r. rite ROSii Of THIS
if another tep nearer to bell.
,t mauly, I lov it so well:
. it, I yeru for U, air tongue for it
.(III. r - , " - " - ' - -'
drop .quickly or ay heart for It
m,-!1'0 tor it, I would die for It, and get it
v palate for whHks-y's n dry a the dost.
tft publican love me. I era hi bestlrtend,
vr all li-t I ara wiib fclm weekly I spend.
Me a.v there's Done he like better to see
C- At I-A fnnif tA i i l ti ... ma
j am -iCoaie, he's toU ms a iausand timet
o'er, - : . . - ;
rn re J, freqoeot a art carouae la hi ((ore.
Vn, frieaa," ls lias said, "you have liberty
ri drink and partake of my wine and my beer.
I,,. a of itwisat you like, what you wish to
yi.nr ense. r
A pint or a qastt, y, tl if you please."
' Anu!uct dfop another, drop, another full
1 IWrWI, .
'Another fall goblet to arpeaee my aad soul, -'
Hand lb- nectar around, around lot It pass,
. For w bat can enliven or cheer lika lb lu
- Let me gloat o'er -It top, strep my sense In
Or Into a rcvelio beside Its brisk rnk.
lk what I may after, pats tiie brimming cop
round.
Till my thirst U aasa&gea and my sorrow U
Jlow much ft Invigorates), glad .lens the soult
Ms ? how tUey s listen to behold tbe wine
D0W1S
My band's ever r to pass it about, J
To my ear It ia BiaK to hear It pourel ooW
How tt fl:um tbe brain, enlivens tua mind.
Jurawa form the true estate, be It soaiae or re-
OQ8Q.
How pleasing it is to my taste and my tent-,
To-draiD to tbe bottom thegnblet'a c intents.
u sorrow aneois mee, or aught makes tnee
net;
Jf tbe cares of (be world too want tn for -t?
If tbtwe nve tbee pain, if these cause distress:
If you care to be happy, if you seek to Had
Joy.
Fly at once to the temple of Bacchus, my boy.
Unnk titers the drink Uiegods prescribes tbee
and pain
Shall ufvr thy heart's or Iby mind's peace
break n; tin.
Then strain let roe drink again to ray ail,
- My spirits to quicken, mr coosoieu -a to kl I.
Jet tue mother -niy tboaghts, let mo sleep
tbera iu wine.
Ob! what is so soothing, O, what's so dlvlnet
Iet world chastise roe, admonish, reprove;
f ismla tura against me, or bold from me
' , t,--.r love.
Tho' Etelguborc.may ehide me, sUU a toper
111 b
As long as grim Death keep his fingers off
What matter, aaent, neighbor, friends, ehll
dra or wife.
What earn I what they say, how they battle
tbro life. .
Let tbem do as I do to an inch or a letter.
And soon they will find themselves wiser and
teller:
Let litem quaff as I quaff, and drink as I
orinc.
And lttUa of trouble, 111 warrant, tbejll
think -
Their tear will be dried, their sorrow be gone,
aim my u reca ooi a jot what the morrow
brtoss oa. -
Tectuter may argaa abstinence as they
Bat t it teu them that love of alcohol's
F"mniurj; r the diankard's eravina within.
M hica intuit be appeajwd, however grat is the
It t he reason that they are ao temperate a lot
; Becitauft tuey won't drink, or . because, they
I f8o hnif thHt deelnre thev woold not.
Woai j. drtuk If they coQid, tho' they say we
Pobtaho, May 10, 187.
A Topping of Diamonds."
I
Ilorymoro'e diamonds ere among
t in this country. Every one
ilily of them excepting Ler la-
tlyi.-.' titTseli and her linsbanti. Tma
retili:,i explanation, and the same shall
bo ( if on jniiaediaU'ly.
Ahout ttv- wars airo 'Lord Rorvmore.
&tU-r h avy losses on the turf, thought
to rt-oovs p buuseli by some stiff play at
liaetrer. a srame much in favor at Pink's
club, of which be was an assiduous mem
ber. Having lost for twenty nights in
wiectrfision, he one morning found him-
self in the unpleasant position of not
knoiag where to loobfor five thousand
guineas which had been won of him over
night, and which he had to pay before
suuset. He might have mortgaged some
of his acwm, for the Borymore estates
were not yet tliprea to tueir lull ex
tent, but
but mortKaKinff involves formaii
u3 iii 'Q consume time ne migm nave
borrowed of usurers, who would have
A . I . ...'I 1 I . .
been hoppv to len& him on his note of
hand at warty per cent., but he was not
in such le7terate plight as to care to pay
jrjsjbitar.' y for a temporary accommo-
du.T,T!?- Atrain. he might havo over
drawn lus banker's aecountin the full
certainty that his check to any amount
saanld be honored; but Lord Borymore
private reasons for desiring not to
himself under obligations toward
jjfer'jThey were a square-toed
"Ko-had once or twice ventured on
Te4!Htlnl remonstrances touching his
loriI;.lap's reckless sale of scrip amassed
miring the lata peer's lifetime; and, in
f ict, Lord Borymore, being still a young
man, stood in some awe of them. Under
these perplexing circumstances it oc
curred to my lord that if he could raise
some money for a few weeks on part of
his wife's diamonds there would be no
Lam donev Quarterday was but a fort
night distant, and rents would be com
ing in; so that the jewels could be
pledged and redeemed without Lady
Borymore knowing anything about it.
TTr Udvshir had lust Btarted on a
month's visit to her parents in Scotland,
and the diamonds that is, the most val-
t nable among them were lodged m a
safe at the bank. Lord Borymore had
; scarcely conceived his project when he
put it into execution by driving to his
bankers and removing his jewels. Then
he hied him to to the pawnbroker's.
Sir. Triball, the broker in question,
was one of the wealthiest members of the
lra1. hat in so far as Lord Borymore
was concerned he was something else be
sides money lender; he was an unsus
pected friend. Twenty years previously
the late Lord Eorymore had rendered
Mr. Triball a service -which the latter
' had never forgotten, and could never
forget, so inestimable was it. He had
saved young Triball from a criminal
prosecution which might have resulted
in biabeina transported for life. Triball
. . . .1 . i -i.i i
parents' hearts through his evil courses;
but he was an only child, and tney
loved him so that, -when he committed
the atrocious offense which put him in
the grip of the police, there was nothing
they would not have done to save him.
It so happened that old Lord Borymore
was in a position to rescue the lad
through the interest he possessed with
the parties who were prosecutors in the
case. So Mr. Triball sought out the
peer and fairly threvr himself on his
knee's, beseeching his assistance. Not
only did Lord Borymore accede to his
prayer, but, after he had stopped the
prosecution so promply that no scandal
transpired, he spoke personally to young
Triball and warned him with with pater
nal kindness to take a lesson from the
peril which he had just escaped. Old
Lord Borymore was a very different per-
from his son upright and just, but
vcry-gglU&H and the impressive . words
which lie spoke to young Triball soft
ened the heart of that cub, who became
thenceforth a very decent member of so
ciety. It should be added that, until
the day when Mr. Triball called on him,
Lord Borymore hail never seen or heard
of the pawnbroker, but he saw him sev
eral times in the course of subsequent
years, for the father and son would pay
. him periodical visits to remind him that
their gratitude was not dead, and that to
their lives' ends they- would regard him
as their benefactor. Of all these facts
young Lord Borymore was ignorant, and
-ha brought his jewels to Mr. Triball
without having any idea of the emotion
which his visit was going to cause.
