The Douglas independent., October 11, 1879, Image 4

THE INDEPENDENT.
r i UK roT.roubRi.
It -was just 'alter tlie roses had done
blowing. They were all sitting by twi
hgbt in the yellow drawing-room some
how it always seemed twilight longer
there when it was dark everywhere else
and Bosamond got np and stirred her
pot-ponrri in the old claret-colored Chel
sea jar between the windows; and such a
sweet faint odor of rose-leaves stole
through the room that the old people felt
as if they were young and the time was
June again.
"It in too powerful," said Miss Effing
ham, waving her big peacook-feather fan.
"Too powerful?" said Mrs. Penn, put
ting away the silver curl that the neigh
boring fan brushed into her still soft
brown eyes. "Not for me. Nothing is
bo pleasant to me as the pot-ponrri, and
in the old jar, too. It is not the rose,
bnt it is the memory of the rose. It
- brings back all my youth. And although
a jo is pleasant enough as it comes to me,
yet youth was so very sweet so very
sweet, my dear," and the silver voice
paused, while a slender hand went
aaarching through the purple gloom for
another old hand, and found it the hand
of the speaker's husband. "People think
it so sad to, grow old," sho, said. "But
every year has been to me like another
step on an upward path to paradise.
One's wings are growing all the way.
And one has so much to remember, to
look back on when one pauses, to see in
new lights. Do you suppose that either
of ns would change places with Rosa
mond and Jteltran there, who hare life
before themV"
"Not I," said the voice that responded.
"Not .thaf you would not be glad to
live your seventy summers over again,
Paul?
"I am sure of that now, at any rate,"
said the husband. "I have them. Noth
ing can take them away from us."
"And we ask nothing more," she said,
. "th n to be laid in the same grave when
the iong night comes."
"And the endless morning," he mur
mured. '
"And even that endless morning can
hardly be brighter than some of the
mornings of our youth than the morn
ing when we first made the pot-pourri,
Paul. You remember that morning,
Paul?'.
"Do you remember it, Aunt Persia?"
asked Rosamond.
''Shall I ever forget it?" she said, with
a low sweet laugh. "Why, when I am
dead, remembrance of that morning will
bloom out of my crave like a flower!
And yet it was lnnch such a morning as
any day's last month only so glorious,
so gilded, so full of sunshine! Bat what
a fcray and lowering, showering dawn it
had! If we had never bad that little
quarrel, Paul. Ah! I was so sad when
1 partou me curiums mai uayDreaa. 1
thought I was done with life and it was
a pity I so young."
Here Rosamond pinched Beltran's arm.
"So vonng. And might have been so
blessed," said her Aunt Persia. "If I
gave, that morning, just the swiftest
glance across that garden to Paul's win
dow, and saw that he sat there over his
book, he could not tell. And then I
dressed me; and I thought of some young
girl leing dressed for her grave. And
then I pinned up my white frock a la
lavevse, you call it now, Rosamond and
went down to the rose-garden to pick the
flowers with the dew on them for the pot
pourri that grandmamma had bidden me
' never to forget in the time of roses."
" 'It was the time of roses,
We plucked them as we went,' " ,
sang Beltran, half under his breath.
"And I plucked them till the lasket
on my arm was heaped. The rose-garden
was just aa it is to-day, on a terrace
higher than the rest of the garden. And
when I turned about I saw Paul had
come down, and was walking in the pop
lar alley of his grandfather's garden,
bare-headed, with his head fallen on his
breast.. Ah, 'how beautiful he was! so
tall, so dark, so like .a fallen star. And
I loved him so; and we had quarreled. I
had been miserable just fortv-eight
hours. It seemed to me that I had never
been happy. I had lost my youth ; I was
old ; I had come into the shadow. There
was another yoiing girl," she said, after
a moment's pause, as if even the sorrows
of yontn liadlneir sweetness that Jt was
xi nv to rememner, "tnat I'auis
irrTDWnatner nau cnosen ior mm 10
It., - m . . . 1
marry. I may speak about it now,
suppose; she long since ceased to care;
' sne was, sue is, my nearest u-iuuu, auu
Pan! has always loved Iter as a brother.
She has had many suitors since; with one
of them she plighted faith, and so sho
kept her trust with death. But I I
thought that because I adored Paul, all
the world was at his feet; and when his
grandfather said this other was to be his
choice, with her great fortune at com
mand, and I remembered that I had only
I this old house and its belongings for my
j own fortune, why, then I looked well
i after my lover. ie, he was my lover.
I had felt sure of that, although ho had
i never said so, never exactly said so in
words; but we do not always need words,
And now, all at once, all in a twinkling,
as if the sun had gone ont at noon, he
was the lover of another girl. And
could not have believed or dreamed that
the fortune would have made any differ
ence with Paul, or the. grandfather's
wish, or heaven s thunder-bolts even, be
fore I saw it myself. I saw it myself. I
saw him go and turn the .music as sho
played upon the harp, and bend over it
with the color on his cheek, and an an'
gry fire in his eve when the eye fell
askance on moi 1 saw him lift her from
her saddle at the gate, just down the
street, and go in with her, and stay till,
an honr afterward, a groom came and
led the horses off. I saw- him
loitering with ' her in the lane,
but they did not know I saw, and
I heard his miserablo old grandfather
come hobbling up our steps, rubbing his
hard hands and talking to my father of
I'aul s lucky hit. And so I Knew that lie
had forsaken me me, the child that had
worshipped him from the cradle. And I
meant to die as soon as I could: but in
the meantime, if it killed me itself to
hide it, they should never know I cared.
Yet I was not angry; in some way, some
strange way, it was Paul who was angry,
who would not speak to me, wonld not
glance at mo, would not come near me,
said sharp and bitter, almost insolent,
things in my presence, and seemed to
try to hurt me all he could. It was not,
in his manner, as if lie had fonnd some
one still dearer to him than I, but as if
he hated me, I thought, for lust existing
now. Ah, well, it broke my heart! And
as I gathered those roses that morning I
remembered that we had been going to
make grandmamma's pot-ponrri togeth
er. But I gathered them With my back
turned to that garden across tine high
box hedge, and the dew on those roses
was salt. John, the old house-servant,
(lie has been dead and gone this many a
year) , came lugging out the big Chelsea
jar -the same jar, Rosamond, : It has
never had a nick. I wonder if you can
say as much for it after half a century!
John left it, with the spice boxes and the
dish of salt, on the marble step, to: be
handy for me, and I began to shred the
roses into it. And as I scattered tho
velvet petals, it swept over me in a surge
that just so the days of my life had
gone, and I too was a withered flower;
and as I knelt before the jar, all at Once
my arms fell across it, and my head fell
between them, and I was crying such a
storm of sobs that I wonder no one heard
me. But some one did hear. Directly
a shadow fell between me and the sun
shine, and a voice made my heart stand
still and my sobs cease.
" 'What does it mean?' cried Paul. I
demand to know. I will have no more
of this. What are you unhappy about ?
Because you have abused me, because
you have outraged all my feelings, be
cause you have refused even to answer
my letter '
' "Vhat-what letter?' I stammered,
throwing baek my head, with the tears
streaming all over my face.
"What letter! he ;ried. 'Are you
playing with me still? Have you received
no letter from me no letter that I gave
John? Do you- pretend to say
" 'I pretend to say nothingI returned,
in a storm and furry of irrepressible
tears, springing to my feet, and starting
to run away and hide my face out of
sight, and pray that every fresh flood of
tears might drown out my very being
'I pretend to say nothing but that you
have broken my heart.'
