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ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1882.
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VOL. 7.
NO. 16.
THE INDEPENDENT
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Saturday Mornings, .
BY THE
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flcr In WnlcJitii. Clacks, Jewelry,
Spectacles d Kglaaari, .
And a Full Llaeof
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Goo's.
The only reliable Opionieter In town for the
proptr adjustment of Spectacle; lwy oo baud.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door soul of poetofflce, Eose-
ttf A H D i Y S S A L O u M
"Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
"Jns.r3Itthouoy, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquor and eigara in Doo
V hu county, and the beat
la the State kept in proper repein
Parties trarelinsr on the railroad will find tab
place very handy to visit daring the stop
ping eff the train at the Oak
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JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON..
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.
Constantly on hand.
PIIRMITIIRCT I Have the beat stock, o
ruillll I UnL. laroitare south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
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OAKLAND,
OREGON.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
rpillS HOTEL HAS BEEH ESTABLISHED
A for number ot years, and ha3 become very
popular with the traveling public Firsfr-class
SLEfcPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
Ana me tame supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel ar the depot of the Kailroadj.
Fiirnititre Store!
JOII!V GILDERHLEYE
HAVING PURCHASED THE FURNI
ture Establishment of John LehnherrL is
now prepared to do any woi k in the j
UPHOLSTERING LIME.
He is also prepared to furnish
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In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper
than the cheapest, Ilia
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Are o superior make, and for low cc.t cannot be
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Finest of Spring Beds
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Always on hand. Everything in jne line fur
nished, of the best quality, on the shortest
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS NUDE AND TRIMMED.
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
Desiring a share of publ'c patronage, the un
iersigned promises to offer extra inducements to
all pations. Give net trial. I
JOHN GILDERSLEVE.
H. C. STANTON,
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Dealer in
Staple Dry j Goods I
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of j
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AS 1) j GLASSWARE,
ALSO j '
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock ot
HCIIOOL BOO
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Such as required by the Public County Schools
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young find 01.1.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drai:s on San Francisco.
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Promptly attended to and ; Goods shipped
with csne. ?
Address, . " II achrney & Ben,
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Hotfcc. S
' K"tlf h herely (rfven, to vhnm h .nsy concern, thM
ttie um'erslir-id lios been uwardeJ tiie eontout for
keeping tW Do.ij.bs county Pauiior (. t'ue ptriod ol
(wo years AU pers in necrt of ixsUtDCT irom kl
county must first procure a ocrtitioate to that effect
trow am raeroler of the County Bosnl, and prewnt it
t-i one of the following named parson, who ate auth'jr
Izeil Ui. nt will crc for those pr'enei.tiiw such certificate'
W ti Button, Rossbur L. L Keilwir, fakland ; Mrs
'Hrown,. Ux'kins: iTusi.. -, Dr. Scrosgs is Authorised to
fu nisli ninicil ail trtsJl persons iii neud of the hsom
Uo hve ixeii dc:la. ;.i f atijvr of Douglas cimoty.
WM. B. CLARKt, Supt. of Poor.
Kosasvitn, Cr. Feb. 15, ladQ !
LATEST NEWS SU3DIAEY.
BT TELEGRAPH TO DATE.
Wool at Philadelphia has improved
and the demand is unchanged.
Several cases of smallpox were discov
ered in Council Bluffs on the 17th.
The Illinois greenback convention will
be held at Bloomington on the 9th of
August.
'Cincinnati boiler makers who struck
for 15 per cent, advance went to work to
day at 10 per cent, advance. . 4ir
j Heavy floods at St. Joseph, Missouri,
carried away many small buildings along
the banks' of streams and caused a loss of
$5000.. : - v---,:, " ;
The Cincinnati boiler makers' strike
has ended, employes receiving an ad
vance of 10 per cent, and returning to
work. -
Since July 4th six deaths liavo oc
curred in Cincinnati from toy pistol
woucds, which weTe generally trifling,
but produced lock-jaw.
board of Health that smallpox is raging
in Jackson, in that state; hospital tents
were at once forwarded. , ;
yA New York dispatch of the 16th says:
Within the last 21 hours 159 deaths were
recorded, eighty-six being children who
died from cholera infantum.
Bishop Gilmour of the Cleveland di
ocese, left for Rome on the 17th. He
will be joined at J5ew York by the
Bishops of Detroit and Cincinnati.