Ho entered the establishment through
the shop door, and lianded his card to
one of the clerks. In a minute he was
requested to step into a parlor, and there
he found a sedate old gentleman,, who
made him ft bow and ushered him to a
seat near the fire. A moment's awkward
ness followed, for Lord Eorymore, who
had brought the jewel cases m a parcel
under his arm, felt ashamed as he untied
the stringr; bnt Mr. Triball, who looked
at him, felt more ashamed still. "When
; tho jewels lay exposed, and Lord Eory
more stated his errand, the pawnbroker's
face reddened, and he hung his head,
evidently troubled by the story of ex
, travaraic and impending ruin which
lsed. He hf d placed the Bory
n high iu hU esteem he had, as
luiit them shrine in his heart;
vasthehrir of this great house
flapid: afrits fortunes! Lord
' ipf.icia f ; the confusion on
?r,feted it as a syrap-;
- itr s to lend; but ho was !
r.uin- my Jtiord,"
Sr.
junior had been m tnose oav " V" yL through some inadvertent remarks of
bad young dog, vrho almost broke Juffcerk that Lord Eorymore had with
iMmnh1 haartu thronch his evil courses: I i ' .,: . . , , i
guineas, but people sometimes make mis
takes abrat those things."
J.ne liorymore diamonds are well
known," answered Mr. Triball, as he sat
ao-nrn to his writing table; " but I have
no wish to keep these jewels in pledge.
It your lordship requires money, I shall
a nappy to lend tt. lour word is
enough for me." .. .
Av ell. but this is reallv verv oblir-
tug," remarked Lord Eorymore, natural
ly asionianeu, as me pawnbro&er Handed
him his check. "I shall only want the
money a few days; but you must allow
me to give you a bill."
"Pay me at your Convenience," said
the pawnbroker, civilly. " There was a
Biignt pause, and then be added: " iiord
Koryniore, your father once rendered me
a service which my whole fortune would
not repay. I am only too glad to ue
able to oblige his son.
. Uh, indeed ani We ought to count
as old friends, then," said Lord Eory
more, wall a forced smile, as he fingered
the draft. "I had never heard that"
"Your father did not tell you, then,
how he befriended met"
. " No, he said nothing about it."
"That was just like him," exclaimed
Mr. Triball, with feeling. " Your father
was a good and noble man, my lord."
This was said as the pawnbroker was es
corting his customer to the door.
" Duced queer money-lender that,"
soliloquized Lord Borymore, stepping
into his brougham, witlrhis jewels under
his arm.- " I wonder whether there are
more like him." But, musing in this
strain, he felt uncomfortable, and vowed
to repay the money at the earliest possi
ble date.
Spendthrifts make many such vows,
which they are unable to keep. In the
course of a few days Lord Borymore was
again in straits, owing to losses on me
turf nud at cards; and, to make matters
worse, he was at this juncture victimized
by his steward, a rogue who absconded
after collecting his quarter's rents and a
great deal of money paid for timber,
corn and cattle. This time Lord Bory
more was trulyin a lamentable predica-
mem. . Alter instructing ms Buiiciwr vj
raise him a loan on mortgage, he was
. . T' . i;. 1 "i i
still in want of money to pay some debts
of honor, and defray his personal ex
penditures. It was then that the thought
suddeniv occurred to mm oi selling nis
wife's jewels and having diamonds of
paste tmt into the settings in their
nlace. The first time this nettv idea oc
curred to him he dismissed it promptly,
but under the pressure of need it re
curred aeain and again. Lord Bory
more kept on repeating to himself that
his wife scarcely ever wore these famous
family jewels. She had tots oi others
for ordinary wear, and these were only
sported on trreat occasions, which re
curred but once or twice a year, so that
they were virtually like so much dor
mant, unprofitable capital. Once Lord
Eorymore had begun reasoning in this
way. he soon achooled himself to the be
lief that he should be foolish if he let
himself be arrested by squeamish seru
pies. The upshot was that he returned
to Mr. Triball's shop, partly" impelled by
the reflection that in Belling his jewels to
the pawnbroker he would be quashing
that debt oi ave thousand guineas wuicn
had been irksome to him Irom the first,
Mr. Triball was not prepared for the
prosposal which .Lord JKorymore made
him at this new visit. He Bad trusted
that his manner of granting the former
loan would convey a rebuke to the young
peer, and it had given him exquisite
pleasure to reflect that he might have
been instrumental in winning back the
son of his benefactor to straight courses,
It. therefore, caused him proportionate
pain when ho saw , to what expedients
Lord Borvmore was now descending.
pawnbroker may le a highly honorable
c 1 nr r;v" if
7 m,ft? Mr- ?"4,TL" T0;
Me
examined the diamonds in silence ; turn
ed them to the light and at last said he
would trive 9000 for them, which, ad
ded to the 5250 he had already lent.
would be about their market value. As
he was concluding this bargian, he said
gently : " Excuse the question, Lord
Borvmore, bnt does her ladyship know
of this transaction ?
' Oh, ye-es, of course," stammered
the peer, reddening : " but, you know,
she wants to have a paste set exactly like
them, so that society may not suspect
anything. You can make good imitations
m paste, can t you ?
While these tilings are taking place in
London. Lord Borvmore was also in pe
cuniary straits, and was brooding over
them yery dolefully in Scotland, ohe
was an extravagant beauty, who had for
years been running up bills, without
ever paying them, and now at length her
tradesmen, alarmed perhaps by reports
of her extravagance, had begun to send
in their bills altogether. Now it was a
peculiarity in Lord Borymore that, al
though very nimble in getting into debt
himself, he flew into wild rages when
his wife did the same ; and her ladyship
well knew that if she were to confess
debts of six or seven thousand pounds,
she would never hear the end of it. This
would never do for a lady who liked a
quiet life. So it came to pass that at the
very time when my lord was converting
the family jewels into paste, the thoughts
of my lady were liiewise running on
paste, for she had lately been shown
some imitation stones which were so like
the genuine that it was scarcely possi
ble to detect the difference even on close
scrutiny. Lady Borvmore argued with
considerable sophistry to justify herself
in deceiving her husband just as my
lord had done on his side. On her
return to London she lost no time in go
ing to the bank (without informing her
husband), and on asking to have her
jewels given up to her she learned,
a
drawn all the jewels in her absence and
had but lately returned them.
"Ah, then, I am too late," muttered
her ladyship, wjth sudden misgiving,
and she turned quite pale, feeling con
vinced that her husband must have fore
stalled her. .. " Oh, what baseness ! " she
exclaimed within herself. "But if I
find he has done this mean thing I will
never forgive him; everybody shall know
it. Ill petition for a divorce." Her
ladyship was almost beside herself with
anxiety and rage as she left the bank and
ordered her coachman to drive her to
Mr. Triball's. She had heard of this
broker being the cleverest expert in dia
monds. """-'
Mr. Triball was seated in his office
parlor, looking into tho fire in a reflec
tive mood, and thinking of Lord Bory
more, when her ladyship was announced.
She flounced in, trailing a skirt of two
yards' length after her, and plumped
down all her jewels on the table.
" Mr. Triball, I heard you were a good
judge of diamonds," said she, excitedly.
"I want you to tell me truly whether
these stones are genuine."
"Pray be seated," said the pawn
broker ; and he took up the largest case
with his most serious air. "Yes, your
ladyship, these diamonds are quite gen
uine, and very fine ones."
"Are yon quite sure?" asked Lady
Borymore, all trembling. " I was afraid
they had been tampered with. I have
had a dishonest servant."
"They are perfectly genuine, and of
the finest water," repeated the pawn
broker. ' --
"All J thank Heaven ! " exclaimed her
ladyship, with a great sigh of relief.
" Well, then, Mr. Triball, will ydh buy
them of me?"
" Buy them, Lady Borymore ? "
He stood a moment dumbfounded; but
immediately my lady overw helmed him
with a flood of talk, mingled with tears.
She told him of her debts, Borrows, ap
prehensions. She was almost afraid she
would be beaten if the amount of her
debts came to be known. In short, she
had now but one resource in the world,
and if Mr. Triball refused to buy her
jewels, and give her some others of
paste, Bhe was sure that she should fall
exceedingly ill and perhaps die. Here
there was some more weeping and wring
ing of hands. ; . .
