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IS ilSSUED
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BY THE
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:.. HAS THE . ; ' .' .
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IN DOUGLAS COUNTY.
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VOL.7.
ROSEBURG. OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1882.
NO. 24.
THE DOUGLAS IIBEP
mTTiiT7i5
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PKACIICAL
watchmakerI jeweler, and
optician.
' all work warranted.
Dealer In Watcbtn. Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles d Fyfc"ssa,
And a Fall Line cf
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Gootfa.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper adjustment if Ppecude ; always ou band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
' tles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE F.r8t tfir- south of postoffice, Hose
burg. Oregon 1 i.
tUAHOKEY'S SALC i '
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakl. m
Jus. UXaonoy, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars i a Do&
las count, and the best
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la the State kepi in proper repair:
Parties traveling on the railroad will find this
place very handy to visit daring the stop
ping of the train at the Oak-
land, Depot Give me a call. I
i 4 AO. MAnuxiaY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made
Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREOOJi.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses,
Constantly on hand.
Etc.
rilOtJITIIOC I bare the beat aiocko
rUnill I UilLi inmiture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
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No two Prices to Custotners
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Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED
DEPOT! HOTEL-
OAKLAND,
OREUOS.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
npms HOTEL H AS been established
, for a number of years, and has become very
popular with the traveling public. First-class
SLEePiNO ACCOMMODATIONS.
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And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hold hi the d''pot ofi.be Kailrl-
ad.
J3JTVIN0 ON HAND A LARGE LOT OP FINE
Spanish Merino
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I offer the ne for sale. Cheap for Cash, at my
Farm in Douglas county, six miles from Roseburg.
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STANTON..
Dealer in
t .'!.
Staple Dry Coods !
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW I AJtD ULASSWARE,
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ALSO '
Crockery and Cordage
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A full stock of
WCHOOLj BOO lt8
Such as required by the Public County Schools
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY" ARTICLK8 .
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To suit both Young and Old.
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BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS -SEEDSl
V'v : ! ;
ALL KINDS OF MM QUALI.Y
A.JL.JL. ORDERS
' From ptly at tended to and Goods shipDed
with care.
Address, Ilnchenpy & Bene,
! Portland. Oregon
Hotice
Notice is heretv given, to whom tt .way concern, that
the un.!ereip..l' has been awarded the contract for
keeping tbe Dmiwlas county Pauper for tne period ot
tw years. All pcnj'us iii need of assistance irom 'aid
county most first procure a certificate to that effect
from an member of the County Board, aud present it
to one of the following named persons, who are author
lied to, and will care for those presenting such certificate
W. U Butten, Roseburg; t. L. KeJlovfr, Oakland; Mrs
tlrown, Lookmg Giass. IV. Scrou? is autbomed to
tarnish medical aid to all pdroii in need of the same
sho have been declared paupers f ltouijlas county.
WM. B. CLARKE, Supt. of Poor.
Rnmscao. Or.. Feb. 16J 1880
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Truths Which I Women Betbat.
There is a large admixture of troth in
the apparently paradoxical proposition
that, of all branches of study, fiction is
the most instructive. No reader of nov
els of sentiment and society can have a
personal experience as ide as the col
lective knowledge of his novelist teach
ers. To a man who is at the same time
carious and consciously incapable of
making aueh discoveries for himself dis
closures by female writers of feminine
peculiarities furnish revelations which
would be otherwise innattainable.
Equality is the life of conversation;
and lie is as much but who assumes to
himself any part abote another, as he
who considers himself belo the rest of
society. Sir Riehard Steele.
LATEST SUMMARY.
BY TEMSOBAPH TO DATE.
In the gTeat 2:17 race at Beacon Park,
Boston, on the 14th, for $10,000, Edwin
Thorne won ia three straight heats; best
time, 2:18.
One cf the buttresses of St. Patrick's
cathedral in Dublin fell on the 14th, kill
ing four women. They were completely
decapitated.
The treasury department on the 14th
pnrcbased 310,000 ounces of silver for
'delivery at the Philadelphia, New Or
leans and San Francisco mints.
Norvin Green's statement to the West
ern Union directors, makes a flattering
statement of the finances of the company
and its lucreaae in value the past five
years.
Vanderbilt's pair, Early Rose and Al
dine, male a mile on the 14th over the
Charter Oak course, Hartford, in 2:16
without skip or break, the best time on
record.
Examination of witnesses in the case
of Mayor Johnstone, of Danville, Va.,
charged with the murder of John E.