"But lie haA etusrht me. and he held
me by the ana,, and got my hand and
kept them, and would not let me hide
my face. .
'"I have broken your heart?' he said,
in such a grave and tender voice. 'I
have not broken your spirit. ;- Tell me
why yon spurned my letter.' 4
" I I never had your letter,' I sobbed.
" jfever Uad a letter telling you-t
telling yon all you knew without it, but
assuring you that, grandfather or no
grandfather, only you should be my
wife; and if not yon, then no one?
What, never had that letter, little one ?
It is mislaid, then, and we have had all
this misery for nothing we who wor
ship each other. And and well,
never mind about the rest. There was
nolnxly to see ns two young creatures
standing in the garden as the first young
lovers did. I don't know that we should
have cared if there had Ieen. And all in
a breath, as if tho earth had rolled round'
under a new heaven, the snn seemed to
be shining as it never shone before, the
birds to bo singing flowers were full of
life and fragrance, the world was the
most beautiful place, and we were on
our knees, shredding roses together over
the old pot-pourri jar, and the garden
ringing with our laughter. And every
once in a while Paul was lifting my chin
with his finger to make me look him in
the face with my eyes that all at once
dared not, and saying my month was the
sweetest rose of them all ah, yes, you
did, Paul and then he was plunging him
hand into the jar to stir the petals. And
suddenly his fingers were touching some
thing like no heap of rose leaves, and he
was bringing up a paper, a letter that
very letter lie had given John just as the
old fellow was coming in from emptying
the jar of last year's leaves and spices;
and he had dropped it there and forgot
ten it. John is so forgetful I mean, of
course, he was. Ah me! what a day that
was! We trod on air, we walked in the
mid-heavens. ; Have you gone sound
asleep, Paul ? To be sure. And Rosa
mond, if you want that other rule for
pot-ponrn tho English, you know, call
it hotch-potch Ah, what music that is !"
and she paused to listen.
" Uatoer ye rosebuds an ye may.
Old Tims l stilt a flying:
And tula name (lower that smiles lo-iiay
Tomorrow will be dying.1 "
sang Beltran, stepping through the long
window into the light of the rising moon,
the rich strain of his tenor seeming to
roll upon the dusk sweet as fragrance
from a a flower.
Rosamond lingered to loosen her dress
from Miss Effingham's chair, which de
tained it. Miss Effingham was crying
softly to herself.
"Ah, see," she murmured, working
the knobby fingers in the lace mittens,
and forgetting whose contemporary sho
was "see how selfish age is ! She re
members all her own part in it; she for
gets mine. ; For I also it is so long ago
I loved Paul." Harper's Bazar.
I A Stilt Race.
I remember particularly a certain stilt
race, one of the oddest races I ever saw.
Six men and four women were 'entered"
as the horsey men would say. At Arcac
hon the women share the exercise of the
men. There were then on the! beach of
Eyrac ten tchankas. In the patois of the
Landes, which might be tempted to eon
found with the -Japanese or : Chinese
idioms, a tclianka is a person mounted
on stilts, and se tchanker, means to
mount upon stilts. These ten tchankas
had all the same traditional costume,
without distinction of sex, that is to say,
a beret on' the head, a- mantle of wool
over the Bhoulders, a buttoned doublet,
and legs enveloped in a camano or fleece,
fixed by red garters. These stilts raised
them five or six feet from the ground. A
pole served them as a third point of sup
port. Seen from a distance they looked
like gigantic grasshoppers. The tchanka,
however, is seen to perfection on bare
lands, motionless and fixed like a soli
tary triangle, at sunset, or else when he
leans against a pine tree, silently knit
ting stockings and guarding a black and
lean flock. Stern and mute in the midst
of the crowd, which was examining them
with curiosity, their thoughts wero con
centrated solely on the gain that they
were about to dispute, The prize was
not too much. The victor won twenty
francs. But twenty francs in the eyes of
the tchanka represent a fortune. Soon
at a signal givcn.by the 1'resident of the
fete, they all ten spread over the beach.
howling and yelMng. If it had not been
for their immense strides, which pass
imagination, you might have thought
that yon were present I at an Arabian
fantasia. Their evolutions were the
same, accomplished with the same
rapidity, in conditions which touched
upon the imjwssible and on the ground
where the stilt sunk in a foot at each
step. Their mantles streaming in the
wind, like those of Arabian cavaliers,
they ran and pivoted ronnd as deftly as
if they had been on foot, j The women
wore by no means inferior to the men;
one of them, in fact, came in second, and
they were only to le distinguished by
their more piercing cries. ihe race
was followed by some private ex
ercises performed by tho tchankas, in
order to provoke the generosity of the
spectators. They jumped, they sat down
and roso up again, and they picked up
as they ran pieces of money that were
thrown to them. This spectacle was not
the least extraordinary. Bouncing for
ward at full speed, the man was suddenly
seen to stop, the stilts bent, fell, as it
were, to pieces, then something was
seen moving! between three pieces of
wood, like the body of a spider in the
middle of its Long legs, lhe, whole per
formance ws done with' lightning
rapidity, the stilts rose again, and the
man reappeared on the top of them' and
resumed his course. Frotn! (he French
of Charles Momclet. j
The' Fanner's Jok.
' Tramp ! tramp ! tramp ! and a farmer with
solid old-fashioned feet, and hands big
enough to cover a Sunday School excur
sion, came into the editorial rooms of
this paper to say:
"Howdyl 1 ve walked down irom tne
market to give ye the partickelers of a
good joke." j J
"All right, proceed." !
"You know them lightning-rod felers?"
observed the old man as he dropped into
a chair. !
' "Yes heard of them."
"Well, you know they're a purty tuff
set. Been after me for mor'n twenty
years. I ve got signs ont all along the
road warning em to Keep on me piace,
but t'other day one of the chaps driv
right up to the gate, big as life."
"Via, eh?" . ,
'V Vo AtA ami 'fore I could eet mv
.-in mm fn crnincr ho. hail about a thonsand
feet of rod ont of the wagon and was
ready to pnt it on the barn."
"What cheek!"
"I guess 'twas, but pnrty soon I went
for him. I had my mind made up to kil
him right therei. The old woman came
ont and' sailed; in with me, and the two
hired men supported me on the flanks."
. . . . . . - 1 1 t i
And von jammed mm au to pieces, o
course?"-' 1 .
" "That's where the hull fun comes m,
answered the old man. "That 'ere fel
ler squared off, shed his coat, and licked
the whole four Of us in less'n two minutes
bv a wig-wag clock !"
v'ii Iia ami he drunk no a
hull pan of milk and drove off whistling
Yankee Doodle Dum.' When I got out
s 4l,o oat-nrn wliar' he niled me and saw
one o tho men with his nose mashed flat,
the 'tother with three teeth knocked out
from under the bob-sled, I begun laffing
and didn't stop! till midnight! I I 1
He slapped hs leg and uttered a "haw!
haw! haw V which ochoed clear to
fianarla' and in his contortions he
broke the back off his chair. I
"Bnt the loke was on you J said the
perplexed journalist. I
"Sartin Sartin. but I am Such a dot-
rottey idiot that I can't laff at the way
we sailed in lor mm, catenating to mop
him all over the barn, and laff harder yet
at the way we started in. on jthe Lord's
Prayer afore he had fairly got the rust
u ius eioows! j vnen x saw nnuuci
clawing up from among the bobs I !"
Ana ne went h into anothjer m ana
choked and gasped till he went down
stairs with his collar hanging by a single
button. . . . j ... .
