The Douglas independent., December 27, 1879, Image 4

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THE INDEPENDENT.
' INCOMPATIBILITIES.
A ttaln, litUa fellow had sn a fat wife.
Fat wife, fat wife God bleaa her!
Bba looked like drum, and he looked like a
' And It' took all bla money to dreci her.
Ood bieea ber!
To dreaa ber!
' God bleei her!
' To dreaa bar!
To wrap up ber body ad warm up her toet,
ret toea. fat toee-od keep ber! .
For boncela aad bowl and ell kne otbee,
Xo eat her, and drink ber. and ileep ber.
- Ood keep her!
To drink ber!
and keep ber!
And sleep ber!
She rrew like a tarsal; be grew like a (word.
Aword.owoid-Oo.lepareber
iiT. inok all Ibe bed and abe took alt U
the
board.
Aad U look a whole aofa to bear ber.
Ood pa re ber!
To bear ber!
Uod apere bert
lo b ar ber!
be apread like a Inrtle; beahrank like a pike,
A pike, a plae Ood aave him I
And nobody ever beheld tbe like.
For Ibey bad to wear glass, to ahave Dim,
Ood aaye btm!
' ' i ; t To ahave hlna!
Ood save blm!
To anae bim!
8be fattened away Mil abe boated one day.
Exploded, blew up Ood take her!
And all the people tbat aaw U aay
tjn covered over one acre!
- God Uke her!
As acre!
God take her!
A a acre!
r; : ; Wren Lore.
The wren,' the smallest of English
birds, is almost as great a favorite with
the pet"-loving public as the robin-red-
. breast, and often popularly connected
with it. Many of the vulgar actually
believe it to be his wife, hence its name
in nursery lore of "Jenny Wren," "Kitty
,', Wren," etcr
It is commonly supposed to be 'un
lucky to kill or injure it. In Cornwall
the children say,
"Who bnrte the robin or the wn n.
Will never prosper, aea or land."
: Halliwell in hi Popular Rhymes has the
following: .
"Tbe robin and the redbreaat,
The robin and tbe wren,
lite take out o' their neat
Ye'll never thrive again.
"The robin and the redbreaat.
The martin and tbe a wallow,
' It ye loach one e their ens
Btui lack will aare to follow."
A "translation of the Welsh couplet
- may be rendered: ' -
MWboeo doth a wren 'a neat eteal
Bball God 'a bitter noer feel."
. Aristotle and Pliny treat of the rever
ence iu which this little bird was held
it was then believed to be the heavenly
messenger that brought tire to the earth,
though it disputed this honor with the
eagle. According to the Popular
" Legends of Normandy, in performing
this kind office its plumage was unfor
tunately scorched, but the other birds
. made up this -loss, in consideration of
the semce it had rendered, each of them
presenting it with a feather, except the
: . .'. owl, which has ever since been ashamed
to show itself in the daytime; or, as
some say. the. cuckoo is for this reason
: nniveraally despised. Again, the robin
wished to add his feather, but came too
near, and was himself scorched.
Notwithstanding these favorable opin
" ions of the bird, in France, Ireland, the
Isle of Man, etc., they formerly carried
their dislike of it to great extremes, it
being the barbarous custom to hunt this
- innocent songBter. For this purpose
they procured two sticks, one to beat the
bushes, and the other to throw at the
bird. - Yarrell. in the British Birds (vol
2, p. 178) , tells us, ."It was the boast of
. an old man, who lately died at the age
of 100, that he had hunted the wren for
the last eighty years on Christmas Day."
. Christmas Eve; Christmas Day. St.
Stephen's Day and New Year's Day were
the times when this practice was ob
served. In Ireland the, "wren-boys," as
"they were, designated, decorated them
selves with various colored ribbons, and
went round with the "birds . they had
- killed placed on a holly bush, singing a
characteristic song, and soliciting gratu
- ities for the service they had rendered.
- This practice was very prevalent in
Gal way, Cork, Clare, and other parts of
' Ireland The aversion to the poor crea
ture is founded on a tradition that dur-iH5.-the
Irish rebellion a party of Royal
ists, tired out after a day's skirmishing,
- . sank to-rest, i and soon the sentinel also
t succumbed to sleep, when, as the enemy
. approached them, a wren tapped on his
dram three times, which awoke him,
and saved a surprise, the rebels being
defeated.' Different versions of this
: story are related. Another tradition we
read in the Science Gotsip is that our
,. : ; Savior, desirous to be conoealed, took
.refuga under a tree; the robin, perceiv-
- -y ing this, carried moss and laid it on the
tree, making, the covering more dense,
at which the Lord was so pleased that
He put forth His hand and left the red
; mark on its breast. But the wren came
' and carried the moss away, and exposed
the retreat; hence it is called by them
the "devil's bird." In the Isle of Man
they hunted it from sunrise to sunset,
and placed it on the top of a pole, and
when all the money they could get was
gathered in, they laid it on a bier, and
frried it in a procession to the church
yard.'" There they made it a grave, and
with mock solemnity sang dirges over it
in the Manx language, which t&ey called
its knell. Afterward they formed them
selves into a circle outside the church
yard and danced to music. Now they
sometimes go about with a wren sus
pended by the legs between two hoops
clothed with evergreens, and in exchange
for a coin give a feather of the bird, and
it is not uncommon by the end
of the day to see it quite featherless.
The feathers are kept as relics and safe-
- guards against shipwrecks for a year,
- and sailors take a dead bird to sea with
them as a charm against all danger. In
Train's Vlale of Man" we see they now
bury the bird, not in the church-yard as
, formerly, but aear the seashore, singing
. toe following:
."We booted tbe wren for robin the bobbin,
. We bunted tbe wren lor jack of tbeean,
V bun ed the wren for robin the bobbin,
Wa bunted tbe wrea for every one."
Their legend is that, in days long gone
ty, a lairy ot uncommon beauty, exerted
such-undue influence over the Manx war
riors that she induced many of them to
, lollow her footsteps till she gradually
led them into the e"a, where they perish
ed. This continued so long that it was
feared the island would be depopulated,
when a knight-errant sprang up, and
finding a means of counteracting the
charms of this siren, sought her destruc
tion, which, however, she escaped by as
suming the form of the wren. Bat a
spell was cast upon her which compelled
her to reanimate the same form every
New Year's Day, with the sentence that
she was ultimately to perish by human
. hands.
Bonnini relates a hunt at Ciotat, near
Marseilles; When they had caught the
bird they placed it on the middle of a
long pole, and carried it as though it was
a heavy burden; then they weighed it in
a pair of scales, after which they made
merry. They call it the pole-cat, or pert
a la beoasse (lather of the woodcock),
which is supposed -to be engendered by
the polecat, a great destroyer of birds. ,
Halliwell mentions another ceremony
still observed In Pembrokeshire on
Twelfth -Day, where they carry this bird,
called the king, in a box with glass win
dows, surmounted by a wheel ; or a stable
lantern is sometimes substituted, for
which they have various eolored ribbons.
" Men and boys go about with this, sing
ing as they walk.
The wren has been called "king" from
time immemorial; and Col. Tallancey, in
the thirteenth number of his Collectanea
tie Rebus Hiberniis, page 97, says that the
Druids represented this bird as the king
, of all others; and that the' superstitious
- respeethown to it gave offense to the
first Christian missionaries, and it is still
huntd by the peasants on Christmas
day.
That this poor creature should be so
generally hunted, and for so many alleg
ed different reasons, does indeed seem
strange.
