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mm THir INDEPENDENT IS ISSUED THE INDEPENDENT HAS TUB FINEST JOB OFFICE IS DOUGLAS COUNTY. , m TP Saturday RXorxslntrs, BY THE CCUQLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. i h ii n tilATO, MIJjJj MKAVS, liJZUAJLt JUjAJVAIS And other printing, Incladiuj ' Large and Heavy Posters and .Showy Hand-B'.lls, ; Neatly and expeditiously executed ' A.T POUTLAND XItlC?T3Q. sS 0 Oil Y6Art)(MMItHMHMlMIN(MWHtMMHMMM$ SI 50 fct K Ktanths 00 Thire Atom t... 1 o Tl we r tie term for those paving in adf ance. The ImEfFxiKrT offer Una inducements to ftd veiters. Terms reasonable. , VOL. VIII. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 14. 1883. NO. 1. r hY h ml Ml PRACTICAL ' WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND OPTICIAN. ALL WORK WARRANTED. DesJsr fa Watches. Clocks. Jewelry. Spcctselrs and Ey-s;tss, And a Pull Line of Clgirs, Tobaccos and Fancy Goods. Tbe only reliable Optometer In town for tbe proper adjustment cf Ppecmcle ; always on hand. Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec tacles and Eyeglasses. OFFICE first door sou lb of poet office, Rose bant Oregon DR. M. W. DAVIS, DENTIST, ROSEBURG, OREGON. ' OFFICE OS JACKSON STREET, Up Stairs, over 8. Msrks & Co.'s New Store. HAHOr.EY'S SALO O W Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland Jas. Mahouoy, Prop'r. Ths finest of wines, liquors and cfgaWia Dovf Iascountj, and the best niLlL,IAllD TABLH in the State kept in proper repair: forties traveling on the railroad win find this place rerj hand to visit daring the stop ping of the train at the Oak land Depot. Give me aoalL ' ' JOHN FRASER, Home . Made .to WILBUR, OREGON. Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc., Constantly on, hand. PIlRHITIIRfT 1 bve the best stock of rUIIllllUrib. lurniture sou tb of Portland And all of my own manufacture. No two Prices to Customers Residents of Douglas county are requested to rjire me a call before purchasing elsewhere. IS?-ALL WORK WARRANTED.- DEPOT HOTEL OAKLAND, . - OREliOlf. Richard Thomas, Prop'r. rpHI3 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED for a number ot years, and has become very popekrwith the traveling public? First-clsss - SLEfePINQ ACCOMMODATIONS, k And the table supplied with the best the market affords. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad. H A VINO ON HAND A LARGE LOT OF FINE Spanish Merino I offer the sunaA for sa'o, Chea for Cash, at my Farm la Douglas county, six miles from Roseburg HENRY CONK, Sr. H. G. STAfJTON, Dealer in Staple Dry Coods I Keeps constantly on hand , ment of a general assort- EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASS WAKF, ALSO. Crockery anil Cordage A full stock of SCHOOL BOO 18 Such as required by the PirMic County Schools, All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and FANCY ARTICLES, To suit both Young and 01J. BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS, furnishes Checks on Portland, -and procures Drafts on San Francisco. DEEDS !-ei I9-SEEDS ! ALL fini)S OF Bk5M QUALITY A TL. OR DERS Promptly Attended to and with care. Goods shipped Address. Ilaclien6v & Heno. Portland. Oresron. Xotlce, Notice Is hereby (riven, to h4m It jit concern, that tbe tuuleraijritwl . h.is botn awarded the contract for keaninr th DoUmIus county Pauoer for liie period of turo years. Ai! perni in need of aALitwca Ironi ald Muntr must first procure a certiticale to that effect from am ttitnibtr of this County Board, and present it tn one of tbe following nain&l persons, who are author- i tud tu, and wii I care for those presenting such certificate W l.. Button. Roaehunf : L. L. Kelloirtr. Oakland; Mrs tiro -an. Looktnir titas. Dr. Scroinrs is authorized to Atrniah medical id to alt parsons in need of the same who bare been dsciared paupers of Douglas county. WM. B. CLARIClS, Supt. of Poor, tUMKBCSA. Or. Feb. 16. 1380 A San Francisco dispatch says: On the last trip of the new ship City of Brooklyn from Seattle to this port, one ef the seamen fell from the maintop gal lant yard into the ocean and was never afterwards eeerf. The distance from the yard to the water was 140 feet. . Henry "White was shot three times by a man named Sreed at Farmineton, U tah April 5th. White waa dangeroosly wonoded. and tazen to rSt. Mars a boapital, Salt, Lake. