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THE INDEPENDENT. . BOTH BIDES Of IT. Two iUwen am a rlngln' do bell, Listen tods warnlo'; One eona to heb'n and one to hell Farly In de mora In'. Ohl dorkleeglton bo'ddls erart. Listen to de weniln'; Vi" gwlne to Mart de gospel raft Early In de morolo'. . Pta ta de only line to take. Linen (ode wamlu'; To get to tieb'o wtdont mistake, Early Id de mornln'. Dedeboel runsde odder line. Listen todewarnln1; He runners out to bb you Jine, rly In de niorni"'. Pon't bean a word de debbel say. Listen lode warning . Wi-'a swine to start at break ob day, , Early In de morulu'. Tocou-li all inpers.uch as you. Listen lode wrMu'; Dp debbel's steamer' painted new. Early in a rooruiu-. But If yu Kit on bo'd wld blm. Listen lode warnln'; 'T bll sou will be landed ID. Karly lo de morula'. AS USFORtJOTlES LESBOS. The timo vna about a fortnight before Christmas. There were not many trav elers, and I bad a compartment in the early tidal train to myself. . My destina tion wan Paris, my errand to convey from my father (a London jeweler and silver Bniitli) to his agent in that city a very Ycluulilo ring. "The diamond in it are worth 300 if they are worth a penny', jay father uaa saiu to me, "so 1 nope vou vnll take special care of the rinsr, jfed. and neither lose it on the war nor allow yourself to be robbed of it. I smiled a little superciliously as my father spoke. As if it were at all likely that I should either lore it or allow it to be stolen from me! I was inst turned one and twenty. and my father had no right to speak to . ir .- . jne as n jl were suu a Doy, J had got tne ring saio in an inner pocket of my waistcoat, as I took care to ansnre myself from time to timo. I had not Been it since my father put into a little velvet box, in which it was still shut up. When I had finished my first ciear. and liad got through with the morning news, the thought struck me that I might as well have another look at the ring. There could be no harm in that vou know. I took the box out of its hiding place and opened it. My eyes were dazzled as i looked, mere laid the darling in its nest of purple velvet. Who could have resisted the pleasure of tak ing it out and trying it on? Certainly sot 1. first on one linger and tnen on another I tried it. Had it been made ior the third finger of my right hand it could not have fitted me better. I looked e im 11? exquisite. How I come to think of it, was there or could there be a safer hiding place for the ting than my ringer? I had only to l.ecp my glove on and not a soul would J.now anything about it. It was far tafcr there than in my pocket. In such I, case to hesitate was folly. I placed the ling on my finger and put the empty box in my pocket. As I was alone there was no occasion to put my glove on just then po I mused and smoked, and watched the many colored rays of light that Hashed from the brilliants, and wondered what great swell s finger it was destined to decorate. How I wished that I could call it mine. There was no harm in dazzling the nyes of the ticket collector with it. He .was only a railway official. But I took . care to pull on my glove and button it before alighting from the train. A quar ter of an hour later wo were steaming out ol Hover harbor. There were not more than a dozen passengers on deck. The day was cold and clear, with just enough sea to make tue voyago unpleasant lor bad sailors, Only two ladies were visible. One was a stont, middle-aged person, who was eating and drinking nearly all the way across evidently an old salt. The other wag well, simply the most charming creature I had ever set eyes on. In Doint of fact. I could not keen mv eves off her. I passed her and repassed her as i paced tne decs: from end to end, ami every time icasseu her 1 looked at her, What LOvely gray eyes! What superb jellow hair ! But as for the complexion if wnnlil talrjft n muif f r slauffiHA IliA -i 1 , 1 rose tints. Onoo or twice her eves met mine just for a moment, and it struck ine that thev were f nil of a wistful sad' ness. Ho far as I could judge she was , entirely alone. We were about half way across when, as I passed her for the fiftieth, time, she spoke: "Would you Monsieur, have the goodness to ask the steward to bring me a little Cognac?"' Mie spoke in i rench. As the song says, "Her voice was low aud sweet." I was too flattered to answer her. I could only tow and grin and make a bolt for the htcwurd's den. Of course I took the Cognac to her myself. You should have een how prettily she thanked me. She nipped it as a canary bird might do, that bird were in the habit of drinking brandy. "I hope Mademoiselle is some- wiiat revived, 1 ventured to tioserve presently. Yes, very much revived, thanks to Monsieur. I am not mademoiselle. a widow. She pressed ber handkerchief o her eyes as she spoke. How interest ing, nay, how touching, was the simple confession. This wistful sorrow in her eyes was at once accounted for. Would hat it had been my happy lot to com- lort iicr. There was a camp stool close by. Pres- cntly I ventured to draw a little nearer tint! sit down on it, blushing at my tern fcnty as I din so. She did not seem at til offended, and we were presently in the midst of an animated and interest ing conversation. There was no hauteur about Madame. On the contrary, she Was candor itself. She had only been three days, she told me, in London. She had been staying with Sir Henry Fitz Evaus, who had charge of her late hus band's interests in England. She was now going back to seclusion, going back to the little cottage in which she dwelt ever since her husband's death. She would not be able to go forward by the tidal train, she told me, having a busi ness call to make in Calais. She would go forward by the evening train. All this was told me with a charming frankness. There was no reason why I ahould not wait and go forward by the evening train if sho would only allow me to do so. When I threw out a hint to that effect, she offered no objection. She admitted at once tluit she was fond of so ciety, and then she looked at me, and veil, I could almost have sworn that she blushed. I had already told her that I tvas bound for Paris on a special errand for my father; but I had not said a word about the ring, or had she ever seen it. I had put on my gloves before leaving the train at Dover, and I still wore them. A little while longer, and we found our-f-elves in Calais. When we landed, lnail Knie admitted that she was hungry, and that luncheon would be a desirable fea ture of the programme. Accordingly, while she went about her business, I took a voiture and drove to the Hotel Pessin. There, in the course of half an Jionr, madam joined me. Now, one can't very well partake of luncheon in kid gloves. The question was whether I should partake of mine with the ring on my finger, or whether I Khonld put it carefully away in the box end hide it out of sight. If you have any knowledge of what human nature at 21, especially when there's a pretty woman in the case, you will know the de cision arrived at. Madame pecked a little at this and that, but hardly ate more than a sparrow might have done. How swiftly the min utes seemed to fly! I could have linger ed on in that cozy little room for a year. When the cloth was drawn and we were left to ourselves, with a bottle of hock n the table between us, somehow our chairs seemed to gravitate towards each other. Or, perhaps, it was the stove that attracted us, for the afternoon was chilly. Jj, anT paga we found ourselves in closer proximity. Thenaiid madame. 