The Douglas independent., October 18, 1879, Image 4

THE INDEPENDENT.
MARRIED THIS XORlfWO.
"Married this morning" hoir cbarmlns that
sound; ,
Kow splendid tnat looks n the paer; '
"Tbe lirlda wore whit atiu"--.bow pcr'ectly
wee.,
- "Ana a. veil like ton. miked vapor."
"Nords" tow exclusive lb nl sounds, does
"Notttke't they're well up In the fashion:
Abd tuirovtnthe world that tbey are tine
soil tonairea,
No present received" pnU tbe dah on.
"Ahrosd for ions-wedding tour"- -that is nice!
We roataeo-do envy n,em truly;
We're all iu a Ratter awaiting our (urn,
for weeaD'tf.irouriivtke iteoollr. - -Wut
tetters the (nit bride send back to her
friend, .. ..-- -
I've read Arabella' and Kartts;
She wrtie sbt just tblok of It ia the Old
Word . ' . . i :
They're dining with lord sad with ladles.
"Returned, Colonel .with his beautiful
ritd, . ,.- --
From Prancb" how tea journals do laud
aer; . . ,
"Their elfgaht mansl.m ibrcwn open to-day
Receptions will now ba In ordir."
True, true, wb-tt a recbercbe lime It will be.
Her et will be truly delisted;
Tbegrna double parlor will scarcely hold
Dear, uer, shall we girls be in viledt '
. ;. ' .... .
Bat two short year married and now di
vorce!" Law takes, dear, who wouldn't have known
Ht
1 thought from the Ortt 'twas a very pooi
inatob,
Bnt somehow I never would own It.
Sbe-s no longer tbe br.gbt tblnlDg ur that she
u, ... i ... ,
TtiM social borlxoa hlnrplnr- .
Miranda, toy love, here's the paper Just eome,
fow tea roe wno'n nmrnwi mi murnlug.
WATCluVo A !K FAULT LB.
BT Wnj.18 0BITJ1SI.E.
No doubt ingenuity is tbe first element
that combines with tact and energy to
make a goojl detective. But once in a
long stretcli " good luck " is sure to gain
a ttupremacy over these three virtues. At
all events, there is an episode on record
wherein luck not only gained the su-
p remacy, but atoned for the absence of
the other three.
To be sure the cane was not a complk
cated one. There was no mystery that
called for the keen instinct of an adept at
unraveling to ferret it out. Instead, it
'was a most simple chain of circumstances.
One Philip Brashear had been suspected
of appropriating the funds of his employ
ers, and while the firm was busy summing
tip the total of their losses, he had de
camped, carrying with him money and
bonds to the value of half a hundred
thona&nd. A' futile search of the city
and pj-virons followed ; but to all appear
ances the culprit vanished, leaving no
traces that might be followed up to the
epoch of his apprehension.
At leant that was tho popular verdict,
expressed by every one having a special
interest in the aftair. With the exception
of Mr. Americua Biggerton, Chief of
the United American Detective (Service,
whose men traced Brashear not only to
the place he adopted in his flight, but to
the house where even now he lay await
ing a favorable opportunity to quit the
country.
Mr. Americus Biggerton was of himself
a diplomat, who, though loving honesty
and square dealing ranch, loved the fab
ulous possession of Midaa more. Hence,
when a beggarly pittance of "two hun
dred dollars, dead or alive," was offered
for the apprehension of Brashear, Mr.
Biggerton dilated his widespread nostrils
and whispered he would await a higher
fluctuation in the market of reward.
Ho it happened that one afternoon, as
he sat conning over the entries made by
his head clerk, Bliggins, in his " Docket
of Criminalities," the dusty door of his
dustier office revolved m its creaky hin
ges, and, looking np, Mr. Biggerton spied
the well-known form of his nephew, John
Liel, standing abashed in the shadowy
aperture. .
" Well, it is you, is it?" quoth Mr.
Biggerton, ungraciously enough.
"Yes, sir." And John Liel walked
unsteadily forward. " I hope you are
glad to see me, uncle."
I can t say that I am, grunted the
chief. " I suppose you are out of work
again. - Idleness ban become a chronic
malady with you. John."
John Liel stood twitching the fraved
cud of a not immaculate handkerchief
through his rigid digits.
"I hope not. uncle : leastwise. I "
" Happily, we don't see our own faults.
Jyhn. ;-Bnt let me tell you that one of
yotirrts laziness ; so don't stand on the
defensive."
" I have not endeavored to defend my
self, nor could I conscientiously do so,"
with a short; faint laugh.
Mr. Biggerton replaced his gold-bowed
glasses and sat looking for a moment or
two at his nephew. He, was a short, cor
pulent old fellow, this uncle of John's;
close shaven, keen-eyed, alert, and dress
ed with scrupulous care m a suit or sainy
black broadcloth.
" Well, what are you going to do with
vourself ?" he finally interrogated.
"I hardly know;" and John looked
down appealingly into the round, ruddy
face of his kinsman. " I had entertained
a faint hope " ... 1.. .
" And what did you hope ? "
"That there might be something in the
service that vou could offer me.
Mr. Americus Biggerton let fall his
docket of criminalities with something
verv much like a smothered gasp.
"You?" -
' Certainly : why not ?" ,
"Why not? for the very sufficient
reason that you are not qualified to fill
anv position beyond tlie counter 01
country shoe-shop. It takes a deal more
than a good-natured dolt to fulfill the
duties required by a detective."
" For all that, you might put me to
the test."
Just then a sudden thought revealed
itwlf to Mr. Biggerton. "
"And so I might, he conceded.
suppose it's against the code of human
nature to let one's own flesh and blood
starve outright, and I have a kind of half
notion to trv vou anyhow, -inere,
there!" he rejoined, cautiously; "don't
rnsh into a vortex of avowals before yon
are certain of my intentions which, are
these: You've heard of Brashear, the
clerk who decamped a week or so ago,
leaving Killop & Carr a considerable
aura the worse for his flight. Well, very
confidentially and stnctlv between our
selves, the United American Detective
Service has tracked the fellow to a little
manufacturing center in Massachusetts,
where the afore-mentioned service in
- tends to keep him nntil the reward
offered for his apprehension is colossal
"enonsrh . to recompense them for their
pains. Now. John, here's your chance,
Go up to Beamis Point, and keep a clear
eye on the. fellow; then, when the time
arrives to expose turn, X 11 come up ana
arrest him and pay you- well for your
trouble all with the proviso that you
do vonr work in the ritrht way.
"But how will I recognize the culprit?"
queried Leil.
"Easy enouch: he is your height to a
hair's breadth, very dart, and effeminate
to a last degree." .
"Are you certain he ia . at Beamis
Point?"
"Certain as I am of mv own existence
There is but one tavern at the place, and
at it ha is domiciled. It is highly proba
ble he will bo disguised and under an
assumed name. But you must ferret out
his identity, aided by the information I
have given you, and the fact that he has
noon in uie place just a fortnight come
Tuesday. Here's enough money to cover
your expenses. In event of your failure,
I warn you never to come my way again.
If yon succeed, your future is assured.
Now go."
And John, stowing away a generous
coil of bills in his innermost pocket,
oieyed Mr. Biggerton's peremptory bid
ding. ' , ..' '
Now, Beamis Point was an aimless
province of unfertile soil, somewhere
along the Massachusetts coast; of which
one predicted at first a scantiness of pop
ulation and a general poverty in the way
of human comfort. There were pre
cisely seven rambling farm houses, an
equally rambling church, and, more
pretentious than the rest, a heap of brick
and n.ortar, stigmatized, for brevity's
sake, "The Tavern." . .