New York Greenback State Convention
met in Albany on the 18th, 150 delegates
present. Chairman Jones and party
would not affiliate with any other party.
The federation of trades and labor
unions completed an organization in
Boston on the 16th. The federation in
cludes women mule spinners of Law
rence. At the farm of Henry Hoffman, 12
miles north of Sandusky, Ohio, a little
girl fell into a cistern. The men all
being in the field Mrs. Hoffman jumped
in to save the child, and when the men
reached the house both were drowned.
The national executive committee of
the North American Turners union has
issued a manifesto against the enactment
and enforcement of sumptuary laws, and
pledging themselves to active opposition
thereto in the interest of personal liber
ties. Two years ago Dr. Roberts, of Mill
ville, Mo., was murdered by Dr. Keyes,
the latter being sent to the insane asylum,
whence he was released on the 13th,
when he made his appearance at the scene
of the murder and was shot dead by a
son of Dr. Roberts.
Wm.' Culvert, of Chicago, has patented
a reflector, consisting of 100 or more mir
rors, by which he concentrates the heat
of the sun in sufficient force to generate
steam in large quantities. He claims, it
will revo utionize the manufacturing
business where fuel is scarce and sun
shine plenty.
It has been discovered that Oscar
Goodwin, late cashier of the Logansport,
Ind. national bank, is a defaulter to the
amount of $15,000, the whole sum being
on account of Merchants' bank of Chi
cago. , Goodwin disappeared some time
ago, taking with him his bond as cashier
and tearing from the recordall reference
to it. . 1
Gazette's Chautauqua special : During
a sudden squall recently a row boat con
taining Dr. A. P. Kingand wife, of Lon
don, Ohio, Prof. Leland of St. Louis,
and a young lady from London, capsized.
After an hour's struggle in the water
Prof. Leland and the young lady reached
the shore, but Dr. King and wife were
drowned.
James Fritzhenry and John Dogle were
arrested at Philadelphia on the 17th
while engaged in a prize fight, and Wm.
Clements, who drove the men to the
battle-ground, and two reporters were
arrested for abetting prize fighting. The
principals were sent to jail and the others
released on bonds. Fritzhenry was se
verely punished.
A severe hail storm passed over the
easfbrn portion of Rice county, through
Nickerson and south across Reno county,
Kansas on the 16th. Window glass was
badly damaged in Nickerson. Hail is
said to have been several inches deep.
Wheat stacks were destroyed east of
Sterling by a whirlwind. The storm
cloud was full of snail cyclones, which
frequently struck the ground.
It is probable that Gen. Sheridan will
leave Chicago on his annual northwestern
tour July 25th. He will first go to
Washakie on the Big Horn, then to the
southern part of the national park, and
from there to Yellowstone. He will be
accompanied by some eight gentlemen.
It is not yet known who they will be.
The party will be gone about six weeks.
An Indian territory dispatch says the
Cheyenne sun dance is progressing with
great trials of physical end u ranee. Young
bucks cut slits down their backs and run
sticks through. A rope is tied to the
stick and fastened to a pony. The pony
is driven off and tears strips from the
back, and the strips are thrown at the
foot of a pole m the center of the camp.
Ceremonies to the sun continue three
days.
Preston Powers ot Italy has just com
pleted a model for a bust of Garfield
from a photograph by Tibbals, being the
same one used on the five cent postage
stamp. Mrs. Uarneld and the late presi
dent's mother wore in Painesville recently
to view the work, and pronounced it-be
jond criticism. Mr. Powers has started
for the etist, from whence it will be taken
to Italy to be cut in marble. It is to be
life size and one of the finest ever brought
to this country.
A duel between Joseph Addisou, of
Baltimore, and Richard Garland, of Lane
burg, was fought in Petersburg Va, on
the 16th at a distance of 60 feet, Addi
son's pistol hanging fire four times and
only firing once, the bullet striking Gar
land in the wrist. : Garland's, pistol was
fired five times, one shot taking effect at
the last fire, and the bollet entering Ad
dison's body near the naval, lodging un
der the skin of the back. Addison died
at six this morning. The duel resulted
from Garland's-telling a young lady who
resides at Laneburg, to whom Addison
was engaged to be married, that Addison
was flirting with her.
F. M. Wilcox, of Oregon, testified in
the star route cases on the 17th. .