A It? iMimi-h W A1A .... '
..juiuuiu muu uu jixj m a wager
by eating twenty pigs' feet. This was a
pigs' feat, indeed.
louiitOM is a Food.
Tomatoes contain neither cancers nor
cancer producing matter. Cancers are
composed of animal matter; not vege
table, and therefore cannot be directly
derived from the vegetable kingdom.
Tomatoes are not without some defects as
an article of food. They are not, like
milk, a perfect diet of themselves, and
besides, like most other articles of food,
they contain some obnoxious qualities.
But they need not be thrown aside on
that account. Nature has provided ns
with such sufficient excretory organs that
obnoxious matter in onr food, if in mod
erate amount, is readily cast out, and the
body is protected against any material
injury. Were it not so, we should be
obliged to throw ont of onr dietary many
kinds of food now eaten, not only with
impunity, bnt with advantage. Thus,
red cabbage, cherries and peaches con
tain prussic acid, which is a deadly
poison when taken in sufficient quantity.
The very small amount of the poisoning
acid these vegetables contain is cast out
of the system without any material injury
to the person using them. A positive
good may actually be derived from the
use of food containing some such foreign
matter, by way of giving increased
activity and strength to the excretory
organs is necessary to protect ns against
the pernicious effects which might other
wise occur. Almost every kind of grain
and fruit in use contain more or less
things, which in a larger amount wonld
prove hurtful. Unless we closely study
our food, we are taking them when we
little suspect it. A Frenchman, not many
years ago, discovered a substance in wheat
bran, under which the high heat used in
baking, dissolved out and spread over
the crumbs of bread, of which bran forms
a part, and discolored it, and hence the
brown stain peculiar to graham bread.
But from this discovery such bread has
not been rejected, but continues to be
accounted among the most wholesome
kinds of food. Rye is seldom used with
out containing more or less ergot, but
rye bread is reckoned among the most
healthful. Tea contains tannic acid,
apples contain mallic acid, lemon and
oranges citric acid, no one of which is
used either in nutrition or respiration,
bnt they only become objectionable when
used excessively.
Tomatoes, in common with most other
fruits, contain more poisonous matter.
They and the egg-plant, Jerusalem
cherry, bitter-sweet, deadly nightshade
and the common potato plant, all belong
to the same genus solanum the fruit
of every species of which is more or less
poisonous, bnt none of them very much
so. The fruit of the deadly nightshade
and of the potato (potato balls) are prob
ably the most poisonous. But even
these are not very hurtful. The smaller
amount contained in tomatoes allows of
their being classed with the esculent
fruit3, bnt there is nevertheless enough
to give them a peculiar flavor not apt to
be relished by unaccustomed palates,
but which use soon renders agreeable.
Used very largely, tomatoes would
doubtless develop specific results pecu
liar to the fruit of the genus to which
they belong, especially when feeble per
sons and those who, from their peculiar
constitutions, are susceptible to such in
fluences. But when moderately used by
persons in fair health there is no reason
for rejecting them than there would be in
ejecting lettuce for the opium it con
tains. Pie-plant stands in similar relations.
Its prominent characteristics are the re
sult of oxalic acid, which is a powerful
poison. For persons not having suffi
cient vigor to dispose of such a strong
acid, and for those in whose systems
there is already an excess of acid, such
highly acid food would be objectionable.
But its moderate use by people in com
mon health is more objectionable than
any other acids in daily use and regard
ed as healthful. L. B. Arnold in Xew
York Tribune.
F.ncon-s.
When an artist deserves a round of ap
plause for an especially good perform
ance, we are glad to see him get it, es
Ieeially when this sign of .public ap
proval is sjKintnneous and general, and
not the studied freak of an insidious
claque. Bnt encores should be abolished.
They are both unreasonable and inartis
tic. A programme is drawn up and
printed to tell the audience what, and
how much musical entertainment it may
expect to receive. Yet, at the concert,
some unreasonable people set to work
and demand twice or thnce their money's
worth. How well the concert manager
could turn the tables on them by calling
upon the members of the audience, after
they had assembled in the hall, to repeat
the nayment of their admission price.
Then the encore might be made to work
both ways. As it is now, it is all one
sided. The performer in search of a reputation
has a relish for encores. But he may
satisly himself with the truth that they
are not so potent a testimony of pnbho
approval as downright, hearty applause
Some people encore because they wint
to have the concert prolonged, and hear
a maximum amount of music for a mini
mum price. Many encore merely be
cause others do so. Numerous people
have not yet decided why they encore
at ait. yuito a number of respectable
concrt-goers are not in favor of encores.
Very rarely is an audience unanimous in
demanding an immediate repetition of
any part ot a musical performance.
The artistic effect of a good perform
ance is usually spoiled by its immediate
repetition. Too much of a good thing is
apt to cloy the refined taste. An artist
is not always at his best, and it is a dan
gerous thing for himself when he repents
a good, soulful performance. Thus,
while he may temporarily ingratiate him
self, with the audience by conceding to
its caprice, he is to a certain extent
belittling and endangering his artistic
reputation.
If by an encore, an audience demands
that the artist should sing or play a com
position other than that which he has
just interpreted, the artist cannot flatter
himself that he thns is the recipient of a
compliment. It is virtually demanding
something else from the artist in order
to test his strength. He responds to
such an encore at his own risk, insomuch
as the next piece he may perform is not
likely to dispel tho favor which has al
ready been accorded him by the audience
for his previous performance.
Speaking upon this subject, the Musical
Times says: All artists should stoutly
refuse to respond to encores. Fortu
nately, the public itself is beginning to
be convinced of tho absurdity of the en
core nuisance. The most enlightened
concert-goers are not those who are given
to encores. The hearing of a good musical
performance gives a good taste in the
month,, and excites an appetite for more,
which they are contented to remain nn
appeascd until some future time. Be
sides, it is unfair for one-half of an audi
ence to demand the repetition of a per
formance which the other half does not
care to hear. It is the duty of artists
and the intelligent portion of onr concert
audiences to exercise their influence
towards the abatement and the conse
quent utter annihilation of the encore
nuisance. The thing can be done.
REHOvrxo Obstinate Glass Stoppers.
The obstinate sticking of glass stop
pers in bottles is a constant source of
trouble, not to say profanity, in the lab
ratory, and many methods of loosening
them have been suggested. These are
all useful, though each of them fails in
certain cases and another has to be tried.
The following, given in the English Me
chanic, will be likely to answer the pur
pose when the shape of the stopper and
the neck ci the notue admits oi its use:
"Take two pieces of wood, put them" be
tween the neck , of the bottle and the
lower part of the stopper. Having fixed
them securely by a piece of string, soak
the whole affair in water, say ten hours;
if the wood has not swelled enough, then
pour some hot water over the wood, and
as it swells (which it must) out comes
the stopper. - -' , -.
In the course of an argument, a bar
rister recently remarked; "What does
Kitty say?" "Who's Kitty? said the
magistrate;J'Tonrwifer "Sir! I mean
Kitty, the celebrated lawyer." "Oh,"
said the magistrate, "l anspect you mean
Mr. Chitty, the author ofthe great work
on pleading." "I do, sir; but Chitty is
an Italian name and onght to be, pro
nounced Kitty."
A Modfl BoHtkern Girl.
I think our Southern girls are too
often undcsorve Jly taken to task for
their indolcnco nod want of ingenu
ity in devising means of securing a
livelihood when the old folks are no
longer ublo to assist them and a hus
band docs not ionic forward to res
cue the unhappy girl from old maid
enhood. I have just heard of an
exception to this rule, at any rate.
