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BY THE !
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
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HAS THE : -
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I.s'lK.rLA8 COUNTY.
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VOL. 7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON,
SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1882.
NO. 14.
TH.
.L J J X.jAy
MDEPEMDKIT.
p&aciicai, ;
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORKWARRANTED.
laler In Wnteitcit, Cck, Jewelry,
Sietla d t-j ',
And a Fall Line of ;
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goo?s.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
jiroptr adju-tineut of cpectxclea ; al way on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
, tacies and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of postoffice, Bose
bnrg. Ontnn. : " .
MAHOHEY'S SALOOW
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jh Ia h i ney , Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquor and cigars in Dowj
las county, and the beat
BILL.IAUD TBLH
In the State kept in proper repair:
Parties traveling on the railroad win find thk
place very handy to visit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land, Depot. Give meaeall.
J aO. iiAtiONisiY.
JOHN FRASER, .
Home Made Furniture,
WILBIH,
OREGON.
Upholstery,-Spring Mattrasses, Etc.
Constantly on hand.
PIIRMITIIRCr I Have the best itocko
runilliunc. mrniiure south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county aie requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
5aT ALL WORK WARRA STED.-8
DEPOT HOTEL-
OAKLAND, . - OREUON.
Richard Tliomas, Prop'r.
'pHI3 HOTEL flS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number of years, nnd hjas beeotne very
popular with the travoling public.' First-class
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. I loUd at the depot of Ijhe Kailroad.
r tjhe Kailro;
tore!
Furniture S
.TO II CV GX LDERS LEVE
HAVIXO PURCHASED THE FURNI
lure Establishment ot John Lehnlierr, is
now prepared to do any wo:k in the
UPHOLSTERING LINE.
He is also prepared to furnish
In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper
than the cheapest. Hi.
Clinirw,
Tables, . . . ';
DiirenuH,
Ilecl&teatlsf,
Washstands,
ETC..
ETC..
i ETC.
Are o superior make, and for low cost cannot be
equaled in the State. The
Finest of Spring Beds
' I And the
Most Complete ofas
Always on hand.' Everything in ;ne line fur
nished, of the best quality, on the shortest
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS MADE AND TRIMMED.
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
Desiring a share of public patronage, the un
Jersigned promises to offer extra inducements to
all nations. Give nea trial. '
j JOHX GILDERS LEVE.
H. O. STANTON,
I Dealer in
Staple Dry Coods !
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of -
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLASSWARE,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
MOHO OH. B O O
. Such as required by the Fublic County Schools
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furniKh.es Checks on Tortland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS
ALL KINDS OF BUM QUALITY
ALL OIJ DISKS
Promptly attended to and ftoods phipned
with care.
Address, Kitchener & Bene,
Tort land. Oregon
I Notice.
Notice Is here'-y fiven hom 41 ,nay concern, that
tho uii;ler!ti(fi.td haa been awarded the contract for
keeping the Ikmubs coiinty ranperw for the period of
two years. AU persons in need of inui.stnc lrom aid
county mutit first procure a ceitificate to that effect
from anv member of the County Board, and present it
to one of the following named persons, who are author
ised to, and will care or those presentmir aueh certificate
W L Batten, Ronebur ; L. L. Kellosrg, Oakland; Mrs
Irown, Looking Uia. Dr. Scroti ia authorized to
niih medical aid to all persons in need of the same
who have been declared paupere of Ivuiirlas connty.
U'M. B. C'uARliE, Supt. of Poor.
lUstKacan, Or., r'eb. 15, laoO
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEQBAm TO BATE.
Lightning ttruck the signal station at
Pike's Peak Saturday and slightly in
jured Sergeants Day and Boynton.
Louis Poznansky was killed in Lead
ville on the -tth by the bursting of a gnu
while firing a salute. Another man named
A. F. Thatcher was seriously injured.
After three meetings and as many dis
agreements, the Harvard and Columbia
crews were unable to agree upon the
hour for the race for the 4th which, was
consequently declared off.
C. W. Johnson, from Kentucky, was
shot on the 4th at Franklyn, Texas, by
Clara Christian, aged 18; the cause of the
tragedy was a scandal alleged to have
been put in circulation by Johnson.
The miners of Meyersdale and Alexan
dria struck on the 1st for an advance
from 50 to 60 cents per ton. They say
they will not resume work till the ad
vance asked in the Cumberland region is
granted. The action was the result of a
combination.
During the thunder storm at Truckee,
Nev., on the 2d a team driven by H. W.
ltobert, accompanied by his little boy,
was struck by lightning and both horses
were killed, the carriage demolished and
occupants rendered unconscious for some
time, but finally recovered.
