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ROSEBURG, OREGON, SAJURPjclY, AUGUST 5, 1882.
NO. 17.
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VOL. 7.
PHA.CTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
. . ..OPTICIAN
ALL WORlTwARJlANTEO.
.Dealer In Wttli. Clock, Jewelry,
, And a Fnl! Line of
Cigars Tobaccos and Fancy oos
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
i"ur ujusuumii ui rptvunue. ; always on nana
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE first door souih of postofflce. Rose
tuv, Oregon
ITS A HO H E Y '&Z QALO -Xti
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jas. Mahonoy, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liqnora and cigars in Dog
las count, and the beat
BILLIARD Ti.BLB
In the State kept in proper repair:
fartiee traveling on the railroad will find thk
: place Tery handy to Tiait during the itop
. - phg of the train at the Oak
land, Depot. Give meaoall.
t J A3. mAHONj&i".
JOHN FRASEZR,
Home.;. Made Furniture,
W1XBUR, , - OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.
Constantly on hand.
niRNITIIRP I have the beat stock, o
Ulllfl I uriU. larnitnre 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.
t- ALL WORK WARRANTED.-fl
D E l Orr HOT E L-
OAKLAND, ! - - OREGON.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
HTHIS HOTEL HAS BEEN-ESTABLISH ED
for a number ot years, and has become Tery
popular with the traveling public First-claw
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the beat the market
aflbrda. Unset at the df-po of the Kail mad.
Furniture Store!
JOHN GILDERSLEVE
UAVING PURCHASED THE "fURNI
ture Establishment of John Lehnherr, 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, aud cheaper
Chairs, .
Tables,
, Bureaus,
Bedsteads,
- f "Waslistan ls,
ETC..
ETC., ETC.
Are ov. superior make, and for low er.st cannot be
equal ed in the Slate. The
Finest of Spring Beds
! 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 MADS AND TRIMMED.
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
Desiring a share of; publ'c patronage, the un
dersigned promises to oner extra inducements to
all pattons. Give n e a trial.
- JOHN GILDERSLEVE.
H. C. STANTON,
- . Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
' ment of
EXTJA FINE GROCERIES, I
WOOP, WILLOW j AND GLaSSWARF,
S ' " ALSO
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Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
hchool u o o its
Buch as required by the Public Coilnty Schools
All kind of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both jYoung and 01.1.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checka.on Portland, and procures
Draita on Son Francisco. :
GEEEDS ! a
5EEDS !
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ALL filKDS F Bk2M Q14LI1T
".ALL'OllDERB
Tromptly attended ; to and Goods ehrpned
with care.
Address,
llacheney & Beno, 1
Portland. Oreeon
jSottce.
Notice is hcraVv iriven. to whom It .tiay concern, that
thu uiKJeraitrfcl YuM been awarded the contract for
keeping the IoukIs county Pauper for the period of
two yean. All persons in need of aaistncs trora taid
county must first procure a certificate to that effect
from any member of the County Board, and present it
to one ot the following named persons, who are author
izod to, and wilt care for those presenting such certificate
W. L. Batten, Roeeburg ; L. L Kellotrgr, Oakland ; Mrs
Brown, Locking Olasa. Dr. Scrogga authorized to
hirnish medicad aid to alt persons in need of the same
ho have been declared paupers of Douglas county. ;
WM. I). CLARKE, Bupt. ot Poor.
BotBircu, Or.. Feb. W, ld30 .
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BT TELEOB1PU TO DATE.
The president has the most gorgeous
turnout ever seen nere.
The death is announced of Edward
Arthur Wellmcrton. second baron of
Kean, aged Co.
The New York stock market is now
being daily driven up by purchases by
At . A I t ? "
tuu uuisiue puouc.
The alarming spread of smallpox in
Baltimore is reported, and : an epidemic
is expaited next winter.
The British government has chartered
13 steamers plying to American ports to
L . M I " , :
carry uuops ro Aiezanana. .
Journal's Washington: There is a pri
vate claimant named Eidwell to the
Potomac flats, and the president is likely
to veto the river and harbor bill on ac
count of the large appropriation for
them, for that reason, if no other.
The managers of the American iron and
steel operations at Crossen Springs
adopted a call for a general convention
of all iron ore producers and iron and
steel manufacturers in the United States.
to meet in September to consider the
unties on iron, steel and iron ore, and
prepare a report for the tariff commission.
A steamer started for St. Petersburg
on the 27th with Engineer Melville and
two sailors lost on the Jeanette. Lieut.