The spunky girl in question is from
one of the upper counties of this
State. At an early ago she was left
a penniless orphan. Sho managed,
however, by dint of economy and
assistance, probably of some of her
distant relatives, to obtain an educa
tion hoping, whou sho had com
pleted her studies, to secure a school
and earn her broad in that way. But,
like many another, when her school
days were ended this young girl
found that the avocation she had
marked out for herself was also tho
choice of thousands of others, who,
like herself, were striving to win
their bread in that Way. After
vainly endeavoring for several
months to obtain a school, tho young
lady gave np the idea in utter dis
gust and determined to find othtr
employment. Her attention was
next turned to that precarious and
often arduous Ufa of a saleswoman.
But being without experience Bbo
again found it difficult, in fact impos
sible to secure u position. . It was
then that sonio trifling occurrence
decided her to adopt her present, it
may bo considered unwomanly,
trade which is that of a shoo
maker. Tho girl came hero; sought
and found a house where sho was
taught the trade. Sho served an ap
prenticeship of four years, and it is
said can now turn out as good a shoo
as any man in the business who has
not had more experience. Sho now
has a moans of earning a living with
out being dependent upon the whims
of exacting parents and spoiled chil
dren. The lady is now thinking of
starting a shoe manufacturing busi
ness of her own account, and if sho
could find a suitable one, sho might
be induced to accept a suitable male
partner, provided ho would agree not
to make love to her and offer to dis
solve the mercantile partnership and
go into a domestic one. In which
case if the homo life did uot go on
smoothly, and the husband was
troublesome, she might make a last
ing impression on him. Tho bravo
girl is now probably about twenty
five years old, and from her tender
pln-sioue ono would hardly guess
that she would havecboson the ardu
ous mode of making a living that she
has. There was, however, but little
choice in the matter, sho had to earn
a support for herself, and probably
others dependent on hor efforts, and
she has fitted hctself for the task,
and she deserves the praise of nil
good people. Petersburg ( Va.) Ap
peal Letter.
Increase of Chine e in Eauteru Cities.
The Xew York UeraUl of the 15th inst
has an article on the Chinese in that city,
from which it seems there are besides
300 laundries, 50 Chinese grocers, 20 to-
baccomsts and 10 druggists, with enough
Mongolians in other callings to demon
strate tho adaptability of the race. From
the article itself, the following is ex
tracted: "For the past two years the
Chinese population of New York has
shown a remarkable increase. With
cause for dreading supremacy of the
workingmen's party in San Francisco,
and having an unfavorable opinion
of the new Constitution of Califor
nia, they have . been emigrating to
Eastern cities, princiially to New
York, Boston and Philadelphia, in largo
numbers. In 1875, there were only 157
Chinese in New York, but the census
next year will show many thousands.
most of whom have been exiled by the
brutality of California mobs. In lnia.
Chinese were scattered here and there
throughout the citv. having no nartiou
lar place of rendezvons. Since that time
headquarters have been established,
which now assume the dimensions of a
good sized colony. This is mainly due
to the efforts of some leading spirits,
who jiersnaded the Chinese residents of
San Francisco to establish a branch
of one of the famous Six Com
panies in Mott street. It in
duced all arriving 'heathen to
rally in tliis neighborhood, which is
known as New China. In Jersey City
there are three lactones which employ
(.'iimese labor alone. Une oi them is a
shirt factory, another a shoe factory, and
the last an establishment for the manu
facture of cheap cutlery. It is said that
a beer saloon has been opened in Hobo
ken by two Chinamen. In Brooklyn
there are about fifty laundries, six cigar
stores and one grocerv. From statistics
furnished by the most intelligent and best
informed of these people, the population
of New York has received an addition of
upward of 2500, including two females.
The Chinese residents of Brooklyn
number over 250, and two females.
Jersey City and Hoboken have about
200, Abont ten per cent, of these are
arrived in the city from Havana, the
rest came overland from California.
Over 95 per cent, of the total Chinese
Eopulation are regularly engaged in an
onorable business. Every few days the
San Francisco companies send ont a
batch of about 100 Chinamen. About 50
of these come to New York, 20 to Bos
ton and 20 to Philadelphia. The rest
scatter to other cities." The article fur
ther declares that tho Chinese have pur
chased lots in several cemeteries, includ
ing Greenwood. They are marrying ex
tensively, generally Irish women, and a
Chino-Celtic generation is springing up.
An iDiiiaii's Stoicism.
From a London (Canada) paper we
copy the following account of the flog
ging of an Indian with the cat-o'-nino-tails;
Doxtatcr was brought ont. He is
a muscular, heavy-set Indian, and had a
laugh on his face. His back was bared,
his wrists were strapped to the upper
parts of the arm of the triangle, and his
knees and ankles to the lower part,
throwing his back out. The only sign
of nervousness manifested was a quick
look at the cat-o'-nine-tails which was in
the hand of a stout expert, who had been
a drummer in the Twenty -third British
regulars. The cat had a short handle
and nine thongs of hard, heavy cord a
yard long, with nine knots in each. At
the command of the Sheriff the cat was
flourished around the whipper's head with
a quick jerk, whistled through the air and
fell with a sharp thud over the left shoul
der-blade, making large blue marks. At
the third the flesh was cut open, but
the prisoner's muscles never quivered,
though, of sixty spectators, fully half of
them sickened and turned away. Twen
ty-five lashes given with all the power of
a strong man in one place, caused the
flesh to creep np in purple welts, which
were cut transversely into small squares,
out of which ' tho blood trickled. Bnt
few of the crowd could look at it
throughout. The Indian never flinched.
and after the last blow, which was given
with extra vigor, the Sheriff cried out
enough, and Doxtatcr laughed and
said: ; -
"Bully for Injun."
When he was released, the porter ask
ed him how he felt. IJe answered, MFeel
him back very much." The Indian ask
ed the whipper for a "chaw baccer," and
grabbed a pipe ont of the turnkey's
month and went to smoke, but it was
taken from him. The wonnds were
washed with salt .and water to prevent
inflamation, and that made Josiah wince
worse than the flogging,
A soldier told a Gmrier-Joarnnlist the
other day that at the battle of Bull Run
he met a fellow soldier who was very
much . excited. What'a up ?" "It's
getting hot up there." "How df you
know?' "Because a sutler's Just bee
killed." f Louisville Courier-Journali .
Tint Emilia Prlion 8hl j. !
Hitherto I bare only forwarded to
you reports of the voyage of the
Nijni Novgorod as they appeared in
the Russian press from time to time.
I coul( not guarantee the accuracy
of any of the statements published,
and, indeed, tho minimum amount of
sickness mentioned by the Captain
seemed remarkably small something
like the "one man wounded" in the
reports of war skirmishes. In any
case these reports were utterly ir
reconcilable with the astounding
statements published in England. I
stated that I was endeavoring to
gain further information to help to
elucidate the question in the ab
sence of information from the For
eign Office from English sources.
I have not yet obtained the informa
tion desired, but I have seen letters
of an entirely unofficial character,
written by an officer of the ship to
his family in all the freedom of un
restrained intercourse. Two, which
bear internal evidence that they
were never intended for publication,
satisiy me that tne entire statement
respecting the mortality on board
the vessel is a fabrication without
any foundation whatever to sustaiu
it. Tho letters arc in the form of a
diary. They narrate that shortly
after leaving Odessa tho fetters were
removed from all the prisoners.