- John tmk 1;U ai.-
O - wio 11 AW vu IUV QCV
On d morning after his departure from
Biggerton's office.- Once there, he set
al-out his duties with all the system and
regularity befitting them. Going di
re ?tly to the tavern, he ordered a room, j
and, while subscribing himself upon the
battered register, took occasion to scan
tho names enrolled thereon.
la mo&t part thor were good, sensible
Yankee names, anon, he argued, aa slight
be, and probably were, the possession of
the itinerant peddlers who predominated
in that section.! But, two names were
one jot out of the stereotyped category;
these were Miss Spear, New Haven, and
Oliver Pierce, Brooklyn., He closed the
book suddenly: when 'he saw the date
subjoining them, Tuesday, April; 12.
That was the ; day on which Philip
Brashear had come to Beamis Point.
He went to hia room, there to await
the sounding of the dinner gong. It
rang at lasL and with a strangely flutter
ing heart; John repaired to the dining
room, anjl the first person to be intro
duced to him was Mr., Oliver Fierce, of
Brooklyn. ' - -
Tho fellow was manifestly in, the last
epoch of respectable intoxication, and as
he lolled about the room, eating, gestic
ulating and talking all in a breath, John
had no meagre opportunity to study his
rum-blossominsr physiognomy.
His intuition told him the fellow was
the one he sought. . His face was cov
ered byi a straggling beard of several
weeks' growth, he was; quite dark and
John's height "to a hair's breadth."
That afternoon John telegraphed Big
gerton substantially as follows:
"Unclb Americus: Everything is in
excellent order, and awaiting your
pleasure.! ' - Johm. f
It was twilight when he again entered
the room, and scarcely had he done so
than he heard some one fumbling at the
door-knob. A second later the door
swung quickly open, and leaning against
the panels was a -woman. Quite a tall
woman she was certainly several inches
above the accepted height of,, her sex.
Her .face, outlined ;by the dense shadows
of the hall was strangely prepossessing;
she had full, regular features, a damask
rose sort' of complexion, and pale gray
eyes, nnder dark, curling lashes.
Mr. Liel was the first to regain his
composure. :
- "is there anything l can do lor you; '
At ' the j first sound of his voice she
shrank back still further in the shadows.
She had not Been him until he spoke.
"Yes," she articulated, faintly, in a
velvety contralto voice, "though I should
never have intruded had I known you
were here;. The door of my room has
become locked during my absence, and
your key and mine are counterparts of
each other." I
John stooped forward and wrested his
key from its lock, then passed into the
hall - accompanied j by the lady. Her
room lay directly opposite his own, and
it was thej work of 'scarcely a moment to
insert the key and turn the lock into its
rightful position, i Then, with a faint
murmur of thanks, the lady passed
within, closing the door behind her, and
making to him an impromptu Peri on
the outer Mge of a modern paradise. -
He stayed there a second or two listen
ing to thq fall of her receding footsteps,
then turned about, and was sauntering
across the narrow hall, when suddenly
man staggered with drunken force against
him. Just then a momentary shimmer
of light burned upward from the fitful
flare of the hallway lamp, and, lying half
senseless in his clasp, John JUel saw the
figure of Philip Brashear.
He led the fellow a few paces, then set
him on hia feet, and watched him with a
keen sense of satisfaction stagger against
the door of a room farther on and sink
into a heavy sleep across the threshold,
John felt more interested in his myste
rious visitor next morning than he did in
either Brashear or his breakfast. He
watched for her nntil his eyes tired of
their vain; expectancy; and, desptiring at
last of seeing her, he questioned mine
nost about her, and had nis trouble for
his pains.! Mine host knew absolutely
nothing beyond the meager fact that her
name was Spear; that she came from New
Haven; that she paid her bills with un
common regularity, and kept exclusively
to herseuJ
Bo Johri had to content himself that
day with watching the movements of
Philip Brashear, and congratulating his
vanity upon tUa conquest he had won
over his old enemy r ate.
Towards1 evening he saw the door of
Miss Spear s room slightly ajar, and ven
tured in with a neatly -worded pretense of
having mistaken the apartment for his
own. Mis Hpear was manifestly sur
prised, and unquestionably displeased.
However, bhe went through the formula1
of a half-hour's chat with a becoming
show of good nature). When he went
away, she told herself that she must sub
mit to his Vell-meant overture; for suspi
cion was a precedent she did not care to
establish just then.
So time ;ran blithely away, and spring
merged itself into Bummer, and John
stood in jhourly expectancy of orders
from his chief. He had been at Beamis
Point a month now; idly watching the
movements of Brai Iseir, and playing the
agreeable to Miss Hpear.
Even to himself it seemed strange that
he had never told her of the mission that
brought him to Beamis Point; fear of the
shock upon her nerves that would most
probably attend the revelation had alone
kept him from making it. No woman
had the strength of character to maintain
a strict composure knowing herself to be
beneath the same roof with a criminal,
he urged, j
And so tilings coursed along very
pleasantly,! nntil over the wires sped the
following words:
"John Liel: Will be with you to
morrow, j Uncxe Amebicts."
The missive set John to thinking, then
to planning. First of all he decided that
Miss hpear: must not be compromised by
so mnch its a sight of the affair. He
would tell I her everything and have her
leave the house until all was over. He
slipped on of his room and along the
hall until he faced the door of the cul
prit's roomi. . Peering in, he saw the fel
low lying lirone upon his bed sleeping
off the eiiecta of nis spiritual potations,
Quick as thought he snatched up the key
lying at hi4 feet, and quicker still locked
his prey securely within. ; That done, he
went to Miss hnear.
- A stiff wind had crept up over the sea,
over which a storm was brewing. Miss
Spear was jleaning before the window,
resting her head upon the iam. He found
her so as he entered the room in answer
to her bidding. There was no time to
lose, and he told her everything of Bra
shear's crime, of his flight to Beamis
Point, and,! lastly, of his being even now
an inmate of the house. He meant to
tell her, tod, just which inmate he was,
but she did not ask, and he thought it
needless.
" A transient cloud flitted over Miss
Spear's face;; then she paled to the roots
of her dark; hair.
"And yoti you have been watching
his movements all along? : .
"All along."
She put her lips together rigidlv, as if
to stifle an! utterance that had risen to
them. j
"And they are coming to arrest him?'
"Precisely." -.
The 'wind crept still higher, though
the storm had abated somewhat in its
fury. ' Miss Spear, reaching forward,
pushed down the window, then crossed
the room in 'a blind manner, and paused
before a table under whose cover an ob
long parcel lay hidden. A second later
she turned about, retracing her footsteps,
her hands pinioned at her back.
"You shall never livo to see Philip
Brashear taken!"
She BTranir suddenly forward, a world
of hatred glowing iu her steely eyes.
With one hand she tore the dark strands
of hair from her head ; with the other she
levelled a weapon at his heart.
"Yon shall never live to arrest me, I
swear!" Thfero was a long moment of
silence then a sharp, -muffled report, and
a pool of vaporous smoke eddied upward
toward the ceiling. Another space of
silence: meanwhile the smoke of the shot
was clearing and, looking forward, John
Leil saw the form of Miss Spear, other
wise Philip jBrashear, at his feet, and
that of Uncle! Americus at his side.
'Wasityon that fired? ' John asked
"JNot at all 11 merely turned rsraauear s
weapon upon! himself; he is in an emi
nently agreeable condition now to be
taken back to the city. As for you.
John well, Ij ain't mnch on talking, but
you're a heroj and -we'll settle the rest be
tween ourselves." ' - -
Without an! utterance John sped along
the hall to wbjere the supposed Brashear
slept, unconscious of his incarceration. ,
Afterward he Jearned that he was aoonr
firmed drunkard,' who had. migrated to
Beaffiii Poiat limply to finish til exist i
enos ia a trance of ecstatic collapse. As ,
for the resemblance between hiaaaelf and
Brawhear, it was purely an accidental
one.
