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4 TAILVRB. Isng mo yoo wd to ma: "Sweet, ! " A glorious kingdom be for you Ilea." Ton pointed It out to my wluln feel, ju muni ww way wnayoar tovtng eyes. Many tbetrlomphs lbs years have brought; :. Keen to pieuares, bat keener tbe in. . J stand by your tide In the realm or thought. And I uk ufwlf, U it ton or gaiat T"a give to me generoos meed of prie. You Vive la mn boiuwuH I mat f knnw. But you think wltb regret of my simple ways, My toad unwisdom of long ago. Thong b t speak with tbe wisdom of gods and men (This U Hie bitter that spoils my sweet), X know full well that never again Can I stir your poise by a single beat. Yob are oat to blame there is naught to be said; vr by fate is out planning crossed. J did tbe best that I eould, love-led, For the sake ol winning what I bays lost. "JalZEAH." BY KTHILIKD RAX. From the Fortland Telegram. Chloe Hathaway sat in the firelight one cool, autumn evening, her head rest ins; on her hadd. and her dark eves fixed thoughtfully, almost sadly, on the dying moen. It was her twentieth birthday, and her thonsrhta inTolnntarilv wandered Lank oyer the year that had just passed. What a long, dreary, hopeless year it had been, the thought, and a little bro . kon sigh fluttered front her lips. These last two years had been like a great barren desert, with no oasis no bright son showers to refresh them. And yet no one snspeoted that Chios had a "skelleton in her cupboard." , 8he was alwaTS. when in eomuanv. ear. light- hearted and cheerfnl always ready to laugh at, and make light of trouble of all kinds; and though she counted her lovers by tbe score, she kept them ail at a safe, distance, and solemnly declared she would never marry. "JJut Chloe, her uncle witn wnom she lived, and who was her only rela tive would sometimes say to her, "yon will surely marry Home tune for X am old and can not live always, and what would yon do without me, dear?" - "I'm sure I don't know, Uncle," Chloe would answer wearily. "I only know that I have a horror of marriage, and never even give it' a second thought ex cept when you compol me to. Please let me stay with you, always. Uncle I am iMrfMtlv nnntjftnWl 1st drift ah in this way forever." But there had been a time when Chloe irai 18. when life was not the dreary, aimless thing to her that it was now; when her heart beat lightly and joyously, and existence itself seemed a pleasure. She thought of it now, and sighed ; it seemed so long ago so many bitter changes had come since those haloyon days. ' When Chloe was only eighteen, she iiad met Will JSoone nandsom, noble, intelligent just snch a man as women fall in love with in spite of themselves, and almost unconsciously she had given him her heart. . And he, handsome, polished man of the world, though he was, learned in a few, short months, to love this little, pure, wild flower tenderly, and truly witn all tne ardor ox ma strong, passion ate nature. : For one short gammer they had drifted on in perfect happiness.forgetting every thing and everybody but themselves and thAir imldan drnania living nnlv in thft present, forgetting the past, and caring not. lor the future. Ah! me thinks sucli . days have dawned for all of na and were they not brighter, purer, better than any we have known since then? "Ah! for the golden days!" But autumn came, and Will was compelled to return to the city. But before he left, he told Chloe that he loved her, and slipped a Hashing opal on her finger. "If you love me, darling," he said, "wear it till Christmas, when I will re- tarn I can say no more till then. And then he had kissed her and left Iter, and Chloe had worn his ring be cause she loved and trusted him. In side the ring was engraved the quaint, old-fashioned motto, "Miipoh," signify ing, "The Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent one from the other." Be had promised to write her, but not one uao cauio ix viu uuii , yes ime wimi patiently, trustingly, feeling snre that 7 .1 1 l i i .11 1 " 1 . an we cuu u womu ui do rigut. The weeks nassed awav. and Decern her came, and the days dragged slowly by. Christmas morning dawned clear nd cold, and Chloe entered the break fast room and took her place, with her lie art in a flutter of feverish nope, lie would come to-day, she told herself con' fidently. ! Then the mail was brought in two or three letters fox her father and one for herself . and as she glanced at the post mark her heart gave a joyful bound, for it was from New York. She opened the envelope and two cream colored cards fell into her hand; one bore the name, Miss Laxxie Combs, and the other Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hooiie. And poor Chloe. without one word, slipped down, white and sense- la -riie floor. ll 1 f .lit . , V . I Retreat uoai cneu uer lawer, Lave killed my child my little Chloe I" And when, an hour later, Chloe came back to consciousness and life, she found herself an orphan her father had fallen dead as he uttered that anguished cry. "Great God; I have killed my child!" He had always been subject to heart dis ease, and the sudden shock had "loosed the silver cord," and poor Chloe was " fatherless as well as motherless. Her unole immediately came, and after the funeral, carried her away to his own lArfattl Ifiriivtnni rtnmA it K r nitw Yt a same city where Will lived with his beautiful bride, who had taught him no soon to forget poor little, dark-eyed, jaimiui inioe. - Bnt she learned that Will had gone to Europe, and would iot return for two or three years; and so with a dreary hope Jess despair settling over her heart, she "took np the burden of life again, and none of her fashionable friends or ad zairers dreamed she had a deep, deep grave in her heart, in which she had buried her first and only love; for un like men, a woman can never forget the man she has once loved. And as she sat in the firelight, this evening, thinking of the bitter past, and still mors bitter future, the door opened softly, and her uncle entered and seated himself beside her. "Chloe, my dear," he said, gently drawing her head down on his shoulder, and softly caressing the dark, waving hair, "I want to talk to you awhile. Have yon given Mr. Hampton his an swer yet?" ''Not vet. unole " renliod Chloe. wearily ; "he is coming this evening." "And may I ask, dear, what your an swer will be?" "I intend to reject him," said Chloe, hesitatingly, "for I do not love him." "My dear child," said Mr. Hatnaway, "I beg you to pause ere yon reject Guy ' Hampton. He is the noblest man I 1 i m i : j V,. uuw, aim Terr wwuuij uwiuw jvu understand my wealth will pass to my sister when I die, and you will be com pelled to earn your own living. Jt can sot be satisfied until I see you provided Sot.' O Chloe ! if you would only marry Guy I : Nothing you could do would jnake me so happy as this, and I am sure you would care for him in time. It was the first fsvor he had ever asked of her, and Chloe felt that she could not refuse. After ail, what did. it matter? Will was dead to her forever ; and as he had been false, why should she remain true to his memory, especially as her uncle desired it so much ? He had done mo much for her. and it seemed so un ajratef ul to refuse his firstjrequest. Here her reflections were interrupted by the ringing of the door-bell. "Chios," whispered her uncle, shall it ho as I wish? JJear, X wwn it so mnon r Just for a moment Chios was silent, and a convulsive shudder passed over