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V 1 THE COLUMBIAN. THE COLUMBIAN. Published Evebt Frat, AT ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA CO., OR., BY E. G. ADAMS, Editor, and Proprietor Y 1 1 A Published Every Friday, at ST. HELENS, COLUMBLA. CO., OR., by E. G. ADAMS, Editor and Proprietor. Scbscrjition Rates: One year, in advance.'. . ...?2 00 Six months, " 1 00 Three months. " . .. . SO Advektisino Rates : One square (10 lines) first insertion, . $2 CO Each subsequent insertion 1 00 VOL. V. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 19, 1885. NO. AG. -r WHAT MAKES HER DEAR. It la not the snarklin-r liiht of hr eyes. Nor the buuuiilul sin eu ou her rippling hair; Xorthe arching mouth 90 winsome wl.se. Nor her rosy cheeks that makes her lair. Nor is it tlio tint of Utr waxen skin. Nor the lightsome ir. ii I or her dainty feet. Nor her tiny l:lv-whue hands wherein Lieth the charm that makes her sweet. Nor is It t'ie rinir of her merry lauph, Like ripplliiir iuusU-, low anil clear An innocent t-uii!, : wtmian half It is not the.e that m.isi- her dear. It Is not the cllriiplt s in her pink cheeks, Thoiiirh happy love inlclit lurk therein, And ln'si'hiet'. like a fairy. s-eks To hine aw.iy m lu-r di'mpled chin. It is not tlie ch inn of her lovely face. The snowy tl;o.iiileis nnl rounded arms, Nor Hie dainty, delieat uh lisli pai'e Of lender tiu-er, that wins and charms. lint It is the I jii 1 i t of her .-';il so pure That s!.i !c-f fim hfr beaming hazel eyes; me sp rit heamy. t mt b.i:iii enuure When every cliariu f giriiiooil dies. 'lis the tender heart. 5,(1 true and kind. That clothes her with a isisi-zli- grace; The beauty of a iru'l-lt-?s mind, -That gives the cliurai to br sweet face. 'Tis pi;r.ty that makes her fair. And i;uulncs m ik -s her dear and sweet; 'Tis these troo 1 mits beyond compare That make my darling's charm complete. A". )'. Ltdijtr. LAST DAYS OF POMPEII An Albany Clergyman's Sketch ol Two Buried Cities. Rev. Cliuile Wool Visit Ilerculanenm and It Sister City Vivid tiliiupses at the Horn.- Life of Centuries Afn. . Throuirh thick clouds of dust, and between ni les of tall houses and long lines of maeearoni drying in the hot sud, wc drove along the Bay of Naples toward I!ereii!ai.e un. Carriages dashed by d -awn by three horses fast ened abreast, w.th bright jingling har ness, and filed usually either with Engli.-h. Anier'eans or Germans bound on the same errand. Cart mounted on two large wh.-els, and packed even out on ue shafts with men. women and children, were be:n dragged along at no mean rate by long-ha red ponies of the most diminutive sort. High walls shut out of v ew the larger Dart of the way. but now au I then, through the opened doors o" some of the larger villas, we could look down to the sea. We passed I a Kavorita. one of the summer palace- of th.- King of Italy, now occupied by the d -posed I'asha of Egypt and Irs i-er:igl 0; and very soon we'eama to a most unpretending sign, which annour.c d the fact that llercii laueum was just under our feet. 13y the ll.ckering light of a torch we descended a long liight of stone, steps into the exhumed corridors of an im mense theater. Ileiculaneum was not destroyed like Pompeii by soft ashes, but by lava as hard as molten iron. Because of the d.fFieultv of work'ng such a material, and t 11 more be cause a large town has teen built over the old city very litlle comparatively has been done toward it excavation. Beside this theater, which is still large ly under lava, the work thus far has been carried on only in one other place: vet, in the few-houses that have thus been uncovered, a inimler of the finest bronze statues in existence were found. No one can tell but that huLdreds of others as beautiful as the bleeping hwn aud th.,' .Mercury m Repose now 1 e under the cellars of these retch' d little Port.cian houses. Very near tin sign that marks the entrance to the Theater of llereulancuni the road makes a sharp turn to the left up the side of Vesuvius. la:;d- of little boys and men wayla d tis here, half-entreating at;d half demand ng that we should accept of the'r seiv.ees as guides. Every spot worth -ee.ng in Italy is in fe. ted w,th these creatures. They stick l:ke burrs, and to get r d of them is fcuc h :.n unph-a ani i.rotv-s that almot any oarae) i- oeuu by the average tourist with a e.y aj)preeiable loss of temper. The road ri-e; gradually up th in untain, guarded u eacli side by th ck wal s of lava. The houses of the peasants are 1 u It of the same ma terial. The Utile vineyards by which K- nil tlie-e li;)'i-es are surrounded. are cuii.vated w .h great care, and produce one of the most highly prized of i he Ital an wines. Each mcment the v ew bi ne.it h us became wider and more beaut. ful. The city, and the 'amp.ijrna, and tlie b.iy, with t towns and v.ll ges, and its great islands of Capri and i-chi:t. were uml.