'Do you smoke, monsieur?" "Yes, con siderably more tiaa is good for me, I am afraid." "Then smoke now. Oblige Jne. I like to see a gentleman smoke." Jlrose to get a cigar-case out of the pock ft of my overcoif. Madame laid her liana lightly on my arm and what a charming hand it was! "Tenez. I am tfotng to make a confession." said she. I moke, too moi. Cigarettes. I lived lor several years in Spain, where nearly all the ladies smoke. You are not shock ed at the idea of a lady smoking cigar ettes?" "Shocked, madame " "No, of course not. You are too much a man of the world. You are above such insular prejudices. Eh bien, yon shall smoke one of my cigarettes." From the satchel by her side she drew an embroid ered case which she opened, and bade me choose a cigarette." I did so, and she took another. ; Then with her own fair fingers she struek an alluniette, and held it wnuo i lighted the weed. Then she lighted her own. She could not fail to see my ring as she lighted the match. 'I dare say you find the flavor a little Eecnliar," said madame a minute or two tter. "These cigarettes are made of ner- fuuied tobacco. I never smoke any oth ers. I hope you don't find yours disa- greeaoie. i. On the contrary, madame. I am auite in love with it.. As you say, the flavor is slightly peculiar, but aromatic and pleasant very pleasant." To tell the trutn, 1 don't like it at all, but I wouldn't have said so for worlds. W e smoked on in silence. What would this superb creature say to me, I won dered, if I were to tell her how madly I had fallen in ; love with her? or would she I gave a sudden start, and was shocked to find that I had been falling asleep. Fortunately : madame had not noticed me. iter large, melancholy eye were bent upon the stove. There was certainly something very soothing, some thing that inclined to slumber and happy dreams, about madame's peculiar cigar ettes. II X had but 'JUW a year now, and this sweet creature to share it with me, how happy could I be! Certainly she must have been some six or seven years older than myself, but I never was one to care for your chits or school gins, who set up for being women before they are out of their teens. Here was an angel who had been cast on a bleak and unfeel ing world, who had pined for a heart and a home for a heart that brimmed over with love. Gracious goodness! I had a heart that yearned toward lier that that why, eh how was this? And where was I? I awoke with a shiver. But for the court-yard the room would have been quite dark. My head was aching fright fully. I got up and staggered to the window. When I looked out and saw the familiar court-yardj, everything came back to me like a flash ! of light. Where was madame? Why had I slept so long? What a boor she must take me to be.' J groped for the bell and rang it violently Up came a waiter with a candle. "Where is madame?" I demanded. "Madame. he answered, "went out nearly three hours ago, saying she wanted to make a lew purchases, and would bo bacK in a little while. ; On no account, she said, was her brother, who had suffered terrv bly from mal de mcr in crossing, to be dis turbed. Madame," he added, "has not returned." Oone three hours ago! Her brother! Mal de mer! What could it all mean? As I sat down, utterly bewildered, my arm pressed against the little box in my pocket. Mechanical! I glanced at my nnger. The nnsr was no longer there My heart turned sick within me. I sank down and buried my fade in my hands. Tho waiter thought I was ill, and ran to fetch some cognac. I saw it all now. Fool fool that I was! I had allowed my self to be swindled, and by a common adventuress. i At a o'clock next morning I stood be fore my father a miserable, haggard. woe-begone wretch. I told my tale, but as 1 did so I could not keep down my tears tears of mingled shame and vexa tion. He listened to me with a curious cynical smile. When I had done he went to his bureau and opened a drawer. "Set your mind at rest, Ned," he said. "Here's the ring, safe and sound!" I could only stare at him in open mouthed astonishment. "When madame, with the ring in her possession, left you fast asleep, she was just in time to catch tho afternoon boat back to Dover. The ring was in my hands again before 10 o clock last night, "But but," I stammered out, " don't understand. When she had once got the ring in her possession, why did she bring it back to you ? "Because she was paid to do so. Be cause Bhe was hired by me, through the agency of a private inquiry office, to act as she did act. Madame, by profession, is not a thief, but a thief-catcher. You had grown so half-conceited of late, Master Ned, you had got such a mighty tall opinion of yourself and your abili ties, that I thought that it would do you no harm to take you down a peg or two 1 hope I have succeeded in convincing you that there are people in the world quite as clever, or it may be cleverer, than a certain young nincompoop of one and-twenty years. If yon will profit by the lesson, my money will have been well spent." An hour or two later I said: "But wasn't it rather a risky thing to do with a ring worth 500 ?" My father winked at me with the solemnity of a judge, "My dear Ned, what do you take your old dad for ? The diamonds were nothing but paste. A Great Grandmother. To the latter venerable condition our Queen attained before she had completed her sixtieth year, a circumstance which we believe cannot be said of any ofj her predecessors on the throne; scarcely any of whom, indeed, lived to see their children of the third generation. There was a time " 'tis sixty years since" and more when the nation was confidently looking for ward to the birth of a great-grandchild of the reigning monarch and his Queen, a child who might now tiave been our King had he lived. Who shall say that Providence has not ordered events other wise for the great good of this nation ? Who that considers the parentage from which she sprang can wish that the Princess Charlotte had lived to succeed her father? Little did those who mourned in November, 1817, imagine what compensation was in store for all who loved their country's best interests, under the rule of another Princess not born until eighteen months later. That Queen Victoria should have lived al ready to see her eldest daughter a grand mother seems to be in accordance with those outward signs of prosperity which, by the rules of poetical justice, such a life and such a reign as Her Majesty's deserve. And when we pray vicat JSegina, we are inclined to add, "And may she live to be a great-great-grandmother." In tho classes who marry early, which are the highest and the low est, it is not such a very uncommon thing for persons to live to be great grandparents. Probably every country parish can produce one or two specimens among the poor. And in the annals of the great and noble, carefully preserved by such chronicles as Sir Bernard Burke and Captain Dodd, we sometimes moet with curious cases of longevity and ( to coin a term ) great-grandparentage. We could name, for instance, a noblo Duke and Duchess who are great-grandparents, though wanting still two or three years of seventy; a Viscountess, some years vounger than the present century, who has a great-granddaughter aged twelve; one Earl whose son is sixty -one, and an other whose grandson is thirty-seven. It is less than ten years since the widow of tho twentieth Lord Grey de Ruthvn died, and had she been living now she would be, though not older than eighty seven, a great great-gTandnioiher, for her Ladyship was the grandmother of the late Countess of Loudoun, whose grand son, the Earl of Arundel and Surry, was born last September. London Society. "No