Each day's incidents and the cases of
illness which occurred are also na
rateu. At or near Alexandria on
case of mortal sickness is mentioned
It is notstated subsequently whetbe
the prisoner diod. beveral sutlore
from sunstroke in tho lied Sea, an
a largo number from tropical rash
not one case as stated by the (Dan
tain. A contemporary converter 34
degrees of heatj Reaumur into 79
Fahrenheit. A more correct calcu
lation would be 110 Fahrenheit. If
it be asked how' could persons en
duro and survive such heat in the
bold of the vessel, any ono knowing
the habits of the Russians, sleeping
huddled together by their stoves in
winter, or in summer enjoying thoir
midday sleep by tho roadsido under
tho blazing snn, or in the unwhole
somo atmosphere of the habited
houses, would find it possible to be
lieve in their great power of endur
ing heat and close air.
From tho frank and detailed nar
rative already mentioned it is quite
clear that except in tho case of mor
tal sickness, the case of angina pec
toris and a few cases of sunstroke,
there had been no serious amount of
illness up to the arrival at Aden
aLer passing through the Red Sea
the worst part of the voyage. Yet
it has been circumstantially narrated
in England, and too readily believed,
that 250 persons died on board and
that 150 were landed in a dying con
dition whero no English agent could
report such an occurrence.
As to the number and character of
the prisoners, I have information
from au equally reliable, source which
leads me to believe that there was
not a single woman prisoner on
board, much less any woman of edu
cation. Tho malo prisoners wore
criminals convicted by the ordinary
tribunals. 1 am informed from inde
pendent sources that it is extremely
improbable a siugle political prisoner
was on board the ship. I believe,
also, that there is no foundation
whatever for the statement respect
ing the 250 deaths and the 150 per
sons landed in a dying state, except
the prophecy of some person said to
have boarded tho vessel in the Bos
phortis. who appears somehow to
nave ascertained that not one-third
could reach their destination, and
forthwith telegrams . were fabricated
to meet this statement, quickly dis
posing of 400 out of the 600 on
board. St. Petersburg Corr. London
Daily News, August tith.
A Horrible Confession.
Salvador, the Indian murderer of Paul
Rieger, who is to be hanged at San
Rafael on the 2d proximo, has made a
confession horrible in its details. His
first crime of note was the stabbing to
death of his brother Cruz, at Nicasio, in
18(10, during a quarrel. The next mur
der committed was that of an Indian
named Jose, who, Salvador says, threat
ened to kill him. He found this victim
on Paper Mill creek, and stabbed him to
death. This murder was never unraveled
until Salvador confessed it. In 1806
Salvador killed an Indian called Whisky
Bill, at Bodega. This ocoured in an at
tack made by Bill and some other In
dians npon his brother. In this case he
was acquitted on the ground of self
defense. In the same year he was arrest
ed for the murder of a Mr. McCnne, on
Tomales bay. His brother-in-law, Jose
De Lazantos, and his own brother assist
ed him to evade arrest, and during the
fight De Lazantos was killed by the
officers, and his brother received wounds
of which he died soon after. Salvador
was shot seven times and at length ar
rested. He was sent to the penitentiary
for five years and ten months for the
murder of McCnne, which affair he now
denies being implicated in. Shortly
after his release he killed an nnknown
Indian with a knife in a quarrel in Sanel
valley. This crime until his confession
was also a mystery. Last year Salvador
and a companion kicked a Chinaman to
death on the N. P. C. R. R., whom, he
alleges, assaulted a squaw named
Big Mary. This is the Squaw that
led Salvador's pursuers off the
scent after the murder of Rieger
enabling him to escape to San Jose.
Salvador's sister once swore out a war
rant at Nicasio for Salvador's arrest for
threats to kill her. The murder of Paul
Rieger occurred while Salvador was seek
ing protection from rain under a tree.
Rciger came in sight without seeing him,
and he shot him dead. After this crime
he remained in Marin county for several
days, but becoming alarmed he left
for San Jose via Saucelito and
Oakland. From Oakland he walked to
San Jose, Here he stayed with Jose
Salazar for three days, when he returned
to Marin county via Petaluma on foot.
On the 12th of May, after leaving Peta
luma, ho, from a high hill, saw Sheriff
Tnnstead and posse, who were searching
for him. He then went to Sebastopol,
near which place he was arrested in a
drunken condition. He has given up all
hope of a reprieve, and appears indiffer
ent to his approaching fate.
Temperature ef the Bodr.
Among the evidences of disease, none
are more dehnite and imporiani man
cliHticps in tha temnerature. HeU is not
only force in the animal body, but it is
also a condition of life; an individual has
activity through it, and has also life bv it
The theory of Serouel Thompson, "Heat
isnie, cold is deatu, was very simp ? n
bad much truth in It: it was iust one-third
of the truth. Not otdy is cold death, but
too high a temperature ana an unequal
distribution of beat is also deaih. Ihe
human body maintains its healthy func
tions at a temperature varying from W
to 98.5. This is a conditiou abtoluU for
health.
If the temnerature varies from this.
above or below, disease is the inevitable
result. We may state the proposition in
a dioerent form; no disease can exist
without changing the temperature of the
body, either raising it, depressing it or
rendering it unequal. Thus chance of
temperature becomes an absolute evidence
of disease, though it may not point out
its character or location. ,
Instructors in German, after astonish
ing the division by the announcement
that the German words for ''heaven" and
"shirt have the same root "Mr. X.,
can you see , any resembianoe Between
heaven and a (clean) shirt, lor instance? '
Mr. 2L, hesitatinpr "Well, sir, they are
both good things for a man to get into."
' Lincoln and ; leymonr.
.Howard Carroll's Timet biography of
Horatio Seymour brings out the follow
ing letters "between Mr. Lincoln and the
Ct war Governor, which have not be
been published, and which the ac
companying statement of Mr. Carroll
makes as interesting as they are valuable.
Mr. Carroll says: :
If any further proof be needed of the
fact that President Lincoln and Governor
Seymour were thoroughly in accord, so
far as their official relations were con
cerned, and that they were united in their
efforts to put down the rebellion a fact
which has more than once been dis
puted it will be found in the following
quaintly warded and characteristic letter
from the Republican President and the
reply to that letter which was sent by the
Democratic Governor. Both communi
cations were written in the strictest con
fidence, and they are now for the first
time given to the public.
IPrivat and ConHdeotUl.J
Executive Mansion,
Washington. March 23, 1863.
Hi Excellency Governor Seymour : You
and I are substantially strangers, and I
write this chiefly tliat we may become
better acquainted. I, for the time be
ing, am at the head of a nation which is
in great peril, and you are at the head
of the greatest State in that nation.
As to maintaining the nation's life
and integrity, I assume - and be
lieve there cannot be a difference of pur
pose between you and me. If we should
differ as to the means, it is important
that such difference should be as small
as possible, that it should not be en
hanced by unjust suspicions on one side
or the other. In the performance of my
duty the co-operation of your State, as
that of others is needed in fact, is in
dispensable. This alone is sufficient
reason why I should wish to be at a good
understanding with you. Please write
me at least as long a letter as this of
course, saying in it just what yon think
fit. Yours, very truly,
A. Lincoln. '
To this communication Horatio Sey
mour made the following reply:
State op New Yokk, )
Executive Department,
Albany, April 14, 18(3. )
Deab Sir: I have delayed answering
your letter for some days with a view of
preparing a paper in which I wish to
state clearly the aspect of public affairs
from the standpoint I occupy. I do not
claim any superior wisdom, but I am
confident the opinions I hold are enter
tained by one-half of the population of
the Northern States. I have leon pre
vented from giving my views in the man
ner I intended by a pressure of official
duties, which at the present stage of the
legislative session of this State confine
me to the Executive Chamlwr until each
midnight; after the adjournment, which
will soon take plaee, I will give you,
without reserve, my opinion and pur
poses with regard to the condition of our
unhappy country.