-r our feet. Abjveuswas the cone of the volcano d:-tinc:ly outli .ed aga'nst the sky, .-end ng out perpetually its s.oft cloud of white smoke. Ofun ti.e road ran by the edge of immense masses of lava, look nsr 1 ke the twisted entrails torn from some gigantic Prometheus im prisoned in the mountain. The vegeta- l on oecame le-s aou.iuanr. i ne iaa was piled around us to a more stu pendous he'ght; everything except the la r vision beneath us was weird and unreal. It would have been impossible for the ancients l.ot to have peopled this place with my-terious being. For them tlie gods were the only possible e phinathdi of all these wonders. Be cause we. know more than they we felt less. No old (J reek or Koman could have gone on as calmly toward what bethought the entrance to the abodes of his gods ns we toward what we knew was only the mouth of a vol cano. Before we reached the observatory the clouds closed around us, and the wind that had been strong all the morn'ng becain almost a gale. My coin) an on, thou li he had successfully, guided a great company a few mouths ago through rone very temj e-tuous weather, concluded, a . his broad chest would oiler such a ia r sin ta -e of at tack to the w nil, and. as ; he view from the top would be n such a day ex ceedingly c'.rcumscr bed, that the as cent would sca.cely be worth tin trouble, we spe;it an ho ir or more in et'" n-' tie- v- de1 rate instru ments which mark every moveui-nt an I heart-beat of the monster. The slightest preparat:ons to belch forth fire, and ashes, and lava and rock re cord themselves here. Hardly a peb ble can be thrown up without the story being told bv the needle of that indica tor. Yet all machinerv. and the skilled men who watch it night and day. mav be swept down th- mountain anv mo ment, should the volcano rouse itself for one of its m .-t terrible efforts. Even in the erupt on of 1872 the heat was so intense that the men in the ob servatory found it almost impossible to breathe. It is dillieult not to adm"re the American-like recklessness of th: Neapolitan Company that has just opened a railway from the observatory almost to the tip of th volcano; but unless Vesuvius h vs been frightened by this impudence into something like im potence, engine and train and station house w 11 all probably be, before very long, some fif y feet 'under lava. , It is possible to go with horses di rectly from the observatory to Pom pe'i. This i- probably the most im pressive way to ap;;rach the exhumed city. We are descend ng upon it along the track the ashes must nave taken when they smothered it on that fearful day almost two thousand years ago. But there is no impressive entrance w.th'n the walls of the city. There is one lawful way of getting in, and that is through a restaurant aud shop for the sale of very ordinary curiosities, and a turn-st le of. the most modern sort. Butorce past these there are no more incongruities. Then green slop ing banks on i aeh side, marking the d -pth to which the shroud of ashes covered the c ty, led to one of the arched gateways, under which you en ter into a scene which, in spite of all that innumerable pho ographs have done to make you familiar with its main feat-ires, impresses you as the most remarkable you have ever look,ed upon. The pavement on which you tread is worn in hollows and ruts Oy footprints and chariot wheels. The street is lined o 1 both sides with houses so perfectly preserved that a few hours work would make any of them habit able. Yet in this great c tv, through wh ch you may stroll for miles, no l.v ing thing has dwelt for twenty centur ies. No cemetery seems so trulv a city of the dead as this. It is bound to the world of to-day by no ties. A t'.ious.ind years and more a.o all its relationships to the human race were snapped, never again to be formed. This 1 ttle spot of earth was then instantly and forever cut olFby a great catastrophe from all things terrestrial. C'Sse bv the gateway we turned as'de 'into a museum where a larjre number of objects have been so arranged as to give the greatest po s ble assistance to the imagination, in its eilort to form some concept on of Pompeii on the day of its destruct ou. Bread just as it came from the oven, with the marks of the knife and the bak.