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. . -','. MY TELEOBAril TO DATS. ! Matt Grace, the well known sporting man, died at New Ybrk, April 5th. George Tncker jwas killed by his brother at Lebanon; Ky., April 8th. Wm. Berg, a nolked mnsician, died of heart disease at New York, April 7th. The Mar quia of Lome expresses a de sire that his term be extended another year. , - . i Herr Most, the saaialist, intends visit ing the Pacific coast before he returns to Enrope. . "... - Jay Gould'a steam yacht Atlanta was successfully launched at on the 7th? Philadelphia At Newbern, N. C., on the 6th, a boiler explosion killed the engineer and fireman and two others injured. A heavy watersprout at. Nashville, Tenn., on the 6th, flooding the streets and doing considerable damage. The remains of (the late Judge Mo Comas and wife, recently killed by In dians, were buried at Fort Scott, Ks., April 9th. j John A. Wilson, wife and two daugh ters, were burnsd to death in a house three miles from i Hartwick, Otsego county, N. Y., April 5th. In a quarrel between Sergeant Willis, colored, and Private Boyd at Fort Hall, D. T., recently, tbe! former shot the lat ter with an army nfie, killing him in stantly. The funeral of the late Assistant Chief Juogineer lioss, who waa fatally injured by the gas explosion at the Palace hotel, San Francisco, recently, took place on Sunday, April 8jth. j Schooner Marion arrived at Philadel phia April 8th from Hayti. The mate and steward are down with fever. The captain died on the voyage. Yellow fever, or Hay tian fever, is said to be the disease; j A Geneva dispatch of April 8th says; The conflagration at Vallerbes, in the canton of Vaud, destroyed 145 houses with the postofQce, in which important securities were deposited. Twelve hun dred persons were made homeless. The Nashville college for young ladies, one of the largest Methodist educational institutions in the south, has suspended recently on account of the prevalence of scarlet fever. The smallpox is unabated, and seven new cases are reported. A shocking murder occurred at West Union, W. Va., April 5th. Barney Doyle and daughter, who were known to keep money about the house, were killed by robberu, and another daughter badly beaten. Five men! were arrested on bus- picion, ana tnreats oi lynching are heard. j A Greenville, Texas, dispatch of April 8th says: About 2 o'clock tbis morning the end house of a three-story brick ho tel fell, burying the inmates" between its walls. Fifteen persons are known to have Deen killed, j A few others escaped unhurt. The ruins took fire and manv bodies were burned in the flames. A severe wind, rain and hail storm pre vailed in central and southwestern Arkansas on the nrght of the 5th. dome considerable damage to buildings, fences ana trees. Tne cyclone at one ulace de veloped such force that the wind lifted a passenger coach off the track and sent is aown me emoanKment. several per sons were injured,! but none seriously m a ine American uevejopment com pan v ox oan x rancisco nan incorporated with a capital stock of I $5,000,000. The ob ects of the organization include almost every branch of business, the most im portant being the construction of tele graph lines, bridges, and wagon roads. and carrying a general banking business, besides the improvement and construc tion of railroads, j It is estimated by persons thoroughly amiliar with the subject that under the new law reducing letter postage and regulating the pay of postmasters the .receipts of not jnore than one office in every for.r, on a general average, will be in excess oi tne postmasters salaries under the existing law. It is said that all postoffices, however small, will con tribute about two-fiftus of their receipts to tne government. A Braidwooa, Ills., dispatch of April tun says: meyermctoi the coroner s A.I . . . - . jury in tne case of thh miners drowned in the Diamond mine recite the facts and fctates that no blame can attach to any one, as the accident was such as is liable to happen to any mine under like cir cumstances. The; shaft Las been open for volunteers to continue the search since Monday, but as none appeared the work of taking jup the track, rails and other property m the mine began vester day with a view to the abandonment of tho shaft. The London Pall Mall Gazette points out tnat the bomu explodes every week in Italy, and that France, Germany, Kussia and Austria are familiar with its sound, and that no one can seethe direc tion of popular tendencies across the At lantic without seeing before Jong that dynamite may be commissioned against the millionaires of the United States. The English people in general cannot view it in this light, in their unreasona ble and panic-atricken frame of mind, and are convinced that Americans are, in a great part, responsible for it all. A Tombstone i dispatch of April Gth says: Senor Prieto, Mexican consul, is in receipt of information that several per sons, .including nve Americans, were murdered by Apaches ten miles from Ures, Sonora, yesterday. Two hundred Papago Indians,! armed and equipped, are ready tomove on short notice. The Papagoes are skillful trailers, good fighters and hereditary foes of the Apaches. Superintendent Jim Findlay. telegraphs tnat twenty mounted men are now awaiting orders at Harshaw. News from Clifton, Globe, Tucson, Wilcox, Bowie and- other points indicate great activity in tne worn or organising com panies of