The Douglas independent., February 21, 1880, Image 4

THE INDEPENDENT.
; CIXDEBELLA.
"Really, it's quit a riddle, whoa one
, tomes to think of it," said Mrs. Dale,
; J utting the tips of her ringed finger
. 1 meditatively together. "Jeannette is ft
i Host charming frirl, with ft most taking
' vy with her. I'm Bare there can be no
' Ooubt about her marrying satisfactorily,
jivnd Marian's music is an excellent card
i'i play. But when one come to Fliil-
"An o.Ul little gipsy, ian't she?" said
I Ir D:li?. "IJucidealy impracticable, I
. xho Uil t:v
":..!.' iiri.fr, a" 'o'ir. 1 iVircl or wo-
; jTilv,i.j.'il Mra. Ode, gloomily,
i Mrs. Darr?il L;i)e had 110 children of '
! s er own, ani aha kmsw the aooial position
f I .-hich any middle-aged ma ron gains
t,-ken she surronodod Vty protty girls.
' r o Mrs. Darrell Dale had invited her
. I rolhcr's daughter s from Hemlock Hoi
, 1 w, in the Catskill mountains, to spend
ttie summer months at Niagara Falls
vita her.
"I dare any," said she, confidentially
oLer sister-in-law, tho farmer' wife,
"they will all marry well before the
: reason is over; and, in any event, the
i e xperience will be worth a good deal to
i them."
i And honest Mrs. Hnmphrys took all
. 1 er ten years' savinars out of the Hem
; lock Hollow Bank, to eqnip the three
i iitn suitably for their summer cam
: jaign.
Jcancette took to waltzing and the
, German as naturally as if she had been
Vorntothem; Marian slipped as grace
fully into a musical and literary groove;
' (ait poor little Phillippa seemed to fit
'. nowhere. She was shy and silent in the
: liall-room, struck unaccountably mute
when she onght to be talkative, and
i teemed to prefer the woods, beside the
i (treat cataract, when all the world flocked
io the ball-room of the Clifton or Inter
: national.
"Because, aunt Theo," said honest
Phillippa, "I never know what to say to
! the gentlemen when they ask me to
. ilunce."
"15 nt, my dear child," said Mrs. Dale,
"that's not the way to get into society."
"I I don't care so very much about
society, aunt Theo," said the heretical
: Phillippa. '
"Then youll never get married in
the world, said aunt Theo, in accents
of despair.
But even Phillippa was roused into
interest when the cards came out for the
; i;rand fancy masquerade ball at the In
.' tornational Hotel, and Mr. Dale gave
inch of his nieces a hundred dollar bill
to enable them to appear suitably for the
occasion.
"I shall personate Undine," said Jean
nette, thinking how well she would look
in sea-green crape, crystal fringes and
water-lillies.
"And I shall' be Sappho," cried out
Marian. ,
; "Capital," said Mrs. Dale. "And yon,
Phillippa?" i
"I don't know yet," said Phillippa,
contracting her black eve-brows. "Mr.
Mortimer says I ought to go as a gipsy."
"itum, my uear, said Mrs. Dale, "be
' a gipsy, by all means." '
lio ta Marian and Jeannette looked ft
little jealous, for the Hon. Hugo Morti
; mer, from Montreal, was the lion at
.Niagara, just then, and his gracious no
; tioe was enough to insure the lucky re-
, cipient ft front place in the ranks of
; fashion.
"When did he say that, puss?" de
, manded Jeannette, jerking out the rib-
: Dons oi ner sasn. -
is "Oh, yesterday, when we were oyer on
; uoat island.
"Did he walk with vou V
"A little way.". ...
"I hope you made yourself agreeable."
; suggested Marian, tartly.
"I don't know whether I did or not.'
! wild Phillippa. "And now, Aunt Theo,
a you n pve roe tuat bundle of work
: I'll take jt to Eliso Dnpre. There'll be
Jusi tim before tea for me to walk there
: nnd bacii." , .
and"
"Thsi
7v,i, aunt," said Pillippa,
im -c f..r t'-p 1 "
jttV'r ftii- Mrs: Dale.
I da
tLiiik you are the strangest girl!"
tiiine Dupre was a thin, consumptive
looking girl, who lived aniomr the
f trliUivi tamffimolts on the Cnadian
Viry and laco-mending she was lucky
mo jgh to get a girl in whom Phillippa
Humphreys had become somewhat inter
ested, because she was so friendless and
Bhadcvy and forlorn.
.. ."'t,liillinna fonnil nonr P.linfl anbhincr at
i the window, while her grandmother, a
hooked-nosed saffron-skinned old crone,
nat rocking herself back and forth by the
; tireless hearth.
The girl put her warm, brown hand on
Elite's shoulder.
"Elise," said 8he, "stop crying, and
tell me what ia the matter ?"
,u w ins,,,.., .ml, uihul oivi.iviiv,
wailed poor Elise. "They are coming to
lake mo to prison, to-night."
And then, in answer to Phillippa's in-
: quiring gaze, she told her how Mrs. St.
George had sent a white moire dress
: there to be re trimmed with costly Span
ish blonde Mrs. St. George, of the Clif
ton House, whose pearls, and diamonds,
liaa spieuuia toilets, were tne marvei oi
the tilnce and how. bv some aooident.
the old grandmother had contrived to
upset a kerosene lamp upon it.
"It is ruined, of course, wailed El
sie, clasping her hands, "I cannot pay
for it so I am to be arrested for the
money it is worth.
"She must be an old hag," said Phil
ippia, impulsively.
She is a cold, hard woman, mademoi
pell," said Elsie, who knows not the
meanins; of the word 'merer.' and if
they put me in prison, my old grand
mother will starve.
"Thev shall not nnt von in orison.'
aid l'hilippa, "How much was the dress
worth?"
"Oh, a deal of money, mademoiselle
-mi hundred dollars," sobbed the poor
i girl. "
Phillippia Humphrey put her hand
in her pocket and there lay the $100 bill,
that Uncle Dale had given her, folded in
a tiny, blue-velvet portcmonaie.
"l'here s the money, said she, "give
: it td 1110 odious old harov. and don t cry
any more, ior your eyes are sweiieu mi
. , , t ,
. twice their size, already.