-r's name stamped upon it, nuts cracked aud ready for the table, wine soliddied in long-necked bottles, and a hundred other articles of every ort in daily use now as then, are kept in these glass cases around the j walls. But far more interesting are thee petrilied statue like bedie.: in tho middle of the room. Lying in the posi tion in which th-y fall, with hands clasped iu agony, or pressed over the eyes to shut out the horrors of the in describable sc -ne, these human form convey a more vivid impression than anyth ng ele in Pompeii of the terrors wh ch smothered aud frightened away their lives. A few steps brought us to the l-'orum, the gathering-pl. ee of the peopl.; to d scuss c;mmerc:al. ai.d pol.tical, and social life. Even rel g ious question must have found lierce disputants here, for mass.ve temples rise on everv ?ide to different gods. whose worsh-ppeis mut often have lingered in the Forum be'ore ascend ing the steps to the altir, to argue for the s.iperi mty cf the r own divinity over all others. Passing under a tri umphal arch we walked through street aft r street where all the hull es were built on the same plan, and seem.-d to differ only, in i.e antl elegance. Then out of another gate we came upon the tombs where the Pompe ans. hke the Romans along the Appian Way, bu'lt ed lices for the dead almost a-i-stately and grand as for the living. ( n our way to the Amphitheater, which stands some distance from the outer-mo-t 1 m ts of the p es -nt excavations, we stopped to wa ch th-m gradually uncovering a ho ise that had evidently belonged to ;-o;ne rich m -reliant or noble. Yet h -had not. attempted to introduce ary architectural novelties. There was the same narrow entrance iuto a small co..rt having a fountain in the center, a room oeyond for the re cept'on of ordinary guests, another court 1 irger and more elaborately dec orated, with a m nv pretent ous foun ta'n for di;!erjnt so ts of lish, on one vide a dining room, a id sleeping rooms on ;:11 the others, and a second story for the slaves. The Amphitheater stands almost as t was on that "List day of Pompeii." From one of the h ghest rows of its stone seats, w.th Vesuvius sending up its cloud ot smoke in tiie distance, w.th the arena so of te:i b'ood-stained beneath, it is almost impossible not to re-pe.ple the scene as Bulwer did, and to l.veover, with these creatures of the imagination, the' clos ing acts of that incomparable tragedy. Mbahy Argus. We have o' ten heard of the won derful glass-eating dog Carlo, but al v.avs believed it a humbug; but he was called into the ollice of the Artesian House, th s a' ternoon, and, in the pres ence of live gentlemen and one drum mer, he ate all the window-glass they would give h'ui. The glass was broken in smail pieces, and he devoured it greedily, licking up all the pieces that fell out of his ir.o ith. The dog is the property of Colonel Thomas Wctmore, of this place, and has been eating glas since he was a puppy. He is a pomtei and a line bird dog, keeps fat and healthy, and the glass docs not seem to hurt him in the least Livingston (Ala.) Journal. If vou can manage it at all, pay your little debts promptly. It may be a benefit along an extensive circle. An old resident remembers an incident in lis own business experience, wherein a certain marked coin came into his till three times in one day. Toronto (Can aifaj (3 hie. -Mr. G. W. Carlton, the New York Vblisher, has snatched the laurel from -e Mulhatten's brow. In a private Iter, some time ago, he says an entire amily was frozen to death wh le pick ng strawberries near St. Augustine, r'la. ARMED WOMEN. Tlie Extremity to Which the Mahdt May be Kedueed. The announcement that Osman Digma has been arming the Arab women, in view of a supreme effort to oppose the advance of a . relief party by way of Suakim, is not by any means absurd. From the earl'est period of the history th j women of the desert tribes were as celebrated for their skill with lance and bow as for that bronze beauty which the-composers of the "quasidah" or the "moallakat" were never weary of describing. Before Islam it was the b )ast of many Arabian tribes, as it was afterwards of certain Tartar hordes, that their women could fight as well as the men: the Ilimaryites were among the most famous of these. All through those ancient Arabian poems to which Mahomet is sa-d to have referred as fin d authority for the meaning of cer tain words or phrases in the Koran, one tinds legends ot Arab grls celebrated for their equestrianism, their dexterity with the trimeter, and even for the num ber of men they have overcome in sin gle combat. Islam, by subordinating the woman to man and destroying the idea of female equality, did much to ex tinguish the warrior-spirit of the fairer sex throughout the greater part of the Orient; but in the deserts of Arab'aand Northern Africa something of those an cient ideas st:ll prevail. And the modern Arab woman who acqu'res skill with any weapon might well appeal to Moslem trad tion in just ification of her use of such powers. When Mahomet was struck down at the battle of Ohod. it was a young Arabian woman who stood over him aud fought valiantly w ith tow and sabre in his be half keeping back the enemy until she herse'f was disabled by a severe wound in the shoulder. Still it must be ob served