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THE INDEPENDENT.
' BIS TH . . - V
FINEST JOB OFFICE
IN DOUOLAS COUNTT.
CAMDS, HILL BEADS, LEOAL BLANKS,
j And other printing. Including
Large and Heavy Posters and Showv
Hand-Bills,
- Jfeet!yar.d expeditiously executed
AT I'onTHNDvPniCES.
E. R. MULLER,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
OAKJLAXD,
ORKGOH
Office in Dr. Page's Drugstore.
Canyonville
Hotel,
PROPRIETOR
o. a. ixnnn,
HAVING RECENTLY PURCHASED THE
CaByonville Hotel, 1 am now prepared to
Ornish travelers with the beet of accommodations.
Feed and stabling for stock. D. A. LEVINS.
JAS. THOXXTOX.
W. H. ATXIHSOIf.
JACOB WAONER.
C. K. ANPBBSOSf J
Ashland Woolen Manufacturing
Company,
Manufacturer! and Dealers in
White & Colored Blankets
Plata rm& Fancy Cashmeres, Doeskins,
yisnstjls, tc l.o,
OVER AND UNDERWEAR CLOTHING
Made to Order.
W. II. AXItlNHOIV, Neoy
ASHLAND. Jackson County, Oregon.
H. C. STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Goods!
Keep constant on hand a general assort
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLASSWARE,
J ALSO : t
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock, of I
RCIIOOL BOOKS
Sueh as required by the Public ( Count; Schools
All kinds of STATIOSTKHV, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYB AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishea Cheeks on Portland, and procure
Drafts on San Francisco. j
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Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland !
Ja. Mahoner, Prop'r. j
TaeBseat of wines, liquors and cigars in Dosf- '
las count, and tha beat j
BIIiIilABD TABUS
t I
ba tha Stat kept in proper repair: j
parties traveling en the railroad will find this
- pises vary hand to viatdoring the stop
ptnf of tha train at the Oak
land, Depot. Give ms aealL
Jas. jiAH02iaX.
t JOHN FRASER,
Home Made FiirnitTire,
WILBUR.
odeoox.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on band.
rilDMlTHDC have the best stock of
I WIIISI I Wilt-.
lurnlturs south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
(lye me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
js- ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL-
' OAKLAHD, - . ' ORKUOH.
Hichard Thomat, Prop'r.
rpniS HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED
for a number ol rears, and has become Terr
popular with the traveling public First-class
LCfcPINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
Lad the table supplied with the best the marks
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad.
Furniture Store!
JO 1 1 IV GILDER8LKVE
H AVISO PURCHASED THeIfURNI
ture Establishment of John Lebnl.err, is
now prepared to do any work in the j .
UPHOLSTERING LINE.
. 1
He is also prepared to furnish
In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper
than the cheapest. His I
Chairs,
Tablcsj,
BurenuM, i
Dedatenda,
WattlistantlM,
ETC ETC., ETC.
Ar of superior make, and for low et.st cannot be
equalled in the State. The
Finest of Spring Beds
And the
Most Complete Sofas
Alwaya on band. Everything in me line fur-
nishad,of the best quality, on the shortest
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS MAOK AND TRIMMED.
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
ny other establishment.
Desiring a share of public patronage, the un
dersigned promises to offer extra inducements to
ail nation. Give n e a trial.
JOHN GILDERSLEVE.
fJOTIOS. )
NOTICE IS HEREBY G1VEX TO WUOM IT
A stay concern that the undersigned has been
awarded tha eontract f'r keeping the i Douglas
Oasraty paupers for a period of two years. All
arsons to naed of assistance from said county
Sad ant procure a certificate to that effect from
nay ntambarof the County Board and present it
- taeaaottfea following named persons, who arc
asHlmiUml as and will care for those presenting
awn nurtiflnatisr Button A Perkins, Rose burg; L.
Is, Kaiiefx Oakland; Mis. Brown, t Looting
(j lata. Sr. Woodruff Is authorised to furnish
snadiml aid to all persona in need of the same and
na fear been declared paupers of Douglas
Csmtr. W. B. CLARK.
JW"3C EDS !
AIL USDS OF &T filALHY
A J jl, on XMSJ
Promptly attended to and JS?
,oed
jwitta ore.
Haeheuy k fin
PortlAC' 0rg9B
THE
YOL.5.
The King of Barman.
Tha newti that the King of Burmah has
made a military demonstration on onr
frontier with a view to frightening Great
Britain into certain acts of reparation
seems rather ludicrous. The King's
army is said to consist of two bodies, the
one 750, the other 300 strong, and the
attitude of the troops is represented as
arrogant and insolent in the extreme. It
is easy, however, to understand that the
Burmese may think otherwise. The
Government at Mandalay has no practi
cal experience of onr prowess and is
notorously ill-informed as to onr re
sources. For a long time past our most
important representatives have been
the steamers which for purposes
of trade have plied the Irrawaddy. On
almost the last occasion of the reception
of Englishmen by Theebaw he dwelt
upon the commercial advantages thus
afforded in a manner which showed that
he regarded them as our chief titles to
his consideration. Then the abortive
attempt of Prince Nyoungeke, while it
has flattered the vanity of the troops
whioh overthrew him, has correspond
ingly lowered us in his esteem. For it
was generally believed in Burmah, ab
surd as it may seem, that the Frince
escaped from our territory not only with
our connivance, but by our assistance;
and further, that we look to him to ac
complish that conquest of Theebaw,
which we dared not attempt. With all
these considerations in view it is easy to
see that the so-called insolent atti
tude of the Burmese troops may ap
pear to them quite justified by facts.
Whether they will proceed to blows is
another matter. The report that when
Theebaw has got up his re-enforcements
he will send a messenger to demand an
indemnity from the British Government
is reassuring, for it points to no imme
diate outbreak of hostilities. Our answer
will probably be in the negative, under
the circumstances of the threats which
accompany the demand, though it is not
pleasant to reflect that in several re
spects Theebaw is in the right and we
are in the wrong. We saved Nyoungoke
from the exterminating wrath of the
King, and then we allowed him to escape
from our Territory and raise an insur
rection in Burmah. At this moment he
is a prisoner in Calcutta, so that we have
twice balked Theebaw of his revenge.
Had the request for an indemnity been
preferred diplomatically it would per
haps have been polite to Lava acceded
to it. Pall Mall Gazette.
Treatment op Breeding Swikk.
Were I raising my pigs for pork instead
of for breeders, I would feed them some
what differently from what I now do,
and I am satisfied they would weigh as
much at six months as they now do at
nine months. But my stock are lor
breeders, and I am quite sure that a
course of "pushing," with the most
adaptable and richest food,
would injure them for that purpose.