Berry, Mr. Gilder, and another officer
of the burned steamer Bodgers, will re
turn from Irkutsk to the Lena Delta, in
order to follow during the winter the
coast line as far as the frontier of Euro
pean Bussia, thereby completing En
gineer Melville's search to Olensk.
The Chinese minister with his suite.
took the 9 o'clock train on the 2Gth for
Washington. He was much pleased with
his visit to New York and intends to visit
some of the principal watering places.
His secretary denied the rumor alleging
that 60,000 of his countrymen, residents
of Cuba, are desirous of passing through
our country on their way to China. He
added, they are hrd workers and had
made a considerable amount of money.
The - American steamship Illinois has
arrived from Liverpool. Among the
passengers is Eev. J. Griffin, from Alex
andria. Mr. Griffin was sent as mission
ary to Egypt in 1874. He left Alex
andria June 23d, and said everything
tnen seemed quiet enough. Mis head
quarters were at Asyoot, the capital of
Upper Egypt. .Natives in that section
of the country, he said, were not able to
hnd out yet what was the cause of the
disturbance, while Christians feared
nothing but a religious war. Mr.
Griffin had no idea of danger until June
18, when he received a letter from Cairo
advising him to leave - the country.
Within an hour he was on the express
train on his way to Alexandria.
The Times' Washington special says:
It is certain from a canvass of the house
made by a Times' correspondent that the
revenue bill must fail to become a law
this session. Democrats in the house
intend to oppose it, and without the aid
of some democratic votes it cannot be
passed. A quorum of republicans cannot
be got together again this' session. The
lsst quorum was obtained with a good
deal of difficulty and after pledges that
there would be no second call for mem
bers. When these facts are reported to
the senate, as they probably will be soon,
it is possible the revenae bill will.be
dropped right there. If Senator Morrill.
however, wishes to push it to a vote, this
point may be conceded; but the fact that
the house will not act upon it this session
is unquestioned.
The Tribune's Ogden special says: A
wholesale persecution of gentiles has
been inaugurated and arrangements made
for testing the constitutionality of . the
Edmunds' bill in the supreme court of
the United btates. If adverse the Mor
mons have nevertheless determined not
to submit at any cost. Every polygamist,
from President John Taylor down to the
distant apostles, bishops and elders in
the uiost extreme part of their domain
have separated from their wives and are
living openly with one only. All polyg
amists have, under orders, "resigned from
all official office and monogamists as
strongly disposed in the faith have been
selected and commissioned in their
E laces. Every effort will be made to
eat the government in all sections of
the Edmunds bill.
The substance of the attorney -general's
opinion on political assessments, as pre
sented to the cabinet on the 26th, is that
officers of a government are prohibited
from soliciting or serving such assess
ments, and that members of congress, in
the broad sense of this term, are officers
of government, but that in a strict con
stitutional sense, under former rulings
of congress, they are not officers. He
quotes from the constitution of the
United States and from the statutes in
various places, showing that the distinc
tion between the terms "office" and
"members of congress" are clearly made.
He holds the section forbidding receipt
of political assessment was intended to
apply only to inferior officers of the gov
ernment, and concludes: "I am of opin
ion a member of congress is not an officer
of government within the meaning of
that section."
Gen. Powell Clayton, formerly senator
from Arkansas, thinks there is a fair
prospect for a break-up of the Bourbon
party in his state. He says there are no
factions in the republican party in Ar
kansas. A full state ticket has been nom
inated in almost every case by acclama
tion. with no questions as to where a
man was born or what his color is, the
only inquiries being, "Is he a republi
can? Is he honest? Is he capable ?' The
result is an unexceptional ticket, on
which are the names of union and con
federate soldiers, white and colored men.
all of good character and standing, and
a united party behind them determined
to poll every vote in the party. The
platform ignores all old issues,, and looks
only to the future. Then there is a bitter
war in the democratic party, thinly
veiled by seeming unanimity on the debt
question, with a platform which is capa
ble of being construed either in iavor of
repndation or honesty. The Gazette and
Democrat, leading democratic papers of
the state, will not publish the platform
and denounce it in every issue as a sham
and a fraud. This produces apathy, and
in some cases downright defection.
The Minneapolis director? indicafAa
pupuiauon oi o,uuu.
A gentlemen's ' driving club is to be
organized in at. Xjoois.
Fifty brewers were in secret session
A. rt i a Art
us Cincinnati on tne zutn.
The Colorado state democratic conven
tion, will meet at Denver, Septi 21st.
The khediva has flisriatoliArl voaasl ti
Port Said to bring CLeriff Pasha to Alex
andria.