that among the very famous warrior-womeu of Islam who" appeared after tho death of the Prophet, all did not fight in a strictly orthodox cause. We need not refer to the prophetesses like Sedjah, or female leaders of schismatic movements s.me of whom displayed great personal bravery and were treated with shocking cruelty but will confine ourselves to a brief mention of some other renowned female warriors who went into battle to engage iu hard hand-to-hand lighting. In the first century of the Ilegira two remarkable women fell, sword in hand, in a great battle Djahizah and Ba.a lah. respectively the mother and the young w t'e of Chebib, who aspired to win the Caliphate by force of arms in the days of Abdel Melik. Chebib was perhaps the finest sold er of his time: he won many victories, and his mother anl wife fought always by his side, l'a.alah on one occasion actually made a vow to recte the second and third chapters of the Korau in the Mosque of Kufa while that city was in the possession of the imperial troops. The second chapter (Sura of the Cow) con tains L'Sii versus: the third 200. Razalah and seventy companions unexpectedly forced a passage through the gates of Kufa. galloped to the mosque and, after, the vow had been accomplished, cut the'r way out again. Several times in battle the young woman attacked the Governor of Irak, the ferociom lladd jadj. and put him to flight. The army of the Caliph finally overcame Chebib in a bloody engagement by mere weight of numbers, aud Razalah and Dja hizah died fighting to the last. In the second century of the Hegira lived the famous Delhetneh, or Zat-el-IIemmeh, who-e name signifies "Lion-heart" the most renowned warrior woman in the history of Islam, and the heroine of an enormous Arabian epic. There was scarcely a siege or battle during the three reigns or El Mahdy, EI Ilady, and of llarouu-al-Raschid in which she did not take part. Joan of Arc could scarcely be compared with her; the huge work in which her deeds are recorded pictures her rather as a rival of that wonderful type in the Nibelungen, Brtinehild. It dies not appear that the men to whom such women were opposed always lacked the true spirit of chivalry. Whea. during the re'gn of EI-Rasehid. the Chief of the Kharejites, El-Wady, was killed in bat tle, his young sister, Alfarca famous for her grace, her beauty, and her poet ical talents buckled on her dead broth er's armor, ar.d charged, all alone the conqueri lg army. Ye.id. the Chief, shoute 1 to his cavalry, '-Let no mail lay a linger on her!" but, riding up to her. he struck her horse with the statl of hi lance to stay its course, and ex claimed. '-Shame! Will you disgrace your tribe?" It was not Heath she had to fear, but ill-treatment if captured alive. The rough but kindly observa tion effected its purpose, and she rodo away in safety. It is not very likely that the women of the Arabs about Suakim a mixed and swarthy race possess such physi cal charms as might disarm the English soldiers, much less the Ind an contin gent expected. But they-might certain ly in battle win the respect of those against whom Osman Digma promises to lead them by the ;ame warrior qualities which once distinguished the women of these ancient tribes to which the Arabs of the Soudan are related by blood. London Standard. A Gambling Incident. A clerk in a large German counting house was spending his honeymoon in Italy, and wh le therj a firm paid him 40.000f., o.vcd to his employers. Hav ing the -lO.OJOf.. the clerk thought he would go to Monte Carlo. He knew it was the worst possible place for him, because he would be tempted to gam ble, but nevertheless being the foolish and weak-minded c'.erk he was, he set off for the spot. Lest he should be im pelled to go to the rooms and speculate with his employers' money, he hauded tho sum over to his wife to keep. Devoted to each other as bride and bridegroom were they rambled about this very small place independently of each other. The wife, with 40.000f. in her pocket, went to the tabls, lost all, and jumped into the sea. .V, Y. Post. m Professor Loomis, of Yale, says that with two exceptions last Febru ary was the coldest February known in that section for one hundred years. AMONG THE ARABS. Slf-Torturo In Airier Anion; Religion Fanatics. Henry Menderson, son. of Nathan Menderson of this city, is now traveling in Algiers for his health. To his friends he has written some very entertaining ietters. The following is an extract from one of them written January 2, 1885, at Hammam It'Ihra: Oa our way to the hotel we passed an Arab house, from which confusing sounds were i-suing. The door being open .we ventured to enter. After pass ing through n short, narrow corridor we came upon an open court, where a strange sight met our view The whole court, with the exception of a few