To grow pigs successfully and profitably,
requires that they should have a good
appetite, good digestion and strong
assimilating powers, which cannot be
found in any breed without vigorous
health. If a pig is kept for a consider
able time in a cold, wet, dirty pen, on
bad food and short allowance, until the
character and quality of the secretions
are changed, and the general growth of
the pig is checked, that pig will not
make a good breeder. By subsequent
good care and feed, this pig may grow to
be a fine-looking hog, and as a breeder,
may not show the check it has received,
but the abuse will be pretty sure to crop
out in its offspring, causing late maturity,
deficiency in size or fattening qualities.
I am opposed to allowing pigs to breed
under eight months, and I much prefer
that they should be 10 or 12 months old.
To in-and-inbreeding and too early
breeding may be attributed many of the
ailments, barrenness and want of thrift
to be found in numbers of our swine
herds, '
The outbreak of a small-pox epidemic
and the possibility of an old time small
pox scare reminds the Slock Report of an
incident in a newspaper office some years
ago when a similar scare was in progress.
One afternoon a reporter entered the
crowded local room with a countenance
upon which satisfaction and salf-com-placency
were very conspicuously
stamped.' . As the new arrival swaggered
up to his dosk, the city editor observed
him, and asked, "Well, what is it? What
have you got?" "A good item. Ex
clusive, too, I think. Been up to the
Pest House and all through it. I tell
you it'll write up bully!" The enter
prising reporter was crushed by being
given a vacation, to commence immedi
ately, and he had to take it.
An JiiXMiNATiNa Composition. In
dustry thus describes a simple way to pro
duce an illuminating composition.
Cleanse oyster shells by woll washing,
expose them to a red heat for half an
hour, separate the cleanest parts and put
law m cruuiuie iu ti uulu wjoib wiui
sulphur; now expose the vessel to a red
heat for an hour at least. When cold
break the mass and separate the whitest
parts for use. If inclosed in a bottle the
figures of a watch may be distinguished
by its aid. To renew the luminosity of
the mass place the bottle each day in the
sun, or in strong daylight; or burn a strip
of magnesium wire close to the bottle.
The snlphido of lime will thus absorb
light, which will again be available at
night time.
R. G. SCROGGS. A. M M. D.
Physician ssndl Wuraeon.
Special attention paid to
Operative Surgery and Treatment of Chronio
Diseases.
Office in rear of drug store nearly oppo
site the postolhce.
Office hears trout 1 1 5 ends nnernaam
J. JASKULEK.
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER AND 0PTICAN.
Bvae-bura;, Ofesjon. (Opposite poelofHce.)
DEALKB IS
Watches. Clocks dt Jewelry. Spectacles
AND EYEGLASSES.
WotM.M rwtn anrl Jewelrv carefully
repaired. All work warranted. Genuine
Brazilian Pebble spectacles and eyeglaset s
a specialty.
OMgon ntx caiiromia
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DOUGLAS
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
sr TELEeiurii to batk.
St. Louis business men have organized
a mining and stock exchange.
Over 100 horses died of pneumonia in
San Francisco during the last week in
November.
Reports received from many states show
that electors cast their votes on Wednes
day in accordance with elections hereto
fore announced.
Judge E. B.Taylor (Rep.) was on Tues
day elected as successor to Gen. Garfield,
as congressman from the nineteenth
Ohio district.
The manager of Booth's;theater has de
cided that he will not ruu counter uni
versal public sentiment by producing the
Passion Play and therefore gives it up.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad com
pany met a committee of grain men in
the most concilatory spirit, and agreed to
operate with them to keep the elevators
in working condition.
One million one hundred and eleven
thousand hogs were received in Chicago
during November, the largest receipts
ever known for a single month. Their
value was $12,250,000.
The editor of the New York Times who
started the proposition to raise a fund of
$250,000 the income from which is to be
given to ex-President Grant, is confident
mat the whole sum will soon be subscrib
ed. The internal revenue collections for the
1st district of Ohio were tor October, $1,-
165,000. In the Peoria, (Illinois) district
tbey were $l,la8,000. In both cases the
amount was heavier than ever before
recorded in the United States.
The New york Post of Nov 30th savs:
Private advices ore that the large move
ments of gold to this country are at last
attracting serious attention in London.
Itis not unlikelv that the bank of En
gland will use its large power to prevent
it.
Several Chicago papers publish what
purports to be a synopsis of the presi
dent's message, but there is not a word
of truth in them. The message is so
vigilantly guarded this year that there is
no danger of its being: stolen, or its con
tents guessed accurately. ,
The S. P. railroad is now twenty- :wo
miles beyond Kio Mimbres. There exists
quite a rivalry between the S. P. and A.
T. b. I', roads as to which will reach El
Paso first. The former is now about sixty
miles from that point and t he latter about
one hundred and twenty.
City of Mexico advices of the 22d: The
appointment of Gen. Nevins as secretary
of war is all that is known of the forma
tion of the new cabinet. Comez Piacio.
ex-ministerto Washington, was instructed
to lake the ministry of foreign relations,
but it is not known whether he has ac
cepted. "
It is said authoritatively here that Levi
P. Morton of New York will no Ionizer
consent to the use of his name in connec
tion with the secretaryship of the treas
ury under Garfield and has gone back to
New York to enter upon a canvass for
the senatorthip. Under section 243 of
the reviBuu statutes Jlr. Morton is ineligi
ble. Investigation in relation to the killinz
of one Johnson, an American citizen, on
the Fiji Island:!, reveals the fact that
Great Britain claims no authority there,
except to protect her own citizens. Sec
retary Thompson has decided to commis
sion the first American man-of-war that
has business in that vicinity to stop and
redress the outrage.
John T. Crawford, of Cincinnati an ec
centric old maa with from $30,000 to
$100,000, who has just died, left all his
property for building a home for aged
colored men on a tract or 18J acres at
College Hill. One of the witnesses is
dead and the other John K. French, is
absent in the army somewhere in the
west, so the ill caunot be probated yet.
Advices from Honolulu, by steamer
City of Sydney, describe the eruption of
Mauna l.oa, now in progre-s, as one of
the grandest ever witnessed. It broke
out November 5th about six miles from
the summit, the crater throwing out two
great streams of lava, one of which is
thirty miles long, 100 to 200 yards wide
and about 20 feet deep. Terrible explo
sions accompany its flow. Some fears are
entertained for tho safety of ililo, al
though the flow seems turning in another
direction.
Last Saturday preliminay steps wore
taken for the formation in Chicago of a
central land league, the purpose being to
assist in the defence of Parnell end his
confreres in Ireland and to encourage the
land agitation of that country. A com
mittee of nine Irishmen and Americans
was appointed to report next Sunday on
organization. The plan is to have clubs
formed in each ward of the city, all being
tributary to one central body, and through
these branches to raise money to be for
warded at once to Ireland. ConsiderabH
zeal was manifested and substantial ai l
will doubtless result.