Elsie looked incredulously at the little
brown slio of oaoer,
"Bnt mademoiselle, you are surely
' not in oarnest," said she, "you cannot
mean it?"
"Yes. I do." said Philippa. shaking
back the jetty rings of hair from her sol
emu black eyes, "take that money and
pay Mrs. St. George, and say no more
about it.
"Well, Phillippa," said Mra. Dale,
i when her neioe came back, "have you
. MatAcA nn vonr character vet?
"Vmu said Phillippa quietly, I will
: rnATn..n
"Who?" asked Mrs. Dale, putting her
' Imad liehmd her ear.
"Don't you remember, Aunt Theo, the
little brown-skinned girl who remained
. nt homo when ner sisters went to tne
prince's ball."
""- "What a very odd choice?" said Mrs
Tialn.
"It is," said Phillippa. "well. I always
! "d li1t to be different from other people
' AnntTheo." -
? '"The uiftMiucrade ball was a brilliant
aucee.'S- "Ua.lUb," in . silver green
f ; emptf aad white water lillies. was love
ly us a "Supho" was tall and
j , ' ii.'. i I r.h'r.ii'y v!as.-; bnt there
'! u u.vo rop tacking iu the oup of fe:u
i - oniua iiappiacss; Air. Mortimer, for
r whoao bcueiit half the belles of Niagara
had dressed that evening, was not there.
"So provoking of Phillippa," said
. i Aunt Theo, "to go and throw away all
that money."
"My doar," said Mrs. Dale, "a good
deed is never thrown away. And really
that Cinderella idea of the little girl s
wasn't so bad ha! ha! ha! She did
' stay at home when her sisters went to the
ball!"
"She will never learn wisdom," said
Mrs. Dale with some asperity. "It's so
- strange aha - don't care about such
things."
But, as it happened, Phillippa. did are
for such things. And at that identical ;
moment she was standing on one of the
starlighted verandahs, without, with ft
pink Shetland shawl around her shoul
ders, peeping surreptitiously through
the windows at the waltzera.
"Miss Phillippftn
She started guiltily.
"Gh, Mr. Mortimer! I am not doing
wrong, am I?"
He smiled as he drew her arm through
his. . 1
"But why are you not dancing, in
side?"
"T T nroforred not. to-night. '
"Little Phillippa," said Mr. Mortimer,
standing still under the shadow of a
drooping elm, "you ure equivocating
now; and, as it happens, I know the
truth." " .
"I don't understand you, said Phil
lippa.
"My valet is in love with Eliae Dupre.
Sh baa told him all about your deed of
kindly charity, and he has tout me.
"Yes." said Phillippa in a low tone,
"my uncle gave me money for ft dress,
but I preferred helping Elise to going to j
the ball.
You told your aunt you were going
as Cinderella?"
"How do you know? But that's not
strictly true' laughed Phillippa. "I was
to be Cinderella. And so I am."
"Then, Phillippa, if you are Cinder
ella, will vou let me lie the Prince?"
"Mr. Mortimer 1"
"Sweetest, I have been looking all my
life for jnst such a pure, noble hearted
girl," said Mortimer, "and now that I
have found her, I shall not willingly let
her go."
"Do you mean " '
"I mean, love, that I want you for my
wife." '
Mr. Dale could hardly credit his own
ears, the next day. when Hugo Mortimer
formally requested of him the hand of
his youngest niece in marriage, and Mrs.
Dale lifted her hands' and eyes to the
ceiling.
"To think that it should be Phillippa,
after all!" said she.
As for "Undine" nd "Sappho," they
swallowed their mortification and con
gratulated the little Brown gipsy as cor
dially as possible.
"After all," said shrewd Uncle Dale,
Phiilippa invested her hundred dollars
the best of any of you!"
The Bumble Bee.
Children, did yon ever Btop to con
sider the immense power possessed by a
bumble bee? An insect weighing no
more than a tenth of an ounce is capable
of "raising" a man weighing 220 pounds
from a bench in the public park, and
then have lots of lifting material left.
Just stop and think of it! The stinger of
a bee is not near as large as the finest
needle, but such is the force behind it
that it can be driven through i heavy
pants cloth; backed by merino drawers,
and into the flesh about sixteen feet. If
a man could wield a crowbar in com para
son, he could drive it through seven saw
mills and a distillery at one i blow.
Nature could not give the bee teeth and
claws without spoiling its beauty, laud, in
compensation she gave him this (stinger
as a weapon of attack and defense. If
the bee had no weapon.anU, beetles and
bugs could cuff him around as they
pleased, but as it is, he is the boss of the
walk, and won't take a word from any of
them.
The bumble bee is not naturally of a
quarrelsome disposition, but he can't sit
dwn over half an hour without feeling
as if some one was doing him a great
wrong. If left to himself, he will crawl
up yoar coat sleeve, look around, and
crawl down and go about his business,
but if welcomed with a blow between the
eyes, he ia going to be revenged if he
breaks a leg. He invariably closes his
eyes whea he stings, and you have only
to look a bee square in the face to dis
cover when he is fooling around, and
when he means fourteen per cent, per
annum.
The hay-field is a favorite resort of the
bn cable bee, but you can find him almost
anywhere else if you try hard. Having
no p-i.- of Ion? hind legs he cannot build
bis u.at in a niar&u like a frog, an.l
uavjng no beak ia which to carry straws,
he cannot nost in a tree, like a bird. He
tuereforc takes to the grass, and under
the roots ot au old stump, or among a
pilo of old rails, he rears his gentle
young and gives them printed instruc
tions as to tho difference between
stinging six inch stovepipes and runaway
boys. The knowledge oi oio oees is
powerful. They know where the school
house is. Tkey know when school is
out. They can sail miles away from
homo, get in their work on a farmer's son
weeding out corn, and return home with
out missing a fence corner or in need of
an afternoon nap. As a rulo, they are
early risers. Barefooted boys driving np
the cows at daylight will find the bumble
bee out of bed and ready to begin the
arduous labors of the day. Along about
sun down he quits work, counts noses to
see if the family are all in, and then
stows himself away for a night of calm
and peaceful repose.
The legs of the bumble bee are very
crooked. This seems too bad at first
sight, but yon will soon discover that
natnre wa level-headed. His legs were
thus shaped to enabh him to hang to the
brim of a boy's straw hat. Were his legs
straight he could not walk a fence rail in
a high wind, nor could he turn around
after reaching the top of a mullein stock.