The Enrfish will nprmanAnt.1v rmll
Bamleh Hillock, and put heavy guns
mere.;..
British fruns on "Ramlah hpio-hra nnm
pletly command the neck of, land and
will ntr& lha Vi.(Lm
Ecrvptians are workinc desnfiratAl'v tr
enirencn tneir side of tne narrow nasa
oetween the lakes near E3side.
There is an nnconfirmnrl rerinrr. nf a
fanaticial outbreak at Smvrna. in whirh
many Christians were massacred.
The London Dailv News has the fol.
lowinar: All mnk cart ilrivpra nnomcrn1
by comnmsariat have deserted to Arabi.
The skirmish of the 25th left both par-
nes n uuuui any cuange in ineir position
since last report and both are engaged in
entrenching. '
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.News from Paelo, Ind. states that a
man named Bandy was lynched and his
oody thrown in the river for aiding m
the escape of a murderer named Morley.
Bloomington, III., special: Many hocrs
in eastern McLean county have been
attacked by cholera and a large number
are dying. A good deal of alirm is felt
among farmers. ,
The boiler of a steam thresher exploded
on a farm near Dorchester, 111., on the
26th and J. W. Wein was instantly
killed. Three horses were burned and a
stack of wheat destroyed.
About 2000 men employed in Pullman
brick yards Chicago, are out on a strike
for an advance of 25 cents per day. The
company propose to start in the morning
wim auout nail a lorce.
The British consul informed the khe-
dive England has recognized his present
ministry, and urged him to appoint a
successor to Arabi Pasha. No doubt the
two present ministers are in daily com
munication with Arabi.
The Egyptian projectiles burst too
high to do any damage during the last
skirmish. In consequence of this fact
British escaped heavy loss. Egyptians
advanced bodly, but without judgment.
as they might easily have captured all
mounted infantry. ;
Dispatches alleging that Mr. Denny.
consul general to China is intriguing
against Minister John Bussel Young,
are not credited in Washington. They
are believed to have had origin with
Chas. Miller, formerly of Maine, who
for some years has been nursing an ab
surd claim of $300,000 against China, in
curred during the Tal Ying rebellion
some ID years ago. ;
News from the Bridewell at Chicago of
the 26th says that last night two prisoners,
Ulark and John JFettmgill, were con
fined in the same cell. Pettingill was
considered an imbecile but not danger
ous. Ihis morning, however, it was dis
covered that he had unbuckled Clarks
wooden leg during the night and beaten
him to death with it. There seems to be
no doubt that it was a crazy freak, though
Pettingill refused to say a word.
Great excitement prevails in the west
ern part of the Creek nation over the
killing of a light horse captain named
Scott by a party of loyalist or landsmen,
who made an attack to rescue one of their
number held as prisoner. Captain Scott
was shot and torn in a most shocking
manner, while one of his men who inter-
ered was fatally wounded. Chief Chicata
has called for volunteers to keep the
peace, but landsmen are desperate and
citizen's fear a bloody encounter.
Tuttle mountain, Dakota Indians from
Canada, have crossed the line and or
dered off white settlers and refused to
pay customs . assessed against them by
the Pembina agency. They claim the
right to lands and deny the legality of
the laws levying taxes on them. Their
chief, Little Shell, says: "We recognize
no boundary line and shall pass as we
please. . At least 7a half-breeds have
moved over and all are pugnicious. Mil
itary interference seems necessary.
One or two members of a deputation
representing the notables brought a copy
of a proclamation secretly circulated by
Itegneb Pasba, stating that England had
declared war against the Egyptians. The
khetuve has consequently been strongly
advised to dismiss Bagheb Pasha from
the ministry and place him under arrest.
It is hoped also that as the ministers are
mere creatures of Arabi Pasha the khe-
dive will dismiss them all and form a
new ministry under Cheriff Pasha.
An Italian refugee says he sav 85 Eu
ropean bodies lying in the streets of Tan
tan and that intestines were being flung
at windows along the streets. Greeks
throats were hacked with penknives and
two English women were killed. Arabi
Pasha put on a train to carry away Chris
tian survivors and about one hundred
persons boarded, but no sooner were
seated than a determined attempt was
made to murder them and was only frus
trated by friendly natives causing the
train to start.
