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VOL.7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATUBDAY, JANUARY 13, 1883.
NO. 40.
iIJJUl JjJAJ
: Pit ACTIO AL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER,
OPTICIAN.
AND
ALL VCr.X YAnrAfJTED.
la T7cJit. Cl!is. Jewelry.
gpcsaia mm a ryfgiitiw,
And a Foil Line of
C;irs, Tcsccs as4 F&ssy Css.
' Th i cnljr reliable Optometer la town r tbe
tror r a,ue!nient tf spectacles ; always on band.
C:;;tcf ths Gssalas BrazHIaa PeitSe Spec
tacSes and Ey$g!asses.
?r!CK VJrst door south of it fice, Row
1vtv. Oregq. u ' -
TZtrh. 7. DAVIS, ,
DENTIST.
ROSEBUKS, OREGON.
ornra-os jackot rraKirr.
" , OPPOSITB THE P08TOFFICE.
tYIAHOflEY'S SAi-O -
Nearest to the' Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jum. Malioiioy, Prop'r.
The fined of wines, liquor and cigars h Df,
lu oounty, and the beat
BiLtXiiAiiD rrmrs
la the Rate kept ia proper repair:
Partie trarellng on the railroad win find lib
place very handy to Tiait daring the step
ping of the train at th Oak-
land, Depot. Giva me stall.
Jas. MAKONEY.
a. 1 1 . 1 .
JOHN FRASEn,
Home ".Made1 Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, EtCi
' Constantly on hand.
CIIDfllTIIRC I have the, best stock o
r Unit I I UrtC.. larnitnre south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglascounty are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
ST ALT i WORK WARRANTED.-!
DEPOT HOTEL-
OAKLAND,
oncuonr.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
nllia HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot yeae, ud has become very
popular with the traveling public. First-class
8LECPINO ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
.fords. lintel at the depot of the Mailroud.
W I A VINO ON AND A LARGE LOT OF FINE
JUL
Sp&nish , Merino
I offer the ame for aale, Cheap for Cash, at my
farm in Douglas county, six miles from Roeebur
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STAFJTOU,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand
ment of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOI, WILLOW AND WLASS1YARE,
ALSO
Crockery anil Cordage
A full stock of
KCHOOL
B O O K8
Such 83 required by the Public County Schools
All kind of STATIONERY. TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
B
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS ! fiSEEDS
IBS !
ALL K1!M)S (IF BBiT QUALHl
V II I. 015 DER
rromptly attended to and Gootla shipned
with care.
Add l oss.
Hacheney & Reno,
Portland. Oreeon
Hotlce,
m
Notice Is hereby given, to whom It .nay concern, that
th uuileniKiied has btn awarded the contract for
keeping tbe Douglas county Pauper for the period of
two years. All persona in need of asamfcinco trom -aid
county must first procure a cettiflcnte to that effect
from aor member of the County Board, and present it
to ous of the following named persons, who are author
iMd to, and will care for thoe presenting such certiHcat
W. L. Button, Roseburg; L.L. Keltarg, Oakland; Mrs
Wrown, Looking Glass. Dr. Scroggs is authorized to
tarn ion medical aid to all persons in need of the same
bo have been declared paupers of Douglas county.
WM. B. CLARKE, Supt. of Poor.
finsjuCM,, Or.. Feb. 15. 1880
Lord Al van lev had been dining on
one occasion with Mr. Greville, .whose
dining-room had been newly and splen
didly decorated. The meal was, how
ever, a very nSecgre and indifferent one.
Snrre of the guests were flattering their
host upon his magnificence, taste and
hospitality. "For my own part inter
posed Alvanley, "I would rather have
pean less gilding and more carving.
LTEbr mm stooiary.
UY TELEOBAPU TO BATS.
Wallaoe Ross will rw Hanlan at Win
nipeg, if the iudncements of last year are
renamed.
Tbe Ban Pedro, a sister ship to the
Tacoma intended for the Oregon trade,
sailed from Philadelphia on the 3d.
The Keoktik., Iowa, elevator burned on
the night of Jaa. 4th. It coat $110,000
new and had extensive repairs; insurance,
$30,000.
Two construction- trains collided at
Sumner, CaL, on the 3d, killing one
Chinaman and wounding several others.
Two flat cars and one caboose were de
stroyed. Well known New York capitalists nave
subscribed $50,000,000 to build a railway
from New York to Hartford, to afford
New England a road to connect with the
metropolis.
The export of flour from ban Francisco
during the past year amounts to 1,000,000
barrels, valued tt $5,000,000. This is
the largest export of flour kown in the
history of the state.