man on earth can move me from my position," says Lucy Stone. Let her sot. Who cares whether she moves or not? Every time two women meet on the street and kiss, the thermometer sinks seventeen degrees and people hustle around and bank up their cellar win dows, i The Chilians don't brae! much almnt. their Bunker Hills and their forefathers, but when called to the front they don't let nobody nor nothing drive em up trees. Mr. W. W. Corcoran savs thatth f nil- length portrait of Washington in the White House is onlv a noor cam of the original by Stuart, which is at New port. i Doom of the Czar. Tbe Borlin correspondent of the London Daily News has received from St. Petersburg a copy of & proc lamation issued by the .Revolution Committee on the day that tbe Czar returned to St. Petersburg. It roads as follows: Ou the 9th of this month, on tbe Moscow and Kursk Railway, by or der of tbe Executive Committee, an attempt was made on tho Jifo of Al exander II. by moans of an explosion. The attempt failed. We do not find it convenient to publish at tho pres ent time tho reason of the failure. We ure convinced that our agents and our party will not bo dishearten ed at the failure of the attempt, but will gain lrom it a now experience, a lesson of precaution, and at the same time fresh consciousness of their own power and of the pose i I ility of a suc cessful issue. Addressing ourselves to all honest Russian citizens who valuo liberty, to whom the national will and the national interests are sacred, wo once Again point to Alex ander II. as the personification of a despicable despotism of all that is cowardly and sanguinary. Tho reign ol Aloxanuor 11. from the beginning to tho end is a lis, in which tbe fam ous emancipation ot tho sort ends with Makotfs circular. From tho commencement to the end it has been devoted to the consolidation of the classes hostile to the people, and tho destruction of everything by which tho people lived and wished to live. The will of the people was never so contemptuously disregarded and trampled ou. The present reign has supported by every means all those who rob and oppress tho peo ple, and at the same time systematic ally exterminate all who are honest and devoted to tho nation. There is not one village that has uot supplied martyrs, who have been deported to Siberia for supporting communal in terests and for protesting against the administration. From among the in telligent classes tens of thousands drag in an interminable string to Si beria to tho mines, exclusively for having served the cause of tho peo plo in tho cause of liberty and in or der to attain a higher level of devel opment. The ruinous procces of ex termination of every independent element is at last simplified. Alexan der II. is the usurper of tho nation's right, and the main pillar of reaction, tho chief author of the judicial assas sination. Fourteen executions weigh on bis conscience. Hundreds of suffer ers cry for vengeance. Ho deserves to die for the blood he has spilled, for all the suffering he has inflicted. He do serves to dio, but it is not alone with him that wo have to do. Our object is tho national welfare. Our task is to emancipate the people und make them masters of their fate. If Alex ander II. would recognize what a dreadful calamity ho is inflicting on Russia, how unjust and criminal tbe oppression he creates, and renouncing his authority, would transfer such to an Assembly freely elected by uni versal suffrage and provided with in structions by its electors, then only would we leave Alexander II. in peaee,and forgive him all his offenses. Until then, a struggle, an implacable struggle, while there remains in us a drop of blood, until, over tho ruins of despotism, there waves tho standard of national liberty, and the wi'l of the people shall become the law ot Rus sian lite. We appeal to all Russian citizens to support our party in this struggle. It is no easy task to sup port tne wnoie pressure ot the gov ernment forces. The failure of the at tempt of tho 19th of November is an instance of tho many difficulties with which even separate and comparative ly unimportant episodes in tho strug gle are attended. We want general support in order to break up despot ism and return to tho people its right and authority. We demand and ex pect such support from Russia. St. Petersburg, Nov. 22, 1879. A Literal Application, Professor II., one of the oldest tu tors of ono of tho oldest colleges in the country, was as accentric as ho was learned. His judgment anywhere in the field of natural science and philosophy was to bo taken as law. No ono ever thought of questioning it. The mathematical knot was never wrought which he could not sever. On a certain occasion Profesaer H. wanted a servant. Several applicants presented themselves were tried and discarded. Finally one" came whose looks the pedagogue liked. "Now, look ye, my man," tho sav ant said, "if you can remember and earry out one course of procedure, I think wo may get on. I cannot afford to waste words, nor can I afford to find thoughts for a stupid servant. You must do your own thinking and understand iny wants at a hint. For instance, wnen i say vuring mo a ra zor,' you will comprehend that I am going to shave: so you will under stand that I want hot wator. soaD. towel, comb, brush, and so on. And so with everything. My initial order you will take as a cue, and of your own thought supply all possible ac cessories and contingents." ine new servant proved himself equal to the occasion, and his master was more than satisfied. One day tho professor came home pale and shaky. Said he to bis ser vant: "John, I am not reeling well. Go and call the doctor." Tho man bowed and departed. An hour passed two hours and yet no doctor and no servant Final. ly, however, the doctor arrived, and in a moment more in came the ser vant. "How is this, John," demanded tho professor. " Why have you been so long?" "You told mo to call the doctor, sir. ' "Aye, you could have done it in ten minutes." "But, sir, you told mo vou were not well. I took your simple order as a cue to all you might need. I found the doctor absent and left word for him. Then I went to call watchers in case you should require attendance through tho night. Then I called upon your lawyer, in case you should desire to make your will. And then, ir, I had to hunt np the undertaker, that he might have all in readiness in case" "Stop, stop, John! That will do. Bless me I you can be literal in your application of a hint." "Yes,Bir. Any further orders, sir?" "Not now, John. You may go." The professor is still living, and John still serves him Senator Plumb's new article of war provides that no senior officer at gambling shall win the money of a junior, tinder penalty of dismissal from the service. The article is a good one. The junior officers of the army reeeive the least pay, and they ahould rake in the pile when they sit down to a little game of draw. American Cartridges. Russia was among the first to make use of the American metallic cartridges, and she attempted in vain to imitate them. After wasting 10,000,000 of cartridges made of inferior material, she wisely con cluded to buy here, as other foreign na tions have since done. Some of the American cartridges sent to Russia were subjected to the unparalleled test of a five weeks soaking in the waters of New York harbor, the vessel carrying them having sunk off Staten Island on her way out. They were fished up as good as new, ana, triumphantly passing tne or deal of a new test of their firing quality, went on their way again, and have, no doubt, long since added their quota to