Biver and harbor bill as Anally passed
appropriates the following: . Humboldt
harbor and bay, California, $40,000;
naroor at uamand, Ual., $2W0,U0U; im
proving harbor at Wilmington, CaL,
$100,000; improving entrance to Yaauina
bay, Oregon, 060,000; survey of Missouri
river from its mouth to Fort Benton,
40,000; Yellowstone river, Montana and
Dakota, 20,000; Petaluma. creek, CaL,
completing its improvement. 814.000:
Sacramento river $25,000; San Joaquin
river and Mormon slough. Gal.: $40,000:
constructing canal around cascades of
Columbia, Oregon, $260,000; Columbia
river, Oregon, Portland to the sea, in
eluding the bar at mouth of the Colum
bia. $100,000; upper Willamette, Oregon,
$50,000; lower Clear Water river, Idaho,
$50,000; Cowlitz river, W. T.. $10,000;
Chehalis river $3000; improving Stilla
guamish. Nooksac, Snohomish, and
j Snoqualmie rivers, W. T., to build, equip
i and operate a snag boat for the year,
f $20,000; improving the mouth of Co-
J quille river $10,000; for expenses of board
of engineers to examine in detail the
mouth of Columbia river, $75,uW.
JULY.
When the scarlet cardinal tells
Her dream to the dragon-fly,
And the lazy breeze makes a nest in the
trees,
And murmurs a lullaby,
It is July.
When the tangled cobweb pulls
The corn-flower's blue cap awry,
And the lilies tall lean over the wall
To bow to the butterfly,
It is July.
When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rve.
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has softened alirost to a sigh,
It is July. i
When the hours are to still that Time
Forgets them, and" lets! them lie
'Neath petals pink till the night stars wink
At the sunset in the sky,
It is July.
When each finger-post by the way
Bays that Slumbertown is nigh; !
When the grass is tall, and the ro3es tall,
And nobody wonders why, i
It is July. St Nicholas.
Etles for Stout Women.
An exchange remarks jocosely, in its
funny column, upon the fact that all the
fashion plates represent slender women,
and asks why it is that J'the makers of
the fashions do not give the fat girls a
show." The matter is, however, by no
means a joke to "the fat girls." Slen
der, willowy figures are the correct
thing, and to be Btout is to be altogether
out of fashion. Therefore,1 most of the
styles of the day are such as suit only
slight figures. Paris sets the fashions
for the world, and the theater has much
to do with setting the fashions for Paris.
Sara Bernhardt is an acknowledged
leader therein, and no woman living bet
ter understands the art of dress. But
Sara is thin to a proverb, and she does
not dress, she drapes and swathes herself
artistically, making of her meager figure
a marvel of slender grace. But that
which is the perfection of style on her
becomes ridiculous on a stout woman.
Shirtings exaggerate her "embonpoint;"
puned sleeves add breath to shoulders
already too broad fcr the standard of
fashion, and the suit designed for a sylph
degenerates into a caricature when worn
by some one who turns the . scale at a
hundred and fifty pounds.
Unfortunately many of tne stout women
do not realize this. They array them
selves in many flounces, which take
from their height; they don Mother
Hubbard capes, which give them a round
shouldered appearance; they puff their
draperies into full paniers, and go on
making mistakes of the like nature with
an utter unconsciousness, often extreme
ly amusing to their thin friends.
So many styles are in vosrue. however.
and such latitude, within certain limits,
is allowed in dress that it is perfectly
possible for every woman to make : the
best of her looks. Large plaids, for in
stance, increase the apparent breadth of
the figure i but stripes, which are equally
fashionable, on the other hand give the
effect of added height. Perpendicular
trimmings have the same effect, and
plaited skirts with scarf draperies and
closely-fitting jersey basques are admir
ably suited to stout figures. So, also.
some of the tablier (apron) Btyles.
bunched rather flat below the waist, and.
with full, soft, but narrow drapery be
hind, and a bodice with short, pointed
basque, are extremely lady-like for large
women, since they give a longer outline
to the tout ensemble.
A style of dress well adopted ; to stout
figures consists of a plain black silk skirt
trimmed with two flounces of striped
Louisine, a tunic and a waist. - The
flounces are plaided. and are about six
nches deep. The redmgote tunic is of
wo breadths of Lousine. lined with
silk crinoline to give it body. -'It opens
in front to show the black -silk skirt, and
is trimmed with black Spanish lace put
on lull. The waist of Louisine has long
points back and front. The back of the
tunic consists of a square piece of Louis
ine trimmed with lace. It is fastened to
the skirt by one corner, and draped
nawlwise. lhe coat sleeves have lace
and p'aiting at the hand. The same idea
may be carried out in any color, but
nothing is so becoming to stout people
as DiacK.