The ejectment cases of the Maryland
Coal Company against strikers are post
poned to July 25th.
A shock of earthquake as felt at Cairo,
111., on the 20th, lasting 10 minutes, and
passed northward. .
Brave Bear, a Sioux Indian, who was
to be hang on the 20th, at Yankton, has
been granted a respite of sixty days.
A mass meeting of workingmen in New
York advised the striking freight hand
lers to be firm and promised liberal finan
cial aid. -:. , , .
Heavy forest fireB are raging between
.bast Tawas and An Sable. Mich. Con
siderable damage has resulted to pine
and cedar.
Senator Hill's case is hopeless, though
there is no prospect of sudden death, but
physicians decline to say how Jong he
may survive.
Three children of Mary Dickens, living
in JNortuampton county, Va., were fatally
poisoned some days since, by whom not
known.
A railway van, containing a large num
ber of military rifles and quantity of
ammunition was broken into at Water
ford and rifles and cartridges stolen.
In Winston county, Miss., Noah Parks,
a colored preacher, was hanged by a
mob and left for dead, but friends found
and resusciatated him. He stole corn.
Folger & Co., hardware merchants,
New Orleans, have failed. They have
filed Buits against creditors. Their books
show assets of $80,000. Liabilities, $91,
003. An amicable arrangement has been
effected with Mrs. Leban Bergfir, sister
of Cornelius J. "Vanderbilt, who will
withdraw her objections and his will will
be admitted to probate.
The Northern Pacific has concluded
negotiations to Bell three million dollars
of its mortgage 6 per cent, bonds to the
two largest banks in Germany, whose
representatives recently examined the
road.
Flax and hemp producers and spinners
at a meeting at Saratoga on the 20th
favored keeping the tariff at the present
rates on flax, jute and hemp and raw ma
terial, and adding to rates on manufac
tured goods.
A heavy thunder storm occurred in
Boston on the 20th, and for half an hour
rain fell in torrents. The damage by
water in the lower section of the city is
very great. Sewers overflowed and base
ments filled.
A lockout in Rochester of 168 estab
lishments in the manufacturers' protec
tive association because of a labor com
bination to prevent operation of one,
was averted by an appeal to business
men for arbitration. '
A Lancaster, Pa. special of the 20th
says: This section was swept by a storm
this afternoon, and many persons were
injured by flying missiles. A circus tent
was demolished and the spectators and
performers were drenched.
In the much talked of mayoralty elec
tion at Las Yegas the Mexicans elected
Romera by 200 majority. The whole
territory and Colorado evinced mach in
terest in the struggle and Americans are
much grieved at the result.
A violent hail and wind storm visited
Belle Fourche, Big Bottom, Spring creek
and Lwer White Wood valleys, Dakota
on the night of the 18. doing great dam
age to crops. During the past week
nearly half the crops in the Black Hills
have been destroyed by hail.
Ex-Senator Paddock arrived in Chicago
on the 19th and the Utah commission was
organized by electing ex Secretary Ram
sey permanent chairman, and Pettigrew
temporary secretary. They have tran
sacted no business, but are waiting fur
ther instructions from Washington before
leaving for Utah.
Hon. Wm. Dennis, who settled in Wis
consin in 1837, died at Water town on the
19th aged 73 years. He was a member
of the territorial house of representatives
m 1846, of the first constitutional con
vention and state senator in 1848-49,
member of the assembly in 1853, and
state bank comptroller from 1854 to 1858.
A large meeting of the Little Rock
Corn Encbange was held on the 19th. A
resolution was adopted regretting failure
of congress to make the necessary appro
priation to defray the expenses of keeing
up quarantine regulations and special
inspection on the Mississippi river against
the spread of yellow fever and other dis
eases. The executive committee of the Na
tional Tobacco Association, now assem
bled in Washington telegraphed mem
bers of the trade throughout the country
requesting that they telegraph their rep
resentatives in congress protesting against
unnecessary delay in granting 8 cents
reduction on tobacco with rebate. They
assert that pending action of congress
over 50,000 operatives in tobacco are
kept out of employment.
Wm. Williamson, formerly of New-
buryport, Mass., once chief clerk in the
department of justice, was arrested on
the 18th and charged with larceny, and
is now lodged in a police cell at New
York awaiting a hearing. The charge is
that he has been endeavoring to pilfer
and sell a large number of autocrraph
letters of prominent men which were
taken from old files in the attorney gen
eral's office. Among the letters found
in his possession were some of Wm.