her. Then she said slowly, "Uncle, it shall be as you wish," and kissed him. He returned her caress and left the room, and a moment later a tall, noble looking man entered, and with a heavy heart Chloe arose to meet him. "Chloe," he cried eagerly, clasping both her cold hands in his, "O darling, do not keep me in such suspense. May keep these little hands forever ?" ,. fit yon wish, Mr. Hampton," said Chloe, hoarsely. And as her lover took her eagerly into his arms, and pressed warm, passionate kisses on her beautiful face, she closed her eyes resolutely upon the dreary, hopeless, aimless past, and resolved to make a good and faithful wife to the man who loved her so fondly. And just then her opal flashed red in the firelight, and a line of an old song that Will used to sing, rang through her mind, and her sad heart echoed, "Ah! for the golden daysr Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hampton were spending their honeymoon or moon shine, it might more properly have been called in this instance in continual traveling, but at last, Chloe grew weary, and they stoppod at Saratoga to spend the summer. The first evening of their arrival there was a ball at the hotel, and they went into the ball room and at a late hour, Chloe looking radiantly beautiful in her pale pink satin and opals; her cheeks were flushed Blightly, and her ! eyes flashed with a bright, restless fire; only the weary, hopeless drooping of the scarlet lips showed that her heart was not in this gay scene. She had danced several times, and was sitting' quietly, talking with a friend, when her husband's voice suddenly aroused her. "Chloe," he said, "let me introduce my old friend, Will Boone!" Chloe lifted her eyes. One wild, startled glance into the cold, handsome face of the man she loved, and then she slipped quietly down off the sofa into the arms outstretched to receive her the arms of her first, false love. Twice in her life had Chloe fainted once when she found that her lover was false, and note that she found that lover before her. Hor husband took her hastily from the arms of his old friend ; the usual restor atives were applied, and Chloe was soon herself again. "!' "My poor little girl," said Guy, ten derly, "what could have caused it? the heat and excitement, I doray; and as soon as you'v spoken to Will, we will leave I know you are tired!" - '.'Indeed I am not." returned Chloe. bravely; and then, with a little cry of surprise, she held out her hand to Will Boone. "Why. I ll declare!" she cried, "if it is not an old friend of mine, after all! Why, Guy, I knew Mr. isoone two or three years ago! I'm so glad to see you," she went on, hurriedly, for she felt that her courage was failing her. "Is your wife here ?" "My vrifel" repeated Will, while Guy burst into a loud laugh. "I havo no wife, Chloe." . Chloe's face turned ghastly white. "No wife?" she gasped, "why; Will, you sent me your wedding cards !" "By George !" exclaimed Guy, ab ruptly, "I'm engaged for this waltz!" And the "unconscious, blundering fellow hastened away, and with a long drawn breath, that was almost a groan. Will caught Chloe's hand, and.'hurried her into the conservatory. "Now, tell me," he exclaimed, 'with great beads of perspiration on his brow, "what you moan ?" i "I mean what I say,'' replied Chloe, faintly. "Did you not send me your wedding cards ?" "NO!" thundered Will. I "Then O, Will, why didn't ! you write?" - "Because your father curse him told mo you were engaged. I did not believe it at first, and wrote yon again and again; but when Christmas canio, your father wrote me that yon were mar ried!" I Chloe, Chloe, say that it was not true!!" "It was not;" Chloe was weeping now. "I loved you all the time, Will!" "And lie your father curse him! " He stopped abruptly, as Chloe put out both white, trembling hands. : "Chloe, darling" he said, hoareeljy; "yon are Guy's wife, and he is blameless we must not forget that! God help us to live our lives nobly, despite this great wrong! "Oh, Chloe, my darling," he cried, holding out his arms, "come to me just once you belong to mo I have a right to hold you. i But poor Chloe shrank away. "Lead me not into temptation I" she murmured, with white lips. i And just then Guy came rushing in J "Helio!" he cried, "are you two talk ing over old times? Come Chloe, thisj is our dance.' "One moment," said Will, as he shook his friend's hand, and then took Chlob's in a long, painful clasp. "I leave in the morning. Then his eyes fell upon the flashing opal, and he added, brokenly : "The Lord watch between thee apd me wbile we are absent one from the other." Chloe never saw him again. 1 wonder, are such wrongs righted tbe Beyond. ; "Been Down to Indiana." Yesterday forenoon, when it became known around the City Hall that there was a Dotroiter in ono of the ofiiccs who had just got back from Indiana, there was a rush of politicians anxious to hear now matters stand in that State. "How does Hancock stand ?" asked one. "How's Garfield?" queried a second Each of the dozen men around him had some query pertaining to politics.! "Yes. I've been down to Indiana.1 calmly 'replied the individual, as he tip ped his chair back. "I was in sixteen different counties, and I heard a great many opinions expressed. "What majority will Hancock tret ?" "Hancock! You moan Garfield," said tbe second man. ies, l heard a good many opinions expressed," continued the man, "and the excitement in every town was at a fever heat." "Hurrah for Hancock!" "Hurrah for Garfield!" "Yes, I heard a great deal hurrahing. Yon people up here have no idea of the Hard work being clone there by both sides. On every railroad I fonnd " ! "Found a majority for Hancock!" j "Fer Garfield!" i "On everv railroad train I found men canvassing tho political situation," con. turned the man. j "Yes. but what did the leaders seem to think ?" "I didn't talk with any of them." ; "Well, what was the drift ?" "It didn't drift." "What we want to know." said a ward' leadier, pushing to the front, "is yonr unt ased opinion, based on what you saw down there, as to how Indiana will go next week. Well, sir, I " 'Keep still back there!" yelled i man. "You keep still yourself I" yelled an other. "We want ycur unbiased opinion, put in a third. "Well. I went down to Indiana. I saw my grandmother die. I buried her, was in the very centre of the political excitement, and I heard prominent men in both parties say that "You heard 'em say what? Tell us what they said." "I heard them say that my errand mother made the first soft soap in Cen tral Indiana 1 Ah, gentlemen, she was a good old soul, and yon who have had grandmothers will certainly excuse my emotion i He put down his head to conceal the tears, and thirteen men got out of that on the gallop and left him alone. De troit Free Press. There is an Indiana woman only twenty- three years old, who, when she wont to Indianapolis recently, to purchase a pair of shoes, could hnd none large enougn, ana naa to leave ner measure. This called for a pair of extra "fifteens," the last being a foot in length and five inches, wide. It should,, perhaps, be stated, however, that the woman herself weighs five hundred and forty-seven pounds, end is seven feet two inches in height. No JCTXlH OF WimyiMv "T Parker, can you tell the difference between a ripe watermelon and a decayed head of cabbage ?" "Give it up; can't tell." Brown lauched softlv. as lm haiA You'd be a nice man to su.n1 in hnv watermelon, you would." . Walter Scott's