In the meantime, I assure you that no
political resentments, no personal pur
poses, will turn me aside from the path
way I have marked ont for myself. I
intend to show those charged with the
administration of public affairs a
due deference and respect, and
to give to them a just and gen
erous support in all measure they may
adopt within the scope of their constitu
tional powers. For the preservation of
this Union I am ready to make any sacri
fice of interest, passion or prejudice.
Truly yours, Horatio Seymofb.
To His Excellency, Abraham Lincoln.
It will bo noticed that this letter con
templates a further and longer commu
nication from the Governor to the Presi
dent. The events attending the invasion
of Pennsylvania by Lee rendered such a
writing unnecessary. The Governor
testified by his acts his anxiety to aid the
General Government. After those acts
and I use his own words he "could not
well write without seeming to boast of
what had been done." In connection
with the correspondence, however, it is
worthy of particular note that Governor
Seymour, in addition to the Hon. Simon
Cameron and one other distinguished
man with whom I have conversed on the
subject, is firmly convinced that there
was at one time what can only be called a
conspiracy, set on foot and engaged in
by a numler of Republican leaders, to
force President Lincoln out of the White
House.
To show that Abraham Lincoln was
disposed to be of tho same mind as Ho
ratio Seymour was during the war, is to
establish the ex-President's title to states
manship and patriotism, in history, and
to vindicate him from the charge of being
no better or worse than his party. Al
bany Argun.
Ranges of Temperaturo In Health.
The standard temperature of the
healthy body is 98Jj, and is subject to a
slight variation during the day of about
0.820. The maximum temperature is in
the early, morning; it fluctuates and
gradually decreases during the day, and
is lowest at midnight.
The observations of Drs. Edwards and
Davy have shown that the amount of
animal heat may be considerably altered
by a number of collateral circumstances.
The great distinction between these
alterations of temperature in health, and
those which are the resnlt of disease is,
that these variations are generally tem
porary and within narrow limits, amount
ing to mere fractions of a degree, rarely
more than 1.8 to 3.0, whereas those
which are due to disease aro persistent so
long as the disease exists.
Ihe following are the collateral circum
stances which mainly influence animal
heat in our daily life, and which require
to be remembered in order that erroneous
conclusions may not be drawn :
First. Active exercise, not carried to
exhausting fatigue, raises the temperature
in proportion to the degreo of muscular
exertion made.
Second. Exposure to cold without
exercise lowers the temperature.
Tiiiko. Long continued mental exer
tion reduces the temperature about half
a degree.
Fourth. The' amount of heat is also
reduced by a full meal and the use of
alcohol, but it rises again as) digestion
advances.
Fifth. There are diurnal fluctuations
capable of being thus determined.
Sixth. The temperature of the body
rises with the temperature of the air, and
sudden transitions from a cold to a hot
climate induces a feverish state, marked
by increase of temperature on bodily ex
ertion. Seventh. The average temperature
within the fropica is nearly 1 higher than
in the temperate regions.
Eighth. The temperature is more
readily and rapidly affected than either
the pulse or the respiration; this is es
pecially the ease in disease.
Mb. Moodt at Home. Mr. Moodv is
described as being at his very sliest at
NorthfieM, Mass. One of his neighbors
says of him: "I have seen him at a great
many large places, but I come here to
see this little town, where he knows
everybody and takes an interest in every
body, to b more thoroughly charmed
whu mm wan ever nciore, people tike
to laugh; Mr. Maody knows it, and has
the tact to put the audience in good
humor to commence with." "That is
very good singing for one congregation,"
he said at a meeting the other day at the
close of the first verse of "Guide Me, O
Thotf Great Jehovah." "But there are a
good many different congregations here,
and we ought to sing tetter than that,
AJl sing now. Mrs, Davis, take that fan
away from your mouth! Mrs. Smith, I
didn't hear your voice! Uncle Charles,
you can sing! Here, mother, here is the
place, you sing! Now try again. ' I'll
keep watch and see if there are any who
don t sing." "
Wht tee Pybamid was Built. It was
built to supply the Egyptian publio with
the means of sliding down hill in a
country where snow never falls. The
Egyptian who paid the requisite entrance
fee was allowed to ascend the pyramid by
the staircase, and then to. sljdfe down the
polished granite aide, ploughing pleas
antly and harmlessly into the sand at the
foot. No sleds or other apparatus were
needed. The Egyptian simply. sat down
a the, warm and comfortable, .granite,
and slid down without aay unpleasant
friction. Xtoubtjess, this was a fashion
able amusement for both sexes and all
ages, and the builders or lessees of the
Great Pyramid Sliding Bank must have
made a good thing out of it.
Tixia SocUtr,
A journey of several weeks' data
tion in tho Lone Star State, revealed,
the fact that in the eyes of every
true Texan, the particular location
in which he has taken root is the fo
cal attraction, the garden center of
the earth, while the next town is the
antipodes of ail that is good, great
and prosperous. The native, and the
man who came down in '46 as a sol
dier, remaining in the State through
its short lived era as a Republic, and (
over Bince, noia themselves as a sa
cred aristocracy, and however kindly
their sentiments toward later occu
pants of the soil, they cannot refrain
from frequent allusion to the peculiar
ly constructed, laws, such as the '
"Homestead Act," which makes
Texas a desirable refuge for those
who cannot afford to live in a State,
where creditors can squeeze hapless
debtors between tho jaws of the legal
vise. It is true that on account of
such laws, the modern population
contains a large percentage of men
who have tasted of the bitterness of
debt, of seizure and distraint, and,
not liking the flavor, have sought
the friendly shadow of Texan stat
utes, and builded anew.
The significant initials "G. T. T."
(Gone to Texas), inscribed on the
bo) tod door of an involved merchant,
are accepted as prima facie evidence
that he, too, has bolted. It must be
inferred from this that all who have
located within the domain of the
Lone Star, aro to be suspected of
financial shortcomings. Through the
northern and central portions of the
State, many well-to do farmers and
merchants aro found to have migrat
ed from the frost lands of Minnesota
and Wisconsin to a region which, at
the worst, knows but a few days of
cold and snow in a twelvemonth.
Such men have built up a condition
of society of which they are justly
proud, and jealous lest the sins of the
frontier, which have too often made
the namo of Texas a synonym of
lawlessness, bo brought to their door.
In the cottage homos of Dallas, Aus
tin, Ilonstin and tho Metropolis of
the Western Gulf, Galveston, the
chance guest will find scattered
abont the current literature of the
two words. Libraries will be replete
with tho more erudite forms of publi
cation, and the daughters of tho fam
ily may treat a friend to selections
from the nowest operatic composi
tions of the season. In point of fash
ion, the ladies costumes conform
quiio as closely to the edicts of the
modistes us do those of their metro
politan sisters. The richly stocked
shelves of the merchants in wearing
apparel prove that the finest produc
tions of the loom are in quite as ac
tive demand hero as iu the East.
Harwer's Magazine.
DOMESTIC KEtIPE-
Spiced Cubbants. Five pounds of
currants, three pounds of sugar, one
pint of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of
cloves, two of cinnamon. Simmer five
c r six hours.
To Remove Gbease Spots. To re
move grease from carpets and restore
colors, take a handful of crushed soap
bark to a pail of water. Ssrub the spots
and sponge the carpet all over.