Of course. John prevaricated outrage
ously in the matter f his enconnter wilh
Brashear. It is not on record what his
version of the affairwa.---No -doubt it
was absurdly incongruous with the real
facts; but it answered the purpose, and
the defaulter was sent to Sing Sing, and
the reward given to Uncle Americas, who
shared it generously , "with, bis nephew,
and 'died sounding that young man's
praise.; -..:'' v..v,.
"Nothing succeeds like success," says
John Liel, who is chief of the United
American Detective Service now, and
, wears gold-bowed glasses and glistening
black broadcloth, in direct imitation: of
his distinguished predecessor. t
( Lost on the Plains.
An experienced guide and prairie trav
eler expressed the opinion to the writer
that there was a mnch larger number of
people annually lost upon the Western
prairies than was generally supposed. I
mean by lost, said he, people who wan
der away from well-known landmarks
and are never heard of again; who die cf
starvation and that dread insanity which,
generally speaking, overtakes the lost
person. Of course we read now and
then of such a case, but there are many
which never reach the public prints. It
is one of the easiest things in the world
for an experienced traveler to stray away
from camp, but a very different matter
for him to find his way back again.
Once out of sight of the wagons and
tents, and the whole plain is alike to him.
He stands always in a depression, with
the crround rising slightly on all sides.
It is an optical illusion, of course, but it
is very like walking in the center of an
immense sheet with its four corners
slightly raised. The earth meet the
horizon on every side, and presents the
same unvarying view of waving grass
and grayish brown soil. There is not a
mark by which one may be guided. To
take the sun for a guide, even on a per
fectly clear day, is with most persons
only to intensify the difficulty. Unless
one is an expert in the sun guidance, he
may follow that luminary and yet con
tinuallv so round in a circle to the left,
The truth is proven every year by the
recovery of persons who are found only
to nave traced a large circio m meir
efforts to escape, invana my coming
round attain and again to the point from
which they started. The possession of a
compass, moreover, seldom proves of
any advantage to the person lost on the
prairies. He probably never thinks
about it till he discovers that he is lost,
and then he has no landmark from which
to take lus bearings. I have Known re
peated instances where persons have
been lost on the plains and afterward
found dead with a compass in their
hands. :
As an illustration, I recall an instanoe
which occurred some years since on tbe
Bed river trail. A Mr. MCJvenzie, a
clerk in the trading post at Georgetown,
started early in the month of April, in
charge of a small party, for Fort Garry.
The snow still lay deep on the plains,
but. the season being so far advanced,
wagons were used to transport their
effects. Unfortunately the snow did not
melt so rapidly as was anticipated, and
the party were detained a long time on
the road. About .thirty miles on tins
side of Pembina they ran out of provis
ions. McKenzie, who was a stout, able-
bodied man, accustomed to prairie
travel, volunteered to go ahead and oh
tain assistance. He set out on snow
shoes, and expected to reach the fort at
Pembina within twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile his comrades plodded on as
best thev could, and. after two days of
suffering, reached the front without hav
ing seen anything .of jucnenzie. Aotn
ing had been heard of him there. A
party was at onca organized and a thor
ough search instituted for the missing
man. On the second day he was found,
some seventeen miles from the post, and
a long distance from the trail, lying be
side a clump of bushes, frozen to death.
He had taken off his coat and vest and
hung them on the bushes, most probably
to attract the attention of any passer,
and lay on bis back in the snow, with hia
compass in his hand. Now, here was a
man experienced in prairie travel, an
adept in the use of the compass, yet who
was hopelessly lost in a country which
he had repeatedly traversed. The expe
rienced plain man who found him knew
at once that, having unconsciously wan
dered away from the trail, and benumbed
with the cold, he had lost the ability to
use his compass, and so lay down to die,
Under ordinary circumstances, the man
could have gone anywhere over tue
prairie by the aid of his compass alone.
The mental resolution of a person lost
on the plains is nearly always one of
hotieless confusion. Not one man in a
hundred retains sufficient control of his
mental faculties to help himself out of
his situation. And the suddenness and
completeness, too, with which many
minds erive way, form one of the curious
phases of their condition. Some years
ago I was guide to a hunting party on
the Southern plains. Among the num
ber, was an Englishman, an intelligent
young fellow of perhaps twenty-five
years of age. He was an excellent shot,
but unacquainted with the prairie, and I
warned him repeatedly of the danger of
straying away from the party. For a
while he observed the caution and stuck
close to the camp. But after a time he
grew more venturesome, and seemed in
clined to take his own course. One day,
when we were running buffalo, he fol
lowed on after the herd instead of re
returning to camp, as we had supposed.
Unon our return H was missed and a
search instituted. In not more than two
hours after he was missed I sighted his
horse feeding alone on the prairie. A
few minutes after H was discovered
sitting on the ground about half a mile
away. As soon as he advanced toward
him ha started up and ran off at the top
of his speed. I knew what was the mat
ter with him as soon as he jumped, but
the restu didn't. Biding alongside of
him, I jumped to the ground and took
after him on foot. After a sharp run I
caught him. He was clean daft. The
discovery that he was lost, and possibly
would not be found again, had upset his
intellect completely. He struggled like
a madman to free himself, but I held on
to him. We took him back to camp and
tied him fast. Toward night he began to
recover, and by morning he was quite
himself. After that experience ne kept
close to camp.
I recall another instance which illus
trates this phase of the lost, but which
had a more tragic ending. A neighbor
of mine, living in a new prairie country,
cut and stacked his hay on the plains
about two miles in the rear of his house.
It was his custom to visit the stacks and
haul the hay to his farm as he required
it. He started one afternoon in mid
winter with two small ox-sleds to bring
home loads, taking with him a neighbor's
boy, a lad of about 12 years of ago.
They reached the stacks, loaded the sleds,
and, it is supposed, were about to re
turn, when a violent storm came np
what we in the West call a blizzard. It
was impossible to see a yard ahead in
any direction. Thinking it would soon
blow over, they dug holes in the stacks
and crept in. But the storm raged for
nearly three daya without abating a jot
of its fury. On tho morning after their
departure the two oxen were discovered
standing in the barnyard with their har
ness on, but without the sled, i Daring
the day an effort was made to visit the
stacks, bnt the relief party became lost
themselves, and found theu? way back
with difficulty. It was believed, more
over, that the man and boy would remain
in the stacks nnui s ine w
which was hourly expected c ,
On the following day the storm abated
hat. and. in the afternoon, a larger
and more determined party set out for
he stacks. :; They were reacned wiui
much difficulty, but the- man and boy
could not be found. The holes which
they had made in the- straw v and into
which they had crept; were plainly visible,-butall
traces of their departure were
hidden under the drifting buow. Search
was made until night closed in, when it
was discontinhed. On the following day
it was resumed. In theHorenoon the
body of the boy was Sound lying -under
tbe snow at f. distant of about eighty.
yards from tbi stack. H teas, of course,
frozen stiff. At a diat&nc of half mil
the man coat was picked np, bnt days
of search revealed no traces of his body.
It was apparent that they had left the
stacks in an1 effort to find their way home.
Bnt the positions of the boy and coat
were oireeuy opposite to tne route which
they should have taken. In the latter
part of April some half-breeds, wander-
lug ma piiurK?, iuuuu me remains
of the man sitting at the foot of a tree
on the bank of a small stream, about six
miles distant from the stack. . The body
was entirely destitute of clothing, save a
pair of trousers. ' The man, without
doubt, had become insane, and had cast
off his garments as he wandered on. His
shoes, hat and shirt were afterward found
between the tree and the stacks. Throw
ing away their clothing is a common act
with the lost, and always betrays in
sanity. A man may easily become lost on a
prairie trail, or even broad highway on
tbe plains, if he has no other landmark
to go by. In the old days of overland
travel to California it frequently, hap
pened that parties who had camped over
night at a short distance from the road
took the back track in the morning, nn
der the firm belief that it was the right
one.
It is astonishing how quick men will
get lost on a prairie. They seem hardly
to have time to get out of sight; " Some
times, teo,v the?" are not' found ; again.