Hatcher, chief of police, was concluded
on the 13th.
A Taylorsville, 111., dispatch of Sept.
14th says: Miss Emma Bond is in a dy
ing condition. Last night it required
four men to hold her. Her death which
is hourly expected, may again rouse the
population to a violent outbreak.
An Ottawa, 111., dispatch of Sept. 14th
says: The supreme court at Ottawa has
refused to interfere to prevent the exe
cution of Tracy here to-morrow. His
counsel went to Springfield to-day to
secure a pardon or reprieve. Prepara
tions for his hanging are completed, but
Tracy still calmly .propests his inno
cence. .
Engineer Melville of the Jeannette
Arctic expedition was given a public re
ception at the city hall, New York, on
the 14 tli. As lie entered tne U. A. It. s
room he recognized pn old friend, Chief
Engineer Dauby, U. S. A., and rushing
up to htm and olasped him in his arms
and kissed him again and again. Two
thousand citizens paid their respects to
Melville, who shook hands with each vis
itor.
Charles L. Wright, as representative
of a number of capitalists, has taken
steps towards organization of a new
steamship line to run between New York
and Liverpool. They hold patents for a
newly invented steamship which, it is
claimed, will cross the Atlantic ocean in
five and a half days. C. D. Lounsborug,
of the Swedish navy, is the inventor of
this new ship, which is to have concave
sides and two screws
Gen. Henry Kersted, one of the oldest
retired merchants of New York, died on
the 13th at his residence in that city, 200
West 129tb street, aged oa years and b
n.onths. Gen. Kersted was born in
'Jhamber street, wmcn at tuat time was
one of the suburbs of New York. Later,
when the first directory was published,
his name did not appear in it, because
residents of Chambers street were not
regarded as residents of the city proper.
On the breaking out of the Mexican war,
Kersted organized two regiments.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Walker
has appointed a board of officers to exam
ine vessels at the Mare island, Ual.
navy yard enumerated on the navy reg
ister as unserviceable and others whose
serviceable condition is questionable,
and report whether they are fit for fur
ther service. The board is composed of
Captains John Irwin, C. S. Norton and
W. P. Cook, Naval Constructor G. W.
Meech and Chief Engineer H. S. Davids
Tbe vessels to be examined are the In
dependence, Narragansett, Nyack, Saco,
Freda, Monterey, Mohican, Old Monad
nock. Crane, Benicia, Tuscarora and
Monongaliela.
A Tombstone dispatch of the 13th says
It it reported that Hon. Samuel Purdy,
editor of the Er)itarh. and Patrick Hamil
ton, editor of the Independent, departed
for Sonora this evening to tight a duel
Both men, with seconds and surgeons
are absent from town. The rumor is
vrettv well authenticated and savs that
Hamilton, accompanied by Wm. Milligan
and John Bureess as seconds, and Dr
McSwesran as surgeon, departed at 8
o'clock, and Purdy, with Judge Edw
Mclrovern and John bwenoafcs for sec
onds, and Dr. Gooufellow as surgeon
left at U o'clock. The duel ia to take
place at 10 o'clock to morrow in Sonora
12 miles south of Brisbee. The trouble
crew out of articles published by Ham
ilton in his paper. Purdy sent the chal
lenee. Weapons revolvers: distance 10
paces.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Sept. 14th
says: The sheriff and deputy of this
county were shot and killed to-clay while
en route to Jvnoxville with a prisoner
the most daring murder in the annals of
crime. John Taylor two years ago killed
Capt. Fletcher on the Tennessee. He
escaped at the time, but was finally cap
tured and brought to this city. Ha had
several trials and at the last term of court
was sentenced to ten years at hard labor
in the penitentiary, but he got n appeal
to the supreme court. The court is now
in session at Knoxville and to-day at
noon Sheriff Cote and Deputy Conway
took the East Tennessee train, having
Taylor in charge. He was handcuffed.
Several men boarded the train at Sweet
water, about 75 miles from here, and
while the train was between Philadelphia
and London shot and killed Cote and
Conway, wounded another man, released
the prisoner and took charge of the tram,
running it through London. At Leons
station John Taylor and his brother Bob,
and Andy . got off . and forcibly took
horses and left for the mountains. John
Taylor was wounded in the arm. The
city is in intense excitement and a posse
of 30 men with Springfield rifles left on
a special train for Kingston. Another
posse will leave overland. A posse had
already left Kingston and another left
London. Cote had been sheriff two
weeks to-day. He was one of the mo?t
popular men in the city. He was about
59 years old and leives a large family.