Wirt, Daniel Webster, George Washing
too, and of most of the man prominent
in the hiatory of the repullic Some
friends of Williamson's better days say
that the charge is greatly exaggerated.
as he was a grea; antiquarian and was
once a man of some means and had an
exceedingly valuable collection of auto
graphs and a fine library. Williamson
came here as private secretary of Chas.
Sumner when that senator first came to
Washington. He was a friend of most
of the anti-slavery leaders and much re
spected. His last official position was
that of confidential clerk of George H.
Williams when the latter was attorney
general. In that capacity he rearranged
the archives of the department of justice.
He was also an intimate friend of Sam
Hird, and was in the employment of that
man when he was king of the lobby.
Williamson's fall is due to strong drink.
He is about eighty, without a family.
He is charged with a penitentiary offense.
A Victim or Inebriety.
A well-dressed woman wearing - ex
pensive diamonds was arrested yesterday
morning at Broadway and Houston Btreet
for intoxication. Her behavior attracted
a crowd. In the Jefferson Market Po
lice Court she gave her name Mrs. Eliza
Tulosa. Justice Ford remanded her to
the care of the matron of the prison.
The Herald reporter saw her after she
had rested a few hours, but he could
not obtain a coherent story from her, as
she was nervous, excited and evidently
still suffering from drink. What was
gleaned from her in the course of a pro
tracted interview was that her busband
was a merchant m Barcelona, Spain, and
resided in Paris."' She live'd at the New
York Hotel for several months, and was
compelled to leave there last October
with an unpaid board bill amounting to
$300. She went to Tuckerton, New Jer
sey, from where she came to town on
Monday. She called at the New York
Hotel, and they refused to take her, re
ferred her to the St. Denis. At the lat
ter house they informed her that the
rooms were all taken. She says she did
not know where she spent the night; she
denied drinking anything, and did not
seem to realize her position.
At the New York hotel it was learned
that she first engaged rooms there in
August last, having been highly recom
mended by people presumably friends of
her husband. She was looked upon as
a highly educated, cultured but some
what eccentric lady. A few days after
she came to the hotel she began indulg
ing .heavily in stimulants, drinking
everything from lager beer to cham
pagne. Protracted dissipation weakened
her so that the greater portion of her
time was spent in bod, and as it was
known that she carried diamonds and
jewelry of great value about her, the
house detective, D. J. Larkms, was in
structed to keep special watch over her.
For a few weeks she received install-
ments from - her husband, as was sup
posed, and she paid her bills regularly.
In September these allowances ceased.
In October, when she left the hotel to go
to Tuckerton, she deposited ample se
curity for an unpaid board bill of $300. j
This security has not yet been redeemed. !
She called at the hotel one Monday
night and asked for a room, but she was
so intoxicated that the clerk could not,
in justice to the reputation of the house,
assign her one. He referred her to an
other hotel. It is said that Mrs. Tulosa
has neither relatives nor friends in this
city, and that during her stay at the ho
tel she had not a single caller. Defect
ive Larkins will take her to her home in
Tuckerton. N. Y. Herald.
Toe rr iner.
Question. Who is this? - r
Answer. This is the American boy.
Q. What does be wish to do for a
living?
A. He wants to be a bank cleik, or a
broker, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or get
a place in the custom house or postoffice
or go into the army or become a min
ister. Q. What is the ambition of the coun
try and village A.merican boy?
A. To go to the city and get a situa
tion.
Q. For how much pay?
A. For $2 a week the first year, and,
perhaps, if he is smart, all he can make
otherwise.
Q. How are many American boys in
both village and city brought up?
A. They go to school until . they are
seventeen or eighteen years of age, and
then bang around borne or street corners
until they get married.
Oj. And then
A. And then there is a row , and the
old folks of the first part manage to pro-1
vide in some way for the young folks of
the second part, and both parties dntg
out a sort of unpleasant existence.
Uj. what is our American young man s
idea of living?
) A. Life for lr.m'is no life at all nnless
he can have his spring, summer, fall and
winter suits of clothing, changes his
necktie with every fashion, enduro the
miseries and want of a semi-fashionable
boarding house, and spend what is left
of his salary at the end of the month in
taking a young woman to the theater,
with carriage and fashionable restaurant
supper at the end of the performance.