rangers. Indians attacked the ranch of Don J nan Elias, near the San Pedro custom house, Wednesday and run oil a large amount of stock. In re treating to Canea they encountered a de tachment of Governor PasqueroB troops, which was defeated with a loss of six men. The first through train on the Bio Grande brought 200 Mormon converts to Salt Lake City. Ingraham and Green, murderers of Cash Millet, were hanged by a mob of 35 masked men April 4th, at Hastings, Neb. Peter Cooper, the venerable philan thropist, died at his home in New York ! city on the morning of April 3d,i aged 92. Charles DeLesseps ariived in New York April 5th. His visit to this ooun try is in the interest of the Panama canal. The East river bridge, connecting New York "City with Brooklyn, is nearly com pleted for the passage of carriages and pedestrians. ' . Tarry to wn, N. Y., celebrated the cen tennial anniversary of Washington Ir ving, the pioneer of Anwerican literature, on the 4th inst. A large numberiBof laborers left San Francisco on th Gth to be employed on the O. & C. B. B., commencing opera tions at Bedding, Cal. Verona Baldwin, on trial in San Fran cisco on the charge of shooting Lucky Baldwin some time ago, was acquitted by the jury on the otn mat. In the Bhode Island state election re cently for governor, Bourne, (Republi can) was elected by a plurality of 2865 votes over Sprauge (Democratic candi date). Two colored children, aged five and six, were burned to deatu in a cabin at Shelby ville, Ind., on the 5th inst. Their mother had locked them in while she was away. ; A St. Petersburg dispatch of April 5th says: me local chief of police and all others who contributed to, the comfort of the .crews of the Jeannette and Bod gers have been decorated by the Czar. A Kome dfspatch of April 5th says: The powder depot at -Passo Correz, for the use of engineers conducting: opera tions there, exploded to-day. Forty per sons were killed, and many injured , some fatally. a A Tombstone dispatch of April 5th says: A letter from l. Kennedy, of Sonora, reports a fight between a party of three Americans and Apaches eighteen miles from Ures. George Watson, Chas. Forman and Ed Green composed the party. The fight lasted some hours.dur ing which Watson and one Indian were killed. The whole party would have been taken but for the opportune arrival of Mexican troops. Tbe tenth annual meeting of the Wy oming Stock Growers' association held at Cheyenne recently repoit that last year 220,000 beef cattle were inspected, an increase of 52,000 over, the previous year. Also that about one thousand head were killed by the Union Pac fie road. The report further shows that herds of breeding cattle are selling 25 per cent higher than last year, and that $30,000, 000 of Scotch and English capital was invested during the year in Wyoming and Texas. Recent advices from Colombo, the capital city of the island of Ceylon, re port that vicious riots occurred lately between the Jiuddhiats and Papists. Tbe Catholics seriously objected to a religious procession of Buddhists, in which was carried a crucifix surmounted by a monkey.. The latter combination, which the Papists held to be an insult to the Cathclic religion, brought about a violent conteet in the streets, which was only stopped by vigorous efforts of the tioops, who dispersed the rioters and re stored peace without bloodshed. On April 8th the government gauge at the head of Canal street. New Orleans, shows that the river is even with the great floods of 1874, and five inches high er than last year. The water at several points along the city front passes over the levees into the gutters. Several small breaks in the levee were closed, and little or no damage is done. The rain is the heaviest since 1877. Five and sixty-three one-hundredths inches fell in three and a half hours. The town of Gouldsboro is flooded with from three to six feet, and the track of the Algiers and Gouldsboro dummy line is washed out. A Panama dispatch of March 27th savs: Severe and continuous noting is taking place along the line of the canal works,' originating in race hatred be tween the Jamaicans and the Cart hag ians. Some twenty of the former have been massacred and the government finds itself unable to restore order, arms being independently purchased. As no work is going on, and' as there is about 0000 men drinking, a really serious trou ble is anticipated on the isthmus, which is being rapidly overrun by the dregs of all nations. DeLesseps leaves the isth mus to-day for New York. He insists that the canal will be in fine shape by 1888. , " At Birmingham, England, the city police made a raid upon suspected localities in Liedsam street and discover ed a Fenians' nitro glycerine factory in full operation. The apparatus for pre paring and mixing the explosive com pound was constructed on scientific prin cipies, and witu an tne cunning and craft which