Deputy Conway was about thirtv years
of age and a prominent local politician.
Such excitement never has been known
in Chattanooga since the war. A special
train bearing the dead bodies leaves here
to-night. The shooting occurred abont
4 o'clock.
The verdict in the star route case of
Minor and Reredell has been et aside
and they .have been granted a new tri&l.
The Aztec club, composed of officers
who served in the Mexican war, enjoyed
its annual banquet on the 15th. General
uaocooK presided.
At the Joilet rollinsr mills, on the 14th.
James Ferguson swung a ladle so care-
essly as to pour five tons of mol'en steel
into the pit where he stood, roasting him
self instantly.
The yacht Nellieconnected with tbe
Winnepiseogee house at Alton bay, New
Hampshire, as an excursion boat, - was
sunk in Lajte Winnepiseogee on the 15th
while an the way to Weira with 14 pas
sengers. " ,
The September report of the Ontario
bureau of industries shows throughout
West Ontario the harvest season is unus
ually large and tedious. The east has
fared better, though, crops are not as
good as the preceeding.
A terrific hurricane passed over the
village of Winston, Conn., on the 14th,
destroying ten houses and five barns,
mostly in the northeastern portion of the
village. No lives were lost. Several
persons were injured. Mrs. Daniel Max
well, Mr. Thomas Ash and Miss Mary
Conners seriously.
During a thunder storm in New York
on the loth, lightning struct Liane &
Fleming's oil works, at Kingsland and
Meresale avenues and the Donaldson oil
works in Kingsland, near Meeker avenue,
setting them both on fire and both were
destroyed. A fireman wus killed by an
explosion. Loss $20,000.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
New York Herald of the 13th says: At
a council of ministers held on Saturday
it was definitely determited that the em
peror s coronation at Moscow should be
postponed till next year. Official notifi
cations of this decision will be sent to the
embassadors accredited to Russia
A terrible wind storm passed through
Mohawk valley, N. Y., on the 14th. At
Nunderville a man driving a load of hay
drove into a barn to escape the storm.
The barn was blown down and the man
ana team Killed. There were severe
thunder storms along the Hudson.
Lightning was incessant and blinding.
Many places on the Hudson ri7er rail
road track are flooded and the telegraph
wires are broken.
Dr. Mary Walker is again in trouble.
Recently she got an appointment in the
interior department, with permission to
wear her trousers. On the 15th she re
ceived notice of her promotion, and called
on Assistant Secretary Joslyn in a tern
ble rage, because in her notification she
was mentioned as mistress instead of
miss. JN either "Dr. was prehxed nor
M. D-" affixed to her name, and because
the signature to the document was put
on with a hand stamp instead of being
written. Mr. Joslyn had to flee from his
rooms and absent himself till she was
gone.
Campbell, republican nominee for
sheriff of Sieira county, was shot and
instantly killed by a man named Stubbs
at Randolph in Sierra valley on the 15th
The murder is surmised to be on account
of the bitter political contest in that
county: Over 200 men are scouring the
country in search, of the murderer. The
particulars of the murder at Randolph
are that on account of the excited political
canvass a friend of Campbell named
Codv had an altercation with Stubbs a
day or two ago. T day Campbell sought
Stnbbs to effect a reconciliation. He an
parently failed in the effort and turned to
walk away when Stubbs ran up behind
him and fired without notice, the ball
taking effect in the stomach. During
tbe excitement that followed Stubbs es
caped. If recaptured lynching is almost
certain. Stubbs is a mau of 22 and has
heretofore enjoyed the respect of the
community.
A Chicago dispatch of Sept." 15th, says
At precisely 2:05 P. M., James Tracy,
the murderer of Police Officer Huebner,
expiated his crime on the gallows. Long
before the time appointed there was a
large crowd about the jail and the throng
I increased up to the appointed hour
unly about two hundred persons were,
however, admitted to witness the execu
tioo. Tracy walked tirmJy and nnas
sisted to the foot of the gallows. At 1:35
a notice of "Silence!" was posted on the
gallows, and at 1:47 Tracy, accompanied
by Father Dawling and two other priests,
Sheriff Mann and Jailor Folz, walked
up the steps of the scanold. The noose
was adiUBted, the black cap placed over
his head and Sheriff Mann, giving the
signal, the trap was sprung, and the body
with a drop of six feet swung off into the
air. Ua the scatiuld iracy said: "1 have
nothing to say, except that I am an inno
cent man. Though I meet my Maker
soon, I can but declare my innocence.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. 1 die
an innocent man." At 2:08 the pulse was
140 tt 2:11 it had ceased beating, and at
2:14 the heart pulsation stopped. At 2:25
he was pronounced dead, and at 2:28 the
body was cut down.