, . - The names for it in all countries seem
to coincide in declaring that it is a bupe
periorbird. In Bone's Year-Book we
find the following amusing legend con
cerning the origin of its royal title:
"The birds, being determined to elect
a king, assembled, and decided tbat the
bird among them which flew the highest
should uare the preference. Among me
candidates which competed were the
eagle and the wren, the latter being de
termined to accomplish the feat by strat
agem. To perform this, it got unper
ceived on the back of the eagle, which
felt not its weight, and flew the highest;
it had begun its descent, when the wren
seized the favorable opportunity, sprang
from its perch and flew higher still, and
was unanimously pronounced king,
though how it reached its elevation puz
zled all." A similar tale is current on
the Continent. i
"The Babes in the Wood" has riven
rise to the pretty idea that the wren, with
the robin, covers with leaves, flowers and
moss any exposed dead body they may
find. Shakspeare, Drayton and Webster,
in his comedy of Vittoria Coronibona,
1612), allude to this notion. Reed, in
his old plays, has the following lines:
"Call tor the robbln-redbrea.t rnd tbe wren,
Since o'erabady grovea tbey bover.
And with leavea and flower doeover
The friend lea bodiea of onburled men."
In many places it is thought by the
superstitious that to dream of wrens de
notes (rreat happiness and i content
throuch life. '
Shakspeare, with his all-seeing eye, has
immortalized me courage 01 uus unj
bird in Macbeth: i
The DAor wren.
The moat diminutive of blrda, will fight.
Her yoonf onea In toe neat, agalual the owl;"
And in Richard III., act i, scene 3:
Wreaa mar prey where eagles : dare not
perch.'
Harper's Weekly.
Tbe British ana Their Beer.
The importance of beer may be seen
by the fact that the English make Baro
nets out of their brewers. The Lion
Brewery, which is the first object which
trik-PH mv fvs as T wake ui in the
morning, looking out of the. window of
my lodgings near Waterloo Bridge, is a
marvel of resource. It has a vast well
from which it pumps up the thousands
of barrels of water always in the tank on
its top; it cools two hundred barrels of
boiling beer every hour; its cellars ana
store vats are enormous, and you little
realize, when you are walking in the
streets in its vicinity, that beer is gliding
in pipes beneath your feet, in great
streams voluminous enough to drown
every London brewer at one and the
same time. A single brewer has a coop
ering establishment capable of turning
out eighty thousand barrels yearly, and
maintains a veritable army of draymen
and porters, every one of whom is a giant
in stature. The brewers' employes of
London, if enrolled in a few regiments
and sent into a foreign land, would create
a most formidable impression as to the
size of the inhabitants of Albion. And
when one thinks that all this industry is
for the simple purpose of making a
liquor, which befogs the senses and
deadens the ambition of the working
classes, he cannot help marveling much.
The English, like the Germans, are born
thirsty; their climate enables them to
drink immense quantities, but no one
has ever heard that the climate prevents
the liquors of all grades from having the
same disastrous effects that they have
elsewhere. Beer, beer, beer ! Hot and
cold, morn and night beer beer beer!
This sums up the British workman's
life. A friend of mine required some
extensive repairs in his studio, and was
obliged to employ two or three workmen
for a couple of weeks. He says that they
begged beer money of him on an average
every two days. When be indicated that
he did not care about giving it, they
managed to lose an hour or two of time,
so that he lost more than he gained by
refusing. Beer seems to be omnipresent.
Mr. Flower, the worthy man who has
done so much for the Shakespeare mem
orial, is a brewer, and his establishment
makes btartford-on-Avon better known
to nine out of ten Englishmen than than
Shakespeare's tomb does. Tbe beer trade
in India is enormous. Why Englishmen
wish to drink, in the East Indian cli
mate, a liquor which is as unhealthy as
possible, it is difficult to say. The out
come of English civilization in South
Africa will be an enormous brewery.
Then, indeed, the negroes will be civil
ized. Think of an establishment like
that of Barclay, Perkins & Co., in South-
wark, where thirty-five hundred barrels
of porter may be seen in a single vat.
These thirty-five hundred barrels of
porter are worth, at market rates, forty-
five thousand dollars. If the men who
are brewing were engaged in manufac
turing cheap food, to be sold at the same
price as beer, I wonder if the half -starved
public would buy it as readily as they do
beer, which does them no good. No, I
am sure they would not. One of the
crazes of the English common folk is
that unless they can see an immense
piece of meat before them the are having
nothing to eat. They waste enough to
keep them in plenty, if they only had
a small amount of education in cookery.
They like, too, the pot-house, with its
steaming odor of malt (indeed, I think
the smell of beer permeates every nook
and cranny of London) , and they prefer
to spend their money there rather than
around their own tables They sit in a
kind of befuddled beatitude on the
clumsy benches, with their pewter mugs
in their hands; and on particularly wet
and nasty nights it is as much as the
publicans can do to get them to stir from
the place, when midnight "and the half"
have sounded. Fancy them drinking hot
beer (and adulterated beer, also) as if it
were nectar. London Corr. Boston Jour
nal. Another Invest ion. The versatile
ingenuity of a Western inventor, who
doubtless foresees the time in the far
distant future when the forests shall
cease to clothe the hilland dales, and
the demand for lumber . shall prove
vastly in excess of the supply, has suc
ceeded in devising a substitute for the
natural product of the virgin or the cul
tivated soil. His plan is to use that
fragile vegetable, straw, and by peculiar
process make ito a substance as hard and
indestructable as oak timber. It is
claimed that this process converts wheat
straw into timber which is susceptible of
as fine a polish as mahogany and black
walnut, at a cost not in excess of that of
the best clear pine. The straw is first
manufactured by the ordinary paper
mill process into straw-board, and a
sufficient number of sheets of this of the
right size are taken to make the required
timber. They are soaked and softened
into a chemical solution, which is, of
course, the inventor's secret. After the
fiber of pasteboard is sufficiently satu
rated the pile of sheets is pressed be
tween a series of rollers, which consoli
dates them so that when they dry the
whole is a hard stick. It is also claimed
the process renders this wood substitute
impervious to water, and the chemicals
used are such as to make it fireproof.
But, the Banguine inventor has onlv
made samples thus far. New York
Tribune.
Latest things in boots Holes.
Bronson Alcott is eightv years old.
Abbe Liszt is said to wear his rrientlv
robes lightly. (
Boys are deep in the merits of rival
makes of boots. j
Delane, of the London Times, died of
Bright's disease. ,
The latest estimate of Mr. Tilden's
wealth puts it at $20,000,000. t
It is said that the forts in the Thames
could be taken in an hour.
"The only Grimaldi" is an expression
that covers a multitude of poor clowns.
The mother and sister of Michael
Davitt, the Sligo seditionist, live in
Philadelphia.
The sorrow that can be drowned in
liquor is the only sorrow that comes of
drinking.
Daniel Vierge, the celebrated Parisian
illustrator, will probably visit this
country soon. j
"Mater Patriae" is the title bestowed
ppon Queen Victoria by the Lord Mayor
of London. j
Ole Bull has rented James Russell
Lowell's house at Cambridge, Mass., for
the winter. !
A new use has been found for many a
youth's head-piece, the utility of which
had heretofore been questionable. It is
discovered that such young men's heads
are primarily intended to keep their
necaue irom supping on.
A3 ABLE LECTCBE
"ox parasitism in KATCRB and SOCISTV,"
DELIVERED BY PROF. H. B. NORTON AT
TM INDX PENDENT CHVRCII, OAKLAND,
CAUEORNtA. ,
Dr. Le Conte has suggested that evolu-
tion is the law of time, as universally as
gravitation is that of space. -
There is a divine, fiery, inbmte energy
pervading all the infinitudes of matter
and spirit.
It projects itself into the realms of
warmth and light, and produces flowers,
birds of paradise, and all the children of
the light. It pours through the dens of
darkness, and produces organisms uiauiu
incomplete, larval, monstrous, shapeless
and terrible. 1 r
The physicist speaks in our ears words
incomprehensible in their vast meaning,
lie talks about atoms and forces; heat as
a mode of motion; light and life, not as
entities or substances, but forms of vibra
tory activity. He bids us to imagine in a
whirling dance of infinitesimal spheres,
going on and on, without beginning or
end, forever; atoms clasping hands in
tiny groups and systems, vibrating, puls
ing, scattering, but ever forming anew,
into ever fresli structures of organic life.