feet near the wall opposite the entrance. watilled with the fonns of Arab men and women squatting on sacred mats, or on the grouud. In the open spact and against the wall was a sort of small platform, upon which three musician (save the mark) were seated. One was beating the tam-tam and the other two blowing instruments something like flutes, made of bamboo. Over the plat form hung a lamp and some candles, but this light paled before the soft bril-lian;-y of th.? moon, which shone into th court and added weirdness to the scene. Facing the platform were about eight Arabs engaged in the most fan tastic and at the sam time fascinating dance. As the musicians began to play slow ly they moved the upper parts of their bodies forward and backward and from side to side. Gradually the music b came faster and with it the move ment of their bodies became more rapid Faster and fa-ter they went, throwing their limbs and bodies about in- almost inconceivable positions, until I could s-areeJy believe that the rapidly whii linir mass before me were human beings. Now the women, who until this time had remained perfectlv qui1", regarding the dancers with fixe I attention, their coal-b'ack e es sparkling above their w hite vads, set up an unearthly noise. can liken to it . nothing I have ever heard, although it seemed to encourage the dancers, but would have frightened another man out of his wits. The music having risen to almost inconceiv able rapidity, suddenly ceased. Then, as if the music had been the only thing to keep them moving, the dancers fell to the ground, the'r tongues proiruding, their muscles rigid and stiff. Immedi ately those nearest the dancers jumped and danced upon their prostrate forms, in order, probably, to loosen their rigid muscles. They were no sooner able to move than they arose and began to dance again, repeating it until utterly prostrated, not being able to move There was nothing uncouth about- tho dance. On the contrary, the gliding m ition had a peculiar grace. After several pots of incense were burned, which revivt d the dancers, another set of men took their places. Each of the latter held in h's hands a long, thick piece of iron, pointed at one end an I rounded at th - other. They stuck these i..to their flesh, beating the rounded knots with ' wooden mallets. The points ha I probably entered about half an inch when they Withdrew the instru ments. Th's was followed by streams of blood oozing from the wounds. This was repeated s -vera! tim ,'s. Next came th ordeal of biting into the leg aud chewing the prickly pear not a pleas ant task, as the -eaf is covered with in finitesimal prickeis, that if only touched with the hand produce the sensat'oa of being pricked by need'es. The fanatics were then ban led burning torches, which they applied to their faces, hands and arms. The odor of burning flesh became so unbearable that we c.inie away. The following day I inquired about the origin and meaning of the fv te, and was told the following leg end: Several hundred years ago there lived in a pashalik of Arabia a very learned p.nd devout marabout (priest), who by his learning and sanc tity gathered about him many disciples, whom he taught But as his teachings were not in consistency with those of the Koran, he having had revelations from heaven, drew upon himself the en mity of the reigning Pas'. a. The Pasha, jealous of his i ower with the people, banished him and his di. ciples to the desert of Sahara, whither they were taken and left without food or wa'er. They wandered about the desert several days until their thirst became unbeara ble, and as they could find nothing to slake it they threw themselves in de spair upon the ground, praying for death to relieve them. Then Ali l'en Aissaoua, the marabout, arose and bade fiem eat anything they could find, for hj had received a revelation from heaven telling him that nothing they would eat would hurt them. Accord ingly they feasted on scorpions, snakt s, prickly pear leaves (and also, I believe, celluloid collars and railroad sand wiches, though not mentioned in the legetid). Rut, strange to say, not only were they uninjured, but they derived nourishment therefrom, satisfied therr hunger and quenched their thirst. Thus they lived for some time until this mir acle came to the ears of the Pasha, who, suspecting some trickery, enticed them by oilers of a pardon to his palace, lie threw them into a dungeon filled with sc irpions, bits of crocke.y, glass and similar other tonics, and told them that they couM not be released until they ate everything. It was no difficult task, as they had been growing fat on the same kind of food. The Pasha, having seen them eat the food, granted them all a lull pardon and made Ali Ren Aissaoua his izier. 