. A circular has been issued by the Cen
tral Pacific railroad stating that erders
or emigrant tickets from Havre to San
Francisco, with fare for through trip at
$65, will be furnished on application.
A. J. Decker agent of the agricultural
department, says Kansas is specially
adapted to raising sorghum, and that
with improvements in manufacture it
promises to be one of the large uugar
growing states. . " ?
A Berlin dispatch to the New York
Herald says: In well imformed circles a
story is now circulating to the effect that
Emperor Wilhelm, on the 22J.of if arch,
which is his both birthday, will abdicate
in favor of the crown prince.
Suit has been commenced by the ad
ministrators of the estate of Cephas M.
Woodruff against the New Jersey Central
railroad company to recover $100,000
damages. Woodruff was killed in the
Parker Creek calamity last summer.
The Springfield, Ills., iron works, will
stop making steel rails and convert the
mill into one oi the largest in the coun
try for heavy plates and other commercial
iron and steel. It will cost three-quar
ters of a million to make the change.
Three colored laboreis on the Central
railway extension, near Winchester, Va.,
pnt wet dynamite on the stove to dry on
the 3d inst. It exploded and two of them
were blown to atoms. ue third was
seriously injured and the house com
pletely demolished.
D. C. Dudley, Yice president of the
Calumet Iron and Steel Cornmnv of Chi
cago, says those mills Vill close January
15th for a month or six weeks on account
of the low piice of naijs. About 20,000
men will be thrown out of employment
on account of this action
Rev. Titus Coan died
at
Hiio, Sand-
wich islands, onDecember
2. aged 82.
Dr. Coan was a veteran, widely known as
a member of the American missionary
board, and had been known for years as
an apostle of the Sandwich islands, hav
mg been there for over 50 years and
weilded a great influence with the peo
pie. 1
Geo. P. McConkey was found dead at
Hamilton, Nevada, on New Year's night.
At first it was supposed he had taken his
own life, but subsequent investigation
tends to prove that the killing was a cun
ningly planned murder, with circum
stances manufactured for the occasion to
make it seem like suicide.
While he northern bound passenger
train wasnearing C.uiente, Cal., on the
4th inst., Smith, the Los Angeles Mor
mon under life sentence for the murder
of his son, attempted to escape by jump
incr from tue tram, tte leu in such a
way that the train passed over one leg,
severing it from his body.
Little Thunder and Cading Feathers,
Chippewa chiefs, were in Cliicayo on
Jan. 4th, en route to Washington for the
purpose of making a trade with the gov
ernment whereby they can obtain a res
ervation at Red Lake and certain agricul
tnral implements and utensils necessary
for a civilized Christian life, such as they
are living. Hitherto tiny have bad little
encouragement from the government
They are accompanied by Fathor Ignatius
to Massena. a missionary. Some 1200 of
them occupy the reservation.
A Enoxville, Ills., dispatch of Jan. 4th
says: St. Marv's Episcopal school for
young ladies at this place, was burned to
the ground this morning Most oi uie
hundred scholars were asleep when the
flames were discovered and had barely
time to escape when the alarm was given,
leaving their wardrobes and property.
Many escaped by ladders. Miss Gillette,
of Buffalo, Ills., broke a kg. Miss Has
ford, of Dubuque, was seriously injured
by falling from a ladder. IS. A. lieight-
ing. a firemen, also fell and was lDiured
No orhers were injured and no loss oi
life, though at one time it seemed inevi
table. The building was an imposing
three-story brick, handsomely furnished
The students were mostly from Illinois.
Loss on building about 825,000, fully in
sured; loss to ladies, in property, about
os ranch. The building will be rebuilt
soon and in tbe rx.eantime temporarv ac
commodations for the school will be
used.
A San Francisco dispatch of Jan. 4th
says: Since the defalcation of M. P. Kay,
& muting cierx oi Aiameaa county, was
made public, bogus warrants agsrenating
$15,000 have been discovered. It appears
that the knowledge of the false entries
was the result of the merest accident, but
for which the fraud would perhaps have
never come to light. Among those bold
inpr warrants was the Oakland bank of
savings, which dicouuted them when
there was no funds in the county : treas
ury. At the end of each month a state
ment of the warrants in its possession
was sent to the treasurer's office. The
clerk made the mis'jtke of numbering two
of the warrants, so that warrant No. 2299
appeared on the bank's list as drawing
$160. while the treasurer s list showed it
to have been presented for $3 20. No
trace of the miasms? man is yet found.