And yet God, working in nature, does so
without any reference to our human mor
alities or tustes.
"It pleaeth Htm. the Ktemal Child,
To play Uiaaweet will, glad and artld.
Tbe vault that (lows, l.nmenae with light,
la tbe inn where He lodgea for a nigbk
Wbat leekaaucb travrler. If tba ooeri
That bloom ana fade like meadow Sowers,
A bunch o( fragrant lilies be, .
Or the stars of utcrnlty t
Alike lo Htm tbe better, the worae;
Tbe glowing Angel, the outcast conte."
Nature seems to care nothing for vtst
ness, or beauty, or refinement, in our
sense of the words. She loves the rattle
snake as she does the dove; she creates
more toadstools than roses; she gives us
many mosquitoes, but few birds of para
dise. Devils are legion, but angels' visits are
few and far between, and God is one. The
scorpion or centipede is as spieudiuiy
armed as Sir Galahad, going forth in
Quest of the Holy Grail. The tares choke
tho wheat. There seems to be no force
in nature tendinir inherently and neces
sartly upward, to higher leve'.sof spiritual
being.
Involution or devolution equals evolu
tion. Eecoii is as powerful as propul
sion. There are grand houses on California
street hill (San Francisco), but each rep
resents a myriad of ruined fortunes and
lives. There roust be a thousand bank
rupts, broken homes, suicides, in order
that the world may have one bonanza
king.
Tito preservation of the fittest means
too often the preservation of the swiftest.
fiercest, most cunning, uesi armored, vut
of the infinite wreck and waste of past
ages have come to us the gazelle and
bumming bird, the palm tree and the
rose; but how much agony, struggle,
death, forgotten lives, destroyed races, do
these triumphs of her work represent?
Atid far oftener her selective choice rests
unon diametrically opposite endowments.
The gazelle perishes that the hyena or
tiger may grow strong; too vulture tears
the humming bird; the poison oak stran
gles and outlives the rose- Out of mil
lions of lives sunken in torpor, squalor,
mediocrity, a few giants arise; men that
seem like Assyrian bulls and lions re
stored to the flesh; men with the brain of
a god, the physical presence ol ilyperion,
the physical pussions of a king of beasU.
Such men we see iu the stock exchange.
the places of political power, sometimes
in lue pulpit, sometimes gmuing armies.
liyron, Uoetnc, uaniuu, suraoeau, uis
marck, Napoleon I were of this type.
Onlv once anions; millions of instances
do we see a great brain fitted to be the
tern ule of a still diviner life. One Kich-
tcr one Washington, one Lincoln, one
V ictor Huso aspirins?, unselfish, divine,
shining like stars above the dusty desert
of history. Hut these great ones are tew
indeed. ature seems best to love aver
ages, mediocrity, the petty and the com
mon place. Like aComanche.she rejoices
in torture. Khe forgives no sins. Keep
step upon her treadmill or you shall go
under the wheel. She experiments
crudely; sue casts away her lull urea mer
cilessly. Our geological museums are full
of the fragments of forms experimental,
tentative, transitional, too clumsy ant)
uncouth to keep pace with the march ot
time, too torpid iu fibre and feeble in brain
to long endure. I cannot find any law of
natural progression toward the heights of
spiritual being. iNew natural powers aud
forces only intensify inherent tendencies.
fcvil is positive, aggressive, seit-repro'
ductive. It is not a vacuum or negation
The equatorial warmth and moisture have
produced the vast frond of the palm and
the splendid cup of the Victoria Lily, but
they also distil the deadly venom of the
woorali and the cobra. 1 cannot nnd in
nature any force tending to change the
lion into the lamb; or to destroy the lion
and preserve the lamb; or to make tbe
upas or crotalus less deadly; or to dimin
ish the power of sin and arrest the hell-
ward march among men. The germs of
evil have a strange and terrible fecund
ity. If Nature had been left to her own
will, Guiana would still have been a trop
ical swamp, brooded over by a deadly
miasma, ruled over by the anaconda and
aiigator. .
It had been built up out of tho waste,
the slough and tame of the continent
vomited from the mouth of the Amazon
and flung, as a mass of abhorred refuse,
upon the shore. Black, stagnant rivers
wound through its swampy lorests; hid
eous reptiles and tbe unclean pelican
breasted its waters: and a cloud of poison
ous effluvium forever hung over it. But at
last a generation of laborious, sturdy
Dutchmen overthrew the reign of Aature:
the ax and spade, wielded for centuries,
have turned the pestilent morass into a
tropical paradise. So it must be every
where. If the earth and man are to be
fully redeemed it must be through the
working of forces higher than those
merely natural.
Our evolutionist philosophers speak of
the three forces working toward the end
ot which they are the expositors.
1. Heredity. This tends to produce
fixitv of type, by handing down to each
generation the characteristics of its an
cestors. 2. The influence of environments.
This works mainly upon germs aud em
bryos, modifying them upward or down
Ward, according to the nature of circum
stances. 3. Natural selection. By the operaticn
of this principle, the strongest, most cun
ning, best protected and best concealed
animals live, while others perish in the
struggle for existence. This force tends
toward physical perfection. It works in
the fields of our mental and spiritual
being. Nevertheless, spiritual exaltation
is a costly gift. When one soul ascends
tbe upward way, we, looking from the
merely natural stand-point, seem to see a
throng pressed down thereby to lower
levels. Human vermin and weeds, like
their congeners in lower nature, have a
fatal fecundity. Tho double 'flower, the
costly product of a Century of culture and
care, hears no fruit. The large-brained
American race is dying out of its birth
place; but how the Five Points, the 6and
lots, the Chinatown swarm.
One of the strange phenomena of the
life of lower nature is parasitism. This
word refers to animals and plants that
grow, feed, prey upon others. In all tbe
life of the Sea parasitism is almost uni
versal; and the wonderful growth of med
ical science is teaching us things concern
ing the relation of parasitism to disease,
in regard to which ignorance is bliss. The
German peasants ate the raw sausages at
their harvest leasts, aud died in horror of
gnawing death worms, as terrible as that
which overtook Philip II. or King Herod.
The "'germ theory" assumes that all
zymotic diseases, like cholera, diphtheria
and yellow fever, are caused by different
species of minute fungous plants, bred in
filth, whose spores, floating everywhere
invisibly, are inhaled and germinate in
human tissue. ,
But this much we learn from nature:
parasitism is always degradation. The
dodder, with its pale, bloodless tissues, and
its feeble, loathsome life, is closely re
lated to the beautiful convolvulus. Some
naturalists speak of the sacculina, a lively
and perfect little crnstacean, which some
times attaches itself to the head of a fish,
and begins to feed upon the living tissues
of its host; and at last its brain disap
pears, its limbs are changed into clinging
rootlets, and it becomes a mere sac of un
conscious or semi-conscious jelly, its in
dividuality gone, its identity practically
merged iu that of the animal it had se
lected for a prey. In the realms of hu
man life the same law holds; parasitism is
degradation.
The grand things of nature are always
separate, individual, distinct. The stars
occupy each a central position in some
region of the vastness of space. Each
keens tbe secret of Its own fiery heart
The grand men concede little to prece
dent; each, in his inmost nature, tends to
solitariness; be wants air, light, elbow-
room, freedom from abstresive contacts,
for body and soul. The Polyd-life of the
sea is crowded and massed, each form
penetrating and feeding upon the other,
till parasite can hardly be distinguished
from its host. The lower grades of human
life show a similar gregariousness and
tendency, mutual suction and absorption.