clearly showed its inventor to be not only a thorough scholar in chemistry and machinery, but also an adept for expedients for avoiding notoriety and preventing discovery Among the noteworthy features of the place was a shrewdly -devised method for carrymy fumes up the chimney and con suming the odors. It is learned that the premises in Ledsam street were taken two months ago by a man named White head, an Irish-American, who had a sign hung out in front of his place indicating that his - business was that of a paper hanger. Whitehead himself was taken into custody when the police made the descent on the den, ane is now in close confinement. A considerable quantity of mtro-giycerine was seized by the officers at the same time. Information is now in the hands of the detectives that tends to demonstrate that this .place is the central manufactory of explosives and the most important depot of all in fernal connivances in : the kingdom. Whitehead, - who is described as a man about 25 years of age, with a dark com plexion, and with a marked American accent, has been in the habit of purchas ing supplies of nitro glycerine and acids whioh - were necessary to rnn the business. Coming Inventions; ' ; ' ' .; "What more can be invented?" asked an enthusiastic citizen on Saturday, after listening over the line from here to New York. ; "Why, we have only begun," replied a gentleman who had paid some I atten tion to the subject. "To talk 600 miles or so is nothing. Why, you just wait ten years and I will tell you. what you will see." - "Well, let's hear you now."', "In the first place the present Morse Bystem of telegraph will ,. have- entirely passed away. . Talking will be so mucrVgwe can remember,was: "Why, certainly, more rapid and accurate. "Yes, I admit that. "Well, that is not all. There will be perfect network of telephone communi cation, and it will be very cheap. But that will not be all. By the payment of a very small sum the father in Northern ,Ohio can step to the telephone station at the township center and call up his married daughter, who many years ago emigrated to Dakota. As he talks he will look into a finely adjusted mirror that stands before his face, and in that mirror he can see the face of his beloved daughter as she talks to him. She, at her end of the line, of coui-Re, will ob serve the countenance clearly and dis tinctly also. The conversation will run something like this: " You seem to be a little pale to day, father. Are you as well as usual?' " 'Why. yes, I guess I am all right. How are the babies? "Oh, Sally was sick all night and don't seem to be just right this morning. Here she is (holding her up to the tele phone). You must excuse her appear ance. Her face is not very clean; I have been so busy that I have not had time to wash it, and she has been playing around and got this apron very dirty, too." Silly is all right, am t she, little one? How grandpa does wish he could take her in his arms. He can see her very clearly though. I thinks she looks more and more like her mother's folks as she gets older, don't you?" Yes, we all agree on that; William has insisted almost ever since she was born that she was mother's girl. But here is Jienry and John; both, want to see and talk with grandpa a minute this morning.' " 'Buss their souls, grandpa wants to see them, too. Lmt them come to the phone."' 'And so the conversation will go on, and all for ten cents." "But that will spoil the United States mail. What will be the - use of writing etters when we can talk that wav?" "There will be none at all. But this telephone business will be run by the government, and the price of communi cation will be kept down to tbe mini mum. When we think, "re can now talk over a line 600 miles long, and hear what is said, do you think that is expeccing very much? Who would have believed that such a thing as a telephone was pos sible ten years ago? I tell you, I am not speaking at random in what I have : said above. Through with wonders are we? Why, man, we have only just begnn. We have got to study up some means of rapid transit by which newspapers at any rate can be sent from one part of the country to another much faster than now. Aiews will get very old before a full description of it can be sent from one part of the country to tne other by telephone. Men are now studying the problem of electric locomotion and in ten years it will be an accomplished faot. This is a fast age? Ah, ha! This is an ox-teamandcovered-wagon age com pared to what is coming. Twenty-five miles per hour for an express train ! Bah! who will be willing to wait for that: we shall spin along at least at the rate of Jhirty or forty miles a minute when there is any necessity for so doing. Not possi A St A . Die vny, man, you are a Bkeptici any thing is possible to .themodern Yankee mind and genius. We can do anything we have a mind to and we will." The man who