, Mr, Triball had sat through all this
trying scene without making any remark.
He nodded at times, that was all." When
his fair visitor had quite finished speak
ing, he said quietly: l?l suppose you
know, Lady Borymore, that I have no
right to buy these jewels of you without
your husband's authority ? "
Oh, nut they are not entauea; ana,
he will never know," exclaimed
" who seemad to have the
' "ds. - .
" Can you assure me that he will never
know?"
" Never. I promise you. never !"
" Well, on this understanding I will
purchase the diamonds of you for four
teen thousand pounds "said Mr. Triball.
" But mind, Lady Borymore, I rely upon
your word that this shall be kept a
secret." -- - '
"Eternally. Oh. I am sure this is
very kind of vou. and I shall never for
get it," whimpered my lady, whose heart j
beat an ecstatic tattoo as the pawn
broker's pen signed the check, k
A week later Lady Borymore received
a suite of diamonds which she believed
to be of paste, and deemed, for her part,
quite as nice as inn ouiors.
- -.- - '-.
Lord and Lady Borvmore have mended
their manners and their fortunes since
the aforementioned events, and now that
thev have settled down into sober ways
of Uvinir. a pang of regret occasionally
assails them both, because of those fam-
ly diamonds which they sold. They are
uneasy, too, about the deceit wnicn eacn
practiced towards the other. Every time
my lady sports her diamonds (and she
does so as seldom as possible) , she is in
horrible fear lest some accident suouw
betray them to be of paste, and Lord
Borvmore feels equally uncomfortable,
insomuch that he loathes gala festivities
of every sort. But all who see Lady
Borymore's diamonds on those rare occa
sions when she shines in them, are agreed
that for size and sparkle such brilliants
are scarcely to be found. And this has
been the verdict of good judges, who
have seen them quite close. Possibly
mv lord and my lady will discover some
day that Mr. Tribrdl did not take advan
tage of their misfortunes to deprive them
of their precious heirlooms; but in any
case, their heirs will find out in due time
that there is no paste in the family casket.
The Corvlna Library.
(.Contemporary Review J
The famous Corvina Library was col
lected by Corvinus, at Buda, and in
forming the collection he enjoyed the
sympathizing assistance of Lorenzo de
Medici and the scholarly aid of Politian.
The library was completely scattered to
the winds by the Turks after the battle
of Mohaez, in 11'J.b, a calamity ta learn
inir which, in Haliam's opinion, trau
tcended that of the burning oi tne Aiex
ftTtdriftn library by Omar. What became
of the books, fabled to amount to oo.uuu
in number, no one could tell. Some
found their way to Vienna, a few more to
Constantinople, but the vast majority
remained totally unaccounted lor,
Even the contents of the library
became a matter of considerable
speculation, and the late Lord
Stranf ord made a diligent search in the
portion preserved in the seraglion on
the Bosporus in the faint hope of light
ing upon the lost .decades of Livy or
Borne of the missine plays of Aschylus.
The infant press of Hess of Buda had
contributed a few printed volumes, but
by far the greater part were manuscripts
at that time much more highly valued
than the comparatively rude productions
of the printer's art. According to Pro
fessor Fischer the collection had already
suffered considerably from depredators
long before the battle of Mohaez. lhe
successors of King Corvinus cared noth
ing for literature, and Waldislaus II.
permitted foreigners to borrow without
restriction. They availed themselves of
the privilege with alacrity. Boyal libra
rians, English abbots, German cardi
nals and Viennesse professors all
"borrowed" without the slighest
notion of returning. In this way
some of the volumes found their
way into the hands of Pirkheimer, of
Nuremberg, and thence in the seven
teenth century into the collection formed
by the Earl of Arundel, and are now in
the possession of the British Museum.
Masario, the Secretary of the Venetian
embassy at Buda, writing in 1520, after
a cursory examination of the library,
gives it as his impression that nearly all
the more valuable' manuscripts had al
ready been abstracted. Prof. Fischer
has been at considerable pains to trace
the subsequent fortunes of this ill-fated
collection, which, after careful considera
tion, he is not inclined to estimate
numberically at much over 3000 vol-,
umes. Of these he has identified at
Buda-Festh, Vienna, Berlin, Wolten
buttel and elsewhere no less than sixty
two, while he has examined fifty-three
more manuscripts, which, without being
able to speak with certainty, he is in
clined to believe were once a portion of
the same library. "
.' Competitive Examinations. '
- Above all things let my imaginary
pupil have preserved the freshness and
vigor of youth in his mind as well as
his body. The educational abomination
of desolation of the present day is the
stimulation of young people to work at
high pressnre by incessant competitive
examinations. Some wise man (who
probably was not an early riser) has
said of early risers in general that they
are conceited all the lorenoon ana stu
pid all the afternoon. Now, whether
this is true of early risers, in the com
mon acceptation of the word, or not, I
will not pretend to say ; but it is too
often true of the unhappy children who
are forced to rise too early in their
classes. They are conceited all the
forenoon of life, and stupid all its after
noon. The vigor and freshness, which
should have been stored up for the pur
poses of the hard struggle for existence
in practical life, have been washed out
of them by precocious mental debauch
ery by book gluttony and lesson bib
bing. Their faculties are worn out by
the strain put ' upon their callow brains,
and rthey are demoralized by worthless
childish triumphs before the real work
of life begins. I have no compassion
for sloth, but youth has more need for
intellectual rest than age ; and the cheer
fullness, the tenacity pf purpose, the
power of work which makes many a suc
cessful man what he is, must be placed
to the credit, not of his hours of indus
try, but to that of his hours of idleness,
in boyhood. Even the hardest worker
of us all, if he has to deal with anything
above mere details, will do well, now
and again, to let his brain lie fallow for
a space. The next crop of thought will
certainly be all the fuller in tho ear and
the weeds fewer. Prof. Huxley, in
Ibpular Science Monthly.
Jffan'g Age.
Few men die of old age. Almost all
die of disappointment, passion, mental
or bodily toil, or accident. Passion kills
men sometimes, even suddenly. The
common expression, choked with passion,
has little expression in it, for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life ; weak men live longer
than the strong, for the strong men use
their strength and the weak have none to
use. The latter take care of themselves,
the former do not. As it is with the
body so it is with the mind and body.
The strong are apt to break, or like a
candle, run out. The inferior animals
which live, in general, regular and tem
perate lives, have generally their pre
scribed number of years. The horse
lives twenty-five years ; the ox fifteen or
twenty ; the rabbit eight ; the guinea pig
six or seven years. , These numbers all
bear a similar proportion to the time the
animal takes to grow its full size.
But man, of the animals, is one that
seldom comes up to the average. He
ought to live a hundred years according
to his physiological law, as five times
twenty are one hundred ; but instead of
that he scarcely reaches, on an average,
four times his growing period ; the cat
six times, and the rabbit eight times the
standard of measurement. The reason
is obviouf man is not only the most ir
regular and most intemperate, but the
most laborious and hard working of all
animals ; and there is reason to believe,
though we cannot tell what an animal
secretly feels, that more than any other
animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it
warm and consumes himself with the
fires of his own secret reflections.
A certain resident of North Adams,
Mass., recently buried his wife, ft woman
of unnsnal size, and a few days after the
sad event, a neighbor attempted ft little
in the consolatory line, by remarking :
" Well, Mr. , yon have met with a
heavy loss." " Yes," replied the mourn
er, with a sigh, " she weighed 'most
four hundred pounds."
Arms of Warfare.
BY PB. n. SHKIiTON MACKENZIE.