The feeble student intensifies his feeble
ness by feeding upon the fruits of his
brother's work. Every popular minister
is surrounueu oy a parasitic gruup, iccu
ing upon his thoughts, and therefore
sinking into mental fcebleuess through
the desuetude of their own reasoning
powers. I need not speak of the helpless
wives, sons, daughters, drunken husbands,
parasitic upon partner or parent, and go
ing down into torpid decay; nor of the
stock iobbers. uolitical rings, thieving
adventtirerti, systems of religious oppres
sions, which are, in some measure, para
sitic upon the world's life; but con tine ray
thought to tne uegraiieii tramps, vagrant,
becears. sneuk thieves, the aeari and nedi-
cuii upon the body politic. The fast mul
tiplication ot these is one ot the most ter
rible of the phenomena of our social evo
lution. Our social order is about that of
wild beasts. Room for the king I Boom
for the strong arm, the vast cold brain,
the hoart oi granite, the cheek of brass !
ltoom for the largest competition, the
most meritless monopoly. Every one for
himself. Ah, how sad that we mustcom-
lete the proverb, "the devil take the
indermost !" In the pitiless strutrale the
weak go down. To him that hHth 6hatl
be given; from him that hath not, that
which he seetneth to have is taken away.
The best government, we say, is that
wnicii governs least, ah that bumamty
needs is free schools and the ballot in
every hand. The saying is unspeakably,
monstrously false.
Ibe tramp is a new phenomenon upon
this continent. Whence dues he come?
It is a complex problem. Formerly,
America was building 5000 to 8000 miles
Of railroad per year. Many thousands of
laborers, endowed with little but mere
muscle, were spading those endless lines
of embankments. That work is measura
bly done. The vast multiplication of labor-saving
machinery has enormously in
creased the demand for educated, skilled
labor; but the work has less and less a
place for the two-hstted bog-trotter and
clumsy clodhopper. The work which
these can perform pertains less and less to
the world's life. They sink lower and
lower in every facet and fibre of their
being, as Immunity sweeps onward and
past them. Their mental and nhvsical
characteristics are hardened into heredi
tary types. We are breeding ud a miuhtv
swarm of human beings, as parasitical.
verminous, loathsome, as the lazzaroni of
JNaple8.
And what are we doing to cure this
great evil? We must do all Nature will
do nothing for us. t-he loves and multi
plies her baser types. We must overcome
them, as ever in the realm of Nature, bv
special and artificial methods.
thus f.tr we have worked according to
no system or forethought.-We have made
of these degraded and sinking men, each
a sovereign voter. W c have enacted laws
imposing short terms of imprisonment
upon vagrants; we have given sporadic
half-dollars to men who are sunken
deeper thereby; we have imposed upon
starving and desperate men the stern
command, "Move on!" Alas! whither?
But in all our legislation and methods
of execution we have followed no large,
comprehensive, remedial policy. Our
criminal law involves a vast system of
make shifts and temporary expedients.
There is in it n healing for the terrible
ulcer which is gnawing the vitals of so
ciety. Tbe presumption of our laws is
that every man has, or can acquire, self
control, the power of self-support; that
every criminal may be reformed, if he
only be punished enough to learn that the
way of the transgressor is hard. The pre
sumption is false.
Life is too heavy a burden for thou
sands. There are men organically weak,
needing aid, guidance, the helping hand.
The tendency to ctiine is a disease, a
malformation in many instances. The
recent report of the surgeon in charge at
an eastern penitentiary announces tbat
the dissection of the brain of many hun
dred men who have died in prison on the
gallows conclusively proves that crimi
nals are diseased -and deformed in their
nerve structure in a vast majority of
cases, and this malformation is an heredi
tary characteristic of great generations of
men. We all reinemher the terrible story
which Mr. Dugdale has told us concerning
"The Jukes," how "Margaret, mother of
criminals,' an abandoned woman, sent
down to posterity a generation of w ho n
more than 500 were known and recorded
as felons, sneak thieves, paupers and pros
titutes. One experience came home to
me years ago, of which I have already
spoken in print, but concerning which,
perhaps, a repetition is pardonable, for it
has been the experience of you all. A
ring at the door bell announced the coin
ing of a tramp worthy special notice. He
was a bull-necked giant, with a face on
every Hue of which nature had written
"beast." He wanted clothing and money;
he was just out of the penitentiary at San
Quentin; he could get work nowhere; no
body wanted a felon in shop or home. I
could well believe his story. There was
no place for him in society. Seven years
of prison life had blotted out the last
vestige of manhood. Only the cowardly
cruelty of the hyena remained. Doubt
less my half dollar was spent at the dram
shop, and paved the way to a renewal of
crime; for no other lifo was possible for
such a being as this.
A little later, journeying in a coasting
steamer along our lower coast, my
thoughts dwelt upon the range of islands
enclosing the Santa Barbara channel. At
present they are pastured with sheep, but
very few people ever set foot upon them.
One of them has a considerable stream of
water and a large fertile valley. Why
not purchase this and found a penal col
ony here ? Why not begin to weed these
poisonous stocks out of human society ?
With mere impulses and tendencies law
has nothing to do; but, when these have
ripened into the overt act, the duty of the
executor of the law begintt. It should say
to the organic criminal: "This island is
henceforward to be your home. You
shall have abundant, healthful work, suf
ficient for self support, rigidly euforced.
You shall be cleanly in person and sur
roundings, and decent in speech. You
shall have, at proper seasons and inter
vals, opportunities for moral and intel
lectual culture, such as you are capable of
utilizing. But here your root shall per
ish; you shall not go forth again into so
ciety, to rear a family in your own like
ness, and send the stream of your brutal
izing life down to curse the coming
generations."
I cannot but feel that society has the
right to protect its own future; that it is
suicidal to turn the organic criminal
loose upon the world, to an inevitable
repetition of crime. There is no kindness
in such procedure; no mercy to the crimi
nal, or to the commonwealth upon which
he is parasitic. Healthful labor, restraint,
enforced order and cleanliness, and the
final extinction of his debased race these
are the highest blessings that can be con
furred upon him. As to the criminals
who are not organically aud hopelessly
such, there should be a court of pardons,
composed of our wisest physicians, which
should decide whether, any one of these
could safely be released to the life of so
ciety. Only in some such fashion as this
can the criminal elements be weeded out
As for the pauper and vagrant classes,
we must take positive and remedial
action. There should be in every coun
try a farm and shops, furnishing work,
food, shelter, enforced cleanliness and ab
stinence from poisons to every tramp,
vagrant and habitual druukard. There
should also be a place for worthy
men, temporarily needing shelter and
food, and willing to give in re
turn honest work. There might also be a
school for children, and such a gradation
in relations and style of clothing, among
those forcibly restrained, as would en
courage well-doing. At present society
supports its parasites at enormous
cost in the way of arson, highway rob
bery, insurance, and policy expeuses. It
were far better to do this work ia a sys
tematic aud orderly fashion, aud in a
manner which tends to uplift and heal.
Very' often the vagrant has no organic
tenJeney to evil. His sin is weakness.
Place around him the strong arm of legal
restraints; keep him busy, clean, well
fed, healthy; stimulate the brain with
new ideas; and perhaps we are laying the
foundations of a new and higher life for
him and his.
: I have timidly ventured one or two
suggestions, only hoping that these will
turn other mtuds in the direction of social
science. The law of human society is yet
to be written. Our modern social frame
work is the product of ages of barbarism,
and of blind, stumbling emperimenb Like
Topsy, it has "growed," as best it could.
It is evidently true of it, as of Topsy, that
God did not make it. f .
It is time to begin, with heart and soul,
the study of the science of society. Look
ing at the seemingly hopeless confusion
that prevails the questions concerning
land limitation, water-right, suffrage, di
vorce, and thousand similar themes we
can see that society is neither standing
upon open sea nor solid land, but is built
upon a quaking quagmire. Strong, loving,
thinking men and women must drive deep
the piles and lay the granite foundations
unon which the structure of the redeem
ed world shall yet arise.