The jury after an hour's deliberation
returned a verdict that the railroad acci
dent at Long Branch last week was caused
by spreading of the rails on the bridge
at Parker's creek, and find the New York
& Long Branch railroad company guilty
of gross and culpable negligence.
At a meeting of freight handlers at
Jersey City on the 3d it was announced
a communication was received from
freight handlers of the Erie Co. at Buffalo,
Elmira and Salamanca, asking for infor
mation concerning the strike and express
ing a willingness to join the Jersey City
men.
The rise in the Mississippi, which lias
been coming down several days, has
reached St. Louis. The lowest places
in the levee are submerged, and the
ground floors of a few business houses
covered. Much difficulty is found in
leading and unloading steamers. It is
not anticipated the river will go any
higher.
Journal's Washington: Secretary Fol
ger thinks the proposed issue of 2 per
cent, bonds would have little effect on
the questions of redemption of outstand
ing bonds, for the present at least. Prob
ably he will issue a call for $15,000,000
more of coutinued 6 per cents, on the 6th.
This will leave but $17,000,000 of this
class of bonds outstanding.
Two police forces patrol the city of
Pittsburg, Va. Democratic police have
refused to surrender the station house to
readjuster police and the latter have
made their headquarters at the city jail.
Eeadjuster mayor elect has not qualified
and the. present democratic mayor will
not recognize the readjueter police force.
Hence all offenders arrested by them will
be tried by him.
Monterey dispatch: Vaults of the old
Carmel mission were opened on the 3d
under direction of Rev. Father Casanova,
for the purpose of exhuming the body of
Father Junipero Serro and his compan
ions, founders of California missions.
The remains of the following are identi
fied: Father John Crespin, buried June
1, 1782; Father Junipero Serro, buried
August 28, 1784; Father Julian Lopez,
buried July 15, 1707 and Father Fermin
Francisco Lascun, buried June 26, 1803.
They rere in redwood coffins and the
skeletons in good corditioa and portions
of silk robes and bands still preserved.
The object of exhumation wa3 to set at
rest doubts as to the burial place of the
pioneer missionaries.
The question cf releasing from quaran
tine the steamship Belgic, at San Fran
cisco and allowing the vessel to be docked ,
is as far from solution as ever. A few
days ago all the white passengers refused
to be transferred from the steamer to the
hulk Wilmington owing to its filthy con
dition and want of accommodations, and
were taken back. Before that all the
Chinese passengers had been transferred
to the hulk China. Afterwards the steam
ship company took all the Chinese pas
sengers back and placed them on the
Belgic. The white passengers are very
indignant at this action, but are power
less to help themselves. So rests the
matter for the present. Just what course
the board of health will pursue remains
to be seen.
The Tribune has a long interview with
Crocker, who tells the story of that suit
brought by Mrs. Colton. The document
closes as follows: Settlement was mado
by her husband's warm personal friend
Wetson, and by levis, one of the sharp
est business men in California, to a man
thoroughly devoted to her service. I
never saw her from the time the embez
zlement of Colton was discovered, and
never threatened her by word of mouth
or letter, or through her personal friends
When the settlement was made we con
sidered that we were presenting her with
8200,000 for our claim against her hus
band's estate if it had been enforced
would have swamped it. O. F. Smith,
attorney for Mrs. Colton, has been filling
San Francisco papers with attacks upon
toe. I am glad of an opportunity to place
the facts of the case before th6 public
The programme of the celebration, as
announced, was substantially carried out
in San Francisco. The procession,
which was composed of military orgaDi
zations civic societies, etc., formed at 9
A. M.,and moved at 10 over the line of
march to the Grand Opera House, where
literary and musical exercises were held.
The procession was over one mile in
length, and quite imposing, the military
display being unusually fine. It is esti
mated that the procession was witnessed
by not less than 75,000 people as it passed
slowly over the route. The principal
streets of the city were profusely deco
rated with flags, bunting and patriotic
mottoes on banners and shields. Hun
dreds of flags floated over the city, and
shipping was gaily decorated. The usual
salutes were fired from forts about the
harbor. During the afternoon two bands
discoursed music at Golden Gate park,
which was visited by over 20.000 persons.
The celebration concluded with a fine
pyrotechnic display, which was witnessed
by an immense crowd.
The Becres theater in Madrid, Spain,
burned on the 6th.
Fire destroyed several stores at Pleas
anton, Kas., on the 6th inst. Loss $29,
000. The Old Colony road freight handlers
at Boston have received the advance
wages demanded.