the return of casualties. For good cart ridges American copper is needed, a fact which the Europeans are beginning to learn. Even so long ago as the days of the mound-builders it was discovered that our Luke Superior region produced a copper ore of uncommon purity. Ore of eq'al purity is not, it would seem, to be found elsewhere, and perhaps the pro cess of annealing is not so well under stood abroad. At all events, the brass made of the foreign copper, abounding in the sulphurets, lacks the necessary strength and ductility, and for some rea son tbe metallic cartridges made abroad are liable to deteriorate in quality. Dur ing her war with Turkey, Russia pur chased large quantities of brass here, one Connecticut firm alone supplying $2,000, 000 worth of sheet brass. Other govern ments have, no doubt, been purchasers. Ready-made cartridges have also been sent abroad in such quantities that a mil lion has become the unit of calculation. Three forms of cartridge are given in tho illustrations one showing the United States Government cartridge another the Peabody-Martiui cartridge, and the largest the fcharn or itemmgton special long-range cartridge.. The Gov ernment cartridge contains seventy grains of powder and a hardened bullet, com posed of one part of tin and sixteen parts lead, weiuhinn 495 erains. The Peabody- Martini has eightv-flv grains of powder and a bullet of the same composition, weighing 480 grains. The long-range bullet has one part of tin to fourteen parts lead, and weighs 550 grains, the charge of powder beiug 100 grain. The advantages of the. heavier cartridge are well kuowu in the experiences of the Turkish war already referred. Whatever else they may lack, the Turks have cer tainly shown superior intelligence in the armament of their troops. The English, who use the same gun, had on a smaller sealo an experience similar to that of the Turks. The rille used by the rifle bri gade in the campaign against the Afghans were sighted lor 2,0K) yaids, and at 2,100 yards were found effective. , The rilles with which our own army is provide 1 are sighted to l,2iK) yard, as wilt be seen from the cut on puge 4"0, showing the military s;ght. S-jme of the sights used by riflemen in l ius-rango shooting are also shown, the Vernier sijht and a sight combining a spirit-level and a wind gauge. The ordinary Vernier will regis ter to the tho '.'uiid'lh of an inch, and Verniers have been made so as to regis ter the twenty thousandth of an inch, these finer sights being used to regulate the ordinary a:ght. These very line sights are uot adapted to military ser vice, in which the rifle is subjected to a very different usige from that prevailing at Creedmoor, where the long- range rifle man is able to give his weapon all the Care that a musician would take of bis precious Stradivarius violin or his Tour te bow. Scribner's Monthly. Austria and Prussia In European History There is nothing more remarkable in history than the simultaneous aggran dizement of the House ol Hapsbnrg, both eastward and westward, at the close of the fifteenth and the commencement of the sixteenth century. Before that date it had indeed occupied a consider able position. On the extinction of the House of Babenberg it had wrested Au8' tria, after a sharp struggle, from the Ot tokar of Bohemia, and had given more than one Emperor to Germany. But its position was the reverse of undisputed. It was in reality the fear of the Turks and of the French, and the conscqnent recognition of the necessity of some kind of union among heterogeneous princ polities and powers which finally made the Empire of Germany hereditary in the House of Hapsburg and united it to the crowns of Bohemia and Hungary. The union was not altogether willing the decree of fate was long struggled against. But t'.ie fall of Constantinople in llo3. the warlike policy of the t rench Kincs and the all but successful in trigues of Francis the First to be elected Roman Emperor settled the question. The history of the House of Austria in its broader features for the two centu ries which followed is the history of the double struggle against her two great enemies east and west. The final defeat of the Turks before Vienna, and the vie tories of Eugene and Louis of Baden on the Rhine and the Danube at the close of the seventeenth and the commence ment of the eighteenth century, altered the situation forever. The huge ever- srrown dominion of the House of Ham burg wis no longer a necessity as a de fence against the Turks, and the world soon began to find it out. It may sound paradoxical, but the fact is that the pow er of the Hapsburgs was destroyed by its own victories. Meanwhile, in Ger many another power was arising which hail no foreign dominions or alien sub jects, and therefore considered itself a better guardian of German interests at home and equally able to protect them to the West. The statesmen of France made no short-sighted calculation in allying themselves with the Hapsburgs against the Hohenzollerns in the great struggle of the Seven Years' War. Bnt the stars in their courses fought against them, and against the French Empire when it aimed at accomplishing the same object. Ros- bach was in this sense the forerunner oi Gravelotte, and Leuthen of Sadowa. The peace of Hubortsburg led inevitably to that of Prague, and the treaty of Pres burg was their connecting link. The his tory of Germany from 1756 to 1866 is the history of the attempt of France to im pose the headship of a weakened House of Hapsburg on a weaker Germany, and of the determination of the Hohenzol lerns not to allow it. Austria by 1866 had ceased to be a necessity to Germany, and the peace of Prague only sanctioned the decree which fate had long since registered. Lady FiU Maurice in the Acadany. ; When to Marry. ; In Hungary, males marry at fourteen and females at twelve, whereas in Austria, persons are minors until they attain the age of twenty-four, and they must not marry before that time without the formal consent of their parents. There is no restriction on the ground of religion, however; although children of both sexes under fourteen are forbidden to marriage. In Denmark a man may not marry under twenty, nor a girl un der sixteen, but in other parts of Scandinavia a man must be twenty-one. In Belgium and France, eighteen and fifteen are the respective limits, and in Bavaria there are no less than four laws in operation, each having a reference to a particular district. The ages fixed by these range from twelve to fourteen for girls, and fourteen to eighteen for boys for so in truth we must call them. About two or three and twentyyears ago, a law was passed in Hesse-Darmstadt prohibiting males from marrying before they had attained the age of twenty-five, bnt since this law has been amended, and twenty-one is now the limit. In Switzer land there is no uniformity at all, each canton apparently having gone its own way in the business. The ages appointed there range- from twelve to seventeen i years for girls, and fourteen to twenty ! for the other sex the lower ages being j always found to obtain in those districts where the old cannon laws are still re spected. In two cantons people may marry at any age after their first com munion. In Greece the ages are eighteen and fifteen; so they are in Roumania, bnt in Russia they are eighteen and sixteen. In Turkey there are no laws on the subject at all, but it is worthy of note, remembering the social affinities of tbe Laps, that in Lap land boys marry at seventeen, and girls at fourteen, provided they haye attained the requisite knowledge of the Christian language. ; Highwaymen