But here we sbouic take our stand: that
legal precedents, common laws, existing
constitutions, must not be permitted to
hamper our thoughts. Laws aud consti
tutions if they are not, at least should be,
the outgrowth of human needs. Man
has no natural rights,, especially where
such alleged rights are incomputable
wun iue uesi goou oi the great social
unit. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happi
ness, for the individual, must stand aside
to make way for the needs of our integral
humanity.
l rejoice that there is the prospect of a
more careful study of these irroat thmw-
that the scbolorshipand culture crystalir-
"i university are organizing
for such momentous research. It is well
that the giant brain of Herbert Spencer
has led the way, laying broad founda
tions for future work; but it is needful that
others enter the field, studying the spirit
ual as he has studied the material rela
tions of man to society; contributing tho
complement of the Vast circle of research.
Hitherto, philosophy has been hopeless.
This great rolling orb, with its life-long
tragedy, sorrow, sin, suffering, was too
much lor man's weak arm to grapple. In
Epicureanism, iu Asceticism, in pleasure
or despair, eating the lotus and drinking
the nepenthe, men were content to live
on, shutting their eyes and ears to the in
titule misery, and waiting till God's puri
fying fires should sweep where the deluge
swept before. But I thing that the day
spring of a higher hope is arising in hu
man hearts. The measure of human sin
and wretchedness is almost infinite, but
not to much for divine and human
knowledge, labor and love. What sweet
suggestions, promises, visions of better
days, sometimes come to us out of nature!
Such a one came to me, not long ago, as I
looked from the window of my mountain
home upon the Pacific, sleeping below.
It was still night, but a falut gray glimmer
along the eastern horizon showed that
tbe morning was at hand. Tbe ocean
was dark and still, and heavy mists hung
over it like a pall. But, as I watched and
waited, the dawn sent forth its first purple
ray, which was caught aud reflected upon
the bosom of one great mountain cone
that stood, like a mighty prophet, and
sent down to the dark world below its
first faint promise of the morning. Other
peaks caught the radiance ; soon the
whole earth was illuminated with the
perfect day. The poisonous night dews.
the shadows, bats and owls, things of
aarKness, mysteiy and horror, vanished
away anu were seen no more, lint the
lark flew heavenward: the flowers onened
their cups; the earth was full of the forms
of beaty and melody. The mists swept
away from the surface of the ocean, ns we
trust thev vet will from the soul ot a
glorified humanity, and it lay like a sea
of glass mingled with fire, the perfect
image of the gold aud crimson skies
above. My heart accepted the promise
oi mat hour. Mature whisnered liooe
and I thanked the father that he had
given to earth a promise of her Golden
Age in the dawn of every morning.
THE BEAUTIFUL HOME.
BY MRS. B R HCGUE8.
They tell na of a beautiful home.
11 everRreeu Hn'ire;
Tbey tell ua tbere our loved roam,
Who bave aafe.y Journeyed o'er.
Like a very child. In wanderings wild,
We (train our eyea to aee
The rifting clouds tbat seem but ahrouds.
Bo veiled in myatery.
When olonda obaenre oar pathway clear.
No friendly aid to guide.
Will pitying angeW bover near,
And row us o'er the tide T
This beatifnl borne we bave not aeen.
Bat vistoDA lie epleudrr.4 untold ;
TliU beau' If ul home of whiob we drem,
Tbia palaoe of crystal and gold.
Lx oar loved oneti wait at tbe pearly gate.
Do wait our comln thre.
By tbeeryatai atreaua 'neath tbe golden abeen
tuu gieama in ineirauining nairT
In deepeat abadea of darkest woe.
Do we bear their wblapertng aweel;
Like tbe cbimlng of bella In tbe long ago
. : la the music of their feat.
Thl beautiful home on the otner aide
Where bnpe like a fairy strayed:
Thia beautiful borne beyond the lido
Where (be c-ytl watera meet!
Through tbe dreary n Ik til a ray of light,
A gleam of a brighter ahore.
On a tnrrylnic gle the boatman pale
Will safely row as o'er.
Wben rrlends prove falee and life doth seem
A burden hard to bear,
Through a rirting eloud we c-.itoh a gleam,
Like tbe breath of an angel's prayer!
Hie Comparative Mor ality of Rich and
roor.
Dr. Drysdale, Senior Physician to the
Metropolitan Free Hospital, called atten
tion in the Social Science Convention re
cently in session at Manchester, England,
to the comparative mortality of rich and
poor. How came it, he asked, that in
Great Britain, in the face of improvements
in every direction in the domain of of hy
giene. there still remains a death ra e ir
our cities ranging from thirty down to
twenty thousand of the population an
uually? If we look to one city, London,
lor instance, wen mi tnai, witn an the ad
vances recently made in that wonderfully
healby city, the death rate was actually
22.2 per 1000 in 1856. and in 1870 a little
higher, or 22.3. Many persons have asked
on reading such riguref","What is the use
of medical science if it can effect nothing
more than this?" The real cause of the
non-eflect of the countless hygienic ad
vances was indigence. Viilerme, the
French Medical writer on hygiene, found
some thirty years ago, that persons over
40, if in easy circumetances, had a death
ate of only 8.5 per 1000, whiltt the mor
tality in a similar class among the poor
was more than double, or 18.7. He also
showed that in Paris, there died, between
the years 1817 and 1836, one inhabitant in
thirteen in the thirtesnth arrondissement
chiefly inhabited by tbe poor, and but one
in 63 in the second or rich quarters. The
most accurate statistics ever compiled on
this subject are from tbe pen of C. Ansell,
Jr., entitled "Statistics of Families of the
Upper and Professional Clasei." pub
lished in 1874. The uuthor collected in
formation concerning 48,044 children of
the well-to-do classes in England and
Wales, including members of the legal
clerical and medical professions, as well
as of the nobility and gentry. He found
from these inqulries.that in the first year
of life, only 80.45 per 1000 deaths occur
red among the infants of the easy classes
in this country, as against 149.4'J among
the children of the general population.
The death rate then, of the children of
the comfortable classes in this country
being 80 per 1000 in their first year, we
found it to be 250 per 1000 in cities like
Manchester and Liverpool, and as high
as 300 in poorer quarters of our cities, and
in Berlin, actually 500. From one to five
years of age, 46.84 children of the upper
classes die of 1000 born, and as many as
113.69 in the general population. During
the remainder of early youth from five to
twenty, the difference is not marked;
but 65.47 per 1000 deaths occnr among
the richer classec, as against 74.04 in the
general public Between 20 to 40 there
die, among the richer classes, 125 per 1000
and 124 among the general population;
and between 40 to 60 there die 147 per
thousand among the rich against 168
among the general population. The gen
eral result of this calculation shows that
the average age at death is among the
rich in England and Wales, 55 year.whilst
it is not probably 35 among the artisan
olase. So that Mr. Ansell estimates that
in one year their die in England and
Wales under the age of 60. 368,179 person,
which figure should only have been 22G?
048 if the population had all been in easy
circumstances. Thus some 142,000 deaths
annually in England and Wales are due to
indigence. Health is very imperfectly se
cured in the lower grades even of re -spectable
citizenship. The public registers
have demonstrated that mortality and
disease diminish with every rise in the
scale of wealth.
" ' Km an. ... i . ii y-f
A stag is frequently obliged to ran for
deer life. . ; Jjf ..
"Hey, Jim, let's be oarsmen." "Oars
men? Hump, you can't row." 'Vho
said anything about rowing? . Do Han
Ian and Courtney row, and aint they
the greatest oarsmen in the country?"
Paupers ta England ud Wale.
