, while the ostrich, eagle and larger irds of prey would teach him a lesson iu assaulting with ready wings. The whale raises its head with such force that it baa sunk a whaler. Combats of goats, stags, buffaloes and wild bulls, all of which rush forward with their heads down and drive their horns into their enemy's body, would suggest the thrust. The bittern, the peacotk and and the American white crane stab at the eye. ' And the black rhinoceros, the fiercest of any, when angered his horn lieeomes hard and erect, and, diving beneath the canoe, he pierces a hole in its bottom and sinks it, and with the same weapon at tacks and rips open the huge and ungainly elephant. The pheasant and partridge, the cock and quail, would suggest, with their spurs, the use of the poniard. Pliny says that dolphins which enter the Nile have a knife-edged spur on their backs to protect I hem from crocodile. The bullhead fish has a many-barlicd horn on its dorsum which must have taught the Esquimaux and savages of outh America and Au--tralia the use of their spears. Poisoned dagger-makers took a hint from the sting fish, or adder pike, whoc dorsals and pines have double grooves, in which a poisonous secretion is found. The sting rays twist their long slender tails round their enemy and cut the surface, inflicting a wound not pily healed. The Ming sometimes breaks off in the wound. The Fiji Islanders, the Samoons and Tahitians use this poison extensively. Tlicse things 111 animals would suggest the poisoned dagger with which the Italians of the middle aije were so handy. J11M Like Pittsburg. Denver (Colo.) Ojanion. What we call "The Kingdom of Las Animas" is u southeastern Colorado county, the area of which is almost identi cal with the size of Massachusetts. The c ounty seat, Trinidad, is down on the New Mexico liordcr, in a crotch of the Baton mountains. It is not as large as London, but will lie shortly, if the real estate circu lars are to be trusted. When you go down there be sure to sav the first ihintr: "Ob. this is just like "Pittsburg!" 1vhat will make you solid with the 1 rinidaders, and they will know that you are not from Pueblo. The 'bus driver will reiort your words at the hotel, and the niHyor'will presently call on you, and the real estate dealers will drop in ond invite you out for a free ride, and the owner of the opera house will send you tickets, aud the politicians will send you their cards, and life will no longer seeni the lonesome and aching void you have hitherto found it. They know how to do things in Trini dad If you only make the right impression, and they never do anything bv halves. A plain, common-looking girl from Omaha came down here last summer and re marked as she stepped off the train, "Oh, this is just like Pittsburg, n and in less than three months the shrewd little minx mind you, she had never seen Pitts was married to one of the millionaire cat tlemen who have their homes there. The successful girl wrote to her cousin, (put ting a hint in the letter I suppose), who came on, repeated the remark, and ac chieved the same brilliant result. The se cret leaked out, and for the last ten months there has Imh-ii a constant stream of girls from Kansas City coining down there and marrying splendidly among the cowmen. Cheap Telegraphy. "Gath" in Philadelphia Times. Telegraphy, it seems to me, must cease some of these days to make so many men rich. 1 understand that at the last national convention some of the new companies did the newspaper work for i cent a word over 1.000 miles of country. This onlv makes something like 2 cents a line, or $5 a column, for telegraphic transmission. I can remember when I was a boy in Phila delphia that any plain, ordinary burgher would as well go into a store and buy a marble statue as drop into a telegraph office and send a message, j In those days the honest Philadelphia ns borrowed the newspapers from each other. One enter prising person would take a paper, paying 1 cent a day for it, and the two neigh bors on either hand would borrow it. Now we have so grown in grace 1hat our sons at the ages of 7 and 8 will walk intt a telegraph office and send a message to their aunt in the Mississippi valley. j i All this orwardncss, I ! think, is due to smoking cigarettes, for I can see no other reason for such confidence. The heads of the lxrys seem no bigger than formerly. The cigarette, no doubt, brings the nervous system forward. A Porapellan Venus. Chicago Tribune. j A curious discovery has : just been made at Pompeii in the course of the excava tions carried on there. A fine statuette of a crouching Venus' was brought to light iu a sculptor's workshop just cleared. The sculptor must have been engaged in re pairing the statuette when overtaken by the awful catastrophe of the I year 79. The head of the figure had evidently just been remodeled anew, as it is far itifcrior in style to the remaining ; portions of the body ; the two arms were also new, and had'been fastened to the trunk by metal pins. The body of the artist himself was also discovered in the shop, lying prostrate on the ground, and with a large cingulum still grasped in his hand, i A cast of: the man Was effected by the usual process or running plaster of paris into the cavity formed by the body in the solid du-t.i Zion's Herald: The disinterestedness of the masses cannot be overestimated as means of political security. Modern Idea In flic Holy Lund. Kansas City Times. The changes which have .been going on in the Holv Land are beginning to make themselves felt by the tourist. While Palestine must for a long timo wear the oriental aspect it has maintained from time immemorial, it shows already the distinctive