Of late he has been dabbling considerably
in StoCKS ana irequenuy visueu iaru
games, and almost all of his spare time
was spent with fast women. He has a
beautiful and accomplished wife who
was obliged to leave Lira on account of
his wild career.
t at . e
Edwin Booth Ifts arrived in Berlin and
will probably accept an engagement.
The son of General Eavanantrh. cf
Lucknow fame, waa arrested in Qnebeo
on the 5th inst., for forgery.
On Jan. 4th the Marquis of Lorn 9 and
Princess Louise witnessed an exhibition
of horsemanship given for their amuse
ment at Santa Barbara by a number of
native Oalifornians, and seemed much
interested in the affair. Their star in
Santa Barbara has been prolonged be-
yond the time they had first concluded
upon. ' -
A clerk named Trotter, in the emrjlov
of - Riddle & Evans, of Montreal, ab
sconded with about $50,000 belonging to
the firm. He went to the Cape of Good
Hope and there entered a firm as book
keeper. In a few years he became a ju
nior partner and remitted the amount
of his defalcation to a lawyer to pay over
to nis iozmer emniovers. The monev
as lodged in court, pending litigation
between the dissolved partners and is
now claimed by Trotter's firm, he having
oeen convicted of forgery and sentenced
to seven years imprisonment. He robbed
bis partners and the banks of Cape Good
Jtiope ox JEla.uuo.
Considerable - apprehension is enter
tained of the condition of E. J. Baldwin
who waa shot in San Francisco on the
4th. Several attempts have been made
to find the bullet, but without success.
The nature of the wound will prevent
any further search being made for at
least two weeks. Owing to the fact that
fragments of the shirt clung to the bul
let and pas led into the flesh, inflamma
tion has set in, and it is feared that blood
poisoning may eventually follow. Every
thing will be done to alleviate the suffer
ing of the patient, which is said to be
very acute. Since the shooting he has
been exceedingly restless and unable to
sleep, except occasionally during the
morning and afternoon.
On Jan. 4th a young man named Pain
ter, employed by Mr. Nelson Tn Dry
Creek, Walla Walla county, W. T., called
at the residenoe of Thomas Woods to take
his daughter to a party in the vxinity.
The young lady refused to accompany
him. Painter drew his pistol and fired
it in the air. This act made her brother
angry and he gave chase to Painter, but
the latter being in a buggy escaped.
Woods then returned home, saddled a
horse, took a shotgun along and finally
overtook Painter. Words ensued and
bpth parties drew their weapons. Pain
ter's story is that he called on Woods to
drop his gun and he would his pistol, as
they were strangers, and they would fight
it out with their fists. The other followed
Painter .up, and in the scuffle that ensued
the gun went off and the charge of bird
shot went through Woods' arm, and he
soon died from loss of blood. '
One of the objects of ex-President
Grant's visit to Washington at the pres
ent time is said to be the advocacy of the
Nicaragua canal bill. General Grant is
one of the incorporators of the Nicaragua
company. If fche bill granting a charter
and guaranteeing the bonds of this com
pany is passed, General Grant would in
all probability be invited to become its
"president. The friends of the canal pro
ject are growing very anxious, and fear
me prospect oi passing tne Dili this ses
sion is waning. It is said that the intiu
ence of all the Pacific railroads exoeot
the Northern Pacific is being exerted to
defeat the bill, and in addition to these
obstacles DeLesseps is reported to have
retained several influential persons to
oppose the Nicaragua scheme. It is ar
ranged to call up the canal bill in the
house one week from next Monday, and
try to get a vote upon it under motion to
suspend rules. Some idea of tho strength
of the measure can then be found. .
The recent terrible confession of Mr3
Emma Stillwell, of Waterford, Ohio, that
she murdered her first husband, Beni.
Swigart, and also an innocent stranger
and her 14 mont s old child, is now sup
plemented by another confession in which
she admits of having killed her own
mother, and tells how her father met his
death in a tragic manner. Waterford is
a small hamlet of no more than a dozen
nouses, located in the northwest corner
of Knox county, seven miles from the
nearest telegraph station. Her last con
fession wa3 revealed to Dr. W. E. Ed
wards, a reputable physician and local
preacher who visited the Stillwell house
professionally as ' medical and spiritual
adviser. Dr. Edwards spent the day with
Mrs. Stillwell, and gaming her confi
dence, she reiterated her tale of crimes
and professed sincere penitence. Her
spiritual adviser informed her there was
no hope for forgiveness unless she fully
and freely confessed her sins, and asked
her if there was any other wicked offense
pressing upon her mind. The distressed
woman buried her lace beneath the
clothes and seemed convulsed in ansruish.
looking up presently, her face assumed a
calm expression, and she replied, "Yes,
there are two more dark crimes, but no
body will ever know them." Sue findSly
yielded to his persuasive powers and ad
mitted she murdered her own mother and
probably her fathar. Her mother, Mrs
Susan Svnder. while on her way to visit
her daughter at Ottumwa, Iowa, was in
jured in a railroad accident, one was
taken to her daughter s nome, wnere iour
month later she died, as was supposed,
frrm her mmries. Mrs. bull well now
declares her mother was terribly disfig
u red. and kept upbraiding her for their
former crimes, and een threatened to
make a confession before her death. Mrs
Stillwell's repugnance for th9 unsightly
appearance of the old woman, together
with fears of exposure, led her to commit
while her husband was absent, she stran
gled and smothered her motherto deata.