Two young Canadians went up the Red
river valley, a few summers since, bound
for Fort Garry- They had joined in the
purchase of a pony and a rickety old cart
at Fargo, and journeyed together. One
evening about dnsk they went into camp
on the banks of Goose river. After sup
per one of them started off on the prairie
to look after the pony, which had been
hobbled and turned loose. . He failed to
return. The pony came in all right in
the morning, but the man has not been
seen to this day. It is probable that
when he left the camp he went in a west
erly direction. If he did so he might
walk to the Rocky Mountains without
seeing a human being. i
As I said, people disappear suddenly
on the prairies and are never heard of
more. : But it occasionally happens that
people are found also, or, rather, their
remains are. The most singular find of
this kind coming to my knowledge was
that of two half-breeds who had been
hunting buffalo in the winter. They had
wandered far out upon the plains in
search of game, and, being laden heavily
with meat and hides, night overtook them
before they were able to regain tho shel
ter of the tim ber. To protect themselves
from the cold they lay down in the snow
side by side and wrapped a fresh buffalo
iiiue iigiiuy arounu mem, witn wie green
or fleshy side out. While they slept the
overlapping sides and ends of the hide
froze fast and imprisoned them like a
vise. Tightly wrapped as they were they
could not extricate themselves, and so
died of starvation. When found the two
skeletons, shrouded in the stiffened and
half-decaying parchment, showed the
manner of their death. Ar. Y, Sm,
A Losa-STASDisa FECi,-rThe mutual
hatred of tho Persian and tbe Afghan is
of considerable antiquity, but its highest
development was reached in the early
part of the last century, nnder Nadir
Shah. This extraordinary man, who may
fairly be called the Napoleon of Central
Asia, began his career, like most Asiatic
conquerors, as a robbor-ehief, for which
the disturbed condition of his native
province of Khorasson offered ample
facilities. After a time, however, Kull
(slave), as he was then called, earned
his pardon and promotion from the reign
ing hhah, 'lamasp, ,bv lus vigorous and
successful co-operation with the royal
troops during an Afghan invasion. From
that time his fortunes advanced rapidly.
Entrusted by his master with the com
mand of the army, he inflicted a series of
crushing defeats upon the hitherto vic
torious Afghans, whom he finally ex
polled from the oountry in 1730, with
such slaughter that his very name be
came a symbol of terror in tho proverb,
"Deadly as Kull's sword." In 1832 he
deposed the incapable Shah in favor of
his son Abbas, and himself succeeded to
the throne upon the latter 's death in
1736, under the title of Nadir Shah.
Still insatiable of conquest, be swept the
whole breadth of "Afghanistan with a
powerful army, and sweeping down upon
India, through the passes of the Hima
laya, defeated the Mogul Emperor of
Delhi, captured the city itself and brought
home a booty so enormous that, to quote
popular saying, : "the rupees of Hindu
stan were as common as pebbles." But
his growing tyranny at length alienated
tbe affections of his subjects, by whom
he was murdered on June 20, 17$7. With
his death the power of Persia declined,
and Afghanistan speedily regained all
sue nau tost.
J
As OrTEB in a Wkll. A week ago a
negro went to draw a bucket of water
from a well on the premises of Mr.
Liedenadorfer, at Caroadelet. : As he
leaned forward to empty the bucket he
naturally glanced downward into the well.
No sooner had he done so than he sprang
back in affright, and turning about in
continently tied. A boy whom he passed
called out, "What's the matter? "I
seen de debble," was the gasping re
sponse as tho affrighted fellow kept on
his way. No explanation- could be ob
tained from him except that he firmly be
lieved he had seen the devil. People
living on the place kept Watch, of the
well after that and soon discovered the
cause of his trepidation. It was nothing
more nor less than an otter which had
taken np his abode there. Every night
and morning it can be seen. It will also
frequently appear when the bucket is let
down to the water. - How the animal got
there can only be conjectured. Many
years ago they used to be quite common
in the sink-holes near the city, but are
very rarely seen anywhere near here
now. It evidently did not get in from
the top, as it seems to be in no danger of
starving, though it could not find food
in the well, certainly. Mr. Lnidens
dorfer tried to catch it with a hook and
line baited with a piece of meat. The
animal bit, but when he had hauled it
out about ten feet the hook broke, so
great was the weight. Since then it will
not take the hook. Some think that the
well connects with some of the numerous
underground channels which are so plen
tiful in the limestone under the city, and
the animal came in that way. Tlie well
is about fifty feet deep. St. Louis Re
publican, September 9th.
The Sea Eagle asd the Salmon. The
aea eagle watches his prey, hovering
above the water until he sees , a fish,
when, pouncing down upon it, ho raises
it np in his claws and sails away with it
to his nest, where he devours it at his
leisure. One day a contented shepherd,
watching his flocks on a hillside over:
looking a river frequented by salmon,
saw one of these mighty birds hovering
over the water. He heeded none of the
smaller fish, but at last pounced upon
one of enormous size, 1'he shepherd
wondered to see that, in place of flying
off with his prey, he was violently flap
ping his wings on the water, and on
going to tho spot he found the eagle
drowned, but having the large salmon,
also dead, in his claws. The fish had
proved stronger in his own element than
the bird of prey between air and water,
and so the shepherd carried home both
the eagle and the salmon. Thus it is
that the ambitious and greedy are often
fishing for the contented, and themselves
falling into destruction and a Bnare.
Bbiikiimo the Stbaits. Tlie French
engineer, M. Verard de Santa Anna, who
has devised a scheme for constructing a
viaduct across the Straits of Dover, will
soon go to England with the view of en
listing the aid of capitalists. He esti
mates the cost of the viaduct at $00,000,
000, but his figures are undoubtedly too
low. He proposes that his viaduct shall
be high enough for the largest ships to
pass under, and the span long enough
not to endanger tlie safety of sailing
ships beating up or down the channel,
Every pier of the viaduct will have to bs
much stronger than the Eddystone Light
house, because it will necessarily be
much higher, and broader at the base and
top." so as to secure the doable object of
allowing ships to pas underneath, and
enabling a superstructure substantial
enough to bear the weight of a railway
train to be built upon tbeini
Ike Ss&ke Draft;
W. E. llateer, Indian Agent of the
Moquis Pueblos, of Arizona, gives a
thrilling account of a strange ceremony
practiced by . that tribe, called the
"Snake Dance." The Moquia regard the
serpent as a sacred reptile, possessed of
the power, of controlling the elements,
and disposed to be friendly to man.
They never kill a snake, and frequently
handle the most poisonous serpents with
impunity. The rattlesnake is regarded
with special veneration, and their bite is
no more dreaded than the scratch of a
mesquit thorn or the pricking of a cactus.
They have an antidote for the bite of a
rattlesnake which is infallible, and never
fails to effect a cure in a few minutes
when administered immediately. An
Indian of this tribe, when bitten by a
rattler, swallows the antidote at once,
and after being stupefied for a moment,
becomes entirely restored, and never
feels any pain or inconvenience after
ward. All attempts of white men to
learn the ingredients of this antidote
have proved futile, as the secret is
guarded with religious fidelity, and an
Indian would lay down his life rather
than communicate the recipe for snake
bites to a pale face. If a white man is
bitten by a rattlesnake, tbe Indians will
not hesitate to give him the antidote, but
he must not inquire what it is com
posed of. j
The snake dance is performed by the
Moquis every two years, and is resorted
to as a means of propitiatina the Snirit
of the Summer Rain to send abundant
showers to fructify the earth and make
the crops grow. The corn is planted! in
tho moist sand of the mesa, without pre
vious preparation of the ground, for the
plow is unknown to the tribe, and after
it has grown to a certain height and
needs moistening from the clouds, pre
parations are made for the grand snake
dance. A deep and wide excavation is
made in the dirt' floor of one of the
largest houses in; the village, and the
whole tribe go out to hunt snakes. These
they catch with their hands and bring
them in twined around their hecks,
coiled in their bosoms, or wrapped
around their legs and arms. All kinds
of snakes are captured the rattler, the
viper, the moccasin, the blue racer, the
black, the garter, the green, spotted in
fact, every variety existing in the coun
try.. These to the number of several
hundred are placed in the pit in the
floor, and the mouth is covered over with
a buffalo robe, the hairy side down, to
prevent the reptiles from crawling out
and escaping, men a certain number
of old men dance around the pit, chant
ing monotonous songs and calling upon
the imprisoned serpents to intercede
with the Spirit of the Clouds to
send rain upon the thirsting corn
fields. A body of younger men next
form a , circle around the pit and go
through a similar ceremony. Then come
the old women, who have a different
chant, then the young married women.
then the boys, and finally the virgins
with their hair done np m loops, and
then for a few moments a solemn silence
prevails, during which the hissing of tlie
serpents and the shrill sound of their
rattles are heard under the buffalo robe.