The stripes on a bee look like a waste of
material, but such is not the case. They
furnish an extra covering over his ribs to
keep the frosty air olf, and they serve to
stiffen his spinal column in his flights
through tho air.
A bumble bee can fly at the rate of
twenty miles an hour, if lie wants to, but
there is no cause for him to fly faster
than a boy can run. He sometimes
lives to be three years old, and is some
times stricken down before he has
traveled at all. His life is a precarious
one. He may run a deacon out of a hay
field to-day, and bo the big tree in the
aest, and to-morrrow a country school
ma'am may knock his head off with her
umbrella. Nothing in natural history
weighs more for his size than the bee,
and nothing in science works easier with
out cogwheels or rubber rollers than his
stinger. It if always ready, never out of
repair, and satisfaction (to the bee) is
is guaranteed in every case.
Sermon Enough for Monday.
The New Orleans Democrat tells the' fol
lowing : A little shoe-black called at the
residence of a clergyman of this city and
solicited a piece of bread and water. The
servant was directed to Kve . the child
bread from the crumb basket, and as the
little fellow was walking slowly away and
sifting the gift between his fingers to find
a piece large enough to chew, the minister
called him back and asked him if he had
ever learned to pray. On receiving a neg
ative answer he directed him to say. "Our
Father," but he could not understand the
familiarity.
"Is it our father your father my fa
ther?" "Why, certainly."
The boy looked at him awhile and com
menced crying, at the same time holding
up his crust of bread and exclaiming be
tween bis sobs:
"You say that your father is my father;
aren't you ashamed to give your little
brother such stuff to eat when you've got
so many good things for youraeir ." .
A Harlem boy was heard telling why
he didn't go to Sabbath-sohool. "I went
most a year," h.i said, "expecting to get
a reward, or be in at a Christ mas-tree
nickinir. nnrhow. There was nary a ro
reward or narv Christmas tree. It was
too thin. I shook her."
Proftsssor in philologya staid D. D.
"Mr .canyon give us an example
containing a conjunction co-ordinate.'
Ml-. B fbrichteninK up): "Tom and
Jerry." Professor: "That's good, let
us Bee what we Vyi have next." Voice in
the rear: "Beer." ;
' A little girl observed her mother
measuring it np to her nose with one
band and reaching it out arm a length
with the other. She assumed a thought
ful aspect, and, ' after cogigating a
few moments, asked: "How can you
measure cloth that way? Can you smell a
yard?" .
The Heart Without the Sense of Touch.
There is one fact which one cannot
think of without some degree of amaze
ment, and wined we ought never to trim
of without great thankfulness. 1 he heart
has no sense of outward touch. If I could
put lay finger and thumb on each side of
the heart of some person in this room
without touching any part of his frame, be
would not know when his heart was
touched, unless he saw me in the very act
of touching it,
"U'hatl" some one will exclaim ."do
you mean to sav that the heart, which is
so instantaneously sympauieuc wim an
mental emotion which Is so reartuiiy
subject to palpitation and neuralgia has
iio nense of outward touch? It seems in
credible!" And yet, it is a known fact' that the
heart has no sense o! outward tuueii. I
might quote to yon more in idem proof;
but 1 cliuose to'icive you one whu:h i.-t
mure than two hundred years old, be
cauaf I like to revive the memory of great
Dent-fat: on of our race, and to revive and
strengthen our sense of indebtedness to
them.
Tha suhKritAfl Willt.im ff.irvAV th
dj90overer 0f ttle circulation of the blod,
the t.livsician to Kinz Charles the first.
gives to us this extraordinary relation:
The -oa of Lord Montgomery had asevere
fracture of the ribs when a child, which
left an abscess that could not be cured.
He went abroad, and came back to his
country when he was between eighteen
and nineteen years old, it was reported,
with a large aperture in his left side,
through which his lungs could be seen
and touched. The king heard of this
strange Mory, and sent Marvey to learn
the truth of it. Harvey found the young
nobleman, who readily exposed the
wound for insnection. Instead of the
lungs, Harvey found it was the apex of
the heart that could be seen and touched.
The action of the heart responded to the
beat of the pulse in the wrist, and Harvey,
the enthusiastic man oi science, wno en'
dured so much obloquy for the tnaiu
tenance of his great doctrine of the circu
lation of the blood, had here a full confir
mation or its truth, lie took the youn
nobleman to the kine. who also handle.
the heart, and marked the circulation of
the blood. But the most wondertui ais
coverv. alike to the kine and the physi
cian. was that the vounir nobleman did
not know when thev touched the heart.
Thev found tho heart was without the
sense of outward touch.
This is a strong proof of beni licence of
design in Ood. it tne heart was seusime
to outward touch, we should seldom eat
without pain. For, as the stomach turns
upward and presses agaiiiBt the lungs, and
the lungs againBS me neart, as we cou
tinue to eat. the act of pacifying our bun
ger or gratifying our palate would cause
sutt'eriucr at the heart. Anv poor fellow
who only got a good dinner once a week,
and then indulged himself, would have to
pay bitterly for his excess. Cooper'
,'God, the Soul, and Future mate."
Initonce op Coopeb's Novels. The
husband of Fennimore Cooper's niece
said to "Gath" the other day: "I had an
incident happen to me many years ago
which particularly impressed me with
the influence of Mr. jGooper. He was not
popular in this town, where the people
looked at him in the light of a neighbor,
rather than a literary producer. I was
in a bank, and one night a correspondent
in Wisconsin, a German banker, was
called upon to stop and see us on some
matters of mutual account. He took a
sleigh at Fort Plain, on the railroad, and
came over to Cooperstown in the most
weather. It was bitterly cold, the wind
blowing and the snow falling. The old
man came into our house after dark, clad
in furs from head to foot, and when he
had warmed himself he exclaimed:
'My gracious! I can't realize that I am
at the home of Cooper the great Fenni
more Cooper! When I was a boy, in
Germany, his writings were my passion.
We all believed in him and considered
him the greatest author that ever wrote.
Now I must go to see his grave before I
take off my overcoat!' I went with this
mau, much against my will, in the
freezing night to the graveyard, and
there, standing by the grave of Cooper,
the old fellow devoutly uncovered his
head and began to soliloquize in his
native tongue, but I felt by his gestures
that there was no affeotation in his
homage."