Vol. ivirfc ot Washington City, has re
ceived a letter from Mr. Olliver, editor
of the Charleston Mercury, dated at
Charleston jau, irom which it appears
Olliver has been thrown in jail on a
clarge of libel, because he reprinted
from a Washington campaign paper an
extract taken from a pamphlet of Col
Uash, puonsned in south Carolina, re
flecting upon Dawson, editor of the
Charleston Courier. Olliver's friends
claim a conspiracy to prevent him ob
taining bail. The court declines to re
ceive money or collateral, and no citizen
having sufficient property will go on his
bond. It is claimed this is part of a po
litical movement to intimidate those who
are disposed to encourage the indtpen
dent movement in South Carolina. The
curious fact about it is that the pamphlet
of Col. Cash, from which the original ex
tract is taken, has been published broad
cast throughout South Carolina, yet
editor Dawaon does not feel disposed to
call Col. Cash to account for it, but does
assault tbe poor editor w.ho republishes
ah extract from it printed in northern
papers. Col. Cash is not tbe kind of a
man, as his recent duels have shown, to
be called to account with impunity, and
Col. Cash is running as the anti-bourbon
candidate for congress in one of the South
Carolina districts. The congressional
republican committee has not yet decided
whether or not they will recognize him.
MANAGING A 11U8B1SD.
"True, Major" Flint is a wealthy man,
and good-looking, withal, but if you
marry him he will make you his slave
take my word f ot it, Miss Atherton."
'Do you think sor said the lady ad
dressed, quietly, looking up from her
embroidery. I
"Think so? 1 know it. lou cannot
have forgotten hew his first wife fared.
So gentle and lovely, too, as she was,
yet the poor wqman never dared say
her soul was he own never! If; she
had had a different husband, she would
undoubtedly -Have been alive to-day."
"Very likely ,'Irs. .May."
"And yet, knowing all this, you are
going to take her place,"
'Major Flint will hud me a very dif
ferent person from his first wife, said
Miss Atherton, composedly. "However,
as I do not wish to anticipate sorrow,
we will, if you please, dismiss the sub
ject."
This was not . tne nrst remonstrance
Miss Atherton bad received on the sub-
ject of her approaching marriage, but
she had made up her mind, it appeared,
and was now occupied in making prep
arations for the wedding.
What had been said respecting Major
Flint and his first wife was unquestion
ably true. He was a domestic tyrant
and holding the female understanding in
very Blight esteem, considered that the
wife ought, in all respects, to be subser
vient to the husband's will.
His reason for marrying again was
principally from the fact that he found
no housekeeper who would be sufficiently
subservient to his whims and caprices.
Having lost one after another, he came
to the conclusion that he needed a wife,
and soon resolved to tender his hand to
Grace Atherton, who had been a warm
personal friend of his lost wife. We
will not analyze her motives for accept-
.mg his proposal, tnougu prooabiy a
regard for Mr. Flint s two helpless little
children, who resembled their mother
rather than their father, influenced her
as much as any other motive. How
ever that might be, the marriage soon
took place, and- after a brief journey
Miss Atherton returned as Mrs. Major
Flint, to take the place of mistress of
the household.
Hitherto Major Flint had fprbode to
show his hand." Now, however, that
their married life had fairly begun, he
thoucht it quite time to do so.
'I have given Mrs. .Burns a week e
warning, he remarked, at the breakfast
table, the morning after their return.
Mrs. Burns had been housekeeper and
maid-of -all-work, the entire duties of the
household devolving upon ber,
And why have you given her a week s
warning? said the lady, composedly.
"Are you not satisfied with her?"
"It is not that, madam, said tbe Major
deliberately.
"Any difficulty about the
wages
asked his ite, unconcernedly.
"No, said her husband, feeling some
what embarrassrd. "Tho fact is, Mrs.
Flint, there is not very much wcrk to do
in our small household, at least no more
than one pair of hands can easily do. My
first wife always did her own work, and
with ease, though sue was not a very
strong woman.
"Did she not die very young.' said
wife number two, sipping her coffee com
posedly.
"Why, yes, said the obtuse Mr. Flint,
a little disconcerted. "lou know tne
young die as well as the aged."