thought the Inventors had got to the end of their string walked away in a reflective mood. Cleveland Leader. How to Treat Typhoid FeTer. What seems an almost interminable discussion has been going on in the French Academy of Medicine, ever since the typhoid epidemic pf last autumn, as to the proper mode ot treating that dis ease. The system to which most promi nence has been given is that recently in troduced into uerman practice by Dr. Brand, the main feature of which is the immersion of the patient in long and frequently repeated cold water baths German medical statistics show an ex cellent result from this mode of treat ment; though they are, it is said, vitiated by the inclusion of typhus patients in the typhoid category. Dr. Dumontpalher described at Mon day's sitting, Feb. 26th, oflhe AcaCemy an apparatus or nis invention, by which . 1 i . 1 . lever patients may oe cooiea to the re- qaired degree, without undergoing the fatigue of leaving the bed, and being weueu oniy to oe uneu again, ine ap- paraius consists essentially of two water beds, one placed over the other, between w,hich the potient lies. By a simple sys tem of pipes the physician can regulate the temperature of the water in tbe mat tresses, and the cold bath with its risks and discomforts is thus dispensed with. ine iaea ox cooling xever patients is not new. Curry, an English physician, was the first to introduce it into modern practice, for the ancients seem to have employed it exactly a hundred years ago . . i . . . i - " ana is was niucn usea wiium toe presen A TO 1 T .I . , century in xjogiauu lor iub treatment O scarlet lever. uot tne results were not satisfactory. St. James Gazette. Probably a Lie. bhe came tripping in to the sanctum all radiancy and sunshine, and clothed in the garments of youth, beauty inno ence and other things, .with a smile that was "heaven in a heap." She re marked: "Is the editor in?" He was, and the smile that radiates the classic brow and spread over his features like the ripening on a pumpkin, was soothing to gaze upon "He is," came from this side xt the great moral newspaper with original poetry and patent medicine advertise ments. "I'm so glad of it," she said, and a grander, sweeter smile radiated spread some more. , "I am he," he said, not gallantly, but gloriously.; "What can I do for you?" At this we rose and bid her approach. She did so, and said, "I have returned homeI want a personal in Every Mon dsyland she looked too sweetly inno cent a frank, pure innocence unknown to the latter day sanctum. This side made an effort and had soon ntterod an nttarAuca which, aa near ns with pleasure: what shall we say?" 5ue smiled some more, we dittoed. She said: "Miss Mary Maccintosh has returned home after a visit to friends in Kansas City. And" continued she, "add anything good you can think of. ion know all about how to say, accomplished, etc."- .-' . '-1 . With this she vanished like a summer's dream disturbed by gallinipers, and when we recovered wrote: "The readers of Every Monday will SP V rejoice to learn that Miss Mary Mac cintosh has returned to her home in this city after a month's pleasure tour through Kansas City. Miss Mary is truly nature s queen; she is the goddess oi love, purity and womanly grace, large, roomy, well ventilated and robust as a buffalo. She can do a bigger washing.eat more onions and mash more male palpitators in one day than all the female Yen uses in Christendom. She is a stunner, with a smile as broad as human sin, and a foot as big as the base of the Rocky Moun tains. She wears fine duds, silk . stock ings, brass buttons and chews gum in Latin. Mary is some pumpkins, and don't you fail to remember it, and Every Monday is goldarned glad she has come home (Kansas City Bugle please copy), for the boys missed her very much." St. Joseph ''Every Monday." A Colored old Fellow Who Afaiiate. Desired to A colored man was busily engaged in sawing wood for uoionei .rowu, when the latter observed that the bosom of the man and brother, so to speas. was adorned by an Odd Fellows' breastpin. 'Do the white Odd Fellows and the colored Odd Fellows in Austin affiliate?" asked Colonel Powis. "Don't fillyate wuf a cuss, but dey helps each other out." "Well, that's the same thing, ain't it? ' "No, sab; hit's not de same ting." "What's the difference?" The colored man stopped sawing wood and made the following explanations: 'Last week when dat norther was freezing de marrow in yer bones, I went inter de saloon of a white man what otes des verv same emblem. I was in distress, rale distress, as I hadn't had a dram dat morniu', so I gib him the sig nal ob distress." "Did be respond?" " "He didn't gib de proper response. De pioper response would hab been to had rubbed his lef ear wid his right hand, and to hab sot out de bottle." "Then he did not respond correctly? "No, sah; he made a motion at de doah wid one hand, and