'The descendants of Ali and his dis ciples formed a sect called 'Aissaouas, who every year on the anniversary of the trial in the dungeon celebrate the event iu the manner I have described. I am told that at some places this sect still eat scorpions and chew glass." Cincinnati Enquirer. m m An augur that bores a square hole is spoken of as a remarkable recent in vention. Newspaper ollk-eswill hail this as an innovation. For years they have been bothered with bores who are always round. Rockland Vouricr Gazefle. Venezuela schools are supported' by the Federal Government from the rev enues of the post-ollico r.nd a trade li cense 8stem. Tb Sqnmw of Fact and Faucy. I Canon City Mercury.l The young laly who wore the contain of Pocahontas at the firemen's masquerade last Thursday evening, an 1 in pink hosiery and kid slippers took the priza as the most real istically costumed lady present, may have been entitled to it in the minds of the judges, but popular opinion seems to think other wise. At any rate she was not dressed like any Indian maiden wo were ever intimate with. To those who are not familiar with the early days of this country the Indian maiden appears beautiful in her wild sim plicity, wearing the fringed carments of her tribe, as she stan Is outline 1 against j the glorious sky dressed m a eoronet c I eagles feathers and a rev! health corsat trimmad with bead work. Shall we then, with ruth less hand, shatter this beautiful picture which was "represented so faithfully by the young lady the other even- Ingf Shall we portray the real Indian maiden, as we have seen her in all her unpoetic nature, clothed in a pair of sol dier trousers, a horse blanket, with a neck lace of the false teeth of the paleface, ! and her coarse, unkempt hair hanging ovef her smoky features and clinging to her warty, bony neck! No. no. Far le it from us to destroy the lovely vision of copper-colored grace ami beauty, which the soft du le of the effete east has erected in tbe rose-hud chambers of fancy. Let her dwell there as the plump-limbed princess of a brave j peo ple. Let her adorn the dormer window of his memory, proud, beautiful, grand, gauly, and peculiar, as she was arrayed atj last Thursday's masquerade. e will spare this ideal Indian maiden with a back comb and gold garters. Lather live in t-ie m-sur.iry of those who saw her the oth?r evening,! jusc as she was then, while the trui Indian maiden eats the fricassed locust ofj the plains an l wears th-j plug hat of progress A Cannibal Christmas. The Judge, What a merry, merry Christmas poms of our missionaries on the coast of Africa must have had. A Hit of Troth Spoken In Jet Xew- York Sun. "How are you finding business, doctjrf' was askad of a physician. I -Capital," be replied. "I have all I can attend to." "I didn't understanl that there was very much sickness alout." I "No, there isn't. But we physicians do notdepend upon sickness for an income! Oa, my, no; most of our money is made jfrom neonle who have liothinir the matter I with thera." Kconomy is Wealth. French Fun. Master Well, Susan, did you mall my letter, as I told you ? Faithful servant Yes, sir; but I had it weighed first, and as it was d-tuble weight I put on another stamp. Master Uood girl; only I hope you aidn fc put it on so as to obliterate the address. Faithful servant Oh, no, iudee.1, sir; I just stuck it on the top of the other stamp so as to save room. I . He Was Junt Like Other Men. Chicago News. j They wero coming out of a dime museum. 'I don't believe that wild man of Bornao is a wild man at all," she wTiispered. "Nrhy notf he asked. "He's civilized just like other men." "What makes you think not ' "Didn't you see the manager pay him a lot of money I" "Yes; a f0 bill and a; lot of small bills." "Well, didn't you notice how careful tho wild man was to fold tha iu outsider' Col. Wales. Merchant Traveler. The Prince of Wales beats a Kentuckiaa all to nieces. Ho is a colonel in sixteen regiments, and never was in a battle life. iu hij A Woman "Worth Her Weight in Gold. ITroy Times ' j A Newbury woman has recovered, $4000 for a broken rib, and anatomists estimate that at this rate her bou .-s are worth $310,000. MERCANTILE HONOR. A Quality Which StillTMaa an Intrinsic . - ValuV At the recent meeting of the National Board of Trade, held in Washington, the speakers very properly took a high stand for mercantile honor and the jus tice which should govern the laws of trade. This was right. From the days . of the "merchant princes" of Jerusalem, cf Tyre and Sidon, of Rome and Car thage, down to the colonial periods of American history, the business of trallic on sea and land has had its advantage takers, its time-servers, its impostors and its cheats. But it has also had its men' of ' enterprise . who have always yoked their speculations to tlie car ol honesty, and who would never consent t make progress in any other way. In