In regard to her father's fate she would
give no details, other than that he met
his death by having his throat cut, but
in what manner or by whom she refused
to tell. 'Local chronicles at Marysville,
jmo., say 4i e was supposed to have gone
to California, and was lost sight of by his
m " -a a
iamiiy, out it is now believed he was
murdered by Mrs. Synder, - who was then
Mrs. Hoard, in the manuer indicated by
L Mrs Stillwell. Dr. Edwards, who is a
physiciati in good etanding, after making
a careful examination as to Mrs, stillwell s
mental condition, savs there, is no evi
dence cr trace of insanity in her case, and
believes the confessions were made in
I view of her near approach to death.
The Babj'a Eaniu
"NcC said the engineer, as he closed
one valve and opened another, "I. wasn't
always an engineer. I wasn't anything
for a long time. I had the knowledge in
my head all the while it was lost under
a heap of rubbish. What fools raea era
when they're left to themselves some
times! Now, lorok at me. Would you say
I was ever a tramp?"
A tramp! His white, muscular throat
white and wholesome under the coal
dust his strong, well-knitted frame,
clear eye, and firm hand denoted a man
of pluck and courage a practical
worker; not the idle, nerveless, relaxed
object which is denominated a tramp,
and which is a blight on the face ofna
ture. No; this man, guiding the good
engine Mohawk, was never a tramp, and
we told him so.
"But I was, gentlemen," he said,
coolly, sighting a long stretch of road
over the backbone of his engine, and let
ting her out a little for a dead-level heat.
"I was not only a tramp, but the meanest
kind of one, and I worked harder and
suffered more to get into that condition
than I ever did to reach this," and he
looked proudly at the polished trim
mings of his flying steed.
"1 11 tell vou how it was," he said at
last, as he showed up round a curve and
then went easily past the fields clad in
their summer, verdure past woods
that were panoramic in a flash of beauty
and away into the open country. "I was
a tramp no matter how I came to be, or
why, I lost home, friends, self-respect
and all that makes manhood but I
didn't wear a rod ribbon aryny watch
chain then, and my brain was muddled
there were many more like me and I
went from bad to worse, but I had never
broken the laws, wronged anyone but
myself, when I fell. in with some fellows,
who thought they had found a tool, and
they had. They say every man has his
price, and they offered me mine; it was
the price of my soul, to?, and I agreed to
take the money and do the work.
"it was this to sneak around and get
acquainted with the inside of a house
the house of the richest man in the
place, and to show them the way; they
said I looked the most respectable for
the purpose. Gentlemen, yea wouldn't
have trusted one of the gang with a ten
cent bit, least of me as I looked then,
but I felt almost proud of the compli
ment, and that afternoon I was to go up
to the house to look for work or t6 ask
for food, just as it happened to strike me
when there was no one home but the
women folks, and look around to see
how we would get in that night for rob
bing, .and perhaps murder was what
they meant.
"It was just such a pleasant, peaceful
afternoon as this, and all the doors and
windows open and not a soul saw me as
I lounged in through the garden and up
to the veranda. The gang 1 had fallen
in with had made one mistake they had
kept me sober " for the work, not cloar-
headed, but sober enough to make me
feel that I was doing a mean, dastardly
trick, to make me for the first time
in many a day ashamed of my own
company. But I'd gone so far I
must go on. I had walked up the steps
and into the house without seeing a soul,
and I stepped into a long, cool room, and
there 1 saw on the mantel, m a great gold
framed glass, a white face -and two red,
blood-shot eyes my own1; but wat a
fright they gave me; and then I saw
something else, a small iron bank, such
as children keep pennies in. It was
made of latticed bars of wrought iron.
and between every bar was the gleam of
quarters and half dollars, and smaller
gold coin. I hadn't a penny to my name.