N. Y. Graphic.
Made tits Mouth Water.
Uncle Ike was one day riding a mule
and had a little negro boy behind hi xl,
"Tell you what, Ung Ike, 'possum
mighty good thing," said the bey.
"Yas, 'tis," said Uncle Ike, as the mule
struck a brisk trot.
"'Specially when ou got lots o
gravy wid him."
Uncle Ike was silent, but seemed rest
less. "An' when you getsome roasted Haters
to Bop la the gravy, said the boy.
Uncle Ike used his switch with ner
vous energy, and the mule increased its
speed to a gallop.
"les, ung ike, wnen da possums
right brown an de gravy drenin' out
an' "
"You shet your mouf, yon little fool!
Yod'll make dis mule run off an kill us
boaf." f Little Rock Gazette.
Ton Urand Contradiction."
A French gentleman recently from
Paris was invited by one of our popular
citizens to indulge in the American
custom at the Exchange." Not knowing
our "colloquial American" well enough
to call for a mixed drink, it was sug
gested to take a "brandy punch," which
he did. The next morning he called
alone at the bar, and being ask&l by the
polite young man who concocts cocktails
what he would have, and having forgot
ten the name of the drink :of yesterday,
he replied: "I vill hike von contra-dic
tion, what you eall it? wis very mu3h
lemon for make him sour, very much
soogare for make him sweet, plenty of
brandy for make him strong, and a great
deal of wasser for make him weak."
Oh, yes; I know," returned the bar
keeper; yoa want a punch ?" "Yeez,
sateeseet; von pone h." It is needless
to say that the "grand contradiction"
has loom'd up since then as a more pop
ular drink than ever.
Preachers and Horseflesh.
Brother Talmage was very severe on
the pool sellers and book makers, but
not more so than Brother Buford, and he
showed a familiarity with the different
forms of betting which caused some of
his hearers to open their eyes. In clos
ing his sermon he demanded that the au
thorities of Brooklyn and New York
should put a stop to gambling on the
race course. The sermon has been
widely read since it was delivered, and
the suggestion has been made that
Brother Buford and Brother Talmage
fctrike 'hands and together stump the
country. It ,would be a sort of cross
match, jolly tat and very . lean, bus for
all that a very strong team, bhould any'
thing arise during the lecture tour to ex
cite virtuous indignation and call for
honest swearing, we are ; confident that
.Brother Buford would be equal to the
occasion, because his education in that
line has not been neglected. And shonld
Brother Buford grow lukewarm in the
cause, and feel like falling from grace.
Brother Talmage could speedily avert
the calamity by hammering into him
some of bis own surplus faith and enthu
siasm. A few days ago, in one of the down
town restaurants, a breezy-faced man
called in cheerful tones from one table to
another: v
"Robert Bonner, you are a very mean
man. a very mean man."
"How so?" exclaimed the gentleman
addressed, looking up from his tender
loin steak with an expression of sur
prise. "Because," said theRev. Henry Ward
Beecher, "you have never invited me up
to your farm to look at your stud of fine
horses."
"But I have never asked my own pas
tor, Dr. John Hall, to go there."
"Well, what of that? Dr. Hall knows
nothing about the horse, except what he
has read in the Bible, while 1 do claim
to have some knowledge ef the points of
a well-bred and fast trotter."
Brother Beecher is more eloquent than
either Brother Talmage or Brother Bu
ford, but he is not more ardent in the
cause. With three such distinguished
men laboring to the same end, why
should not the turf be reformed? Turf,
Field and Farm. "
Crnsne'.
A short time since a couple of young
fellows entered a car of a Delaware rail
road train, and tried to turn one of the
seats before siting down. The seat was
locked, but the fellows didn't mind that,
and one of them took out his Jmife to
to pick the lock.
While he was at work, an elderly gen
tleman seated behind them quietly re
monstrated: -
"That's all right, old man," re
turned one of them. "We know
what we are about, so keep your clothes
on."
"Don't you know that you are liable
to prosecution for that?" continued the
Old man, mildly. "It's the same as
burglary, in the eyes of the law. If
you want the seat turned, ask the con
ductor, and be will do it for you."
"You talk as though you knew a good
deal," said one of the young fellows,
looking us with a sarcastic smile. "How
long have you been in the railroadbusi
ness?"