t !i perilous times of the American Kexolu tion there was the merchant John Han cock,whose honored came star.d-. o.;t in such bold letters on our Declarnt on of Independence; there was that o her merchant, Bowdoin, brought up in flu very center of the mercantile life o Boston; there were those contemporary merchants, Hutledge, of New York, and Morris, of Philadelphia. In the even more perilous times of the late war of the Rebellion, the mer chants of our country produced many of its best and most tried friends. Sone of them poured out their money on its behalf like water; and others, of the rank and lile, rushing from the counting-room and the store, laid down their lives for the Nation in the fore-front of battle. All honor, then, to the patriotic mer chants of America! f he principles of commercial honor, by which such men are guided, are a credit, not only to their numerous and influential class, but to the human race. There are. of course, exceptions to every rule: but it is an admitted axiom of ethics that all such exceptions only strengthen the rule. The very fact that a rule is ex cepted to, proves not only its existence, but that the rule must be good where the exceptions are bad. You might as well object to Christian ity because there was once a Judas Is eariot. or to patriotism because there was a Benedict Arnold, as to object to American commercial honor because there have been, and still are, scoun drels and villains in the ranks of Ameri can merchants. As one swallow docs not make a summer, neither does one scabby sheep undervalue a whole flock. It is a fact, susceptible of the clearest proof, that American commercial honor is the peer of any in the world. In these days of magnetic telegraphs and fast presses, the misdeeds of commercial men are rapidly trumpeted abroad, not only as legitimate matters of news, but as sensations fitted to feed the cormorant maw of the greedy public; a capacious maw. indeed, that like the daughter of the horse-leech, is perpetually crying, as it gorges itself. "Give! give!" All the while the modest members of com mercial society, acting on the scale of the level and the square, are passed by unnoticed; or, if they are commented on in any way, as likely as not it is to be judged as'no better than they ought to be, iu fact as tarred with the same brush that has smeared some of their villainous ne:ghbors. The duty of the press in all such cases is to keep constantly in view the invari able distinct:ons between right aud wrong. The good man shouhlbe com mended while the bad man is censured. The good man should be rewarded by the applause of the community while the bad man is punished by its laws. Money is j)ot yet the god of our country, and we devou-ly trust it never will be. Commercial honor has still an intrinsic value; a value more precious than jew els, more inestimable than silver or gold. I V; iltjddjJiia Call. WALKING. red striunliin. if I nt-lliKiitly Indulged in, CoimIik-i-h to Health. Every healthy person, manor woman, should be a good walker, able at any time to walk six to twelve miles a day at least, and for double that when grad ually brought up to it. The points to be a '.tended to are, to see that the walk be brisk and vigorous, not of a loitering or dangling kind; that there be some object in the walk besides its being a routine constitutional (i. e., not like the staid promenade of the orthodox ladies" school), and if possible in pleas ant, company; that there be no tight clothing, whether for the feet or the body, which will constrain or impede the natural movement of the limbs and trunk, and that the walk be taken as far as possibh? in the fresh country air. In regard to th's latter particular, al though towns are increasing so rapidly as to make it almost a journey to get out of them on foot, still we have ho manv suburban tramwavs and railway lines that in a few minutes we can find ourselves in the country, where the air is fresh and pure. Whenever an oppor tunity presents itself for a little r-hmb- inT in the course of a walk, it slioum be taken advantage of. We gain variety of muscular action, as well as increase the exertion, and we get into regions of purer air and fresher breeze at the same time. What may be considered as the weak point in walking as a mode of exereise is tlie comparatively small play which it gives to the muscles of the shoulders and c hest, while it is still less for those of the arm. This should be compensated for by the uso of light dumb-bells or Indian clubs, or some other form of exercise which brings in play the arms anil shoulders. One of the forms of exercise which requires the action of the muscles of the arms and shoulders, as well as those of the trunk and legs, is swimming. - This, however, for manv reasons, can not be used as a means of exercise except