I was hungry, tired, footsore, and dis
gusted with what I had undertaken. It
came over me like a flash that I could
take this money and get out of the gang;
it would be a dishonesty, but not such as
this they - had planned. I reached out
my hand and stopped. There at my very
feet, on a white lace pillow, and all
white and fluffy like an angel lay the
loveliest baby I ever saw in all my life!
She was asleep, but as I looked at her
in startled wonder, she opened her eyes
as wide and as bright as daisies, held up
both pretty hands, laughed like a bird
6inging, and said "Joe, Joe," which
wasn t my name at all. I didn t touch
the baby's hand, and I didn't touch the
baby. While I stood there a little pale
woman came out of her room and nearlv
fainted when she saw me, and I sat down
there and told the whole story, and
asked her to have me sent to jail for pro
tection for myself end others; she sent
for her husband, and all the time we
were talking the baby laughed and
cootd. and called me by the name she
gave me, "Joe, and the rest of the gang
were waiting at the turn of the road for
me to come back to them.
"I didn't give them up it wasn't worth
while, when I had to put ' the people
they had designed on their guard, and
left the town that night; I didn't goto
jail; the man whose house was to be rob
bed gave me some wore, but 1 didn t re
form all in a minute, and he never could
have reformed me at all it was tbe baby
that did it. She trusted me: when I
felt the old boy getting the better of me
I went to the baby and she smiled at me,
and I grew strong right off it made a
man of me. I never could tell what that
baby saw id my. face to make her help
mem that way, but it wasn t of this
world. She knew she could save me,
and she did it. That was ten years ago,
gdntlemen, and I am more of a man than
I ever was, and it's her doing."
She must be quite a large girl now,"
we said, inquiringly.
"Maybe so I 1 don t know how that is;
some folks say they don't reckon them hy
months and years ! I'd like to feel she's
the same sweet smiling baby, holding
out her hands in that confiding way and
call me that same name--but I never
wanted anyone else to use the name
since - she said it t ie last time.
She was going to sleep never to
wake up, the doctor said; they told
me she wouldn't know me, that I
would disturb her. I went in on my
knees, I crawled up to the bed and
looked at her;' dear saint, she was white
as the sheets, and her pretty curls never
stirred a hair, and her sweet eyes closed,
and I groaned in my heart, for I thought
she was gone, and then she opened her
oyes and there came a great struggle for
breath, and oh, my God, I'd have died to
help her, and she looked at me and put
one hand up I fancied the
pointed up there and she smiled
on me, and says she, all at ' once,
Joe! Joe!' and then she made her mother
understand that she wanted something.
It was the little bank and she wanted
me to have . it. I took it to
humor her, and thought I'd give
it back to her when she got well.
And then she smiled again when I list
ened to near her say,
ws still. You see I
Joef-and all
never would go
wrong now; but how did she know about
that little bank and my wicked thoughts?
Andt she forgave me and loved me, too,
pretty dear. The smoke makes me cry.
There's our depot at the next station,
and we're running on schedule time, as
yen see, gentlemen."
; Woman's Pdwer,-";---'--?"
The mother's solicitude, the wife's
patience and anxiety, tbe sister's love,
have proved in nine cases out of ten the r
strong cord that pulled at the heart of
the wanderer, till son, or husband, or
brother could no longer bear the strain
and loosened it by coming nearer and
nearer home. Some woman's hand holdi
the key, unconsciously and carelessly
perhaps, but holds it to almost every
man's heart, and the closed doors will be
unbarred to her, and yield to her toach,
when uo other power will stir them on
their rusty hinges. Let any woman who
finds herself thus inside beware how she
works ! In clearing out the darkened
chambers so that God's light can enter,
let her work with such skillful touches
of prayer and tenderness as shall do
something better than, stir, like an
unskillful servant, all the dust, only to
see it settle thicker in another place. It
is no light work, this leading of human
souls, and any woman who undertakes it
needs to ! bring to it all there is of her.
She will need her knowledge of God, and
perhaps never discover how little she
possesses till she tries to open it for an
other soul to measure her treasure. She
will need her knowledge of people, her
discrimination of character, her intuitive
discernment of mental conditions, and
her sympathetic perception of feeling.
All the brihghtest and best that she can
command is not too good nor too fair to
be used in the saving of what is best and
fairest in others.
An Old -Welch lustom.
So late as the seventeenth century it
was customary in some parts of Ireland
for the bridegroom's friends to receive
those of the bride with a shower of darts
curefnlly directed so as to fall harmless,
and Lord Kaimes, who died in 1782, de
poses that the marriage observances of
the Welsh of the day were significantly
symbolical of marriage by capture; the
respective friends of tbe bride and groom
meeting on horse back, the former re
fusing to deliver the lady on demand,
and bringing about a sham conflict, dur
ing which the nearest kinsman of the
bride, behind whom she is mounted,
galloped away, to be pursued by the op
posite party, until men and horse had
had enough of it, when the bridegroom
was permitted to overtake the pretended
fugitive and beailher off in triumph. The
Berricors of France are the only Euro
pean people among whom . the form of
capture still survives. Upon the day of
a wedding the doors of the bride's house
are closed a nd barricaded, the windows
barred and her friends mustered within.