reached under de bar wid de odder. I made do Odd Fellows' sign ob distress once moah,and den sumfin' hard hit me on de head, and knocked me clean out inter de street. Hit was de bung starter what dat white brudder Odd Feller had frowed at me in response to de distress sigual." "- . "Then the colored Odd Fellows and the white Odd Fellows do pot affiliate?" "Jest what I told yer. Dey don't filly ate, but dey helps each odder out. I was helped out inter de street wid de bung starter, but fillyate means to set out de whisky." Teqas Sittings. Death of the Queen's Iliral. The "death in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum of John Goode brings to mind an exciting passage in Queen Victoria's life. In November, 1837, while riding m St. James park, a man suddenly sd range to the side of her carriage, and. holding ulp his fist, made use of obscene language, adding that her majest v was a usurper, and that he would have her off the throne that day week. The queen on alighting from her carriage, directed her equerry to cause the man to be ar rested. He told the officers he was their lawful sovereign, and, when brought be fore the authorities, declared himself to be the son of George IV and Queen Caroline, and that he was born at Montague place, Blackheath, and the throne of England belonged to him. Upon very other subject unconnected with the royal family he spoke in a most rational manner, but when the queen s name was mentioned he became exceed jngly violent. While being taken to prison she mashed the windows with his elbows and screamed' out to the sentinels on duty: "Guards of England, do vour duty, and rescue your sovereign!" At that time he was a fine, handsome look ing man, in his 41st ye&r, and of dark complexion. When afterward visited by his brother, who had been abroad, he denied the alleged consanguinity. A Widow's Singular Resolution. "Mrs. Flapjack, you husband has been dead several years. Do you never think of marrying again?" asked a Texas legislator of his landlady, a very attract ive widow, who keeps an Austin board ing house. "No, sir, I do not.' None of us know what trouble is in store for us in the fu ture, but if I should- become a widow ten times over I would never marry again." The legislator sighed, and said he would not, either, under the circum stances. From Sweet's Sauce. The consumption of beer in the camps of the railway builders is enormous. At Bismarck I saw an entire freight train of thirty cars laden with bottled beer from a Chicago brewery, bound for the town nearest the end of the tract. The chief engineer of the construction force said that an average of one bottle for every tie laid was consumed, and that the tie and the beer cost the same fifty cents. Thus the workmen pay as much for their drink as the company for one of the important elements of-railway construction. Century. English Literature. English literature could better spare any one of a score of men whose names and personalities are as familiar as house hold words, than tbe modest and almost unknown clergyman and teacher who died recently at Mentone John Rich ard Green. There is not a word about him in the encyloytedias; there is no newspaper office in America supplied with evan the date of his birth; no de scription of the man or his habits or life has ever appeared , in print, to our knowledge and yet he is the greatest English historian Bince Macaulay, and, through his works, tbe most popular us well. We know something about Stubbs, and a good deal about Froude, while Freeman has only now returned from a lecturing tour through America, during which every reader of newspapers got a distinct idea of what he was like. Yet John Richard Graen has five readers where the three others combined have one and is entirely unknown in a per sonal sense. All his life was spent in the scholarly seclusion of Oxford,.where he had a chair of modern history His first work, the celebrated 'Short History of the English People," was published in 1874 in England, and immediately re printed in the United States. In both countries it had a tremendous sale, catching the popular fancy at once, and charming alike critics and readers. If Macaulay awakened the first intelligent and general interest in English history, it is equally true that Mr. Green's book completely altered the channel of that current of interest, and gave it a new and indescriably more -popular direction. For the first time people saw the past of England dealt with as a whole, and all its myriad component parts and phases given their just proportion. The old chronicles of kings and brawling nobles, of court intrigues, dynastic wars, tourna ments and gilt edged feudalism were supplanted by a manly, lucid and thor oughly artistic story of the English as a people, from the time when the idea of crossing the North Sea first came to them in the fog wrapped bogs of their Schleswig home, down to modern days. The foreign kings and their friends and parasites were given their places iu tbe story, and no more. The great Saxon people which, by sheer inherent force of character, moulded itself into the great est of the world's races, and absorbed in cidentally these foreign princes and parasites as tbe forenoon takes up dew. was given its place, as it never had been before. The work marked an era in the making of histories. Mr. Green sub sequently extended this "Short History" into four volumes, which Harpers press has made familiar. 