The Local Government Board hare
just issued their return of the num
ber of paupers in England and
Wales on the 1st of July last This
statement is a complete census ef
pauperism; no class is excluded from
the enumeration. The total number
of paupers on the books of the
Guardians on the day named was
772,000 in round numbers. The
spring and earlier summer, such as
they wero, by affording more em
ployment than could be generally
found in winter, removed 33,000 per
sons from the relief lists, tho num
bers on the 1st of January having
been 805,000. Compared with July,
1878, however, the number last July
had increased by upwards of 46,000,
or 6.4 per cent. The able-bodied
and with tbe able bodied are classed
all their dependent children under
sixteen years of age increased 37,-
636. The increase ot this section on
the outdoor lists was about four-fold
that shown by workhouse lists. The
increase in tho not able-bodied pau
pers, including those children who
were not relieved witn apie-boaicd
parents, was ; own, ot whom ba'J
were hi tbe bouse ana zauo on tne
out-relief lists, orj al oUt two of the
former to one of Sthd latter. This is
a very different ratio from tbat ob
tained with the able-bodied paupers,
whero tbe increase was made up pro
portionally ot one indoor to four out
door paupers. The better measure
of the depression! of industry which
our pauper statistics present is found
in a comparison of the adult able-
bodied adult here meaning all loose
agrcd sixteen years and upwards. Of
this selected group there were 91,008
on the 1st of July, 1878, and 105,34'i
on the 1st of Jul' last; this is an in
crease of 14,334, or 16 per cent, very
nearly. Twelve counties exceeded
this average; tho increase in Stafford
shire was 1287, or 25.4 per cent.; in
Worcestershire it was 492, or 47.5
per cent.; in Warwickshire it was
452, or 23.3 por cent.; in Derbyshire
it was 178, or 16.8 per cent.; in Che-
slura it was aib, or 36.9 per cent.; in
Lancashire it was 6042, or 65.3 per
cent by far the heaviest increase
in tho kingdom. In Durham the in
crease amounted to 879, or 24.6 per
cent.; in Cumberland, to 146, or. 17.2
per cent.; in Westmoreland, to 56
only, but exhibiting the large ratio
ot 40. s per cent.; and in Monmouth
shire, to 314, or 24.1 per cent. Sev
eral agricultural counties ex peri
enccd no increase of their adult able
bodied paupers; these counties wore
Southampton, Berks, Oxford, Cam
bridge, Suffolk, Wilts, Dorset, and
York, North Hidiug. In other agri
cultural counties the increase of able
bodied pauperism was fur below tbe
average. Pall Mall Gazette.
ALL SOKTS.
It takes four doctors to cure General
Sheridan of a cold in the head.
Modesty is worth what shadows are in
a painting; she gives to it strength and
relief.
A female celebrity has arrived in Mon
aco who goes by the name of the "Ron
lette Fiend."
Prof. Proctor alludes to the earth as a
mere mustard seed. Probably because it
is hot inside.
"Life" says that the English diamond
trade is looking up by reason of orders
from the United States.
When the brewers of Cincinnati com
bine their motto will be "one beer" in
stead of "beer for one." .......... , i
Zola works at a big table, in a big
room, in a big house, and haa a big
opinion of the result of his labors.
The new "Turkish Beveille" seems to
le very popular, but the old Turkish Re
vel eh? was the thing on Thanksgiving
day. v.
Did it ever occur to. you that Eve
never had an opportunity to tell her side
of that Garden of Eden story?
Mulish obstinacy is the leading char
acteristic of some men who go through
life claiming great credit for positiveness
of character.
The young man who consulted the
goose-bene to find out what the weather
would bej undoubtedly anticipated a
bone-answer.
Cetewayo's four wives have each been
presented with a concertina and tbe un
fortunate Cet. will immediately take to
the woods.
Newsmongers at the capital will be
likely to get the cold shoulder from
President Hayes and Secretary Sherman
for some time to come.
A married woman who never said:
"No wonder girls don't get married
nowadays; they are altogether differ
ent from what they were when I was a
girl."
Twenty men who believe what they
profess, and live as they believe, are
worth more than five hundred hypocrites,
to any good cause. Golden Kuld.
When churches mark their black
shoep so that the world may see that the
church knows who they are, the white
ones will be recognized, and trusted.
Golden Rule.
The late Bishop of Exeter was sitting
one day at luncheon with his wife and
another lady, when the hostess inquired
anxiously of her husband if the mutton
was to his liking. "My dear," replied
the bishop, with Bisconrteous little bow,
"it is like yourself, old and tender."
An Ogden paper, in speaking of a re
cent accident at that place, says: "It is
feared that the boy's injuries will prove
quite fatal." It is hoped that the re
porter's account is exaggerated, and that
the lad's injuries will prove only moder
ately fatal.
"Ah, Louise, my heart is very despon
dent. Ever since I have gazed into the
depths of those lovely, I " Hush ;
JohB, put an air brako on that train of
thought. Pa has introduced me to his
new partner .and I am his for 82,000,000.
That settles it.
A pretty, blue-eyed maiden who was
nursing her fifth Christmas doll, and
listening to her mother and some female
friends talking about domestic broils and
divorces, created rather a pleasant sen
sation by remarking: "Well, ma, I'm
never going to marry. I'm going to be a
widow."
W. H. M., of the Guard's Club, Lon
don, advertises that he will tray the ex
penses of his collie dog (which has an
affection of the lungs, and needs the
benefit of a warmer climate) if any one
wintering in the south of France, who
would like a pleasant companion, will
undertake the care of him.
A box stall costing $13,000 has just
been finished in the stable of Baron
Rothschild, of Vienna, for his favorite
horse. The stable proper has marble
floors, encaustic titles painted by dis
tinguished artiBts.rings, chains and drain
traps of silver, and the walls are frescoed
with hunting scenes. This building cost
$80,000.
When two couple of -, young people
start out ritling in a two-seated carriage,
they are as happy as four loving clams
until the shades of evening approach, and
then the couple in the front seat begin to
realize that the crying need of this great,
free and majestic country of ours is a
two-scat carriage with the front seat be
hind.' The oldest postmaster in the service is
Edward Stabler, of Sandy Springs,
Montgomery county, Md. His commis
sion is dated December 14, 1830, nearly
forty-nine years ago, when Andrew
Jackson was President. " His salary last
year was 8397, and never larger than that
samt Mr. John Wilson, of Plato, 111.,
is - the oldest postmaster west of the
Allegheny mountains, having served
since 1840,. i
DBSBRVKD PBOMOTIOH.
JOHX B. GASRISOS IS MADE GKXKBA.L A.OENT
OF THIS WrLSOIf REWIND MACHINE. .
Some two years ago Mr. John B. Gar
rison, of No. 149 Front street, commenc
ed in a quiet way to handle the New Wil
son Sewing Machine, and from a small
beginning has increased his business to
such an extent that the Company have
promoted him to the position of general
agent for Oregon, Washington and
Idaho. This is a deserved promotion
and shows that his Company appreciate
the services of faithful men. Mr. Garri
son has proven himself well adapted to
the sewing machine bnsiness and has
made himself an efficient machine man.
He has the exclusive agency for this ;
northwest coast, and . sub-agents will
hereafter draw their supplies from him. j
He docs business directly with the home
office at Chicago. j
The Company have discontinued their
branch office at San Francisco and estab- j
lished in its stead two general agencies
for the coast, one of which Mr. Garrison
has charge of. The home office of the
New Wilson is at Chicago, with branches
at New York and New Orleans. The
Company is in an exceedingly prosper
ous condition, and have been compelled
to make extensive improvements in order
to meet its demands for machines.