"Sol have heard, returned his wne
Major Flint was a good deal puzzled
by the matter-of-fact manner of his new
wife. Her cool self-possession awed him
in spite of himself. If she had stormed
he would have felt better prepared to
meet the emergency.
"I shall permit my children to remain
where they are at their mother's, until
you get accustomed to the house a little
In the course of a week, he added, "you
will get an idea of the extent of the work
by observing Mrs. Burns.
Rising from the table, he was about to
leave the room, when his footsteps were
arrested by the simple address
"Major Flint!"
"Well?" said he.
"It appears you have been making
arrangements without consulting me.
Maior Flint was astonished.
"You, madam! Why should I consult
you about my arrangements?'
"Because i may not approve them.
"Mrs. Flint," said the major, "it is
your duty to acquiesce in whatever plans
1, as your husband, see fit to form
"Indeed. I never took that view of the
matter," Baid Mrs. Flint.
"Then the sooner you take it the bet
ter . was the reply.
"Bo you expect me to perform all the
labor required in this establishment.'
"Exactly so, madam." .
"I believe you are considered a rich
man, Major Flint?"
"I am accounted so. madam, he re
plied complacently.
"And vou are quite able to hire do
mestic service, are you not?"
"Yes, if it were needful."
"Suppose I say that it is needful?
"I should take the liberty to doubt it,
madam, he replied. .
"Very well, Mr. Flint, since you force
it upon me. I may as well tell you first
as last my decision upon this point. You
offered me the position of wife, not that
of maid-servant. On this understanding
I accepted vou. let, if your circum
stances ever become such as to require
it, I shall not hesitate for a moment to
conform myself to them. I only object
to assuming a burden which, from your
own account, appears to be quite need
less. I am very willing to superintend
the household arrangements, as I con
sider that a duty which devolves upon
me as your wife.
"I have listened to your arguments,
Mrs. Flint, and they are weak. They do
not weigh with me, madam
"It isto be regretted."
"The first Mrs. Flint better understood
her duties as a wife," he returned ex
citedly. "But it is quite useless to dis
cuss the point with you, madam. How
ever, this day week Mrs. Burns leaves
ns, and I expect - you to assume her
duties."
Mrs. Flint smiled. Major Flint
! frowned. , Then, taking his hat and cane,
he excitedly went from the room.
. "There's nothing like beginning
j right," he said mentally, planting his
j cane firmly down npon the pavement.
"If Mrs. Flint married me with the
idea of squandering my money in silks.
furbelows, and things, she'll find it dif
ficult in my establishment. I don't in
tend to encourage female insubordina
tion. I believe the husband was born to
govern the wife to obey. If more hus
bands had my firmness, mv tact in gov
erning, things would be different at the
present day.
Mrs. Flint, left at home, summoned
the housekeeper. -
I learn that my husband has given
you a week s warning, she said.
"xes, ma am.
"Is it your wish to leave us?"
"Oh, no, Mrs. Flint, for I don't know
where I could find another place and X
have to pay my little girl s board out of
my wages."
"I believe there is considerable work
to be done here?"
"Yes, Mrs. Flint, a great deal. Then
Mr. Flint is so peculiar he wants every
thing done just so. And that's why I'm
sorry to go just as you come, I know you
are easy to please." .
"How do you know? .
'By your face it looks so good-na
tured. Major Flint says, ma'am." she
continued, hesitatingly, "that I am to
show you some about the work. But if
you try to do it alone, unused to hard
work as you are, it will make you sick.
1 think very likely it would, Mrs.
Burns. But I have not the slightest
idea of doing the work. At. all
events, you must not secure another
situation until you hear from me again.
I am very confident," she added, smil
ing, "thatyf Mr. Flint sends you away,
Mrs. Burns, he will be glad to take !you
back."
Tbe week passed quickly.
"Mrs. Burns leaves to-morrow." said
the major, at the tea-table.
Then you have quite decided upon
it?"
"Yee: I believe I announced the fact
to yon some days ago.
"I thought it possible that my objec
tions might have weighed with you and
induced you to change your mind."
"1 never change my mind, said her
husband, loftily.
"Uut 1 warn you that I have little ex
perience as a cook."
You can learn.
Perhaps I may not cook to suit your
taste," she persisted.
That is my affair.
Had he been aware of the plot forming
in tbe lady's fertile brain, he might not
have felt so confident in regard to the
quality of his bread and butter; and he
retired for the night all unconscious of
the discipline to be meted out to him.