In almost every country, the common
bow and arrow have been known as
weapons of offense. Among the ancients
the bows were made from reeds, from
the spath of the palm, and from various
kinds of elastic and tough wood. - The
arrows, made of reeds or light wood.
were often pointed at the ends with sharp
stone instead of iron. v
At present, the bow and arrow makers
have an extended choice of materials, as
well for the bow and the arrow as for the
string. The arbalest, or arblast (which
is the olden name of the cross-bow) . was
m use in j&urope long before the battle
of Hastings, fought A. D. 1066, on which
occasion it was used with firreat effect bv
uie invauing army of the Duke of Nor
mandy, historically known as William
the Conqueror.
In Walter Scott's romance of " Ivan
hoe," Bobin Hood is effectively intro
duced as exhibiting his skill with the
oow. ine arbalest, though a destructive
weapon, when well-handled, was infe
rior, in battle, to the low bow. from
which a succession of arrows could be
discharged while the abalester was wind
ing his cumbrous machinery for the dis
charge of one.
For centuries before, and even after.
the invention of fire-arms, the bow was
a frequent and formible weapon in the
hands of English soldiers. Even so late
as the early part of the sixteenth cen
tury, Henry VILT. made strenuous ef
forts to retain skillful bowmen in his
army. - ' -;-
lue wood, of the best quality, was
imported from abroad, and we read of
bow-staves imported duty-free. Yew
was considered to be the best wood, but
ash, which has a long, continuous gram
or fibre, was much used, bemar less
costly.
lhe arrows, originally made of reeds.
finally were made of ash. The manu
facture of steel arrow-heads was a lucra
tive calling. The arrows were feathered
with portions of goose wing. The bow
man usually carried a sheaf of twenty
four arrows, iu a quiver, at hia back or
right side, besides three or four ready
" 1 A " 1 " ,. -
ior lmmeuiaie use iu ms giruie..
The use of the lance, in which the sav
age inhabitants of Australia, most of the
islands in the Pacific Ocean, the western
part of the North American Continent,
and a large portion of Africa, have been
found skilled, is of erf at antinnitv. In
many instances, lance-heads of flint, cu
riously shaped, sharpened and fashion
ed, were used before iron was applied
for that purpose. Very frequently, those
who used the lance also carried shields,
covered with skins or metal.
At present, in Zulu-land, in South
Africa, where war is now raging, the na
tive soldiers carry lance, shield and t
light sword, most of them being also
armed with rifles, in the use of which
they are said to have acquired deadly
skill. It does not appear that they have
yet attained the art of making guns or
gunpowder.
One popular belief is that, about the
year 1336, one Berthold Swartz discov
ered the art of making gunpowder. There
is a tradition, however, that it was used
in China as early as the year A. I), so
and that the knowledge of the same was
conveyed to Europe on the return of the
Crusaders from Asia minor.
Roger Bacon, the well known British
scholar and particularly chemist of the
thirteenth century, has been supposd
(from a sort of enigmatical mention of
an inflammable powder, formed bjr a
very intimate mixture of nitre, charcoal
potash and sulphur) to have indicated
tho discovery of the destructive com
pound which has overthrown nations and
dynasties.
Tbe Germans, who really have been
great and ingenious inventors as type
founding, printing, oil-painting, watch
making, lithography and other ingen
jous arts exhibit are so sure of being
entitled to the credit of having also in
vented gun - powder that they have
erected a bronze statue of Swartz in the
picturesque square of Freiburg.
It is hard, very hard, to believe that
the Chinaman, whom it has become the
fashion to depict as well acquainted with
almost every modern invention a few
centuries before it was known in Europe,
should also have been credited with the
invention of what Falstaff energetically
called " villainous gunpowder."
For one, I don't believe it. I have
been a reader (and to some extent a
writer) of history all my life, and no an
nalist, ancient or modem, has given me
reliable assurance that the Mongols or
JUantchus of the Uclestial Empire bat
tered each other with cannon balls long
before European combatants had wit
nessed that species of combatancy.
Once that gunpowder came into use
the whole system of wharfage was chang
ed. Heretofore, the art of defense has
been in advance of the art of destruc
tion. But with cannons and gunpowder
mortars and arquebuses, the tables were
turned at once.
The bow, previously mentioned, had
come into Europe from the East, where
it had been used exclusively by cavalry
At the shoulder of a stout and stalwart
Norman, German or Briton, it was a
formidable weapon. .
To lie effective, its use required a
ready eye, as well as a strong arm. Very
often the arrow glanced harmlessly off
the polished armor with which it came
in contact. When, rarely enough, it
went throught the "joints of the har
ness," as in the case of the King of Is
rael at Bamoth Gilead, that was more
likely to be from " a bow drawn at a
venture" than from the true aim and
sore hand of the archer.
As a rule, then, the casualties of early
warfare were not very great. At an in
termediate . time, when the system of
ransoming military captives of the sword
or bow was in vogue, to kill an enemy
was the worst use he could be put to.
Defeated knights, as in the time of
Eichard Coenr de Lion (who died in the
last year of the twelfth century) , had to
pay ransom, for themselves and their
war steeds, when they " came to grief,"
even in the tournament. We have an
example of this in the spirited and accu
rate pages of the mock combat of
knights at Ashby-do-la-Zouch, before
Prince John and his nobles, as related
in Scott's "Ivanhoe."
Whether in the real or mimic combat,
the defeated was subject to demands for
ransom from the cupidity of the con
queror. Of course, this refers only to
knights and esquires who had money or
valuables with which to purchase their
liberation.
Long after artillery came into use in
Europe, it was so unscientifically con
structed that the full power of destruc
tion was not got out of an invention
which at first seemed as if it were des
tined to exterminate mankind.'
Whoever may be bo curious as to wish
to trace artillery science back to its ear
liest practice would do well to devote a
day or two to a stroll of observation
through some arsenal or museum (the
Louvre, in Paris, or the Tower of Lon
don), stocked with the old fashioned in
vention of artillerists of days long since
departed. ( ;
Curious and quaint the ancient ord
nance appears, when contrasted, side by
side, with the Titanic productions of
Baron Krupp, the German, or Sir Wil
liam Armstrong, the British cannon con
triver and manufacturer.
Naturally enough, the question arises
when and where were cannon first used in
warfare? Hall am and Villani ascribe
considerable effect to the cannon of Ed
ward III, at the battle of Crecy, which
was fought in 1340r Villani especially
says, .'.'It seemed as if God thundered."
If, hswever, the cannon (or rather the
mortarsfVf English Edward won the
day, it mst have been owing to the
gross neglect, on the part of Philip of
France, of
invention which he al-
ready
possessed
Gu&powder was known
throughout
:EniS
several years before
the battle of
Crecy
Petrarch, the PC v speaks ol gun
powder as a well-lniwu explosive before
o, wnen ne wrotana xmcange
corns mat mere were caRnon anu pqwerer
in 1 ranee as early as 1337 bbcfa, the
historian, wrote that ivation
for the ft '
mt that
arks be
I gun-
and sold
ae secret
time-v
ingirf
to the Sultan Amurath. Iu the fifteenth
century , the Turks could handle the siege
cannon as well as the Christians, and, in
the assault of Constantinople, the Turk
ish ordinance soon toppled over the an
tiquated wails ' and fortresses of the
Greek emperors- -y' v" '
As it was with the engines of destruc
tion in the Middle Ages, so it has been
with - the - more i perfectly developed
weapons of the present time. Of all
very recent battles, only - Konigsgratz or
Sadowa were won by any decided supe
riority of any fire arms. ;
The Prussians beat the Austrians, who
are slow to adopt a military novelty, by
the needle-gun. The'mitralleuse, with
which Marshal Lebomf, commanding
the French army in 1870, thought to as
tonish Mbltke and the Prussians, was no
surprise to Bismarck,' who had experi
mented with, but did not approve of the
novelty.