White Cup Cake. One and a half
cups of sugar, half a cup of butter, half
a cup oi sweet milk, whites of four eggs.
one cup of corn starch, one cup of flour,
half a toaspoonful of soda, one of cream
tartar, one teaspoonful of extract of
lemon, ,
Whitewash that Wili. Not Rub Off.
To every mil of whitewash prepared in
the ordinary way, add a pint of flour
made into staroh or paste. To the white
wash fur the hen house, add gaa tar, one
gill to the pailful. This will prevent or
disperse lice.
Yobkshire Pudding. Take eight
tauiespooninls oi nour, one quart of
milk, a little salt and four eggs; half an
hour before the meat is done put the
batter in the dish; after the meat is taken
up brown a little more. Serve as a side-
dish with meat.
Tomato Pte. Stew green tomatoes
With, very little water until tender, and
for each pie allow one tablespoonful of
Dutter, tnree ot sugar and a little nut
meg. Bake between two crusts. The
quantity of butter and sugar given is for
a medium-sized pie.
Fried Tomatoes. Take tomatoes oold
stewed and well seasoned, add to them
sufficient fine bread crumbs to enable
you to form into cake, fry in butter to a
light brown. Fresh tomatoes, sliced and
roll in fine crumbs, after salting them,
fried in the same manner, are- very
nice.
Root Beeb. Take a quantity of
sarsaparilla root and sassafras bark and
some hops and boil till the strength is
extracted. To three gallons of the
liquor, after it is strained, add one quart
of molasses and a quart of yeast. After
standing in a warm place eight or ten
hours, strain again and bottle. It will
be fit for use the next day.
Mock Lemon Pie. To a teacupful of
pieplant stewed to a pulp, take a cup
two-thirds full of sugar, two tablespoon
fuls of lemon extract and the yolk of
one egg; mix altogether and to bake in a
plate lined with crust; omit the top
crust; beat the white of an egg to a stiff
froth, stir in a little sugar, and when the
pie is done spread on the frosting and
return to the oven to brown slightly.
Family Troubles.
John Donohue was angry when
the policeman brought him to the bar of
the Police Court for assaulting his wife,
and he was loud in his denunciation of
the laws that "interfare wud the proi
vate roights anddivaraions of every mar
ried man."
"What did you strike your wife for?"
asked Justice Morgan,
"Because sho wanted chaatisin', and
as I'm her suparior, I'd loike to know
who has a better roight."
"But you have no right to lay your
hands upon her in anger.
"Haven't I though? An' who's to bo
boss I'd loike to know?"
"You are. If she is doing wrong you
must reason with her."
"Rasun wud her! Musha, but that's
pnrty talk now. Rason! Begorra, she'd
give yon rason over tho gob wud the
poker."
"I never shtrucl; him in my loife, Yer
Wurchup," said Mrs. Donohue, shading
her black ey with her hand.
'Av coorse ye didn't, because I hotye
such a welt in the face that ye cudn't.
"Mr. Donohue, I'll send yon to tho
island for six months."
"Now, that's reasonable enough; but
there's one requesht I want to make."
"What is that?"
"I don't want you to be dischargin' me
in a couple of weeks, because she get
sorry an' cornea croyin to beg me off.''
"All right. You'll stay there."
"Thank ye, sor," said he, moving off
to the prison. "Sure, whin she sint me
up before six months X was put in the
bakery, an on'y for the ould fool, hoggin
for me discharge Fd. be a fbine Frinoh
baker be this toime, niakin lots o' money
at mLuo' fancy dough."
Transatlantic Passenoeb Travel in
1879. The New York Skipping Gazette
publishes detailed returns wh,ich. shew
that fifteen thousand va hundred and
fifteen cabin paswangem sailed from that
port during the present season; which
number does not include those who pat
ronize the steamers of the Gnyon, VU
son and Bristol lines the addition o
which would. Increase the total, to, upward
of ahkieq thousand persons Iiprimj
the season of 1878, wore than twenty
thousand cabin passeagers sailed from
New York.
. The joker who intimated that he had,
some "nuts to crack," must, have meant
jest-nuts. fYonkers Statesman.
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UNION IHON WOREa,
StTCCKSBOM TO COLLIM'S ISON WOSES.) j '
r.1 ac h i n i s to a r j d i r o n fo u r: d u n o
Minnhtcture od keep on band Ruam Engine and Boilen. Tar bin W(pr WhHli. Grtt
f and Sw Mill. Shafting. Pulley and Hanger. Patu-ra Making
Blackamilhlnc aud repairing done at short nolle. -
IRON AND BRASS CASTnrGS.
Pprcfal attention given to Wood Working maeblnery. t'oraer Frost aad Vaa MrHH,
10 f tlAMtf 0r0St
GASLIGHT
FOR THE MILLION
Safer than Kerosene !
Cheaper than Coal Gas !
-n-asaorc)
BKISO APPOINTED AGENTS FOR THE
PpriBKnrM Oaa Machine, we are now pre
pared in Inlrodnoe Macbinea, Uai Pipe. Flx
fiiren, etc. Into Couatry Residence. R tela.
Factories, Public Building, etc, la any part of
tbe Stale or Territories. For further informa
tion apply or send for circular.
JOHNHON 4 HOLDEN.
168 Front 8t.. Portland, Or,
ATTENTION !
-'. AND
DON'T YOU FORGET IT I
THAT THE
CHEAPEST PLACE IN OREGON
TO BUY
CLOTHING,
DRY GOODS.
BOOTS & SHOE8,
AND ' '
GROCERIES.
Cor. First ud T am hi I. Prtlnn .
. - ,y . . - , ,
KRIBS&M'MILLEN,
DEALERS IN
Cook, Parlor and Box Mores,
COOKING RANGES AND HEATINS
FURNACES.
Mai nfactuters of ail kinds of
TIN, COPPER AND SHEET-IRON WARE.
Booflo? and all kinds or Job Work
Promptly attended to
Ho. 11 Flrat Street, Portland, Oreaoa
(1
n.
Mii
NATIONAL.
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Prepares for Bnatacsa
And Ibe practical duiletoff
:iie in a syairmine murre oi
-nMlraciloD In Bookkeeping,
Business Karros. RuntneH
rllnroetlc.rVomansblpand
oe rnifiisn nrancnca. ro-
full Information eddreas
De Franee Whit. Prtrllnnd
If
Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds,
SUrer aad Plated Ware,
At Greatly Reduced Prices.
No Failure, No Forced Sale, No Deception
- To make room for a new slock of goods which
i am about to select personally in the last and in
curope, i oner all articles in my line
At Cost Soring September
Customers are invited to call and inspect, and
be convinced of the good faith of my statement
J. VAN BEURDEir.
18 rirst Street, Portland, Or.
COCCINS Sl BEACH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
AVERILL AND- RUBBER
MIXED PAINTS.
Doors, Windows and Blinds, Paints, Oils.
Brushes, etc., etc.
Xo- 65 Front Street, Portland-
"Contractors and Dealers are requested
aeod for our Hat of prices.
JOHN J. SQHILLINCER'8
Patent Fire, Water aad Frost Proof
ARTIFICIAL STONE.
THE UNDERSIGNED PROPRIETOR OF
Ibis valuable patent on tbe Pacific Const,
Is now prepared to execute all orders for tbe
above stone for walks, drive, cellars, floors,
aud all bntldlasr nuriMtaea. This atone la
laid In all shapes and In any color or variety of
colors. uroBu may oe ten ai M r roni street,
opposite the Holton Pause, Portland. Terms
given and estimate made by mall.
ttiAH. is. uuaKKwr, Proprietor.