The Chicneo Ti'mrs Washington special
of last Saturday says: Garfield had two
free interviews with Sherman, telling him
that be would be pleased to have him
remain at the head of the treasury. Sher
man replied that having entered the sen
atorial contest, he should remain to the
end. Garfield gave assurances that his
own position would be neutral. On the
fate of Ben Harrison and Chas. Foster,
senatorial aspirants, depend two cabinet
positions. It is believed that the Camer
onswill furnish a representative for Penn
sylvania, Blaine for New England and
(Jonkling will be given a portfolio for
.Levi F. Morton.
Caot. Warthen.oflife saving station No.
8, on the Massachusetts const, reports that
he picked un this morning the Dotty ot
Captain Atkins, of station No 7, and the
boilv of one of his crew. It is thou eh t
that Atkins and his crew in attempting
to board some stranded vessel during tho
night were capsized and alt drowned, as
others are seen in the surf.
Later. Only the captain and two sea
men were drowned, toe latter named
Elisiia N. Taylor and Frank Mayo. The
crew had rescued three men from a
stranded schooner and was about to take
off the commander when the schooner's
boom struck and capsized their boat. The
crew got ashore in an exhausted condi
tion, and the schooner drifted away with
the captaiu and pilot.
A New York dispatch of Dec. 1st. says:
The stock market verges on a panic, but
at the critical moment is held within
bounds even by those working for lower
prices. During the first hour rates de
clined to 5 for leading stocks, but a reac
tion began, and is still progressing; good
part of decline being recovered. Mouey
commanded ljc premium, and is very
hard to get. Bank facilities have been
taxed to the utmost lately and they can
not help the tightness. The demand for
money from the south and west is very
large aud is felt more than usual just now.
Banks depend for replenishment chiefly
on imports of specie, which have so far
been inadequate. The treasury to-day
begins payment of $2,812,200 interest on
4J per cents.
Leland Stanford, president of the Cen
tral Tacific, and Fred Crocker, vice presi
dent of the Southern Pacific, and various
beads of departments of both railroads,
were before the railroad commission of
California on the 1st, in relation to a pro-
pot ed schedule to be fixed for freights of
all rauroaos in me state, hot, cianioru,
on behalf of the Central and Southern Pa
cific roads, objected to the commission
fixing any tariff for freights for either of
the roads, claiming tnat Dotn roaos were
operating under a charter from the fed
eral government and that the law direct
ing this commission to regulate fares and
frietrhta only applied to railroads operated
nnder charter from the state. Governor
Stanford furthermore intimated that if
the commission undertook to regulate
the schedule of freights for either of the
companies which he represented that be
would seek injunction from trie circuit
co:irt. The commission took no action
ia the premises.
r
ROSEBUHG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER U, 1880.
The clearings of the Chicago clearing
house for November were $182,000,000, the
largest recorded.
The national council of the Union Lea
gue ot America holds its annual seseion
in Philadelphia Dec. 9th. -Official
returns of Arkansas are an A l
lows: Hancock, 00,481; Garfield, 41.6KI;
Weaver, 4161; Hancock's majority, 14,(.'J,
Capt. Eads has arrived at the city of
Mexico anu intenas asaing lor a suuaiu v
to build his contemplated ship canal
across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Th.t
government is less interested in canals
than in railroads, nor do the people seem
to realize the direct advantage of the pro
posed canal, and subsidies are out of the
question.
A Star special from Silver City,wNew
Mexico, says that a report telegraphed to
the Star Nov. 24th, from Shakespeare, of
the killing of King and wounding of Bill
Smith, alleged horse-thieves, ot San Si
mon, which was stated to have occurred
at Dawning's ranche, Am mas mountains,
proves to have been false. Twenty-two
head of stock were recovered by Turner,
Martin and party and an engagement oc
cupying several hours actually took place,
but it was bloodless. Turner and Martin,
when returningto San Simon from Shake
speare on Friday evening last, were am
bushed at Granite Gap by King and his
gang. Martin was killed instantly, being
shot in the head. Three head of stock
were shot down and killed in the affray.
Turner escaped. A regular vendetta has
been commenced in ban Simon valley.
The combatants are largely composed of
men who left Lincoln county, New Mexi
co, some 12 months ago under strong pres
sure. A a meeting in Cooper Instistute last
Tuesday night of friends of prison reform,
Henry Bergh astonished the assemblage
by declaring himself utterly opposed to
the sentiment of the meeting. He said:
I believe that if a man cannot live with
out murdering somebody, he must be got
out of the way. I say kill him. A great
deal has been said about improving crim
inals. Let me tell you how: I should
abolish all penitentiaries in the land and
save all expense of running. In their
place 1 would have whipping posts every
where, and to make sure that the lash
was fairly laid on I would ouer a reward
for the invention of a steam machine that
could not be bribed with offers of politi
cal place or money. No man has had a
better opportunity to see what criminals
are made of than I have had, and I tell
you that hundreds of them commit crime
to be sent to places which you provide
for their comfort. They are warm and
clean there. They get good soup and po
tatoes and everything vhich hard-working
honest men and women can not get
in your tenement houses.
It is understood at Washington that
the chief obstacle in the wav of army
retirements favored by President Hayes
is the hostility of Gen. Sherman, lie
does not believe in retiring men who al
though old are doing very well, and they
are not so old as staff officers in Europe,
It appears that there are twenty-seven
officers equal to or above the grade of
Lieutenant colonel who might be retired
under the law. This woule promote one
hundred and thirty-five younger officers
who with their friends are urging that
the law be enforced. All of the twenty
seven except eight are staff officers. Of
these eight, three are general officer. It
is a source of great concern to officers
whether the president persists in his de- j
sire to keep the retired list full, or Gen
eral Sherman's policy not to retire men i
as long as it can be possibly avoided. The
general opinion to-day about headquar
ters seems to be thataconpromise will be
effected by the retirement of about half a
dozen, including Ord, Barnes, Meado aud '
Dun.
On the 30th of November the following
address was issued from Tammany Hall !
New York: A sub committee of the com
mittee on organization of tho Tammany j
Hall democratic general committee ap
pointed to investigate fraud, coriuplion
and intimidation practiced at the l.i:e
election, isin possession of evidence whit h I
clearly demonstrates that the republican
vole was enormously increased by reasou I
of systematic colonization, unblushing
bribery and most cowardly intimidation j
of workingmen by their employers. At
the proper time and place these proofs
will be made public. The sub-committee j
believing that a great deal of valuable!
imforuialion can be secured through the
co-operation of the public to this end,
invite all persons in possession of any
evidence of illegal registration or voting,
bribery, or intimidation, to communicate
the particulars to the chairman of the
sub-committee at Tammany Hall without
delay, and in this way expose those who
have violated the purity of the elective
franchise in order that'deserved punish
ment may be enforced.
Edwahd Gillon, Chairman.
ThoB. F. Grady. M. H. Segereon, Secv's.