Too Much Infereuce.
If you hand three pennies to the stamp
clerk at tho postoffiee, he infers. His
inference is that if you want a three
cent stamp, and he shoves one at you
quicker than ligntning. His inference
holds good on two cents and a single
penny, and he hits it ninety-nine times
out of a hundred. He, however, got
left recently. A bulky, slow moving old
woman came in with a half dozen things
to mail, and her first move was to hand a
three-cent piece. He retaliated with a
green stamp, but she shoved it back with
the remark:
"Who said I wanted three? Give me
three ones."
She licked them on with great care,
and then handed in three pennies. The
clerk time threw out three ones, but she
rejected one of them with the indignant
protest:
"What are you trying to do? I want a
two and a one!
In due time she had licked those on as
well, and then she handed in four cents.
The clerk scratched his head, hesitated,
and threw out a three and a one.
"See here, young man, you're getting
perfectly reckless!" she exclaimed as she
slanced at the stamps. "I want a stamped
envelope for that money."
she got it, and the clerk made np his
mind that he would catch her on the next
sale or resign his position. She posted
several packages, and sauntered up and
laid dow a penny. That could only call
lor a penny stamp, and the young man
chuckled as he tore it off.
"What are you giving me now?"
snapped the woman, as she drew her
self up.
"A penny stamp.
"Who asked for a penny stamp?"
"You put down a penny."
"So I did, but I was a penny short on
Carrier No. 8 yesterday, and I wanted
you to hand it to him."
i or the next hour when any money
way laid down the clerk asked what was
wanted. Lelroit Free Presx.
About the Girl.
The girl j in the principal cities in this
country are noted as follows :
Detroit, the wildest.
Louisville, the proudest.
Boston, the handsomest.
Oswego, the most winning.
Albany, the most stuck up.
Cincinnati, the gayest flirts.
Ht. Louis, the most reckless.
Hartford, the best musicians.
Terre Haute, the biggest feet
New Orleans, the most truthful.
Baltimore, the most intellectual.
Bradford, all dumplings and lambs.
San Francisco, the most indifferent.
Mobile, the most liberal entertainers.
Buffalo, the prettiest and the wittiest.
Lafayette, the most anxious to be loved.
Chicago, the fastest and most dissipated.
Indianapolis, the most amiable dispo
sition. Philadelphia, the most refined and lady
like. New York, the gayest and most expen
sive in dress.
Syracuse, the most entertaining and fas
cinutiiii;. Hot-heater, the gabbiest. ("Seen Pow
ers block?")
Cleaveland, the most graceful and en
tertaining in conversation.
For Portland girls, a wae suggests that
they be accorded all the other virtues and
periilianties not enumerated above and
claimed by their fair sisters of other cities.
An Irish lad complained the other day
be fore a magistrate, of the harsh treat
ment he had received from his father.
"Ho treats me," said he, mournfully "aB
if I was his son by another father and
mother." "
"Vegetable pills!" exclaimed an old
lady, "Don't talk to me of such stuff.
The best vegetable pill ever made is an
apple-dumpling. For destroying a gnap
ing of the stomach, there's nothing
like it."
When Donglas Jerrold heard a society
bore speaking of a song that "always
carried him away" when he heard it,
Jerrold asked if some one present would
please to sing it.
Lincoln and the Deserter, '
On a raw gloomy afternoon in the win
ter of 1864, Colonel Senter and the writer
had an appointment with President Lin
coln on business connected with the pro
tection of the commerce of the lakes.
The war was at the time the almost ex
clusive subject of public thought or pri
vate conversation The streets of Wash
ington were filled with soldiers and army
officers, and the whole city, was appar
ently nothing but a great camp, to and
from which the members of the army and
navy were constantly going and leaving.
The ante-rooms of the White House were
filled from morning until evening -a ith
members of Congress, soldiers, men and
women of every age and nation, all bent
upon getting a personal interview with
the President. Sometimes the rush of
visitors was so great they could not be
accommodated in the corridors of the
White House, and tho order would be
given to admit no one except privileged
persons into the building. On the after
noon in question, as we were about to be
ushered into the private room of the
President, Mr. J , a well-known law
yer from Ohio, seized both of us some
what roughly by the shoulders, and beg
ged us in earnest tones for the love of
God and humanity to ask Mr. Lincoln to
see him and his client, if only for one
moment. "All day," he said, "we have
tramped wearily by the door, hoping in
vain the President would relent and give
ns a hearing. Look, for mercy's sake,"
he continued, "at that noble white head
and tottering figure, with the hands
tightly clasped nervonsly before him.
That old man is a father; his only son, a
lad of 19, is to be shot this afternoon at
6 o'clock, unless the President interferes.
Stanton has approved the sentence. Lin
coin has declined to interfere, ho will
not see mo, and unless we can get the
ear of tho President the boy will be shot,
and this old man and his wife will be
maniacs."
The father of the boy at the momeat
came forward, a venerable gentleman
with long white hair falling upon his
shoulders. His face was one of the sad
dest sights I ever saw. The grief and
anxiety bo plainly written upon it showed
the torture he was suffering. We took the
old man kindly by the hand, told him we
would beg the President to see him and
bid him hope for the best. Mr. Lincoln
was in the gayest of humors, something
specially funny having taken place in an
interview just closed with a large commit
tee from Baltimore, and he recited the
whole matter in the merriest manner, .ac
companied with shouts of laughter. For
an hour Mr. Lincoln gave himself up to
relaxation and rest, telling the usher to
bring him no cards till he rang his bell.
At the end of this time John G. Nico
lay, then Private Secretary, now Marshal
of the Supreme Court, came quietly into
the room, leaned over the President's
chair and whispered some words of pri
vate conversation in his ear. In an in
stant the President ceased speaking, his
face became calm and Bolemn in compo
sure, and he appeared to reflect gravely
for a moment before replying. Quietly
looking back over his chair he said slowly
and distinctly: "Tell Mr. I will not
see him. I cannot. Don't ask me again.
Tell him I have read the papers in the
case, all of them fully, word for word.