"About 20 years," returned the old
gentleman, gently.
The fellow looked a little saucily sur
prised as be asked: "And pray, what po
sition do you hold now?"
"I am president of the road," returned
Mr. Hinckley; "and if you disobey any
further rules of the road I shall call
upon the officers to arrest you."
The young fellows took a rear car.while
the passengers smiled.
Pore Waier for Cows.
It has been known for a long time that
milk left standing in a room where
patients are sick becomes permeated with
the subtle poison of the disease. Con
tagion has also been spread through
milk by reason of persons recovering
from sickness attending to the labors of
the diary. The kind o grass or fodder
on which the cows feed also gives a pe
culiar flavor and quality to : their milk.
In addition to these facts, it has recently
been demonstrated that the most. start
ling consequences may ensue from the
animals drinking stagnant water. Pro
fessor Law, of Cornell university has
examined with a microscope milk of an
unusual ropy appearance, and found it
full of those fungi or vegetable organ
isms that abound in stagnant water. On
inquiry he found that , the cows from
which it came had only stagnant water
to drink, and further investigation re
vealed the fact that the blood of the ani
mals teemed with these fungi, and the
cows were in a feverish, unhealthy con
dition. The warning which this discov
ery ought to convey is very simple. It
is the duty of dairymen to see that their
cattle have a eupply of pure,! sweet
water. - Tbey use such a great quantity
of water that a judicious concern for the
health of the community .should induce
them to employ none but the very clean
est. 41 ;
nealthfnJnrss of Lemons.
When people feel the need of an acid,
if they would let vinegar alone, and use
lemons or sour apples, they would feel
just as well satisfied, and receive no in
jury. , And a suggestion may not borne
amiss as to a good plan when lemons are
cheap in the market. A person should,
in those times, purchase several dozen at
once, and p repp re them for use in the
warm, week days of spring and summer,
when acids of lemons and ripe fruits are
so grateful and useful. Press your hand
on the lemon apd roll it back and forth
briskly on the table to make it squeeze
moie easily; then press the juice into a
bowl or tumbler never into a tin; strain
out all the seeds as tbey give a bad taste.
Remove all the pulp from the peel and
boil in water a pint for a dozen pulps
to extract the acid. A few minutes
boiling is enough; then strain the water
with the juice of the lemons; put a pound
of white BUgar to a pint of the juice; boil
ten minutes, bottle it, and your lemon
ade is ready for use. Put a tablespoon
ful or two of this lemon syrup in a glass
of water and you have a cooling, health
ful drink.
Homes.
Homes, as they are called, are of all
junas. nome ara poor, bare, and un
comfortable of necessity, of which we
have nothing to say, only to pity those
who are compellad to occupy them.
Others are rude and uninviting, through
neglect and thrif tlessness, or because of
intemperance and parsimony.
Our dwelling places are only homes,
in a proper sense, when they are filled
with whatever of comforts we can bring
into them, and when they are made to
minister, by all their influences, to the
wants of our hiarher natures. Thev &r
little worlds of our own, where, we rule
and enjoy, unrestrained and untram
meled by - lawful interference from
abroad. Our vines and fig trees grow
ing around and over us, we sit in their
shadows, with none to molest or make us
afraid; and there have every leaf, every
clasping tendril, every growing and
ripening berry of fruit assisting in the
culture of our intellects and souls. A
home that teaches us nothing by which
we are made better, is not a home it is
only a place. ' The old words, "pere
grinari dotni," express a condition of
physical residence and spiritual exile
that must always be fraught with acute
misery. . ' ' - .
- There are many reasons why the
homes of citizens are not full of comfort.
In some places there is a want of taste,
which precludes the possibility of their
taking an interest in any object aside
from its grossest uses. They see no
beauty in ornamentation nor culture in
order and neatness. An old, dilapidated
house, with distorted gables, and shut
tered panes, is good enough for them,
only provided they can manage it to keep
out the rain and cold. They will live as
long if there be no flowers in the garden,
no trees in the yard, no paint on doors
and shutters, as if all was dainty with
neatness.
They live to make money. Their
homes -are their offices, where they trans
act business for gain. Their sheep,
cattle, horses and swine, must be com
fortably housed; but as for them and
their nbildren.they can live in anything.