A report from Buenos Ayres sayB lead
ers of the" Uruguay insurrection have
been killed at Uriah.
Two cases of yellow fever arrived at
Boston on the steamer from Matanzas,
Cuba, on the 6th.
The freight handlers of the Central
Union at New York have issued an ap
peal asking aid in the cause of honest
labor.
John K. Bower, business manager of
Fairbanks &Ewing, ot Philadelphia, was
drowned while yachting in the Delaware
river on the 4th.
Hinkle & Moores tobacco and pork
warehouses in Cairo, 111., burned on the
4th; loss, about $25,000. 20 hogsheads
of tobacco burned.
Johnson & Arenson's furniture factory,
Chicago, burned on the 5th; loss, $50,000;
insurance, vz,vw. several adjoining
cottages burned ; loss about $40,000.
The grain inspection fight at east St.
Louis opened on the 3d by arrest of the
St. Louis chief grain inspector for in
specting wheat on that Fido of the river
on the charge that it was without author
ity.
The sheriff of Kings county, N. Y., re- I
fused to deliver to the U. S. marshal the
ships Larana and Modesta, seized on ac
count of irregularities in bills of lading.
The marshal says he will have them if it
takes the whole navy to get them.
Fire in the five -story block in Boston,
caused a damage of $50,000; insured.
The prinoipal sufferers are Pulsifer, Jor
dan Wilson, Goodwilde, Wyman &
Co., J. P. Flagg & Co., T. R. Marvin &
Co., Frederick Ells, Davis & Windsor
and Daniel Stanford.
In the senate the amendments to the
river and harbor bill proposed by Sena
tors Slater and Grover, increasing appro
nations for the Cascade locks from
265,000 to $300,000, and adding $25,000
to the appropriation for the lower Wil
lamette and Columbia rivers, passed.
Stephen Coburn, younger brother of
ex-Governor Coburn, of Maine, and a
prominent, member of the bar, while
temporarily insane from sickness,
drowned himself on the 5th. His only
son followed him into the river and in
attempting to save him was also drowned.
Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, has received
a dispatch from the sheriff of Christian
county stating that the jail at Taylorville
was menaced by an excited mob who
threaten to lynch Pettis, one of the men
arretted on charge of being concerned in
the brutal outrage on Miss Bond, school
teacher. The governor instructed him
to call out a posse and telegraphed the
captain of the local militia company to
hold his command in readiness to assist.
Miss Bond is not expected to live.
The adjutant general has received in
formation that large bodies of Indians
are leaving Fort Stockton reservation and
moving toward Texas. Capt. Bayler tel
egraphs, from El Paso, that the Indians
were driven from north Mexico and iSew
Mexico by the United States and Mexi
can troops, and are also moving toward
Texas and serious trouble is anticipated.
The. adjutant general to meet them, made
arrangements with the railroad to con
centrate rangers near El Paso and he will
take command in person,'
The following telegram has been re
ceived at Boston by Col. H. C. Nntt,
president of the Atlantic & Pacific rail
road, from Albuquerque, N. M : Mon
day, at 3:37 P. M., the first locomotive
passed over the Canyon Dialobo bridge.
One hundred and eighty miles of road
bed are ready for track, and contractors
are pushing it forward. Oyer 200 miles
of rails are on hand, and cross ties to lay
to the Great Colorado river. Track forces
are ready and material is moving and
track laying will commence at once. In
a few days the track will be in reach of
Prescott business and the gold, silver
and copper mines and pine forests. Con
siderable activity is shown in coal fields.
Six mines are already opened and deliv
ering coal, and everything is in readiness
to go forward rapidly.