by a few. aud at certain seasons of the year, but where .possible it should always be practised. The great pity is that boys aud girls do not learn it, as a rule, while at school. Kvery large town should be well provided with swimming baths, and if it could be made com pulsory for all sch iars at a cer;a:n age, say twche, to learn to swim, it would be a great advantage to all, and also bo the means of saving many lives. u era!.t ot Health. A GALAXY OF NOTABLES. Portraits of Prominent American and DUtlnffuUheU Foreign Vbdtura. MICHAEL, R. DE Y0UJTO. The late shooting of M. II. De Young, ot The Ban Francisco Chronicle, by Clans Spreckles, son Of the great sugar monopo list, brings to publicity again the career of the De Young brothers, who almost penni less and without experience built up the best paying single newspaper property on the Pacific coast. Though the - wildly sensa tional and extremely personal style of jour nalism which they adopted was repulsive, yet tteir energy and enterprise in gathering news in advance of their competitors gained for The Chronicle a circulation greater than any paper west of the Mississippi. There were three of the Do Young boys, who In their early life played around a mining camp in northern California. Tbe family was so poor that it is said tbe mother and sis ters did washing to support the family. One of the brothers Ia now in an insane asylum, another, Charles, was shot at the Lands of Minister Kalloch's son, and here tbe love aud tenderness of the boys to their mother was shown. While Charles De Young lay dying from Kalloch's bullet a special edition of The Chronicle was printed for their mother's perusal'lcaving out the sad intel ligence, i he hope that he might recover witi-out giving her anxiety. ce tbe death of Charles, Michael baa kept the paper up to the same standard of 'per sonal" journalism, and like his brother has fallen a victim to it An American fr'ongstrese. EMMA NEVADA. Miss Emma Nevada, who made a success ful dd ut before an audienca in New York n Nov. 4, it a daughter of Dr. Wixom, well known as a medical practitioner in California. She was'born in Virginia City, Nov., in 1863. About eight years ago she left America wiih a class of young ladies tor Vienna to study, in charge of an agent, their tuition b.-ing paid in advance. On their arrival in Vienna, the teacher selected for Miss Wixom had failed. With characteris tic western pluclc Miss Wixom set about ob tainin r the education sought for without in form ng her father of their misfortune. Her talent soon won for her friends, among whom Was Mrs. Mackay in Paris, wbo in terested themselves in obtaining for her the best musical training Europe afforded. She made ht-r debut at II r Majesty's theatre, Loudon, in 1SS0, aud has since filled engage ments creditably in Paris, and other foreign capitals. The IJine Kiln Club Philosopher. Detroit Free rress. There was great general satisfaction among the large nunib.r j resent as Brother Gardner took his accustomed seat ct the opening of the meeting, bince the accident mentioned at the last meeting several wild rumors had been flying around. no was to the effect that be had made his will and resigned in favor of Sir Isaac Wal pole; another that the doc-tors had held a council aud found that his liver had been pressed two feet out of plump; a third that th heavy weight resting upon him solong had given bim such a crook to his legs that a wheel barrow could be. run letweon them with plenty of room to spare. "Gen'l-ni." begai the old man, as be biniled Lenignly down upon tho shining pates of the first rc w, "do presumdenshul 'lection am a thing of de p&t. It am gone foreber. It am gathered into de arc-hives of de forgotten, dar to be klvered wid de cob webs of decay. It am well. Dar am some things we doan want too much of. 'L;t us now turn ober a new leaf. If rolitic d bigotry has for do pa' three months prevented us from I orryin' coffee of a Demo cratic naybur, it need no longer stall' in do way. If de Lias of our feelings has made as hf sitate to lend cur flat irons to a Kepub llcan, we mus' now offer Li in our wheel barrer as well. De long night am otcr. nn' daylight has lroken. Let i:s forgive an' forgit. Do ken try am all heahyit, an' such of us as her survived de struggle mus' purga our heart of rancor an' han't up do house agin cold weather." The 'Famous English Jockey. FRED. ARCHER. Among the arrivals expected from Europe is this remarkably successful jocky, m ho has won on an average two out of five of the numerous races he had entered in tho last few years. Many race-goers hold that Ar cher wins so often liecause ho is so often on the favorite, but fnquently the favorite bo'ds that position simply because Archer rides. His success is no doubt dm to his bravery, coolne&s and wv.ll-trained judg ment , . Y