A Philadelphia special furnishes addi
tional facts concerning the Northern Pa
cific syndicate. From the engineer's esti
mate it is thought that $40,000,000 will
prove more than enough to complete all
the lines. The syndicate take this amount
in first mortgage 6 percent, bonds, which
are to be issued at the rate of $25,000 a
mile. As the entire line will be over 2000
miles in lenght, it will be noticed that
the issue will be exhausted before this
limit is reached; but of the total issue, an
amount equal to the bonds on the Pen d'
Oreille division, which is bonded at the
rate of 2o,0w a mile, and the bonds ot
the Missouri division which is bonded at
half that amount, will be reserved to retire
those bonds at maturitv. The svndi. ate
agreo.to take $10,000,000 of the issue dur
ing the coinm" year, and this is thought
to be all that can be expended with ad
vantage by the company, the .Northern
Pacific is to build the road itself, dealing
directly with the contractors who do the
work and without the intervening of a
construction company. As the company
has now completed road enough upon
which to issue the entire amount of the
bonds that are to be sold during the first
year, work on three divisions of the line
will begin simultaneously, the advance
guard is now grubbing the line on the
Montana division, the surveyors are
locating the line on the Yellowstone divi
sion of 420 miles, and work will soon be
gin on the Cascade division on the Pacific
coast. The expectation now is that the
company will be able to complete a mile
a day at least, during the coming year.
In his annual report, the secretary of
the interior gives a review not only of the
operations cf the past year, but of the
four years of his administration. The
larger part is devoted to Indian affair?.
In his opening chapter upon this subject
the secretary gives an explanation of an
important chauge which has taken place
with regard to the reservation system.
Unsays that although at first accepting
as he found it, the reservation policy
which has so long been followed by tho
Indian office, more extensive observation
and study of the matter gradually con
vinced him that this was a mistaken
policy, and that it would be better for the
Indians and more in accordance with jus
tice, as well as wise expediency to respect
their home attachments, to leave them
upon the lands they occupied provided
such lands were capable ot yeilding a sus
tenance by agricultural or pastoral pur
suits and begin aud follow up the prac
tice of introducing among- thorn habits
and occupations of clviliacd life ou the
gronnd they inhabited. In view of the
fact also that the maintenance of a system
of large reservations against the pressure
of white immigration and settlement
would in the course of time become im
practicable, a different polh'y has been
followed, having for its object settlement
ot the irtlians upon lands In severalty,
disposal or their benefit of their Undo
not required for this purpose, and era' In
ally to prepare the way for their final in
corporation into the uojy pontic as mot-
pendent and selfreivtng men lnvesun
with ail the rights which other inhabi
tants of the country possess. The renults
already aceomphished in pursuance of
this policy and promising outlook in some
other directions are described in general
terms and illustrated by specific acts of
progressmado by individual tribes.
'Independent in all Things Neutral
"A FFSC0URIX6."
"Well, yes, ma'am, I have stole!"
"Why, John!"
"You asked me didn't yon ?"
"Yes, I asked you!" the mission
teacher replied; a sad, almost disgusted
expression on her sweet young face.
"What did you ask me for, if you
didn't want me to tell you. I could 'a'
lied!" the boy went on in a stolid sort of
a way, and yet iwith a ring of feeling in
his voice. j
"No, you Couldn't, Johnny," the
teacher answered with a smile, "because
yon promised, you remember, that you
would always tell the truth to me."
" Well, I didn't go back on it, did I?"
"No, Johnny. Have you any objec
tions to telling me how often you have
taken things that didn't belong to you ?"
"Mebee I couldn't remember them
aU," the boy replied, "but I never lifted
anything very partickeler. Once when
the old woman where I hang out got
sick, and cried a bluo streak for oranges,
and nobody had the money to buy 'em, I
asked the old cove that kept the grocery
store to trust me for a couple till the next
day. He wouldn't do it, and that night
I stole six from him."
"Why, Johnny?"
"Why didn't he let me have 'em,
then ?" theb oy went on doggedly. "I'd
'a' him, 'cause I said I would. Anyhow,
the old woman got well off them or
anges." "Then you are not sorry you took
them ?" the teacher inquired.
"Well, the old woman had to have
them oranges, and somebody had to get
'em for her."
The teacher's face was very grave, and
as her companion looked up" he saw the
tears in her eyes, a sight which had a
curious effect upon him.
"Don't make me tell you any more,
please, ma'am," he said, dropping his
eyes, while his face flushed scarlet. "I
ain't nothing but a offsoouring anyhow,
and it ain't no good to fret about what I
do. I was kinder dragged into this
place, else I'd never a bothered you."
"What name did you call yourself?"
the teacher inquired. "I didn't under
stand you."
"Granny Leeds said I was offsoouring,
and so I am."
"What is an offsconring, John?"
"Oh! the leavin's of something that
ain't no good."
"Granny .Leeds, as you call her, was
very much mistaken, and you are very
much mistaken about yourself, Johnny, '
the teacher replied. " You are not an off
scouring, but God's own child, and He is
giving you a chance to make something
of yourself. How much do yon think
the things are worth that yon have taken
in all, Johnny?"
Ihem oranges were worth four cents
apiece when I took 'em; that's twenty-
four, and them two loaves of bread I
lifted for two fellers that froze their feet
last winter; and a mackerel to make the
bread go down. It's awful to eat bread
without nothing with it; and then a
base-ball that was worth fifty cents, and
all them things would make near hand
to a dollar. 1 don t remember anything
else now."
"Well, John, I shall give you a dollar.
and I want you to go to those places and
pay for all those things."
Then i ll have to own up, the boy
interrupted in his bewilderment, re
lapsing at once into slang.
Wouldn t you feel better to confess
Johnny?" the young lady inquired, not
a little troubled at the effect of her
words. For a moment the boy seemed
lost in thought, and then, lifting a frank
face to his companion, said: "I ain't
never felt pertikeler bad about any of
them things 'cept the base ball, and that
I conld 'a done without, but if you say
so, iiiss Lee, 1 II give the whole thing
away; only as I ain't lifted any thing late
ly, und don't never mean to again, they
would always suspicion me and make me
ut a thief when I am t no such thing.
Don't you think 'twould do, ma'am, if I
dropped the money in them places so
they'd be snre to find it? If you don't
tlnuk so ill blow the whole thing, if it
takes me to the Island."
"What will you do, Johnny, if some
body needs bread and oranges, and you ;
havn't any money to buy them with ?"
"That s a sticker, ma am. 1 dnnno.
"And it wouldn't be strange if some
tiling of that kind were to happen any
day."
"No, ma'am. That's something putty
gen'rally to pay with the folks I know."
"Well, Job nny, I will tell you what to
do," the teacher replied. "Here is my
oard, and when ' any of your acquaint
ances are in trouble I wish you would
oome directly to me, and if anything is
amiss with you at any time, be sure and
send a messenger. You had better come
up to-morrow, anyway, Johnny, for I
want to give you some warm clothes, and
then it will be easy for you to find the
place next time."
Johnny hung his head. This kindness
had overpowered him, and not a word
could he say.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, Johnny,"
the tender-hearted teacher hurried to say.
"You are willing I should help yon, are
you not?"