The immense guns which Italy and
England have built, and are building, at
Spezzia and Woolwich, at vast expense,
may fail or prove effective in actual war.
If the latter, all other maritime powers
will quietly adopt them.
The wheel of invention never rests.
The artillirest, however fertile in expe
dient, seems dissatisfied with his work
when it is done. He fancies that he can
make something better yet. His art, he
will say, is progressive.
The Austrian Ucbatius six -inch bronze
gun, the latest monster of warfare, will
doubtless be improved upon by Baron
lu-upp or some of the English work
people. ...
At this moment, among the minor
arms given to the British soldier, the
Martini-Henry rifle is highly regarded;
but it is on the cards that may, in turn,
be superseded by the " repeating " or
the " magazine '' rifle, of which Swiss
and Austrian authorities are already
bragging. -
Preventable Disease.
The savage has few diseases, civilized
life lias many. Are civilization and dis
ease inseparable? This must not be ad
nutted. A higher civilization than we
have yet attained would show us that a
great proportion of our diseases arises
from our semi-barbarous ignorance and
are preventable. This, our day is re
markable for quackery that gives a long
list of diseases and nostrums for the
cure of all complaints. Is not preven
tion better than cure, and wise precau
tion that needs no better than the inge
nuity of mixing them? The savage
breathes pure air most of his time, civ
ilized man shuts himself up in boxes
and takes trreat pains to exclude the air
The great art of ventilation is to admit
pure air at all times, but in cold weather
to have warmth and pure air at the same
time. No general arrangement has yet
been made on this vital point. The sav
age drinks pure water. Civilized men
dig wells and taint them with cesspools
stables, rubbish thrown in and around-
then scientifically filters the water and
drink it with great satisfaction. (Filth
chemically mixed in water cannot be
filtered from it. ) The savage eats when
hungry. Civilized man eats at stipu
lated times, and too often go through
the ceremony when not hungry. The
savage eats on an average no more than
is good for him. Civilized man on ordi
nary circumstances eats twice as much
as is good for him and takes his risk on
the balance. But gaunt poverty in hard
times comes down below savage life is
worse fed, worse sheltered and worse
cared for: Disease and demoralization
in abject poverty and in hard times, go
beyond anything found in savage life
The savage breathes often in water. Civ
ilized man dips his hands and face care
fully in water twice a day, but most of
them are innocent of a good wash all
over, or of a bath once a year. Hard
work beyond the strength of the worker
and to make up for bard times, is a
present source of disease and breaks
down the constitutions of thousands,
And so on " inscrutable Providence
sends fever and numberless diseases. It
is ignorance, mismanagement, filth and
poverty that decimates a population
with disease it is not Providence. The
remedies for evils may be far off, but
still the facts should be born in mind
Up-Hlll Work. ,
Up-hill work, both literally and
figuratively, means work in two direc
tionsat once; literally, it is going for
ward while we raise our own weight
figuratively, it is doing things and learn
mg how to do them at the same time
thus lifting ourselves to a higher plat
form of moral or intellectual being,
There is always, in some senses, an as
cending slope before us, which we may
scale if we will. But happily it does not
rest with ourselves to decide whether the
general tenor of our lives shall be that
of laborious ascent or of gentle down
ward gliding. The force of gravitation
need not be always regarded a type of the
depraved tendencies of the human heart,
There is a name for all things, says the
wise man, and if there is a time for
learning, so is there, happily, a time for
forgetting ; and also a time for idly ap
Plying and enjoying what we have
learned. There is a time for scrambling
upward, and a time for lying on the
grass in the valley ; a time for climbing
fruit-trees, and a time for letting the
ripe fruit fall out of our4 mouths. Even
Christian, who was not the man to flinch
from his share of climbing, found rest
and refreshment in the Valley of
Humiliation, and it would be a poor
view of life which valued notliing that
was not gained by the sweat of the brow,
Let life tend ever so steadily upward in
its moral and spiritual aspects, and in
tellectual labor be ever so strenuously
directed toward higher and higher levels
of attainment, still there will be in the
outward life pauses from all activity,
and welcome and gentle relaxations of
effort, when our wisdom is to sit still,
and receive the riches which flow into
our souls from above. Hard work is,
no doubt, a cure for many evils, and the
taste for it a most excellent one to ac
quire if we can, but not to be able to
abstain from it for a time, not to have
any idea of employment without it, is a
miserable Slavery and blindness. The
Xatunlay Review. ..
He Had Been to Pinafore.
':' Vfayraouse Sunday Times.
He came away up from below, sing
ing: ...
. "For I'm Little Buttercup,
Dear little Gutter Pop"
When the justice gently asked him if he
would stop his noise.
" Can't do it, squire 111 lose it I'll
lose it I'm little "
"Lose what what havo you got to
lose?"
"Lose the tune, man. Went't the
opera last night see little Gutter "
V And where did you go after the
opera was over ? " asked the court.
" Went straight to the hotel straight.
P'leceman showed me the way. What's
my bill ? Where's the feller t' keeps tliis
hotel I'm a little gutter pup"
" Yes, you're evidently a little gutter
pup," said the justice, sadly "your
hotel bill will be five dollars, with the
understanding that you follow the com
pany out of tqwn, and play the character
of gutter pup somewhere else."
PUKK PACKING.
' The Commercial Herald, of San Fran
cisco, publishes the following, which was
taken from the Cincinnati price current:
The total number of hogs packed in Ore
gon durintr 1878 is estimated at 120,000,
against 90,000 in 1877, and 75,000 in 1876.
Portland is the chief packing point. Very
little of the product goes out of the State,
except to British Columbia. Department
of Agriculture retornof swine in Oregon
compare as folioe" '
JaBnary,lSTakl3o6Tf anoary, 187t.17l,JC0
Jaousryr&r..193,JQ0 1 ,1nury, l874.183.0tO
January, Mt77lSM,70 1 February, lH7i....iM,400
January, 17S1H,600 j February, 1871 liHJD
re-ij,iaary, im.
r '
TOTAL PaCKIKO IX DOTS PACIFIC STATES.
' The following tabla exLToftsa compari
son of the number of hogs paiaal jn Cali
fornia and Oregon for fave years r
. JW. . 18T7. 187. 1875.
Oregon.-. liuJuO
Touis.ow mm &,ooo .x
iatyuult
S30.000
t'urloDS Aversioni.
The secretary of Francis I. used to
stop up his nostrels with bread if he saw
dish of apples, to prevent an other
wise inevitable bleeding at the nose. A
Polish king had an antipathy to both
the smell and sight of this wholesome
fruit, and a family of Aquitaine had a
hereditary hatred of it. " A 1 lemish dam
sel was sadly troubled by an uncomfort
able aversion to the smell of bread.
Cheese, mutton, musk and ambergris
have been so repugnant to some nasal
organs as to send their owners into con
vulsions. Gretry, the composer could not en
dure the scent of the rose, neither could
Anna of Austria. The mere sight of the
queen of flowers was too much for Lady
Heneage, bedchamber woman to Queen
Bess ; indeed, Kenelm Digby records
that her cheek became blistered when
some one laid a white rose upon it as she
slept. Her ladyship's antipathy was al
most as strong as that of the dame who
fainted when her lover approached her,
wearing an artificial rose in his button
hole. A violet was a tiling of horror to
the eyes of the Princess de Lambelle,
tansy and abominable to the Earl of
Barrymore, Scaliger grew pale before
the water-glass, and a soldier who wonld
have scorned to turn his back on a foe
fled without shape from a sprig of rue. :
A poor Neapolitan was always seized
with a fit upon attempting to swallow a
morsel of flesh meat of any kind, and
nature thus condemned him to vegeta
rianism, a sorer infliction than that was
suffered . by Gnianerius, whose .heart
palpitated violently if he indulged in a
pork dinner, or by the lady who could
not taste udder of beer without her Hps
swelling to uncomfortable dimensions.