President Garfield's doctors were
handled without gloves in the senate on
the 3d. f or weeks and montiis past a
bill proposing to appropriate $120,000
for the payment of expenses of the ill
ness and burial of General Garfield has
reposed in the possession of Judge Tay
lor, chairman of the special committee
appointed to audit these expenses. One
item of $85,000 in this bill was designed
to pay doctors. There was a minority
report from the committee protesting
against the payment of the sums recom
mended, and Joe Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, fortified with vouchers for whisky,
wiues and cigars furnished on the fun
eral train to Cleveland, proposed to fight
the majority report. Judge laylor,
knowing that Blackburn was heavily
loaded with cruel facts, was afraid of the
consultation, and it was decided that the
senate should insert a clause is the gen
eral deficiency bill to pay the trouble
some expenses. The committee on apj
propnattons accordingly tacked an item
to the bill creating the first and second
comptrollers and the treasurer of the
United States a board to audit claims and
issue certificates to claimants to be paid
by the Secretary of the treasury. The
sum of $75,000 was recommended to be
appropriated for payment in full of the
claims, and not more that $52,000 of this
sum was to go to the doctors. As soon
as this item in the bill was reached troublo
began. Objections were made that it was
not germaine to the bill, and consider
able time was lost discussing the point
of order. It was fcnal ly uecided in the
negative by a vote of 20 to 29, democrats
i generally voting against allowing the
clause to be considered. Then followed
one of the most unpleasant discussions
heard iu congress for many years. The
medical men were handled without mercy
by several senators. It was charged that
they had butchered the president, and
i the story of his lingering illness in that
j city and Elberon was with its concomi
i tants, vicious surgical operations, pus
cavities and other details, related to show
that the proposed appropriation for doc
i tors was too much. The debate was as
I repulsive as can be imagined.
THE ARCH FIEND.
Men don't belieye in 'the devil now, as their
fathers used to do;
They've forced the door of the broadest creed to
let his majesty tnrougn,
There isn't a print of hia cloven foot, or a fiery
dart trom bis bow
To be found in earth-er air to-day, for the world
has voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that palsies
Heart and brain
And leads the bier of each passing year Twith
ten hundred thousand slain (
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with
tbe hery darts ot hell,
If the devil isn't and never was ? Won't some
body rise and tell ?
Who dogs the steps of. tho toiling saint, and
digs the pit tor his teet 7
Who sows the tares jn the field of time wherever
God sows his wheat?
The devil is voted not to be, and of course lhe
thing is true; i
But who is doing the kind of work the devil
alone should do ? i
We are told he docs not go about as the rearing
lion now, j
But who shall we hold responsible for the ever
lasting row
To be heard in home, in church, in state, to the
earth s remotest bouna, -
If the dcyil by unanimous vote is n;whra to be
found ? :
Won't somebody step to the front forthwith and
and make tneir bow and snow
How the frauds and the crimes of a single day
sprang up 7 We want to know.
The devil is fairly voted out, and of course the
devil'seone,
But simple fieonle would like (o know win car
ries tlie business on. .
Lapland,'
In Lapland the sun never goes down
during May, June and July; but in
whiter, for two months, he never rises
at all. His place, however, is some
what supplied by the wonderful north-1
em lights, which flash and flicker in the
gray skies. They look like fires of a I
thousand shapes and colors. Now like
clowns, and now like domes; now like
flashing nets, and now like streamers of i
silk; now like arches, and now like ban
ners these welcome guests make night
beautiful.
As long as the unwearied sun goes
round and round the sky in summer,
the Laplanders live in tents made of
poles and skins; but when Jack Frost
approaches, with a scowl upon his brow,
the house of thick sod becomes a very
anug home. The Laplander creeps into
it on all-fours, along a sort of tunnel.
A hole in the roof lets in a little day
light, or rather moonlight, and lets out
what smoke there is from the sooty
lamp. The lamp is made of Btone, and
filled with seal oil, and it answers many
ends. It cooks food, dries wet clothes,
keeps the houses warm and affords the
light. ?
The Laplander likes brandy; but hap
pily for him, it is very scarce. He has
often to be contented with snun instead,
of which he takes you may be sure.many
a good pinch. For nine months of the
year the ground is of a dazzling white
ness, and the cold is intense. In J uly
and August, on the contrary, the heat is
almost intolerable.
The Laplanders are a very small na
tion. Perhaps there are not above seven
thousand of them. Part of them are
called "reindeer Laplanders," and part
"fishing Laplanders." The former live
on their herds, some possessing many
hundreds; the latter dwell near tlie lakes
and fjords. The greatest plague of Lap
land is a plague of gnats. Their numbers
are incredable.
Trees are plentiful of certain sovts,and
the soil of the forest is carpeted by rein
deer moss, a sort of lichen, which grows
on stones, trees, and earth. This moss
will flourish where hardlv any other sort
of grass will; and it affords gluten or
starch which is very wholesome and
nourishing. The reindeer will root
under the snow for the moss, as a pig
roots in the field. And if the animal
browses on the moss which sticks to the
trees, without digging beneath the snow,
the Laplander takes it for granted that
the giound there produces none.
- The reindeer when he casts his coat is
brownish-yellow. In the dog days he
becomes white. His hair is close and
thick. The horns are large and beauti
ful, but fall toward tlie end of November,
and are turned into spoons or glue.