These sounds are taken as favorable
tokens that the incantations have been
successf nl, and that a copious fall of rain
will follow. Then the buffalo robe is re
moved, and then the men and boys loap
into the pit, and each one brings forth a
snake, which be holds in his mouth.
Sometimes a man will emerge with two
or three small snakes in his month. As
each man emerges from the pit with bis
mouth full of snakes, he runs at full
speed down the almost perpendicular
side oi tlie mesa until he comes to the
plain, and there gently releases his cap
tives, who at once take to tlie grass and
quickly disappear. . After the pit has
been emptied the . men examine the
wounds on their arms, breast and faces,
and if blood has been drawn, they know
that the fangs of a rattler have entered
their flesh, and they lose no time in ap
plying the antidote.
The wounds inflicted by the rattle
snakes are very painful, The rattler,
when provoked, is the most savage of all
serpents, and will continue to strike and
lacerate an enemy as long as he is within
reach. Sometimes an old snake -with full
grown fangs will fasten upon the cheek
or arm cf an Indian and hold on until
the fangs are torn from his jaws. Mr.
Mateer witnessed one- of these snake
dances of the Moquis recently, and was
horrified at the sight. He saw the blood
streaming from the arms and breasts of
the Indians, who bore the pain with stoic
tndiiierence, and seemed to take pleasure
in the infliction, Tbey believed that the
more savage the snakes became and the
deeper the wounds inflicted, the more
copious would be the shower. On the
occasion of the last snake dance the In
dians of one of the villages refused to
participate. For some reason they be
lieved the rain would come down without
the dance, and while the other villages
were engaged in the ceremony, they sat
idly in their houses listening to the noise
and smiling at tho unnecessary trouble
their neighbors were taking. Subse
quently they had good cause to repent,
for when the rain came sweeping down
from the mountains, it poured a copious
flood npon the snake-worshipping vil
lages and their fields, and passed around
the heretic village and their parched corn
fields, leaving them as dry as a powder-horn.-
The result was that six of the
seven villages raised abundant crops and
the other had to call on the Agent for
Government rations.
Mr. Mateer was formerly a resident of
this city, and appears to he a truthful
man. He was a spectator of the strange
snake dance, but witnessed it from safe
distance, sittipg on a wall overlooking
the scene.
Sabbath Slngin? at Seaside Hotels.
Tea over and the weak-day machinery
cleared away from the parlors and piazzas
in all the houses, the piano is opened, the
"Carmina Sacra" got Out, and for an hour
or two the whole village is vocal with the
sober strains qf "Hamburg" and "Mear,"
or the lilting inspiration of "Hold the
Fort" and "Pull far the Shore." As mu
sic, it doesn't touch the highest artistic
mark, certainly, but it is soothing and
sympathetic. Thoughtless misses and
stalwart young swells, who for six days a
week know little melody but ''Oonasci
U suol" or "Madame Angot" feel the gen
tie infection, and those who came to sneer
remain to sing. Quaint, isn't it, to see
young Biceps, just arrived with all his
blushing, Springfield honors thick upon
him, roaring away like a sturdy, red-faced
six-foot sucking dove, and rasping his
manly larynx with an intractable chro
matic, as he looks over the book with
swept Nelly S---, the daintiest little devo
tee who ever carried a poor fellow's
thoughts skyward on the wings of earth
ly sentiment. But there is nothing like
proximity. Biceps won't be the worse for
a little vicarious devotion; and if Nelly
can make him available in 'convertible
(or other) bonds, why shouldn'S she?
So noqe of your scoffing, you cesthetic
heathen! If you don't like the mnsio or
the spirit of it, light your cigarette and
take a stroll down the promenade. By
the time you get back the singing will
be over, and the crowded piazzas in much
the same tide of unsatisfied gossip and
flirtation as on ordinary evenings.
A French Fatheb is a QrAinABy. A
Paris newspaper prints the following:
"Monsieur, the editor; You ask if it is
just to rO'Ostablisii divorce. Can the
question bo seriously put? I have three
daughters, monsieur. It was my duty to
without trouble. At last it is done. I
marry off all three. - This is not done
thought I was about to lead a peaceful
life. But it was otherwise. I am told
that divorce will be voted by the Cham
ber of Deputies. If this is so my daugh
ters, who are unhappy in their homes,
will get divorces that is certain; and
when they are divorced they will wish to
marry again Behold me compelled to
furnish them with three new husbands.
I trust that your journal will receive this
protest of a father of 4 family."
agreeable operation of having his hair
combed by his mother and grumbling at
fliA mB.nan-d . ' Mi T-V.,1 A ia " nairi
mamma, "you ought not to make such a
iubs. a aon I iuss ana crv wnen my nair
is combed." ; "Yes," said the youthful
nartv. "bnt vonr hair a'int hitched to
your head."
Dtttnjti fill usefslatss.
A deacon of a prominent Connsctieut
church, whose psBtor had just resigned,
says the Hartford Courant, recently met
a Hartford divine, when the following
conversation ensued:
s "I was sorry to hear that Brother
Blank had resigned. I have always
liked htm. He is regarded as a very
able man, isn't he?" .
W-e-1-1, y-e-s (hesitating). Oh, ye-es,
he's an able man."
"But he is a first-rate preacher, isn't
he?" . . .
"We-e-l-I, y-e-s; he's a very good
preacher."
"And he is a man of the highest Chris
tian character; so we have always thought
here."
"We-ll, ye-es. Oh, yes, he's a good
Christian.
"But there must be something the
matter, deaoon. Why do you hesitate
so, and say, 'We-ll, ye-es?' Has
Brother Blank been guilty of anything
wrong ? I know of a church that I think
he is just the man for, and I mean to
recommend him very highly. Have you
any reason to suppose that he would not
give satisfaction?"
"Well, doctor, Mr. Blank is all yon
say about him, but I'm afraid he's not
calculated to make a successful pastor in
the country."
"Why not, deacon ? You surprise me
very much."
"Well, I will tell you one reason. Mr.
Blank lived next to a neighbor whose
hens and chickens troubled him very
much by digging up his garden.. He
spoke about it several times, but it did
no good; those fowls kept in his garden
all the time. And what do yon think he
did ? Instead of shooting some of them,
or building a high fence around his gar
den, he came here to Hartford and
bought the best game cock he could, and
took him home and turned him loose in
the garden. The next day that neighbor
heard a great commotion among the
poultry, and when ho looked over the
fence, there were all his hens and chick
ens lying in windrows and that game
cock walking over the bodies and crow
ing. Now you can't say that was un
christian conduct, but it was certainly
calculated to destroy Mr. Blank's use
fulness m that section."
Hoar Mushrooms Grow.