Next to black in the scale of the be
coming comes white, and then all very
dark shades and 6oft neutral tints. Gay
colors are to be avoided, since they take
too large a space m the held of viBion,
and so make the wearer seem still larger
thao her natural size. Trains are be
coming, for their soft, flowing outlines
give added height to the figure. Circu
lars are becoming, wraps for the same
reason, and next to these come dolmans.
If a woman be well proportioned and
is tall in accordance with her size, she
may, if able to dress handsomely, be
magnificent, an object of admiration, and
will always throw smaller women into
the shade. Such a one should choose
rich velvets, heavy brocades, thick silks,
and the handsomer her garments the
better, since she may carry any amount
of dress with success. But she must re
member that her role is to be stately , and
eschew whatever savors of fussiness.
Still materials also are inappropriate.and
the soft, clinging fabrics of the dey suit
her to perfection.
The best model for. a cashmere or cloth
dress for a stout woman is, as already
said, the kilt dress. or this the skirt is
cut with a yoke, extending over the hips
and cut perfectly smooth. To this yoke
the plaited skirt is sewed on the edge.
and over the join is laid a flat plaited
scarf, kept in plaoe by stitches under the
folds. The back drapery is in straight.
loose puffs, and the waist is either a
Louis XV. coat, . with long tails at the
back, or a skirted jacket with flaps on the
HIPS. v.. i
The most disastrous mistake a stout
woman can make is to lacs tightly in the
hope of making herself smaller. : She
may perhaps reduce her waist measure
an inch or two at the cost of infinite dis
comfort, but this gain is more than coun
terbalanced by the stuffed appearance
given to her whole figure. Moreover,
the cannot be easy, or even natural, not
to say graceful. Then her shoulders
are made to look unnaturally high, her
nose red, while her hands and feet are
enlarged, as any physician will tell her.
by the Violence done to hor circulation.
and all this is without reference to the
injury to her health. The first requisite
w ueauty is oeaith, and any violation of
nature's laws reacts at once on the per-
buuw appearance.
Women with large . heads and full
faces Bbould avoid extremes in head
gear, ijarge hats and tiny bonnets are
alike unbecoming. The correct thing is
"a just medium,'' moderate-siied poxes
Or; well-nrnnnrrivnofl lunntiu
i 4 .C vujwvw, mm
strings tied at the back or sides, never
.uiu?r me cuin, although tney mav be
ien on altogether if desired.
Mrs. Stowe and Her Work.
Mr. Stowe composes with perfect fa
cility; her thoughts flowing so freely and
uninterruptedly, and her pen being, so
ooeaieni to their course that her manu
script always goes to the printers in its
first draft. She never goes back to re
vise or correct, and does not even take
the trouble to read over what she has
written. Her father was quite different
in this respect, for, with his manuscript,
he was continually hesitating, scratching
out and exchanging expressions over
and over again. Mrs. Stowe has.no
regular hours devoted to literary labor,
but writeB when she feels most in the
mood. When tired of the pen she re
lieves herself by taking up palette and
brush, having a decided artistic talent.
which she exercises princinallv in flower
painting, a love for flowers being one of
her passions. , i
Mrs. Stowe is of medium height, with
a slight figure and a thoughtful face.fnll
of refined character, her features com-
oining strengtn and delicacy in expres
sion. Her gray hair is almost snowv.
She dresses with extreme simplicity and
m good taste. She has an easy, unas
suming way; an air of genuine old New
England domesticity which shows that
her numerous papers on house and home
topics are based on practical experience.
Her regular home is in Hartford, a
place endeared to her by the associations
of girlhood. Her house is on Forest
street. It is of brick with a tastefully
plain exterior, painted light buff, and
is surrounded by pleasant grounds.
The three celebrated authors who mav
be said-to form a Hartford literary trio
are near neighbors. Mr. Clemens
("Mark Twain") living next door.
while Charles Dudley Warner's home is
not five minutes away. The interior of
Mrs. Stowe's house is unassumingly com
fortable. There are many souvenirs of
travel and interesting associations, in
cluding portraits presented her by dis
tinguished foreign friends gained by her
labors for the cause of freedom. On the
walls are also many of her flower
paintings, the clustered favorites of her
beloved New England fields being side
by side "with the gorgeous flora of
Florida. '
Mrs. Stowe and her family live in an
atmosphere of perpetual summer, their
winters for the past sixteen years having
been spent among the orange groves of
Mandarin, her Florida estate on the St.