1 or thirteen years past he had collected material for an elaborate and exhaustive history of the Saxon period of English existence the first volume of which, under the title of "The making of England, t Was, pub lished last year. It is to be hoped that his death does not leave the work un finished although the wretched condi tion of his health for the past few years renders the hope a dubious one. Two Romances. The son of a leading lawyer in New York, some years ago, was attracted -by the innocent face and quick wit of a Welch chambermaid in his father's house, and declared that he preferred her to all the . fashionable beauties who had courted his notice. His family pro tested, but to no purpose. The only concession he would make was to consent to go to Europe for three years before marrying the girl. In the meantime, having an independent fortune, the lover placed her at one of the best schools in New York. The girl was ambitious and devoted in her affection to the man who had chosen her. He returned, found her more lovely than ever. They were married, and the lady is now one of the leaders of society in the city where they live a noble, refined, charming woman. An eminent jurist, well Known in Pennsylvania in the early part of this century, was "making the circuit" on horseback, and stopped for dinnner at the house of a farmer. The daughter of the farmer waitedjon them, and the judge who had been a cynic about women observed the peculiar gentleness of her voice and a certain sweet candor in her face. After dinner the farmer said: -"Mary, bring the judge's horse." Mary started to the field, which was inclosed by a barred fence. Laying her hand on the topmosLrail, she vaulted liehtly over. "I saw," said the judge afterwards, "for the first time, a woman with the mind and body 1 should require m my wife. I called again and again at Farmer C's. At last I sent Mary to school for a couple of years, and here she is, nod ding to the stately matron who pre sided at his table. -The sons of the judge and this rea! Maude Muller all attained distinction one. like his father, at the barf another was an eminent divine, and a ttiird was a Doutnern oanaiaaie ior me jrresiueucj. All were noted for their fiery eloquence, their high sense of honor, and a certain appetite for fighting which was well sus tained by strong physical health. The judge had not been mistaken in Mary's qualities of mind or body. Youth's j Companion. A Forgotten Promise. There is a young conductor on a line of streetcars in Cincinnati who is the hero of a romantic episode. At the tiae of the burning of the Brooklyn theater, in which so many people were burned to death, this young man was a resident of Brooklyn. He attended the theater on the night of the fire, and, sat beside a male companion in the front row near the orchestra. As it will be remembered the fire was discovered during the latter part of the first act of the "Two Or phans." At the time the flames made their appearance behind the scenes one of the company billed as Nellie Dell, but whose real name was Kittie Meyers, a young New York girl was doing a song and danca act. The fire burst all over the stage with incredible rapidity, and the young man saw that this girl was in peril. With a spring he leaped across the orchestra railing, clambered on -the stage and caught Miss Dell in his .arms and broke for the private box nearest the street. After considerable difficulty he succeeded in getfcisg into the open air with the girl clinging to his peck, fright ened almost to death. Ee had saved her life, as most of those who were on the stage when he went to her rescue per ished in the flames. Thus began an ao- qu&intance which soon ripened into love, and finally tney were married.