marks of modern times and western progress. A good carriage road has been built from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and thence to Bethlehem. A telegraph wire, writes Dr. C. L. Goodell from Jerusalem to The Advance, runs from the seaboard to the interior offices being established at "Nablour, the old city of Shechem, where Jacob's well was, and where the blessing and the cursing were read from Elx-1 and Gerizim, ulso at Nazareth, Tiberias and Difmascus. Women grinding at (ho mill is now a spectacle rarely seen at Nazareth, a steam nounng-mill taking tno place or the ancient method. The pull of three steam-engines is heard in tluit city. It is only a little while ago that nom ine: in the way of buildings was seen outside the old walls of Jerusalem. Now two or three thriving villages he to the north and west of the city. "A German colony," says Dr. Goodell, "has built a, town out toward the plain of Rephaim, which, for thrift and business, 1 niks like a manufacturing village in Massachu setts." On the outskirts of the city a school for training boys in farming, carpentry, and other trades, is main tained by the Ixmdon Missionary society. The country about Bethlehem is quite recovered to the ancient fertility. Mones are gathered from the fields and utilized as fences, and the ground is well tilled. At Acre, Nazareth, and, indeed, most of the towns of Palestine, a quite thrifty congregation may le seen, worshiping in a good church building. Mechanics and other artisans, from England, Ger many and America, are found in most of the chief cities. Jerusalem has an orphanage for boys founded by the Ger mans and having nno inmates. There is also an orphanage for girls, in which . about 100 inmates are supported, and trained for some useful indu.-try. A Summer Itenort (.auie. Cincinnati Enquirer. Coach whist, a new game which has become popular at summer resorts, was ately introduced into this vicinity, it s very simple, but at the same time very exciting, and especially so when the stakes are worth mentioning, such as the expense of the ride or a hamper of champagne. It is played only by coach ing parties, and does Miuch to relieve the monotony of long drives. It is not so much a game of skill as it is of luck and attention. Those occupying the right side of the vehicle play against those sitting tin the leftside. J hose on th left look out eagerly for oin(s, and, of course, those on the right do the same. Different values are given to animals that are passed on either side. For in stance, if a horse is passed on the right it counts 75 for that side, while a cow counts 15. The following is the value of the oint: A cow, 15; a gentleman cow, 25; a hen, 5; a rooster, 10; a man, 5; a woman. 10; a child, 15; a sheep, 50; a dog, 35; hogs (each). 1; a cat, 50; black eat, CO; white eat, 70; horse, 75; geese (each), 5: duck (each), 5; mule, 135; jackass, 75. It is understood that'dur ing the races at Latonia this intensely interesting game was played each day by the. parties going out in Bob Miles' "four-jn-hand," and that several baskets of wine were won anil lost. The left hand is considered the most advan tageous. The Quicksilver Supply. Exchange. Of late years California has supplied more than half of the quicksilver con sumed in the world. Only two countries of Europe produce it iu sufficient quan tities to deserve mention in commercial report Spain and Austria. The Span ish mines are located near the town of Almaden, province of Mancha, and yield about four-fifths of the entire produc tion of Europe, while the Austrian mines, located near Idria, and the minor mines mentioned, produce the other one fifth. Quicksilver is earned and shipped in wrought iron flasks of twenty-five pounds, containing seventy-five pounds of the metal. Prices throughout Europe are always given in English money, and the quotations invariably refer to the flasks described. The consumption of quicksilver in the world has averaged 133,000 flasks a year. The principle uses to which quick silver is applu-d are: Meteorological and other scientific instruments; chemical preparations; looking-glasses and mir rors. Why They DonM Walt. Louisville Courier-Journal. There are many persons w ho do not understand why women esjx'cially large, fat women always get iu a crowded mule-car rather than wait a few minutes for a car in which they might be more comfortable. But there is a reason for it. Just after the first street railroad had been built in Ixniis ville a very large woman stood on a cor ner waiting for a car. When the car came along she thought she would wait a little longer and get on one that was not so crowded. Poor woman! She had heart disease, and she died on that corner. Ever since no woman in Louis ville has ever failed to get 011 a rammed-jammed-erammed mule car. Every -woman is sure she will die if she waits for a car that anybody can breathe in. A t'ntns Terrapin Ooiva In Dixie. Cliattanooga Times. A huge dry land terrapin was captured on a mountain near -Ringgold, Ga., a few da s since by a boy named I;wis llenslee. The following was cut on his . shell: "Company K, Ohio Veteran vol unteers, March 16, 1874." At one end of its shell the word "Union was cut" in large letters. Sa(ras aud Oatmeal. Ioaves and Fishes. Bread is made on the Devonshire coast of England from a sea-grass, porphyra laciniata, which is chopped and mixed with a little oatmeal. It will keep from four to eight days, and the people who se it are lond of it. low Illch New Orleans ICdltor De. New Orleans Picayune. Some rise with the lark; others get up when the steam whistle blows. Real comfort is found in lying in bed until one feels like getting up.