John river. Her picturesque cottage is
shaded by the dense foliage of magnifi
cent live oaks, and from the point on
which it stands there is an uninterrupted
view for miles, both up and down the
broad and beautiful river. Notwith
standing her abolition antecedents, she
and her family have received nothing
but kindness from her Southern neigh
bors, although the press in some in
stances has been violent in its assaults.
Of the celebration of her seventieth
birthday, Mrs. Stowe Bays that she feels
a little embarrassed, since it will be the
first birthday she has ever celebrated,
she having been brought up in
the old-fashioned manner which made
no account of birthdays or of few other
sentimental occasions. She never could
succeed in remembering when the day
came around, and once, having made a
number of good resolutions for the occa
sion, after the manner of many other
people, she found that she had made
them on the wrong day. Boston
Herald.
True Bravery.
No man knows himself until he ban
been tried, neither Aacn Via tnnw bia
friend or acquaintance till he has saen
him "under nre. ' Not a few men have a
reputation for honesty who never had
the temptation fairly presented to them
to cheat. Some men have been repnted
brave, till the battle it may have been
the battle of life, or the conflict of arms
proved them coward. M. vtnhh
Lord Byron's friend, tells the story of
tne man wno Dore both the mien and the
reputation of a coward, and yet when
severely i tried came out a hero. This
hero coward was their servant, a Greek,
named Demetrius. So excessive was his
timidity, that he would run from a bark
ing dog and cry like a baby. Byron,
who had much sentiment, but little gen
uine compassion, once shswed his heart
leBsness by mounting the poor fellow on
a spirited horse, i When the animal, in
obedience to a smart touch of Byron's
whip, dashed off in a mad gallop, the two
inenos roared with laughter on seeing
their frightened servant crrnan lb a mana
of the horse with both hands and scream
with terror. .
Several vears after this rtenrt.lmui mi.
isode the Greek revolution broke out.
It proved Demetrius' opportunity. He
led the forlorn hope in the assault of
June 22. 1882. which snatched Athena
for a season from the Turks, and proved
the man a very marvel of bravery. The
trial stripped from him his physical
timidity, and made for hi ma nama in
the hearts of his people, and on the
at i .
record oi tneir history. The spark of
heroism was there all the while. But it
needed the flint and steel of the revolu
tion to bring it forth.
- "lou are pale.sirl Yon arn fne-hfAna
sir!" said one officer to another, who
stood for the first time tinder tW
"I know it, and if you were half as
mUCh frightened na T am vnn rnn1l nn
away.".-- . ;.j
The man's mnral
his physical timidity, and forced him to
etauu wuere it was his duty to stand,
though it could not control the action of
his heart. - ;
Little Miss Innocent seated at dinner,
to pompous old cove: "Mr. S., won't you
drink?" "Yes, my dear, certainly. But
why. Miss I. ?' "Because mamma says
Jou drink like a fish, and I want to see
ow fishes drink," S. ! ! ! I
i George Eliot No. 2.
Entering a distinguished lawyer's
suite of oflice8 down town the other day,
I stepped aside at the vision of a most
graceful woman of queenly carriage and
radiant beauty, dressed in elegant sim
plicity, who swept by, diffusing the odor
of Parma violets. The sight of such a
fair creature, without the semblance of a
littgous look, or weeds of a widow, or
heiress just come into an estate, or the
dejection or indifference of a party to a
divorce suit, was so unexpected amid the
matter-of-fact surroundings of a lawyer's
omce that l carried a look of . inquiry
with me into the private office of the
head of the firm. "I see you are im
pressed, he said. looking nn from hi
uca. . , xou b bub a ueauijr she is a
hgure in the most extraordinary case I
ever knew. An English woman of cen
tie birth and large fortune, with all of
the accomplishments that come with re-
fined education and extended traveLa
musician of classical taste and a linguist
versed in an ponte tongues, she laa reso
lute disciple of free love, and at a sacri.
noe of everything she refuses to allow
her paramour, who is my client, to ar
range for a divorce with his first wife to
marry her. She says that if she felt the
yoke qf matrimony about her neck she
would surely hate her husband, and
would never live with him, and that if
her lover treats their present relations in
any other way than a holy union, or
makes them serve as a ground for his
first wife to secure a divoroe, she will
instantly leave him and return to Eng
land. My client is the son of a mill
ionaire, is about 27 years old, a hand
some, erratic fellow with a dash of
genius. When he was a boy of nineteen
he was forced into a marriage with the
daughter of a distinguished author and
the granddaughter of a celebrated jurist,
and hoping to hide her from disgrace, he
yielded to the demands of her parents
and was married to her by a Justice of
the Peace. He was then a student of
Harvard College. H refused to live
with his wife or to see her again, and as
no event followed to make the disclosure
of their marriage necessary, it was kept
a secret and he went to Europe. He met
this beauty there and a most "romantic
attachment sprang up between them.