The elevated railway companies. TUe Use or Lager Beer. The virulent vaporings of the Prohi bition party, reported a few days since in these columns, and its attack upon the ex-President of the State Board of Health ex-President of the American Medical Association, the most honored leader of Massachusetts physicians, a noble gentleman, who has devoted his life to the welfare of humanity have educed already two responses relative, the one to the moral, the other to the in tellectual value of such statements. As a temperance man of nearly forty years' standing, one of the earliest to re eeive; the pledge at the hands of Father aiauiew, and one of the founders of a temperance society when a studennt of Harvard; as one who has examined the principal breweries of the United States from Milwaukee to Machias, and during five years abroad those from Burton to Beersheba, and made a careful study of the statistics of intoxication in the various beer, wine and spirit drinking countries, I may be permitted a word as to the physical consideration involved in the suicidal policy of prohibiting the use of lager beer. 1. It is an incontestable fact that every nation always has used, does' and will use, some sort of external agency capable of temporarily accelerating or retarding the action of the mental machinery. The finding of the least narmiui among such agents is the desid eratum of sensible humanitarians. The least harmful agent is lager beer, the proportion of alcohol in this being no more, may be properly taken as food; for physiologists have now ascertained that alcohol, in small amount, is a normal constituent of the tissues of the human body. I do dot speak of "ale," which is not beer. 2. Lager beer is too bulky to produce intoxication; particularly in the case of Americans, who drink, as a rule "stand ing." If those drinking it would only sit down, as the Germans do, the rest obtained would be as valuable as the tonic effects of the beer, and the sitters would be more likely to substitute beer for bitters. 2. Beer is not a stimulent, like spirits, which are like an application of a whip to an already over-tired horse; it is rath er like a good meal of oats. It is a tonic and fattening food (being composed of malt) and a nervous sedative (from the hops in combination.) i. While spirits stimulate to violence and lust, beer produces merely somno lence. 5. A taste for beer drives out or de stroys the liking for spirits, thus proving its raison d'etre, if only as the lesser of the twq evils, one of which must exist in answer to the demand (real or fancied) of humanity. 6. The physical and psychical abnor malties of the New Englander are gaun tiness of the body and nervous excita bility. The characteristics of the beer drinker are adipose tissue and a mental placidity bordering upon stolidity. The philosopher, the philanthropist, the patriot and the physician may well pon der upon the relations of cause and effect, and be grateful for a fluid so anmirably caculated to obviate the effects of onr every-day atmosphere. As a step in the right direction may be noted in a little announcement in the Advertiser on the 11th inst. , viz. : "The grog to be served on the Jeanette is to be, not spirits and hard liquors, but beer, ooffee and tea. 7. In Maine, where beer is prohibited, bad whisky, being of lesser bulk, is tak ing its place with bad effects. Boston Advertiser. A Splendid Olem. I have recently leen favored with a sight of one of the most famous jewels of tue world a stone mat nas us msiory and its pedigree, and is celebrated in the annala of the noted gems of liiiirope. have held it in my hand and admired beneath the rays of the sunlight the finest sapphire that is known to exist. This beautiful and well-nigh priceless stone combines in a singularly perfect degree the leading qualifications of size, shape, color and water. In form it is a flat oval, being about two inches long by an inch and a half wide. It is cut slightly en cabochon on top, and into a multitude of small faoots beneath Its hue is perfect, being a warm, lustrous Marie Louise blue, not so dark as to show black beneath the gaslight, but having all the velvety softness and purity of tint that is required in a really fine gem of this description. Its weight is 300 carats, and it belongs to a noble and wealthy Russian family, in whose possession it has been for the past two centuries, and it has been placed by its owner in the hands of one of the great diamond merchants of Fans for safe keeping. One of the Rothschild family has offered for it no less a sum than $300,000 but the offer lias been refused. I asked the courteous gentlemom in whose care it has been left as to the actual value of the stone. He told me that, as it was perfectly unique, no pre cise valuation could be set upon it, nut that he was inclined to estimate it at some 400,000. He also showed me a string of enor mous graduated pearls of extreme purity and fineness (the center one was as large as a small cnerryj ana ne toia me that the necklace belonging to the noble Russian was composed of six similar strings of equal beauty and ex ceptional size. The great sapphire was mounted to be worn as a brooch, being surmounted with large diamonds of some twenty carats each. Its guardian informed me that the pendant belonging to this brooch was composed of a large pear-shaped sapphire, weighing sixty carats, and set in diamonds. The whole collection of jewels belonging to this one family is worth over 82,000,000. "There is no suoh sapphire as the largest one," continued my informant, "even among tho crown jewels of Russia. I furnished myself two very fine oneR to the Em press, each weighing six carats, bnt they do not compare with this magnificent srem. The gentleman who spoke was well qualified to give an opinion, as he is one of the few diamond merchants of the world, and is, moreover, a noted expert. He it was who was recently sent for by the Russian Government to go to St. Petersburg to make a full esti mate of the value of the crown jewels, and he furnishes whatever ornaments in precious stones are purchased by the members of the Imperial family. FOR THE LADIES. The young Queen of Spain prefers shoes to boots. The ex-Qneen Isabellas royal son Calls her "Mamma." New plaid stockings have the plaids set diagonally. Fountain foam is a new tint, a little paler than sea foam. Bonnets of close shape vary the poke for evening wear. Reception and dinner dresses have trains three yards long. Visiting bonnets are in combinations of satin and velvet in all the shades of red. A new slipper is cut very low and fastened across the instep by a real gold bracelet. During the last week bonnets came out in distinct shades of crimson and magneta. A new waste basket is in the form of tall hat, and, strange to say, it is very pretty. Dressing bridesmaids m costume sug gesting the four seasons is an English freak. The latest f ancv in feathers is a group of birds with folded wings and closed eyes, suggests death. ; All departments of the shops are sacrificed now to the all-important dis play of Holiday goods. Miss Sara C. Jewett, the author of "Deep-haven," is not only a clever young lady, but a "real beauty. - : The most elegant, and at the same time the simplest hat of the season is the wide-brimmed beaver. : A woman who hasn't got a seal-skin aacque can comfort herself with the news that they are unhealthy. Mr. Gladstone says: "I use the ex pression women with greater satisfaction than I use the name of ladies," SHORT ITEMS. Modjeska is in Poland. J. C. Flood is about to retire from stock operations. M. Leon Chotteau