Sundays. As usual from Lockhart's farrago we cannot find out a single thing we want to know whether Scott worked, after his week-day custom, on the Sunday morn ing. But, I gather not; at all events, his cattle and his household rested (L. iii. 108). I imagine he walked out into his woods or read quietly in his study. Immediately after breakfast, whoever was in the house, "Ladies and gentlemen, I shall read prayers at 11, when I expect you all to attend" (vii. 30C). Questions of college and other externally unanimous prayers settled for ns very briefly: "If you have no faith, have at least manners." He read the Church of England service, lessons and all, the latter, if interesting, eloquently (ibid) . After the service, one of Jeremy Taylor's sermon's (vi 108) . After ser mon, if the weather was tine, walk with his family, dogs included, and guests to cold picnic (iii. 109) , followed by short extempore Biblical novelettes; for he hod his Bible, the Old Testament espec ially, by heart, it having been his moth er's last gift to him (vi. 174) . These4 lessons to his children in Bible history were always given, whether there was a picnio or not. For the rest of the afternoon he took his pleasure in the woods with Tom Purdie, who also always appeared at his master's elbow on Sunday after dinner was over and drank long life to the laird and his lady and all the good company, in a quaigh of whisky or a tumbler of wine, according to his fancy (vi. 195.) Whatever might happen on the other evenings of the week, Scott always dined at home on Sunday; and with old friends, never, unless inevitably, receiving any person with whom he stood on ceremony (v. 335.) He came into the room rub bing his hands like a boy arriving at home for the holidays, his Feppers and Mustards gamboling about him,, "and even the stately Maid a grinning and wagging his tail with sympathy." For the Esaiuibaafth of tho las honored week days, at the Sunday board he circulated the champagne briskly during dinner, and considered a pint of claret each man's shore afterward (v. S39.) In the even ing, musio being to the Scottish worldly mind indecorous, he read aloud some favorite author, for the amusement or edification of his little circle. Shakes peare it might be, or Dryden, Johnson or Joanna . Bailiie, Crabbe, or Words worth. But in those days "Byron was pouring out his spirit free and full, and if a now piece from his hand had appeared, it was sure to be read by Scott the Sunday evening afterwards; and that with such delighted emphasis as showed how completely the elder bard hod kept up his enthusiasm for poetry at pitch of youth, and all his admiration for genius, free, pnre, and unstained by the least drop of literary jealousy. With such necessary and easily imaginable va rieties as chances in having Dandy Din mor , or Captain Brown for guests at Abbotsford, or Captain Mannering, Counselor Pleydell, and Dr. Robertson in Castle street, such was Scott's habit ual Sabbath a day, we perceive, of eat ing the fat, (dinner, presumably not cold, being a work of necessity and mercy thou also, even thou, Saint Thomas of Trumbull, had thine!) and drinking the sweet, abundant in the manner of Mr. Southey's cataract of Le dore "Here it comes, sparkling." A day bestrewn with coronations and sops in wine, deep in libations to good hopo and fond memory; a day of rest to beast, and mirth to man, (as also to sympathetic beasts that cannot be merry,) and con cluding itself in an orphial hour of delight, signifying peace on Tweedside, and good will to men, thero or far away always excepting tho French and Boney. John Kuskin, in Nineteenth Century. Human rower and Progress. The Greeks taught their ohildren music that they might learn obedience to the laws, for all music is the subjugation of sounds to fixed laws. Man's self-will makes discord. Modern civilization seizes the some idea and illustrates the thought that there is no such thing as human power aside from obedience to law. Man in himself is weak, but when he falls into sympathy with the laws of nature and uses them intelligently, he is almost omnipotent. Self-will is the es sence of weakness and the father of the whole brood of infirmities. We have made great progress in the development of the country, because we have studied and used the laws of nature. Ail onr in ventions are simple applications of nat ural principles, for no man ever created a principle or a force. Two classes of men have been chiefly instrumental in this stupendous work. Tho hard stu dent of principles, without a grain of "practical sense," has discovered the principles upon which nature works, and "the practical man" has applied these principles to practical uses. Hence our wonderful material progress. And the question arises, How far can we go in the direction of- development? Is there any limit to human progress? We answer that the scope of future triumphs will be larircr than that of the past. It will be so because the laws of nature are all comprehensive, and no one can for a moment believe that we have exhausted the forces of nature. In fact. we have only entered upon the outer confines of the era of development, be cause we have only begun to discern.the elementary principles that lie at tho basis of natural law. Our future success, however, will de pond upon our ability to stimulate tho student element. The practical man gathers and enjoys bis rewards as he goes along, and he needs no special encour agement. But the student of laws and principles receives few honors and less emolument. If we discourage the ab sorbed student, wo paralyze the germin ative powers of progress. Without the student, the practical man. who ap' plies knowledge, cannot exist. Hence the necessity of nourishing our higher institutions of learning, for in them we create careful students of the laws of nature The university is the home of proKress. Practical men must realize this truth and richly endow professor ships and scholarships. In this way alone can we make provision for the illimitable progress of the future, that must be the joint work of the student and tue practical man. j a. x . rost. Hysteria Hysteria is by no means confined to women, for one of tho worst attacks which l ever witnessed occurred in a man. This gentleman one day found he had lost his all, and on returning home, he became the victim of laughing and crying, until sheer exhaustion brought an end to the attack. This was quite in voluntary. But it might be remarked that even in hysteria snch a thing as iasnion prevails, showing that a certain power of restraint may be used. When I was a boy, hysteria was the fashion; and if during conversation any remark was made to touch a lady's sensibilities, she would clinch her hands, make a wry face; her eyelids would undergo a rapid vibration, Bhe would give a sob or two, and sink from her chair. The cure was accomplished by throwing cold water over her face; and .3 this encroached on her neck or wetted her dress, the cure was very sud den and complete. During church service, it was the usual practice to have a young lady carried out; bnt I think as a rule she belonged to an inferior class, whose kindof work during the week did not allow them to play dress-making tricks with themselves on a Sunday; for if I remember rightly the cure was effected in their case by tbe call for a penknife. This was used to loosen the body-armor, when a lond explosion took place, followed by a deep sigh and a speedy recovery