In nothing do they indicate that they
nave souls to culture, minds to refine,
affections to sweeten, and an image of
God to bring to view and brighten up by
the bountiful means He has placed at
their disposal. '
In the Cumberland valley, of Pennsyl
vania, it used to be eaid the barns were
invariably better than the houses, and
that hence the aristocracy of the neigh
borhood was among the horses and cattle.
The criticism was too severe, yet it con
tained somj truth. To get a good barn
was, with a certain class of the farmers.
the main ambition. By this their thrift
was determined. This gave them agri
cultural standing; whereas, a fine house.
with its convenience and comforts, was
regarded as a sign of effeminacy and
profligate luxury .
Now it ought to be the effort of men
and women to provide ,for themselves,
when they have means, such dwelling
places as will help culture them and their
children, and exert a good influence on
the taste, manners, and morals of the
neighborhood. God has made home a
sacred place. He has erected altars in it,
where the occupants are to worship, and
where Me will come and accept their sac
rifice. He has invested it with the rarest
felicities, and made it more or less typi
cal of the place of everlasting rest. Upon
the home of the saint descends his
holiest benedictions, and around it stand
the angels of His providence with. their
loads of benefits. Christian Instructor.
Labor and Money.
For those of us that are employers of
labor, how can we bear to give a man less
money than he can live decently on, less
leisure than his decency and self-respect
demand? Or those of us who are work
men, how can we bear to fail in the con
tract we have undertaken, or to make it
necessary for a foreman to go up and
down spying out mean tricks and eva
sions? Or we, the shop-keepers can we
endure to lie about our wares that we
may shuffle off our losses on some one
else's shoulders? Or we, the public
how can we bear to pay a price for a
piece of goods which will help to trouble
one man, to ruin another, and starve a
third? Or still more, I think, how can
we enjoy something which has been a
pain and grief for the maker to make?
I say all classes are to blame in this mat
ter, but also I say that the remedy lies
with the handicraftsmen, who are not ig
rorant of these things like the public,
and who have no call to be fcreedy and
isolated like the manufacturers or mid
dlemen ; the duty and honor of educating
the public lies with them, and they have
in them the seeds of order and organiza
tion which makes that duty the easier.
Lectures by (William Morris.
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A Kovel In a Paragraph.
A number of years ago some miners in
Wales, in exploring an old pit that had
long been closed, found the body of a
young man dressed in a fashion long out
of date. The peculiar action of the air
of the mine was such as to preserve the
body so perfectly that it appeared asleep
rather than dead. The miners were
puzzled at the circumstance. No one in
the district had been missed within their
recollection and at last it was resolved to
bring the oldest inhabitant an old lady
long past her 80th year, who had lived
single in the village all her life. On be
ing taken into the presence of the body
a very ft range scene occurred. The old
lady fell upon the corpse and kissed it
and addressed it by every term of m
dearment spoken in byegone generations.
He was her old love and she waited for
him during her long life. She knew he
had not forsaken her. The old lady and
young man bad been betrothed 60 years
before. The lover had disappeared mys
terously and she had kept her faith dur
ing the long interval. The miners re
moved the old lady to her house and
that night her faithfnl spirit rejoined
that of her long lost lover. ( Washing
ton Republican.
It took two doctors several hours to
get a billiard -one ont of the mouth of an
experimenting young man in New Jer
sey. Considering how abnormally unim
proved the average New Jerseyman's
conversation is, it is hard to see why
they wasted so much time.
all sours. ' ;
If you have any cats on the place,
mulch with bootjacks, and add a- plenti
ful dressing of old boots.
If your husband smokes, gentle lady,
treat him as you would a smoking lamp.
Don't put him out, but let him down
easy. : y :.' . ' -:" "-: ' ? ;
The most afflicted part of the house is
the window. It is always full of panes:
and who has not seen more than one win
dow blind? "
The latebt slang expression applied to
the susceptible young man is "Potato."
The reason therefor is that he frequently
gets mashed. '
"In the bright lexicon of youth there's
no such word as fail," says Bulwer; but
Bulwer never tried to crawl under a cir
cus tent. Phil. News. y -
"Avoid that which you blame others
for doing," says one of our. wise men.
Things have come to a pretty pass, if a
man can t kiss his own wife.
Why do elderly spinsters have a predi
lection for parrots? Well, they hare no
man about the house, and they want
something around that can swear.