Dr. Prout had a patient who declared
honest mutton was as bad as poison to
him. Thinking tins was all fancy, the
doctor administered the obnoxious meal
under various disguises, bnt every ex
periment ended in a severe vomiting
fit. v - ",
Another unlucky individual alwavs
had a ht of the gout a few hours after
eating fish, and a Count d'Armsadt never-
failed to go off in a faint if he knowingly
or unknowingly partook of any dish
containing the slightest modicum of olive
oil. A still worse penalty attached to
lobster salid in case of a lady, for if she
ventured to taste at a dancing party, her
neck, before she returned to the ball
room, would be covered with usrly
blotches, and her peace of mind de
stroyed for that evening.
According to Uurton, a melancholy
duke of Muscovey fell instantly ill if he
but looked upon a woman, and another
authoirty was seized with a cold palsy
under similar provocation. Weinrichur
tells of a nobleman who drew the line at
old ladies, which could not prevent him
from losing his life in consequence of
his strange prejudice; for. beincr called
from the supper table by some mischiev
ous menus to speak to an old woman,
he fell down directly behind her, and
died then and there. What an old
woman did for this old hater, an eclipse
did for Charles d'Escaro, Bishop of
Langres. It was his inconvenient cus
tom to faint at the commencement of a
lunar eclipse, and remain insensible as
long as it lasted. When he was very old
ana very innrm, an eclipse took place
tne good old bishop went of as usual
and never came to again. Old John
Langer, who settled in Ireland in 1651
cherished an antipathy quite as obsti
nately. but hail no idea of dvinar of it.
By his last will and testament he ordered
ma corpse to ve waxeu oy nity irishmen
foreacn of whom two quarts of aqua
vitie were to be provided in the hope
that, getting drunk, they would take to
killing one another, and do something
toward lessening the breed.
Stage Frights.
Without going back to the days of
Garrick or Macready, and a host of tra
gedians who always kept in bed nearly
the whole of the day to calm their
nerves before acting a new part, I can
lust call to mind one or two cases con
fined even to one theater, The Old Adel
phi; On tbe first night of a new piece,
the Keeleys were always very ill from
fright. Leigh Murray suffered as much
from it as a cockney does in the chops
of the Channel." Celeste used to dash
on in sheer desperation from it, saying
to himself, " Well, bey cannot keel me
for it." Alfred Wigan, one of the letter
perfect actors, was a martyr to fright, so
much that he occasionally forget the
words ; as for his accomplished wife, he
was obliged to divert her attention dur
ing the day, lest the dread of a first
night should overpower her, and at
night she, on one occasion, had to throw
herself on the ground to Bubdue the
beating of her heart from fright.
" Feel my hand," said Charles Kean to
me, when he was playing "Cardinal
Wolsey " for the I don't know how many
hundreth time in the Provinces. It
trembled as if he had the ague. Mrs
Sterling would never venture on the
stage without the manuscript of her part
in her pocket, as a charm to keep the
words in her head. air. irving's nerv
onsness is simply indescribable ; even
Mr. Toole willnot be seen by his most
intimate friends on the first night ; while
Mrs. Kendal complains that her " stage
fright increases every year, and with
Mr. John Parry, everyone knows that it
amounts to a positive disease. The mal
ady is too nniversal for stage managers
not to provide against it by novices. The
worst thing for any actor to do is to hang
around the wings till his "call" comes
to try and gain courage. " Keep in the
green room, sir," says the prompter to
the novice. When the "call comes.
the novice is somewhat hustled on to the
stage, and, like a dog thrown for the first
time into the water, he sometimes strug
gles out of his dimcuity. Tne J heater.
The Ofc-resse des Li las."
These has been for months in a Paris
prison, awaiting the result of a protracted
criminal ' "instruction," a horrible
woman, to whom has been given the
nickname of " Ogresse des Lilas." This
woman was in the habit of laying in
wait for young mothers who had infants
in their arms. . The ogress would enter
into conversation with the mothers, and,
on some cunning pretext or another, ob
tain possession of the infants, with whom
she incontinently disappeared, What
did she do with them ? We will let the
Paips correspondent of the London Tele
graph explain : " I see it gravely stated
in a Parisian some time ago, that the
Ogresse des Lilas had entered into a for
mal contract to supply an ' Agence An
glaise ' with so many babies a year. The
' English Agency ' was, according to
your French contemporary, engaged in
the 'substitution ' business, the law of
primogeniture existing in England ren
dering it imperatively necessary that
patrician families should be avoided,
coute que coute with a due number of
heirs male. When Lucina was nnpropi
tious, substitution remedied the short
coming This is almost as ingenious as
Mr. Gilbert's fantastic notion of the
pauper's baby substituting ' himself for
the millionaire baby, by a judicious
change of cradles.",
Coffee v. Bom.
The idea of reforming the temperate by
setting np cheap coffee-houses in the
neighborhood of the rum-shops has been
tried with much success in England, so
great, in fact, that they have, In many
cases, compelled the rum-dealers near by
to close their shops for want of custom,
which the coffee resorts had drawn away
from them." In Bristol, the rum-dealers
hearing of the proposed trial of the plan
there, hired every available location in
their quarter ; and at first it seemed that
the reformers were thwarted because of
their inability to secure available rooms,
it being considered necessary to have the
coffee-houses in the vicinity of the places
where the laboring people were wont to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, out
generaled the rummies by sending out a
wagon every morning and evening, and
pedaling the hot coiT.e and tea for a
penny a mt . Tbe eucce was so jrreet
that a numlitr of L" Mrvolent iniviuaaiM
ve started co." ,-,u", an! Vve a!i
trvri do to f
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, . ' Mr Little Flower Girl.
Among a group of peasant children
playing on the Schlossberg, one, a little
girl of perhaps seven years, impressed me
particularly.. . Her face was one of tbe
swsetest 1 had ever seen, with soft, dark
brown eyes , shining nnder a mist of
tangled golden hair, which lay on her
shoulders in lose curls, like yellow silk.
Her little brown feet were almost hidden
in clatterins wooden shoes, and an occa
sional rent in the coarse petticoat she
wore showed elimpses of a delicate white
kin.- - - . :-.;---ry ;'
Her blue apron, full of erase, afforded a
tempting meal to one of the red-saddled j
donkeys that bear visitors up to Heidel- j
berg Castle. y "" ". ": '
She e'anced at me as I missed, and at
thatinstant looked at mv ideal of the little
flower girl I wished to plant.
one was caued Lottcben,and her mother
lived where the cactus was . blooming
in the window, higher up the hill.
it was soon arranged ; Lottchen's over
worked mother was too clad of the few
guldens so easily earned, and I retraced
my steps to my studio to wait my uttle
model.
In half an hour she came : but what a
change had come over the little sprite I
nau seen on tne ma.
Her picturesque drees was replaced bv a
gaudy-figured stuff, apparently belonging
to an older sister ; a string or hideous
beads marred her pretty neck, and, worst
of all, her silken hair, the wild disorder
of which 1 had so admired, was oiled and
tortured into two stifi plaits.
r I could see that Lottchen was grieved
and astonished that her brilliant costume
did not meet with my approval ; but
when I told her to go home and put on
her old dress, she went without a
word.
While she was away I tried to think
over my picture, but my thoughts refused
to dwell on the little flower girl.
They wandered back far backto a
time when I was happy with youth's first
a UBh ot hope and love.
What was it about that child's face that
had brought back again the romance of
my life.
My eye wandered to the most tasteful
nook iu my studio ; a kind of shrine to
picture whose face was turned to the
wall.
I never could work with that face look
ing at me ; It set my thoughts astray. I
was poor and struggling, and could ill
afford to lose time in idle reveries ; but to
day I was reckless.
I turned tbe picture and. gazed, till I
fornot everything else, on a fair face, with
deep, dark eyes looking at me over one
white shoulder.