Julius A. Palmer Jr. writes to the
Boston Transcript: A few years ago the
banks of the lot opposite the Brunswick
Hotel, in this city, were sodded and the
land levelled to its present grade. As
the pick of the workmen broke up the
soil, a white substance ran through every
piece. Starting with large branches, it
divided and subdivided like the veins on
the back of the hand. The smell was
very strong, quickly noticed on the op
posite side of the way. This subteran
ean white vein for it had that appear
ance was nothing but a hidden part of
the Corjirinug contain, a mushroom freely
eaten now although twenty years ago
thought to be poisonous. The common
name of this substance is "spawn." Just
as a cutting of a grape-vine placed in
condition favorable to growth will shoot
np, put forth branches and bear fruit, so
a part of this coprinn vine transplanted
will continue to ramify and in time show
the result in the form of mushrooms.
The whole eart h beneath your feet on a
country walk i s alive with vegetation to
a great depth. This vegetation is just as
real, and the v irious vines or, in other
words, tho thousand varieties of mush
room spawn are just as distinct as tbe
hopvine and tbe woodbine, the ivy and
the virgins' bower that twine their ten
drils above your head- Just where grew
this year a peouliar kind of toadstool,
there, next year, and so on for successive
harvests, will you find the same plant.
There is no more mystery alwut its ap
pearance than in the growth of the chest
nut on tlie tree that shades it. Rapidity
of growth is not near so general as it is.
thought to be. The common mushroom
and many others form for days just below
the soil. A heavy dew or an evening
shower straightens the stem of the
fungus and expands its top. It breaks
the earth in the night, and the gatherer
is able to find in the morning the white
buttons where he could see nothing the
day before. So, popular error has made
mushroom growth proverbial for a super
ficiality which by the fungi, at least, is
undeserved. Further, the various vari
eties of toadstools succeed each other in
rotation, just as the bloodroot and ane
mones of spring are followed by the
roses of summer and the cardinal or
gentian of fall. These are not theories
that are here advanced; they are the re
sults of several gears' careful watching
of the growth of this order of plants.
On the very spots wh re, in 1874, 1 gath
ered mushrooms, there, in 1879, 1 find
the identical variety, so mat the lover of
fungus may have his regular harvest
with all the certainty of the farmer who
looks for the return oi his, wheat crop or
the results of his cranberry oulture.
With just that degroe of certainty, no
more and no loss, for, as certain years
are favorable to the production of cer
tain fruits, as the potato crop sometimes
fails and the apple orchard is barren, so
the mushroom spawn, usually producing
abundantly its expected variety, may
pass a year, or even, under difficulties,
become extinct. The blight which may
visit all life, animal or vegetable, does
not fail to fall at times upon my humble
friends.
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Tiib p.EPOETjLA-noN or the Hebridks,
No one can wonder mnch about the
Outer Hebrides without pondering ovep
the fate of the islanders. Ere long the
unadulterated Celt will bo driven or im
proved out of these islands, and will re
tire to other lands, where mingling and
inter-marrying with Teutons, he will
eventually disappear, but not without
leaving the races among whom he js des
tined to vanish. And who will "take his
place in the Long island? Probably a
few farmers, a few shepherds, and a
sprinkling of game-keepers, and it is just
possible that a few fishermen also may be
allowed to settle here a.nd there upon
the coast. One may see the process go
ing on at present. Large tracts which
once supported many villages are now
depopulated. It is sad to think that a
fine race of people is surely passing away
from amongst us, for, despite all that
can be urged against them, they are in
deed a fine race. The fishermen of Lewis
and Barra are bold, stalwart fellows whom
it would be difficult to peer amongst any
similar class of men on the main land.
And all through the island one meet
with equally excellent specimens of our
kind. M.any a brave' soldier who fought :
our battles in the great French wars
hailed from these outer islands. Pity it
is that no feasible plan to prevent the
threatened scattering of the race has yet
been brought forward. Some day wa
may regret this, and Come to. think that
though mutton and wool in the Long
Island are desirable, yet islanders would
have been better. Good Words.
KEEprso the Head Clean. The fol
lowing suggestion is worth heeding. A
distinguished physician who had spent
much time at quarantine, said that a per
son whose head was thoroughly washed
every day, rarely took contagious dis
eases; but where the hair was avowed to
become matted, it was hardly impossible
to escape infection. Many persons find
speedy relief for nervous headache by
washing tlie hair in weak soda water. I
have knowa severe cases almost wholly
cured in ten minutes by this simple rem
edy. A friend finds it the greatest relief
in cases of "rare cold," the cold symp
toms entirely leaving the eyes and nose
after some thorough washing of the hair.
The head should be thoroughly dried
afterwards and avoid draughts of air for
little while.
President Barnard, of Columbia Col
lege, holds "that the mental culture of
women should bo equal in character to
that of men.and that the same educational
advantages should be offered to young
women as to young men," In this mat
ter he take a very different position
from President Klltot of Harvard
College,- ,
There is no barrel of clams however
watched and tended ...
Bnt one bad clam is there.
There is no tub of butter howso'cr com
pounded '
. Bat has its lock of hair.
ASsicrtirsAi.
ratals That Don't Pf.
it don't pay to be caught in the spring
without a wood pile large enough to last
twelve months; or to open the gates and
let your stock into the fields as soon as a
few bare spots appear,- or to keep it on
short rations, so that when it does go to
grass it will take half the summer to get
thrifty and strong.
; It don't pay to leave the work of
mending your .tools and selecting
and securing your seed nntil the day you
want to nse them, thereby causing costly
delay. ' - .
It don't pay to sow or plant poor seed
because yon happen to have it on hand.
It don't pay to plant more ground
than yon can manure and take good
care of. -. .. . :
It don't pay to leave weak places in
the fences in tho hope that the cattle
won't find them; and, if you keep sheep
it don't pay to let them run at large in
the spring until they become tramps and
cannot be kept at home by any ordinary
tence. : - . ,
It don't pay to neglect cows, ewes or
sows when they; are dropping their
young. ...
It don't pay to let the spring rains
wash the value out of the manure that
has accumulated in the barn-yard in the
winter.
It don't pay to let the hens lay nnder
the barn, steal their nests and be eaten np
by skunks.
It don't pay to put off any kind of
spring work nntil the last moment, nor
does it pay to work land when it is too
Wet. '-: .;
It don't pay to leave turnips, cabbages,
beets, or even apples in the cellar to rot
and breed disease; for if you have more
than yon can eat or sell, the stock will be
profited by them. : :
.It don't pay to summer a poor cow
simply because no one comes to buy her.
It don't pay to sell a heifer cab! from
your best cow to the butcher, simply
because it will cast you a little more to
raise it than you '" can buy a scrub for
next fall.
It don't pay to leave the banking
around the house nntil it rots tho sills.
It don't pay to be stingy in sowing
grass seed, or try to live without a gar
den. . Finally, it don't pay to provoke the
women by leaving them to cut the stove
wood or to carry it in from the door
yard, or to remind you every morning
in haying and hoeing that you mast saw
enongh before yon go to work to last
through the day.
Ilia lanspa.
This is a very common trouble in the
month of horses and colts.' It is where
the gums or bars rise to a level with, and
sometimes beyond the level of the teeth .
They are evidently painful, as the ani
mal will frequently suffer for food before
he will eat. The common term for it is
lampera spelled lam pas. It is from vari
ous causes inflamation of the gums,
shedding of teeth, from a febril tending
in the constitution, or from the change
of green pasturage to dry food. Of it
Youatt says: , "A few slight incisions
across the bars with a lance or penknife
will remove the inflamation and cause
the swelling to subside, indeed, this sac
rification of the bars in lampas will sel
dom do harm, although it is far from be
ing so necessary as supposed. - Tlie
brutal custom of the farrier who sears
and burns down the bars with a red-hot
iron is most objectionable. It is tortur
ing the horse to no purpose and render
ing that part callous, on the delicate sen
sibility of which all the pleasure of rid
ing and driving depend. It may be pru
dent, in case of lampas, to examine the
grinders, and more particularly the
tushes, in order to ascertain whether
either of them is making its way through
the gums. If it is so, two incisions
across each other should be made on the
tooth, and the horse will experience im
mediate relief,"
Here Ears ; ,
The reason why we have no more egtrs
in the winter is that the hens have not
comfortable quarters nor requisite food.