- The father of the girl was a business man in New York city, made the acquaintance of his daughter's deliverer, and, pleased with hia appearance, said: "You : have saved my daughter's life, and you shall have her for your wife," Nelliq s heart had been smitten by the good-looking fellow (he waa a poor tinner at that time), and a union was soon effected. The father said to him: "You shall never want for anything.' He must soon have forgotten his promise, for his heroic son-in-law is manipulating a belK punch. for$2 a day. Such i3 life in a . great city. Oil of Peppermint. ' Peppermint is grown for its essence chiefly in western New York. Two thirds of the supply comes from Wayne county, which prodnces 60,000 pounds of oil yearly from 3000 acres. The har vest comes in August, and the. first crop . is the best. The mint is cut with a sickle, scythe or mowing machine, according to the fancy of the cultivator. After cut- uug, id is miuweu ic wimer ia tne sua for five or six hours, and is then raked into "cocks" where it remains a short time before being distilled. It is not every cultivator that is provided with a still, but stills are found distributed about the peppermint region at conven ient distances. The apparatus and method differ from those employed in Europe, where the fire is applied to the still. In America tbe still consists of a wooden tub or vat of heavy'staves hooped with iron. The withered mint is packed into the vat by treading with the feet until the vat is full, when a cover, made steam tight with rubber packing, is fast ened down with screw clamps. A steam pipe oonneots the lower part of the vat with a steam cover,! and another pipe from the center of the cover connects the vat with the condensing worm. The lat ter varies in size according to the capac ity of the still, and becomes progressive ly smaller toward the outlet. The worm is so plaoed as to have a constant stream of cold running water surrounding it. The : steam from the boiler being ad mitted to Ihe vat at a pressure of thirty to forty pounds, the oil of the mint is volatilized and mixed with" the steam condensed in the worm. The mixed oil and water are collected into the receiver where the difference in their specific gravity causes them to separate. No attempt is made to redistill the water which separates, and a considerable loss of oil which is held in solution doubtless results from this lack of economy; The oil is packed in tin cans or glass demi johns, holding about twenty pounds each. The glass demijohns are much the best when the oil is to be kept for any length of time, as its good qualities are more fully retained and it is less lia ble to discoloration. Oil of peppermint is sometimes adulterated with turpen tine and sometimes with oil of hemlock. Pure oil of pepperment, as exported from Wayne county, is colorless and re sembles the English oil, except that its odor and taste are somewhat less pun-' gent and penetrating. The oil deterio rates with age, and the aroma becomes more faint: after a certain number of years it thickens, and the color becomes of a yellowish tinge; exposed for a tune to air, it becomes resinous. A Drug Clerk Cures a Caller of Chills. : A respectable looking man staggered into an Eighth avenue drug store last evening, and, in a tremuluos voice said to the clerk: . 'Will you please mix me a dose of medicine? I've got the chills." The clerk eyed the man for a moment, and then went to the back of the store. He returned with a glass graduate. He took down a bottle labeled "Tinct Zinzib," and half filled the graduate. He added some hot drops, a little cay enne pepper, stirred it up, and passed it to the man, saying: "Down with it right away." . The shivering man emptied the glass at a swallow. He stood a moment as if dazed, and, without offering payment, rushed from the store with his mouth open. The clerk smiled, and played with the scales. ; ' "Are you troubled much by those fel lows?" inquired a customer with, a pre scription, i' "Yes, but the same persons seldom re turn, as we generally give them such a hot dose that they , would rather risk being frozen with the chills than burned up internally. You see, they make a practice of going from one drug store to another, asking for a dose of something to cure the chills or some other disease, but always asking for something contain ing alcohol.: They keep this up until they become intoxicated. Occasionally a woman chooses that method to procure liquor, but not often. But you can gam ble your collar button that they never get drunk from anything they get here." Made Them Eren. "Arrested for carrying a pistol was he?" asked a magistrate of an officer, re ferring to a gentleman who had just been arraigned. "Let's see the pistol." The weapon was produced and handed to the judge, who examined it and asked: ' "Where did you get it?" "Bought it at a hardware store.". "What did it coat?" - "Fifteen dollars." "Fine implement. How'll you swop?" and tho judge drew out a pistol and handed it i o the prisoner. "Take $10 to boot." "All right. I'll fine you $10. That makes us even." They are now telling a story about a Chicago girl who insisted on throwing her shoe after a newly mrrried couple. The carriage- is a total wreck, a doctor has the bride and horse under treatment, and a large number of men are searching the ruins for the groom.- Chaff. ,.: vv-'' ' "The spring will be baokward' pre dieted Vennor, as he was obout to app1 a rd-hot poker to tto oat's no3.