Presently the bridegroom's party comes,
asking entrance upon one false pretence
after another. Finding speech of no
avail, they endeavor to eorce . an en
trance, with no better fortune. Then
comes a parley; the beseigers proclaim
that they bring the lady a husband, and
are admitted within d-jors, to fight for
the possession of the heart, win it, and
the bride with it; the couple being forth
with united in the orthodox fashion.
Thurlow Weed and His Sweetheart.
" When I was working in Coopers
town," Mr. Weed said, "I and two other
young fellows were arrested for insulting
some girls while going home from meet
ing, I was never more innocent of any
thing in my life, but I had no friends
and was threatened with jail. Suddenly
a' man whom I did not know stepped for
ward and gave bail for me, and a lawyer
whom I had barely seen offered to serve
me as counsel. My trial came on, and
the girls completely exonerated me from
having had anything to do with it. A
year or two after this I fell in love with
Catharine Ostrander, of Coopers town.
and married her, and a better wife no
man ever had. It was ten years before I
found out how I had been defended
Meeting the lawyer in Albany I asked
him. 'Why,' said he, it was Catharine
Ostrander's work.' She had felt rather
shy and had not told me in all that time.
But the next year that lawyer was sur
prised bv being nominated and elected
attorney-general of the State. Not alto
gether because he had interceded for me
he was just the man for the place.
very rarely had a man elected or ap
pointed to office for reasons personal to
myself." Rochester Democrat.
Persistent Love.
"With all thy false 1 love thee still,
said the newly married man to his spouse
when viewing the mysteries of her, toilet:
I lonkers Gazette.
"With all thy faults I love thee still,
said the owner of a whiskey still.
Whitehall Times.
"With all thy faults I love thee still,
remarked the man who was related to a
garrulous woman. f Baltimore Every
Saturday.
"With all thy vaults! love thee still,"
said a wife to a leaping acrobat. Dra
matic World.
She Loved Whist. Chambers' Jour
nal: The wife of Bishop Beadoa loved
whist so well, that wheu the prelate told
one of his clergy if he was able to sit up
half the night playing whist at the bath
rooms, he must be able to do duty at
home, the invalid at once silenced him
with, 'My Lord, Mrs. Beadon would
tell you that late whist acts as a tonic or
restorative to dyspeptic people with weakn
nerves." i The bishop's better half would 1
have sympathized with Goldsmith's old
lady', who, lving sick unto death, played
cards with the curate to pass the time
away, and, after winning all his money,
had just proposed to play for her funeral
charges, when she expired.
A DiCGElTIK OF THE 00DS.
The first time I saw her and I never
saw her bnt twic6 there was nothing
visible but a slat sun-bonnet and a pair
of red, angular elbows keeping time to a
monotonous chant: -
Ms-ry and Uarthy served the Lawd,
Ha-ry and Harthy served the Lawd,
lia ry and Marthy serred the Lawd,
And I kia aerre blm tew." ;
This was followed by a vigorous rub
bing, the slat sun-bonnet flapping and
the elbows flying on a home-made,
rickety pine wash-board for she was
washing, standing on a bench, and lean
ing over so far into the hot, steaming
water, that there was danger of her
osihg her balance and drowning. The
sound of the rubbing and splashing and
her own Toice had prevented her hear-
in my approach, and she jumped like a
rightened partridge and looked at me
with a frightened stare when I addressed
oar.
"Don't be alarmed, little one," I said.
!I have only lost my way, and stopped
to ask you where the hotel is."
She wrung the water out of her lean.
red hands, pushed back her sun-bonnet,
and stepped off the bench. .
"Dew you live at the tavern?" she
asked, putting her brown head over on
one shoulder, like a bird, and looking at
me with bright, inquisitive eyes. ;
"les: what a shame to let such a
child as you wash; you ought to be play
ing with dolls yet, 1 remarked indig
nantly. J
She looked -at me covertly, from under
the lashes of her soft, shy eyes, as if
wondering if I would do her a harm,
drew her small form up, proudly, and
pointed to the mountain.
"Keep rite on np: tha s yoh place: go
wha the road turns, and yew'll site the
tavern."