So the following morning Mrs. Burns
received her wages and was sent off. At
ten o'clock the marketing was brought
home. At the usual dinner-hour Major
Flint made his apperance. The table
was laid with more than its U3vfal neat
ness. Major Flint congratulated him
self on this fact as a personal triumph
on his part. But he badly felt so com
placent when the dinner came up. The
beef was terribly overdone; the vegeta
bles, on the 'contrary, were not half
cooked. In short, there was nothing on
the table fit to eat. This Major Flint
rather angrily remarked.
1 dare say, I am not a verv good
cook, said his wife.
With his appetite only half satisfied,
he rose from the table.
The following morning breakfast was
delayed more than half an hour; and
when it was ready, it was scarcely eata
ble. Major Flint was quite out of hu
mor; but in reply his remonstrances his
wife said:
"I warned yon. that I might not cook
to suit your taste."
'And to matters deteriorated rather
than improved. The tea and corlee pre
mi . -m
pared by his wife were nauseating to
him, while the bread was not only sour.
but hard and clammy, requiring: consul
erable effort to masticate it. And what
rendered it all the more exasperating
was that, no matter how inferior in qual
ity, or distasteful to himself his wife pro
fessed her inability to discover any fault
in what was prepared for the table, pro
testing that it just suited her taste.
The following day Major Flint seated
himself at the dinner-table, his mind
niiea witn various emotions. Me was
growing thin, he felt sure; not a decent
meal had he eaten for three days
This woman will be the death of me.
as sure as late, he said to himself, gaz
ing at tbe food placed before him.
Here was the rich, juicy steak that he
himself selected and sent from the mar
ket, after all his instructions as to how
it should be broiled, shockingly over
done in tact, almost burned to a crisp,
his wife, meantime, partaking of it with
great apparent relish.
"What a taste that woman must have?
he said to himself.
"I have made you an extra cup of tea,
to-day," said the lady opposite, handing
him the cup with his dessert.
Hitherto Mr. Flint had been very par
ticular in regard to his cup of tea at des
sert, insisting that it should be brought
to the table both strong and hot. Had
the tea been prepared to his taste, it
would have soothed his somewhat riot
ous emotions within; on the contrary, it
was miserably weak,quite lukewarm and
brackish. He took one sip at the tea,
and then set tbe cup down forcibly on
the table, bis face expressing his disgust.
Madam glanced np at him from under
her long eyelashes, sipping from her
cup industriously, that her facial
muscles might not betray tbe amuse
ment she felt. i
"I knew you would think the tea ex
cellent," she said.
This was too much. His rage and dis
gust fairly boiled over.
"Tea, madam, tea!" he roared. "You
call such abominable stuff tea, do you?
FiXcellent, is itf Excellent!
"Is it excellent," said madam, sweetly
taking him at his word and ignoring the
exclamation points utterly. "Mamma
taught me to make tea when ''
Major Flint bad stood fire for three
whole days, but' flesh and " blood could
endure it no longer. Not waiting to
hear more he bounded to his feet and
rushed into the hall. Here be seized
his hat in both hands, jammed it down
over his eyes, and started for the street.
Then, as if forgetful of . something, he
retraced his steps, and thrusting his
head in at tbe open door, he shouted
"Can you tell me where Mrs. Barns
went when she left here?"
"I think," said madam deliberatelv,
"if my memory serves marightly,"l
heard her speak of stopping with her
little girl at Mrs.Marsh's till she secured
a situation."
The major departed.
"I thought the tea would finish him,"
said Mrs. Flint, amusedly, watching
from the window ber husband's retreat
ing figure, the click of his boot heels
ringing like a bell as be brought his
feet down vigorously on the pavement,
the small boys eying him askance and
hastening out of his way, wondering if
he was racing for a wager.
It is, perhaps, needless to say that
before evening closed Mrs. Burns was
again installed at the Flint mansion.
"It is useless," said tho major, mourn
fully, that evening, in the solitude of
the apartment: "I might as well attempt
to move the large boulders on yonder
mountain top as to contend with that
woman, wife number two!"
And he never did. For whenever his
wife applied to him in regard to the
children or the domestic arrangements.
he would answer in the meekest man
ner: "My dear, do as you think best."
And Mrs. Flint owed her success to
the fact that she never trenched upon
her husband's real prerogatives, but 1
respectd them as she claimed respect
for her own.
"And that is how she managed him."
The Verse
Gray Crossed
From Ills
Take Gray's "Elegy" No one, not
even Mr. Gosse himself, admires this
noble poem more than we do. Yet its
great fault is lack of individual human
ity. Who is this "me" to whom, in com
pany with "Darkness," the homeward
plodding plowman "leaves the world ?"