The hen is a tender animal. She is an
exotic in this cold climate, and wants a
warm bed room and a comfortable
nursery. If we compel her to sleep on
a fenoe or on a tree, and to lay her eggs
where the snow can sift npon them and
the frost will crack them, she will lay
very few. Under suoh circumstances
she has little energy in this direction,
and knows too mnch to waste what little
site has. Comfort is the concomitant of
egg production, and food the great fore
runner. In summer, hens, if allowed
the free run of the farm, can scratch for
a living, and pick up seeds, grubs and
perfect insects enongh to support all de
mand for the raw material from which
eggs are manufactured. In winter this
supply faila and the eggs of course fail.
An egg is essentially animal food ; in fact,
it contains the elements of a perfect ani
mal, the chick. Hence it requires for its
manufacture in winter some substitute
for the insects which the hen eats in sum
mer. Comfortable quarters and a mixed
animal and vegetable diet -ire therefere
the greatest secrfcts of egg production in
winter. The animal food is best furnish
ed in the iorm of animal meal, This is
made at our large abattoirs in great
quantities by steaming the bones and
refusg ptrts of the animal, and then dry
ing and grinding the.m, Thia meal costs
but little more than corn meal, and a
quart of it mixed with three or four quarts
of corp. -neal and wheat bran, will fur
nish hen mst raw material for making
eggs. We have tried it, and know.
Some recommend add to this mush a lit
tle red pepper. And this is good stimu
lant, but we have not found it necessary,
Poultry World.
Tub Most Married op Women. Ben
jamin Abbott, one of our old citizens,
died in this town recently in the eighty
second year of his age. He was a
nephew of the Rev, Benjamin Abbott, the
graa.t Methodist revivalist of the early
part of this century, and came to this
State from New Jersey when a young
man, and settled in tlie "Neck," east of
this town, where his . active life was
mostly spent. But the notable feature
in Mr. Abbott's otherwise uneventful
life is the remarkable fact of being the
seventh husband of his widow, who sur
vives him. This much-talked-of and
much published event (for it went the
rounds of the press of the nation) , when
he for the second find she for the seventh
time bowed, bfifore the altar of Hymen on
June 30th, 1875, he then being 78 and
she 82 years old. Mrs. Abbott's history
in the martial relations of life stands
perhaps without a parallel in the records
oi tne nation, and tradition has it there
is to be yet anqther-, it is currently
stated without contradiction that some
years ago she had a vision in which
eight men stood before her in a pecu
liarly impressive manner, which she has
ever regarded as prophetic of the num
ber of conquests aho was to make. - The
eighth is jubt as likely and as reasonable
as the seventh, and already public gos
sip is beginning to mark this and that
man as the victim of the next conquest.
Her maiden name was Williams, and she
has been snoceaively, Mrs. Traux, Mrs.
Riggs, Mrs, Farrow, Mrs, Wallace, Mrs.
Berry, Mrs. Pratt and Mrs Abbott. In
every instance, save the first, she has
married widowers, some of them with a
good number of children, and on one oc
casion in her early married life she went
to the almshouse and took therefrom
three children and raised them. , She
never had any children of her own. ' All
her life has been spent in this vicinity,'
and all ht husbands were buried by the
same undertaker. f Smyrna Del.)
Times. - ..-V .; v:,y-:
"Education." The world moves slow
ly; men have apparently not yet quite
realized the use of brains. It speaks ill
for the culture of the time and of the
country that the paragraphs of intelli
gence from all our largest universities
show twenty sentences concerning ath
letics to one sentence referring to mental
instruction. - Feet and hands outweigh
the head still, as in barbarous times.
New York Times.
'- One man's power ia. journalism is be
ing illustrated with patfcftio emphasis
in the office oi the Memphis Avalanche.
Syracuse Hreald believes Mr. S.Jones
Tilden. keeps both barl'a loaded, '
WSJ. COLLIES. , ,' ' A. CAKrEZL-a
" union iron Torana, . .
j (BI-CCSSSOM TO COLUIS'S XK0X W01 S.) ,
riACHiniGTo ahd mon Founosos
Mnuracure and keep on band Rlam Kngioea and Boilers, Turbine -Water w hreU Qrit
,od Saw M His .Shafting, Pulleys and Hangers. Pttero Making " 1
BlacksmlUiiog aud repairing done at hort notice.
IROXT AI7D BRASS CA5TH7G5.
Pper-lal attention given to Wood Working machinery, t e-raier rre.t mma mmtm Albert
yvrt'onq. ore-a--. - -- -- - "... .
Tt aaaakias; Mr refce wrl-la-larse-s
taaar SMlverllaeaweaiHw
this paper y will ! ineatioa ibe
SMsae af the pP--
Portland Business' Directory
PHTSICIABT AHD StUGKOS.
CARPWElX, W. B.-H. K. cor. First and Mor
rlMn.over Morse' Palace of An.
' ' ' DKJfTIST. : I i
gay M. SMITH, DEL E. 0.-167 .First street,
fffwSL Portland. "
MB. WALLACE, SECRET DETECTIVE
and Cuilentor. Busiaess at a distance
promptly attended to. Cor. 4th and Malmoa.
MONET LOANED GOO OS BOUU.1T
IT J Prod ace Sold Account Collected. T.
A. WOOD A CO., Principal Real Estate Asent
Pert'Hod . .
Tt PKIST. '
We he S00 pounds of Brevier In excellent
order which we will sell Air ascent per pound.
W. IX PALMER, Portland.
ADDISON C GIBBS, r
Attorney & Counselors at l-aw
PertUn4, t t t Oregon.
Rooms 8 and ''.over First National Bank
partlcdW attention paid to business In tbe
United Mates court.
FOR SALE. :
A First-Class Lodging House
fNTHE BESTPaRTOF POHTLAN t WILL
be sold on ewy term. Tbe bouse ba
cleared 1300 per month under lis present man
as; ment. A rare harcaiu In die right person.
Address Tclkgbak omce, Por land.
SIC KISSTRY'S PiTEST
llm, mi & W4TER-P800F
PAINT!
For Roofing both en Tin and Shingles
ff.HE BE -IT PRESERVATIVE OP TIN AND.
1 uingle roofs In th world. Will stop leak
on any roof. We refer by permission to J. P.
Donovan, lule Knapp, AH.ky Hngele, te
Labmult Oalmau.and otber eifsen of
Portland. Tbe paint will be supplied by
Hodge, DavW A Co., Portland, l f 1 60 per gal
Ion. Knch eallun will e ver S square tin
and 1 square dtilnirie roof but ou coal is nec
e""ry. Full dirrctionaccoinpr.y e.?cb pack
axe. All Information witb regard In tbe palut
ean be bad by addresslug
McKISSTRY HE!DRTX." '
, H rlland. Or.
J. JA8KULEK,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER
' f AXD JEWELER, -Itosetoixrar,
Orison.
NO MORE USE TO SEXD YOCIt FINE
Watebes to Portland for repairs. A tine
aneortment of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spec
tacles ani Eye-glasses always on band.
The only reliable Optometer in Roeeburg for
the proper adjustment of SpertacJes and ye-gla-ees,
which will preserve and strengthen the
eyesight. . u ..,-. .
A11 work warranted. . , ;
GASLIGHT
FOR THE MILLION
!
Safer than Kerosene !
Cheaper than Coal Gas !
BEIJ.O APPOINTED AGENT FOR THE
Pprinefleld Ua MachiDe, we ar now pre
pared to introduce Mach!u-a.ns ripe, Fix
ture, etc.. Into Couatry Resid'cc?. Hi tela,
Fivct-irlen, Public Buildin?, etc.. In any p-.it of
t be Slate or Territorien. For fur hf r Informa
tion apply or send for circulars.