"I guess yon had better let me git,
now, Miss Lee," the boy replied huskily.
"You could knock mo down with an eye
winker. You ce-- !u't worry about my
remembering ail yni ve said, but just
now I m all broke up.
"And I can trust you, Johnny?" the
lady inquired.
"It s a go, ma ma, the boy answered
simply.
Miss Lee tucked a dollar bill in his
hand, and Johnny hurried out of the
building,
It took considerable tact and skill as
well as time, for the boy to satisfactorily
manage the business which his teacher
had provided money for. For instance,
the grocer from whom he had "lifted"
oranges bad sold out to another man.
and Johnny was obliged to hunt him up.
He was at last found, poor and ill, and
the boy withoni a moment's hesitation
confessed the theft and produced the
money. "I guess I can make it thirty
cents," he said, "and that'll be a little
interest. If I wouldn't like to give you
five dollars, then you may shoot me for a
crow.
The ex-grocer was' so surprised at
Johnny's confession and subsequent
generosity that he shook the boy s hand
heartily and invited him to stop in again
soon, which the lad promised as heartily
to do.
By nightfall these "back debts," as
Johnny naively called them, were all
settled, and then, after a scanty meal,
tho. boy started out with his evening
papers. About a nuarter to eight he
Lad sold out, and then, as fast as his feet
would carry him, be hurried to the
neighborhood of the Academy of Music
to watch the people go into the building.
It was opera night, and this was one of
Johnny's greatest pleasures; and so, with
his back to a lamp-post, he gave himself
np to the delight of watching the gay
throng. Johuny wondered what it
would be like to drive around in luxuri
ous carriages and have plenty of money
to spend on fino clothes. He thought of
the bread and herring he had eaten for
his supper, and tried to imagine what it
would be like to have turkey and cran
berry sauce every day. Every Christ'
mas Johnny had turkey and cranberry
sauce for his dinner, and he knew from
experience how nice they were. . He bad
once ridden in an ambulance with
friend of his o newsboy who bad
been rua over by an express
wagon, and this watt the nearest
approach to carriage ride that
Johnny had ever eniA-ed. He won
derod, as he w
dreed peopl
iese happy, gaiiy
t was that some
kJ'TiT?T)"I
wki h n in
in -Nothing."
people had all they wanted, while oth
era were cold and hungry and some
times starved to death. This was not the
first time that Johnny had been per
plexed with such thoughts, but they had
never made him feel quite so uncomfort
able as on this occasion. He called to
mind the warm underclothing and tidy
jacket and pants which Miss Lee had
given him that day, and tried to comfort
himself with the thought that there was
one person in the worid who cared for
him.
There had been a heavy fall of snow
that day, and as Johnny, still absorbed
with his thoughts, started to cross the
street, he saw something sparkle in the
snow at the side of the crossing. There
had been a rush of carriages, and a few
had not been able to pull up to the curb.
As he picked it up he saw that it was an
ornament in the shape of a cross and
studded with diamonds.
Johnny knew thev were "shiners " as
he called them, as soon as he looked at
them, so with his heart in
his throat he tucked the precious
jewel into his pocket, still hold
ing it firmly in his hand. Johnny s am
bition had been to start a coffee and cake
establishment where newsboys conld be
entertained at low rates. For more than
a year he had nursed this project, and
here was a chance to carry it into execu
tion. There were nine stones in the
cross. Disposing of one at a time, so as
to avoid suspicion, there was money '
enough to last him for "years and years
he told himself. It puzzled him to
know where he could keep the shiners,
for there wasn't a sonl among his ac
quaintances whom he dare trust with the
secret. Not nntil he crept into his pov
erty-stricken bed, with his treasure care
fully hidden among the straw, did the
thought occur that he ought to try to
find an owner for it. Then followed a
hard battle between the natural honesty
of the lad and his very natural desire for
creature comforts. The person who could
wear a gold thing like that, "chock full
of shiners," he said to himself, "must
have money enough ty buy more
shienrs." Here he was, cold and hungry
half the time, with no prospect before
him but to be always hungry, if not al
ways cold; and here were these shiners,
which would set him up in business and
give him a chance to help the boys.
Johnny honestly wanted to help the
boys. Why should he find the owner of
this cross when he had nothing and the
owner everything ? This fight continued
until it was time for the lad to start out
for his morniDg papers. All through
the business part of the forenoon the bat
tle still raged, and the newsboy's
thoughts were so occupied with his new
found riches that he almost forgot to at-'
tend to bis customers. At about ten, as
he crossed City Hall Park, he noticed a
gentleman in earnest conversation with
another gentleman, as he passed he heard
the words diamond cross spoken. Johnny
slackened his pace and listened.
'The diamonds were all of the hrst
water," the gentleman said. "It was a
present to my wife from her father, and
she is terribly cut up at the loss, I don't
supposo we shall ever find it."
lou will advertise it, wont you.'
his companion inquired.
Of course, the gentleman replied.
"but more than likely it has fallen into
dishonest hands, and unless the reward
is made equal to the value of the dia
monds we shall probably never see
them." i
'When the gentlemen separated the
one who was interested in the diamonds
entered tho City Hall and after littl j in
quiry Johnny discovered that this gen
tleman held a very honorable office in
the city department. After rinding this
out the lad took a tnrn around the Park
to think it over again.
"Granny Leeds said I was a offscour-
ingand Miss Lee said I ain't," he aruged
to himself. "If I keep these shiners
Granny will be right and Miss Lee'll be
wrong. She said the Lord was giving
me a chance to make something of my
self. Well, now, the question is, am 1;
or am I not an offsconring. If I keep
these shiners I am, if I give them up
I ain't. Well, I ain't," and with these
words on his lips, Johnny started for the
gentleman's office. Nothing daunted, he
entered and presented himself at the desk.
"Some of you folks have lost some-
thins, ain't you?" he asked. j
"Will your honor tell me what it is
like?"
"It is a gold cross set with diamonds,
and the gentleman described the relative
position of the stones. "It was lost
either mthe Academy ot Aiusia last
night, or on tho way to or from that
place."
"Johnny's coat was off in a twinkling,
and, with a rap at tho stitches which con
fined his treasure, he took it out and put
on his coat again. "I s'pose this is it,"
he said, handing it to the gentleman. "I
wanted to keep them shiners awful bad,
he continued. "They'd 'a' set me up in
business, them shiners would, but you
see I couldn't get to be such a offsoour
ing as that, though I have been trying to
be a thief all night long. If I was ' your
folks, he went on, I d get a stronger
string to hold them shiners, for fear
they'd be gone for good and all : next
time.
"What is vour name?" the gentleman
inquired, as the lad, with his cap in his
hand, stood modestly before him. j
"John Hesney, the boy replied.!
"Have you a father and mother?? was
the next question. 1
"Nobody, yer honor, but myself.
"Which would you prefer to do,
Johnny," the gentleman next inquired;
"go into business or go to school
"Why, I should rather go to school.
ten to one. said Johnny, "but there
ain't no show for that." j
"We will see," said the gentleman.