They seemed to love each other with an
ideal affection. She was rinelv edu
cated, in the full . bloom of
womanhood, and was ready to de
vote . her life to his: but. like
George Eliot, she did not believe in
marriage, and when she consented to
become his companion through life it
was with the distinct understaning
that he should never give ber a nennv.
but that she should support herself. She
was content to become a wife to him,but
was not willing to accept his support or
take his name. She moreover objected
to passing as his wife and while anxioua
to follow him to any part of the world.
she wishes to pay her own expenses, bear
her own name, and be wholly in
dependent. Strange to say, her
mother, a superior woman approved to
the letter everything she said and did.
The young couple began to live as hus
band and wife on these terms and now
hey have a charming little child. Thev
came to this country on the man's busi
ness and have a country seat near the
city. They occupy different apartments
in the house, and the servants do not
know of their relations, or that the
young man is the child's father. Since
their return to this country the young
man has been served with a complaint
in a limited divorce suit. He is restive
under the situation, and is anxious to
get rid of his first wife, so as to legitima
tize his child by marriage, but his com
panion is as firm as Gibraltar. She
says that if her love degrades her bv
having their relations judicially treated
as mnaeiity to tne nrss wne. she will
eave him. Moreover, if he gives his
wife other occasions to secure an abso-
ute divorce she will leave him. and that
if he gets his liberty to marry her she
will not marry him. If the young man
is forced to. remain in this dilemma I
fear he may lose his reason and do harm
to himself, for he has a gentleman's
feeling of duty and honor toward his
child, and does not share his wife's sin
gular notions about matrimony. 'I
know, she said to me jast now, 'that I
would hate a man who put the yoke of
marriage about my neck. I will not
bear the burden for any man.' She ar
gues most eloquently against marriage
so much in George Eliot's strain that I
cannot help associating the two women,
and 1 think she is as pure-minded as any
woman I ever met. The case is on the
calendar, but I don't know how I am go
ing to settle it." j New York Letter.
Heart Disease not so Fatal.
When an individual is reported to
have died of disease of the heart, we are
m the habit of regarding it as an inevita
ble event, as something which could not
have been seen or prevented, and it is
too much the habit, when persons sud
denly fall down dead, to report the
ueart as the cause. This silences all in
quiry and investigation, and saves the
trouble of a postmortem. A true report
would have a tendency to save many
lives. It is through a report of the
disease of the heart that many an opium
eater is led off into the grave that covers
at once his folly and his crime; the
brandy-drinker, too,quietly slides around
the corner thus, and is heard of no
more; in short, this report of disease of
the heart is the mantle of charity which
the polite coroner and sympathetic physi
cian throw around the graves of gener
ous people. At a scientific Congress at
Strasburg it was reported that of thirty-
six persons that had suddenly died, an
immediate and faithful post mortem
showed that only two persons had any
heart affectation whatever one sudden
d.eath only in thirty -three from disease of
the heart. Nine out of sixty die Of apo
plexy one out of every seven, while
forty-six died of lung affectation, half of
them from congestion of the lungs, that
is. the lungs were so full of blood they
could not work. It is, then, of practical
interest to know some of the causes of
congestion of the lungs; these are cold
feet, tight shoes, light clothing, costive
bowels, sitting still until chilled through
after having warmed up by hard labor or
along, hasty walk. Halls Journal of
Health.
HINTS F0K THE EOrSIUQLD.
Lamb steak dipped in egg. and then
in biscuit or bread crumbs and fried .un
til it is brown, helps to make variety for
the breakfast table. With baked sweet
potatoes, good coffee and buttered toast
or corn muffins, one mav besrin the dav
with courage.
One of grandmother's wise wavs was to
keep a cup of alum water always close at
hand: it usually stood on the window-
sill, beside her work-basket. Cut fingers
and bruises of all kinds, if wrapped in
cloth wrapped in the alum water, healed
with a rapidity that was truly wonderfnl.
This is so simple a remedy that it is worth
while to Know about it.
If you have been poisoned bv ivv.
bathed the parts affiicted freely with
spirits of nitre. If the blisters be broken
so as to allow the nitre to penetrate the
cutitcle, more than a single application
is raielv necessary, and even where it is
only applied to the surface of the
skin three or four times a day, there is
rarely a trace of the poison left next
morning.