We have been shown a letter
from the Company to Mr. Garrison
which states that they are doubling tbe
capacity of their works, and by next
spring will be able to turn out over 700
machines per day. Mr. Garrison has
150 machines in store and on the way to
Portland, and has sent a still further or
der which the Company say they will be
nnable to fill until after the completion
of their new works. The Company is
now fully three months behind on their
orders. In the territory which Mr. Gar
rison now has, some 1500 machines were
sold lost year, and he estimates that 2000
machines will be needed to supply the
trade the coming season, as the demand
for them is steadily increasing. The
durability and excellence of the New
Wilson Sewing Machine is established
beyond a .question. In order to meet
the requirements of the community the
Company manufacture two entirely dif
ferent machines the small arm which
has been introduced and known as the
New Wilson, and the other (the large
armed one) being known as the oscilating
shuttle machine.
W. G. Wilson, the President and
founder of the Wilson Company, is
one of the self-made men of the United
States. He commenced his career a poor
boy in Cleveland, Ohio, some twenty
years ago. The aim and object of his life
has been to place before the poor of the
land a cheap and durable sewing machine,
and it is mainly to the success of his en
terprise that sewing machines have been
reduced to less than one half their former
rates. It is to his efforts and the com
pany which he founded, and 'not to the
expiration of sewing machine patents,
that the grand crash and reduction in
them took place, and in benefiting the
poor of the land, he has benefitted him
self, as his wealth is now estimated at
millions.
For tbe present, and unless forced for
the want of room to change, the agency
of the New Wilson Sewing Machine will
be continued at 140 Front street, Port
land, between Morrison and Alder. Un
der Mr. Garrison's management, this has
grown to be one of the established lnsti
tutions of this city and coast, and peo
ple can rely on the fact that when cir
cumstances will guarantee it, the New
Wilson will be further reduced in price,
An on a)nrr-rlaT with nervous debility.
exliauated vitality, or from tbe effect of
yoninrai loiiiea or exceaaea in muiurer jeers,
nan be thoroughly and quickly cured by uaing
tbe great Eagllab remedy, '8lrAtley Cooper'a
Vital Kehtokativb." It la not an excitant,
bui an honest cure. Price, $3 a bottle, or fonr
tlmea tbe quantity, tin. and can be obtained
of Horxia. Davis A Co.. Wholesale Aaenta. or
director A. K. Mlntie.al.D., 11 Kearney Street,
Han ranciaco, vai.
I) eat lb, ftirenclh and Vigor of tbe Kid
neys and Bladder alwaya lollow tbe nue of tbe
great Bucho Com pound, "Dr. Mintie'a Nephre
ticum." Brighl'a Diaease, l-tabetei, Inflamma
tMnr 8anln and frivatte lteiaea are
quickly cured by it. For Leueorrbcej, It baa no
equal. Don'i be persuaded to take any other
preparation. .Every one who baa tried it
recommends it. For Kale by all druggist.
Hodge, Davis A Co., wholesale agents.
Careaaraed Forearmed.
Physicians and invalids use. with conGdenc
The Kaiser Celebrated German Klixir for Con
siimilion and throat and lung diseases. It is
rich in the medical properties as tar, wild
eherry, etc. Is rendered perfectly harmless to
the youngest child. This would have proved an
Angel of mercy in the household of those un
happy parents'at Vallejo, Dixon, Beaver, L'tah,
and numerous other places, whose children were
slaughtered by a quack medicine reeoiu mended
by its owner to cure croup, possessing no prop
erties calculated to cure it, but instead a
deadly drug which has slain iu thousands Be
sure you get only German Elixir. The genuine
bears tbe Prussian coat of arms and the fac simile
signature of Dr. Kaiser. Samples nt all drug
stores. Large aire, 75 cents. For sale by all re
ajwcUble druggists.
The evils of men's wives live after
them, while the good they do is seldom
spoken of with safety to a stepmother.
aa-Iai making any porcnaae or la writ
iBflareapoase tons? adTertieement la
tbla paper yon will pleaae mealian the
name of the piper.
Portland Business Directory
PHYSICIAN AXD STJRGEOX.
CARDWELL. W. B.-8. E. cor. First and Mor
rison, over Morse's Palaoe of Art.
DENTIST.
SMITH, DR. E. O. 187 Flrat street,
Portland.
MB. WALLACE, SECRET DETECTIVE
and Collector. Business at a distance
promptly attended to. Cor. 4th and Salmon.
A10NEY LOANED GOODS BOOOIIT
1Y1 Produce Sold Accounts Collected. T.
A. WOOD A CO., Principal Heal Estate Agent
Partland
TO PRISIKBS.
We hare 300 pounds of Brevier In excellent
order which we will sell for Si cents per pound.
W. T. PALMER, Portland..
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Go or send to C. D. Ladd A Co.. No.;48 First
street, Portland. Oregon, Branch House of No.
831 Kearny street, Kan Pranclaoc, for tbe latest
laapravea Wi neb eater lido, of all mod-ela-l88,
173, 1878, 1878-qsing all the latest
solid head cartridges of tha Winchester make.
A large atoek of C- I. Ledd'a Improved loading
implements for all kinds and alzea of eart
rldrns. etc, and aoleacenta for the Ballrd
Rink and Daly a hot aas on tbe Paeine
Copt. Also, a large atock of other kinds on
Baud. Breeeu and mnaale loaders. A large
atock of Cartrldaea af ail klnda eonatantly
kept on band. Dot'l fall to give them a call.
Country orders promptly attended to.
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WM. COLLIER. A. CAMraSU-
- ujvioiv iron woniia,.
' (sDOCEssoaa to cox.i.zza'1 io woaxs.) , " "
r.iACHinioTG ahp inorj FOur:Dz::G
Manufacture and keep on band Rteam Engines and Boilers, Turbine Water Whii, Or
and Baw Mills, Snarling, Pullers and Hangers. Pallern Making
BlacksmlLbing and repairing dons at abort notion. . . . -
IROM" A1TD BRASS CASTEIG3. .
fpeelal attention given to Wood Working machinery. Cwratr rraai aad gfatatfttr
Po Hand. Owroi. ' . "
ONLY $90 !
Famous Standard Organ.
' ' 10,000
Of wblcb bave been sold on the Paeiflo Coast.
OSLY $90 A FIVK-OCTAVK ORG AS,
Elegant High-Top CaseFlre Stops,
with Or tare Coapter 4t Snb-Baaa,
Poaaeaelng all the power and aweetness or the
higher cost Instruments. Kvenr Onran fully
guaranteed for Ave years. Address
W. T. 8HANAIIAN,
Morrlaoa St., between Second and Third,
' PORTLAND, OiL -Bole
Agent for tbe Northwest Coast.
COMPOUND OXYGESi,
With free use as adjuncts of PHOSPHORUS
and CARBON compounds.
A new treatment for the cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Scrofula and the
worst cases of Dyspesia and Nervous Debility, by
a natural process of Vitalization.
The following cases treated within the last few
months arc selected as showing its range of ap
plication :
, 4. Four cases of consumption twoof them
having cavities in the lungs am all entirely
well. '
4. Mr. T. R. G., of Bay Centre, W. T., Chronic
Bronchial difficulty of years' standing, also gen
eral and nervous debility, threatening complete
wrecking of health. Cured in October.
8, 7. Two cases of marked blood poisoning.
Cured in few days.
8, 9. Two cases of nervous debility of women
'doctored to death." One cured in seven aud
the other in sixteen days.
10 to li. Five cases of chronic dyspepsia,
catarrh or scrofulus ailment. All cured or
greatly relieved in a few weeks' treatment.
A small pamphlet on the Oxygen Treatment
and all enquiries answered, suit raBC, on ap
plication. Also, references to patients who bave
taken, or are now using the treatment.
Addreaa Dr. Pilblntrton, Tor. Flrat nnd
Waantnarton ata.. Portland,! Own.
MC kHSTRVS PATENT
ELASTIC FIRE &IWATER-PE00F
PAINT!
For Roofing both on Tin and 8 Dingles
fWHE BEST PRESERVATIVK OF TIN AND
M ahlrJKle roofs In the world. Will stop leaks
on any roof. We refer by permission to J. P.