of the patient. So fashionable was fainting or hysterics in church that I have a lively remembrance of a young lady who had a weekly attack, and was often carried out by a gentleman in the next pew. As these two were afterward married, I apprehend that this was one mode of conrtship. X am only too thankful to think, for the peace of other people, that this method of forcing matrimony has gone. out. , Chamber's Journal, Adrlee to Yoon Sen. T Hon. William E. Dodge, in his re cent! lecture on "Old New York," or "New York as it was Fifty Years Ago," when he was a young man of twenty-five years, gave the following financial advice to young men: "All young men should aim to save something; even at the expense of a lim ited wardrobe, and manylittlo things they think necessary. If there were none but young men here, I would say that from the first year when I entered a store with a salary of fifty dollars, to my last year, when as a salesman, I received very large pay for those days, I never failed to save a part, and when 1 started in business, those savings and my experi ence were all my capital. The advance here given, illustrated by such an excellent example, is worth its weight in gold to any one who prac tices upon it. Almost every one who is in working condition can make his ex penses less than his income. If the lat ter be small, he can cut down the former so as to leave a small surplus each year, If, on the other hand, his income be large, he can make a large saving, with out any meanness or sacrifice of decent appearances. What he thus saves by not expending it, is his capital; and if he saves something each year, then with each year his capital increases. This conrse, pursued for thirty or forty years, will make auy man moderately rich, and some men very rich, unless the mishaps of business shall sweep away the accu mulation. One difficulty with many young men in the outset of life is, they do not un derstand the art of practical economy. They spend too much in the little foolish and unnecessary ways, and sometimes in doubtful, if not immoral ways. They waste their earnings, and live faster and bettor than they can afford to live. They keep themselves poor forever, -unless they are radically changed. Theyi refuse to forego present pleasure in order to secure a much greater future good. The result is that, no matter how long they live or how much they receive, they con sume all they earn, and as to any accu mulation by saving, end' each year just where they began it. The moment their working power ceases, then by sickness or age, they become objects of charity. They have nothing to fall back upon for their own support, or that of those ho are dependent upon them. The advice of Mr. Dodgo, reduced to practice, would give to life a very differ ent show in the way of results. The ad vico embraces the principle of thrift by economy ; and economy consists in spending loss than one earns, and as much less as is practicable, by throwing overheard imaginary wants and supply ing only those that are real. If one is poor, which is the condition in which .most persons must start life, then so much tho greater the reason why he should start with the saving principle in the very outset. By saving he will learn how to save. It will become his habit to do so, and, under ordinary cir cumstances, he will accumulate enough in a series of years to make himself com fortable, neediug no man's charity to snpply a single want. We advise all men to act upon this excellent theory. A Miner's Daring. There are no bravor men in the world than can be found among the mines of tho Comstock. Accustomed to face dan gers every day of their lives, they never shrink from the call of duty. An in stance of personal bravery occurred re cently at the Hale & Norcross, which is worthy of record as showing what men will do and dare. The pnmp column in the mine burst, the flow of water which is usually pumped at the Hale & Norcross, a large portion of which comes from tho well-known north drift on the 2200 level of tho "Savage," and is very hot, was sent through con nections to the C. N. S. shaft to be raised to the Sutro tunnel level. One day this flow of water was unusually strong. The pumps labored assiduously to keep it down, hut labored in vain. Bailing tanks were added, and still the accumulation could not be kept down. When the 2,400 station at that shaft was some three feet under water, information was sent to the Hale & Norcross of the fact, and a desire was expressed to know the cause of the increased flow. The necessity of an investigation thus bo came imperative. Superintendent Deidesheimer, not knowing what might have happened in that confined locality to threaten the safety of the mine on tho lower fevels, and not wishing to send men where he was unwilling to go himself, sent for Foreman Kellogg, who was working on the broken pump column, informed him of the situation of affairs and asked him to go with himself and see what was wrong. Mr. Kellogg would not allow Mr. Deidesheimer to incur the risks of the exploration and set about proparing to go alone. He saturated a woolen shirt with ice-water and bound it on and over his bead, leaving hut a single eye oxposod. He then niufliod both hands, and thns prepared entered the drift, leav ing with the Superintendent a request that if ho did not return in fifteen min utes the drift should be closed behind him to be opened no more. This could well be done, as the Savage hod bulk headed that level, tbe air had been shut ; out and tho workings there practically ! abandoned. After enduring that terrible heat for twelve minutes Mr. Kellogg came back and reported nothing' amiss. The extra water was but an unusually large intermittent flow from the old north drift in Savage. When stripped of his muSlings Mr. Kellogg found that in some way one of his hands had be come bared while ho was in the drift, and the back of it had been burned to a solid blister by the dry, hot air to which he had been exponod. Water boils on the Comstock in l'JB degrees, and he had sustained for twelre minutes a tempera ture only 40 degrtes below that of boil ing water, and suiiicient to have roasted him in a very short time. A Bond of Sympathy. A man with a grip-sack in his hand halted before a Detroit fruit-stand and priced a choice variety of peaches. When told that they were twenty cents a dozen he whistled to himself, walked softly around, and hnally asked: "Are yon a Baptist?" "Hardly." - "Neithr am I. I didn't know but that if we both belonged to the same denomi nation you'd throw off a little. Do you lean on the Methodists? "Can't say that I do." . "That's my case. I never did take much stock in the Methodis' s. Twenty cents a dozen is an awfnl pnoe on these peaches, considering how tight money is. I expect you are a TJniversalist, eh?" "No." "Neither am L Can't yon say fifteen cents for a dozen of these?" "Hardly." "Aren't you an Episcopalian?" "No, sir." "Neither am X, but I was afraid you were, lv e been a sort o looking you over, and I shouidn t wonder if you trained with the United Brethren. Como, now, own up." "I never attended that church, was the steady reply. "Xor 1, either, say, what are yon, anyhow?" "X m a bard-baked old sinner. "No! Whoop! That's my case to a dot! I'm called the wickedest man in Washtenaw county! I knew there was a bond of sympathy between us if we could only find it out! Now, do you say fifteen cents a dozen?" The. fruit dealer counted them out without