"Will you come into my office, Johnny,
nntil I see what is best to be done?"
"Yes, sir," replied Johnny, the , tears
starting to bis eyes. I
"I shall want yon to go home with me
in an hour or two, and give ray wife her
diamonds, and see what she thinks of
vou." I
All right, ' said johnny, orusning
awav the tears. "Anything to do now
ver honor?" i
The following aunaay jonnny went to
the Mission school for the last time, and
in such good clothes that Miss Lee hardly
knew him. The grateful boy told his
teacher what had happened, and con
eluded as follows: j
"I am going away to school to-morrow,
and if I've got the learning stuff in me I
can go to college;, but, Miss Lee, if it
hadn't been for you and God I should
have been a offscouring all the days of
my life. ' j
, i
The Irish journals recount with glee
that a noble lord in the neighborhood of
Belfast had announced his intention to
pass the winter in Ireland. The pros
pect was not pleasing to Milauy s rrencn
maid, so she forwarded a threatening let
ter to His Lordship, who at once "or
dered his carriage, drove to the station
and flew off to London," journeying from
his residence to the station "with a re
volver primed, capped acd loaded by his
side, two other friends accompanying
him with loaded rifles inside the carriage,
while a gallant colonel, armed to th
teeth, sat on the box by the coachman,"
the French maid in a rumble behind
laughing internally to a degree fatal to
corset laces. : ': . j.
Gambetta said once to Sir Charles
Dilke, the British Republican : Don't
take office if you can possibly help it,
and then only a post of first rank.; Oth
erwise yon will reap trouble, servitude,
unpopularity, bat neither power not
patronage. A clever man in opposition
u the biggest man nowadays.
Nil i iiift nraissss
m it-
JH UJ
' Banfampt Laws.
The question of a bankrupt law is
being extensively discussed by the
press of the country, and the text of
a bin on the subject has for some
time been in course ot preparation
under the eu per vision of Judire
Lowell of the U. S. Circuit Court of
Massachusetts. He has consulted
with the leading commercial associa
tions and many of the prominent
leagal and business men of the coun
try, and it is believed that a bill will
be ready to present to the Congress
to meet next week that will obviate
the defecls of former laws on the
subject and include new principles
based upon a proper regard for the
rights of both creditors and debtors.
While it would be pleasant to con
template a state of things in which
there would be no necessity for such
laws, it has not been found conven
ient for the States to regulate the re
lations between the debtor and cred.
itor classes without some sort of a
local substitute in the absence of a
general law on the subject. While
each State may and does regulate
these relations between its own citi
zens, it can have no authority out
side of its own territory. A writer
in the American rives a history of -
the bankrupt laws which from time
to time have been enacted in tnis
country and as often repealed, and
makes a strong argument in favor of
the passage of some law of this char
acter by Congress. Three times has
a( bankrupt law been tried ia the
Jilted States, and as often has it
been repealed because of inherent de
fects and its failure to serve the pur
pose for which it was enacted. On
April 4, 1800, Congress passed an act
to establish a uniform system of
bankruptcy throughout the United
States which by its terms was lim
ited to five years, buf it worked so
badly that it was repealed in Decem
ber; 1803. Its great evil results
prejudiced the honest public against
all such measures, and not until
1841, was another bankrupt
act passed. It operated but
little better than the law of 1800.
At the time of its passage the coun
try was in a distressed condition, and
debtors were not slow to take advan
tage of a law which enabled them to
get rid of debts which were pressing
them very heavily. The courts were
kept busy grinding out bankrupts to
the exclusion almost of all ether
business. As a specimen of the work
ing of the law, it may be stated that
in Massachusetts uIodo there were
3,389 debtors, with aggregate liabili
ties ot over 830,000,000, who hied ap
plications to be adjudicated bank
rupts during tho year aud a half that
the law was in force. On March 3,
1848, the law, which in the meantime
bad been declared unconstitutional
by a number of courts, both ol the
United States and the several States,
was repealed, lor a period of
twenty-lour years it was left solely
to the State govemmcots to enact
laws for the protection of insolvent
debtors. Oo March 2, 1867, the third
and last bankrupt law was passed by
Congress, and lor over eleven years,
until September 1, 1878, with certain
amendments from time to time, con
tinued in force. Whilo the country
continued in a state ol prosperity,
the law seemed to answer its purpose
in a measure, but with tbo panic of
1873 thero sprung up a crop of
would-be bankrupts which, until the
repeal of the law, and even until
now, has kept the courts busy. No
one who witnessed the scenes attend
ing the last days of the old law will
soon forget the long list of anxious
but smiling debtors who waited at
the doors of the courts in every city,
to file their petitions in bankruptcy
before it was too late. On the last
day thero were filed in New York
City 494 petitions ; in 1'hiladelphia,
69 ; in Brooklyn, 130 ; in Chicago,
400 ; in Cincinnati, 100 : and in
Cleveland, 100, while other cities
added their quota to tho vast army
of debt shirkers. Hut, continues the
same writer, the evils that were born
of the old bankruptcy laws are not
arguments against a law which will
protect the honest debtor and the
creditor alike. The folly ot the
former laws was in their permitting
rojrues to ply their trade with the
stamp of legality upon it. Expe
rience should guard against the repe
tition of such folly, and in the case
of Judge Lowell's proposed law it
seems that the objection has been
skilfully avoided. Another evih of
the old bankruptcy acts, which has
been struck at in tho one under con
sideration, is the enormous expense
which hitherto hasattachjp bank
ruptcy proceedings, and which - ah
ways comes out of the cSitor's
pocket. An endeavor has been made
also to accelerate the disposition of
cases involving the settlement of in
solvent debtors' affairs, and in this
particular the proposed law stands
in a commendable light. Judge
Lowell may not hCvo succeeded in
reaching; the happy mean which an
equitable bankrupt law should oc
cupy, but he has taken a long stride
toward it. Such defects as this law
may havo can be discovered only af.
ter it has beeu in operation, but it
may be predicted confidently that
they are not so fatal m to leave the
law unworthy of a fair trial.
A Washington reporter of the World
has discovered that the notes of his in'
terview with Senator Conkling in April,
1878, are fuller than they were trans
lated at the time. He has made a literal
transcript, showing that the Senator
said: "Hill, of Georgia, is well known
in his section as the champion liar of the
South. Nobody in his own State would
believe him under oath." Of Senator
Butler, of South Carolina, the New York
Chesterfield said: "He is a cool and
polished villain." The reporter further
states: "in the published account of
the interview I left off the last word,
But it is recorded in my note-book, and
tne senator wui not deny using the lan
gnage. In Butler's ease he added the
trite quotation of Ass mild a mannered
man as ever scuttled shin. " Senator
Hill is a gentleman from Georgia, sah
and he hails from La Grange, while But
ler s address is Columbia, S. C.