The boy deserted three times, the last
time when on guard at Washington, and
he cannot be pardoned. I will not inter
fere. He must be shot." Mr. Nioolay at
once left the room, and Mr. Lincoln
again renewed the conversation at the
point where he had broken off. He made
no allusion to the interruption, and evi
dently did not wish either of us to speak
of the subject in any manner. It was
plain that his mind was made np and his
decision irrevocable.
The lawyer, on getting the message
from Mr. Nicolay, admitted further effort
was useless, aud at once started with his
client to. cross the bridge into Virginia,
and drive where the boy was confined a
prisoner. They reached the camp in
time to find the young man ready for ex
ecution. The parting between father
and son was so affecting that no one
conld look upon it. The officer in com
mand had the broken-hearted old man
carried tenderly to a tont, and at 6
o'clock promptly the young soldier was
shot dead as a deserter in presence of his
regiment. Cleveland Herald.
Pugaacity of the Salmon.
It is now nearly forty years since I
first began to watch their habits, and
year after year I have witnessed the
terrible fight carried on among the males
for position. They are beautiful and
strong when they first arrive, but in two
or three days they become covered with
ugly scratches, and black fin and tail
torn to shreds by the teeth. In atxmt
eight days these wounds begin to fester
and spread, assuming a whitish color.
Hence, from the changed appearance the
fish affected are vulgarly called scabbed.
In aboutfonrteen days a mould or fungus
fully develops itself over the wounds,
and then these fish generally sicken, and
may be found in large numbers almost
unable to move in the eddies and shal
lows of the river. I have again and
again stood on the bank within a few
feet of them in the stream, and so reso
lute and absorbed did the males seem in
their hostle work that they were utterly
oblivions ta the presence of any one
nigh them. That the wounds thus in
flicted is the origin of the disease 1
firmly believe, and what makes it more
probable is the fact that I have oiiy
known one of the females thus affected in
the upper waters. From the evidence
given it now seems that the disease
attacks male and female alike. This
may be explained by supposing that,
after the diseased fish have been swept
down to the lower pools, and the sickly
and healthy vet mingled together, and
the fungus fully developed, it becomes
infectious and seizes others in the lower
waters. Again, the fact that all varieties
of the salmon are equally attacked
points to the same conclusion. The sea
trout and what are called the little red
fish come first; the male and female be
ing mearly equally divided, few fights or
deaths occur. Next come the brown
nosed grey fish, and shortly after them
tho "buttoners," so called, from a spot
below the neck. Among the two latter
there are at least a dozen males for
every female fish, hence bitter fights and
widespread disease and death ensue.
Lastly, about March, comes a small
variety with snow-white bellies, and as
the proportion of males and females
among these is reversed, so also are the
results. I observe that it is a popular
theory with some of the witnesses that
the disease arises from the salmon being
unduly detained in the fresh water.
This theory appears to me to be totally
unsupported by reliable testimony. I
may state as a fact that in a small pond
in this district there has been a small
salmon kept for two years and another
for one. Both continue lively and ap
parently in good health, catching both
flies and minnows. Sure these observa
tions go far to prove the origin of the
disease. Zand and Water.
Sormal and Abnormal Action.
Spontaneous action is the first law of
all organs and functions. Created for
this purpose, it ia to them what gravity is
to matter. Only two kinds of action, nor
mal and abnormal, are possible. The for
mer consists in a natural, legitimate ex
ercise; the latter in a departure from na
ture, its perversion and outrage.
All normal action is right and good, be
cause in accord with the laws of our be
ing, while unnatural action contravenes
and infringes upon these laws and thereby
inflicts pain. -v
The physical functions, when in normal
action, create health, aud are inexpress
ibly delightful, while their abnormal ac
tion causes disease and sickness, and is al
ways painful. In like manner virtue and
vice are the resultants of normal and ab
normal action.
This definition of the effect o"f right
or wrong action of the functions, whether
physical or mental is fundamental and
universal. This test and touchstone of
It our feelings and actions is as true as it
is sweeping, and when applied to alt or
any of what we may do or say, is abso
aolutely infalliable and is a correct rule
and guide for all human conduct. It is
worthy of our most profound considera
tion. When a farmer puts a ring on a hog's
nose he strikes the root of the thing.
Inebriety.
The habit of drinking to iutoxicatton is
partly a vice, and partly a disease. Drunk
enness, as a vice, ia very old indeed ; it
seems to have always existed wherever
the materials' were accessible. Drunken
ness, as a disease, tnebr'utv. has been rec
ognised but recently, and it appears to be
especially and increasingly frequent iu
im couutry. -
He who drinks to intoxication for the
fun of it, for the sake of the pleasure it
gives, or to drive dull care awn v, is viciou.
He who drinks because h caunot help
drinking, who is borne on against his
wishes and strivings bv an irresistible
impulse, is diseased. Drunkenness, as a
vice, may, and often does, lead to drunk
enness as a disease, aud the two form-i
are frequently combined. Drunkenness,
as a vice, may be, and often is, stopped
by signing a pledge of abstinence, which
the victim sometimes finds no serious
difficulty in keeping so lanj as he U not
surrounded by evil companions. Drunk
enness as a disease, is rarely cured by
signing the pledge, or bv so-called moral
measures of any kind. With such per
sous life is a constant pledge; thev wish
to be delivered from their suffering as
much as the dyspeptic patient washes to
be delivered from bis indigestion, or the
neuralgic patient of his pain. The dysnep-
uu aim nouraigic sunerer may pledge him
self to abstain from eating those articles
and exposing himself to those influences,
as cold and dampness, that experience
shows to be harmful; but, in addition,
positive remedial measures may be need
ed for the accomplishment of a cure.
Likewise the inebriate may pledge him
self to abstain from alcoholic liquors, and
may put himself into a position where he
can't get them, but to this negative treat
ment should often be added positive med
ication, if we expect a permanent or
even tempory cure. In a word, inebriety
is a neurosit a functional disease of the
nervous system and should be treated
on the same principle as other and al.ied
nervous uiseases.
The j popular mind understands with
ease that small-pox. tvnhoid fcvor ami
ague are diseases, although the poisons
that cause these disorders are not revealed
to the senses, because the symptoms are
seen as well as experienced by the suf
ferer, it is not neceasnry to depend on the
statements of the patient; we know that
he is sick, even if he imists that he is
quite well. Incbrity, on the other hand,
is purely subjective, and onlv exhibits it
self by drinking, which is a' habit com
mon to thousands who are not inebriates,
but are simply drunkards. One need not
wonder at the'slowness with which ine
brity has taken its position as n disease
when we consider that besides being a
subjective malady like neuralaia, neuras
thenia, and hypochondriasis, it is also ob
scured by being con foundod with the hab
it of drunkenness.