further oblection. A letter addressed to "the prettiest girl in Sedalia, Mo.," has been posted above the window in the post office among the unclaimed letters. The young ladies go to the office and look at it, but are too modest to claim it. A blue-eyed, stylishly dressed miss looked at the letter closely, and said to a lady with her: "It looks like his writing. I wish they had jnst sent it to me, and not stuck it np that way in a public place. I'll never get it now." The modest girl is not fast It is not with the Maud S. horse. Tie Educational Failure. Mr. Kicbard Grant White contin. nes his reasoning against the present public school system, and with tbe skill which usually attends him in argument. - . It has been long dawning on the minds of our thoughtful men that the American educational system is not precisely what it is claimed to be. Mr. White shows bow and why this is, and we cannot add anything of appreciable value in that direction. But wo would like to say, what we have thought for a good many years, and said at intervals, editorially and per sonally, that we attribute tho most of tho evils under which this people suffer political, social, moral, and intellectual to tho incompetence of our educational system. And this, first, because tho system inculcates 'only platitudes and truisms instead of principles and laws. And, second, becauso its tendency is leveling in stead of elevating, training minds to the suppression and sacrifice ot in dividuality, and only to the advan tage and. advancement of qualities which are generic and not specific memory, comparison, accumulation, instoad of analysis, causation in iact, reasoning. To this leveling tendency is to be attributed tbe fact that we have, as a product of this system, actually . so first-class men or women in any walks in life; that our greatest minds bavo dono their work under the influence of special educa tion the system which precoded our publio school system, and which con sisted in affording tho student tho tools by-means of which ho was to gain his education, and leaving the matter thero minds belonging to the generations now passing-away; tka t our political public school sys tem produces professional politicians instead of political economists, law ovaders and law-broakers instead of law-makers, copysts instead of origi nal thinkers. As to all of this we shall havolnoro to say in the future, and shall bo quito ready with the proof's. In the meantime, we are glad to sco such Innovations as the Quincy (Mass.) now school system, the improvement Sn Boston and in Philadelphia, and tho wiso icono. clasm by which Mr. liichard Grant White is preparing tho scene for a manifest change in the scheme of education and in tho characters which are to introduce and estab lish it. Era. The BruuiHeld Case The Kansas City Journal of Septem ber 30th, mentions a suit pending in the Circuit Court of Jackson county, Mo., which, as it is of interest to many readers of this coast, we reproduce as follows: "A petition was filed in tho Circuit Clerk's office on the 27th of September by Nancy M. Brumfield against Samuel Lewis Wolf, in which sho prays that tho title of the Brumfield homestead be di vested from said Wolf and vested in hor. The plaintiff charges in her petition that the property was the home of herself and fofmer husband long before his PKSEtfTIOX AND SUBSEQUENT MUKDER In Washington Territory. That on or about the first day of August last, when Brumfield was making secret prepara tions to leave her and decamp with his daughter-in-law, he obtained by fraud and false pretenses, her signature to a deed conveying this property to the de fendant, Samuel Lewis Wolf. But the plaintiff further avers that no considera tion was paid or ever has been paid by the defendant for this property. That the deed to him was fraudulent, and made with ' the understanding that he was to reconvey the prop erty to Brumfield in person, and thus defraud her of her rights. That he was only holding the property in trust for Urumfiold's sudden death only prevented him from convoying the property back to Brumfield. The home stead is valued at 5000, and lies east of Kansas City on tho Blue river. The suit will come up at the next term of the Circuit Court. The remarkable story of tho infatuation which Samuel Brumfield, a rich farmer, conceived for the bride which his son brought home one day; the manner in which he had FALSE WARRANTS SWOBK OCT And ostracised his son from fear of the law; then quietly disposed of his prop erty and olopod with his daughter-in-law, is familiar to all the reodbrs of the Journal. He was joined by his friends, Bud Thomas and his wife, and subse quently the bodies of Brumfield and his mistress were found in Washington Ter ritory, and Bud Thomas and his wife came back here, and were soon after ar rested for the murder. The story is ono of the most remarkable in the annals of crime." Thomas and his wife still lan guish in jail at Walla Walla, awaiting the tardy arrival of tho day which will send them to the gallows for an awful crime, or give them back their long with held liberty. French Farmers. Fronch farmers work unceasingly. They are not rapid workors, but they are always at it. This indus try is accompanied by extreme fru gality. Their clothing is of the sim plest and most primative form and material, and the French housewives or mothers seem to have carried the art of patching clothing to the high est pitch of - perfection. In some specimens I have seen it would bo difficult to Bay with certainty which was the original piece as distin. gqished from the patches. They spend but little in furnishing and almost nothing in the ornamentation of their homes. They live also in the most frugal way. . It bus been said that two Scotchmen would live where ono Englishman would starve. Be that as it may, it is probable that three Frenchmen could live on an allowance all too small for the most frugal Scotchman. This fact seems to solve the problem how it happens that a populous country like France, with an average production per acre less than England, can yet export breads tufTs. The producers consume so much less. Small farming seems to rule tbe country, ono man tilling his own land with tho help of his wife and children. Love Stories. It was, we think, with "Jane Eyre" that it began to be sup posed that the hot encounter of two lov ers, with all their juxtapositions and all their quarrels, beats and coolnesses, was the only object of fiction a disastrous discovery which has done more damage in the world than many a more im portant mistake. Taking Shakespeare's example, however, we may say that a story which is pnre love and nothing else must end in a catastrophe. It is an in tolerable state, not to be supported by the great mavs of human beings who are not in love; and its suddenness, and the overpowering brief current of its po tency, the pity of the strange and tragio conclusion, the bitter sweet of that union which is ending, are component parts of its power over us, and justify its accept ance as the supreme romance, the one typical tale of youth and passion. There is no looking behind or after in that sud den rapture it is all concentrated in the moment, the hour, the one point of everlasting duration, which to ordinary mortals is beat out upon the clock in the shortest spell of time. But when the youthful pair occupy their real position in a real world, the interest of their story not only gives eest to the study of more