Judge John V. Wright, the defeated
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Tennessee, has written a manly and
patriotic letter, saying that he bows
without murmur to the verdict of the
people, while be rejoices that so large a
majority of both parties have declared in
favor of the "strict .maintenance of the
pablio faith, State rand National." He
hopes for a reunion of the regular and
repudiating wings: of the Democratic
party of the State mpon a debt-paying
I planorm. j
NO. 35.
Liquors and Tobacco.
According to the ancient rhyme, the
reason why little Johnny Seed resolved
never to masticate the Indian leaf was the
filthiness of the weed. But according to
Dr. George Beard, of New York, the rea
son was that the little Reed's nervous
system wouldn't endure it; the paternal
Reed had need tobacco lavishly and , so
far as he was concerned, with impunity,
but he bequeathed to his son a nervous
system that weuld stand nicotine; where
fore, where the father chewed the son es
chewed. As the senior Reed never had a particle
of tobacco in his mouth, and the junior
Reed had aca aired the habit of chewing
surreptitiously, had been flogged several
times for indulgence in the vice, and
had never recited his little verse about
tobacco with sincerity, both of them
would have been greatly astonished at
hearing Dr. Beard's lecture before the
Philosophical society. In that lecture
the doctor set forth that while the late
generation of Americana indulged in the
copious use of alcoholic liquors, and,
without much distinction of sex, in the
use of tobacco, the present generation
finds its nerves in such a condition that
it has to limit its use and stimulants and
narcotics to the minimum; and the doe
tor not only discoverd a rapid reduc
tion in the amount cf smoking, bat he
already foresees that millennial period
when chewing will be a lost arc jui this
Dr. Beard attributes to the increasing
nervousness of the American people,
which obliges them to abandon whisky,
tobacco, and in many cases even tea and
coffee.' A few facts in support of this
theory would facilitate its acceptance.
There are a large class of young men,
who are now smoking and chewing with
an industry that is highly gratifying to
all patriots who desire to see the public
debt paid, and every one of whose an
cestors looked on tobacco smoke as iden
tical with smoke from the bottomless pit,
who are a little curious to know where
Dr. Beard got the impression that the
dead Americans were large users of to
bacco and that tie living ones are grad
ually giving up chewing and smoking.
In spite of reductions in the internal rev
enue duties, the national revenne from
distilled spirits was $18,000,000 in 1865;
$55,000,000 in 1870; $52,000,000 in 1875,
and the same in 1879. The use of tobac
co doesn't appear to be diminishing, in
view of the fact that the tobacco crop of
18G9 was 225,000,000 pounds, and in 1873
395,000,000 pounds. It is within the
recollection of persons by no means old
that the culture of tobacco came, saw,
and conquered the Connecticut valley.
The attention of the pablio has been
called several times lately to the enor
mous increase of the consumption of
cigarettes. No person who walks the
streets can be ignorant of the youthful
ness of the smokers who chiefly use
cigarettes, and the increase of their con
sumption means that more youths are
moking than formerly.
Among the Dutch of New xork it may
be true that men and women of former
generations both nsed tobacco and used
it more freely than now. But among'
New Englanders and their western off
spring the use of tobacco was formerly j
looked on as a sin, and in those com
munities of New England extraction
where the world, the flesh, and the devil
have been most successfully resisted,
smoking is still looked upon as an evi-:
dence of an unregenerate nature. - The
great Methodist Church, which looks
pretty closelv after, the habits of
ts members, and even recommends
rising honr to its ministers.
deplores every rear the increasing num-
oers oi inose wiuun its ioiu wno use to
bacco; especially does it tearfully notice
that is it no uncommon thing now for can
didates of the ministry to be addicted to
the use of tobacco. If Dr. Beard has
found more nou-smoking sons of non
smoking fathers, his observation is ex
ceptional. That drinking, as a social institution,
is less prominent in America now than
formerly, and less here than in Europe,
is trne; but that this results from the
increasing nervousness of our people is
not proven. Two of three Questions that
eternally agitate Americans, according to
Dr. Ueard, are,: "Who shall be the next
President?" and "Where shall I go
when I die?" The latter has had a good
deal to do with the disuse of liquors.
In no other country have temperance
societies exerted so much influence
as here. The Methodist church
is itself a temperance society.
The other churches have efficiently
co-operated with temperance societies.
Clergymen were among the first to a ban
don their bibulous habita. Nearly all
the churches have taken part in the war
on drinking, and nearly all the temper
ance orators and organizers are church
people. The most successful of recent
temperance movements have been as dis
tmotively religious as the Moody and
Sankey meetings. Among the people
who are exempt from the influences of
any church it is questionable whether
Dr. Beard could prove that there has
been any radical diminution in the use
of liquors.
Dr. Ueard s remarks about the great
reduction in the use of liquors in Eng
land are not corroborated by other and
very recent observers. Some of these
have noticed an increase of intemperance
among English women of the better
classes. On the whole, there baa doubt
less been a decrease in England, but.
next to America, England is the country
where temperance societies have most
flourished, and where religion has ex
erted the most influence on the side of
abstinence. f Chicago Times. .
PBuncvAT, Man. Prof. Dawkins has
oome all the way from England to tell
the .Boston people, in twelve lectures,
what he thinks be knows about the
primeval man in the eocene age. He
proteases to know aomethinrr about it.
by a study of the rocks, and the flora
and fauna of the world. In the miocene
stage of the world's history, there was no
place for man; bat "we will get nearer
and nearer the period of man after
wuue, aiuiouga we may not at urs
1.11- - 1 - A I Jl .
recognize bim as he originally ap
peared." In this connection the Cura
tor oi the Feabodv Museum at cam'
bridge observes, in the tenth annual re
port: "Dr. Abbott has probably ob
tained data which show that man existed
on our Atlantic coast during the time of.
if not prior to, the formation of the great
gravel deposit, which extends towara
the coast from the Delaware river, near
Trenton, and is believed to have been
formed by glacial action. 1 rom a visit
to the locality with Dr. Abbott, I see no
....
no reason to doubt the general couciu
Bion he haa reached in regard to the ex
istenee of man in glacial times on the
Atlantio coast of North America.
Coppeb is PnASTs. It has generally
been held that metallic substances, im
pregnating the soil were not absorbed by
plants; that the roots possessed a species
of selective power in virtue of which
they rejected everything of an injurious
nature. xma no airicuj n uo, "v
thare are exceptions to the rule. The
anecies of violet Viola calamina
rut), which flourishes on the waste ore
heaos of certain of the zinc mines of
Khein Prussia, have been fonnd to eon-
fcun considerable Quantities oi zinc. sax.
Diealafait, a noted French mineralogist.
now adds his testimony to the inaccuracy
of this opinion, by proving the presence
of copper in plants which grow on rocks
belonging to the copper-bearing series.