: " Clara, my one darline!" rose to mv
lips for the thousandth time, and died
there.
It was such folly to cherish still the
memory of one who had bien for years
the wife of another.
Perhaps her father was right in forbid
ding tbe union of his beautiful daughter
with an enthusiastic young artist, whose
name and fortuueivere all in the future.
And they were in the future still, while I,
Friedrich Hartmann, was drifting on to
ward middle age.
How the wrinkles were beginning to
show in my forehead ! I could Bee them
even in tbe mirror across the room : and
was there alwavs such a melancholy look
in my eyes? Someone called them bright
and roguish once. My hair was more unkempt-looking
tlinu that of most men.
Perhaps the boys in the street were right
in calling me " Tow-haired Fritz." 1
wondered if they would be more respect
ful when the silver hairs began to show.
And then nijr clothes how shabby
they were growing 1 but nobody cared
now how I looked. .
There was a look in Clara's face that
vaguely recalled the little peasant
child. -
Short steps sounded on the gravel out
side, and I turned my picture bai-k to its
quiet hiding-place.
Lottchen was all the one I could wish
as a model ; her expression as she looked
up beseechingly, with a little bunch of
flowers in one brown hand, was perfect,
I was called out during one Bitting, and
when I returned my patient little maiden
had fallen asleep,-with her head resting
on her folded arms, and her basket of
flowers overturned at her feet.
This attitude snzzested a pendant,
notnfart 1 mi f. alia, in tlia ri , .f ti t-s 1 , i , Ti
so strangely turned my fortunes into a
happier channel.
At last my work was finished ; there
were two Lottchens now within a stone's
throw of the castle. :
I dismissed the living one with much
regret, and the one on canvas soon after
went to try its fortune in a larger city.
For a lonn timo I had no word of mv
little picture, and I began to think it was
another added to my long list or disap
pointments, when one any 1 neard
lady had bought my nower gin, giv
ing for it a sum which seemed to me fabu
lous.
The letter stated further that this lady
was particularly anxious to know the
artist, in order to ask a question about
the picture.
The name of my benefactress' was
Mainwaring. This was all I discovered
for many weeks, although I sent my name
and address.
Considerably encouraged by the sale of
my last etlort, 1 began a new picture a
glimpse from my studio-window, the
main tower of the castle showing boldly
against the summer sky, with a bit of the
iNeckar, spanned by its quaint old bridge,
winding peacefully below. ,
I was working vigorously one afternoon
feeling almost like my old cheerful self,
wuen a card was handed to me. 4
. A lady, Mrs.1 Mainwaring, was waiting
in my modest little reception-room. The
name was very familiar, as my purchas
ers wore so few.
A tall, graceful figure in deep mourning
rose to greet me as i entered the room.
" Have you forgotten an old friend, Mr.
Hartmann ? " Ehe asked, raising her
veil.
Good heavens! it was Clara. But oh,
now paie and sad she looked !
' Her mournful expressisn helped me to
control my feelings more than anything
eise could nave done.
bhe said that after bearing my name
ehe had felt a new interest iu coming to
dear old Heidelberg to inquire about my
picture, but she had fallen ill on the
way.
Then, with faltering voice, she told me
her trouble. Her husband had died two
years after ber marriage, leaving her a
charming little girl, who became almost
her sole companion. This idolized child
had died only a short half-year before my
second meeting with Clara. ; ,1
A few months after her bereavement
Clara was wandering through a picture
gallery, when she saw my picture, and
was transfixed with astonishment. The
little flower girl was so overwhelmingly
likelier lost darling that she was tortured
with anxiety till she could call the picture
her own, as, by an unfortunate chance,
he had no likeness of her child.
Her next wish was to know the little
girl who had served as model for the
painting. She seemed eager, as if she
expected to see her own child again. ; I
took her to Bee Lottchen the same after
noon. . -
Happier days dawned for my : little
model, and the care of tbe donkeys was
given into other hands. Clara showered
blessings on her in the form of a higher
education and happier home, though she
never cared to call the peasant child her
own. - -
Gradually our talks together drifted
back to the past, and one calm summer
eveninf I was emboldened to tell her my
love-tale, interrupted so many years be
fore. She heard it through to tbe end, and
this time her answer was a premise
which has made the happiness, of my
whole life. We were married quietly
noon after.
Perhaps it is unpardonable vanity, but
the picture I prize most in all the world is
My Little Flower Girl.
Jim Bennett.
- - Baltimore Gazette '
The London World announces that
Mr. James Gordon Bennett has just bro
ken up his establishment at Melton
Mowbray, and sent his twenty-five hun
ters to Tattersall's, and also that next
winter he proposes to try his hand at
tiger-hunting in India, his first essay ot
the big game. Mr. Bennett has matle it
Warm on 'several occasions far the
tiger " in New York city, but Ms natu
ral ambition to keep up with the Prince
of Wales makes him f x-1 aa though 'be
oned it to himie'f to 3:td up tie l in
hissative junjrle,
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AND LULL FURUICHLZ::.
We have on hand and are eoostantly receiving,
Steam Engines, Flour 1111 HacMjiery, ,
Hill Stomas, Portable Floar and Raw Mills, Benin Cloths, tnniterc, gessn-
tors, Leather and slubber Belttaa;,
; -3ole Agents for the Celebrated Becker Brush Machines; Eellpae and Victor Water wh4 K
Ahis1 Corliss Engines and Ahis Saw Hills. Send tor Prioes and deaorlpttoa. - t
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BURTON HOUSE,
reraer Third W Strewaa
Hear Steamship Landings and Railroad Depots
PORTLAND, OREGON. .
Lewkton A Fretland, Proprietors
(I.at of Minnesota House.)
Will spre no pains nor expense to make
this house.
TUB BBsT HOTEL IU POBTLABD.
ADDISON C. GIBBS.
Attorney fc Counselor at Law,
Portland, : t : Oregon.
Particular attention paid to business in the
United states coo r Is.
OREGON NEWSPAPER
Publishing Co.
We are now fairly started in the business
. and ready to make terms wim
ftEWSPAPEB PUBLISH EES
All over the
PACIFIC CO ACT,
Possessing facilities Superior to any
Competing Establishment in Oregon
or California. We are prepared
to furnish Newspapers, in
WHOLE Oil PART,
Our work being in itself a guarantee
of its excellence, and we intend
to keep it up to the highest
standard and do the best
work on the
PACIFIC
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COAST.
We will send
SPECIMEN COPIED
To compare with prints furnished by
other Houses, and should be pleased
to hear from parties using or
or those who contem- -plate
the use of
PATENTS,"
"v7e feel confident of our ability to
make more advantages terms and
give better Satisfaction,
IN ALL. RESPECTS,
Than any other Company or House
, Our Presses print
PAPERS OF ANY SIZE,
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Thereby avoiding the necessity of send
ing to San Francisco, as heretofore,
when desiring a size larger than
could be' furnished
in Portland.
Address :
PACKARD & CO.,
Oregon Newspaper Publishing
Company,
PORTLAND. OG3V.
P. O. Bx 784.
riKAMCK AID COKHERCaX .
' PlaaacUd.
Henna vVvmso, Hay 26, 1S73,
BUtst cola atWa' per oent diaooust.
, Ban Fbsbcisoo. Hay 26. OnrrenoT Par..
BllTer ooin bnyjot I 9 selling.
Trade dollars-- burinar : DSaellinir.
Nkw York, Hay 26.-fillTer bullion 1000 fine, per
one ounce, 1114.
U. 8. bonds-Gs of "81, 4; Is, 3: iJA 7?.
W(iaed-4,3'4;4V',7H;is,8
London. Mar 16. Csusols 9s.
Silver English standard, per ounce, fcS fine.
01. ... ...