To make delicious cocoanut cookies
use one cup and a half of sugar, about
one cup of butter a little less will an
swertwo eggs, one cup of grated co
coanut, half a cup of . sweet milk, half a
teaspoonf ul of soda, one teaspoonf ul
of vanilla, flour enough "to make a soft
dough. Roll as you do common
cookies, using as little flour as possible
on the kneading-board. Bake in a quick
oven. . "
To preserve butter for winter use.
make your butter right and work out all
the milk; then prepare a well glazed
Btone jar by scalding with brine; put the
butter in and pack it down close: cover
with clean brine that will bear an egg
and set in your cellar. When more but
ter is to be added, pour off the brine and
again use it on top of the butter. When
the jar is filled nearly to the top. set
away and cover the top with a clean
board or plate. Notice it occasionally,
that the brine may always be kept cover
ing the butter. If made properly it will
keep. -.. ,
In canning blackberries prepare the
jars glass is preferred by thoroughly
cleaning, and, as they are to receive a
very hot substance they should be
heated in water. Make a syrup with a
half pound of white sugar to a pint of
water; bring the syrup to a boil in a
preserving kettle, and then add as
much fruit as it will cover; let the fruit
heat gradually in the syrup, and when it
comes to a boil nil the jars with a ladle.
putting in first as much fruit as the jars
will hold and then pouring in svrup un
til the jar is well filled. Put on the cov
ers quickly, or cork and seal if you have "
L t. 1 1.11. .1 M i - 1 .
uir (jateut jar, wunu iub iruis IB not.
Wipe off the jars and set them away in a
cool, dark place. Notice them for a
few days, and if bubbles arise in a jar,
open it, bring it to a boil, fill and cork
as before. The principle of keeping
fruit is to drive out the air by heat and
then exslnde it.
. At Play.
The light hurt mv eyes and I took a ;
seat vacated near the front. Young Mr.
Hog and his sweetheart sat behind me ,
and in calm defiance of public opinion
the male hugged the female during the :
entire performance. They also talked.
as it may be of interest to other offenders
1 11 give some of their pretty prattle:
"Have another peppermint?"
"Yes."
"Say; now you see that table. Pretty
soon those two'll sit down to it, and that
tall fellow he'll tell 'em to get up. and
then the girl who's got the boy'll come
in and jump right out the window.
There he comes now. , That ain't his real
voice, though."
"What's his name?"
"I don't know; but he's the Quaker.
and when he swears he says, 'Hold on,
Quaker.' You wait; it's awful funny."
"There comes the girl."
"Yes now vou see. There, didn't I
tell you? She's jumped right on the ice.
Hear the dogs? They'll pull the cur
tains back in a minute and you'll see the
girl and boy on the cake of ice and the
dogs will bark and raise Cain. There,
did 1 1 tell you"
"Oh! what big doos. - Will they
bite?"
"Bite! They would if they wasn't held
back. See their muzzles? Hear 'em
bark. Tell you it wouldn't be very
funny if it was real, would it?"
"No. What are they going to do now?
I squinted around, and was on the point
of suggesting that perhaps it would be as
well to allow the actors and other don
keys to tell the story in their own way.
but just then the mala dog gave the lady
so perceptible a squeeze that I didn t
have the heart to say one word.
"Dlzij from Dancing."
"Samuel F. Jones', you were drunk
and disorderly last night," exclaimed
Justice Patterson, in the Tombs Police
court recently. "What have you to
say
"I was at a picnic, your Honor," said
Jones, "and I felt dizzy from danoiug,
but 1 was not drunk."
"Then the policeman does not tell the
truth," queried his Honor.
"I know I was not drunk," replied
Jones.
"You were here before, Jones," re
plied the court; "your face looks fa
miliar." "Yes, sir," said Sones, "I was here
before."
"What were, you charged with?" in
quired the court.
"Singinj my own songs," said Jones.
"Oh, yes," remarked, you Honor;
"but they were terrible Ones the worst
I ever heard. . What was done with
yon?" . ; . 7
"You "fined me $5 the last time," re
plied Jones. ' , s..
"Well, the same fine will answer in
this case," said Justice Patterson. "You
are fined $5."
He paid his fine, and 'with a sorrowful
face, walked - out of the court-room.
N. Y. Telegram.
Oscar Wilde cannot say after returning
to his native heath that the Americans
were lacking in courtesy. In Texas he
was,christened "Colonel," and at Louisi
ana he was made a guest at a lynching
entertainment,
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