In some instance be was able to obtain
a distinct reaction for copper with i.bjo
ma in one gram ol ash. it u not im
probable that investigation would dis
close the fact that other metals are also
taken np by plants,
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tmguish the fire which haa hJn
in the Keeley Bun colliery for
weeks, it is leared, will add another to
the perpetual burning 111 111 Ml tHar. naw
exist in the Pennsylvania anthracite re
gions. The greatest of these ia probably
that in the jugular vein, near Coal Cas
tle, this county. This haa bean himi..
siccel835. Louis F. Dougherty opened
this vein in 1833. The upper drift of the
mine was above water level, and a huge
fire was kept in a grate at the month of
the mine in winter to keep the water
from freezing in the gutters. Dm mt
in the above year the timbers of tha Aritt
caught fire from the grate. When it was
discovered the fire had been crrii Amu
the air hole to the lower drift and was
beyond control. Two miners entered the
mine, hoping to recover their tools.
They never came out. The mine was
abandoned. No effort was made to mine
any of the coal near the banting -vein,
although it was considered the best ooal
in the region, until 186. Then John
McGinnis put in a slope on -the east
side of it, below water' level. He
struck the vein at a place where ih ooal
was so thick that two miners eon LI Vp
a large breaker supplied. When
hundred yards of gangway had been ex
cavated, the heat from the bare:"
Dougherty mine began to bother Ut
miners. McGinnis attempted to opes an
aic-hole. The heat became so great tUt
the men were paid double wages to in
duce them to : work. They woril
entirely naked and were relieved every
ten minutes. Finally the heat became so
intense that work was abandoned. The
mine was flooded. After being pntsspeJ
out men could ? again work for hw
days. The mine was flooded nine times.
MoGinnia finally failed and the mine was
then abandoned. The fire has been rag
ing in the vein ever since. An area of
half a mile in every direction has
been burned. No vegetation : grows
on the surface. In places the ground
has caved in, forming chasms a hundred
feet deep. There is bat ft thin shell of .
earth over the pit of fire. At night blue, . :
sulphurous flames issue from the ground.
It is dangerous to walk across the spot.
Several persons have mysteriously dis
appeared in the vicinity during the pas
twenty years. It ia believed that is a
majority of the cases they have fallen
into the burning mine. Dougherty, the ,
original proprietor of the mine, attempt
ed to go across once. He sank to his
armpits through the crust, and waa only
saved by eonraceons Viands who veil-
nn? in Hie .tiianM - TK aimi ea f
the ground are hot, and snow never res
there.. Bain turns to vapor as fsstasi
falls on tha burning mine.' Millions u
dollars' worth of the best quality of coal
have been consumed by the fire. Tlx
Summit Hill mine, nearMsirneh Chaai
' vuiAuug ivr WBUt.y.v0 Tears,
It is believed that this 'mis waa
set on fire by diseoetented
miners. Thousands of dollars have,
peen expended m fruitless effort to ex
unguisu the names. The Butler mine
near Pittston, has been burning three
years. It was set on fire by a party of
tramps, who built a fire in the mine in
l7. The fire is in tke upper drifts. It
is confined to an area of forty acres by ?
an immense ditch forty feet wide, which
was excavated between the bora ice t
drift and connecting ones. The digging1
of the canal coat tfW,0007:tont for that
obstacle the fire would have comment- i
cated to some of the most extenairB t
mines in the Lackawanna valley, and ft
subterraneous conflagration would have
swept under the whole of West Pittston.
Miners have worked in the lower drift of
the JButier mine since the fire broke out,
and there are but forty feet of rock be
tween them and the. field of the fire
above. The water that trickles through
the roof is scalding hot. The temper
ature is so high that the men can weal 1
but little clothihg. N. Y. Sun. . ,
A Mi la a The as and. t-''
A story is told of Hon. Charles B.
Farwell, Congressman-elect from the
Third district, which goes to prove that
there is such a thing as gratitude and
that even m politics au is not ntter
selfishness and lust for power. This will
strike the average worldling in the light
of a revelation, and doubts may arise as '
to the accuracy of the statement, which,
however, will be removed on learning
the fact upon which the extra ord nary
assertion is made.
Several years ago, when Mr. Farwell
was serving a Chicago constituaacy in
Washington, a seedy young man called
on him one bitterly cold and windy
morning He was thinly clad, and the
pmcedifixpression on his face betokened
privation, pain or suffering. The visi
tor introduced bimseix as Herman
Hansen. He said he was ft Swede
that he was out of employment,
and that unless ho could obtain as
sistance he and his wife must starve.
He said they had pawned all their cloth
ing excepting what was on their backs,
and had sold all of the household effects
upon which money eould be raised.
Everything was gone and they were en-
tirely destitute. The young man's ap
peal touched Mr. Farwell'a heart and he
gave him $50. Hansen was overwhelmed
with gratitude. He had not expected
any such amount and was astonished be
yond measure. To prove that he was
not an impostor he stated the real object
of his visit, which was to aak Mr. Far-1
well to use his influence to get hint em
ployment as sail-maker in the navy de
partment. This Mr. F. did, and soon
afterward Hansen was transferred to the
African squadron or some other far dis
tant post of duty. The circmstaioe
had passed entirely from Mr. Farwell'a
recollection, but one day, while the er&
paign was in progress, he received let
ter from the person in question, in which
the writer, who was then into ft tkeologi
school hundred or two miles diaUtt,
volunteered to oome to Chicago, his
home, and work Among his Sweedi&h
Acquaintances for the election of his
former oeneiactor. - jhx. xarweui- wtomj
him that his services .-, would not be
riMdad. and thanking him for the inter-
oat he was taking in the election, thoaght
no more about it. v .
Two or three days after the election
Mr. Farwell was met at tlie door cf( his
atore by a smiling young man, wh a at
tended bis hand and shook the. proffered
congressional digits -warmly "I sup-
pOBW y VIS uv uv. nuww ywt l.
stranger. "Yes, I do though, replied
Charley, after ft moment's scrutiny.
"Your name is Hansen. X renumber
you very well."
T rMVi-el irnni" lector " tniittn narl
Hansen, "concluded to eome Be asywsy
and work for yon among my eenctry
men. I have been in the city for two or
three weeks, and am on the point oi r-
tnrningto my school. X merely el'." l
to extend to yon my bearty eon,)-. -
tions, thank yon agsin for tb gre X t
yon once eonf erred upon me and r..i
With this the warm hearted Sire i v -shook
.Mr. FarweU's hand aad 1.;
good-bya went off. ; It is dica.t t.. r. r
men was the happiest of the two at .
moment, Hansea at the oppor - -had
enjoyed of proving his gr-..:
a substantial manner, or Mr. lir---- .
the unexpected and unnsnai etr.,..
of nnsolicited friendship on tha x .
one for whom be bad years hei. r r,
Kindness, hucli little apisoae-s o '
to li At u p the pathway of the is 1
world. - 'v
-',Vaw,, said the indignant e- '
tolas Wlor, "yoa have mti 1 ,
thTiesis too small f;r i.
stud t :e tiLlor, "did yoa '-t t- , .
vou wee going to live at te . -.- !
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