This wonderful creature has been known
to go at the rate of nineteen miles an
hour when yoked to a light sledge. After
their most Bevere journeys these deer re
quire no more moss than can be held by
a man in both his hands.
Were it not for this admirable animal
who could live in Lapland? It is man's
all in all there. "It feeds and clothes
its master," says Goldsmith. "With its
skin the Laplander covers his tents and
makes his bed ; of its milk he makes
cheese, and uses the whey for drink
Every part of this valuable animal is
converted into some use or other. The
sinews make bowstrings, springs for
catching birds, and threads for sewing;
the horns make glue; the tongue, a great
delicacy, is sold, and the money comes
back in luxuries. Yoked to a sledge the
reindeer carries his master who guides it
easily by means of a cord fastened round
the horns,; and it is encouraged to pro
ceed by the driver's voice. The sledge
is covered with a bear's skin, and at the
back are two leathern girths, into which
the traveler thrusts his arms to keep
himself steady. He has also a pole to
Bupport tlie sledge in case it is in danger
of being overturned."
"The deserts in Lapland never echo
with the song of the lark and nightin
gale. There, instead of fruitful hills
and laughing meadows, are only moun
tains covered with eternal snow, and
marshes here and there growing willows
and small birches." So speaks another
traveler. From the bark of tho trees the
Laplander makes a kind of bread. Meat
of a certain sort is plentiful. The elk is
the principal game. This animal is
caught in a trap, which flies up and
drives an iron stake into the elk's body.
Then there are bears which are killed
with a gun. After the bear has departed
this life the hunters sing a song. In
this ditty, they thank the bear for
having been so good as to do them no
mischief.,;..,:-
Then there are wolves which do much
harm to the reindeer, killing sometimes
forty or fifty in a single night. These
troublesome fellows are caught in wolf
pits. Then there are gluttons, which
smell abominably, and beavers, which
repeated in a more aggravated manner
than before. I was sleepy in every
muscle, and each sense was terri
bly sensitive to a snore. If
it had been thunder, or
a bass dram or an accordeon I would
have dropped to sleep with a smile of
angelic happiness, but a snore 1 Great
heavens! and such a snore. I im
agined that his mouth was like the en
terance to a yawning pit, and his nose,
where he manufactured the snores, was
like the furnace of a foundryj Every
five seconds that , snore pealed through
that beautiful bouse, and shook the vine
crowned windows, and yanked painful
expressions from me. I could stand it
no longer; with glaring eyes and dazed
senses, I opened the door which separa
ted the snorer from myself. I stole in
softly, and with my bowie knife in my
hand, reached his bedside. An appall
ing snore crazed me, and I stabbed him
to the heart. The blood spurted into
my face; the snorer kicked a couple of
times, gasped once and was dead. Take
me to jail. I am a murderer.
"No, my friend," said the other, "you
did just right. No man can be arrested
for killing a snorer, in fact tho new con
stitution expressly provides that a man
who is kept awake all night by a snorer,
may murder him, and get clear on the
plea of emotional insanity.
1 be Ice Makers.
We have visited the establishment of
the Georgia Ice Company where tbe
manufacture of ice was certainly as in
teresting as anything we have seen. On
the ground floor is a boiler fifty feet long
and four and - a half feet in diameter,
containing 150 feet of half -inch pipe.
The boi'er i kept filled with aqua
ammonia, which is separated by the
steam heat into ammonia-gas and water.
The gas leaving the water in the boiler
forces its way through a six-inch pipe
outside the building to the roof, four
stories up, where it passes into 15,000
feet of coiled pipes into which it is con
verted into liquid by cold water thrown
over it in fountain jets. This liquid
passes into 15,000 feet of two-inch pipe
arranged in vertical sections 30 feet high
and three feet apart, and its sudden
liberation into tnese parts turns the
liquid pure ammonia into vapor.and the
sudden expansion makes the pipes in
tensely cold. Now, above these hun
dreds of vertical pipes are innumerable
little fountain jets throwing spray, freez
ing gradually, forming an icicle of pure
ice around each pipe. The gas goes into
10,000 feet of absorbing pipe, and, being
cooled by water running on the pipes, it
is met by water forced into the pipes,
and thus converted back into the acqua
ammonia, which goes into a big boiler
and is used over again there is no
waste.the same ammonia being used and
re-absorbed any number of times. - The
water used for the spray is drawn from a
well 75 feet deep on the premises, and
the large blocks of ice (which are loos
ened from the pipes by a little hot staam,
and chopped off by negroes, who stand
upon a pulley staging with their feet
wrapped up in thick swabs of cotton
sacking for warmth) come out pure nd
clear, and entirely free from any odor or
objectionable taste.