Inebriety has four characteristics that
are common to it the automatism of its
symptoms, periodicity, transinissibility,
and relapsibility.
, The symptom of drinking to excess that
belongs to inebriety is as much beyond
the control of the sufferer, oftentimes, as
neuralgia or sick headache: whatever re
sponsibility that attaches to the patient
must be referred to a time prior to the
outbreak of the disease, when exposure
to the exciting causes might perhaps have
been avoided, or when the early tempta
tion might have been successfully resist
ed. Dr. Crothers, of Hartford, has itiven
thedetailg of fourcases of inebriety w here
tho malady was excited by breathing the
air of the seaside; whenever they came
near the sea coast or when they crosaod
the ocean the symptoms of headache, de
bility depression and morbid oraving for
alcohol came upon them with irresistible
power. We may blame a man for expos
ing himself to danger of taking cold, but
no one blames a man affected with bron
chitis for coughing. A boy struggling in
the middle of a deep river, borne down
by the current, may be blamed 'or not
having learned to swim when he had op
portunity, or for going beyond his depth
or for venturing too near the edge of the
bank against parental injuction. but sure
ly he cannot be blamed for his inability
to keep his head at the surface, or for not
resisting with success the force of the
stream. Just here is the responsibility of
inebriates, so far as they can be said to be
responsible for the disease from which
they snffer. There are some inebriates
who directly inherit the tendency to their
disease, just as they might inherit the
tendency to insanity, or epilepsy, or neu
raleia, or hay fever, and who are no more
and no less responsible in one case than
in the other.
One important result of the researches
in the physioloey and pathology of the
brain is to limit responsibility, or rather
to define it lunitution, and to' reduce the
causes for blame and for praise of human
actions to a scientific br.sis. A type aud
test of this relation of disease to responsi
bility is found in inebriety.
London In Winter.
Some one has said that in order to get
a very good idea of what London is like
at this season of the year you have to
poke your head up a foul chimney and
keep it there a few minutes. There is
not so very much exaggeration in that.
If yon go out for a walk you come back
with face and hands grimed with soot.
with your collar and wrist-bands as
black as if they had been worn a month
in a coal mine, and with your lungs full
f a sulphurous-flavored smoke. Inside
the house everything is half spoiled.
Picture frames get black, and a heavy
layer of dust and soot deposits itself on
all the books. A brass chandelier tnrns
dark and corrodes iu a week. Silver
begins to look like dirty bronze. To
look clean and feel comfortable are
simply impossible. A"bo'ld shirt" is as
black as a chimney-sweeper's rag after
two hours' wear. "For days together it
has been as much as one can do to find
one's way about the streets, and on
Christmas eve the oldest Londoner could
not perform that feat. There is a much
more horrible darkness than that of mid
night, and it is that of mid-day in Lon
don during a fog. Literally, it is a dark
ness that may be felt and smelt too, aad
a very nasty smell it is. All the news
papers have been writing leading articles
on the subject recently, but 1 cannot see
that it has done the least bit of gcod.
The fog seems to have no respect for the
press. "What is to become of ns?" asks
the editors. The only thing to do, if
one can manage it, is to rise np and
shake the dust or, rathes, the greasy
soot of this monstrously overgrown and
mephitic city off the soles of one's feet.
So many people cannot live together in
one place with health and comfort. Some
of ns must f o. A good many "go" much
against their will, brought up with a
sharp turn by bronchitis or some form
of lung disease. The rest of England,
and half of Europe, is strewn with the
victims of London. Yet there are people
so infatuated as to call it a healthy city,
and they pretend that the mortality re
turns prove it, although it is well known
that thousands who receive their death
wounds in London go abroad to die. The
losses in a great battle are not to be
reckoned only by the dead who are
picked up on the field. Corr. jV. Y.
World.
Feminine Ciiit-Ciiat. The Boston Pout
republishes an article regarding the
money question between man and wife
by Jennie June, and adds that "Jennie
June is a staunch and vary practical
champion of her sex, and she tells many
truths in the way of gentle criticisms
which mankind would do well to heed."
The women of Madrid, it is said, are
much superior to the men in withstand
ing the inclemencies of weather. When
there is a cold wind from the Guadamana
Range, the male Madrid is ridiculously
muffled np. while the women saunter
about in lightly covered heads and shoul
ders nearly bare, apparently the happiest
of mortals.
"Olivia" writes that Senator Booth is
such a hardened bachelor that "a sinh
drawn fresh and pure from the deepest
and most capricious female bosom and ap
plied to the right place will have no more
effect than a uniman liver pad admin
istered for lockjaw, whilst a glance from
the most brilliant eye falls like a sunbeam
on an alligator's back."
Rich dentist (who is contemplating
the erection of a fine residence) . "What
style of architecture do you recom
mend? Architect seeing it's you. I
should think Tuscan would be about
the thing.
Tight boots and an accusing conscience
are about equal in their.abihty to make a
man uncomfortable.
SHO&T BIT.".
"When the tide cornea in" When man
and wife arrive at home. .
Newspaper columns have been lum
bered up with Maine business.
A "rose by any other name would
smell as sweet," but not our "rat
rows."
That the success of the electric light
will benefit London is a fog gone conclu
sion. A Boston man wont wash his face
to save bis life. He'll do it to save his
skin.
Philadelphia has the bulge on Chicago
iu one respect. It is named in the
Bible.
The tea that was not thrown overboard
in Boston harbor in the good old daya
was liberty.
Love laughs at locksmiths, but we
defy anybody or anything to laugh at a
plumber. j
A tree may be downcast, and not chop
fallen. It 1 may be blown down, for
instance.
Strange, but true. A word in season
is scarcely ever spoken by a man in a
peppery iranie oi mind.
The Free Press says that although
fences dp not walk they have a swing.
ing gatej
ine? :
Can't they walk the picket
The Bell (elephone Company have had
to refuse connection with the barbers
shops for fear the barbers will monopo
lize all the talk.
"Mamma," cried Effie, rushing into
the room, "the big clock has stopped,
I'm sure it has, for I don't hear it
cackling!"