ordinary existence, but it gives the in? dispensable composition, the necessary beginning and ending which every tale requires, Blackwood's Magazine. ABOUT W0XE5. The woman who pretend to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when it is afraid. ; ; ; A bachelor, according to the latest definition, is a man who has lost the op portunity of making a woman miserable. TWO Vftlincr itatniula nn - have each nine fellers. The old women in tne neighborhood think the affair will end in a base-ball match. A Brooklvn colored woman Ima init procured a divorce from the son of the Jung ot Aflhantee. She says love in Ashantee is several decrees below lnva in a cottage. A Chicago girl fell senseless when she Saw her SWCtnthaart. nritli a nl... nf at his lips. Suoh cold-hearted selfishness was enough to make any girl's head No woman, however nervous, has a right to wake up her husband from a sound sleep to tell him, on his inquiring what's the matter, "Nothing, only I wanted to know if you were awake." Mrs. Elizabeth Cady. Stanton thinks that the lot of American women is pre ferable to that of the sex in any other part of Christendom, but there are one or two things where there is still room for improvement. An Oil City maiden, who had just re covered from a two-days' attack of green apple cramps, recited in publio that touching poem, "Go feel what I have felt," with such emphasis that it brought tears to the eyes of the corner grocer. A hundred years ago, when you called on a girl she kissed you good bye. Now, if you suggest anything of the sort, her father calls you into the library and asks you what you ar4 worth. Are we a na tion? And is this progress? A sailor was recently before a magis trate for beating his wife, when the mag istrate attempted to reach his heart by asking him if he : did not know that his wife was the j"weaker vessel." "If she is, she ougut.not to carry so much sail," replied Jack. ' An observant correspondent at Long Branch notices that American women are following inf the footsteps of their Eu ropean sisters and cultivating avoirdupois Ease and freedom from anxiety develop it, and prosperity and plumpness go hand in hand. A young lady of Chester County, Penn sylvania, has agreed to marry a young man immediately after the election if Hancock is elected; but if Garfield is elected they are to wait four years, A lady at White Snlphnr Springs is compared to tho mother of the Gracchi, because, when asked by a reporter for a description of her dress, she said: "I don't wear a very handsome costume, but I have the nicest husband and two of the sweetest children in tho room." A man at Kansas City could not win the girl whom he wanted, and therefore married her sister. The wife soon learned the truth, and advised that the mis take be rectified. The sister assented, and a divorce, followed by a marriage ceremony, has apparently settled matters to the satisfaction of all parties. A Baltimore heiress fixed herself up as a homely woman of middle ago, and got into a street-car in which were four of her suitors. As one of them wanted to get off, he got np and let her have his seat. She supposed that he went to ride upon the platform, and of course accept ed him when ho proposed. Some men are born to luck. The Press in France. Tbe peculiar position of the press on the other side of the Channel is, says the 1M Mall GazeUr, being illustrated by flesh legal eccentricities. An Uidividnal having been convicted of defamation be fore a correctional tribunal, tbe court ordered the sentence to be published in three journals which were named. The conductors of one of these journals re fused on the ground, among others, that they could not be compelled to ex ecute a judicial decision in which they were not concerned, and that in any case publication ought to be paid for. Next day came a "sommation" from the Procureur Ueneral, ordering the free publication of the sentence under one of tbe articles of a decree of IH-'yi, by which 1 1 is laid down that tbe managers of newspapers are bound to publish at the head of the paper, and free of charge, all notices of authentic infor mation sent to them by the depositaries of public authority. Again there a re fusal, and the managers were summoned before the correctional tribunal. The case being dismissed, it was carried to the court of appeals, which confirmed the decision give in the court below. A further appeal to tbe court of cassation however, has resulted in the expression of an opinion that the journal in ques tion was bound to make the insertion demanded, and that the depositaries of public authority were, by the decree of 1832, put in possession or a right of the mode of exercising which they are the sole judges. As Is pointed out by more than one Parisian journal, If this prin ciple ia to be definitely accepted, tbe precs will he more than ever at the mercy of an arbitrary administration. The meaning and intention of the de cree of 1852, it is contended, was to give the depositaries of public authority the right of coutradicting an erroneous re port through the columns of the journal by which thsv report was originally circulated. As the law lias been now interpreted, however, the way has been opened for , most monstrous abuses. It would be possible to fill the front pagn of a journal day by day with "official prose," and ruin it both as a commercial speculation and as a political organ. A Drunken Man's Safety. A man sont out to repair telegraph wires on the 17th began by getting drunk. He had on his climbing hooks, and catching sight of the procession at a point near the orossing of the Boston and Albany Railway and Columbia Avenue, he forthwith shinned up a telegraph pole. From this porch he beheld the sight, and getting both legs Qver one of the cross-bars and both arms around the pole ho fell asleep, meditating very ; likely, upon the forward strides made by our city within the last half century. huuo tuus reclining -:j ieei iron) lUO ground, ho was espied by a kind-hearted individual, who pointed out the perilous situation of the man to a police sargent of the Fifth Division, remarking that he the sargent J must get him down, or he would fall and kill himself. "How am I to get up thero?" asks the sargent. "Cant say,'f replies the kind-hearted man; "bnt something ought to bedone." "The feller haint in no danger," breaks in a man with a red nose and a squeak in his voice, who has iust come nil and taken a critical sidelong squint at the man on tho pole. "Why isnt ho?" Sharply demands the kind-hearted man. 'Don't you see," returns the squeaky voice, "the feller's up there so tight he can't fall, nohow. ' The Female Novelist's Hero. In the old times when literature was chiefly in the hands of men, women were elevated to a visionary pinnacle; but now it is the turn of the stronger sex, and there are few things which more surprise the male reader than the flattering picture which he finds presented to him of his own species in the shape of heroes who to him are very questionable specimens of the race. Qnce more we repeat there is nothing so inscrutable as a wo man's hero. Being perfect as he is, he may conduct himself like the basest hound, and nobody thinks any worse of him. He remains to all parties as high souled and magnanimous a being as ever, even after this extremely silly and futile attempt to lead the conscientious little heroine astray. This uncon scious homage ought to soften the gen tlemen of the newspapers; but here, we fear, another principle comes in, and your critic, who feels himself in every way a more desirable specimen of humanity than the much lauded hero, Vint wtin Irhnwa . nA awaits him, becomes jealous of his imag- .uiarj uruuter. j. liiacx wood g Magazine. Mr. Tenayson is reported to have said when asked what he thought of the poetry of tbe day, that be was surprised at his high standard of general excellence. SELECTED KISL'ELLAXY. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face. One to-day is better than ten to-mor-sows. Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty. No denunciation is so eloqnent as the final influence of a good example. Complain not if anything bo ill, but he thankful that it is no worse. , Eggs that come to market packed in layers ought to be fresh enough. When a strong nature grows tender, it possesses the most fascinating influ ence in the world. When religion is made a science, there is nothing more intricate; when it is made a duty, nothing more easy. The man who leaves two-thirds of a cigar in a dark nook on the front-door-stoop when he goes to see his girl will make a thrifty husband. . . Talmage declares he would rather be a Modoc Chief in the day of judgment than a plundering United States reser vation officer. Well, what's to hinder him ? The English hold frequentj potato ex hibitions, with large prizes offered for the best, and the number of new varie ties yearly announced to tho publio is very large. It is said that sealskin coats will be very fashionable this winter. As this item may prevent numerous marriages we hate to give it, but a live journal is expected to give all the news. A Kansas City reporter records the fact that the "defeated candidate took his way to the train, wrapped in gloom and new store clothes. The gloom was an elegant fit, but tho store clothes were too short in the legs and very baggy about the shoulders." In Cincinnati the women wanted to vete for President "just for fun;" but they couldn't agree whether to have the polls in a milliner's parlor or an ice cream saloon, so we never shall know how much majority Hancock would have roceived. Lest it may escape the attention of some whom it may concern, we take this occasion to mention that leap year is drawing to a close, and that clergymen's fees are as low as eyer. Boston Globe. " Will somebody take pity on . the young man ? Come, ladies, he must be a great catch, seeing that he expects you to pay the parson's commission. Mr. John Addington Symonds begins a poem, "I had two lovers; now both are lost to me." Now, John Addington, ex cuse familiarity, but you might have known better. No man ever undertook to get along with two loves who didn't make a failure of it. You should have profited by the experience of others. A colored widow in Lexington, who is now drawing a pension of $8 a month from the Government, recently rejected an offer of marriago, remarking by way of explanation: "If I does, de Gubment will take my pension 'way, an nary nig ger in Kaintuck is wuff $8 a month to me." ' Ths Old Sonos. In the old songs there was invariably a display of work manship of a respectable kind, and oc casionally the skill of the writer rose above the respectable level, while in a literary sense the new songs are for tho most part contemptible. If the texture of those now silent ditties was occasion ally coarse, it was entirely free from an unwholesome savor. The fun in them was the rough fun of back-slapping, rib punching farces of the period. Robust, and not seldom clumsy, humor, bnt unquestionably humor. "John Jones," "TheBnrial Club," "The Cork Leg," "Never buy Tripe on a Friday," and many other unctuous tol-de-rol ditties whose titles do not readily recur they are in the memory locked, but the key is for the moment mislaid served as a lyrical safety-valve for the boisterous animal spirits of the time, the like of which we are unhappily not provided with the year 1880. ; Dayton, Hall and Irfkmbenon, This young and enterprising firm havo a very handsome exhibit at the Mechanics Pavilion, near the entrance, and opposite tho fountain in machinery hall. They have a ' large show case filled with fine cutlery, such as razors, pen-knives, scissors, etc., and a number of miscellaneous articles, such as door bells, solid bronze and nickel-plated door and window trimmings, locks bolts and such goods, and a patent sad iron, which would! bo a boon to any house-wife. In a neat upright show-case they present some extra fine fishing rods and tackle, pistols and other sporting goods, which takes the eye of all true sportsmen. On the shelves to the left they show farmers' and housewives' goods, such as axes, forks, rakes, black smiths' hammers, tongs and fireside sets. The rear wall is very prettily covered with a miscellaneous display on a crimson background, composed of cross-cut and hand-saws, broad and chopping axes, ship carpenters' tools. chisels, augurs, butcher and hunting knives, surrounded by a feptoon of log and halter chains, tho whole forming a beautiful background, which shows ex cellent taste in arrangement. Pour scroll saws are shown, which catch the eye of every boy that comes into the Pavilion. They are the Rogers, Lester, Holly and Barnes' velocipede patent, and are bnt a small part of that class of goods which this firm handles. They show a number of brackets, picture frames, etc., which gives an idea what can be done with the scroll saws. They also show a Sibley builders' level on a tripod for which they are 'sole agents. At their corner on .First and Taylor street, in this city, the firm have ' a hand same brick store which they have been compelled to enlarge by an addition of 30x50 feet, two stories high, in order to keep up with their largely-increasing trade. Their store is now 100 feet in longth, with 30 feet frontage, and is filled from cellar to garret with shelf and heavy hardwaro, mechanics' tools, sport ing goods, scroll saws, farming implements , suoh as shovels , spades, rakes, scythes, axes, etc. etc. as well as a large assortment of fine tools for carpenters, machinists, black smiths, masons and miners. The gentle men that compose the firm are Frank Dayton, Robert F. Hall and Buell Lum ber son, all young men who havo been brought up in the hardware business in New York City from boyhood, and have eastern connections which enable them to offer some rare inducements to the trade. Though this firm have been known until recently as retail dealers solely, they have made arrangements to wholesale all the kinds of goods in which they deal, and the reputation they have made for themselves as fair dealers in Portland, wiil be of great help to them in their new line of business. They are prepared to fill orders promptly and at lowest market rates for all kinds of goods usually kept in hardware stores, together with many novelties not generally found in that line. Telegram. Change of Location. Mr. J. B. Knnpp, the commission mer chant, has been compelled to change his location in order to accommodate his growing patronage, and has accordingly located at No. 267 First street, in a fine brick store, where he has ample storage for his customers. Mr. Knapp is build ing up a splendid reputation as a busi ness man, and we are glad to chronicle his prosperity. Every musio teacher or musician in. Oregon, Washington Territory or- Idaho, who will send their name and address to Warren's Musio House, 92 Morrison St., Fortland, will receive free for three months, a copy- of his Musical Review, containing three new pieces of music each month, besides current musjp news, :; . - '' -' CMKHBB Thst Warren's Muiic House. 