JOHNSON A HOLPENV
1W Front bu. Portland, Qrt
ATT6NT:b f
AND
DON'T YOU FORGET IT!
THAT THE
CHEAPEST PLACE IN OREGON
TO BUT
CLOTHING,
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS & SHOES,
.," AND .
GROCERIES,
I? SELLING'S
Car. First eat! Taasaill. Prtlaa4.
.n.
NATIONAL.
3US1NESS COLLEGE.
Prepares Tor Baaiae
vnd tbe practical dutieaol
Ife In a yattn!.! course oi
ostruction lu Bookkeeping
3olnes Prro. Bunines
VrUbmetlc.Pvnmansbip aot
he Engllsb Branches. Fo
ull Information address
De Front Whit, Jrr tlnnii
1 f
y
3
sBsKMMk,
Jewelry, .Watches, Diamonds,
Silver and Plated Ware,
At Greatly Reduced P rices.
No Failure, No Forced Sale, No Deception.
To make room for a new stock of goods which
I am about to select personally ia the East and in
Europe, I offer all articles in my line
At Cost During September
Customers are invited to call and inspect, and
be convinced of the good faith of my statement
J. VATf BETJRPEX.
. ICS 1 1 rat K trees, Portlaad, Or. , .
COCGJNO & BEACH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
AVERILL AND RUBBER
MIXED PAINTS.
Doors, Windows and Blinds, Paints, Gils.
Brushes, etc., etc.
Ko 65 Treat Street, ForUaad.
a-fr tractor and Dealer are requested
end for onr lft of prions.
r ....
raSLttUSS & WOLFF,
MACHINISTS,
And Manufacturer of
TpoU tor Pl4nr.w, Holding and Ternlng.
I'stlls BraaU, ran Hawao War. Ira a
aatliaa lor men, aailali atlaaa
; Brewarjr 7ari taa
retcr -also
Firm Machinery repaired on horl notice
MiU Picks made and repaired
a. t mm a Froat Bet. Partlan. Or.
JOHN J . 8CH I i.1 1 M c E RS
Patea Fire, Wafer aa4t-4PTr
ARTIFICIAL STONE.
THE rjNOERSWJTE9 PROPRIETOR OF
tbla vaiuabie pmK-bI nn lb Pacific Coaat.
bow prepared c0t fc; order forth
.bove stone f..r wsika. .Irive j'.rs, Coor.
tudalt boilctt.ar parpwm. Thm atone ia
'W In all ahapca ana In n nt r rr varietvof
"'Of. Orders ni-y be W at H Front street,
M alteihs Hoiton P. Vmiu r
tvn and etlmata mdahr ian. "
; tBM, a. j HKB.OOP. Proprietor.
taUHK I i I ' -1 '--V- - , I
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CLACmAS PAPER CO.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
102 Freat Street, Portland, Or
CI STOCK:
NEWS PRINT, White and Colored.
BOOK PAPERS, White and Tinted,
FLAT FAPEIS, of all descriptions.
LEDGER PAPERS. ,
ENVELOPES, of all sizes sad qualities
WRITING PAPERS.
CAEDBOARD of all kinds.
GLAZED AN1 PLATED PAPERS.
COLORED MEDIUMS.
MANILA PAPERS.
BUTCHERS' PAPER.
STRAW PAPER.
PAPER BAGS.
STRAW and BINDERS' BOARDS.
TWLNES, Etc, Etc.
Cards Cat ia Ordar.
Agents for Shattuck A Flettfher'a
well-known Black and
Colored. Inks.
TYPE FOI1 SALE.
We have several fonts of Job Type
(nearly new), -hich -we -will sell low.
Cases, Galleys, Leads, Rules ard
Printers' necessaries generally kept r n
hand.. . . .
Newspapers outfitted at list price
freight added. . . ; . c .
Fbl Kaoa-aaoie Jsanariaaa (a a aaaepla
f aty r..tftlad ta aar l
. loairatau cataloga at
AQTJAIUTJU3,
FERIirRIES,
lia a af Aal W J" t ai ' m a. ' '
& omrAHETs,
Brackets and Chandeliers.
The aaamleobowa bold S ft lion f wi ;
I made of heavy tlntKlaaa, villi Ughijrori .
meuted Iron stand and braaa ehi,!n aud on - -menu.
Prioe 7. Haoie aljrle l.oldln U
loos of water without enatna. IV. Other ar' -cle
at proportionairly low pr ce. GalaUM'
10 cents, wbicb may be deducted trom tbe t .
order. . ...
L. SAMUEL.
113 Morrison St, Portlar. Cr.
Sole Agent for Oreaon. Wash-
- - : ington and Idaho.
W.J.VanSehuyver S 0 .
ViilE AUD
GPiniT
. iEE.ncnAin3,
S3 Kiaat aad AS First Sta tarOa,
AGEST3 FOR
Cyrus Iloble Diatillersv
Lynchburg, Onto,
: Also keep en hand a lanre aesortmeot of lb Al
lowing favorite brsnc of
UNITED WE STAND.
WEI.LER'8 OLD BOURBOX.
COXTI.VEVfAL B0URB1X.
OLD UIOKORY FOURBOV.
OLD COPPER DISTILLED EYE.
AISQ
Ferels aad Daainilr Wlafs, Brandt,
6ms, Kbits, ard all Ike Lrsdlnt
Btaad ef Elttrrs snd Case (oi.
RCIILITZ
(Pilsner) MIL WiCIEX EKXZ.
r.TttiinnAY'c
Adjustable Strainer
AXD .
cast inon OTEArrri?a
Either cr Both Fitted t any Size.
f HE STEAM ECS WILL SAVE THJ5
a price of themseires tn two weeks ia any
family Tbey cau be used witb equal advantage
in boiling, as it is impwiUe to burn meet or
vegetables to the botb m of your kettle. Wbeo
they are used lu steaming, whatever you ara
cooking is inside of toe kettle, thereby getting
the full benefit of the heat. They are jiiia what
is wanted in canning fruit. Either the Strainer
or Steamer ran be removed witb a knife or ft rk
when hot, and are ea-alv adju L No enrner
or joints abont eitlier i bat are hard to keep clen,
old by Agtat "lor TV Crats feaea
Couaty Rlgkt far Sale, Address
JAMES McMUKRAY, ' i
East Portland, Or.
D. X7. PUXKTICE & CO.
MUSIC STORE.
SOUS A(UNT8 FOB THE ;
CELEBRATED WEit
f TAINKJ BROS.' AND : A A CO. 'SI
tarand, ttqaare rnd l?rflirt Pianos, tmd
KUj and HUndard tvgiu,- .
t SI rat fttrt jpr1la4
-UUP ! . uhe !
w th celebrated a
I UREKl t .?ri lift,
Would resnectfvi y , ,, i , . :.,.,..;.-,i
and coutrKntw .,'!,, ,,. ,,,i i .. ,.'
elsewhere. V.V hwli .n.;,Ttv.-i.. W.-vi. u .,'! ,,!
plyon hen.J at nil t:inw ntid at i!ei..i t-!t Jt
rales.
ariA-t4 av tlX'tfi'T.
GEMS. GEMS!
G. EL TJDI
Morrtsoa Mtret, I r
Si-It
Is prepared to fomli ".a r.n:.
ISdouftle-alard Uem i-rfiOetm:; ij ,-r t ?i
for 1 25:
cKu-in ic.r Si; fci.c, to S as a.
i w. vonuren piuiare a snt--;ui
-. It
Of .
&.-
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The: X)ct v1- Cobh
7.1. at. rrrtr. :
laa Krone tat, v l-oi-tJ;
Ateut for 0&gw aiJ ' V.ut ..
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