Bonds-Sj, tJi ; i)4t, 8? ; is. IJ4-Sa,
Tbe promises of ooi weather proved falsa, and
all day a heavy winter like rain has fallen, materi
ally retarding outdoor operations. Hence local
business matters have manifested few features re
quiring comment. The inquiry for Soanclal favors
shows aome increased volume, and institutions
having capital to lend are disposed to tighten up a
Uttle on terms to outside parties and to inspect
proffered securities with closer scrutiny.
In the wheat and floor market then are no
changes to note, tbe transactions reported being
light and receipts, especially of wheat, United to
a few lots, the subject of prior pqrehaaa.
There is a larger movement is the wool market
which has resulted from an advance la the eastern
marketa noticed a few days ago, which has mated
allr brightened tbe prospects of the wool growers
on the Pacific. Tbe reoelpta here since Saturday
embrace 276 bales, of .which 279 were
"om Eastern Oregon and Washington. Prices are
ta and buyers are ready to accent all fair mere-
ntable lota offering at onrrent rate. While the
Improvement reported, in the eastern market
which has already taken place, was expected by
most dealers, there are so Indications thu fancy
prioea will be reached. Ws expect receipt to ma
terially Increase within the next ten days and the
local trade to begin to assume such a shape that a
more definite idea can be given of the condition of
the market, - ,
Important shipping news Is found below, from
which It will be learned that the coastiag trade fa
to some extent returning to, tailing vessels, though
the mora rapid, transportation and moderate
charges par teamere, furnish reason whv thev
should UU be largely patronised. Th t.
Hattle Hacleay is about due from Honolulu. The
vessel reported coming In over the bar by our As
toria dispatches, probably a ship from Victoria,
the name of which has escaped us. consigned to B.
C.Janlon dt Co. ,
SAX FRAHCISCO PRODUCsE MARKET,
mv... . Saw Fbikcdcio, Hsy 26
riuur Baua, eai- snpernne, easy.
Potatoes Demoralised, 255Qc. ,
Onions 7075c -
Wool Strong, cbotna imrtnra ojai. . r
25c ; extra San Joaquin, lsJ0o.
UVBKPOOt. WHEAT KABXR.
.. ; ' -. Liverpool, Hay 86
Wheat On snot. sb4 ai th rnn-i,. 1.,,..
tions: ' ' r-""
Fair to choice shipping dnb eil. Ss d9s Sd.
Red Am. spring, fco. 10 No. a, ceaui, ft Id
Ws id.
Brbhu Kafish WtM Kepsrt,
tonne. lty 26, Fioatlne esnrno,, quia
Caw on psorfo-e ana lur suiposeat, alow. .'
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Agents tox
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I Geateral Mill Fw raiafclaga.
a. 10 Kertfc Frent Street, PprUasxl, Oregon.
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Crow & Hairs
R E S TAURA II T.
This popular Restaurant, now nnder comjetetit -.
management, is prepared to accommo
date the public in a manner unsur- : -
' passed in the city,
Supper for Balls uid Private Parti s,
Furnished on short notice. Give us a C iH,
CBOW & HAIL.
PATTER8Ori'0
S.&W OE
vr
Jb.h. II. Tipton, Propxv
Including
Sugar Fines
Cedar, JPir,
. Pine andOak
Lumber,
Always on hand,' ' ?V
Ana Orders promptly filled an
the Hhortet Motlce
All klndg of dressed lumber constant' v on
l. - J T I . . . .
uauu. Mntwr lurnisncu at any
, point in Roseburg without extra
charge, and by application to
me it will be found that
My Lnmber ia not only the best but
the cheapest Jn the market. Try
- me and see. Address all letters t
JA8. H. TIPTOSr. Patterson's If 111,,, nr.
DLAcusnimiir:
AVADK1XS BROS.
Would inform the public that they hare leased
me large eiaoifsmitmng shop lately owu-Med
by George Mickle, and that thev ;w
prepared to do.
All Kinds of Blacksmith La.
In first-chus style, '
And at prices lower than the loCjryvihev hare
many years' experience in the huef-.
Horse Shoeing: !
And claim, on this point, in tbe trade, tfcry are
- competent to do the beet of work to tte
satisfaction of patrons. All kinds of
- Machinery repaired. Plow
Work, Etc -Give
them a call. Shop opposite 8: Mark t Co.
HOSEBVRS . - OKBVO.
SAiiEra
Poiindiy andHacliins Shcp
B. F. DBASE, Prcprietor,
84LEJT, . OREGOy,
team TJnirlnes, Saw M'lllsr
Orlat Mills, lleapera, l'Tir ii
and all klnds ana rryi.- ot
Maohl n o ym a de 1 o O rdi r.
Alachlnery repairedon '
Hlxort Itottoe. -Pattern
making done in all its vsi"'"'wi '
and all kinds of brass and iron c gtinn fttr
- Dished on short notice. Also maouut-
rer 01 juiierpritw fiamer aud.
Hatcher, and Suckers and
- Sharpers.
MAHOrJEY'G 8ALOON.
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
Tas. Mnhouey, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars la Dong.
las county, and the best
niLLIABI) TA.111VK
in the State kept in proper repair.
Parties traveling on the railroad win Crnl thu
place very handy to visit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
nd. Depot, (iiTe me aeall.
JAS. MAHOSKY.
no Tion.
OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVES TO WTTCM IT
may concern that the undersigned hs beea
awarded tbe contract for keeping the Dmclas
County paupers for a period of two year.. AJ1
persons in need of assistance from laid ejuntv
must first procures oertifLmt in tkt mw fn.m
any member of in County Board and pre en tit
to one ol the following named persons, who are
suthonied to and will care for those pre nting
TUCtVi,fioate BottoB PerkiM, Roburfi; jl
L. Kellogg, Oakland; Mrs. Brown, booting
eiass. Dr. Woodruff ia ltWii t r.
medical aid to all persons in need of the mrr e and
Who have be dn-lnnxl n.,,n.M r T.
County- Crclai
M. C. NEWBERRY,
General . ... ". . .
Commission Merclmiit,
Wholesale
Dealer la
California
Oregon a si
Fruit, Produce, Kill Feed, q
122 FRONT STREET.
BxS3S. -
Sfebbins, Post & Co., Esskors.
Chsttessb, Wro April , l 78l
H. Kennedy, Eq., for over three years. 1 ia
also need tbe ho Din mannrarLnra.1 h k; ..
during that time and I know from export mo
mat 11 cures scab, as I nave eradicated tat o -ease
from my own flock, by tbe use of hit Lir
when all otber remedies tried had fuiia i. i
confidently recommend his Kon-poiao inm
and T 00000 Dip a tiie beat and obenpeat dips
M. , PU T.
IXP0RT-5T TO WOOL GE0WE2 3.
I take Dieasare In annoanelne that I am
making a pore "TOBACCO 8H Eh, P MP" rou
tbe best Kentucky Leaf. 1 extract tbe v rtn
of the tobacco by para hot water. Tbe iota noir
thus made la evaporated frona 20 dtn s of
strength to XtO, wli'.eli makes an artier of ant-
rorra sirengtn ana parity; wtutout the addi
tion of Dolsonoua subataDeea. and shnni.i ho
diluted 100 parts to one (auboeeh safe to n at
any degree of strength) tor dipping abeeo.
This dip Is convenient for use aa it oufj- r.
olres water to dilute It. As tooxeco tsan yell
;mvb to wool crowera Wbo have n-d in
same, I can only add that 1 have to tn Uis -venlent
form for them col an iaooaaxl iv
gallon tin packages sealed twi.ti.v.
aur-ia orderiag t ota dip aK lor Concents itej
Extract of Tohaeoo.
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P. . Order either r.r im 1,, nh
Cicr!craATKt Extract T
tors Diirxr nip. Adaw,)!.
PRICK-" "
Tobacco Dip
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