Donovan, Jules Knapp, Altaky A Heeele, De
Laabmult A Oalman.and other citizens oi
Portland. Tbe paint wilt be supplied by
Hodge. DavlK A Co., Portland, at 1 bo per gal
lon. Knell gallon will e"ver 2 squares tin
and 1 square shingle roof but out cat is nec
essary. Full directions accompany ejeh pack
axe. All Information with regard to tbe paint
can be bad by addressing
McKINBTRY HENUHYX,
Portland. Or.
ROCK SOAP!
Tito IS est Soap Made.
Ask yonr Grocar for It.
B-l. G. NEWBERRY,
123 Front t , Portland or.
Agent for Oregon and Washington Territory
Great Auction Sals,
Every Friday nd Saturday at JO i. M.,
During tba Month of December at tAe Auotlon
House ot
I. IWtcLrtlanW
isa rtrat Mmt, Portland, Oregon.
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New York and Philadelphia consignments 0i
Harnem, Boggy (Rabes, Horse Blan
keta. Halters, Surcingles.
Also large consignments of
Foots and nhoea, Vaabrellas, lotalaa;.
Mirrors, Jewelry, Etc.
1 MeAfllHCB, Anetlonocr,
P.
THE OREGON
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING
Company
la now prepared to furnish
nsidea, Oauidea and Sup
plements on tbe shortest no
tice. Addrea W. I). Patmrr.
Box . Portland, Or.
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D. W. PRENTICE fc CO.
MUSIC STORE.
SOLS AGENTS FOR THK
CELEBRATED WEBER,
HAINES A BROS.' AND PBAHE A 00.S
lira ud, Hqnare and Upright Pianos, and
Eatey ana Hianaara urgana.
107 t'lrat trees. Portland Crecon
LIME ! LIME !
The undersigned having been aprointed agents
lor tbe celebrated
' UREK1" BtJI JDAS USE,
Would respectfully call the attention of dealers
and contractors to that brand before purchasing
elsewhere. We shall endeavor to keep a full sup
ply on hand at all timet and at the lowest mark!
rates.
WADH1M aV KIJLIOTT
; COCClffS & BEACH
Wholesale aad Retail Dealer! 1b
AVERILL AND RUBBER
MIXED PAINTS.
Doors, Windows and Blinds, Paints, Oils.
Brushes, etc., etc.
103 rrant Street, Portland, Or.
(Formerly occupied by T. A. Davla At Co.)
wCnutractora and Dealers ar requested
send for oor list of price.
KRIBS&M'MILLEN,
DEALERS IN
Cook, Parlor and Box Stores
C00KIN6 RANGES ANO.HEATINS
FURNACES.
Manufaotnrers of all klnda of .
TIN, CCPPER AND SHEET-IRON WARE
Bocflar aad all kind of Job Work
Promptly attended to -la.
ISA rtrat atteot. Porilanal. Oregon
CLACEAUAS PAFZItCO
Mamtfactaren and Dealer la
PAPER
10S Front Strooi, PartlamC Chc,, ' ,
J3I STOCK:
NEWS PRINT, "White and Colored.
BOOK PAPERS, White and Tinted.
FLAT PAPERS, of all description..
LEDGER PAPERS.
ENVELOPES, of all sizes acl qualitio 1 '
WRITING PAPERS. - -
CARDBOARD of all kinds.
GLAZED AND PLATED PAPERS
COLORED MEDIUMS.
MANILA PAPERS.
BUTCHERS' PAPER.
STRAW PAPER.
PAPER BAGS.
STRAW and BINDERS' BOAEDS
TWINES, Etc., Etc.
Cards Cut to Ordar.
Agents for Shattuck & Fletcher
well-known Black and .
Colored Inks. :
TYPE FOR SALE.
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We have several fonts of Job Typu
(nearly new) , which we will sell low.
Cases, Galleys, Leads, Roles and
Printers' necessaries generally kept on
hand.
I newspapers oumuea at uat price
freight added.
MT.IURRAY'S
Adjustable Strainer
AKD "
CAST IRON STEAMER.
Either or Both Jlttetl to aay Si.
THE STEAMERS WILL SAVE THE .
price of themselves in two weeks in an
family. They can be turd witn equal advantage
in boiling, aa it ia impossible to mm meat or
vegetables to the bottom of your kettle. When
they are used in steaming, whatever yoa aiw
cooking is inside of the kettle, thereby gutting
the full benefit of the heat. Tbey 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 adju it d. No corners
or joints about either that are hard to keep dean.
Sold by Agents tor 5 ' Cent las
County Right for Sal , fl rirtraoa
JAMES McJlUKRAY,
East FortUiM, Or.
NEW BOOt STE.
THE IllixXSI&
STATI.CflfERS,
J. IC. OXLXj te CO.,
Have moved into their Splendid Establishment .
in Union Block, on Stark and First streets. As
inexhaustible stock of well-seleeted
STATI OriE n "2V
-And an unlimited supply of books are alwaya
on hand.' This honse has a comprehensive aa
Bortnunt of rvryiinrliBow te tue trade, and
its prices are always rqeonable.
Drop in and see tlie premises.
BARTCCH'S
JJew Music Store,
143 First St. Portland.
(OM FtUoxt- Building,)
Mr. A. Bartach, tho General Agent of too
...... world-renowned, , .
STEIN W AY PIANO,
Njlas opened new Music Rooms at tbe
Above piace.wnere oe Keeps trie ceieDrateu
&cinway, Kraalch & Each
Ernst rtRSewSc&le Pjan
AND BURDETT ORGANS
As well as a full supply of Sheet Music,
Mcsic Books and MraicAt MutcnANOiftK. '
Country orders 'promptly attended tow
ORANGE S. WARREN, Buslaeu Manager.
A. C- GIBBS.
X. W. BINGHAM
CIBBS & BINGHAM.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Portland, . i . i Orrgoa.
Office, 8 and 0, over First National Bank
vrPSrtie2!aT u"ntlo paid to boalneaa In tba
United Mates enurta.
JOHN J. V8CHILLINCER'8
PatentPiro, Water mmA Frost Proof
ARTIFICIAL STONE.
T?. TmbERSTQSnSD- PROPRIETOR OP
. tbla Talnabla patent oa tba Faciao Coaat.
Is now prepared to extents ail ordar for tbo
above sw tie for walks, drtva. eilara, fioora,
f" " fcnlWlnar tarasNs. Thia alone Ut
laid in all abapoj and in any color or variety of
lor;. Pjde.r? ,m bo llt at &4 Frost street,
opposite lb Holloa Pouae, Portland. Terms
liven and estimate made by mail.
... CBAS.fi. DUHft&OOP. Proprietor.
FABRIOWABLB VI8TT
INU CAKDB, with It ft ma
, !n mid no two a II ke
if 19 eta. Stamps oot
Ptafcea aa pay.) AJdressj
"TBE BOHh" CAhii CO
(o. W South ruin street, remand, Orvfoa.
TfiEXiSUXl & 7CLFF.
MACHINISTS,
And Manufacturer or -Tools
for Plaolr.p, Eoidlsr a&4 TarmUff.
Cattle Brand. ! Banna Work. Iron
ataJltna; tor , aaaaH ktnna
-of Brewery Work anasto
to outer.
Also Farm Machinery repaired on abort nolle
M1U Pick nada aad repaired.
So. a an 4 Prent tract, pawtfnava. r
Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds,
tUm eutd FlatoH Wrv
At Greatly Esccd Prices.
No Fallai, N Force. Sate, Ko 0eln,
To make room for a o w atock of peedt wfcicfi
I am about to atl r--"'!iIiy is tbe Kait and in.
Europe, I ofjer ail s 'ianyliB
At Cw . ' j Eftoa.ie- ;
- Customers are htv .. rsi! and .sB?wt, ami
be eonrtneed of too r-i r-i iy tjmutt
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