She buried her head in the tnb, and
resumed her chanting:
"Ma-ry and Uardby served the Lord"
When I was half-wav ud the mount
ain side, I turned Jand saw her standing
bare-headed, in the sun, looking after
me; but she was gone like a squirrel
when she saw me watching her. :
The next time I saw her was when I
was looking for a particular species of
beetles I am fond of bugs and worms
and being caught in a storm, sought
shelter in the next cabin, which was
hers. -She did not open the door until I
bad knocked and pounded a number of
times.
An' it's yew," was her laconic greet
ing, as she swnng the old boards that
served as a door, and reluctantly ad
mitted me.
There was a fire on the stone hearth;
there was a very old man asleep in a
chair, and a great brindled cat, with
green eyes, arched itself at his side. The
room was a clean, warm, bright place,
that was more picturesque than anything
I had seen in the dreary place called the
Pocket country, which lies ' between
Kentucky and Virginia, and where fate
had cast me for a few lonely weeks. I
looked every moment for some woman to
make her appearance; yet it would be
hard to tell where she would come from,
unless she had been in the loft above.
There was a curtain hung across a small
division of the cabin.but concealed noth
ing. Do you keep this house alone? I
asked.
"With feyther and gran'feyther," said
the child, an' an' Kedsie." J
"Oh, your brother.
She nodded her answer; I sat on the
bench, and dried myself in the firelight;
the old man roused himself-and looked
curiously at me with red ferret-like eyes,
that had no lashes to their red lids, the
little girl whispered to him, and he went
to sleep again.
"How old are you?" I asked when we
had talked a little, and she was not
much afraid of me. .
SO
"What do you think?" she asked in her
quaint way.
I looked at her small, childish figure,
and guessed "ten.
She laughed a little, and shook her
small head.
I remarked the sharp-curved chin and
ventured "fifteen."
"Try again."
She threw back her sun-burned hair,
and looked full into mine with her
bright restless eyes.
"Seventeen," for I caught the glimpse
of a woman's nature in their clearest
depth. -
"Yoh all out," she sighed as she
spoke.
"I believe you are fifty," I remarked
sharply, there was such a change in each
movement of the little woman.
"Y'ime twenty," she . replied in her
childish voice.
I think if she had said one hundred, I
would not have been surprised, sne was
so weirdly quaint and old. 1 As we were
sitting about, she watching everv move
ment I made, there was a great clatter
ing at the door, and she flew with that
swift motion of hers to open it. There
was a loud, angry voice, which she at
once answered, in her soft tones, and
then a man stumbled into the room, and,
without noticing me, threw himself on
the little bed and snored instantly an
ugly, unkempt, drunken man, shabbily
garbed, and forbidding looking.
"It's fejther," she sighed, "he's
tooken agen; it's the mountin' agbo he's
got. an' it takes holt rite sharp, so's
he cannot do a stroke of work. Poor
feyther."
"And the old man?" I queried, point
ing to the slumbering figure in the chair.
"Gran'feyther; he's a comfort to me,
mostly; he hasn t the agoo, you see.
"Do you take care of these" these
dreadful people, I had nearly said, but
checked myself your father and grand
father?" :
"ies, and Kedsie; wait till yoh see
Kedsie!"
The nrst happy look l nad seen came
into her eyes. She was listening, a step
was at tue uoor, wnicn opened, and , a
young, fresh, lair-looking man came
softly in. He was rather neatly dressed,
but one look at his long, smooth chin
and open mouth told the story he was
witless. j
cm tue giri s i ace origuienea into a
sunny smile; she reached on tipkte to
j kiss the pale, flabby cheek of her brother
i and she opened the folded fingers of one
nerveless band to see what he had there
; it was a little field mouse, the life
! crushed but by the tension of the Jong
nngers that had imprisoned it.
"You killed it, Kedsie," said the girl,
sadly. "Look yeah how its eyes wimple ;
tha's tears in 'em."
The foolish boy langhed; then he
drew a pretty green lizard from his
pocket and held it with his thumb and
finger, its long, narrow, green head un
dulating like a snake; he made a sound
that resembled the chattering of a
monkey ; and it was evident that he knew
no power of speech.
"it s wuth money "said the girl, look
ing at it criticallv. "Yon,ean dicker for
it at the tavejrn."
The sun came out and I rose to go; the
cat followed me to the door; the old
gran'feyther rose feebly and tottered out
to look at the weather; the drunken man
snored; the little child woman leaned
against her foolish brother in the door
way and patted one soft leaden hand
which she held in hers; I was never one
to say a graceful or pretty thing when I
should, and I blurted out abruptly to
the girl:
"Do you help them all?" :
She drew herself up on tiptoe and
looked up lovingly into the foolish, im
becile face.