The thoughts are fine, but is the thinker
a moralizing ghost among the tombstones
or is he a fleshy philosopher sitting upon
the churchyard wall? The poem rolls
on sonorously, and the reader's imagina
tion yearns for a stanza full of picture
and pathetic suggestion of individual
life full of those bewitching qualities,
in short, which are the characteristics of
all English poetry save that of the Au
gustan era. At last, however, the poet
does strike out a stanza of this kind, and
immediately it sheds a warmth and a
glow upon all that has gone before
vitalizes the whole, in short. Describ
ing the tomb of the hitherto shadowy
moralizer, Gray says:
There scattered oit. the earliest of the year.
By hands unseen are showers of violets found:
The rtdbraast loves to build and warble there.
Ana nine iooisteps sotuy print tne ground.
Now, at last, we see that the. moralizer
is not a spectre whose bones are marrow-
less and whose blood is cold, but man,
the homely creature that Homer and
Shakspeare loved to paint; a man with
friends to scatter violets over bis grave
and little children to come and mourn
by it; a man so tender, genial and good
that the very redbreasts loved him. And
having written this beautiful stanza,
having printed it in two editions, Gray
canceled it, and no doubt the eighteenth
century approved the omission. For
what are children and vioreta and robins
warbling round a grave campared with
"tbe muse s flame and "the ecstacy of
the "living lyre," and such elegant
things? London Athenaeum.
Sayings linpnted to Tallrraid.
Unbounded modesty is nothing more
thau unavowed vanity: the too humble
obeisance is sometimes a disguised im
pertinence. The reputation of a man is like lis
shadow, gigantic when it precedes him,
and pigmy in its proportion when it fol
lows.
More evil truths are discovered by the
corruption of the heart than by the pen
etration of the mind.
The rich man despises those who
flat
who the
who
ter him too much, and hates those
do not flatter him at all.
The imagination of men is often
refuge of their predjudices.
That sovereign has a little mind
seeks to go down to posterity by means
of great publio buildings. It is to con
fide to niasons and bricklayers the task
of writing history.
The love of glory can only create a
hero; the contempt of it creates a great
man.
The errors of great men and the good
deeds of reprobates should not be
reckoned in our estimates of their re
spective characters.
Theologians resemble dogs, which
gnaw large bones for the sake of a very
little meat.
Both erudition and agriculture ought
to be encouraged by gorernment; wit
and manufactures will come of them
selves. - ; '
Too much sensibility creates nnhappi-
ness; too much insensibility creates
crime.
H hat It Meant.
Snddenlv the merrv laughter and gen
eral happiness was blighted by a howl.
Not an ordinary howl that merely startles
the listener, but a long howl full of vary
ing cadence, shrill in the middle and
loud at both ends; at intervals its
symmetry was marred by a muffled
sound, as though the howl was clogged
in the month of the howler. Sometimes
it swelled to a shriek, and then it changed
to a yell of anger, and quivered away in
moans of pain, mingled with happy
shouts of joy that came from other voices.
And while every one wondered and all
the parents rushed thither and yon, look
ing for their darlings, and - calling their
dear ones by many an endearing name,
the procession came out of the woods
down by the creek ten or fifteen ' boys
yelling, shouting and dancing with
wicked glee, grimacing and mocking,
while in the midst ran George, doing the
anguish business perfectly, without any
make up for the part, all tears and wails,
genuine, with the' name blown in the
bottie. The boys had found a big Injun
turnip and had been tellin' George how
nice and juicy and sweet it was. And
George believed them. That was all. r
Hawkey e.
"Dennis Flynn, an ex-policeman of
Buffalo, is anxiously sought for but can
not be found," says an exchange. ' Den
nis evidently thinks he is still on the
force. Boston Post.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A honest man is the noblest pursuit of
woman.
"It really seems," says the Phila
delphia Bulletin, "as if Jay Gould's
reputation for veracity ought to be put
into the dock for extensive repairs before
any charges made by him shall be per
mitted to affect public men of good
character."
The spelling reformers are gradually
approaching unity. The "partial cor
rections" of the English Philological
Society are being adopted in this country,
and the English Spelling Reform Asso
ciation has adopted the American "five
rules," which are substantially contained
in the partial corrections.