After the pipes have been stripped
about five weeks are required for a new
lot of the requisite thickness to form.
But of course the pipes are never all
stripped at the same time, the ice being
in all stages ef formation. The factory
has a capacity of thirty-five tons per day,
but tweenty tons keep pace with the de
mand, and it isn't stored, but cut every
day as it is delivered, and sells at from
$10 to $12 per ton. As we picked our
way among the gleaming aud uneven
pillars, with the water dripping and
splashing down upon us, and the only
light coming in through the smallest of
windows at the top, it seemed as if we
were in some underground ice cave.
The whole building and its apparatus
would cause strangers to wonder what in
the world it was designed for. 1 Hart
ford Times.
Music and Pi'clry In School.
In the primary schools of Germany
the pupils are taught to sing and
recite poetry. A correspondent of the
Boston Journal, describing what be saw
and heard while visiting one of these
schools, shows how the esthetic tastes of
the children are developed. When the
recess came, at the end of the first hour,
he asked the mistress if they had a singing-hour
that day.
"No," she replied, "but if it makes
you plaazure, ve vill happily zing."
And so when the girls came in from a
romp and a lunch of black bread sand
wich, when their breath returned and the
glow was on their cheeks, the school
mistress drew forth her violin from a
green baize bag, tuned it carefully, laid
her chin down upon it as lovingly as
Camilla Urso would have done, and ac
companied the school with great skill, as
they sang the beautiful song of "ljore
lei." It was strange enongb to see this
young lady teacher leading her school
with the music of a violin, raising her
head now and then and beating the time
with her bow with the air of an old con
ductor. But this is a requirement of
every teacher, man or woman, and they
cannot pass examination without it. So
go where you will among the German
"volk" schools, the green baize bag will
be hanging on the wall, and the teachers
are skilled in the use of the king of in
struments.
The re?t of the hour was devoted to a
study coming twice a week in all the
schools a recitation of German poetry
committed to memory by the entire
school. In tbe young classes the poem
is recited line by line,first by the teacher
repeated by a single scholar, then by
several, finally by the whole class; and
though very simple and short with these
primary classes, the poems are all beau
tiful and grow constantly longer and
deeper as the years go on, until in
higher classes scholars are introduced to
the very best of Goethe, Schiller and the
standard poets of tbeir mother tongue.
Scholars in the upper class are so thor
oughly trained that they will recite with
great ease Schiller's "Song of the Bell,"
and twenty others of the same worth and
character, with none of those wry faces
either we remember to have seen when
on once or twice a month a similar ex
ercise dragged itself through some un
willing and half-taught school.
For tie Yonng Folks.
HOW JAKE HAEPINO MADE THANKSGIVING.
"What is Jane doing?" asked Mrs.
Harding.
"Laughing"' replied Aunt Hannah,
curtly, "and she always is laughing now
adays. What does make that girl laugh
so much, Sister Harding?"
"I hadn't noticed it," said Mrs. Hard
ing, looking up from the apple-pie crust
she was carefully crimping; "in fact, I
have been so busy lately I haven't had
time to notice. But I'm glad if she is any
happier. A week or two ago she seemed
very sad, and I found her a number of
times just at nightfall standing under
the willows by the' water-drain, crying."
Just then Samantha Heath, the hired
girl gave a queer little cry, half-way
between a cough and a sneeze, and as
Mrs. Harding turned around, she caught
her maid-of-all-work with an unmistak
able grin on her broad, plain face.
"Well, Samantha?" she questioned
rather sharply, "didn't I remaik to you
at tlie time about Jane's low spirits?"
"Yes'm," replied Samantha, with the
porners of her mouth drawing np and
the corners of her eyes drawing down, as
she kept on industriously chopping her
mince-pie meat.
"Well, then?" interrupted Mrs. Hard
ing. "Oh, nothing, said Samantha, "only
Jane is mostly merry or sad, as the old
song goes, according to the mood of
the girl in the story she is read
ing. The one now is a girl with very red
lips and white teeth. It seems to suit
Jane, for her lips are amazing red, and
her teeth are as white as dog's teeth. Of
course she overdoes it, but that is natu
ral, J suppose."
Mrs. Harding looked at Samantha with
ominous little red spots showing them
selves oh her yet fair face. "Do you
mean to tell me that my only daughter
is so simple as to "
"Nothing simple about it, I'm sure,"
interrupted the hired girl. "It's the fact.
Jane tells me about it every day when I
go up to the chamber-work, and the girl
must have something to occupy her
mind, and she don't have any work to
do."