is again en route for America. No lady can wipe her nose too often on a $10 lace handkerchief. A French cook can take a rib of mutton and turn ont a spring pullet. There are 5000 treeB in Joe Jefferson's orange orchard in Louisiana. The Empress of Austria visits L-eland again in February for the hunting season. Rochester men prefer death to being quoted "N. G. in . the Mercantile Agency. Ohio's first colored jury found a verdict of: "Not guilty, 'cause he didn't done it." This is good weather to "froeze ont" college professors and freeze in boxing teachers. ; Frank Leslie has many different publi cations and he steals the matter for all of them. ! ! Mr. Moody isn't a man of the world.or he'd a' known better than to have tackled St. Louis. - Mr. Holyoake, the English apostle of co-operation, is praising America since returning home. Ex-Governor Seymour has a complete collection of biographies of American statesmen in his library. A Mexican Governor at a dinner had seventeen courses of hash served before tho main part of the meal. A cur that no one will own will get a tin kettle over a given distance as quickly as a $100 imported dog will. Venus was the first person who had her boat sawed in half, when she came ashore on the half -shell. ; "Can a man marry his widow's sister?" He. can provided he is a "California widower," and his wife is willing. London police stations have hot and cold water. The hot water is to throw over prisoners who kick the bars. The Rev. Morgan, of Boston, can see no difference between church fairs and lotteries, and is aiding to suppress both. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll,. from his frofession and lectures, earns from 40,000 to $70,000 a year, and spends most of it. Owls talk with each other by each one holding the end of a straw in his mouth. That's what gave birth to the audi phone. A minister in one of the small Illinois towns was the unfortunate loser of sev eral dollars the other night. He had a donation party. f Ohio school girls drink red ink become very ill, send for their lovers, make np, get well, and are heroines for the next four weeks. Lovers in New Jersey now get married at midnight, so as to be joined between two days and be a little more spooney than other folks. Susan B. Anthony has just celebrated her twenty-second birthday. Free Press. Does this mean that she was born on the 29th of February. It was a happy thought that suggested during the war, the using of cotton for breastworks, and the practice has been kept np ever since. Don Carlos, of Spain, swears that he will have his rights or perish; but we all feel the same way, and are as much of a hero as he is. Mr. W. W. Corcoran of Washington.is the owner of the beautiful Sevres dessert service which was once owned and used by George Washington. Nevada has a town named Zero, and neither the weather nor the thermometer man can get the start of the place. Strangers may expect a cool reception. New Jersey wants to make a legal holiday of tho birthday of Christopher uoiumnus. bhe believes he discovered New Jersey when he did tho rest of America. Just as soon as a man imagines tint the world owes him a living he will seek to collect the debt from which some one has gained his own living and laid up Bomethmg besides. "How far is it to Butler if I keep straight on?" "Wall, if you're a goin' to keep straight on, it's about twenty-five thousand miles, but if you turn round t other way it s about half a muo! Observing little brother's remark be fore a room full of company: "I know what made that red mark on Mary's nose; it was the rim of John Parker's hat." And there are girls who believe that little brothers never go to heaven. We feel obliged to remind the Presi dent again that the country is getting on swimmingly without any minister at either the English or Russian Court. But we admit that Ohio is being neglect ed. Boston Globe. A contemporary says Eve is as de serving of a monument as Adam, and he snrgests "Give them a monument apiece." But why not treat them as this country has George Washington give them a piece of a monument. It will soon bo time for the members of tho New York Legislature to have their button-holes lined with sheet-iron to save them from breaking ont when the Senatorial candidates hook their fingers in them. Commodore Vanderbilt once visited a spiritual medium, who commenced busi ness by saying, "lournrst wife wishes to commnnicate with you." "Perhaps so," said the Commodore abruptly, "but that is not what I came here for. "Why, Dick," said a lady teacher the other day, "you are gettting to be an awfully good boy, lately; ever so much better than you were last vear. How is it?" "Oh. pshaw! Miss Hetty," said the youngster, - "I don't have so much tum- nuck-ache now. A school teacher, who has just been telling the story of David, winds up with: "And all this happened over 3000 years ago. A little cherub, its blue eyes dilated with wonder, after a mo ment's thought: "Oh, dear, marm,what a memory yon must have. A little girl passing the Washington statue lately asked a lady who was with her if Washington was bnried there. "No," said the lady. "Where is he buried?" said the little girl. "I don't know," said the lady. "Then I guess you don t read the Bible much, said little innocence. Remarks a writer: "A gentle hand can lead an elegpant by a hair." Now. what foolishness that is to put into the minds of children? Why, bless you, elephants don't have hair; they have just hides, that's all. Perhaps a gentle hand might lead him by tho tail, but, mind you. we have our doubts even of that. The man who marries under the im pression that his wife gives np every thing for him father, mother, brothers, sisters and home finds out sometimes that, however much the wife may have given up, the father, mother, brothers, sisters, etc., have not given her up. Gen. Meigs was devoted to his wife. who died a few weeks ago, and has been greatly depressed since the affliction. During the last week of her life Mrs. Meigs frequently said that she "never felt warm except under furs," and so her husband insisted that her coffin should be wrapped closely in a snowy white bears furs, i i : A man was standing on a corner the other day, gazing around at nothing in particular, when a friend stepped tip and said: x see you nave a mourning Dana on your hat," "Yes, I have; it's for my mother-in-law," replied the man in mourning. ' Why, I did not know she was dead. "Well, she isn t, she s re covered." A "drummer" for a New York house called on a merchant recently and handed him a picture of his betrothed instead of his business card, saying he represented that establishment. The merchant examined it carefully, re marked that it was a fine establishment, and returned it to the astonished man, with the hope that he would soon be ad mitted into partnership. The last seen of the drummer and merchant they were talking about the outrages in Maine. It is a Pleasure To trade with, or patronize a house which tries in every way to give satisfaction. When you go to a store and find the proprietor or clerk anxious to fill your orders, is pleasant in manner and agreeable in conversation, without any extra disgusting airs, you go from there with pleasant thoughtsevenif you are unable to find what you want. Such a place is BartscVs music store, 143 First street, Portland. The proprie tor is a gentleman of genial qualities, while Mr. Warren, its business manager, has a smile and kind word for everybody, making them feel perfectly at home, and all the time studying to keep such goods as will please the most exacting. This store has a