"Minnie, I wish you would not give
milk to your kitten on the carpet."
Minnie: r'Don't disturb her. She's on
her last lap."
The habits of fruit are peculiar; we
have seen a raisin box, a fl , drum, and
an apple stand all day on the corner of a
street.
A bright little Sunday-school boy was
disgusted when told that ramrods were
not named for Nimrod, the mighty hun
ter. She was plump and beautiful, and he
he was wildly fond of her. She hated
him, but, woman like, strove to catch
him. He was a flea.
Altoona boasts of a cucumber four and
a half feet long. There is probably
enough colic power in it to run a twelve-
horse power engine.
A child being asked what were the
three trreat feasts of the Jews, uromntlv
and not unnaturally replied: "Breakfast,
dinner and supper.
The Rev. Dr. Sloely has gone to
heathen lands as a missionary. The
heathens, it is hoped, will not take Dr.
Hall's advice and eat Sloely.
Indignant wife: "If I had known you
were coming home in this condition, I
should have gone home to my father s.
Inebriated husband: "Hie would you!
I an awful sorry 1 didn t send you word
hie."
"I'm glad I'm not Grant," said an Oil
citizen, recently, "for if I was I couldn't
go down to post my books, and wander
into a minstrel show without my wife
reading it in the paper the next morn
ing.": An Oil citizen received a bill last week
from a New York Arm, with the usual
request: "Please write ns by next mail;
would like to close our books before the
first of the year." Promptly he returned
the answer: "All right, close them np. I
have no objection."
S&ysPuck: A bold, base, utterly un
trustworthy man tells ns the following
advertisement recently appeared in a
city paper: "Wanted for adoption A
baby with a father. Address Widow,
Station Z."
An interchangeable family ulster
supplies a want long felt. In the pos
session of a young married couple it can
be worn by either party. The engage
ment ulster is one big enongh for two
when the couple walk out together.
Commodore Vanderbilt once visited
a spiritual medium, who began by say
ing: "Your first wife wishes to commn
nioate with you." "Perhaps so," said
the Commodore, abruptly, "but that is
not what I came here for."
A man in Lewiston, New York, having
occasion to build a house where a large
elm tree stood, did not cut it down, but
built around Jt. The odd Bight is now
presented of a tree-top growing out of
the roof of a handsome brick house.
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.
The woman who can sit still and
smilingly entertain a male visitor, per
ceiving all the time thathe has succeeded
iu wriggling all the pins out of her tidy,
and is at that precious moment calmly
sitting on it, and will probably be for the
next hour, is sure of a reward in the next
world if she does not receive it in
this.
The King and Queen of Spain showed
publicly the other day, while driving in
Madrid, their devotion .to their Church.
They met a priest who was taking the
lost sacraments to a drinar man. and.
alighting from their carriage, the yonag
pair lent it to the priest, following on
foot.
A worthy younir moral agriculturist of
Piety hill, Shasta county, has been col-
lasting poll tax from Chinamen and
giving them Good Templar documents as
receipts. Thus he saves some money
from being shipped to China, and
spreads temperance doctrines among the
heathen-
Rev. Mr. Lane, of Eensico, New York,
is accused by some of his deacons of
kissing all the women in his flock. His
wife says: "Why. of course he kisses
them, and they like it. I saw him kiss
Airs, vox in that very room, and she was
mighty glad that he responded to her
advances. Mr. Lane is a man, I tell
you." There is a wife to be proud of.
There is a letter extant in which the
writer explains the reason why she had
time for letter-writing in the evening was
that "Cousin Urace f letcher is trying to
entertain a young man by the name of
Daniel Webster by playing checkers.
Father and Uncle Chamberlain think
him a young man of great promise, but
we girls think him awkward and rather
verdant."
At a small country town there lately
died a middle-aged man, leaving a
widow of 35. At the funeral the deacon
of tho village alluded to, the good quali
ties of the deceased, among others, his
generosity. He said the deceased had
lent him some money once, upon which
the weeping widow raised her head and
inquired how much and whether he had
paid it back or not.
A gentleman goes on to armorer's and
asks for a revolver. "Here's a real nice
family weapon," says the clerk.
"Family weapon?" "Yes, family weapon ;
just ; the thing for domestic tragedies;
six-shooter, you see, sir two bullets for
your wife two bullets for the destroyer of
your happiness, and two for yourself.
All the go, sir! Sell hundreds of 'em
for bridal presents, sir."
The wife of Mr., Jonesmith had the
misfortune to be more good than beauti
ful, j On the San Rafael boat, the other
day, the writer overheard this lot of con
yersation: Brownjones: "That fellow
jonesmith is outrageously unfaithful to
his wife." Smithbrown: "For example?"
Brownjones: "Oh, I don't know any
particular instance." Smithbrown: "Ah,
are you a physiognomist yon think he
looks like it." Brownjones: "Never saw
him; I think she looks like it."
Two elegantly-dressed gentlemen met
in Galveston. One of them asks how
the other fared this Christmas. "Oh,
Tery well," he replied, "my wife pre
sented me with a beautiful silk dressing
gown." "Of course yon reciprocated,"
responded the other. " "Of course; I
always do that. I bought her a new
wood-saw. The one she has been using
for the last five years was abont worn
out, and it took bo long to get wood for
breakfast in the morning that I used to
eet hunoTV lvinsr in bed. But that new
I aaw will help matters along, I reckon."
igma r Prosperity.
Sir. Albert Bartsoh, the popular agent
for the world renowned Steinway & Son's
pianos, showed his excellent judgment
and business foresight when he moved to
143 First Btreet and opened a music store
in connection with his ware rooms. We
are told that Mr. Bartsch had long con
ceived the idea oi opening ;. just such a
store and Had only Deen i waiting the
favorable opportunity to carry out his
plans. Since starting in November last
Mr. Warren, the business manager, has
been constantly at work corresponding
with eastern houses and perfecting ar
rangements to get goods direct from first
hands, which would enable him to sell at
retail and wholesale as low as can be
bought in San Francisco. This move
proves his business experience and finan
cial ability. We do not see any reason
why Portland cannot support such an en
terprise as we have our wholesale houses
of various kinds and why not a music
store with the ability to supply the trade
and thereby save dealers and music
teachers the trouble and expense of send
ing to Salt Francisco. :
The addition of ' new shelving and
counters during the past week is, we are
told, to make room for a large shipment
of music and books expected soon from
New York and Boston.