"Na," she said in a loving voice, "tha
help mev?
1 did the next worst thing I could
have done took out a silver half dollar;
fortunately I saw that tbe little mountain
washerwoman was a princess in disguiae,
and I asked humbly: .
"May I buy the ljzard?"
I took the reptile home with me in a
piece or broken cup: l have the
bit of delf yet to remind me of the 1
ittlo unselfishy being whose history.
known in all the docket country, is
the saddest I ever beard. The last I
ever saw of her she stood in the rough
doorway, regarding with a look of rapt
devotion her imbecile brother, while the
old man leaned on his hickory staff be
side her, the cat purred trustingly at her
eet, and in the back room a horror of
death awaited her. So small, so r trust
ing, unconscious of. any labor of love t)
commend her to the notice of angels, I
saw as in a dream, that small statnre
growing to heavenly hights.
"A daughter of the gods divinely tall
And most dlrineiy ftlV
The Ue of Tobacco.
This old-fashioned subject is noted in
late number of the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, as having beeu
biought to its attention by a very sen
sible article on the physiological effects
of tobacco in the London Lancet,
of November fourth. In the use of to
bacco the three main points to be con
sidered are, according to the Lan
cet, the local effect of the ' oily
vapor from the burning leaves, the im-;
mediate effects, and the secondary
effects. There can be no qutstion that
smoking produces an important local
effect on the mucous membrane of the
lips, mouth, tongue, fauces, larnyx, etc.
The immediate effect may be stimulat
ing, sedative or narcotic, according to
the quantity of nicotine actually in
troduced into the system and the idio-
syncracies of the smoker. - The second
ary effects are not cumulative, but
gradually affect' the system. A man may
exhaust the strength of his nervous sys- -
tern, and lower its tone, or be . may im
pair his digestion by habitual excess in
smoking, but these results are in no way
cumulative. A young man should not
smoke before his majority, and it would
be well to wait till the age of 20, or the
extreme limit of development. The
dangers to be avoided are: Irritation of
tbe mucous membrane of the mouth and
fauces loss of salivary secretion and
super-exciteriient of the nerves and,
nerve centers. Cigars are better than
pipes, and far better than cigarettes, but
not more than two-thirds of, a cigar
should be smoked, the last third con
taining the poisonous oil, which will be
given off in smoke. The smoke should
be taken into the front of the mouth and.
ejected as rapidW as possible.
The tobacco chewer is not referred to
in this article of the Lancet: he is, we
fear, says, the Journal, "indigenous to
our own country, a prodnct of American
soil. We have occasionally seen some
old man who enjoyed a harmless quid'
was the happier for t, and his neighbors
none the worse, but the average Ameri
can chewer, with hydra-mouth, who
penetrates into every phase and aspect of
public life, is a national disgrace. As
great as this evil still is, however, we
believe that it has already lessened, and
will continue to grow less as social re
finement becomes "more widespread.
Our greatest danger now seems to be .
from the excess of cigarette smoking. .
The number of young men who smoke
cigarettes is startling. It is not only.
students, but even schoolboys m their
teens, who vigorously and openly in
dulge in this dangerous habit. A little
cigarette, - filled with mild tobacco,
which lasts for' only a few minutes, ap
pears harmless enough. But the very
ease with which these bits of paper can .
be lighted and smoked adds considerably
to the tendency to indulge to excess.
Then, too, young men and boys with
vigorous and partly formed bodies
do not feel the bad effects of tobacco,
which, nevertheless, will eventually tell
on the vitality of the nervous system,
and, feeling no immediate bad effects, .
smoke on ad infinitum. , One of the per
nicious fashions connected with cigarette
smoking is "inhaling." The ideal cigar- v
ette smoker is never so happy as when
he inhales the smoke, holds it in his air
passages for some time, and then blows
it Out in a volume through nose and
month. If he realizes the -force of the
statement of the Lancet, that "the
smoker who draws the greatest' amount
of smoke, and keeps it in contact with
the lining jnembrane of the air-passages ;
undoubtedly takes the largest dose of tbe
oil," he might at least endeavor to
modify his smoking in this respect. The
dangers, then which are incident to
cigarette smoking are, first, the early
stage at which it is taken np; second,
the liability to excess; end4 : third, the
bad custom of inhaling the smoke These
are dangers superadded to thosa attend
ant on the ordinary use of tobacco and
should be carefully considered by all
medical men. -
Mechanic (to ploughboy) "Well, my
lad, how much ft ) you earn a week?"
Ploughboy "fdnnno what I earns, but
I know what I gets."
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