"That's just it," said Aunt Hannah.in
terrupting in her turn. "She don't have
anything to do, and girls ought to be
busy. Now, ehe might just as well be
chopping that mince-meat, or paring
these apples, or crimping those pies, as
anybody else."
"Jane never has been well, you know,
Aunt Hannah," said Mrs. Harding, apol
ogetically. "She has always been made to think
she was not," replied Aunt Hannah.
"What Jane needs now is exercise. If
she was a romp I could stand it; but for
a great, tall, healthy and hearty girl like
her to sit in her chamber, end rock and
read novels"
" 'Susette in the 'Sweet Swans of
Savoy,' always sat in her chamber," said
Samantha, "and most all the story-book
girls do. They always go 'to their own
room,' you know, in stories."
"They'd go to the kitchen, and help
their mothers, were they my girls," mut
tered Aunt Hannah.
"I am sure Janey is not in her room
now," said Mrs. Harding, triumphantly.
"You just said, as she was passing the
window, that she was laughing."
"No, of course, she was not in her
room, then," replied Samantha. "The
girl in the last book she got from the li
brary, goes out and takes a quiet walk
'witf Bhappy smile on her lips.' " .
Good Mrs. Harding was really angry
now. Tbe red spots on her cheeks deep
ened to carmine, as Jame came slowly
and studiedly up the walk, with a book
in her band, and Aunt Hannah said
"Look at that girl's stilted, unnatural
walk! At her age, she ought to come
with a skip and a jump as unconscious,
of her feet as a bird is of its wings. What
book have you there, Jane? Let me see
it, please," went on Aunt Hannah, as tbe
young girl entered the large neat kitchen.
Jane unwillingly handed it over, with
a broad smile.
"Humph!" groaned Aunt Hannah.
"Where are you going, dear?"
"To my room," replied Jane, with a
smile broader and sicklier than the first
one, "when you are through with my
book," and she leaned her shoulder lan
guidly against the door, clasped her
slim white hands in front of her, and
looked through the window away to tbe
russet hills, with a smile that showed
her white even teeth still resting in a
conscious way upon her face.
Aunt Hannah and Samantha ex
changed glances and smiles. Mrs.
Harding saw it, and with a premptory
tone, unwonted for her, she said
"Jane, go upstairs, braid up your hair,
take off that ridiculous bow from tha top
of your head, put on your every day
boots and an apron, and then come
down here and wash up the baking
dishes." Jane slowly turned around, gave her
fond mother a most witnenng look,
which was copied, as nearly as possible,
from a character in the story she had
read a few days before, and then re
turned
"Wash the baking-dishes! Me? Why
can't Samantha do it? I never washed
baking dishes in my life! '.
"Time vou had." said Aunt Hannah,
yho had now tucked the silly book un
iW bftr anron and crone on with her
apple-paring.
Jane "went to her room." but forgot
to come down, and Samantha washed the
baking -dishes. , .
.Tnst as I told vou." said the hired
girl to Aunt Hannah. "She won't do
anything but read.and read foolish books
from the circulating library at the drug-
atnra and then act out the characters
thov about."
It was Thanksgiving time. Guests
had been invited, and there was every
thing to do. There had always been
just such times at the farm-house ever
Jane could remember; but she
never helDed. She was the only daugh
ter. and been brought up in the useless
way that many, oniy aauguters are
broucht up in. in the homes of country
farmers, even where mistaken mothers
say, "My girls shall have the easy times
that I have missed in my iiie.
The next morning Aunt Hannah said
to Samantha privately, "Don't you want
to go home to Thanksgiving, my good
girl!"
"Yes, ma'am, the verj way," quickly
replied tbe faithful maid-of-all-work.
"My brother's folks have written for me,
and there's to be a big family gathering,
but I can't go; I can't be spared here." "
"You shall go, and what's more you
shall stay two weeks," said Aunt Hannah
resolutelv, "and your wages shall go on
all the same. Say to Mrs. Harding to
night that you must go. ' Jane shall do
your work."
"Ohf she can t! replied Samantha.
"She can and shall!" said Aunt Han
nah. "I will put my shoulder to the
wheel. Don't you worry, now; just
give out that yon must go home to
Thanksgiving this year."
bo just after the mail came m that
forenoon-. 2 Samantha said to 1 her mis
tress, "I want to go home to Thanks
giving, the worst way. They've invited
me real hard." ; T
"You ought to go," put in Hannah.
"You shall go to-morrow, and be gone a
fortnight. I will pay your railroad fare
myself."