We prophesy that before many months
roll around Bartsch's music store will
have the largest, finest and best selected
stock and be the most complete in its ar
rangements of any music store on the
coast outside of San Francisco. We say
this with a considerable amount of pride
for we do not see why Portland should
not have jnst such a store.
Any oaa httu rta; will) nervous debility,
exhausted vitality, or frora tb effects of
youthful follies or exoeuee In maturer yer,
ean be thoroughly and quickly eared by mint
tbe great Eogll"h remedy, "Sir Aetley Cooper'a
Vital Rmtobativk " It Ii not an exaltaot,
but an honed cure. Price, 13 a bottle, or four
timet tbe quantity,-$10, and ean be obtained
of Ho DO, Davis it Co- w bolexale Areola, or
direct of A. K. Mlntle, M. !., 11 Kearney Street,
Baa Francisco, Ual.
Health. airn(th and Vigor of tbe Eld
Dey and Bladder alway follow tbe nse of tbe
great Buchn Compound. "Dr. Mintle'e Nephre
tlcura." Bright', llisetfi, Ulabetet, Inflamma
tion, Smarting and frlvnt ! ere
quickly cured by it. For LeucorrEora, It baa no
equal. Don't be pe euaded to lake any other
preparation. Every one vrbo baa tried It
recommend It. For sale by all drugglitv
Bodge, Davla A Co .wholesale agenta. Price
fl.00 per bottle or aix bottles for SS.00.
TO THK MUSICAL, PUBLIC.
I take pleuure tn Mating that I have tecared k
large end finely ra looted atock of Sheet Muiiofrom
well known Kaalern publiablng hourea, compris
ing all gradea and kiuda, uch aa Songs, vocal and
Instrumental Dueta. Quartettes and frloa. Piano
rone solo. Violin and Violin and Piano Music,
Vocal and Instrumental Studies. Organ and Church
Manic, WalKe, Polku,SchotUache,etc,etc.. mai
lt, together with tbe large stock already ou band,
'be most perfect assortment ever kept In lonlsnd.
I Intend to bring to thia market the best and mokt
popular catalogue of Jtualo and Book! both here
and in Europe, making tbe selection aa perfect aa
you could possibly expect ior thia place. Teachera
will find it to tbelr advantage to aeud direct to me
for catalogues of matte In slock, and allow me to
make selection of aucb goods aa they desire. My
stock of Pianos, Organa. Hooks and Small Musical
Goods is being constantly added to, and arrange
ments being made to carry ancn an assortment a
will command your trade and save you the trouble
of aendlng to San Francisco or New York.
I am offering my goods at gaatern prion some
thing which hss never oeen done beret ofore. If
you will call and examine my goods and gel price
you will see that what I say is correct.
, ALBERT BARSTCH. lluslc Dealer,
Publisher and Importer, 14X t int St
aria analilna; any poreasH r la writ
ing In response i any Advertisement ia
Staia paper yon will pleaae mention the
aaaae f I be paper.
PHYSICIAJT &SD SIRGKOJI.
CARPWELL, W. B.-8. E. cor. First and Mor
. risoo, over Morse's Palace of Art.
A. C. GIBBS.
B. W. BINGHAM
GIBBS & BINGHAM
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Portland, t : t Oregon.
Office, 8 and 9, over First National Bank
Particular auentlon paid U business In the
TJnltAd Mlate courts.
K. C. XKKOES.
ALFRED VO'.PIB.
v MERGES A VOSPER,
MARBLE WORKS
47 Stark St, Portland, Or.
Monuments. Gravestones. Mantels.
1 Wash Klabs, Table Tops, etc, done In lul-
Ian and American Marble, Also Deal-
er In Scotch and American Granite
I Monuments. Parties at a distance will
i be furnished with delgnato select from
! by writing for the same.
Good Health to All.
NO OPIATES ! NO CALOMEL! NO POISON!
Open question toafflictedaud suffering humanitv.
WILL YOU LIVE OR DIE ? .
Easy as it is to be sick, just so easy
is it to be well by availing yourself of the oppor
tunity that is now offered to the sick by
Sr. Hall McLennan
Frofesor of diseases of the mind and nervous sys
tem i formerly of Hallock's Medical In
stitute, Boston Massachusetts, now permanently
located at the corner of Second and Ash Streets,
romsno, uregon, two diocks mora tne u. B. JN.
Co's landing at the foot of Ash street.
Dr. McLennan has by his unwearied attention
and extraordinary success, gained a reputation
which calls patients from all parts of the country
to obtain advice. And without boasting, he ran
say that probably no other physician on the Pa
cific Coast is treating at the nrpsent time so manv
cases of chronic diseases. The development of
tmpuruiiib auu superior remeutai agents ana
modes of care have enabled him to succeed in
thousands of cases where others have failed. The
unparalleled success with which Dr. McLennan
has treated difficult and the so-called "incurable
cases," goes to show that no one should give np
in despair, simply on the assertion of one, two or
three physicians, who had failed to effect a cure.
It is with the hone of reaching manv of this class
that I advertise, and not alone from the profit it
may deservedly yield me, but for the real satis
faction of doing good, and relieving tbe pains of
humanity and sending hope to the hearts of
tnnusanas oi aiuicted leilow creatures who are
enduring great suffering under the erroneous im
pression that they are beyond human skill.
These I am resolved, shall hear of me, and real
ize the truth of the saying, that "while there is
life there is hope."
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Pobtlahd, Oregon, July 29, 1879.
- My Kidneys were in a very bad condition
The urine wsa like brick dust, and 1 suffered a
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unavailing until I tried OREGON KIDNEY
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II. HAMILTON.
FoBTLAirn, Oregon, Augujt 2, 1870.
Having a severe back ache last winter, I was
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J0UN P. FARMER.
PoBTLAiin, Oregon, July 31, 1879.
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Pobtlaku, Oregon, July 31, 1879.
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Harbissfbg, Oregon, Dee, SI, 1879.
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Habbisbobo, Oregon, Dec SI, 1879.
Borne three month ago I wa attacked wilht
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Pobtlakd, Oregon, Jan. 12, 1SR0
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