92 Morrison si reel near tha VMrt"ffice, Portland, Or., bai everything in the maiieal line at reasonable price. A larga stock of sheet mmrie, books, pianoc, musical nier ehandt, band and orchestra musio always oa hand. M r. Warren buys every thing-direct from Eastern homes, and can afford to sell cheaper than any store la Oregon. Bend fpr cataloguf. To Dealer at WAGON 3IAT13BIAX., Hubs, Spokes, Felloes', Hickory and Oak Lumber, with a large : Assortment of hea vr a:vaD-ia, ieon BT-n-i. Wl.Uk A iha Sh1 naraa Inhhln Wtm THOMPSON, DeHART & CO. Portland, Oregon. " 'it THE OBJECT of this Institution is to impart a quality of knowledge that must be nsed in the practical, everyday ail'airs of life, affording useful Business Education at less cost, and in lew time, than any other character of School can offer. English Branches will receive s,-ecial attentiou. Private Instruction given in anv separate study if desired, in either day or evening session. New Teachers, NEW METHODS, careful attention, and entire satisfaction guaranteed to all students who will work. Lady Assistant constantly in attendance in Ladies Department, Xtayicm, Hall Orders from j irjyai i i THE TRADE Solicited. Wholesale Aroualasr Its Readers. An alarm of lire at midnight is a startlinz thing, but not half so startling to manyjto hear it aa would be the sudden knowledge ol' their own dangerous physical condition. Thousands cf thousands are hurry ing to their graves because tuey are carelessly indiuerent to the insidious in roads of disease and the means of cure. It is the mission of H. ll. Warner Ic Co., with their Safe Kidncfy and Liver Cure, to arouse men to a sense of their danger and then cure them. Memphu Appeal. ney and Liver Cure is highly endorsed by iniu- literary and scholarly distinction, anil by fniii Tidaals in all the walks of life. aWlsi malting any pnrcnaseerlawrlt- larlarssioBaetsaa advertisement tm ttals paper ya win plessr mention (be ante of the paper. ' Uso Rose Zills. Use Rose I?ills. THE OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING! Company Is now ptcpared to furnish Insldes. OuUides and Sup plements on theshnrtest nn- lilce. Address IK. ti. Kilmer, xwx j. rorilKnu.irr. T , -a -7rif t ; 2! teWREZ It is nmde from a Simple Troplntf Iai of Hare Value, ml in a Irri V E Remedy torMl tluMilrV wwen that canw jviiit In tlie tower pan of ,im b.Jv for TornUI lJveiHea'laclviiftiinftk l)t?.ziiMrI Gravel, Malaria, and a) I ti? difftcultieA of the Kidney, Uver and Urinary. Organ frtor PewUq Ilaa, Monthly Mensirnatttinfi, aitd durtnn pHatcnani, u ha no equal. It rf,tor the omnns tliat NAKR th blood, nd fieitre ta the bwtt HJomI FvriUtM It Is the only known re-rrti'fly that cure Brtjfhi'i .bbtpane. For lHa hetea, tiae V'mr' MftfB IHabetea C we. vir bale by 1 iniKtf ta and ail jH-alersat fft t4 per bottla. larKat bo I tie In the market Try ic H. II. WARSER A CO Rorberter, M. Y Cfasrvb. SciMol. rir, tUm, ?iie-KG!.lAW prx-!. UN FORTH, RICE & CO." Iwti ti fu'fic test, U brcct St. fci fmcfesa Use JElose I'ilLs. BLYMYER BELLS, For Churches, Schaojt zni Rre Alarm, SIIA'KK MEDAL " Awarded by tbe Mechanics Institute at San Franetsco, September, 8r. Read what the Jpmrs ssy of litem in their Report: Tftea tails are madeof a patented com. poslte metal, partly of steel, and nnllkelnat in any other bells nsed. Tbe highest encomi ums are passed npon them for their CLEAR NESS, BKAUTY and VOLUME OFW.IND and it tasald they can be furnished for less than HALF THE COST of (hosa wad frosa bell metal." . Bend lor Illustrated eatalecne to the General Agents for tbe Pacific Coast, LINPKTH, RICE CO., $3 and SS Market, tea FrAncUoo, UaL, f P :jt- ' " I - ' It! III h - VI , p : H I 3 . ' r- I ,. 3 ; 5 3- H I M S9 2 s-ij C3L aw J l 1 j: h sf t Jr 3 Z- " o u Tjji I , E- ? 2 to II Q 2 -5 H If ; S 9Z N g I S r Is 5 S. It 3 S O o 1 p . 8 S I - 1 S?" w O m r if ? C 3; M I I I - . If ' r 522. so tsi g i ft I i ' 11 o 1 g s Ilea Wkoleaal Bates, Eaam"bcrson. i i i i i 1 1 t-r-h Pnrflanrl a vi uuuU Oregon. ardxrare. The Great English, Reaedy is a never-falllns; Cora for Nervous Debility Exhausted VHall.y. Kemlnal Weakness, Rpermaforrbea, lAtn t MA MOOD, lmpov teucy, Paralysis, and all tbe terrible sffwti of Heir Abase, youth ful follies, and exces ses to maiuier years such as toss of Hem. ory .Lassitude. Moctur- uai kuilsHion. Aveniou to Society, Dimness n Vision, Noises In I lie bead, the vital Bald passtug nnobscrved in the urine, and many oiherilHeRR- that lead to In-tanlty and deal b. Oil. MINT! K win agree to jorelt Vi-r Hundred Dollars for a case of this kind the VII AI, KK-tttATIVicrBDer Wi .peel, advice and treatment; will not cure, or (or anything Impure or Injurious found In It. 1H. niSTIK treaiai Private Diseases sun cessfully without mercury. CoorallaUon Free. Thorough examination and advloe. ln ntndini; analysis of urlae, tS On. Price of Vital Rtrslls,$3l)0f bottle, or four time the quantity for tiouv; sent to any adddreca on receipt of price, or O. U. D, secure from ob. tervatlon, and In private name if desired, by A. K. M1ST1K, M. . 11 Kearny street, San sTrsutetse, da. PR. miRTIK'S KIDIET RKSRDt. KF.I'KKTIt I'M, enres all kinds of Kidney and Bladder Complaints. Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Leucorrboea, For sale by all druaslfts: tl au a bottle; six bottles for $S 00. DK. M1NT1LS UANORI.IAN PILL are the best and cheap t -DYSPVPSIA. and HIMoCfecurs in the market, fur sal by all rirurKlst. HUUUE, AVI s CO. rortlaad. r. Wholesale Asreata. marllll iJ. C Carson, Manufacturer and dealer In all kinds frt Sash, Doors. Blinds, FRAMES, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, Etc j t.A0.ED FINISHED LUBBER Constantly on band. 'Importer o Paints, Oils, Glass, Brushes. AND A FOlXi LIKE OF Painters' Materials. Orders from tbe coon try will receive prompt usi buivtUI MkVCUUUIlt sai.cs room: nn 111 front Street. AtTttldln'. Mill. augtf HORHAIID, OBKUU.V. Use Rogo Pills. What the Press Says. flRRflOKf 1 V. k. vi . . ii7.... .Vr .T4" Dresses at Ult's are perfect in design. UJ DA X MORS STANDARD The crtl- the art of lV.mgTiii. " " thwDA1!MERC"ZRV-H,'v,n knovMi, in. r w .-v HMV-k no HTV fjTer NQ Lltt, whose Dresses are the tnool saal. sue!' Read ft! MsU In the weekly Is. eclt. the admUatton of a d"uea eT """" FULL AYSSOKTMBXT OP Ladies' Ready-Made Suits For 115 we will send (a a D.) to the country Elegant Wool and Silk Suit Addrs, H. B. IJTT. P. Q. Box 1ST. J- X3 KNAPP, Commission Merchant AND PURCHASIN8 AGENT. All Goods on OommiMion. WOOL, ORAIX, DAISY HOJUCT8 ASR FRUITS A SfECIALTT. Agent for rarrotfi Patent Doubletree. 267 First street, Portland, Oregon . SPOBTSMEN'S EUTORItTM. WM. BECK & SON, Importers and Dealers In Sharp's, Remlnuton't, Ballard', Barem'. J.terj Wi"cherter Repeatt.B Rifles. HAZARD'S SPORTING GUNPOWDER Best In the world. Pnt an in VfilL.H C.rldKof.U litnds .t Ree iCL Base Balls, Frf , V" '" r " Pedes, ArcWV t.P0)0 Oamas, VeJoef ''un Tennia. B-i..m sr, rrat;LieArS?Mo2. qaalltj. .T'"siis Aide, aia.l, Hortlas VARNISHES. VarnlsheV: w York' tto following lines o NO. 1 COACH. E2- J FURNITURE. NO. t COPAL. . EX, HEAVY DAMtn BROWN JAPAN - have everl"0io" low quality of goods. Thaie .i"?1"" well known tnannfiotorv? n? ar "2m th T Uirero Painter. X- , E. BEACH f 3ueeeaanr n - . : " 103, Front Street . . V',- . I - ' w ; Use Xtoa3 "riii