"But what shall we do?" said Mrs.
Harding, looking really appalled. "It
is impossible to hire help at this season:
and there's no time to look for any,
either."
"I am' here, dear sister ," said Aunt
Hannah as if that covered all grounds
of objection "and Jane shall help. I
will hire her as my assistant, and pay
her three dollars a week and the work
will do her good."
Jane was not consulted, to be sure;
but she did not dare rebel against good,
wholesome Aunt Han nab, who was a per
son of consequence in the family, being
a childless widow with - considerable
means at her own disposal. Samantha
went, and Jane took her place in the
kitchen. "
"Oh, I am to be dish-washer," said
Aunt Hannah, as Jane reluctantly went
towards the sink the morning of the
hired girl's departure. "You know how
to wash dishes well enough, I presume,
although there is a right way as well as .
a wrong way to wash dishes, but you
will learn by seeing me. I can wash
dishes and at the same time give direc
tions about the work you are to do.. Now
you will mix the bread first."
"1 don t know how.
"Time you did, and I will tell you all
about it, dear. Sister Harding, put the
rooms to rights, make the beds, and see
to the milk; you are the 'second girl,'
remember. Jane and I are the coks.
1 intend that on Thanksgiving Day
every article cf food that goes on the
table shall have been prepared by Jane."
Jane opened her eyes in unaccustomed
surprise, and her lips for wondering
speech; but Aunt Hannah, with smiles
and good-nature, talked so fast that
the young girl found no chance to reply.
"lou are an intelligent and a pretty
conscientious girl' went on the good
in your position; your aopetite is always
XV tI
good, and you are capable" -Jane opened
her lips again, but Aunt Hannah reiter
ate, "you are young, hearty and capable.
No matter what station in life
you may be called to fill you
want to know how to cook and how to do
all kinds of housework the best way.'.
And Aunt Hannah, who was very enter
taining, and who knew a great many peo
ple, went on telling about' this one and
that one, and gave Mrs. A.'s ruJe for
making bread, and Mrs. . B.'s recipe for
a certain kind of cake, until Jane found
that even women of culture and wealth
took charge of their own households and
were not at the mercy of servants. '
When, that night, Farmer Hard
ing complimented his daughter's first
gingerbread, she was agreeably surprised
to hnd how much real satisfaction there
was in making it than rocking idly in her
chair, or standing out under the willows
in tho attitude of a heroine, with a lace
handkerchief pressed to her dewy eyes.
Jane was ofted tired, of course.at first.
but she persevered under Aunt Hannah's
direction and treatment. Her mother
grew rested and young, and was told so
by the friends from the West with whom
she now had time to visit.
On Thanksgiving Day, when every
thing was being praised, Aunt Hannah
took great satisfaction and pride in say
ing, "My pupil, Janey, here, prepared
every dish that has" been set before us to
day."
"I declare, said the western unole,
"I declare, that's the way to bring up a
eirl. be she a merchant's, a lawyer's, or
a farmer's," and before he left the old
homestead he gave his brother a bounti
ful sum of money with which to refur
nish and paint the' house, embellish the
parlor, build a new front fence, and last,
but not least, to pay off an old mortgage
on the farm.
"Such a capable, industrious and
amiable girl as Janey," this uncle went
on, "deserves as nne a nouse as any in
the village. She makes the old Harding
homestead a pleasant place to come to;
and, besides, she saves her mother a
great deal of labor." . : ".
So Jane Harding, instead of only read
ing about lovely, well kept homes and
their presiding angels, Wcame the light
and stay of her own mother's household,
chiefly through Aunt Hannah's well
timed, judicious instructions. (Boston
Watchman.
What the Fabmeb Should Study.
The farmer should study the laws of con
centration. He should learn how to con
centrate his crops into the best paying
articles. Does he consider that butter, "
beef , pork, mutton and cheese represent
only a certain amount of grass, hay and
grain that his farm produces? That in
stead of selling the raw commodities, he
cun by putting them into these articles,
go much better returns for his products? -His
study shorJd be how to transform
the raw products of : his farm into some
thing that is concentrated and will bring
him most money. What be raises has
to go to some market. By condensing
it, little freight will have to be paid, and
thus much will be saved. A farm is not
only a farm; it is or should bo a factory
for changing the raw products ino arti
cles of general consumption that have a
commercial value the world over that
are: of the best quality, that keep well
and sell well, and bring prices that will
pay well for the skill, labor and capital
employed in producing them.
The locomotives now in use in Kansas,
if coupled together, would cover over 8
miles of track, and the passenger cars
would cover about 4 miles.