"Is there anything the matter with
you?" said a physician to a person who
had sent for him. "Oil, dear, yes! I
am ill all over, but I don't know whet it
is, and I have no particular paio ro
where," was the reply. "Very, well," .
said the doctor; "I'll give you some
thing to take away all that." -
Pennsylvania is now the only State
which has persistently refused women
admittance to the bar. A lady in that
State has been trying for seven or eight -years
to gain such admittance, but the
court refuses to allow her to enter under
the existing statutes, and the Legisla
ture refuses to pass a new law.
Professor George Ebers complains that
no less than three of his novels have
been dramatized and put npon the stage
in various towns of Germany without his
consent. The German law on the sub
ject seems to be similar to that of Eng
land, but a petition to the Reichstag for
its amendment is now being circulated.
Over two thousand volumes from the
library of the late George Henry Lewes,
comprising philosophical and scientific
works, have been placed by his Bon,
Charles Lewes, in Dr. Williams library,
in Grafton street, where they will be
known as the "George Henry Lewes
library," and will be available to special
students.
The Athanceum is authority for the
statement that the Maine Historical Soci
ety has decided to publish a history of
that state. It is now fifty years since Wil
liamson's history was issued, and much
new material has been discovered in
recent days. One of the problems yet to
be solved is whether the Spaniards occu
pied that region between 1575 and 1588,
and a special search has been instituted
in the Spanish archives to clear up the
doubts ou this heat.
It is customary in some localities to
teach children to think of a text as they
drop their pieces of money into the con
tribution box. A certain little girl at
Sunday school recently saw the box ap
proaching and began to search in her
memory for a text. She hesitated for a
few moments, dropped the dime into the
box, and exclaimed triumphantly, "A
fool and his money are soon parted."
A band of Arizona Indians recently .
captured a wagon-load of patent medi
cines, taking contents of tbe bottles for a
new kind of drink. When they got
settled down again so they could collect
their thoughts and reason, they con
cluded that they bad made no error. It
was a new kind of drink ;gand if the -white
men of that region had got so they
could use that kind of beverage and like
it, there was no use for the Indians to
try to exterminate them. Boston Post
The Canadian shorthand writers are to
hold a convention in Toronto, August
29. Among tbe papers to be' read is one
by a woman, an expert in the occupa
tion. There will be an exhibition of
stenographic and type-writing appliances
and curiosities. During the last ten or
fifteen years shorthand writing has be
come a popular acquirement in Canada.
It is probable that it will be taught in the
public, schools before long. The several
conventions whioh meet in the Dominion
this year are important in their respec
tive spheres, and this one will not be the
least so.
Whooping Cough. On an extended
trial the author, Dr. Gaspar Griswold. of
this city, finds carbolic acid in whooping
cough, in doses of one-fourth minim to a
year, and one minim for one of two years
and upward, to be the best remedy.
"The whoop goes; the vomiting ce:tses;
the paroxysms are modified in intensity
and frequency." This result he believe
to "arise from a similar action to that oi
creosote on the motor fibres of the vagur
to the stomach and from a lowering ot
the vitality of the specific germ of
whooping cough disease." Scientific
American.
Apples as Food. A raw, mellow apple
is digested in an hour and a half, while
boiled cabbage requires fire hours. The
most healthy desert that can be placed
on a table is baked apple. If eaten fre
quently at breakfast with coarse bread
and butter, without meat or flesh of any .
kind, it has an admirable effect upon the
general system, often removing constipa
tion, correcting acidities, and cooling off
febrile conditions more effectually than
the most approved medicines. If fami
lies could be induced to substitute them
for pies, cakes and Bweatmeats, with
which children are frequently stuffed,
there would be a diminution in the total
sum of doctors' bills in a single year
sufficient to lay in a stock of this deli
cious fruit for the whole season's use.
Aotl-Slaug Phrases.
The Reform Club is the title of a new
organization by young ladies for the
purpose of discouraging the use of
"Blang phrases" in conversation. At a
meeting, while a member was addressing
the society, she inadvertently made use
of the expression "awful nice," and was
called to order by a sister member for
trangressing the rules. .
"In what way have I trangressed?"
asked the speaker, blushing deeply.
"You said it would be 'awful nice to
admit young gentlemen to our delibera
tions," replied the other. , ; , . ,
"Well, wouldn't it be?" replied the
speaker. "You know you said yourself
no longer ago than yesterday, that "
"Yes, I know; but you said 'awful
nice.' That's slang."
"WeU, said the speaker tartly, "if
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von are going to ue so swim nice aooui
it, perhaps it is; but I wouldn t say any
thing if I were yon. Diln't you tell
Sallie Spriggins this morning to pull
down her basque?"