D. W. PRENTICE & CO,
music store:
HOI.K AC.EST8 FOR THE ,
CELEBRATED WEBER,
HAINES BROS. AND PR ASK A CO -S
Urand, Kqaare and Upright Pianos, and
Bstey and standard Organs.
ICS lrat atreot. Portland Crete a
ADDISON C. OlBBtS.
Attorney & Connselora at Lav
Portland, : j j. Oregon.
Rooms 8 and over First National Bank
' Particular attention paid to business Id tbe
United Mates courts. ,
FOR SALE.
A First-Class Lodging House
IN THE BE8T PaKT Of POKTLAND, WILL
be sold on easy term. The bouse baa
cleared $30a pet month under Its present in an
as ment. a rare uanrain io me rKUt person.
Address TU.I6BAM office, Portland,
GEMS I GEMS ! GEMS !
O. H. sTUBKINS,
orrlnoa Street. Bear the Pest OfEee,
' I'ORTI AUD, ORCUOM, ' 4
I prepared lo farniab M Gecos for 59 eenl;
18 dnanie-six d (ni for U van'; 12 carl lse
for (ISA; 4 Kon.iors lor Sl; Si 0. to frame.
1 ISO. L'tiilreos pletres a kPtemity. H
ROCK SOAP I
I'lto JBcest Soup .Matt.
: Ask your Grocer for it.
M . G . IS & W UKRR Y,
134 Kkiii. t Portland. or.
Agent tor Oregon and Washington Territory
Portland Business Directory
. PHYSICIAN 1SD SUHGEOJf.
CARriWEI.1
,. W, B. a. K. oor. first and If or.
r Morse's Palace of Art,
riaon, over
g5?Sg 8MTrn,DiV"S.O.-187 First atreet,
gffff,l Portland, .
Mb. Wallace, secret detkcti vb
e and Col leetor. BnnlneM.at a distance
promptly attended U. Cor. (b and lwon?
A. 'a Produce fold Accounts Oil v
fK Pttta rfca , ,
W have JOB pounds of Bn-vler In excellent
order which we will sell f.w6renu per poliod.
W. a PaLMKR, Portlaud.
CLACKAHAS PAPER CO.
Manufacturers" and Dealers' is
102 Treat Street. Portland, Or.
IN" STOCK
NEWS PRINT, White and Colored.
T"Tr" TT a Tt-rrr-s -srwv . .
uKjyja. v tute ana Tinted. -
FLAT PAPERS, of all descriptions.
LEDGER PAPERS. "
ENVELOPES, of all sizes and qualities
WRITING PAPERS.
CARDBOARD of all kinds.
GLAZED AND PLATED PAPERS.
COLORED MEDTTTAf a '
MANILA PAPERS.
BUTCHERS' PAPER.
STRAW PAPER. ' " '
PAPER BAGS.
STRAW and BINDERS' BOARDS.
TWINES, Etc., Etc. "i"0-.
Cards Cat to Order.
Agents for Shatiuck & Fletcher's
. well-known Black nd
Colored Inks.
TYPE TOR SALE.
We hayo several fonts of Job Type
(nearly new) . whieh we will sell low.
Cases, Galleys, Leads, Rales and
Printers' necessaries generally kept on
hand.
Newspapers outfitted at list price
freight added.
rfe's Haarfaome Acjnarlnsa is a sasanle
ef it sir es eaauiard la ear !!
Iswf role ca.talesrae ot
AQUARIUMS,
FERNERIES.
LAWN VASES
Sc. ORNAZXHlVTS.
Brackets and Chandeliers.
Tbe samplesbown holds 35 gallons of wafer;.
Is made of heavy flint riaa.. trilb l lgblyorna
menled iron stand and bran, ehaiua andorna
ments. Priest?, flame tyle bnldlux gal
loo of water without ebaln. i. othet arti
cles at proportionately low price. Cataioco
10 cent, wblcb mar e deducted from the first
order.
L. SAMUIX.
113 Morrison St, Portias, Or.
' v v W . vwt W W O&ll-
ington and Idaho.
... .-i.i ..--I. I., . , . , , .,ia.-
W.J.VanSchuyver Co.
UBS AUD SPIHIT
H Ell C HAITI a,
jrroai ana es rmt Ma Fertl jn, Cr,
AGErrs FOR
Cyrna Holle Dictillery.
Lynchburg, Ofclo,
. Alrokesp oobaDdaUrcasrMtmeiitefUie til
lowing favorite brand of
rni8KIE8i
UNITED WK STAND,
E!.LER'8 OLD BOCRBOX.
CONTINENTAL BOURBON".
OLD HICKORY BOURBON.
OLD COPPER DISTILLED RYE
. ALSO ' . ' :
Foreign and Dora, site Wl, Brandlrs.
6tns, Bums, ard ail ike Leadinr
Biands ef Bitten and Cue fcood.
s ICUUTZ : - i
(Pilsner) XILWIVESE BUHL
r.Vr.lURRAY'Q
Adjustable Strainer
AND
CAST IROM STEAMER.
Either or I'otlt Fitted to any Sis'.
THE STEAMERS WILL SAVE TUE.
price of themselves in two weeks in atx-r
iamilr. They can be used with equal advantage
in boiling, as it is impassible to burn nit or
vegetables to the bottom of your kettle. rVheni
they are used in (teaming, whatever yea are-
cooking is inside of the kettle, thorebv settinc
the full benefit of the best. They are just what
is wanted in canning fruit Either the Strainer
or Steamer ran be removed with, a knife or fork
when hot, and are easily adin 4 d Jin enrnarm
or Joint about either tLst are hard to keep clean. .
old br Aeeaas fir ?s Ceata Euk
Agent will call on vou shortlv. Address
JAMES WcVURHAY,
East Portland, Or.
RIC imTRVft FATEXT
ILUTir, FIRE 4 7TO.-P:sCF
PA I NT!
For Rooting beta en lln anl afciaglft.
rVK BEST PRESERVATIVE OK TIN AHrr
M sblnaieroorstnihawnri.i. win .f.T
roof.- We refer by permission 71
iwoovan, lulea Knapp. AU.ky A Heeela i-
roitlao.l.
Hedge navia Co., IHWlaad.at Was pTfaiS
Inn. Kacb gallon will e .ver t4 WjaVii 1
and 1 square shingle roofJbot o iX, .V-!!".
1 III UoVl II s. Will nai aie a. . f --a a . -
are. All Information wirZZji.r??V
can be bad by attariaata""". P
McKINPTRY 4 HRSMIYX.
t rtiand. Or.
UME 1 LIME t
Tlie uurtenviminil h.vin,.
the celebrated rr S
4CBEIX "US HUE,
Would resoeetfutly call ihe ettentionef dealers
and xmWi'rs to that brand before purchasing
elsewbore. We shall endeavor to keep a full sup- '
ply oa band at all times aid at the lowest market
rates. . . . . . . . .
WADBins 4k EIXIaTT."
VDtfVnifl a, tvfnt a
i4biil.iA.ij Ck UVLitt
MACHINISTS,
Ad afanu&ttorers of i
Tools tor FIabIs;, Xcl lis; and Tsrains
Cattle Baata, Ira I ltM Work. Iraas
. stalling for see, aoiati
of Brewer j s swias
--:r. :f :' - Sa sr.
Also Perm Meh!ary rep Jrd on Korl eeffoe
Mill Picks made aad repaired.
K. 6.2 asr4 94 Vrestt 8 w eet. Par 4. r.
-"w p; jlm