very complete stock of music and books, musical goods, pianos and organs. It will pay you to go there and examine the stock. Any AnfforlvB "itb nervous debility, exhausted vitality, or from tbe effect or youthful follien or exeewK- In rnaturer yeri, can be thoroughly and quickly cured by mlug the great KDgllh remedy, "Sir Atley Cooper's Vital Bsmtosativk " It In uot n excitant, but an hooesl cure. Price, S3 a boille, or four lllunllVlUifUlllj. tlV,.IIU UMU U. HUM UCU of Honoc, 1)avi A Co., Wboleoble Alien ts, or direct of A. K. Mlntle, M. D., 11 Kearney Street, San Frunclcco.Cal. Health. Btrenvth aud Vlarar or the Kid neys and Bladder always follow the nse ot tbe great Bucbo Compound, "Dr. Mlntle's Nepnre tlcum." Bright' Diseatte, Diabetes, InBamma tlou, Hmartlug aud Private Uiaeaae are quickly cured by 1U For Leucorrboea, It baa no equal. Don't be persuaded to take soy otber preparation. Every one wbo has tried It recommend IL For sale by all druggists. Hodge, Davis A Co., wholesale KnU. Price 81.00 per bottle or six bottles for tS.Ou. Forewarned forest m d. Phvaicians and invalids use with coufidenc The Kaiser Celebrated (ieruian Elixir for Con sumption and throat aud lung diseases. It is rich in the medical properties as tar, wild cherry, etc. Is rendered perfectly harmless to the youngest child, ibis would have proved an Angel of merry in tbe household of those un happy parents at Vallejo, Dixon, Beaver, Utah, and numerous other places, whose children were slaughtered by a quack 'medicine recommended by its owner to cure croup, possessing no prop erties calculated to cure it, but instead a deadly drug which has slain its thousands. Be sure you cut only Gt rman Elixir. The genuine bears the Prussian coat of arms and the fac-simile signiture of Dr. Kaiser. Samples at all drug Biores. iart;e sue, io cents, for sale by all re spactable druggists. VI u making Buy parcbaaeor 1st writ. In- to respouge to aay advertisement ! hi paper you will pica nulls tbe name of I lie piper. Portland Business Directory PHVSlCIAJi A.D SIRGKOJT. CARnWELL, W. B. B.E. cor. First and Mor mon, over Morse's raiace or Art. DKKT1ST. SMITH. DR. E. O. 167 First street, Portland. A. B. SINGLETON & CO'S NORTHWEST COAST Detective & Collection Agency. Collections matte Promptly and Detective Buti nets Attewied to with Secrecy and Dispatch. Offlw, Room 10, De hum's building, Vorthweat cor. irsi aua w aim id? ton gin., i-oniaoa COMPOUND OXYGEN, With free use as adjuncts of PHOSPHORUS and CARBOX compounds. A new treatment for the cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Xeuralgia, 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 are selected as showing its range ot ap plication : 1, 4. Four cases of consumption two of them having cavities in the lungs are all entirely well. 5. 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, 1. 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 und the other in sixteen days. 10 b 14. Five cases of chronic dyspepsia, ralarrh or serofulus ailment. All cured or greatly relieved in a few weeks' treatment. A small pamphlet on the Oxygeu Treatment and all enquiries answered, bent rsRI, on ap plication. Also, references to patients who have taken, or arc now using the treatment. Addre nr. PllhlnKtoa, Cer. First and Washington tit-. Portland,! Oca. THE OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING Company In no ptepared to furnlsb !nnldes, Ouioide and Sup plements on t lie shortest no tice. Address IK. It. Palmer. Box 69. Portland, Or. ONLY $90! Famous Standard Organ. 10,000 Of which have been sold on the Pacific Coast. OvLY $90 A FIVE-OCTAVE ORG4V, Elegant High-Top CaseFive Slops, with Octave Coupler A. Sub-Bass, Possessing all the power and sweetness of the blxher cost instruments. Every Organ fully guaranteed for five years. Addn ss W. T HUNAIIAN, Morrison St., between Second and Third, PORTLAND, OR. Bole Agent for the Northwest Coast. BARTSCH'S New Music Store, 143 First St. Portland. Odd Fellow? Building.) Mr. A. Bartsch, the General Agent of the world-renowned, STEIN WAY PIANO. lias opened new Music Hooms at the above place,where he keeps the celebrated Steinway, Kranich & Bach AND Ernst Gabler Kew Scale Fianos AND BURDETT ORGANS As well as a full supply of Sheet Music, Music Books and Musical Merchandise Country orders promptly attended to. ORANGE S. WARREN. Business Manager. NEW BOOK STORE. THE LEADING STATIONERS, J. I. GILL, & CO., Ilave moved into their Splendid Establishment in Union Block, on Stark and First streets. An inexhaustible stock of well-selected STATIONERY, And an unlimited supply of books are alwavf on hand. This house has a comprehensive as sortment of everything known to the trade, and its prices are always reasonable. Drop in and see the premise. JOHN J. SCHILLINCER'8 Patent Fire, Water and Frost Proof : ARTIFICIAL. STONE. THE UKDERSIGSED PROPRIETOR Of thi valuable patent on tbe P.ciflc Coast, I now prepared to execute all order for the above stone for walk, drive cellar, floor, aud all nlltiagt twr)nea. This stone Is laid In all shapes and In any eolnr or variety of colors. Order may be lett at 84 front street, oppoMite the Holton Pouse, Portland. Term given and estimate made by mall. luad. a. uumutouf, rropnetor. THE OREOQII -00- The Most Wonderful OP MODERN TIMES. -00- Challenges the World as a Remedy for Pains in tne Back and Kidneys, Non-Retention of Urine, Diabetes, ' Leuoorrfcat, Inflammation or the Bladder or Kidneys, Brick Dust Deposit in Urine, Nervousness, Painful or Suppressed Menstruation. And all tbe comDlainta arising: from a rtrwnurri Organs of eilber lei. It 1 PUKELY VEGETABLE and ENTIRELY Hj.KMLLsS and m- Leaf of the Plant HtoSrbla; w1ly&Tra T8! CONCENTRATED EXTRACT s Which contains the virtues of tbe Plant ta a form convenient for travelers and other. FULL DIRECTIONS ACCOMPANY EACH PACKAGE. REAO THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS 1 Portland, Oregon, July 29, 187V. My Kidneys were in a very bad condition. The urine was like brick dust, and 1 suffered a great deal with my back. All remedies were unavailing until I tried OKEGON KIDNEY TEA., which gave me almost immediate relief. II. HAMILTON. Portland, Oregon, Augujt S, 1870. Having a severe back ache last winter, I was induced to try the OREGON KIDNKY TEA. I found it very beneficial in its result. It was not more unpleasant to take than other tea. I would recommend it to those afflicted as I m JOHN P. FARMER.. Portland, Oregon, July 31, 1879. Tne OREGON KIDNEY TEA has cured my back and kidneys, and 1 am at a loss to express my gratitude. I shall always remember the OREGON KIDNEY TEA with pleasure and esteem, and highly recommend it to all my frieudsand acquaintances. J. H. P. DOWNING (at P. Selling's). Portland, Oregon, July 31, 1879. While I was at Tillamook last winter I was affecteil in my back and kidneys so that it was almost impossible for me to reach Portland. When I got here I was induced to try the ORE GON KIDNEY TEA. I drank, at my meals, the tea made from it, and it has effected a radical cure. I cau highly recommend it to all who were afflicted as I was. E. COHN. - Ecgknh Citv, Oregon, Oct. 20, 1879. I hereby certify that was suffering from an attack of back ache so severe that I went about doubled up, and could not straighten up. I used one package of the OREGON KIDNEY TEA, and I am fully persuaded that I was restored by its help. JOHN W. LENGER. IIarrisbi r.o, Oregon, Dec 31, 1879. The OREGON KIDNEY TEA has done my wife as much if uot more good than any of the many remedies she has used for pains in the back, and I believe it to be a good remedy for the diseaws which it is recommended for. A. M. COX. 8OLD BY ALL 2RICCISTS AND GENERAL DEALERS. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR. HODGE, DAVIS & Co , Proprietors, Portland, Oregon fis 1 s- 2 A V I llll lit? B.. lis 9 o a r- ?! a 3 IO 3 Mi v ft 5 O m O TT 1 a c p S3 o 0 V so Q s P o 1 t S 9 Go or Rend to C. D. I Add A Co.. No."48 Kirs! street, Portland, Oregon, Branch Rouse of No. 821 Ken my stiwt, sd Franclxco, for the latest Improved Winchester itllle. of U mod els 1864, 187:1. 1876. 1879 using- all the latest solid b-ad caitrwlge of the Winchester make. A large stock of C. I. Iadd's Improved loading implement for all kind and sizes of cart ridges. eU, and sole agents for the Ballard Rifle and Daly h Vnna on the Pacific Coast. Also, a large stock of ol ber kinds on hand. Breech and muszle loaders. A large stock of Cartrld;es of all kinds constantly kept on band. Dn&'t fall to give them acalL Couutry orders promptly attended to. A. C GIBBS. E. W. BINGHAM GIBBS &: BINGHAM, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Portland, t : : Oregon. Office, 8 and 9, over First National Bank Particular attention paid to business In tb United State court. Adgatc's Glass Bail Casters! FOB ' Bedsteads, Bureau, Parlor Table, Dining llHm 1 aoies, bom, etc., etc., ABD ro PI&KUH AN IJ tir K WOULD RE8P3CT FULLY CALL ATTEN II Uon to these new and beautiful furniture Caster, consiatiug of floe, poilehed. Hint glass bail, ntid in claws or nne oen metai, or oi mal leable iron, nickel plated. Beside tbelr exceeding btautv. which is a suSuient Inducement tor their adoption, THK.Y PO&IES.'i MAN V DECIDED AO VAMAUB.3 HVIK TUB VUIIIII KWlVELi CAHTKKS. The are test superseding the old strle a fct that they poaseM advantages of so mean merit. 1 hey are easili put on furniture In stead of the old style ' They add Materially to the wectae ami On which they are used, by Insn attng the Instru ment. This statement we suostsnuaia ny reiiati testimonials, at hand. These Casters have attract ed the attention of eminent musicians, who have thoroughly tested their merit, and nnbestatlngiy recomm ua tnem ior improving ine quantity ana quality of tone. In addition lo the valuable testi monials 01 proxDloeni musicians ommi. in our pos session, we quote tbe following from gentlemen of rar- musical attainments, well known to the pro fession in Oregon : Mewbs. a ik km A- A i.i. an : After yonr having placed a set ot the " A 1gte Qm BaU Casters" on mv riano. I mtut say that I am pleased with tha effect. I find tbe lntutimtst wonderfully Im proved In volume and brilliancy of tone. 1 can also certify to their advantages as a caster over the old style swivel action. My Piano can be moved about over the carpeted floor with much greater ease with the-e Carters than with the old styla. Kerpecuuuy, 1. u i-akkoti, Profeseor of Music. East Portland, Jan 10. 18H. PoH-gRYAToav o Music 1 Portland. Or.. Jan. 12th, W. We take great plessure in eetttfvlna to the 1m pro Yemeni in our Piano sicce haviu tb " Adgate ulast BaU Casters' at tacfaed rhe vol 0 me of fine Is creator and the treble much mora brilliant, and oar only regret M that we did not nas ttaem before. W. B. KINRO-W. I FRAMClo ViNlOS. Poktlahd. Or.. Jan. ISth. 1880. We have tested the merits of the "Adgate Glass Bail Casters', as used on Pianos, and we heartily Indorse tne opinion ot Messrs. Kinross and Vinton in regard to same. I. W.PKKNT1CK ACO. Cool's Mimic Parloks, POKTLAitn; Or.. Jan 16th 1880, f Misms AlgSH A UJll-(Weffl; After care folly testing my Piano, on which you have placed the "Adgate (iltt 3aU Casten," I unhesitatingly ay that they possess all the coerits claimed lor them. They clearly add to the brilliancy and vol ume of tnoe of the Instrument. Tbe Glass Ball ' Center-Bearing " Caster I think I of great lot parlance. RespecUuUy. K. COOK. Oar onraplete stock is on exhibition at McKer Cher A Thompson's Book 8tora. 106 First St., Port- j land, Or. A liberal dveonnt allowed to tb trade. Order by mail promptly Ailed AIKEN ALLKit. Sole Agent 1 For Oregon, Washington and Idaho Territories. V H If I ill. Wf t 1 I0DIIEY Medical Discovery nr riMlitai.ai m.i nt .. iru.. rr-i in its Natural State, a4 tor odeofUf. wnaersu dlffl. Astobia, Oregon, D.-c. 28, 16.79. I take pleasure in testifying to tbe merits of the OKEGOJf KIDNEY TjCA. For tbe past three years I have been suffering from kidney troubles, and during that time have Med nearly every kind of kidney medicine in the market, almost without any relief. Having beard that the OREGON KIDNEY TEA possessed wonder ful properties, I purchased a package, and from the first dose obtained relief, and by the use of w vuv fjouuigc Mjei completely cureo. SAMUEL GRAT. Harrisbcro, Oregon, Deo. 31, 1879. I have used the OREGON KIDNEY TEA fir pains in the back, and I am satisfied with i s effects and do not hesitate to recommend it as m mild and safe remedy. Z. T. SCOTT. IIarbisspro, Oregon, Dee. 31, 1879. Some three months ago i wa attacked with severe pain in mv back. I bought a package of the OREGON KIDNEY TEA, and by the time I bad used one-half of it I wa entirely relieved and have not been troubled since. I cheerfully recommend it to all who may be suffering from a lame or weak back a a pleasant, safe and gced remedy. . B. J. GRIGSBY. Portland, Oregon, Jan. 13. 1880 Having a severe back ache last summer, I tried the OREGON KIDNEY TEA. I used one can, which effected a radical cure. I would recom mend it to all who are afflicted as an unfailing remedy. JULIUS ACH. ' Ikdcpkbdehce, Oregon, Dee. 13, 1879. Both myself and wife have been for some yean afflicted with disease of the kidneys, and had tried many femedies without obtaining any per manent relief. About three months ago we were induced lo trv a oackaee of the OREGON KID NEY TEA, which has apparently cured both of us. as since taking it two weeks we bave felt no symptoms of the disease. We can heartily rec ommend it to others similarly afflicted, as we be lieve it will do all that is claimed for it. M. L. WHITE. THE OREGONIAIJ FOR 1880. THE 0MLY SEW&P1P.& III THE NORTHWEST. TIURTIETH VaB( A Premium' for Each New Subscriber. . A Splendid Map of Oregon and Washington. Lour experience ha taught tbe people of Oregoa and Washington that the onlj Journal published within their Under which gives full nd rellaiil sew I . . THE OREOONIiN. So other jonmal receive teleftiapale repot and no other ha resources lor obuiulrg all tbe news, both at home and abroad. All the new published In otber papers In Orr goo and Washington is simply taken frota The Oaoo kiak and reprinted In an abridged, mn aisled and nnsatisfsetoiy form. Render who warn ALL ThZ NEWS, and want it while it 1 yet frtsh, go lo its original source. Ta Okegokiix. 1880. ' i ' Tb polities 1 contest 18W will u one or un exampled actirity and Interest. This contaat will, in fact, begin with the meeting of cons rest in De cember, the OaxooKiAH alon will contain a rea ord of this contest. Its telegraphic tuililiea put II In command of all sources of information, and s history of tne progress and result of the contest, beginning with tb coming session of congress and ending with the presidential election, can bs had by tho people of Oregon and Washington only through it column. OTHER FEATURES. All other features 01 Th OaceoKix will be continued ; It literary, agrtcultnnl and miscella neous departments will receive special attention. The new of Oregon and Washington, will be con tinued a a special feature. All Important bcw of this character is received by telegraph, end to had by no other journal. 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