"Why is it," asks the Philadelphia
Chronicle, "we hear so much about the
Cochin China, but nothing about the
horse?" Ah, is it a beast o'bhirden?
A man who wants his wife to love and
respect him will never make the mistake
of putting his feet into her slippers.
Years of devotion will not wipe out the
inSUlt.' - .--:
A Wisconsin girl-baby has six .arms.
We may therefore hope that in due sea
son one young woman will be able to do
up her back hair in less than three
hours.
"l want a utile change," said Mrs. is.
to her husband yesterday. - "Well,"
was the heartless response, "just wait
for it. Time brings change to every
body." 'Vv"J;
According to Darwin, "those who are
the best fitted, to live are the one who do
live. Judging from some who do live.
those who do not live must be sorry
specimens. . ' ' - '
"You are as full of airs as a music
box," is what a young man said to a girl
who recused to let him see her homo.
'That may be " was the reply, "but I
don't go with a crank." ? : -
Polydipsia is the Boston . name for
thirst. When suffering from polydipsia
the Boston man calls for spiritns fru-
menti and then washes it down with pro
toxide of hydrogen. ,
Vermont can still show snow banks a
mile long and sixteen feet deep; and
New Hampshire men have no thoughts
of leaving off their overshoes for a
month yet.
It is understood that Eli Perkins rods
Apollo, the horse thafc won the Derby at
Louisville, Tuesday. In the pictures
and statr.es Apollo is always represented
as carrying h lyre.
A Western young man aged eighteen -has
eloped with a woman of three score
years. This sesthetio craze for antiqui
ties is becoming altogether too general,
and threatens to cause trouble. . ; .
In this case it is easy to discern which
is which. An exchange says: ' "Call a
young girl a witch, and she is pleased ; '
call an elderly woman an old witch, and
her indignation knows no bounds."
A woman who feels that she must
pinch her waist, pad her . hips, cramp
her feet, paint her face and wear false
hair to secure admirers, will find herself
nowhere beside a circus street parade.
It is proposed in England that the
house in which Darwin was born be pur
chased by the public authorities and
preserved from, destruction; and that a
tablet be placed upon it recording the
events that has made it famous.
Alexander H. Stephens will have no
difficulty in securing the governorship of
his State. The people there are determ
ined to elect a civilian, and he is the only
ftublic man south of Mason and Dixon's
ina who is not a colonel at least. Phil.
News. : :V':. ,v
Things one would wish to have ex-
Eressed differently-: Musical maiden "I
ope lam not boring you, playing so
much?" Enamored youth "Oh, no
Pray go on ! I I'd so much sooner
hear you play than talk!" j London
Punch. ' V . .
A Fact. Sister (to Fred, just returned
from spring visit to London) --"But tell
me, Fred, what was the prettiest thing
you saw in bonnets?" ; Fred "T. e
prettiest thing I saw in bonnets? Why,:
the girls who wore them, of course.
Bless their dear little hearts!' '
The people of Kansas, tinder the
forestry laws of the State, have planted
93,000 acres in trees. The cottonwood is
the most abundant, and it grows the
most rapidly. About G000 - acres have
been planted in black walnut, and will
make handsome returns in eight or nine
years.
, "This is just my luck," said the.
gloomy man at the theater. "Here's a
performance going on that's bo bad it is
agonizing to witness, and it's - the first
time in six months that I haven't had a
woman with a bath-tub hat i n . front of
me when I've been to the theater."
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, in
proof of bis good service to the State in
securing the murder of Jesse James,
boasts that railroad travel - in Missouri
has much augmented since the bandit's
death, and that now, even commercial
drummers dare ride on railway trains in
any portion of the State.
Scene A ward in a Scotch infirmary.
Lady visitor "Are they kind to you
here?" Patient (who is recovering from
his illness and is very hungry) "Na, I
neyer get haul ma f ul." Lady visitor
"Indeed. Could you eat an egg?" Pa
tient "Eat an egg? Could a' eat twa.
Mem, I could eat the chap ' that laid
them." .
A fable: See the Boots. ,-4 There are
Ten Pairs of Them. . They are the Boots ,
Jesse James wore- when a Bad Man
Killed him. ; See the clothes. There are
Forty-Six Suits of Them. Tbey are the
Clothes Guiteau -wore when he Shot
President Garfield. Why are there
Forty-six Suits of Them ? So that each
Circus in the Country can have One
Suit. Chicago Herald,